Me, Me, Me

Me: Sam

Nicknames: Sammy, Little Sam

Birthday: 20th August 1990

Place of Birth: West Sussex, UK

Zodiac Sign: Leo, Rawwr!

Male or Female: Female

Occupation: Retail

Residence: West Sussex

Screen Name: Miss Lipton

Appearance:

Hair Colour: Brown

Hair Length: Long

Eye colour: Blue

Best Feature: Eyes

Height: 5ft 1"

Braces?: Nope

Glasses?: Reading/Computer Work

Piercing: Ears

Tattoos: None

Righty or Lefty: Lefty.

Your 'Firsts':

First best friend: Hard to pick the one.

First Award: Baby medal in dance, when I was 4

First Sport You Joined: Dance class, ballet and tap

First Real Vacation: France 1997

First Concert: B*Witched - the little * is very important

First Love: Makeup ha.

Favourites:

Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas

TV Show: True Blood

Colours: Turquoise or Pink

Song: Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional

Candy: Not sure, something fruity maybe.

Restaurant: Smith and Western, mah-hoo-sive portions.

Store: River Island

School: Secondary.

Book: The Stand by Stephen King (also twilight but shhh)

Magazine: Glamour

Shoes: Rocket Dog Sugar Daddy's

Currently:

Feeling: Content

Single or Taken: Single Pringle

Eating: Nothing

Typing: This

Online: Holy potato skins Batman, maybe I am!

Listening To: The men digging up the road outside.

Thinking About: Work later.

Wanting: To spruce up my bedroom.

Watching: This screen.

Wearing: PJs and dressing gown.

Future:

Want Children?: Not something I want really, but everyone says I'll change my mind in a few years.

Want to be Married: I do.

Careers in Mind: Not too sure.

Where do you want to live?: Oceanside, CA or Australia.

Have you ever:

Kissed a Stranger: No

Had Alcohol: Yes

Smoked: Nope, I like my lungs clean.

Ran Away From Home: No

Broken a bone: No.

Got an X-ray: Yes.

Broken Someone's Heart: Yes

Broke Up With Someone: Yes

Cried When Someone Died: No

Cried At School: Yes

Do You Believe In:

God: No

Miracles: No

Love At First sight: No

Ghosts: No

Aliens: Something like that.

Soul Mates: Yes

Heaven: Yes

Hell: No

Kissing on The First Date: Why not?

Yourself: Every now and again

Return to Blogging.

Hello beautiful people!

I can't believe it was September that I last posted. I kind of lost enthusiasm and inspiration for this whole blogging thing, offline life got a bit busy. But I've been reading some of my favourite blogs again and I feel inspired so I think I'm going to give this another whack!
I do enjoy writing - not being in school or college anymore I feel it's important for me to do something literary otherwise I'll just turn into a vegetable, and that my dear readers would suck.

Expect many more posts soon. Sam x

Bargain Watch

Amazing deal on halfpriceperfumes.co.uk 5 piece makeup kit from Korres for only £6.99, normal price £29.50. All the products are full size. I've ordered perfume from this site before and they do have some really good deals. I've bought two of these one for me and one for my mum for christmas.

It includes:
* Korres Mascara 01 Black - 10.5ml Rich in provitamin B5 and rice barn Korres Mascara 01 Black strengthens the eyelashes. The easy to layer creamy mascara makes it simple to create volume, extra length and deep colour.
* Korres Soft Eyeliner Pencil 01 Black - 1.13g The Korres Soft Eyeliner Pencil in 01 Black is ideal for use on the inside of the lid. Apply it along the lash line from inner to outer corner. Leave as it is, or blend for an eyeshadow or smokey eye effect.
* Korres Soft Eyeliner Pencil 06 Golden - 1.13g Just as the Black Soft Eyeliner Pencil, use this Korres Golden Eyeliner from the inner to outer corner of the lid and leave as it is, or blend for an eyeshadow effect with a golden shimmer.
* Korres Cherry Lip Gloss 33 - 6ml Korres Cherry Lip Gloss is a sheer, high shine colour gloss with cherry oil that hydrates the lips while vitamins E and C offer antioxidant protection.
* Korres Sunflower Shimmering Eye Shadow 24 Gold - 1.8g Brighten your eyes with the Korres Shimmering Eyeshadow in Gold. A velvety soft golden shimmer with bright colour and moisture retaining sunflower oil to provide a long lasting sheen.

This offer is today only I think. So grab a bargain, quick!

Inspired by Queen Beeuty

I love Kalel she's one of my favourite people on youtube. A couple of days ago she posted a video on how she gets organised at school. Her organiser is freekin' awesome. So awesome I decided to make my own.

I'm a huge organisation freak and my diary just does not meet my needs, theres bits of paper jammed in everwhere in it. I've started my planner, I got to the end of October before my Dad kicked me off his computer (his one is next to the printer and I am not running backward and forward from my room to keep printing).

So her is my Queen Beeuty inspired planner:

Mine's an A5 size rather than a A4, more handbag friendly. It also has this cool flap on the inside cover, which im using to store receipts.

So at the top of the page I've got the day of the week and the date. Underneath I've got events, i.e. birthday's, holidays ect. The day's agenda and reminders. Underneather tasks to accomplish with tick boxes and at the bottom how much money I spent that day, handy for keeping an eye on how much I spend, how often I buy petrol and phone credit ect.


I even decorated some pages like the 31st, halloween.

Some Plunder

You what one of the best feelings in the world is? When you realise you have way more money in your bank account that you thought you had.
That happened to me this week so I dragged my poor mother all the way to Southampton (mostly because that's the place nearest to me with a Hollister store) after driving round the city centre for half and hour and spending 20 minutes trying to park we made it :)

So here is my plunder:
Black dress from some random shop, good for casual wearing.

Hollister hoody, because you can never have enough nice warm hoodys in the autumn/winter.

Green vest top from Hollister, £7.50 from £20 bargain!

Cardigan from Zara, I saw this on Feline's blog and had to do a copy cat and get it myself. That girl has amazing taste in clothes.

Stuff from Accessorize, two necklaces and a silver ring :) Excuse my teeny nails, I split them all at work at the weekend and so I've filed them all down so at least their a uniform length.

Soap and Glory goodies. I read about the Fab Pore mask on Zoe's blog I haven't tried it yet but going by her post I will love this. I also bought a bottle of Clean Mary because I conveniently ran out the other day. I use Tesco's Sensitive skin makeup wipes to remove my makeup (they do a suprisingly good job) and then cleanse my skin with this, making it all clean and pretty.

Next on my wish list a trip to MAC to buy goodies and I really want some tan leather boots.

It's My Birthday!

Well, It's not any more. But it was last week (the 20th). I had a wonderful time and recived lots of lovely things. On the wednesday my parents took me up to London for the day to see We Will Rock You. It's an amazing show, I love Queen so much and I thought this might ruin the songs but it totally does the opposite and I have a new appreciation for them. We saw the matinee performance so we could have dinner at a normal hour. We went to an italian (my favourite) restaurant in Horsham on the way back home, it was beautiful I had a gorgeous pizza and shared a chocolate desert with my mum. Then on my actual birthday which was the thursday I had to work in the morning - how harsh is that! Then in the afternoon me and two of my best friends, my mum and her friends went to Ladies Race Day at our local racecourse. It was so fun to get all dressed up and bet on the horses, not that I ever bet over £3.00 (kinda makes you feel cheap when the guy after you places several bets over £700 each). After the racing finished they had... wait for it... a TAKE THAT TRIBUTE BAND! Oh yeah! They really weren't that bad and nothing beats singing along to Rule The World after a couple of glasses of wine.

So here are some pictures from those couple of days:


I've been to London so many times in my life and not once had I ever been to Buckingham Palace, so I made sure I did that, and we got really lucky beacause it was the changing of the guard right when we got there, so that was cool to see. There were soooo many people though.

At the races I won a whole £18 and dissapointingly I never got a picture of my whole outfit.


My beautiful pressies from my parents and friends, I few DVDs I've been wanting for a while. It's not often I'll ask for or buy DVDs when they're newly released because I know in the two months after that they'll be half price. (The exception to this rule will be the special edition of Coraline in 3D!!!)
I got a sexy new camera, a Nikon Coolpix S560 in black. A beautiful martini glass with olives on it - I LOVE olives. A gorgeous bracelet from my friend Emma and that photo frome filled with pictures from my best friend Mai, she leaves for drama school in New York next in 3 weeks I'm going to miss her an insane amount, but at least I get to visit :)
Lastly, The Suspicions of My Whicher, I've been wanting this all summer, I love a good murder mystery.

Update: Look at the stars, look how they shine for you.

I've nearly completed my list of things to do :) Unfortunatly theres another list in the making...

So... buy phone credit, check!

Return jeans, check (after getting to River Island and then realising I FORGOT THE DAMN JEANS!)

Bake cupcakes, check (kinda)! I made sure I had the ingrediants alright, what I didn't have was cake cases! So I made rock cakes instead. Not very exciting, but I thought they tasted good :)

Sort race day tickets, check! I'm going to ladies evening race day for my birthday and I had to book the tickets.

Buy InStyle, check! Yay for free eyeliner!

Blog some more, check!

Buy Pure lippie in 'Nude', not so check, turns out my local boots doesn't stock Pure so I bought Revlon lippie in Nude Attitude instead.

Colour hair and get cut, check! Almost I've booked in to have it done at Rush because I got a deal where you pay £40 and you get a cut and finish, colour, hi-lights, hair treatment and a blow dry and finish. I don't have to use all those at the same time but I'll be using all but the last treatment on wednesday.

So all in all I think I've had a pretty productive few days.

The weather yesterday was lovely we had a BBQ and cracked out my dads telescope to see the moon up close. Nobody believed me when I said I bet you can take a photo through the telescope, but I proved them wrong, observe:

Thats the moon as we can see it with the naked eye from our garden, with the patio heater in the shot too.

And this is the moon as taken with a camera through a telescope.


Yes that is the moon, not a potato as my brother seems to think. I told you all I was a nerd, I bet none of you believed it until now.

xx

Haulage

So even though I've been working all the hours God sends I've been spending rather alot of money this week but all justfied purchases I swear!



So first off I ordered the Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual (£13 from amazon.co.uk) and it arrived on Friday :) Lots of pretty pictures and really informative, I'm looking forward to having a chance to read it properly.

Then I ordered some goodies from halfpriceperfumes.co.uk. I got another bottle of Ralph by Ralph Lauren for £17.99 for 30ml. This is now my third bottle of the stuff, it's usually what I wear on a daily basis. I also ordered Beyond Paradise by Estee Lauder £19.99 for 30ml. This one I've been wanting for quite a while is a bit more of a 'grown up smell' at least thats what my dad says. But I got a sample of it years ago and I loved it so I finally got a round to buying a full size.
And lastly the steal of the friggin' week Benefit's 'Justine Case' £11.25 when it usually retails for £22. It's an adorable little handbag collection of 'mini beautifiers', these include California Kissin', Eyecon, Benetint and Some Kind-a-Gorgeous I love this, I'm a sucker for miniture anything.


I also visited by local CCS for the first time ever on friday! For ages I had no idea there was one only half an hours drive from me in Gunwharf Quays. They had some pretty good stuff there a few bits left from the Hello Kitty collection and a few from the more recent Style Warrior. I got an eyeshadow quad in 'Tempting' from the Cult of Cherry collection for £20 which includes 'Next To Nothing', Tempting, Sharp & Dark Edge.



I also got 'Pandamonium' shadow from the Naughty Nauticles collection for £6.85 which is a sparkly grey, like Knight Divine but a teeny bit lighter.



Lastly mineralize blush in 'Moon River' which I absolutly LOVE, it's so pretty.



I also got the new issue of InStyle magazine which comes with two free eyeliners from The Body Shop (thanks to Lollipop26) I got the black and silver ones. They're good quality and retail for about £7 each so it's worth it even if the magazine is £3.00ish and in my opinion a bit sucky.

And lastly I purchased Revlon matt lipstick in Nude Attitude - although I bought this with my wonderful boots points so really this doesn't count as 'spending' I'm crazy about the colour but not the formula, I still have to put gloss over this to make it work - which defeats the point of it being matt but hey ho :)

Also on a not-completely random note only one more empty before I can back to MAC yay!
I've probably rambled long enough now, Hope you all have a wonderful day/evening depending on where you are :)

xx

p.s I apologise for the SHODDY quality of my pics :)

Todays Mini Missions

Morning!

Well yesterday I got inspired by Dolly Is Glitter's list for the day post and decided to make myself a list for today. I do love a good list.

So here is my list and a quick 'outfit for the day' - really not very exiting I might add...

Introductions

Bonjour!
Well I'm really new to this blogging lark but I've been 'blog-stalking' several blogs and youtubers now and finally decided to quit being such a watcher and become a do-er.

This blog will simply be a collection of my day-to-day ramblings and thoughts. Like an eco-friendly diary that the world can see. I may try my hand at a couple of makeup looks/hauls in the future.

So to get more acquainted her are a few essential facts about myself:

• I'm 18 (19 in 16 days, not that I'm counting).

• I live in the south of England, I love it here.

• Makeup has always been a passion of mine, I have way too many books on it & too many drawers full of the stuff.

• I'm a nerd. I huge nerd. I love computers, although I hate twitter (I'm a facebook girl) & am a huge horror movie fan. I really love watching how they do the makeup for horror movies on the special features of DVDs.

• I'm old at heart, my friends say I was born at 30 years old & I'm only getting older.

• I have a slight tendency toward OCD characteristics, I love being organised & making lists & I hate being in messy rooms, I'm a bit of a germaphobe - to the point I have disinfectant wipes in my bedroom &I'm terrible for pointing out spelling mistakes

• I love Italian food.

• My user name comes from my love of a particular brand of ice tea - I could drink that stuff all day for a year and not get sick of it.

I hope you enjoyed this little introduction, I know I enjoyed writing it :) maybe I'll see you around on this little blogging world.

xx