After, I went to McArthurGlen and picked up a few things. This post is about those things and a few more other things... Very well said Ping =.= Excuse my English.
This is the haul. Excuse Phone sitting on my tee. So there's some food, books, jewellery, a lipstick and a t shirt.
Food. My true love. Junk mostly, although I do like healthy foods too. So I have some snack packs of brazil nuts and apricots from Julian Graves, 3 snack packs for £1.25. Some Cadbury's Bournebille OLD JAMAICA, which is dark chocolate with rum and raisin. Now, I'm not a keen one for raisins but it goes really well with my "treat". For many people, this would be a treat. But for someone who has cake and ice cream for breakfast, it is hardly one. Yes, I am a pig I know, but I enjoy food. I don't think... oh shit! there's an extra 6 pounds on my waist. It's food, just eat it for God's sake... that's what I think, until my belly starts to hang over my leggins.Jewellery... The golden flower ring is from Debenhams for £1.80. The orange and purple rings are a twin pack from H&M. Yes, they were thrown in. But the two bracelets were from Claire's in McArthurGlen. It was 30% from the high street price. Two were reduced from £8.50 to £5.95. Bargain! I should've got more. Claire's bring back so many memories from when I was little, I used to spend nearly all my money on things from Claire's! I hardly shop there now, but I really like my purchases. The orange bracelet is orange strawy strings with a silver peace sign and the other is a charm bracelet. I am a sucker for charm bracelets. My favourite one is def my Johnny Loves Rosie one which my best friend gave me for my birthday. I'm looking to buy one from Pandora, but is it worth it? Anyway, the charm bracelet is really "kawaii", an Asian term for cute basically. It has rubbery plastic charms which are doughnuts, chips, burgers, pop and ice cream... SO me, but minus the pop because I don't drink fizzy drinks.
I was especially excited about the NYX Lipstick. We don't really have NYX in the UK. But only in some places. I always hear about their products on YouTube and want to try some for myself. I got the NYX Round Lipstick in Pumpkin Pie for £1.97! Amazing! I've always wanted that one for as long as I knew about MAC Peachstock when it came out with the Liberty of London collection a while ago now. I couldn't get my hands on it and somebody recommended this one instead as a dupe. I don't think it's a "dupe" but I do like the colour. I think Orange Soda would be a better dupe tbh. The lipstick is really smooth on application. It's a lovely peach based frosty lipstick. To me it has a very pinky quality to it. On me, it looks darker and pinkier than suggested in the tube.
I tried to catch the colour as as true as possible, but Fail. Excuse the bruise looking shadow also. Ping is such a bad photographer!
The Rolling Stones t shirt is from Gap in the men section. I am not a cross dresser although I do like to wear men's clothing. However, I do not intend to look like a male species. The top was slashed from £16.99 to £8.45. That's very good, although I realised it was jersey material after I bought it =.= I bought it in a size S, which is loose fitting on me and is long enough to wear with leggings/ tights without showing my pale arse.
The jumper was also chucked in. It is from TopShop for £15 in the sale. I love it. Love love love it. It's so soffffft. I got it in a size 8 just in case it shrinks >.< I've always wanted on of those things which don't look so nice there, but once on looks quite nice. This is that kind of clothing. Close up of jumper...
This looks great with neutrals like beige chinos for example, and any wash of jean really. I like to wear it with darker indigo denim to bring out the colours. It's a really casual, quite thin jumper which is great for days of chucking on whatever and dressing down. This jumper and bottoms will look like a put together outfit without too many garments. Nicely done.
Here are some more clothes, not from McArthurGlen though.
All items are from Zara, one of my favourite shops.
Cardigan - £19.99 (S)
T Shirt - £15.99 £9.99 (M)
Shorts - £22.99 £14.99 (XS)
My top buy must be the shorts. I've had my eye on them since I saw them. They are my perfect casual short and are very flattering. They're such a great fit! I'm petite with a bum and big thighs, this skims my curvy parts and doesn't cling on like my denim shorts making them much much more comfy. It makes my thighs look leaner too and is just the right length to hide my stretch marks. Amazing. Oh, and it's pocketed ^^
This is just to show the design... Vertical striped, beigey, and with a cute cream and gold button.
Back to McArthurGlen goodies... Books. My new interest in life. I used to love reading when I was younger. I'd say in my Junior school years particularly. I read Horrible Science books which taught me a hell whole of a lot science. I gave them all away except for my Painful Poison and Space Stars and Slimy Aliens books. Space is probably the only enjoyable topic in Physics for me. I'm more of a Biology Babe aha xD I'm not very Chemistry Conscious x) excuse my alliterations. For a good few years, I did not touch books as such, just magazines. That is when I developed my fashion sense. I had stacks of mags everywhere and read LOOK magazine religiously, like it was my Bible, honestly. I cried when I missed an issue once.
But on reading The Lovely Bones, which I'd picked up randomly by chance from The Works in McArthurGlen. My passion for reading has been ignited, if you like. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is the best book I've read so far. Such a gem of a book. It's so well written and the plot is brilliant. The opening chapter made me cry. I just couldn't put the book down really. Maybe I'll do a more detailed review on that in the future. But here are the books I've bought.
I'm currently reading The Island by Victoria Hislop. I'm liking it so far and I'm only on page 25. For me, it's one of those books which you start reading, and you can tell it's going to be good. It's basically about a girl who travels to an island to find out about her mother's past which she was always secretive about. She makes discoveries about herself and the island.
Ravens by George Dawes Green. Really looking forward to reading this since it claims that I'll either enjoy or refund me money back. Brave move. But it's apparently one of the books to read before you die anyway so I'm sure I'll find it a good read.
Rumour Has It by Jill Mansell. I thought it looked and sounded good so picked it up, or maybe because somehow I'd imagined that there's a film with the same title and the film is supposedly quite good? I don't know tbh, it is a bit boiling here at the moment. The laptop is burning my thigh... frogs legs anyone?
And finally, the infamous raunchy sexy writer, Jackie Collins. I wanted to work my way through her books in order but The World is Full of Married Men wasn't available so I settled with Married Lovers. I know I'm young, but being honest it's my kind of story. It's never to early to educate yourself! Haha, I must sound ridiculous! But truthfully, I think I'm mature enough for books such as this and it is in my interest also. I don't see any harm.
Anyway, my fingers are getting tired. I shall watch Beauty and the Beast since I have not watched it before :O a shock to myself really. It is such a beautiful fairytale.
I will post up my monthly favourites pretty soon... stay tuned si'l vous plait.
Bye for now xxx
Btw: Excuse the pictures jutting out into nowhere on the page please, I am a computer, technology rather, thicko. Thank You
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