misty weston

Hey WordPress it’s been a minute!

I am finally back on my blog after quite a while. I needed to go accomplish some goals and dreams which proved to be really time consuming. showed a few people to the exit door in my life, I needed a bit of a “I’m gonna just go do me” moment while the time was available to me during lockdown and decided to go on the very stressful but rewarding journey of figuring out how to buy a house and me and my fiance are now home owners and have been for the past one month and four days!

couldn’t of been more excited when we finally got our keys!

It wasn’t an easy or cheap experience but it was definitely worth it! During lock down the cracks really began to show in the privately rented house we were living in. The landlord was completely incompetent and immoral. We discovered the house needed a new roof after some heavy rain leaked through, we went into the attic and discovered that there were probably rooftops photographed in the London blitz that looked in better shape, there were holes everywhere that had been there since before we moved in and after having a builder come out to look he said that the roof had absolutely no life left in it, it had no lining and was just slates. He also said that felt and insulation wasn’t even invented when that roof was built, but the landlord wouldn’t replace it, so as we were paying our heating bill the money and heat was literally flying through the roof. We had a wall collapse in the yard that could of killed or seriously injured our pets or kids, we had a boiler that we could never turn off, an infestation of slugs and black mould and the house was so damp we couldn’t sit on the floor or have furniture in the living room anymore, we actually ended up living upstairs in the end. It was literally like living in a prison without the luxury of having your own toilet in your cell. It was no way to live, everyone was just in their bedrooms, we tried getting environmental health involved but they were useless aswell as the housing agency that the letting was arranged through, the only people who seemed to generally care were the builders and workmen who came out and said “how are you managing?! This is horrid.” And said they wouldn’t pay anyone to live like we were.

It’s just so nice being in our own house now filled with family time and gorgeous living conditions after the hell we went through. We have a huge garden and the layout of the house just functions so well, the kitchen is amazing and I am just so happy as is the rest of the family. If I could pick a fault with the current house, its that it’s too relaxing! 😂 I don’t have to wash up, we have a dishwasher, it takes like 30 minutes to clean, we have a Bluetooth mirror in our bathroom and a shower room in the main bedroom so it feels like a hotel room. I can’t wait to come home after my shifts at work, the kids are always out playing with friends and the only reason they run home is for money so they can get an ice cream from the ice-cream van. It’s a whole new life for us all, It’s amazing.

Glossy box – The Birthday addition! Another amazing box by Glossy!

Firstly, I apologise for the lateness of this blog post, I have been super busy with my life, I had a lot going on lately, I had major drama with the house I was living in previously which led me to move house and I also started an apprenticeship while working and also I had to settle my son and daughter into the new school year. Things have just been loopy lately, I have barely had time to breathe but I’ve finally caught up to a point where I have time to do a few things for myself and have some well deserved time to chill and blog, so I apologise to all who read and have subscribed to my blog, I will be posting regularly again now as usual.

But anyway, onto the subject at hand, The glossy box Birthday edition!

This box was an amazing box! I absolutely loved it! I loved the fact it looked like a cake dripping with frosting, It was as usual jam packed with amazing little goodies! This time of course we got a shade of lip strobe by HUDA which I know everyone was excited about! The lip strobe retails for about £17 and HUDA are a well known brand owned, of course, by Huda Kattan. Huda are a brand that I have always been a little more than cautious of because of the alleged shady behaviours of the brand and the owner. I don’t go out of my way to buy their brand or be interested in their product. Huda Kattan is very much well known in the beauty community for doing things like promoting dangerous vaginal lightening and I know she has been called out for allegedly being quite homophobic, so I can’t really say I really feel comfortable buying their products.

I gave the lip strobe a whirl, it was free after all, I didn’t feel like I had contributed to their brand and much to my complete disgust, I had the shade Angelic, I loved the color and as I was applying I quickly realised it was lipgloss AND I HATE LIPGLOSS, I CANNOT DEAL WITH LIPGLOSS!!! (if you don’t want to read my rant on lipgloss please feel free to skip to the next paragraph.) lipgloss is the most pointless piece of make up in the entire world to me, I cannot stand it, it slips off, if you where your hair down it gets stuck to it, if you have a straw and are drinking it makes that feel awful, I don’t know why anyone would want to make their mouth sticky and slimey on purpose and I just think it’s a really 90’s cosmetics that should stay there and not enter this age, WE HAVE DRY LIP TOPPERS NOW! THERE IS NO ACTUAL NEED FOR LIPGLOSS TO STILL GO HERE! I was so disappointed and I have never picked it up again.

The second Item I pulled out was the furr eyelash curler in rose gold and I loved that! What a pretty little peice of kit this was! it is gorgeous and works beautifully! it is so comfortable to use and I just love it! its now a major go-to for me! It also retails at around £17 so I realised I had had well over what I had paid for my box here, Glossy Box always gives you more than your moneys worth!

The bang beauty was something I was really disappointed in as a product, I loved it at first but I noticed it dried up really fast, the first time I used it, I did one eye and then went to apply to the other and the second was a challenge, not because of myself, but just because of the tip showing signs of dying already, I managed and then popped it back into a make up bag with the lid correctly on and went back and the lid was off, I popped it on again and returned later to find the lid off again, I wasn’t really amused by that, because obviously there is some sort of design flaw here or I had a faulty product. I didn’t think it was great, I wouldn’t purchase and I have noticed a lot of people trying to sell theirs on ebay for £3 so I think that also speaks volumes because people won’t sell things for next to nothing for no reason so maybe it wasn’t just me.

the other two products I LOVED! I love anything for relaxation and bathing purposes, so the eye mask I loved to recieve because I had never had one before and it is still in my bathroom now stored away for a rainy day and the imperial leather I used instantly! I love soap, I am a very clean person, I am the kind of person who would buzz over anything soapy, fragrant and bath related. Imperial leather have really upped their game lately! I absolutely adore their shower gels, I’m always buying the love heart shower gel, the mermazing shower gel, the unicorn shower gel, I’ve had the flamingo, the refreshers gel and I think my favourite is the tropical one that they named “tropic like it’s hot”, so an imperial leather product is always welcome in my box. I used this within a few days and I really enjoyed it, I’d buy it because of the smell, it smelled absolutely gorgeous and a little went a long way! The foam expands and it really does make you feel squeaky clean!

Overall the box was an enjoyable box for me, I liked it, but I would because I am all about the pink and the sparkles ect… and this box ticked all my boxes, it was pretty and designed to be a pretty box with a really good selection, I loved the eye mask, I loved the imperial leather product, I loved the lash curler, I enjoyed my minor one time experience with Huda, It provided me with a rather memorable freak out that I can look back and laugh about, the bang beauty product was a let down but the box was well worth the money as usual and I can’t knock it, If I was a person who liked lip gloss this box would have been perfect but I am not and that isn’t the fault of Glossy box, that is just me, I am a massive buyer of Jeffree star products and I wasn’t even bothered about his, that’s just the way I am and I will always review fairly and take a step back, If you are a gloss lover then this is your box.

thank you as always for reading. xoxo