Beauty box swap with Claire

so i done my very first box swap with a lovely lady called claire; please check out her blog;  here and you can see what i got her :) So again i'm typing with false nails on and flicking between phone for pictures, and pc for text, so apologies if this all seems very disjointed! Please ignore my foot, its always sneaking into photos.

I love love my box of goodies, the little teddy is adorable and is currently on my desk guarding my candle ^^ My goodies came beautifully wrapped :D i have loads more piccys to upload, but as my wifi is being a pest and im using 3G il keep my post short and sweet :)the budget was £15 and we both went over budget as you can see :)

Ive been having a play with eveyhing, the nail polishes are so lush! the vie shimmery one is so unusual too ^^

thankyou claire :) 
xoxo

NOTD sparkle

Haven't updated in a while but got a couple of posts to do ^^

The colours are by mememe and chit chat

AVON BARGAIN BAG

So after my last Avon bargain bag was a massive dissapointment, they had a 15% off flash sale, so being the sucka i am , i decided to try again. Ive attempted to find the prices online for these items but as their ex catolog items i've failed, so going to use ebay / amazon as my price point. As a rule the bargain bag is £10

This bag was not a dead loss actually, for once i do not feel like i am being palmed off with old xmas stock, but actually getting real stock AKA bargains. The perfume is a really nice floral scent, that i actually really like! And i will use the barrell brush (even though its not the best quality) even though it is currently still selling on avon for £7.50!

•  Windscape EDP 50ml  (£5.95 on ebay)
• Skin so soft oil 150 ML£2.25
• Mascara  RRP £3.99 amazon
• Necklace ''RIOS'' RRP £8 on ebay (cant find it online elsewhere)
• Barrel Brush. RRP £7.50 

so a total of £27.69. Now i know that the selection is a bit random, but for once i'm happy with it. All items will get used up ^^

NOTD Avon viva pink

I got this shade  in a Avon surprise bag (£8 for 5 mystery make up items) and im not sure if I like it, its very watery compared to nearly every other polish i own.  I do really like the square bottle though.

New beauty case!

I've been on the hunt for a new make up case for a while now, since my beloved antler one decided to be too small. So after a reccomendation from my lovely friend Deanne I went for this really nice case from roo beauty! it was £34.99 in the sale and came very quickly, my only gripe about the company is i didnt get a dispatch email/ no tracking number *grumble grumble* but apart from that all was great. (if anyone didn't know, my pet peeve is not knowing when my stuffs been dispatched, especially from massive companies)

I filled it up within 10 mins, as i have a LOT of make up, I mean half my palettes are running round the house still so they haven't been speared and imprisoned yet, but the majority of my make up is now in one place. As you can tell from the pics i love MUA & Sleek. Both are budget price brands, but are very pigmented. Another thing about MUA is their undressed pallette is an exact dupe for the world famous NAKED pallette.

(Sleek pallettes are £7.99 & MUA are £4-£6 as a price range) In fact since i discovered MUA i've stuck to it, as they are very lovely colours, their biggest bargains are their lipsticks which are only £1 each! and seem to last about 8 hours on me. (I also love NO7 lipsticks and sleek & of course OCC lip tars) i have a couple of MAC lipsticks but i always seem to end up with them on my teeth even when i do the finger trick, so im not quite sure why they don't stick to me. Odd.

LOOK AT THE UBER CUTE LITTLE KEYS *SQUEEEEEE* ok, im easily excited but i love stuff thats lockable! This pink snakekin is lush as well, i thought it was going to be really garish but its actually really nice :) 

all opened up :D look at all my things i can squeeze in. LOL

Sleek lipsticks, MUA lipstick and gloss pots , lip tars (everyone should try these, soooo pigmented. Seriously, and they stay on so long, and have a lovely peppermint smell, whats not to love) MAC, Belle Perrie and estee Lauder individual eye-shadows  random lipsticks and more! (everyday shelf with their real Benifit mascara, MUA under eye concealer & primer)

Heaven & earth Pallette MUA, LibertyxHello Kitty Pallette, MUA undress me 2 & their new foundation which i swear by (currently on sale for £3! yes £3 bargain, in superdrug (usual price £5);

Mua foundation again, brow kit, Poptastic pallette (i also have the very similar collection 2000 one as well) and undressed MUA. The brow kit is actually one of the best products i've ever bought!

cath kitson brushes and other randoms :) annoyingly my brush roll wouldnt fit in the box so their all loose, but its easier to find them anyway :)

FOTD BARBIE inspired

I used ;

• MUA BROW KIT & defining pencil In brunette *eyebrows*
• Mua going for gold pallette / Models own blue eye pencil *eyes*
• Clinique mascara
• MUA red lipstick / pencil
• Mua bb cream light
• Foundation is no7 in almond

The blondeness? human hair wig i think from SLEEk.

NOTD elegant touch geometric metalics

These are hmm I'm not sure yet if I really like these.

i got these reduced room £6.99 to £1 in the local chemists as the glue was missing. so i felt i had to snap them up at this price.

Flavourly.com march box

Today I got my march flavourly box (despite the fact it hasn't been announced as dispatched yet) as a price reference these boxes are £22 a month but if you had a KGB voucher they work out £10 a month & postage. Tbh im not sure if i can justify the £22 a month price tag, as £22 is a lot of money for essentually a gamble that your like the products. (and i can't actually work out the full cost of the boxes either)  Also what i don't like about flavourly is you cannot specify veggie/vegan/allergies/likes/dislikes. which i think deters from the experience. (maybe a questionare would be good when you sign up so you can state such things?)

As usual the flavourly box has 3 gift cards with it for £10 off a first box. these are great for giving out to friends ect. IF you want £10 off your first box the code all the gift cards have one is GIFT10 . I almost feel like they expect people to not pay full price, the amount of cards they hand out, but there a fairly new company i think this is their 4th box?

Tbh there's nothing here that really strikes my fancy as I hate nuts & chutney type things (my dad will be happy with these bits though) but the chorizo, lime dressing and popcorn will be consumed by moi :)I suppose it's because I was so impressed with last month box and actually ended up purchacing 3 items from the box again. that this box really fails to live up to last months.

so on with the products; i noticed that this month i didnt get a little card detailing my products, but its ok, i have google :)

So first; 

• Original chorizo from the bath pigs. site price £3.70'Based on a time-honoured recipe, this Chorizo contains the finest smoked paprika, pepper and a little ginger. This is the foundation for all of our Chorizo. Cool, smooth texture with a slightly nutty after taste. (130g)''   ive just had a nibble on this becaause. i am a savage, and i eat meat on its own. and it is very yummy. Not the sort of thing i'd buy as i don't really eat these kinda things unless im out/ theyve been bought for me, but a nice thing to nibble on.
• cambrook seseme peanuts & Almond and blueberry slice-Price cannot be found online. 
  these look nice but i'm not a fan of nuts so il give them to a friend to try. 
  
  
• Chilli and Lime, corn again popcorn site price £1
  40g sized; il try these myself, but ive had savory popcorn before but not been impressed so we're see. these seem quite reasonably priced though for a bag. 
• 'trotters uncle allans chutney 
  this is what i call a ''dad'' product, because im going to give it to my dad as its his kinda thing. In fact his little eyes lit up when i threw this at him, so can't be all bad.  site blurb '' Uncle Allan’s Chutney is a raw fruit chutney made from Apples, Onions, Dates and Sultanas, and instead of cooking the chutney it sits in a vat and socks in Malt vinegar for a few days before going into the jars where it sits for at least a month to mature before selling.''
• Cochrane cottage lime drizzle;  £4.00
  out of all the products in the box this is the one im most excited by as i love salad type dressings. site blurb; ''Great with cod, sea bass, monkfish & chicken. Add to salmon or drizzle over salads.'' To be honest, i don't think i've ever paid £4 for a bottle of dressing (even in my farm shop locally, £2.90s about the price mark they have) so im expecting good things!

BARGAIN £1 sleek lipsticks in poundland

Now all you know by now that the £1 shop is one of my faverite places to hunt out branded beauty bargains

Sleek lipsticks I think are £5.99 each usually, and are highly pigmented so these are a proper bargain shades

Majestic 836 (purple)
Organza 812 (pinky)
Cashmere 811 (brown)

NOTANOTHERBILL march

So if you haven't heard of not another bill, it's a monthly "surprise" service where you get a beautifully wrapped surprise sent to you for £17.50 a month. All surprises are worth more than what you pay, and are usually by posh/designer/one off brands.

This month was amazing! If you haven't heard of penhaligon's perfumes, look them up. their very lovely, but at about £80 a bottle don't come cheap

They sent me a library of perfume "scent library"  with 10 x1.5ml samples (which is quite a generous sample size *i'd guess easily a week per sample bottle if used sparingly, so 10 weeks worth of perfume here* ) and a gorgeous pocket square, which may become a cushion cover when i get round to it.

on  with the pics :)

March magazine freebies haul

Ignore the fact I've clearly gone out and bought 3 issues of glamour for the Percy and reed hair stuff (this stuff is amazing and retails for £12 ish a tube) one of my glamour mags came as part of a subscription (£3 I think for 6 issues & a goodie bag full of balance me stuff that worked out worth around £20!)

The neals yard handcream I think came with Marie Claire mag and usually retails at £10 I think

And the elemis moisturiser is something I've used before and über love and I think came with cosmo

NOTD Nailnations glitter sand

these are the amazing ''liquid sand opi'' dupe nails, by budget brand ''nail nations'' they are very good quality for the price & come with some of the strongest nail glue ive ever used =]