APOLOGIES TO MY PURSE

Just to say I am very sorry I have been neglecting my blog somewhat but I have my AS exams coming up soon plus coursework and other work so I have been really busy recently.

 

 

 

 

This post is the lovechild of two-three months of Boots, Superdrug, Body Shop and many other shopping trips. I had fun. Too much fun.

 

1. I genuinely have a severe problem when it comes to lip balm and the Body Shop. After my *slight* obsession with the Born Lippy stick in plum I couldn't resist getting another. In my defense at the time Body Shop has a buy-one-get-one-half-price offer on all their mini lip balms, soaps, etc. and I couldn't pass by on that one. I decided to opt for the pomegranate one as it gives a nice orangey/redy/corally tint and I don't have one like that.
Born Lippy sticks- £3 in Body Shop

2. I saw this nail Barry M nail varnish in Berry Cosmo on someone's Instagram and I couldn't not get it after that. It is the most beautiful dark purple/maroon colour that is probably more better suited to autumn/winter but I absolutely love it and it looks amazing with two/three coats.
Normal Barry M nail varnish- £2.99 in Superdrug

3. I couldn't find the Essie nail varnish in After School Boy Blazer in any of my local shops so I ordered it online and then prayed for it to arrive before my holiday (which it did but my brother didn't answer the door so I didn't get it until after my holiday). Sad? I know.
Essie nail varnish- £7.99 in Superdrug

 

4. This was actually a present from my friend's mum as she knows my love of lip balm, this Vaseline 'Paint the Town' is a limited edition one (missed out on getting the pink bubble one- boo :( ) and it just gives a really lovely, subtle redish-pink tint to your lips and basically enhances your natural colour (I mentioned in my October/November Favourites that I had got back into the Vaseline Rosy Lips and I am loving Paint the Town.
Vaseline Limited Edition 'Paint the Town'- £3.49 in Boots

5. These Topshop leggings were one of those 'omg I NEED these' buys and I absolutely love them. I'd been wanting tartan trousers for ages and these are perfect, they are much thicker than normal leggings and are basically perfect in every way (apart from the small hole going up the inside seam that I didn't see until I'd cut the label off but was easily sown back up).
Leggings- £25 in Topshop

 

The colours are much darker than this but the sun was very bright when I took the picture

 

6. This Rimmel Kate Moss matte lipstick was another kind of impulse buy but I love it all the same. Wine 107 is a dark colour (I love my darks) and is a dark red with pink undertones (I am yet to branch out into bright red colours for my lips).
Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks (matte)- £5.49 in Superdrug

7. As many may already know You Me At Six is one of my most favourite bands ever and their new album Cavalier Youth is amazing and perfect and ARGH. I love it, I have it on repeat currently, I want to get it tattooed to my face. (I don't know what it is but something about this album cover gives me this weird extreme nostalgia and makes me want to cry).
Cavalier Youth CD and DVD combo- £12 on Amazon

8. After wanting to try one for AGES I finally picked up a Body Shop lip butter in Shea. I'd always been put off these before as £4 is quite a lot for such a small tub and the Born Lippy pots are only £2 each, however I have found myself using this religiously every night and it has worked wonders on my lips- it also smells really great. I also picked up another one in the Limited Edition blueberry range as, as I said, it's limited edition and I got one for my mum for mother's day and it smelt amazing.
Lip butter- £4 each in Body Shop

 

9. Yet another nail varnish, but I was NEEDING a pastel mint colour to add to my collection and I stumbled across this Model's Own one in Apple Pie in a Model's Own pop-up shop in my local shopping centre. This nail varnish claims to be scented like apples and has a little scratch-and-sniff stick on the top- the whole Model's Own Fruit Pastels range is absolutely beautiful and I want all of them.
Model's Own Fruit Pastel range in Apple Pie- £5 in Boots

 

10. Lush is always an iffy brand for me as some of their products smell amazing whilst others I would not want to touch with a barge pole. I was in Lush recently shopping for my friend and choosing her a bath bomb when I came across the Butterball. The problem I have with most Lush bath bombs is that they are far too big for just one bath and I hate that. The Butterball, however, is one of their smaller ones and with a scent of 'cocoa butter, light vanilla and musk' it is the perfect one for me (it also doesn't come with loads of small bits inside that float around your bath and you have to spend hours picking out afterwards urgh).
Butterball bath bomb- £2.50 in Lush