WEEKLY VLOG: One year later, we're doing this! £££ Topshop haul + what I'm keeping | Suzie Bonaldi

Good morning! Welcome back to a new vlog. I'm very happy to be back in this room filming when I like do a little makeup moment in the morning because I honestly, after having a baby, I never thought I'd get ready up here ever again. So just know this is a moment for me. I've just realised I don't have contacts and can't see a thing. It really does change once I hit one. This morning I am doing what might end up being an express trip to the gym even though it was not intended to be. It's just one of those mornings where I can't quite get ready fast enough. Keep losing things. Oh where is this? Oh Delilah's just like suddenly appeared and I need to make sure she doesn't like eat anything she shouldn't be eating. You know the drill. But I am gonna run to the gym quickly, lift some stuff, do a little treadmilling, a little stairmaster moment and then we're also on operation Delilah's wardrobe because fortunately for us we're having the most crazy heatwave which I'm gonna have to take the perks of it where they are because actually I'm suffering most of the time. After giving birth in the heatwave last year, heatwaves actually give me give me really bad anxiety. But I do have to take the perk of Delilah spending most of her time in her nappies because it is so warm. She hasn't really had to wear that much clothing so I haven't really had to worry about the fact that she's grown out of like every single sleep suit she has. I think she has three t-shirt body suits that she fits into and literally nothing else. The weather's gonna change at some point and we currently have absolutely nothing for her. So we're gonna have a little browse. Oh my god I've missed using this so much. I went off it for ages. I don't even know why it's the Beautypie under eye genius corrector. In the shade light medium I could use a darker shade. I say this every time. Am I gonna get a darker shade whilst I still have that much product left? Probably not but just know I'm aware that the colour matches. Slightly off. Light makeup this morning. I just like a little bit of corrector under my eyes. My brows doing obviously. I'm not one of those people that can leave the house without their brows being done. Even just like a little bit it just makes all the difference. It just really frames the face. Oh my god Vicks SPF blushes are launching today. I'm so excited. They are gonna change my life. You guys will probably know from when I was pregnant I used to have really bad pigmentation here. I've actually been really really really on it with my SPF this summer. I have my little L'Oreal, not L'Oreal, La Roche-Posay stick SPFs which I carry with me and I use those over my cheeks so like I'm being so on it. I'm so excited for the fact that she's launching the blush SPFs so that I can top up that area when I'm on my walk and it will just look so cute and pretty. Yeah so proud of myself. I finished filming the last vlog and I'm back to filming again. Go me. Is it because I'm mid-cycle and I actually have energy? Maybe but let's just cross our fingers and hope that this is just me for good now. Trying not to lift my arms because I actually haven't shaved on them yet. I will. We'll get there. Just feel a bit Oh it's so good. Also look at this sunny angel I got guys. It looks like Delilah. I don't know if you guys have seen all my stories but I often put her sunglasses on her head. She loves it. She likes to copy me and she thinks it's so funny so quite often she wears her sunglasses on her head and she's always wearing yellow and stripes. I saw this sunny angel and it's basically her. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. She lives here with her gang. I do actually, I need to sell some of these. I bought like basically the whole collection trying to get her. Can't lie. Would I have liked the secret? Also yes because she's a unicorn but I think I'm going to sell the rest of the collection because I only really want her. So if anyone needs a vacation sunny angel for their collection I'm going to put them on my vintage. Don't worry though. These guys. These guys are still staying. I'm obsessed with them. They don't have their little moon. They don't have their little moon to worship anymore. It had to go into Delilah's room. I'll get them something else to just watch her on the screen at night like an outdoor cinema now. And we are off. We are just shy of my ideal leaving time for the gym. I really don't like sacrificing my my treadmill time because I actually read my Kindle on the treadmill which is something that I never did until like after I had Delilah and honestly it's such a game changer. Like it makes the Stairmaster so easy. We actually need to pick a new book because I finished Ballad of the Falling Dragon the other day. So we need to pick a book because if I'm not like fully gripped it's not the treadmill and the Stairmaster are not going to hit. But basically I like the most time. I really don't like sacrificing that time because I obviously get to read and it's like two great things in one. I need to make really sure that I don't burn myself out this week because what I find is that I have so much energy when I'm like in this kind of like ovulation phase of my cycle. Let this be a lesson to all of us. I have so much energy when I'm in this phase that I often end up overdoing it and then making myself really ill. And this actually happened to me also when I was pregnant. You know when you get that burst of energy like in your second trimester. I actually only had it for like a week but I did indicate um but I did make full use of that one week and ended up making myself so ill. It ruined my baby moon basically and then I didn't really have energy for the rest of my pregnancy. This does tend to happen when I hormonally have an up. I then cause myself to have a big crash down. Let this be a lesson to all of us to not overdo it. Good luck to me because I'm actually I am in that month of my life where there's a birthday every week. Currently approaching the third of the four birthdays. Ryan's is the week after so I really need to like I need to gather myself. Prepare myself. I need to do a lot of things. Earlier I was like I need to make him a cake. Do I buy him a cake? Maybe. I've already spent a lot of money and I fear he may have a go at me for spending more money if I do anything other than make the cake with my own bare hands. So yeah aim of this week do not burn self out but at the same time smash all of the birthday preparations and get ahead on the vlogs because I also have a press trip the same week as Ryan's birthday. Yes gorgeous parking space. I parked in this one the other day and I was like wow yeah perfect park. I'm so wonky. Let's see. Is it a perfect park? I've done the exact same thing as I did the other day. You know what I'm just going to declare this parking space wonky. Solves everything. I forgot to download a book before I exited my house and cut off from the wi-fi. I didn't think about that. We have a choice of a few. Zodiac Academy. I'm gonna go Diagonal. Here we go. I managed to read about five pages of my book. Oops sorry hit you with the car door. Oh 10 pages. 10 whole pages. Oh actually no it's probably about five pages because I actually had to change my screen my font size to size two instead of size one because I was on the treadmill and I was walking really really fast and my vision was a bit everyone always asks me how I read on size one. I've got contacts in basically at all times or I'm in my bed and I'm like this and I like the fact that it just font size one font is like an actual book. There's something about it that feels book-like to me and I don't really like looking at a screen so the more I can trick myself into thinking I'm reading a book the better. Yeah anyway we need to go. Oh my god I'm sweating. This heat wave is... it's just never ending. 24-7 Sula which I now can't think of Sula without thinking of Bing. If you're a mum you'll understand. Sula! But yeah that is... I didn't really get very far with my book. I got about five pages in however I am like yeah this is already a little bit me. It's kind of giving Handmaid's Tale, Hunger Games vibes. Hunger Games especially with the like I think there's like rings of different parts of society, different level, level ranks of people you know? You know the vibe? Districts. It's giving districts anyway. It's so hot. Why don't I put my hair up you ask? A very good question. I put my hair up the other day and my hairline thriving. Absolutely thriving so I shall not be putting my hair up ever again unless it's absolutely essential because my slip backs are really truly like quite sensational. Everything I did for my hair plus the not like slicking it back constantly. Doing great things. Anyway Brian's here. Hello. Um we're doing a family trip to Next in M&S which is one of our favourite pastimes. I'm gonna put some perfume on so I'm just making sure I don't gas us out. Do you like the smell of this one? Yeah. Had a bit of a life crisis recently and I woke up and I hated all of my perfumes. I've still kept a lot but I don't love them like I used to and for some reason anything like grassy, figgy I love which is so not me. Like I remember smelling this when I first got sent it. Like I think I got sent the full size and I passed it on because I was like that is like a scent that Ryan should be wearing. Not me. Don't like it. I was gonna say it reminds me of something that I have. That's the top part of it. Smells kind of like boyish but then what's underneath is like vanillary figgy and it's just oh it tastes so good. So yeah it's father figure. Get it? It's very clever. The manliness like wears off after like five minutes and then you've just got this really gorgeous smell. Anyway back to my point. We are going on a family trip to Next and M&S. We need to look at a car seat for Delilah because she desperately needs an upgrade. New clothes for Delilah. Like I said her sleep suits. Oh she's absolutely busting out of them. I dread to think when the heat wave dies down like if we're, if we don't stock up like she's gonna have nothing to wear to bed. Anything else? Any other business? Milk. Milk. Do we? Oh actual cow's milk. It's weird as like non-cow's milk drinkers having to like remember a third milk now. Honestly guys this has been the best money we've ever spent. Absolutely loves it. She's a nosy little gal. She loves being up in everyone's business. Oh my god I'm just realising that like Delilah can kind of start fitting into all of the big kids stuff. Oh my god. This trip's about to get very expensive. Next was a bust. We've come to M&S. Oh the air con in there. Absolutely killing me. We need t-shirt body suits for Delilah to sleep in at the very bare minimum. Ryan's like do we need a whole new wardrobe for her? I'm like obviously. Oh little shoes. She has these in blue and I love them so much. They're so dinky. Oh my god these are nought to three months stuff. I love their shorts. Maybe we should get her some more shorts. Oh that is so cute. Ryan's gonna love it. Items for your approval. Do you not have these? No no just different colour. But I know you like dressing her in them because it's long-sleeved. So less sun creaming. Good catch. Oh my god tiny flag. Oh and the little matching top. No. This. The cardigan is so soft. I kind of wish they did it on its own because she doesn't actually need another pair of jeans right now. I also don't love that wash either. It's just not her colour. She's got olive skin. She suits having a lighter wash of denim. Oh my god this is so cute. Wish we had more holidays. Also I don't because is it just parenting but harder because you've got less stuff with you. Okay we are done. I feel like this is actually the worst time to go shopping and everyone's a bit between seasons in the stores. But we did get some of the things we needed. There's actually like no t-shirt body suits so I might hit up Sainsbury's. I actually love Sainsbury's. Like I bought pretty much all of their summer collection for her clothing. It's so good. Picked up more shorts. I love this little dusky blue colour. Cupcakes. Little cream shorts with cupcakes and then a plain pink. She's got loads of stuff from M&S in the M&S pink. So I feel like this will just work with loads of stuff she has. We went whole hog. We picked up everything that we liked. Little strawberry long sleeve top and then shorts and I feel like this will look nice with some of her trousers as well. So we can fully cover her if it's a bit cooler and we want her covered up. This is my favourite. I actually bought this in a size up but she's really tall so I actually think this is going to be fine for her now. Little blue dress with white daisies on. So that is what we've got and then we also picked up some cow's milk, olives. That was it. We were very, we were very restrained. So we are making Delilah's lunch. There's one of a few lunches that I like to make her. She does actually have a variety but we seem to be making the same one on camera and it is eggy bread. And then mummy is having a smoothie. Please hold. Oh delicious. Okay that's done. Gorgeous. Might do an avocado dip. What are you doing? You're doing it all by yourself. Yummy. Guys look at what has finally made it into my hands and when I say my hands I mean it's new to my hands. It's not new to someone else's because someone got there before me. That's someone being Delilah. So sorry Victoria your face did get a little bit clumped up. My Bifro delivery is here. Literally had to wrestle these out of baby girl's hands. Like gimme. This is perfect timing because I will be going on a walk this evening and I can top up my SPF over my cheeks halfway. Those of you that saw me during my pregnancy will kind of understand like how bad my pigmentation used to be and by pigmentation I think it's called melasma. It like appeared here. The sun causes it. I've had it pre-pregnancy. I still have it now just like really tiny amounts. I don't even know if you'll be able to see through my makeup. I think you can see like the tiniest trace of it coming down here. It was really bad when I was pregnant. It looked like I had weird cheek contour. People would be like are you ever going to address what's happened to your face? And I'd be like no. Why would I? Anyway it gets really bad in the sun. Like if I sit in the sun whether it be like intentional or just literally having to like actually be in the sun for some reason. Like when I was in the queue at Silverstone which was like in the sun. Open space waiting for the buses. Couldn't get my face out of the sun. I can feel the sun like beaming down on my face and I feel it like literally my cheeks get hot and then once that happens it just gets really bad. So it's only my cheeks and I wear SPF all day. I could top up my whole face but like I need a really concentrated amount on the cheeks for some reason. I need to be topping up constantly over my cheeks and if I put my stick SPF over my cheeks it moves the blush around and I don't use a spray before anyone suggests it because I just don't feel like I can get a concentrated enough amount on my face and like it's just not precise enough. So basically I begged Victoria to make a blush and she has actually made a blush shade that also doubles as a bronzer. So bless her soul. I hope great things happen to her in this world. More great things. It's a very terracotta-y bronzer. Perfect for me. If you're a cooler skin tone maybe not so perfect. I think I'll actually get the most use out of this because then I can just keep topping up like my whole face. Try not to make my face too dark. Whereas the blush I will use over my cheekbones but the bronzer I can do like top of the forehead. Do you know what this is gonna be amazing for? This product. You know when you go to the hairdressers and you do have some makeup on and then the hairdressers they wash around your hairline and then you're like not only have you washed off my SPF you have also wiped off my makeup and now I look insane. This would be amazing for like the one product you need when you go to visit the hairdresser and you can literally just like blend in the edge of your face with the rest of your makeup. Oh it's gonna be so good. Anyway I don't know where to start. Shall we just do a little... I can show you. Oh it's perfect for me. I'm very excited to road test this brush because Vic has literally not stopped talking about it. Ah this is so exciting. Right over those pesky little spots. Also just great for my nose because I swear sometimes my nose just doesn't get enough SPF on it so great to top that up. Oh that shade is actually delicious. Yeah Vic was right this might actually be my favourite shade. I was like no grapefruit is so cute blah blah blah. No this is so nice. I think grapefruit's really good though if you want to be able to like do a more concentrated amount because this I will end up like shearing out quite a lot. Fortunately for me I love blush and I am a little bit blush blind so I'll be able to work with either. Oh wow. And if you do get a little bit scared of like a bright blush I would always recommend just a little bit of bronzer after. This I think is such a great shade. Mix it with the bronzer and it is sensational. I also really like how these look just applied with your fingers as well. They're really finger application friendly which is great as well because then with SPF you know that like it's not getting lost to the brush if that makes sense. Oh my god it's so stunning. Wonder what these look like on the lips. Toffee edge with a bit of grapefruit in the middle. I think that'll be so nice. Crack her out because she hasn't been used yet. Hello. Yeah I think I'm a raspberry on the cheek grapefruit on the lip kind of girl. I wonder what they look like mixed. You see what I mean about this one I think if you've got like a skin tone like mine grapefruit you can apply a bit more of and like really just like pack it on. The amount of women that have DM'd me since I posted on my stories about this and I posted photos of my pigmentation being like oh my god I get the exact same thing exact same place like this is going to be so game-changing for me. Also what do you do about it? Like guys the only thing I've ever found that's helped is SPF. Like I'm not even joking I've been so on my SPF this year after last year. I just hated the way the pigmentation was sat there just like giving me weird looking cheekbones. Any actives that I've put on it and I'm not even joking when I say this I think everything has just made it worse because actives make your skin more sensitive to the sun and the sun is causing the pigmentation so it's just a special cycle of trying to get rid of it but then you're causing more of it. So yeah the only thing I've found is just to literally just use my Skin and Me in the evenings which isn't super gentle but I need it for my acne and we just have to like make our peace with that but then in the day I'm just like super on it with SPF. Now this brush has been well and truly christened and that is such a beautiful combination. I think you need all three. Yeah actually I don't know if I could pick one. I would say if you've got the same issues as me pick a blush based on your skin tone because like I feel like some people are going to prefer the grapefruit I think some people are going to prefer the raspberry but I actually think the bronzer blush shade. I think if you're actually really fair this would count as a blush like you would look at this and be like the warmth that it gives off you'd be like wow that's a blush but to anyone with olive skin tone this is a bronzer but yeah I would pick a bronzer and a blush. Anyway that is me sorted for this afternoon. Another beautiful by fro drawstring bag. When I wanted to make drawstring bags for book club everyone was like just ask Vic where she gets hers. I actually did guys and I feel like there's something you should know about producing products and even just down to producing a drawstring bag it's incredibly expensive because the minimum order quantities to have things made are obscene and if you don't do the minimum quantities the cost for the item is outrageous. Far beyond what book club which is free could afford. So just know that when you get something like this from a small beauty brand there's a lot of love and a lot of effort put into the tiniest things which are outrageously expensive. So please if you do make a buy for order appreciate your drawstring bags because until I actually sat down with Vic and like hashed out how much drawstring little dust bags cost and would cost me for book club I didn't appreciate it enough. That is my ted talk for today. Over. Good morning. Coming at you looking not my best. Let's let's be really honest about that. I have got a press trip tomorrow which I'm really excited about. It's with Victoria's Secret. I'm not going to be secretive about because we're going in this vlog. I'm so excited. They have been one of my brands on my list of brands I would like to do things with for pre-baby pre-baby and honestly never in a million years did I think that post-baby honestly would I ever get an invite. I am very happy. Let's just leave it there. It's a little UK staycation so perfect really not leaving Ryan or Delilah for very long. I mean Ryan is fully capable. I could go away for a month. He'd be he'd survive. I think he'd lose his mind just talking to Delilah but he'd be fine. The perks of doing 50 50 split care like I was watching her on a bouncy castle yesterday. Ryan was with her but she really doesn't have too much of a preference for mum or dad and it's so nice because I was just like there just like chilling just watching her enjoy life and it wasn't like she had to be constantly coming back to me or I had to be right there and I was like yeah this is this is nice if you're self-employed or can just wrangle 50 50 parenting I would highly recommend. I know it's very rare so this is a very unrelatable conversation that I'm going to cease now. Anyway right now I am actually taking my toe polish off. I don't intend on doing my toes for this trip. I can't be bothered. I'm just going to try and wing going with no polish on because I'm planning. I'm hoping that I will be able to get away with closed toe everything like the outfits that I have planned all cover my toes. I had gel put my toes and I really don't like having gels put on your toes because it's just really bad for your toe health and I just want it off quite frankly. It's got to go. It's just so annoying like I love like a normal polish on your toes you can just whip it off super super easy no fuss. This is fuss. I'm meant to be doing my actual fingernails right now which are so grown out. Something that I haven't experienced in a while because I've been so I've been having a tough time with my nails to the point where I've just started doing them myself because they weren't whenever anyone else did them they weren't lasting. Started doing them myself they've lasted forever and now are horrendously grown out. This is the mess that I've made. I've made my bed and now I've got to sleep in it you know. So we are on mission. Get Suze ready for Victoria's Secret Press Trip. Not to be confused with a secret press trip for my friend Victoria. Not the same thing. We need to do the full shebang. We need nails. We need gels off the toes. We need bleach moustache. We need hair washed and blow-dried and did I mention I've literally got like a couple of hours until I take over from looking after Delilah so some of this is going to have to be done on her now because there is no way my hair is getting washed and my nails are getting done in the same two hours. I'm talking to you whilst doing my toes specifically because if I talk to you whilst I'm doing my nails I will mess it up. It's so annoying as well because they were gelled when they got to a certain length like parts of them just like started snapping off because it obviously makes the toe too strong. When I was walking if my toenails were like up against the shoe they would just snap off rather than like my normal nails would like have some bends to them. So now I just have like the worst shape toenails hence my mission for closed toes rather than just trying to give these a little extra polish and I don't want anyone seeing them. I am so annoyed because after my foot woes when I walked too much in Covid I was on mission make my toes really nice and they looked really nice and now they look crap again. How cute is this mark? I waited so long for this to come back in stock. I can't speak properly I'm still not awake. Right let's do it. I need a little towel. Pray no one needs me to go anywhere because I actually cannot walk with these foils on my feet they're like stabbing me. I'm just gonna do an infill I'm not gonna take it all off. So we're gonna see if my genius plan from when I last did my nails pans out. I put a gorgeous neutral biobond under this very questionable yellow. I love it and I hate it all at the same time. I should be able to just file the top off. Yeah so that is what we are gonna be working with. Cute. Just need to get those edges and then we are good to go. Bit of a rush job but these are the nails. Still loving them short though I did have a moment the other day where I was like I would do anything for a claw right now but mostly still loving them. Second on our agenda today I'm going to pack for tomorrow. I've just had a message from Vic about the trip. It makes me laugh so much when she messages me now. She gives me a subject line so I can see at the top of my message on my lock screen what the message is about so that I know it is time sensitive. She just wants to know what I'm wearing. Vic I will text you back in a minute because we are going to figure that out. First things I actually did get myself a new little robe. I've wanted this for so long and I thought do you know what we're going on the trip I guess whilst I may be gifted one and that would be very nice. I don't want to assume and I also don't want to take one of my already existing Victoria's Secret robes because they are just a bit old and grubby now. Like my white bridal one is barely white anymore and then I didn't want to take my black one and I've lost the tie waist for it. Yeah so I got this one. I've wanted the pink one so long. You know my colour theory about pink. You could be severely hung over and look vile. You throw a pink robe on and everything just looks so much better. So yeah I decided I had to have it and this is actually perfect for summer because it's very light. So yeah I'm going to take this with me for when I'm getting ready and then outfit wise. That's a good question. Oh this is actually a good point for us to discuss the mammoth Topshop haul I did. I spent an obscene amount. By the way I'm just having this kind of realisation as I'm talking that I'm going to really regret filming looking like this because I have no bra on. I have my hair on top of my head. My contacts aren't actually in so I can't actually see how bad I look in the viewfinder but I just know I'm going to regret this so much. Anyway one of the items from that Topshop haul was these chocolate leather shorts. I'm going to wear those and then I think Victoria's Secret Team sent me. It's around here somewhere in this mess. Yeah by the way we've ended up back here. Somewhere in this pile there is a bra. Here it is. So the Victoria's Secret Team sent me, well they sent me this and a bra but I'm not going to wear the bra to dinner. I mean hopefully I'll be wearing this. I'm actually a bit scared now. Should I try this on before I go? Probably. It looks really tiny. Surely not. It's got stretch. It's got stretch. I am going to try this on before I go but this and then the shorts. I feel like these are like quite boyish and like a very unsexy item so I feel like to wear them with a corset top I just like that contrast. And then shoes. These were also from my Topshop haul. I'm going to show you everything actually that I am keeping from that haul because it was an enormous haul. I'm obviously not keeping everything. I am keeping quite a few so I'll show you whilst I'm up here. This clutch and then these shoes. I feel like that'll look good. And then closed toe. Lovely. For daytime shoes I'm going to take these. I'm obsessed with these. Everyone, if you're not extremely offended by the double toe situation, everyone should own these. They are so comfortable. They're from Steve Madden. I love them. I have them in black as well. I also got this top fresh in from Zara. This is nice and like summery. Cute for like looking nice in the day vibes. That matches the shoes perfectly. Yeah, we've got a little tassel-y bit on the bottom. Yeah. I don't really know what the weather's going to be doing but I just assume it's roasting every day now. A pair of jeans for sure. I just need to decide the fit. But either my straight leg jeans or these ruined rocker. Oh, they're dirty in the back. Not those. Those should go in the wash. I haven't actually tried these on in ages. They're like a much bigger size from when I was postpartum but maybe they'll just feel really like comfy. We'll see. More of a straight leg which could be nice with that top and then the flats or I could absolutely hate it. And if that's the case then I will be washing the other pair of jeans. Anyway, my top shop haul. The things that I am keeping. This which I'm not sure now because like I thought I will only wear this with a pair of jeans but it does look really cool with a pair of jeans. It's like a really long t-shirt but it's got like an asymmetric train to it. I will just put the whole video here by the way if you haven't seen it. I tried on a lot of a lot of stuff. I then also have this khaki yellowy greeny t-shirt. It's basically the exact same colour as my old colour. And it's got like a tie bit that goes around the waist. Love that. I don't feel like the colour is as flattering on me in real life but I still really like it. I think it's such a cool t-shirt and I have just been wanting more t-shirts for like when I want to look nice but I'm like mumming you know. Which brings me to this is very bright and very bold but it's actually so cute just like with a pair of jeans or a pair of like cream capris. And again it's got the tie waist which makes it a bit more interesting because I would never normally wear a t-shirt like this but that tie waist just makes it a bit like cooler. And then this top which I just think is so fun. Looks so cool with a pair of jeans. Really nice with like a pair of like wider leg trousers. Like I have this nago pair and they're very like fitted up here. I feel like the silhouettes work really nicely together. And then I'm also obviously keeping the bits that I just showed you and then these shoes. Jangly shoes. And these shoes. I just think they're so fun. So so fun. The Topshop shoe game at the moment is incredible. That was like my biggest Topshop haul since 2017. It really threw me back to the good old days. You guys have been following me on here since back then. I used to do like the biggest Topshop hauls. I was a Topshop girl like literally a brand ambassador hashtag Topshop girls. One of their biggest converters. What a time to be alive. I did meetups with Topshop. Things in their Oxford Street stores. Things in their Brighton store. It was so fun. What a time to be alive. I missed their personal shopping service so much. That was just like the best thing that literally anyone could do. Anyone could go in there and they just like bring all the clothes in and you could try everything on. You didn't have to buy anything but you could just do it. And obviously I did used to buy things. Their stock at the moment really reminds me of that era where I was just like so so into it. Unfortunately now I do. That is why there's such a big mess on the floor and I do have a lot of that to clear up. It is actually an organized mess. The returns have been submitted. Everything's packaged up. It just needs to go in the bags. That is also what I've got to do once everything is in this suitcase. Yeah I just can't believe I'm going on this trip. Like I never ever thought that this would happen. There was a time after I gave birth where I was like it's over for me. No brands are going to want to work with me. I was like am I going to have to give up on all my dream brands and just like rebrand? And there's so many people that have been like I earn loads of money like after having a baby. I just do mum content blah blah blah. And I'm like I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. I don't want to give up my dreams. I don't want to like have to rebrand and be some whole new person you know. Don't give up on your dreams is the moral of this story. I actually think everything might fit in one case. So actually two dreams might come true this week. Oh I am also keeping these trousers from the haul as well. I'm obsessed with these. Just with like white tank, white tee. They're so like billowy. So cool. And again you can dress them up or down so I really like those. And oh the shorts I'm wearing. These shorts and the sizing on these is way off you guys. Like everything was bought in a size 8. Everything fitted apart from this one pair of shorts. I literally couldn't get past my knees and I was like is my body dysmorphia just running wild? Is this like postpartum life? I'm so confused what's going on. I am now on the size 12 and they just go past my back. So I think the sizing on the cream shorts is just really off. Maybe I am just delusional. I don't know. It's a bad fit. That's my verdict. Oh and this. Sorry I keep finding things because I've actually like tried to be good and put everything away and hang things nicely. The knit top and the little belt. Keeping both of those obsessed. Obsessed. Okay we have got tomorrow's evening outfit packed in here. We've got tomorrow's day outfit which I will wear on the train. My robe is decreasing and then I'm going to put all my beauty and hair bits in here. Seal it up. Anything loose goes in the zip but these will be strapped in. Perfect. Okay it is 3.28. We've done a full wash and blow dry and curl. Well done us. Wow. Skiving Hermione Granger. I'm hoping this like drops itself out a little bit but hopefully this will hold enough and tomorrow we will have a little bit more get up and go to us and we won't be late. I've put some texturizing spray. This is my favorite one. Everyone always asks me what it is because it's in such cute packaging. Hair by Sam McKnight. Cool girl. Barely there. Texture missed. This is the mini. God I'm sweating. If it lasts it will actually be a miracle to be honest because it's so warm. Good morning. I am actually packed. I'm ready to go. An hour and a half early believe it or not. Toe nails freshly painted because I decided to switch my shoe option. I was going to go for the mango knitted shoes which I have put in my suitcase for tomorrow's outfit but yeah decided to go for barrel jeans and these little well not so little wedges. I cut my jeans and I couldn't decide whether to take more length off so they're a bit more like that which I do think looks good. Maybe I'll just sit them a bit higher. Yeah then we don't have to take too much length off. Loving this Zara top. It's so cute. Jeans are also from Zara. Got a little cardigan because I'm just scared because it's cloudy but it's so warm. I'm not used to the UK being so consistently hot like I still feel that like anxiety of leaving the house without a jacket or like a jumper. Anyway my sunnies are from ASOS. I'll see if they still do these and if they do I will link them because I love them. The curls lasted really nicely. I think texture spray before styling the go-to. The underneath still has a wave and usually the underneath falls especially post baby the underneath falls straight so yeah very happy with that. Got my edge of ember necklace on. I don't know if they still do this but they should because it's so timeless. I literally wear this all the time. Had it for like let me see like five years now four years. Earrings are bracelets. We've got Lisa Gosselin, Monica Vinader, Eminence. My shoes are I think also Zara and then my bag is from Pauline and that is it. I'm gonna go downstairs do a little bit of work before I have to leave and then we will be on our way. Oh my goodness is that a sea view? Oh my god that's a sea view. Stunning. I feel like I'm on true vacation. Wow. So I have arrived at the Nikki in Bournemouth. I've actually never been to Bournemouth. The view is stunning. This room is lovely. We have got we've got goodies. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh so fun. Can't wait for dinner tonight and they've also left I think there's a little rope. Wow oh gorgeous. I said you guys yesterday I've lost my tie for mine and this one looks so gorgeous. Got like a big flare sleeve. It's less lacy than my other one. Very chic and oh my god I have these pajamas in pink. I absolutely love them. So happy to have the black set and did I see a little snack? Oh thank goodness. I'm starving. Welcome. Yes welcome. Happy to be here. Cheers. I'm so hungry. Okay it is time to get ready because I have sat and doom scrolled on my phone for far too long. My makeup is starting to melt off my face. I feel like where did my bronzer go? Also guys I think I'm at the stage where I need to start wearing eye cream. It's a very sad day. I didn't want another product added to my roster. I like things being minimal. I just don't think my under eye makeup is sitting as nicely as it used to. Aging is a privilege. I know but still. I actually just got a text from Ryan to say that he's locked himself out of the house and then got a follow-up message a few minutes later. Don't worry I climbed in through a window. If that doesn't just sum up a day in our parenting I don't know what will. There's nothing a double layer of foundation can't fix. This is just my favourite foundation in the whole world. I believe it's being discontinued. I'm very sad about it but in Charlotte Tilbury I trust and I trust that she has to fill her medium foundation coverage which is my favourite from Charlotte Tilbury. Always like the heavier coverages are always for like weddings and nothing else for me and then the lighter ones are just too light for me. Her medium coverage offerings are always my favourite and in Charlotte I trust. I don't know if anyone remembers Magic Foundation. That was my favourite and it has been replaced with this so I trust that the next medium offering she brings out I will also love. What am I doing this evening? I think I'm going to do a sparkly not a sparkly but like a not matte eye. This is my go-to for a non-matte eyeshadow. This shade here this is the Hourglass Curator Palette in Expressionist and yeah I just really fancy a little bit of that maybe a little bit of that and then like a warm brown like normally I would kind of position this with other like purpley tones but actually I'm feeling like a shimmer and a warm brown like very bronzy summery vibes. Bifro Chai Latte. Oh I love this as a centre colour on the lip. If you want like a nude lip centre colour that's not too light like this I really like because it doesn't get lost and I might top up with this over the top which is not as scary as it looks. It just adds like this tiny hint of pink which is really beautiful and then I'm gonna go in with this blush I think but I'm gonna wait till I've done my eyeshadow to decide but this is the Bifro Hue Glaze Balm in Raspberry which I actually think is my favourite. All right let's do these eyes. Ah stunning. I've actually gone in with the lightest shade and then I'm gonna like build over the top. Okay I'm gonna bronze through the crease and outer corner. Desperately in need of a mascara top up. Oh my god where did it go today? I feel like they've just disappeared. My top tip for bottom lashes is keep your old mascaras when they've run out and just use them for your bottom lashes. Okay bronze me. Better. Better. Right finally I actually just need to sort out my brows because they're not as bold as I would like. Oh let's tell you guys my book club pick this month. I'm on my first reread. How exciting is that? It's actually really fun doing a reread. I already know the details of the book so it's like fun because I'm just kind of like looking for other like little easter eggs foreshadowing. Like there's less to absorb and I can more just like kind of breeze through pick things I want to comment on. It's so fun doing a reread for book club. I feel like I'm I'm kind of in charge of like obviously not spoiling it for people but I can kind of like steer where things are gonna go or like I don't know. It's really fun so if you want to join in on that book club read you can join any time. The chats are actually like archived all of the chapter comments and stuff they're archived so even once we've done a book you can still come in. Like I actually do it I did it for Ballad of Falling Dragons. There's another book club that I follow and they've done it the month before so I was kind of going back into their past book club chats and like just reading what everyone else was like thinking about that chapter. Like I didn't comment anything but just like reading it just seeing like what other people were thinking like if they thought the same things as me. So you can if you just wanted to know like what other people's reactions were you can come over to book club and literally just like deep dive at any point. But if you want to join any point this month you can start whenever you like. So if we are like in September oh my god I can't believe the read. Like after this we have a September read and then an October read and then it's like October's gonna cut short maybe a little bit and then our read for November slash end of October is gonna be act or six. I can't believe we're that close. I wonder what September pick will end up being. We need to kind of delve back into fantasy to like warm our toes up you know. Anyway I need to get ready I need to get some clothes on. We are ready this is my OOTN. I've got a black Victoria's Secret crop top. Crop top? Corset top on and then Topshop leather shorts. Topshop leather shoes. Topshop leather clutch. Another edge of ember necklace. This one's got Delilah's birthstone in it which is so cute. And then my rings. I've got an old Versace ring on and then this little one here is Nemoro. That's it. Very happy with this outfit. I love the clutch it's so cool and if you've got a foo baby you can just kind of hide behind it. You look great. We're on nipple watch tonight apparently. Guys this vlog's about to get interesting. Yeah see that's what makes you look great. Do you see that there? If I lift my arms too high it kind of sets up. Yeah but no you're fine. You're fine. Oh she looks so great. I want this outfit. Me and Vic both want each other's outfits. Yeah I love yours. I'm sad that we can't swap. This is so cute. It's so nice. So this is all Victoria's Secret? Yeah. I'm gonna buy this when I get home. It's so nice. Yeah. I thought it was all one one thing. Yeah it's so cool. And then Suzie's been like pull it further down. Yeah I want a midi. I want a midi length on a low rise. Vic's freaking out. She's like there's too much of my stomach on show. I mean there probably are a lot of people that are like no I agree with Victoria she should wear it that way but I personally feel like low rise is so cool and then you get like less legs so then you are kind of compensating for the more abs but your abs are also covered because it's I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Right let's go. It's like Marnie Granger's bag of dreams isn't it? I'll be putting all my books in there. This actually could just fit a few books. This could fit a few books. Do you know what someone accused me the other day I have to talk about this. Someone accused me the other day of not reading the book that I was reviewing because it didn't look like it had been read which obviously I read on my kindle and then I buy a trophy because I don't. Are we going the right way? I reckon it's down there. Can you hear that noise? Oh yes okay. That sounds like a lot of noise. I'm scared. But you'll be okay. Yeah someone was like oh that book doesn't look like it's been read obviously insinuating that it hadn't been read and I was like do you honestly think if I was fake reading I would read two books a month? Oh my gosh. I would read way more than that if I was fake reading my books. I feel like you are reading more than two books a month. I think it's on average it's two books a month. It's impressive. But then some of them are like 800 pages. Really impressive. Yeah thank you. Thank you very much. I really want to get that on a t-shirt. Oh that's so pretty. Oh yeah I will thank you. And it's in my size. I've ordered the outfit that Vic was wearing. Not the cardigan but I have got the cardigan because that's my cardigan. But I've ordered this full outfit. It looks so cute. I persuaded Victoria to wear low rise and she stayed in low rise all evening. I'm so proud of her. I really like the leopard print. The leopard print is so cool with the sparkly straps. Oh I love. I really like this. That's pretty. Cute lacy vibes. Oh yeah you love a slip don't you? I love a slip. That is great. Oh and the pink. I love the pink. This is nice too. Oh yeah those are fun. Oh that's mine. Oh that's your one. Yeah. I didn't have that in my size. Oh those are the trousers. So much pink. I've seen some really good slip dresses this evening. Really good slip dresses and really good midis. Oh this pink robe is so cute. I got myself the stripey robe so I will not be. I will not be buying that one but I love it. Let's go. We are back in the hotel room. I am ready to get some sleep. Like the bad thing about press trips as a parent is the fact that you actually get less sleep than you would at home now. I'm going to be so tired tomorrow. However if I actually commit I might get a lion. I could only hope. Like you know when your body just doesn't let you sleep in anymore. So like chances of a lion. Oh for god's sake I've got no cleanser. Looks like you are not coming back down. Yes Victoria. I think I will be coming back down because it's that or I used this Marlene & Goats hand wash. I'm walking around the hotel like this. This is the second time. Leave me alone. I didn't think when you left. I'm sure she wanted a cleanser. I did. I did. It was a cleanser. And then when you texted me I was like oh god you do have a good cleanser. So that's the Medicaid oil cleanser which I'm obsessed with. And then after that I use the ZO exfoliating cleanser. So that's my step one and this is my step two. What's the- can you just use this twice or what's the vice? Wait where's your micellar water? What are you taking off the makeup with? I'm wearing a new phone. What a different time. Well I've already used one to wash my bod and then this one here is to wash my face. Why don't you just take a little bit on your fingers and walk back to your room with it and use your own bloody flannel. How am I going to lock my door? I can't believe you've come down twice. I can't believe I've come down with no flannel though. I'm just going to use your flannel. Just use the flannel. I want to use it on my face. I can't believe that you don't use any micellar water. Like if I've got like a heavy glam face and makeup I have to take it off. This isn't that heavy for me. Well nurtured isn't it actually? This is your daytime beach look in comparison really. Amelia, Liana and I have that in common. Vic's just loading me up with all of her things that are too big. This is the perks of yeah being on a press trip with your bestie. Yeah. So there's that. This will fit you. Oh yeah. Oh that's so good. Yeah. I'm so obsessed with that colour. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I had to come down for the pot, the sticky thing on the back of my phone. Right love you. Night babes. Okay she has to lock it after I go out because she can't be safe enough. Love you. I've just realised I've left my key. I'm like actually I'm scared for my life now. I'm scared. I left my room key. Go to sleep with me.