100 Spending Ban Update – Week 3 & 4


Once upon a time I became obsessed with beauty samples. I remember when I was around 15 I discovered you could order perfume samples on the Internet. I then spent months ordering sample after sample after sample. 6 years later I’m still obsessed with samples. If I see a freebie in a magazine, I’m there,…
My weight has always been somewhat an issue to me. When I was a young teen I put on a lot of weight, then I spent 5 years working at my McJob and went to university where my eating habits just got worse. After years of eating crap and bad habits I finally decided that it was time…
Yesterday I headed into London to meet up with a load of bloggers for the #JulyLondonMeetUp that the lovely Helen from Beautifully Superfluous has spent the past couple of months working hard to organise. It was a great day planned for us all to meet at Tiger Tiger in Piccadilly for a good beauty natter, before moving on to…
If you’re a regular reader of my blog you will understand my love for all things hair oil related. For someone who over processes their hair and applies heat regularly like me, hair oil is a life savoir. My non-beauty obsessive friends don’t quite understand it – “you’re putting oil in your hair?!?!”, but I have…
One thing I can never have enough of is lipstick. I have a whole drawer of the stuff, in every shade you could imagine. I usually stick to ‘drug store’ lipsticks, but every now and then it’s nice to try out a higher end product. One brand I’ve never really tried anything from, but have…
I never really caught on to the BB Cream hype when it first came around. I was a high coverage foundation type of girl. I ended up trying a sample of the Garnier one everyone raved about, but found there wasn’t enough coverage for me and didn’t like how my skin looked. I also found…