My first ELF haul!

A few days ago I placed an order with ELF, taking advantage of their one of their regular online offers. Not only did I manage to take advantage of free delivery and a code to get a mystery box of free products (worth £10) when you spend over £10. All of these offers made my order (which Mike treated me to) £11 in total. So, even as a gift this was a total bargain!

This post won't contain any reviews as I've just got these products... but I just wanted to share with everyone what I ordered, and what my free gifts were! As far as value for money goes, I got 10 products for £11 in the end!

Elf eyelid primer (£1.50)

Elf natural radiance blushers in 'Flushed' and 'Glow' (£1.50 each)

Shimmering facial whip in 'Lilac Petal' (£1.50)

Elf healthy glow bronzing powder in 'Luminance' (£1.50)

Studio eyebrow kit in 'Ash' (3.50)

And here are the free gifts...

Nail polishes in '1572 Golden Goddess' and '1573 Twinkle'

Shimmer pencil in 'Boldly Bronzed'

And my personal favourite, a cruelty free bamboo powder brush!

An extremely thrifty haul!

If you look at the pictures above, would you really believe it if I told you that every single item had been bought for £1 or less? I know I wouldn't but I've been pretty lucky on my shopping expeditions lately! Here is a little guide to the budget haul I've collected where all of these items still left me with change from a tenner!

The Rimmel solo eyeshadows and the wet n wild solo eyeshadow were a chance find at Poundland. I'm a great lover of pound shops and when I noticed the various brands that had cropped up out of the blue at my local store I was delighted. Among the racks were NYC, Revlon, MeMeMe and several other brands I immediately started to flap about. However as I was in a hurry, these were all I got! I'm sure I'll be returning soon to pick over the rest of the spoils. All 3 were exactly £1 each and the cream shade makes a perfect highlighting colour.

I'm not sure where I found out about the Peacocks cosmetics sale but I'm glad I did. Whilst bumbling around the store the other day I made my way over to the beauty products that I normally skim over and found two products that caught my eye. The first was this stunning peachy/gold bronzer and the second a shimmer packed bronzer. My boyfriend picked up the blusher for me which was £1 (reduced from £3) and he even got his 10% student discount off it, making it just 90p. The bronzer we picked up later on for £1.

The LA Colors palette came from a store that boasted prices of 99p or less... I'm sure you'll start to see a theme in my shopping habits soon! I bought it because I'd been mooning over a Sleek palette earlier that day and wanted to see if I could get equally pigmented bright shades at a much cheaper price. I'm completely in love with this palette and I'm sure it'll get its own review soon as despite the seemingly awkward shades I've been reaching for this constantly! Again I'm going to have to return and pick up some of the other shade selections on offer. The palette was 99p and I've worn every single shade!

By now I'm sure my love affair with MUA products is common knowledge. Whilst browsing in Superdrug the other day I couldn't resist expanding my collection of their eyeshadows with these shades (6 on the left and 7 on the right) which go wonderfully together. I also bought their lipstick in shade 1 and while I am still having trouble pulling off deep reds, I bought this to play with. Each product was £1 each.

For 9 items I don't think that £8.89 is a bad price to pay. I've had a lot of use out of several of these products so far and the quality has been great. Individual reviews will follow and I'm sure that they'll pop up in future looks. Turns out I can still sometimes haul on a miniscule budget, fantastic!

My first haul post!

Accessorize clearly weren’t ever content with me going into their shop and cooing over every shiny thing strewn in my path. Now it seems that they want me to go up to their makeup counter in Superdrug and do exactly the same. Naturally I obliged and came away recently with a pleasant surprise.

For some reason, there are quite a few gift sets in Superdrug that have been reduced down considerably and are on displays right now. You can buy 2 sets of 3 Accessorize eyeshadows for £2 instead of the usual £4 each! They have a similar offer on some of the nail polishes in rather delightful shades too. Mike treated me to the set of eyeshadows in truffle, sage and baby pink, but I didn’t feel quite as naughty knowing they were such a bargain!

The other boxed set shown contained a ‘Black ink’ GOSH eyeliner pencil that normally retails at about £5, a GOSH quattro eyeshadow compact in ‘Evergreen’ that normally would be about £8 and a peachy lipgloss tube. Although on further inspection I wasn’t too impressed by the lipgloss, I don’t really care considering the whole set was £2.99!

Another thing I treated myself to was the John Frieda conditioner shown. I’ve never tried any of his products before but I’ve heard good things and when I spotted this in a 99p store I couldn’t resist.

With all this excitement I really suppose I got rather carried away as I returned yesterday to Superdrug for a little more. I snapped up a set of the polishes for my friend Sarah and grabbed myself one final bargain... A palette including 12 eyshadow shades, a gorgeous shimmery lipgloss tube a set of false eyelashes. Everything in the above photograph cost the grand sum of £2.49 and came in some lovely packaging! The palette resembles some of the Sleek ones available and the shades all seem incredibly wearable.

Swatches and reviews will naturally follow but for now I’m going to bask in the glory of a few good bargains. Check out if your local Supderdrug are stocking any of these because they really are at pocket-money prices!