Disaster Davis

MERRY CHRISTMAS! That’s it, it’s officially Christmas Eve and tomorrow we will all be stuffing ourselves silly with a wide range of tasty delights, ripping open wrapping paper to reveal our awaiting gifts and celebrating with loved ones. Today is all about sharing my best wishes with you and dropping in my already experienced holiday events with an outfit of the day and make-up of the day! Read on to join in with the jubilation!

After missing my works Christmas party, I had to fear not as my lovely friends Hannah and Kallum were having celebrations of their own at their home, of which I were in attendance. All guests had a thoroughly fantastic evening together and got rather merry! Great music, amazing company and with the champagne flowing we were soon laughing and joking about anything and everything, reminiscing with Hannah about our high school days and getting excited for Hannah and Kallum’s impending wedding for which I will be their maid of honour. Below are some snaps from the evening.

Finally, you may recognise some items of which have recently featured in my ‘Seasonal Shopping Haul’, simply click the post name to be directed to an external link detailing the price and location of some of these said items!

Playsuit – H&M
Belt – Primark
Tights – Primark
Earrings (Leaf – not seen) – Lovisa
I teamed together the above with a recent purchase of brown ankle length boots from New Look, these are however not pictured. View the boots here.

MAC Studio Fix Fluid – NW13
P.S, Love Under Eye Concealer – Ivory
George Silk Finish Pressed Powder – 02 Nude
P.S, Love Sunkissed Palette
Virgin Cosmetics Bronze and Blush Palette
Make-Up Revolution London Ultimate Eyeshadow Collection
P.S, Love Liquid Liner – Black
P.S, Love Kohl Liner – Black
Rimmel London Kohl Liner – 071 Pure White
P.S, Love Volumising Ultra Black Mascara
Colourworks Glitter Eyeliner – Gold
P.S, Love Lip Liner – Nude
Unknown gold coloured lipstick with orange undertones

My nails aren’t pictured in this post, however I’d also done acrylics on myself using a Nailene set and had painted them with a beige and glitter duo I recently purchased from H&M with of course a quick top coat of Sally Hansen’s Double Duty.

What are your plans for the Christmas period? Whatever may be included I hope you have the time of your life and cherish every moment of it. Eat however much of anything you’d like, be grateful for gifts received and value even more the people of whom you’re spending it with. I wish you the best Christmas possible, Happy Holidays!

With Love,
Disaster Davis x

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Hello there my beautiful, today I thought I’d continue the festivities and share with you a quick little Christmas Q&A tag! Lets get into it shall we? I hope you have your favourite festive tunes belting out whilst reading this, why not grab a yummy seasonal snack while you’re at it? I’m chomping down on a candy cane.

1. What is your favourite Christmas Movie/s?: The Disney movie Anastasia.. I absolutely adore it, it’s a purely enchanting film! The Nightmare Before Christmas – for sure… I’ve been singing ‘This is Halloween’ on repeat since it were actually Halloween! Got to add in Love Actually, haven’t I? It’s a classic! As is good old Bridget Jones!

2. Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?: Christmas morning, as soon as my Mom and I have a cup of tea at the ready!

3. Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?: When I were younger my cousin Sam used to come over to my house on Christmas day, he’d bring over some of his toys and we’d spend the day playing and sharing our gifts with one another. He’d also do the same thing on my Birthday which is two days later. Sam and I didn’t always get on so great as children, so I cherish those fond memories.

4. Favourite festive food: I love snacking and the Christmas period always has such an incredible selection of party style snacks – that’s honestly probably my favourite part, alongside pigs in blankets! Oooo and stuffing, I adore stuffing!

5. Favourite Christmas gift: This is actually impossible to answer! A particular gift that has stuck out for me throughout the years though has to be my beautiful little grey Furby I used to own. When I moved home almost five years ago I decided to not bring him along because we were massively down sizing, I regret this decision all the time.. Although he were the grubbiest little guy ever by that point I sure did love him. No Furby will ever have anything on that kid!

6. Favourite Christmas scent: I wouldn’t say I have one, unless we’re going to count the mouthwatering aroma of food cooking?

7. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?: If I’m not working then it tends to be the gift giving evening with my friends. For the past couple of years I’ve gone to the pub for a few drinks with my friend Aimee. This year Riley (and probably Aimee) will be visiting my home and having a few drinks and a gaming session on the PlayStation 1!

8. What tops your tree?: A fairy princess wand, pictured below!

9. As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you always asked for but never received?: There were nothing I ever asked for of which were particularly crazy and I typically got the things I’d ask for. I were always a very humble child, I were grateful of any gifts I got. I probably joked a few times that I’d like a million pound recording contract maybe!

10. What’s the best part about Christmas for you?: Spending quality time with my Mom and pets, away from the rest of the world, wrapped up in our pjs and pigging out on everything possible. I love knowing I don’t have work to go to and typically that I’ve got the following week booked off due to my birthday, which then opens the door to getting dolled up and going out to celebrate with my closest friends whilst being the centre of attention. What’s not to love?

Hopefully this post has helped get you into the spirit of Christmas if you weren’t already. I’d love to read your own answers, you can either contact me via any of my social media or publish your own Christmas tag post on your blog, don’t forget to leave me a link afterwards!

With Love,
Disaster Davis x

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Hello my dear, today I have a haul! A super exciting one because it’s my Christmas shopping, yay! Unfortunately I’m unable to share with you the gifts I have bought for everyone, I will however share with you the gifts I bought for myself tehehe! It’s got to be done, hasn’t it? Read on to peek at my self given gifts!

I had a thoroughly enjoyable splurge, finding out about places I didn’t even know were in Leeds! For example, I never knew there were a Vivienne Westwood store located in the Victoria Quarter! Lovisa very recently opened a store in the Trinity centre too, for anybody who has yet to discover this shop it’s an Australian company selling jewellery and accessories. There’s a sale on many things in there at the moment and let me tell you there’s incredible bargains! So lets crack on and take a look at my loot!

Primark
Sadly I have to say that nothing really grabbed my attention this time around, usually when I make a visit to Primark I leave with a small fortune but aside from a few stocking fillers I didn’t get much for myself. There were some must haves however!

Christmas Wrapping Paper – £1
Obviously we all need wrapping paper around this time of year especially. Each year Primark does itself proud with a fantastic range of wrapping paper, always including non Christmassy options too, perfect for those December birthdays! This is a simple and stylish number I picked up, a total bargain for the cheap price and the fact it’s a 5m roll!

P.S, Love Lashes Sultry – £1
These are easily my favourite eyelashes yet, I find them to look really nice when worn and aren’t too dramatic or fake looking as some can look. Nice and cheap and they can be re-used a couple of times, too.

P.S, Love Nail Polish – £0.80
Absolute bargain, 80p for nail polish? Yes please. I found the colour to look incredibly pleasing to my eye and because I’m yet to own a colour like this one I just had to pop it into my basket. I have yet to try this polish out but I’m extremely excited to do so!

Belt – £3
I’ve already worn this and I’m very happy with this purchase. Being black it will go with almost any outfit and the design is very simple. I were in great need of a new belt as the only other waist belt I own is a little battered to say the least. At £3 you can’t really go wrong as belts can prove to be rather expensive elsewhere.

Atmosphere Faux Leather Jacket – £14
A steal at under £20 is this fake leather jacket. I find it to be very comfortable as it’s been made with a soft material, deciding to get it a size larger than I am I have ample room to wear a hoodie under if I wish or a jumper. There’s plenty of space but it still fits very well at the same time. It’s simple with not too much going on but this makes it perfect for use at a wide variety of events.

Bee Hoppy PJs – £7 (Top) £6 (Bottoms)
There were another top and bottom available for mixing and matching, these are insanely cute pjs and perfect for the colder months. I instantly fell in love with them having rabbits on and I fell in love all over again once I wore them. They’re incredibly comfortable and I could literally live in these! Definitely my new favourites! The jumper can even double up as everyday wear!

New Look
Again I feel as though there were something lacking.. Is it just the time of year or something? Literally everywhere I’ve gone to recently seems to have absolutely nothing in the clothing department, it’s all drab and obnoxious, this is incredibly annoying for me considering it will be my birthday soon and I’d like an amazing new outfit to wear for going out. As I had a £5 gift card to spend which were gifted to me last Christmas, I needed to find some form of purchase.

Sparkly Earphones – £5.99
These earphones are an absolute god send! I’ve needed a new pair for so long, since my Primark ones always die on me quickly and since they seem to have had none in now for quite a while it meant having to look elsewhere. I remember a day the Primark ones cost £1, over time they’ve inched the pricing up to around £3… So having to pay £5.99 at New Look seemed a little steep to me but because I had a gift card to spend I thought what the hell and purchased them. It’s astonishing with regard to the difference in quality. These from New Look are absolutely amazing, heaven sent! Music sounds fantastic through them, the best I’ve had in a LONG time from earphones, the volume is great too. Not only that, they look wonderful and the buds don’t hurt my ears like my last Primark earphones did. These look much higher quality, too. Overall verdict is that I’m really pleased with them, top notch!

H&M
H&M used to always be really great value for money, there were always a vast amount of amazing items and for incredibly low prices. I have noticed that the prices have increased quite considerably, although I picked up some fantastic items in the sales section for myself!

Nail Polish Duo – £2.99
Great value for a duo of nail polish, I’d say. I’ve already tried these out and the base colour and sparkly overlay work perfectly together. A must have combination for the Christmas period! I found these dried rather quickly too and only needed the one coat, bonus!

Lost For Words Crop Top – £3 (originally £6.99)
This top were an absolute steal for £3, maybe not perfect for the winter months but definitely a welcome addition ready for Spring/Summer.

Playsuit – £4 (originally £7.99)
Another beautiful bargain presents itself in this playsuit. I have already worn this and I’m over the moon with it. It’s incredibly comfortable and fits like a glove, creating and showing off a fantastic body shape. It can easily be changed up a little by wearing it with tights or adding a belt and some lovely accessories, too.

Lovisa
I had no idea that Lovisa had arrived in Leeds until I happened to stumble upon the store in the Trinity centre. Lovisa is an Australian jewellery and accessories store and is an absolute gem of a place! They opened their Trinity store very recently, around a week ago and currently have some amazing deals on. I just had to treat myself to some bargain finds!

They currently have an 8 for £5 deal on earrings, of which I took them up on. One of the pairs alone were worth £5, with the others either being £1.50 or £2.50 usually. It seemed too good to be true and I recommend everybody to check this out, it could be an amazing opportunity to pick up a few extras to fill stockings with. I were also pleased to see they pack your purchases really nicely too, they really take care of their customers interests and the girls working there were the friendliest I’ve encountered in a long time within retail!

Worth £5!

Worth £2.50 each.

Worth £1.50 each.
The camera has been unable to pick up the colour correctly for the bottom earrings, they’re actually a really pretty light green colour with a gorgeous sparkle.

Worth £1.50 each.

Have you given yourself any cheeky pre-Christmas treats this year? If you haven’t yet then I strongly suggest you get on out there before the last of the sales end, as shown there are some fantastic bargains not to be missed!

With Love,
Disaster Davis x

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Hello my darlings! Today I were going to be sharing with you all a lovely array of Christmas crafty bits and bobs, however my first and only endeavour were a huge epic fail. Every year I like to get my Mom a good selection of gifts but sadly she has been lacking in the Christmas stocking department. I thought to myself, “How hard can it be?” and decided to go all DIY Davis and make her one. I’ve done just that….

You could say that there’s room for improvement. I were going to also set out on making my own Christmas cards this year – to discover I have no card and couldn’t find any whilst shopping, *sighs*. Alas it’s probably for the best judging by the monstrosity I have just shared. There’s also an ‘L’ on there in silver snowflakes however the camera hasn’t really picked them up very well. If for some bizarre reason you would like to know how I went about constructing this example of Christmas chaos then do feel free to ask anything you would like, I won’t hold my breath on this one though!

On the topic of Christmas however, today I went for a spontaneous shopping trip with my friend Riley. We only went to Tesco’s – however I’ve only ever been to this particular store once before which were many moons ago. Arriving there to discover they now have a rather plentiful inclusion of make-up, this excited me beyond words! Quite appropriately I were like a child at Christmas! Of course whilst picking up some Christmas gifts, it would have been a crime to not take a peek at what they had to offer therefore found myself acquiring some little treats from Sleek, Bourjois and Barry M.

Due to it coming up to Christmas and the imminent arrival of my staff Christmas Party, I naturally had to get festive and choose anything green, red or sparkly. I’m pretty pleased with my choices of which were as follows:

Bourjois Smokey Eye – 14 Vert Jungle
Sleek Glitter Eyeliner – 269 Steel
Barry M Nail Polish – 361 Ruby Slippers

Have you any festive blunders to share? I’d love to know I’m not alone. Or how about any captivating cosmetics you have found of which are screaming to be showcased at the annual workplace shenanigans? I’m sure I’ll provide some other form of entertainment before the holidays are over so be sure to check back for more disasters of diabolical proportions!

With Love,
Disaster Davis x

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