On a trip to Superdrugs this weekend, I did so well, I got as far as the till without a nail polish in my basket and darn it if Superdrugs didnt have the new MUA rebranded polishes right there by the till in their pretty new essie style packages! And I spotted this colour I could not resist!


This is the shade Moody Mink. It is such a nice dusty lilac colour. The MUA bottles have really rebranded themselves and remind me so much of the Essie bottles. In fact this shade reminds me of an Essie Shade - whose name escapes me..

These polishes are lovely! They retail for just £1 and the consistency is amazing. It is lovely and goes on really well and was opaque in just 1 coat. Especially for the money, usually you get cheap nail polishes you find they are really sheer and need about 20 coats to get this opaque. I also found the brush really good too and it isnt all spraggly which you sometimes find with cheap polishes. I have seen some other ones of these polishes online and they have some lovely colours so I will defiantly be keeping my peepers peeled for them!

Have you tried these? What do you think?

You hear this saying all the time and its only just recently I have come to realise how true this is. Since I have been doing slimming world I have realised it I do not plan my week then thats when things start to go pear shaped!
I know this is the problem with a lot of people. We have all done that thing when we get in after a long day at work, not planned anything for tea and dialed the number of a take away. Its just so easy to do it.

A few weeks ago my mum came home from town spouting a brand new chalk board for our kitchen! It is SO perfect for planning...


I mean seriously how good is this board! And the best thing of all is the price! This little beauty was £1.99 from Home Bargains.
I cant tell you what a difference having this board has made. This photo was taken last week which if you saw my blog post yesterday you will have seen resulted in a 3 pound weight loss. Last week we sat down with the board in 1 hand and the lap top in the other and we planned the meals for the week and then did the online shopping based on what we were having in the week. We have just finished doing exactly the same. This week I made sure I also added some extra bits and I am going to make it my mission to take my lunch to work every day.

Do you plan for the week or are you a "on the day" kinda person?

So as you know I brought some lovely new boots on Saturday when I into town but I also nipped into boots. Their lovely 3 for 2 offer is back and I couldnt resist picking up a few bits that I have had my eye on.

I have been on the search for a new pair of boots which I could wear for everyday for a while now however my chunky legs usually leave me sad and depressed when trying to find any. I popped into New Look on Saturday with my mum and I fell in love with a pair. I wasnt hopeful as I tried them on, especially when I saw they were pull on with no zip. However no only did they go up my leg, they didnt look bad!

I have only worn them a couple of times but I am in love already! I cant wait to wear them with some chunky autumn winter stuff or some thick coloured tights :)

As you may have seen from my blog post the other day, Models Own are currently running an amazing offer on their website - 50% off when you spend £25 (which is SO easy to do). They started the sale in conjunction with gaining 100k likes on their facebook page. I picked up a few bits, some I had been lusting over at the Models Own stand in my local Boots for a while and some that I liked the look of.
Here is what I ordered:




Have you ordered anything from the Models Own Sale?? Which products are you loving??

Models own have been running competitons and things on facebook for the past couple of weeks and have been aiming to reach 100k followers. They have reached 100k followers their afternoon and have offered everyone the chance to get 50% off their website.

I just made an order and totally broke my no more nail polish rule :P but at 50% off I couldnt resist getting a few that I have had my eyes on for a while :)



Do you love models own?? Use the code above.. it saves 50% when you spend 25%

I have been toying with the idea of trying BB creams for a while but to be honest was a little overwhelmed by all the different ones that were available.
After the lovely weather we have been having recently I decided I fancied trying a BB cream as a coverage rather than wearing a foundation.
I decided to take opportunity of the fact that No7 had a £5 off voucher in Boots a few weeks ago. Because I wasn't really sure what to go for I decided to try the No7 one because I could ask the lady on the counter for her advice as to if she thought a BB Cream would be the correct way to go compared with something like a tinted moisturiser.
I ended up with the Beautiful Skin BB Cream. She advised me to get the Normal/Dry one as I have some parts of my skin which tend to get dried out. I went with shade Medium as I am quite olive skinned and the good thing about getting in from the No7 counter was that she matched me with the correct colour as I am always unsure about which colour to go for as sometimes colours can look very similar.
The BB Cream retails at £12.95 so compared with others is a little more expensive but with the £5 off voucher made it £7.95 which puts it around level with other "high street" brands of the same size. Heres what the Boots site says:
"Take off those winter layers and reveal your outer beauty this spring with new No7 Beautiful Skin BB Cream. Its unique 3-in-1 formula evens and enhances skin tone and disguises imperfections, while the nutrient-enriched formula helps to banish blemishes."

I have used this quite a few times now on days when I am just nipping into town or not really going anywhere but don't want to wear much make up. I am really enjoying this product. It feels so nice when it goes on. My skin feels so light and it gives me a really nice coverage without being heavy on my skin.

Overall I think I am very impressed with this product. I would defiantly buy this product again. I am not sure if I would pay full price for it but I would defiantly buy again when they have the £5 off vouchers.

Did you buy anything new with the £5 off vouchers or do you just get a firm favorite and stock up??

I think I have mentioned on several occasions about my topic for today. The Pound Shop. Yep thats right good ol' Poundland! If you haven't got a Poundland in your town then ... well .. I don't even think that's relevant.. i am pretty sure they are everywhere :P
But in case you haven't been in, basically everything is £1. EVERYTHING!!! They a heck of a lot of things too... in terms of beauty they sell brand shampoo, conditioner, shower gels and bath products, waxing products, creams... pretty much anything you may want.

I mentioned (I think sometime last year) that I had picked up some Rimmel products from Poundland and I have also seen Sally Hansen in my local one.
Whilst mooching the other day I spotted this

Its a Wet and Wild - Beauty Benefits concealer. I had been looking for a new one for a while as I had started to fall out of love with the one I was using. I thought for £1 what had I got to lose?
I am really enjoying this product! Its got 2 sides, one which reduces redness and the other which hides blemishes and then it has a setting powder to hold it in to place. I think this has been a total beauty bargain!


Have you picked up any beauty bargain in your local Poundland????

So the time has come again when Boots are giving out those lovely £5 off No7 vouchers. I LOVE No7 so these vouchers always make me very excited.
I came across this No7 eye base when someone else reviewed it on a blog. I had a pencil a few years ago which helped eye shadow to stay on all day but havent been able to find it again since so when I read about this I thought I would give it a try.
According to the Boots website the product info for this says "No7 Stay Perfect Smoothing & Brightening Eye Base brightens and smooths the eyelid providing a perfect base for eye shadow, ensuring the colour stays true all day".

Well I have been using this product for just about a week now and I have to say I am totally in love! The cream goes on really well - my first worry was that it wouldnt blend on properly but in fact it smooths on really well and once you have your eye shadow on you dont even know it is there - kinda the idea I suppose. I use my finger to put it on rather than the little brush which comes with it as I think it allows you to get it on better. And I can honestly say I can see the difference. Usually after a day at work most of my eye make up would be gone and you would probably just see the traces of it near my lash line. This however definaltley helps to hold the shadow on longer.

I have another 2 No7 vouchers in my purse and one of them will definatley be going on this! It retails at £7.75 which to be honest I dont think is bad anyway as you would pay that for an eye primer anyway but with the voucher it makes it just £2.75! What a bargain!!!

So we went in for a mooch and was having a look at the makeup/beauty section. One of the other local pound shops had started to do Rimmel stuff – lipstick etc but I had never seen anything I liked or would use. However in the new pound land I came across these beauties! AND they were 3 colours for a pound! I got myself one and mum one in colours I knew she would use (she likes browns for work) but she gave me the yellow from her set.

Sorry for the lack of posts. It's been a bit crazy since Thursday.

On Saturday, I went to a table top sale at my church. I went round mainly for a bit of a mooch and obviously to support the church. I got some bargains though. I brought some books for like 30p which is ace. They were classic books too which I like to read. I also got a lovely little daisy broach for the new bag which I have just finished sewing (I will share a photo shortly). The best bargain I got was a gorgeous new coat. Its a vintage style navy blue short coat with lovely silver buttons. It needs dry cleaning but other than that its lurrrrrrrrrrrrrvly. And it was a total bargain at £3 (and my nanna was lovely enough to buy it for me too :P). I will share a photo when it has been dry cleaned.

On Sunday, Me and Mummy went for a walk to a hotel down the road where they have a Vintage Fair once a month. I love going and they have some lovely things there. I love to look at the clothes and they had some gorgeous things there, if I had the money I would have spent a fortune. I did however spend just £5. I brought a lovely necklace which is like a clockface and is really unusual. I also brought some pin badges for my bag which are really cute :)

Not really got a lot planned this week. Was not very well yesterday so I feel like I have lost a day of my week because all I did was sleep. I hate being sick too (not that I am sure anyone likes it).

At the weekend me and my friend me and my friend Matt have booked to go away for the weekend. We are going down to Windsor from Friday - Sunday. We have got Merlin passes which we brought in February and living just 16 miles from Alton Towers we have been about 8 times this year. So we decided to go down for a few days and do Thorpe Park and Chessington over the weekend (and pop into Legoland on Friday afternoon when we get there). I am really looking forward to it. With doing my PGCE which finished in July and having a serious lack of funds I havent been on holiday this year so this will be like my holiday :) And bonus is they have given out lovely weather for the weekend :D

So thats my week in a nut shell. I shall share some photos and tell you about my weekend away, just keep your fingers crossed the weather is as nice as they have said it will be.

To be honest it is very rare I go out and do any clothes shopping. Most of the shopping I do is like spur of the moment if I see something nice or am going out sort of shopping...

Back in March we insured our kitten with Asda pet insurance and as an insentive we got a £20 Asda gift card. I say we I mean mum. The gift card didnt come till late June (not through one of lots of phone calls to ask where it was). Anyway around the same time it came, I did my room out and got rid of a lot of clothes that were either too short in the body for me or that I hadnt worn in ages. As with all my clothes when I have a clear out, mum always likes to have a rummage through to see if there is anything that she wants, being 5 inches shorter than be but the same size does have its advantages for her. Anyway she ended up with most of the clothes I didnt want and in return gave me the Asda gift card to treat myself to something new :D

We havent really been up to the supermarket in a while because we have been doing the shopping online but we nipped up today and I managed to spend some of my voucher on this bargain dress.

Because the battery is flat in my camera you will have to make do with this picture from the Asda website :)

But yes total bargain at just £6!!! Love it! Its lovely and summery. I'm planning on wearing it with leggings (mainly because I dont have the legs to pull it off like the model in the photo without) :P

And so my manta for today is dont pass up on the supermarkets! Sure they may not be Gucci or Doir but they sell some lovely stuff at real affordable prices :)

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