With being a blogger comes the love of reading my favourite blogs and discovering new bloggers, and with that comes the raving reviews of their favourite products and brands, and with that the list of products/brands I want to try becomes never ending. Throughout 2016 the same brands seem to be many bloggers favourites, making my want to try certain products a must and I thought i'd share a few brands I loved through 2016, brands I want to try more of and brands I want to discover. 

Starting off with a brand that was well loved by myself and many bloggers in the last year has been NYX. Since it's launch in the UK, it allowed the brand to be so more easily accessible but there are still a few products that i've not tried but definitely want to. Since loving their Intense Butter Glosses (£5.50) their array of shades of have been calling my name, as I absolutely adore the formula of these glosses and wear the couple I have like they're going out of fashion. I also want to try out more of their contour palettes and bronzers, as i've heard some great things and I secretly adore bronzing my face up.

A brand, that although is on the pricier side I want to try more from is ABH Cosmetics. After receiving the ABH Glow Kit (£39) for my birthday it has given me the itch to try more from the brand as absolutely adore this palette. For years i've heard many bloggers and youtubers rave about the ABH Dip Brow (£15) and the ABH Brow Wiz (£15.50), and as I love experimenting with my brows and the products I use to fill in my brows, and with so many amazing comments on these products it has heightened my want to try them. I also would love to try out their lip products, but my liquid lipstick collection is getting a little out of hand.

Moving onto a brand that I vowed to try more of during 2016, and unfortunately failed but the want to discover more Charlotte Tilbury products in unreal. I absolutely adore my Charlotte Tilbury Love Liberty Lipstick (£23), and I'd love to try out a few more shades but more of the nude variety. Also being a lover of contouring and highlighting i'm always swooning over the Filmstar Bronze & Glow (£49), which I know I will just adore from the few times friends have used it on me but justifying the price tag is the only factor stopping me from purchasing it.

The last brand that I want to try more from is more of a budget brand option, that i've been trying a few products from and that is 2True, which if anyone remembers from back in the day as I was obsessed with their products back when I was in high school. After trying out few of their products recently and being super impressed it's definitely a brand I want to try more from. Their Rainbow Highlighter* (£4.95) has been a recent favourite in my makeup routine and is so different to any highlighter than i've used, and just gives all the unicorn vibes out there. So I can't wait to try out more products from them!

So those are a few brands that I want to try more from in the next year! Please feel free to leave some suggestions of products that you've loved, as i'd love to try out any well loved recommendations.

What brands do you want to try more from?

From the title you can probably tell what this post is about, but I recently got to 100 GFC followers on my blog and to say a massive thank you to all of I decided it was only right to do a little giveaway for one of you lucky people to win! 

Here is what is up for grabs :)

1 MUA Undresses Eyeshadow Palette

1 MUA Mystical Glitter Nail Varnish

1 MUA Fairy Dust Nail Varnish

1 MUA Gemini Nail Consellations

1 Soap and Glory 'Mist You Madly' Bodyspray

1 Soap and Glory 'Scrub 'Em and Leave 'Em' Body Buff 50ml

Rules:

This blog is open to UK residents only (Sorry for all of you who live outside of the UK).

Enter via the Rafflecopter below, I will be checking entries and deleting those who have not actually entered properly.

This giveaway will be open for two weeks ending on 11/02/2013.

I will contact the winner via email and will post out the prize within 2-3 working days of the giveaway ending.

Good luck everyone!!

*THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!*

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thank you again to all of you lovely followers, you mean everything to me and this blog and I wouldn't be where I am without you all :)

xx

As you can see I picked up a fair amount of things, but today was payday and I didn't actually spend a lot. So first of all we went to Boundary Mills which is a big outlet store that sells mainly clothes but also home wares and furniture. I picked up this really cute wash bag which was reduced to £12, I thought would be really handy for when I am down in London for my placement as I am crashing at my friends flat whilst I am there and I could keep all my toiletries all neat and organised. I also picked up the two packets of Wonka Nerds which I love!! They were by the counter when I went to pay which were £2.70 each which I thought was fairly good as nerds are normally around £4 a box!

Next we went to Ikea, as we are moving house later this year we decided to start looking at furniture to get idea's as I am looking to buy everything brand new for my room as my current furniture isn't going to fit. Anyway, whilst we were there I picked up the two drawer sets which I have had my eye on for ages as I am looking for way to store my makeup and nail varnishes and I thought these would be perfect! I also picked up the floral duvet set as I thought it was really cute and was only £15, bargain!!

Finally onto my ASOS order, which I have been quite excited to receive as I've had my eye on these two items for a while. The first was the mint jumper which I first saw featured on Tilly - Jane's blog (go check her out if you haven't already) and I have liked it ever since and seeing as mint isn't normally a colour I would wear I knew that I had to have it, so seeing as ASOS were offering the student discount for 48 hours I took full advantage and ordered the jumper there and then! The second thing I ordered was the coat, as I am going on placement for a month I'm going to need a few coats to get me through the cold walks down Oxford Street. I seem to be loving khaki coats lately and this one is so nice but it is a little big so I may return it and order a size 8.. not sure yet! haha.

Have you been buying anything this payday?! 

xx

** I have been approached since posting this review that my palette could be a fake and after doing some research i've learnt that it is so, I have put up this disclaimer just to warn you guys of this and that I do not encourage the purchasing of fake products**

As a lot of bloggers and beauty bloggers have been raving about Urban Decays Naked Palette 2 and Urban Decays Naked Basics Palette so I thought I would join in and give my own opinion and little review on the Naked Palette 2. This retails for around £36 depending on where you buy it from, I was lucky enough to pick this up on eBay for £14 brand new so I was very happy with that as I was a bit skeptical about paying almost £40 for an eyeshadow palette, never the less it is so worth money.

The palette comes with 12 different eyeshadow shades and a double ended brush perfect for applying eyeshadow into the crease of your eyelid and a normal shadow brush.

As I do not own the first Naked Palette I can't say whether I prefer it or not, but a lot of bloggers say that the Naked Palette 2 contains a lot more neutral shades compared to the original palette which from images I can agree. I love this palette, I can make so many different eye looks with all of these shades from a more subtle everyday look starting with the more neutral shades and to a darker smokier eye with the darker shades. I cannot recommend this palette enough, I think every beauty fanatic out there should own this palette and it is so worth it's retail price but if you too don't want to fork out try and find it cheaper like I did.

Do you own any of the Naked Palettes? What do you think of them?

xx

 Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a lovely weekend before you go back to college or university on Monday. 

As I don't have work over the next week I decided to take advantage of this and paint my nails as I can't wear nail varnish for work (booo) so I thought I would share with you my 'nails of the day'!

I used the OPI Start to Finish as a base and topcoat, the Topshop Nail Varnish in shade 'Easy Breezy' for the main colour and then added some glitter to my third finger on both hands using the Barry M Nail Varnish in  shade 'Diamond Glitter' and the Collection Bedazzled Effects Nail Varnish in shade 'Glittersweet' as I am still in a festive mood, even if Christmas is over as we took our tree down today, sigh.

Also I apologise for the bad quality photos, as it is getting dark outside my phone isn't capturing the light very well and my digital camera doesn't like to focus. I may start using my stepdads camera which is either a Nikon or Canon but either way the quality is a lot more better than my phone.

What are you favourite nail brands to use?

xx