Rachel Sarah XO

Hi guys!

So as of late I haven't been in the best of moods so I decided, why not spend the small amount of money I've been saving for a few weeks and that's exactly what I did! Some of this stuff is definitely of an acquired taste and won't be everybody's cup of tea, but these are the types of things I like so, whatever.

1. Arctic Monkeys Tie Dye T-Shirt (link): £9.99 w/£1.99 shipping.

No, it's not an officially licensed Arctic Monkeys shirt, but I'd just been liking them so much lately and when I saw this on the 'tie dye t-shirt' search page on eBay I just had to grab it. It comes in many other colours aswell.

2. Pikachu Happy Face T-Shirt (link): £9.69 w/£2.95 shipping.

I saw this shirt and just fell in love, I was searching for logo/movie t-shirts and this one popped up and ugh JUST LOOK AT HIS LITTLE FACE. Adorable.

3. Doctor Who "University of Gallifrey: Time Lord Academy" T-Shirt (link): £9.99 w/£2 shipping.

Well, there's not much I can say about it besides LOOK HOW COOL IT IS?! I'm obsessed with Doctor Who, and I wish I would have find this last Summer before I went to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff.

4. Disney Princess Silly Face iPhone 4/4S Case (link): £3.99.

Unfortunately I had bought the last phone case on that listing but I have linked one closest to the price of the one I have ordered, the one linked is £5.98 w/£0.98 shipping.

Well, Disney Princesses are my favourite things ever. Disney all together is my favourite thing ever, I've been eyeing up this phone case for aaages but I couldn't bring myself to do it because I have a phone case addiction basically, haha, but I did it! 

5. In The Buff Palette by W7 Make Up (link): £6.48.

So, it seems like since Christmas, every British beauty blogger has been raving about this palette and about how it's a better dupe for one of the Naked palettes than the MUA palettes are, so I went into town yesterday looking in every shop that I know sells W7 products, and there was no In The Buff Palette to be seen, I looked on normal beauty sites and it was sold out on every site, so I just went ahead and spent a couple of pounds more for one from eBay, I'm so desperate to try it, hahah.

EDIT:
Oh my gosh, I completely forgotten to mention my new 'smart' shoes. I've been after some new shoes that I can wear to a potential job or job interview and wanted them to have a bit of my general fashion sense about them, kind of edgy (god I hate that word) and grungy (hate that word too. I'm cringing so hard right now.)



Different Class Patent Shoes by Schuh (link): Reduced from £40 to £9.99.
As they are reduced, I'm not sure if they're reducing them to clear or if once all the sizes go out of stock, they'll put them back up to £40, but I absolutely adore them. I like how they have the look of creepers and loafers rolled into one.

I've been so MIA lately and I apologise for that, I promise I will do at least 3 blog posts this week, and if I don't then feel free to tweet me and have a go at me, haha! (My twitters are @anxiouschapter and @racheloverboard by the way ;o)

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo

 I'll start off with this adorable Yankee Candle votive candle, so there's a privately run card and gift shop opposite the Superdrug in my town, so as I left Superdrug I noticed the rather large bookshelf filled with different shapes, sizes and scents of these lovely candles. I'd been wanting the Snowflake Cookie scent for a while but a lot of the votive candles had been sold out online when I went to buy them. (I hate how popular they are sometimes.)

For £1.80, how could I could not say yes? The votive candles are an absolute steal, get yourself a pretty votive candle holder for a couple of quid and a couple of these votive candles and you've spent about £6 on 30 hours of fragrance, two different scents and a pretty votive candle holder. Whereas if you bought one of their small jars it would cost you £8-£9 for around 30 hours of fragrance, you just get a boring glass jar with it and only one scent.


So that's a votive candle holder. Well, I initially went into Poundland to look for another candle and found this festive little thing. They had a range of colours, silver, blue and red. I went for red because it's Christmasy. So for £1 you get two of these little votive holders. I like the look of them because they look kind of vintage, and the way the glass is, it looks like there's tiny cracks in the glass (there isn't by the way, haha. I know it's from Poundland but hey.) I'm so impressed with this. I haven't had a play with it yet because I'm saving it until the week leading up to Christmas to use with my Snowflake Cookie Yankee Candle votive. I'm definitely not disappointed with this. This is by the same brand as the Mango and Papaya candle (see below.) I just hope it doesn't melt while the candle's burning or whatever, haha!

Prior to the Yankee Candle buying, I popped into Superdrug especially for this lipstick. It's the Collection limited edition Little Mix lipstick in shade 'Perrie'. Now, I adore Perrie Edwards, she's perfect and since I have purple/pink hair, I thought, why not true a purple lipstick? (Okay the picture doesn't do it justice, but on the lips it's a really pretty pink toned lilac colour.) For some people it may be a bit 'out there', but it's not too in ya' face. I struggled to find this at the Collection stand because all of the Little Mix collection was just spread about willy nilly, only complaint I have is - Sort your damn presentation skills, Superdrug. I won't go too in depth on this lipstick as there will be a full review coming soon. For £2.99, it's a great lipstick!

Noticing a theme yet? Now this find was from Poundland funnily enough, it's by the brand Coley and Gill (which honestly, I'd never heard of before.) Though I was drawn to it because of the scent, mango is one of my favourite scents. So anything mango and I'm straight to it. I was in Tesco the other week and was looking at their candle selection and I picked up one of the Jelly Belly tin candles in the mango scent, I actually smelt like puke. PUKE. Why puke? I don't know, the smell was absolutely pungent. I ended up leaving Tesco with the Jelly Belly tin candle in the scent 'Bubblegum', it actually smelled like bubble gum and it's great.

So this candle has a burning time of 20 hours. Now for a Poundland candle, I'm so impressed, you usually find candles from Poundland burn for about 8-10 hours. The frosted glass votive holder is so cute aswell, makes it look a lot more expensive than it actually is. It also came in a lavender scent and a french vanilla scent, they were both a bit strong though. For £1, I may stock up on these so I have enough to last me until next Christmas, haha!

Lastly, I went into Boots (for the pure fact that my Superdrug no longer stocks this colour, ugh.)

I bought these a month ago and they were on a 2 for £7 offer, I was disheartened to find out that that offer had ended and they were £4.50 each. As I need two boxes for my hair (I have really thick hair, it's awful) I wasn't going to leave the shop without this hair dye offer or no offer.

This in my opinion is the best semi-permanent hair dye I've tried. I've tried Directions by La Riche - washes out in like 3 washes. I've tried Manic Panic - washes out in like 4-5 washes. Where as this colour will stay in my hair for at least a month, even now my hair colour hasn't washed out but because I'm bleaching my roots on Saturday night, it'll fade the colour out so. My hair doesn't go the colour on the box because I've got purple colour build up from all the purple semi-permanent dyes I've tried. My aim is to get my hair a magenta/fuschia colour, I'm close to it! I don't think I'll ever go back to other semi-permanent dyes and I really hope Schwarzkopf don't discontinue this collection any time soon.

I hope you enjoyed this mini haul! Not bad for half an hour in town.

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo