Clothes Show 2012 Models Own Goody Bag

I picked up a few goody bags (I'll write a post on them separately) at the Clothes Show on Saturday but this has to be my favourite! As soon as I saw the limited edition polish on Models Own Facebook page I knew I had to have it!

The deal was £10 for any two polishes and you got a free goody bag.

The selection was good but not massive, none of the wonderland or mirrorball collection.

I picked Mixed Up - a black base with holo glitter.

And of course the limited edition Show Stopper.

This really is gorgeous! Packed full of sparkles.  

I'll do a nails post this week with this on to show you.

These are the goodies that were in the bag.

A copy of more magazine, I haven't read this since I was a teenager.  I always like to take magazines into work to read when I am eating lunch so i'm sure it will get read.  This is an exclusive clothes show edition.

These are the Models Own goodies that were in the bag.

Moisturising Lip Balm in Bubblegum, I can't see this for sale anywhere.  It smells just like hubba bubba bubblegum and will be handy for chucking in my handbag.  This cold weather is playing havoc with my lips.  The balm does contain Petrolatum and Paraffin which if I had picked up in a shop I would have put back down but as a freebie I'll use it up.

Lipgloss - it doesn't have a shade written on the tube but it looks like Madam Rose. 

Retails for approx £5 here.

Pro-Eyeliner in black. This is a liquid liner which boosts amazing staying power.

Retails for £6 here.

Nail Art Pen in black.  Retails for £6 here.

Eyeliner in black - it is slightly different on the website as that version has a smudger and a sharpener but the price is around £4 here.

Lipliner in red - can't find any liners on their website.

Powder eyeshadows in Matt Black and White Pearl.

Again these are not on their website but they retail for £5 each at Boots, I was lucky with the colours I got - they will be perfect for a smoky eye but I know some people got strange colours!

I can never have enough pairs of nail scissors, I constantly lose them.  I think they hide in the same places as my tweezers! These look like good scissors and they retail for £7 here.

Applicators always come in handy, 10 retail for £3 here making these worth £1.20.

Shapeit Buffit file, again always comes in handy to have one of these in your handbag, this retails for £5 here.

I am really pleased with this goody bag, I think I will use everything! Also a complete bargain, just adding up the items in the goody bag that I can find the price of it comes to £44.20!

Can't wait to try out the show stopper polish!

Did you pick up one of these goody bags? What did you think?

Clothes Show 2012 Platinum Goody Bag

So I'm going to start by doing something that I don't really like to see on other blogs! That is apologising for not posting for a while. My poor little blog has been well and truly neglected over the past few weeks so thanks for still following me and hopefully normal service will be resumed now! It's my busiest time of year in work, the lighting is terrible before and after work for photo taking, all the preparations for Christmas take up a lot of time and I've been busy with something else that I can hopefully tell you about next weekend! Not excuses but valid reasons I hope!

Anyway, yesterday I went to the Clothes Show for the very first time.  I went with my best friend Vicki and Caroline from Musings of a Beauty Addict Mum.  We had platinum tickets and had seats for the first show of the day at 10am so it was a very early start from North Wales for myself and Vicki.  We picked Caroline up on the way who kindly supplied me with a much needed coffee.  We arrived at the NEC in perfect time, the car park fee of £10 seemed very steep to me though!

We had brilliant seats a few rows from the front.

Perfect view!

Lots of scene changes and dancing

The pics were taken on my iphone so don't want to put loads on my blog as the picture quality is not that good.

As we had platinum tickets we got goody bags, which were made up of

a show guide - which includes maps of where the stalls are, demonstration show times etc.

a lanyard and a wristband.  The wristband could be shown at a few select stalls to get discount of 5-10%

These are the contents of the goody bag.

There was also a bounty but I ate that watching the fashion show!

I was a bit disappointed with the goody bag, especially as that was part of the reason that we bought platinum tickets.

On the way out they were giving out free goody bags that contained the same as the platinum bags (without the showguide, lanyard and wristband).  As we had platinum tickets we got an extra 2 bags (!!) so we ended up with three bags with identical contents!

One of the demonstrations of the day was by Rachel Wood, Benefit make-up artist.

Vicki shot her hand up for a make over and was picked to go up on stage and have her makeup done by Rachel.  She got a goody bag with a full size Sunbeam and They're Real mascara.

I got these Elemis wipes worth £6 for free as I signed up to the Elemis mailing list.

My purchase of the day!

Leather studded River Island gloves for £10, these are still on sale instore and online for £30.

I bought a few goody bags too but I will post about them separately otherwise this will be a massive blog post!

I had a lovely girly day out, it was quite different than I thought it would be though.  A lot of the clothes stalls had the same clothes on and I didn't see anything that caught my eye really.  The beauty hall was good but was missing stalls from some of the brands I would have liked to see such as Benefit, Illamasqua, MUA etc.

Did you go this year, what did you think?