Bargin Make up/ Jewellery Haul

I'd run out of liquid eyeliner, so one lunch time I sneaked in to Superdrug to buy some more. As always though I got discrated by all the pretty colours and new products in the make-up isle. I had been using Rimmel's liguid eyeliner, but I always like to test new products and discover something new. 

Something I also wanted to get was bronzer. It is something I have never had in my make up box before (yep shock horror!) but my friends all use it and it's always in  the magazines. Plus my boyfriend always moans at me that my foundation makes me look pale, So i'd thought I'll give it a try.

pastures new!

thank you for all your good luck messages! It was my last day at work yesterday, and I had a lovely day! My friend came up with the idea that we would have a 'tea party' lunch to celebrate my goodbye, we each  took some food in and turned to board room into a tea party :)

I have seen less food at a wedding reception. there were 14 of us at the tea party, and we didnt eat it all. We invited the sales team too (another 20 people) to join in and the couldn't finish it. So the reust was that I took all the leftovers home, and I am still eating now! hmmm vienesse whirls for breakfast! 

But this wasnt the only surprise today! I also received 2 amazing presents!

A Cath Kidston bag and a necklace from my new work! I have had my eye on this necklace since I went for the job interview and was so amazed that I got it!! the fact the my manger took time out of her working day to visit my new work, speak to my boss and get this necklace is amazing! Im in love with it!

I also received some great 'sorry your leaving' cards. It was great last day, I even worked an hours overtime! hahaha this is norm for my (now old) work, everyone works overtime infact your even looked down apon if you dont. but anyways off to my new adventure!!!! 

MAKE UP DOLL

good evening everyone!

i went on a slight make up splurge today. I mentioned yesterday that i was getting inspired by the beauty blogs i keep reading, and today i just couldn't help myself; so i ran in to town this lunch break to treat myself :)

i really wanted to get some make up from topshop, their products look good and they always recieve great write ups and reviews. It wasn't until i got to our local Topshop today that i discovered our Topshop doesnt sell the make up range! only nail polishes and i have enough of those, so i ran in to boots instead.

this is what i brought. Garnier dark eye roll on (in medium) £10.20; Rimmel match perfection compat powder (soft beige) £5.99; No 7 photo flawness skin primer £4.99; Collection 2000 extreme felt eye liner (purple) £2.99; Collection 2000 last colour nail polish (ice cube); Rimmel 60 seconds nail polish (pompous) £3.99; and from H&M i brought smokey eye pencil £2.99 and Eyeshadow pallet £5.99


i wanted to go to debenhams to completely splurge on some Benifit make up but i ran out of time and had to go bak to work. But to be fair i probably brought enough make up, and if i was in debenhams i would only be tempted to splash out and buy some MAC cosmetics too.

the whole reaso for all this is because i am bored of my current to to day look. Also i think it is good to change products now and then, so you don't get stuck in a routine and buy the same things all the time. Im really pleased with the Rimmel Foundation, it matches my skin olour exactly. testing it on my hand in the shop i thought there was some wrong! it was till tested a different shade that i realised, the reason i couldnt see it on my hand was because it was the exact colour! AMAZING! also i really excited about the primer. i had no idea this product existed until reading other blogs! i have olive skin so the area around my eyes is really dark and can make me look like a drug addict on bad days! but with this primer those days will be gone! haha i am like a 6 year old children playing with her mothers make up for the first time and stumbled across a whole new world!

These are the products i normally use day to day -

its pretty dull. Today i got ready for work in records time, 40 mins. And in that 40 mins, i washed/dried/styled my hair, put on a fae mask, got dressed for work, ate my breakfast, drunk 2 cups of tea and fixed my face.
the reason i could get ready so quik was because i turned into a robot in the mornings and everything is just on auto pilot. My make up takes 5-10 mins depending on how big the bags are under my eyes. i read on one blog (i cant remember which!) that the blogger takes up to an hour everyday to just do her make up. which got me thinking if i spend more time on it then i will naturally want to expiriment more.

So with my old products, this is my every day look

 excuse the lighting, my room is so shit for lighting i have to pluck my eyebrows at the boyfriends house because i just cant find the light at home. I'll post a photo tomorrow of my new face in my new make up!!


Also today, i brought 2 dresses from H&M, i haven't photographed them becuase they are both just plain bodycon dresses one black the other navy. they are going to be my new (what i like to call) 'petticoats' dresses to wear under other items to add layers to my look but also to keep me warm in these recent cold days. I also got a new jumper from New Look, i brought a cardigan in the sale last week but changed my mind about it. And because it was in the sale i could only exchange, so i got this cool neon aztec print jumper.

and lastly for today, my leopard print item was...... red leopard print earings!

fashio challenge day#2

today i wore - leopard print ring

went shopping on my lunch today, didnt realise till i got back that i had only stocked up on some religous propaganda

boy about town

I haven’t been clothes shopping for months. Money is tight and I am trying to save for a deposit on a house. And if you are doing the same thing you will understand how difficult that is. Saying this however that all changed yesterday. My best friend called me at lunch wanting me to escort her to the retail park to buy a birthday present for someone. This went well, too well in fact; and I actually broke out my purse to buy some jewellery. I fell for this freedom from topshop neck lace just £5 with my initial. They also had the necklace in red and green, but blue is my favourite so it suited me to a T. I today though, have been itching  to go back and buy a ‘C’ for my boyfriends initial. Corny maybe but we have been together nearly 8 years and it’s better that getting a tattoo , so I think I can allow myself this corny romantic gesture.

I have a thing for these rope bracelets too, and found one in miss selfridge, with 4 beads ‘L.O.V.E.’ mine! but I didn’t stop there on walking out of the store we passed stand of Burton jewellery, and my eye’s light up like a firework when I found this religious bracelet. For some reason I brought I choose to get it in brown, they also had it in blue, red and white.

my camera wont pick the religous braclet very well but this is what it looks like online.

But I have been thinking of it all day and I want it in red to! So bored – lunch break at work I had a look on the Burton website. Not only did I discover that they have 30% of everything today but also I quite fancy some of the other men’s jewellery in my collection. I really like the star rings and cross earrings.

www.burton.co.uk    all under a fiver, the cross earrings do come in other clothes and as I said they have 30% off today so what you waiting for!!



My small shopping splurge didn’t stop there though. We went via tesco’s to get some cheap make up and got distracted by their, own F&F clothes. I have been  wanting an alternative to my ballet pumps for a while, they are ugly and because I have size 8 feet I look like a crap clown. And in tesco I succeeded and brought these patent black loafers, just £14!! £14 for a pair for shoes absolute bargain!

And that was the end of my shopping I spent £28 and brought four things! I know a bargain when I see them!




Next….

I am taking my Egyptian obsession to the next level. And I have made the session, this year’s Halloween costume is Queen Cleopatra! I am currently watching Elizabeth Taylor and Cleopatra which is true eye candy and idea’s and streaming in my head. I’m experimenting on make already too! This is going to be so much fun. I need to raid charity shops for the perfect dress!

Since my little excursion yesterday I have been a online window shopping whore today. And I have found the most beautiful dress in the most unusual place.

Yes that is Ferene Cotton and this £79 dress is from her latest collection for www.Very.com I admit I am not a Ferene Cotton fan, I don’t like her radio show and I don’t admire her style. But this dress is truly beautiful, but at £79 it is not something I can really buy for no reason. I did speak to my mom and suggested I could buy it as an investment, that in hope one day I will have a reason to wear it. But she told me that was stupid. ‘Investment’ I have never understood that word people use it in reference to clothes and fashion, who buys clothes as an investment?! Well it definitely won’t be me any time soon as £79 is too much for a ‘just in case’ dress.

the september issue

 Now it's well into September, it fills acceptable to wear tights. all though August i would refuse to wear them because it was August even if it was below 10 degrees outside. But now September is almost through i am having a tight revival! each day dressing for work is exciting i rummage through my box of tights planning each outfit carefully and because i have refused to wear tights for so long it feels like i have a whole new wardrobe. And i have that excited feeling in the pit of my stomach when you have returned home from shopping and you can't wait to try on all your new stuff.


Despite this excited feeling in my stomach, it hasn't stopped me shopping for new tights, and my list is expensive! so much choice - colour, fabric, pull ups, style, nylon, wool, pinstripe, bold, neutral, floral, thick, patterned, fishnets, etc so you don't have to rummage through shop after shop, site after site these are what i believe are the best tights out there right now:


TOPSHOP

Stripe £8.50, green neon tights £4, knee heart tights £8.50, two tone tights £10, blue tye dye £10

JOY HOISERY (ebay shop)

Best tight websites

www.mytights.com www.tightsplease.co.uk http://www.uktights.com/

 
 
Recently i have found myself having an obsession with the romans and Egyptians. Why this is i'm not sure but it's not just the fashion it's the history and the culture it just fascinates me. so i have been stocking up on every Egyptian and roman film, tv show. and swatting up with books. i've been watching the HBO series ROME which i think started my new obsession. the style is red permed hair and Grecian dresses, Cleopatra steals the show as always, her make-up is timeless.

 
oddly Topshop too have appeared to join me in my egyptian obession and the jewellery is a acient queen's dream. it probably one of there's most expensive collections but to dress like a Queen you have to spend like a Queen!! here's my pick of Topshop's jewels.
 

 

beetle stud earings £5, tassel necklace £30, gold leather cuff £15, triangle bracelet £12.50, stud bracelet £14, cobra stud earings £8.50, triangle earings £12, heavy chain necklace £50, hand broach £10, cobra ring £18.50, stud/spike necklace £30, eye cuff £16.50, beetle ring £15, hoop studs £8.50

Floral stripe £10.99, graffiti £9.99, Alaska £7.99, stripe £10.99

DOROTHY PERKINS

Tan opaque £5, rose fishnets £5, plum opaque £5, leopard print fishnets £5

RIVER ISLAND

Green pinstripe socks £6, cream button sock £5.99, pink opaque tights £2 – sale, black lace socks £7, knit sock £6, orange floral sock £6, spot tights £8, panal knit tights £10, fur cuff sock £15,

MISS SELFRIDGE

Lips £8.50, stripe panal £8.50, bandage £10, Gery pattern £12