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Oh 'hi' Monday we meet again. 

All the days roll into one for me at the moment because I am not working. Soon though, I will be dreading that Monday feeling and I will be right there with y'all!!

I hope y'all had a lovely weekend? I was meant to have an audition for The Voice on Saturday (just gone) but I ended up not going because my hay fever was being a right batch and decided to come on strong that day. 

Imagine the scene, I would be stood there about to audition for them and having to tell them to wait because I was about to sneeze or cough. Yeah I am sure that would of got me through to the next round. Ha. 

Hay fever lits is the life ruiner, I could be on my way to fame right about now but "OHHHH NOOOOOO!!!" 

Instead to cheer me up (even though I have no money) I went shopping to Merry Hill. I still have the Love 2 Shop gift card that I won with the L'Oreal competition so I have been using that to buy my bits and bobs. It soon goes down though, especially when you spend like £300 on 2 camera lenses and a ring light. Ha. 

It's needed and is an investment. 

So like I said, I hit up Mezza Hill with my hay fever nose, that was obviously training for a Olympic freaking run, and I proceeded to shop for the things I have been needing for a while. 

I will be honest with you, I was actually really disappointed with the Nyx stand in Boots because there was no one manning it, it was an absolute state... I mean testers all messy and in the wrong places and to top it off, there was hardly anything there. All the products I came in for weren't stocked. I wanted the electric blue Vivid Brights eyeliner, their glitter fix glue and some other bits and pieces. Basically, I went in with a list of around 15 items and come out with three. I was not impressed. If I was manning that stand it would look amazing!!

I also went on the hunt for some other beauty pieces and I managed to get my little mitts on them. 

Other than that, my main focus was primarily on getting an outfit for my Cousin's wedding which is this Friday and could I find an outfit that looked nice? 

Hell no, nothing fit properly, I spent AN AGE queuing to try things on and by the end of it all I gave up. Clothes shopping can be a right ball ache. 

I am such an Autumn/Winter fashion gal, I love the dark colouring, laying and cosiness. 

Ta'ra Summer. 

So here are the things I managed to pick up. 

Let me know what you think or if there is anything you think I should try next! 

I noticed a while back MAC had a discount on these palettes and I actually don't own any MAC shadows, so when I saw the colour spectrum of this palette I was like "mine". It's going to be amazing for Autumn.

Okay, so Fix Plus, I have never tried this before but I have seen so many people use it. I am not entirely sure on how many ways you can use this product but the lovely lady at the MAC counter said one of the ways she uses it is with metallic eye shadow to make it pop. 

 I bought this brush cleanser because I needed something to spot clean my brushes after use. I was trying to get some Isopropyl alcohol but no where freaking sells it. I am hoping this does the job of sanitising. 

*Update* I tried it and it's awful, I am sending it back. It just moves the product around on the brush and clumps it up. Quite disappointed. 

I got these free with my purchases to try out. 

As I previously mentioned, I went into Boots with a list of NYX products I wanted to get but most of it wasn't there :( So I bought two of the items off my list and the Vivid Brights colour was a substitute.   

I have heard that this colour is a dupe for Kylie J's KoKo K I think. Let's see shall we?!

I love this little bag from New Look, it looks a lot more expensive than it was and it's just big enough to fit your daily essentials in. I was thinking of maybe carrying my new lenses in it?

Wedding hair possibilities? These hair rings are awesome.

My pops keeps taking off my black, fluffy pom pom off my car keys so I will be putting this on instead. 

 I have searched high and low to get more of these lip pencils/crayons. My local Primark never stock this shade so when I was in Primark in Mezza I stocked up. I also bought a white liner for highlighting certain areas. 

I got these to help create some makeup looks :) 

 I already have one of these brushes but slightly smaller and not from Primark, so I wanted to try this bigger version to see if it's any good. 

So this is all I bought when I was out on Saturday, as I said there was a lot more I was looking for but it just wasn't about. 

I seriously need to stop buying things now until I get a job at least. Although there are some lovely things I want on Beauty Bay. 

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L 

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What I Got For My Birthday // The Lowdown!!

*DISCLAIMER* "I am in no way bragging about what I received/brought for my birthday. I like reading and watching posts like these and I thought it would be nice to follow up from my 'Birthday Wishlist'. Some people are interested in subjects like this as much as I am so I hope you enjoy reading this post and if any of you have post's like this I would love to read/watch them. Leave any links in my comments". 

Helloooooaaaa!!!

The time had come to say "hello" to my birthday and "goodbye" just as quickly. 

I hate it when that happens. 

I get so excited about things really easily and remain that way for months until the day is finally upon me. 

Then I get the blues. 

So, here is the lowdown of the run up to my day of birth and the actual day I was popped out into the world. 

The week running up to my birthday I decided to get sick. I don't know what it was, some sort of bug but all I know was I felt extremely rotten. I had a constant sickness feeling so spent most of my time trying to sleep it off. I went off all food and drink and could barely move. The night before my birthday (6th August) I was meant to be going to the cinema with my brother and then grabbing a pizza after. That didn't happen because I was far too ill to leave the house, so we watched a movie in my room instead until like 2 am. 

The morning of my birthday I thought I would wake up feeling so much better. I was wrong, I still felt really rough. My parent's had to practically drag me out of bed to open my cards and presents. I was still excited though! :) 

This is what I came downstairs to.

:)

My parents always make it pretty downstairs on my birthday. It reminds me of when I was younger and I am a stickler for tradition. In our household it's always tradition for mum and dad to keep things like this a secret and I am not allowed to come downstairs until the morning. 

I had mostly money and the couple of presents you see there are off my parents as little 'extra's'.

This is what they were. 

SWEETS!!!

MY FAVOURITES SO FAR.

My brother brought me THE BEST present EVER. And it was one of the main things I had put on my 'Wishlist' post. I will keep what he brought me a secret until the end of the post as an element of surprise for you!!! He tried to get it for me to open on my birthday but it had sold out everywhere in the shops so it was being delivered into store the next day. I was that shocked I cried a little (plus I was all emotional anyway due to feeling sick. Ha). 

Yeah, so I had brought a dress to wear specially on my birthday. Call it my 'birthday outfit'. And it's very different to what I usually wear, it's quite 'girly' for me and it was from Topshop. 

I fell in love with it when I saw it. Whether it suited me or not, I am not too sure. 

By this point I was feeling a little better. I hadn't been shopping properly for ages and couldn't wait to get out of the house. I went to Merryhill (near Birmingham, UK) shopping centre as all the shops are indoors and it's always been a tradition for me to go there. I even got a free Krispy Kreme because it was my birthday. :)

The first place I ALWAYS wonder into is the Disney Store. I LOVE it in there, I am such a child, I walk in there and wish I had toys like that available when I was younger. Awesome place to unleash your inner child. 

Next I stopped off at Lush!! The lady that served me in that store was a little rude, she kept staring at me and made me feel really uncomfortable. So I only brought one thing as I didn't want to stay there any longer. Not like the Bristol and Worcester stores who have super cool staff. 

Not long after this I thought it was best to probably eat something as I hadn't eaten for a few days and I was hoping it wouldn't make me feel worse. It actually made me feel a lot better and it was really nice. I went to the food hall where they have loads of different canteens. There was Indian food, Chinese, Greek, Italian, a fish and chip shop and your good ol' faves like KFC and Burger King. I really liked the look of the Indian food so had a Chicken Tikka wrap with 'Aloo fries' (chips). I was going to go for the curry but I didn't want anything to heavy, it was really good, I took half of the chicken out as I am not a massive meat eater. But it did the trick. :) 

YUUUMMMMYYY!! 

I am now going to show you the rest of the morning snaps and what I brought that day. I didn't actually get as much as I thought I would as I started to flag towards the end of the afternoon. So I still have quite a bit of money left over. When I got home mum and dad put out little bits of party food and then I had my cake. It was a pretty good birthday all in all and I had some nice messages on Facebook and Twitter. 

I felt the love.

♥

P.S. Don't forget to take a look at what my brother brought me at the end of this post!! :) 

I brought the 'Sex Bomb' bath bomb.

I got a couple of things off my 'wishlist' but when visiting Superdrug to get the Real Techniques Expert Face Brush, I came across this brand of makeup, Makeup Revolution to be exact. And apparently they come from the people who created MUA. The prices were great and the man at the till forgot to charge me for the 18 coloured eyeshadow pallete. SCORE. I didn't realise until I got out the store and checked my receipt. 

Thanks for my extra birthday present. *Thumbs up*. 

The jumper and trousers were from H&M. Most of my clothes come from there, I love the shop although there sizes are real small. They don't size up very well. Anyway, the jumper was in the sale and the velvet textured stretchy jeans were new in. I fell in love with both. Can't wait to wear them!

What I got for my birthday in a nutshell. 

Now for the best present of all....

ufhyikhfihfshaodhyeihi (that is how excited I was/am).

YES!!! He brought me the frickin blue Fujifilm Instax Camera!!!

I haven't used it yet as I want to get more films for it, oh and a case and photo album. Seriously though, how expensive are the films!! Lower the price Fujifilm, no one likes overpriced items. 

Loved it all!! 

P.S. Leo's rule the world!! ;) X