What a girl can't live without...well me at least!

I know we all have our trusted beauty and health care products that we just would not give up using. I thought I'd share a few of the products that I've discovered lately and found them to be good.

My first new love is Castor oil. I discovered it by accident when was on Google searching for good tips to make your nails grow faster. My own nails are in a pretty bad shape after years of wearing first acrylic nails and then glue on nails, and I now decided it's time to let them breathe a bit and make them stronger.(I will still wear glue ons every now and then for a night out or a holiday, but not on a daily basis as I ended up doing before!) I rub Castor oil on them every evening and whenever I really remember, and now after a couple of weeks I've noticed my nails getting slightly stronger again. They're still short and stump but I can see myself getting there. My other weapon is Biotin tablets, which I have heard good reviews about, and hoping that taking them daily will help too.
Castor oil has other great uses too, it's meant to be good for your hair growth. I've started using it on my eyebrows and eyelashes, rubbing a small amount on them every night. The oil is very greasy though, so you can't do it just before bed time or all the oil would just rub on your pillows! I've only done this for a short while so can't really say anything about the results, but I will update you on that later! I've heard people using it on their hair too, but I find the texture of it to be way too greasy for my hair. I also put a small amount of it on some occasional spots I get on my face and it has helped for them too! There's several makes and labels of it, I use Naissance 100% natural Castor oil.
Another good tip for spots and pimples is Calamine cream. Not Calamine lotion, the one that is used for chicken pox but a cream. It's meant for minor sunburns and other minor skin conditions and I've found it to be good for my skin which often gets small spots - a thin layer of it every evening and sometimes mornings too as the it absorbs quite quickly and can be used under make up.

My second new favourite product is a new eyebrow pen from Maybelline called Brow Satin. It has a pencil on the other end, one that you screw out rather than having to sharpen it all the time, which is a great bonus. You use the pencil to fill in in any gaps and to shape your brow, you can use this quite sparingly as in the other end there's a small powder cushion, which you use to fill in the whole brow and blend the colour into a smooth result. I love the powder end of the pen, it's very easy to use and leaves a nice soft result in your brows, no need to use a eyebrow brush,as the cushion gives you colour and blending at the same time. I use the shade dark brown, which is good if you like dark brows but the natural brown might be a better choice if you prefer your brows lighter. They do it in four different shades.

My new favourite brand for dry shampoo is Aussie. I always used to use Batiste, which is a good brand and has got lots of nice fragrances in their selection but as I've always loved the smell of all the Aussie shampoos and conditioners, this is a no brainer. The smell is beautiful and the spray is light and doesn't make your hair look all powdery as some spray-on dry shampoos sometimes do. My hair felt extremely greasy the other day and I sprayed it quite liberally all over and the result was much more lighter, airier and fresher hair. This one is a must for me now, I used the Mega Instant one but I'm sure the other ones are just as good.

One of my all time favourite products is BB cream, I'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with it by now. I use one from Garnier, the BB cream + Blur one. On a good skin day when only a small amount of coverage is needed, it's the only product I use. It evens out my skin tone nicely and is very light and airy. It's super affordable too, so you can leave your more expensive foundations and concealers for more special days!

What are your beauty secrets?