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I got some free samples of Escada Especially's new perfumes through the post today! I got these from http://www.baobella.com/ where you can enter loads of competitions and apply for free samples for a variety of health/beauty products for free! Check them out!


The one on the left is called Elixir and the one on the right is called Delicate Notes.



Doesn't look like the most 'elegant' sample, a small wipe in a packet, but they're really good. I LOVE the Elixir one! It has a fruity scent and it's so refreshing. I love fruity scents but I know this isn't for everyone. The Delicate Notes one is more floral and less powerful, but still delicate (as the name would suggest). If you like floral scents, this is the one for you.
You can get both of the full bottled fragrances from fragrance direct here:
Elixir
Delicate Notes
Hope you've enjoyed this! What's your favourite kind of scent?

Thanking you,

Naomi

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So, I haven't done an actual beauty post in a while so I thought I might as well show you the things I've bought recently. It's not a lot but I thought I would show you anyway.

I saw a blog post on this product somewhere (sorry, can't remember the blogger) saying that this was a great dupe for Bio-Oil. I got this from the Pound store which is great considering Bio-Oil normally costs about £5.99 for 60ml. I used to use it for my eczema because it's great at getting rid of scars, so I will let you know how well this dupe works!

I have wanted a Lip stain for so long, and I found this one in the clearance for only £2.49 down from £4.99! Unfortuantly I have no idea what the name/shade of this one is but it's a deep reddy pink which is really nice. Personally I don't tend to go for bright colours but wiping away the excess and just leaving the stain on has worked really well! Also I love just using the Balm by itself.

This is a new product for me. Because I get quite puff eyes and dark circles I've been using the Aveeno Eye brightening cream which I've recently ran out of. It was quite expesive though, so I thought I would try something different. So far so good! Being a Gel it's really refreshing and light, It doesn't smell to much of cucumber but just enough to be light and delicate. Hopefully this will do the trick!

Hope you've enjoyed this! Have you tried any new products recently? Let me know in the comments!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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Why, Hello there...

Just a quick post to share with you my latest Youtube cover video!

I performed this at the christian camps open mic night we had, so thanks to David for recording this!

Enjoy!:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIY2J9E0dTc 

Thanking you,

Naomi

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*THIS POST WAS IN A MAGAZINE!! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE GUYS AT CONNECTING YOU MAGAZINE FOR SCRIPTE UNION, YOU'RE FAB!*

I'm back! As you can tell from the title it was the most amazing week of my life (so far). I genuinely can't contain my excitement/amazement/happiness at how powerful this last week has been. WARNING: this post will probably be pretty long, but I would strongly advise reading it. Also it might get a bit preachy, if you REALLY don't like that sort of thing don't read it. But please read it :)

If you didn't know already, I went to a Christian camp, which I've explained what it is here. The one I go to is called Helter Skelter, run my the amazing Claire and Ali Scott. I knew quite a few people as I went last year, so it was awesome to see them all again and to meet new people. Everyone there is literally the most genuine, nicest, passionate, funniest and fabulous people I have ever met. None of them judge you at all. They will listen to your problems and take it all in and won't even bat an eye-lid. They're the most encouraging people who give the best advice and pray for you and love you so much, like one of their family. Their faith in God is so incredibly inspiring it makes me want to serve God even more and be just like them. The amount of DMC's (deep meaningful conversations) we had was insane. Just such compassionate people willing to listen to me rambling on about my problems and given such awesome Godly advice. God has really spoken through these fabulous people and given such encouragement.

Just a quick little notice to tell you that I'm off for the week at my camp (click here for more info). Hopefully it will be a fantastic week!

See you soon,

Naomi

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I've been really excited about this post! I went into town the other day and went into all the £1 or 99p stores. If you dont have these where you're from, basically everything in the shop is a pound. I've been in them before and seen some of these products before, but I found some new one which I was really excited about. This is what I got:

This first one isn' actually a 'big brand'. It's from a brand called Pink Tease and it's a black nail art pen. It has the nib bit at the top and the brush is long and thin, what you would expect from a nail art pen. The only problem I had when I first tried it was it came out a bit watery but I'm sure that will get less as I use it more. Normally nail art pens can be a lot, such as the Models Own pens, but this is a fantastic alternative!

This is the one I was most excited about. It's a Revlon Just Bitten kissable Balm Stain! They're normally £7.99 but this was only a pound! It's not the best colour for me (you can see it in the swatches below) as it comes out as quite a light pink. It's in the shade 035 Charm which I can't seem to find so maybe it's a discontinued shade or something? But its really nice and I think they may have had other shades in the shop which I shall look out for next time!

These are the Rimmel london Quad and Glam'eyes eye shadow. I really like the top colours, very autumn/fall appropriate! they also and a variety of these ones. The bottom colour I'm really not too keen on. I went to another £1 shop and they had loads more choice of these single eye shadows but I had already bought this one. The top one is normally £6.99 and the bottom one is £4.49.

This is another one I'm excited about. It's a Revlon nail polish in the colour 011 'Sheer Rose'. Again I don't know whether this is still available but it's such a pretty colour! Originally the Revlon nail polishes are £6.49.

And another great find! An O.P.I shatter nail Lacquer in 'Shatter the Scales' - Emerald Green. Can't find it again but they also had some other colours. Normally £11 (I think).

First 4 - Quad eye shadow, Blue - Glam'eyes, Pink - Relvon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain.

Hopefully now you can go out and find some bargains for yourself!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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This is just a brief post to appeal to anyone who can help me with developing the design of my blog or knows anyone who can help design for free as I'm a bit clueless on web designing.

If you can help please post a comment below and we will see where we can go from there!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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I was nominated for a Liebster Blogger Award by Charley at Ramblings of A Beauty Blogger, thank you so much! The Liebster Award is a blogger award exclusively for those with less than 200 followers. 

Here are the rules for receiving the award:

1. Answer the 10 questions you've been asked from the person who nominated you.

2. Think of 10 questions of your own to ask some other bloggers.

3. Choose 10 other bloggers to nominate and send them a comment or message letting them know you've nominated them and they must have less than 200 followers!

These were the questions I was asked:

1. Where are you from?

I'm from Northampton whoch is in the Midlands in England.

2. How long have you been blogging?

2 weeks, so not long at all!

3. The all important question: tea or coffee?

Tea, got to be British!

4. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only take three things (beauty or other), what would they be?

shampoo - because I can not stand it when my hair is 'dirty', my guitar and a boat - so I can get back again? ;)

5. When did you first start using makeup?

I was quite a late bloomer compared to everyone else. I first started properly using foundation when I was about 14, since then I've just used basics like power, foundation, mascara e.c.t

6. Do you have any pets, what are their names?

I have a dog called Poppy because she was born on poppy day!

7. If you could have any beauty product delivered to your door right this second, what would it be?

Either Revlons lip butters or Revlons just bitten kissable Balm. I've really wanted to try these for ages! 

8. Do you prefer summer or autumn/winter polish?

Autumn. I love wearing dark, emerald Greens and deep purples.

9. What is your favourite colour?

Purple and a general colour, but in therms of clothes any kind of Blue suits me really well.

10.What is that one must-have product you own and why?

My Natual Collection shineaway foundation. It's cheap and it does the job pretty well, and I always wear it, even through the summer. I dont have the best skin ever by a long shot!

These are the people I'm tagging:

Katie at http://katiesworld-ofbeauty.blogspot.co.uk/

Kate at http://raspberrycheeks.blogspot.co.uk/

Sophie at http://sophiejanethorne.blogspot.co.uk/

(sorry if you've already been nominated by someone else!)

and anyone else who's reading this with fewer than 200 followers! (I don't follow many people and most of them have over 200 followers haha). Send me a link to your page so I can see your answers!

These are my questions to you:

1. Where are you from?

2. Who is your favourite youtuber?

3. If you could only use 1 brand of make-up for the rest of your life, what would it be?

4. What's you're favourite music genre? Give an example of who you like in that genre.
5. Lip gloss or lipstick?
6. Why did you start blogging?
7. What has been your favourite/most memorable birthday/christmas e.c.t present?
8. Favourite Zoo animal?
9. Beauty blogs or Fashion blogs?
10. best place you've been on holiday?

Hope you have fun with these!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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Why, Hello there...

This is my first life blog post! Not sure if anyone's interested but ah well :) I'll start with school stuff then go on to explain this christian youth camp that I've mentioned in some previous posts.
I'm in my first year of A levels so i got my first set of results today! I wasn't expecting very good results but I'm happy with what I got: Psychology - A, Music - D, Gen. Studies+English lit.+Drama - C. I wanted to drop psychology and keep English. I didn't even think about dropping Music! I'm a bit worried that the school will try and make me take psychology, but we'll have to see. I'm hoping to apply to uni next year for an Acting course. The possibility of getting into these courses is pretty low because of the amount of the applicants that apply, some Uni's is only 6%! Hopefully I'll be ok, but the audition process looks quite gruelling. Ah well, got a year to get there yet!

I'm going on a christian youth camp this sunday. Most of you will think like an actual 'camp' site, but its not quite like that. For the camp I'm going on we have a massive group of 13-17 year olds all going to a boarding school for the week and have a massive variety of activities throughout the week. I LOVE going to these camps. There isn't any 'open' christians in my year and all the youth at my church are 2 years or more younger than me, so it's pretty hard being a christian in my environment. Going to these camps has helped me make new friends, and I actually met my bestest friend through one of these camps! Even though most of them live far away, I still have an amazing relationship with all the people I meet there. It might sound boring to some people, but we do do some awesome activities such as going to a snow centre, rock climbing, going shopping in Oxford and loads of other stuff on site. We have amazing worship time and just get to talk to everyone and help people out. It's a pretty amazing week! There's so many different camps to choose from, all run by a charitable trust called Scripture Union.


If you click on the logo it will take you to their website where you can find out more information on what they do and the different services they provide. Going away next week does mean I wont be blogging for a week, but I'm sure i will come back with some great posts to be posting. If you have any questions or anything just post in the comments below, or if it's more personal leave a comment asking for my e-mail and I will get back to you!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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This is just a quick post to show you what I bought in Boots over the past few days. Boots in the UK is the equivalent of a drugstore if you're from the USA or outside of the UK. As I said in an earlier post I'm going on a christian youth camp (If you want to know what this camp is like, click here) so I needed a few holiday essentials and other bits and pieces with my favourite scents so here's what I bought:

This is my favourite dry shampoo. It's the Batiste Floral and Flirty Blush scented dry shampoo which costs £2.99. It's great for holidays especially when I'm going on a 'camp'.

Boots Extra firm hold hairspray - 85p - 75ml

Pack of black non-metal hair bands - unknown

These are my favourite impluses - Love puzzle and loving words. Normally £2 each but I got them both for £1 as they were half price. I always like to stock up when they're on offer as the love puzzle is limited edition. I used to love the new york scent they had but that was limited edition so eventually it couldn't be bought, but the loving words scent is very similar, so this is deffo my favourite!

Boots 17 blush brush - £3

Not massively interesting, but thought I'd show you what I've bought recently :)

Thanking you, 

Naomi

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Why, Hello there...

Thought you might be interested in my new back I've got for school and also for general use as well. I've spotted a number of owl printed satchels and backpacks all having the same design and also have the plastic covering, bit like Cath Kidsons range (not a very good description). They're all around £25-30 but I found this kind of dupe backpack in Brantano for only £14

As you can see it doesn't have the plastic coating like the other owl print bags do, but I prefer this version. Also It's more flexible which is great for school and putting all my books and folders in.

Hope this has given you some ideas for bags for school!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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Why, Hello there...

So, I finally got some MUA products! I only got 3 to see what they're like and maybe do a review on them as I've never used them before. These are the products I bought:

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This has to be one of the best/funniest buys I've ever bought! I went into a shop near me called 'Amazing Savings' which, if you don't have one near you, is just like 'It's A Gift' but sells everything. I was looking at their make-up/beauty section to see if they had any dupes of other products and low-and-behold, there was this product:

This is an EXACT dupe for Bourjois' Volumizer Mascara, which is normally £10.49 on-line at Boots. I got this one for £1.69. Yup, £1.69. The only difference is that its brand name is 'Aifeiya'. I tried researching it but I couldn't find a lot apart from another dupe they did of Maybelines volum' express colossal mascara and most of them were on foreign websites. 

The other thing I found is that the cheap version has a distict smell to it. I'm not sure whether It's a nice smell or not, or I'm just intoxicating myself, but if you have the original Bourjois it would be awesome if you could let me know what it's like! If you don't have a shop that sells the cheap version near you and would like one to do a comparison on both versions, or just want to try it, leave a comment on this post saying you would like one and I will get in contact to send you one! Look out for a review of this coming up soon!

Thanking you,

Naomi

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Why, Hello there... 

Quick post to tell you that I'm on youtube and I do covers. 

This is my most recent video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2OefBuapxI

that's all :)

Thanking you,

Naomi

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Why, Hello there...

So, I went to discover a new shopping park that has opened near me. It has a much bigger Primark compared to my local one (the main reason why I went) but it also has H&M, River Island, New Look and a bunch of small boutiques kind-of-layout in one big shop including Topshop and Miss Selfridge. I got most stuff from Primark but got a top from H&M as well, so here's what I got! 

Just a quick post to let you lovely's know that there's an on-line sale for body shops body butter for half price of most of the 200ml pots. I only get the body butters if they're on sale because they're quite expensive, so now is the time to stock up! My favourite smell is the Satsuma one, what's yours?

Thanking you,

Naomi

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2 posts in one day, doing pretty well m'thinks. 

This is just a very quick post appealing for you to follow this blog, yes that's you reading this now.

Someone needs to follow me! just one follower to kick it off! I don't know whether people cant follow me for some reason, but i really just want some followers :')

no one follows a blog with no followers at a glance because they assume its rubbish. I hope that my blog isn't rubbish. I know its early days and I know that some people have read some of my posts, so I just need someone to support and follow me.

thanking you, you lovely reader,

Naomi

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Quidco is an AMAZING site if you do a lot of on-line shopping, not just beauty/health/fashion, but even grocery shopping, film sites (Netflix, NOW TV e.c.t) and much more. I've been a member of Quidco for just over a year now, and although I don't do a massive amount of on-line shopping, Quidco has offers where you get cashback for completing free trials, so essentially they're paying you! 

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Just a brief post to share an AMAZING sale that's going on at the moment that I found.

MUA - exclusively to superdrug - is having a massive sale on its products starting from 50p! There's blushers and nail polishes for only £1 as well! I personally haven't used their products before and the prices are pretty low before the sale, which makes me think about their quality. Hopefully I will be able to purchase some of their items and let you know what I think, but if you're young and just starting to get into make-up, it seems like the perfect place to start. If you've tried any of MUA's products before,
let me know what they're like!

   http://www.muastore.co.uk/index.php/muasale 

Thanking you,

Naomi

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Why, Hello there...

I thought for my first actual beauty/fashion related post I would start with one that I can do fairly often or that can be done once a month. Charity shops are awesome. You can find some really good bargains and can sometimes find some familiar high-street labels for a lot less. Also you're doing your little bit for charity, which always makes you feel good. I used to work at my local 'Mind' charity shop so I got to see all the items that came through first and got first buy before they went out on the shop floor. 

These pieces are ones that I've had for a while from a variety of different charity shops, some of them I've actually never worn so I might be setting up an Ebay account to sell some of the items I buy, hopefully giving some of the money back to charity and the rest to running this blog (purchases, travelling out to buy thing, e.c.t). It's still very early days for this blog so we will have to see how it goes. Hopefully you will enjoy this post, please feel free to leave comments on whether you liked it or how to improve it!

thanking you,

Naomi 

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Dont forget to follow this blog!
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Why, Hello there...

So I guess this is my first post, this is scary....

Just wanted to let you lovelys know that I'm hoping to start doing 'official' posts about

beauty and such next week, its all very exciting!

If you want to know what kind of things I'll be posting, be sure to check out my 'About'

page to get a bit of background on what to expect.

Also if anyone could help me with developing this blog in terms of graphics and such,
 please 

contact me as I'm only a newbie on here and help would be muchly appreciated!

thanking you,

Naomi 

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