Tina's Blog

Sorry!

2011-09-12T00:56:00.001+01:00

Hi guys!
Sorry i haven't blogged in so long! I am back again though and in the next week or so i will have a MAC haul for you and will do a couple of reviews :)
If you have any requests please leave a comment and let me know!
Today i was going to buy some more makeup but i stopped myself and i've decided on a few bits that i'd really like to get next pay day/when i go to London for the weekend and i thought i'd let you know what these are ;)

1st off is the Urban Decay Naked Palette... (unsuprisingly :)

I've just only recently decided that i MUST have it... it's so expensive though its about £35 but it sounds worth it... so i'm just gonna buy it when i feel crappy or something lol :)

The 2nd product is the Blush Bronzer and Highlighter Trio from Nars it's £40 .. but looks so worth it as you get 3 top face products in a handy pouch for a smaller price and i've always wanted Orgasm and Laguna!

The 3rd product is also from Nars.. it's the Turkish Delight Lipgloss... It's about £20 something and it just looks like such a gorgeous and easy colour to wear... and loads of people talk about it on YouTube so why not!!

The 4th products are candles by Slatkin & Co., the hot chocolate and mint choc chip have become VERY appealing to me recently.. i think i'm gonna have to buy some from the US via Ebay or something cause we dont have any bath and body works in the UK or i'll have to wait until i've saved up lots of money to go to New York.... :( which sounds very hard! haha. I think theyre about $20 not sure though :) i wish Yankee Candle did these scents!!

Philosophy products are also looking pretty amazing recently.......Hmmm.....

By the way sorry none of these are my photos credit goes to all the people who took or used these photographs!

Anyway, thanks for reading my blog!

I will be writing for you more soon :)

Tina x

The A-Z of me :)

2011-07-23T02:15:00.000+01:00

Age: 18

Bed Size: Single

Chore you Hate: Washing up or Gardening

Dogs: Springer spaniel called Rocky

Essential start of your day: a Cup of Tea!

Favourite Colour: Pink Purple Orange Yellow Green :)

Gold or Silver: Hmmm Silver..

Height: 5'5?? i don't know.

Instruments I play: Erm... Recorder?

Job Title: Sales Assistant

Kids: Nope i'm only 18 lol

Live: Dorset...

Mum's name: Stephanie

Nickname: Tina, Tinarr, Tinerr, Weener, Tuna, Tintin, Tontoe

Pet Peeve: People who brag too much and think their better than others.

Quote from a movie: come back. come back to me.

Right or left handed: Right handed.

Siblings: Brother ben - 27

years old

Time you wake up: it depends what i'm doing that day.

Underwear: erm what about it? haha.

Vegetables you dislike: courgettes.. cabbage..

What makes you run late: putting on makeup or my parents! haha

X-rays you've had done: teeth, feet, stomach

Yummy food you make: Chicken & rice, spaghetti bolognase,

Zoo animal: Pandas!!

Avon, ELF & Drugstore Haul.

2011-07-22T02:34:00.000+01:00

Hey guys! :) Hope your all well.
I've got quite a big haul for you today..i went a bit crazy but some of it i did need and most of the things i bought were with good prices! Oh and by the way these are all the things I'm buying before my project 10 pan which starts now (except for things i need like skincare etc!) :) Please comment below this blog post if you would like to ask any questions about the following products etc or if you would like a review! :)

I'm going to start off with the things i ordered from Avon a few weeks back. I took the chance and bought this Avon Solutions Complete Balance Day Mattifier with SPF 15. It was £5.50, i really like the packaging and it smells quite nice as well. I have been using this for a couple of days and to be honest i think it's just a plain old basic moisturiser, it doesn't seem to have made much difference but then again i shouldn't make too much of a judgement as i haven't been using it long enough. I also got a free watch with this product which i forgot to photograph but its bright blue and i really like it! :)

The next product is the Foot works Odour Neutralising Foot Spray. This was £2.50 and i think it smells nice and pepperminty. The other product is the Foot works Super Softening Balm, which is to my surprise transparent when i used it last night but it seems very concentrated so you don't need to use too much! but its also a really nice product as my heels still feel nice and soft :) Along with too foot product purchases, there was an offer to get some free 'Honolulu' Flip flops which i also forgot to photograph but there very nice for a free product anyhow! :)

Next up is Avon Nailwear Pro in Deluxe Chocolate. I got this nail polish for £3, and it's a gorgeous chocolate brown colour with gold/bronze flecks of shimmer or glitter in it but unfortunately when i tried to apply it to my fingernails, it was very streaky and i really hated the application of it so i just removed it and chose a different colour, i am really disappointed with it but think I'm going to try it again sometime again soon.

The last thing i bought from Avon was the Senses 'Summer Breeze' Shower Gel. It was £1.50 for 250ml and i really like the smell of this it's really tropical and fruity i recommend it although i haven't used it yet as i have too many other shower gels to use!

Now onto ELF! :)

The first product which i knew i definitely wanted was the High Definition Powder, it was £6 and I'm really impressed with it, its so soft and silky and just blends straight into your face and seems to be quite good at holding back the oiliness.

The second product i bought was the ELF Studio Powder Brush which has a flat top and is meant to be very good for applying liquid foundation, i tried it this morning for this and i have to say i prefer to just use it for powder like it's intended. I really like this brush its so soft and it was only £3.50! :) I'm very happy and may have to buy more in the future!

The other brush i bought from ELF was the Studio Stipple Brush. This brush was also £3.50 and I'm really impressed, its also very soft and i love applying my foundation with it.

The next item is an ELF Studio Blusher, and i got one in the shade 'Candid Coral' this was also £3.50 and I'm quite happy with the colour its very natural although quite shimmery, almost too shimmery, i wish i had gotten Peachy Keen or Fuchsia Fusion but they'll just have to go on my wish list for next time :)

I also bought a Brightening Eyeshadow Quad in Butternut, it's not the most pigmented thing in the world but its very nice to have for travelling especially for when i sleepover my boyfriends and its got some really pretty neutral shades in it. It only cost £1.50 :) and I'm definitely going to get a few more!

I also purchased the normal 'eye primer' by ELF it cost £1.50 and so far i am really impressed, it seems better than Too Faced Shadow Insurance which i have been using recently and is nearly of standard to the Urban Decay Primer Potion in my opinion :) Although i do believe the consistency is slightly liquidy/watery more than UDPP and Too Faced Shadow Insurance, but still a excellent price!

The last product i bought from ELF was the Studio Matte Lip Colour in 'Natural' it was £3.50, so far i love the colour but am having difficulty wearing it as its so matte but i feel i need to buy a lip scrub soon to make it easier because even though i am always applying lip balm, i do have quite dry lips.

Moving on to my most recent shopping trip, i decided to pay a visit to TKMaxx as i hadn't been there for a while and i love looking through and picking out the once highly priced premium brands that they sell so cheap like Stila. To my surprise when i was looking through the products, i found 3 Essie nail polishes which to be honest, i have never seen the brand Essie in real life so i got highly excited, there was a dark blue/black colour, a bright pink and a nude colour, to which i purchased the nudey colour called 'Iced Chai Latte' i really love the colour but unfortunately the colour is really translucent but anyhow I'm gonna try it out and build up the layers of it. The nail polish cost me £6.99 and it says the RRP was £9.94.

I also spotted a twin pack of the 'Intensively Glossy Rescue Treatment' from the Scandalous range by James Brown London, these are both 100ml and i managed to get them for a terrific price of £2.99 with a RRP of £5.60, I've used this treatment before when i got it free in a magazine and it worked great so i thought why not seeing as i was running out of my Aussie 3 Minute Miracle :)

The last purchase from TKMaxx, was the Nars Sheer Matte Foundation. I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this! There was two shades available one of them was really dark and the other was 'Siberia - Light1' to which i thought perfect seeing as i always seem to have to get the lightest shade of any foundation i buy. You won't believe the price i got this foundation for! The RRP is £29.50 and i managed to get it for a amazing bargain price of £7.99!!!!! I thought i was dreaming when i saw the price, i am soooo happy with this purchase. When i got home i tried the shade on my skin tone i found it was a little light for me, but i figure it will be great for winter and i can mix it up with my other foundations to make it the perfect colour :)

After my visit to TKMaxx, i took a little visit to Superdrug. I was looking for a cheap and compact face pressed powder because i can't carry round my ELF High Definition powder all the time as its too big. So i decided to go for the MUA pressed powder, and they had sold out of shade 1 unfortunately but shade 2 seemed light enough for me so i went ahead and bought the £1 goodie:)

The next 2 products i bought from Superdrug was the GOSH waterproof eye shadow in 'Love That Gold' which was on offer for £2.99 i thought it was a great price and would be nice for basic neutral eye make up and i aslo bought the Herbal Essences Ignite My Colour 'Vibrant Colour Intensive Mask', yes i know i already bought some hair rescue treatments but as this was priced at £1.95 i thought this was an amazing price for the 200ml that you get which is the same as the James Brown products i bought.

Sorry my swatches aren't very good! They will get better :)

I purchased another nail polish for £2.99 from Boots also, the shade is 'Chateau' by the 17 brand and its a shimmery red with orange tones in it. I love it! :)

I also picked up a few essentials from Wilkinsons, like ear buds which cost around 40p and some cotton wool pads which were about 60p and last but not least i got some Magnetic earrings from Claire's, they were priced at £6.50 but for some reason the sales assistant only charged me £3! i was very happy about that and i think their sooo cute! :)

I know its a massive haul but i am feel it was very successful and I'm not going to be shopping for a long time especially since I've just started project 10 pan :) I also received a giveaway prize today in the post from Scottish Fine Soaps which i will share with you later on next week. Don't forget to let me know if you want any reviews, etc:)

Thanks for reading!

Tina xoxo

Project 10 Pan

2011-07-19T22:38:00.001+01:00

Hey! long time no blog! haha :)
I received a few comment on my makeup storage post, which is nice to see so thank you! although i have changed my makeup storage now seeing as it's grown LOL :) sorry i haven't done my haul from holiday in Valencia which was back in April 2010.. I don't remember really what i bought anymore lol. But anyhow Im making a fresh start i guess you could say, Im gonna try and blog more about beauty and makeup products, seeing as those are the things which i love the most :)

I decided (10 minutes ago..) that I'm going to do a project 10 pan after I'm finished shopping in town after work tomorrow (hehe, i need to check out collection 2000, bourjious, sleek, tk maxx(stila), beautyuk, MUA and i need to look in La Senza (sale on knickers!) and pick up some magazines, leggings and... i really need a lip scrub!! haha any idea if there is any in boots or superdrug?! OH and i need to look at all the deals ha :))
BUT i am definitely not going to buy any body or face moisturisers or any body sprays!! I have far too many and i really need to use them all up! oh and deodorant and soaps for hands lol.
I'm going to keep trying to use up everything and if i use a few things up i shall update u all on here!
I know its going to be really hard for me seeing as i love ordering from Avon and i got my first order from ELF this morning :S (very impressed by the way! haul/review on the way soon!)

Has anyone got any tips for sticking to project 10 pan i feel as though its gonna be very hard to do! haha.
Also could you comment with any suggestions for what you would like to see on my blog?

Thanks for reading!
Tina x

NEW Makeup Storage!

2010-06-15T18:21:00.000+01:00

Hey guys, i bought 2 lots of 3 white drawer mini storage drawers from eBay last week, they were about £15 all together for my makeup storage, they are actually smaller than i anticipated and the image makes them look bigger.. so i am a bit disappointed but oh well, theyre still good storage, even if i have to put some makeup i dont use much somewhere else!

Here some photos of how i set it out. :

Overview

The drawers:)

Foundations & Brushes

Mascaras

Lip products

Eyeshadow Singles

Face products (bronzer, concealers, blushers)

Small eyeshadow palettes/trios..etc.

Tools etc.. Eyeshadow primer, eye lash curlers, blotting paper & false eyelashes

A few eyeshadow palettes, i cant fit in them :/

Box of makeup i cant fit in the drawers.. in another drawer ha.

ME =D

Byebye.... next post will be haul from Valencia!! eek..

love you all..xxxx

Hauls

2010-06-15T18:11:00.001+01:00

Hey! so i just wanted to show you a few things i've bought lately! :) im still editing my valencia holiday photos, so i shall be posting some of them on here and deviantart next week. :) Also a few random ones. I finish college on thursday! so yeah looking forward to seeing Green Day on saturday then i go away to Cornwall for 4/5 Days then after a week i go to Venice! (2-9th July) then home and nothing until my birthday! :) yay! gotta love summer!

Pre-Holiday Haul (Primark, newlook etc..:)

This hairspray is soo good! i love the smell of it aswell :) Boots

My new foundation - bourjois healthy mix in light vanilla :) i really like the coverage of it. need more actually! ha. Boots

New Tankini :P M&S

New purple tank, i love the colour of it! New Look

New pearly white cardigan, very fragile but great for summer weddings! New Look

New denim shorts! New Look

Basic black sandals, they've got little studs on them. New Look

New flowery vest! Primark

I didn't even get a chance to wear these.. they broke when i tried them on...ladder resist my arse!! M&S

Great value travel kit! :) Primark

Cute makeup bag:) H&M

Great coral nail polish for £2! Primark

Cute necklace - H&M

Makeup brush from H&M

Crap & broken makeup brush from Primark

Crap eyeshadow palette - Primark

Cute hair grips - H&M

False eyelashes - H&M

Accessorize

Haul from Primark mostly! :)

Pink flats! - Primark (i also got them in purple)

Primark

Black ribbed skirt.. new look

Primark :)

Primark blush:)

Primark

New look <3

Primark :) Sundress!

PJ Shorts Primark

So yeah, i bought a few more things but they're not as interesting! Next i'll be posting my new makeup storage & what i bought from Valencia:)

Ta for reading, xoxo

Where have i been?!

2010-04-30T17:45:00.000+01:00

I've been away for what seems like forever.. I did'nt even get to update with my fashion haul in the first week of April - i will post photos soon though! and then i went to Valencia with my boyfriend for a week which turned into TWO weeks due to the ash cloud thingyy so i need to put some photos of that up for y'all :) and then ive been away for another week with my college classmates to Devon! :) It's all been superfun. So will update asap with photos :)

Tina xoxo

Shopping!!

2010-03-25T16:29:00.006Z

Been looking at things to buy for my pre-holiday shopping trip next week :) Here's a list into what i've chosen or looking to get :

Beach/Summer Dresses
Gladiator Sandals
Wedges
Swimsuit
Shorts/Skirts
Skin Colour Tights
Necklace/Bracelet
Cardigan/Jumper
Wallet/Purse
Foundation

:) So heres some photos of particular clothing i'm liking and thinking of buying if i can find it! :P ha.

All from M&S, Accessorize, Dorothy Perkins, New Look and Topshop.

So yeah, hopefully get different things aswell, REALLY loving that black stud wallet and the jewellery i chose:) Will update after i go shopping to show you what i actually got! hehee.

Hope your well :)

xoxo

Enter this giveaway!

2010-03-18T16:08:00.000Z

There's a great giveaway on Nikki's Nails blog, you can win 2 jessica nail polishes, a makeup bag, a no17 eyeshadow in a gorgeous colour, a no7 body wash, a black chainmail cosmetic bag, a tinkerbell phone charm and a sally hansen lip gloss! sounds good, right? :) Go here and enter! you know you want to :) xoxo

Valentines Day/Playing With Camera

2010-03-08T22:17:00.000Z

This is gonna be a random post…
I'm not sure I mentioned before but i'm going to Valencia in April with my boyfriend!! :) Its very exciting, we're hoping to go to the famous aquarium that's there, and it has dolphins!!! Which is soooo exciting I've never seen them before:) eeekeeekekekekeeeeee.

Anyway, I never got to blog about Valentine's Day either!
Me & my boyfriend went for a small lunch at a fish & chip restaurant (lol) it was very yummy so yeah then he bought me some lovely purple tulips...

Which now look like this... :(

Ah well, they went soo big & I enjoyed seeing very everyday.. :)

So after that, we went back to mine & gave each other cards then we watched '500 days of summer' which he bought me on DVD :) I love this film and I don't think he ever believed me as to how good it was until we watched it together :)

I've been thinking a lot about my 18th joint birthday party in august lately, and started looking for a dress to wear but haven't found many I love yet… I will post some later in the week.

I can't think of much else to say except we are doing a documentary at college now, we just gave in an essay to our theory lecturer, which was a hit and miss for me, but a good and suprising thing was the results I got for my vodcast which I hated, I actually got Distinctions for it!! It was a bit like WTH? Lol. so yeah i'm happy whatever:)

Went to a wedding fayre at a castle the other day to help my dad with his exhibit, I saw the fashion show was gorgeous dresses and the flower arrangements god, I can't wait to arrange my own wedding, it will be like heaven to me haha.

Anyway, on a last note, i'm going to see the new Alice in Wonderland film on Wednesday with my boyfriend, in 3D of course! Looks amazing, hopefully it lives up to my long awaited expectations:)

So here's some random photographs I took recently when I was boreeeed....

(Oh Edward Cullen!!!, haha)

Who knew a dead cabbage could be so interesting to photograph lol.

Soap!!

Bertie the bunny :) :) :) cutiee.

Amazing song I can't stop listening too :)

So yea, theirs my quick 3 posts haha. sorry they took so long!! Will be updating later in the week :)

Byebyeeeee.

xoxo

LUSH

2010-03-08T21:48:00.002Z

I went to lush, not long ago, so here's what I bought… :)

Magic mushroom bubble bar, I haven't used it yet cos it smells too good.

Blackberry bath bomb, I used this the other day its smells so good.

Butterball bath bomb, also smells nice, its meant to be very moisturising so looking forward to using it.

Each peach and two's a pear massage bar, smells very citrus and i got a free tin cos i bought another massage bar

Soft couer massage bar I also got, it smells sooo good - like chocolate and caramel/toffee I love it, probably my favourite.

Honey trap lip balm, seems okay, not as good as Vaseline though :P

Honey i washed the kids, it's actually chopped up here, and i swear i wasn't charged for the amount she gave me haha oh well :) its lush. ;D

Helping hands hand cream, doesn't smell amazing but it's relatively good for the hands lol :)

Here's some free products the staff decided to give me lol.

Toner tabs, i don't really understand how to use them but Hey! they were free so who cares? :P

Ultra bland cleanser sample, might try it soon, its meant to be good at removing make up as well.

The Blonde Solid Shampoo... i'm so glad I got this free I would be very disappointed if I'd actually spent money on this, it's so baaaad! I hated it on my hair, :/ don't buy this ok!! :)

I forgot to include this product on my previous post so here it is lol :)

Yes! it's the erase paste from Benefit, I got it for a bargain price on eBay and so far, i'm very impressed.

Oh! & here's a makeup palette my mother gave me recently since she doesn't use make up very often…

It includes a bronzer, 4 eye shadows and 2 lip colours, overall the products are crap but whatever it looks pretty:)

Anyway, that's all those products, i'm going to do a random post next so yeah hope you enjoy:)

xoxo

08.03.2010:)

2010-03-08T21:25:00.000Z

Hello, sorry I've been away for a while… been busy, but i'm back! :)

Just a few products I've bought lately & loved…

Firstly the 4 nail polishes I purchased from ASDA, yes… ASDA! Haha, they were £1.50 each (with the exception of the grey which was 75 pence, no idea why! :)

I got 4 colours as you can see : bright blue, lavender violet, grey & a mint green. Their actual names are from left to right are : 'Cloudless Sky', 'Be Mine', 'Rain Cloud' & 'Streamer'.

They seemed quite reasonable for their price, and I would say they lasted about a week without massive chipping but the consistency of the polish is quite thick and gloomy but hey can't complain really! :) I tried to get pastel colours and a grey as you can see but ended up getting a bright blue cos it appealed to me a lot.

Last week, I got the Panda necklace!! :) yay, it arrived in about 2 weeks from China and came in a little interesting box.

I just think it's really cool all the Chinese postage stamps etc. ha :) So here's what the final products looks like!!

eeeek! I'm so happy with it:) I think it was a bargain and although I don't wear it everyday like I thought I would, its still a nice necklace, I wish I could wear it everyday but it doesn't go with everything lol.

Make-up wedges…

Rosy lips Vaseline, I love it! :)

I got the Aussie hair colour range… :) I love it.

The Rimmel Stay Matte powder i use like everyday lol

Babyllis 'you curl' curlers I got from eBay - bargain!

I got some new earphones from amazon because I mislaid my apple ones, these were cheaper, they're coloured!! And they seem to be better audio quality :) v.happy with them.

Urban Decay Primer Potion! Its essential to be honest…

Eye shadow quad from Maybelline, bronzey/gold colours, I love it although their not very pigmented.

Plain black tank from New Look

Purple/blue top from New Look - colour is gorgeous!

Some samples i got before to make sure i wanted to buy the full size ha =D

I picked up this Revlon Matte blusher, in number 2 blushing berry, it's such a nice colour and ive kinda used it everyday since I got it.

Gold/Red heart necklace from Accessorize, so simple yet gorgeous!

Purple chain bracelet thingy with elephant charm, my best friend has one like it but with a hand ! :P

Got these to be quicker but I don't like them haha they're weird… :)

Recent nail polish… its crap! haha, it chips very easily :/

As you can see… lol

Anyway yeah so theirs a taster of some things I've bought recently, i'm going to do 2 other posts seeing as I've not been blogging for so long! :) so yeah look out for the next one, lol.

xoxo.

90210!

2010-02-09T21:20:00.002Z

The title is 90210 cos it refers to the date and also 90210 is on channel 4 tonight yay! What a weird coincidence! I love that show though, Liam is gorgeous, and Silver & Naomi are STUNNING!

So yeah, it's the last week of college before half term - who's excited? I am! Half term means money, shopping, Valentine's Day, boyfriend time, relaxing.. :) its gonna be gorgeous. Im planning to buy lots of things with my EMA bonus that I should be getting soon including…

Urban Decay Primer Potion

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JVC Gumy Headphones

No idea what colour yet...

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Some OPI nail polish..maybe in 'go on green' like above

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The famous panda necklace on a previous blog post..

Vera Wang 'Princess'

It's my favourite perfume, but I ran out of it a while ago… going to try and buy it online and cheaper, it's such a cute scent!

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MAC Concealer

I've heard these are meant to be good, obviously I don't know what shade to buy yet, so we shall see!

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MAC Mineralise Skin Finish

Also heard great reviews on this.

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MAC Brush Cleanser

Really need something to clean my brushes with!

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A 'Konad' Nail art set of some type, I've been seeing people post a lot of their nail art designs with these products on their blogs, it looks good! So I think i'm going to try it.

(Photo)

Also, i'm looking to get a Clinique foundation cause I've heard their good for skin & got good coverage, but i'm still trying to decide this. So yeah, i'm going to Bournemouth in half term - need to exchange some underwear, visit MAC then lush! Yay:)

Hopefully be getting a bit more money, recently been selling a few 'bits n bobs' on eBay :)

Been looking at lots of primer reviews, have come to the conclusion of forking out around £10 for the urban decay primer potion as seen above, its meant to be the best and ive been told to invest in a good one.

A few things ive picked up recently…

Vo5 Smoothing Creme, it's meant to help make hair shiny, protect it against heat and frizz. I decided to buy it to try and get rid of the static/frizz I get after straightening my hair, it seems to have worked well and you apply it when your hair is damp! It cost me about £3.

'Avon' foot works heel softener cream, I have very rough skin on my heels so decided to give this a go for £2.50, it seems alright but maybe could be better.

Avon naturals red rose & peach shower gel, its about 99p, smells nice, haven't tried it in the shower yet cos i'm still using the almond and milk one which is too sweet of a scent for my liking, and both of the scents still don't beat the plum and nectarine that came out christmas 2008 but not last year :( so disappointing!

Avon Lipstick in Pink Pop, it's not as bright as I saw in the magazine, and it has gold glitter flecks in it, but I still LOVE it, its very smooth, moisturising, nice colour and its now an everyday lipstick for me :)

One of my favourite monthly magazines… GLAMOUR :)

The nail polish i'm currently wearing is 'Victoria & Albert' by Nails Inc. It's a great bright red and I actually got the product FREE with a magazine + its full size as well yay :)

Anyway, so yeah i wanted to show you a few of my favourite models today,

Chanel Iman

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Jessica Stam

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Emma Watson

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Gemma Ward

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Aren't they just Beautiful! :)

Anyway, I shall be leaving and loving you now, for this week that is!

I shall blog soon! Bye :)

Tina

xoxo

P.s. please don't steal my photographs.. at least ask first! :)

Blah.

2010-02-03T18:59:00.000Z

Hey guys! Back again :) haha.

So recently at college, we've been making music videos & just finished some vodcasts, its all very stressful… my group for our music video are making a SNES game style animation/video, its hard work and i'm not sure if we are going to complete it by next Thursday which is the deadline :S
Also we did the vodcasts and I hated it… apparently we are going to do another one soon :( so annoying! So yeah, we're also going paint-balling with our college class soon which sounds super exciting but also very scary, i'm not very brave lol. Also, were going on trip to a place called Tiverton in Devon for about 5 days, were gonna have mexican, italian and curry nights and try to do our own versions of 'The Blair Witch Project' & 'Come Dine With Me', the house is very big and its got 2 swimming pools, a hot tub, a tennis court and many others things, i'm sure were all going to enjoy so much ! eek :)

So yeah speaking of trips, as you know, me & my boyfriend are going to Venice in July, and we actually booked the accommodation the other night yay! :) also we bought a travel guide its very useful and has lots of maps and information, especially on shops which is nice...…(: ha. and we are hopefully gonna visit an art gallery which has Picasso whilst were there! :) Also, that reminds me it's our 1 year 7 months anniversary on Friday!! Were not going to do anything special as it's not really a landmark, we normally just go round my house, and have dinner together, etc. on Valentine's Day though, were gonna go to the cinema & a restaurant and he said he's going to buy me flowers yay <3 :) I love flowers!

I dyed my hair last night, to the colour of 'Dark Golden Brown' using Clairol Perfect 10… I kinda like it and it's a good change as I was starting to get sick of red, it was so hard to keep vibrant…

(The Final Look)

I recently bought some clothing (2 blue tops, a flowery dress, a pink bow headband & some hair shine spray) and the hair shine spray i bought which was around 3 pounds, is pretty good actually... i'm liking it at the moment but feel as though i should maybe try a higher quality and more expensive brand, the one i purchased was 'Angel Fish' - Angel Superstar Shine Spray from Boots… it makes my hair shinier but i feel i could get a product that would make it shinier lol…

Hopefully, going to be getting a EMA bonus this weekend, so i can go shopping, i want to buy some MAC makeup, lush products & that panda necklace! :+) I kinda know what i wanna buy from Lush… but i don't have a clue what to get from MAC, i only have 2 products of theirs so i need to get some essentials… I've been watching a few beauty videos on Youtube & they tell me to get concealer, 'all that glitters' eye shadow and mineralise skin finish mostly, so i think i might get these but i am not sure, i definitely want to get concealer though its meant to be really good… also i wanna get the Benefit 'Sugar-bomb' blusher… hmm :) decisions..decisions.. so yeah if you have any suggestions for what MAC makeup i should buy, please comment below, ta!

As you may have noticed, I've got a new banner up above this blog post… i created it from 2 of my photographs, i took, i took a lot of photographs today so would like to share them and also some other recent ones i'm liking :) if you want to see a lot more of my photography then visit this link to my Deviant Art, i hope you like! :) Photography is a big passion for me, <3.

Oh! & also i'm including some lovely photos of my dog, Rocky ha :)

So yeah, that's it for today guys, ill update as soon as I can, gonna be busy next week :( but then we have a week off yay! Hope everyone is good... bye for now!

Tina, xoxo

P.S. ALL of the photos included in this blog post were taken, edited & uploaded by me, please do NOT steal or edit these photographs without my permission, just leave a comment or something and I may consider letting you use them. If not, i will fuck you up :) thankyou.x

Good Times :)

2010-01-29T18:14:00.000Z

Recently been quite stressed & down but I'm good now, had a really nice day yesterday ; lots of fun at college, then went home and my boyfriend came round :) we had Chinese & watched tv, then sleepy time & nice breakfast with him this morning. We booked our flights to Venice last night!!!!!!! it's going to be so amazing, I'm really excited. Were going on the 2nd of July and get back on the 9th, it's going to be our 2nd year anniversary when we are there and were gonna go in a gondola eek.

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I'm gonna take lots of photos there and hopefully it will be warm so tanning will be involved!! And also apparently, its 16 to drink there? So will be legal for me to drink wine yay.

I went on the new look website last week looking at the jewellery and found a Panda necklace!! and anyone that knows me well enough knows that i have a whole lot of loving for pandas, this spurred on the demand to buy one! so i went on ebay and found one for around £7 & £3 delivery for a necklace from China! :) i am going to buy it when i can spare the money hehe. i will probably wear it everyday.

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Oh yeah and its also swarvoski crystal! yayyy.

Anyway, last weekend me & my best friend Agnes, went to Lyme Regis and took some photographs, it's a passion for both of us.

I've been buying or receiving a few beauty products and just wanted to show & tell my thoughts..

'False Lash Effect' Mascara in Waterproof Black by Maxfactor, i wanted this for a while so finally got it for around £11, it seems alright, big brush, good colour, i just feel as though its very clumpy! :(

Edward Cullen poster from New Moon, my best friend bought it back from Poland with her, it's so big! I <3 it :)

Vo5 'Heat Protection Spray' & Silvikrin 'Maximum Hold' Hair spray, both of them seem to do what they say on the tins and I'm happy with them, i don't use hair spray that much, sometimes i forget but it has a pleasant smell but it's a bit sticky, the vo5 spray is very good it's not as sticky as my old one which was swarkropft or something like that haha, and it smells fruity:)

I received this body lotion from a glamour magazine survey i had taken part in, they sent me a full size! bottle for free, to try, they said they will be in touch to find out my opinion, it seems very good, soft, does what it says basically but i still feel as though it could be much more unique! like my Vaseline cocoa butter one which love and it smells just like chocolate ha :) i also received a 'veet' hair removal cream and another Johnson's body lotion but it's a gradual tanning one.

Blurry photos :( but oh well, this is the 'Benefit' Velvet Eye shadow in 'Fawn over me' I'd wanted it for ages so decided suddenly to use my £10 debenhams voucher with some change as it costs £13.50 and I love it !! It's a great shimmery nude colour :)

also, i need to buy a hard drive for college, to hold all of my work, we get to use these crappy 'plug in' drives at college but not all of the computers accept them so i wanna buy a passport one or whatever its called! haha they come in different colours i think the pink one is cute..but i cant actually find it online anymore :( maybe it was limited edition so i might get silver or black which are easily jest as sexy looking! :)

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Miscellaneous photos...

So anyway, that's my blog for this week! i hope you've all had a great one :) lots of love,

Tina xoxo

(P.S I took most of the photographs in my blog (except the panda, hard drive & Venice one, which are given credit) , so please DONT steal them or edit them without my permission, or I will fuck you over, thanks! :):):)

Cinema & You Me At Six

2010-01-07T23:44:00.000Z

Hello Again :):)
This week of college has been rather crappy, I've been very tired and had some very strange dreams :(
But now it's the weekend! (I don't have college on Fridays) so I can sleep and do stuff and relax yeees!!

I've been listening to you me at six a lot recently...

I just came out of a web chat with the singer, Josh (middle) he is so gorgeous! and it was like in his own room… and so just NORMAL :D

i really want to see them live again but its hard to get tickets, boohoo. my favourite is Matt (far right), mmmm.......;D

anyway...

i went to the cinema yesterday with my boyfriend, we wanted to see Nowhere Boy originally, but it wasn't on anymore :( so we decided to see AVATAR...… in 3D!!!!! it was pretty good, but not as good as everyone makes it out to be... i think it could have been better tbh. :) Sherlock Holmes was better mmm... Robert Downey Jnr & Jude Law what else could a woman ask for?! me and my boyfriend bought lots of sweeties haha i've still got lots of pick 'n' mix left over...see below...

Anyway, i better go now its getting late gonna go to sleep soon :)

night everyone and hope you've/your having a good week!xx

Christmas:)

2010-01-05T20:49:00.001Z

Welcome to my blog :) first ill start off with a little introduction… I'm 'Tina', I am seventeen and I live in the UK… I'm currently studying media at college and I like pandas:)

now ill start with explaining what i did at christmas… lots of food shopping and gift shopping involved. i went to a place called Southampton & visited a new store called Hollister which is from the US, the shop didn't look like average at all, its set out like a beach house with lots of armchairs & its also v. dark in there. so yeah it was quite interesting and i loved it, i bought a few presents in there for my brother & friends. Here is a photo of the bag i got from there... lol

I also spent lots of time with family on christmas and on boxing day (26th) I went to watch some horse racing with my dad & brother, I bet on a few horses but didn't win anything however my brother was ever so lucky to win nearly £200! I was rather jealous ha. Here is a few christmas photos :

Moving on... I recently went to a screamo heavy metal etc. gig, thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to link a few of the bands in my blog so here is asbestos, into the dust & who shot cyrus? I hope you enjoy them as well :)

I've just bought a few DVDs.. the notebook (never fails to make me cry), the curious case of Benjamin button (long but very good) & I've pre-ordered 500 days of summer - that film is sooo good :) I'm also thinking about buying 'Coco Before Chanel' for my mum's birthday & pre-ordering 'Julie & Julia' let me know if these 2 films are good as i missed the opportunity to see them :(

I've been with my boyfriend for nearly a year and a half on 5th January which is exciting but we wont be able to spend much time together on the day because we both have college that day :(

I got quite a lot of gifts for christmas… I've taken a whole loads photos for you to see :) so here we go:

Christmas cards:)

(All of them)

from my parents...

From my boyfriend…

From my brother, his partner & my niece…

...And finally from my best friend :)

Now here's some christmas presents I received :)

(Xbox 360 Premium Console, Xbox 360 Wireless Entertainment Pack & Milky bar Chocolate set)

I was given these by my parents, i also got some 'fingers' chocolate biscuits... but I've eaten them already haha :P

There's the Xbox in its place now :)

My games I got from my brother & controllers from parents.

All of my games… currently playing 'Fable 2' which is borrowed from my boyfriend though.

From my best friend, Robert Pattinson Annual (yummy LOL) & £10 Debenhams voucher (hoping to spend on makeup)

From my friend, Jess, a little 'mother of pearl' trinket box.

From Jess also, a lovely bracelet

A Nina Ricci 'Ricci Ricci' gift set from my boyfriend ;) <3

A Panda 'Hottie' from my boyfriend (Teddy bear you can put in the microwave, rather like a hot water bottle)

Some truffles from my boyfriend also :)

A MAC Metallic Eye shadow palette from my parents

Some 'Scarlett & Crimson' Eye shadow palette from my Brother & Co.

Estee-Lauder 'Youth-Dew' from my boyfriend's parents

A Sudoku book, eye shadow palette & £50 from my Auntie & Uncle, Sooo Generous!

& That's about it for my presents... :)

My mother got the Gucci 'Flora' Perfume from my Auntie, I'm soooo jealous but hey, at least i can borrow it;)

So wanted to include a photo of my perfume collection and so here it is, as you can tell I love perfume and my collections growing! :)

So yeah, that's all for now… this post took me about 2 weeks to sort out..the photos were uploading lol :( but thanks to Anna for her help :)

I'll update soon when I feel I have something else to talk about. Thanks for reading & i hope you all had a great christmas & new year :):) xxxxx