Using More, Spending Less Challenge Results – June 2023

June… I am a bit late with this one, but June had been a rollercoaster. I do not even want to get into it as you guys deserve better so let’s just get into it.

June’s Purchases

  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Cozy Vanilla Almond £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Wild Lavender Mint £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Wild Lavender Mint £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Black Cherry Merlot £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Black Cherry Merlot £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gel Hand Wash in Black Cherry Merlot £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gel Hand Wash in Radiant Sky £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gel Hand Wash in Radiant Sky £3.46
  • Nature Republic Ginseng Royal Silk Watery Cream 60g £48.52
  • One Thing Big Pad [70 pcs] £7.42
  • RiRe Collagen Stick £5.73
  • Aestura A-Cica 365 Soft Calming Mask Pad [60 pads] £21.63
  • Aestura Theracne 365 Soothing Emulsion £26.30
  • Tocobo Collagen Brightening Eye Gel Cream 30ml £9.98
  • The Pure Lotus Vicheskin Cica Cell Ampoule [35ml] £15.63

In June I ended up spending a total of £166.35 on beauty products.

June’s Empties

  • Beauty Pie Japanfusion Essence £13
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Soap in Cherry Frost Love You Cherry Much £7.04
  • 111SKIN Rose Gold Radiance Booster 20ml £90
  • Juice to Cleanse Vinegar Kombucha Essence £4.62
  • Aromatica Rosemary Scalp Scaling Shampoo £14.31
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Soap in Lemon Lime Fizz Once Upon a Lime £7.04
  • Bath and Body Works Hand Sanitizer Spray in Ivy Rose £0
  • SNP, LAB+, Triple Water Peel Soothing Pad, 60 Pads, 4.56 fl oz (135 ml) £7.84
  • Oskia City Life Anti-Pollution Cleansing Concentrate £36
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Soap in Wild Lavender Mint £7.04
  • Ziaja Hand and Body Wash 400ml £1.93
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Cozy Vanilla Almond £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Gentle Foaming Hand Wash in Black Cherry Merlot £3.46
  • Bath and Body Works Rose Water & Ivy Hand Sanitizer Spray £2.54

In June I ended up emptying £198.28 worth of products. This resulted in an allowance of £99.14

Allowance from posts

Allowance from Reviews – £0

Allowance from Social Media – £0

Total allowance from posts: £0

£99.14 (allowance from empties) + £0 (allowance from posts) – £166.35 (June’s Spending) – £3,257.67 (previous closing balance) = -£3,324.88

The results are bad, but for once I cannot even bring myself to care. Given the month that I had, I would have been fine with an even worse balance. Now, I kinda regret that I do not have one :).


In addition to all the bad stuff that happened in June, it was also my birthday month. For once, my birthday gift did not consist of beauty products but of something that I have wished for the past 25 years or so. My wish came true but it did not last as I developed a severe allergic reaction to my birthday gift so yeah…there is that.


While I tried to talk myself out of it, I did give in on my birthday and placed an order to YesStyel which is where most of my money went to ( you can get an additional discount to YesStyle no matter what promo they have going on with my code BLUSHSUEDE24). Shameless plug 😀 However I will talk about YesStyle a bit more in another post as I discovered a few interesting things which you probably already knew, but I have been out of that game for several years.

The only other order I placed was at Bath and Body Works as they had some deals at the beginning of June and found a few products I will never have enough of and products I go through quite fast so by now such orders are a bit of a necessity, especially if I managed to get a great price.
Nothing all that exciting really. Then again, I did not need any more “excitement”.
I hope that I can have some quiet time now so that I can once again enjoy my beauty finds and purchases.

How did you do in June?

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