Friday's Five Fabulous Things

Ok, so this morning I realised I had a lot of blogging to catch up on as I have lots of stuff to share with you and I also missed my Five Fabulous Things post on the Sunday just gone because I was so busy... BUT I've now completely finished university now so I can do all of the catching up! I'm also changing Five Fabulous Things to Friday because, well, it's Friday today and I wanted to :)

Today I'm sharing an instagram of cocktails which I had yesterday at Las Iguanas, Yum!

On to the five things that have made me especially happy this week...

1. I'VE FINISHED UNIVERSITY: I can't believe it's finally over, I have many sad feelings as many happy ones. I'm mainly sad to be leaving my flat which has been a lovely home for three years. Once I've caught up on all of the tidying up I have to do I'll be taking some photos to remember it by and I think I'll share some on here so you all can see where I live :)
2. Pub Quiz: last night me and some of my friends went out for a quiet dinner which led to a pub quiz, which led to us WINNING! We won a £20 bar tab and so we ended up having quite a few drinks and a dance in the club upstairs to the pub even though we weren't really planning on that kind of night. It was quite a nice surprise, free drinks are always good!
3. Nando's Chicken Land: I went to Nando's for lunch yesterday with my friends (I needn't say more really, you can guess why this made me happy)... We saw a sign up in there about some kind of terms and conditions or something and the company was stated as "Nando's Chicken Land". We had no idea that it had ever been called that and found it quite amusing so it's no longer just "Nando's" to us haha
4. New Clothes: Also yesterday, I went celebratory shopping and bought myself a few new things and I have that new clothes feeling where I just want to wear them all!
5. Food: this one is about food, again. For the past four days, I've been so busy that I haven't had a home cooked meal and whilst I really enjoy cooking, eating junk for once has been SO good. There, I said it. I guess it's never too late to try being a "proper" student!

Hope you have all had a lovely week!

MUA Mini Haul

This weekend I did the usual impulse purchasing of stuff, you know what we all do when we're bored... Luckily for my bank balance I just ordered a few bits from Superdrug/MUA (some how the first time I've ever bought something from that range!) and they came today :) I'll probably review most of this stuff "properly" soon but here are  my first impressions...

As you can see from the pictures I picked up the Undress Me Too Eye Palette for £4  which everyone raves about (better late than never lol) as I'm trying to throw away an older palette which is a bit dated so I only use a couple of colours out of it but I needed a decent replacement first and this seems to fit the bill. I'm quite interested to try the colour combination it suggests on the back as I always try out the "instructions" on eye palettes so I might do a post on that if I like it rather than just doing swatches because there are tonnes of those online (or perhaps I just need to get a life and stop reading the instructions on eye shadow haha).

I also bought the Pro-Brow Ultimate Eye Brow Kit for £3.50 as one of the things I used in the old palette that I'm throwing away was a brown powder for my brows so I needed to replace that too. On first impressions the brown colour in this kit seems a bit lighter than what I usually use and they don't do other shades so I'll have to see how it goes after a few tries to see if I like it (or just finally convince myself to buy Benefit's Brow Zings)!

I also picked up another lip tint/balm to add to my collection and first impressions of the MUA Power Pout (in Crazy in Love) are "meh"; it's very slippery to apply, a bit like it's melting so probably won't last long on my lips but the colour is good and quite intense and it's only £3 so again, I'll probably just have to try it a few times before I decide if I like it enough to buy another.

And lastly, I bought the Nail Constellation Pisces for £3 (and a cheap and cheerful £1 MUA Top Coat). The colours of these beads are lovely (turquoise, silver and a very pale pink) so I can't wait to try them to find out which colour polish they look best with.

Which MUA products would you recommend?  I imagine that I might be buying more!

FOOD: My First Graze Box

I have been excited all weekend about getting my first Graze box (for free!) and it has finally come! I'm a HUGE snacker so I really don't know why I hadn't signed up to this sooner as it was all so easy and I've really enjoyed it so far.

After you sign up, you go through all of the foods available saying what you want to bin or try and you can even ask for something to be sent "soon" if you're really hoping for it. I don't usually enjoy nuts/seeds/dried fruit so admittedly, I binned quite a lot of things which looked really healthy but weren't for me although, I kept a couple of dried fruit things. I was really glad that I could get rid of all the stuff I didn't like as I'd have hated to end up with a box full of pumpkin seeds! I also like that the little box they come in is so handy as it fits through your letter box so you don't even need to be in when they arrive; hooray for not having to go to the post office for something!

You can look at what you're going to get in your box the night before it's due to arrive and initially, when I saw mine, I was quite disappointed because I got mostly sweet things (my box = summer berry flapjack, jaffa cake, billionaires shortbread and salsa fresca) where as my boyfriend got mostly savory stuff which I'd have preferred. That disappointment soon left me when I opened my box. Everything was delicious and I was especially impressed by the orange raisins in the jaffa cake inspired snack as when I read the description online I thought they sounded a bit too good to be true and would just be normal raisins; in actual fact, they are really pleasantly orangey and smell a bit like Christmas! The dippers were also great (I LOVE dips); there was just enough salsa for each cracker. The only thing I think could be improved about what I got today is the size of the chocolate pieces in jaffa cake. I'd have preferred more little pieces of chocolate that a few big pieces but it was still really nice.

I've also added some pictures from my boyfriend's box - he really enjoyed the shortbread which smells excellent before you even taste it and the Korean Rice Chilli Crackers were also lovely, quite spicy and very moreish; considering they were so moreish we were shocked at how many were in the packet, quite a big handful.

I'm definitely going to have one of these a week until I leave uni now because at £3.89, I think I can afford to treat myself a little and it's very convenient. Now I just need to work out how to make it last a little while instead of opening everything in a frenzy!

 Have you ever tried Graze boxes? What should I look out for in them?

If any one would like to get a free Graze box (new accounts only) I'd love it if you helped me out and used my referral code! You can easily cancel straight after your free box so it won't cost you a penny even though they ask for your card details. Use the code "96JGZ4K" to get your free box at www.graze.com/uk :)