Lidl's Suddenly Diamonds: Boss Orange Dupe

My mum recently bought this eau de parfum, Suddenly Diamonds, from Lidl for me after she told me about it supposedly being a dupe for Boss Orange by Hugo Boss and I was really interested in it. I'm kind of rubbish with recognising perfume smells, you could literally spray a Chanel perfume in my face and all I would do is rub my eye and maybe cry so I can't comment on the 'dupiness'. What I do know though is that this is the perfect day time scent; it's quite light but is still noticeable and smells refreshing and a a tiny bit citrusy which is surprising as I don't like citrus smells usually.

This perfume only costs £3.99 for 50ml and so means I'm not scared to put it in my bag and carry it around with me and it also means if you're looking for a new perfume to mix up your usual scent then this is a really affordable option. I do like to spray this at least once throughout the day just to keep the smell topped up and even through regular daily use there is still a lot left. The bottle is classy and if placed in a row with designer perfumes I don't think many people would instantly recognise it as the odd one out, not that this scenario would ever be likely to occur.

All in all I'm impressed with this perfume as I like to have a few different perfume options to choose from and I've also read that they have another perfume which is supposedly another dupe but for a Chanel perfume (I told you I have no clue about fragrance).

Have you ever smelt this perfume or any other Lidl perfumes? What do/did you think? Also apologies for the lack of smoothing down of the pillowcase, I should have whipped out the iron. Not that I know how to iron. Damn it.04

The 5 Travelling Lipsticks

Yesterday I got back from visiting one of my best friend's who's at uni in Lincoln, I went from Friday through to Wednesday and had the best time everrrr so much so I stayed two days longer than planned, okay three if you include the breakdown I had the night at 11pm when realising my ticket wouldn't allow me to come home on the Sunday. When I was unpacking my makeup bag I decided I'm going to post about the makeup I brought with me but am doing the lipsticks separately. Five lipsticks doesn't seem like much but when you consider I was packing with the thought in mind I was only going to be there from Friday afternoon to Sunday mid-morning...it's excessive.

I wanted to bring a variety of colours to make sure I wouldn't be doing my makeup and think 'dang I wish I brought _____' as well. Starting from the left is Barry M's 52 Shocking Pink, Barry M's 151 Sunset, Rimmel's 107, a lipstick by Louise Gray for Topshop called Mexican Wave and then Mac's Impassioned.

Yes, I brought two Barry M lipsticks with me, big up big up Barry. 52 Shocking Pink is pretty much how I imagine a pink highlighter would be in lipstick form, it is so shockingly (shocking ha) pink and is a shade I would wear every single day if I could. I wore this on our first night out on the Friday but in photos it doesn't really pick up that well.

151 Sunset I brought with me as I wanted a corally colour if I felt like I didn't want to wear a full on orange, I can't remember if I actually wore this shade or not, I feel like I did through out the day though I could have done without it.

I brought Rimmel's 107 with me for if I wanted to wear a dark lip and I ended up wearing this on our last night out although it faded pretty badly throughout the night and I wasn't functioning well enough to reapply it.

Mexican Wave by Louise Gray at Tophshop I bought a few years ago in the New Year sales as it was heavily reduced, I think this line has been discontinued as I can't find it online anymore but a lipstick similar to this shade is Mac's Morange or Topshop's Infrared but this one is more noticeably different. I wore this lipstick on our second night out and prefer it to a standard red going out shade as I feel like red doesn't do much for my face, or at least all of the reds I own don't!

Lastly, surprise surprise I couldn't leave my little Impassioned baby at home, needless to say I wore this travelling to and from Lincoln and it was never a question in my mind that it would accompany me on my travels.

From left to right: Barry M's 52, Barry M's 151, Rimmel's 107, Louise Gray's Mexican Wave and Mac's Impassioned

I think it's quite surprising how easy it was to whittle my hugeeeee lipstick collection down into these five and feel I made pretty good choices. Note how I didn't bring any nudes, I never see the point in me bringing quite toned-down shades as I don't wear them.

What shades would you bring with you if you went away? Any of the ones I talked about above?

My Blog Twitter

Tonight I decided to create a twitter for my blog so as to keep it separate from my personal twitter (@danigarziaa) because I think it'll be easier that way for me to tweet about blog-related things without people I know in real life thinking 'what is she on about?' So my twitter for my blog is @lacelipstickme (so annoying my whole blog name wouldn't fit!) if you'd like to follow me on there, or my personal account I don't really mind! I'm going to scour out some of your twitters to follow so if you get a follow from an account with zero tweets and zero followers, DAT ME.