Lush Easter 2016

Good morning my lovelies and a Happy Easter Sunday to you all. I hope the Easter bunny has been kind to you all. I have a lovely, lovely lovely Lush post for you all today for this lovely Spring day. You all know that I love Lush. I use at least one product from Lush every single day and I am not ashamed to admit that either. I am also a sucker for their seasonal limited edition ranges such as Valentines Day, Easter, Halloween and of course the best of all - Christmas. Feeling very proud my love for Lush is now starting to infiltrate and affect others as I am converting many family members and friends to become firm Lush fans. Maybe it's their way to stop me banging on about Lush, who knows.

Lush always go to town with their collections and they sure did good this Easter. As far as I'm aware there aren't any new products this Easter although I think a couple have been re-vamped and altered a little. I just opened my Lush Easter box where I am storing my Easter products and I was greeted by a sweet toffee and slightly floral scent; definitely more sweet then the Christmas collection that which was more musky and spicy. I know that the perfect end to Easter will be with a pamper night enjoying as many Easter products that I can manage whilst consuming my own body weight in chocolate and entering a chocolate coma. All of these Easter goodies just make me feel all warm and gooey inside like a Cadbury's Carmel Egg, oozing with sugary sweetness. Side note - Cadbury's Carmel eggs are my all time favourite and I always plump for one over a Creme Egg. Fun fact for you all there.

Bath Bombs

Golden Egg

Scent wise this one is a favourite of mine, sweet golden sugary toffee goodness mixed with cocoa. Yum! If you aren't a fan of sweet food scents or glitter then I wouldn't advise going near this one. I am obsessed with caramel, any chocolates caramel related are right up my street. I will admit that I used to be put off by the overly glittery Lush products but I have now embraced them and the glitter doesn't bother me. In fact I love it now. This is a bath bomb although we can call it a hybrid as it is also a bath melt as it contains cocoa butter which will melt into the bath and absorb into your skin leaving your skin feeling super soft afterwards. I honestly mean super soft; it will feel softer then silk. The egg also contains olive oil which is meant to be really beneficial for your skin. I always use olive oil in cooking and on salads as I love the taste. I've heard many people recommending it in baths for your skin but I've never been brave enough to try it. It must also be quite an expensive bath too. I think I might opt for this one tonight and I will leave the bath in a relaxed warming and glowing state smelling of sweet toffee and sparkling with gold glitter. The golden egg is one of the more pricier bath bombs at £3.95 but it is so worth it for the indulgence of the toffee, cocoa butter and gold glitter. One to save for a full on pamper evening. 

Fluffy Egg

I'm a bit of a girly girl and a pink sweet bath bomb are right up my street. Lush have definitely opted for sweet scents this Easter which is totally me. I really struggled to get hold of this beauty; every time I went into my local Lush store it was always sold out. I ended up travelling two and a half hours until I found one. I was actually visiting family at the time I din't drive that far just for a bath bomb that would be a little insane. It is so worth it though and I am so chuffed that I managed to get hold of one. It has the staple sweet scent. Think Rockstar, think Snow Fairy, think Candy Cane Mountain and even think of the Magic Wand and you have a Fluffy Egg. It is a staple Lush scent that is usually limited edition so I am so happy that I can get my holds on the beautiful scent again for Easter. You can pick up your own fluffy egg if you manage to actually find the egg for £2.95. It was like going on my own personal Lush Easter egg hunt.

Humpty Dumpty

What a mahoosive bath bomb. A Lush Easter classic is to include two bath bombs in one. Once Humpty melts and fizzes away you are left with a hidden fried egg bath bomb inside that you can chose to save for another day if you crack his egg shell before the bath; or you can go all out one pamper evening and have both in the same bath. This has a refreshing and fruity scent towards it and less sickly sweet then some of the others. Perfect on a Spring morning perhaps. You can adopt your own Humpty for £6.95. 

Which Came First?

Again, another hefty size bath bomb from Lush and another Easter classic. I think last year you could get this one in different colours but this year all of the colours (pink, yellow and blue) have been combined into one mammoth bomb. This bath bomb is so big I struggled to pop it in the Lush bag. This is the largest bath bomb that Lush produce, it's so big you can potentially get three baths out of it so you definitely get your moneys worth with this one. Similar to humpty you could pre-crack your egg or go all out again on a pamper night. Inside this beautiful Easter Egg is a beautiful little chick - how adorably cute is that? This one also has a beautiful refreshing scent. I think I slightly prefer it to Humpty's - sorry Humpty - as it combines sweet vanilla with fruity and refreshing grapefruit. This is one of the more expensive bath bombs at £6.95 but if you divide that by three it actually makes it really reasonable and cheaper then buying three individual bath bombs. 

Bubble Bars

Bunch Of Carrots 

For me personally the Bunch Of Carrots are the most iconic item from the Easter Collection. Whenever I think of Lush Easter I think of these. The carrots have been a staple for many years now although this year they are slightly different. Usually they are your bog standard orange colour yet this year we have an orange, pink and purple carrot. Is it weird that I find a bunch of carrots so adorably cute? This means you can even chose which colour bath you fancy on the day. I love bubble bars as they create beautiful, mahoosive bubbles whilst changing the water colour and they release a beautiful scent. It is your overall all in one bath product. Not only that but the Bunch Of Carrots are also reusable which means you get even more baths out of these. Instead of crumbling the carrots you just wave a carrot under running water to create your bubbles and then pop it on the side for your next bath. You get even more for your money with these. The carrots have a really refreshing citrus fragrance to them. Perfect for Spring and warmer sunnier days. I recon I will use these for a morning bath, the perfect way to wake up and start the day. The carrots are proved at £6.25 which I think is really good value seeing as you get three carrots and multiple uses out of them. 

As part of the Easter Collection there were a couple of items I didn't pick up as I wasn't 100% sure on them. I guess they weren't my scents. Lush have also produced a Soap called Over The Rainbow which is very pretty alongside an alternative bubble bar called Ultraviolet. The final part of the collection was a shower jelly called Bouncy Bunny but I find the shower jellies a bit awkward to use I always tend to drop them in the shower resulting in the shower getting more of a wash than I do. 

Thank you for reading this post my lovelies. I hope you all have a magical and fun Easter Day with family, friends and loved ones, with many Easter egg hunts and games and eating lot's of yummy Easter foods and treats. If you fancy doing some baking for Easter why not try my recipe for Creme Egg Brownies - scrummy chocolaty Easter goo on a plate. These are delicious and so easy to make. They are also the perfect recipe that the whole family can muck in on together. Best served warm and gooey with a large dollop of vanilla ice cream after your Easter roast.

XXX

Mocha Cake (GF)

Hello my lovelies and a Happy Good Friday to you. I have a lovely indulgent recipe for you all today that will even satisfy the fellow coffee addicts among you all. It was my Mum's birthday on Monday and I asked her what sort of birthday cake she would like. Just like me she loves coffee and chocolate so we plumped for a mocha cake. I found the recipe from an American blog hence why the ingredients are all in cup sizes. We brought ourselves some really pretty cup measurers to use in baking which I have been dying to use so I have been secretly hoping for a recipe using cup measurements.

The recipe is also gluten free and I have found that gluten free cakes can be gorgeous and lighter then cakes that contain gluten. I am all for gluten free. The mixture itself is more like a batter and very runny and moose like. Once baked the house smells incredible, a big chocolate and coffee factory. I'm not one to float my own trumpet but this was honestly the lightest and moistest cakes that I have ever baked or eaten. I can't believe how much the cakes rose. I thought that they might deflate whilst cooking but they didn't. I recon that's down to the recipe and not me but I am so proud of it. Me and my Mum both loved it and I don't think it will last long in this household.

Ingredients

1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup of hot coffee
1 cup of milk
3/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup caster sugar
3/4 cup light brown muscovado sugar
3 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup potato starch
1/3 cup corn starch
1/4 cup sorghum flour
1 tsp xantham gum
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Mocha Buttercream:
30ml of coffee
30g unsalted butter
30g cocoa powder
500g icing sugar

dark chocolate coffee beans for decoration

Method

1) Preheat your oven to 180°C/ 160°Fan and grease and line two 20cm cake tins

2) Mix together your cocoa powder and coffee

3) In a separate bowl sift together your remaining dry ingredients of the white rice flour, potato starch, corn starch, sorghum flour, xantham powder, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda

3) In another bowl, beat together your butter and sugars until light, pale and fluffy

4) Gradually beat in your eggs one at a time to the sugar and butter mixture alongside the vanilla extract

5) Add your milk to your cocoa and coffee mixture

6) Add half of your sifted ingredients to the butter mixture and fold the ingredients into your mixture using a metal spoon

7) Stir in your cocoa, coffee and milk followed by the remaining dry ingredients

8) Once all of the ingredients have been fully incorporated, evenly divide the cake mix between your two cake tins

9) Bake the cakes for 30 mins, you know the cakes are cooked when a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of each cake. The sponges will also spring back if you press lightly in the centre of each cake

10) Leave the cakes to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire wrack to finish cooling completely

11) Whilst the cakes are cooling you can start to make your mocha butter cream

12) Beat your butter with a wooden spoon to soften it

13) Sift in your cocoa powder and a portion of icing sugar along with a drop of coffee. I don't believe in set instructions for buttercream I believe it's more of a case of judging it by eye. You should continue to beat in your icing sugar and coffee to the mixture until you are happy with the quantity and consistency. Be prepared to be flexible

14) Use half of the buttercream to sandwich the cakes together and the remaining half for icing the top of the cake

15) To finish the cake I used coffee flavoured dark chocolate in the shape of coffee beans for a sleek finish

I hope you enjoyed reading this recipe my lovelies. I would love to know in the comments if you have ago at making this cake. I hope you all have a magical Easter weekend. I hope chocolate also features heavily in your weekend as well!

XXX

Motown The Musical

Hello my lovelies, I have another Day In The Life Post for you all - Such fun! Last year I'm not sure what had happened to us that day but me and Mum were definitely in a spontaneous mood. I can't even remember when we did this but we made the spontaneous move of booking tickets to see The Jersey Boys in London as a Christmas treat. Whilst scanning the 'What's on' page we saw an advert for Motown The Musical. The Broadway hit was performing in the WestEnd for a limited period of Spring and Summer 2016. After watching the trailer we needed little persuading and thought sod it let's book it. Especially seeing as it's only running for a limited time. I'm so glad we discovered it early as I think it is pretty much all booked up now and when we saw the production it was a full house. Not bad for a Thursday afternoon performance. We booked it for the 24th March just after Mum's birthday to carry on the Birthday celebrations. I love going to London and when ever I visit I always write a blog post on it as it's always a special treat for me and not something I do everyday.

We started the day perfectly with a trip to our favourite cafe - Cafe Nero of course. We treated ourselves to our favourite of an amaretti latte that set us up for the train journey. Usually incredibly painful with southern rail but for once it was fast, efficient and actually arrived on time. Definitely spoke too soon for the journey home.

We got the tube to Green park and walked to Covent Garden. London during the week is so much quieter and actually quite enjoyable to stroll around. I always think you see more then if you get the tube.

We stopped off at Fortman and Mason to check out the Easter Displays and O M G they had  gone to town on the displays. Beautifully crafted Easter eggs with ladybirds and sunflowers alongside adorable chicks and bunnies. Of course the centrepiece was the massive £200 chocolate rabbit surrounded by massive bowls of colourful chocolate eggs in an endless range of flavours. We couldn't afford to buy but we always say that there is no harm in looking. If anyone reading this feels the need to buy me any of these chocolate goodies, do feel free.

We walked on over to Covent Garden and looked around the gorgeous and luxurious shops and stalls. If I could afford to I would love to do all of my Christmas shopping there.

The lovely Pizza Express had sent Mum a voucher treating her to a free bottle of Prosceeo for her birthday. Well rude not. Keeping with our theatre tradition of always enjoying a pizza before a musical we headed to Pizza Express where we enjoyed our lovely bubbles. We almost managed the whole bottle which I would have loved to have done but in fear of not making it to the theatre we thought maybe not. We both enjoyed a gorgeous Melanzana pizza followed by a Cappuccino and Chocolate Brownie. Perfect.

We headed off to the theatre to watch the musical which was amazing. So feel good and fun you can't help but smile. Not growing up in the Motown era I was surprised as to how many of the songs I recognised. I guess you pick them up with out realising from the media. I would highly recommend the performance if you are able to get tickets. The show was slick and the performers gave it everything. They had amazing costumes and dance moves and were so in sink.

Heading home was stressful with broken down tubes, overcrowding and delays. I think we were both quite grateful to get home.

I had a magical day. Going to the theatre is so special to me and usually a once a year treat so I am very thankful. I would love to know if any of you have seen the musical. Thank you for reading my lovelies.

Happy Birthday Mum

Hello my lovelies, I have a lovely post in honour of my gorgeous Mum today. It was my Mum's birthday on the 21st of March and I thought I would share some birthday celebrations with you all in a little Day In The Life Post.

To celebrate my Mum's birthday we were lucky enough to be able to have a Champagne Afternoon Tea at The Grand Hotel courtesy of my Mum's work colleagues. Won't say no to that. We had a lovely relaxing morning before setting off enjoying opening presents and squealing with excitement. The morning was made slightly more complicated with the fact I had a flat tyre but being two sophisticated grown up's we dealt with the situation. Un defeated we headed off to the hotel which was incredibly posh and oldy-wordly. Before arriving a quick car wash was essential, thank you very much Mr Seagull.

When we arrived our bags were taken in for us and they even parked the car for us. I'm not used to this level of poshness but it's little touches like these that make the whole experience even more special. The design of the hotel is stunning, so posh and old fashioned I felt as if we could be staring in an Agatha Christie episode.

Our hotel room was gorgeous with a beautiful bathroom filled with Molten and Brown products and it even came with a Nespresso machine. Definitely my kind of hotel. We headed down for our afternoon tea with a table right next to the fire place. The hotel provided a gorgeous selection of freshly made sandwiches, scones and cakes which were beautiful and light. Essential after the champagne which went straight to both of our heads. Note to self, champagne on an empty stomach isn't always the best idea. I personally don't like tea but Peppermint tea went down a treat. The whole meal was delicious and presented beautifully, I would highly recommend it.

Tea:
Peppermint and Jasmine

Sandwich Selection:
Egg and Tomato
Cucumber and Cream Cheese
Coronation Chicken
Smoked Salmon

Scones:
Freshly Baked Fruit Scones with Clotted Cream and Strawberry Jam

Cakes:
Plum and Cinnamon Moose
Ginger Cake
Mocha Cake
Bakewell Slice

What I wore:

Dress - Primark
Blazer - New Look
Black Tights - New Look
Jewellery - New Look (Silver hoops and silver ring)
Pandora Bracelet
Bag - Accessorize
Nail polish - Koala-Berry by OPI

We then headed out for a little walk along the sea front. I love seeing the sea at dusk, I find it really calming with the sunset and seeing all of the lights starting to turn on. It's almost as if the town shuts down for the evening.

The next day after a cappuccino we were treated to breakfast in bed. We opted for fresh fruit and juice followed by scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. It was beautiful; best scrambled eggs ever.

Whilst at the The Grand we treated ourselves to a spa morning. Going to The Grand is probably something you only do once so you've got to make the most of every opportunity. We both had a facial and a hot stone massage. Both of these were new experiences for me. It was lovely to stop and be pampered. I think everybody including myself should learn to stop and take time to pamper themselves. It always seems like such a treat but I'm pretty sure that everyone is guilty of not taking the time to treat themselves enough.

We then headed back and enjoyed a gorgeous warm and sunny afternoon walk on the Downs. Perfect end to the two days.

I hope you enjoyed this little blog post my lovelies. Just a small snippet into some birthday celebrations that you don't often do. Enjoy the rest of your day.

XXX

Ginger And Lemon Polenta Mothers Day Cake

Good evening my lovelies and a Happy Mothers Day to you all! I hope that you are all spoiling your Mother's rotten with lot's of lovely treats and goodies. I have had an absolutely perfect weekend with my gorgeous Mum it has been total heaven to have Mother and Daughter time together.

I love to bake. Fact. So I thought I would bake my Mum a cake for Mother's Day. I have recently been really enjoying experimenting with polenta. Last year I made a Lemon, Honey and Pistachio Polenta cake which my Mum really enjoyed so I thought I would treat her to a polenta cake for Mother's Day. My Mum absolutely adores ginger so I thought I would try incorporating it into the cake. The cake is essentially ginger and polenta with a refreshing lemon buttercream icing in the filling and lemon glace icing on top. I think lemon is bright, refreshing and very spring like. The cake is overflowing with ginger spices, packed full of stem ginger and oozing in ginger syrup; I don't think I could have packed more ginger into this little beauty if I tried. I baked the cake as a sandwich cake so I could make a buttercream filling but you could bake the cake as one cake with just a simple glace icing on top. The world is your oyster. I loved baking this cake and the house smelt really refreshing whilst the cake was baking.

Ingredients

125g unsalted butter
65g caster sugar
70g golden syrup
3 large eggs
125g ground almonds
90g polenta
1/2tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground ginger
150g stem ginger - plus some of the ginger syrup

Buttercream:
25g unsalted butter
250g icing sugar
lemon juice of 1 lemon
lemon rind of 1 lemon

Glace icing:
lemon juice of 1 lemon
250g icing sugar

Method

1) Grease and line two 20cm sandwich cake tins and preheat your oven to 180°C/160°Fan

2) Cream your butter, sugar and syrups together

3) Beat in your eggs one at a time - the mixture may curdle but this will all be resurrected when you add the dry ingredients

4) Fold in your ground almonds, polenta, baking powder and ground ginger using a large metal spoon

5) Dice your gorgeous stem ginger chunks, this doesn't need to be precise but I recon mine may have been about 0.5cm cubes. Once chopped, fold your stem ginger cubes into the mixture

6) Evenly divide your cake mixture into the two cake tins and bake for 25 minutes. Once baked a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake will be removed clean and the cake will also spring back when you gently press the centre. If you baked the cake as one large cake it will take longer to bake. As I have never baked the cake as one before I don't know exactly how long this would take but I would recommend trying around 45 minutes. I'm a home baker and I never use a timer I try to judge by eye when bakes are baked

7) Leave the cakes to cool for approximately 10 minutes in the tin before removing the cakes from the tin and leaving on a wire wrack to cool

8) Once cool, prick both of the cakes all over approximately 3/4 of the way through the cake with a skewer. I then used a teaspoon to drizzle ginger syrup all over each cake. You can use as much syrup as you like here, I think the amount I used was in proportion to the stem ginger that was removed from the jar. This will help to keep the cakes moist whilst infusing the cakes with the warmth of the ginger

9) Whilst the cakes are cooling you can start to make a buttercream filling. Beat your butter and lemon rind together using a wooden spoon

10) Add half of the lemon juice and gradually beat in your icing sugar. Once you have used half of the icing sugar add the remaining lemon juice and continue to beat in the remaining icing sugar

11) Evenly spread the buttercream over one of the cakes using a level spatula and sandwich the two cakes together

12) You can then make your glace icing which is a similar process to the buttercream icing. Gradually beat in your icing sugar to your lemon juice - easy

13) Using a spatula evenly spread the glace icing over the top of the cake. I then decorated the cake with some sugar decorations of daisies and a butterfly but you can get as creative as you like or just keep it simple and sophisticated

Thank you for reading this blog post. Although I made this cake for Mother's Day the cake doesn't have to be restricted just for Mother's Day. I would love to know in the comments how you have spoilt your lovely Mummies. I have had a lovely weekend with mine - soppy post warning - but I honestly couldn't get by without mine she has always been my rock so I hope she has felt special and treated this weekend as she really deserves it.

XXX

February Favourites 2016

Hello my lovelies and a Happy Tuesday to you all. Where has February gone? Having said that I am so happy that it is now March which brings lovely Spring as I am definitely fed up with Winter now. As soon as Christmas has passed for another year I am all set for Spring/Summer with warmer and sunnier days and new life. February has been a funny month for me. I feel I am a little guilty of minimal blogging as I have been ill with flu for half of the past month and I'm still not 100% yet. I won't complain when I next have a cold that's for sure. It just means that I have been trying out new products that much this past month. Wearing make-up was restricted back to the start of the month I therefore found it quite challenging to think of new products that I have loved using or trying this month as the majority of the time I have been ill in bed looking revolting. This wasn't intentional but this post seems to feature favourite products that are dominated by one shop. This isn't a sponsored post by The Body Shop and it is pure chance but what can I say, I have always loved The Body Shop and I know that I will continue to for many years to follow.

Oat and Honey Face Mask By The Body Shop

I think it's really important that we all take time to pamper our skin and look after ourselves. Something I'm sure we are all guilty of is not allowing or making enough time to do this. This is something that I am definitely guilty of. Once a week I try to have one pamper evening where I will indulge in a face pack, face mask, exfoliate and treat myself to a lovely bath using lovely special treat products. Call it an unofficial New Year's resolution if you like. Not something you would do on a daily basis in your quick morning bath that is a bit of a rush just for a quick wash to start the day off with. I have been testing a face pack from The Body Shop which is called an Oat and Honey mask. The smell of this mask is gorgeous. It's really refreshing and light and it just screams summer to me. The mask is also really soft on your skin so if you have sensitive skin I'm sure that you would be fine with using this one. The mask is a 2 in 1 face mask and exfoliate. This is perfect then for those of you who say that they don't have the time to pamper your self. Two jobs at the same time, no excuses my lovelies. It feels really soft and creamy on your skin as it also contains an inbuilt moisturiser. It's really easy to apply then you simply leave the mask on your cleansed skin for 5 to 10 minutes before washing the mask off with a warm flannel, toning and moisturising. I also think that this mask would be suited for those of you who suffer from dry skin as it is incredibly moisturising. I have been using this once a week every Saturday and it has earned a well deserved place in my weekly skin care routine. After using this mask my skin feel glowy and moisturised. I'm sure there are lot's of benefits for using one of these masks. If you think about it, you're born with one face to last you your whole life so why wouldn't you want to take care of it.

Satsuma Body Sorbet By The Body Shop

You all know that I love The Body Shop sorbets. Fact. The only difference here is that I have been enjoying using a scent that I haven't used in sorbet form before. I remember purchasing this back at the start of December thinking that Satsuma sounded perfect for Christmas. Although I have only just got round to using it now satsuma is a really refreshing scent. I apply this in the mornings and evenings. It just feels really refreshing on the skin. The little pockets of air pop onto your skin allowing the moisture to be absorbed. For another year I will continue to use these all year round only alternating on the different scents.

Eyeshadow Quad By The Body Shop

This isn't a new addition to my collection, in fact it's slightly embarrassing as to how old this could be. I have just found myself turning to these beautiful eyeshadows quite frequently and I remember doing the same back in January and December as well. It is a beautiful neutral quad with a whole lot of shimmer to it. I always finding myself turning to this for special occasions such as birthdays, nights out or meals out. Seeing as Christmas and my Birthday have just passed this quad has been of great use recently. It comes with a beautiful warm toned golden highlighter and three beautiful nude brown shades which are perfect for contouring with and using for definition such as under the eye. I remember receiving this as a Christmas gift many years back and it has been continued to be loved ever since. It is definitely one of my favourite eyeshadow palettes. An oldy but a classic and staple. The eyeshadow quad is called 01 Smoky Copper although unfortunately it has been discontinued so I'm dreading finishing this little beauty and I probably won't allow myself to ever fully finish it.

Glazed Apple Body Butter By The Body Shop

This has been mentioned in multiple favourites posts at multiple times of the year. It still remains a firm favourite and staple of mine. The Glazed Apple scent is hands down my favourite ever scent from The Body Shop. Unfortunately for me it is limited edition. Typical. Therefore I always make sure I stock up on it when I can and it is always top of the list of my Christmas list. I promise you it genuinely was the first thing on my list. I can't bare not to use any throughout the year which was a big mistake I made when the Mother of all crimes was made and the gingerbread scent was discontinued. I mean really. I will continue to use this scent throughout the entire year and I will never get bored of it or lose my love for it. Moisturising is always essential although I have found that I seem to have got through a lot of body butter over February. I think that's down to a combination of the cold weather and being ill it has been essential to moisturise any dry skin. It has a beautiful sweet and fruity scent combining fresh apples with sherbet. The perfect scent for me personally.

Thank you for reading this post my lovelies and I'm sorry that it is so short and sweet. I'm hoping I might get my mojo back now this month. I would love to know in the comments what products you have all enjoyed using over February and maybe let me know if there are any products that you want to try. I have seen that there have been a lot of lovely make-up realises for Spring so I won't lie but I feel a haul post coming on. I'm feeling a spontaneous shopping trip where I spend hours and hours staring at make-up stands and swatting. Heaven, very therapeutic and relaxing.

XXX