My First Graze Box

graze box - £3.89

The other day I was just browsing through some new posts of the bloggers I follow, and on one of them I follow had a promotion code for a free Graze box! The amount of times I have heard about these graze boxes was starting to get ridiculous considering I still hadn't tried one, so I stepped up finally and placed an order for one.
The website for Graze boxes is extremely easy to navigate and easy to read, making the order process very fast! They have over 100 products to look at and rate so they can choose a group of 4 snacks to send to you. The snacks, or "punnets" as they call them, that I received were the, Herby Bread Basket, Barbecue Pistachios, Honeycomb Crunch and the Apple & Cinnamon Flapjacks and all of them are so so nice! I cannot fault any of them. The portion sizes are extremely generous for the money you pay and the quality of the food is amazing too. All of the punnets say what makes each one good for you such as the Herby Bread Basket is classed as 'extra light' as it only has 87 calories in which is crazy considering its all bread products! I showed my mum the box and she'd heard about them before too in a few of the magazines she reads and loved it too, so I think we may be making a proper order of these soon, yay!
Overall I love the whole concept and content of Graze boxes and would love to get some more in the near future to try some more of their brilliant products! Have you ever tried a Graze box? What did you think??

Use this code 6C15KWZC to get your first free Graze Box!!

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My Week in Pictures

first graze box!! / it's on its waaay / estee lauder double wear foundation / new fave ipad game / models own in bare beauty / my sister found this 1kg of choc in a vending machine / patrick wrapped up / outfit / new clothes / my new boots! / got some new makeup / my boyfriend dropped the butter on the floor haha!

Weekly Wishlist #3

1. Kukee Cuff Chain Bangle - I've wanted a cuff bracelet for absolutely ages now and i've looked high and low in every high street store I go in, but then I came across this amazing website called www.kukee.co.uk and it has every type of jewelry that I love and I want it all, this will definitely be my first buy off the website at a steal of £3.50, it just has to be done!  

2. Benefit How to Look the Best at Everything Kit - These new benefit kits really caught my eye when I was browsing their website the other day, I love the Porefessional primer and I used to use the Boi-ing concealer before I discovered MAC Studio Fix Concealer, i'd love to give all this a try.

3. Topshop Basic Crop Tee in Burgundy - I have the white version of this top and I wear it all the time! So I think it's time I bought another colour and wore that about 100 times too ha!

4. Shu Uemura Eyelash Curlers - Every person on the planet raves on and on about these eyelash curlers and I just really want to know if they are as good as everyone says as I have the most stubborn eyelashes ever when it comes to curling them, maybe it's because I can never justify spending over £5 on eyelash curlers so it might be coming to the point where I suck it up and get them.

5. Phillip Kingsley Elasticizer - Another beauty blogger hype that I want to join. My hair is so damaged, frizzy and full of split ends and it needs dire help. Everyone and their dog raves about this! Meaning I need to give it a go to fix my rubbish quality hair. 

New Louise Gray for Topshop Collection

Photos courtesy of Vogue.com

As a regular shopper/window shopper of Topshop, instore and online, I can't help but notice these new brightly coloured, glitzy items that have come in recently. The new Louise Gray collection that has just been released in only the flagship London store, Selfridges in London and online, and it has been a huge hit! The well designed, tailored yet baggy pieces are amazing quality but the only way to describe the whole collection is sequins, sequins and more sequins! And being a lover of all things glittery I love it all, espeically the smiley face t-shirt, which if it wasn't a huge £130, I would snap it up straight away!
The collection also includes new makeup items too, all of which are bright, glittery and over the top. From brightly coloured eyeshadow to colour-popping lipsticks to glitter nail polishes all beautifully packaged in pastel and metallic colours. Price ranges from £6.50 to £200.
Do you like Louise Gray's new collection?? 

How Much Is Your Face Worth?

I saw one of my favourite bloggers (Lily) do this tag around a week ago now and I became really curious of how much my everyday make up costs me so I decided to join onto this tag, making it my first ever tag post, woo!! The idea behind this tag is to just basically list all the make up you use and their prices, add them up and you get your result price. I'm not too sure how much mine will end up costing as I use a mix between drugstore and high end make up!

Maybelline Super Stay 24h 010 Ivory £9.19, MAC Studio Finish Concealer NC30 £14.50, MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus NC30 £20.50,  NARS Laguna Bronzer £25, NARS Deep Throat Blusher £21, Maybelline Colossal Mascara £7.19, Sleek Dip-It Eyeliner £4.49, Benefit Speed Brow £12, MAC Lipstick in Brave £14 

All of this comes to a total of £127.57, which I think is a reasonable amount considering every other tag of this I have seen comes to £150+ so for once I am quite happy to be below average!! However this isn't including, primers, moisturisers, brushes or anything like that which i know would bring my price up to way above £150, but let's ignore that fact ha! I do get a lot of wear out of all the products I use so I feel the "CPW" (cost per wear) helps justify spending a fair amount of money on good products, I like to think this anyway...! How much does your face cost, i'm really quite interested?

Money Supermarket Passion for Fashion Competition Entry

 Coat - River Island
Shorts - New Look 
Top - Topshop
Boots - Asos 
Bag - H&M
Beanie - Topshop

Necklace - Asos

The inspiration behind this look is from the festival season of the year! However, I went with the a warmer approach to the festival look as, let's face it, we are in England! Even though this could be worn for a festival it could be worn when walking your dog, at a BBQ or just going on a general walk. I went with the baggy top instead of a fitted top more for comfort whilst at a festival and it can be worn tucked into the shorts or just left loose too! The necklace is from the Asos sale. 

 Dress - Motel @ Ark
Clutch - Internacionale
Shoes - Jeffrey Campbell @ Office 
Nail Polish - Models Own 

For the party outfit, I went for a bold statement dress with plain and simple accessories. I love how this dress was originally £30 but in the Ark sale it was reduced down to just £11(!!!!) which is great value for a dress from Motel which are really great quality. I chose a bright nail polish that went with some of the colour in the dress to compliment the dress and to stand out when holding the plain black clutch bag. With the price of the dress, clutch and nail polish being very small, I decided to go for a statement shoe and where better to go than to Jeffrey Campbell! The huge silver claw up the back of the heel is massively on trend for autumn/winter as well 

 Shirt - Topshop
Leggings - Topshop 

Boots - Office 
Nail Polish - Models Own 

With this outfit, I went with a more simple approach inspired by the recent trend of studs and dark colours that are taking over the high street ready for autumn/winter! Even though none of these things have saved any money as they are not sales, the boots from Office a great dupe of the Chloe studded ankle boots which have a MASSIVE price tag of £850 so if you can't find yourself able to justify that massive amount of money for some shoes, these are a great, much more affordable dupe to them. 

 Shirt - Topshop
Pants - River Island 
Shoes - River Island 
Bag - Zara
Lipstick - Topshop 

Rings - H&M 

When choosing this, I decided to go for a more casual first date choice as if you were going to the cinema or bowling maybe! During autumn/winter, leather seems to be on trend so I went with the leather jeggings to match this, but if you're like me and don't like wearing fully neutral colours, I chose this gorgeous messenger bag from Zara to bring a pop of colour to the outfit! The rings from H&M are a great bargain for 3 rings, averaging at just under a £1 per ring. 

Jumper - H&M
Skirt - Miss Selfridge
Heels - River Island
Collar - Topshop 
Watch - Asos
Lipstick - Topshop

Every highstreet store you visit, you always see midi/tube/pencil skirts so I thought this would be a great style to choose for the office look for the competition. Another popular style at the moment is the collar! They are all over the highstreet and even celebrities such as Rita Ora and Pixie Lott are embracing this trend too. With being in England, a jumper like this with an added collar is a great look for work to keep you warm yet looking professional. The gold boyfriend watch from Asos is a good dupe for the ever popular Michael Kors watches that i'm sure everyone is lusting after, just like me, but with a price range of £175 and above, not everybody can afford them, also just like me! So the Asos watch is a great way to embody Michael Kors without forking out the money for the real deal.

Find out how to create your own competition entry HERE!!!

MUA Undressed Palette

MUA Undressed Eyeshadow Palette - £4

I absolutely love eyeshadow at the moment but usually when i'm doing my make up, I reach for my usual NARS Cordura duo eyeshadow and I've been recently lusting over both Urban Decay Naked Palettes but at £36 for each palette, I cannot afford this! SO, I heard about the Heaven & Earth MUA Palette being released but never got round to buying it but the other day after I attempted my driving theory test for the THIRD TIME and failed, yet again (!!), I needed a cheer up and my Dad treated me to the Undressed one, which I prefer over the other "Naked" dupe that MUA do. Obviously, the eyeshadows in the Naked palette are of better quality and and have less fall down than this but for £4 the quality of these are amazing! They are highly pigmented and apply really well, however I don't like the applicator that it comes with but I can easily use one of my other brushes to apply and blend with!
On a day to day basis, I'll use shade 5 all over the, lid shade 10 on the outer corners and shade 9 in the crease but when it comes to going out the darker colours, which the Heaven & Earth palette doesn't have, are really useful to have.
What do you think of the MUA eyeshadow palettes??