VLOGMAS PT. 3: COME CHRISTMAS SHOPPING WITH ME + HAUL | AD | Hello October

Good morning everybody. We're going to London today. It is Christmas shopping day. I've got Lauren with me and we're going to Westfield to do our Christmas shopping. How excited are you? I'm so excited because we're going for Christmas. Someone's excited for Christmas. I'm still the Grinch over here, like what's that line from the Grinch where he's like looking at his calendar and he's like, oh, dinner with me. Can't cancel that. I just can't cancel that again. Right, that's it, I'm not going. What's the line where he's what's the bit before that where he's like, dinner with me, I just can't cancel, what's the bit before. I really want to watch that. Yeah. So I'm the Grinch, but, um, yeah, I've got my little Christmas elf with me and she's going to help me do Christmas shopping. That is receding. It's like sweeping. My hair's falling out, it's thinning, it's breaking. It's a maze. It's an actual maze. So our first stop is going to be Boots. So this video is in partnership with Boots and L'Oreal. So basically they have got this whole campaign So you pick your gift, you get your little kind of free bauble, which is really cute. And then you have it wrapped as well. So that's where we're going to be going first. And then I just plan on getting all of my Christmas shopping out of the way today because I just the stress right now. I don't, I just can't, I can't even talk about it. So yeah, I'm very excited to do this. I am like as much as I'm a Grinch, I'm kind of excited to get the presents. So excited to make the presents. You don't know what I'm referencing, do you? No, I'm going to have to insert that. But yeah, I am very excited for the presents because I love buying people Christmas presents. It's my favourite thing. So let's do this. Let's get this show on the road. Oh my God, how pretty is this? This is so cute. I always forget how much I like Westfield. It's so nice. Definitely don't have this in Brighton. Why are you laughing at me? I'm not laughing. I'm just looking up. It's just really big. How big can it be? I don't know. I mean, I don't really, yeah, I wouldn't choose to come to be fair. We make a day of doing the Christmas shopping because I've never done that before. I'm like very much a kind of do it in bits. But I actually think doing it all as one is a good way of me not going overboard. Yeah, you know when you like do your shopping over like the period of like a month or so and you just end up adding things and I just don't need that extra expense right now because your girl's trying to buy a house. So yeah, basically I need to be a little bit sensible about this. Someone's getting that free warble. It is not going to be me. No? Babes, I went all out for your birthday. So you may well be getting a free warble. That is very true. I literally went too far with Lauren's birthday present. So that's it. That's it until you're 30. I'll take that. I'll go here. This is a nice boots. So we are in boots and this is the offer that is currently going on. I'm super, super excited for this. So these are the fragrances that are included in the offer. I'm going to be going for this one for my friend Brooke. This is a really like fruity and floral fragrance and I know she loves stuff like that. So I'm going to be popping this in. They basically pop it in one of these boxes and wrap it for you and you could have little like personalised letters and things like that. So I'm going to choose that one and then I'm also going to pick a mini to go in the little warble. The Valentino one has already sold out but I think she'll really like the YSL. So I'm going to go for that one as well. I think this is going to be so cute. Such a nice gift for someone. BC on the top. Brooke if you're watching this I'm sorry I spoilt your Christmas present. That's so cute. Perfect. Nicely done. This is so cute. There you go. Merry Christmas Brooke. We have a gift. One person down. Now just got to do everybody else. Oh my god guys there's a West Elm. I love West Elm. My bank balance doesn't love West Elm but I love West Elm. I love the colour of this pillow. I don't need more pillows but it's really cute. In fact everything is really cute. Wow. One of everything please Santa. That is really sweet. There is nothing I love more than a tacky bauble. Look at them. Oh my god. I love this chair. Oh my god. I really want a chair like this but like black wood. Also this floor is great. This is the kind of floor I am desperate for. Oh guys there's a cute little flower section in H&M home. Like how nice is this. Like these are. Oh I love it. Oh my god so cute. And they have this stuff and it's purple and I'm really into that. Wow. Wow. Oh my god. And these are all sparkly. That is so cute. Oh hello. Now we're talking. This is cute. I already have things. This is going well. I have a Well done me. This is going to be a successful shopping trip. I can tell. I have high hopes guys. Oh my god. Obsessed. I need it. I need it. Oh my god. I need it. I'm going to spend so much money in here it's not even funny. God pray for my bank balance. Oh I really love White Company. This store is actually one of my favourites. I've been here before. So cute. You love mini things. Yeah but see I want the big one. That's a compromise. Why are we compromising? You don't live with me. Free lit. I know it feels like you live with me. I was going to say I basically do. So yeah. Really that's not fair. Can you like partake in the cleaning then if you live with me? I do the dishwasher. Yeah you do to be I'm the recycling. Yeah. Fair. She pays her way. That's nice. That's really nice. Oh wait I think I have that. Oh that's really cute. It's got a little thing on it. I just love it. It smells amazing as well. It smells like the winter fragrance. Can't wait to dig that out again. Oh my god their present wrapping like stuff is stunning this year. Definitely getting some of this. We got really tired so we've had to stop for food. I need a food break. I went to the gym yesterday and it's definitely something that I wouldn't advise doing the day before you go crazy shopping because my whole body aches like my shoulders, my back, my legs are all in fits and carrying the presents is a lot more difficult. Don't do it. Don't do that to yourself. If anyone needs me I will be here. So I'm really not sure how we end up having Greek food when there is a Oaxaca next door. This is very unlike us. Yeah but I really like it here. I love Greek food but this is just very not normal. But there's a Oaxaca in Brighton and there isn't a real Greek in Brighton. True. Where was that place that we went though that was great for Greek food? In Brighton. In Brighton. What was it called? The New Place? The New Place. I'll put it on the screen. It was so great. Honestly cannot recommend it enough. And at the moment it's kind of like no one really knows about it so it's like dead so it's really nice to go and eat there. It's great. This place is great though. It has lots of like veggie and vegan options which you don't normally get with Greek food. You didn't tell me it came like this. What is this? Do you pick it off? Yeah. I don't have to eat it like this? No. Wow. Look at that. Oh my god that's so good. So we have baked feta, spinach thingies. I can't pronounce them. The guy tried to get me to pronounce the name of them and I just can't. And then aubergine which looks really good. Very excited for this. I'm confused. What is, what is that? What is that? I'm not going into Zara. I do not need the thing. I don't need it. Train stays. It has been impressive. You're a changed woman. I'm so changed. You just wait until you see my Christmas outfits video because you might be seeing some sparkles from Zara. But they're going back. We have entered a very different area. Lauren do you want some Burberry for Christmas? We're back. I am tired. So tired. I actually don't know. Lauren is carrying like the H&M home bag and it's got like a freaking like vase thing in it. So I really feel for you. This is good effort because this was enough for me. This is actually a lot. This bit of wrapping paper is not the one. I am going to show you what I got when I get home. I think Ryan's nearly home and I was like, yeah, FYI, front door's broken. So, you know, I don't know how we're getting in. Honestly, there's always something. I feel like there is, I say it all the time in the vlogs, I'm like waiting for that to be fixed and that's broken and this isn't quite right. But honestly it is getting a bit silly now. There's always something broken in my building and today it's the doors. So no one can get in. Like I wanted a secure building. That's why I moved there. But this is too far. So yeah, I'm just really grateful it's not raining because otherwise I'd be very sad right now. But yeah, I will catch up with you in a minute. I'm home. That was carrying those bags around and they were quite heavy. You always have your head up. Because I'm being cosy. I'm jealous. You can share. It's not working. So I'm going to show you what I got in a second. I didn't get you anything. I don't believe you. Actually, I did get you one thing. So you can't actually be in the room for this. This is why you should have gone to the gym. I did go to the gym. Yeah, so you're going to have to vacate honey. Just don't get what you got me out. I need to show the people. People want to know what I bought. You're not going to show them what you bought me because otherwise I'll just watch the video and see. Well, then you can spoil Christmas for yourself because I'm making a whole what I got everyone for Christmas video this year for Christmas. Yeah, because it's useful for my lovely people to know. I'm doing a whole video where it's like, well, I got everyone for Christmas plus like gift wrapping ideas. Nice plug soon. Keep watching. So I need to leave. Yeah, it's only small to be honest because I've done the rest of your presents because I'm a ******* pro. Yeah, same. So you weren't texting Lauren? No, no. Why do you think that? No reason. No, I've had absolutely no input though. In what? Anything that she might've given you. She's not fun like that. Tell him I'm a size small in Gucci, size small in Gucci and an L in Tiffany rings and a size five in Jimmy Choo's. The response to that was, uh, you're going to be very disappointed because I've got a size six. It's fine. I'll make my feet swell. Do a few long haul flights. No one's buying anyone Jimmy Choo for Christmas. That's outrageous. You've just bought a house. I'm trying to buy a house. You haven't got me any of them. What? Jimmy Choo's? No. Damn it. Yeah, but no, seriously, you need to like vacate. No. Yeah. Bye Ryan. You best be putting those headphones in. Do you want to borrow mine? It's a jewellery box. What have you got me? Have you got me a wedding ring? Have I got you a wedding ring? Yeah. Oh my God, the girls just sent this thing through to the WhatsApp chat and it was like based on your first initial, what you're getting for Christmas. Um, and apparently I'm getting engaged and you're getting some money. Have you never seen these things? I've seen these things. Yeah. Oh, right. I thought it was like, had to begin with your initial. No. So you're getting engaged. Yeah, I'm getting engaged and you're getting money. So are you like winning the lottery and then breaking up with me? I was going to mention I got a scratch card earlier. See ya. Okay. So let's get into the bags. Oh, loads of stuff is like all wrapped up. So I'm going to have to unwrap it. So firstly, obviously we have Brooke's present, which is, I will, I think I showed you, but I'll show you closer up because this is actually really easy to like unwrap and stuff like that. Super, super easy. I've got Brooke the Valentino fragrance. I think she'll really, really love this one. So I'm super excited to give that to her. And then I also got her this little bauble and it basically has like a little mini YSL fragrance in it as well. I think she'll love that. So basically you go to any fragrance counter in Boots and they have a little stand. You pick a fragrance that you want and it's select L'Oreal fragrances like you will have seen on the stand. Pick your little mini bauble as well, which you could keep yourself or you can put in the little gift box and then they'll also personalise it for you as well. And they have lots of letters so you could do a full name if you wanted to or a word or you could spell out like Christmas or something like that. But I just went for Brooke's initials because I think this is so cute. Yeah, it's really, really sweet. Love that. So this is available in stores now. And as this video goes live, it's also live on the Boots website. So you can order on there as well. I'll put more information in the info box below and a link that you can use to purchase it as well. I just think it's a really lovely gift, especially for someone that loves fragrances. This would also be a really great one for someone like my mum as well. She has a favourite fragrance, which is in the promotion as well. So it's it kind of works across people and it means you don't have to gift wrap, which I'm so on because I really I love wrapping things like the aftermath, but not the during because it's literally like the most stressful, stressful time of my life. So yeah, it's a really, really great promotion. I would highly recommend taking advantage of it. Like I said, I'll leave more information in the info box below. And speaking of wrapping, I went to the white company and took advantage of the gift wrap that they have. I love theirs. I've gone for white this year, which I don't normally do. I normally do silver and kind of like a silvery grey gift wrap. But I've gone for the white wrapping paper with a silver stripe this year. I've never done white before, so I'm really excited for that. And then I also picked out quite a few tapes. So they had so many more like ribbons than they normally do. This one being my favourite. It's basically like speckled, so it's white and then silver speckles, which I thought would look beautiful with the wrapping paper because it's like clean lines on the wrapping paper and then little speckles in the same colour tone on the ribbon. I also picked up some velvet black ribbon. I think that would look really nice and like chic. And I think for like guys presents that will kind of like, I don't know, it's nice, a little bit more masculine. And then I also picked up this kind of grey, slightly sparkly ribbon. It's grey with like a silver woven thread through it. I really like that as well. And then I went nuts, by the way. So I also got another speckled one because I think I will use a lot of that. And then I also picked up some simple tie. And what I like to do is like combine a lot of my ribbons together. So I might use like a string and then also a ribbon as well. So I just like to have a lot of options. I also picked up these, which are basically like little silver, like foil leaves. I'm so excited to use those. I really enjoy like having a present that you make super, super special. So I won't use all of these on every present this year, but there will just be a few that I make that little bit like more special. And I really enjoy doing that. And then I also picked up a few of these baubles from the White Company as well because I enjoy using those on presents, but also on my Christmas tree. These are going to look so cute. I also think they'll just like work really well to decorate other things as well. They're really sweet. I also went into H&M home and I've got a few things, one for me because I couldn't resist, but a couple of other bits as well. So I actually got two of these. These are the Christmas Eve candles and they basically smell like cinnamon and they're just really, really festive. They smell really, really beautiful. So I got one for myself and I also got one for Lauren as well. She really, really loved it. And I, I think I mentioned earlier, but I went all out for her birthday. So Christmas is going to be a slightly more low key affair. So I got her a little one of those. I'm just going to get her some little bits basically to wrap up. This next one is Ryan's little Christmas present. Like I said, I've already done his bigger presents, but this is just a little something. And I really liked the name of it, trying to be really discreet about this in case he is listening. I really liked the name of it and the smells seem like things that he would like. So yeah, I picked this one up and I'm very excited to give this one to him. It smells really, really lovely, very, very fresh and I really like it. So yeah, I picked that up and then finally we have a present for me because, well, basically for each present that I get someone else, I get some for myself as well. So this worked out a pretty even split, I think. Actually, that's a lie. It's very uneven. More presents for me. Definitely, definitely more presents for me. I picked this up from H&M Home as well. This is so beautiful. I fell in love with it instantly. I think it's more for candles than anything else, but actually it would house my brushes perfectly. My brushes are just like outgrowing the storage that they are in at the moment. So I thought this would be perfect. I just love that kind of tortoise shell vibe. It's really, really beautiful, but it could also house plants, candles and that kind of thing as well. So it's just going to be one of those things that's knocking around in my home forever. And I just think it's so beautiful. It's just really gorgeous. It's mesmerising to look at, I think. So pretty. So yeah, that is what I picked up there. And then I went to Charlotte Tilbury. I couldn't help myself. So this was definitely a treat yourself moment, but I also really, really wanted to pick up this foundation because I haven't used it in such a long time and I really, really miss it. So the Magic Foundation This is in the shade 6. I remember loving this foundation so much. So I really wanted to grab that and just kind of use it again and see whether I felt the same about it as I used to. I also know that my skin was quite like good with it. It didn't break me out or leave my skin really congested very often. So I really wanted to pick that up and try that again because I am definitely using something at the moment that's kind of congesting my skin a little bit. So just wanted to see how I still get on with that. I also picked up the Lip Cheat in the shade Iconic Nude. And it's basically just a really gorgeous like brownie nude. I think I'm going to get along very, very well with it. Perfect. I think it might actually be like I've been on the hunt for a dupe for the Mariah Carey Mac lip liner for such a long time, years and years now. I actually feel like I might be so close to being there. So I'm so excited. And then I also picked up one of the K-I-S-S-I-N-G lipsticks, which doesn't want to come out of its little thing right now. The actual lipstick cases that these come in are so incredible. I literally can't get over it. And I picked this up in the shade Dance Floor Princess. So it's like a really lovely beigey nude. You know, that kind of thing. A little bit pink to it. I really like it. It's cute. It's like my perfect pink. It's like not really a pink. I then also picked up the Pillow Talk palette. I have the like all shimmer version of this, but I really wanted the version that had the matte shades in it as well, just because I think that this is a lot more wearable for every day. And I'm definitely gravitating towards colours like this a lot at the moment. So very, very excited. I think this would all make like a really nice look all put together, like this lip and then this on the eyes. So I might do that at some point. Let me know if you want to see that. Yeah, that is what I picked up today. It wasn't as successful as I thought, but actually there's a few bits that I wanted that weren't in stock and I want to get them online. And I think like I just I don't have that many people to buy for as I thought, because I've already kind of started picking up little bits and I kind of forgot that I'd already done Ryan's actually pretty much there. Oh, I forgot the last thing. Where is it? So I picked up this for my mum. I'd already got her a little present, so I just picked her up something else as well. Well, the little present is more like me and Lauren have like picked something up for her, which you'll see in the video that's coming up. But I just picked up one of the little like thread bracelets for her. She really loves things like that. So just a nice simple gift for her, but something that I know that she will wear forever. She loves her Monica Benedict bracelets. So that was like a nice little easy gift. I feel like I'm definitely getting somewhere. I've got a couple of the girls left to get for but the bits weren't in stock. And then my brother I'm going to do money for. My dad's birthday was at the beginning of the month and I basically lumped his Christmas and birthday together just because I got him something that was quite expensive. I don't know if you'll see. I think you probably will have seen by now. But yeah, so don't need to worry about him. And yeah, I think I'm pretty much there now. A few more beauty bits for the girls and I think I am done. So super happy with that actually. Really happy. Think about that myself actually. But yeah, definitely worth it for the boots H&M Home and Charlotte Tilbury. They were great. So yeah, I need to make some dinner now, I think. Do you know when you just get to the point where you're so tired that you're like, I really can't be bothered to have dinner? Yeah, I just want to sleep. It's these dark nights, like they really get me. Really, really get me. I actually feel like Santa right now. Right, I should go rescue my boyfriend. Liv, look at this. Hi. What do you want to have for dinner? I want a Colin the caterpillar. Bestie of Colin's. This is why I don't vlog my evenings. Naila's teasing me. And you're dropping it on the floor. I hoovered yesterday. Did you? Because I remember hoovering yesterday. Lying. I forgot to show you my little two-piece, my loungewear. I love a bit of loungewear. What are you doing? You're not good. Yeah, this is from ASOS, if anyone wants to know. It's really cute. It's like a little two-piece. It's so cute. I love it. But yeah, hopefully it is still in stock and if it is, I will link to it in the info box below. I've got so many good little loungewear pieces from them lately, which you'll probably see over the next month, to be honest, because I'm going to live in them. I think that is it for this vlog. We're going to make some past dinner. Yay. I'm actually going to make some cereal because I'm just tired. I don't want a full dinner. Thank you all very much for watching. I will see you again in the next vlog, which hopefully will be very, very soon. Provided I've got my act together. That smile was like, mm-hmm. Love you, bye.