From Impulse, With Love x

Hiiii there!

My last blog post was about how much I loved Impulse's Sweet Smile, that was a few weeks ago and my love for it has only grown, it's delicious!

I looked up Impulse on Facebook and linked them to my blogpost. 

I love how you can just do that, just drop them a message about how much you love a product without having to be formal and go through emails and call centres!

We spoke back and forth and then they told me they'd send me a little freebie! 

See, this excites me, yes Impulse is £2 and does not break the bank but I was surprised and flattered! 

I expected one of those little ones to trial or something but actually it was a big fullsized version of my beloved Sweet Smile along with a lovely little note!!!

As Impulse is £1 at Boots at the moment I had actually bought one the same day before I came home to see the postman had delivered my freebie so I now should have enough for, oh I don't know 2 weeks at the rate I'm going through it.

A small token that I'm sure wouldn't put a dent in the bank of the #1 bodyspray name in the UK but means a lot to someone who adores the product like myself.

That is excellent customer service and ensures that I will buy more and more because I'm easy like that!

Top it off? My best friend had also joined in the conversation between Impulse and myself and she also got sent the same!

If that's not a company to support then I don't know what is!

Thank you Impulse for sending me another beautiful bottle of this scent, i love it as does my friend!

What do you think?

What companies do you get the best service from?

Anything super sweet like this?

Let me know!!

Impulse | Sweet Smile body spray review

Hey guys! 

First things first, blast from the past or WHAT?

Impulse reminds me of school days when you'd have it in your gym bag and spray far too much after P.E or that sensetive time before you're quite ready to wear deodrant so you get body spray instead.
Impulse made me feel grown up and girlie when I was a young teen, so for that reason it has a place in my heart and I love to give them a sniff every now and then.

I however, just stumbled across this one today!

On facebook the other day a poll popped up (you know on of those annoying sponsered ones that always get ignored) but as it was Impulse I took a look.

The poll asked what your favourite scent was so I answered with my signature Impulse fragrance which was O2, oh yeaaaaah!
Who remembers O2?

Oh my goodness I just googled O2 and here it is!

I really want to smell it now and see the memories it brings back, i only remember it being citrus and so overpowing! 

There was also a pink one that I cannot remember the name of but was oh so good!

Anyway, after that I really wanted to give them a sniff and see what was new, surprisingly the only one I got to was the one I bought, Sweet Smile!

Sweet Smile reminds me of a Victoria's Secret body mist. It's a delicious fruity floral that smells good enough to eat!

It describes itself as having Pear and Jasmine as the main notes but I don't actually smell them, it's so well made actually it all just blends together nicely!

I would spend serious money if this was a perfume, honestly, all that it's missing is smacking a princess crown on and calling it a Vera Wang, it's honestly that good.

This was £1.99 and it's so light to carry around it's got a permanent place in my handbag you see, I'm not one of these girls that can have a big heavy bag with a cutlery drawer and a whole toolbox inside, I'm just far too lazy to lug that crap around. 

I'm such a perfume girl and have more perfume than I need but this is really up there as a favourite right now. 

Even if you don't usually like body sprays go give this a try, it may even surprise you like it did me!!

I hope you're all find and dandy, I'm trying to get into Dawson s Creek as it's on Net flicks and so far so good, I love a bit of 90's cheese.

loveeeeee you 

Vera Wang Pink Princess Perfume NEW!

Vera Wang only just released the new Love Struck over here just the other week it seems but it's not quite enough for us perfume lovers to have just one release is it?

We will be, in the coming months, treated to another addition to the ever so popular and girlie Princess range with the new arrival of Pink Princess!

I don't have a photo nor can I find one online, but I so hope this is a cross between Preppy Princess and Glam Princess, personally the name has got me all excited as I love anything pink and girlie!

This should be out in a few weeks, possibly April I think!?

Are you guys excited? If you find any info please let me know!!!

with love

My current little loves

Hi beauties!

This is an odd post! It's nit a piece on what beauty products I love or anything like that, it's a little mixture!!

So away we go:

My cat Jasmine is so adorable, she's paticular about when and where she's soppy and it fools a lot of people into thinking she's a meanie but really shes a big softie, she just doesn't like to be bothered a lot of the time. We are cut from the same mold and I think thats why we get on so well
*meow*

Health Kick! I'm trying to lose some weight for summer, I want to be able to wear anything without worrying about my flabby arms and such. So I've been using My Fitness Pal (such a good app) and been basically eating grilled chicken and a hell load of veg every night, it's delicious!!

Unfortunatly, I've now had to cut these out, but woah, they're amazing!
I prefer the Orange but I could just polish off can after can of them, these are very yummy but so sickly sour I can steady myself more!
It's a shame they can only be bought in 6 packs because I just want to buy one as a cheeky treat but if I buy 6.... i will drink 6 *blush*

Wiiiiine! Woah when did I become a wino?
I'm a cocktail girl myself, my girls love their wine and I could always take it or leave it, but recently, I've just been wanting a nice glass of wine! Is it because Summers so so near or have I turned into a grown up?

Watching my cat instead of TV.
This is my other little lady, she's called Molly and shes as mad as a box of frogs. She's a bit pshyco and a bit troubled but also very sweet and teeeeny tiny. She's so clumsy bless her that it's more fun to watch her prowl sometimes than watch TV cause she's bound to fall or something then give you an embarrassed look! hahah!

Yummy! Pigs ears!!!

I saw these in tesco and got so incredibly grossed out I had to take a photo!
Pigs ears? Hey, I'm all for using every part of the animal you staughter you know, but this was just something else!
Poor little pups.

New mascara day, this is always a good time, I love ripping open new packaging and it being all fresh and new, can't describe the love.

Models Own Polishes!!! I love the headkandi range, my favorites are the bright orange here and the bright red on my nails there so I thought the blue would be great... wrong. If you want me to go in to it let me know, but honestly, it was a disappointment. However, the other 2 colours are to dieeee for!

I rediscovered my Mac Viva Glam Gaga lipstick!
It was date night and I had really heavy eye makeup on and I thought my usual lipstick wouldn't go so I trolled through my lipstick bag and found this and thought "Ooh would it go though"

and wow. It was JUST the colour I needed.
Oh you.

Oh letters, you're so drunk. Go home letters. Go home.

A photo taken after our valentines dinner, we were stuffed, fat and dying. Aw cute.

Yay! I love loving things.

Hope you all have a great weekend!! 

<3

Maybelline Colossal Smoky Eyes Mascara

Maybelline is one of my most trusted brands I've come to realise. 

I never thought too much about Maybelline and it's products, but then I realised the foundations I've loved and swore by for the last 5 years have all been Maybelline. My first mascara was the Great Lash mascara and I've repurchased that about, oh I don't know, a million times in my day?!

But as I started earning my own money and working amongst other brands I branched out and tried Yves Saint Laurent mascara, L'oreal and also found a new favourite and settled for a while with Boujouis Glamour mascara!

Unhappy about having to pay £11 every 2 months for my Boujouis Glamour fix, I really just had an urge to try this one.

I remember it coming out when I was younger and my friends sister had the orignial one. She said how great it was but when I compared the price (roughly £9 when I was paying £4.99 for my great lash) I never ever thought I would be able to afford it, aw youth.

So since this one is meant to be all dark and smoky, I thought i'd give it a try!

The wand is a natural bristle brush which i feel is good if you already have quite full lashes, it just helps to give it that extra oomph.

so here i did a swatch of the Colossal Smoky eyes on the left and Maybellines other popular mascara Falsies on the right to see if it was any darker or smoky.

Judge yourselves, i think it's pretty the same though...

(by the way I really dislike falsies :( )

My eye with nothing on my lashes at all.

Here I curled my eyelashes for 9 seconds with just a cheapy H&M eyelash curler

With a few coats of Maybelline Colossal Smoky Eyes Mascara!

I'm quite a fan, I really like the look it gives my lashes.

I do feel it doesn't hold a curl so much and it would be a good idea to take the tube out and about with you and throughout the day just top up a bit here and there, but that's something I can live with.

I feel that for me, this is good every day, at night I could use darker colours and make it more smoky but for daytime it's just dramatic enough. 

The last time I went out for a meal with friends I went to put my false lashes on and then realised that with this mascara I don't feel I need any, so I put them down and just went out with this on! 

Plus people have been asking if I have falsies on anyway, result!

I really recommend this mascara, I believe its £7.99 and you will find it anywhere there is a Maybelline stand!

Go run, go, quick go get it!

Have you tried this?

What is your favorite mascara??

xoxo

Soap And Glory Best Of All Gift Set

Gather round Soap and Glory fans, this is the ultimate treat! Priced at £60 it would be quite the splurge, the items alone tot up to £69, however, I didn't pay £60, nowhere near. 

This will set you back.... £27!!!

Yes, take a moment, how good is that?

This is boots offer of the week, and wow is it the best one yet. 

I love love love Soap and Glory body care. The scent, the packaging, it's spot on.

I'll now tell you what comes inside...

Clean On Me RRP £5.50

This I think is their top seller, its a creamy moisturising body wash. The scent is their original fragrance which is what got them pretty well known, it's yummy!

The bottle is 500ml and has a handy pump so you'll never waste any as it only dispenses what you need. Oh perfect.

Sugar Crush RRP £8

This is what got me the most excited, I love their new smell of Lime and Sugar. It's in their new body wash of the same name and I just love it. This is a body exfoliater which not going to lie, I don't need at the moment as I have my Soap & Glory Flake Away on the go, but hey, it's scrummy and I can't wait to try it!

The Righteous Butter RRP £10.50

This again is one of their best sellers, it was featured on How To Look Good Naked a few years ago and sold pretty smoothly  Personally I've had a few of these in the past, ones I've bought myself then been given as gifts etc and I never finish them, I'm quite lazy and hardly moisturise after a bath so they get used for a few days then the novelty wears off and they get forgotten, sad! It smells like Clean On Me but much stronger, so I think thats also why I don't get on with it, a bit overpowering for me, but when I have used it it's proven to be a great product!

Hand Food RRP £5

Oooh, hand cream isn't in my routine, I have quite soft hands which people compliment me on and I'm scared if i get my hands used to hand cream they'll stop doing their thing and rely on the cream! But in the past I've used this and its the only one i will use is i ever need to. It smells lovely and has marshmallow in. Oh yummy, try not to eat it, you'll want to.

Smoothie Star £10

This is a body milk so it's not as thick as the butter so I'd probably use this more, it smells sickly sweet but I kind of like that! I've not tried this one before as I think its quite new but I really love the packaging on this one! Again its the pump so it's clean and simple!

Heel Genius £5.50

This smells nothing like S&G have done before, it's got menthol in and you can really tell! I'm not one for foot creams, do you put socks on over it? do you just not go anywhere till its soaked in? if you do wear socks will the cream wash out or will they be ruined?
Too many questions for me to use this product confidently, haha!

Peaches and Clean £7

The only facial skin care there is in the pack! I adore the name, it's super cute. I could have thought of a better facial skincare product as last year they put in wipes which are always handy! But I love trying out new things!

Sexy Mother Pucker £9

A sexy hot pink plumping lipgloss! The colour is in Punch Bowl and smells like chocolate, oh yum!

This has a plumping action so you feel it tingling and it makes you all pouty! 

This is their top selling make up item so no wonder they put it in there!

Thick & Fast £10

This mascara has a HUGE brush, it's quite scary, I would imagine it would be "thick and fast" as i bet you only need a few sweeps over your lashes and they'll be done!
Perfect if you're short on time! I wish the tube was cuter, but hey ho!

It also comes with some coupons for S&G in the new year such as extra points when you spend £10 (like you'll run out by march when they expire) or money off certain products. 

You get given both a Pound side of coupons and a Euro side so I'm going to make good use and find someone to mail the Euro side to, seems a waste for me to just chuck them!

So wow, for £27, who thinks its worth it??

What I'm going to do is give a few of these as gifts, splitting it up is such value for money and I even get to keep a few, is that naughty??

This is on offer till next Friday so Thursday 20th is the last day you can buy it, but honestly, it'll be gone by then. It's already sold out on the website and it just went on offer this morning! If you see it in your boots don't leave thinking you'll buy it in a few days, I've seen worse offers run out. 

Who's going to be buying this?

I'm off to have a pink retro gorgeous bath

love love love

The Body Shop Strawberry Body Butter

The body shop isn't usually somewhere I go into, personally it's a lot of money. A body moisturiser for over £10 isn't the one. My favourite moisturiser is Palmers cocoa butter which is about £5 and it smells divine as I'm sure you all know, so I usually just go for that. 

However, after my operation i felt a little worse for wear, so I ordered some feel better items, I'd had my eye on this strawberry hand sanitiser for a while and since I had a 40% off coupon I felt it a perfect time to indulge.

I'd also wanted this yummy strawberry butter for a while too, when I do go into The Body Shop the strawberry section has this gravitational pull on me, but as I said, it was over £10... nuhno usually - but with my coupon I believe it was about £7, yay! 

The delivery took for-bloody-ever, like 5 days when I paid £2.99 (it went down to £1.99 the day after, hmmm...) but alas, it arrived and I was as happy as a clam covered in butter!

It's a little greasy so I can't use it on my hands as it drives me craaaazy but on elbows and knees i'm sure it will do just fine, plus, it smells like strawberry sweeties. Yummy Yum Yum!!!

What's your favourite Body Shop smell??

xoxo

Juicy Couture La La

Excuse me, I haven't stopped screaming since I saw this!
Juicy Couture have a new fragrance everyone!!
As a big Juicy fan I am buzzing about this, I have had all of them in the past but wasn't too in love with the new Viva La Fleur which I was quite disappointed with as I so thought i'd swoon and lets not go there with Peace, Love... just no!

Viva La Juicy is my signature as I love sweet edible fragrances and the caramel note in Viva is just divine!

This however, isn't based on the Viva La Juicy range but will be more of a modern take on the 2006 original Juicy Couture.
Now, this can only mean good things as although I grew to, lets say like, the original it still was never a Original Juicy Couture kinda day as it was just too mature for me, this will be much fruitier and although will still feature musk, hopefully it's life won't depend on it.

The bottle itself is amazing, I love the rose juice and the crown its wearing along the bow, I already know it will look right at home next to my Viva La Juicy and my Couture Couture on my dresser!

I love everything about La La! The name, the bottle, the notes... everything!!

This is of course out in america first late November 2012 but with any luck they'll bring this Diva over the pond soon cause us Juicy girls need to meet her too!

What do you think, gorgeous right??

Whats your favourite Juicy scent??

As always,

No7 Perfect Match made foundation thingy ma jig!

Hellooo there!! I've been meaning to write about this forever! I learnt about this magic machine back in April but could not say anything so I'm so excited to tell everyone who maybe does not know!
No7 is a brand from Boots stores, it's their top selling cosmetics and has won so many prizes, you may have heard of their protect & perfect serum (which is amazing) which sold out minutes after it's launch!

This clever machine claims to match your natural skin tone to one of the No7 Foundation colours, and oh boy does it!

So this is the machine in question! I was told it's a device... not a machine. Righto, it's still a machine though, device sounds like a probe!!
It's so simple to use, once calibrated you take off a small area of foundation (if you're wearing any) and simply place the camera part over your skin, take a picture and repeat with the other side, then it will give you an average colour!
You know it's a good match as they use a traffic light system, Green will appear if its perfect, yellow if it's a good match and red to basically say No! Try again! Ha!

So my sister was dying to get measured so whilst out shopping we popped into Boots and just asked for the service, she was sat down, & actually I wasn't too happy with the Consultants manner and knowledge of the products but boots are usually really good so don't take that as be all end all! 

She was matched up and given the right shade and sent away happy with her correct shade because I had a £5 No7 off voucher, woo!

The consultant measured her but as she went to find the colour I made her take a photo haha! 

could not resist a pose, what are we like?!

Anyway, I myself got measured when I was went to a whole day about it and I even got given a full size bottle to take away with me of my perfect colour!

 So I got given the stay perfect range, which isn't actually my favourite, I would have picked either the Beautifully Matte or the Lift and Luminate which is meant for over 40's but is just such a gorgeous coverage! This however is supposed to last the day, which to me it doesn't but maybe it does last longer than others, I'm not too sure as mine never tend to last!

I got matched to Cool Vanilla, personally I would have preferred Warm Vanilla as this is the second palest and I do like something a bit warmer. I was given the option of taking home the one I preferred, but for reviewing the machine purposes, I wanted to go with the one it recommended!

The things I do for you people ;)

Hey ho, photo of the bottle.

it's soooo paleee *cries*

Naughty me, testing it on my hand, don't shout at me, we all do it! I mainly do it for constancy and to pre-test it almost! This is quite a runny liquid but as you rub it in it does go creamier, I would so suggest putting this on with fingers as it's just too runny for a sponge or brush!

So here i am putting it on my face lalala it's going to be pale theres no way this will ma-

Oh holey moley the thing bloody works, how does that match my skin!?!? Well I'll be dammed!

Yes, apparently I am the second from palest after all. It takes a bit of getting used to wearing your natural shade cause thats what this is all about. Natural! After a few uses I agree that this suits me, however, I would still prefer the warmer one. Why? Just because :(

If you're interested in this service, it's free!!!!!

Go into Boots and just ask "Hi i've heard about this foundation match, Is someone able to measure my skin please?" and before you know it you'll be sitting in that chair being amazed at how you lived without it.

If you're worried that they'll give you a natural colour that you think is a bit pale, i'm sure they'll be fine finding a warmer shade for you. I've done that myself no worries, they understand that you want something to give you a bit more colour. Don't be afraid to ask!!

So there is that wonderful thing, want to know something even more cool? No7 has it exclusive for a whole year, so maybe next year other counters will have it but for now, if you wanna experience it, Boots is the only place which to me, is pretty fancy!

Let me know if you've been matched! What did you think?!

Love

this was not sponsored at all, I work for No7 but I am always completely honest just as i am with my customers! I would never say something was amazing when it's not and I did not get paid for writing this, although who thinks I should!!? haha xo