I did a bad thing

I suppose the title sounded quite ominous but it refers to me spending a stupid amount of money when I'm trying to save up.

This is how I shop

• Research - usually swatches online, recommendations from blog posts and You Tube videos or I'll randomly Twitter "what's the best product from (insert brand name here)?" I think this 'method' of shopping is the best way to stop me buying random things which I regret 99% of the time.


• Up close and personal - this is where I get extremely annoying according to my mother. I take forever swatching, thinking of uses for products and how much I would actually use them etc. I think that it's important though because as I said above random buying is bad for me, I get grumpy when something is crappy - 3 words Rimmel Sexy Curves - such a marmite product and lets put it this way, I've never liked marmite.

That over with onto the goodies I'll apologise in advance for the lack of 'real' pictures as I've literally just ordered these things yesterday and they aren't in my hands yet :(

First and foremost, my MAC order. I've been deciding for what seems like a thousand years what I should get and today I finally got my act together.

My first addition you will all recognise, ladies and gentlemen, the 239 brush.

The next beauty to be purchased was the 129 blush brush.

This next one I'm particularly excited about because I feel my eyeshadow's deserve a really good blending brush, the 224.

My last purchase is something that people might think is unnecessary but I reasoned if I'm going to spend money on brushes I should at least take care of them properly which is why I got some brush cleanser.

This bevy of beauties hopefully *crosses fingers* will be here before Friday so I can road test them before Illamasqua an event which I am seriously excited for and my first ever bloggers event!!

I was hoping to order from the Nars website but it hasn't loaded up fully all day it was really strange and disappointing but I can always buy things in person on Friday!!

Next up is my ASOS.COM order which should be arriving on Wednesday.

This colour I haven't seen before in my local Boots and Superdrug but that might be because they are a bit naff. Rimmel's waterproof eyeliner in Aqua Sparkle. I have the plum colour and whilst I love the gorgeous warm tones it does require a bit of effort but it is true to it's waterproof claim and lasts all day.

Nails seemed to be next on my shopping agenda I picked up Barry M nail paints in Mint Green and Acid Yellow which were on offer for £1.75 each, always a fiend for a bargain, in the basket they went.

The Nails inc Spring Summer 09 collection has been on my mind for as while and this is the one I'm not sure about mainly because Nails inc polishes are hit and miss for me I have 13 or 14 currently and they vary hugely the glitters and shimmers don't impress me really and I prefer a cream finish at the moment. In the end the reduced price kind of swayed it into my basket it was £12 for four colours, if I don't love one then eh no big loss. I'm kind of in love with the blue colour how gorgeous is it!!

Next up we have Korres lip butter in Guava, I have the plum version and I'm basically just curious to see what this one is like.

Last but not least we have Illamasqua liquid metal in Solstice, I already have Enrapture and I love it but I felt like I was missing out. I did swatch Solstice at the counter in Selfridges but it kind of took on a green tinge on my hand, it just wasn't as pretty as I wanted it to be so I passed. As usual with things that I really want I obsess about them until I cave in and get them so whilst I was ordering I figured heck why not chuck in Solstice it's more convenient than trekking to Selfridges. Shopping maths helped me through this one - online shopping = £3.95 delivery charge vs petrol to Selfridges = £5 or more!! Shopping maths helps me out alot :)

That was an epic post, well my lovelies I will put up another haul post tomorrow showing what I got from Boots the other day after work.

I've got to run to catch the rest of the X factor!! I get so addicted to it every year, I love it :)

NEW HAIR!!! and apologies for not blogging :(

Soooooo I've been rather absent of late (ok so maybe a month and a bit has flown by!) There has been lots of shopping in the past 5 or so weeks and I mean LOTS! I shall post pictures tomorrow because I have the whole day to myself to photograph all my gorgeous treasures.

Ok onto other news I have new hair!! eeep change is scary :O I'll put up a picture of my 'old' hair and my new shiny lovely hair. Yey I've gone from brown-ish to blonde again but not the scary platinum I once was, a nice golden-y 'natural' blonde. Well as natural as bleach can be hee hee.

Please excuse the scary-ness of this picture, this is about a month after I had my hair done and it still looks quite a rich brown and quite glossy in this pic. Alas after not having 'topped-up' my dye since it had faded to almost the bleach blonde of the past on the ends and three inches of natural colour roots!!!!Grim I know but I was spending my money on other things namely an awesome holiday to New York and the Caribbean so priorities people!
This picture now is of my hair in its current glory I'm in love with this it's gorgeous!! It's kind of a crappy picture but I was also trying (in vain) to show my make up for my FOTD!








We shall begin the FOTD dissection-
Face - Estee Lauder Skin Refinisher, Loreal Hydrafresh moisturiser and vaseline on lips. Revlon Vital radiance foundation, YSL Touche Eclat concealer for under eyes, to highlight cupids bow, sides of nostrils and as base for eyelids and Rimmel hide the blemish for the growths on my nose and chin! To finish a dusting of 17 Pressed powder in translucent? not sure what shade because the sticker isn't there!
Cheeks etc - Blonde msf to highlight cheekbones and Eyeko strawberry Fat Balm rubbed in with fingers for blush.
Lips - No 7 moisture drench lipstick dabbed on straight from tube as a stain then blot and applied another coat - Later on in the day I put on a few coats of 17 lipgloss in Barely Rose which looks like a shocking pink in the tube but comes out a soft candy-ish pink.
Eyes - No eyelash curler mine has gone walkies eep! No 7 360 mascara in black to top and bottom lashes and Loreal liquid liner in black along upper lash line with a little flick at the outer corner.
Nothing technical or adventurous just an average day really, anyhoo let me know what you think of the hair! Thanks for reading guys x x x x

I feel a big spend coming on!! help!!

I've just been scouting out where my next big lot of make up is coming from (and I mean BIG). I've been looking at cherryculture.com and nonpareilboutique.com and I'm love with the prices I mean £1.20 ($1.90) for a lipstick HELLO BARGAIN :D, but and it's a big but (ha ha) I noticed that the Eyeko bronzing cream (which i adore more than chomp bars!)http://www.cherryculture.com/cosmetics/makeup/eyeko/eyeko-tinted-cream/17065&cat=334&page=1 is $12!!!!! which works out at about £8.20 ish which is scandalous because on the Eyeko website itself it's £5 ($7.40) and it has free international delivery so I don't know why the heck they can charge extra?

It might not seem like alot of difference in price but I tend to buy loads of stuff all at once so I really notice those pennies disappearing. Anyway I'll put up a link to the Eyeko site just so people know
http://www.eyeko.com/eyeko_shop_page.php. I love the products they all look and smell gorgeous and most importantly they do their job. Also if you enter the code E216 you will get a free product and last time I ordered from there I got a make up palette which will be in my Eyeko haul video which I will put up on Sunday because my computer isn't playing nice at the minute.

So yeah apart from the mini rant I've decided I'm going to spend a fair bit of my wages on NYX lipsticks, LA Colours eyeshadow palettes and probably Milani stuff especially like the look of the tinted moisturiser if anyone has tried it can you let me know?

Right that's me off to bedfordshire now (I always seem to do my blogs last thing at night what's that all about?) I'll get all my videos uploaded to Youtube tomorrow I've done 6 yey me!! Night night x xx x