AD - My Birthday + Gift Ideas From Moonpig

Hey beaut's!

Yesterday it was my BIRTHDAY!!! Yay!!! I must admit my birthday felt a little bit strange this year, firstly because it was on a Bank Holiday and secondly theres still a global pandemic going on which still scares the life out of me and I have to admit it's put me off going out a lot still, I'll get there though I'm sure! 

Birthday Wishlist

Hey beaut's!

Today I'm back with ANOTHER wish list, but this time around it's a birthday wish list! My birthday is coming up in 2 weeks time and even though I'm not too happy about how old I'll be I still get stupidly excited about my birthday! I mean lots of yummy cake and a week off work with the boyfriend, cant get much better than that can it hey! I'm not expecting all of these things by any means but these are just a few things that are currently on my wish list! 

Jo Malone Peony & Blush Suede Cologne / Charlotte Tilbury Dolce Vita Eye Kit / Too Faced Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow Palette / TopShop Moto Black Joni Jeans / MAC Mineralize Skin finish Natural  / Too Faced Born This Way Foundation £29.00 / Mac Soar Lip Pencil / Puma Suede Classics  / Real Techniques Highlight and Glow Brush Set / Real Techniques Bold Metals Diamond Sponge / Yankee Candle Fireside Treats

Is your birthday soon beaut's?? What are you hoping for? I'd love to know!

August 2015 Non Beauty Favourites ♥

Hey beaut's!

You may remember that at the beginning of last year I added a new little monthly feature to my blog in the shape of non beauty favourites, and silly me I didn't keep up with it so I thought it was about time I got back on the non beauty favourites waggon he he.

Pretty Little Liars

Got a secret, Can you keep it? He he... Pretty Little Liars is by far my most favourite thing in August, I saw everyone on Twitter talking about the show and having never watched it before I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I started watching the very first season a few weeks ago and now I'm hooked, yup I love it! I'm now half way through season 2 and so far have avoided all the spoilers after A was revealed a few weeks ago in the current season, so please nobody ruin it for me he he.

My Birthday

It was my birthday on the 31st of August and even though I do hate being a year older I absolutely loved my birthday. My day was spent all snuggled up in the warm because of the weather, our plans to go into Norwich for the day where squashed by the torrential rain so instead it was a day filled with movies, Monopoly, food and lots of birthday cake, all with the people I loved the most! 

We ♥ It App

I'm absolutely addicted to the We ♥ it app on my phone, I could literally spend hours upon hours scrolling through all the pretty pictures and quotes. I guess you could say it's slightly like Pinterest but instead of pinning things and making boards you 'heart' the pictures you like and they will be added to your canvas and you can post them on your social media until your hearts content, never the less it's a cute little app that I love!

Liquid Glitter and Star iPhone Case

Just look at how pretty my phone case is, arrrhhh I love it so much. I first saw the liquid glitter phone cases agessss ago when I was watching a YouTuber and back then they where quite pricey but I recently had a look on eBay and got this one for just over £3.00 including the postage which I thought was amazing! I'm so happy with it and I could literally spend hours tilting it at every angle watching all the silver glitter and hot pink stars floating around, it definitely worth every penny if you look all things sparkly like I do. 

What have you been loving non beauty wise throughout August beaut's?? I'd love to know!!

April Beauty Favourites ♥

Hey beaut's!!!

I cant quite believe its that time again.... Monthly favourites time!!! I know we all say this every month but honestly I cant believe how quick the months are going, its crazy... At least it's not so dull now that we are in the middle of Spring, I'm absolutely loving the sunshine, warmer days and pretty flowers at the moment, it lovely!!! Anywhoo today I thought I would share with you all the makeup and beauty products I've been loving throughout April, so here goes....

Tanya Burr Lip Glosses

Arrrhhh I've been wearing these lip glosses everyday since I got them, they are just so pretty and have amazing quality. What impresses me the most by the lovely Tanya Burr's glosses is the gorgeous formula, it unlike any formula that I've tried from a gloss before, it's ultra glossy, super moisturising and best of all non sticky. You can find my full review with lots of pictures and me wearing each shade HERE.

Avene Skincare Samples

 At the beginning of April I found a website that allows you to 'try before you buy' on certain high end skincare brands, all you had to do was pick 5 (free) samples and pay the £3.25 delivery fee, theres no subscription or catch so I quickly added 5 Avene goodies into my basket and checked out ha ha, I do have a whole post dedicated to this which you can take a look at HERE. I have actually used most of my little samples up now and I have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed using them all and can now safely purchase some Avene skincare products without worrying that I'm wasting my money on something I may not like. Out of all my samples I particularly liked the Gentle Purifying Scrub and the Soothing Hydrating Cream. Look out for an updated post on how I got on with all the products I picked up beaut's.

Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine 'Dragon Fruit' Nail Paint + Barry M Limited Edition 'Birthday' Nail Paint

My favourite nail polish this month has to be 'Dragon Fruit' from Barry M's Gelly Hi-Shine range. I found the little beauty hidden away in my nail polish collection from last year and once I whacked it back on my nails I fell in love with it all over again, its just so perfect and pretty for spring time wear. I also couldn't resist adding the new limited edition 'Birthday' nail paint to my April favourites, even though the polish has only been out a few weeks I love it so much already that it thoroughly deserves a spot on my favourite this month, it looks fab on its own across all my nails, it's lovely on toes and can be used as an accent nail colour too, it's such a gorgeous versatile polish.

Benefit Stay Don't Stray in Light/Medium

Me and primers never usually get on as I suffer from oily eyelids and I find primers usually make them worse however...  Ever since I received this little sample of Benefit's Stay Don't Stray in a Birchbox a few months back my eyelids have calmed down so much, its fab. Benefit's Stay Don't Stray is a stay-put primer for concealers and eye shadows, so if you have problems with your concealer creasing under your eyes or creasing eyeshadow, this could be the primer for you girls. It just completely smooths out and neutralises my eyelids ready for my eyeshadow and I find my eyeshadow stays put all day, doesn't crease, blends out easier and the colour pay off is much better once I've used this primer, I cant recommend it enough.  

Rimmel Scandaleyes Rockin' Curves Mascara

I don't really want to go into too much detail about this mascara in this particular post as I have a full review for you beaut's coming soon but there's no way I could miss out Rimmel's Rockin' Curves in my April Favourites as I've been obsessed with this mascara since the beginning of March when I bought it. I cant believe how much curve and volume its gives my lashes, its amazing!

Sleek Face Form Contouring & Blush Palette in Light

The Sleek Face Form kit is always making its way into my favourites because I just use it and love it so much, especially at this time of the year. Just recently I've been loving the Spring trend of wearing a wash of highlighter over my lids and then using my contour shade to blend and define my crease, its such a beautiful, easy to achieve look and it's great knowing that the makeup I'm wearing is bang on trend he he. Ive not only been loving  my contour kit for my eyes but I've been using it constantly to sculpt and highlight my face as well as using the gorgeous coral/rose gold blush which again looks fabulous on the cheeks for spring/summer.

What have been your favourite beauty products to use throughout April beaut's??? I'd love to know!!!

Barry M Limited Edition 'Birthday' Nail Paint | Review ♥

Hey beaut's!!!

You may know that Superdrug recently celebrated being on our high street's for an impressive 50 years, how amazing!!! To mark the celebrations lots of makeup and beauty brands teamed up with Superdrug to bring us some special, limited edition releases... whoop, I love me some limited edition makeup! Barry M joined in with the '50 years' fun with their offering being in the shape of a gorgeous pink, glittery, sparkly nail paint called 'Birthday' and my goodness it is literally like a birthday party in a bottle, full of Superdrugs classic 'hot pink' look and pizazz he he.

Barry M's 'Birthday' is a rather show stopping nail paint, it has a gorgeous, hot pink base and is crammed full of white, pink and purple glitters which all vary in size. What makes 'Birthday' differ from alot of Barry M's glitter nail paint's is that it isn't your typical glitter top coat, the hot pink base is completely opaque with 2 thick coats which I think is fab and saves you the time of having to apply a base coat of another solid polish first. The formula of 'Birthday' is slightly thicker than your average Barry M nail paint but I put this down to the amount of glitter suspended within the polish, it's also really easy to apply, I didn't find myself having to dab the glitter particles on at all like I usually have to do, they just went on easily with normal brush strokes, again another bonus! 

The lasting power of 'Birthday' was rather good, I had the polish on my nails for 4 days without it chipping however I did have some slight wear at the very ends of my nails, so I all in all I think that's pretty good going seeing as I only applied 2 thick coats of the polish to my nails. When it came to removing the polish, I soaked a cotton pad with nail polish remover and held it over my nail for a good minute or so and wiped off pulling upwards, I did have to repeat this several times as the glitter particles are rather stubborn to remove but I find that happens to me with most glitter polishes so it wasn't out of the ordinary.

Overall I'm so happy I managed to get my hands on this nail paint and it definitely lived up to my high expectations, I mean when something is limited edition I expect it to be quite fabulous and Birthday certainly is.

The gorgeous 'Birthday' nail paint is available exclusively in Superdrug for £2.99. If you haven't picked this little beauty up yet, I'd urge you to do so as I'm unsure how long this particular shade will be around seeing as its just limited edition. 

 Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY!!! You could win an Urban Decay NAKED Palette of your choice!!! 

30 Day Snap #21 Happy Birthday Alfie Bear!!!

Hey girlie's!!!

So its day 21 of the 30 Day Snap today. If your a little confused as to what the 30 Day Snap is you can find all the information in full here. 

Today is my gorgeous Alfie's 2nd Birthday. As you may be able to tell Alfie is like my child but in the doggy world ha ha, I'm a huge dog lover anyway and the fact that Alfie is my very first pet of my own since leaving my parents house makes me love him more ha ha. He's been spoilt so far today with toys and bones and is currently driving me mad with his squeaky toy ,I'm gonna regret buying him that in a while ha ha. 

Please leave your links below if you are also taking part in the 30 Day Snap, id love to read your post's too.

Happy 2nd Birthday Glossybox!

I was super excited to receive my Glossybox this month knowing that it was the 2nd birthday box i was expected a nice treat and it certainly didn't disappoint!! The content's of my birthday box has 3 full size products inside, yes that right, 3. So thank you Glossybox its certainly a fabulous birthday treat for us!!

So here's what i got in my box!!!

♥ La Roche-Posey Anthelois XL SPF 50 Dry Touch Gel Cream rrp £16.50 - I was super excited to see this in my box as firstly its full size and secondly I've been dying to try some La Roche-Posey products for so long but as they are on the expensive side I've never caved in. This will certainly be great for summer and great for me to just try La Roche-Posey in general, i cant wait to use this when we get some hot hot weather.

♥ Jelly Pong Pong Fairy Lashes Mascara rrp £15 - I was extremely happy to see this is my box as not only do i love the Jelly Pong Pong range but its another full size product, yippee. I  fell in love with the Lip Blush by Jelly Pong Pong that we got in the March box so I'm thinking this is gonna be just as fabulous too. It says its lengthening, volumising and non clumpy, every thing u want in a mascara right? 

♥ Headline Colors Nail Polish in Twisted Silk rrp £9 - This is just so girly and gorgeous, its a thick matte dusky pastel pink which is perfect for the spring time. It's amazing quality and full size too.

♥ Beautiful Movements Prime & Create Mixing Medium rrp £20 - When i saw this in my box i was like ' what on earth '???? After some reading i learnt that this is in fact a Primer that can  also be used as a mixing medium to turn powder make up into cream based make up. I have used this so far to turn a broken powder blush into a cream blush and i have to say its fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing how this works as a primer and what other powder to cream products i can make. 

♥ Stone Beauty Body Lotion in Pomegranate Noir rrp £10 - This is the one thing in the box that I'm not too keen on as i hate the smell unfortunately. I did try a small amount on my arm and the formula is nice and it just melts into the skin quickly making u feel nicely moisturised and it never irritated my sensitive skin either but i just wish it smelt nice. I do however think its great that the Stone Beauty range isn't tested on animal's and contains no preservatives, parabens or sulphates. 

♥ Lastly is the Glossybox added extra which is some cute little nail files, perfect for on the go use and to keep in your handbag.

I hope you enjoying seeing what goodies i got this month, i have to say i think its fabulous box this month, I'm really impressed.

What did you get in this months Glossybox??? Id love to know.

Love Hayley xXxXx