Travel Spotlight: Historical Town of Warwick, UK

A couple days ago I had to take my car to garage to get the aircon re-gassed in a very pretty and historical town closeby my house called Warwick. After getting the car stuff sorted I thought I would take a walk around. Its crazy that even though this town is only 30 mins from my place I haven't visited it since I was verry small. There is a really beautiful and old castle in Warwick which I visited during a school trip but you know how life just kinda takes over and you neglect the things that are right on your doorstep...yeah that happened.

I knew that the castle was really grand and beautiful but I didn't realise that the town itself was also really stunning. The centre of the town so small and cute! There was a little museum in a lovely old historical building filled with tea houses, restaurants, pubs...and the obligatory Ye Olde Sweet Shop that transports you to a Diagon Alley-esque world lol ...I took a peek inside but somehow I managed to resisted the urge to buy anything.

I did however stop by the only store which sold cosmetics, Superdrug, and picked up two Barry M Nail polishes...one Gelly and one Textured. I have the textured one on now and let me tell you its beaut! Photo coming very soon!!

#BBloggersXmas Epic Blogger Meetup!

Last weekend I went to London again to a fabulous and much anticipated Christmas beauty blogger event #BBloggersXmas organised by the lovely Lola from LolaStarHeart.com and Victoria from Vik Beauty at the Reebok Bar in Canary Wharf.

It was so much fun! There were over 60 bloggers there, some who had travelled from as far as Yorkshire just to be there! Many of us had been chatting on twitter the weeks leading up to the event so it was so lovely to put faces to names.

There were also a few brands at the event including Soapbox PR, Bad Apple Cosmetics, Twisted Sista, Aromatherapy Associates, Diva Hair, and the lovely ladies from Slendertone who I met at the previous blogger meetup (here).

Lola and Victoria did such a great job at organising everything! They created a quiz for us all to test our beauty knowledge and believe me it really did! Those questions were hard but a fun way for us all to get chatting :-) They also organised some delish treats like yummy cake pops and Popchips...soo good!! On top of that there were some lovely ladies doing free treatments! Anna from Aromatherapy Associates was giving hand massages, Diva Hair curling bloggers hair with their products (check out the pic below of the rather interesting (read kinky lol) looking hair tong and the Reebok Spa ladies were giving complimentary OPI manicures. I had my nails manicured and 10 days later my manicure still looks damn good...just minor tip wear, no chips (yes I have been really lazy and haven't changed my polish! lol).

Julie from Sweets Are My Weakness and Grace from All The Slap

Grace and Aysh from Truly Madly Beauty

How weird does this look! lol

Lola and Victoria

The amazing view from the venue. If you look clodely you might be able to see the ice skating rink at the back

Lola and Vik also managed to arrange an AMAZING goodie bag for us all! Just check out all these beautiful things!! Brands include Inika, Murad, Sleek, Glam Glow, Lee Stafford, StyleFile, MagniFibres, Lush, The Body Shop, Natio, Witch, ProperCorn (omg this stuff is sooo yummy!), Macadamia, AKA and mooooreee

oh btw I bought a new camera!! The Canon SX40! This was my first time taking it out and I really wanted to test it out a little so after the event I decided to stop by London Bridge and take a few snaps...I still have a lot to learn about the settings but I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out :-)

St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance

Thank you so much Lola and Victoria for organising this amazing event! I can't wait for the next one!

Cherry Lane xoxo

Christmas in Covent Garden, London

Christmas is here and its beautiful!! While I was in London after checking out the Revlon Exhibition I had a little wander around Covent Garden. One of my favourite parts of Christmas is all the beautiful lights! Totally brings everything alive and they're so magical! This post is more pictures than words....I hope you enjoy :-)

I love this Valentino poster in the tube station too...isnt it beautiful!

Cherry Lane xoxo

#XmasBloggersLunch Meet-Up in London

I ♥ London! Sooooooo much!!!! lol This weekend I went to London to meet up with a friend coming from the US (more on that in the next post) and to attend my very first beauty blogger event!! Woohoo!! Man I had such a good time!!

 Two beautiful chica's...Safira from Miss Stylicious and Julie from Sweets Are My Weakness (a girl after my own heart lol) organised a fab blogger Chistmas get together in Kensington at a lovely little pub! I've been chatting to Safira for quite a while over Twitter so when she told me she was organising this event I jumped at the chance to meet her!

I was a little nervous going to my first blogger event, not really knowing many other bloggers. Overestimating how long it would take me to get there I actually arrived 15 mins early to an empty pub! I was the first one there but luckily 5 mins later the lovely Grace from All That Slap arrived greeting me with such a warm welcome and big hug!! She was the only other person apart from Safira who I had chatted to over Twitter beforehand so it was so great to meet her! After that the party got started and lots of fun bloggers came rolling in.

It was so lovely to meet so many wonderful people! Everyone was so incredibly friendly and genuinely wanted to meet everyone else so it was a great vibe! There are two chicks I wana give a special shout out to....April from A Pretty Wardrobe and Sophie from Sophee.co.uk who were just super sweet! And also LiLi from Lets Get Lippy...for some reason we only got a chance to speak briefly but she sent me such a cute email afterwards to say hi :-)

Julie, Aysh, Safira, LiLi, ??, Sophie, Jo, Chelsea, ?? and Hayley in the hat :-)

Me and Safira

We were also lucky enough to be joined the beautiful and inspiring Brooklyn Stylist Hilary Rushford who started her own business Dean Street Society and offered us some interesting advice on how to create a long term focus/aim for our blogs and also how important branding can be to getting noticed and potential opportunities it could lead to. Thanks Hilary, I really enjoyed your talk!

We were also treated by the lovely Slendertone ladies who kindly spent the whole day speaking to each of us on a one-to-one basis explaining how their Slendertone Face (here) product works and generously gave us all one to take home and try.

Safira and Julie managed to snag us some awesome goodies too! Check this lot out!!

 

Thank you so much Safira and Julie for organising a fab event! I hope you guys do one again soon! :-)

#XmasBloggerLunch love...

Jo from Madamoiselle Lala

Aysh from Truly, Madly, Beauty

Chelsea from Fashionista on a Budget

Mona from Chipped and Chapped

Banx from Glitter's Wall of Fame

Grace from All That Slap

Sophie from Sophee.co.uk

Marie from Miss Drifted Snow White

April from A Pretty Wardrobe

Tolu from Fashinate Me

LiLi from Lets Get Lippy

Hayley from Fashion and Me

Safira from Miss Stylicious

Julie from Sweets Are My Weakness

Hilary from Dean Street Society 

Cherry Lane xoxo

Barcelona Beauty and Fashion Haul

Hi beauts! I've come back from holiday in Barcelona and the Spanish coast and picked up a few things while I was out there.

El Corte Ingles is the biggest department store chain in Spain so a trip to Barcelona definitely would not be complete without have a mooch around their flagship store in Plaça de Catalunya. While I was there I picked up this face mask.

Lemon Peeling Face Mask by Mascarilla Facial - €1.03 from El Corte Ingles

And I also got this free little sample of Apivita face cream :-)

I came across a Kiko Store in Plaza de España and went kinda crazy when I saw that all the polishes were just €1.50 lol

Kiko Nail Polishes in 216, 215, 261, 277, 238, 302, 335, 245 - €1.50

Kiko Smart Eye Pencils in 806 and two 800s - €2.50

806 is a matte purply blue and 800 is a gorgeous shimmery champagne 

Kiko Super Gloss lip gloss in 110 - €4.90

A pinky nude shimmerless

Teal Top from Zara for €12.95

I also picked up this simple t-shirt from Zara made of 100% linen. I've never seen a linen like this before...its quite light compared to normal linen fabric I'm familiar with which makes it really nice and confortable

Watch from small street store - €5

Lastly I came across this little gem in the town were were staying in. Its a watch with a purple silicone strap, white enamel and rose gold coloured face with little crystals accents. I love the combo of purple, white and rose gold...as soon as I saw it I was in love and for just €5 it was an absolute steal!

I'll be doing some reviews and swatches of the polishes soon so watch out! :-)

Cherry Lane xoxo

Travel Spotlight: India p.s. Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day India!! In ode to the 65th anniversary of India's independence from British rule I thought I would share with you a few snaps from my travels around the country last year....Hope you enjoy!!

Jain Hindu Temple on a rooftop in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

The Taj Hotel and Gateway of India in Mumbai

Street food stalls in Delhi

Palolem Beach in South Goa

Cows and other animals just chillaxing on the beach like ya do

I love this pic!! A rickshaw up on the cliff overlooking Varkala Beach, Kerela. (we could even see dolphins from the cliffs!)

The Golden Temple in Amritsar

Hope you like this photos! Have you been to any of these places or anywhere else in India? Got any funny stories??

Cherry Lane xoxo