A Day in London: Street Art, Sightseeing and Shopping

On Saturday, my sister and I went for a day out in the big city, London. I originally planned to go alone but my sister decided to join me :)

We had a great day, apart from public transport being a nightmare. Honestly, if I'd known my sister was going to join me before booking my train ticket, I would have drove instead. I dislike public transport!

The reason why?

In order to get the cheapest tickets, we had to get the 7:30am train to Birmingham, then wait 30 minutes for the train to London Euston. Then came many tubes throughout the day... But the worst part? The journey home! We left our last stop, Oxford Circus station at around 6:30pm(ish), got 2 tubes back to Euston, where we then had to wait another 30 minutes or more, as we could not use the train that was already there (different train provider). We grabbed some food and drink for the journey, then boarded the train. We then heard a tannoy announcement that we needed to go to the front carriages as there were engineering works between Milton Keynes and Northampton (1 station between these!). Once we arrived in MK, basically the entire train of people left the train and headed outside to the 3 coaches waiting. Then came a really long (30 minutes or so!) journey to Northampton. We then got another train to Birmingham, where we had missed the train, so we then had to wait another 30 minutes or more for the 11:35pm last train home...which was full of drunk people, loud people and the irritating guy in front, playing his awful music aloud on his phone (argh!). We pre-booked our taxi on a payphone in Birmingham New Street, as both our phones had died. 1am, we arrived home.

First train - 20 stops... Second train 11 stops... It was a very long journey home.

18 hour day of mainly using public transport, stress!

Public transport rant over. We had a great day, exploring all the cool parts of London; Spitalfields, Shoreditch, Brick Lane (which we stumbled upon by chance!), Camden, Covent Garden and a stop by Topshop on Oxford Street. Sadly no time for any other shops. No Selfridges = sad Zoe.

It was fantastic checking out all the amazing street art in Shoreditch and Brick Lane, as well as the ever-cool Spitalfields Market, which was a vintage one on this day.

There were some truly outstanding pieces of street art!

Here's some of my best snaps of the day :)

 The moon looked amazing when we got home. I decided to test my new camera on night/moon photo taking and it came out great! So happy with my new camera, I can be a total geek and take photos of the moon when it's looking awesome :)

I love London!

I hope to return very soon, but drive...

I have never been to the theatre in London but have always wanted to go to We Will Rock You and Wicked, so hopefully I can tick these off my list this year!

Has anyone seen either show?

xXx

London: The Haul

My final London post is here :)

I was going to do this last night, following the other 2 posts, but before I knew it was 12:30am and I needed to shut down, finish watching The Big Bang Theory and get some sleep!

So, here we have what I brought home from my day out in London.

To quote Adele 'Girl Did Good', haha!

Topshop:

Tote (which was on my recent Wishlist post), £10
Adorable and so cool :)
Plus it saved me, as I put everything in there!

I found them!!!

Meadham Kirchhoff Nail Rock, £7.

and yes, I have used one of the rude ones, I'll do a post tomorrow :)

Spitalfields Market:

Oversized (the size of a single bed!!) scarf, £7.

It's pink, it's covered in zebras...it's so Me :)

Benefit:

Finally got Hervana (without my mum being with me, telling me it is too expensive!), £23.50.

I was then told that if I bought a second product I would get a free umbrella...

So, I cracked and got I'm glam...therefore I am :)

Well, I did want it at Christmas and it was reduced from £28.50 to £19.50!

 Here's the gorgeous free umbrella, which broke after 2 mins use :-(

The damage :-(

Sad Zo.

Bourjois Boutique:

Freebies and goodies :) 

 

Purchases, 4 for £14, bargain!

The goody bag and contents, great selection :)

Candy Cakes, Covent Garden:

Muffin £3.50(!)

Lolly 80p (I also bought my sister one, how nice am I?)

Absolute BEAST of a cake!

 45 minutes to spare during my train change in Birmingham, I was drawn to Selfridges and the MAC counter :) 

 

MAC Naughty Saute Lipstick, £13.50

From the new Shop MAC Cook MAC Collection

I will be doing some posts, swatches, reviews on these products very soon :)

Happy Pancake Day!!

Shrove Tuesday.

It's 10:30pm and I STILL haven't had a pancake...

xXx

London: Bourjois Boutique and Purchases *Another Pic Heavy Post*

I was pretty excited to see that on the day that I went on spontaneous trip to London, the Bourjois Boutique was happening at Beach Blanket Babylon in Shoreditch.

I made my way from Spitalfields Market to Shoreditch, bumping into 2 pink wig wearing ladies who were promoting the event and handing out flyers.

It was 30 minutes until the event started and I was told I would get one of the 50 goody bags, as there were only a few girls there at that point, more excited.

The event was held in a gallery above Beach Blanket Babylon.

Bourjois products were available, with 65% off! The deal was 2 for £9, 3 for £12, or 4 for £14.

I bought 4 products :)

On offer at the event were free manicures, nail art, hair styling and makeovers, along with live body art being done on a model, and some photographers taking photos in the corner.

I was asked if I wanted my photo taken, but declined at first.

I then had my hair styled in a wavy look.

The hair stylist used Lee Stafford heat defence (which smelt so good!), followed by an InStyler curler (which was cool, I've never seen them before!), then finishing by running her fingers through the curls to make them more wavy and sealing with some Lee Stafford hairspray.

Nice bit of free pampering :)

I then decided to have a photo taken by the photographer, Danny Higgins.

Danny was very friendly and asked me about my day, how I heard about the event and about my blog.

He then found me about 10 minutes later and showed me my photo on his iPad, after it had been uploaded to Facebook :)

http://www.facebook.com/dannyhigginsphoto

I spent a total of 1 hour 30 minutes at the Bourjois Boutique, before taking my shopping list to the 'sweet shop' style area, where the girl picked the products from giant sweetie jars :)

Here's a few more photos I took at the event:

These were on my shopping list, but I decided to leave it at the last minute.

and here's what I left the event with:

Purchases.

4 for £14.

 Goody bag :)

Overall I enjoyed the Bourjois Boutique and think it was a great idea and fantastic event.

and I was so happy to have got a goody bag, aswell as picking up a free copy of Look magazine!

I hope you enjoyed my photos :)

Did you visit the Bourjois Boutique?

xXx

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