Drugstore/high street Beauty haul - Superdrug, Savers and more

Hello there readers, you may be shocked to learn that this month I don't have a Primark haul for you all - very sorry, I did buy one thing there this month which I'll show in this post but I have bought quite a few beauty items from Savers, Superdrug and from my local market that I'll show you. If you look below, you'll also see a video so you can grab a cup of tea and watch that, then look at the blog post or do whatever you want - live life on the edge, carpe diem, #YOLO (that's about as gangster as this post gets, sorry)

1. Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water - £2.99 from Savers

I've heard so many good reviews of this product and I felt I had avoided buying it for long enough, hence I bought it. £2.99 seems such good value for this big a bottle, it claims to give you 200 uses but I'm not sure how much I believe that - maybe I should make a chart of how many uses I actually get out of it?!

2. Nivea Soft Moisturising Cream - £1.99 from Savers

I hadn't really read any reviews on this product until after I bought it, but it was reduced and my friend who I was with at the time highly recommended it. I reckon it's going to be very moisturising as you can use it on your body as well as your face, which should be good for the upcoming winter months as I think my skin can get quite dry even though 

3. MUA Bronzed Perfection - £3.00 from Superdrug

I have been in need of a new bronzer for ages because the bronzer I have been using at the moment isn't even a branded bronzer (yes let me be shunned by the beauty community), I have been using a cheap bronzer that I got in a kit from when I was about 13 and as I use it everyday I figured it was time to buy a branded one even if it's MUA which is on the more inexpensive side. It's quite matte so I think that'll make contouring much better, it's also a massive size which is great value for money!

4. Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer - £4.19 from Superdrug

This is a repeat purchase, I don't think this concealer lives up to the hype it's given in the beauty world, but in that moment I knew I needed a new one and I didn't know another high coverage one to turn to. I got it in the colour warm medium which is a bit light for me but as winter is coming I'm sure it'll be fine as I get paler. It's so hard finding a good concealer when you're mixed race, most companies seem to think dark = dark orange which doesn't counteract my dark circles at all because I'm quite a pale mixed race person so.. it's a struggle to say the least.

5. Rimmel Lasting Finish Nail Polish - £1.00 each from Market

I'd like to firstly say, I'm sorry if you don't have a market near you that sells these nail polishes at such a low price, but I figured you'd still want to see them and you can get these nail polishes anywhere anyway. I got them in the colour Black Cab which is your staple black, and Double Decker Red which is your basic red. I think these are especially good Autumn-Winter colours so I'll be able to use them over the next few months as Summer is fleeting, but I reckon you can pull these off in Summer as well. I don't actually have a black or a red nail polish so when I saw them I knew I needed them, and for £1.00 each I couldn't complain.

Thanks for reading/watching!!

What beauty products have you bought recently?

Spitalfields market and the Breakfast club

Hello there readers. I thought I'd share a snippet of my life with you today, about this time last week I went to Spitalfields market with two of my closest friends and we had a really lovely time, and then went back to my friend's house for an 80s films themed sleepover so it was a lot of fun!

To kick start the day, we went to The Breakfast Club in Spitalfields.

No word of a lie, these were the best pancakes I've ever had. Ever since my holiday to the USA last year, I have been missing IHOP a lot especially when eating English pancakes and realising how ours don't even compare, but these may be even better than IHOP.

The Breakfast Club was full of notes from previous customers and random bits and bobs like concert tickets from people who had seen concerts in that area.

After stuffing ourselves, we went off to the market and the cute shops around it.

There was this shop selling vintage homeware and I couldn't not take a couple of snaps!

After buying a thing or two in Spitalfields, we made our way over to Brick Lane where we didn't buy anything but we did stop for a Starbucks - my first ever Starbucks, I feel like I've been truly accepted into the hipster lifestyle (don't worry I am being ironic)

After having a Starbucks and a nice sit down, we hopped on a bus and went to Oxford street mostly just for the Disney store and Selfridges - we found ourselves very overcome with emotion in the Disney store, I have no shame whatsoever. When we were finished on Oxford Street, we made our way back to my friend's house for some baking and 80s movies!!!

Can't talk about baking without a bit of food porn eh? This is the cookie dough we made for the slutty brownies!

This is the slutty brownies before they went into the oven (if you want a recipe post for this please comment down below and I'll make them again!)

The finished results.. believe me, the pictures do not do the brownies justice. I think I've only just started living since trying slutty brownies, and I think my friends are still a bit freaked out by the things I said I would do to this brownie..

Of course just slutty brownies wasn't enough, so we made two other types of cookies. This dough turned into delicious nutella cookies.

The recipe for these nutella cookies can be found here.

Top tip: eat these while they're hot, they're much tastier hot and soft!

My mouth is watering just remembering these chocolatey delights, of course that wasn't enough so we made BISCUITCEPTION (see below)

This is biscuitception a.k.a cookies with chocolate fingers inside, these were the softest cookies I've ever tried - it's like a cookie mixed with a cake!

We spent the rest of the night and the rest of the next day watching 80s films such as Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, E.T, Big, and The Goonies. I might as well say that 80s films are my absolute favourite films, we did plan for more but we didn't have time so we will definitely be doing another one at some point in the future.

We also managed to do a face mask in between and order pizza which was great.

Thanks for reading this lifestyle post!