Blogs to follow

Whilst taking my prolonged blogging break I never stopped reading blogs, I thought I'd share a few that I have loved reading regularly.

-Becky Bedbug
Becky not only inspires me as a great teacher (with an amazing work/life balance) but I also love reading her original and interesting posts. I look forward most of all to her FF (follow friday) posts and the re-occurance of dinosaurs! I also love her 365 photo updates, her 1001 list updates (as a fellow 1001 list-er) and her 'day in the life' posts.

-Vivianna Does Makeup
I love reading Anna's blog and watching her youtube channel and watching my beauty wishlist grow! I particularly like it when she features new products from well known brands.

-Eat Play Shop Love
I love reading Charlie's blog especially for the food posts, who doesn't love seeing foodie pics? Charlie posts about a great mix of high end and budget beauty products and also has the odd great travel post. She has the perfect mix of beauty and lifestyle posts that I aspire to have.

-milk bubble tea
There are four things that make this blog amazing-
1. The beautiful photography
2. The home decor posts are so lovely
3. The most delicious looking recipes ever
4. Oscar. You just have to go and check him out. Cutest thing ever!

-Hello October
I love reading the Hello October blog and watching her youtube channel. The photography is beautiful and I love her write ups of her weekend days out.

#NottsBBMeet Goody Bag

Sorry that this is my third post about the #NottsBBMeet now but the goody bag just really needed a post of it's own because it had sooo much in it! Thanks to all the generous brands and to Sophia from Tattooed Tealady for organising!

I'll start with the squeal-worthy first!

 

Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish Starter Kit with muslin cloth, Instant Boost Skin Tonic and Brightening Treatment Mask with Muslin Cloth. How amazing?!

Lush Independent and Dynamic eyeliner colours, Benefit full size the Porefessional, Keihl's full size correcting and Beautifying BB Cream, Sigma Trio eyeshadow pallette, mini blending eyeshadow brush and eyeliner brush.

Macadamia Healing Oil Treatment and Deep Repair Mask sample, Sally Hansen nail files from Cosmetics by Candy, the Vintage Cosmetic Company Eyelash Curlers, Aptivita Lip Care with Chamomile, Headline nail polish in Spotlight and Ginvera Green Tea Nude Cover BB Cream.

Witch Blemish Stick, Nanoblur full size and Balance Me Face Wash full size.

Good Things Cleansing Wipes, Mandarin Spa Amber Heaven sugar scrub, Bodhi full size Neroli Luce face oil and Premae Rescue face Tonique for Oily/ Combination skin.

She said beauty goodie bag with Molton Brown Paradisiac pink pepperpot bath and shower, DHC Deep Cleansing Oil, Perfume sample and icecrystals exfoliant sample and Snowberry day cream sample.Q Body Spray in Awe, Denman Large Rolllers, Xen Tan Morroccan Tan in Medium, Dirty Works Supreme Cream Body Butter and Stanrom Feel Good room and body spray.

Apvita Suncare Face Cream for sensitive skin, Amie skin exfoliating polish, So...?Fab perfume, Neal&Wolf Daily Cleansing Shampoo full size, Lee Stafford Flat Iron Protection shine spray full size.

Sunkissed Bronzing Glimmer Compact, Body Shop Lip Gloss in Sweet Peach w7 Bronze shimmer powder, w7 lashtastic false liquid lashes mascara, Smooch Lipstick in Hot Totty and make believe enhance bronzer and brush.

Last but not least, samples of dr.organic moroccan oil shampoo, manuka honey hand cream, tea tree toothpasta, rose otto skin lotion, virgin coconut skin lotion, vitamin E skin lotion, aloe vera gel, virgin olive oil day cream, royal jelly shampoo, pomegranate body wash and dead sea mineral Bio-Plasma mud mask. Neal and Wolf cleansing shampoo and conditioner samples and Lulu and Boo vanilla dn jasmine body lotion and rosehip lifting serum sample.

How lucky were we? Which are your favourites? 

#NottsBBMeet Evening Meal

So you may have seen my post already on the day section here of the #NottsBBMeet but this post is on the evening meal we had at TGI Fridays.

When we got to TGI's we had to find our name tag and we sat down to find a MASSIVE goody bag and an extra Liz Earle goody bag each so their was lots of excitement and squealing going on (from me!).

What was really nice is that we were sat with different people than we'd been with in the day. I was sat with Nicola from it's neecola, Sarah from Beeauty Geek, Michelle from The Never-Ending Wardrobe, Abi from Handbags and Gladrags and Lucy from Louminous. It was lovely to meet them all!

We all had yummy cocktails, alcoholic and not!

My yummy chicken finger BLT ciabatta and Michelle's Fajitas!

We all recieved a lovely Thank you card from Sophia at Tattooed Tealady and homemade lippy and nail varnish  biscuits in our goody bag!

 See my separate post to show you the MASSIVE amount of goodies we got in our goodie bags!

#NottsBBMeet Day and Keihl's visit

Yesterday I had the most amazing day at the #NottsBBMeet (Nottingham Beauty Bloggers meet up) and was so excited to meet everyone.

My Face of the Day! Wearing Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Crush.

 Throughout the day we did lots of shopping, I particularly liked going round with Sally from Rainy Day Faces, Ellie from Waterproof Lashes, Gemma from Gemma Means Jewel, Joanna from Minty Essence and Clair from Bows, Bags and Boots. It was great to meet so many bloggers that I hadn't met before and also the people behind some blogs I love!

Me, Gemma, Ellie, Sally and Joanna courtesy of Joanna at Minty Essence.

Sophie from Tattooed Tealady, along with the other organisers had split us into four groups to visit Kiehl's .

My Keihl's group!

Keihl's welcomed us with Bubbly and orange juice and cakes :)

Each of us had a skincare consultation and while we were waiting we got to have a look around the store and the lovely products. I spoke to one of the ladies about their new BB cream which has correcting and improving properties for the skin, we ended up getting a full size bottle in the evening meal goodie bags, more on that in the evening meal post! 

 

I love the feel of the store and the big apothecary chest behind the till. The store was also laid out in stands for different skin types, bestsellers, fragrance and men's skincare.

In my skincare consultation, I was shown their range of cleansers, toners and serums matched to my skin type after a dryness tester was done on my skin. I was told about the importance of toners (something I'll be trying to use from now on) and was intrigued by the Midnight Recovery Concentrate. Thanks to Keihl's for putting this event on for us!

For the rest of the day we shopped! I saw this quote and had to snap it, sorry it's blurry but my hands were shaky from the heavy bags!

This is what I bought through the day, I got the 'Good Things' face mask and Spot clearing gel on offer at Boots, as seen on my wishlist. I also checked my points and offers in the Boots advantage card machine and got a free Tea Tree and Witch Hazel shine control Day Moisturiser! We popped into Topshop and I got the Peel Off Nail varnish in 'On the Blink' and 'Air Kisses'. I also finally picked up the MUA Naked 1 dupe, the undressed palette.

I also went to the evening meal so will be posting about that and the goody bags in a separate post later, look out for that. Again, I would like to thank Sophia and the other organisers so much and all the lovely bloggers I met for making it such a lovely day!