Korea Diary 2 : Shopping in Myongdong and Korean Clubs

Right now I am tired. Very very tired, and my hair still stinks of smoke, even after a hairwash and multiple squirts of perfume. Last night my friend took me out to some Korean clubs in Seoul. Oh. My. God. They're a little bit different from the English clubs I know and love :P But that's the second part of this post, earlier in the day we went to Myongdong, so I'll start with that :P

Myongdong is a REALLY busy shopping area in Seoul. It has sooooo many shops, it feels like we hardly went into any. And on top of that there are stalls out on the streets and motorbikes slowly weaving their way through the crowds, a little terrifying, but a lot of fun. I may have bought a few things again, but a lot less than my last haul :P I tried to stay out of the beauty shops (my weakness). I did see a Laneige, but we were in a hurry to catch out train so I couldn't go in :( Next time maybe...

The first shop was a slightly tacky souvenir shop :P (I love these). I accidentally spent £40 on a handmade jewellery box for my mum... > . < Oops, I got confused with the number of 0's on the price and by the time I realised she was already wrapping it up, so I decided to keep it and I hope my mum REALLY likes it :P. I also got a couple of other (considerably cheaper) souvenirs for people and a couple for myself. I couldn't resist this cute Hello Kitty in a hanbok and a Girls Generation notebook :p

Next we went to Forever 21, but this was for practical reasons, I know it's boring to go to a global chain whilst in a foreign country, but I needed a dress for clubbing (I also hadn't been to a Forever 21 yet, despite there being a few in England). I picked up this gorgeous dark orange chiffon dress, I literally walked past, fell in love and grabbed it. (Ignore the slight stains in the photo, I wore it last night and may have spilled tequila on it...).

The next two items weren't needed for the night out, but I felt as though I needed them in my life :P I got this mint green scarf (I need more Spring pastels!) and this cute floaty umbrella top :D

Outside on the street, whilst my friend was buying shoes from a stall, I found another stall packed with cute dresses. I've wanted a white lacy dress for the longest time, and had to have this one.

Final buy of the day was this cute panda eyemask, I love how adorable and sad the panda looks > . <

We went into loads more shops, but I managed to restrain myself in those :P

Later in the day we went out clubbing, it was an hour and a half train journey (ewww > . <) to the part of Seoul where the club was. We arrived at 8:30, and went to a bar for pre-drinks until about 11:30. I tried Soju for the first time, I didn't think it was that bad until a couple of (shared :P) bottles down the line when I stood up and fell right back down again :P.

After pre's we got to the club, which was one of the weirdest things I've ever experienced. Firstly people are allowed to smoke in clubs, my eyes were watering and it smelled horrible. Secondly most people seemed to be dancing in a strangely uniform way, facing the dj and doing the same dances to particular songs. Thirdly, the guys were like mosquitoes. They. Would. Not. Leave. Us. Alone. Normally guys in English clubs are a bit persistent, but the Korean guys took it to a whole new level > . <. One guy kept trying to put his hands round my waist even after I'd 1) told him no, 2) told him I had a boyfriend, 3) shook my head at him and waved him away 4) after I'd elbowed him in the ribs (for trying to grind against me) 5) after I'd turned around, shouted go away (perhaps with worse language :P) and given him the finger. Normally people would get the message after number 3.

Because the trains didn't run again until 5:30 we didn't get home til 7am. So I fell into bed for 12 hours and woke up just as it was getting dark again :P. Right now I feel a little bit surreal, and hungry for chocolate. I need chocolate...why is it night time...I want chocolate!

The worst thing about Korean clubbing? No chip shops on the way home...

Sunny xxxxx

Korea Diary 1 : Arriving and Shopping Haul

It feels like forever ago that I last posted, but it's only been a few days! As you can probably guess from the name of this post I have arrived safely in Korea :) Despite my deep deep hatred of long haul flights (I die of boredom and discomfort) the two flights (7 and 8 hours) weren't too bad. I actually managed to sleep for 6 hours during the last one! Although I did wake up with neck cramp due to my weird plane seat position. On the second flight there was a young toddler in front of me, I was about to give up on my sanity because in all my experience babies cry on planes, no exceptions, but this little toddler fell right to sleep for 8 hours and woke up just before landing. It was incredible!

Yesterday I had a lazy day (still being jet lagged) I met my friends friends and we went out for an evening meal and then some drinks (although the bar only had beer, which I hate > . <). So far the food in Korea has been SO YUMMY, I'm never entirely sure what I'm ordering, but it's always nice. Before I arrived I had awful visions of still squirming squid and unidentifiable deep sea fishes. But so far everything has been gorgeous *getting hungry whilst thinking of food*.

Today was meant to be a quiet shopping day/explore of the streets around my hotel. Instead it turned into a crazy shopping spree during which I spent nearly all of the money I exchanged at the airport and had to get more out... :S But at least I can justify it by remembering that I haven't shopped properly in months because I've been saving so I can go a bit crazy whilst I'm here :P

Be prepared for a rather long haul...

This bag is sooooo cute! I've been wanting a satchel for ages to carry my uni work in :)

My one true love, in necklace form, I adore the turquoise and gold combination.

I needed a new eyeshadow brush as mine are old and a bit skanky, and this Missha one was just to cute to say no to!

Sheet masks, 5 aloe vera, 5 green tea and one rice :)

Prettiest lipstick packaging ever.

Pretty packaging for a pretty coral!

Everything in the Skin Food shop was too pretty for words.

So very in love with these colours! I can hardly bear to use them and ruin them though!

I chose this after trying every single BB cream in Tony Moly, the salesgirl was following me round with loads of make up remover > . < I felt so bad!

Cupcakes and tea cups!

I've needed a good brow set for ages, and this one looked cute :)

Ah! I can't believe how much stuff I bought! Everything is so cheap over here, but it all adds up in the end :P I also bought some of my friends some presents and I've started gathering a few things for my Korea giveaway ;) But I'm going to keep those a surprise for now.

(Also, I have SO MANY free samples now, I think I'll throw some in as an extra for the giveaway, because I have gazillions!)



Tomorrow the official touristy sight seeing part of my holiday starts, we'll start off with Hwaseong Fortress tomorrow, which I will take lots of pictures of :D But don't worry, the shopping part has not ended yet! Next week we're heading to Seoul for the markets and hopefully some new clothes (and in the meantime I'll be adding to the giveaway :P ).

Sunny xxxxx

Seriously Late Tag Post

I'm going to start this post with an apology, sorry sorry sorry for taking so long to do this! I was tagged absolutely ages ago! So I'm finally doing it now :P I was tagged two times, so I'll combine them here :) Thank you so much to the lovely Yoyo and Mui Mui for tagging me to do this. They both have really adorable, fun interesting blogs you should check out :)

11 facts,
11 questions,
tag 11 people,
you get the gist :P

So without much further ado, I'll start:

Facts

1) I've snapped the big toenail off my left foot three times, once from dropping a bookcase on it (that killed), once from someone kicking it off when I was barefoot and they had HUGE shoes on and once walking back to my boyfriends house through the woods completely smashed and tripping over a root.

2) I hate people who don't clean up in the kitchen > . < Sharing a kitchen with messy people at uni kills me (especially when they use and then don't wash up my things *grumble grumble*)

3) I've only just started watching Pretty Little Liars AND I LOVE IT.

4) I've once gotten lost in the middle of Reading after a night out with my friend and wandered around drunk until daylight where we had to ask a dogwalking stranger for directions...classy.

5) When I was little my favourite book ever was The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, I've read it so many times.

6) Now my favourite book is Jane Eyre, and it will never ever ever change because it's the best book ever :P
7) My favourite Audrey Hepburn film is How To Steal A Million ( * - * love you Audrey)
8) I'm chilly

9) Even if I don't talk to my best friends for a while at uni the moment we meet up again it's as though nothing has changed <3

10) My favourite shop in the world is Liberty's in London, the first time I went there was when I was about 8 and I haven't stopped loving it.

11) Eleven facts is a lot...

Questions
1) Do you consider yourself as a Tsudere (Harsh outside Gentle inside) or Yandere (Gentle outside harsh inside)? XD
Ermmmm I suppose a Tsudere... but not really too harsh :P

2) Do you have some sort of fetish for something? If yes, what?

A fetish? Err not that I'm aware of :P

3) Do you wear glasses?

Yes - _ - Only for reading, but I hate them because they're never where I put them!

 

 

4) Are you very sweet and kind in public but a totally different person when you're with people you're close to?

I reckon I'm kind to people I'm close to, my boyfriend says I hit him too much...But then laughs because my punches are too feeble...

 

 

5) Are you outgoing?

Only with my friends, then I'll go a  little bit mad.

6) What's the first thing you notice in a guy? Is it the most important trait?

I'm shallow, so I notice looks first, but it's really not the most important, you can ruin good looks by opening your mouth and saying something idiotic or nasty.

 

 

7) When you tell jokes, does your friends usually laugh because of the funny-ness of the joke or they laugh at how stupid and lame the joke it? (weird question XD)

I've been told I'm terrible at telling jokes, I start laughing (and snorting) half way through telling the joke :P

 

 

8) How many languages do you know?

I did French and Spanish at school, I can remember fragments of Spanish and nearly no French :P I'm desperately trying to learn a few useful phrases for Korea, but so far I can't say I can actually properly speak a language other than English.

9) What's your favourite brand of make-up?

Benefitttttt <3 Which most of my make up collection consists of, I really do mean to branch out :P

10) Headphones or earphones?

Earphones, they're more practical, but headphones can look really cute.

 

 

11) If you could invent anything, what would it be?

Bernard's watch! It would be the most amazing thing ever, but I wouldn't tell anyone, I'd keep it to myself :P I always wish I had one at concerts so I could use it to get to the barrier :P

 My Questions :

1) What is your favourite item of clothing you own?

2) Favourite drink for a sunny afternoon?

3) Would you prefer camping in the countryside or staying in a 5 star hotel?

4) What's your favourite food?

5) Heels or flats?

6) Do you prefer wearing your hair curly or straight?

7) Favourite chocolate?

8) Favourite film?

9) Favourite flower?

10) My brain can't think of any more questions....

11) lalalalala <3

I tag:

http://justlovinglilacsandbeauty.blogspot.co.uk/

http://littlestagg.blogspot.co.uk/

http://megamegalolz.blogspot.co.uk/

http://christinakane.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.hellomissniki.com/
http://golddustk.blogspot.co.uk/

http://eausobeauty.blogspot.co.uk/
http://cutiebeauty46.blogspot.co.uk/

Eight tags is soooo close to eleven...it almost IS eleven...but not quite > . <

Tomorrow I'm off to Korea, I really want to do some posts when I'm out there, but I don't know how good the Internet will be. So this may or may not be my last post for two weeks!

I like posts with pictures...so here's three of my cats when they were kittens :D

Sunny xxxxx

Revlon Lip Butters

Finally after what feels like centuries the Revlon lip butters are out in the UK! Well actually they were out on Monday, but sadly my uni is in a teeny weeny town with the smallest Boots ever :P So when I went in on Monday there were none to be found! But I went in today, hoping to find them, and I did ^ - ^ I can't really afford these right now...but they're pretty :P

After looking at reviews and swatches I chose my three favourites : Strawberry Shortcake, Lollipop and Candy Apple :D So very pretty!

There are loads of reviews of these everywhere, so I won't go into too much detail, but these are beautiful, buildable and moisturising. Love love love :)

Strawberry shortcake is the prettiest girliest colour ever :) Definitely a lovely colour for spring days.

Lollipop is a vibrant fuchsia colour. This is the one I wanted most after looking at swatches online and reading reviews, however as gorgeous as this is it's not my favourite of the three after trying them on.

My favourite one (after trying them all) is Candy Apple. Oh the colour is so beautiful * - * it's an orange toned red, and gorgeous doesn't even begin to describe it!

This was just a short one, because there's just sooooo much about the lip butters online, but I just wanted to tell you all how much I adore my new buys :D

Sunny xxxxx

Mini Springtime Haul

Technically I shouldn't be shopping because I have Korea in less than a week (!!!!! exciting !!!!!), but I only spent £8 on this haul as two things were free gifts and one was a pressie. So I'll get cracking on the haul :P

I'll start with my free gifts, I don't quite understand why I got these, the shop assistant explained it to me a couple of times....but I'm still a bit lost :P I think it was a special event at The Body Shop when I visited, and if I got a body shop card (usually £5, but I got mine for free) I'd get a discount, and free gifts for joining. So I picked up my mums Mother's Day pressie (which you can see here ).

I picked up a Body Butter duo, in Sweet Pea. I didn't actually know what Sweet Pea smelt like until I received this (and I love it :P) it's a really gentle floral scent. Because it's a duo there's a side for normal skin and a thicker cream on the other side for dry skin. That's the only flaw I see in the product, I use the dry skin cream on less areas than the normal skin side, so I think it would have been better to only have a quarter of the pot as a dry skin section. I can see myself using up the normal skin cream a lot faster than the dry skin section.

The second free gift I got was the White Musk Libertine body mist, I'm not usually a fan of body mists, but this one smells quite appealing, although it does have a talcum powder after smell (which I can't help but associate with my grandma :P). So I've been using this as a slight spritz over my clothes in my wardrobe (I like spraying my clothes to make them smell nice :P).

The next three things I bought myself. I've been craving pastels since it started getting warmer, but I couldn't allow myself to buy clothes, so I bought the cheaper alternative of nail polishes. I got these three Barry M nail polishes for £2.99 each, bargain :D I got : Mint Green (304), Berry (203) and Lemon (307). I love these so much, I can't stop looking at them and smiling :P I love springtime and warm weather :). However with all Barry M polishes I need a few layers to get a good colour.

Finally I got this gorgeous summer dress from Republic. This was the gift :) My boyfriend bought me this to wear in Korea because he'd seen me looking at it when we went shopping earlier in the week ^ - ^ I'm not seeing him for a whole month now because he's gone home for a shoulder operation and I've got my Korea holiday > . < I'll buy him loads of pressies from Korea :P

Not a huge haul (when I allow myself I can buy an awful lot more.... I fear to imagine how much I'll be buying in Korea :P), but a few good things in it :)

I hope everyone is getting in the Springtime mood! I know I am :P

Sunny xxxxx

Happy Mother's Day!

So today is Mother's day, but instead of spending the day with my mum going out to lunch, or going shopping or something fun like that I'm stuck at uni - _ - However, as I only have one week left until the Easter holidays I have already gotten her a pressie and card so I can give them to her when I get home :D

I found this gorgeously wrapped set in the Body Shop for £20, it's from their Vitamin E collection which is formulated for *cough* older skin *cough* (my mum would kill me if I said that :P). I adore the light pink and black box, I know that half the excitement of a present for my mum is the packaging :P And in this way I think I take after her > . <.

This set comes with 4 products, a gentle facial wash, moisture cream, night cream and a small face wash. I am so in love with this set, it looks gorgeous. I'd forgotten how much I loved the body shop until I went into it yesterday, it smells so yummy (I may have bought a couple of things for myself too which I'll show in a collective haul soon).

Also every year I buy my mum a Lindt gold bunny for Easter, but this year I'll be away in Korea for Easter! So I'm giving her the bunny early (and I know that it will not last until Easter :P).

I can't wait for this week to be over! I have an exam and statistics (which I still don't actually understand) to do, and then I'll be off home for a couple of days and then off to KOREA!!! (exciting times :P).

Also, last night there was the most gorgeous mountain rainbow thing going on, I just had to take a photo :P

Damn you telephone mast for ruining my photo!

Sunny xxxxx

Percy & Reed Totally TLC Hydrating Mask

Despite telling myself that I was 100% not allowed to buy anything frivolous this month (which I have technically broken already) I decided that paying £2 for Glamour this month to receive a free product of Percy & Reed Totally TLC Hydrating Mask was allowed :P
Firstly I was attracted to this by the gorgeous design, it looks really sleek and chic with a cute drawing of a girl with enormous hair :P I'm not going to lie, the packaging was the reason I paid any attention to it, but hey, that's what packaging is meant for :P

I used this earlier and I had to google instructions for use, because the ones on the back aren't very good. I wasn't entirely sure if  I had to put it on wet or dry hair or how long the best amount of time was (it said minimum 10 minutes). I found (on the Red website) that people saw the best results when their hair was slightly damp, so I used my hands to pour a small amount of water evenly over my hair and squeezed the excess out, and for about 20 minutes.

I made put my hair up and under a plastic bag turban (which I made myself :P) and then wrapped a towel around it as the instructions did say it worked best when warm. I had a fun 20 minutes wandering around with a hot pink turban then went to the shower to wash it off.
I have to say I really like this product, I don't usually use hair masks really, I think I've only ever tried one before and that was quite a while ago so I'm no expert. Since my hair has been incredibly dry recently I thought this was amazing. My hair really feels soft and silky. This is quite a good bargain as there is 100ml in the tube and I used two tiny blobs and I have medium length hair. I can't wait to use it when I've finally gotten my hair cut to get rid of all my nasty split ends (boooooo split ends, go away).
Percy & Reed also have a 'heat activating bonnet' which you can buy to accompany this product, although to me it just looks like a jazzed up shower cap :P I think I'll stick with my pink turban thank you :P

Me and my hair :P

Sunny xxxxx