Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure

It's been a while since I bought new nail polish. I kind of put myself on a ban as my collection is rather large, but I just couldn't help myself. 

YOURS - Plus Size Fashion Haul

I love Yours, they are one of my favourite places to buy plus size fashion items from. They are trendy clothes and not overly priced.

If you follow me on twitter (@sonyalovesmkeup) you would’ve seen me tweeting a lot about how much money I’d been spending at Yours Clothing. I basically was hitting up my local store every Saturday for like a month or so. Which is a little bizarre for me as I am not much of a big spender...well not for clothes anyway.

This post should have been up ages ago. As a blogger sometimes you need to rely on others to help you take shots of your hauls or OOTD's. Well I finally got someone(s) (my sister and best friend) to take my photos for me, so now I can share with you the items I got.

So let's get on with the haul...

Crown Brush Haul (IMATS)

CROWN BRUSH

My first stop at IMATS was the Crown Brush booth. Crown brush has been on my wishlist for a while, as they have a wide variety of brushes, makeup and great dupes of other brands at a fraction of the cost.

The prices stated below are that of the ones on the website. The brushes at IMATS were at a reduced cost, but the receipt I have doesn't have the breakdown cost of each item. But the prices on the website are still really affordable.

This haul should've cost £27.94, but I got it for £22,. Not too shabby.

BACK 2 MAC Lipstick Haul

MAC Cosmetics Lipstick

For those of you who do not know this, if you return 6 empties to a MAC counter or online you get a free lipstick. I think that is pretty frickin sweet considering that their lipsticks retail at £15.50.

So I headed to MAC in Stratford Westfield, with my empties in tow. I had such a lovely girl at MAC (and I wish I could remember her name) helping me choose the my lipsticks. If you've been to a MAC store or counter you know how daunting it can be as they have a vast selection of colours/finishes. I kind of had an idea of what I wanted before I went in, it was just finding the perfect shades for me.

FASHION: VERY Haul

Hey guys and dolls,

Here I am with another VERY haul. I've come to find Very as one of my go to online places to shop.

I did a massive shop, but like every woman knows when you buy a whole bunch of things online you end up only keeping a few bits.

Fashion Friday: SKULLS SKULLS SKULLS!!!

Hey guys and dolls,

Happy Good Friday everybody. Only 2 days until lent is over...yippee *does happy dance*. If you don't celebrate that holiday, then simply...TGIF!!! 4 DAY WEEKEND!

I've never really shopped at Claire's before, but upon visiting realised they had some pretty cool things to offer. Also whenever I'm on a shopping trip with the bestie I get dragged to almost every shop possible. Fortunately that day Claire's had a £1 sale and BOGOF in store.

Makeup Monday: Sleek Makeup Haul

Hey guys and dolls,

It's been a hot minute since I last purchased from Sleek. There was a time when I was buying from them practically every week.

Midweek Manicure: BARRY M Haul

Hey guys and dolls,

I think you've all come to know that 3 for 2 deals are music to my ears. I always head out makeup/beauty shopping during those periods. I hadn't purchased anything from Barry M in a while and headed to their stand in Superdrug. I've been using Barry M for as long as I can remember, during my awkward pre-teen/teen years til now.

Plus size fashion haul: Evans & Yours

Hi dolls,

So my sister has been very generous over the last few weeks and bought me a few items of clothing. She has taken pity on her poor unemployed little sister haha. But don't get it twisted I'll be paying her back, slowly but surely.

YOURS

Butterfly print maxi dress with shirring detail - £35

 Up close look at the butterfly print

EVANS

 

Nepp Stripe t-shirt - £19.50

 Grey Crochet Vest - £16

 Up close look of the Crochet neckline

 Swan Printed Jersey Shirt - £35

 Up close look at the Swan pattern

 I really liked the top of the sleeve, so thought I'd show you.

S xxxx

*all products mentioned were purchased by my sister with her own money, everything is my own view and I have not been paid to do this post*

Budapest Haul

Hello dolls,

So now that I have shown the sights from my holiday lets look at some stuff I got :)

I got this bag from the hotel gift shop, I just wanted a little tote bag :)

OK so this jewellery was not brought on my holiday, it was brought for my holiday and I wore all this jewellery on the trip. The necklaces were from Debenhams and the earrings were from Evans.

LUSH

So I went to Lush and was so excited. The people in there were so nice and helpful :)

I got WHOOSH shower jelly :) this stuff smells AH-MAZING, very citrusy and sweet.

Lip Scrub in Bubblegum

And a soap that I wanted for AGES was Honey I washed the kids - this is AMAZING!!!!!!!! It smell so good and is so so moisturising.

So while we were waiting to board I went into HMV who were having a sale :) and got a few DVD's

• Shark Tale
• Fast and Furious
• Anchorman (Which I had never seen and DO NOT find funny WHAT SO EVER, it was that bad I fell asleep, I was not impressed with this movie AT ALL!)

I went to a store called New Yorker, it kind of reminded me of New Look. I went crazy in the accessories department. :) I would find one or two items pay and then find something else haha. I went to the till like 3 times hahaha.

We then went into H&M and I got a scarf and a pair of silver hoops :)

 

Me modelling the scarf hahaha :) (with no make up)

Hope you enjoyed, I didn't go cray cray with the shopping cos the stuff I kept looking at was really expensive so I didn't bother haha. But a lot of my money went on Gifts and souvenirs :)

S xxx

Budapest Holiday

Hello my loves,

OK so I was flicking through my digital camera the other day and realised that I had not uploaded my haul or any pics from my holiday to Budapest in MAY! I know bloody hell haha. So I thought I would share the stuff I bought from Duty free and Budapest and some pics from the holiday and things we did. So lets start with the sights.

Vaci Ut is where we stayed at an Ibis hotel (I'm not even gonna go into details of how much I disliked where we stayed. I just know I wouldn't go there again. But whatever...on with the show haha. And TV in Hungarian isn't that fun lol.

So below is pictures taken from a boat ride we went on, it was fun. We had these headsets to listen to throughout. They have some beautiful buildings over there. I don't remember the name of the buildings but I just thought they were so pretty :) (not knowing the names of things is going to be a recurring theme through this post haha)

 This was a gorgeous building/fountain.

The main part of our trip was to visit the Duna film studios (I don't remember the exact name lol) We went on a complete tour of the place, sets, sets in the building process and just pretty much every inch of the place. So the main two things we saw when we visited was a partial set of Hellboy 2 and the TV series  The Borgias. I didn't even know parts of Hellboy 2 were filmed in Hungary until I stepped on the set lol but it was so cool to be on the set of such a massive film. I also got really excited when I saw the first advert for The Borgias for Sky Atlantic I was like to everyone "OMG  I was on that set ahhhhh!"

HELLBOY 2 set

The Borgias set

Széchenyi Spa

This spa was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! I couldn't believe it, if you ever go to Budapest I suggest you go here it was AMAZING! The outside was lovely but the decor inside was just beautiful. Except for the weird fountain that had water coming out of the kids private area (we were all quite disturbed by that) :/ Word of warning if they offer you a water that is supposed to be really cleansing, dont take it, it smells like sulphur and rotten eggs and a few of my friends that tried it threw up and wretched a little haha, I left the picture out cos it had too many faces in it and I havent had permission from the girls and my tutors to put it up. But just take my word for it and dont drink it haha, unless you like the taste of eggs and sulphur :/

So a main part of my tip was shopping haha, we used to take the metro to get to the main shopping area. Their metro kinda reminded me of the American trains or subway lol. But it was a bit confusing especially with it all being in Hungarian (duh lol) So while we were looking around the shops this window caught my eye and I just had to take a pic. I dunno why but I thought of Alice in Wonderland when I saw this. And this may sound weird but I thought the bunny looked, I wann say pretty? lol

And this street performer, she was so nice :)

And after being all tired out from shopping we went into TGI Fridays. The food and atmosphere was good, until I found a piece of glass in my drink, and they didn't even comp my meal (which they really should have)

Hope you enjoyed getting a little look of at what I got up to on my travels.

I think I will be doing a post like this of my holiday to Egypt in October (17 days ahhhh so excited)

S xxx