from the ritz to the rubble

This is the lovely little view from the breakfast bar in my kitchen. Sitting in the morning gazing out at the back gardens of the ridiculously HUGE houses on victoria road is actually quite relaxing (we even have our fair share of footballers and their ‘whatever of a million quids…’ worth of houses around the corner) I’m certainly a nosy neighbour.

Now that its winter, my sugar puffs and a cuppa in the morning does not include sunlight beaming through the window. This picture was taken at about 4.30pm on saturday afternoon, and its this kind of setting that gives the best natural light for doing my makeup and taking pictures. Shame its a bit bloody late in the day eh! I have been wearing zero makeup to work during the week, so at the weekend it was really nice to eat my breakfast with the sun shining through the window, and taking my time to put a nice ‘face’ on.

On sunday afternoon I went into town and got my mum’s birthday present, items for my swap with lovely Tennille, and the remainder of my 400 followers giveaway pressies. I was in WHSmiths having an oogle over the stationary (as ye do… I mean, who doesn’t love a good bit of stationary?) and I came accross these drawers, reduced from £19.99 to £9.99 and thought they would be perfect for my makeup! Since it has pretty much taken permanent stance on the breakfast bar with my swirly mirror – I thought this would be a much neater option!

(Yes I’m a saddo who still has one of our 2 year anniversary card’s up, even though it was almost 2 months ago! Love the card too much!)

Top drawers: Lipsticks, lipglosses, eye pencils, mascaras, blushers.

Middle drawers: Foundations and eye stuff.

Bottom drawer: bases, brushers, powder, highlighters, mineralised skin finish, benefit mixed boxes.

How do you store your makeup? I tag you to share with us!

Anyways, onto the giveaway 🙂 I am completely overwhelmed at reaching this amount of readers, from what started as a blog for uni to grow into something that is now a certain hobby of mines, well it is really overwhelming and it wouldn’t be happening without all you lovely ladies. So really, the biggest thank you from the bottom of my heart! Here is what is up for grabs…

Prize 1 – Me and Zena Anchor Bracelet

 
Prize 2 – ‘Toxic Tale’ Lipstick (which is still sold out, as far as I am aware)
from Mac’s Venemous Villians Collection. This was just my bloggy pic but you’ll be getting it in the original box of course!

Runner Up Prize – Sleek Blush in ‘Flamingo’ and Barry M Nail Polish in ‘Cyan Blue’

Here’s a pic (which I nabbed from ebay) of the blush – just to show you the colour! Its pretty 🙂

The conditions are as follows:

To enter, you need to be a follower of my blog.
This isn’t to generate lots of new readers, but I genuinely just want the prizes going to you girls who love to read my ramblings on the little blog of horrors! Of course, new readers are welcome too ovb! :p

Just leave a comment in the box below saying whatever ye wish and that shall be your entry 🙂 Make sure to leave your email address along with it too so I can contact you if you win.

For extra entries, tweet or mention on your blog that I am having a giveaway
(winners will be chosen via random number generator, so let me know if you have mentioned on your blog, or tweeted about it, and link me to it so I can give you an entry +1 or +2. I am yet to be on the twitter bandwagon yet, but in terms of blogging I can see it’s benefits so I may be signing up soon!)

You have until next week, tuesday 2nd november, to enter. Competition will close at 7pm GMT and I will draw and announce the 3 winners later on that evening.

Also, since names are pulled at complete random I can’t control what prize you will be getting if you win. All of the prizes were bought with my own money, and I tried to make it things I thought most of you ladies would like. So if you really dislike the prizes, but are a regular reader and don’t want to enter, I won’t be offended :p Thanks again for everything girls, and good luck!

Ayden x