A package from the USA!!

Just a few months ago I began speaking to a girl called Jessica on twitter from America. She seemed lovely and it wasn't long before we started making plans to do a swap. If you've never seen or heard of this, you basically swap products with someone else (preferably from a different country), in order to try out new things. We decided to swap beauty products that were only available in our country, meaning that both of us would be able to try  new products we might never have otherwise tried. If you'd like to see what I bought for Jess, please go and check out her video on the swap here!!

I have never been to America before, nor have I spoken to an American or owned anything American before this experience so on the day my package arrived I was so excited!! So here we go, here are the things Jess bought me...

The New York Post!! I really wanted to read a newspaper and see some everyday things from America so I asked Jess to get me this

A lovely letter from Jessica!!

A mint green bag

A menu from one of Jessica's favourite places to eat! It's so strange to see the prices in dollars

An American flag decoration

Some little fluffy ballet slippers

Two mainstays candles in Island luau (dark pink) and Sweet pea (light pink)

Crabtree and Evelyn citron honey and coriander cleansing shampoo, replenishing conditioner and skin quenching body lotion

Peace, love and juicy couture body lotion 

Oscar Blandi pronto invisible volumising dry shampoo spray

Wet n wild wild shine nail colour in lavender (pink) and blazed (orange)

Sinful colors professional in love nails (blue) and innocent (yellow) 

Jurlique rosewater balancing mist

Jurlique moisture replenishing day cream 

Eos lip balm 

Strawberry lip smacker lip balm

Wet n wild trio palette from eyelid, crease and browbone in sweet as candy

Wet n wild blusher in heather silk

Bonne bell eyeshadow box in girlie pinks

NYX Xtreme lip cream in natural (beige) and candyland (pink) 

Two one n' only argan oil samples 

Wet n wild lipstick in 511B

NYX jumbo eye pencil in lime 

NYX pin-up tease mascara 

I am so happy with everything that I got and I will definitely be following this up with mini reviews on all of these products to let you know how I get on with them. I want to thank Jess, who is such a lovely person, for taking the time to get to know me and picking things you knew I'd love. I hope we keep chatting our days away and you've become a good, other side of the world friend! 

Check out Jessica's blog, Youtube channel and follow her on twitter @iloveny91

Thanks for reading

Niki xx

Poundland beauty buys

Whilst shopping in my local town last weekend, I went into poundland after reading AThirftyMrs' blog about the things she had found in one. This is what I picked up

Sally Hansen diamond strength no chip nail colour in rose amore

Revlon nail enamel in smoky canvas 

Mabelline express finish 50 second nail colour in iced mauve 

Sally Hansen hard as nails in pink sapphire

Rimmel SPF15 moisture renew cream lipgloss

Sally Hansen colour comfort lip colour in sunburst

NYC waterproof mascara in jet black

Miss Sporty studio lash black matrix eye opening lash sculpting mascara in carbon black

Rimmel colour rush eyeshadow in moonstone

Have you found any one pound bargains in these shops lately? 

Niki xx

You can still check out my blog sale here and enter my giveaway here!!

Red nails ;)

This is the Avon speed dry nail varnish in mambo melon. I think the colour is really pretty and looks really nice on my nails. I was also really impress with how fast the nail polish dried. I put 2 layers of the polish on and it gives a really bright, vibrant colour.

Thanks for reading.

Nikiniknak xx

Sky blue nails

This is the MUA nail varnish in shade 9 (they don't have a name for their colours but it's the sky blue one). I firstly put one coat of the clear nail varnish (shade 1) and then two coats of the sky blue colour. I then put a final coat of the clear polish on. I absolutely love this colour and it lasted for a few days without chipping AND it was only 2 pounds for both!! Amazingly cheap and deffo a great colour for the spring/summer (if it ever gets here).

What do you think of this colour? What nail colours have you been wearing recently?

Thanks for reading

Nikiniknak xx