New: Gabriella's Primark Collection 2016

When Gabby (velvetgh0st) announced she was bringing out a new collection with Primark I was so excited! Then she started uploading sneek peek photos on her Instagram and I just got even more excited. 

I got a kitten!!!

So if you didn't know, I absolutely love cats and have grown up with cats my whole life. When I moved in with my boyfriend I was gutted we couldn't have our own cat as he is allergic to them.

Maison De Moggy - Edinburgh Cat Cafe

Well hi there! Wow it has been a long time since I last wrote a blog post and I apologise! I don't want to make excuses but thought I'd explain why it's been so long.

In November I started a new job which has made me so much happier as I really wasn't happy at my old job. It's full time, Monday-Friday which is amazing but means I don't really get the chance to blog much. Or at least it didn't and I want to change that now. 

Daisy Dream by Marc Jacobs

                               

Let's all just take a moment and look at how gorgeous this bottle of Eau De Toilette is....*stares at it huge smile on her face* Haha! I have been wanting this for so long but I just could not justify spending £70 on a perfume. My boyfriends mum is going on holiday in October so I asked her to see how much it is at the airport since it's duty free however when I was out shopping yesterday at Livingston's amazing outlet centre I came across The Fragrance Shop.

So in I went to see if they had it, and there it was staring back at me screaming "buy me Gemma, buy me!!!." I thought there was no harm in asking the price of it so I went to the counter to ask about it. The lovely ladies at the counter told me the 100ml was only £55.99!! I couldn't believe it so didn't hesitate and bought it right away. The ladies were even nice enough to check their system to see if it was cheaper anywhere else but it wasn't. 

Since I was willing to spend this much on it, there was no point waiting for David's mum to come back from holiday to get it. 

It smells absolutely amazing as well!

xoxo

Note: The link to the fragrance shop site will have full priced products.

                                                        

New Beauty Wish List

                     

1. Daisy Dream by Marc Jacobs - Everyone has gone mad for this new fragrance and I don't blame them. Look at just how gorgeous the bottle is! I haven't smelt this perfume yet so I don't know what the scent is like but I imagine it will be lovely!
2. Tangle Teezer - I still haven't tried a tangle teezer but really want to although I think they are quite expensive. This one really stood out to me as the colours are so bright and go well together.
3. OPI Can't Find My Czechbook - How amazing is this colour? It would look soooo nice and especially at this time of year!
4. Ted Baker Wash Bag - This wash bag is so cute! I think Ted Baker's stuff is gorgeous and so girly so this would be lovely to have to put all my beauty things in when travelling.

5. EOS Organic Lip Balm - I've only tried the strawberry EOS lip balm and loved it! The fact that this one is organic really intrigues me.

6. Essie Sittin' Pretty Nail Polish - Absolutely love this colour of purple! I am a sucker for pastel colours. I need this in my life!

7. MAC Ruby Woo Lipstick - So I am trying to be more adventurous now and wanting to try out some make-up products. Nothing like foundation or that but I would love to just go for a bright red lipstick to see what I would like so this one would be perfect! 

xoxo     

Yankee Candle Shade And Tray Set

                       

Hey! Hope you're all having a lovely Sunday and had a nice weekend. I treated myself this weekend.....well I treated my home haha! I looooove Yankee Candles but think they are expensive. I was in town shopping and noticed there was a Yankee Candle shop! As all the other shops had sales on I thought I'd have a nosy to see if I could grab a bargain. 

There I was, just sniffing all the different candles adding more and more to wish list when I came across the most cute little ensemble ever!

I am heart anything daft and my house is full of them! I just love all the heart decorations that are everywhere at the moment so I couldn't resist buying this! It's a little tray and shade with hearts cut out on them. You place a jar on the tray and then place the shade on top of the jar. 

It comes in two sizes, big and small, big for the large jars and small for the smaller jars. I went for the small option.

The tray was £5.99 and the shade £7.99 which I thought was quite reasonable. Then it was time for the hard part....choosing the candle to go with it.

I had narrowed it down to this one and the Black Cherry one. I love the smell of the black cherry candle but thought since my mum had it I would go for Summer Scoop. It literally smells like strawberry ice cream! Who doesn't love strawberry ice cream?!

This one was also on sale from £8 something to £6 something, so it wasn't much of a sale but it was better than paying full price I guess :)

Do you have a fave Yankee Candle?

xoxo 

Forever21 Wish List

             

• Neon Cat Crop Top
• Mint Green Skater Skirt
• Flowery Bandeau
• Pink Bow
• Love Perfume
• Elephant Necklace
• Cosmetic Bag
• "Mint Leaves" Nail Polish
• Comb - Sold out :(
• Grapefruit Cleansing Wipes

BarryM Silk Nail Polish Colletion

Happy Friday everyone! :D Instead of packing I did a bit of shopping.....oops! I went into Superdrug and went straight the the BarryM cabinet which I knew was going to be a bad idea. They had a deal on as usual which was buy any 2 nail polishes from the £3.99 range and get them both for £6.00. I would have preferred their usual 3 for 2 deal as I could have got the whole silk collection but I just couldn't bring myself to buying all 6 of them so went for the 4 that stood out the most to me. I know this post has been done by loads of bloggers but I thought I'd share my opinions on them :)

I went for:

 

                                Blossom                                                           Pearl

  

                                        Heather                                                               Mist

Each of these colours are gorrrrrgeous!  I found it so difficult to choose my 4 but I'm so happy with my choices! My favourite has got to be Pearl. It's a gorgeous white. I went for this because I don't have a while polish and I love the finish of this. It reminds me of a wedding. I think I would use this for an accent nail and pair it one of the other colours. As for the other colours I love pastel colours so these are just absolutely gorgeous to me! 

Have you tried any of these colours or the other two from the collection? Let me know what you think of them :) xoxo

P.s Just realised this is my 100th post yey!

Tale As Old As Time

                      

Helloooooo! This post is non beauty/fashion related but I just HAD to share it with you!! It was my birthday on the 13th and for it my boyfriend bought me this amaaaaaaazing present! A while back I saw a picture on someones instagram who uploaded a picture of this tea set! I immediately fell in love with it! It's Mrs Potts and Chip from Beauty and the Beast! How cute is this!!! You can actually use it for pouring tea but I'm not gonna use it because I don't want to ruin it, it will just be for show :D I know it's probably sad that I wanted a tea pot for my birthday but it's just one of those things that I just had to have! You can get this on eBay if you are interested :) xoxo

Jewellery Wish List

             

1. Tiffany Earrings - Tiffany.com
2. Pandora Charm Bangle Bracelet - Nordstorm.com
3. Pandora Ring - Bloomingdales.com
4. Pandora Birthstone Earrings - Nordstorm.com
5. Pandora Elephant Charm - Thejewelhut.co.uk
6. Pandora Pearl Earrings - Bloomingdales.com
7. Fawn Necklace - Thirteenvintage.com
8. Marc Jacobs Heart Earrings - Cusp.com
9. Cat Watch - Charmingcharlie.com

Nails Inc. Lucky Dip!

I am super dooper excited to share with you lovely people my absolute BARGAIN I found!! So as you all know I am a nail polish addict and I just can't get enough of buying more. In the UK we have a website called Wowcher which is the same as Groupon where you get sent all these different kind of deals that are on at the time. I woke up to one from Wowcher with this AMAZING deal for Nails Inc. The deal was buy a lucky dip of 7 nail polishes for £19.99, 10 for £24.99 or 15 for £29.00. These nail polishes are normall £11.00 each which you know that I would never ever ever buy a nail polish at that price! So I could not pass up the chance on this amazing-ness. I was originally gonna go for the 10 for £24.99 but then thought "for an extra £4.00 you can get another 5!!!" so I thought screw it lets go for it! For £29.00 I got...wait for it.....£165.00 worth of nail polishes which means I saved £131.00! That is cray-zeeeee. Postage was £3.95 which I didn't mind paying and the order didn't take long to come at all! 

The package was wrapped in lovely Nails Inc. paper and came with a free Kinder Bueno nom! I also put a little message in for myself saying "Happy Birthday to me!" since it's my birthday next week and wanted to treat myself haha! They each came individually wrapped in bubble wrap which was nice of them to do.

          

From left to right we have:

• Seven Dials
• Holland Park Gardens
• Boltons Place
• Hampstead Gardens
• Little Chester Street
• Leonard Street
• St. John's Wood
• St Mark's Square
• Hyde Park Crescent
• Kensington Mall
• Wardour Street
• Bruton Mews
• Notting Hill Carnival (my fave out of them)
• Langham Place
• New Cavendish Street

I'm thinking of doing a separate post of swatches of them all as I don't want this one to be so long and full of pictures, don't want to bore you y'know? If you'd like to see me do swatches of them then please feel free to let me know in the comments. Have any caught your eye?

xoxo 

Other Nails Inc. polishes in my collection

Home Decor Wish List

                

1. Follow your heart cushion - paper-source.com 

2. Live, Laugh, Love frame - asos.com     

3. Elephant jewellery holder - forever21.com

4. Beauty and the Beast ornament - amazon.com

5. Red heart candle - oliverbonas.com

6. Mannequin - subastralinc.com

7. Red heart cushion - jonathanadler.com

8. Arabesque jewellery stand - modcloth.com

9. Owl ornaments - zgallerie.com

xoxo

Motivational Monday #1

                     

My Bargain Finds

Happy Friday everyone! I wanted to share a few bargains that I found this week with you! I'm starting to run out of dry shampoo and I wanted to get some more but I think the price for a can is quite a bit expensive. I got a deal last time on Groupon where you got 6 full size cans for £12.99 so me and my friend split the cost and got 3 each which was great! So I Googled dry shampoo and the website Chemist Direct was the first one that showed up. I clicked on it and found that they were doing all the different scents of Batiste dry shampoo for the same deal 6 full size cans for £12.00! So a bit cheaper than the deal I got on Groupon which was only on for a limited time. I've always wanted to try the cherry one as cherry is one of my fave scents so I decided to get 6 of them! The only thing is that you can't mix and match them in the deal but if you wanted to do that you could just pay for them separately I guess :). So yeah....these will last me forever!! I also got the 2 BarryM nail polishes from the same website and were only £2.15 each! They have tons of other brands as well so check it out! The Essie polishes are from another website called Direct Cosmetics and these were only £3.99 each which is amazing because it's basically half price as to what you would pay from getting them in Superdrug or Boots!

  

  

       1. BarryM - "Mint Green"

2. BarryM - "Pink Flamingo"

3. Essie - "Butler Please"

4. Essie - "Where's my chauffeur?"

5. Essie - "She's Pampered"

Topshop Wish List

Hello my lovelies! I'm starting off the week with another wish list post. I love doing these because it's basically shopping online for things you can't afford at the moment which I suppose isn't the part I like about it but I love putting outfits together. I don't normally shop in Topshop as I think everything is very overpriced but I've found some things I really want!

1. Fur Collar Leather Jacket - So I actually I have to admit that I have this jacket already so technically I don't "wish" for this item but I love it so much I thought it looked amaze with this outfit. My friend wore this jacket to a party we were at and I fell in love with it right away! She told me she got it in the sale in Topshop so I thought right away there was no chance of me getting one. Later on in January I was in town shopping as I had a gift card for Topshop that I had to spend. I went to the sale section right away and couldn't believe it when I saw this jacket...there was loads of them left! I had to get it! It was reduced to £45 which is really good for a leather jacket and I looooove the white fur around the collar. My gift card was for £30 so I only paid £15 towards it...BARGAIN!
2. Pink Playsuit - Let's just take a moment to look at how GORGEOUS this playsuit is......This is the most gorgeous pink colour ever and apparently it's got lace at the back. I saw an orange version of this when I was in the shop at the time I was buying my jacket and it had an amazing black lace panel on the back so I can only imagine how gorgeous it looks on this one. I can't remember how much this is but I seem to remember it was something like £50.
3. Heart Necklace - A cute little heart necklace just to add to the look of the outfit. I'm a bit obsessed with hearts at the moment so thought this would look nice :) 
4. Bag - Every girl needs to update their bag every so often so this plain black bag was perfect for this look I thought. I always have to go for a bag that's got a long strap as I get bored carrying it by the handles although this would look really nice carrying it on the wrist if that makes sense?
5. Ankle Boots - I am in love with these!! They are the perfect ankle boots I've ever seen! They're quite expensive, something like £80-£90 I think, but they look very good quality and would probably last a long time. The heel isn't too high so my feet wouldn't get sore (I am terrible in heels) and just the overall detailing is amazing! I love how they have cut outs beside the buckles and I loooooove the gold trimming on the heel!
6. Sunglasses - I also have a bit of an obsession for sunglasses so thought why the hell not throw in a pair to finish off the look. I love big sunglasses as I like to pretend I'm a Kardashian hahaha! 

Hope you enjoyed. Have you read my Essie nail polish wish list? xoxo

January Glossy Box 2014

Hey! So first Glossy Box of 2014 and.....I'm not very impressed :(. Don't get me wrong, they have changed the design slightly which is much nicer so I'm happy with that. The box is now a glossy one which makes sense, and is slightly bigger in size which is good because now it fits the magazine which comes with it every month. The ribbon is silk and has the glossy box logo on it which is so nice. 

The contents of this box however has disappointed me :( Nothing really stood out for me or excited me. I'll just move on to what was in it :).              

         

Essie Wish List

I looooooove Essie nail polishes but still think they are on the expensive side for a nail polish. I own two from this brand and love them! I love the size of their brushes and how quickly they dry. I do hope to own more in the future and hopefully find them cheaper some where :P These are my faves at the moment and hope to add them to my collection :) xoxo

"Dreams don't work unless you do" - Quote of the week

             

So true! To achieve your dreams and goals in life you have to work hard for them and never give up. Of course there will be times where it's hard to keep feeling motivated and you feel like you can't carry on (trust me I know) but it is true what they say, you just have to keep going to get where you want to get to in life. *just keep swimming, just keep swimming :P*

Get The Look - Olivia Wilde

This post is a bit earlier than usual as I'm going away to Edinburgh for the weekend soon so thought I'd post it now so I don't forget later :) This Get The Look is Olivia Wilde with her cute baby bump in the this gorgeous green sparkly dress which she wore at this years Golden Globe awards. I think she looks stunning! Who stood out for you this year? xoxo

Daisy Jumper/Big News!

     

Before I start I just want to say that I have just this second hit 200 followers! Thank you so so much!! I have a special announcement to make next Wednesday so keep and eye out for that *cough* GIVEAWAY*cough* haha!

So it's Wednesday which means it's almost Fridayyyy! I hope you're all having a nice week so far unlike myself who has been off work today full of the cold! I never get the cold so when I do I feel awfully sorry for myself haha! So as it's random post day I thought I'd do a quick one on this amazing jumper I finally found! I don't know if any of you would remember but I did a post way back at the beginning when I started my blog on a pink daisy jumper and I couldn't find it any where! I still haven't been able to find that exact one but have found it in black! I got it from www.maryjanefashion.com which is a website that I'd never heard of before but when I saw this on there and for only £8.99!!! I just had to grab it! Also they do free shipping...amazeballs! This had a label beside it on the website saying "bloggers favourite" and I can see why! I tried it on and it's so cosy! Can't wait to wear it for real! 

xoxo