Diet Coke and L'Oreal Exciting Promotion and Beauty Hacks!

Hands up if you love Lipstick, Diet Coke and Money off your Makeup? Well get your skates on and run off down to your nearest Boots store because you have just a few hours left to get £3 off a L’Oréal Paris Color Riche lipstick in three different shades - Bois de Rose, Rose Tendre or Red Passion and all you have to do is purchase a 500ml bottle of Diet Coke.

All three of these lipsticks are just stunning and if you like your pinks then Bois de Rose (302) is for you, for those who love a good nude then Rose Tendre (303) is perfect and finally for the loud, proud and lovers of red lips you haven't been forgotten because Red Passion (297) is the one for you.

Once you have got your new shade of lipstick did you know that you can use it as more than just a lipstick! Well I didn't either.  But you can use it to make your lips look larger, use as a cream blush and even use it as a concealer!

To make your lips look larger just by using lipstick and a Diet Coke bottle? Apply your chosen shade all over your lips, then choose a shade in the same colour family but slightly lighter. Use the bottle lid to mark where the centre third of your lips is – that’s where you need to apply the light shade of lippie. Voila, a gorgeous, full pout.

You can, believe it or not, you can use lipstick as an under eye concealer to neutralise dark circles, a trick I have seen quite a few Bloggers mention, though I personally haven't tried it. However all you need to do is ensure you pick the right colour to suit your skin tone – try a pinky or peachy hue is you have fair skin, or an orangey-red for darker complexions. Apply the lipstick under the eye, let is set for about a minute and then apply your usual concealer.

Finally, you can use that lipstick and double it as a blush - genius. Give your cheeks a subtle flush of colour by using your fave lipstick as a blush. Apply your chosen lippie to your first two fingers and gently dab onto your cheek, blending as you go, by doing this you can have as little or as much of a pop of colour that you are comfortable with and it means you can carry less makeup up around with you!

So all you have to do now, is go to Boots, grab your bottle of Diet Coke and your Lipstick and try some of these hacks yourself, or maybe you have tried some already. If you have, I would love to know what works for you!

*this post contains PR samples unless indicated otherwise

Making a Spectacle of myself!

One thing many bloggers might not know about me is that I am short-sighted and I wear glasses. I also wear contact lenses if I can be really bothered in a morning, I am a daily
lenses kind of girl if you're asking, but on the whole it is glasses for me, they are much less faffing. As I am that short sighted and don't really mind wearing glasses, I have never considered laser treatment. The only time I do need to wear my glasses is if I am reading, writing, on the computer or if I drove a car, which I don't.

Vision Direct is Europe’s largest online retailer of contact lenses stocking over 1 million lenses from world leading brands, including Focus Dailies, Air Optix and Acuvue Moist. Vision Direct is dedicated to making the purchase of contact lenses easy, quick and affordable. It offers free, fast delivery and seven days a week customer support, as well savings of up to 42% against high street opticians. 

I really should purchase a new pair of glasses, I can't even remember how long I have had these ones modelled above by my office pet Fraser the Dog. I bought them because they are made by Silhouette and they have bendy arms on them. As I often forget my glasses are on my head, hooked into my top or on my desk, I wanted something that wouldn't bend or break and true to form, in the years I have had these glasses, they haven't bend or broken once. They are now just well worn.

Looking online to purchase glasses is actually quite a straightforward task. Vision Direct comes with a whole host of hints and guides to help you purchase your next pair of glasses such as "When you're buying women's glasses online, it's important to choose frames that are comfortable as well as stylish. Shopping for frames that suit your face shape is the best way to ensure your glasses will fit well, so you can save money and time by buying online and get the perfect glasses".  It is at this point you can choose your glasses by face shape, frame shape and of course the colour.

Having had a look at which glasses Vision Direct had on offer for me and my face shape, I was able to narrow it down to a choice of four - Alice, Gerry, Jenna and Jamie:

Having had rimless glasses for many years now, I thought it is about time I embraced my spectacles and went for something a little more bold!  All four pairs - Alice, Gerry, Jamie and Jenna are similar in that they are bold and black rimmed but different in their appearance and design.  Now I have found some new glasses I like, I need to get myself into gear and order them before I change my mind.

Are you a glasses wearer and would you purchase your next pair online?

*this post is a collaboration but all words are my own.