what's in my bag!

I've always loved these "what's in your bag" posts and when I saw that the wonderful Lydia had just done one here (her blog's brill, follow it!), I decided to do a blatant copy!

My bag itself is the Aldo Lanford and it's pretty much the love of my life at the moment, I was looking in the shoes in the  sale last month and spotted it on a shelf, and once I'd tried it on I knew I had to have it, despite being at full price! It was only £50 though and I've been buying Primark bags for the last year or so which just break, so this one should last me a while!

I love everything about it, the Chanel style quilt and chain handles, the bow, the studs on the bow, the gold metal details, the front pocket, everything! And super duper bonus, I discovered that the back pocket is the perfect size for a small bottle of alcohol, so I've used it for my handbag vodka and surpassed bouncers with it a couple of times... sshh!

I carry a lot of crap in my bag so I've split it into three pictures, first one being my makeup bag. The clasp on it's broken so a lot of the time most of these items are just floating about in the bag.

I've tried to go in a kind of ordered clockwisey spiral type thing, but I'm assuming you'll be able to put the names to the items anyway!

• lush it started with a kiss lipstain pot
• powder brush from glossybox
• duo eyelash glue
• divaderme lash extender fibres (my favourite thing ever, review here)
• l'oreal volume million lashes mascara
• nail envy
• bourjois 3 second nail polish remover (I carry this and the nail envy in case I get a chip; I have to remove ALL nail polish if this happens)
• revlon colorstay foundation in fresh beige
• bourjois blusher in 03 brun cuvre
• maybelline 10hr tint gloss in endless ruby
• maybelline the falsies black drama mascara
• benefit the porefessional primer mini (I use this on top of my foundation throughout the day instead of powder)

Now for the stuff in the main bag, when I was arranging these I realised some of this stuff should have been in the makeup bag picture but oh well!

*Big breath*

• guerlain my insolence perfume
• a wide tooth comb (so much better on my extensions than a brush, and smaller!)
• passport (for ID, I'm not planning on fleeing the country at any minute)
• robot clipper lighter and mini lilac for back up (dirty smoker, sshhh)
• a hairband. with a bow on
• couldn't take a picture of my phone so I took the case off. it's a panda
• a book (at the moment it's The Final Testament by James Frey; it's brilllliant)
• softlips lipbalm in french vanilla
• bottle opener with corkscrew
• a rechargeable torch that looks like a pig
• a big gold necklace for jewellery emergencies (?!)
• a red pen (because I'm constantly marking my life..?)
• burt's bees hand salve mini pot
• nail glue
• a bar blade (because one bottle opener wasn't enough. and this is cooler)

aaaaaand finally

• ipod classic + headphones
• sunnies (love primark. £2!)
• argan oil for frizz drama throughout the day
• body shop clementine lotion (I also carry a mini lush vanilla dee-lite but I think I've left it at work)
• liz earle skin tonic mini spritzer (sometimes I use this for setting make up, and I just like carrying it around really)
• neal's yard lavender essential oil (in a eucalyptus bottle because me and my mum took half each. I carry lavender around instead of painkillers because it helps headaches and also cuts etc. it's magical)
• debit cards (also a boots, superdrug and debenhams beauty card but I forgot to photograph them. oops)
• card reader (for impromtu money transfers. also I'd lose it otherwise)
• the key (it's like the brighton equivalent of an oyster card. this is my third replacement)
• house key with my super cool corona bottle keyring
• hairclip (theres also loads of kirby grips floating about but I forgot about them)
• and my purse (I've had this since I was about 14. I did have a real wallet but I lost it.)

Good freakin lawwwd! I carry around SO much stuff! There's also normally loads of bits of paper floating around in there but I tidied it up the other day.

I actually can't believe how much stuff I have in my bag!

xx

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