A little catch-up..

[Eyeshadows used - Urban Decay's NAKED Palette, Liquid Eyeliner - L'Oreal Carbon Gloss, Mascara - Rimmel Lash Accelerator, Foundation - Clinique Even Better, Lipstick - Estée Lauder 'Pink Sand']

It's been a while...and I don't really have any good news to report back with! Spent last weekend in London where I seemed to develop the onset of tonsillitis - fast forward a week and a visit to the doctor's and I'm now in the middle of my course of taking Penicillin. It's 8 pills a day, they make you constantly nauseous and they're tricky to calculate your eating around, but god they're effective - within 2 days of the course I could start to drink, eat, move my neck and taste my food - without absolute agony.

Lots of things seem to have gone down-hill lately.. :(

Oct/Nov Magazine Offers

Marie Claire 

(subscription cover pictured)

 

FREE -  Ciaté Paint Pot (worth £9) - 2 Shades Available: 'Dangerous Affair 013' [pictured below] & 'Mistress'

 

- £10 OFF Molton Brown voucher (inside mag). I purchased the 'Lila-Leaf Smoothing Hair Gloss', bringing the price down to a bargain £6! It smells soo gorgeous.

 

photo credit: burningahole.co.uk

  

InStyle

FREE - L'Occitane hand cream (worth £7), 3 to choose from: Cherry Blossom, Shea Butter and Fleur Cherie [pictured].

I'm tempted to re-purchase this magazine for the pure sake of another one of these hand-creams! 'Fleur Cherie' smells deeeeevine - a handbag essential

ELLE

  

FREE - Clinique superbalm moisturizing gloss, shade 'Current' (worth £13 original size).

A lovely moisturising lip-gloss that actually appears quite clear upon the lips with only a hint of 'current'. Moisturising - yes, but a little too sticky maybe! Still, great offer from ELLE :)

COSMOPOLITAN 

FREE - Miss Guided nail varnish (worth £5) in shades: (L-R) Missfit, Misscellaneous & Misbehave.

 

image credit: luuux.com

haul

House of Fraser have a Clinique 'Gift Time' offer on that's just started, if you buy 2 products, with 1 being skincare.

I purchased the Pore Minimizer Instant Perfector and the Sparkle Skin Body Exfoliating Cream as both had good reviews.
EDIT: I have since returned the Pore Minimizer perfector back to the store, as it didn't do the job for me, and if anything it just made me break out..!

The free gift contains samples of Take The Day Off Makeup Remover, 7 Day Scrub Cream, Dramatically Different Moisturiser, All About Eyes and Deep Comfort Butter.
However I already know that the Eye cream just doesn't go down well with me - when I bought All About Eyes in the past, within a week of use red painful and itchy rashes appeared all around the eye area where you apply it. Was quite dissapointed with this as Clinique are supposed to specialise in skincare! So now I use Olay Total Effects Eye Transforming Cream and so far it's worked great.

Allllso, anyone who likes Benefit should head down to the newsagents if they haven't already and buy Glamour magazine - which comes with 3 different Benefit products to collect.

I went a bit crazy and bought 6 as it was such a good deal haha.
You can choose from the 'Eye Bright' pencil, which works well in the inner corner of the eyes, 'It Stick' concealer which apparently is the least popular but actually works really well over spots and under the eyes, and the famous 'Bad Gal' eyeliner which has a nice design but I prefer Maxfactor or Elizabeth Arden as the kohl in their eyeliners have more intensity and you don't need to apply as much.

Image source: www.petitfeet.co.uk

Wore my Belle & Mimi leather sandals today... but god did they eventually hurt! Haha ended up wearing my trusty flip flops... and ending up about 10feet shorter.

The nail varnish I'm wearing is 'Candy' by Nails Inc & I loove it