Sorry that I haven't blogged for a while but I've been SO busy with work and general lifeness that I haven't had a spare moment to just sit down and write something meaningful and interesting, until today of course!
Today's blog post is a very exciting one, well for me anyway. Thursday night I went to the Glitz and Glamour event night at my local Debenhams store in Cheltenham High Street with my friends. I'd never been to anything like that before so I was very excited especially as there was 15% off all make up and skincare products, double the excitement for someone like me who has never used high end products before! It was such a lovely evening, there were refreshments and a raffle as well as a catwalk previewing all their designer Christmas outfit looks.
Now, I'm not going to lie I went a little bit crazy. At first there was nothing I wanted and nothing seemed to be catching my eye until my friend pointed out the Clarins skin care range. Clarins has always been a brand that has intrigued me as everyone really rates it, and I always hear nothing but good things about it from bloggers (Tanya Burr mentions it A LOT in her blog posts and videos). I picked up quite a few bits from the Clarins counter such as the Daily Energizing Cleansing Gel as gel cleansers are my absolute favourites and it smells like orange, one of my favourite scents. The cleanser is from their radiance boosting line which I was automatically drawn to, as I am with anything to do with radiance boosting. I also picked up a few other items such as the Blemish Control Roll On (my friend has assured me this is the best product for getting rid of nasty blemishes; fingers crossed it works!).
For Christmas my friend was desperate for the limited edition The Essentials Eye Make up Palette from Clarins. Unfortunately Debenhams had sold out almost instantly but luckily the very lovely Clarins girl said that she would ring Boots which is just down the road and reserved one. Trying to make me spend EVEN more money than I had already spent in Debenhams, my friend reserved me one too. Now, I'm not overly keen on eye shadow and I'm ashamed to say I own a few but never ever wear them. Eye shadow is a little out of my comfort zone or it was until I saw this palette. It's the most beautiful neutrals palette and contains a nice selection of matte, satin and shimmer shadows. I did end up buying it, once I saw it there was no way I could leave it in the shop and it is limited edition so it was a 'do or die' or 'now or never' kind of moment! What makes it even better is it costs £35 which I think is pretty good and you do get what you pay for and more, but I didn't spend a penny on it as I used my Boots points to buy it! (Yeah I had £51 worth; corrrrr blimey!).
Now, I expect you are all waiting for a picture of this beautiful palette. HA. Sorry guys, you're not getting one in this post purely because I don't want it to be monstrously long and boring for you so what I will do is a separate blog post with pictures, swatches and maybe some mini reviews of EVERYTHING I bought that day; how exciting!
Don't forget to look out for my next blog post with all the pictures and exciting stuff!
Thanks for reading loves,
Georgie
xxx
