Rachel Sarah XO

Hey guys!
So I'm a bit late on the bandwagon but oh well! If you saw my Superdrug haul the other day, you'll know that I purchased a couple of the Maybelline Colour Tattoo's. And might I just say, I absolutely freakin' love them. I bought them in the shades (left) On & On Bronze and (right) Eternal Gold. They retail for £4.99 each.

What Maybelline claims:

"Ink technology creates 24HR wear shadow for our most intense, long-lasting colour saturation. Cream formula glides on without creasing and keep colour vibrant. Ophthalmologist-tested, safe for sensitive eyes and contact lens wearers."

What I think:

I'm beyond impressed with this product. I love the packaging, although not travel friendly as the product is in a glass pot and they're pretty heavy, the glass pot makes the product look a lot more expensive than it is. 

Maybelline were certainly right when they said "most intense, long-lasting colour saturation", I've never owned an eyeshadow that lasts as long as this eyeshadow, for example, I forgot to take my make up off the other night and I slept with the eyeshadow on, and when I woke up, it looked the exact same it did when I went to sleep. These eyeshadows definitely live up to the 24 hour name.

The colours are absolutely gorgeous and they're sooo pigmented, as they're cream eyeshadows, they glide onto your lids so smoothly. Eternal Gold is a gorgeous glittery pale-yellow gold and On & Bronze is a dark shimmery gold/brown colour.

Hey guys!

So a couple of weeks ago I signed up to Sun+ as they were having a sign up offer of, pay £1 to sign up and we'll send you a £20 Superdrug voucher, so that's exactly what I did. The voucher arrived this morning so I went into town and spent it (obviously.) A couple of days ago I went onto the Superdrug website and total'd up every I wanted to get with the £20, and I got a fair bit considering it's Superdrug.

Superdrug's Own Brand Face Masks - 99p each or 4 for 3.

I bought these because I had £3 left over and didn't know what to spend it on. I like to do a face mask every 1-2 weeks and I have a few more Montagne Jeunesse face masks so I'm pretty stocked up now. Superdrug's face masks have always served me well in the past so not bad for £3.

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara - £4.99 / 3 for 2 on all Maybelline.

I absolutely love this mascara, may be an unpopular opinion but I like the natural bristles and it doesn't really clump up my lashes too much, I usually have this and 'fancier' mascara in my make up bag at all times.

Maybelline Color Tattoos in 'Eternal Gold' and 'On & On Bronze' - £4.99 each / 3 for 2 Maybelline

Bit late on the Color Tattoo hype but oh well. I've been meaning to try these for ages and I swatched them both on the way back from town and the colours are gorgeous, 2 hours later and they haven't rubbed off my hand, I may decide to review these if I like them.

MUA Blusher in 'Marshmallow' - £1.

I adore MUA blushes, I'm not usually a blush sort of person but the MUA ones are just so cheap yet really pigmented. One thing I do hate about the MUA blushes is the crappy colour range. There's only like 4 colours and then 4 cream blushes (I hate cream blushes, wah.)

MUA Nail Polish in 'Bright Pink' - £1.

I don't really like nail polishes purely because I have extremely short, practically non-existent nails, so when I do put nail polish on them, it looks like a 2 year old's done it. :-( The colour of this nail polish looks gorgeous though and the packaging looks extremely similar to Essie, naughty MUA.

MUA Bronzer in 'Shade 2' - £1.

I've never tried an MUA Bronzer before, but this is the perfect contour shade for a pasty pale person like myself, the bronzer is matte so no ridiculous shimmery looking contour, can't wait to try it.

MUA Intense Colour Eyeliner in 'Snow White' - £1.

MUA's eyeliners so are pigmented and creamy, they're my go to for white eyeliners (when they have them in stock though. -.-) I love using a white eyeliner on my water line to open my eyes and make them appear larger. It can look a bit creepy sometimes though, hahaha.

NYC Expert Last Lipstick in 'Blue Rose' - £1.99.

So in the picture, the lipstick looks red, I can assure you that into's an extremely blue toned bright pink, it's absolutely gorgeous. I love NYC's lipstick, they're cheap, pigmented and they last ages!

Superdrug Spirit Necklace. - Reduced from £8 to £1.

I   I can't say I look at the jewellery section much when I go in there, but I spotted this for £1 and just had to have it, plus it was reduced from £8 to £1, so how can you go wrong?

I hope you enjoyed this haul!
Let me know if you've bought anything from Superdrug recently.

That's all for now,

Rachel. 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

Hi guys!

So I was scouting around Primark for a new bag, I've been looking for a sort of businessy type of bag, that I could use for a potential job and job interview since I've been applying for loads of apprenticeships lately.

I spotted this bad boy in the corner of the Kings Lynn store and my face just lit up, I called my mum over and I was like 'IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THAT ZARA BAG I SHOWED YOU THE OTHER DAY JNWFSNDJNS' so I bought it. 

It's the perfect size, it's a little bit smaller than the Zara Office City Bag, but that's good, that bag seems like a bit of a monster to lug around with you all the time. Primark, bless them, they tried really hard to recreate the look of the Saffiano leather which is what the exterior of the Zara bag is made of, but it definitely looks nice nevertheless.

The bag itself is a bit less structured compared to the Zara bag, which I quite like as it stretches more so you can shove more things in it, haha. The two outer zip compartments are not padded like the Zara bag, but can still definitely be used to keep your iPad in there as the lining inside is a thick material, but not quite padded. You couldn't keep a full sized laptop in the zip compartments, maybe a netbook but not a laptop, you can definitely fit a 13-15inch laptop in the main compartment though.

Inside the bag, is a small zip compartment, where you could keep loose change or receipts and on the other side is a phone pocket (I did not picture that well at all, haha) I always keep my phone on me when I'm out and about anyway so to me, a phone pocket is useless.

The inside lining is a dark grey speckled cloth type material, which is the only way I can describe it, haha.

The bag also comes with a long, completely adjustable shoulder strap which you can easily unclip from the sides and keep in the bag for easy access. One thing I would like to point out about the handles on this bag... So squeaky. And I'm not even sure why, I'm sure that won't be much of a problem once I've used the bag a bit more, but every one of this style of bag that I tried in the shop, they all had squeaky handles, and it was doing my head in, haha!

The handles on the front and back of the bag are quite short, so you might not even be able to hold the bag on the crook of your arm, the handles are the perfect length to hold in your hand though. (Although it can make you look like you're going to work as a lawyer, but hey ho!) 

I most definitely adore this bag and the only bad thing I can say about it is the squeaky handles, haha! For a meer £12, you cannot go wrong. And for £12, it's easily replaceable if something does ever go wrong with it.

Well done, Primark! You've made one heck of a dupe here.

So it's safe to say this month has been pretty bad in the way of blogging. I've really not been motivated enough to post anything really, but it's that time of the month where I need to do a favourites post so here we go!

Songs I've been loving this month:

Of Mice & Men's new album came out a few days ago *squeal*, so I've been loving every song off that. You go pick that up on iTunes if you wish, 'Restoring Force' by Of Mice & Men ;o

I've been really loving Killswitch Engage this month also, so anything by them. (I'm listening to them now, as I type this.)

White Lies - Man Overboard.

Montrose - Man Overboard.

Frick Park Market - Mac Miller.

Dark Horse - Katy Perry.

Donatella - Lady Gaga.

Movies I've been loving this month:

Considering I've been doing practically nothing this month, I've watched hardly any movies this month which is disappointing, I've basically just been trying to watch the movies that are in my DVD collection that I haven't gotten round to watching yet.

American Psycho, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Tangled, Aladdin, Superbad, American Pie 1 & 2, Carrie (2013).

I've pretty much been loving the same movies as last month but hey ho!

TV shows I've been loving this month:

Sherlock (DID YOU SEE THAT CLIFFHANGER??? OMG), RuPaul's Drag Race (Finished all 5 seasons in a week, wut) Oddities: San Francisco and Criminal Minds - love me some crime shows.

Video games I've been loving this month:

For the first half of January, Grand Theft Auto V controlled my life and now I've been stuck with a load of missions that I've rage quit on so I'm like 40% into the game and I've just kind of stopped playing it, oops. I literally haven't played any video games this month besides GTA, um oops.

Drinks I've been loving this month:

Shapers Sparkling Pink Grapfruit Juice (Boots own low calorie drinks, mm) and sparkling mango juice. I'm all about the juice this month.

Food I've been loving this month:

Gregg's sandwiches in general and Gregg's belgian buns, mm mm mm. Bless my mother for working there and getting a ridiculously good discount.

Make up items I've been loving this month:

Sleek I-Divine palette in 'Vintage Romance' and I don't care if this doesn't class as make up but the Real Techniques Core Collection, them brushes doe.

Life favourites:

Honestly? Nothing much. This month has been absolutely crap in the way of my mental health and my wellbeing in general. I actually thought 2014 would be a tad bit better and at the moment it's treated my awfully so, that's fun! One life favourite though is my friendship with Abbie, she's brilliant. She said to me after reading my new year's resolutions post that she would try to help me get out the house more and do stuff this year, and she's put up with me really well so far, I'm very grateful for her existence and it's people like her that brings back my faith in humanity. So Abbie, if you're reading this, I love you dearly and you're the best okay, you biaatch. ;o

Am I looking forward to anything next month?

I haven't got anything planned, no. I'd like to hope that next month I may have a job but hahaha that's not looking to great at the moment but oh well, I'm trying!

I hope you've all had a great January and 2014 is treating you well! I'd love to hear what you've been up to this month.

That's all for now, 

Rachel. xo

Hey guys!
So, I'm pretty sure I haven't posted anything in maybe, a week? I've kind of had a lot going on lately but I'm not going to going into detail, plus, super lacking in motivation still but I'm going to do an 'easy' blog post today, haha!
Charlotte at A Cageless Bird did this tag and she tagged everyone who read her post so, here we go, I'm gonna do it.

This Or That,

Make up:

Blush or Bronzer?

Bronzer. I'm pale, so adding something that'll just make my cheeks rosy won't really suffice, haha!

Lip gloss or Lipstick?

Lipstick lipstick lipstick. Lip gloss freaks me out, like what's the appeal of putting sticky stuff all over your lips? (That's what she said, hahaha.)

Eyeliner or Mascara?

Mascara, my eyelashes are pretty long anyways but I don't feel comfortable not wearing mascara. Plus, I feel like 12 year old goth child when I was eyeliner.

Foundation or Concealer?

Foundation, I have such an uneven skin tone so that needs to be covered up, plus if I'm having a good skin day I can get away with wearing just foundation.

Neutral or Colour eyeshadow?

Neutral, definitely. I may wear the odd purple here and there but always neutral.

Pressed or Loose eyeshadows?

Well considering I've never tried a loose eyeshadow, I'll go with pressed, it's probably way less messy too.

Brushes or sponges?

Brushes 5eva. I find sponges really unhygienic and harder to clean (even them stupid Beauty Blenders).

Nails:

OPI or China Glaze?

OPI, although I don't wear nail polish because of how disgustingly short my nails are.

Long or Short?

Short nails is all I've known since I first learned how to use my mouth, hahaha. When I'm anxious I bite my nails (so like all the time really.)

Acrylic or Natural?

Well I'd love to try acrylics, maybe that help with the nail biting but for now natural I suppose.

Brights or Darks?

Always brights.

Flower or No Flower?

Um, no flower.

Body:

Perfume or Body Splash?

Well, I have no idea what body splash is, so perfume.

Lotion or Body Butter?

Really doesn't bother me, they both do the same thing, right? Since I own more of these, I'll go with body lotion.

Body Wash or Soap?

Always body wash, soap is too much of a hassle.

Lush or Other Bath Company?

Lush are alright, but I'd always choose The Body Shop over them, soz.

Fashion:

Jeans or Sweatpants?

I despise jeans, so sweatpants (I'd never leave the house wearing them though, don't worry.) I almost always wearing a skirt with leggings.

Long sleeve or short?

Doesn't matter, I always wear something long sleeved over the top of any shirt anyways so.

Stripes or Plaid?

Plaid, for sure.

Flip flops or Sandals?

Ew feet no. Neither neither neither. If I had to pick, sandals.

Scarves or Hats?

Oh, that's a hard one. I've got a collection of about 30 beanies now but I wear a scarf pretty much everyday. Scarves, waaah.

Studs or Dangly Earrings?

Studs.

Necklaces or Bracelets?

Depends, I wear bracelets everyday but I love necklaces so much more (it's just harder to match necklaces with an outfit.)

Heels or Flats?

Flats all the way omg.

Cowboy or Riding Boots?

Cowboy boots are the best boots ever.

Jacket or Hoodie?

Jacket probably, I wear a hoodies more when I'm lounging around the house.

Forever 21 or Charlotte Russe?

Forever 21 since I've ordered a few times from them and they exist in the UK, unlike Charlotte Russe.

Abercrombie or Hollister?

Walking into Hollister is a terrifying experience, IT'S SO DARK OMG. But they make the nicest body sprays, so Hollister.

Saks 5th or Nordstrom?

I'm sorry, what are those?

Hair:

Curly or Straight?

My hair's naturally almost ringlet like curly and I hate it, so straight.

Bun or Ponytail?

My hair's to short to put in a bun so ponytail.

Bobby Pins or Butterfly Grips?

Bobby pins definitely, butterfly grips hurt my head.

Hairspray or Gel?

Gel makes my hair looks so greasy, ew. Hairspray is the way to go.

Long or Short?

I've had short hair for like 3 years now because it just won't grow and I hate it and extensions don't blend with my hair so I'll go with long.

Light or Dark?

I loved my white/silver hair and my purple hair too! But I like the look of my black hair at the moment, really contrasts with my ghost white face, hahaha.

Side Swept Bangs or Full Bangs?

At the moment I have kind of 'Bettie bangs' if you can call them that and I love it, so full bangs.

Up or Down?

Always down! I hate when my hair's up.

Random:

Rain or Shine?

I like when it sunny but not hot, haha!

Autumn or Spring?

Autumn, because again, it's still quite sunny but less heat.

East Coast or West Coast?

I'm going to assume this tag was made by an American, haha. I live like half an hour away from the East coast as I live in East Anglia, so East coast, haha.

I tag everyone who's reading this right now! I'd love to read your responses to this tag!

Also, I've recently set up a Facebook page for my blog (here), would be grand if you could go over and give it a like! 

That's all for now,

Rachel. xo

Let me just get one thing straight here. There's no motivation there, it's not like you choose not to do these things because you just can't be bothered, when you have no motivation you're often mentally and physically exhausted, whether it's down to no sleep or something else, it's not laziness.

Let me move onto things not to say / things that I've heard been said to someone with anxiety:

• "Is it just an attention thing?"
• "Hahahah, you were shaking and everything!" (Yeah, a 'friend' once said that to me.)
• "Is there something wrong with you?"
• "Just calm down!"
• "There's nothing wrong with you, you're being over-dramatic."
• So, I've stuttered really bad since I was around 4 or 5, which I now realise was probably down to anxiety, so if I stutter and someone says "Yeah, spit it out." or "Isn't really that hard to say, is it?" I just want to crawl up into a ball and die. Obviously pointing out that I've just stuttered is going to set my anxiety off so much more, so yes, there's no need to be an arsehole.
• "Why do you go to the toilet so much?" Well, there's this thing called anxious urination, which means you piss when you're nervous, bye.
• "Just get over it."

Well, there you go! There's some of my experiences with ignorant people. I mean come on, it takes wait? 5 seconds to google something. Maybe if you all took time out of your day for 5 minutes to look up the definition of depression or anxiety, you may learn something and might realise that whatever it is you've said has made the situation 10 times worse or has triggered someone's anxiety.

I just really needed to let my anger towards ignorant people out, well I feel 100 times better after this blog post, woooo.

Okay, thanks for reading! And let me know if you've ever had an encounter with an overly-ignorant person! 

Rachel. xo