Itsy bitsy haul

I nipped in town today to get another copy of my birth certificate as I have lost mine :( And somehow got distracted by shops :O
I had a £5.50 clubcard coupon for Tesco so decided to get a few things I needed/wanted. This morning the postman also left me a package I have been looking forward to for ages, NYX lippies!
So today I bought NYC Nail Polish in Madison Avenue, this is such a gorgeous bright red/pink with a lovely pearl finish. Love he formula and am definitely going to get more!
In Tesco i picked up the Blistex Intensive Moisturiser because my lips have been really dry recently and nothing has helped them and a travel size baby shampoo for washing my make-up brushes. I then gravitated towards the make-up and picked up Wet n Wild Mega glow, I think most big Tesco's sell Wet n Wild, but I've wanted to try this for a while and as it states it just leaves you with a glow on your cheeks.



On to a small rant. On the 14th August I ordered two NYX lipsticks(Black Label in India and Round Lipstick in Indian pink, both really nice colours) from Mscuppycakes.com. I have only just received them this morning, that's almost a month I have been waiting on them. I know it's from America so I wasn't exactly expecting it in a week but I have ordered from the US and even Asia before and it hasn't take much longer than just over two weeks. I was even told it would be about 8-10 days, this clearly didn't happen.

India on top, then Indian Pink then Blistex Intensive Moisture
Anyway I am happy they are finally here and I am quite pleased with my unexpected haul today :)

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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?

Products I regret buying...

So I thought I would do a little post about things I would recommend you not to buy...

1. E.L.F Candy shop lipgloss in Candy fix - For those of you that are unaware of elf, its eyes lips face, a website where pretty much all the products are £1.50. So a while ago I went on and bought a few things including nail polish (not bad), all over colour stick (really like), shimmering facial whip(also like) along with this candy shop thing. Now this comes in different flavours such as coconut, frosting and cherry etc...however the candy one, to my dismay, did not smell like candy, it smelt more like my cat after it's been in the rain. In a nutshell, it's awful, maybe I got a bad one but it's awfulll. I would not recommend.

2.Lee Stafford "Wonder webb" - This product is a good concept, its a gel-like white substance and when you rub it between your hands and pull them apart it goes all webby, yeh webby.
It's supposed to give texture and light hold, however it really did nothing to my hair whatsoever. The only good thing about this is that it didn't leave my hair feeling sticky or dirty.

3.No.7 Perfect light Pressed Powder - I bought this because I just needed a powder to go over my foundation at places to make it less shiny, but it just left my face look powdery and cakey - not a good look. So now I just use this for the mirror in the compact :)

From ranting to raving. A while ago I watched a few videos on youtube about making your own lipgloss by using vaseline and mineral powder blushes. I tried this out the other night however added a few extras such as some barry m dazzle dust in coral and gold irredesence (which give a really nice effect) and came out with two different colours - one is more pinky and shiny, the other slighty mauve in appereance. So yeh, I think everyone should try this!


On that note, I'll leave you with a picture of my cat Sophie :)