I was browsing the Liz Earle website earlier this week looking for a Christmas present. I got the present I was looking for and was drawn in by some of the offers that they had. I have been loving Liz Earle recently... I have been using the Cleanse and Polish since I picked it up at the end of last month when I went to London, a review of this is coming up soon!
I decided while they had free delivery and I was making a purchase anyway I would repurchase another Cleanse and Polish. I decided to go for the 200ml starter kit this time which contains a 200ml Cleanse and Polish and 2 muslin clothes. Also while I was on there I spotted an offer which they had on with the Skincare Essentials Regime. They have an offer on at the moment where their skincare essential regime contains 2 extra items, the Eyebright Soothing Eye Lotion and a Lash Definition Smudgeproof Mascara. You get these on top of the Cleanse and Polish, Skin Tonic and Moisturiser.
I was drawn in by the Eyebright solution as I have terrible problems with irritated eyes and wondered if this would help. Plus I had heard fab things about this mascara and was looking for a another moisturiser. Also because my order was over a certain amount I got a free "Original Gift for you" worth £28 which contains mini products including a mini cleanse and polish, mini tonic, mini moisturiser, mini hand cream and superbalm. These will be great for when me and matt trek a mini break to London - like when we go at the end of January!

I will do reviews of the individual products but since I have started using them I am totally loving these products.

In my recent haul video from the start of this month you will have seen that I purchased the Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow! Foundation from Benefit. This foundation is £24.50 for 300ml and is an oil free foundation which contains SPF 25.

Here is what Benefit say about the product:
"Hello…it’s flawless time! Our new oil-free brightening liquid foundation builds from light to medium coverage for a natural complexion you can believe in. It’s you…just more luminous & healthy looking."



I have been using this product since I brought it and I am absolutely in LOVE! It is such a lovely foundation. I put this on with my Real Techniques Buffing Brush and start by putting it on the back of my hand. The first thing to notice about how runny this is. I thought when I first put it on the back of my hand and saw the consistency of it I was going to be disappointment. However when I put in on and blended it into my skin I was completely won over. It blends in beautifully and offers a really good coverage. This sounds really strange but I feel like my skin can breath when I have it on and yet it offers a good enough coverage to offer a full coverage.
Like I say I have been wearing this foundation since I brought it. I find this such a nice every day foundation. It offers a great every day coverage without being heavy on my skin and feeling like it clogging my pores up. I am still in love with my No7 foundation but I think I am going to save that for nights out as it is thicker coverage and offers a good evening coverage.


Overall I love this foundation, it is more expensive then I have spent on a foundation before but I feel like it is going to go a long way, you really dont need a lot. I just use a pump and it covers my whole face and blends down into my neck too.
There are 7 different shades available, I went for the shade Honey which is a perfect match to my skin.

Have you tried this foundation??? Are you in love??

I came across this tag while reading sarah's blog here and although she didnt tag me in it, I thought it would be fun to do. So here we go... if your reading this then I tag you to do it... if you do leave a comment with it below so I can read yours...

1. Favourite Christmas Film?
   It has to be a toss up between the Muppets Christmas Carol and Miracle on 34th Street, it is not the countdown to Christmas until I have seen both of these :)
2. Favourite Christmas song?I love the Pogues, Fairytale of New York. I also really love traditional christmas carols like Silent Night and Away in a Manger... I love the lead up to Christmas and Christmas itself at church!
3. Real or fake Christmas tree?We have always had a fake tree... I suffer from a lot of allergies include Hayfever which I think we be set off by a real tree...
4. Do you like to stay in your pjs or get dressed up at Christmas?We always get dressed up in whatever new clothes we have had that year and go and visit my grandparents, eat christmas lunch and then we put our PJs on and veg in front of the Christmas TV :)
5. Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?Christmas morning...
6. Favourite Christmas Treat?
   As tradition me and mum always have a cheeky baileys when we are cooking Christmas lunch
7. Show a childhood photo of you at Christmas
   I cant find a childhood one so heres me and my cat last year instead...
   
8. When do you start getting excited for Christmas?As soon as I have seen the Christmas Coke advert!
   
9. If you could kiss one celeb under the mistletoe, who would it be?
   Darren Criss (Blake from Glee)... definitely.

Hope your all enjoying the countdown to Christmas xx

A NOTD for you today. Here are some nails I have been sporting since the weekend. I wanted to do something a bit wintery on my nails but thought it was a bit early for santa's or christmassy nails.

This is OPI - you only live twice and the snowflakes are drawn with a models own white nail art pen. I have added a little silver diamond in the centre of the snowflakes :)

If you follow me on Instagram then you will already have seen this! When I went to London I was seriously disappointed that I couldnt mooch around the Mac stand is Selfridges because of all the people and also I wasnt really impressed with the attitude of the staff (I think they thought because I was wet and look bedraggled that I wasnt intending on purchasing - they only seemed intrested in the dry, skinny model looking people - I could write a wholllllllle seperate post on this)


Anyway I have been lusting over Mac for a while. Its probably one of the most famous high end beauty brands out there and comes with a hefty price tag. There isnt a Mac stand near where I live and I dont think you get the best idea of purchasing cosmetics online unless you are repurchasing something...

On Monday I went into Manchester to do a spot of Christmas Shopping and I wandered into Selfridges heading for the Illamasqua stand intent on having a look and purchasing Android, one of their pure pigments I had spotted online, I purchased Beguile when I went to London and was in love with it - if I can catch the magic on camera I will, and I fancied the Android for Christmas. You can use this pigments both dry and wet. Head on over to the Illamasqua website as they have great moving swatches of the products HERE.

Right next to the Illamasqua stand in Selfridges in Manchester is the Mac Stand and there was about 2 people mooching around, so I took my chance and had a good look!
 I decided to pick up Mac's Mineralize Skin Finish in the shade soft and gentle. I have heard a lot of things about this product across the blogging community, most recently by Zoe at Zoella in one of her videos.
This was £21.50 and is for 10g. It reminds me a little of the Sugar Bomb which I picked up from Benefit a few weeks ago, not so much in the colouring but in the effect it gives, a little bit of colour with a bit of highlight. In fact you get more in the Mac product and it is cheaper as the Benefit product is £23.50 for 8g of product.

When I start using this (and the Illamasqua Android) I will be sure to do a proper review of these but for now I am definately excited to try this and maybe some more Mac products in the future.

For anyone who uses Mac what products can you recommend???

As you know I went to the Clothes Show on Friday of last week thanks to the lovely people at the Hair Ideas Mag who were giving away tickets on their twitter page and I was lucky enough to win. This post may be quite photo heavy... I didnt take a lot of photos in the actual place because I didnt take my camera with me (like an idiot) so I just took a couple of photos on my phone.

Now I did film a video on Friday night with all of the things I brought at the clothes show and then put them all away in their lovely new homes. However I never thought to look and check that the video was not seriously zoomed in and you could not actually see anything I was talking about so I scrapped it and your just going to have to make do with a run down of the days offers.

A lot of the stalls were doing amazing offers and of course when you see amazing offers you have to take advantage of these offers. I have not been to the clothes show before and I was really excited to go, I spent the moment I won the tickets to the moment I went reading blogs of people who had been last year and got more and more excited about what I was reading - not about the clothes - I mean as a plus size I didnt figure there would be much for me on the clothing side, but I was excited to find they had a Beauty Hall too!!! Here is a quick run down of some of the offers  that I saw/picked up :)

• Models Own - This stall was absolutely AMAZING!!! It had every single shade of nail polish that models own do. They were 3 for £10 and then you got a fantastic goody bag which contained a pencil liner, a lip liner, liquid eye liner, 2 eye shadows, a nail buffer and some cute pink scissors (I think that was everything). I brought 2 of the Clothes Show Exclusive polishes - "Showstopper" and Bubblegum which is a bright pink colour! 
• Rimmel - Rimmel had 2 goody bags on offer. They were priced at £10. I went for the Glam Rock one which contained a Scandel Eyes Mascara, A 1000 kisses Lip Stain, An Eye Shadow Trio and 3 nail polishes. The other one contained the same products just in different colours, it was more neutral. 
• Lee Stafford - Lee Stafford had a stand which contained all of their products. Apart from the new Aragon Oil range the products were 3 for £10 or 4 for £12. You all know how much I have been loving Lee Stafford recently so I went for 4 products and got 3 of the Hair Growth shampoos and another one of my beloved treatments. I went back later and got another 4 things (because it was such a good offer) and got another 2 shampoos (everyone needs shampoo),another treatment and mum got a wax. 
• Sleek - Sleek had lots of offers going on, their palettes were 3 for £20 and a lot of their products were 3 for 2. They also had an offer of a goody bag which was £10 and it contained a palette (I went for the original palette), a lip gloss, a set of false eye lashes and a highligher/contour palette.
• So! - They had 3 goody bag offers, a £5, £10 and a £20. I went for the £5 which contained a lip gloss set, some body sprays and 2 dry shampoos. 

I then went past the Lee Stafford stand again on our way to the Fashion Theatre and spotted a queue of people! On closer inspection we noticed this was for the offer we had read about online - 10 products for £10! We quickly got in the queue and were quite near the front! The bag contained 10 different products including a spray, a conditioning treatment and 2 serums from the bling range (a blonde and brunette one) , 2 fake tans (in light and dark), a poker straight treatment, 2 of their body sprays and a tail comb! I mean I wouldnt have particularly brought them all but I am willing to give them a go :) I then got to meet Lee Stafford who was hanging around the stand :)
We then went into the fashion theatre which was FAB! Here comes the photos:

Overall it was a really fab day! We went into Birmingham after to have a mooch but we ended up just going to get something to eat and jumping straight back on the train because it was so busy!

I will be blogging about the products that I brought once I have had chance to use them properly so keep your eyes peeled for that :)

Did you go to the clothes show this year??? Which stalls were you loving?

Have you ever experienced that problem where your going out and you spent that long doing your face and your hair you rush to your nails and then smudge them pulling up your tights and end up taking them off anyway and going out with naked nails.. Now come on I know its not just me!!

I have discovered a miracle product!!! It comes from the lead in the field, the nail goddess, Sally Hansen and is the Insta-Dri nail varnish. Now you know me and quick drying products, I am skeptical at first until I have given them a go... Well I can honestly say that I totally LOVE this product.

I brought this product from Superdrugs. It is currently on offer for £3.99 (usually £4.99) and is absolutely amazing. All you do is paint on your nail varnish, wait a moment and then paint this over the top. Wait about I would say 5 minutes and your good to go... Pull your tights up, do you whatever. It completely dries your nails! You honestly cant believe how good this product is until you have tried it! If your the sort of person who doesnt like waiting around for your varnish to dry, get some of this! Even at £4.99 this is a total bargain and totally worth it!

Have you tried this? What did you think?

To go with my post on Thursday of Boots offerings for the ladies, here is what Boots are offering for the Gents this christmas. Again they have some good things on offer this year again for the men. I think they have some good sets for men in Boots, I usually get something for my Dad, Grandad and Brother in here as they have some good classic sets as well as the good novelty items too for nutters like my little brother.

• Gillette Essential Travel Gift Set - £10
• Classic Mens Leather Wallet £12
• Man walks into a war joke book - £8
• Classic Mens Shoe Kit - £12
• Photo Cuff Links - £8
• Match of the day tabletop football - £20
• Mr Grumpy Mug - £6
• Satzuma USB Bottle Opener 4GB - £12.00
• Gadget Swisscard Blue - £16
• Boss Bottled Night - £39

What are you loving for your gents this christmas ladies? Do you love what Boots have to offer....

On the back of my popular post which I shared with you the other day of my Top 8 products under £10 I wanted to share with you some general Christmassy presents. In this post here are my top picks for girlies from what Boots are offering this year. Boots have some lovely things on offer this year as usual, here are a few of my favorites.

• Soap and Glory Box - £60 - If you have been reading my blog for a while you will know my love for Soap and Glory, I cant wait until this beauty gets on the offer of the week! 
• Santuary Winter Facial in a Box - £20 - My mum had this for Christmas last year! Its lovely and perfect for a weekly facial
• Baylis and Harding Gingerbread Mini Bath and Body Trio - £4 - Lovely little gift and mmm gingerbread body bath.. yummy :)
• Sparkle Snood - £12 - Because who doesnt like to be warm and sparkle at the same time!
• Armani Code set - £40 - I love the smell of this, its on my list of fragrances to try
• Clinique Lotta Colour Set - £30 - I love this set, I am waiting for it to come back in stock because it is a total bargain!!!
• No 7 Cosmetic Case - £20 - No 7 do some fab sets, This one is so cute and perfect for your handbag
• Benefit Jet Setter - £29.50 - Mum has brought this for me already for me. I love it! Such a cute set!
• Starbucks Mug Duo - £16.60 - I love the christmas blend from Starbucks! This set includes 2 mugs and some cute candy canes too! Perfect for Coffee Lovers

You cant beat Boots at Christmas! Stay tuned for my top gifts for men coming later this week :)

This is a product by Pearl drops called Beauty Sleep. It is basically a serum that you put on your teeth and gums over night which is meant to boost the whiteness of your teeth. This product retails at £3.49 and I got it from Boots.

I have been using this product for about 3 weeks now I think. I am always a bit skeptical of products that claim to make your teeth whiter. There are so many different ones out there all ranging from relatively cheap like this one to £20+. I have read different reviews online about different products, the ones with a mouth guard that you wear for about 5 minutes at night to special tooth pastes you brush you teeth with.
This product is something you use at night after you have brushed your teeth. You take a pea sized amount and rub it on your teeth (I usually concentrate on the ones you can see when you smile) then you go to bed as normal and it works it magic.

I LOVE this product. I can really see the difference that it has made to my teeth even in the small amount of time that I have been using it. I love the price of the product and I love the fact that you dont have to wear or do anything daft, you just put it on and sleep. One thing I would say is it has quite a strange taste. It tastes a little bit like when you have been to the dentist. Its not too bad, you get used to it, I mean you cant expect it to taste like yumminess can you :P Another thing I would like with this product is it would be good if it came with one of those cards you used to get so you could measure the whiteness of your teeth. I mean you dont really need one because you can see the visible difference but it would be nice to be able to actually measure it on a scale.

Have you tried this product?? Do you love or hate it? 

Out of all the posts out of my blog this one is by far the most popular. I thought I would take the headings that I did last year and see if I could find things for the same ones. So here is my top Christmas gifts for 2012 under £10...



There are some really great cheap presents out there.. I am going to do more of these posts so keep your eyes peeled....

Boots have some great offers on at the moment. A lot of the brands have 3 for 2 on, some of the brands have offers where if you spend a certain amount you get a free gift. L'Oreal and Max Factor have an offer where if you spend £15 you get a free gift box worth £28 (L'Oreal) and £29 (Max Factor).

I wanted to get the Eyeliner I has advertised in a magazine. I have been after a new gel liner for a while now so I thought I would give this one ago. This retails for £9.99 and I figured if I spent another £5.01 I would get a free gift worth £28 so I picked up one of the eye shadows in plum.



The free gift is absolutely fantastic. It contains a Color Riche lipstick in Fuschia (Full sized),Volume Million Lashes mascara (Full Sized) ,Color Riche Nail Topcoat (Full Sized), Revitalift mini pot, Nude Magique BB Cream and True Match Foundation Sachets.
I love the lipstick, its has a bit of a sparkle in it. It is a lovely colour and I think it will be fab for Christmas. I gave the mascara a quick go this morning too... it seems fab but I shall give it a proper go before i pass total judgement. The topcoat is a clear nudey colour which will be fab for a french manicure and has a little hint of purple when you move the bottle.

I love this little gift. I think the Max Factor one is slightly different - I think the products are smaller mascara but has an eyeshadow in as well.

Have you had any of the free gifts from Boots. What products are you loving?

I seem to have purchased a lot of things lately which I have not shared with you girlies. I got some of this stuff in London last weekend and some of the stuff this weekend when I went shopping with my mum.

Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish Starter Kit - £14.25 - John Lewis - I have been desperate to try this for ages but was put off by the price. I decided to take the plunge when I went to London and just get it... I am so glad I did as I love it - will post a seperate review on this.
Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen WOW foundation - £ - Benefit @ Debenhams - She used this foundation when I had the make up session yesterday and I loved it... Plus it has 10% off. It seemed like a small amount of this went a long way.
Benefit Bad lash mascara and liner duo - £20.50 - Benefit @ Debenhams - I spotted this yesterday, I have tried the bad gal lash mascara before and really enjoyed it so I thought I would give this a go as it was a bargain!
Lee Stafford Hot Shots 4 Blondes - £ - Boots - I got these when the Lee Stafford products were on 3 for £12 in Boots. I felt like the highlights I had put in my hair were too blonde and brassy so I thought I would give these a try. I have used a whole sachet (you get 4) over 2 weeks and it has knocked the brassy right out of my hair.
Lush Shower Gels - £3.75 - £4.25 - Lush - I know the snowflake is very popular amongst the bloggers of the world and I wanted to give it a whirl. I also thought I would try the Twilight, I am enjoying both of them although I prefer the Snowflake.
Illamasqua Pigmant Eyeshadow in Beguile - £15.50 - Illamasqua @ Selfridges - If you follow sprinkle of glitter (here) you will know how much she loves this product. I have wanted it for ages but I wanted to see it in person and when we went to London last week I got that chance. I havent used it yet but I can already tell I am going to love it!
OPI Polishes - All about minnie & You only live twice - £11.00 - John Lewis - I tried to resist the OPI stand and couldnt. These were so lovely. The All about Minnie is from the Minnie Mouse collection and You only live twice is from the James Bond Skyfall collection.

The bottom left is some boots purchases yesterday. They include the Soap and Glory sexy mother pucker lip pencils in Fuscha and Plum (£8), The soap and Glory under eye concealer (£9) - these are on 3 for 2. L'Oreal super liner (£9.99), a L'Oreal eyeshadow in plum (£5.99) and the purple and gold Maybeline 24 tattoo cream shadows (£4.99). There are some fab offers on in Boots at the moment. 

I am excited to try a lot of these products, I have started using some already which I am loving and cant wait to share what I think with you. Look out for them coming up soon.

Toodles