Of Love and Lipstick

Incase you didn't know I'm heading back to Florida next month! Going home to Disney World! Even though it will be swelteringly hot, I will be be wearing makeup. I'll be taking lots of photos, as usual, and my skin is not the best au natural. 

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good holiday season; that the time was spent enjoying family-time and food!

I love Christmas time! It is the best part of the year. It also means Christmas Tag time! 

I was rooting through the deep abyss in which I keep all my nail varnishes when I stumbled upon this pretty little beauty. To my shock it had never been opened; the plastic seal was still on it. I was so shocked that it was still sealed as it's rare for me to not even try a product out.

While I was in Orlando this summer (I'm not bragging honest) I became well acquainted with the Bathe & Body Works. It. Was. Amazing. I'd compare it being somewhere in the middle of a Body Shop and a Lush store. I picked up lots of different things (they has some kind of summer sale on), and I'm gonna take this opportunity to talk about their shower gel. I bought a small, travel sized Bath & Body Works 'Tokyo Lotus & Apple Blossom' scented shower gel. The first thing that i noticed was that it was travel sized which, if bring back home, is plenty enough due to luggage constraints. The next thing I noticed was the cute bottle it came in. The cap is a deep pink; a colour similar to that of the gel. On the front of the bottle is a beautiful floral pattern, giving of an Asian vibe. The smell is great. It's a very deep floral scent which makes me think of bright,airy summer days. It was perfect for my holiday in the sun. The scent fits me to perfect...

Hi :) Soo I was in Florida during the summer and, as one does on holiday in a place where the shopping is fantastic, I went a bit spree mad. One of the things that I bought were the MAC Holiday Ice Parade Mineralize Brush Set. Now they were bought as part of a larger makeup set from a shop in the Orlando Premium Outlets (Top of I-Drive, not near Seaworld) called The Beauty Store, I think. I didn't realize that they were in the package until I got back to the hotel and opened it up. One back in Scotland I decide to look them up and then I realized that they were from the 2011 holiday season, which made me really happy as none of my makeup crazed family could get them. The outer packaging was nice (no pic). It was an icy white box with metallic sliver pattern effect, which was nice and inside was the bag. Honesty, the bag is not my biggest like of the set. It's quite small for me as I travel with a LOT of stuff, and the extended zipper makes for a hard time opening ...

Oh my God! Can we have a moment of appreciation for this fine specimen of beauty? I have quite literally just placed myself on the waiting list for this at my local Debenhams store. I had heard about this last year form my cousin, who was so devastated that they had sold out before she could get herself one. A couple of days ago I was casually browsing for Christmas goodies for my family and came across the advert on the Benefit website. My first thought was ‘I need me one of those badboys’, and my second was ‘OMG! £60? Not happening, look away now!’ So in the end I’ve decide to buy one as a sort or ‘pre-Christmas’ gift to myself (of-course). I’m 18 th  on the list and have to purchase it between the 1 st  and 2 nd  November, otherwise it will be sold on to the general public. It is a good thing because one of the makeup brands I have never branched into Is Benefit, and everyone seems to rave about it. It has a lot of variety so that will be a go...