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Good morning, how were your weekends? I felt I needed to share my love of this product with you, I've had it for really quite a long time now and have used it on and off for years, but I find it's one of those things that I just don't think about when I'm doing my routine in the evening. I always forget to use it and end up just sticking my moisturiser on and leaving my skincare routine there (or sometimes, shock horror, skipping the moisturiser all together. Terrible, I know!). However, over the past month or so I have been making a concerted effort to use this about 3 times a week and, let me tell you, I have rediscovered my love for it in a massive way! 

It claims to (as it says on bottle) "Renew and Rebalance" and contains lots of natural goodies to help boost your skin's recovery whilst you sleep. First of all it smells amazing! I remember when I first started using it and I thought the smell was a little overpowering, but now I absolutely love it and I find it nice to apply it and breathheeee in the scent. Ahh. Secondly though, and most importantly, it really works. Whenever I've used this I wake up and, whilst the effect might not be immediately noticeable in the morning, throughout the day I'll look at myself in a mirror and really notice how glowy my skin looks. It costs £40.25 for a 28ml size bottle which may seem like quite a lot, however, it lasts forever (literally!). I've had this one for a long time and, whilst I might not have been using it on a regular basis, I have used it a fair amount and you can see that there is still plenty left. You only need 1 pump per evening (and probably not every evening) to massage into your skin to leave it feeling gorgeously soft and healthy-looking.

I would definitely recommend this product for anyone looking to add a bit of luxury into their evening skincare routine, it's brilliant! Have any of you tried it? What did you think if you have? I will be doing a review of the April GlossyBox very shortly (now that it has finally arrived) so keep a look out for that, I actually think it was a really good one this month! It's a good job after it taking so long anyway! Hope you're all fantastic and I shall speak again soon :) Byebye! 




Evening all. I went for a little afternoon stroll and decided to take a few snaps along the way. I am by no means a photographer. I'm not even an amateur photographer, I'm an amateur picture-taker at best, but since having my iPhone I have started to take more. It was never something that bothered me, having a crappy camera on my phone, and I never thought I'd really use it even if it was good, but since having it I've been quite snap happy. It's nice to stop and think about what you're looking at, even if it's something you've seen a million times before, and try and see it in a new way. One of my new year's resolutions was also to take more pictures, so I thought I'd share a few with you. It's also pretty incredible what good quality pics you can get off an iPhone, I think it's amazing. I'm sure all the photographers out there will look at them and think they look terrible compared to the fancy-schmancy cameras out there, but never mind! Back to beauty things tomorrow ;) Also, is it really Friday? This week has flown by!


Thanks for reading. 
Speak again soon :) 
Bye for now!



Good morning! I am currently trying to recover from the biggest shopping high ever! I popped into town yesterday just to have a mosey around and went into TK Maxx. I love going into the one near me because it always has great things in and, as always I headed straight for the make-up section (I don't know if they do make-up in all of them?) and was absolutely de-light-ed to see a fresh influx of Stila products! They were all packaged in little bundles of 3 and, like a lot of things in TK Maxx, you have to spend a bit of time (I think I was around the make-up area for at least 40 minutes haha) rummaging through to find some hidden gems. My total haul cost £30.97 and also included four (yes, four!) full size Nail's Inc. polishes. 



Pretty amazing for the price, no? I am SO happy with my purchases! I'm going to show you all the polishes in this post and then save the Stila stuff for another one. I would definitely recommend popping into your nearest TK Maxx store to see if you can pick up some bargains as well! I got these four for £14.99 which, considering a full size bottle at normal price costs £11, is an absolute steal! I am in nail polish heaven! They're all duo-chrome polishes, which I adore, and all have very fine shimmery/glittery particles. The last one 'Wardour Mews' is the one I chose to wear for now, I've taken pictures of it in different lights so hopefully you can see it in all its gloriousness! 




First up 'New Burlington Place' 


'Regent's Park Road'


'New King's Road'


'Wardour Mews'

So there we go! I would say that after that I don't think I'll be needing to buy any new products for a while but, as we all know far too well, that never really happens does it?! Hope you enjoyed and I'll have a more in depth look at the Stila things in the near future. Have you bought any exciting things recently? I'd love to see them and have a nosey around! And let me know if you find any bargains in TK Maxx! Hope you're all staying fabulous and I shall speak to you soon! Bye!


p.s. I'm doing another blog hop over on BlogLoveTherapy, go and check it out and get hopping if you like and also let me know if you found me through there!


p.p.s. Sorry there's a lot of pictures in this post!



Good morning everyone! Just a quick little review today from me! There has been so much hype over the last few weeks about this new range of make-up from Rimmel so I thought I would go and see if it was all worth it! I have been on the lookout for a new concealer for under the eyes anyway, as previously I was using the Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection but finding it too heavy and cakey for the under eye area so I've been wanting something a bit lighter and with more brightening properties. I've been using Rimmel's Wake Me Up concealer for about a week now and finding it...fine. It's a lot more light weight than the Collection 2000 one and I think if you have really dark under eye circles then this wouldn't be enough to cover. However, it does have quite a nice brightening effect. It doesn't look too heavy and hasn't gone cakey at all so at the moment I am definitely liking it, but wouldn't say rush out right now to buy it! Overall I'd probably give it a 6/7 out of ten but I think I'd be re-purchasing once this has run out. 


Thanks for reading, going to paint my nails now but can't decide what to use so will have a little rummage through my collection. I hope you're all having a fantastic day! Have you used this concealer? What did you think of it? And do you have any other great under-eye concealers I could try? Au revoir for now!



Good afternoon everybody, I hope your weekends are going swimmingly. I have another weekend wish list here, consisting of lots of gorgeous things that have caught my eye, but that unfortunately the bank balance just won't allow. Ah well. Yesterday I did actually buy something that I have been wanting for ages and I found the perfect ones. It's these loafer things from Fat Face (not usually a shop I go in but they had some really lovely things in there) and I love them! They were only £35, are real leather and feel really good quality. I've been needing some new shoes for a while and desperately wanting some brown ones so these were definitely calling to me. They also had them in this grey suede which were equally as nice, but (for now) these brown ones seemed slightly more practical, what with our rather inclement weather. 
Now, onto the wishlist. I have to admit I popped into Zara on Oxford Street on Friday and was so very close to buying a bag but somehow I managed to resist. However, looking on their website now I can feel a purchase coming along very soon because they have some absolutely beautiful bags on offer at the moment. They are gorgeous. So be warned, if you go and look at their website, you will want to buy everything! Let me know what you think of the things I'm lusting after at the moment and what's on your wishlist, I'd love to know!
Blazer Now £30 @ Topshop
Rose Gold Toe-Cap Flats £29.99 @ Zara
TenderTone Lip Balm in 'Tread Gently' £11 @ MAC
Messenger Bag £19.99 (BARGAIN!) @ Zara
Egyptian Print Dress £25 @ River Island
Neon Messenger Bag £59.99 @ Zara
I really hope you're all well and are having a great weekend, I'm just busying myself working on some new posts today and its just started chucking it down outside so I'm quite glad to be tucked up inside and doing some writing and browsing on the internet. Things could be a lot worse! (May have also just eaten another Easter Egg. Oh god.) Speak soon everyone, bye for now!!



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