Lush Haul 💕

Earlier this week, I posted about the Lush event that I was kindly invited to, I spoke about my experience of the amazing new shop, but I didn't show you guys what I had received and purchased at the event! I was so excited that Lush had re-opened, I could finally repurchase some of my favourites that I had run out of and I could finally feel fresh in my new fancy bathroom that I'm so proud of.

So here's what I got!

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Christingle Body Conditioner*

I've never actually tried a lush body conditioner before, we got the choice between snow fairy and this Christingle one, which is more fresh and minty which is my favourite throughout winter, I'm weird and I don't like floral smells and prefer a more fresh or fruity smell. It contains peppermint oil and menthol crystals. I'm really excited to try this, I feel like it will be quite refreshing in the morning.

Sugar Plum Fairy Lip Scrub

I've been after a lip scrub for ages and after finding out that Lush's were edible, I just knew I had to get one, I'm an avid lip chewer, which doesn't make a pretty base for matte lipsticks.. You can simply lick away the excess after using, which is abit gross for some people.. but I like it, I don't mind a bit of lip skin.. especially if it smells delicious!

'Never mind the ballistics' Bath Bomb*

We got to see this bath bomb in action at the lush event and its so beautiful, colours of yellow and pink swirls and it smells incredible. I think it's limes and orange oil, so again fresh and fruity. Unfortunately I don't actually have a bathtub.. but I'll probably be featuring this in my soon-to-be giveaway.

'Don't look at me' Fresh Face mask

Zesty and lemon-y fresh face mask, yas! I love a good face mask and my favourite is usually the mask of magnaminty (my all time fave) but I decided to go with something a little different this time around, so I chose this one I love the colour of it and it was so just fresh and relaxing I just couldn't resist.

Passion Fruit Lip Balm

So I lost my lip balm the other day and I was upset so after getting the lip scrub I went and bought a nice new balm to go with it. This one is the passion fruit one and it's quite light and not very sticky and of course it smells amazing.

Goth Fairy Shimmer Bar

I'm not really a shimmer girl, but I was sold on this item mainly because it was cute (sorry bank balance) but also because it's just a nice thing to put on, on a night out. One of the staff there says she uses it on her collarbones and stuff for a night out, so I  was inspired to maybe do the same!

'Whoosh' Shower Jelly

I've never used a shower jelly, the thought of it is just abit weird really.. I haven't tried it yet, but I was intrigued to see what it's like, but it again smells really fresh and I think it will be awesome to really wake you up in the morning.

Ocean Salt Scrub

Another one of my lush favourites, I went back and bought this but I bought their new self-preserving range, which is a different formula so it wasn't as gritty and a lot more creamier than usual, its a great scrub and I'm pretty sure my boyfriend likes it more than I do...

'Outback Mate' Soap

My favourite soap of all time. Outback mate, I am just obsessed with you! You can get as little or as much cut from the soap and it's bought depending on the weight like if you were buying cheese! I love this stuff, it lasts for ages and it smells amazing! 

And I didn't actually realise how much stuff I had actually bought before I wrote this post.. whoops. But I hope you enjoyed reading about some of my all time favourites, but also some new things that I'm trying out from Lush!

Let me know your thoughts and thanks for reading as always.

All products with an asterisk* were received at the Lush event as a gift, everything else was purchased myself.

Rimmel Nail Polish Haul - So cheap!

Hi guys, recently I have been getting into nails more. After growing my real nails super long I've become much more interested in polish and having pretty nails all the time! Unfortunately at Download Festival, I broke the majority of them so I am having to start again, but fear not, they are getting there!

I checked out Fragrance Direct, one of my favourite websites for getting super cheap bargains, they always have makeup on special offer so I had a look to see what nail polish they had on offer! you can find fragrance direct here.

Im super picky about the applicator brushes and I love the double bristled ones from Rimmel, and yay they had them! Only 99p for most of them too!

Rimmel Salon Pro // £1.29 each // Fragrance Direct

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I couldn't get over how cheap they were selling these for.. they are my favourite nail polish and I'm forever picking them up from Boots etc. But for £1.29! The only downside is that they didn't have many colours but I picked these in 'get a nail tan' a beautiful tan colour and 'summer orange' a bright orange, perfect for summer. If you haven't tried these I highly recommend them!

Rimmel 60 Seconds Nail Polish // 99p each // Fragrance Direct

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I never tried these before, mainly because I'm fussy about the applicator's, but when I found out that these actually have the thicker brushes I was so happy. That means more colour selection but also they are so dead cheap at only 99p! 99p! How good is that! They have quite a lot more of a colour choice on these too. I got 'little bo peep' 'too cool to tango' and 'get your shades on' (left to right)

Rimmel Space Dust (Aurora) // £1.25 // Fragrance Direct

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Rimmel Stronger Nail Care // £1.99 // Fragrance Direct

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The Rimmel Space Dust, I actually love, it again has the thicker brushes which I love, but it also has so much glitter on it, you don't have to keep applying hundreds of coats of it. In fact one was enough. The stronger nail care is so my nails don't break anymore. After dealing with all my broken nails I'm trying to get them stronger so they don't snap. Hopefully this should do the trick!

So that's what I got altogether, which I think was £10 not including shipping, I love Fragrance Direct they have such great bargains and for a student on a budget, to get great branded products at a ridiculous price, well that's just perfect for me.

Have you ever tried their website?

Emily.

E.L.F Cosmetics 50% Off Haul!

Hi guys, Sorry it has been such a long time since I have blogged about anything, I've also sort of relaxed and stayed more away (than usual) from social media, I have been so busy with Download Festival and working, travelling back and forth I haven't really had the chance to 'sit and blog' about anything. I have so much to catch up on! At least I have loads to blog about!

Anyway, E.L.F cosmetics, have constantly had these little flash sales, where you can get 50% off your order! (On the UK website) You do have to have at least £20 in your basket before you can use the code, but that's only £10 + shipping you have to spend! I loved E.L.F last time I ordered so I bought some more products, here's what I bought..

e.l.f // Matte Lip Colour // £3.95

Coral & Natural

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It's no secret that I love matte lipsticks, I decided to pick these up because I've been wearing more nude lipsticks but I don't have any matte ones. I also am loving coral colours right now, so this was perfect. The only annoying thing is that they don't do these in an actual lipstick tube.. annoying right. So I had to go with these strange pen thingys. Nice colours though!

e.l.f // Dramatic Lash Kit // £1.95

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Now this is probably the most cheap looking packaging from all of the products, it's not really what I was expecting as the photo looked a lot different on the website, but the lashes themselves look like good quality and for the price I can't moan. I'm quite excited to see how these work out, I love false eyelashes but I think I'll probably use my own eyelash glue.

e.l.f // Eyebrow Kit, Ash // £3.95

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I love filling in my eyebrows, at the moment I use the eyebrow kit from MUA, but I really wanted to try a gel to fill in my eyebrows instead. Naturally I have super dark eyebrows, I don't know why *shrug* But I went with the ash colour because at least I could build it up instead of them being super dark and scary looking. I have admittedly tested this out before I photographed it (whoops) and so far it seems really easy, not so sure on the brush though, it's really thin.

e.l.f // Makeup Mist & Set // £3.95

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I did indeed, read a quick review before I bought this, I've never used a setting spray before, but due to this lovely hot weather we are having for the price, I thought why not? I am kind of disappointed with the packaging though, I thought it would be much bigger for some reason, and it kinda feels cheap but it's portable for your bag I guess!

e.l.f // Studio Blush, Mellow Mauve // £3.95

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After my last purchase I fell in love with these blushes, they feel so posh in your hands and they apply so nicely. I would say however that this colour is a little more bronze than I thought it would be, the swatch on the website made it seem more pink, maybe that's just me but regardless I think it's a lovely colour and I don't have anything similar. Excited to try this out!

So that's it for my little e.l.f haul! Did you take advantage of their flash sale's? Post your links so I can be nosy and see what you got!

emily.

Elf Candid Coral & St Lucia, First impressions & Swatches

This is the first of me ever ordering online from e.l.f and I heard about the hype when they enabled their UK site. I had seen them around before when I went to America last year and I picked up one of the little black book of eyeshadows and I loved it. For the price it was great and I couldn't believe the value for money this brand had.

If you've read my previous post's you would know I've been trying to expand my makeup collection and fill my MUJI makeup storage, (which is nearly complete!) I've been really low on my selection of blushers, I think I had 3.. woah. I was torn between getting Makeup Revolution blushes or e.l.f's. But I went with e.l.f and here's what I got!

ELF Blush // Candid Coral // £3.95

I have to say I am so pleased with this blush, after becoming obsessed with coral this spring, I thought why not put that into my cheeks too. It looks much more pink in photographs, but close up it has these beautiful flecks of gold throughout giving it more of a coral orange tone. I'm super impressed with the packaging, it reminds me of Nars, but it has more of plastic feel, which I don't mind. It feels lovely in your palm and I can't wait to try this out with my new coral lipstick!

ELF Contouring Blush & Bronzer // St Lucia // £3.95

This product just screams 'value for money' The packaging feels great, it has a mirror inside and you are getting 2 products, the blush and bronzer for the same price as a blush. Also the blush in this set is absolutely stunning. Similar to the candid coral, it has slight gold flecks running through, but it's more of a pink toned blush. I think this will look amazing when I go on holiday with a summer glow. The bronzer is however quite a-lot more pigmented than I anticipated! With my ghostly pale skin I think a little will definitely go a long way. It really has a holiday tanned sort of feel to it. I'm really excited to experiment with this.

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Candid Coral

St Lucia Bronzer

St Lucia Blush

I hope you enjoyed this post, I think I will purchase more products from e.l.f as I'm quite impressed. I also really love the way my photography turned out with this post.

What do you think?

Boots 3 for 2 sale!

Hi guys, if you didn't know already, Boots are doing their 3 for 2 offer again (yippee!) I always have a cheeky gander when this offer is on as you can sometimes get a good bargain!

This is what I picked up yesterday!

Rimmel // Kate moss lipstick // Shade 16 // £5.49

If you saw my previous post you would know that I'm obsessed with these lipsticks. After wearing the shade 101 I saw this lovely shade and decided to pick it up. It's more of a pinky coral than the other shade I had, so I thought it be a nice bright nude kind of colour for the summer.

Rimmel // Salon PRO Nail varnish // Peppermint // £4.49 (free)

I'm actually working on a post at the moment about these lovely little nail polishes. The packaging is just so cute and the application brush is so lovely to use, I've slowly become addicted to these nail polishes. I picked up this shade, peppermint as it's lovely and fresh for summer, but also I'm trying to add more colours to my collection as it's pretty much purple's at the moment. Looking forward to using this colour!

Seventeen // Miracle Matt Powder // £5.49

Recently I've been wanting a loose powder just to test out as I'm not sure pressed powder works best with my foundation. I previously tried the Seventeen's Phwoarr paint and I'm absolutley loving it, so I decided to try something else from Seventeen! I love a matt face so instantly I was drawn to this, I'm excited to see if this will work better and look less cakey when applied. You can find my Seventeen Phwoarr paint review here!

Because it was 3 for 2 I got the Peppermint nail varnish for free! Overall I spent £10.98 and I saved £4.49, not too bad!

Did you do a mini haul from Boots?

Spring Haul

So this week I've been back in Birmingham where I have missed shopping so much.. there's nothing like shopping in your hometown where you know where everything is. I picked up some super cute clothes and bits and bobs that I just couldn't wait to share!

Hobbycraft Haul - Scrapbooking

Hi guys, I finally got round to actually writing a post (yippee!) I'm actually back at home for the week so apologies for my change in photograph style, I don't have a white surface here so *sigh* enjoy this lovely wooden table instead! I've been feeling so inspired lately to be more creative.. I decided that I really wanted to start a scrapbook.. so after much researching and many youtube videos.. I got the basic idea of the items I would need! If you follow me on twitter you would know (as I document pretty much anything) that I went to Hobbycraft yesterday and picked up a few items to get myself started in the scrapbooking loop! I didn't want to buy random things that I wouldn't end up using, as I know how expensive scrapbooking can actually be if you let it. So here's what I picked up! 

Haul | Home Fragrance

Hello all, If you follow me on twitter you would know that I was so excited about these little purchases. I am obsessed  addicted with home fragrance.. I can't keep my purse away from it all. Since being at university I find that candles, oils and burners just make my room that much more cosy. I am constantly collecting candles and oils and this was my recent haul from a shop called 'the candle jar' it is however based in Bournemouth. If you have a candle shop near you go visit! It's such a lovely experience, you even smell coffee beans to cleanse your smell.. palette! 

Haul | Drugstore makeup

Recently I've been trying to expand my makeup collection.. To fill my new Muji storage and I'm fed up of using the same products in the same routine! Being inspired by lots of lovely beauty bloggers, I've been stocking up and I now have the makeup bug.. what have I got myself into? I literally can't stay away from Boots & Superdrug.. especially  now Boots have their 3 for 2 on all makeup..

This is more of a collective haul, what products I've bought over February, from various different places!

Haul | Birthday Treats!

If you don't follow me on twitter or instagram, it was my birthday on Tuesday! I've only just got around to this post as I went shopping on the weekend. I had 10 minutes in Primark (whoops) so I couldn't properly shop in there (sadness) but this is all the bits and bob's I have picked up this week, thought I'd share it! 

*I'll include links for things I bought online!

Christmas Haul! Part two!

I finished editing the rest of my haul video yay!
I'll be heading back to Bournemouth on Sunday but hopefully I'll be getting more posts done before then, whilst I'm at home!

What I got for Christmas!

Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged, my whole family from the scottish side pretty much all came down, so it was really hectic here over Christmas!

I finally, made a video! feel free to cringe at my accent, but yes I finally sat and edited a video. I've done it in two parts, mainly so you don't get bored and hate me but also so I have more time to edit the second part.

This is what gifts I received on Christmas day from my family & boyfriend. I hope everybody had a glorious day, I'm not trying to brag about what I received yada yada, I'm very thankful for everything Santa brought me this year! I thought it would be nice to see what I got, but I also love seeing what everybody else got for Christmas! so feel free to leave your blog in the comments if you've done a similar post, as I love reading them!

Haul | Primark Mini

I've been trying hard to keep a good flow of posts going this week, hopefully I will do a blog post everyday, well that's what I'm aiming for.
Anyway so a few days ago I went on a little shopping trip to the primark in Bournemouth town centre. This is a huge deal for me as I barely ever get the chance to spend money on clothes or to actually go to the town centre. Its such a long walk away and cycling.. well. UGH.

So I got the bus.. I discovered there's a bus stop literally down my road, (which means more trips yippee!) so yeah here is my mini little primark haul, not a big one as I'm poor (haha) but a bargain one nevertheless.

So first of all I bought these two cute little plain t-shirts.

The grey one is a ilovemycroptop collection and the teal is just a stretchy top.

The grey one was on sale at £2

and the teal one was £3.50 :)

I just needed these as I had nothing to coordinate with my crazy hair colours and I was fed up of having clashing colours all the time.. so neutral colours for me! :)

Fluffy Rose Jumper - £7

Next I bought this jumper, it was in the sale section, again I was circling that area like a hawk.

I was after one of these jumpers after I bought a green cardigan which is similar material and it's SO warm. 

I instantly saw this on sale and I was like *yank*

Its super cosy and fluffy, not itchy at all I can't wait to wear it.

*sooo fluffy* 

Grey Knit Cardigan - £5

Yes.. this was a fiver. I literally could not contain my excitement when I discovered this beauty.

Its so warm, so cosy and its really soft, its not an itchy knit at all.Why this was a fiver I have no idea, but it was a complete bargain. This is probably my favourite item I bought. It's just a chilling super baggy cardigan that you can chuck over anything. Again it's neutral grey so will match whatever hair I have at the time.

Love it.

.. and here's me wearing it. super baggy, super comfy and super cute.

Pinafore cord dress - £12

This dress I am actually contemplating taking back. It was really hard to photograph by the way so apologies. But I just don't think the fit warrants the £12. I usually like quite figure hugging items due to my chest but it just sits kinda weirdly around my waist.. I want to take this back, but I can't find the receipt, I don't think the lady gave me one so now I'm sad. :(

So this was my mini primark haul, I know it's not very big but on student budgets I can only afford to treat myself every once in a while ;)

Thanks for reading, Hope you enjoyed it.