My Thomas Sabo Collection

This is a jewelerry post so it is a little different from the posts I usually do but my boyfriend treated me to a new Thomas Sabo bracelet today which inspired this post :) If I stop making sense I appologise, I am at a bit of a loss when trying to describe jewelery!
I'm not the world biggest jewelery fan, you'll rarely see me wearing a necklace or anything too fancy looking but I am much more of a bracelet person and the bracelets I love the most are Thomas Sabo.

Charm club booklet and the pretty boxes the bracelets come in

I think Thomas Sabo is fairly popular so you may or may not have heard of the brand but the reason I like it is because the bracelets are really fun, not too fancy looking and come in all kinds of colours and sizes. There is also an amazing selection of charms, which make brilliant gifts for anyone who has a charm bracelet (it's a bit of a thing for the females in my family to recieve charms for christmas and birthdays) so all of the charms I have are gifts from different occasions which makes them more special and fun to collect.

These are my bracelets :) The ones I have are designed to fit 3 charms on each but I tend to stick to 2 because I dont want the charms to scratch eachother too much (that sounded like they are alive!) They are really cool for mix matching the charms depending on what you're wearing or what mood you are in.

The Bracelets and the charms:

The black bracelet, My first Thomas sabo bracelet. My mum bought me this for my birthday a couple of years ago and I love it for wearing occasionally in the daytime but mostly in the evening if I am going anywhere special (because its the biggest and most evening-y of the bunch) The charms on this one at the moment are the blue peace sign, my first charm and probably still my favourite, and the mushroom given to me by my brother for christmas.

The red bracelet. This was also a Christmas present I think. This bracelet is cute and I wear it mostly in the daytime because of its bright colour. Had a bit of drama with this one, got a hair stuck round it and when untangling the bracelet broke and the beads flew everywhere, resulting in my screaming 'NOOOOOOO!' I took it back to the store and they exchanged it though :)
The charms: Kermit :) He's looking abit battered because he was also one of my first charms. And a duck that I got for christmas, don't ask why but I fell in love with the duck and then he found his way into my christmas pile :)
And last but not least, the purple bracelet. My boyfriend literally JUST bought me this, so I am still staring at it in admiration every 5 minuites. I think this is one of the new style bracelets with round beads anda string tightening thingy at the back (I warned you this wouldn't make sense!) I like that this one is on string/rope/whatever it is because I don't get scared of breaking it every time I put it on unlike the other which are on elastic. The Charms: A clover for luck and because I am part Irish, and an anchor, the only charm I bought myself.

The braclets aree £23ish each so they won't break the bank but the charms on the other hand range from £15.99-£50+ which is why they are more gift items than something you just go out and buy.

Hope this post hasn't been too waffley, just wanted to share my most cherished jewelery because it was getting jelous of my makeup!
Rachyxx

100 follower giveaway!!!**CLOSED**

Hello lovely followers! To celebrate me (almost) reaching 100 blog followers (I am growing impatiant) I have decided to do a little giveaway for you all. There is a winners prize and a runners up prize.

Here are the prizes: (conditions below pics)

The winner will recieve this limited edition Sleek mediterranian collection 'Monaco' eyeshadow palette and 'Monte carlo' pout polish.

The runners up prize is this limited edition 17 vintage love perfect pastals eyeshadow palette and Aussie 3 minuite miracle conditioner sachet.

**The giveaway is open Internationally**

Here are the conditions:
-To enter you must be a subscriber of my blog and leave a comment in the comment box asking me to enter you.
For extra entries:
+1-retweet my giveaway on twitter: I'm entering @Allthingsrachy 's blog giveaway to win Sleek mediterranian goodies http://bit.ly/jqA78V
+1- Link my giveaway on your blogroll
+1- 'Like' my facebook page www.facebook.com/pages/All-things-Rachy/142597215810740
+1- Be a subscriber of my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Allthingsrachy?feature=mhee

-Include proof of all of the above forms of entry in the comment box (links to the tweet and blogroll etc)

If you leave your email adress in the comment box it would also be a great help for contacting the winners.

After two weeks (CLOSING DATE IS 26th JUNE) I will pick a winner from all the entries using http://www.random.org/ randomiser.
When the winner and runner up have been picked I will reveal in a blog post and contact the winners straight away.
For all of this information in video form, plus a closer look at the prizes, check out the youtube giveaway video:

Good Luck! Rachy xx

Cath Kidston CUTE dress find

I was having a browse in Cath Kidston yesterday, I love all of the clothes in there they combine shapes and prints that I love..and I stumbled across one dress in my size that I lurvvved, and was happy to see it was on 50% sale :) Previously £85 (I would never pay that with my student budget!) it was reduced to £42.50...which I still shouldn't have spent as a student, but I couldn't help myself!

I realise it may not everyones cup of tea but I lovee the floral print on it and feel like a cute little granny wearing it hah.

I think this dress is pretty much the perfect summer dress for me. The print is lovely and bright, the fit is comfortable (not clingy or tight atall) and the material is 100% Viscose- not sure what that means but I like it.

I love the cute neckline <3

Not to mention the sleeves! Really like the band at the end of the sleeve. Sometimes I don't feel like getting my arms out, so this dress will be great for those days.
A little preview of the dress as modeled by me- face and hair are rough because I had just come back from shopping in the rain :(

I can't wait for this gloomy weather to brighten up so I can skip down to the park in the dress clutching my Oli&Nic apple bag :)

Rachy xxx

FOTD- first attempt at contouring!

Bronzer is something I have altogether avoided in the past, mostly because of my pale complextion and I can never seem to get it to work for me. Since beauty blogging I have become more aware of 'contouring' with bronzer and have decided it's high time I gave it a try. Nothing too dramatic mind you, I am a beginner (and I still havn't worked out if I like bronzer)
But here's my FOTD with an attempt of a bit of light contouring on the cheekbones (not that I have any):

Products used:
Face: Maybelline pure cover mineral concealer, Barbara Daly bronze glow, Maybelline dream touch blush-apricot, Jemma kidd Dewy glow- rose gold.

Eyes: Illamasqua brow cake- thunder, Bobbi brown concealer-porcelain, Mac prep + prime eye-light, INGLOT eyeshadows: AMC shine 30(brow bone), DS 465(lid), Peal 402 (crease& lower lash line), Pixi gel liner-onyx, Rimmel white eyeliner, Maybelline one by one volum' express mascara.

Lips: Mac- Vegas volt

Rachy xxx

What to buy your boyfriend from Lush

Today is my boyfriends 21st birthday (happy bday Seany!) and amongst a few other things I bought him a few bits from Lush cosmetics. I try to encourage any one I can to buy lush so that I can be surrounded by yummy smelling people haha. Getting boys into lush is a difficult one though (i'm lucky, Sean is a lover of lush not a hater) so I carefeully selected all of these bits to make them 'boy friendly'. Here's what I picked:

Sean is a fan of Lush's mintly and lemony scents, he already has the 'Dirty' showergel, so I tried to stick to those smells in choosing the gifts :)

1. Ice and a slice- two soaps, Ice blue (mint scent) and Bohemian (lemon). Obviously these soaps are great for girls too but I think they are especially suited to boys....you can hardly imagine a boy rocking a floral scented soap can you?!

2. Dirty solid perfume- Also suitable for girls but me and the Lush lady agreed that this purfume smells much better on a man. If you've smelt the Dirty shower gel it is similar to that. I don't really know how else to describe it other than a yummy minty boyish smell.

3.Too Drunk- Another minty smelling one. I am a huge fan of this product myself. You just drop it in bottom of the shower while you are washing and let it work its magic. It releases smells that are a perfect hangover cure (very helpfull for uni students like my and Sean!)..and also a very good cure for those birthday hangovers.

4. Ickle baby bot ballistic- I chose this one for pretty obvious reasons...its blue and shaped like a robot! Also has a very nice relaxing lavender scent.

Any of you ladies have other halves into lush?
Rachy xxx

Simple summer daytime look FOTD & Video

This is my simple peachy/coral/pink summer daytime look I have been wearing for the last few days, thought I'd share with you.

When I said 'illamasqua pearly eyeshadow' I meant INGLOT*.
Products used:
-Maybelline pure cover mineral concealer
-Illamasqua brow cake-thunder
-INGLOT pearl coloured eyeshadow
-Mac e/s: Gleam & Paradisco
-Pixi gel liner-onyx
-Maybelline one by one volum' express mascara
-Maybelline dream touch blush-apricot
-Jemma Kidd deqy glow- rose gold
-Topshop lipstick- ohh la la
and a spritz of Mac fix+

Rachy xxx

What's in my (large travel) makeup bag video

Here's what I took home with me in my makeup bag for a long weekend. May have overpacked a little and didn't end up using most of it :P I've learnt my lesson...
Again I have to appologise for the video being out of sync, this happened in the youtube uploading process and if anyone knows how to correct that it would be a great help
Enjoy...

Makeup bag at debenhams. Brand: Floozie by Frost and French- £12.60

Rachy xxx