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Blogmas 2019 Day Eighteen: Affordable Christmas decorations 🎅🏻

If you want to do Christmas on a budget, because let’s be honest, although we love the frills it’s all about the quality time, kindness and love that we share with our friends and family. Those are the things we remember.

But, that being said, I bloody love the decs! So heres a way to go full Christmas without breaking the bank, and we have Wilko to thank for it with their beautiful but incredibly reasonable Christmas decoration ranges.

I literally couldn’t choose between the cute tree decorations in this range (as it fits our Red, Gold & Green).

They would also make lovely gifts.

Alpine range

Polar Bear, £3

Wooden star tree, £3

Green metal tree, £2

Packs of 3 baubles, £4

Gingerbread biscuit car decoration, £1

Tree star topper, £2

Packs of plain coloured baubles, from £1

They have loads of different ones in different variety packs and sizes.

Sacks, £6 Stockings, £4

Pom Pom Garland, £1

Pom Pom Garland with bells, £6

Large bells silver and red, £1

I love this collection and it is one of a few that they have.

This one fits in perfectly with our red/gold/green theme.

They also have a icy collection that is lots of whites, silvers and blues, as well as a gold collection and a rose gold collection.

I have bought a few things from the alpine collection (I couldn’t resist!!) I also picked up a couple of the polar bears as I thought these were super cute and would be quite generic for any tree.

I’ve personalised these, with the year, to go into a few hampers that I’ve put together for family members.

ONE WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!

Ho Ho Ho

Roseanne 🎅🏻

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HUGE Make up Haul💄

Recently I have been on a couple of spending sprees and this is the result…

🙈😍💄

I’m going to list the products I bought by the brand, including prices and pictures!

REVOLUTION 

  • Revolution focus & Fix in the shade ‘Light-Medium’ £2.50

This primer makes the application and stay of your eyeshadow fantastic, I’d definatly recommend it 👌

  • Revolution blush palette ‘Blush goddess’ £6.00

Here’s a swatch of some of the colours.

This palette has some lovely pale pinks & irredescent shades to add a lovely shimmer.

  • Revolution blush palette ‘Blush queen’ £6.00

Here’s a swatch of some of the colours.

This palette has lots of lovely different pinky shades from light to bright 💟

  • Revolution Pro fix Oil Control Fixing Spray £5.00

This is fab for making your make up last longer 👍

  • Revolution Bronze Shimmer Highlight £4

  • Revolution Focus & Fix eyebrow kit in the shade ‘medium’ £2.50

This set comes with 3 different tones and a brow gel.

BOURJOIS

  • Bourjois Paris blusher, shade no 74 ‘Rose Ambre’ £7.99

  • Bourjois Rouge edition Velvet in shade no 10 ‘Don’t pink of it’ Shade no 11 ‘So Hap’pink’ & Shade no 12 ‘Beau Brum’ £8.99 each.

The top swatch is shade no 9, the middle swatch is shade no 10 & the bottom swatch is Shade no 11.

  • Bourjois radiance reveal concealor in the shade ‘Ivory’ £7.99

I chose this shade because I watched one of Zoella’s blogs where she recommended this for brightening  under the eyes and suggested getting a lighter shade than you would usually use on other areas of your face.

MAYBELLINE 

  • Maybelline colour tattoo 24 he creme eyeshadow in the shade 65 ‘Pink gold’ £4.99

  • Maybelline brow satin in the shade ‘Medium brown’ £5.99

This is the best brow product that I have found so far 👌 The pencil is great for shaping & the sponged end fills in really well.

MAC

  • MAC matte lipstick in the shades ‘Pink Plaid’ (top) & ‘Please Me’ (bottom) Both retail at £15 although I got my Pink Plaid from duty free so it cost me £12.50

Here is a swatch of the colours! The top swatch is Pink plaid & the bottom swatch is Please Me. 

CHARLOTTE TILBURY

  • Colour chameleon eyeshadow pencil in the shade ‘Champagne diamonds’ £19

I chose this shade as it is designed for people with blue eyes, to make them stand out. This is great for applying all over the lid & crease of the eye.

Here is a swatch of the colour ‘Champagne diamonds 

  • Charlotte Tilbury legendary lashes £25

This was actually a free sample when I brought the Colour chameleon, I thought if include it though as it’s a nice size bottle. I’ve included the price you would pay for a full size bottle online.

ZOELLA

  • Zoella Blissful Mistful Fragranced Body Mist £8

This is from Zoellas original collection and smells so lovely.  

  • Zoella make up bag £8

This is also from Zoellas original collection & is really cute. It says ‘these are a few of my favourite things’ on the front & different things that Zoella likes on the back it’s a lovely dark peachy coral colour. 

BARRY M

  • Barry M lip oils ‘Coco Loco’ & ‘ Berry Good’ £4.99 each 

I actually got these after watching one of Zoella’s videos. She was talking about the Claines lip oils that she uses & that these were a good dupe for that brand.

SLEEK

  • Sleek Make up creme contour kit in shade ‘Light’ £10.99

This kit comes highly recommended (which is why I bought it) and is a really high quality. I havnt really tried contouring much but this set comes with six different shades & a little leaflet to help you apply the appropriate colour the each area of the face.

COLLECTION 

  • Collection lasting perfection concealor £4.19

This also comes highly recommended and is a very good high street product. It’s affordable and brilliant quality.

URBAN DECAY

  • Urban decay travel brush set £11.99

These are great for carrying around in your make up bag & for avoiding filling it to the brim 👍

Right, that’s all of it! The total cost of this haul ( not including lashes that were a sample) is *drum roll*  £179.58 🙈🙊💷

I hope you’ve enjoyed this blog post. Let me know if you’ve used any products, how did you get on with them. 

If you have any recommendations let me know too 🙂

until next,

Roseanne 🙂 

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My recent make up purchases 💄

I’ve defiantly got more into make up since the wedding prep and make up trials. So many times I would think about buying make up then change my mind because I probably wouldn’t use it or even know how! I now go into shops to seek out new pieces for my ever growing collection and I find it quite exciting to experiment with different brands to see which ones work the best for me! 


Here are my purchases from yesterday…


First up is is cute little eyebrow focus & fix shaping kit by Revoution.

 I got it in light-medium as i have fair hair so like to keep my eyebrows toned down a bit. I like that you get the wax to shape and three different tones to use. 

This is a great size to pop in your handbag and is only £2.50! Very affordable.
Next up…

Highlighter, highlighter, highlighter 🌫

I have really got into highlighters recently, they are a relatively new addition to my make up bag as I was a bit wary of how to use it to be honest. This is by Revolution and it’s their highlighting powder palette.


This one is so pretty and has three different shades to choose from. 


I’ve only used the pinkie tone so far but I can’t wait to try out the others too. I’ve been watching YouTube videos to give me some tips.

Here’s a photo of the highlighter in use. You’ll have to excuse the quality of the photo as I only have my phone to use 🙈

This retails at £8.00.


Next up… All about the lips 💋

If I had to pick one item to carry around as a make up essential it would always be something for the lips. Yesterday I grabbed a couple of lip products.


This is a lip liner by BarryM. I actually picked this up after watching one of Zoellas blogs on her June favourites. Here’s a link to that: June favourites 2016

I brought no 15 which is shade ‘Rose’. This retails at £2.99.

I’ve left my favourite until last!


This is a Matte liquid lipstick by Bourjois, from their Rouge velvet edition range.

This is the second color I have brought from this range and I 💖 it. The shade is no 09 ‘Happy nude year’.


These are so great, they look lovely on and are really pigmented. It applies really smoothly and stays really well even when eating and drinking . One of the things I like the most about this Matte liquid lipstick is that it is much less drying than other ones I have tried, it feels really moisturising. I really like Sleek make up liquid lipsticks but they leave your lips feeling really dry as if they will crack,  this make doesn’t have that effect but still has the great look of a matte. 

This shade is a nudey orange tone and I really like this, especially as it’s now summer🌞 this will look great on holiday with a tan 👌🏼

These are also in cute little bottles perfect for popping into your handbag. They retail at £8.99. I would highly recommend giving these a try!! 👄


It was a great time to go into Superdrug as they were offering 3 for 2 across their make up brands, I also managed to pick up a couple of nail varnishes 💅🏻 for a friend in the offer too, saving myself £6 in total ✌🏻

I hope you enjoyed taking a look at my purchases, let me know how you’ve got on with these products or any you think I should try 💁🏼


Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

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