Hello Kitty Bedding!

I've been umming and arrring about the latest Liberty Arts collab with Hello Kitty bedding sets. There's loads of Hello Kitty bedding out there that is only for single beds. Me being as old as I am, I have a double bed. So anyway, I totally needed a Hello Kitty bedspread. I found mine on eBay. They had five different styles which I struggled to pick one. But I picked this one!

The design is called Park Life. It's got so many great colours in it. I bought an under sheet and pillow cases to compliment the colours in it. My bedding before was just plain black or plain purple. This is such a difference!

It totally lightens up my room and it's just so cute! I feel like I want to buy all the other designs so I can have Hello Kitty on my bed all the time. The quality is just brilliant and it's so cosy. There's so many Hello Kittys on my bed right now!

Some close up shots of the design. The first pic, the bottom pattern is what's on the underside of the duvet, I guess you could use it that way too if you wanted. And the second pic is a bit of a close up at the design. It's all about being at the park so there's trees and a fountain and Hello Kitty and loads of her friends!

I'm thinking about buying another one next pay day just so I can have Hello Kitty on my bed forever! So look forward to another post on Hello Kitty bedding when I buy them all!

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SheInside Review

So having heard a lot of good things about SheInside I decided to check if there was anything on their website that I wanted, and there was loads! In the end I struggled to decide on just two items. 

The items are an Orange Hooded Coat and a Wine Red Heart Print Blouse. I ordered them on the 24th of November and they arrived on the 11th of December so I guess around 15 days delivery. But the shipping was free so that's a bonus! Because I logged in with Facebook I got 20% off my order too, which was awesome!

One of the items went down in the sale a few days after I ordered, but before it was shipped. So I emailed them to query whether I could be refunded the difference because some places to that. Unfortunately they couldn't offer me that but they did give me a 20% off code for my next order, which was nice of them. :)

They came packaged in a standard grey postage bag. I don't have a picture of that because I was too excited and opened it straight away. Under the first layer, they were individually packaged in their own zip lock bags. The bags were labelled with the SheInside logo. Really shows they put an effort into their packaging which is nice!

The first item I opened up was the heart print blouse. The first thing I noticed was how nice the material felt. I always worry when buying online what the quality will be like but this was lovely.

It's so pretty! I ordered it in a small because I assume I would have been because I'm an 8-10 UK size but it was a little tight and short on the sleeves. If I wear it folded up it's fine.

It doesn't look so bad on and it fits quite nicely everywhere else. Maybe I'll try a size M next time just for a bit more room. The print is just gorgeous though and the colour is nice. I don't usually wear red but it's pretty cute!

I also bought a orange coat with a furry bear hood. I was looking for a new coat so I was so happy when I saw this one!

It was hard to get it to hang nice because it's so puffy and the hood is pretty thick. Again, this colour isn't something I'd usually wear but I just went for it. This coat comes in two pieces. The orange part is the main coat, but the furry inside with the hood attached is a gilet that attaches to the inside with buttons. It's pretty neat if it's not too warm one day, you can just take out the inner gilet.

Again, I look a mess but it's just to show what it's like on. Unfortunately with this one, it's a little short on the sleeves again, but still wearable. I guess I just like my sleeves loooong. So I'm definitely going to buy a size M when I order next time.

I think the hood is the best part of this coat. It has bear ears! It's just adorable. Definitely feels like it will be warm enough in the cold British winter.

I'm hoping I can get some more SheInside items soon, but in a better fitting size for me. They have such great fashions on their website, the pricing is great and the free shipping is a real bonus. 

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Impromptu Shopping Haul!

I went into Superdrug a few days ago before work (yeah, new job!) and managed to spend around £15 on NYC and MUA cosmetics in about 5 minutes before my shift started. 

I picked up five nail polishes, 2 blushers and a lipstick/gloss. And yes, I got all this for £14.96! I'll end up doing a few in depth reviews on a few of these items in the upcoming weeks, so look out for that. 

I've heard a lot of good things about the MUA Mosaic Blusher. It was only £2.50 so that's pretty good, I'm really excited to road test it tomorrow. I bought it in 'English Rose - Shade 3', though they do have another two lovely shades in the nice mosaic pattern.

The other MUA Blusher was only a pound so I thought I'd pick one of those up too. I got this one in 'shade 2'. It's a kind of pinky shade. I looks like it matches up to one of the sections in the mosaic one. 

The other MUA product was the Lip Boom. I don't quite know why this one attracted me so much. It might just be because it has 'boom' in the title. It's a full lip stick with a reasonably size gloss on the other end of the tube. They can be worn separately or together. After trying the lippy though, I think the shade is a little dark for me. So I'm very tempted to go and get another one. This was £3.

I bought two NYC 'In a New York Minute' nail polishes. 'Manhattan' and 'Prince Street'. A kind of deep red/purple and a metallic purple, respectively. These were £1.79 each or two for around £2.50. *Multibuy* :D

Lastly, I bought three NYC 'Expert Last' polishes at £1.99 each. 'Late Night Latte', 'Lights-Camera-Glitter' and 'Gramercy Glitz'. A nude shade, a nude coloured glitter and a silvery, blue glitter, respectively. 

All in all, really happy with my haul. Might go back in when I have a bit more time and spend some more money, why not! 

Again, keep your eyes open for a review or two, and a close up of a few of these items.

Have you tried any of these before? What did you think?

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NOTW! NYC Glitzz!

As I will mention in tomorrows post, I've bought some new NYC polishes! I created a little nail look out of it.

 

I used NYC Late Night Latte.

With NYC Gramercy Glitz on top.

The pictures don't do it justice, really. But it's quite nice. I don't usually wear any glitter but it's so subtle that it looks quite nice.

Ho hum!

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New Cosmetics Buys!

I've just spent the morning in town running a few errands and thought what better time to spoil myself! I bought a little handful of goodies from Boots and Superdrug.

First, from Boots I bought some new Foundation. I don't know why I chose this one specifically but I guess it just stood out! This is Maybelline's 24 Hour Super Stay Foundation. In 005 Light Beige. 

You can probably guess from it's name that it is claimed to stay on for 24 hours! It also says 'non-transfer' on it so it'll be interesting to see how this one plays out. Looking forward to using it!

I paid £9.19.

Then I went on to Superdrug for the rest.

Next up is NYC 'In a New York Colour Minute' Quick Dry Nail Polish in 'Bowery Black'. I've not tried this brand before but I thought I would give it a try. You can't quite tell the colour of this polish from the picture but it's a dark shimmery grey. Keep your eyes peeled for a colour swatch in an upcoming post.

I paid £1.79.

Another brand I haven't really tried before is MUA. I saw their eyeshadow palettes and thought there were a good selection of colours for the price, so I bought two ^_^

This one is called: 'Glamour Days'. It's a very nude palette with a hint of colour and shimmer in a few of the shades.

This one is: 'Poptastic'. I wanted this one because the colours are so bright! There's a few shimmery shades in there too, as well as some matte ones. 

These were £4.00 each, bargain.

I can't wait to try this out, will probably do some swatches in an upcoming post when I open up these babies!

A little update on me!

I've got a part time job starting next week in a clothing store so keep your eyes open for some nice work outfit posts, I'm sure. Wish me luck! 

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This week on Instagram.

Here we are, once again! This weeks edition of 'This week on Instagram'. Have you missed it? There's a fair few more pictures this week than last, which is much better. I'm still out of house at the moment, until next weekend. Which is starting to become a bit of a pain! But I'm coping well enough. Not a lot of news this week, though. I'm sure I'll be pretty boring until I move into my new place. 

So here are the Instagram uploads of the week, I hope you enjoy them! A little earlier today, which is the first in a while!

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The cake I made from last weekend. We ate it last Sunday for the WWE PPV.

New clothes! I bought a lovely Hello Kitty jumper this week. Check out what else I bought here.

I woke up and half my hair was straight, the other was curled. Weird!

Yummy bacon sandwich my grampy made for me! Nom!

Another of my new buys, Kermit t-shirt!

The gems I ordered arrived! Now I just need to find some glue and I can start deco-ing!

Played a very nerdy game this week. Flying a spaceship 'nd such.

Tilly, styling my Kinder Egg toy on her head, does she like it?

Yummy cakes they had in the restaurant. I didn't have any :(

The meal I had, a massive sandwich! Struggled so much to eat it -.-

Tilly's in the bag! She loved it in there.

New Revlon lipstick I bought, review to come!

Snacks for last night. Yummy.

Kitty's getting cosy. They're never like this!

They must only be nice to each other while they're sleeping!

 So there we have it, this weeks uploads! Slightly better content than last weekend, full of cats again, too! Hopefully more images to come next weekend, but that's moving time so we'll see how it goes!

Don't forget to add me on Instagram and Twitter for more updates.

@taylalatbh

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And a Formspring account if you have anything to ask me!

 

Have fun with your week.

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Review: Quickies Nail Polish Remover.

Quickies Nail Polish Remover.

£1.09

x20 Pads

As you probably know (because I've mentioned it how much?) I'm in the process of moving this week so a lot of my things are in storage. One of those items being all of my nail supplies. I (stupidly) left on some nail polish after I packed everything away and it got to the point where my nails had chipped away and really needed the polished removed!

I'd only just bought a fresh bottle of remover so I didn't feel like buying a new one. While I was in the supermarket I noticed this: Quickies Nail Polish Remover.

The packaging of the product is quite small and handy, good for portability: to keep in your handbag! It's also pink so it probably won't look out of place there either. This one comes with a twisty lid (but I have seen others with a clip lid) so there's no chance of anything leaking.

It comes with 20 pre-soaked pads of nail polish removing goodness.

The first thing I noticed was that it had a lovely smell. It's not too overpowering like a lot of nail polish removers are. The pads were very thin, not like the normal cotton pads you would use (well, what I normally use). I'm not sure whether it makes it better, worse or not really much difference. I suppose since it's already pre-soaked, they don't need to be too thick because they don't need to hold any more liquid, so it works quite well. 

When using them, I noticed it took quite a bit of rubbing on the nail to get it all off. There was a base coat, two coats of colour and a top coat. Quite a bit too get through, but it struggled slightly compared to a normal bottle of polish remover and a cotton pad.

• Handy size, perfect for the handbag!
• Good for if you're out and not where all your supplies are.
• Nice smell, not overpowering like other removers.
• Good price.

• Leaves your fingers feeling a bit greasy.
• Needs a lot of rubbing to get all the polish off.

If I was going away on a trip, or away from my nail supplies for a little while I'd definitely take this product with me (providing I actually needed nail polish remover!). It's a lot more compact than a bottle of nail polish remover and a packet of cotton pads.

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