A Grand Day Out :)

Hey dolls!

I've been a bit absent from blogger this week but I bought some lovely things today and I thought I'd give you a looksee :)

I went into town with some lovely friends and had a real giggle :) and the day was especially lovely because I visited a certain favourite shop: MAC!

I have been wanting to get a lot of things from there but I thought a couple of things would keep me ticking over for a little while. So after browsing the new Venomous Villains range (which is so so cool) I went over to the old faves.

So, here's what I splurged for...

Oh, and THE best thing happened today :D

I was chillin' in the street with my lovely girlies listening to some guys busking when two pretty funky looking peeps rode past on bikes with bags filled with glasses! They were promoting the new Urban Outfitters store that is opening in Bath and were giving away the glasses for...FREE! So, I dug around in the bag and pulled out the pair covered in the most flowers, teehe...

It was an offer I just simply couldn't refuse - so that's the glasses in the picture above ♥ pretty bloomin' funky don't ya think?

I have wanted this for such a long time! I love a good nude lip :) so this is perfect.

Love love love.

M.A.C. cremesheen lipstick in Myth/£12.50

I have a very very very ridiculous amount of blushes and I would probably say that I am even more obsessed with them than I am with lipsticks. And that's really saying something...

I haven't had a MAC blush before and I thought it would be a good idea to add one to my collection and since ninety five percent of my blushes are powder, I went for a cream one.

This a lovely rosy pink with a mauve tone to it :) It's a colour that I don't really have and I can't wait to start using it. It's crazy how pigmented this is, so worth the hefty pricetag methinks.

M.A.C. cream blush in Brit Wit/£16.50

Swatches of the lipstick and blush :)

I don't think it's actually humanely possible for me to go out shopping and not buy a Barry M nail paint - I am obsessed with them! And I don't think I'll rest until I have the whole collection...

So today I got the lovely navy one, with really pretty baby blue reflexes in it. I think this will be a definite staple for A/W.

Barry M nail paint in Navy/£2.95/Boots

So, that's my little haul for now :)

I hope you liked and I would love some comments :)

Also, I would love to hear some tips for starting a MAC collection and if you think there are any MAC must haves that I should purchase?

Hope you're having a lovely weekend ♥

lots of love

daisydolly X

Walking in a winter wonderland...

Okay, so maybe this is a little premature :P

But today, at school, I was so so cold. England seems to suddenly be freezing! And I have to say, although I keep complaining, I am secretly quite pleased - because it means I can get out my fave item...the winter coat :)

A few days ago my parents kindly ordered me one online and then yesterday evening my dad came home with lots of bags filled with goodies (he works in fashion) - this meant free clothes.

I was very excited.

Of course :).

So I thought I would show you my new items...let me know what ya think :D

New Look/£40

I saw this coat in the shop and really liked it - and to my genuine surprise my mum said she would get it for me.

It's a blue toned grey and is nice and thick so it's good for those chilly days. I love the buttons and the double brested front. The only thing I'm a teensy bit unsure about is the collar - but what are pashminas for? :)

Cambridge connection review/price n/a

So I have no idea where this is from or how much it costs!

My dad bought this home for my sister, and might I just say my sister is a very skinny ten year old, and when she tried it on...it was too big. Quelle suprise.

But with my beady eye I spotted this happening and grabbed it. And despite it being from a childrens size rack I managed to slip into it and I love it!

It's a very simple navy blue, with a cinched in waist and a handy hood. I think this will be my everyday coat - and it's lurvely and toasty warm. Perfect :)

Brand n/a/price n/a

So, yet again, no idea where this is from or how much it is as it doesn't even have a label in it - I think it was just made at my dads work and they hadn't got round to that bit yet :L

I really like this. It's quite short, almost cropped infact and has strong shoulder pad thingys (:/!!). It has really cute buttons and just feels good when it's on. It's not that warm but will be great for those warmer days with fingerless gloves and a cute scarf. Lurveee :).

So there's the end of my likkle coat haul.

With the coats I am wearing -

Jeans/Gap

Pink vest (underneath)/Topshop

White studded t-shirt/Zara

Thanks for reading!

I would love to hear some ideas for accessorising these coats, and just your thoughts... :)

lots of blog love

daisydolly X

My Holiday :)

Hola mis amigas!

I just got back from Mallorca a few hours ago and I thought I'd do a quick post on my holiday :)

I had a really nice time and I would really recommend staying in the Pollensa/Puerta de Pollensa area as its really lovely. :)

So here are a few pictures of my time there and I also thought I'd do a holiday haul, because I got a couple of things :)

This is where I stayed, this picture was actually taken on the day that it wasn't very sunny, hence why it looks a bit gross. But it got much sunnier throughout the week :) the house was all the way up the mountains so it was so idyllic and just lurrvely!

Me and my little sister. I'm wearing: Maxi dress from Topshop - £45 i think. Vest from H&M - £2.99. Bag from New Look - £10. (Not sure what my hair was doing that evening)

Us again :) I'm wearing skirt from H&M - £3.99. Top from New Look - £15 i think.

And again :) my sister is too cute..

♥ ♥ ♥

Haul

I picked up these two bracelets in Pollensa Sunday market - they had some really gorgeous stuff but these things especially caught my eye for something beachy :) Me, my mum and my sister all got the blue type one and decided they would be 'family~friendship~girlpower' bracelets, teehee.

The blue rope one was 2 euros and 50 cents. And the silver one was 5 euros.

I saw these earrings and thought, since they were only 2 euros, that I would get them for our last meal of the holiday.

They're huge, so i ♥ 'em ;)

I only picked up one makeup item whilst on my travels and that was the Benefit Primpcess travel kit - I picked it up on the flight home and was £20 which is a saving of £8.50 for the highstreet price.

It includes Bad Gal Lash mascara, Eyeshadows in Accent Shadow, Contour Shadow and Liner Shadow, Creaseless cream shadow/liner in R.S.V.P, BOI~ING concealer in 02 and Eye Bright. I can't wait to try all these things, espesh the creaseless cream shadow/liner - I have been lusting after one of those for a loooong time :)

So there's the end of my likkle holiday post, it wasn't much but hopefully you liked it.

I feel like a week is such a long time in the blogosphere but I will try and get back into the swing of everything soonio :)

Follow me and comment!

lots of blog lurvee

daisydolly xoxo

I spend too much money...HAUL

Hey everybody! ♥

So I went shopping, again... with my lovely friend hebeflora and I got some reeeally nice stuff :)

So I really hope you enjoy this post and don't forget to comment and follow!

everything :)

No.7 Shine Free Primer - 'Stops shine for a matte finish'

So, I had another £5 off voucher and have been lusting after a primer for ages. I wanted a moisturising one rather than a gel and this one is so smooth and makes my skin so so soft. And seems to really mattify. I really like this. It usually retails at £10.75, but I paid £5.75 - yay :D.

this primer is so silky and great to apply. I recommend, a lot.

The next two products are my favourites :)

If you have read a recent post of mine called 'currently lusting after' then you would know that I really wanted this cream blush from MeMeMe. So I was completely set on getting that one, but when I found it, it was really small, I mean literally tiny and I just kinda thought, OH. So I decided that it wasn't for me :( But then Hebe said I should look at the Topshop cream blushes and I thought, why not. So I did. And I loved them! This one is called 'Flush' and is a really lovely bright pink and the formula seemed really nice and creamy. Also, I adore the packaging, I think it's so unique and quirky. The cream blush was £6 - one of the more reasonably priced items from Topshop's makeup range.

I also got, to go with the blusher, this amazing brush from the QVS line at Superdrug. I thought it would be great for cream products and I can't wait to use the two together. This brush is so so soft, ah it's incredible! And that was £6.99 :)

Love love loveeee.

I also got this eye pencil from H&M, I've always been slightly sceptical about their make up but I thought you couldn't really go wrong with one of these. And...I was right! I actually really like this product, it's quite creamy and applies really nicely. It's a really pretty shimmery browny-grey with lilac undertones and would look lovely in the evening for when I go on holiday. And it was only £1.99 - what's not to like? ;)

a swatch of the eye pencil - sorry for the bad quality photo.

The last thing on my haul is this lipstick. It's from Miss Sporty, a brand I don't normally buy from and it quite an unusual colour - purple. The formulation is very sheer which I actually really like and it comes out quite pinky-purple and I think it looks really funky. And it was only £2.49.

A swatch of the lippie. Sorry again for the bad quality photo.

So, that's my haul finished! What do you think of my new things? :)

Have any of you bought these things recently?

Or anything to recommend?

Hope you enjoying the rain, NOT :(

lots of blog lurve.

daisydolly xoxo

haul: Boots & Superdrug

hey beautiful people :)

I went shopping today with a couple of mates and went absolutely crazy :) I got loads!

I had a 'free makeup lesson' at the Benefit counter in Boots and had a makeover - which was so fun :) I would really recommend booking one, they're free and the products really are gorgeous, I couldn't buy this (as it was too expensive), but the girl used 'You Rebel Lite - tinted moisturiser' on me and it was amazing - I am definitely lusting after that ;)

So yeah, let's get on with the haul...

all the products :)

Stuff from 17 at Boots.

At my makeup lesson at Benefit the girl gave me a really pretty purple eye - so since I can't really afford Benefit I went to 17 and tried to recreate the look for less money ;)

-x2 eyeshadows in Regal (the navy blue) and Punky Purple - £3.49 each

At the moment they have an offer where if you spend more than £6 you get a free Bronzing Summer Glow kit which includes -

-1x Mirror Shine lipstick in Sugar Daddy

-2x Eyeshadows in Ivory Coast and Statuesque

-1x Instant glow bronzing powder in medium

-1x Bronzing brush & 1x eye applicator

I never really use these free gift things but I thought this was quite generous for only spending 6 pounds - a nice thing to have in the draw :)

-beautyuk eye shadow and eye liner collection 1

This is their new palette and looks quite cool, I was going for bright colours and this looked perfect :) - £3.99

I had two of the £5 off vounchers for No.7 and Ruby and Mille cosmetics so went to look :)

I have always liked the look of their eyebrow pencils and needed a base for eyeshadow so these two things were perfect :D

I bought

-Beautiful brows pencil in 10 brown/black - RRP £7.25, I paid £2.25 :)

-Stay Perfect Smoothing and Brightening eye base - RRP £7.50, I paid £2.50 :)

Stuff from 2true at Superdrug.

They always have a 3 things for £5 offer here so I got

-True Colour Blusher in Shade No. 3 (I plan to use this as a bronzer)

-Eyeshadow Dazzler in No. 9 (you can't really see this - it's a lovely bright, royal-type blue)

-Gloss-wear Lipstick in Shade 7

Stuff from Natural Collection at Boots.

I have a lot of neutral eyeshadows and not many pinks so I went for these to be different :)

They also always have a 3 products for £5 offer

-Duo Eyeshadow in Frost Shimmer/Aqua Shimmer

-x2 Single Eyeshadows in Candy Floss (the brighter one) and Soft Pink

AAAH I'm so excited about this ♥ it's absolutely gorgeous!

When I had my makeover the girl used this on me and I instantly fell in love with it :) the colour is so so pretty and ahh, it's just fab ;D

-Coralista Blush - £23.50

Luckily, I didn't have to fork out the money for this - I had a £25 boots card for my birthday so I could get this and I'm so glad I did! CAN'T WAIT TO USE IT ♥

well, that's the end of this haul.

I'm going to Primark tomorrow with my Mum and I will just tell you what I plan to buy so I don't have to do another haul :) I will be getting the foundation/concealer brush and the Kabuki brush so I might do a review of them soon!

But that's all for now :D

Hope you enjoy this post and happy thursday!

lotsa love xoxo

haul: Accessorize, New Look, MAC, Barry M

hello beautiful bloggers :)

I went shopping with my gorgeous sister today and I thought I would show you what I got ♥

Purse: Accessorize - £12. I'm really into union jacks and stuff at the moment so ♥ this! :)

Bobbie pin: New Look - £1. This was in the sale and is so cute :)

Lipstick: MAC - £12.50. I've wanted a MAC lipstick for a while now and I was going to get a normal one but this Lady Gaga one really caught my eye :) the colour is gorgeous!

Nail Paint: Barry M - £2.95. This is 'limited edition' and has a gold lid - pretty funkadelic :) and is a pretty pinky fuchsia colour. Can't really go wrong with Barry M!

this picture is reeeally bad quality :/ but this is a swatch of the lippie - it's a lovely bright poppy pink and the application is so smooth and creamy :) and very wearable actually :D

(for some reason I can't get rid of the words being underlined) :(

So there it is, my lovely haul!

Has anyone else bought any of these products recently and loved them like me?

lotsa love ♥ xoxo

hello summer lovelies :)

Just a quick post to say that soon I will be doing an ELF.com haul :)

I just ordered a few products that I really wanted to try so I will check them out and then blog about them and score them out of ten!

I love receiving parcels in the post :) do you? lotsa love xoxo

here is a quick pretty picture to put everyone in a summer mood :)

ah! that place, wherever it is, looks so lovely! I need a holiday like that!

Also, I just thought that I would give you a quick preview of the very first bit of my novel, 'There You'll Be'. This is the first part of Chapter One, I don't have many followers at the moment - but if you come across this blog then please follow and if I get enough followers and it's worth it, I will keep posting bits of the story on :)

Hope whoever reads this enjoys and please comment!

One

“Just take your time, Grace,” A plump woman with a blue and white police outfit, with a faint Irish accent said to me, “tell us everything, about your Mum and about him. Try not to miss out any details. I know it’s hard for you, but it’s important. We need to know everything,” she clicked a button on a tape recorder and a low buzzing noise filled the room, “whenever you’re ready.”

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Have you ever noticed that if you stare at something for long enough it can start to change? Even the flattest of objects if you keep your eyes on them and really concentrate can start to morph and form faces. As I sit here I wonder what I’m seeing change, perhaps it’s a part of me, like the terror that I bury so deep within, somewhere inside that sometimes even I can’t reach, like it’s is spilling out uncontrollably. From being trapped in my breath and pumping through my blood then escaping and filling the air and changing everything around me, making things terrifying.

6 months ago I was normal. Just normal Grace. I had a best friend, good grades with the exception of Maths and Physics, a pet cat called Pat who I adored, I did my homework on time, washed up the supper plates with my Dad listening to The Beatles every night, went to the park at weekends sitting listening to music on the grass and laughing with the people I loved to spend time with and lay on the sofa on Wednesday evenings under a blanket with my sister watching Corrie. 6 months ago I was so different. 6 months ago I had a mum.

The day we found out was the 14th April 2007. Now I look back on it, it feels like a dream, a blur that I can barely remember. It’s like I’ve blocked it out of memory and put it somewhere at the back of my mind which I can’t reach and each time I try and grab for it, it tumbles further away.

hope you like it! :D

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