Beauty
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Quick update
Just a real quick update. I haven’t blogged much recently, mainly because I haven’t done anything worthy of blogging about. Before that, I was too busy to be able to find the time to write a decent post. But I thought I would do a quick post today; it turns out that there is more to update you on than I first thought! Fundraising night update In my last post (click here if you missed it) I mentioned that we were having a charity fundraising night in aid of The Ear Foundation (Eddie’s charity for this years London Marathon). Despite being one of the most stressful things I have ever…
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Birmingham Pamper Day
Saturday – Birmingham Spa Day My sister is training as a Beauty Therapist. She has just finished Level 2 and has started on level 3. As a part of her course, she has got to work on “models” (guinea pigs!!) and she asked me to go with her to her college in Birmingham on Saturday. As her college is in Birmingham, it was a 7.15am start on Saturday; this wouldn’t normally be a problem for me, but a late night the night before (due to Eddies Fifa night with his mates) meant for a tired Julie on Saturday when the alarm went off at 6 am! Saturday was a freezing…
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Weekend – Shopping and food food food!
Early Start to the weekend Last weekend was a busy one. On Saturday, we had to be up at 6am, to take Tom and his friends off for a Duke of Edinburgh practice expedition to Ilam in Derbyshire. They all headed off with all of their gear, into soggy Derbyshire! Next we popped into Nottingham, we had a present to buy for my God Daughters confirmation and I needed an outfit. I also wanted to look for a shirt for Ewan. Turned out to be a productive shop. Eddie got measured for a suit at Debenhams, for a wedding that he is best man at in a couple of months. We…
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Beauty Products for the Over 40’s – Part one
So this week I thought I would try some new beauty products. I am concentrating on a couple of things I have purchased today from a drugstore – Superdrug. The items were relatively cheap and had a great offer on them. If you haven’t seen it, my previous beauty post is here take a look! Now I have watched a lot of beauty tutorials on YouTube – I love watching them, but a lot are aimed at younger people. I love watching Zoella and Sophdoesnails. I wanted to find out if age makes a difference on beauty product selection when you get over the age of 40. Lip Colour For a long time…
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Beauty purchases from East Midlands Outlet
Happy Easter! Hope you all had a lovely break and the Easter Bunny visited you! Thought I would post a mini Beauty haul today. Next weekend we are away for the weekend, well from Friday morning to Sunday evening. We (just hubbie and me) are off to London as Eddie is doing the London Marathon. Expect posts about my child free weekend early next week! Anyway when I am away its my brothers birthday so I popped up to see him with his card and pressie. We arranged to meet at the East Midlands Outlet to have a coffee and a general catch up. Beauty Purchases from East Midlands Outlet Whilst there it would…
