So as promised I thought I would share with you all of the goodies that I picked up on my trip to Nottingham on Saturday. Have you got a cup of tea? If not go and get one... Im not going to lie we may be here a while!

First up when the meet up finished the Make up Mafia headed over to the Body shop to spend the lovely voucher we were given. I went with the girls because to be honest I had NO clue where I was going. We were greeted at the shop by the lovely Sophie and Autumn who were the lovely ladies who had been at the Meet up.
I was glad they were there as it gave me chance to chat to them a bit more about the products we had seen.

Sophie had mentioned a few of the products which I was keen to pick up so I got chance to discuss a little bit more about these. I was keen to chat about their Vitamin C Microdermabrasion scrub. Sophie has said how much she loved this scrub and I was keen to have a look at it because I am always on the hunt for a good scrub. When Sophie tried this on the back of my hand I was amazed by how it felt! Definitely something I needed as part of my routine. The scrub itself was £12 (although the website says £13) and then I spotted this set was £16 which contained a skin reviver from their Vitamin C range. According to the website this is £14 so I got myself a good bargain here. I also picked up another set which was from their Vitamin E range. I know there were a lot of us at the event who were excited about this Facial oil. I have been looking for something like this for a while. My mum uses the sanctuary one but it didn't agree with my skin so to pick this up for £16 (again for the set) was a bargain. The set should have contained a moisturiser but they were all out so the lovely Sophie put together a set with the night cream instead.
The final thing I wanted to pick up was their Camomille Cleansing Butter. I have read lots about cleansing butters recently and I was interested to try them. A lot of the ones I had read about were high end in the market so when I saw this was £12 it fell straight into my basket!


When I got to the till, Sophie told me about the Rewards card. She explained that it was £5 for the year to join and that I would get 10% off my purchases for 12 months. I signed up and was greeted by the added bonus that because it was still the month of my birthday I would get £5 off so in effect I paid nothing for the card. Also I got a few free gifts for signing up too which is always a lovely bonus!



Next stop was the Mac shop. I knew I wanted to head to the Mac shop and pick myself up a Pro Palette in the 15 size. I also wanted to get a few new shades - I had my eye on Cranberry for a while so I picked up that. I also wanted a nice neutral shade so I picked up Phloof and Vanilla.



Next I was drawn in by Cath Kidston. I try and be restrained when I go there but I just cannnnnt! Everything is so pretty and my birthday money was burning a whole in my purse! I fell in love with this bag as soon as I saw it, I had wanted one of their satchel bags for a while and this is perfect as it fits my filofax and all my things in I lug about with me everyday.


On my way to the till I noticed this gorgeous purse. I love my red Cath Kidston purse but when I spotted this and how many card pockets (why do purses never seem to have enough for all the reward cards you have - just me??). This one has a flap with card slots and also the inside part has card slots too.


I then spotted some lovely make up bags which popped together! Cute!!



I then hot footed off to John Lewis. I wanted to pick up Nails Inc in Porchester Square in a full size. I got this in the Boots Advent Calendar and fell in love. While there I also wanted to head to the Bobbi Brown stand as I wanted to have a look at their Corrector. I know this is loved by a lot of beauty bloggers around. The lovely beauty assistant sat me down and matched my shade and then she tested it on me. She also showed me their Concealer on top. Again I had heard fantastic things about it So decided to pick up the both of them.




 Finally on my way back to the station I spotted H&M and I love to have a mooch as we don't have one in Stoke.

I picked up this gorgeous spotty top and this peach star scarf.

As I mentioned yesterday - this week I took back to YouTube to share all the things which I had picked up over the last few weeks and months. A couple of things I had already mentioned on here but I included anyway.
Its quite a long chatty video but if you fancy going to check it out you can see it here.


I will probably do reviews on most of the things in the video but if you want to know about anything in particular let me know

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.

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???

So here we are... another weekend and so another haul video. I seem to have starting using make up more probably over the past 12 months. Up until then I would just chuck a bit of foundation and some mascara on and have done. But over the last 12 months, or probably since I started writing this blog, I have been getting into experimenting with make up and trying different things. I have always been pretty much a high street affordable kind of girl, Im not talking cheap and nasty but like affordable stuff like Rimmel etc but today while in town I got a few bits to mix up my usual and brought some higher end bits too.


I like smack bang in the middle of 2 towns which I think I have said before, one slightly smaller and another one which is bigger and has more shops. I dont tend to go to the bigger town as its slightly further and is usually rammed with people. However me and mum went today and had a mooch round. So here is what I brought...

 I shall keep you updated on what I am thinking of all these beauty products :)

This seems to be coming a little bit of a recurrent theme but I nipped into town again today and curse, the 3 for 2 offer is still on in Boots... and they had the new Mirror ball collection from Models Own and I couldnt resist. I also picked up my faithful top coat from Rimmel and another couple of bits I saw.

 Left to right:

• Rimmel 10 day wear supershine top coat
• Models Own Mirror Ball in Boogie Nights
• Models Own Mirror Ball in Hot Stuff
• Models Own in Purple Imperial 
• 17 Holo in Silver
• Rimmel Lasting finish in Pop your pink

Also when I popped into Superdrugs I saw the MUA constalation. they only had Gemini but I had been keen to give it a go so I got one.

I will be sure to share all of these with you when I do them!

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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??

So as promised on twitter I said I would share with you the purchases I made yesterday. Now if you have been following me a while you will know I dont go out and proper mooch and shop very much. However yesterday I went to town by myself and had a proper good mooch! I was in town for like 5 hours!!!! So here is what I brought (there are a couple of things that I brought that I didnt picture) - from the top (L to R)

• Topshop makeup purchases (Totally blaiming louise at sprinkle of glitter for these purchases since she always talks about topshop make up) - Kohl eyeliner pencil in Black - £4, Highlighter - £9
• Skirt from Primark -  £10
• 2012 a year to remember - primark - £6
• Spotty Mac - primark - £9
• MUA Lipsticks - Shades 11, 13 and 5 (I think its 5 - dont have it to have)
• Spotty top - Red Herring - £12.50
• Mustard Top - Primark - £5
• Fasinator - Claires Accessories - £5
• Dress - Primark - £15
• Red Shoes - Primark - £4
• Pumps - £2.50

I also got some John Freda Precision Foam colour in shade 5VR which was half price in superdrugs.

Im in the process of uploading 2 haul videos to youtube if you fancy a mooch then my channel is here and they will be uploaded soon :)