Huge Haul // Ft New Look, Urban Decay, Topshop, Primark & More.

Afternoon!!!

What a horrible weather day it is today where I am. It's grey, wet but that just makes everything cosier. 

It's Sunday, we are allowed to chill, eat crap and watch awful television. 

I am so excited because tomorrow I am in London for London Fashion Week at a blogger's event. I literally cannot wait. I have planned my outfit, makeup and hair. I am one of those people anyway who plans things way in advance. I will soon be planning my birthday and that's not until August. Ha. Yep, I am THAT girl.

I am switching it up today and presenting you guys with a huge haul. The things that I have been buying have been collected over the last couple of months. As you know (if you have read my previous posts) I am on the job hunt so currently I am having to be careful on what I am spending. 

There are some fashion and beauty bits as well as other miscellaneous items. There is sooo much I currently want at the moment it's mad. I swear my mind knows that I don't have a job because right now I am seriously craving a massive shopping trip. Grrrr. 

I hope you like what I have bought and maybe you might spot some things you like yourself. 

 I bought this cute makeup/wash bag from Primark. I liked it because it matched the colour scheme of my bedroom, it's super cute and big enough to put some of my makeup in. I think this was around £3.

I bought a few of these t-shirts from Primark because I am currently 'trying something out'. These are men's t-shirts and I love the oversized look so that's why I got an 'XL' as it hangs better. This was £2.50. 

Again, these black skinny jeans are from Primark. I mainly get my jeans from New Look because they always fit me perfectly. I bought these so I can customise them myself. I want to rip the crap out of them, they are around £7-8 so you can't really go wrong. 

This makeup bag is so freaking cute. I love everything about it. It's from H & M and I love the fact it's a nude blush pink in a patent fabric and it's big enough for my carry about makeup. This was £4.99, they also have it in black too. 

Mason 'Love Heart' jar from Tiger. £2. 

This top coat polish is gorgeous, I have been using it on it's own without any polish underneath as it's really buildable. I love anything sparkly and this hits the spot. This is in a gold shade, I also have it in silver. £4.99.

This shade was always sold out in Superdrug, so I purchased the gold version first, then when I found this I had to grab it. This is from Model Own's 'Chrome' range and this is obviously their copper shade. I will be honest, I am not as impressed as I thought I would be, I think I expected it to be more like the packaging. A girl can dream. £4.99. 

I love Real Techniques brushes a lot. I now have the Nanshy brushes too which I haven't used yet but currently Real Techniques are my go-to. I love copper/rose gold and this brush is awesome. I also have their 'crease' brush in their 'Bold Metals' collection too. £22. 

Real Techniques 'Core' collection. £21. 

Soap & Glory 'Eyes Box' £18. 

New Look purse £14.99

Love a Yankee candle. :) 

This is seriously cute, I am actually looking for a card holder similar to this but I saw this and thought that this was the next best thing. New Look, £3.99. 

Oh what's this?! Another Yankee candle? Yes it is!!! Ha. I got this in the sale it was half price. I found this tricky because in their store they also had one that actually smelt like Christmas Trees and it was a toss between that smell and this one. I had been searching high and low for a candle that smelt like 'Christmas' and couldn't find it, I then find it but because Christmas was nearing it's end I thought it would be weird to burn it in the new year. So I went for this one. I love this smell, cinnamon is my fave. £12. 

I have suddenly become addicted to buying Urban Decay's pallets. I always swore that I would NEVER spend almost £40 on a pallet but I got their smoky one for Christmas (which I still haven't used as it's too pretty) and I had some Christmas money that I had saved so I bought the Naked 2 (which again, I haven't used yet). I 100% want the Naked 1 as it is a lot warmer and I feel that suits my skin tone more. £38.

"Got a secret, can you keep it?!" It's no secret that I am a fan of Pretty Little Liars and I love reading, so why not get the book. £6.99. 

I saw a trailer of the 'The Mortal Instruments' film and it looked pretty good. I am a fan of Jamie too so again a good buy for me. 

I love rose gold and this cute little wallet is to die for. I don't know what I will use this for yet but I am sure it will get its use. I got it from Accessorize in a sale for around £4. I did buy some sterling silver midi rings too but they went a weird brassy colour which it shouldn't of gone, so I had to take them back. 

This cute little ring is from Topshop, again I picked this up in a sale. It was £20 and I got it for £10. It's sterling silver too which is awesome. 

I re-purchased some of my essential beauty products. Y'all have seen those before somewhere on this blog. Ha. 

Okay, right so the ear cuff situation, I cannot for the life of me work out how on earth they sit on my ear. They keep falling off. Can anyone please shed some light?! I got those from Topshop too. 

Topshop are also selling these cute necklaces and there are quite a few to choose from. There are one's for luck and power etc. I chose this one because I was drawn to it more. As you can see this was also in a sale so I think it was around £5. 

All the above clothing items are from New Look. I cannot actually remember how much each item was, so I do apologise. 

I wanted a camel 'waterfall' coat for a while now and I found this and it was the last one in my size, so I grabbed it. At the time of trying it on I thought it looked really cool. Now I am a little unsure if it actually suits me. 

The black lace shirt is so beautiful. I love things like that, a little different and unique. I thought it would look lovely when you're transitioning from Spring to Summer. 

And finally, I love a bit of leather (this is faux leather, I never wear real leather) and this dress teamed with a long sleeved white tee and military boots would look super cool.

Always think ahead. 

I did buy some Lush products too but I couldn't wait and had to use them. I bought one of my favourites 'Razzle Dazzle' and I got given a bomb too. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I have bought and I will see you in my next post. 

Love 

L 

X 

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