Last minute travelling buys!

....the packing has begun...... I can't believe this is real life!! 4 days to go and whilst packing away, I realised, I hate my sunglasses. Shock horror. They're so boring, unoriginal and uncool, and it just put me in a bad mood (because it is the little things that get to us, after all). I decided to remedy the situation today, with a last minute shopping trip to get me some new sunnies and my last minute travelling essentials!

Firstly, I picked up these really nifty little lip butters from the body shop! I thought they would be perfect for the flight, and I mean who doesn't hate chapped lips at 35'000 feet! The sad reality of it is, that I actually have no life and find pleasure in making my lips smell of coconut. It's bizarre. They were on offer 2 for £5.60 at the body shop, like I said. There's tons of different scents, it would be handy if they actually wrote on the packaging what flavour they are. I got coconut and the other one, I'm not really sure what it is, some sort of nut I think!

As I will be living out of a backpack, due to travelling around a lot, I got some mini toiletries! They always look so cute in miniature version and I always want to buy them just on a normal day but it actually made sense on this trip. Space is limited! I got standard stuff like deodorants, but I also got some st ives scrub which I thought was pretty cool! 3 for £5 at trusty Tesco's. I also got my old faithful suncream. It is just THE best and always leaves me looking lovely and brown! Its Hawaiian Tropic, bloody expensive stuff, at £15 a bottle BUT it makes me smell incred and ensures that I will come back bronzed. I can't believe I forgot suncream until today. I need to get switched on! (also dont panic I have factor 30 for when I'm in Ayers Rock).

Finally, and lastly, its the sunglasses. Ta-dah! These are my new ones. They are Marc Jacobs and they were £50, down from over £100. They are a little odd to look at, and they certainly are different. At first glance they look a bit like ski glasses. But you know what, they are cool, and they go well with my hair cut, and even if I say so myself, I look nice in them. And if I dont get on with them, then I can always stick them on ebay!

Boom! So there we go. Last minute travelling buys DUNZO. I hope you enjoyed reading through all that, maybe its even given you some inspiration! This will probably be the last post I do now before Oz, so it's over and out for now. (hopefully) I will be able to blog whilst I'm over there, I would love too but it just depends on circumanstance. I know I said I was going to do a post about my activities while Im out there, but I decided against that mainly because I wrote it all out and it was really dull, and it actually was a bit all over the place, because not everything is planned to the last detail and it will be more fun to tell you about it afterwards.

xxxx Enjoy your weekend xxxx

So many breakdowns

I'm not really having a breakdown, I just feel like I am because I go away in TEN DAYS. Where the hell have all those months gone!? I just can't believe I'm flying to Aus all on my own. What was I thinking! I have visions of me getting lost in Abu Dhabi airport - keep me in your thoughts!

On wednesday I'll be doing a post about what I'm going to get up to while I'm there, so please come back and read that! This weeks positive news is that I have finally managed to sort my horrible lips out. The days of my cracked and teared lips are gone people, and it's all thanks to this baby:

It's an EOS spherical, medicating lip balm. It was £6 on Ebay (because you cant buy it in stores). I had heard about these, but when my friend who is in america at the moment kept sending me pics of hers, in typical me style I wanted to try for myself. I never expected it to work but it really really does. They come in loads of different flavours, this one is sweet mint. It makes your lips tingle with a kindof burning sensation (good burning not bad) but it's not moisturising, more healing. So happy to have it in my life.

Can you believe I just wrote all that about a lip balm? It must be sunday. This week I also hit 2000 followers on my Instagram account (@itsjambino). In fairness it has taken me a while to reach that, coupled with relentless hash tagging which I know some people must be sick of! I hope my blog picks up too.....I'd really like to hit 1000 views by April!

Enjoy what is left of your weekend people, personally I am going for an Indian tonight, because my Australia diet is going so well :D

And if you believe that, you need to go take a lie down. Have a good one!

xxxx

March on!

I can't believe we are 3 days into March already! Wasn't it Christmas last week?!? This month is going to be a significant one for me - I go away on what I hope is going to the trip of a lifetime. In just over 2 weeks I will be heading off to Australia!

I'm flying solo on this one, but meeting a group of friends out there including one of my best friends (who is currently travelling). I can't explain how anxious/excited I am getting. It feels like so long ago when it was October and I was booking it & now the reality is upon me!

I think I am pretty prepared - I'm gonna do a proper post about this closer to the time going into a bit more detail about what I'm gonna be doing etc so look out for that! Going off topic now, I'm going to talk about the contact lenses I've been trying recently because I get a lot of interest in them, people asking me where I get them etc so I thought I would blog properly about them!

If you follow my instagram you may or may not have noticed that I have a colourful array of contacts at the moment and currently I've got Blue, Green and Honey coloured ones. I first got started wearing them a good while ago when I was buying halloween lenses and saw some blue ones and was like I really want to see what I look like with blue eyes! I got them and I just loved them. Unfortunately I got frustrated with them one day and threw them in a bag and wrecked them which was stupid and when I went to replace them they weren't being sold anymore....which was kind of weird.

Anyway I got my current ones from a company called Beautifeye (http://www.beautifeye.co.uk) and they are priced at £14.99. You get a free case and bottle of solution for that price which I think is pretty decent. I should point out that they are only 3 month ones, the yearly ones are slightly more expensive. So below is before and after pictures of my natural eyes and then with the blue contacts in. I think these blue contacts are much more natural than the other lenses I had. It's funny how they seem to change my whole complexion and make me seem lighter/whiter. (i'm sorry about how rough i look)

 

Then below is a picture of the Honey ones. I was gonna miss them out to be honest because they are pretty shit. They just look so fake and like a monster? They're meant to be natural and they just aren't. They're a bit weird and I wont ever wear them to be honest!

I look like edward cullen. They are just freaky looking! Not feeling them at all! But the blue ones are brilliant and the company that sells them were so efficient, they came in a matter of days with good packaging so I would highly recommend them. As for comfort....they are genuinely really easy to wear. I sometimes forget I have the blue ones in because they get so comfy. I'm like a pro at getting them in now as well, It used to take me like half an hour, now they are in after about 30 seconds!

So thats it, if you want to know which exact ones I have, just get in contact with me, I'm going to be putting a contact/email button at the top with my other buttons so feel free to get in touch!

xxx    Have a good week!    xxx