Cosmetic Cupcake

Soooooo I've kind of been doing a bit of hauling over the last month and a bit Xp I was relatively good on my spending ban for most of the year but I treated myself to a few things at Christmas hehe. The temptation for Christmas and LE collections was just too much! I also received some awesome gifts too yay! The majority of my haul was nail polish (of course) and in about 1 month I bought about 6months worth of products HAHA. FAIL. Here we go!


HARE POLISHES!!!!! *squeal* I lusted after The First collection for SOOOOOOOOO long and when Nikole reformulated them I knew I had to get my hands on them! They are so gorgeous. I also picked up 2 from The Finders Keepers colleciton. There was a little mix up with my order and my polishes were accidentally sent to Mich from The Polish Well but she very kindly sent them on to me and also included a bottle of her franken Sloth for me too which was so sweet! Thank you Mich again =D


I'm a sucker for Christmas collections and the Lush Lacquer Xmas glitters are so pretty. I resisted getting into indie polishes for ages because I knew that once I started I wouldn't stop!


I picked up 2 Vivid Lacquer stamping plates - VL001 and VL002 which I've been after for a while and couldn't resist adding Waning Gibbons to my order as it was only $5! You can check out my skull and studs mani featuring VL001 here.


My sis knows I love James Bond so she gave me some of my fave shades from the recent OPI Skyfall collection for Christmas! Thanks little sis! =D

From L - R: The Spy Who Love Me, Casino Royale, Goldfinger, Moonraker and The Living Daylights.
I was invited to the Hello Darling Spring launch a few months back and I was very generously given 3 polishes from the Not Your Nanna's Nightie collection to take home with me. The collection consists of 7 gorgeous pastels and you all know how much I adore pastels! The polishes are FREAKING AMAZING so when I found out they were having a 1st birthday sale and reducing the price of the lacquers I rushed to buy the other 4 shades in the collection so I could complete it. SO. HAPPY.

From L - R: Dreamboat, Breakfast in Bed, Butter Wouldn't Melt and Papershaker.
I've been lusting after the Models Own Wah Nails art pens since forever and I finally bit the bullet and got them. Anita and I did an order together (she got the Mirrorball collection) and they arrived so quickly! They had a box set special before Xmas so I got the gold and silver pens for an extra £5. Woohoo!


I simply cannot resist the limited edition Essence collections! The polishes are priced so reasonably which makes them even harder to resist lol. Thanks Anita for helping me pick up Jacob's Protection!


I've been waiting for the Essence Snow White collection to be released here for aaaaaaages so of course I had to get (nearly) the whole collection. Thanks Ange for letting me take advantage of your discount!!


I bought 2 polishes from the China Glaze Xmas and Cirque de Soleil collections; 2 polishes from the Essie Winter 2012 collection and 2 Misa's I've been lemming.

From L - R: China Glaze Champagne Kisses, Glistening Snow, Running in Circles and It's a Trap-Eze: Essie Where's My Chauffeur? and Butler Please; and Misa Pinky Prmise and Breakaway.
Ulta 3 have been releasing some excellent collections lately and I couldn't go past their Get Your Glam On glitters! At $2.25 a pop they are priced so ridiculously reasonably.


My nails have been peeling really badly lately and my usual products haven't been working so I bought Duri Rejuvacote. I've been using instead of my regular basecoat Color Club Vitabase and it seems to be ok. I'll have to try it out for a while longer before giving a verdict on it.


I went to the Boxing Day sales and picked up this cute nail trio from Seed. I've never tried Seed polishes before and this pack contains perfect party colours! You can't go wrong with foils and glitter ;)


I really enjoy using Revlon foundations and I've read good reviews about Revlon's Colorstay Whipped Foundation so thought I'd try it out. I hate the packaging with a passion but the foundation works well!


I picked up the Glass House White Christmas candle which smells divine. How pretty is the jar too!


Ange kindly gifted me the Philosphy Bake Shoppe set as my KK gift. SQUEEEEE!! It smells GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT *drool*. On Boxing Day my sis and I did some major Snow Fairy haulage at the Lush sale. In total we got 13 bottles or so! It is my absolute favourite body wash xp


D gave me an Ipad case I've wanted for ages and a tripod for Xmas which I'm super in love with! One blogging aim this year is to start videos so the tripod is to get me prepped for them.


Annnnnnnnnnd lastly I treated myself to a new DSLR and macro lens! I went with the Canon 650d and the Canon EFS 60mm f/2.8 macro lens. I've wanted to upgrade my camera for so long and JBHifi had a 15% off sale AND Canon have $100 cashback at the moment so it was perfect.


Thanks if you made it this far! I hope you liked seeing some of my recent hauls =) What did you get for Xmas this year? Did you haul anything at the sales?

Thanks for looking as always!