If you spend £15 or more then you received a free gift (seeing as I'd gone in for a foundation it wasn't going to be too much more) So ill start with what I actually bought! 

Seeing as I do suffer from more than my share of redness, I was looking for a foundation that would cover this but not be too heavy. A quick chat and the lovely MaxF lady suggested I try a serum foundation, I know it says ageless, but wrinkles are not a problem of mine yet! Anyway this blends really well and lasts all day without looking like I've used a trowel to apply it. At around £13 it's the most I've spent on foundation so far, but it is the best, most high end I've ventured. 

To claim my gift it took a lot of umming and aahhing about what else I would buy(I'd probably end up with most of the stand) I settled on a cute little nail varnish in the end, although choosing a colour was a toughie!! But I settled on Fantasy Fire which is a deep purple with pink flecks in and it is soooo gorgeous! 

On to the exciting stuff! 

So the little box contained four little treats: 

• A small sample of Masterpiece Max mascara, which is a great handbag size and a great quality mascara, it doesn't clump and gives you bigger fuller lashes. Ticks the boxes 

• An eyeshadow single in Creme Champagne, which is a nice nude colour but doesn't really show up well on my skin tone. :( 

• A full size Colour Elixir giant pen stick in Foxy Amber, this is a glossy nicely pigmented lip pen, in an orange-red shade, looks lovely worn and has good staying power, but not amazing. A great find and will probably buy another.

• And a full size nail polish in Deep Coral, which is currently my favourite summer colour and covers my nails and toes. 

 

Swatches of the eyeshadow, just visible on the left, and the colour elixir pen stick, looks yummy :3 

Overall a great freebie set and I'm totally impressed and won over on Maxfactors nail polish range. 

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And there's still not a great lot, unless you're into bright garish patterns and rucksacks. 

But with my boyfriends graduation coming up, I was on the lookout for a smart, but casual dress for that, but one I could wear alot this summer. In amongst the huge range of maxi dresses (if only I was taller!) I found this cute little number 

With my nude flats, or a pair of nude heels, I think I've got it covered. It's a skater style skirt on the bottom so it floats out a little, enough for me to feel proper girly :) and has that typical waist belt you get with every dress, to pull me in at the middle. I also love the colour, it's more peach/cream than the salmon kind of colour it looks here, so perfect for summer.

It cost £13.00. Which I think is pretty reasonable as the fabric feels good quality. 

I also picked up a burgundy zip up hoodie, because my black one is beginning to die, and I fancied a change from the plain black ones I've had since I was about 14 and this still goes great under my leather jacket. 

I don't have a picture cause its just a plain hoodie and it cost £8.00 

Hitting the accessories, I saw a lot of rose gold items, which i love, but they all seemed to scream tacky :( 

I did pick up a necklace, which will go well with my new dress and the green one I was wearing. It has a little Budda face, an eye symbol and all those kind of charms :) 

It cost £2.50 which I feel is good for jewellery nowadays :) 

Finally I found a new handbag as mine had decided to die, and there's only so many times you can sew the handle back on -.- 

It's a bright (TARDIS) blue, and just a perfect size. Comes with two sized handles, so you can have it on your elbow or an adjustable shoulder strap. With a golden padlock on the front and golden zip details on each side. I love this bag because its perfect size for my everyday stuff and its a gorgeous colour! :D 

That was everything that I bought from Primark today and I can't see myself going again until the cropped, horrible brightly coloured tops go away. It's just totally not me haha. 

I have a blog post on the little bits I got from Superdrug coming up, but I'm going to wait until I've totally tried all the products out. :D 

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