Selfridges Girls Night In Event

Hello Dolls :)

I am SO behind with posts and still have an ever-growing list...

For tonight, I thought I would just share a little something exciting with you.

Selfridges Girls Night In

Yes, Selfridges Birmingham is currently hosting this fab event, every Thursday from 5-9pm until 26 April in the Beauty Hall on Level 3.

As far as I know, the event is free.

The event is only running at the Birmingham store, so if you are from/in the area, go check it out for a great girly night.

If the Christmas Beauty event that I attended in December was anything to go by, this will be SO much fun!

From the website:

Each counter will be on hand to provide you with various demonstrations and tips.

You’ll also be treated to a special gift with purchase from selected brands.

The website gives a number and email to book you and your girlies in, however, after numerous unanswered calls and an email, I gave up.  Luckily, I stopped by Birmingham on my train changeover from London back in February, so I went in and asked, to which I was informed to 'just turn up', no booking required.

I really can't wait to attend this event!

Beauty, complimentary Champagne and cocktails and one of my besties :)

After the stores shut, we are going for a night out in Birmingham and staying over, before doing a bit more shopping the following day, yay!

I will, of course, be blogging about the event afterwards.

More information can be found on the Selfridges website.

Have you attended Selfridges Girls Night In?

Do you plan to attend?

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Boxing Day & Post Christmas Sales Hauls :)

It's finally here! My Boxing Day & Post Christmas Sale Haul post :)

I planned to get this up last week but have been so busy recently!

So, Boxing Day I was up and getting ready just before 5:30am, no...not for the Next sale, but to drive 1 and a half hours up North to Manchester for the sales with my sister!

It was dark, I was tired after only 2 hours sleep the night before and 1 hour on Christmas Eve (clearly too excited to sleep!) but excitement soon kicked in and I was wide awake and hyper :)

After leaving a bit later than planned, we arrived in Manchester just after 8am.

Here's me, excited on route to Selfridges :)

and here is my car boot a few hours later, we had a great day!

We had to head back to the car just before lunch to drop off our bags as we couldn't handle carrying things around any longer (especially the heavy perfume sets!). I said 'no more spending' after that, which I stuck to, not buying anything else...except for another Lush haul (third of the day, oops!)

I had my little Disney Princess notepad and pen in my bag, with the list of what I was looking to buy. See, I was good in that sense, I planned what I was going to buy and only things that I really wanted, once again except for the Lush hauls, for which my notepad just said 'Lush...LOADS!' :) Obsession?

Anyway, on to the actual haul...

Manchester Boxing Day Haul:

Selfridges:

Vera Wang Princess £24 from £47

Vivienne Westwood Naughty Alice £27 from £53

Lush:

(I will do a separate post on the actual products I purchased!):

Boots:

Soap & Glory The Bright Stuff £17.50 from £35! All we could find were TONS of the Yum at Heart set BUT, then I spotted a woman with this in her hand, clearly unsure whether to buy it...she then put it down and IT WAS MINE! :) I wanted this one, as I always wanted to try Wish Upon a Jar (which Donna recently paid £15 for alone!)

Minnie Mouse Scrub £1.75 from £3.50 - just cute!! 

Soap & Glory Scrub 'em and Leave 'em Mini (not in sale, just wanted for ages!) £2.35

Barry M Croc Effect Nail Effects (not in sale, but been searching for ages and found 1 left!) £3.99

Then these 2 I paid for with Boots Advantage Points, meaning they were FREEEE, thanks Boots!

Umberto Giannini Glam Hair Style Loving Hair Kit £7.50 from £15 (mainly wanted this for the clutch bag!)

Umberto Giannini Mini Glamourising Beauty Essentials £5 from £10

Accessorize:

 This wasn't on my list but was just really cute!

£4.50 from £9

Urban Outfitters:

Let's Party Pirate Tee £15 from £32

Wanted this when I saw it in Birmingham months ago, love the quirkiness and tie-dye :)

That is it for my Manchester haul :)

As mentioned, I will post about my Lush hauls in more depth this weekend!

Next up, a few days after Boxing Day, Donna and I went to Telford.

I didn't plan on buying anything due to my almost non-existant funds BUT couldn't resist a visit to Lush and a little temptation in Boots...

Telford Haul:

  

Lush:

 50% off at Lush :)

Boots:

17 Peep Show Mascara and free eye palette £5.29. See post and more photos here. Review and swatches to follow very soon.

Hometown Haul:

The next day I popped in to town with my mum and sister. I still hadn't found the MTV top that I was searching the sales for and when I walked in to River Island, there it was! One left, right in front of the doors!!

I also got a couple of other things, a Yankee candle, which I really wanted and a bag, which was an impulse purchase!

River Island:

MTV top £12 from £22

Bag £12 from £25(?)

Inside the bag

Lovely design!

 Amazing smell!

£7.99 from £15.99

So, now I am skint and in slight regret over my hauling but I got some nice things, most of which were planned to be bought.

Did you go crazy in the sales?

Also...'Celebrity Big Brother' has started tonight, like the last one wasn't so long ago!

Another bunch of Z listers getting paid hundreds of thousands to 'entertain' us.

Hugh Hefner's twin ex-girlfriends...celebrity? Anyone in the UK actually heard of them before?

and Frankie Cocozza...don't even get me started on him!

Natalie Cassidy is one of the most known in there for actually working, rather than being a 'celeb' for causing controversy and being in the papers! I must say, she seems genuine and I'm loving how well she has taken on BB's task :)

Are you watching? Find yourself asking why? Opinions?
*Rant over*

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Selfridges Christmas Beauty Event

WARNING: This is LONG and pic heavy!!!

So, every Thursday until 22 Dec, Selfridges are holding special Girls Night In events in the Beauty Hall.

My friend Aimee and I decided to go to the event in Birmingham last Thursday, which was actually a different event, the Selfridges Christmas Beauty Event.

Tickets cost just £10 each (fully redeemable) and when I went in to buy them the weekend before, during a day out in Birmingham with mum and dad I was also given a bag of samples, which was a nice treat :)

I booked the Bullring Central Travelodge for just £32.75, so that Aimee and I could make a night of it and make the most of the complimentary Champagne :)

I had work in the morning, so we headed over to Birmingham in the afternoon, got to the hotel, checked in, then walked to the Bullring (just a few mins down the road from Travelodge).

We looked in a couple of shops, then went to Selfridges.

Showing our tickets at the front of the Beauty Hall, we were then given wristbands (which the guy put on REALLY loose!), we were also given a glass of Champagne, lovely!

Christmas songs were playing, balloons were up and all the Selfridges sales assistants were waiting on hand to help.

Firstly we headed to claim our free goody bags :)

Next up we spotted Dermalogica were doing complimentary hand massages, using a range of products. So, we indulged :) I expected a hard-sale of products, but they just briefly said what things were as they did the massages and said 'take a look at the end if you like'.

A few Champagnes and a mini mince pie later, we saw some girls having their eye makeup done at the Illamasqua counter, they looked amazing! Then we saw that the Illamasqua ladies were doing complimentary mini makeovers...yes, COMPLIMENTARY...FREE!! All the brands seemed to be! We just had to go with Illamasqua! I had never tried any of their products but always loved the look.

 

We had to wait a short while for the makeup artists to be available.

Then we took our seats and were asked 'what would you like today...eyes, or lips?'...I had my fave MAC Pink Friday lippie on and I LOVE LOVE LOVE dramatic eyes, so I had to choose eyes :)

Aimee seemed to get eyes, brows and lips by her makeup artist though!

Here are some mugshots of me, trying to get a good photograph of my eye makeup using my camera phone!

(excuse my face! and brows...)

Purple, glitter and smokey, lush!

Now, I spotted a bag FULL of samples of Illamasqua's Freak perfume behind the till whilst I waited for Aimee...so before we left I asked 'do you have any samples of the Freak perfume??', then we were given some, WIN!

A gospel-style group of singers then appeared, walking/dancing round the Beauty Hall singing Christmas songs on microphones, brilliant :)

We decided to have a break from Selfridges after a while in there. We looked in Forever 21, then realised we were rather tipsy by this point and were walking round with dramatic Illamasqua makeup going on, haha :) The bright lights and shiny floors got too much, so we then went and got a Pizza Hut, before heading back to Selfridges.

We may have had another couple of Champagnes...

Then we discovered that the really good DJ playing in Selfridges was TOWIE's Lauren Pope, wearing AMAZING pink jewelled headphones!!

We were then passed a free drink voucher for that floor too. I got a Rum and Diet Coke :)

 

Back up to the Beauty Hall, we spent the last half hour or so in there, claiming our redeemable £10 back. Aimee used it for £10 off Vera Wang Lovestruck perfume, whilst I used mine towards MAC Hold That Pose! eyeshadow, as Whirls and Twirls lipstick was SOLD OUT :(

One thing Aimee and I did discover was Viktor and Rolf's Flowerbomb House 'The House of Viktor and Rolf', amazing perfume and IN A CUTE PINK HOUSE!! Sadly it was £76 though!

So, I am going to leave it there with this post, as it is now waaaayyyyy too long and I doubt anyone will actually read the whole thing!

I plan to do another post on the rest of our Birmingham shopping trip and also the contents of the goody bags very soon though :)

 

I would definitely recommend the Selfridges events! I may even go to the final Girls Night In on 22 Dec, as it is just after payday and I will need to go shopping for presents anyway :)

Did you attend one of the Christmas Beauty Events or do you plan to visit the Girls Night In?

Hope you are all having a nice week :)

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