♥ - It's Em

2013-01-01T23:54:00.002+00:00

A Fresh Start

I have not been blogging much since I've been at uni, but now i'm really determined to document my adventures this year, and what better time than 1st Jan... a new year.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!

I will leave you all with a picture of some NYE celebration fireworks seen from my window

♥Em

Future Plans

2012-08-25T04:30:00.001+01:00

So this year I'm going to be in my final year at university. There are a few things that I'd really like to do when I leave uni. These are;

1. Graduate with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Business Management
2. Get a job
3. Learn to Drive (Although this may be started/completed in my final year)
4. Buy my own house

The next few are less important, but things I would like to purchase when I start earning money;

4. Buy something Mulberry - whether that be a handbag or purse, I'll see what they have at the time, but to be honest I like so many products in there! Even considered a £60 silver keyring with an engraved classic mulberry tree, although I can't justify spending that much on a keyring when I'm still a jobless student.
5. Buy something Louis Vuitton (Possibly from Paris) - I already own a handbag which originally belonged to my mum's boyfriend's ex wife - but I'm not sure if it is real or not.

I've always liked designer brands and products but I've never been able to afford them, I see the time where I am in work as an opportunity to enjoy luxury things bought with money I have earnt myself.

What did you spend your first pay check on? And what are you saving up for if anything?

Blog Sale Feat. MODEL'S OWN POLISHES + BARRY M GLITTER DUSTS

2012-07-16T05:30:00.000+01:00

Right, I'm not very active on here anymore, but hopefully someone will see this post and might be interested in what I have to offer!

Since I don't know if there will be much interest, I haven't taken photos, but I can do if you want to see them, just leave me a comment! :D So here's what I have:

Models Own Nail Polishes;
Blue Lagoon - Never Used/ Maybe Once - £3
Golden Peach - Never Used / Maybe Once - £3
Pastel Pink - Used Twice - £2.50
Cherry Pie - Never Used, Still Sealed - £3.50
Sterling Silver - Used Once - £3
Green Flash - Used Once/ Maybe Twice - £3

Barry M Nail Polishes;
310 Mushroom - Used Once £1.50
306 Blueberry Ice Cream - Used Once £1.50

As you can see, I don't wear nail polishes very often, they mostly have just been sitting around in my drawer!

Dazzle Dusts:
All of these are either never used, or used once. None or very little product is missing than from what you would get brand new. Therefore I am selling them all for £3 each.

Dazzle Dusts
Shade 14 - Khaki
Shade 22 - Electric Blue
Shade 23 - Midnight
Shade 24 - Old Gold
Shade 44 - Bronze
Shade 53 - Chocolate
Shade 72 - Emerald
Shade 76 - Yellow
Shade 84 - Cherry Red
Shade 94 - Teal

Fine Glitter Dusts
Shade 4 - Silver
No label, but I THINK it's Shade 20 - Denim

I also have Armani Diamonds Perfume Gift set which contains;
30ML Bottle of Perfume
75ML Body Wash
75ML Body Lotion
£25

All have been tested, but not used as I dislike the smell, please note that I don't have the original box, I thought I would get round to using it, but I haven't. The perfume only is currently retailing in boots for £30 on it's own.

Thanks for having a look :)
Emz xx

Recycling Clothes & Possible Blog sale?

2012-03-30T04:05:00.005+01:00

I've always wondered why there wasn't some magical place where you could sell your clothes back to somewhere for like half of what they are worth or something! But since such a place doesn't exist, I've decided to see how my clothes would fair selling on ebay.

I didn't think I'd get very much for my pieces, but it turns out that they aren't doing too bad! I sold a few Primark tops for like £6 when they probably cost me that in the first place!

So now I've decided whenever I want something new, I've got to find old things to sell to the value of the new thing(s)! I spent £90 on clothes the other day (which I'll do a little haul on in a few days) and I currently have made £45 from old clothes! So still got a little way to go, but it's fun!

I think the lady in the post office will start to hate me! I posted 5 things the other day! She's grumpy anyway!

I was considering selling my Armani Diamonds Perfume gift set that I got for Christmas, and maybe seeing how it does here, but since I haven't blogged in such a long time, I'm not sure how many people would look!

Comment below if you think I should do a blog sale of my clothes and bits and bobs, I might have some makeup stuff that I could sell too.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Emz ♥

Changing Hair colour?

2012-03-21T03:47:00.005+00:00

Right, over the last month I have been trying to dye my hair dark blonde. First I pre-lightened it which turned it bright orange with white blonde patches and some brown bits too! So I was very scared! Then I used a dark blonde dye and it went a kinda brassy ginger colour but I've been using John Freida's violet colour correcting mousse and it seems to help but then my housemates were teasing me saying it was starting to look green! So then I dyed it this colour;

106 Natural Medium Ash Blonde (left)

Next time I'm considering dying it 101 Shade Natural baby blonde because maybe then it will look like 106 is supposed to! but comparing the two colour samples, they look almost identical? Although below (right) is the colour I got when I used 106.

Here's before and after pics; I was wearing colour contacts in the before pic :P

I'm not sure if I want to dye it again or leave it this colour and use a home highlighting kit to introduce blonde into my hair.

Thoughts?

Much Love,

Emz ♥

A year break?!

2012-03-20T16:55:00.002+00:00

I can't believe it's been so long since I last had a blog post! I've been so busy with uni that blogging fell to the back of my mind! But now I'm really hoping that I'll remember to blog more now because it's something that I really used to enjoy!

Hope everyone is well,

Emz ♥

New Look + H&M Haul

2011-02-03T13:16:00.004+00:00

Hiyaaa, sorry it's been so long, I lost my campus card last week which was a bit of a pain D: I left it in the nightclub.

Right, so first I'm going to start with what I've bought recently.

Store: Both TFNC London
Price: Left; £37 reduced to £20 Right; £35 reduced to £20

I have been wanting these dresses for soooo long but I've always said to myself that they were too much. When I saw these on sale I knew I had to have them straight away! They're gorgeoussss and they both tie together at the back into a bow. Soo cute and a bargain price, it just shows that it pays to wait a little while!

Store: New Look
Price: £59.99 reduced to £25!

This is the coat that I was talking about in my previous post. I LOVE this coat. It's real leather and I'm so surprised that i found this for only £25! what made it even better was I had a £20 voucher for christmas so actually I only paid £5! The fur can also be removed so you can just wear it as a leather jacket if you wanted to.

Store: New Look
Price: £15.99 but something like £12.80 cause of 20% student discount

I like this skirt because it's got a zip at the back and because it feels more secure and like it will stay in place than my £3.99 jersey skirt from H&M which kept riding up too much!

Store: New Look
Price: £24.99 but I got them for £19.99 (20% student discount)

I really do love these, but because I'm already 5ft 8, these make me close to 6ftish. I feel like a giant when I wear them, and they're sooo painful after a short amount of time D:

Store: H&M
Price: I think this was around £10 or £12 but reduced to £5.

Perfect with a little black skirt for going out :)

Store: H&M
Price: £24.99

I love thisss! It's a lovely lace dress and it looks lovely with a little tan belt!

Store: H&M
Price: £14.99

I really needed a pair of flat shoes to go out, because the big wedge shoes that I bought are soo painful and sometimes I don't feel like wearing heels cause I'm tall enough as it is D:

So that's all for now folksss!
Hope you liked my haul.

See you soon!

Love,
Em ♥

I promiseee!!

2011-01-24T05:52:00.003+00:00

Right,

I REALLY need to get back into blogging! I miss it, but then somehow I always get distracted!
I am going to go to sleep soon (hello messed up body clock!) and make writing a blog post high on my to-do list!!

Thing is, when I got back to uni, I had major drama with my room, because although it sounds stupid, I'm convinced somebody stole my duvet... I thought I must have left it at home, but my mum is sure... then I found the evidence! I found a massive false nail, back of an earring and claires accessories tag on by bed which definately wasn't mine!! I called security and was understandably upset... How could this have happened... 4th floor, locked door, no signs of forced entry and also security did a key audit (it's all jazzy and we have key cards) so they can see exactly when you opened your door and such.. but there's no trace of anyone being in my room which is so weird!!! I've given the evidence to the head of security but it's been over a week and I've heard nothing D:

I've also had a fish finger stealer D: and people who use my cutlery! it's really getting on my nerves now! Here's a picture of a note I left on the fridge :)

I'm really excited because I can share some of my christmas presents (yes, I know it's a bit late :P) and exciting things from a Haul the other day, including a massive bargain leather (yes really!) aviator jacket on sale for £25!

I'm so exciteddd. See you all soon :)

Ps. I might even have the post up for when most of you guys will read this...

I'll leave you all with this ADORABLE picture of our Henry Hoover. Sooo cuteee ;D My friend says he's going to "take henry for a walk" everytime he's going to vaccum his room :P
doesn't he just look soooo cheeky? :P

Bye for now,
Emz ♥

I'm Alive!

2010-12-24T02:18:00.006+00:00

Firstly, I'd just like to apologise to all my followers who haven't heard anything from me from October! I've been so busy with uni stuff (and partying!) that I have forgotten about my love of blogging :(

I would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and I hope everyone gets some really nice gifts :D I've asked for a pair of GHDs since I've only ever nicked the ones that Mum has used but now I'm at uni, I'm really missing her GHDs! I'm secretly hoping that she's got me the midnight collection one with the posh box and everything, but I'd be really happy with just the straightners too :)

Also, I'd like to introduce to you my new hair colour!
Today I took the plunge and decided to dye my hair with "casting creme gloss" which lasts 28 washes which i'm sure that you will all be familar with! I chose the shade 454 (Chocolate Brownie) and these are the results, a lovely brown with red tones:

I'm looking forward to blogging (and reading your blogs) a lot more than I have been recently :) Hope you all have a wonderful christmas!

Lots of Love,
Emz ♥

Uni Life! ♥

2010-10-24T17:41:00.004+01:00

Right so I've been at uni for a wholee month now! And I'm really loving it :)

The only thing is that I don't have a full length mirror so I can't do OOTD posts anymore... And I'm so busy all the time that I just don't have time for blogging. But I promise this will change everyone :D even if it's just once a week at the weekend.

For now I will leave you a few pics of where I'm living now at Surrey University, and also a couple of pics of me on nights out :)

This is my room with my ensuite :)

This is the kitchen that I share with 5 other people. Although where I live is lovely, I've started to realise that I wish I lived on campus because there is only 6 people to a flat, and I've been put with international students x.x;;

This is the "back to school" night out. To demonstrate the awkwardness of the living situation, not a single person in this picture lives in the same flat as me!

Me and my next door neighbour Jo :)

This was taken before the ministry of sound night out on friday :) I got very drunk and dragged a traffic cone up to my room which startled me a little in the morning! :P

Hope everyone is doing okay :)

Love,
Emz ♥

Don't you just love it when your new jeans get a giant split? (+Haul)

2010-09-22T21:38:00.009+01:00

I went down town to take back a pair of jeans from new look that ripped horribly when I was out bowling with friends. Luckily they split after I was bowling (well I think they did... I only noticed in KFC afterwards). I was also lucky that my top could stretch and cover it up! I'd just thrown away the receipt cause I didn't think I'd need it, but I knew I would probably be able to exchange it... apart from the fact they didn't have any identical jeans in my size so picked up a different style I liked for the same price... The woman said it had to be exact and I explained that there was none left at which point she went to find some for me.. she came back with a pair and said that they were the same leg length but when I got home I discovered that it wasn't the same leg length at all!! Right, now onto the things I bought

Store: Primark
Price: £9

I like this! It's very vintage with the chiffon and little bow, would wear it with a nice pair of jeans and heels for a smart/casual night out I think! I thought it would also look nice with this pinky pearl necklace which I got from Mood@Debenhams reduced from £12 to £3.60! Wowwww :)

Store: Primark
Price: £6 reduced to £3

I love this! It looks really nice with a pair of skinny jeans and heels for a night out I think! I love the lace detail. I've never seen this on sale at £6 in that store, so I was delighted when it was marked down to £3!

Store: TK Maxx
Price: £17.99

I love this! It looks much better on than it does on the hanger! I was actually looking for a dress that my friend has, they had one there but being TK maxx, they don't have everything in different sizes and this was a size 12:( I rang up a different TK maxx and they apparently didn't have one either =[ I will still be looking though!

Store: Primark
Price: £13 or £15 can't remember

Thought it would be nice for a night out at uni :)

hope you like my buys!

Love,
Emz ♥

Room Redecoration: MISSION COMPLETE!

2010-09-20T00:17:00.004+01:00

Ahhh,
Sorry for the delay, I did say that I was going to schedule the post for saturday but thenn I got a tummy bug which I still have =[ It's making it very hard to sleep cause I have a really bad tummy ache! Anywaysss, the long awaited room pictures!

The little wardrobe is from Ikea. It's the only one that had a length of 75cms which fitted that space of wall which was 77cms pretty much perfectly. It's a children's wardrobe but I think it gives the perfect opportunity to show off the pretty decorative boxes at the top and they're easy to reach :) (Cost £90)

The dresser is not finished yet, it needs a bit of "distressing" to give it the shabby chic feel.... We were also planning to paint the wardrobe the same colour but since I only have a week left, I don't know if that is going to happen now.

I love this mirror! It has the same kinda design as the wallpaper with the little dots! I bought it from ebay for £65.

Even though I'm off to uni, it will still be nice to come home to a nice room at christmas :) Especially as my mum wants me to start paying rent!!

Bye for now all,

Love,
Emz ♥

Giveaway Prizes and Eyes of the Day

2010-09-17T23:29:00.005+01:00

yesss, I'm sorry it's taken so long, but I've been redecorating and there's been a lot of drama and i've been lazy too :P It's also one week till I move to Guildford for uni! Next saturdayy. I'll be sure to take pics of my accomodation :P first off, the prizes that I won from Emma @ PurpleeeRose. Thank you so much! I've used the little eyeliner in my makeup piccy underneath :)

It arrived really quickly, was in a lovely lilac box with purple tissue paper inside! How lovely, and a little message saying "Congratulations, I hope you enjoy your prizes"

Thank you Emma :)

Second:

yeaah,
I used:
Collection 2000 16 hour concealer thingy
Max factor liquid liner (Black)
Max factor kohl liner (Black)
No7 Stay perfect liner (the teal colour)
Max Factor false lash effect mascara

I'm also scheduling a post for my room redecoration pics tomorrow :)
Hope you're all good,

Love,
Emz ♥

ZARA has an online store! :o

2010-09-05T10:14:00.004+01:00

I don't know if any of you have heard, but I'm sooo excited about Zara going online! I could literally buy most of the stuff from there! It's all very vintage and the quality is amazing.

I'm sorry I haven't been doing any posts lately, I've been redecorating my room, and helping out wherever I can cause practically the whole house is getting a revamp...

Coming Soon:
Giveaway prizes from Emma @ purpleeeRose
Photos of my redecorated room
Possibly a new makeup FOTD

so yeah, anyone as excited as me that Zara now has an online store?!?!

Bye for nowww all :)

Love,
Emz ♥

A level Results!!

2010-08-21T01:18:00.003+01:00

Hiya everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I got my A level results yesterday.
Dun Dun Dunnnn!!

I got ABB!

This means a place at Surrey Uni! I've got really nice accomodation at a place called Manor Park with an ensuite and they all look like newbuilds soo yeaaaah!

Also, I was at a party tonight. My friend Matt's 18th. Here's a picc:

They were both lifting me up. lol!

hope you're all having a good timeee,
Love,
Emz ♥

Roooom Redecoration!

2010-08-14T14:49:00.003+01:00

I plan to have my room redecorated this summer, although some people may see it as a stupid time to do it since I'm (hopefully...) going to be living at uni (results on thursday!) but I heard uni breaks are like.. 3 months long.

The plan is to make it very french chic :) I want to start working on sanding down the dressing table this weekend. We're going to paint it gold underneath, and cream over the top so that when the cream paint starts to wear off, it will show through the gold underneath! So excited.

Next thing I need is a venetian mirror and a stool :) I'm getting a smaller bed and getting more shelving so I can have a proper waldrobe. I'm very excited ♥

I don't really have much beauty products to talk about, since i'm on a one week ban cause of the eye surgery :( But rest assured I will be buying more. I've got my eye on a Sleek Contour Palette, last time I went to find it, there was only one light one left, and the packaging was a bit battered. I also want to try and get some more Max Factor lippies since I'm in love with the one I have and they're currently 3 for 2 :D

On other news, I've recently got into playing the sims 2 again. Anyone else still play it? :P Just wondering!

Have a good day,

Love,
Emz ♥

Storage & Oxford Street Haul

2010-08-12T17:04:00.008+01:00

Hiii,

Firstly, I'm excited to talk to you about my new storage boxes! If you read my last post about winning my dressing table on ebay, I'm sure most of you will know I'm having a bit of a revamp of my room! yaaaay ♥

yay, I thought this was very delicate and fitting with all that I want my room to be :)
Next, it's onto the storage boxes I bought.
I had a massive clear out and found that it would be quite nice to keep things from my past in a "memory box" and I knew that TK maxx would be the perfect place to find some of these wonderfully recreated vintage boxes. (obviously they aren't real vintage if they are in tk maxx :P) it was £9.99.

I also found this beauty reduced to £2! How on earth could I leave this in the shop? It's so cutee :)

I made it into a bead box (I discovered I had a lot of beads!) :

Here is the bigger version, reduced to £4. I don't know what I'm going to use this one for right now, but I'm sure that I will find a use for it one day (soon!)

I also wanted a box for everyday bits and bobs such as my daily moisturiser, hairbrush, ipod, camera. Just a general place to store general items really! I thought this case would be really pretty and feels lovely. Cost me £12.99 which I think it really good because it feels like a lovely material (you might be able to see closer if you click the picture below) Also the name is signed "Emily" which is closeeee (just not quite) my name :P

Oxford Street Haul

I don't know if I mentioned or not, but I went for laser eye surgery in West London right near to Oxford street. Although we couldn't shop on the day of surgery (which went very well), we had to get a train back for a check the next day so we decided to shop then. I picked up a few bits in Zara, DP and Primark:

Shop: Zara
Price: £25.99

I love this so much! It reminds me of the clothes women used to wear in WW2? I think. I adoree it! And it's a really trendy colour this season ♥

Shop: Dorothy Perkins
Price: £5 reduced to £1

I really love this! it's very vintage style with the bow and the colours. I just love it. And it's such a bargain at £1, you'd pay that if not a little bit more in Primark :P

Shop: Primark
Price: £5 reduced to £2

Shop: Primark
Price: £9

I love this skirt! It's the second skirt I own and it's so girly and feminine, I just love it! You can get some really impressive stuff in primark right now :)

Shop: Primark
Price: £6

I loved this from the moment I saw it which is really strange considering it is quilted. I usually feel that most quilted bags are really chavvy, as that's what you see everyone in at the local town, however, I think this appeals to me because it's not fully quilted, it's got a cute tied bow at the side and adjustable gold chain - Long to go over your body, or doubled up to go over one shoulder. I also like that on the inside there are 2 sections, because I always panic about where my purse is, I also like that it's small so I don't feel tempted to pack it out too much! I also really like the pink colour, it's not in your face like the black plastic ones i've seen and such :)

Shop: Primark
Price: £2

I saw this on the wall and loved the colour. It's in shade Mocha-Tallic which is gorgeous. You can see it on my nails above however you will notice that it looks very thin and a little streaky but after a few coats it looks better. I've always found that these nail polishes have been better than other brands, they dry quick and look fab, even beats No 7 polishes which are more than triple the price.

Shop: Primark
Price: £3
It's just a plain nude belt, there's not really much to say about it other than it's nice and will compliment some outfits :P

Here's a little outfit that I put together with my new purchases <3

pearl necklace (not new): Primark, £2?
Top: Zara, £5.99 - Was £15.99, and previously £19.99 so bargain!
cardigan (as above): Zara, £25.99
Bracelets: Primark, £2 - I have a matching necklace to this too :)
Skirt (as above): Primark, £9

I love that even a mostly Primark Put together outfit can look really classy. Do you agree?

I hope you're all doing well

Love,
Emz ♥

congrats me!

2010-08-08T01:16:00.007+01:00

soo, I want to redecorate my room so it's all shabby chic and I found a dressing table on ebay that my mum said we could repaint white or cream if it was cheaper than buying a white one itself. Well, this one looked better anyway, it had a lot of detail around the legs and such. happy happy! So I'm now the proud owner of this beauty:

(Picture taken from the ebay listing)

I'm not keeping the mirror, I want to get one of those very decorative venetian ones. Soo pretty! I paid £84 but I had a 10% off ebay voucher so actually I paid £75.60! I think that's quite a bargain! I'm so excited to make it all beautiful and I'll definately take another pic when it's done

Love,

Emz ♥

Another Haul and What Brand is your wardrobe?

2010-08-01T17:05:00.009+01:00

Hiyaa, I want to show you guys some more bits and pieces that I got. Also I wanted to see what brands my wardrobe is made of, I thought it would be fun. If you want to do a post like this, link me to your blog so I can read it. It would be interesting to see what brands people's wardrobes are made out of :)

First off, The Haul.
New Look are having another big sale. There wasn't really much there that I liked, but I did try to look. It was close to closing time though, so I was a bit rushed. Anyway, I did manage to pick up a top much like the cropped one that I've got (left, £6)

New Look

3/4 sleeve top - £7 reduced to £2

I was really shocked, I actually went up to the till and asked the girl, is this actually £2? She said yes and I was like "I'll have that then!!"

TK Maxx
Ashwood Leather Purse - RRP: £32.50, TM price: £9.99

This is sooo gorgeously vintage! It has the bow, and the rustic design. I've been looking for a new purse that looks great and TK Maxx had the best choices, I saw a few that I liked but my mum picked this one up and I knew it was the one for me :)

I'm sure most of you know about the Instyle offer where you buy their magazine and get a free cheek and lip stain from the body shop. There is two colour choices, #1 Rose Pink or the one I chose below, #2 Bronze Glimmer. The magazine itself costs £3.60 but a lipstain retails in TBS for £9. This means you could have both of them for £7.20 which is £1.80 less than if you bought one lipstain from them! TBS are also doing an offer where you buy 2 makeup items and get the stain for free.

I have put this on my lips, but the colour is VERY golden and I don't think it is very suitable as a lip colour because of all the gold flecks in it. However, this is just my opinion and it would look nice if you were going for a very bold and dramatic look. Although if you use it as a cheek stain, it gives a very subtle glow and you can hardly see the flecks which, In my opinion, is good. I think I will buy another instyle mag to get the rose pink one, as I may prefer this more, and I love the idea of something staining your lips so you have long-lasting colour :)

-Note: I bought all of these items with my own money-

Next, I want to do a little count of all the different brands in my wardrobe. So here goes...
TK Maxx - 3
Miss Selfridge - 3
Primark - 18
New Look - 8
ASOS - 2
Zara - 4
Next - 4
Topshop - 1
Republic - 1
Warehouse - 1
Stradivarius - 1
M&S - 1
River Island - 1

I have a mostly primark wardrobe lol. Here's a picture. Just for fun :)

If you decide to do a post like this, let me know by linking me to the blog post below in the comments box. Thank you :)

Love,
Emz ♥

Max Factor False Lash Effect Mascara Review + Free Gift

2010-08-01T02:32:00.008+01:00

I bought this the other day with my other bits and pieces, but I wanted to talk about it seperately.

I've already got the lash extension effect mascara from Max Factor and really wanted to try out their false lash effect one. While the lash extension effect mascara is good for making your eyelashes look longer, it's more of a natural look, whereas I wanted something dramatic - and Max factor did not disappoint!

Firstly, There is currently an offer on where if you spend £15 on MF cosmetics in Boots, you get a free gift bag with things worth £25 in it. However, there is also a 3 for 2 offer on MF makeup in Superdrug so I guess you'll have to decide what you want more. So anyway, I bought my lash extension effect mascara and a lipliner so I could get my free gift:

On the Right are the false lash effect and my lipliner. Everything else is with the free gift although I forgot to put my lippy in the picture. You get shade 510 - English rose and this is a picture of me wearing it:

I really like this colour :) And it's full sized aswell (and even if it isn't, you still get a lot in it... I have similar full sized lipsticks...) So I think that it was well worth spending £15 on the mascara I wanted and an extra lipliner, just to get this beauty! It also comes with a 5(ish)ml masterpiece mascara which I haven't tried yet among other things.

**note, the brushes on the false lash effect & masterpiece were awfully similar, masterpiece was £1 cheaper but if you look at the mls... Masterpiece had something like 6.3m whereas false has 13.1ml**

I've tried to do a before and after pic of the mascara, but they are blurry, but I think you can still tell the difference. Please note that the before picture may have slight remains on from when i was wearing the same mascara last night, I got the waterproof one - and boy was it waterproof! I couldn't even get this off with soap but I wasn't really bothered about leaving it on anyway. I woke up this morning and my mum said to me "Wow Emma, you don't even have panda eyes" and the mascara had totally stayed where it was meant to be!
Anyway...
Before:

After:

Just a random piece to end...

I dropped my mascara on the floor and it made this pattern on the floor. All I can say is that there is a LOT of mascara on the brush! (not complaining at all, I love the mascara)

Finally, I just want to say that I have not been paid to do this review and the product was bought with my own money. I hold no bias over this product and anything I say is in my opinion :)

Love,
Emz ♥

Goodies Haul & Birthday Jewellery

2010-08-01T01:48:00.008+01:00

Rightt, this again, I'm feeling is going to be quite a long post as I have a lot to show you guys!

First off I'll start with the birthday jewellery.
So as I explained in my previous post, my mum bought me a bracelet, necklace and ring for my 18th. I didn't have pictures last time so here they are now.
Fossil Bracelet:

Fossil Necklace:

White Gold and Diamond Ring from Warren James:

It's not strictly birthday jewellery *from Mum*, but I got it as a birthday treat
White Gold & Cubic Zirconia earrings:

Haul
I went shopping the other day, and picked up a few things. I love the summer sales, you can get such lovely stuff at such bargain prices!

Primark
Gold Bow Ring - £2

I love this, it's so cute! but it's still too big in size "S" and I don't think Primark do XS? If anyone knows if they do or not, comment on this post and let me know please :)

Miss Selfridge

Top - £22 reduced to £10

Bike necklace - £7.50 reduced to £3.75

Fossil

Mother of pearl & Cubic Zirconia Stainless Steel charm - £18

We asked the boy in the shop how much it was and he read it and said £8 but then when we got to the till it scanned in as £18 and I was like oh =[ but it's so nice, I wanted it anyway :)

The Body Shop

Baked-to-last bronzer in Shade 2, Warm Glow - £14

I wouldn't normally buy this because it's £14 but I had a free £5 to spend on my membership card in my birthday month, and I also had a £5 gift voucher that a friend gave me for my birthday so I only ended up paying £4 for this :)

Free Jewellery Box
I was complaining that I had nowhere to put my jewellery when my mum suggested that I have her one. It's really nice too! Although it's a little small but it does the job for some of my jewellery so that makes me happy :) Here are some pics:

Room Organisation

Today, I spent the whole day clearing out junk and generally reorganising my room. This is what the shelves ended up looking like. I love those little drawers. I got them for a pound each in poundland. In the picture below, the two highest sets are actually two boxes stacked on top of each other as you probably guessed cause there's a little one down near the bottom :P

Love,
Emz ♥

Diary of my last 2 weeks ♥

2010-07-30T00:52:00.008+01:00

Yeah. So people. A lot has happened since when I last was here, to be honest, it's my lazyness! I'll start from the beginning. As a sort of diary I guess (only the interesting days :P)

Monday, 19th July...
My 18th birthday! wahoo!

My mum took me to lakeside to F Hinds jewellers where we found some lovely fossil jewellery. She got me a fossil bracelet and matching necklace which are absolutely gorgeous! They're made out of stainless steel and have little keys on them.. symbolic because 18 is supposed to be when you get the key to the door and all that! I also got a white gold and diamond ring from Warren James. I will have to post a picture next time, as I haven't got one right now. I also got £200 from Dad, £100 from my nan, a crystal silver bracelet from my older brother, and £50 from my other nan, £10 RI gift voucher, £5 body shop voucher (also £5 free birthday gift from the membership card) and various little things from friends like a "little miss birthday" book and a makeshift barbeque and marshmallows that we could cook outside on the night of my party, and a disposible camera to remember my party :)

Tuesday 20th July...
Beach!
We were celebrating 3 birthdays of my friends, and generally had a laugh there. Here's a pic:

you can see me on the far left, digging a hole to make an armchair. "lol!"
I was also wearing my jewellery that mum got me yesterday, i completely scratched up my bracelet, it went all dull and I was so gutted =[

Wednesday 21st July...
Much of the same.. went back to the same beach, for yet another birthday party for my best friend Kel. She has the same birthday as me (July 19th) but spent our actual birthdays celebrating with our respective families. Another picture for you, when we went to the local park

grr! This time I didn't wear my birthday jewellery, I'd already learnt my lesson

Thursday 22nd July...
My birthday party.
Unlike the days before, mine was an evening party. It was really cool, we all had a blast. It ended at 12am and everyone left and I went to bed, however, i woke up 2 hours later only to be sick! Too much drink! haha.

This was most of us, although some people had left before we got a chance for a group photo =[

Monday, 26th July
The accident.
I was picking my laptop up to show my mum a song, when it slipped out of my hand. It bashed my wrist which knocked my bracelet off (breaking it...) but luckily the laptop bounced on my bed. So I saved the laptop, at the expense of breaking the bracelet! It was definately time to take another trip down to the jewellers to repair/replace it cause it shouldn't be doing that.. not at 1 week old!

Tuesday 27th July
Another Lakeside trip

So once again, we went to lakeside to take the broken bracelet to them. When we did, they said did you want a new one? I was over the moon when they said that! I'd scratched it up really badly but they didn't seem to notice, I was more than happy to accept a new one! very very happy. Also, I took the opportunity to get my ears pierced - something I've been wanting to do for a long time! The actual piercing and earcare solution was free, aswell as giving me 20% off my first purchase of non-starter earrings. All you had to do was buy the earrings. There was a small selection of silver, gold and titanium earrings. I chose to get white gold ones with 5mm cubic zirconias which cost me £35 but I didn't mind, I wanted to treat myself for my birthday :)

I like them, but I really want square cut ones. Unfortunately they didn't do this as starter earrings because they already had the stud attached to the gun in a packet to make sure everything is sterile. I think I will use my 20% off voucher to buy a pair of square ones, especially as I'm allergic to jewellery which isn't gold or silver so I'd prefer to buy them from a jewellers.

Thursday 29th July...
Disaster.
I woke up around 12:30pm (lazy I know) to find that one of my earrings had come out when i was sleeping! I thought, i'll just put it back in... simple but the holes had healed over! the back was completely healed but there was still signs of a hole in the front of my ear. I tried and tried for hours to repierce my ear (which was very painful!) Poking it for so long only made it sore to touch.. and still not completely pierced either... We tried Ametop which is a numbing gel but it didn't work! luckily it only cost £1.10 :P my mum's boyfriend ended up quickly piercing it (with pain =[ ) but at least it was over, even if it was after 7 hours of attempting to do it myself :/

I promise I will keep more up to date with you guyss!
At the moment I'm on the hunt for a new purse, and generally a bit of a spash the cash job since I got a load for my birthday! I will get pics of my birthday jewellery soon, i love it so much, i just have to share it with you guys!

Thanks for reading, I managed to fit 2 weeks into one post! wahoo. I hope you're all doing okay.

Love,
Emz ♥

Sorrrry people

2010-07-15T17:01:00.007+01:00

I know it's been agesss but I've been in Malta and then I had prom. I'll show you some of the professional prom photos that were taken. I might be buying some but they're £15 a picture :o omg! So unfair =[ I've lost my cam lead atm (I think it's at my dad's, seeing him friday night) so I can't upload any holiday pics *sadface*

So yeah, I didn't have a date for the prom, but that's okay, I still had a good time :)

He made me stand in a weird position! But I still like the pic :)

me and friends

Me and the girlss ♥

I will do more posts, more regular, in the future, I promise :)

4 days till my 18th birthday. Yaaaay!!

Love,
Emz ♥

Update & Bargain Purchase

2010-07-03T23:01:00.005+01:00

I'm really sorry for not blogging in days. I had a really disasterous day on Thursday and Leavers day yesterday. So I guess I'll start with thursday.

~ Thorpe Park ~

So everything was great, we'd got there safely in my friends car and paid and been on nemesis inferno then went on the river rapids. When I got off, I noticed my bag was extremely wet but we didn't get that wet on the ride so it didn't make sense. Then I realised a whole bottle of water had spilled in my bag, and my blackberry, ipod and camera got soaked. Luckily, after putting them on the windowsill to dry, everything works completely, which is amazing since my blackberry was actually broken for a little while and my friend said it would never be 100% again but it is! So relieved since i've only had it a month. I was so gutted at the thought of it never working again.

Then! We went on the saw alive maze, which is basically a really dark place where you go through various rooms with "frightening" scenes and actors who touch you. Your group of people all have to hold the person before's shoulders so you're walking in a line, a bit like a conga line i suppose lol. I seemed to get touched an awful lot and was desperate to move into the next room so kept trying to walk faster to move our group of 5 along, unfortunately, cause I was wearing flip flops, i hurt my big toe on the person infront's heel, and it ended up like this with part of my toe nail missing: http://tinypic.com/r/t8qmus/6
*WARNING: DON'T SUGGEST YOU CLICK IF YOU ARE SQUEEMISH*

and then finally, we went to queue up for colossus (see picture above). There was 6 of us but my friend Dina's boyfriend didn't feel very well and he had to drive home so he decided not to go on it. Dina already said she would sit on her own (like a row infront or something) but Ben, the person who was supposed to be sitting with me, was indecisive and wouldn't decide who he wanted to go with so I lost my place while he went with Dina. I had to get on the next ride with none of my friends, and how much fun is it when you've been queueing for ages for a ride (over 1 hour) and then you have to sit on it alone like you have no friends?! And afterwards, Ben tried to make out like it was no big deal and I started crying. Everything had just built up over the day and I couldn't hold it together anymore. A boy with us, called Tom, saw me crying and took me into a massive hug which was so nice of him.

~ Bargain Purchase ~

Right, Now to my Bargain Purchase. Some of you may remember reading one of my recent blog posts about new boots which I had bought (you can click here for the post). Well, I was browsing the River Island site and found what appears to be, a very very similar pair of boots! Here's a comparison photo:

The RI boots are probably made of leather or something, but my boots on the right look identical so I know which price tag I'd rather be paying!! Also, I've FINALLY managed to track down this necklace that I've been wanting. I've seen a couple of people wear it, one at thorpe park, and I love it soo much, and it's only £5 from New Look!

This necklace reminds me of those Primark pearl necklaces that get bigger at the front. I will look in my local New Look on Monday for this, but if I can't find it, I guess I'll have to order online when I get back from my holiday, but then my £5 necklace turns into my £8.95 necklace. *Sadface*!

Nicola, I haven't forgotten your tag post, I promise it's coming soon!

Love,
Emz ♥

Contour Brush

2010-06-29T00:32:00.003+01:00

Rightt, so I want to buy Sleek's Contouring kit but I need an angled brush to apply it with. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what brand I should go for, that's decent quality but affordable? I really don't want to be spending like.. £20 on one brush so I guess MAC is out of the question. It would also be easier if I could get it from Boots or Superdrug but don't worry if what you're thinking of isn't sold here, as long as I can order it online :)

Once I've decided what brush I want, I will go and purchase the two and let you know how I get on, maybe do a photo with me wearing it and a little review or something.

Also, I will be posting a little Face/outfit of the day thing, because my berets arrived today, although i think I will only be keeping the beaded one because I don't like the way the other two look on me. It will probably be towards the end of the week because I have my last A level exam on Wednesday and my skin is looking HORRIBLE at the moment.

I'm really considering buying one of those zeno spot zapping machines that administers low leveled heat, I'm always struggling to get clear skin, even if I haven't worn makeup in days! I hate it.

Hope you're all having a great time out in the sun, personally it's a bit hot for me, although I am enjoying trying to tan!

Bye for now

Love,

Emz ♥