Bargain Boots Haul!

Today I popped into town with the intention of using up my £5 off No.7 voucher, and a £2 off Bourjois voucher that had come through the post a while back before they expired this coming Sunday (11/09). Also with Boots having a 3 for 2 offer on across different make-up brands I thought I could possibly get a back-up for my Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection concealer for free....little did I know I was going to come away with SIX products all for a bargainous £5.89!

I firstly popped my advantage card in the pink machine as I knew I had some Treat Street points to collect and had a quick browse throught the offers. Firstly was an offer for 1/2 price in the 17 Hide & Chic Eye Brightening Concealer, next was a voucher for a free 17 Eye Dazzle when you purchased any other 17 product, then came another voucher for a free 17 Shine On lipstick with another 17 purchase. I was thinking surely I won't be able to get TWO free products just from buying a half price concealer and unfortunately I couldn't, BUT I did get the two free items when I bought another 17 product as part of my 3 for 2!

I think the poor sales assistant rued the day I turned up at her till armed with FIVE vouchers, but she was very helpful and I still can't believe I managed to get all this so cheaply!

It isn't the most exciting haul by any stretch of the imagination, three of the items are concealers, but I just wanted to share it with you so you can maybe pop to your local Boots and snap up some freebies too!

The first item in the haul was the 17 Hide and Chic concealer which should have been £4.99, but was half price with voucher.

For my 3 for 2 I bought the Bourjois Powder Brush £4.99, No.7 Quick Cover Concealer in Extra Fair (this is my go-to concealer that I usually pick up if I have a £5 off voucher and has gone up to £8) and 17 Hide Away Concealer Stick in Extra Fair £3.89 which was my free item.

With my two other vouchers from the Advantage Point I got a free 17 Dazzle Eye in Big Smoke (£3.99) AND a free 17 Shine on Lipstick in the shade Bon Bon (£4.29).

So altogether the items I bought should have come to £30.15, but with a canny bit of couponing I managed to save a WHOPPING £24.26!

My advice is get yourselves down to Boots quick!

UPDATE: After mulling it over in my head that night, I realised that I was actually undercharged. The items should have come to a lot more, I think what happened is the shop assistant ran the 1/2 price concealer voucher through twice so it was effectively free. I just thought I should say because the total should really have been £2.49 more.

Genre-o-rama!

So yes, I have been absent for some while now (coughs-*a year*!)so I thought I would get back in to the swing by giving a quick overview of my favourite films genre-by-genre. So without further a-do....
* HORROR - I'll start with possibly the most difficult category for me, my taste in horror films is varied to put it mildly! My numero uno? The Haunting (1963) The original and (obviously) best even terrifies me to think about it! An incredibly accomplished and underrated film in my humble opinion.

* Chick-Flick - A somewhat easier choice, as this category is not my favourite, but the hopeless romantic and eternal child in me has to choose Dirty Dancing. I'm yet to meet a woman who doesn't go weak at the knees in the final sequence.

* Comedy - Blazing Saddles. A film I saw years before I should have, but my Dad is cool and this was before the picture rating system was introduced. Still makes me laugh to this day.

Stay tuned for part two where I'll be covering Childrens films, Musicals and Science Fiction!

Haul-ier than thou!

So I've finally succombed, well when I say succombed I mean bought another heap of make-up.
I mean it's January, VAT's just gone up to 20% and everyone is tightening their belts; and me? I have so far this month bought two eyeshadow palettes, two foundations, and four lipsticks!
So I'm sure you wouldn't be surprised if I said I was giving up the purchase of make-up for a while right?!
Well it was technically still January when I made my order with www.love-makeup.co.uk so maybe I should try and ban all make-up related expenditures from now on! (Yeah right!) I have ordered two NYX palettes and a NYX jumbo pencil in milk, and I am extremely excited about the arrival of said cosmetics!

I'll be sure to include pictures when my package arrives-yay!

Innocent When You Dream

What a fitting title! Well last night I had my third dream in as many months about Tom Waits. This time I was part of his band and we were touring around Europe (Paris I think). I think I was actually one of his backing band and we fell madly in love as we toured. Hmmm....think my subconscious is trying to tell me something! I think I need to run away and join a band. Anyone know if Mr. Waits is auditioning for backing singers???
Photo is from tomwaits.com by Anton Corbijn.

Just call me Vidal Part Two

So I bet you're all itching to know what happened(?) Did I butcher my friends hair? I hear you cry! Well, fortunately no I didn't and by some not so small miracle, said friend actually loved the job I did which involed me cutting about an inch and a half off the length, cutting in a fringe and feathering the front and back so it didn't look too heavy. So basically a restyle.

I don't think I've ever been so terrified, I could hardly speak as my increasingly nervous friend tried to engage me in chit-chat, I could do little to hide the tremor in my voice. Once I had finished, and I watched my mate making her tea and could see the hair swishing around I relaxed slightly-I had done a bloody good job! Was it luck? A small miracle? I like to think it was down to the fact I'm just a natural whizz with the scissors, but I think I'll be waiting rather a long while to find out!

Just call me Vidal Sassoon!

So, I've been cutting my own hair for the last three years, due to not being able to afford to get it cut professionally, boredom, and being in possession of my Mum's old hair scissors. When my friend asked me to cut her hair I thought-no problem! I'm a whizz at this (its worth noting that I have never received as many complements about my hair than in the period in which I've been cutting myself), yet it wasn't until I was halfway around her head and there was a pile of hair on her floor that I realised: I haven't a bloody clue what I'm doing! The thing that became glaring obvious to me once there was no going back was: my hair is curly-therefore hides a multitude of sins, my friends is poker straight and unfortunately doesn't!

I now declare this blog....officially open!

If this blog were a boat, I would've smashed a bottle of champagne over it!
Well, here I go I guess, this is rather nerve-wracking actually-my first ever blog post, I hardly know where to start now. Well I guess I should begin with a mission statement of sorts. I don't intend to write about one thing in particular-just life in general, and my day to day struggles with life as I try to get myself happy, and back to normality after a very long and tumultuous battle with depression. I have many passions and interests and am always looking for new ones. One of my biggest passions is film and I predict a healthy dose of cinematic discourse here, but other than that much like life there will be no rhyme or reason to this....just random blatherings, as promised!