Weekend Antics ♥

Hi everyone! Had a good weekend?

I have nothing particularly specific to tell you about today, so I am going to warble on about things I managed to do over the weekend! Probably not interesting, so if you feel like clicking that lil' cross at the top of the page, I probably wouldn't blame you! If you choose to stay, then hai! Hope this is at least mildly entertaining!

So Friday night I met up with my lovely chums from my old work, Lucy and Becky, and just went for some pub grub and a good old natter. It was great to see them as I miss them lots, had a good chinwag and a good chocolate sundae - whoops. This was the make up I had to go and meet them, and I really love the NYX lipstick! It is super bright! I got it from the Beauty UK show, and this is a combo of a Peggy Sage lipliner all over, the NYX lippy and then a NYX lipgloss in the same pink over the top. The names should by in my Beauty UK post if you wanna know! Earrings are from Primarni, necklace from Topshop.

Me and the hubby to be wanted to spend some quality time together this weekend, as we felt we hadn't been able to over the last few weeks, as work has been pretty busy etc. So we made sure we had a nice weekend to ourselves, and had a little look round the shopping centre in Tamworth. This wasn't everything I came out with but I just want to share with you two of the bargains, just in case you are looking for any!

This is an aztec print dress, in my favourite ever material - being the sheer chiffon. I have so many shirts and clothes in this material, I just love it. So I saw this dress and was already happy that it buttoned right up to the top, which equals being able to add a pretty necklace! It is also long sleeved which is a win win, and when I looked at the label it had been reduced from £20.00 to a tenner! Bargalicious in Matalan!

I have ran out of perfume recently so I was wondering around the mahoosive Marks and Spencers they have in Tamworth. I'm not a Marks and Sparks kinda woman usually, but they took me by surprise! I was standing at the perfumes sniffing them all like a moron, when I cam across this. It is called dreamy days and OH MY LIFE is it good! There was a 100ml bottle for £15.00, or the 100ml bottle with shower gel for £15.00, so I thought I'll have the free shower gel please! It is gorgeous, I can't get enough of the smell, it's super sweet and I can't stop sniffing myself all day - which couldn't sound any weirder but you know what I mean! Go sniff it! And if you don't like this one, Marks have loads of lovely fragrances for a slash of the price of your Gucci's and Dior's. Great for a tide-me-over perfume until a birthday or Chrimbo!

After shopping, I wanted to do a nice meal for Ed because all our dinners had been rushed over the last week! On come dine with me, I saw someone do Asparagus with hollandaise sauce and a crispy poached egg and thought it looked yummy, so I had a go. Thinking I'd got more eggs than I had, I didn't buy any when I went shopping but it turned out I only had six. One I had to whisk up to be an eggwash to stick breadcrumbs to the poached egg, two had to be poached eggs and two for the hollandaise! 

On the hob I put a saucepan of boiling oil ton the front to deep fry, and boiling water to poach on the back hob. I always crack eggs onto a plate to slide them into the water to poach them so as not to break them, and the went into the water. Cut a long story short, I poached them both, split on one the way out so only one egg was left! I cracked the remaining egg onto the plate, and blummin' well slid it into the oil by accident instead. Numpty much? So we only had half an egg each, but oh well, it turned out OK! Click HERE for the recipe.

I had also seen on Louise from Sprinkle of Glitter's blog, that she had found Disco Baths on Pinterest! What a great idea! It's good for kids aswell as us big'uns, safer than candles too! The idea is to put glow sticks in the bath. I got some and then Ed made my name out of them! How cute! 

(Sorry about the image placing, I can't get it centred for some reason.)

Finally we took a little venture to somewhere called Barton Marina, which isn't too far from us, and we haven't been before. It is where canal boats moor up and there are a few little boutique shops and a gorgeous pub/restaurant. We went to get some grub, and this was the view from our table. It is very picturesque and the food was totes amaze! If you are around Staffordshire or Birmingham it is definitely worth a little visit!

So that was my weekend really, bit of a rambly post, but better than nout. My next one should have a little more structure!

Ciao for now XxX

Beauty UK Birmingham NEC 2012 ♥

Howdy! Hope you are all well! As you may or may not know, I took a little venture to the NEC in Birmingham this weekend to the Beauty UK show. I had been once before a few years ago, but never really knew much of what I was on about then. Now I am so into make up and beauty, that I was unbelievably excited to go, and see what they had to offer.

Beauty UK is a trade only show, but if you register and put down what you do, it enables you free ticket entry into the show OR you can go on the day and pay ten pounds. I don't think they are too fussed about whether you have a company or not - at the end of the day they want to sell their products. It is more targeted at salons, and spas, but there are a few goodies for the general public like me! This year we found it was very much nail art based, as opposed to make up, which is OK because I am getting more and more into nail colours and I wanted to get me some O.P.I! And so I did.

These are the nail varnishes I picked up which are:

* Liquid Crystal - China Glaze *I'm not Lion - China Glaze * Servin' Up Sparkle - OPI * Significant Other Colour - OPI * Sure Shot - Essie

I LOVE all of these colours, and after I saw Louise's video on Sprinkle of Glitter with the Essie polish on it, I instantly loved it and so it was sold to moi! I think my fave out of all of them has to be Significant Other Colour which is the lilac duotone from OPI, it is stunning!

Significant Other Colour on the nails, with Servin' Up Sparkle on the accent nail. Sorry about the little claw thing going on here, dunno what that is all about! But hey ho, you get the idea!

I was also pretty excited for NYX too, as you can't get many of their products easily here in the UK so I made sure I got some! You can order online HERE but I hate paying for shipping because it just annoys me!

Firstly there are two Striper Polishes which aren't NYX but I just happened to photograph it all together. They are from a brand called Stripe Rite and they are the really thin brushes for nail art detail, and I got those in a Purple glitter and a gold, those were 99p!

For the NYX products then, I got 4 of the jumbo eye pencils in 'Cottage Cheese' (what a name, urgh!), 'Purple', 'Pacific' and 'Peacock'. I've never used any NYX products before so I will be sure to review them on a Thursday Thoughties post soon! Then there is the Matte Lipstick in 'Shocking Pink', a roll on shimmer in 'Purple', a lipgloss in 'Dolly Pink', Glitter powder in 'Luxurious Lavender', Cream blush in 'Hot Pink' and a Concealer in a jar in 'Light'. Phewwww take a breath! 

Check out the coolio China Glaze bag too! Although it is a more nail orientated show, I really do recommend trying to get tickets because it is free, and is a nice day out - maybe not for your purse though, certainly not for mine!

Lastly, just a few pieces from Peggy Sage. I had not heard of this brand before, but a lot of people were at it so I thought I might as well try a few bits. I got a new lip brush and a new liner brush as I was in need of those, a black eyeliner and a bright pink lip liner to go with the NYX lippy that I purchased. Then my friend Sarah who I was with spotted these gorgeous nail stickers with the Eiffel tower on! I'm mad about anything Eiffel tower, so these are perfect! She's a good'un! 

Finally, this is the make up I wore for the day! I'm not going to go into too much detail because I think I have bored you for long enough! But if you would like a post on what I used and how to do it, just let me know!

I also documented the day by video, so click play if you want to see more. It is super shaky so sorry about that, but maybe better than nout!

Did any of you go to Beauty UK? Or would you fancy going next year? Tell me your thoughts!

Ciao for now XxX