Christmas 2015

Good Evening, Everyone :)

It is Boxing Day and Christmas is well...OVER :D As much as I was excited about Christmas this year I am kind of glad it's all done. We had a really wonderful time with some nice presents and amazing food...cooked by yours truly...and now it's time to go back to reality and out of the Christmas lights. It's really only just the start of winter though and we've got some awesome plans during Januray and February so a lot to look forward to :)

 If you don't know it already then some countries celebrate Christmas on the 24th, which is what we do in Estonia. So on the 24th we had a little tiny family Christmas. I started cooking at 1pm and then after dinner at 6pm we were meant to open presents, but Oscar went to sleep incredibly early :D SO we did what English people do and opened our presents on the morning of 25th. After which we went to Dans parents house for some more festive eating :D We did open one present each before the meal though :) And Oscar got this Gruffalo trunki suitcase, which will come useful in January...hint, hint :D he loves dragging it around the house :)

Thats the picture Oscar took :D

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and as always 

Stay tuned :)

xoxo

Meril

Brand Review KIKO MILANO

Hello, Everyone :)

As promised I will be starting my brand review segment today and the first review will be of a completely new brand for me .... Kiko Make Up Milano. I have heard of this brand before, but I must admit, there was not much I knew about it. The reason is that I had never come across this brand in drugstores or department stores. So when I saw a Kiko Milano shop in Guildford I immideately went in and came out with a few products that I thought I would like. I tried to cover a few areas....face, nails, eyes and lips and I also got some face wipes. But go ahead and keep reading to get the full reviews on the products :)

AND BEFORE I FORGET...they have a massive in-store and on-line sale on at the moment :) So head over to one of their many shops or shop on their WEBSITE

Firstly let me start with the 4 eyeshadows. I got 3 of the basic Infiity shadows. Colours shown on the picture and then a more shiny/sparkly high pigmentation shadow in shade 139 pearly salmon.

The 3 basic shadows are all colours that go well with my green eye colour and I figured the shiny shadow will be just good in the inner corner of the eye and under the eyebrow, but it is SO BEAUTIFUL and not sparkly at all but rather sheen shiny, so I have actually been using it as a highlighter and I think £2.90 for an amazing highlighter that gives you the pretties glow is something you can't miss out on :) The other shadows are nice as well, but I can not stop raving about the pearly salmon.

I got another eye product, which was the Long Lasting Stick Eyeshadow in 04 Golden Chocolate and I am again IN LOVE. The colour is so pretty I have been wearing it DAILY. I apply it all over my lid and shade out the edges and it lasts for hours...I wouldn't say 8 hours but definitely hours :D And it's on sale at the moment :)

Then I got 2 nail varnishes. I know I mentioned a few months back that I won't buy another nail varnish for years, but I couldn't stop myself :D I got a 303 Beige chrome colour for Christmas season and then 530 Pearly Blue Peacock for the New Years Eve festivities. And I don't regret buying them :D They last really long and the shine makes me happy :D

Moving on to lip products. Something I have too much of already, but again I couldn't help myself. I picked up a nice pink colour 701 SMART lip pencil, but I find it a bit too tough to apply. Maybe I need to keep it in a warm room first :D SO not a big fan of this, but I did also find the PENCIL lip gloss sticks. I picked up a pale pink in 07 Baby Pink and my favourite so far the 04 Chocolate Glitter. IT IS a brown colour with some glittery bits in, but it looks so AWESOME on the lips. Just something I haven't seen before...the colour I mean. And it's perfect for Christmas and New Years. A different take on a dark lip :)

And then I also got a DARK CIRCLE concealer in 02 Peach. I don't know why?!? because I don't really get dark circles :D but I did. Not a big fan, it doesn't dry fast enough for me and the colour is all wrong (my fault for picking wrong) and I can't even use it as a concealer by it self ... Anyway I am not a big fan of the product. 

AND then I also got some PURIFYING pure clean make up removing wipes. Which are basically just make up removing wipes :D they were half price at £2.50 and I don't think I would be buying them full price as I don't think there is anything different about them from shall we say Nivea wipes. But they smell nice and they do remove make up so it was £2.50 well spent :)

All in all I am very impressed with the brand AND will definitely be browsing their sale again very soon :)

Hope you enjoyed the first BRAND REVIEW post 

Stay tuned

xoxo

Meril

Weekend Away

Hello, Everyone :)
Like I mentioned in the packing post it wasn't really a weekend, but rather a beginning of the week break. And for D it wasn't really a break at all. He had work in and around London on Monday and Tuesday so me and Oscar decided to go with him to the South East and have a look around there while D works away :) We decided to get a hotel near Windsor as I have already been there in the Summer so it wouldn't have been completely new to me. But we did stay in the countryside rather than in the town. And it was lovely :)
We drove down on Sunday afternoon and came back Tuesday evening... but here is what me and Oscar got up to in the meantime :)

The first night we didn't really do much. We went to a nearby pub for some Sunday dinner and then had a coffee in the hotel lounge.
The second day D had to go to London, so we all drove to Windsor in the morning, where D got a train and me and Oscar had a lovely day shopping and having lunch. I love how small towns have small awesome shopping streets, with lots of little shops, where you can spend hours just browsing and not even buying anything :D I did buy Oscar some new shoes though, as he is slowly but surely growing out of his Nike Jordans. He is 16 months old now and wearing size 5 shoes :D I think it's crazy :D
Around 2 PM it was time for Oscars nap, so instead of getting a taxi back to the hotel I figured a nice hour and a half walk down the ''Long walk'' would be the right thing to do. It's a pretty much straight road from the Windsor Castle all the way to the little town we were staying in :)

All I'm going to say that once Oscar actually fell asleep an hour after getting on this walk I was so tired I couldn't wait to get back to the hotel :D

He already had doubts about this walk before we started :D I should've listened to his face :D I didn't
On Tuesday we drove to Guildford, where D went to a meeting and I had to explore a completely new town all by myself with Oscar...IN THE RAIN :D
The day wasn't all that great. We ended up spending most of it in the shopping centre, where Oscar was playing in the play area. He had fun, but at the end of it all I was so freaking tired all I wanted to do was get home and sleep in my own bed.

All in all though it was really nice to get away for a few days and get away from the routine and now it's full on preparation time for Christmas :)

So as always 

Stay tuned

xoxo

Meril