Lush damaged review.

Last week my heart soared when I saw the Lush shops in Manchester have received the Oxford Street exclusive items. I'm going to London in October but I feared for my bank balance! My lovely best friend kindly bought me the comforter shower gel, which smells like unicorns and sparkles! But seriously it reminds me of the Christmas shower gel snow fairy, I find the sweet smell lasts longer on the skin and I love sweet smells so it has now become a firm favourite.

What really excited me was the hot oil treatments, I think there is one for kinky hair and maybe frizzy hair. But it was the damaged one for me! It's like the hot chocolate on a stick where you pop it in a cup of hot water and stir it until melted. The smell was really pleasant and soon enough I slapped it all over my dry hair. I left it on for a while as my hair had been feeling really frazzled, in need of a trim and frizzy. After washing it out and drying my hair I can barely describe how impressed I was. My hair felt silky smooth, this lasted for a couple of days and I kept encouraging my boyfriend to stoke it and he said it felt like kittens. I assume this was true or he could just be trying to shut me up! But yea, this is defo worth a buy for anyone who needs a boost for dull, tired locks and I will be definitely stocking up on this. Anyone of the Oxford Street exclusives you're excited to try?? I think my next one will be the flamingo bubble bar on the stick! 

Superdrug's limited edition sweet shop range review!

I'm a sucker for anything smelling like old fashioned sweets and when I saw Superdrug had done a range involving sweet smells I grabbed every single item. Everything was 99p and this is why I love Superdrug so much. Everything is cheap, cruelty free and awesome!

First up is the pear drop shampoo and conditioner. This is what first caught my eye as I love the smell of pears. This is a very faint scent when I first opened up but after lathering it on my hair it smelt gorgeous, also I kept catching whifts of it throughout the day which was lovely. I usually only use moisturizing shampoos and conditioners but this one left my hair feeling squeeky clean and in good condition.

The face mask is up next. It's vanilla fudge scented which I found to smell like toffee yogurt so no complaints from me, it smelt good enough to eat! It's a self heating mask so it was lovely and toasty on my face and my skin felt so smooth after. I usually buy the white chocolate mask from Superdrug as their so cheap and don't make my skin break out which is a rarity for me. I feel so pampered using a face mask and this is a lovely treat for the face!

The dry shampoo is the product I've used the least as I prefer to wash my hair. I know I shouldn't wash it so much but it gets greasy so quickly :'( Well I thought there's no harm picking this up and popping it into my bag so whenever I'm late for work or staying at my boyfriends I can just squirt this into my hair. It has a nice, fresh, lemony scent to it.

As you can see the bubblegum shower gel is the product I have used the most. I bloody love bubblegum scented things! This a raspberry bubblegum scented shower gel and the first thing that hits you when you give it a sniff is the raspberry. As I lathered it in the shower the bubblegum came through. Defo worth a purchase if you like sweet, tangy scents. Also a special mention for the packaging of these products. Pastel sweets in the backround, so cute and eye catching!

Another handy one for the handbag this jelly bean body spray is great for a mid day squirt. I couldn't really put an exact scent on jelly beans but it has a lovely sweet scent. All in all Superdrug have really impressed me once again it is easily my favourite drug store on the high street!

Whitby

I have just got back from Whitby and it's just one of my favourite places to be. I went for a couple of days with my boyfriend, we had a fantastic weekend with lots of lovely sun, sea aaaaand chips!

As the photos show the scenery is stunning. There are lots of lovely little quirky, independent shops, I always end up spending a fortune and travelling back to Manchester with about 50 extra bags!









This is us on our most recent trip. We've been 4 times now I think and part of the reason I love it so much is that it's our place. I've only ever been here with Dan and it's now become our place really. Whitby has plenty of shops and a couple of Indian restaurants to keep me happy and more than a few classy boozers to keep us both happy! One of the top pubs is The Little Angel. Such a friendly atmosphere, a lovely beer garden, a great selection of beers and the shots are absolutely lethal.

Whitby is not just a quaint little seaside town. It also has a Gothic side which I adore, it's so awesome with so many people from different walks from life strolling around. The Gothic side comes from Bram Stoker stayed there and got his inspiration for Dracula and it's where Dracula first washes up when he reaches England. There used to be the Dracula shop but sadly closed down but leaves the Dracula experience which is kind of a walk through of the history of Dracula and may have a sneaky vampire pop out at you!

I've always stayed in the same place, the shepherd's purse, as it is so quirky and unique. A walk down a alley way leads into a secret garden. Each room is completely different and a vintage, trinket lovers' dream. I'm not usually into vintagey things but I LOVE this place. The staff are lovely and it's such a treat to just sit in the little chairs in the garden, share a bottle of wine and watch the local people come and go.



I have a Whitby haul to do as I bought some amazing things, it'd be a shame not to share and also a Whitby Superdrug haul as I got a amazing bargain in there! Any seaside towns or gorgeous beaches you would recommend? I love being by the sea, do you?

Hopshopgo and Colourpop!

So this happened today whoops! I've been lusting over the colourpop ultra matte liquid lipsticks for a while now and they are silly cheap, $6 for a lipstick! Give me them all please. They sold out as soon as they where released but I awoke to a restock so thought why not. I picked up 4 of the ultra matte lipstick, a lippie stixx, a blusher and a highlighter. 

Unfortunately colourpop don't ship to the UK so I had to go through hopshopgo. I got free shipping from the colourpop website to the US address I was giving. Plenty of people have used hopshopgo like but I'm still super nervous about it all. Thankfully everything's done through paypal so my mind is slightly at ease. Hopefully I will be posting a update soon, can't wait to get my hands on these. And if hopshopgo is a win I've already got my basket at elf ready to checkout!

Peacocks wishlist.

I am so fussy where I buy my clothes from. I love tea dresses, they bring a vintage glamour to everyday dressing and are so flattering. I haven't found many I like out and about but recently I found the shop Peacocks. Now Peacocks has been around for years and years and I never went in, there used to be a Manchester city centre store which I would just pass with a meh! But oh boy I'm glad I decided to look on the site they have tons of tea dresses and they're gorgeous!

This dress was the first one I wowed at. Unfortunately it was out of stock on the site (but I have seen it instore) but I managed to nab it on ebay for £3, woo! I love it, I quickly tried it on before throwing it in the was (cos ya know ebay, I don't know where it had been !) but it is so flattering and true to size. The colour is stunning and the multi coloured bird and feather pattern is so unique.

<This one is numbero uno on my wish list (there's about 10) I love animal print and I think the cream colour would really set off my red, orange ombred hair. Also it would look awesome teamed with a little leather jacket. It's brand new in store and part of Peacocks online exclusive range and at only £12 it's a cheeky steal. It must be mine soon!
















Just look at it! I love the floral patterns on tea dresses, so vintage and feminine looking. This one also stands out as slightly different as it has a lace back. When I find a shop I love I tend to only buy from that shop until a sicken myself with (anyone out there like that?!) but I can't see that happening anytime soon with Peacocks. Some of the stuff is a bit meh for me but I'm so ashamed I overlooked this shop! If you like the look of the dresses that I have wish listed go to http://www.peacocks.co.uk/

Coconut oil!

Just a quick post to show my appreciation for coconut oil! I'd seen this used as a makeup remover and thought it would be good for me as my skin breaks out if I use anything on it, and I mean anything :( The first time I used it I thought it was amazing, just rubbed it all over my face and wiped my makeup off and it worked a treat. Leaving my skin all lovely and soft, I thought I'd found my miracle makeup remover. Sadly this is not it. After a couple of days my skin broke out into a spotty, red mess. Funnily the same two patches on either side of my nose, so back to square 1 on that one! BUT this is an actual miracle product. I'm sure I'm late to the party with this one but I use to on my arms and my nails and it has helped with my dry skin and cuticles noticeably in a week. I've also left it in my hair overnight as a conditioner. I have use it on my manky feet and they also look 10 times better.

 
On the left is a scrub I made, looks gross but my skin felt amazing after using it. I used olive oil, coconut oil and salt, just throwing everything in. The appealed to me as it was easy to make with stuff just lying around my house. Any tips on how to use coconut oil?? I have just discovered it and it seems to have no bounds with how awesome it is :D

About me.

Thought I'd do a wee introduction post as as I've been ever so rude and not done one yet! Hi :D my name's Danielle Morris and I am a 28 year old living in Manchester. I'm originally from Belfast but my parents moved here when I was 5/6 so I've lived in England for the majority of my life. Because I'm with my parents I've kept my accent kinda but it's warped and I've been mistaken for American, Australian, South African and French! On the left is a super posey, filtered selfie of myself as currently I'm in my PJs eating a gold bar (living the dream eh.)

On the right is one of the earliest pictures I can find of me on facebook. I used to be painfully shy and barely wear any makeup just because I wasn't that interested in it. That's all changed now especially the makeup part. As I said in my first post I don't have much spare money so hate wasting money on shite products so I became obsessed with reading beauty blogs and reviews on products I liked the look of. I couldn't find some reviews on stuff I wanted and thought why not start one myself? I love writing and miss doing so since I've left university so here I am!

So far I've only talked about beauty bits and bobs but I'd like my blog to be more of my interests as well which can include food, hair dye, dinosaurs, gaming, horror, books etc etc...if there is anything you would like to see or you think is missing from the internet please coment!?

Lee Stafford hair growth treatment review.

 Just a quick one today but after months of not buying Lee Stafford's hair that never grows past a certain length treatment I felt compelled to buy it on Friday. I don't really know why I haven't bought it in a while as I LOVE it! I suppose maybe because it's slightly pricey for a 200ML tub but even that's not really an excuse as they always seem to be on a 3 for 2 offer or 2 for £10, I think it just simply escaped my mind as I'm not to good at remembering to buy deep treatments for hair. If your hair is seriously frazzled like mine use it every day in between shampooing and conditioning or if your hair's not to bad once a week. I haven't bleached my hair since December or put any permanent colouring on it (which I'm proud of as I'm a crazy dye hard) so the condition not to end but the ends are still frizzy and it doesn't seem to grow.
   I have a nasty habit of picking my split ends but when my hair feels stronger at the end I can control it. My hair feels massively improved when I use this. No product can magically make your hair grow but this stuff strengthens the ends so your hair will stop breaking off which I can deal with until my hair gets longer for a good chop! Also it smells like sweets which is always a plus :D

Freedom Makeup haul part 2-the rest!

As the picture about shows I bought a lot from Freedom Makeup. In my last post I just talked about the lip products and in this one I'll try and talk about the rest it. The range is very similar to Makeup Revolution so I tried to buy different things.

First up are the single eyeshadows. These where included in the spend over £25 and get £15 worth of free products (keep your eye out for similar deals, well worth it) While at first I wasn't to fussed about the eyeshadows I'm glad they came. The pink and the purple I'll have to find looks for as they're a bit out there for the the teal, duck egg colour and the coppery colour are gorgeous (there was a dark grey one my mum nabbed so I didn't get a change to swatch) The packaging looks very expensive, when they came they were in a little box and they are also very pigmented. They are £1 each or buy all 30 for £20.

This blush and highlight pallete also came with the offer I mentioned before. It is quite powdery but boy are the colours gorgeous. There are contour shades, pinks, peaches and a highlighter as well. Apologies for the highlighter not showing up to clearly on camera, it's subtle and shimmery.

This was soooo cheap at £2.50. It's similar to makeup revolution iconic 3 palette (the one that's a dupe for urban decay's naked 3) which I have and love. I always appreciate travel sized makeup as when I stay at my boyfriends I hate having to lug all my stuff about.

Opps I forgot to photograph the packaging (sorry) it is lovely and very professional looking. This is corrector palette which retails at £5.00. There are concealer ones but as I have loads of concealers I went for this. Though I mush admit the only one I know is the green colour cancels redness so I have only used that one as I have very rosy cheeks and it works a treat. Covering up my rosy cheeks so I can put blusher on later! Crazy world!

Pretty pretty makeup! I had to have it because it's gorgeous, I also thought it would be a nice peachy blusher as any peach coloured blusher is okay by me. I've watched reviews on it and seen it swatched and this one looks more like a bronzer. I don't want to swatch it myself and mess it up hehe so I've just left it for now. There are 3 more in different shades though aaaand it was only £2.50! Something I forgot to photo and I'm slapping myself as it's one of my faves is the pro contour kit in fair. The highlighter is okay, more of a matte than a shimmer, but the bronzer shade is the one for me.

You know that wasn't even all the stuff I got! There where a couple of blushers that retailed for £1 each as well that I forgot. But I have been using them and such good quality for the price. Overall I'm loving Freedom makeup, the quality is astounding and prices are even better! See anything you like?

Freedom Makeup haul part 1-lip products

I first heard about Freedom Makeup when I got a email from beautycrowd telling me about the launch. I checked it out and thought it looked so similar to Makeup Revolution's packaging, I found out a wee bit later it's a sister company of Makeup Revolution and offers affordable pro products. If you're familar with Revolution you'll know it's crazy cheap and Freedom is no different. When payday came I couldn't resist a cheeky order just to check it out. I ended up buying a lot and when you sign up for the newsletter you get a 20% off code. I got more lip products than anything else so I'll talk about them first.

The first lipsticks I swatched are the red collection. I'm a sucker for a red lippie so I knew I would like the whole collection. The lipsticks are £1 and the collections are buy 4 get 1 free so it would have been rude not to buy them! Off the top of my head they also have a bare collection and a pink one.

They are very similar to the makeup revolution £1 lipstick as in they are quite sheer but very creamy and glide right on. The first two in the picture on the right have red lipliner underneath which I would recommend as it just gives the lipstick a helping hand in popping and the lipstick will last longer. The last picture is one of the lipsticks without lipliner. Overall though I prefer a stronger colour I really like these, the colours are all gorgeous and for £1 are well worth a try!

These two colours are the same formula but not in the red collection. I think the first one came free in a spend over £25 offer, and though a little pale for me I think it would look gorgeous with a brown lipliner underneath it. The bottom colour just caught my eye on the website as I love deep berry colours. Once again these where £1.

The next thing I went on to order was the pro melts. They do have really good offers on them like buy the whole collection for £18, which for 8 melts at £3 each is a really good offer. The only reason I didn't was they're a few I wouldn't wear. I ended up getting TGIF which is a deep red and the browny nude D-ream. They also have a lip butter but that sounded more of a gloss to me while the melts sounded like melted lipstick.

They feel so nice on and really pigmented. The TGIF on the right I'm wearing with nothing underneath but I put a red lipliner (or pink would do it) on D-ream as it was to brown on me and didn't really suit me. But with the red lipliner I LOVE it! I really like these products and would defo buy them again.





I bought a whole lot more than these but just thought it easier to do the lip products separately. What do you think of Freedom makeup? Or do you prefer Makeup Revolution?

Bete Noire Jewellery review/haul! Custom jewellery maker.

The picture above is a small example of my collection of bete noire jewellery! The picture on the left is one I managed to screenshot, anyone for a pina colada?! I'm sure the rest is at my boyfriend's house but I can show of the extent of my custom collection. I have been buying these necklaces for about 4/5 years now and I think I started off buying from the halloween collection (which is awesome by the way, especially if you're a hallween head like I.) On the web site (www.betenoirejewellery.com) there are staple items such as the true love pizza heart necklace and the flump marshmellow necklace, nom!

You can't handle these lumps!

The custom ones are my favourtie though as there are no other like them and the lady behind bete noire is a wizard genius! A mention for the amazing customer service as well! For doing a custom order there is a contact form on the website, you just basically say what you would like and then exchange e-mails before you finally settle on what you would like. I don't think I've ever paid over £15 including p&p for one of mine which I think is such a bargain of a price for a one off which hours of work has gone in to.

I'm obsessed with Sherlock (and Benedict Cumberbatch) so I wanted a necklace based on the BBC TV series. If you watch the TV show yourself you'll see what I did here, wanting the wallpaper from the flat as a backround which was a baroque pattern. I couldn't have wished for it to turn out better and the amount of detail in the backround was astounding.






 The last necklace I'll show is my favourite (apart from the pina colada one, what can I say it's my favourite cocktail!) At first I thought the backround would look good as a black and red volcanic kinda feel but when I got a message back from bete noire saying 'how about the middle earth map as a backround?' my inner geek squeeled with joy while my cool outside exterior said 'yes please!' Once again the detail in this necklace amazed me and it turned out far better than anything in my head.




Next on the list is the pizza necklace because pizza is life and I actually need a jurassic park necklace in my life. With it being my favourite film ever it's kinda shameful that I don't have one yet! If you where to get your favourite thing made into a necklace what would you get?

Top makeup revolution products so far!

I friggen love this brand!!! It all started when my friend txted me about a year ago telling me about a new makeup site that had loads of products on it for £1. I didn't have much money at that moment but I went ahead and ordered a couple of lipsticks and a concealer stick. At first I thought 'meeeeeh what's the big deal?!' but the lipstick shade rebel was beautiful. As time went by they seememd to be releasing new products every minute and the triple bake blushes and chocolate eyeshadow pallets where items I needed! I have gotten a stupidly huge collection now and am always seeing new things I somehow need even though I'm up to my eyes in lipsticks, palletes and eyebrow kits. But now I wanna talk about some of my favourite things.

Inside the white chocolate pallete.

I heart makeup chocolate palletes

These are by makeup revolution's sister brand I heart makeup. The dark chocolate one is a pretty obvious dupe for another makeup brands eyeshadow pallete but it's the white chocolate one that really sets my heart racing!  I swear they even smell like chocolate! The white choclate pallete is full of neutral nudes and so wearable for day to day.

Inside the dark chocolate pallete.

The dark chocolate pallete is also very wearable but has a more varied range with purples and greys in there.

Please excuse the well loved look of this pallete. This is the bulletproof eyebrow pallete in medium/dark. This has EVERYTHING for the perfect brow. Two colours of gel, four different shades of powder, a concealer and a highlighter plus various tools and brushes. I used to be a complete brow novice but after my friend kindly explained what each bit was for I was away! So simple to use and purse friendly!

Not to much to say about these triple baked blushers and a bronzer other than they're gorgeous. I'll leave it at that at the moment otherwise I could write all day about all makeup revolution's products. They have a website and can be bought in Superdrug. What are your favourite makeup revolution products and what should I try next? xxx

Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet lipstick. My favourite liquid lippie!

Just a quick one this week. I have a confession to make....I have a lipstick obsession...phew I feel better now it's out there. My liquid lipstick collection started with limecrime which I don't really wish to buy anymore. I also had problems with the super matte ones and then I found Bourjois velvet lipstick. Oh my, it was love and I'm still working on my collection.

Reds are my favourite go to shade. Hot pepper is a lovely bright orange red and perfect for summer. Grand gru is a beautiful deep red, perfect for autumn and winter but I'm wearing it now anyhoo!

These lipsticks don't dry completely dry. Surprise, surprise they dry to an almost velvety feel! Though I prefer this feel to the ones that dry straight away and then just don't budge.

I've just got into my nudes and nudeist is the best. It's got a gorgeous pink tone to it like a vintage pink so it's not completely nude and is just the most perfect colour for everyday. Ole flamingo is a bright hot pink. I don't usually wear pinks but when I do I go bright, bold and deep! This one is also perfect for the summer season.


At first I was reluctant to buy these lipsticks as they are £8.99 and sometimes I can be tight! But their worth every penny and it's unusual not to find them on offer in boots or superdrug. Next on my list of liquid lipsticks to try is the lasplash brand and I'm lusting after the anastasia beverly hills ones. What are your favourite brands of lipsticks? As a addict I'm always on the lookout!