Most of the time I’m finding that Colourpop now give me launch fatigue – it takes a special release from them to stop me in my tracks and decide that it’s something I 100% need. That happened at the end of September and I’ve had to wait a few weeks for things to arrive to […]
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It’s been a few months since my last batch of products was portioned off and targeted for meeting my empties pile. I’ve taken a look over the two of these posts I did in the summer and the majority of those products seem to have been ticked off. In fact there’s only out 6 of […]
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This is the story about how I became the accidental co-owner of the Norvina palette. My blog friends and I do a birthday kitty for everyones birthday – we normally pick something beauty related we know the other has been eyeing up, and this time it was my turn to organise for Sophie’s birthday.
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So, I guess this is the introduction of Home and Interiors content here on Helpless Whilst Drying – I guess this may be Helpless Whilst Watching Paint Dry over the next few months. Last week I was invited over to John Lewis in Peterborough by the Home Design team to take a look at the […]
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Forgive me father for I had sinned! Can you believe I haven’t posted a Boots haul all year? Backtracking over my past posts there has been a definite slip in full blown hauls this year as I’ve been on the biggest clearout, useup mission. My last Boots haul was now over a year a go.
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I’m going to apologise now that from now on my set up for photos is bound to get weirder and weirder, whilst we’ve been packing few a few months now – I’d left a bunch of blog props out ready for photos and they’ve now been packed away too. I’ll have to be getting creative […]
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Last Thursday it was time for another challenge with my local shopping centre Queensgate. All the lovely #QBloggers seemingly descended on one corner of Queensgate at the same time – before we headed off to our first, very important meeting point – for canapes and a catch-up at Carluccios.
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A few months ago it all kicked off in beauty when controversy around Huda’s latest powder release being a rip off of the smaller indie brand Beauty Bakerie. Beauty Bakerie was a brand I’d had a good but limited experience with in the past and I wanted to show support against the blatent marketing campaign […]
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I’ve had a thought about doing a series of monthly pick ups from TK Maxx. As you all know at the moment my main focus is beauty here at the moment but we officially have our move date (29th October… eek!) after finally exchanging contracts yesterday and plan to mix it up each month with […]
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I feel like I’m going through another phase of rapid fire empties – I’ve got so many products which are on their last spritzes, pumps or scoops and it’s making me very happy to see them all getting toppled up in my basket under my dressing table. These may not technically be the next ten […]
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Just a quick post today to go over some of my picks from the latest sale from Beauty Bay. As usual there are some great products at great prices included in the sale and if you have any items you may have been eyeing now is the time to snag them up. Also I don’t […]
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Well, it feels like a long time since I sat down to do a Face Mask Friday! I was really excited a few months ago when this mask arrived in a box full of treats from Marks and Spencers, however I’d heard through the grapevine that it had quite a short shelf life. I had […]
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