had the afternoon off...

...went for a stroll in the city center, picked up a few things.

first i went to try some new scents:

l'occitane - fleurs de ceriser

betty barclay - pure style

*yum yum* i really like it- it's not fruity or flowery, though

then i came across this fabulous new LE by essence

i got the orange lipstick and the red nail polish :)

my body mist collection and some other stuff

my body mists:

my favorite one is the body shop - japanese cherry blossom, but i also love the secret - lavender (THANK YOU, alexis, for that one!) and the avon - black cherry & nutmeg one. the two on the right are a local drugstore brand and even when layered with the matching body lotion the scent doesn't last for 30mins :/

i bought two trial size bottles of new skin care by nivea:

a body lotion on the left and a body wash on the right. they are okay, i guess, but nowhere near as good as my beloved creme21 stuff ;)

and then i bought two pairs of shoes for summer:

left: crocs from the new translucent line
right: ipanemas by gisele bündchen

new stuff...

so here's the beauty haul that i promised (sorry about the quality of the pictures).

i had some vouchers from local drugstores so i went and bought a few things:

repurchases first (things that i'm very happy with and that i will be repurchasing for a while at least).

a new limited edition shower gel that smells lovely and goes great with the fruity body butter that i bought the other day *yum yum*

then i went to the body shop as they had a 3 for 2 offer going on their new organic shower gels:

here's all that i got in full...

and in detail:

frank and i went and had a sniff the other day so i came prepared and knew which ones to get.

i LOVE LOVE LOVE the scent of this!!!

yesterday i got my order from avon in. i hadn't gotten anything from there for ages, but now that i had the opportunity...

this is everything- rarely any make-up, though ;)

a lovely dark plum lipstick that's vanilla scented and heart shaped. what more can you ask for? ;)

a long necklace that allows you to fiddle in trollbeads or pandora or whatever...

a lovely perfume for summer that smells of coconut and tiare flower :)

a pillow mist that frank and i tried last night- we loved it :D

last but not least i went and got some goodies from the old catrice range- everything was on sale, so...

the powder is another repurchase/back-up.

a lovely pinky coral lipstick.

and a pink one with sparkles *little girly girl squeee*