What's in my travel bag; Body

I always seem to have a huge stash of mini products so whenever I travel I love having the chance to use them up. I'm trying to be minimal with the products I do take as whenever I go back to visit my family I do way too much shopping, and I know if I forget something I can just pop to the shop. My week away gives me the perfect chance to try out this Molton Brown Aqua Shower Gel that I got in my Selfridge's Summer Beauty Box. I've also added a grand total of three body moisturisers including the Body Shops Strawberry Body Butter, Jergans Ultra heeling moisturuiser and Weledas sea buckthorn body lotion which is probably unnecessary, although I'm a little obsessive with moisturising and as a couple of these are ones I've never been tried before I want to insure I have enough in case I don't get along with one of them.  Although I think Mini deodorants are a rip off and I'm guessing there's enough room for a full one in my case I thought this mini from sure was so cute so had to pick it up from Superdrug, I'm not too sure if this will last the whole eight days I'm there but I can always pop out and pick up another. Finally I thought I'd throw in perfumes since I'm only taking two mini ones as I was scared of my larger ones smashing along the way, I've thrown in a mini bottle of Taylor Swifts Wonderstruck and Ghost Deep night. 

What's in my travel bag; make up

Yesterday officially marked the end of my final college exams and the start of my three month long summer. The past two years have been incredibly busy, meaning since I finished my GCSE's over two years ago I haven't had a chance to fly back and visit my family in Scotland, so I am welcoming my eight day stay and as you read this I'll either be on my way or already there. 

Since the last couple of weeks have been spent studying for exams I haven't had much time to prepare blog posts in advance so expect pecks into my travel bag over the next week or so. Today I figured I'd kick things off with make up, although I will also be posting my body, skincare, hair and nail picks later in the week.

When It comes to make up, I don't do compromise and like to have a range of products with me, although my base picks appear to remain the same until a new favourite comes along. With me I'll be taking my Origins Vitazing, Dainty Doll liquid foundation, No concealer concealer for under my eyes, collection's concealer for any blemishes and Rimmels stay matt concealer for any redness.

I'll also be packing my favourite blush of the moment, Dainty Doll's You Are My Sunshine along this cheap and cheerful MUA highlighter which together form one of my favourite combinations. I'll also be bringing this new Revlon Babystick to test drive and this cream contour in Billion Dollar Babies.

As for my eyes, I seem to have forgotten a couple of products in the above photo in the form of MUA's eyeshadow primer and 2true clear mascara for my eyebrows. For some reason I've decided on two mascaras ; Benefit's they're real and Max Factors Clump Defy, and two of these Scandaleyes seyeshadow sticks.

When It comes to lips I had to try not to include my whole collection! In the end I settled on my free lipgloss from this months Glamour magazine,Dainty Doll's Storm in a teacup, Revlon kissable balm stain in Honey, Kate Moss for Rimmel lipstick in shade 19 and 17's Purple Haze.

What's in your travel make up bag?

My new baby!

I don't know what it is about this house, but laptops don't seem last five minutes before they some how break. I've had my own laptop in the past, It was the one that I set this blog up with and it latest me a good while. Although after being sent for repair twice and replacing the charger countless time I just decided I was spending more than the thing was worth and when the charging port finally gave up I just stopped using it altogether. As a house the laptop problems are endless. We had an Acer one which would have probably have been the longest lasting one, If my sister hadn't thrown it at me in temper.. and don't even get me started on the amount of Dells we've been through. Its not a coincidence that everyone of those packed up after charging issues! So when It came to my birthday and my Grandad offered to by me my very own laptop I jumped at the chance to not spend three hours to make the charger work and finally blog from a keyboard which has all of its keys! (The things I go through for you guys!)

We went for the Acer Aspire V5-531 which for the price is great, Not only is it slim and stupidly light - It also has a built in disc drive which means my Gossip Girl boxsets wont go to waste when I hopefully move to university next year! I know this is a different sort of post but I'm so chuffed with my new laptop, even if windows 8 is taking some getting used to! In other news I have just a couple of days left until my last exam which has been my focus for the past week, I hope you guys understand and any emails should be answered by this Friday!

What do you guys make of my new laptop? 

NEW! Twist and Out

I've reviewed this product around a year ago now here, although when I saw that the packaging had changed  I figured I'd give it another go. I was expecting the same sponge coated in nail polish only in a better container so I was pretty surprised to see the rubber bristles when I opened the pot. I honestly think pretty;perfect could be on to a winner here, only like the previous version I found that the bristles twisted around with your nail meaning the removal effects become minimised. You can remove all of the polish with this - but only if you're a patient person, although in the long run I suppose that its problems could be fixed with a little superglue to keep the circle of bristles in place.

Overall at just a pound from Poundland, I think this is worth a look at - I just wish that Pretty;perfect would fix the issues that it currently has.

Free Model Co in Glamour

In this months Glamour magazine readers are offered a choice of a free Models Co product including a lip liner, eyeliner, mascara and two different shades of lipgloss. The magazine retails for just £2 but I've seen many find it for just £1, despite hearing from many that it was cheaper in Tesco my store still changed £2 - So I'm unsure if the pricing is based on area. I've looked in a few stores before finally picking my copy up as they all seem to have loads of lip and eyeliners, I was hoping to find a lipgloss but settled on the mascara since it was the best freebie I could find.

I'm actually happy I picked this up in the end since its a fibre mascara and I've always wanted to try one, not bad for just £2. It looks like next months freebies are set to be just as amazing with Glamour giving away some amazing Balance me goodies!

Will you be picking a copy of Glamour up?

Collective Haul

I've been promising this haul for over a week so after getting the last few bits in the post yesterday I figured it was about time to publish this. Last week I took a trip to Oxford street and this is the result - along with a few online purchases. I was excited to see such an amazing make up selection in Topshop and really proud that I only walked away with two items. Their famous highlighter in 'Sunbeam' for £10 and this pretty lip bullet in There She Goes for £8.  Since Rimmel's Scandaleyes shadow sticks were just £3.50 in Boots I picked up two of them in Bad Girl Bronze and and Bulletproof Beige. This Revlon babystick in Tahitian also had money off and was just £5.   Finally I picked up this pretty make up bag in Primark for just £3.

While around the Oxford Street area I had to visit two of the most talked about stores in the blogging world at the moment. I had so much fun testing all of the make up and smelling the body products at & Other Stories that I ended up walking away with this Punk Bouquet body scrub which smells amazing for £7. I definitely think I'll be going back there at some point in the future. I also paid a visit to John Bell & Croyden which were the first place in the UK to stock Bioderma, originally I was going to pick up a 100ml bottle for £4.50 but ended up with this big 250ml one for £10.

 I only picked up two polishes from Boots on my Oxford Street trip but threw in the others I've brought recently to show you guys. The ones I picked up in Boots were this Coral shade from Sinful Colors for just £1.99 and this glitter in shade Girly from Revlon for £4.50. I found the Sally Hanson polishes in Green Tea and Model Behaviour for just £2 on a stall, and have so far been left very impressed. I also saw these Maybelline Polka Dots in Superdrug for just under £3 the other week and loved the look of them so had to pick a couple up. The Rimmel polish was meant to be £3 in Asda, although as always they found a way to rip me off and charged me nearly a fiver - is anyone elses store like that? My local one is a joke, nothing is ever the price they advertise.

I also thought I'd show you guys some pound buys I found a couple of days before in Poundland. I love these Pretty;perfect nail buys and think the nail drying spray is pure genius - expect a post very soon! Then I spotted this cooling mist and brought in hope that we actually get a summer. I also saw this Stila tinted moisturiser, I'm undecided if I will use it because of the whole 'Poundland scandal' but it was unopened and is in a really great light shade.

I've so managed to spend quite a bit on online in the past few weeks. Over the bank holiday Latest in beauty had a free shipping so I picked up a few bits including this mini 10ml L'occitane Shea Butter hand cream for £1.50, a little Mont Bleu Crystal Nail file for £2 and a 7.5ml sample of Perricone MD's famous No Foundation Foundation for just £4. Amazon seem to always have amazing deals on and I picked up this Seche Vite Professional Top Coat for just over £4 and the Real Techniques Starter Kit for around £16.

Internacionale had a little bit of a sale so I had to pick up a few bits including this Khaki Tip Shirt which I love reduced from £17 to £12, these Bleach Supersoft Skinny Jeans down from £18 to £14 and this Skater Skirt which I also own in black at just £7 from £15. I also picked up a couple of tops from Forever 21, but I was too impatient and they're currently in the wash!

Also before I end I'd like to say this is in no way bragging, which I'm pretty sure 99% of you guys will already understand. This is just the result of my amazing family and friends who were really generous on my eighteenth birthday and a chance for you guys to request anything you would like to see reviewed.  Have you brought anything interesting lately?

Free Neal's Yard Remedies in Instyle

I love a good magazine freebie, so when I saw July's issue of Instyle magazine (available now) I had to pick it up! In each magazine (£3.90) readers are given a free Neal's Yard Remedies Power Berry Daily Moisturiser worth £12. From the looks of their website the product has so many skincare benefits so I look forward to trying it! Also after speaking to Tales of a Pale Face on twitter today I discovered that you can pick this up for just £2.50 in WHSmith!

Will you be picking up a copy of the magazine?