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I love this song

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Ironically I love Mario Kart :)

This weeks buys!

So even though I don't have money I found an excuse to go shopping, my friend gave me her No7 £5 voucher :) Therefore I just HAD to nip into town and get something!

I ended coming away with more than one thing :S
I first purchased Company as I have not been able to find this, got it at Tesco though. This month you get a free unnamed double ended mascara, I'm very cautious of free unbranded make up with magazines as they usually turn out to be rubbish. However this seems to work quite nicely, it pretty much does the same as Lash Stiletto does for my lashes.

The base end is a metallic silver colour, I didn't really notice this doing anything major but the end result with the black coat over it wasn't as horrible as expected.

As from the pictures the two brushes are different shape. The mascara being a tapered brush.
Next I went to boots and could not help myself when it came to the new Maybelline lipsticks! I bought 112 Ambre Rose which I heard about from lollipop26

This is such a lovely wearable shimmery pink colour with, what I would say, a tiny bit of coral in there too.
I then made my way to the No7 counter to get a nail polish, I tend to get these when I have the vouchers because it works out at £1.25!I bought Sugar Syrup, a very opaque pale pink when applied. After these purchases I got another voucher so I decided I needed another nail polish in Highland Mist, a lovely redish nude brown, really unique colour that's quite hard to describe.

(L)Highland Mist (R) Sugar Syrup
My last stop was Superdrug, not expecting to buy anything just for a wander. I came across the St. Ives section to see that there was money off some of the products as new packaging is replacing the current one.

I bought the invigorating scrub for all skin types, with the money off it worked out as £2.70. I have tried this out and will be doing a full review later on.
So there we have it!
Any good beauty buys this week?

Just a quickie..

...about this gosh darnit weather! Now I don't know about the rest of the UK but it has been terrential downpour all day! Just been raining all day with varying between light and heavy showers! Just thought I'd clue everyone in on the awful weather the west of Scotland is having :(

Currently using...

This is a tag that's making the rounds just now...

Shampoo: Tres semme 24hr body
Conditioner: As above
Styling products: Aussie curl serum
Shower Gel: Soap and Glory Clean on me, almost done though:(
Body moisturiser: The Body Shop Body Butter in Papaya
Deodorant: Sanex Sensitive
Fake Tan: Nonee
Cleanser: Boots Botanics Foaming Face Wash
Exfoliator: Clean & Clear Blackhead Clearing Scrub
Primer: None just now but wanting the L'Oreal Studio Secrets Resurfacing one
Foundation brush: My fingers babyy!
Concealer: Benefit Boi-ing
Powder: None but wanting MAC msf natural
Blusher: Don't really wear any, mainly highlighter or Smooth Merge MSF
Bronzer: None, too pale
Highlighter: Benefit High Beam, ELF all over colour stick
Eyeshadow base: MAC Paint Pot (Rubenesque, Bare Study) MAC Shadestick in Penny
Eyeshadows: Urban Decay Scratch, MAC Satin Taupe & Ricepaper, No7 Mink(all time favourite all over wash colour, wanting to find a MAC copy for a pallete
MAC Eyeliner: Urban Decay 24/7 liner in zero, stash and bourbon
Curler: The one I stole from my mum
Mascara: Benefit Bad Gal and Maybelline Lash Stilleto (fave combo just now)
Lipstick: GOSH Darling
Lipgloss: Natural Collection in Fondant, Bourjois Les Nudes in Brun Poetic
Nail Colour: Collection 2000 hot looks in Dynasty

In and Out

Haven't done one of these in a while so here goes!

IN
- Haggis, Neeps and Tatties!
Seriously does life get any better than that? Ok so it's nothing to do with make up but its damn tasty!
- Eyeshadow combos
Trying out different eyeshadow combination's each gets my creativity going! My favourite eyeshadow right now is Urban Decays Scratch.
- Autumn
Ok I love summer and the whole sunshine but I loveeee wrapping up in my hat and scarf and can't wait to buy new winter boots...I'm thinking short pixie style boots?
- MAC Paint Pots I don't use UDPP or Too Faced SI because they make my lids feel quite greasy and with the paint pots you get colour, sometimes I just sweep Rubenesque all over and I'm done.

Out
- Scottish weather!
Seriously, I was in Tesco yesterday and you could hear the heavy rain on the roof. My feet got soaked in a big puddle walking back to the car:(
- My weight
I'm determined to lose weight! I've always said "Yeh I'll start healthy eating soon" but I'm actually doing it, along with my dvd I do every morning. I really hope I can get down to a size 12 buy November maybe? Slow and steady wins the race!
- Not having money
I'm actually looking forward to going back to uni because I'll be getting my SAAS again! And ofcourse seeing my friends, they live quite a bit away from me.

Anything getting on your goat these days?

Product of the week :)

So for the past week I've noticed that I have been using the same things over and over when applying my make up and decided it should be the product of the week!
This weeks award goes to: Odd Bits MES!

Now this is a bit controversial as many other reviews have stated the poor pigmentation of this quad. Ok, so it's not the best but I still really enjoy using these colours as I don't have colours like these in my collection.

The light pink seems to have the worst pigmentation, however using this in the inner corner of the eye makes my eyes shine!
The deep purple is a really lovely colour all over the eye. A few days ago I used the pink and purple over red velvet shadestick (which is a lovely pink base to use with purples) with the purple all over and the pink on the inner corner and achieved a lovely look.

L-R: Bronze, Purple, Light grey/blue and the light pink
The blue/grey is very light but makes for a nice wash of colour if your in a rush. The bronze can be quite chunky and glittery and probably my least used colour out og the lot but a nice colour all the same.

I will start doing this weekly with a product I feel I've used a lot within that week.
Hope you enjoyed xx

...And now for something completely different.

I love Monty Python, hense the title. But anyways I just wanted to share something with the community. Animals :)
More specifically the animals in my life:)

These are my cats! Sophie is on the left and Sam is the right. I've had Sam for about 8 years I think, he was a stray cat found on our street so we took him in. Sophie we've had for about 5 or 6 years, she was advertised in the local paper as needing a new home and it as love at first sight! She's my cat and loves sleeping on my lap as shown here.

The next important animal is my boyfriends dog Katy :)

Katy is about 10 if I'm correct, she's a border collie and the cutest dog ever!(I'm biased though!)
I've been going out with my boyfriend for almost 3 years (September 1st is our 3 year anniversary) and whenever I go to his house the first thing Katy does is go find a toy to give me to play with her! She likes her toys!

The next animal is my aunt and uncles' dog Skimble :)
Look how happy he looks!

I'm half Irish on my dads side and this is my dads sisters dog, so as they all live in Ireland I can't see them that often. However in June I visited my family for two weeks which was fantastic, I visit probably about twice a year...I love my heritage :)

Last but not least is Hamish:) Little Hamish is my mums "manfriends" (it feels wrong saying boyfriend at that age lol) dog
He's really old but he still likes to chase the cats :)

And so that's it, just thought I would share one of my many loves in life!
A way of getting to know me :)
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Check out this contest!

The lovely Nicola is giving away free tshirts, all you need to do is follow and comment :)
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Hair History...

I always find these posts interesting so thought I would do one :)
The earliest picture I could find was from 4th or 5th year in high school (age about 15)

This is my natural hair colour, mousey brown/dirty blonde. Sadly by about 12 all my peroxide locks had grown out :( I hated my hair this colour!

Moving on about a year I left my hair curly a lot which is my natural hair and it was getting quite long.

I then started to get a block fringe cut in and dyeing my hair an auburny red. I liked it like this.

Naturally I got bored of my fringe and grew it out, my hair getting even longer!
Then about a year after that I got my fringe back in and my hairdresser used the wrong colour on my hair, it went almost black. It was actually quite nice with my pale complexion. Got a few inches cut off it aswell.

I then proceeded to grow out my fringe yet again! My hair not being cut for a while got quite a bit longer.

Until my 18th birthday last year where my hair has been at its longest since I was about 12, it was sooo hard to manage at this length and took me about an hour to blow dry and style.
My hair continued to be about this length until I got my hair cut shoulder length at the start of July this year, I really love the lower maintenance of this hair and now only takes me half an hour to blow dry and style! (My hair is quite thick)

I am now getting bored of my fringe again so am growing it out :)
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Favourite 3 nail polishes...

My nail polish collection isn't the biggest ever but I'm pleased that it's growing. So here goes the 3 that I like the best.

L-R: OPI Lincoln Park After Dark, Barry M Nail Pain in Raspberry and Collection 2000 Hot Looks in Button Moon.

OPI Lincoln Park After Dark - This is the perfect dark nail/winter colour. It almost looks black but then in some lights it's a lovely deep plummy purple. My only OPI nail polish.

Barry M Raspberry - For me this my perfect shade of red. It slightly darker and has a pinkier tone than just red. In fact this is my all time favourite colour for both fingers and toes. Everyone raves about the formulation of barry m nail paints and it's true!

Collection 2000 Button Moon - I've only just recently bought this when buying the colour Dynasty recommended by Holly at The Yummy Mummy Beauty Blog, which I'm sure many others have done also. I decided on this colour not only for the name (My most favourite ever show was button moon!) but because it looks similar to mint green by barry m and I don't have it. Love these polishes.

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Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum

So I was bored and thought I'd check out what's on the bbc iplayer. Young Dumb and living off mum sounded interesting, but ten minutes in I am shocked at these "adults"! A 25 year old man still living off his parents because he can't be bothered to get a job? They pay for his flat! I especially found it funny that one of the 18 year olds couldn't even heat up beans! These kind of shows are so funny to watch and in some ways make me feel better about myself lol. Anyway just thought this show was funny and deserved a mention!
Does any else watch this or shows like these?
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Thanks for reading :)

Tag...Questions!

1. What is your favourite item of clothing? My jeggings :)

2. What are your biggest obsessions? Finding the perfect face exfoliator, I buy new ones before I need them...I can't help it :(


3. Who inspires you? My mum, she's worked hard all her life for me and my brother and I can't wait till i'm in the situation where I can treat her big time!

4. Who is your favourite designer and why? Hmmm...I love Vivienne Westwood! Marc Jacobs and Chanel are also favourites

5. What is your favourite song ever? Thats a toughie, possibly Bob Dylan - The times they are a-changin' or Del Amitri - Roll to me orrr Train - Drops of Jupiter...they're all such timeless songs!

6. What is your favourite song right now? Bob Dylan - Lay lady lay

7. If you were a sweetie what would you be? ooo rhubarb and custard hard sweet! or a bonbon!

8. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet- what words would describe your rainbow? Red - lips, Orange - nails, Yellow - Sunshine, Green - eyes, Blue - Jeans, Indigo - bag, violet - candle


9. What's your favourite film? Breakfast Club and St Elmos Fire!Hands down the best films! And John Hughes died the other day :(( The director)

10. Who's your favourite actor? Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Clint Eastwood and Viggo Mortensen

11. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be? Shopping in New York!

12. What are your 3 favourite smells? Yankee candle vanilla cupcake, fresh clean towels and fresh baking (cakes, bread etc)

13. What are your 3 favourite tastes? A good curry, pavlova, sour cream and chive pringle

14. What is your most treasured possession? My cats :)

15. What did you always want to be/ do when you grew up? It used to change alot but I remember wanting to be a vet, lawyer, magazine editor and many others, went back to the law route for my degree, big mistake lol.

16. If you were an ice-cream what flavour would you be? Tablet ice cream!

17. If someone made a short film of your life, who would play you? Well my friends used to tell me I looked like Hilary Duff but I dunnooo

18. What would your perfect afternoon consist of? Shopping with my mum and going for lunch

19. If you were a flower, what would you be? A tulip, the yellow ones

20. Tell me a random thing....be it your favourite line from a song, scene from a movie or quote from a book.....tell me about something that you love..... "Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean." ( from my all time favourite book Fantastic Mr Fox, which btw is going to a film!)

Bad Reaction...

...to the James Brown London hair mask:(
I used it the other night, left it on for about 10 minutes for a good conditioning then rinsed. All was well until the next day when I was suddenly having a really itchy scalp in places, this continued the next day until it was getting quite sore! I was worried my dandruff was back because I used to have really bad dandruff for a few years. When I washed my hair today using my usual conditioner (tresemme 24 hr body for reference) the itching calmed down and felt much better! I will not be using the hair mask again, I really wanted to like this as I don't have any hair masks:( oh well, the search continues!

Over the past few weeks...

..I have bought a few things :) okay so it's nothing spectacular but i'm happy with it. I know what I like to read, and I like to read hauls.

So left to right I have got Soap&Glory The Fab Pore Facial Peel, Clean&Clear Advantage Quick Clear Spot Treatment Gel, Barry M Lip Gloss, Natural Collection Lipstick and Garnier Pure Long Lasting Shine Control Moisturiser.
So lets start with soap&glory, I love their products and have used and repurchased the shower cream and body butters a few times because they smell amazing! And this is no exception.

I love the vintage style packaging they use, I'm hestitant to throw out the box :)

One of the main ingredients in this face mask is white clay so you can imagine it's quite a thick consistency. It has little green beads, which when you apply the mask, dissolve and smell kind of minty. I've used this twice already and can safely say I really like it. It leaves my face feeling lovely and soft, especially around the nose area as my pores are quite big there. With the current 1/3 off all soap & glory products in Boots this was about £3, which is rather good I have to say :)

I have never had spot prone skin apart from the odd massive white head on my chin or on the tip of my nose (nice eh?) but I have had a few spots of recent so I thought I'd try this out. Don't really have much to say about this, yes my spots are less visible but I can't decide if it's the product or just natural.

WOW! That's what I have to say, this stuff smells absolutely amazing! The colour is in 6 Tropical Tango, it smells of sweets! I have to admit I did buy this colour purely for the amazing smell, however over a nude lipstick it does look lovely. A warning: You need a mirror to avoid orange overload with this lipgloss. Pigmentation is fantastic!

For under £2 this isn't that bad. This is Natural Collection Moisture Shine lipstick in Apple Blossom. I've heard some good reviews anout this lipstick and for the price I thought I'd try it. I have to say it's quite a nice lipstick, lovely colour. Compared to my GOSH Darling it's more pinky and less glossy but a very nice day to day colour.

This moisturiser is a repurchase. I love this and think it is possibly my HG moisturiser. I finished my first tube a few months ago and have deviated from buying another to see if there was anything better but others I have tried (Johnsons, Ponds etc) they just don't sink in as well plus they leave me with a greasy feeling all day. This however sinks in almost instantly and leaves me with a matt, silky face ready for make up. I might do a full review of this later.

Last but not least a freebie with this months Marie Claire! A James Brown London Intensive Mask for Hair, I haven't used this but am planning on doing so tonight. Looing forward to it :)
So yeh, anything you want info one just ask xxx