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Just a girl who writes about beauty

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C-beauty brands u NEED to look out for!

Hey girlies! It's been a bit of a while, but I think it's time all of you take notice of C-beauty!

I know everyone's heard of Flower Knows and their incredible rococo style packaging - and also Florasis for their AMAZING Chinese style packaging, but I'll be introducing some brands that are a bit less fancy and a bit more modern for the y2k, office or casual gal <3

My FIRST brand is GIRLCULT. I don't think a lot of y'all would've heard about this one, but their edgy packaging is WEWWWW - I LOVE IT!!

They have a dark vibe (hinting to the cult 👀) look how SICK their blush packaging looks! It's gives me Chinese female ghoul vibes 👀👀

They also mix it up with the inventive BRIGHT and PUNCHY packaging + colours which has me as an instant fan. I love their vibe so much.

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THE NEXT brand I LOVEE and see trending on Chinese social media, INTO YOU! This brand made such a buzz with their SHERO and AIRY lip muds!

Honestly HIGHLY recommend, this brand is known for their everyday looks but with a SPLASH of colour - imo their lip products are chefs KISS.

INTO you is like...the brand you go for when you wanna throw something in your bag as a staple! Some REALLLY really good everyday products here + I will be buying out all their lip and cheek products soon xx

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Now for allll the coquette girlies...you'll love this one! FLORTTE!

FLORTTE are literally all things girlie and cute, their 'Love yourself' 4 eyeshadow palette comes with a cute bow charm and eyeshadow applicators ♥️♥️

They also have cute collabs with adorable characters (what cbeauty brand doesn't, come on now lol)

ANOTHER ONE IS SUGAROCK! A newish brand that's showing up on Tiktok, the brand was made by a Chinese drag queen KUDOS!!

Look at these PALETTES OMG. The only caveat is that they're £99, but the CRAFTSMANSHIP!

The covers are velvet suede, IMAGINE 😭

That concludes it here today, but I'll be back with more 🥹✌️✌️

Ty for reading as always!

Had to stop it with the blingee font a bit cos it took way too long for me to post these with my ADHD ass lol

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I know we've all heard of 'personal colour' and 'Kibbe Body type' floating around, and have attempted to type ourselves at some point because we love labels - but it's recently dawned on me that these colours that 'suit' you might not necessarily suit you at ALL.

Just to preface, I've seen videos of people flying to South Korea to get their personal colour analysis, other people on reddit buying drapes and asking other people to type them - it all seems pretty fun and cool.

With all trends though, like MBTI it's hard not to put yourself into a box - and with this personal colour stuff it's making it EVEN harder to find your own personal style. I almost threw out half my clothes when I realised that your STYLE is truly your own and you don't need to confirm to a line of 'best fit'.

To know what I mean, you'll need to define what a personal style is. A personal style is a style that you feel like reflects YOU. It doesn't have to be a style that you necessarily feel comfortable wearing right NOW, but it's a style that you want to wear and have always wanted to wear. Whether you think the style reflects your personality or not, it does reflect your inner thoughts.

Just as an example, a person wearing office wear daily could just be wearing this because they maybe haven't really set foot in the fashion world yet and aren't sure what else to wear - as opposed to a person who might wear the same thing, but exude confidence because they've CHOSEN what they want to wear. The phrase 'They don't let the clothes wear THEM' is super fitting.

Back to personal colour, let's choose me as an example! I've typed myself to be a dark winter, and back when I was really obsessed, I used to type ALL my friends as the resident expert.

After a while and looking at various skin tones paired with different colours, I've realised all the colours that I personally think suit someone else are a bit different from what the majority thinks.

So if you pick colours that 'suit' you, how's that bad?

The issue here is that a lot of styles are relegated to certain colourings, so Lolita Fashion consists of pastels and then you have Dopamine fashion which is ONLY bright colours. Then you have earthy tones in gorpcore which might technically only suit a range of people, and you have black and white techwear outfits that SHOULD suit you more if you're a 'dark winter'.

You might be like ýeah, but the only people who wear these styles don't care about personal colour at all and just wear what they want' - which is PROBABLY correct, BUT I'm sure that this is limiting some people who wanna wear these styles and think that it might not suit their skin tone.

What I DO think is MORE important than skin tone though, is the colour of your makeup/hair - which thankfully is something you CAN change and something you can always change depending on how you feel!

An example is me (again LOL) - that would've typed myself with black hair as Dark winter. Now that my hair's dyed a orangeish-red, I suit more autumnal colours despite my skin tone being cooler toned - and I actually match orange toned lipsticks when I NEVER would've picked them out of my drawer.

I've also seen numerous people thinking that something isn't their colour because their makeup clashes, or because their hair isn't the right shade despite their actual skin tone which is actually misleading because you can rock a WHOLE variety of styles with whatever tones you want!

Basically if you're reading this, the whole point of this piece I've just written is to ask you to step back! You don't have to re-evaluate your whole wardrobe and throw out the colours you think might wash you out a bit. It might be a good excuse to clear your wardrobe, but you could be using these pieces for so much more! Just try a different makeup style and see what happens.

Certain looks TURN because the whole vibe matches, not just because they're the right colours - and if you LOVE LOVE LOVE that one piece that doesn't match your skin tone, match your makeup to it! It'll work, trust me.

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We all know it's hard being sustainable with a smaller budget and I've been on a MISSON to get everything in my bathroom as sustainable as possible - so here's my list of lil product recs!! These are literally such high quality products and you just feel so good not wasting things 😭

Toothbrush - Get a bamboo toothbrush or sustainable electric toothbrush like SURI (the one I have)! You can recycle these brushes, and with SURI you can send back 4 of your old electric toothbrush heads at once so they can repurpose them.

Face Wash - Refillable face washes and zero waste face wash powder!! The second one is a powder you mix with water, and the container is literally cardboard so you just throw it in recycling when you're done! face wash powder here for my UK girlies! Also Amazon (I know ):)'has a refillable face wash, and I only use them because I just need a company that won't go bust anytime soon to be truly zero waste ): holy grail here

3. Shampoo/Conditioner + Body wash - Bar soaps and bar conditioners, and also concentrated shampoos/conditioners too :)) Infinitely refillable and for bar shampoos, no waste at ALL. Once it's done, it's done! The ONLY non waxy bar shampoo/conditioner I've ever tried and they're Ethique.

4. Exfoliating mitts - use one that you know will LAST. I bought a ZOC African exfoliating towel from TikTok recently and I can finally get all the crud off my back, literally life changing ❤️

There's some things we can't replace like our hyaluronic or glycolic acids, but at least with this - you can replace everything that CAN be replaced, and everything else is minimal.

If there's anything I've missed, just leave me a comment/DM me and I'll add it to the list 🕵️

Also completely hate that it's up to big companies to stop being absolute dicks so the Earth can actually live, but at least we know we're not carelessly contributing to waste!

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Hi gang!

This is Nancy! I'm finally opening a blog abut beauty tips and the best ways to keep everything sustainable, like the blogs we used to have back in the day. They're all gonna be single posts with no reblogs to keep everything clean, and I hope this helps people find easier ways to stay green :))