Live, Laugh, Love 21/03/12

Hi guys!
Just thought I'd do a quick post while I have a moment, my camera seems to have gone walkabout so until I get the chance to have a proper look for it I'm going to e picture-less!
I've not stopped for the last few weeks, busy busy busy!
Last week I had a 'virtual baby' for my health and social care class at school.  I called my little girl Gracie and I got a little too attached I think!  I was really upset when they turned her off!   I had to look after her for a weekend and she cried ALOT!  You had to work out what she wanted from her different cries and either feed her, change her nappy, rock her or burp her.  It was at times difficult especially waking up at night to feed her which took around 30 minutes but for the most part I thought it was fine.  It was definitely something I wasn't used to and I know it wasn't as difficult as a real baby.  I think the point was to make us not want baby's and to show us how hard it was but for me I found it really easy and would do it again anytime!

Excuse the quality of this photo, it was taken on my Blackberry, just to send to a friend.  If I had known I was going to blog about it of course I would of made more of an effort!
But anyway, my little Gracie! yep... definitely too attached to the plastic doll:(
This week I also go my prom dress! yay!
I wont put a picture up of it just yet, as I don't have one that does it any Justice so it'll just have to be a nice surprise!  I plan on doing a post on my prom and what happened so let me know what you think of that, its in June so its quite a long way off yet!
Anyway I'm going to stop babbling on with myself now as I'm going to watch my beloved Manchester City play against Chelsea, should be interesting!
All my love, Alex.X

Friday favourite and Fudgeroo!

Hi guys!

Hope you had a nice week, This is my Friday favourite and Fudgeroo.
What is a fudgeroo? My fudgeroo is the product I disliked this week!

Favourite!

So first of all my favourite this week is my Angel Fish Sleek fish: smoothing serum

I absolutely LOVE this, it is very much a rediscovered product for me...
 I got an Angel Fish hair products set for Christmas 2010!  At the time I wasn't interested in hair/makeup/beauty etc... So it just went to the back of my pile of presents with all the other 'smelly bath stuff'  
Anyway, I was up in the loft with my nephew the other day helping him look for something when I came across my Angel fish set completely unopened!
Anyway, I really love this! 

 It smells delish too, like coconuts on a tropical island... dilly dang delicious!
I put it on damp hair and run about a penny sized pump through my ends and it makes it look so shiny and feels reaaalllly soft!

Fudgeroo!
For my fudgeroo this week I have got a nail varnish remover...
However its one of those ones where theres a sponge in a little tub soaked with remover.  I already have one of these, its the one from boots which I will link here! and this one is truly amazing and I would recomend it to anyone! All you have to do is stick your finger in, wiggle and litterally within seconds you pull your finger out nail polish free!  it even gets glitter off really well.... anyway I had mine since christmas and it just started to dry out, I thought it was great I got 3 months use out of it for just £2.00, so I asked my mum to get me a new one if she saw it on her travels... she came back with this.

It is the same concept as my other one except its awfull.
First off the actual stuff inside smells horrid!  it leaves your nail with a strange white-ish residue.
Yuk!
Then the worst thing of all, the lid isn't sealed properly, so when you twist the lid thinking you've shut it properly, the liquid still gets out.
I shut the lid as tight as it would go and put it upside down and loads of liquid came pouring out out.
I don't even know where my mum go it from, she just said 'a little shop' I'm guessing it was about 50p from a little cheapy shop.
Sometimes you do have to pay a little extra for good quality product!

All my love
Alex.X

February Glossybox!

Hi guys!

Hope everyones doing well, I finally got my February Glossybox almost 2 weeks late:(
It wasnt their fault as the nice lady I spoke to on the phone explained to me, another company had issues and quite a few boxes were late this month. 

If you don't know about Glossybox it's a monthly beauty box, every month they send you 5 luxuary high end sample products to try, it costs £10 per month and is available in the UK and Ireland.

It came with the most gorgeous packaging as always, the light pink box which is really cute and girly (also amazing for storage because its really strong!) then the products are wrapped in black paper which is beautifully tied with a lovely dusty pink ribon and a Glossybox sticker!

This is exactly how it looked when I opened it, there is usually something big in there to stop everything moving around but not this time unfortunately.  Inside is the 5 products which sit on top of fuzzy black cardoard. 

The products I got:

1) Como Shambhala - Invigorate shower gel

2) Becca - beach tint

3) Awapuhi Wild Ginger by Paul Mitchell - styling treatment oil 

4) Dr Bronners Magic Soaps - Lavender Hand Sanitiser

5) BM beauty - Pure Mineral Eyeshadow

Como Shambhala - Invigorate shower gel

The company claims it will 'Cleanse and energise your skin'
Its has eucalyptus, Geranium, Lavander and Peppermint essential oils and it's a 50ml sample but for the full size which is 30ml it is £20.
I didnt get very excited about this product. For one I'm not a big fan of the scent its very floral and minty and quite strong.  At the end of the day its shower gel, I'm not even a quarter of the way through the bath stuff I got for Christmas so this is just another thing I have to use up! 

Becca - beach tint

I got the Becca beach tint in the shade 'Water melon'

It's a water resistant colour tint for cheeks and lips and I quite like it, I've only swatched it on my hand and haven't tried it anywhere else so I cant tell you much, but it felt really creamy and is really pigmented and also felt really light on my skin so I think it'll be really nice for in the summer!
 it's a full size product which I didn't realise at first because it's only 7ml! 

 It costs £20 which I do think is a little pricey for the amount you get. 


Awapuhi Wild Ginger by Paul Mitchell - Styling treatment oil.                                  

This is by far my favourite product!

 I was so excited to get this because I'd really wanted to try a new hair serum because I hadnt been using one for so long!
I used it lastnight on my damp towel dried hair, just 2 pumps and massaged it into my ends.
I woke up and my hair was silky, soft and really shiny! I LOVE it!
I even got compliments at school, someone even asked to touch my hair because it looked so soft ahaha!
This is also a full sized product, you get 25ml and costs £7.50 but you can also get 100ml for £25.95.
It smells really nice, the main tone is ginger which I would usually hate and then other spicy undertones.  Even though they are quite warm smells its still manages to smell refreshing!

4) Dr Bronners Magic Soaps - Lavender Hand Sanitiser

This is a lavendar spray hand sanitizer by Dr Bonner. 
I got a 59ml bottle which costs £3.99
It smells really strongly of lavendar which isnt really a scent I like but that doesnt bother me too much, I prefer the gel/liquid sanitizers where as this is a pure liquid spray.  This company is all organic and this product is free of                gmo-alcohol and petro-carbomer thickener, also this company don't test on animals which is always nice!


5) BM beauty - Pure Mineral Eye shadow

This was another thing I was quite disappointed with because I really don't like loose pigments/shadows... I think they're really hard to apply and I always manage to get product everywhere! 
I got the shade 'Noir' which is black with really fine glitter, I dont think I'll use it much because I already have pretty much the same shadow in atleast 2/3 pallettes which I am much more likely to use.
The little pot i got was 1g and that would cost you £7.00


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To go to the Glossybox website click here!

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Gotta say Glossybox not hugely impressed with this months box, hopefully next months will be better!


Thank you so much for reading!
I would love to hear your feedback so drop me a comment below!


All my love, 
Alex.X