All i want for christmas is

YOUUU. For my 21st birthday last month my boyfriend asked me what i wanted. The only thing i particularly said was some kind of jewelry that would be special. That i could wear for a nice occasion and would mean something to me because it would be for my 21st from him. Well anyway, he knew i'd been looking at Thomas Sabo bracelets for a while, and decided to get me a charm bracelet, (which at the time of ordering he thought was a necklace. - lets not go there!) and a "21" charm Our anniversary is about a week later and i got some more charms for that, and today he asked me what i wanted for xmas. Well, one of these beauties would be lovely..

Do any of you have special things like this or have Thomas Sabo bracelets? Ill put a pic up of mine soon! :)  x

Review - Lee Stafford - Sea Salt Spray

If you're a regular to my blog, you'll know that the other day i bought some products from the Lee Stafford range, i've tried 2 of them so far and will try the last one later today, anyway, i thought i'd give the sea salt spray a quick review for you seen as i pretty much know what i want to say on it. 

Firstly, like i said i my last post, im not a huge fan of the packaging, im sure if you're a pink lover you would, but the whole range just seems too much for my liking. Secondly, i was initially happy that there were bits floating around within the bottle, it (to me) seemed like that would give the product some extra oomph! (boy was i wrong) the bits inside actually look like bits of dead skin floating around (although im sure its not)

The first thing i want to mention is what it actually says on the bottle: "this defining sea salt spray will bring out the tousled textured look you can usually only get after swimming in the sea.. until now! hair will still feel soft to touch, but with added bounce, definition and body to die for!"

Here goes... The first thing i have to mention is that i followed what it said, i washed my hair, put around 50 pumps in and left to dry. The first thing you'll notice with it is that the pump isn't a mist, it comes out more like when you have your hosepipe on "Jet" so you've constantly got to make sure you're moving it around at all times. Second thing that i hated about this product was the smell. I'm sure when you were younger you experienced what it was like to have nits? I'm not lying when i say this product smelt like the stuff your mum would put in your hair to get rid of the nits! it was absolutely hideous! No matter what you'll be doing after spraying it, you can't get rid of the smell. Another thing i didn't like was the way it looked and felt. I hate that feeling of having lots of product in my hair, and it looked and felt dirty! My boyfriend said the look of it was like when you stick your head under the shower, but don't actually wash your hair. So its still dirty, but wet. (Not a nice look!) and to be honest, the beach waves didn't really appear, it just seemed to be the same as my natural hair looks when drying, but with a lot of smelly spray in it. The only time i was impressed with the stuff, was when i tied it up, and the product held my natural waves.

For £5.99, i really don't feel that this product lived up to the hype i expected and i will never be re-purchasing it again!

I'm sure it works for some peopler, but im not one of them. Have any of you tried it before? what were your opinions on it?

Pretty Little London

Hey lovelies. 

Now, unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, i'm sure you'll have all heard of a little brand called Eyeko. They are based in London and sell some very amazing products that range from nail polishes to highlighting creams. Today i became an ambassador with them and am able to offer my followers the chance of being able to receive a free gift with all purchases over £10/$15/€10. 

With Christmas coming up, Eyeko has some really good gift sets available, and with free delivery to UK & Europe & with orders of over $55, its hard to find a reason not to get your christmas prezzies from there!!

Dont forget to enter my code E12578 at the checkout for your freebie!! 

x

My new combination

I went to Cheshire recently with my boyfriend for the day and while i was there i picked up Lush's Lip Dip. I'm not a massive Lush shopper, but i think this one is their x-mas Lip scrub. There's so much packed in the little jar and it smells AMAZING. 

If you don't already know, the idea of the lip scrub is to put it on your lips to scrub the skin and make them "smooth and dry"

I've literally been applying this stuff constantly, and with the yummy taste its pretty tempting to lick it off your lips too!

It has a sherbet-like consistency, but easy to scoop up with your finger. 

I'm finding in the colder weather the best things to use on my lips is this with some vaseline (as you can tell, my vaseline has been through the wars in my handbag!) and then lipstick on top. The one in the photo is Natural Nymph by elf.

Do any of you use any of these products? If not, what do you use?

x

Tweeting

I decided since i'm getting stuck into this, i maybe should set up a twitter, so feel free to find me and say hello, i'd love to hear from you all. @TheRealStephhh


On another note, i wanted to say thank you to Victoria for giving me a cheeky mention on her blog. I'm sure you've all seen it before, but if not, then head over there and follow her! :)

Lee Stafford Spendings.

Once again, no matter how poor i am, i've managed to walk into boots and find something to spend my money on! (behave, Steph!)

If you didn't already know, loads of products in Boots are back on 3 for 2, i'd read recently that the Lee Stafford Hair Treatment and Sea Salt Spray were worth investing my pennies on, so i toddled in and found them.

Now as you can clearly tell, everything is a bit, pink. I'm not really too keen on that over the top look and generally i don't even bother looking at his line of products because it looks too girly for me, but on the recommendation of a beauty blogger i thought why not?!

The first thing i looked for was the Sea Salt Spray. Apparently you're supposed to squirt about 50 pumps of this bad boy in your "towel dried" hair (so you'll probably be needing another bottle in a very short space of time) and then either blow-dry it or leave it to dry naturally. The thing i like the look of with this is that you can see the bits floating around in it. Now i know that doesn't sound too lovely, but it means its more than just any random liquid. Im hoping for good things from this bottle!

The next item i wanted to get was the hair treatment. Once again, i'd heard good things about this and wanted to see what it could do for me. I already own the Tresemme thermal recovery treatment but i only use that about once a week, and recently where i've dyed my hair, the conditioner i got to keep my colour "vibrant" makes my hair greasy. So im trying to use that as little possible..gaah.

Anyway, this one says to keep it on for about 5 mins between shampooing and conditioning. Also, it can be used from root to tip so i'm looking forward to being able to just slap it all on and see how it goes. I'm not overly keen on the smell (its at the bottom of my list for smell for a masque) and the consistency is quite runny when comparing it to other treatments i've used too. So, again we shall see. fingers crossed it helps my hair get stronger and longer though. 

Now i'm sure you'll have all heard of Dust It. The last thing i got was pretty much the same thing, but Lee Stafford's version. As i've said in previous posts, my hair is quite lifeless at the mo due to heat damage, so any extra boost i can get is mega helpful. I've used Dust It in the past and generally, i quite like it, although i havn't ever bought it before (i'm not really sure why) so when i saw this baby sat on the shelf i knew i had to have it. With a price tag of about £9 for a little pot it's not mega pricey, but its not cheap for the size, although fingers crossed that it'll last a while. Something that has annoyed me with it though is that its not properly full (none of them were) so that lets the brand down again! but most products are like that i guess.

Anyway, your supposed to rub some of this genius stuff onto your roots and watch them mattify up. I have to say i've used it once to see what its like and i'm pleasantly surprised, but we'll see!

I'll use the products for a bit and give you an proper review of them at a later date.

Do you have any of these products? 

Love them or hate them? 

Let me know! x

Weekly update

I know this is a little off subject, but i thought i'd share what's been going on with you all recently. Maybe you like this, maybe you dont? let me know.


+ My boyfriend's uncle + aunty had their 2nd baby yesterday. Another boy to welcome to that side of the family. They called him Daniel. We've only seen photos of him so far but were hoping to go up and see them this weekend. They didn't know what they were expecting so have mainly cream clothes, so we bought some blue bodysuits from Matalan for them. The kids clothes are so cute its unreal. 


+ My uni project came to a complete standstill today! If you're doing or know anything about creative courses (or the creative industry) you'll have heard of D&AD. I'm trying to do the Umbro brief, but its becoming a bit of a pain seeing as they want you to try and advertise trainers that havn't even been released yet. I was hoping to photograph some of the trainers i could get my hands on, but the shop i almost bought them from said i wasn't able to return them, so now i have to go in and photograph them there. The BIGGEST pain in the arse!


+ I've had the worst cold ever these past few days. Slowly i'm recovering but i suffer from asthma, so it takes a while longer than most "healthy" people. (ha!) I really should get this flu jab sorted!


+ Me and my boyfriend went out for dinner tonight, it was lovely, we were hoping to go and see that new film Due Date after, but missed the 9pm showing and would have been too rushed to catch the 9.30, so we're hoping to see it tomorrow night. Its made by the same people as The Hangover (one of my all time favourite films!) So it should be good. Also Jackass 3D looks funny as. Saw the full-length 3D trailer when we went to see Saw 3D. (too many 3d films for an already glasses-wearing girl!) and it looked hilarious! Have any of you seen it? i've only heard good things.


+ Im hoping to pop over to Birmingham tomorrow, i'm SUPER excited that Forever21 has made its way here, so i need to snatch up as many clothes as i can while im not too far from Brum. Also, i want to lay my hands on some of the Urban Outfitters polishes. They look amazing. I think my first buy will be tangerine.


+ I'm considering getting a new SLR. The one i already have isn't too great and is really just an SLR casing with a normal digi-cam inners. Im looking up some good'uns, im thinking a cannon. Do any of you have any decent ones? I need recommendations! :) 


Hope you're all doing well. I see i have some new followers and thats great. I hope you're enjoying the blog. Keep spreading the word. <3 x