Charlotte Tilbury - Glastonberry

Charlotte Tilbury - Glastonbury has been around for the longest time, but i've only just got my hands on it! My lipstick collection consists of mainly bright reds and nudes, so I thought that it was time to throw in some berry tones!

Every Day Skincare Routine: Morning

Up until a few months ago, I was constantly chopping and changing my skincare routine. I have a real thing for skincare and I love trying out new products whenever I can, which means that I've never really had a routine as every day was just one big experiment! I feel as though now, I'm really happy with all of the products that I'm using every day and am in a position that I can share them with you!

Getting Organised With Kikki.K

It's no secret that I am obsessed with stationary and find almost any excuse to buy it. This obsession definitely includes planners and diaries! Last year I was obsessed with my filofax and getting 50 thousand inserts, stickers, tape, you name it, I had it crammed in my filofax. But this year I wanted to try out something a little bigger and different, and thats when I came across Kikki.K. If you've never heard of them, they have the most beautiful stationary, diaries, homeware etc that you could ever imagine!

Sephora Haul

Last week my Auntie and Uncle went to New York, so I (of course) made a list of all of the things I wanted them to bring me back from Sephora! Some of the products you can get in the UK, but I felt like I could justify buying more if it was from New York... That works doesn't it? This is a bit more of an Anastasia Beverly Hills with a hint of Kat Von D haul, but hey ho! I'm going to share with you all of the beauuutiful products that I purchased and my first impressions...

Makeup Revolution - Flawless Matte Eyeshadow Palette

I mentioned this Flawless Matte Eyeshadow palette back in October as I thought it looked like a great dupe for the MAC Warm Neutral Palette (for a fraction of the price) and I really wanted to try it out. I go through stages with eyeshadows of being obsessed with really shimmery, sparkly ones and then being stuck on mattes for ages. I'm going through a matte stage again at the moment and am loving this palette from Makeup Revolution! It has a really nice variety of colours in it (lots of cool and warm tones) and includes colours that I wouldn't have particularly tried until I used this palette (such as blues) which I now really like using. I would say this palette has something for everyone and is great to have as I find myself reaching for it most days!

March Favourites

I haven't done a monthly favourites in a long long time, so it's given me a chance to find and fall in love with a load of new products. I have to admit, I haven't really been able to buy and try many products lately, but i've definitely found a select few which i've really liked! There's quite a few random bits and bobs in this months, but here is what i've been loving lately!

A Winter Wedding

First of all I just want to apologise (again) for the lack of posts lately, I have been super busy and have been off the past 2 weeks as I had an operation and was hoping to get a lot of posts put up then, but just didn't get round to it as the time flew by! But I am definitely going to get back on it now, as I miss it! Back in January my sister got married at the Long Furlong Barn in Sussex, it's such a pretty venue, and as it was Winter the whole place was decorated amazingly and like winter wonderland! I thought I would share with you some of the photos from the day, as the photos have just come back from the photographer and look so nice! I had the challenge of doing the brides and the bridesmaids make up on the day, which at first was terrifying but I think it went okay!

Glossybox Jaunary

The beauty box spam continues! I always get more excited about my Glossybox coming than my Birchbox. I think it's because they consistently send really good products and a lot of full sized products, but that's not to say I don't love my Birchbox every month! This was my first 'normal' box that didn't have a theme, and it had a really good variety of products in it! Here's what it included...

Birch box January X Pinterest

First of all apologies for massively slacking on my blog, and well all social media lately.. I've been soo busy, I had my sister's wedding recently which made me really busy and also just a lot of personal things which have meant it hasn't been that easy to sit down and write my blog. But also, I didn't want to blog because I felt I 'had' to, so I would have rather waited until I feel like I can and want to again. As I haven't been posting much lately it means that there may be a few beauty boxes in a row stacking up from January, so sorry for the beauty box spam! But anyway, back to the post! January's Birchbox had some really great products in it, and also some lovely extras as it was a collaboration with Pinterest, here's what it included...

Nars Haul

I don't know about anyone else, but I go through stages of being obsessed with different brands. Lately for me, it has been Nars. I've always loved Nars, but working at Space NK over Christmas lead me to fall in love with so many more of their products. Working there was very dangerous, as my wages went straight in and came straight out again! I would make mental lists of everything that I wanted to buy during my shifts! But it definitely helped me to try a lot of products that I wouldn't have necessarily picked up before. Here are some of the beautiful Nars products that i've picked up over the past few weeks...

GLAMGLOW YOUTHMUD Tinglexfoliate Mask - Worth The Hype?

I've been obsessed lately with trying different face masks. My skin gets really dry, especially around my nose in the winter and I wanted to find something that could tackle it! I'd also found that my blackheads around my nose had been quite bad lately and i'd tried so many things to help them, but nothing seemed to work. I'd previously tried Glamglow Thirstymud which left my skin feeling really soft, but heard that the Youthmud was more of an 'all in one' so I was really excited to try it out and see if it is worth the massive hype from bloggers and celebrities and the hefty £50 price tag.

Birchbox December 'The Luxe Edition'

It's that beauty box time of the month again, and this time it's the Birchbox December Luxe edition... I'm really loving receiving my boxes now, especially as my Birchbox and Glossybox come at different times of the month, it means that i've always got something to look forward to. However, I did have some troubles with this box, I got an email telling me it had been dispatched on the 9th, and 10 days later I still hadn't received it.. So I emailed customer services and they told me they didn't have me on their database, even though they had taken the money! I then emailed someone else from customer services and it got sorted out and I received my replacement within 2 days. But it was still very odd... So I am quite interested to see how easily I get my January box! Anyway, enough moaning, let me show you all the goodies I got...

Getting Crafty With Cheerz

I am such a sucker for anything cute and stationary related. I have about a thousand photo albums and organisers just because I love decorating things with washi tape and nice colour pens (it's my weakness). So when Cheerz asked if I wanted to try out something from their range I was so excited! Cheerz specialise in printing photos and making them look really cool and personal, their website is super easy to use and they also have an app so you can just select what photos you want to print and it's done. Check out their range of products here as they do soo many! I decided to try out the Boîte à Photos, which is 40 prints (on square paper with a little border) a bag full of little pegs, some cute string, washi tape and some photo corners. They come in a fancy little box, which makes them lovely to give as presents or to keep everything together.

The Ultimate Liz Earle Hamper

Something VERY exciting happened lately. Something that literally never, ever happens to me... I won a competition! I hadn't won anything since I won a Christmas hamper in my primary school when I was about 8, so this was a massive shock to me and I couldn't believe it. Last month Feelunique held a 12 hours of giving competition where there were amazing prizes up for grabs every hour from 9am - 9pm. They had loads of really exciting prizes on there, but I really wanted to win the Liz Earle hamper worth £229 - which is exactly what I won! I absolutely love the Cleanse & Polish and had used it religiously for ages until I ran out a couple of months ago, but thought i'd hang on until i'd used the rest of my current cleanser to purchase another one, but now I don't need to! Woo!

December GlossyBox 'The Rose Gold Edit'

Recently, I decided to sign myself up for Glossybox and Birchbox (you can read all about my first Birchbox here). This was my first ever Glossybox and I was soo excited to receive it, more so than the Birchbox, i'm not really sure why! And oh my god it's beautiful, and rose gold! This month was a collaboration with beauty blogger Really Ree, who included some of her favourite products in the box. It's quite hard for me to fall in love with a product enough to buy the full size, and so I love the idea of these boxes to try out loads of different products, most of which I wouldn't usually go for. My room seems to be flooded with samples at the moment, especially as i've nearly finished my feelunique advent calendar (which I am LOVING at the moment!) but it means I get to continually try out new things - yay! Anyway, here is a look at what I received in my first box...

Zoeva Rose Gold Complete Eye Kit

The 'Zoeva Rose Gold Complete Eye Kit' is something that I had been lusting over for a very very very long time. I'd needed to get some new eye brushes for ages but never really knew where to start and couldn't afford to fork out fortunes on MAC brushes (as much as i'd like to) so when I saw the Zoeva ones for a really reasonable price AND in rose gold, I knew I had found the ones! So many bloggers have raved about this set, comparing them to many MAC brushes but for a fraction of the price, so I wanted to try them out for myself to see if they were worth the hype!

Unicorn Lurvvv

At the moment I am obsessed with unicorns. A lot of the reason for this is because so many shops are selling such cute and pretty unicorn related products at the moment, but also because i'm a 6 year old girl at heart and am also a complete sucker for anything pink or fluffy. For my birthday as you might have seen from my previous post, I got a lot of pink presents and amongst them were all of these adorable unicorn bits and bobs! I got a lot of this from my friend Gaby who made me the cutest little unicorn hamper (thanks boo).  So if you're like me and love unicorns and pink, you will love all of this!

A Very Pink 21st

It was my 21st not long ago (anyone who follows me on twitter will know as my countdown started very far in advance!) and so I thought I would share with you some of the lovely presents that I got. The presents show how well everyone knows me, as 99% of it was PINK! I spent the week in Falmouth which is where my boyfriend goes to uni, and it was so nice to get away from everything for the week - it really makes your birthday seem more special when you're not at home I think. Although the weather was quite crappy, and well, very English, I had an amazing time just chilling and watching lots of films and season 6 of Rupaul's drag race which I am now obsessed with - they look increeeedible! And also consumed an unhealthy amount of chicken, pizza and chocolate, but you're meant to be fat on your birthday - right?

November Birchbox

I barely ever get any post or deliveries through my door as I tend to do a lot of my shopping in shops rather than online. This means that I get VERY excited whenever I get any sort of letter at all - I get a bit too excited when my boots vouchers come. It's sad I know. I used to love getting my graze box sent to me every fortnight, but I soon stopped those as all 4 boxes were gone within 5 minutes of the postman coming! Anyway, I thought that I would sign up to a beauty box so that I have something to look forward to every month. I'd been really keen to sign up to one of these boxes for over a year now but just never got round to it, I had been ooo-ing and aah-ing between the Birchbox and the Glossybox for ages and then just thought that I would try them both out, which means TWO deliveries a month - how exciting!

Feelunique Beauty Advent Calendar 2015

A beauty advent calendar is something that i'd wanted to get for the past couple of years, but always left it too last minute and opted for the Lindt option instead (which is just as good). But this year I was determined to try one of them out. My heart was set on getting the Benefit one as last year it looked incredible, but this year they changed it from 25 days to 12 days, and when I saw the contents I realised that I had 99% of the deluxe samples that came in it and so I thought I would look for another brand that I didn't have. After a lot of searching I came across the feelunique calendar - it's 12 days, buuut after having a very quick look on the back at a few things that come in it (without looking at everything!) I thought that this looked like a really good calendar to try with some really great brands, and for £30 I didn't think it was too bad.