Thursday 31 March 2011

Come around another time when you don't have to run OOTD & NOTD


Went for dinner with a friend and my housies so I decided to go casj :)

* Navy Blue Blazer from New Look
* T-shirt from Juicy Couture
* Low-rise jeans from Miss Sixty
* Necklace from Accessorize (maybs?)

I love the cropped t-shirt and blazer look! It was a bit cold so I wore my t-shirt down but maybe I can bring out this outfit again in the summer when it's warmer :)

* Navy blue 1.5" heels from Marks & Spencer

Dug these little gems out of my shoe box and they matched my blazer and all!

* Rings from Topshop

Mmm... malteasters are in season! YESSS

Love love and outfitlove!!
Toffee xXxXx

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 14

Day 14 ~ A song that no one would expect you to love

Ahaha!! This song is amazing :D

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Wednesday 30 March 2011

A bit dotty... NOTD

This weekend I spent my time with Mandy because the Bristol YouTube gathering had taken place!

My nails were peeling so when I reached Mandy's house, we had a little manicure sesh and I created this little design :)


I got a lovely few compliments on it and I love this blue - shall have to pick it up myself! (It's from Barry M but I can't quite remember which colour it was as Mandy has three similar ones, but it may have been 306 Blueberry Ice Cream)

The dots were very easy to create, I used Mandy's WAH Nail Art pen and used the nib end to dab little white spots all over my nails.

I could maybe make a tutorial... and I think I can come up with a slightly easier why to get the dots the same size (and not using a nail art pen) but it is rather easy. Let me know if you would like one!

Love love and dottylove!!
Toffee xXxXx

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 13

Day 13 ~ A song that is a guilty pleasure

I really love this song! It's one I will happily skip down the street to :) The only thing is that the lyrics have a few innuendos and so I have to say this is a guilty pleasure song!

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Tuesday 29 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 12

Day 12 ~ A song from a band you hate

I'm not really sure if I hate this band. It reminds of a guy that I don't like and so I don't really listen to their music... this song isn't bad though!

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Monday 28 March 2011

And my world will stop spinning NOTD

Here concludes the series of my Katy Perry mini O.P.I. Lacquers :)

We have 'Not Like the Movies' which is taken from a Katy Perry song!

There are two things I'm not so keen on about this polish:
1. The colour - it's so dark and green-y (I'm not a big fan of green at all!)
2. Two coats and its still not quite the opacity of the bottle. I've tried with more coats but it still looks the same.

However there are some things I like about this polish too!
- It has glitter in it! (sure it's very fine, but its there!)
- It changes colour in different lights!

When I took the picture with flash you can see the lilac-y iridescence :)

To be honest, I don't think I'll be wearing this polish much at all. It's just not me!
What do you think? Love it or hate it??

Love love and colourchangeindifferentlightslove!!
Toffee xXxXx

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 11

Day 11 ~ A song from your favourite band

Gosh, I do love Fall Out Boy!!

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Sunday 27 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 10

Day 10 ~ A song that makes you fall asleep

Lisa has such a soothing voice :) It was used for a washing soap powder brand (Surf?) at one point.

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Saturday 26 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 9

Day 9 ~ A song that you can dance to

We did this for my uni dance show a few years back! It was so much fun and I love the actions!!

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Friday 25 March 2011

In the light of the sun OOTD

It was a beautiful sunny day so I put on some shorts, a long-sleeve top (it is still March) and grabbed a hoodie and decided to have a wander!

I had an H&M day :)

I quite like the mix of black, brown and navy blue! Whoever said they didn't go together?!

* White long-sleeve top from H&M
* Brown shorts from H&M
* Navy blue woodland hoodie from H&M
* Nude tights from Primark

* Boots from H&M

Just casually chillin'

For reference, I'm wearing Rimmel I Love Lasting Finish Fruities Collection in Cranberry Zest :)
(I've been wearing it for a few days now and the scent has disappeared, but it did last two days!)

Love love and sunnylove!!
Toffee xXxXx

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 8

Day 8 ~ A song that you know all the words to

There's actually a LOT of songs I know all the words to but this is probably one of the most impressive :P

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Thursday 24 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 7

Day 7 ~ A song that reminds you of a certain event

This was the song I sang along to on a video when I hit 1000 subscribers on YouTube! Haha I was so happy and I just sang so loud!! (I've removed that video now, but I will always remember that)

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Butterfly Fly Away NOTD & New Hair!

Woop! New hair :D

My good friend Mandy gave me a 30% Voucher for Sean Hanna salons so I booked my appointment and went for it!

I knew I wanted a dramatic cut as I was sick of it being so long! I will take pictures of what it looks like after a week :)

I really enjoyed the salon experience and so I will be writing a review on it soon.

I found these gorgeous nail art decos in my nail drawer and they inspired me so I did this design!

A little different on each hand and I slightly copied bubzbeauty's fly-line idea because it was so cute!

So here's her tutorial :)


It was a lot harder to do my left hand :P

So what do you think of my new hair??

Love love and hairlove!!
Toffee xXxXx

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 6

Day 6 ~ A song that reminds you of somewhere

This was played constantly in Malaysia! It's such a fun happy song and reminds me of the sunshine there :)

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Tuesday 22 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 5

Day 5 ~ A song that reminds you of someone

This is quite a personal song for me. I don't listen to it very often because it does remind me of someone that I don't want to think about.

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Monday 21 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 4

Day 4 ~ A song that makes you sad

Nicole Scherzinger did a cover of this. If you listen to the lyrics it's really quite sad. And the title, "Happily Never After" kinda gives it away...

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Sunday 20 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 3

Day 3 ~ A song that makes you happy

Every time I hear this song it instantly lifts my mood! It's so happy :) It was a tough choice between this and The Remedy by Jason Mraz though :P


If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Saturday 19 March 2011

Sleek MakeUP - Avoir la Pêche

On Thursday morning, I woke up to a little surprise package from Sleek MakeUP!

This is the Paraguaya 602 i-Divine 12 piece Mineral Based Eyeshadow palette!

Don't just just adore the beautiful packaging of the box? Too bad this print isn't on the actual palette...

Another cool thing I noticed was that the inside of the box is bright hot pink!

I love that not all the shades are peach, but that you have some light highlighter shades and darker shadow shades too (for smoky eyes).

With flash!
The colours are so perfect for the oncoming spring trend :)

This palette has come with the celephane plastic sheet that stops the mirror from getting eyeshadow on it and smearing but this time each of the shade names have been printed on it!

I love that they've named the shades now :)

This palette (along with the rest of the Avoir la Pêche collection, which includes a bright orange blusher and peach tone pout polish) launches on the 16th March 2011 for a limited time only. You will be able to pick up the peachy hues until 13th April 2011.

So will you be going out to grab this palette?

Love love and peachlove!!
Toffee xXxXx

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 2

Day 2 ~ Your least favourite song

I really don't like this song at all... Just annoys me. I don't even like the fact that it's on my blog!
(I was going to put Rebecca Black - Friday but I thought that was too obvious! And I kinda like that it's so bad!)

If you want to join in too, click here for the list of the full 30 days!

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Friday 18 March 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 1

This "tag" has been floating around on Facebook and so I thought I'd bring it over to my blog :)

Day 1 ~ Your favourite song

For this one I had to pick my current favourite as it changes rather often! But it's so catchy and has a great attitude! I LOVE Glee!!!

If you want to join in too, here is the list of the full 30 days!
day 01 - your favourite song
day 02 - your least favourite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song that you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep
day 11 - a song from your favourite band
day 12 - a song from a band you hate
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favourite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favourite song at this time last year

I hope you enjoy my song choices and I will try and fill in the stories for you :)

Love love and musiclove!!
Toffee xXxXx

Thursday 17 March 2011

Welcome to the Atomic-Botanical Wastelands

When I received another invite from Illamasqua, I jumped at the chance of seeing the latest offerings this fantastic make up artistry brand had to give!

I just adore the weird and wacky promo images (the above two taken from the film) and the decorated the lower gallery of The Air Gallery in a beautifully haunting way!

The tables/mushrooms were covered with enchanting butterflies, beetles and other crazy creatures, such as that bright pink dragon lizard that reminds me of the dinosaur in Jurassic Park - you know which one!

With pollution ever growing, what would happen if the world developed because of it?

I love how the collection was displayed for all of us bloggers to feel the products and the location was really bright and a great space to see everything.

The collection was actually split into two sections:
Swampy, beigey shades and the bright, acidic poisonous colours!

This was the first item I swatched and the one I vividly remember. Someone (can't quite remember who) came up to me and told me I had to try this!

It's a gorgeous anti-eyeliner and something I definitely want to get my hands on soon! It is the Precision Ink in Glister and with the different angles of light, it gives a different finish! It lasts really well and would be great to inject light to the eye, instead of the usual dark black heavy lines that squeeze my eyes into tiny things (which is why you'll rarely see me wear it!).

These are brand new products from Illamasqua called Cream Pigments. There are 6 in this collection and they're really fun to use in many different ways - eyeshadow (base or otherwise), corrective concealer, blusher, bronzer, lip colour, coloured mascara, temporary hair colour (just for streaks, I don't think you can do your whole head with it).

Then we come to another amazing creation - the Illamasqua Nail Varnishes (I love that they still call them varnish!). There are actually 5 colours in total, I just didn't realise one was missing when I snapped this shot :( From left to right, we have Gamma, Stagnate, Purity and Radium. The missing colour is Bacterium which is pretty much a liquid version of Hollow from the cream pigments, basically Glister... : Pearlescent Ash Ochre.

Illamasqua had a couple of lovely WAH Nails girls on hand to give us manicures with the new polishes. However, I didn't get a chance to get mine done :( Besides, I had glitter polish on and would've had to sit there for a good few minutes for the removal! I managed to grab some hand shots of two gorgeous girlies that did get theirs done!

Leanne from Do Not Refreeze (above) is supporting Gamma

And here is Zara from Just a bowl of Mouldy Fruit wearing Purity :)

Also, the lovely Candida from Hell Candy swatched the lip products and generously modelled for me! They are seriously this bright and have not been touched up! Amazing.

These are the lipsticks in Atomic and Flare :P

And these are the sheer lipglosses in Torture and Divine!

Ooh! Goodies!!!! I LOVE how they personalized everybody's goody bag! Makes me feel special :)

Mmm, two of the Cream Pigments I wanted! That's a WIN right there!

Gamma is something that will fit nicely in my collection! It may not be something I'd wear on its own, but I can't wait to do some nail art with it!

With the help of one Miss Milly from Pearls and Poodles, I rode the Tube (and one bus) home with Cream Pigments streaked through my fringe :P

They had streaked it through blonde hair, but I don't think anyone tried it on dark hair so I thought I should! It looks so awesome with how pigmented it showed up :P The PR girls were snapping pics of me, hehe!

There were two models being worked on by some great make up artists and although this is not the finished product, it still looks great! So friendly and talking about the products and how she used them, I learned a lot! So creative ^_^



Will you be picking up anything from the Illamasqua Toxic Nature collection??

Love love and toxicnaturallove!!
Toffee xXxXx