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October Wishlist

October Wishlist by Pretty In Pearls featuring a leopard coat

Fur Coat - Topshop
Hollister - Fairisle Hoodie
Gossip Girl Season 3
Panda Hat - River Island
Lauren Conrad Style

100 Things That Make Me Smile Part 2

Here is part 2 of my "100 Things That Make Me Smile". If you missed part 1 you can view it here. Tell me what makes you smile. Its a great way to brighten up your day :)

11. Scented candles

12. Planning a trip

13. Finding a new favourite song

14. Buying a new bag

15. When I feel good in my body

16. Freshly laundered bed sheets

17. When an outfit is perfect

18. When you find your signature scent

19. Opening a monthly magazine for the first time

20. Being on time

All photos are from Google Images, Tumblr or weheartit.com.

Except the out fit one - that was by me :)

Chanel Chanel Chanel!

Ok, so I know I got my make up done at the Chanel counter like ages ago but I still have the make up and I never got round to doing the review. So now I've used it for a good long time I can write a pretty thorough review on it.

Love the bags!

This is the box that my eyeshadow palette came in.

How cute is this packaging?! My little palette even came with a little velvet pouch for keeping it nice.

This eyeshadow quartette is my most expensive make up purchase to date. I know it was a lot to splurge on eyeshadows but I just fell in love with the colours. The colours don't have individual names but the whole palette is called "Spices". The colours are designed for a very natural look which can be built up into a lovely smokey eye for night time. The lightest shade is an almost pearly white and is good for highlighting your brow bone or in the corner of your eye, the one underneath that is a lovely burnished gold which is gorgeous on its own but can be blended with the darker burnt umber shade next to it. My favourite is goldy, pearly pink in the top right corner. Its such a soft colour but looks good with dewy skin and a light pink flush on your cheeks. I see this as an investment piece because as a strawberry blonde with blue eyes and a light complexion I think golds and browns work much better with my colouring than black as black just looks too harsh on me. I recommend this for anyone with fair skin as the colours just give you a gorgeous glow.

This was my first ever Chanel product and I was soooo excited when I bought this, I felt so chic walking down the street with my little Chanel bag on my arm. So simple but just ooses luxury. Anyway, this lipgloss is from the limited edition Levres Scintillantes Range and is in no. 144. This was my favourite because it just looks like such a girly, fresh colour. It is a very light pink on the lips with irridescent sparkles through it which make your lips look fuller and glossy. This is good for an everyday look as its not too bright.

This is the lipgloss that was used on me when I got my make up done at the Chanel counter. Its also from the Levres Scintillantes Range and is in no.126. This shade is a sort of coral-pink with lots of irridescent sparkles in it. I originally had it over a deep pink lipstick but it looks just as good on its own. Its not a sticky formula and lasts for ages. This is a good one for those of you who don't like bright lips but want a little bit of colour.

This is an example of what Chanel's Inimitable Mascara can do to your lashes. Impressive, no?

When I was getting my make up done there weren't any tester mascaras available to use so the assistant opened up a sample of their new Inimitable Mascara to use on my lashes. This was good because I got to keep it! This is a brilliant mascara in so many ways. Firstly the colour is very black, you know how some mascaras can be a little greyish instead of full on black, well this nice and dark so that your lashes look extra dramatic. The brush is of the rubbery variety which I prefer to brush wands as I think they help reach every lash. The brush volumises as well as separating each lash so that there is no clumping and extreme volume. The only bad thing is that I've used my sample up and I want more!

This was a little extra that the assistant put in my bag (I love counters that give out samples!) and inside the little envelope is a tiny bottle of Coco Mademoiselle. I think its quite heavy but I'm used to using fruity and sweet perfumes so maybe this is just what you would call an evening perfume. It is definately too much for day time but a little spritz of this at night would add some drama and glamour to your look. When it's first sprayed on its quite strong but when its settled on your skin it smells lovely! The scent is quite sexy and glamourous when you first smell it and then you notice some soft, powdery undertones. This is all from my point of view or should I say my sense of smell so everybody probably has a different idea of what they can smell in a perfume.

Had a little spurge recently? What do buy for yourself as a treat?

Hotties At Hollister!

Me with the 2 lifeguards (models) who greeted everyone going in the store. Cool pic, no? :p

WOW! Glasgow just opened its first Hollister store on Tuesday and it has taken the city by storm. I know that there are other Hollister stores in the UK but this is the first one that is anywhere near where I live so I'm pretty excited. The only other one in Scotland is in Aberdeen which is like 3 hours away by car. The store has opened in Glasgow's central shopping centre, Buchannan Galleries which is host to loads of my favourite shops: H+M, Miss Selfridge and River Island. But these stores look sort of boring compared to Hollister. Even the store front is exciting, designed to look like a sort of beach front property, the store has a tiled roof and where windows should be, shutters that are open just a little to give you a sneaky peek inside.

I've heard loads of people saying that its hard to navigate the store because of its dark interior and loud music but I think it actually added to the experience. I think it was a welcome change from being under the unflattering glare of overhead beam lights in most of the other shops on the high street and the music while it was loud I liked the music because it was fun and made me reflect on the fact that Primark doesn't really play music, but maybe that would add to the chaos lol.

Since it was so busy (like nearly couldn't move for the amount of people!) I didn't get a good chance to really look at any of the clothes, hopefully the hype will die down in the next few weeks and I'll get a good long look. Also I'm trying to save for Christmas shopping so I bought these body lotions which are £8 each but they are currently doing a deal, 2 hand creams, body lotions or body spritzes for £12. So me and my mum got 2 of the body lotions.

I opted for the Solana Beach scented one which is quite fruity and sweet. I tried it out yesterday after a shower and it sinks into the skin beautifully. Also unlike other body lotions the scent stays for quite a while. All last night I kept smelling the back of my hand and I would get this lovely burst of citrusy fragrance, lovely!

My mum chose the Laguna Beach scented lotion which smells more citrusy than mine but not as sweet. Still smells lovely and by the look of the bottle (there's quite a gap at the top) my mum quite likes it!

Haha, just thought I'd give you a look at what their carrier bags look like. What girl won't want to shop there if thats what their bags look like?!

So, what do you think? Should we have more "themed" stores? Do think it adds to the experience or does it annoy you?

Anniversary Dinner Pics

Weekly Chat

Anniversary - So on Thursday last week it was me and my boyfriend's 3rd Anniversary. I know! 3 years! It doesn't really feel that long but I guess times flies when you're having fun. As we couldn't really decide on any "romantic" presents for each other, we bought each other t-shirts from Cafe Press.co.uk. I bought him one with a design from the Supernatural tv series which we both love and he bought me this one with a design from the Dexter tv series that he introduced me to like 2 weeks ago and I'm in love with!

Our little romantic night out was all planned about a week in advance but when we got to where the restaurant was supposed to be it was being refurbished! The weird thing was, that we had booked a table and it had been confirmed by someone working in the restaurant! Did they not think to tell us that the restaurant wouldn't actually be open? Anyway, thankfully we were in the middle of the main restuarant area in the city centre so we made our way over to this gorgeous Italian restuarant called Amore. The food was so good! We both had penne pasta in a garlic and chilli cream sauce with bacon and mushrooms. Then I had the sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream and strawberries. Oh my gosh. I thought I had died and gone to heaven! My boyfriend had the strawberry cheesecake and vanilla ice cream which looked yummy too. Since it was a special night I thought I'd treat myself to a lil French Martini :)

After dinner we were supposed to go see Back To The Future in the cinema for its 25th Anniversary but we couldn't get tickets so we decided to go back home (via Tesco for nice bottle of champagne!) and watched Three To Tango while sipping our bubbly!

So even though our night didn't exactly go to plan, we had a really amazing night. I can't believe its been 3 years. Roll on more lovely, fun times!

(Sorry I kinda went on a lil bit about me and le boyfriend but I was just so excited that we made it to 3 years :)

100 Things That Make Me Smile

Hey everyone! This is a new addition to my blog in which every week I make a note of 10 things that make me smile. After 10 weeks I should have my complete set. This was inspired by Sofia from Sofia's Journal. I totally love her blog with her beauty tips and little excerpts from her life. Sofia challenged all her readers to give this a go so I have took up the challenge! Check out her "100 Things" here.

No.1 Indulgent Tv

No.2 Sunshine

No.3 Reading a book you just can't put down

No.4 Elephants

No.5 Cute stationery

No.6 The glow you get after laughing so hard you cry

No.7 Harry Potter

No.8 Powerfully Expressive Art

N0.9 When You complete your "To Do List"

No. 10 Being warm and cosy when its cold outside

All images from Google and weheartit.com

Outfit of the Night

This was my outfit for the wedding reception I went to 2 weeks ago. Okay, I know its not today's outfit but I really liked this dress and wanted to show you guys. The dress is from Republic but I don't think they have it any more as it was part of their summer collection. I was pleasantly surprised when I tried on this dress because I'm not super tall and I thought it would drown me. But it didn't, it was perfect. In fact the length was so perfect that I didn't need to wear heels. Yay! No limping the next day! I thought maxi dresses were shapeless and made you look shapeless too but I realised that they slim you right down. If you get one that just fits right it should skim over your shape making you feel all slim and slinky :) Since the pattern of the dress was kinda peacock like I didn't need too many accessories. I wore flat silver sandals, a silver flower necklace and matching earrings, silver bangles and bracelets and my cute little beaded clutch.

Do you have any up coming parties? What are you planning to wear?