Irregular Choice Advent Adventures: Days 21 - 24

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Today I have the final images from the Irregular Choice Advent Adventures boots.  You can view previous posts here.  This lot contained Svetlana, the matryoshka doll that has featured across many styles and several seasons, alongside the SS13 cowgirl. 

Flashback Beauty Friday 4: Lancôme Precious Carat Lip Gloss Jewel

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I had to choose something a little special for Flashback Beauty Friday today given it's Christmas. You can see the ice-cube packaged Estee Lauder eyeshadow here last week. 

Irregular Choice Advent Adventures: Days 16 - 20

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Here's my penultimate set of pictures from the Irregular Choice Advent Adventures, from Day 16 to 20.  You can view my previous post here. 

Irregular Choice Advent Adventures: Days 11 - 15

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Hello my lovelies, I have the next 5 advent pictures for you from the Irregular Choice Advent Adventure boots.  You can view the last lot here if you missed it.  This time the images took us across both boots, with Day 13 starting on the left foot.  I have to say I'm really enjoying the ease of finding numbers and them not being muddled up!  After years of different beauty calendars, I know what works and doesn't (a mix of digits and named numbers is particularly taxing on my brain). 

Irregular Choice Collection: House Bags

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I'm back with the next instalment of my Irregular Choice bag collection series. I call these the 'house' bags, but you might also see them referred to as lunchbox bags, a name given to similarly shaped earlier styles. It wasn't really until the house variation launched that I took notice and then when the gingerbread house came out, I had to have it.  I thought I wouldn't get much use out of a very festive themed bag, but you know what? It's one of my most used bags overall and definitely the most used of this shape. I bring it out every year and it always gets lots of compliments.

Flashback Beauty Friday 3: Estee Lauder Pure Color Eyeshadow

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It's Friday, so time for another look back at some old makeup.  Like last week (Too Faced Gossip Gloss), this item wasn't limited edition, but this style of packaging no longer exists.  These are the Estee Lauder Pure Color Eyeshadow and not being funny, I thought this compact was the epitome of cool back in the day. As did everyone!  You really earned beauty street cred (is that a thing?) for owning these. 

Irregular Choice Advent Adventures: Days 6 - 10

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I have the next 5 days pictures from the Irregular Choice Advent Adventures boots I bought recently to show you today. You can click here to see the previous days.

Flashback Beauty Friday 2: Too Faced Gossip Gloss

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It's Friday and that means a trip down makeup memory lane, for Flashback Beauty Friday.  Last week was the first post in this series; the beautiful Lancôme elephant bronzer.  This week, I had a rummage through my lipgloss stash and unearthed these, which I'd completely forgotten about.  

Irregular Choice Advent Adventures: Days 1 - 5

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Irregular Choice had the most amazing Christmas release this year, definitely my favourite for several years. One of the styles I bought were the very unique Advent Adventures, which are an advent calendar in boot form. Yes, really!  Down the outer side of each leg, you have 12 doors and a different picture behind each one. You can see how they look on the leg here, along with the usual advice on fit and heel height etc.

Flashback Beauty Friday 1: Lancôme Poudre Elephant Teint

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By now you probably know that I love collecting makeup, especially pretty, special packaged, limited edition pieces. I don't want to call myself a hoarder, because I do enjoy looking back at brands that are no longer available or products that at the time were really innovative for whatever reason. So over the past 20 odd years I've amassed quite a collection of things, a lot of the prettier ones unswatched, because I often struggle to 'ruin' these designs! So, I thought I'd start a new feature where each week I share an old beauty product and if you're a long-time follower here, then there will probably be some things you recognise. With M.E. my memory is patchy, so I may not be an encyclopedic knowledge each week, but it's supposed to be an enjoyable look back over some special bits that you may also reminisce about or they may be entirely new to you. Disclaimer, because I'm sure I'll get asked...these will all be from my own collection, which is not for sale and as I'm choosing older items, they are unlikely to be available online or in stores now, so I don't know where you can buy them! 

Shoes I've Worn In 2020

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2020 for me started off pretty rough.  I'm not intentionally being vague about why, it's just that's not what this post is about.  In a bid to ease what was going on, Mum took me out a lot more than is usual for me.  It was clearly excellent foresight, given what was coming in Spring!  Since the pandemic hit, Mum and Dad don't go out much, my sister has to work and I haven't left the house at all since March.  Most people think that's too unbelievable to be true, but it is.  I'm accustomed to not getting out much, so in all honesty, it's not been too hard or different to my usual life.  I'm not saying it's easy, but after 18 years of it, you adapt to continually missing out.  Anyway, I thought I'd share the shoes I have worn so far this year, actually mostly boots as I was in a right phase in January/February.