Retail therapy

Mr Lollipop and I went to Cardiff yesterday to spend our Christmas gift cards. Am I the only one who goes sales shopping, but ends up buying the full price things? Anyway, I went to MAC and bought:

By Candlelight MSF from the Warm & Cosy collection. This collection didn't interest me at all and I wasn't going to buy anything from it. However, I took one look at this in the shop, saw how gorgeous it was, and practically screamed at the MAC girl to get me one before they sell out!

Sugarrimmed dazzleglass. I know this is probably nothing exciting to most of you, but this is my first ever dazzleglass. I chose this one because it is similar to Snowscene lipglass, which is something I have a love/hate relationship with. I love the teal and pink glitters in Snowscene, but find that the base of the lipgloss is too white/pearly, and very thick. It ends up looking really odd on my lips. Sugarrimmed is more of a milky pinky-white base, so I've still got the pretty glitters without looking like a corpse.

Hue lipstick.I bought this after somebody recommended it as a nice pink-nude, similar to Pure Rose lipstick (which I adore). I really like it. It's not quite the same as Pure Rose, but it's pretty enough in it's own right, and is the closest I've found to a dupe. It's a glaze formula too, which is one I really enjoy wearing.

 

Below are some swatches and some comparison swatches, though be warned, they're not the best!

 

I went to WHSmith in search of the next installment of the TrueBlood books, called Dead and Gone or something, but they didn't have it. Boo. They did have this though:

It's similar to the Laura Ashley design drawers that most people use, but it's got little cupcakes all over it instead. I think it's adorable, and whilst it may not match the French-style bedroom I am doing, it's pretty damn cute and puts a smile on my face! Much prettier than the plastic drawer system I had in place before. This was the only sale item, and I saved a massive £5. Ooh get me and my sales shopping! It co-ordinates (but doesn't quite match) with my Love Heart bucket brush holder too! (please excuse the dirty brushes, I need to wash and sort through them!)

Then we trundled off to HMV. I was on a mission to find TrueBlood. I'd seen it on the HMV website for about £25, but when I got to the shop it was £37. How can they justfy charging different prices from online to the shop? Scandalous. So I left it behind and bought it for £27 in Tesco instead. I'm going to watch some of it this afternoon. Yippee, another fix of Eric!

And we bought Rock Band. Mr Lollipop's brother bought it for his two little boys for Christmas, and we had a ball playing it so decided to buy our own. It's much harder than it looks though! I managed to get 100% playing guitar on Mr Brightside this morning, but that's nothing to be proud of since it was my 12th attempt haha.

Grabbed any bargains lately, or are you rubbish in the sales like me? x