Today
I thought I would ease myself into blogging with my new camera with a
simple haul... did I tell you I had a new camera? Well if you follow me
on Twitter then I'm sure you will already know this as I have been
rambling on about for the past few days!
It's quite an upgrade from the Canon 10o Ixus is
digital camera I was using and I'm definitely not use to the weight or
all the settings, so I'm still very much a beginner in the realm of
Digital SLR's. However I'm going to persevere and try and learn all of
the settings.
So without further ado...
Asos
As soon as I spotted the new OPI Mini Designers Series set (£13.00/here
The
only shade I don't really love is Reflection (red shimmer) as it's just
not as special as the rest and I do have quite a few red shimmery
polishes already from the OPI Burlesque collection. I've made a point of
not showing any swatches as these really deserve a post of their own
and definitely a NOTD post very soon of my favourite, which is
Coronation.
Boots
Next up is a mixture of online and in store purchases at Boots. I firstly placed an order online for two 17 Mirror Shine On Lipstick in Peace & Nudist Peach as they are currently HALF PRICE for only £2.49 each (see here
which is kind of nice. I had them delivered to store so I didn't defeat
the purpose of buying them which is how I came to acquire two other
product!
I decided to buy a new tube of the 17 Wild Curls mascara in Black (£6.29)
as mine was feeling a bit empty and it really is my favourite high
street mascara. I also discovered quite an empty shelf of Ruby &
Millie brushes which are of course being discontinued so were all
reduced to low prices so I managed to get the last i-Define brush for only £1.66. However Lady from a Tramp
Superdrug
I
also popped into Superdrug this week which is something I rarely do for
some unknown reason, as it is great in there! It shows how little I go
in as I have only just signed up for the Beauty Card and I must say I
was right about the mirror on the card looking like the mirrors they put
in children's toys!
Anyways,
so I instantly got lured in by the Sue Moxely stand as all the products
were half price however I resisted purchasing the whole stand as I've
never very sure what is going on with the Famous by Sue Moxley
range... I mean currently everything is half price and I'm wondering why
and they still don't have a website even though they have been saying
it's coming soon on their Facebook page for the last year, so who knows!
So I picked up the Lip palette as I've never seen anything
similar on the high street which was £4.50 down from £9.00 (slightly too
steep to start with) and two baked eye shadows for £2.50 - bargain!
I also purchased two more of the Beauty UK Lip Lusts as I really do like them in Sweet Sixteen and Playboy which were £2.99.
Home Sense/TK Maxx
I
certainly have a love/hate relationship with both Homesense and TK
Maxx. They both are really great stores for finding high end products at
really low prices however I'd say at least half of the beauty products
are totally ruined by either being tested by stupid people or again
someone opening a bottle and then leaving it to leak all over the other
products!
But
to go off on a bit of a tangent I was mentioning on Twitter that a few
of my local Tesco stores have put up a sign above each make up stand
stating that if you try any make-up other than the testers provided that
you will be asked to purchase the make-up. Go Tesco, hey! And I must
say I have noticed a difference... no messy stands with opened/used
products. So simple, yet so affective! TK Maxx and also the other stores
*looks up* really need to get on board with this ASAP!
Back to haulin' haha I actually picked up a sticky bottle of Tigi Cherry Almond Firm Hold Hairspray for only £3.00 which I instantly de-contaminated with my Bath & Body Works Hand Sanitizer (courtesy of Skin Scrubs
Now if you don't already know, I have a bit of a thing for my Botanics
Face brush - it actually transformed my skin, well it still does but
it's looking a bit worse for wear now. So this new face brush came into
my life just at the right time and it's even better than the Botanics
one! It's from a company called Hydrea London and was part of a set that included a nail brush which is always handy for the bargainous price of £3.99.
Asda
After the lovely Liloo mentioned the new MNY nail polish range (£2.98 each) in Supergdrug (read about it here
I kept my eyes peeled in hope I would spot them in my local store, but I
actually came across them in Asda. Now I actually mentioned about MNY
(the sister line of Maybelline) coming to the UK almost a year ago (post
here
and so they have clearly been slow coaches and only got their act
together now... but I'm not complaining as I spotted some lovely looking
polishes.I only picked up two shades as you never know the formula
of a new range. I would tell you the shade numbers but I can't actually
remember right now. See this is why shade numbers for makeup are so
pointless! I've only tried out the left one so far are have to say I
love it!
Amazon
Last but not least I bought two books with my free £15 Amazon voucher from LoveFilm.
I tweeted about this last week but I know most of you probably thought
it was too good to be true/a bit of a swizz. Basically to get the free
£15 Amazon voucher all you need to do is sign up to Love Film for a free
30-day trial (here
with the code AMAZON15 and then you place ten rentals into your account
and they dispatch the first two discs to you.... you can then either
watch them or not and you receive your £15 Amazon voucher via email.
I
personally didn't need the Love Film service so I watched one of the
DVDs and then sent them both back. Then made sure to empty my rental
list of the 8 titles left in there so they didn't send me anymore and
then I cancelled my account. Though if you did want to try out the
service for the full 30 days you would just have to make a note of the
end of the free trial date so not to incur the cost of the first payment
of the service. Am I making sense?? If I'm not, I'm sure you will
understand it all if you read all the info on the site. But it is a
really good deal!
Makeup Alley ![]()
Seriously how did I write so much! I mean this was supposed to be a quick post!
Oh well, hope you enjoyed the better pictures.
