I haven't really felt the need to run out and haul a load of beauty products for a while, honestly it's probably because I'm lucky to be sent a lot of from brands and PR agencies. But something happened over Christmas, maybe it was to do with the videos I was watching, I don't know, but I came into the new year with a huge list of beauty products that I just had to get.I filmed a haul video and first impressions, which you can watch at the bottom of this post, but I thought I'd pick out my top five purchases and break it down and highlight why these stood out to me.

If you saw yesterday's video you'd know that I decided quite last minute to film a 2017 beauty favourites after enjoying watching everyone else's online. It wasn't difficult to pick my top products because unlike my past self, in 2017 I used a lot less product, focusing on the things that really work for me.For this post I thought I'd set myself the task of picking out the top five from my list of favourites, really highlighting the top products I can't live without.