a little haul for you :)

Hello there darlings!
Yesterday I did a cheeky bit of shopping that I thought I would share my finds with all you lovely bloggy people out there! The main reason for my sudden need to shop, more than usual I mean, was because I recently had a mahoosive clear out of all my clothes, three black bags altogether shipped off to charity. After this lovely clear out, I discovered that pretty much all of my wardrobe is made up of black, nude, cream or grey, not a very exciting sight I think you'll all agree!

So, as I'm sure you can guess the image in my mind when I headed off to the shops (the Westfield in Derby if you're interested) was "bright colours" or at least something with a real colour on it. Sadly as you're about to see, I didn't follow this brief... Not one little bit!

This is a rather long blog post, so here's a little overview of everything, and if you're interested in any of the items, feel free to carry on reading!

The first shop that I actually found something I liked in, was good ol' Dorothy Perkins. Now I'm not sure if I'm right in saying this so don't hold me to it, but it does seem that whenever I go in (and trust me that is a lot as there is one a two minute walk away from my house, not very healthy for my bank account but very fun!) there is some form of sale on jewellery. My two gorgeous little bargains from there were; a turquoise and gold cross necklace, with a gold chain, and a cutesy little pastel pink and white spotted bow for hair, or to be used as a broach. Both were only £2 and both fully priced were £6.50, a very very good saving, so of course I had to buy them, it would've been poor sense not to ;). Not to mention the fact that these items were the only ones with colour on that I brought.. Oh well, it's all pretty in my eyes!

After a sneaky coffee and scone (shhhh....) at Marks and Sparks, we headed over to Debenhams, not usually a shop that I go into to be honest, but after the depressing sight of my colourless wardrobe I really was prepared to try out everywhere! And it's a blooming good job I did, it was there that I found the love of my life.. or at least my love for the next few weeks anyway! It is of course, a pair of shoes, but not any old shoes, the cutest most perfect shoes I've ever laid my eyes on. At a tiny 5ft2" I really should be a heels gal, but they hurt my feet far too much, I truly think I was destined to be small. Right, back to the bestest shoes ever, they're black, loafer style flats with black diamantes near the toe, doesn't sound that amazing I'll admit, but they're so simply pretty that I just know I shall wear them to death. And at only £20 I'm pretty sure I shall be going back and getting a grey pair!
Right then, I've just tried to find these wonderful ickle shoes online to link them for you all, however I can't find them anywhere! They're by the brand "Head over Heels" and this is the closest I can find, however in the shop I got mine for £20 (I've just double checked the receipt) and there was also a pair in grey, so if you fancy a pair, I can't suggest anything other than nipping in and having a look!



It wouldn't have been a proper shopping trip without popping into Boots, full of shiny new make-up things for me to play with. However it was a very tame visit to be honest, I only brought one thing :(. Yet another Revlon ColorBurst Lip Butter, Strawberry Shortcake, a gorgeous baby/pastel-y pink colour. It's currently snuggled along with it's sisters in my make-up bag; Tutti Frutti, Candy Apple and Cotton Candy. If you can't tell, I am in love with these products and I'm slowly but surely working my way through owning all of them, so far I have every one that is sold in my local Boots! If you're reading this and you haven't tried them, why are you sitting reading this?! Run to your nearest Boots, Superdrug, anything and buy one!



Once I had finished staring at all the other pretty colours in Boots, we moved on to the final shop, Vero Moda. Again, this isn't a shop that a frequent that often, it's one of those that I walk past and think "ooh that's pretty..." but to be quite honest with you everything in it has always looked a little too pricey for my liking! But, having said that I did end up buying two items from there, both tops, both on sale and both just as colourless as everything else in my wardrobe! The first item, a cream coloured top with a gold studded collar, in my opinion the exact right mix of quirky and girly, reduced from £25 to £12.


Secondly, and now that I'm looking at them both, pretty much the exact same colour, a slightly sheer baggy/slouchy, bat wing top, not actually sure how much it was originally, but I got it for a measly £10. It's a pretty basic top to be honest but I think I'll get a lot of use out of it, even if it is nothing like what I went for, but hey in my life nothing goes to plan!

Whew, that was awfully long wasn't it? Sorry! I do hope you've seen something you like, and if it was one of the many things I brought on sale (what? I'm not cheap really...) that you are still in time to get it yourself. Oh and don't forget, if you haven't checked out Revlon Lip Butters, where have you been? Go get one now, I won't be doing a review because it seems pointless, every review seems to say the same thing and I agree. I don't like lip glosses but I love love love them. So off you go, buy some :)
Lots and lots of love, Beth xoxoxoxoxoxo.

a hair raising experience.

Well then I'm sad to say today's blog isn't going to be as jolly as I would have hoped, and it is infact regarding hair if you hadn't already guessed.

My hair has always, since i first dyed it, been a bit of a disaster zone, with massive amounts of colour build up. I understand this is my own fault, I know, I know but to be honest I've always been a bit obsessed with how amazing dying your hair is, one little bottle of magic liquid and you look a completely different person!

Anyhow, I'm getting off the subject here, before yesterdays experience, my hair was brown, with touches of orange and red with really blatant (blond, my natural colour) roots, I looked awful. Now, I've used "colourB4" twice in my life, firstly the normal strength and then roughly a year later, as there was even more build up again, I used the stronger strength. Both times that I used this product it just sent my hair orange, and I don't even mean that I looked ginger, it was ORANGE. The first time I really didn't understand this as I only ever dyed my hair darker, therefore there shouldn't have been any bleach, however I'm the first to admit that I understand none of how this technical hair stuff works, if you know, please do enlighten me.


Well, I felt it was time to finally strip my hair, of all this crap that I've put into it over the past 4 years of dying it, so I went down to Boots and brought "Decolour Hair Colour Stripper ". I must admit I was suspicious when I first picked up this product, as it says right on the box, Developed By Scott Cornwall, the "genius" behind ColourB4, however I figured this would be fine seen as it was a stripper and not a colour remover.

How wrong could one person be, not much more wrong than me is the answer to that. Right then, down to business, if you've used a stripper (feels wrong writing that on the interwebs hehe) before and it's been fine then I'm sure this is fine product. Easy to put on, easy to mix together, the power went a little bit everywhere when tipping into the bottle but that may just be because of my general messiness. But, the problem became apparent when I looked at my hair just before washing the dye off. The very top of my hair, was platinum blond, and the rest of it, you guessed it, was orange. This I really really don't understand, when applying the product the instructions did warn that the roots develop faster and so to do them last, which I did. It wasn't even as if it was just my roots that caused the colour change, it was a good inch and a half of blondness, my roots, although obvious were only roughly a cm. You know the feeling of just when everything that could possibly go wrong does, and you just can't help but laugh, well I spent a good 30 minutes drying my hair off and just laughing in the mirror.

orangeyorange hair

Understandably I ran as fast as my ickle legs could carry my down to the nearest Boots (after putting my hair up in a messy bun to attempt and hide the ridiculous colour change), honestly that shop is my life saver. As I was stood staring in dismay at the many many hair dyes, as I really didn't want to dye my hair anymore, but c'mon I've got to go back to college next week, that was just not an option. So, I thought back to the last hair dye that I used that actually dyed all my hair one colour, and looked half decent, purple, maybe not the most sensible colour in the world but at the moment in time I really would just settle for having my hair all one colour without major patches anymore.

hiding make-up free face.. but looovely one coloured hair!

So, I used the Live Color XXL, Shake It Up Colour Foam, in 499 Violet Berry Burst if you're wondering. I had never used this formula before, although that make in particular is the only that has worked properly for me, and actually does leave my hair in relatively nice condition, considering I've just dyed the hell out of it. Literally the only thing I can complain about with regards to this product, is the fact that it's very messy, very very messy, as it's a foam that you just scoop out of the Tango Ice Blast type container. Having said this though, my hair is mostly back to a full colour, slight hints of orange are showing to be honest, but I can definitely cope with this state for a while.





Just a little side note, I usually need two sets of hair dye to cover all of my hair, as it's rather long and relatively thick, so I did buy two of the Live Color XXL dyes. But surprisingly I only needed one and all of my hair was covered.

That's all I think m'dears!
Cheerio until next time, love you lots!

p.s. sorry that the pictures are very bad, but I hadn't planned on writing a blog post about this if I'm being honest, little bit of an impulsive one this.

p.p.s there are no pictures for the products themselves as if you follow the links then they are shown there.