Todays Haul (Very picture heavy!)

Hi all,

I haven't done a post in a while due to being extremely busy with work. I've also been very short on cash this month, we are off to Legoland Windsor with the kids in August and have decided to stay over in London for a couple of days. I know how expensive London is so we are saving every penny we can for when we go cause I'd like to do a bit of shopping whilst I'm there also :-) 

So due to my lack of money I haven't been into town for a while as it just kills me to walk past all the lovely make up and not be able to buy anything but I had some money through Top Cashback come through so decided to go and have a mini shopping trip. It was only £30.00 but at least I could get a few bits, I have to say I'm rather happy with my purchases

Here is what I bought, first up I went into Bodyshop for a little browse and spotted these for £2.00 each so I snapped them up, the shampoo was actually chosen by my son, he stood smelling everything in sight and decided that this smelled the best so wanted it and for £2.00 I couldn't say no. I needed a new toner anyway so hopefully this Cucumber Freshening Water will do the trick!

Next up I popped into Superdrug and picked up these.

I went in for the Garnier Pure Wash, I was looking online this morning and saw this so I wanted to give it a try. It was only £1.95 so if its horribly bad for my skin its not cost me much.

 

Then I spotted that the Accessorize make up was on offer, so I picked up this eyeshadow trio for £2.95   and its called The Good & The Bad, its so pretty

These masks were in the clearance section and were 99p each, they have up to 10 uses so I grabbed two considering a sachet is normally around £1 for 1 use.

Next up I popped to the market style make up shop near me and spotted this Smooch bronzer, it was only £2.99 so I had to get it as it looked so pretty. I currently have about 8 bronzers on the go and have no need for this whatsoever but I challenge anyway to walk past this and not buy it!

I then popped into H&M to pick up some black leggings, I really love the quality of them from H&M and they beat any other high street shop I have found for leggings and for £5.99 you can't go wrong. They also had a sale on some bits and pieces so I grabbed a few 

Everything (apart from the leggings) was £1

This is a cute little Mickey and Minnie mouse compact mirror. 

Set of 3 mini nail polishes (for just over 33p per polish I couldn't leave these behind!)

In case you can't guess from the photo this is a Cassis Noir Lipbalm and it smells DIVINE!!

Theres also a set of 2 Mickey and Minnie Lipbalms in Cherry & Vanilla but the picture wouldn't upload for some reason but they were also £1.00

And finally, I popped into Aldi, yes Aldi! I have run out of my usual moisturiser which sets me back £40, I can't afford that at the moment so asked around for some cheaper alternatives and someone suggested I try the Lacura range at Aldi so I went in to take a look and they had day and night creams for a bargainous £1.99 each, I really hope this stuff suits me as it will save me a small fortune!

I also grabbed a Lacura eyeshadow duo whilst I was there. Again it was only £1.99 and they are so pigmented. My only issue is that there is ALOT of packaging for just an eyeshadow duo but I will look past this as the colours are so pretty :-)

I'll do some reviews on the individual products once I have had a chance to try them out, I'm so hoping to come back to you with fantastical things to say about the creams, keep your fingers crossed for me ladies!

See you all soon!

Lots of Love

CF x x x

** please also check out my recent blog post, I would like as many people involved as possible, would also like to say a HUGE thank you to those who have sent pictures so far :-) 

Burts Bees Grab Bag, ITS HERE!!!!!

Hi all,

I got a lovely surprise yesterday morning, I was woken up by my husband with 2 packages. One of which I just knew was my Burts Bees Grab Bag. I was so excited to get this, I love all their products so I just knew that I would be happy with whatever I got, and I was right. 

So everything came in a Burts Bees yellow paper bag like this, the bag was quite heavy so you could tell there was quite a few items in it.

First off I purchased this seperately as I needed one, its the lip shimmer in watermelon.

 How happy was I to find that they added not one but two of these in my grab bag and a rhubarb one. So I have 3 watermelons and a rhubarb, I am in lip balm heaven. This now means I can keep one in my bag one at work and one on my dressing table for getting ready in a morning. 

The lip balms came in this little tin which is so cute, and there was also this Burts Bees mini nail file which will certainly come in handy. This will be another one for my desk at work. These are full size and retail for £5.99

The next thing I got was a sample size of the Radiance night cream, looking forward to trying this out. It contains 7g of product, the full size is 57g and retails for £19.99. 

Next I got a sachet of Therapeutic bath crystals. These are to help relieve muscle ache after say a workout. The sachet is 44g, the full size comes in a jar with 450g and retails for £10.99

I also got a sample of conditioner and a sample of a shampoo bar.The shampoo is Rosemary mint, I love the smell of this, my son isn't so keen but I like anything minty. I can't find this product on their website so I am unsure of how much the full size costs. The bar is 22.7g.

The conditioner is the super shiny grapefruit and sugar beet I don't think it has much of a smell to it but its SLS, paraben and phthalate free which is great! I can't wait to give this a try. I have found my hair is in such better condition now after using SLS free products for a few weeks. The sample bottle is 28.5g, the full size is 340g and retails for £9.99

Next I got 2 radiance exfoliating body wash, I love body exfoliators and again this contains no nasties so I really am super excited to try these out. I currently don't own any body products that don't have sulphates etc in them so if these are good I will definitely be purchasing them again. The bottles contain 88.7ml of product, the full size contains 350ml and retails for £9.99.

Finally I got 2 body lotions, I can't find them on the website but I think they are full size, they are 235ml each and I got 1 thoroughly therapeutic honey and orange wax body lotion and 1 naturally nourishing milk and honey body lotion. They smell lush, especially the milk and honey, it absorbs into the skin really nicely and doesn't leave you feeling sticky or uncomfortable and you don't have to wait 5 minutes before putting your clothes on. As I said previously I can't see these on the website but I would estimate they cost £9.99 each.

As you can see this bag offers fantastic value for money, if you don't mind not knowing what your going to get then this bag would be great. You could purchase a few and give them as gifts. I know I would  be so happy to receive one of these as a present. 

I will do a review on individual products once I have given them a good go.

Hope you all enjoyed, if you do end up buying one let me know what you got in yours :-)

You can find all the gift sets and kits here on the Burts Bees website.

Lots of Love

CF x x