Back Home for the Weekend and Ready for a Boots Haul!

View of Northumberland from the train. May have used instagram to make it look less grey and miserable, more stormy and mysterious

This weekend I headed home to Northumberland in search of fun and good company. And of course, the joys of a full fridge. Oh, and help with my student loan application for next year, because I may technically be an adult but also still need someone to hold my hand as I agree to another seven grand of debt. Gulp.

Friday night I met with my friend Rosie for a drink, a catch-up and to steal chips off her plate when I thought she wasn't looking. As always, our conversation was all about boys and boys and boys. Apparently there are enough boy issues in the world to keep us talking for several hours and we have yet to ever exhaust the topic. Was lovely to see her again anyway. This afternoon I've been horse riding for the first time in ages as it just seems impossible to get to the stables in Lancaster. Its been nearly a year since I've ridden I reckon and within, ooooh, about five seconds it felt like my thighs were on fire. Looking forward to walking like a cripple for the next week, but totally worth it to get back in the saddle.

Yesterday I went shopping in Newcastle with my mum, as is becoming tradition when I come home for the weekend. We are both a complete sucker for all new, shiny and pretty things and the shops of Newcastle are a treasure trove of newness, shininess and prettiness. However, I was quite good and restrained the spendage yesterday; I got these few things from Boots.

Soap and Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub

Apparently summer is around the corner. Though I see no evidence of this (oh, hello snow, still hanging on in there I see!), I bought this Soap and Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub and a body scrubber ready for when it's time to dust off the shorts and the nation get there legs out. This is an excellent scrub, really dense and my legs were really soft after I used it last night. A month or two down the line and people will be flocking from miles around to come and see the softness of my legs. Actually, they're so white that people don't even need to flock, you can spot me in a sea of tanned folk a mile away! The awkward ginger paleness strikes again...

I also set out to get a nail polish in a mint shade, but they had a 3 for 2 offer on all beauty produces am who am I to refuse that?! I got these three shades (left to right); Jaded by Sally Hansen, Buff Pink by Models Own and Magnetic Burgundy by Barry M. 

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Jaded

I absolutely adore this shade!! So pleased with it. However, I found this polish so difficult to put on because the brush was quite wide and flat, and the consistency of  the liquid was really runny. In the end I did three very thin layers so that it didn't run off the sides of my nails everywhere, but its still a little patchy in places and took ages to dry. Essie have an almost identical shade of polish so I would get that next time. Still, so pleased with the colour that I don't care that much.

Models Own in Buff Pink

I got also wanted a pale pink so that could have natural looking nails without them looking too dull as they sometimes do when bare. There was so much choice but I got this one and am loving the colour of it. It will be nice to opt for a nude nail design for when nothing is really happening but I want them to be painted, as sometimes I find myself going back to nibbling them when they have no polish on and I refuse refuse refuse to go back to having ugly nail again!

Barry M in Magnetic Burgundy

I've heard some people mention about magnetic nail polishes so I thought I'd try out this one for fun as it was my third and therefore free nail polish. The magnet forms a sort of stripey design when held over the polish straight after application; its quite subtle so I'm glad I got this gorgeous deep red colour to make it a bit more interesting.  Has anyone else tried a magnetic nail polish by another brand to compare them?

When I get back to Lancaster tonight James should be back from his holiday, and that means we get the doggie back tomorrow so yey!! And then it'll be a week of packing for moving to the new house next weekend.