Favourite Five: Lipglosses

I've seen tons of posts simillar to this, and I always find them fun to read so I figured I'd do my own, starting with lipglosses! I'm not really a picky person when it comes to lipgloss, but I don't wear it as often as I should. Having said that I find it acceptable to spend ridiculous amounts of money on a ridiculous amount of products I dont use.

Buxom Lipgloss in 'Destiny' - A pretty red coral with gold shimmer!

No7 Highshine Lipgloss in 'Happy' - Sheer pink with a gorgeous taste!

Avon Glazewear Lipgloss in 'Pink Radiance' - Deep blue toned pink, great illusion gloss!

Stila Lipglaze in 'Chocolate' - Good for a sheer pop of redish colour, smells just like chocolate too!

Maybelline Lipgloss in 'Stellar Berry' - A nice going out colour and great for A/W!

(click on links for the review on my blog!)

Whats in my school bag 2012-13 / Back to school haul!

It's that time of year my friends! September is officially here and so is school unfortunately! I go back on the 4th, so all my bits and pieces have been bought. I'm a fan of Whats In My School Bag posts like this so I thought it would be interesting to do my own. I'm going in to year 11 which means I'm full of exams, revision classes and of then of course the most sad part, leaving all my friends behind. However the year should hopefully have some high points - prom, all the crazy partys, great results at the end (fingers crossed!) and moving on to somewhere new.

This year I've gone for a Cath Kidston for my bag. In yr11 our uniform is completley black (minus the shirt, which is white) and with no makeup, jewellery, just basically blerghhhh. The bag was actually the cheapest I've had throughout all of school, a steal at £18! I've got two project books that I'm carrying through from last years courses, a basic ruler (we have to have multiples of all of our equiptment), index cards from WHSmith (aprox £2.20), the scientific calculator is carried over from my stats course last year, the small brown case I use as a pencil case but was actually a makeup bag from Marks and Spencers (aprox £5) and then of course my makeup bag, which was £2 at Primark. 'Whats in my school makeup bag' coming tomorrow!

And now on to the main part! All of this comes from WHSmith except the highlighters, which I bought for exam season last year from Asda for £1, they're not great but they'll do. The purple ruler is foldable and so fits in a pencil case perfectly. Rubbers and sharpeners are pretty basic, I can't imagine they were more than £2.50 full price (there was a huge 3 for 2 offer on most own brand items). The Staedtler 'Ice Coloured' pens are great for highlighting odd words or notes in revision books, they were £3.95. The Staedtler pack of 10 pencils was just short of £6 and my backup pens by Papermate the same. I have 'backup' pens as I write in cartridge ink at my school, however in exams were told we must have both to avoid smudging on longer papers like English where we have to write quickly, and Maths & Stats so our numericals are clear. My cartridge pen (which annoyingly only comes in blue ink, something were not allowed to use!) is again WHSmith own brand, which is the only one I can use. Much better than any Parkers, MB's or Cartiers I've used. The pen itself was £3.99. I bought the 60 pack of cartridges in black, they cost £3.19 - much cheaper than packs of individual pens!

And just to add in right at the end, just in case any of you were curious as to what shoes I'll be wearing this year I picked this pretty pair up from the dreaded amongst most teenagers: Clarks. They were £25 if I'm correct.

Are you looking forward to this school year? What does yours involve?

Update #3

ooooh its like inception!

Apologies for skipping a few days of posting, had a busy weekend! So to make up for the lack of publishing I figured I'd do you all a more personal post as I know they go down well!

I firstly wanna thank (my Oscars speech already?!) all the lovely ladies who guest posted for me last month, the posts all went down a storm and all featured within the top 8 posts of last month! I owe you guys a huge thank you too! I've had so many new followers recently and broke a few records when it comes to my blogger stats. I can be a little obsessive about the stats tool if I'm honest, so you made me a very happy girly! Unfortunate that the old interface is going soon, I hate the new one!:(

Also, I think I'm finally almost there with my new layout, I know it's a stark contrast from my old more 'monochrome' 'simplistic' layout, but I think I like it! I've had lots of nice comments from you guys about it but I'm always open to any improvements or criticism you guys have to make it any better!

And I finally got my results back! Not all of them are here, like Spanish etc. But these are my first year results so although these count to my GCSE, they're not my final grades. These are purely just the exams I took in Y10. Although as some of you may know I took a fast track Stats course so after getting a B in my CAU and an A* (which everyone was amazed at - I'm not the brightest light on the Christmas tree when it comes to math) in my exam I came out with a full A GCSE, which so far gives me two full qualifications - yay? Just in case you were curious as to what subjects I sat and whatnot I've listed them below, They were all Edexcel apart from the English which is AQA.

Religion - A*

Geography - A*

English Language - A

English Literature - A*

Physics - B

Statistics - A*+B=A

Pretty good huh? I'm trying not to get too confident as there's still a lot of exams to go! Were you guys pleased with any results you got over the Summer?

Blackpool Illuminations

I haven't been to the illuminations in so many years! Spending my Saturday night mixing with 3,000 of the Norths finest drinkers and what must have been 40% of the entire engaged population of Lancashire isn't my idea of perfection. Although it wasn't that bad, unlike my photos which were shockingggg! It ain't easy trying to take photos on pavements where you can't stop walking or some burly old man's gonna tell you to "gerr out of the way love!" Ah how I love Blackpool - the home of all things tacky, diamonted and bright. Although having said that I find no issue with taking the hour drive to Blackpool just for hot fresh doughnuts mmmm!

Whats in my school makeup bag!

Like I said yesterday in my 'Whats in my school bag' post my school are crazy strict on uniform, and that includes makeup. For that reason any makeup I wear has to be extremely subtle, hence the lack of foundation, eyeliner and bright makeup in my cosmetics bag. The actual bag itself is from Primark and cost £2, I'm not usually one for animal print of any sort, but I thought the cute dalmation print was too cute not to pick up. It's a good size and believe it or not it fits all of this in!

So on to the actual contents of the bag. I'll start with the 'essentials' a standard basic hairbrush, black Primark hair ties, clips and pins (mini bulldogs and bobbys are Primark, flower is Accessorize, studded is Boots) and tissues (which I'm not fussy about, these are 'medicated' so should be good for Winter) are all things I carry with me all the time and really can't leave the house without.

Some other bits and bobs I like to have with me are a nail file (pink diamontes - how could I not?) which is from a local boutique store, a mirror which I got with some St Tropez purchases a while ago, any kind of chewing gum, a mini hand gel I found lying around, my favourite cherry blossom hand cream from L'Occitane, Natural Collection 'Vanilla' and Impulse 'New York' body sprays I'm trying to use up, and a mini sampler of Givenchy's 'Play' I like to carry around with me for whenever I hang out with friends houses after school and I'm feeling worst for wear.

As for makeup, I only carry a few bits and pieces for touch ups during the day. A mini 30 day sampler of the Bare Minerals Hydrating Mineral Veil I reviewed here along with the teeny compact brush it came with to keep my skin looking matte all day, aswell as my favourite concealer by Collection 2000. I also carry a little sample of Benefit's Posie Tint that I got free with some Benefit purchases the other week, I don't get on with liquid makeup but I always have it with me just incase I'm in desperate need of some brightening. I also have a L'Oreal True Match pressed powder that I'm trying to use up quickly before October when I go on holiday as it's already slightly too light for me now, let alone in October! My school is incredibly incredibly strict on nail polish (were talking getting sent home for wearing it?!-.-) although I'm a wierdo and need to wear nail polish to stop me biting of my nails again so I carry a super light sheer colour with me, I can't tell which one it is, either Ballet Slippers or Muchi Muchi by Essie. As you can see by the photo I'm all about lips. I carry a Nivea lipbalm in 'Soft Rose' because omg it smells exactly like Playdoh I'm addicted hahah! I also take my Korres Lipbutter in Quince that I reviewed here, and my favourite lipgloss ever - Bare Escentuals Buxom in 'Destiny'. I think I've managed to include everything!

What are your essential items for a day at school or work?