Beauty, Bargains and Beyond

Hope you have all had a great Christmas.  I thought I would do a quick post on the Primark Jewellery Advent Calendars that I bought and blogged about here , to show you what was in them. This one was £10 (£5 in the sale during December).  It has 12 sets of earrings, 4 midi rings, 4 bracelets and 4 necklaces, with a number of them being matching sets. I thought this was a great alternative to a chocolate or beauty advent calendar and it was a great price.  I'll definitely be looking out of them next year. This one was £8 and was a 12 days of Christmas advent Calendar.  This has 4 pairs of earrings, 2 rings, 3 bracelets and 3 necklaces.  Again another great buy and I particularly loved this rings in the one. I thought both of these were a great buy and would definitely purchase a Primark Jewellery Advent Calendar next year if they sell them. What do you think of these Advent Calendars? Leighlee I bought these with my own m...

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone.  Thanks so much for reading my blog and supporting me this year.  I hope that you all have a great Christmas and if you are hitting the sales tomorrow, good luck and Godspeed. Here's a few things that are coming up on the blog soon.  I have a couple of giveaways which will hopefully go live in January and February. I will be posting an update about how I did with my challenges in 2014 and setting myself some new goals for 2015.  There's definitely going to be some hauls (Christmas and sales) to show you and I will continue to bring you bargains as and when I find them.  Let me know what sort of posts you enjoy reading. Merry Christmas Leighlee

I love glitter nail polish, In fact I own about 50 of them, but I hardly ever wear them because they are such a pain to remove.  When I visited Paris this year, I took the opportunity to visit Sephora and picked up  Sephora Instant Nail Polish Remover For Glitter .  Its just like a normal nail polish remover pot except for one thing.  This product has an abrasive strip (Sephora calls it a scrubbing sponge) about a centimetre wide inside the pot.  You can use this product to remove normal polish which it does in a flash, but if you are trying to remove glitter polish then you just rub your nail on the abrasive strip and in about 10 seconds all you are left with is a few dots of glitter which you can scrape off yourself.  Its so much faster and easier than the foil method I find. The abrasive strip is not so harsh that it damages your nails, but just enough so it makes light work of the glitter.   Its $9.50 on the US Site here  and it...

I posted about the Harvey Nichols Goody Bag Offer  here .  I took advantage of the offer as I wanted to buy a present for my sister and I also wanted to pick up some Charlotte Tilbury makeup (I will show you what I bought in a separate post).  I just thought I would show you a quick pic of the actual goodies that I received from this offer.  I should say that I did not receive the goody bag when my order was delivered, so I did have to email Harvey Nichols to find out why I had not received it with my order.  They were really quick to respond and I did receive the goody bag 2 days later. There are some great brands included in the goody bag, so I can't wait to try them all out. Leighlee

There are some great free gifts with purchase offers at the moment, so it's a great time to stock up on products on your wishlist or just those staple items that you know you already love.  Boots have a couple of good offers at the moment that I wanted to highlight as I have taken advantage of them myself. Max Factor  is offering a free gift worth £31 when you spend £15 or more on Max Factor Cosmetics. The free gift contains Colour Elixir Lipstick in Cherry Kiss (4g), Glossfinity Nail Polish in Raspberry Blush (11ml), Falsh Lash Effect Mascara in Black/Brown (13.1ml) and Wild Shadow Pot in Golden Amazon (2g). These are all full size products and very wearable.  There is also a coupon to save £2 on any Max Factor Facefinity All Day Primer, Flawless 3 in 1 foundation or Skin Luminizer Foundation.   To get the free gift I purchased the Max Factor Excess Shimmers in Bronze and Copper, which I had wanted to buy for a while and I can't wait to try them out. ...

Ojon - Free full size conditioner when you buy the shampoo.  Simply add the shampoo to your bag and choose the conditoner at checkout.  There is also free UK Standard Delivery with any order.  I don't know how long this offer will be available for. In addition, if you spend £20 you can receive a repair holiday damage duo (Rare Blend Infusion Shampoo and Rare Blend Deep Conditioner - 30ml each). You just need to add the code WINTER at checkout. Both these offers seem to work together, so it's a pretty good deal.  This 2nd offer ends at 11.59pm on 14/12/2014.         Makeup Revolution - Free gift worth £10 when you spend £25.  The free gift contains Your Gorgeous Palette, Supersonic and I Woke Up Like This WOW Glosses (offer ends 10:00am GMT on 15th December 2014).  The free items will be added to your cart when you spend £25 excluding postage costs.  I have a wish list as long as my arm when it comes to Makeup Revolution, s...

I recently received Magnifibres Brush-on False Lashes in my November You Discovery Box.  I have now had a chance to use it and wanted to let you know how I got on. The photos below show my natural lashes, with my normal mascara and with Magnifibres . L-R Before, Normal Mascara, Magnifibres Magnifibres is really easy to use, you apply your usual mascara and then immediately apply Magnifibres on top.  You then need to wait 30 - 60 seconds so the fibres can stick to your lashes and then apply a second coat of your usual mascara.  If you want really full on lashes you can repeat the steps above until you get the result you are looking for.  In the photo above I just applied Magnifibres once but if I was going out for the evening I think I would apply it at least once more.   I was happy with the results as I could definitely notice a difference with my lashes. I wish I had curled then before the photos above but never mind.  I found Magnifibre...