Shopping Haul #1

1. Swan Jumper - Miss Selfridge £37

2. Cami & Knicker set - Accessorize £10 (sale)

3. A Beanie Hat (for the boyf) - Primark £1

4. Velvet Clutch Bag - Primark £8

A mini shopping trip. I've had a few this week so keep an eye out for all my little haul post - i'll try not to bore you with them. I don't really have much to comment on today. I've had a tiring day as I've spent most of they day doing my dissertation. Counting down 3 months then it'll all be over. :) Wooop. 


I've got a challenge that I have set for myself which is to go the whole of February without buying any clothes or accessories... Eek that is a full 29days... seems long.


Let see how I go :)

Accessorize Lipstick #Shade1

Okay after my rant on Sunday about the my disappointing Accessorize nail varnish, I wanted to write this post about my NEW Accessorize Lipstick. Today I went shopping with my mum and I picked up this lipstick in the sale for £2.50 - half price. It is probably the reverse of the nail varnish and is in fact my new favourite lipstick. 

First of the packaging is pretty cute, I quite like the lid even though it could possibly be on the borderline of being tacky. But the lid fits firmly on, I have a pet hate for loose lids. It also has a nice vanilla smell to it, glides on great and only needs one application. The picture in the middle shows it close up and with a flash, it is quite a glossy finish even though the it might not look so in the portrait picture. (Excuse my dodgy teeth - am trying to get them sorted.)

The colour is shade 1 called Really Red although I don't think that is is particularly the reddest lipstick I own, and that is probably the reason I like it as much as I do. It is an everyday wearable red colour, and I am a bit of a Marilyn - the blonde hair and red lipstick... big fave for it.  

Accessorize Nail Polish Apricot Crush

Where do I start with this product? I think I brought this Accessorize nail varnish. I had received one as a gift from a friend when they first did their make-up collection and thought it was nice. Since then I had heard of lots of hype around the Accessorize collection. However with this purchase I can safely safe this wasn’t worth the money nor will I be tempted to buy a nail varnish from their collection again. I know a few people will say it was only £4 so what did I really expect? But I can think of a lot of different high street brands which are around the same price but of which are quite frankly much better.

To be honest what drew me to buy this in the first place was the colour, I like the kind of pastel orange colour – I thought it is very spring and would be great for brightening up my January. My boyfriend thought the colour was horrific... but I didn’t care I loved it until; I brushed the first stroke onto my nail.

Unfortunately as the tacty brush stuck to my nail and left a nail which had thick dense colour patches with thin streaks. I thought maybe after a top coat it would look okay because I still liked the colour. And I was right after the top coat they looked nice. Though they didn’t 3hours later – and I had only been sitting at my desk doing uni work. But somehow they managed to get chipped and scuffed. Less than 24 hours after application my nails looks awful, they are nearly all peeled off and heavily chipped (like nail varnish you have taken off after a couple of weeks.)

Well this has been a pretty moaning blog? But I am now £4 down and have skanky nails. Has anyone else had this problem? Or maybe it was just this colour (apricot crush)?