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 

Primark Haul // And Some Other Fun Bits!!

Hey lovely people!!

I haven't posted for a couple of days because I have been feeling really unwell. :( I have a bug of some sort and it's my birthday tomorrow (7th Aug) so I am hoping when I wake up it's gone away. 

To try and take my mind of feeling constantly sick I have decided to post my Primark haul. It's only a small one as I brought this stuff a couple of weeks ago now and thought you guys should see it. I have some other things that I have brought, that isn't Primark related so I will add those in too. :) 

Enjoy :)

I LOVE this baby blue/pastel boyfriend coat!!! I have been looking for one EVERYWHERE. I did want the pink version but they didn't have it in stock, so I tried this one on and fell in love with it. Even the colour. It's so soft and definitely doesn't look like a Primark number. Obviously it's a little pre-mature for me to buy a coat whilst we are still in summer. But I like to think ahead and I couldn't let this beauty slip through my fingers. It only cost £23 too which is a complete steal where coats are concerned. 

Love it. 

The coat is amazing quality and I cannot wait to wear it in the winter/fall. I got mine in a size 8 and as it's a boyfriend fit it will come up a little larger as that's the style. So I would definitely try it on for fit. 

I found this in the Pyjama section so I am gathering it's like a night t-shirt. I tried to get it in a bigger size so it came up like a nighty in length. Evidently even though I brought it in like a size 16 it still came up short. 

I loved the little quote on it and the marble effect. It cost only £5 so not breaking the bank at all and the material is pretty thick so it isn't of cheap quality but thin enough to wear in the summer. 

Just a nice little bedtime comfy staple to wear on it's own or with PJ bottoms.  

I have been after some fairy lights to put in my room because I am re-decorating it. These are battery operated ones but I do want some decent plug in ones eventually. But for £3 these are actually pretty decent. You get 20 in the pack and when tested they all worked. 

Not a bad job Primarni!

They look super pretty when turned on!

 This is the final thing that I brought from Primark and it was £1 and it is the best smelling bubble bath ever!! This was the last one and I can see why. It smells like sweets and comes out bright pink. 

A girls dream. 

I quickly popped into Superdrug when I was in Birmingham for my brother's birthday and saw the 'Look' makeup stand. Everything was half price as they were discontinuing the brand and this was the only product left. They did have an awesome bright pink lip liner to go with this but it had gone. :(

So yeah, as I have kind of given it away already this is a bright pink lipstick and cost £3.50. They did have the products still on the website when I last looked. It might have changed now though. I haven't tried this lipstick yet because it looks so pretty but I am sure it will be good. It has some cool packaging and the colour is highly pigmented so I am hoping the colour payoff will be the same. 

I brought the next items and I will be honest with you, I don't see what the hype is with these Revlon Colourburst Matte Balms. I didn't like how they looked on swatch and it wasn't as matte as I expected them to be. 

I am not a fan and won't be using them.

Obviously I took a little stroll into Lush. Of course. And re-purchased the 'Butterball' as it was so amazing. I will add a little video of me using it at the end of this post. :) 

I also decided to try a bubble Bar called 'Creamy Candy' and it smelt really nice. I wasn't sure if I liked that I had to crumble it into my bath as I burnt my hands a few times. In the end I just did it under the cold water. Since using it though I will definitely be buying some more. 

As you can see I went a little overboard with the bubbles.

I hope you enjoyed my haul and I will be back with my birthday one shortly. :) 

♥