I love my beauty products you guys know that, I'm also a huge shop-a-holic (you guys know that too), but with a lot of shopping comes a lot of hoarding and neglected beauty products. Every now and again I do a reshuffle of my beauty drawers and bring the older stuff to the top and try to get as much use out of them as possible before they need to go in the bin. With that in mind here are a few products I want to make the effort to use in 2015. 

Revlon lipstick in Wine Not. I love this lipstick and always have, but it's only now I'm getting brave enough to actually use it day to day.

Accessorize blusher in Bombshell, I raved about this blush all throughout Summer as I'm sure some of you remember. Now it's going to be getting warmer again I want to get as much use as is possible out of this because it's beginning to get old.

Soap & Glory Puffy Eye Attack is something I picked up in Summer. You get a lot more than you think you're buying with this product and it's taken me a long time to use it. It has a six month expiry though so I want to use this up so I wont be throwing money away.

Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation. I love this foundation and it looks great on the skin but it's far far too pale for me. I may start using this as a base highlight because, again, I don't want to be throwing money away.

Last but not least is the Soap & Glory Mist You Madly body spritz, I've had this for well over a year now but it's still not been used up. I like a lot and luckily the smell hasn't gone with age but I never really travelled enough to take plastic bottles around with me instead of my usual glass perfumes, however now I'm going back and forth much more and it's really getting it's use.

That's all for this post and hopefully if I'm strict with myself you'll be seeing these products popping up in empties over the year.

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My Pandora Charm Collection:

This seems like a bit of a strange post to make but I wanted to do it anyway. I've been collecting Pandora Charms since my 16th birthday when I was given my bracelet and first ever charm. Now almost 2 years later this is what my bracelet looks like. I wear it every single day and love it to bits

I wasn't sure whether or not to include my safety chain but I figured it's a big part of a Pandora so why not. I have the daisy one, I wasn't too sure of it at first it was the prettiest of the two available but it didn't really strike me as stunning. Over time it's really grown on me and I'm so glad I've bought it because to wear the chain is far better than the possibility of losing it.

The charm I got along with my bracelet is this cute white charm with light blue spots. It was this that made me decide that I wanted my theme to be blue and silver.

 The next charm was a present from my mum and dad for passing all of my GCSE's with good grades, and very fitting it is too. It's a little pile of three textbooks with a smart looking owl on one side and the word study on the back.

This cute little charm I got for myself as a little treat right when my Pandora was still new, I saw it and fell in love and bought it straight away. Its a light blue glass with sweet little light blue lady birds around the edge.

This charms was a present from Myles not this Valentines day but the one before, so Valentines day 2013. It's an adorable pair of love birds all cuddled up together with a heart between them which says love on one side and you on the other. I have to say this is probably one of my favourite charms.

My seventeenth birthday bought this little guy into my life. If this is the only post of mine that you've read then you probably won't know that elephants are my favourite animal of all time and I have such a love for them. This elephant is no exception, isn't he adorable? 

This charm is from Christmas 2013, a light blue enamel charm with silver leaf vines wrapped around it. I have to admit I'd been hinting at this one for a long time in the hope of getting it for Christmas, and it looks like it worked. It's so different to most of the charms available not an animal or flower, for that reason I love it.

The latest addition to my collection is also my first dangling charm. I was given it last Christmas which I'm sure if you saw my What I Got For Christmas Haul you'll already know. It's a little rat to represent my Chinese New Year Animal. I think he looks super sweet and adds a little something to my bracelet as he dangles.

Well that's all of my charms for now at least. I hope you enjoyed something a little different, let me know if you did in the comments and if you'd like to see a Pandora update in the future when I have a few more charms. 

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Top 5 "Chick-lit" Books:

I thought I'd do another non beauty related post today, there wasn't really a particular reason for doing so I just really liked the idea of this post and after having the idea to do it I thought why not. I found it really hard to pick these books out let alone put them in order because I'm such a book worm, I have a huge collection of books, and until not too long ago I had even more before having a huge clear out. Anyway moving onto the actual post, I know "chicklit" isn't the most sophisticated of genre's but who can resist it every now and again.

Jill Mansell - Rumour Has It:

The number one spot just had to go to a Jill Mansell novel, she has to be the best chicklit author in my eyes there isn't a book of hers that I haven't loved reading and got through in a matter of days. They're just so readable and enjoyable, this particular one happens to be my favourite. I'm not even sure why I just really love the story behind it. I don't want to give too much away so I'll just say that it's about a young woman who moves to a small town and meets lots of new people. You will really fall in love with the main male characters and even more so with the ending of this book.

Meg Cabot -The Guy Next Door

I LOVE this book! I know that probably wasn't the most elegant way of introducing it but I really do love it. It was one of the first of these kind of books that I read as I got older and moved into more mature books, and I instantly got sucked into the story. The way is written is amazing, it has been written as a series of emails from a group of people and you get to hear their stories right from their point of view, then as you read further on you get to read the same thing being told from another point of view to a different character, it's the perfect way to get each character's viewpoint and such a new and refreshing way of reading a story as opposed to the usual way, it provides a nice change. Again I won't say too much about the story but it involves, murder, millionaires, secrecy, the love of a family, a married couple, annoying work mates and a dog! A must read in my opinion.

Meg Cabot - Size 12 is not Fat & Size 14 is not Fat Either

Ok, Ok I know this is technically cheating since this is a two in one book but I just couldn't resist. Again these are not your average chicklit books but both are about mysterious murders. As much as I like piecing together all the little clues of who did what and who the murders could be, one of the things I really love is that the main character is a real woman, with body issues and money worries, but not in the typical book and movie way where by the end of it she's found a wonderful solution to all her problems, she really is a real woman in the real world. There are plenty of twists and turns to surprise you along the way too.

Jill Mansell - Take A Chance On Me

Another Jill Mansell novel now, I know it looks like I have a really limited reading scope but this is my personal top 5 and Jill Mansell is such an amazing writer than she really does hold this place for me. I took this book with me on holiday to Cyprus last year and finished it within the first day. This is another romantic story, with a few twists and turns along the way, I really don't want to say too much about these stories because I want you all to go out and give them a read I genuinely love them that much! All I'll say is that if you want to just kick back and relax then you should definitely give this if not any of Mansell's books a read, her twisting plots and the way she interlock's her characters are always worth a good read.

Liza Palmer - Conversations With the Fat Girl

Last up my number 5 slot goes to this book, this is another of my first ever older books. I love this because the main character decides to do something about her weight and confidence issues and you really see the difference in her by the end of the story. This book has also had me literally laughing out loud a few times so if you're looking for a real feel good story to make you smile then this is one I highly recommend.

That's my top 5 what about yours? Let me know in the comments and I'll see you all next time.

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