Clueless Total Betty Bags at New Look

On a recent trip to New Look I spotted these Total Bettys - Grid Shopper Bags from New Look!  I just had to take a picture as they reminded me so much of one of my favourite films...

CLUELESS !

I could just picture Cher and Dionne wearing these with their matching mini skirts! 20 years on Clueless still influences style and fashion! I really love these cute shopper bags. You can buy them in various colours - baby blue, lilac, pink or yellow. Another current favourite of mine - pastel colours, just perfect for Spring! New Look even have matching Grid purses - I have just found out by looking on their website!

When I spotted these Bags in store they were originally £17.99 from New Look (UK)

However good news! If you are snappy you could buy them at the moment for £12.99 they currently have £5.00 off if you buy online. This always happen when Im trying to save... but I don't think I can contain myself with these! Since they are shopper bags they are going to be a great for

 shoving all sorts like laptops, books, headphones, make-up bags etc in to.

I always find that I need a big comfy handbag to carry all of my junk around - so one of these would be the perfect size!

My only issue now is choosing which one to get I don't know how I am going to choose between the four colours. Maybe I will mix and match and buy a shopper bag in one colour and a wallet in the other - decisions... decisions! I will pop a link below for these beauties and let me know what you think of these and which one you would choose!

http://www.newlook.com/shop/womens/bags-and-purses/lilac-grid-print-shopper-bag-_331685155

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Happy Easter 2015 !

Happy Easter!

A day late I know, but I hope everyone had a great Easter!

Not a long post this time - just a short one to say that I had such a lovely long Easter weekend. The weather up in Scotland has been awesome! Today it was actually 20°C so my boyfriend and I went on a LONG walk out in the countryside.

In total we walked over 5 miles I think? We had such a nice day for it - I had to take some photos to show just how lovely the weather and our walk with the dogs was! Scotland can be so pretty!

Also https://bonjourbellexo.com designed my blog- I am so chuffed with it! It is so pretty, so a big thank you to Steph for this.
 Great weekend over all - I hope everyone had a fab weekend! xxx

Things to Do or Places to Visit Whilst in New York City

NEW YORK NEW YORK

The love of my life (aside from my boyfriend)

I LOVE NYC, I have visited the city a few times now for holidays and I cannot get enough of this place. If I ever won the lottery – NYC is where I would spend my fortune and reside. I could seriously make a giant list of all my loves for the city but you may get bored of me dragging on…

Instead I thought it would be cool to compile a list of Things to do whilst in New York – as mentioned above I have been a few times in summer and also in winter and I get asked a lot

“Do you not want to go on holiday somewhere else for a change?”

Obviously I would love to travel the world and visit as many places in my lifetime as possible – who wouldn’t? However if I had one chance to pick anywhere to travel/live/party/shop it would be New York City. I think people underestimate how much there is to do and see there, that they think they can cram it all into a week’s holiday/vacation – no chance! Unless you visit lots of places in NY so fast that you don’t stop to take it in and enjoy any of it.

I remember the last time before I went on holiday I was googling on the net “Things to do in New York City” I had been to the city before and I had visited a lot of places on my first trip there so I wanted to make sure that I tried new things/visited new places for my next visit.

Googling and making a list is a great way to help you plan your days in NYC - as believe me they fly past so quick! So make sure you cram as much as possible in to the length of time you’re visiting. To help you with this - below im going to make a list (not in any order) of things you should definitely check out or do whilst you are in New York whether it is your first, second, third, fifteenth time visiting the city! Just make sure to check some of these out –

1.       Rockefeller Center Top of the Rock – beautiful views overlooking the City even the Empire State Building this is by far one of my favourite places in NY to visit. The views are breath-taking of the whole city & New Jersey/Brooklyn and this place is great for a NY photo opportunity.

2.       Madison Square Park – again one of my favourite places to visit. It is just a park in the middle of NY you may not find it that exciting as some other well-known landmarks but I loved just chilling out in this park forgetting about everything else in my life. This park looks on to the beautiful Flat Iron Building and even has a cute dog park and awesome Shake Shack – mmm!

3.       Flat-Iron Building

4.       Empire State Building

5.       Brooklyn Bridge

6.       Central Park – 158 years old this is the most visited park and the park is also one of the most filmed locations in the world.

7.       Madison Square Garden – my boyfriend and I went and seen the NY Knicks play in November it was a great experience and the atmosphere - I loved every minute of it.

8.       Macys – I love this place we went in Winter around Thanksgiving so it was really beautiful all lit up and decorated for Christmas.

9.       Freedom Towner One World Trade Center – so beautiful to see this building stand tall and proud over the city.

10.   Times Square – this is my boyfriend’s favourite place in NY. It’s awesome but VERY busy – you will see all of the bright lights if you visit here at night and there are some great shops located in Times Square. You may even spot Spiderman or SpongeBob!

11.   Wall Street

12.   Manhattan Sky Line

13.   NY Giants – visit the MetLife Stadium for a great game of American Football my boyfriend is a Giants fan we loved this! Although be sure to wrap up warm as if the game is on late at night the temperature does dip pretty low!

14.   High Line

15.   Grand Central Terminal – this place is beautiful. It can be very busy with lots of crowds also visiting the main concourse however make sure to visit Grand Central. The ceilings are beautifully decorated astronomical and a large American flag hangs up in the main concourse in remembrance of September 11

16.   National September 11^th Museum and Memorial – a beautiful tribute

17.   Chrysler Building

18.   Radio City Music Hall

19.   New York Public Library

20.   Good Morning America Studios – If you visit here at the right time Mon-Fri 7am to 9am you may catch a climpse of the anchors live in action on the street or may even end up being a part of their live audience!

21.   Strawberry Field – John Lennon Memorial in Central Park

22.   Central Park Zoo

23.   Trump Rink at Central Park

24.   Fifth Avenue – every shop you could think of is located on this street, its a shopping paradise!

25.   Broadway

26.   Metropolitan Museum of Art

27.   Museum of Modern Art

28.   Gossip Girl Sight Tours

29.   The Sopranos Sight Tours

30.   Bryant Park

31.   F.R.I.E.N.D.S Building – 100 Bedford St, Corner Grove

32.   Gramercy Park

33.   Staten Island Ferry

34.   Greenwich Village

35.   Statue of Liberty

36.   West Village

37.   Union Square – this was one of the last places we visited and I was pleasantly surprised with how lovely the set-up of Union Square was! They had a lovely Christmas market in the Square at the time – I will definitely be visiting this area of NY again!

38.   Roosevelt Island

39.   Manhattan Bridge

40.   Battery Park

If I have missed anything out or you want to recommend anywhere in NYC please feel free to comment below! I would love to hear your loves of the city too! Hopefully it won’t be long before I can return to explore NY even more!

New Spring Looks, A-Line Dresses and H&M Love

If you are reading this post you have most likely spotted the pretty dress in my Instagram photo @pearl_owl and you are wondering where it is from… shock horror its… H&M

Now im not being biased, I do love H&M. As mentioned I think in my first ever post – H&M is my favourite shop. I have family who work there and it’s awesome because they let me know when a nice new dress appears in the shop & it makes me feel like I have a personal stylist (I know I wish…)

It is now April – we wave goodbye to our woolly cosy jumpers for another 6 months. A new season only means one thing - new clothes. Im not going to lie – seasons have never really stopped me wearing dresses even in Winter I would be the one wearing a dress in heavy snow. However I am loving the new spring styles which have come in to stores recently – please see pic below:

If you didn’t see the picture on Instagram I have attached a picture of my latest buy above.

This dress is so cute and with it being A-Line it is perfect for hiding my tummy area, which I love. So I was super happy when a lot of new A-Line range came into H&M stores recently - I love the style and pattern of this dress. If you haven't already guessed I live out of dresses – mostly tea dresses, so this style is very different for me however this dress is so pretty and I do find this very flattering! Even so, that I am planning on visiting H&M again this long weekend to go and buy the same dress in the other colour - orange.
This dress is £19.99 from H&M I bought this in store but you can also buy via the website – please see link below

http://www.hm.com/gb/product/89697?article=89697-B&cm_vc=SEARCH

Also for this spring I have bought several A-Line top/t-shirts as the weather in the UK is beginning to lift, it is now getting warmer and the sun is shining more – yay! I will pop a few links below to these tops:

http://www.hm.com/gb/product/88861?article=88861-F&cm_vc=SEARCH

http://www.hm.com/gb/product/88861?article=88861-F&cm_vc=SEARCH#article=88861-I

 The great thing about these, is they do look great with anything – jeans/skirts/wearing underneath blazers etc. These t-shirts are not expensive they are both £7.99 which is pretty reasonable. A-line style with short sleeves - wide at the arms (so again they help hide any unwanted arm bits)

I guess what im trying to say is its spring, it’s not summer yet so don't worry about having to be body confident – I know im nowhere near ready for Summer anyway. I don't plan on getting my tummy out anytime soon or having a beach body for wearing anything short yet. Until then, I salute A-Line attires and will wear pretty dresses which pay compliments and comfy slouchy t-shirts. Check out H&M for their latest products and if you have any questions – please feel free to comment below! J

 

Wholefoods Skin Glow Potion

This week I travelled to our nearest Wholefoods Market store.
I love this shop! My boyfriend and I first visited a Wholefoods Market store when we were on holiday in New York at the end of last year. The closest Wholefoods Market to us is actually 84 miles away - so unfortunately we aren't there as often as we would like! What I love about Wholefoods is they specialise in Organic, high quality, local food - which we wouldn't see in our big branded supermarket chains.

Amongst all of their wonderful organic fruit, veg, food, smoothies/juices etc. they also make what I can only explain as a "juice shot/potion" (pure fruit - no alcohol included). They make up several of these magic potions depending on what you want your potion to help with. From memory I think they had a Detox one a Gym one etc. I decided on the Skin Intensify potion below:

 

This was to help make my skin glow - it tasted really nice & sweet quite like apple juice. It was £1.99 from the fruit/smoothie section - please note it is a small bottle so you may think they are expensive for the size of them. However it is pure fruit and minerals, this shot was made up of Apples, Mangosteens and Silica. If you are unaware of what Silica is, it is a mineral which helps build the hair, skin, nails and joints. Silica helps activate the enzymes in your system which will help produce collagen for your skin and elastin for hair/skin and nails - making them all lovely. So with this in mind I wasn't bothered that it was £1.99 for a small bottle. Im glad I tried it out as I ended up loving it - I wish I grabbed more as they were so tasty! I definitely recommend going to your local wholefoods and trying these out!

Wholefoods Market also have a great set of core values and missions which I like - they've made this public on their website for the world to see, so feel free to check these values out and you can also find your local Wholefoods Store via the website link below

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/

Garnier Moisture Match Review

 This week I have been trying out the Garnier Moisture Match for Dull Skin

It’s a 24 hour revitalising hydrating gel to help make your skin look radiant!

 

 

Garnier have 5 of these out – to suit different types of skin. These moisturisers come in pretty packaging and instead of being labelled they are also colour coded depending on what skin type you are. This is the first time I have ever tried the Dull Skin (orange one). I will make a list below so you can work out which one you would be best to try:

Shine and Be Gone – best for oily combination (green)

Wake Me Up – best for dull skin (orange)

Start a Fresh – normal to dry skin (blue)

Goodbye Dry – dry to very dry (pink)

Protect and Glow – normal skin (yellow)  

I have previously tried the Start a Fresh one before and I loved it.

My skin type I would say is normal im quite lucky that it isn’t oily or very dry but unfortunately my skin can be dull and tired looking as I have grown up I have started to sport horrendous dark circles underneath my eyes – which isn’t a good look!

So I thought I would try the Wake Me Up moisturiser this time as a change. I actually bought this from Tesco they have It on a deal at the moment for £1.99 in UK Stores which is great because usually it is £3.99 most places so you are saving yourself a couple of pounds if you are quick and buy it there.

After showering or cleaning my face I always put a moisturiser on before anything else...

Your skin is the biggest organ after all – so you have to remember to take extra care of this!

 

When you first use this product you will notice that it isn’t like all the other face moisturisers, it’s a cream – it’s actually an orange gel. Once applied this gel sets in to your skin very quickly it’s not like other moisturisers where you can feel it sitting on top of your skin for hours not soaking in. It has a lovely citrus smell to it  – which Garnier are famous for. After applying this gel to my face, my skin feels incredibly smooth and hydrated. I can also see a difference in how vibrant my skin looks which is an added bonus!

I apply this every morning now before I put on any of my make-up. I find that by using this and also my Bourjois primer (mentioned in the post below) that my make-up stays put all day. I even tried this out on my boyfriend’s sister who said she loved it and wanted to go out and buy it!

I definitely recommend this moisturiser – I can see such an improvement in my skin. If you are going to try this moisturiser out from Garnier – make sure you figure out which skin type you are first so you pick the best one noted above for your combination

Or you could take advantage of the fact that they are all £1.99 at the moment in Tesco - you could buy all 5 Garnier Moisturisers for under £10.00! The offer of these at £1.99 is only on until 30/03/2015 so you only have 2 days to snap these up at this price - be quick!

 

Link to Tescos website see here: http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=276772446

If you have any questions on this moisturiser please feel free to comment below.