Primark Nourish and Moisturise Lipbalm

Dry lips drive me mad, got myself in a bit of a pickle with the whole situation now too, as the more you use lipbalm, the more your lips depend on it and then get chapped more...nightmare! However there is hope! Recently I learnt that paraffin and petroleum in lipbalms are the key ingredients which are highly moisturising short term but leave lips highly dependant, so my search for lipbalm not containing either begun! I literally searched high and low to no avail, till good old Primark shone through!! I picked up these lipbalms that are peppermint flavour, petroleum and paraffin free and 2 for 50p, what a bargain! They are seriously by far the best lipbalm I have ever used, I've stocked up incase they stop selling them! They are a lovely texture., highly moisturising and don't make your lips dependant! Don't know what I did without them now, I have them everywhere, my housemates keep complaining they're everywhere! I'd recommend everyone to go and buy some, you'll never regret it :)
Loula x
P.s. Primark's 'lipsmackers' range is parrafin and petroleum free too :)

My week in purch-ases :)

Hello there my lovelies, firstly I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who's following me, it really does make me smileeee whenever I get a new follower, so thank youuu :) 
So, as ever here's the outcome of my shopping addiction from this week, but not before i apolgise for the birds nest perched on top of my forehead I was in a rush taking pictures so the poor mop had to suffer, sozza about that, praying no blackbirds mistake it for their home on my way to work....

Cardigan -£14.99- H&M  (suprisingly cosy, yummm :)

Strappy Top- £2.00- Primarni :)

Bird Necklace- £2.00- Primark (Last Year) 

Cross Necklace- Stolen from the boyfriend (he doesn't yet know...thankss :)

Double Buckle Belt (i love love love this!)- £2.00 i thinkkk- Primark

Alexander McQueen Scarf- £22.00- eBay (absolute bargain, poor postman's going to be terrified again....). I massively predict leather jackets to be HUGE this A/W, this will look gorgeous teamed with one and some boots, oooh, i'm excited already!

 Sleek True Colour Lipstick- £2.99? (I thinkkk!)- Peaches and Cream- Superdrug

I'm a nude lipstick kinda girl but decieded to pick this up from superdrug the other day, the colour is coral and its highly pigmented and smooth, it did dry my lips out a little though, so lashings of lipbalm required, they do lots of other colours though which I'm eager to try!

And check it out, no nail varnishes! Absolutly shocking (except for Seche Vite below, but lets shhhh about that ;))! Hope you enjoyy and beware Monsieur. Postiemannn!

Much Love ♥

Purc-hases from this week :)

Tuesday 9th August 2011


Every week (or possibly every two depending on how crazy I go!) I aim to give you an update on the items I've purchased within that week, where I got them from and how much they were etc,so here's a little low down of this weeks items :)...

i LOVE this! Whilst on a joyus food shopping trip in Tesco (Tesco i hear you cry? Oooh yes, you aren't going blind, Tesco indeed..) with my mum, I had a little browse of the clothing section (in between being rammed with a pram by a violent young mother, as nothing would stop her getting to the baby sale rail!) and came across this little beauty! I thought the print was just adorable & it would also look nice with tights and boots in winter, and to top things off it was reduced from £12 to £6, bargain. Can't wait to wear this when the weather decides to do something other than it is so i can :)

There was an awful moment last week when I realised almost every pair of leggings I own contained a hole in a very inappropriate place (seriously no idea how i manage it, I think i must lunge half my life without even realising...) and the other trousers I own are either blue, black or grey so I set off on a mission to buy some other coloured trousers, and these are the two numbers I came back with...

So they're both a hareem/paper bag style which I'm really liking at the minute. I love the colour of the ones on the left, burnt orange. They're both a cotton material and are really comfortable to wear. The burnt orange one's were £10 and the beige ones were £3 (bargainnn, they were the last ones and didn't have a price in them and when I got to the till they only charged me £3, no complaints!!), both from Primark, I also have the beige one's in navy, they're so easy to wear with little shoes and strappy top!

I also picked up this necklace whilst I was in Primark:

I seem to have a thing for jewelry with birds on, i though this was really cute and was reduced to £1, perfect :)

The last Primark purchase for this week was an oversized  knit cardigan. I always struggle in summer with jackets, I'm always cold (wimp! haha) so need something light to put on, I came across this in the reduced section, its a size 14 (I'm usually a size 6/8) and is baggy when worn, but I really like the style and it was only £5 :)

I've been on a bit of an ebay scour the past few weeks to try and grab some bargains, I came across these shoes, they're so pretty and not in  a bad condition either, they are originally from New Look and i paid 99p for them... wowsersss :D

Another tesco purchase (golly i sound like a saddo!!) was this bright red nail varnish. I'd been considering one for a while but wasn't too sure (I'm not going to lie that I did paint them and wake up the next morning & think i had a horrific cut, then all became clear...) I bought this to wear with a black dress & it really brightened the whole outfit up, I've never really been one for red nails, but i love this! And a bargain at £2.99 :) The colour is double decker red. (a post on nails to follow, i own an un-natural amount of nail varnishes!!) 

Just read this whole thing back and realised I sound like a riggghhhttt knock off Nigel! HA! I was deffo just lucky this week on the bargain fronts & didn't buy anything pricey (by bank balance is thank me...too kind!!). I'm off to Sally's beauty supplies tomorrow with my sister so a post on that to follow & also a nail post (all will become apparent when you see the amount of varnish i own!!)...But for now, quite a long one, hope i didn't bore you :)