Beauty samples

A few years ago I used to search the web for free samples of beauty products and perfumes, it was a great way of finding out about new brands and trying them without having to buy full size products. I decided to go on the hunt again for some new samples recently and stumbled upon a website called Glossybox. Basically, you pay £10 a month and they send you a cute box with 5 samples of good quality beauty products! I'm pretty gutted that I just missed out on one, and now have to wait until September when I can get their next one, but considering you can get samples of NARS, OPI and other great brands, I think I can hold out until then!

www.glossybox.co.uk

I have however read a few reviews from girls who have received their Glossybox and not been totally happy with some of the products, but I think it all depends on what you like, some people may like facial creams but not nail polishes, others may like hair products and not lipsticks. I'm pretty much an all rounder though! I love make up, and nail products (as I'm training to become a Nail Technician!), hair care products are always handy, and I like trying new creams for my face as sometimes it gets dry, then oily, then dry again *grr!*.

I googled for similar sites that offer things like this and found a website called Boudoir Prive which will be launching very soon I believe! The idea is similar, you pay £10 a month but you recieve 6 luxury beauty samples, instead of 5!

On my hunt for samples and freebies I found another site called Latest In Beauty which again is a similar idea to GlossyBox and Boudoir Prive. The idea behind Latest In Beauty is that you sign up and fill in your details such as skin tone, hair and eye colour, skin type (dry/oily etc) and then for just £1 you get to pick 3 beauty samples that they match to your needs and send you it out in a little box called the Beauty Box! You can order it every month and they also have a section where you can order larger sizes of luxury samples at low prices. If you like what you try you can purchase full size products also on the site!

www.latestinbeauty.com

It only takes about 2-3 days to recieve your box in the post so fingers crossed mine should be here very soon, I'm so excited!

The last thing I wanted to share with you today was some beauty competitions I found. If you sign up to the Loreal Paris Beauty Confidential page there are about 5 competitions where you can win 1 of 1000 Lash Architect 4D mascaras, Golden Goody bags and 1 of 1000 Glam Shine Fresh lip glosses and more!

I also went shopping last Saturday, mainly to get some mascara as I had nearly ran out, but bought some other stuff, so I will share my mini make up haul with you tomorrow for some more fun stuff! xoxo

Love fashion

Hi everyone!

Apologies for the lack of posts for the past erm...2 months (oops!), I think I have had a sort of mental block on all things creative recently :/

First off, I decided to take the plunge and order some fake whipped cream (clay) and air dry clay plus molds/rhinestones/fruit canes etc to make some Deco sweets jewellery. I have been looking into it for a while now and really fancied having a go at it as they look so cute and yummy!

I will be posting some pictures of my creations very soon so keep an eye out for them :)

The second thing I wanted to share was fashion-related. Have you heard of a fashion brand called Uniqlo? I first came across them a few years ago at the store in NYC. They are a Japanese brand whose aim is to provide casual clothes at affordable prices. The first thing I noticed though when I went inside was their huge range of cool graphic t-shirts. They had everything from Manga prints to childhood cartoons! I ended coming out of there with quite a few tops, which I still have actually! They use good quality cotton which washes really well, plus the prints don't wear off after a few washes like some other t-shirts I have bought from other shops.

I decided to check out their site a few months ago as I have been on the hunt for some fun t-shirts for the summer...and guess what, they did not disappoint! At the moment they have various special collections under the name of their UT project which currently feature Care Bears, Barbie, Cacharel, Pirates of The Caribbean: on Stranger Tides plus even more!

The best bit about their UT Project is that all of the collaborative t-shirts are really reasonable in price!

Here are a few of my favourites (perfect for Fairy-Kei and Decora lovers):-

Carebears Raglan t-shirt A-Was £7.99, now £4.99!

Carebears raglan t-shirt D-Was £7.99, now £4.99!

Barbie short sleeve T A2-£12.99

Barbie Graphic short sleeve T-shirt B-£12.99

Barbie Graphic T-shirt C-£12.99

I hope you enjoyed this post and be sure to check the Uniqlo site out, they also have a huge sale on at the moment!!! xoxo

Photoshoot

Hey all!

Apologies for the lack of updates recently. I have yet again been working a lot, and had some

problems to do with one of my jobs so haven't had much time for CandyDoll Couture :'(

I did however get some awesome shots of my products, modelled by the lovely Miss Kitty Star and photographed by the talented Frances Lane!

Please check out Frances Lane on Facebook, and also Miss Kitty Star!

Here are a few of my favourites, you can see the rest on Frances Lane's facebook page and of course CandyDoll Couture's fan page :)

Sweet Treats...

Just a quick update to say I have added some new pretties to the website http://www.candydollcouture.com/. I have been having huge problems with Mr Site, so it took me a while to upload just a few things! *Sighs* I will be adding more over the coming week though, and fingers crossed getting a brand spanking new website that works properly sometime next month too!!!

Onto pics...

This is just a few items I have added, prices start from as little as £4.50 on some of these goodies!

Whitby Gothic Weekend and other things

Hey everyone, long time no see! Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been super busy due to working 2 jobs (yes I got another job!) and making and preparing things for Whitby Gothic Weekend.

I basically decided to book a stall at WGW about a month and a half ago (talk about leaving it to the last minute!) which was also around the time I started my other job. I wanted to give it a shot as I haven't been to the festival for over 8 years, and wanted to see how my stuff would go down at an alternative event. I worked my arse off for this, ordering supplies, sewing, glueing, jewellery making etc every night after work. I finally got everything ready and finished the night before we went down to Whitby (last Thurs) which got me into a right panic! I still had to make my board to display my necklaces on so ended up putting that together in the hotel room on the Thurs night eek! One of the reasons I ended up being so last minute with everything was because my supplies were coming from all over the world, so some didn't arrive until a few days before we went (talk about stress!).

We worked for 2 days, the Friday and Saturday and had a blast! It was really fun and great to see so many people who liked my things. I sold quite alot and alot of people took my card (which ended up in some sales when I came back aswell!). I also met some really nice people who were also running stalls in the same venue as us. The only drawback to the weekend was that the organisers had decided to split the event over 2 seperate weekends, so unfortunately alot of people were unsure which to attend, which led to a quieter weekend than usual. Apart from that though it was still a good turn out.

We had the sunday off so we could check stuff out which was fun. We managed to 'break into' the Abbey (oops!We were following a bunch of people who climbed a wall to get in, not realising it was actually closed! Typically though it was Karl and I that got wrong for it haha!) and we went on a Ghost walk on sunday evening. We had an awesome time and both of us were sad to leave, but its got me thinking about doing more shows and festivals in the future.

I had a bunch of new items that weren't on the website before we went away, some of which sold really well! I have managed to add some of them to the site, but over the next few days will be adding the rest, so look out for another post showing off the new stock.

I hope you enjoyed this post, and check out Karl's photography skills, awesome photo of the Abbey!

Bye for now :)

2011

Happy New Year! Apologies for not blogging in a while, Christmas was abit hectic! I hope you all had a great christmas and new year :)

I had a quiet christmas, which was nice, but had a panic with pressies due to the disruptions with the royal mail! I wanted to order alot of things but with the delays I didn't risk it, so in the end went out in a mad rush to the shops to try and get everything!

We didn't do much for New year, as we ended up getting flu which sucked. And I had to work alot too :(

I got some gorgeous things for christmas, sooo Kawaii! I will take some pictures and post them later this week. Ooh, I ordered some super yummy Donut mirrors which I will be selling on the website soon, they are so cute! I also treated myself to some fimo canes for nail art, one of which is My Melody! It's amazing how tiny they are, I imagined them to be bigger but they really are small!

How cute!? I can't wait to try these out!

Been very busy...

Studying, work, studying, work....cleaning, erm, and making things!!! Yup, that's what I have been up to the past few weeks.

I have also been xmas shopping, which I STILL HAVEN'T finished, arghh!

I also painted up two sets of Kawaii false nails, one of which I sold tonight (leopard print). I am selling them for £10 each on my facebook, but if you are interested please contact me through blogger also!

Im planning on painting some more sets, which I will upload after christmas :)