Tk Maxx - It's a love/hate relationship

So as a rule, i don't like shopping in TK maxx for clothes. I hate rummaging - it takes too long and I tend to get frustrated. Don't get me wrong I have some clothes from there, and I really like them, but I generally cant be bothered with the place. However. When it comes to their make-up and beauty products, I'm all over that place like a rash! I get frantic in the worry that if i don't buy it all I will never have the opportunity again and my life will be that little bit worse - melodramatic, but I feel you understand!
So, as I'm sure you have guessed by now, what I am trying to say is that I bought some make-up... and a cheeky hair mousse! I didn't buy a huge amount, but what i bought i LOVE!

So, the first thing I laid my eyes on were  some single stila eyeshadow for a steal at £3.99!!!! Now they were in pan form which made me think for a bit (obviously not too long - it's a cut throat world at "The Max"!) because it wasn't going to be that practical having them lying about in my collection. But then in the depths of the next shelf, I saw one empty palette left. Now, to me this is a sign, a sign that they were to be mine. So, out of about 4 pan eye shadows I only picked two, I was tempted to get them all, but I realise that I would have just been doing that to fill my palette, and realistically pink eyeshadow is not a look I can pull off. In the end the two I chose were, "Shore" and "Twig", and I love them. As you can see Shore is a beautiful grey/lilac/silver colour which has just the right amount of shimmer whereas Twig is a gorgeous deep mahogany burnt red colour. I have used these both together and let me tell you, they look amazing together!!

My next bargain was in the form of a pre made stila palette. Again, I found this beauty hidden at the back of a shelf of hair stuff, which makes me think someone hid it there to come back and get it later (We've all been there...) I can't deny I don't feel bad about taking it, in fact... I feel great! So, this palette is in "Marrakesh". The eye shadows in this are much smaller than the normal sized ones. While the above ones are just a bit bigger than a £2 coin, these ones are about the size of a penny. Not that I mind, still a great deal at £5.99!
So the colours in this include; (they don't have individual names... or none that I can see anyway) a light frosty pink colour ( I know I said I don't wear pink earlier, but hey, it came in the set!) A slightly more peachy/nude/pink colour, a gorgeous yellow gold, and a colour which looks suspiciously like my new "Twig" colour which i bought separately, perhaps slightly more brown though? I haven't tried these out yet, but I'll be sure to keep you guys posted with what I think of them!

My third find was a NYX palette, now I have never seen NYX in Scotland before but have always wanted to try it out! So when I saw this (again, it was the last one!) I felt it was my duty to purchase it! This was also £5.99. The palette is from the Caribbean collection and is named "I dream of Jamaica", now I think you should take a minute and think about what colours you would expect to be in this palette. Golds? Turquoise? No and No. This turns out to be a neutral palette! I would say it is more suited to be named "I dream of Paris". The set includes a neutral frosty peach, a soft shimmering white, a beautiful taupe colour, a matte grey/brown, and a matte black. Together this makes a very classy and wearable palette!

My final purchase was more bought for the scent than anything, it was an organix foaming coconut hair mousse. I think I paid £3.99 for this. Now, I won't lie, I don't feel it doing any difference to my hair, and realistically it isn't a great mousse. But I do still like it for 2 reasons. 1 - It smells like coconut - this is my favourite smell EVER! 2 - the mousse itself looks like bubbles from a bubble bath! How exciting! For my love of photos sake, here it is -

Overall I am over the moon with my loot! I'm afraid I can't guarantee that your Tk Maxx will have the same goodies, but who knows, yours might have better!

To end this post I will show you a picture of my three palettes set out all pretty :)

Jenni xx

August Favourites! woohoo!

So today I have decided to take a page out of the thousands of youtube beauty gurus and do an August favourites!

Favourite number 1

So, my first and most favourite of the favourites is my new found love for burts bees lipbalm. The original beeswax one in particular. So, I had never owned one of these bad boys until about 3 weeks ago. Yes, you hear me right, until 3 weeks ago I had no idea what I was missing in this AMAZING lipbalm. (I had a go of my friends one when we were on holiday, and I dont know what it was, but I didn't take to it as much, the heat maby?) Now, I am a bit of a sucker for lipbalms, I buy them all, I recently dished out the dosh for a korres lip butter - good, but not worth the hype or money. This on the other hand was around £3.50 and worth every penny. I have literally become addicted to the feeling it has on your lips. It kind of makes them feel like they are tingling, but good tingling, not the lip venom blisteringly painful tingling - no no. So the long and the short of it is that i think you should go get one... now. : )

Favourite number 2
This favourite is a steal at £1 Yes! £1! It is a blush from the tesco line All about face in the colour coral. I bought this on a whim while I was in Tesco, and really I wasn't going to be heartbroken if it turned out to buy rubbish. However, this was not the case! It is a gorgeous coral colour which is very pigmented - and I mean VERY. I put this on thinking I would need to be heavy handed with it but it was on the contrary (my dear watson teehee) I have been having to use a much less dense brush to apply this to give just the right amount. One downside is that it is perhaps a little chalky, but I'l let that slide. Oh also - it is on a deal with the whole line where you can buy 4 items for £3! I know what I'm going to do next time im in tesco! (I couldn't find a picture im afraid - sorry guys!)


Favourite number 3
On the other end of the scale from my last favourite is my Clarins eyeshadow quad in so chic. Now at the hefty pricetag of £27.50 this was a big splurge item, which I ultimately felt guilty about buying... not now though! These quad comes with a frosted white, a khaki/grey/silvery colour, a deep plum/purple, and a sparkly black. It also comes with a spongetip applicator with two sides, one is just your run of the mill sponge tip but the other side is like a smudger sponge. I love that side! It's so handy! These eyeshadows are beautiful, nice and pigmented, long lasting, and they come in a pretty red pouch!



Favourite number 4
My fourth favourite of August is Co-Washing. This isn't really one specific product, but it's the way I have been washing my hair for the past month or so. What you do is, instead of washing your hair with shampoo then conditioner you just use conditioner. I start by using a cheap conditioner - my favourite is alberto balsam in sunkissed raspberry - and rubbing it quite hard into my roots, i leave that for about a minuit then rinse it out, I then use a slightly better conditioner - justnow it is a treseme one on the ends, i leave this for about 2 minuits then rinse it out. It sounds like it would leave your hair unclean feeling, and greasy but it doesn't! it makes your hair REALLY soft and in good condition, and personally I think it is making my hair grow! I do however wash my hair with shampoo every couple of weeks to make sure there isn't any build up in it. This is worth trying out if anything just to give your hair a special treat!


Favourite 5

My fifth and final favourite this month is Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume! yum yum yum!! This perfume is so fresh and clean smelling! It also oddly manages to make me feel quite calm. I bought this perfume in June on the airport back from my New York trip. Weirdly though I didn't use it much until a couple of weeks ago, and now I've been wearing it almost non-stop! The smell is quite flowery but with a bit of a fruity "kick" to it, all in all I highly reccomend going to try it out!

Well, in the words of Porky Pig - That's all folks!


Jenni xx