Boohoo.com

As you already know I did not go mad in the sales, I usually do not I just hate the whole searching rails for clothes and the whole mess shops get into. This is why I love Internet shopping, no rails, no screaming children and no getting over heated in over crowded shops. So the first sale I checked out on Stephens day was boohoo.com, a Northern Ireland Company who were all over the TV before Christmas. I did not need anything I was really just having a gawp and seeing if I could pick up a bargain.

Before I get on to what I bought I just want to say boohoo.com have excellent customer service. I was doing the order around 9 o clock at night and encountered a problem when I tried to add the shoes to my cart some funny message about value was coming up. I decided to write on boohoo Facebook page and got an instant reply to say they will pass it on and would be dealt with in the morning. Happy that I got the reply but I was a bit worried they might be gone by the morning. Well twenty minutes later they replied again and it had been fixed and I could now place my order. How good was that! They also had a Christmas delivery notice telling you if you order on this day then your order will be delivered on this day. They said my order would arrive on the third of January and it arrived on the third! So I really must commend them on their excellent customer service.

In the end I ordered this multicoloured skater dress and a pair of yellow platform stilettos further down.

 Skater dresses are everywhere at the moment available in every colour, I always taught they were nice but were too long for me. I am extremely short and long dresses make me seem shorter. So when I saw this dress and saw the reviews that people said it was really short I knew it would be perfect length for me. I admit it's not my colours at all ,I had to force myself to buy it but I need to stir clear of black clothes. I do need them for work but the fact is I live in black and I only inject colours in shoes and accessories so I decided I needed buy a colourful dress. When it arrived I was a little unsure but my sister instantly told me it looked great and it was only because I just do not wear much colour. I have yet to wear it out but I am waiting for the right occasion. Oh yea it was only €14 bargain!

The truth is I am a complete shoeaholic I have over 70 pairs and it's forever growing. Some are over loved like my black and white office shoes and some are unworn the right occasion has not come up yet and I have some that I can not even walk in but I just have to have them. I can not go shopping without buying shoes even if it's just flats. So when I saw these and saw the price I fell in love!

At €8 how could you go wrong, yellow may not be for everyone but I love shoes in every colour. Pair these with a black blazer and black skinnies instantly changes the whole outfit and adds some attitude! Some of you may ask what's the hole at the top of the top for ? Really I have no idea their kind of peep toe but not ,maybe it's for ventilation ? The hole does not put me off them at all their still beautiful to me and give me the height to get over the 5ft mark so happy days.

There is still time to shop in their sale as there is 4 days left so see if you can grab a bargain like I did!
www.boohoo.com

A New Way To Do Nails!!

Well I think it's new and I only found out about it this week so it is new to me. Introducing Water Marbling!

I love nail varnish but believe me I am the worst person at painting nails, actually no my friend and fellow MUA Amy is so I am the second worst. We just were not blessed wit stay within the lines ability and usually spend more time cleaning around our nails then painting them. So I was thrilled when I saw this post on another blogsite.

 After watching this video I was mesmerised  and knew I had to try it for myself. And in my opinion I did not do half bad for my first attempt. I did not achieve the perfect swirl most of them did not achieve the swirl at all but practice makes perfect and I am happy with them. I followed the video but there was some thing she did not mention to do so here's how I achieved these nails:

1. Paint nails white all over I just used the white from my Boots french manicure set.
2. Wrap all fingers in tape as shown in video you will not be able to do it after you do each nail it will just get too messy.
3. Only use an old glass or your mam will kill you ha ha!
4. Use warm water if it's too cold it will not work.
5. When your nails are dry or nearly dry that's when you can begin.
6. Always drop the darker color in first( I used Avon's Nailwear Pro in Midnight Plum) for some reason white does not spread well unless there's another color in the glass.
7. Once all your circles are done make your swirl and place your nail in flat on top of the water and the submerge it in hold there for 1 min and and then remove nail varnish circle from around the finger.
8. Take out of the water it may or may not b dry so do not touch for a few minutes.
9. You can use the same water for every nail!
10. Once all nails are dry then use a top coat, I used E.L.F matte polish to give them a matte look.

So there you go, really it's not that hard and I only watched the video once to know how to achieve the look, so anyone can do it!

Straight after

The morning after  with top coat

Not swirly at all but I still like them

One of my favorite nails

Some Surprise Finds!

Today has been a good day, not only did my E.L.F and Boohoo.com deliveries arrive but I found some things I had forgotten about. I have recently moved back into my family home after much reluctance but the cost of living is too high for a country in recession! I moved back into my old room which is literally full to the brim of things from my teenage years. Silly momentum's that should have gone in the bin years ago but really I have a little bit of a hoarding problem and I stupidly keep things and refuse to throw them out. I used to never throw out receipts that finally had to stop a year or two ago. As well as these momentum's was my mountain of bags and shoes that I had either left here after a visit or forgot I had even bought! I also had clothes since I was 15 clogging up my wardrobe thinking maybe I would wear them again or keeping them for my fat days! With all the stuff I brought back from my old place and my new Christmas additions I knew something had 2 change. So yesterday I began my conquest to conquer my hoarding! After giving 40bags and a black sack of mostly unworn clothes to Chernobyl Ireland and 2 sacks of absolute crap gone in the bin I am still not finished but it is mostly just organising and I have taken alot of tea breaks (i.e checking fb,blogging and escaping the house all day just to get away from the mess).

But during all this cleaning I have come across makeup I had taught was lost forever, brushes I taught had disappeared off the face of the earth as well as clothes I do not even remember buying! The best thing I had to have found was my Benefit Celebutante box, this Christmas just past it was the Tattle Tell All box. I had taught I had left this in England where I used to live and only had the benetint,highbeam and lip gloss from it. So I was delighted when I found it and realised I had never used the Dallas bronzer in it! Anyone who uses Benefits blushers and bronzer boxes will know they last forever this palette has a quarter of what's in a Dallas box so I should get some good use out of it and saves me 33.50 for a little bit longer. It also had their leggy and dandy brandy eye shadows in it as well as their lipstick 'no competition' a deep red color. So with a little spray of Beauty So Clean Sanitizer Mist these will be disinfected and ready to use again. Happy days!

L'oreal Studio Secrets Primer

Just before Christmas I popped into Boots in Dundrum to pick up some much needed essentials for Christmas. I primarily went in to buy Revlon Colorstay foundation as my Inglot one had ran out. In blogs and vlog land this foundation has been raved about by everyone so I had to try it out. So over to the Revlon stand I went and was trilled to see if you bought €20 of Revlon products you got a box of goodies free this included a mascara lip gloss and nail polish. Now there was no boxes in sight apart from the tester one, so before I bought something I did not need from Revlon ( Colorstay is €17.50) I asked one of the sales assistant was there any boxes left. After about 10 minutes of waiting she reappeared to tell me there was none left and she was sorry. I said it was fine and not to worry and carried on with my shopping. Standing in the deodorant section she reappeared again and handed me a L'oreal box of goodies proclaiming it was better. It was only when I had left the shop I realised that I never picked up the other Revlon product and had only spent 17.50 not the 20 euro I was supposed to spend. Did I go back? I did in my .....

The box contained a a full size lipstick, eyeliner and blusher/bronzer/highlighter trio. As well as samples of youth genetics moisturiser, samples of their new triple resist shampoo and conditioner and their new studio secrets primer. The sales assistant was right this box was much better! I dished out the moistuiser to my mam and popped the makeup in my kit. The one thing I did use on my face was the primer and I am in love!

To me this a complete dupe to Benefits Porefessional. From the feeling to how it's sits on your skin to how it looks and works. The only difference is the color but both go on transparent. Porefessional is an oily girls must have primer. And has had rave reviews in fashion magazines and blogs and continues to be one of Benefits top sellers each week. Studio Secrets primer does everything porefessional does. It leaves your skin with a velvet like texture, minimises the appearance of pores and prolongs the wear of your foundation. It feels light on your skin so does not feel you have extra layers on, my foundation sat perfectly on top of it all day and after my initial powdering in the morning to set my makeup, I never needed to powder again during the day , shiny free and matte all day just the way I liked it! I got 3 applications out of this sample and I was very sad to see it go I knew I had to get some more. Did I remember when I went shopping the other day? Nope totally forgot, after superdrug did not have the palettes I wanted the rest of my makeup went out the window I even forgot to pick up more mascara and have been scraping the last out of my Maybelline Falsies for the last few days now! I have a list though for Thursday and I will not leave until I have everything on the list and this primer is number 1! Price I am not too sure on but I am sure it's under €20 which is a big difference to Benefits €33.50. If you have oily skin I would defiantly recommend this primer, you never know boots mite still have some testers so pop in and ask and try it out for yourself!

Fake eyelashes!!!

Just a quick post today!! Fake eyelashes some of you will love them , some will hate them and some of you will just be fed up with trying to get them on!! If your like me you will love them, weather you only wear them on special occasions or everyday you have to admit sometimes they can be a bit pricey for only wearing them once. Yes you can take good care of them and reuse them but I tend to take mine off and I either lose them or put them in my purse ( do not ask!) and they get ruined anyway. Frankly I do not mind because I have well over a hundred pairs and they only cost me less then 20 euro. I was frankly sick of paying 7 euro upwards for lashes, I have ones from Makeup Forever that I paid 20 euro for and  I have yet to wear them , so I went in search for cheaper ones. And I found them here Ebay, you get 60 pairs of lashes in 6 styles for approx 7.02 they can take up to 3 weeks to arrive but they're worth the wait for that price. There's no p&p fee so makes it even better!! These are everyday natural looking lashes but some of them have nice designs that open up your eye.

If your looking for more dramatic lashes Ebay do them also but you will pay more for them. You can also get individual lashes in all lenghts and sizes. Oh before I forget the glue in with these are crap and I have no idea what the sticks are for, so stick with duo glue! Just remember when shopping on ebay be careful only use top rated sellers and always use paypal!!