Japanese Candy Unboxing

Hi everyone and Happy Friday! 

I originally went onto the Cybercandy website as they used to do Japanese sweets in a mixed box but when I went on I couldn't find them so I turned to Ebay. I typed in Japanese candy assortment and a few different options came up. This particular mix cost around £12 with postage added and it arrived surprising quickly.

First of all how adorable is the Little Twin Stars bag that the candy arrived in? I don't have the heart to throw it away. I need to make a collage with it or something. I am drawn to cute packaging and kawaii items so this candy was a must have for me. I love lucky bags and surprises and trying new sweeties so I had to get this.

Below is all of the different candy pieces that I got. I got quite a lot an an array of different pieces to try too.

The poo one looks very interesting!! (Might have to give that one a sniff first!)

I love the colours and cuteness and can't wait to try them out.

I also got a free bonus gift with my package too which is a nice touch. I adore the cute packaging on this one too.

Inside were two lemon sweeties and a piece of tropical dried fruit too.

Do you like trying out new candy too?

Love Laura xoxo

Models Own Nail Polish Review- Sweet Shop Gumballs

Hello. How are you all?

 Just a little update before I begin to let you know that I am moving house next week and therefore my WiFi may be MIA soon. I am also starting a new job tomorrow which I'm really looking forward to. Probably for the first time in my life without any stress. So my blog posts may be a little hit and miss until I have settled in and got a routine going on. 

Models Own have just released the Sweet Shop Collection, which for me was an absolute necessity to own. I really wanted to try the Revlon scented polishes and never got around to getting any so when I saw these and they were sweetie scented, I needed them. I love the collections that Models Own keep coming out with and want the polish for tans collection and the previous fruit pastel collection too. The polishes are meant to have a scratch and sniff sticker on the top of them and I was disappointed to find that mine have them missing.

The collection comprises of five different polishes all with a retro sweet scent. The scents transport me back to my childhood and have a nostalgic feel about them. There's a pink glitter which, when dried, has a Rhubarb and Custard scent, Barbie pink Gumballs, a pink glitter 'Peardrops,' brown glitter 'Fizzy cola bottles' and finally a black polish which has the scent Liquorice Allsorts.

 There are three pink /red shades, a brown tone and a black. If I had produced this collection I would have made a variety of shades such as Foam Banana yellow or white mice just so it could have been more versatile. To have the smell of sweeties on your nails almost makes my life complete. I absolutely love the idea of these and have tried out Gumballs so far which I have written the review on for today.

  From left to right we have Gumballs, Pear Drops, Rhubarb and Custard, Liquorice Allsorts and Fizzy Cola Bottles.

I love the tissue paper that the polishes came wrapped in. They were also bubble wrapped inside the box too.

Gumball is my favourite shade out of the whole collection and if I was to just purchase one this would be it. The colour is a Barbie pink and makes a staple summer colour. 

I found the polish to be thick and quite hard to apply evenly to my nails. I did only need one coat on my nails for it to be opaque but it took a while to dry and smudged easily.

I did sniff the polish in the bottle thinking it might smell of gumballs but unfortunately it just gave me a huge waft of the regular scent of nail polish ha ha! I won't be trying that again.

The polish was placed over a base coat once dried and it produced a really glossy effect. One it dried on my nails, it left an absolutely gorgeous smell of bubblegum (gumballs) which I found irresistible and kept on sniffing my nails at regular intervals throughout the day. The scent stayed after showering too which was great as I thought it may have eliminated the smell.

I didn't use a topcoat on this. My thinking was that it might mask the gumball scent. The polish lasted for the longest amount of time without chipping on my nails which was a record- breaking 3 days. I have the type of nails where polish chips on the same day as application.

Overall, I would repurchase for the scent of the polish but I'm hoping that the others in the collection have an easier formula to apply.

Have you used scented polishes?

Love Laura xoxo

Candy Japan- July Sweeties

This month Candy Japan sent me three delicious Japanese sweeties to try out. Candy Japan is a monthly subscription service and for $25 you are sent two packages per month filled with mystery candy. I love Japanese products, subscription boxes and sweeties so this one seems like a real winner for me. I would prefer it if there was one box per month filled with a lot more goodies instead but maybe that's just me.

*Honey kumquat jelly. These are soft jelly sweets which a liquid kumquat flavour inside of them. Kumquat is a citrus fruit that is used to make jelly in Japan amongst other countries. At first I thought they were orange flavoured by looking at the packaging. These are tasty but my least favourite out of the three as I prefer harder candy.

*Lotte - Salt Milk Caramel- These were by far my favourites. They were creamy, sweet, moreish and delicious. The sweeties are individually wrapped and are made from cream which comes from Hakkaido in Japan.

"*Mario became a gummy!" These are soft gummy type sweeties which are cola flavoured and contain different shapes. They are sweet and have a subtle fruity taste. I love Mario as I used to play the games on my Snes when I was younger and the sweets were great too.

Overall- I loved the packaging and the taste of the candy even though there were only three items to try. I preferred this one to the traditional candy that accompanies green tea that I had in my last box as these were more fun.

Love Laura xoxo

*PR items sent kindly for reviewing purposes and for me to sample the delicious candy!

Weekend treats!

At the weekend we travelled back down to England to see my family. I was so excited as I haven't been back down since I moved to Edinburgh five weeks ago. We took Alfie all the way down with us to meet my mum, dad and brother's dog Ruby who is also a whippet. Alfie's confidence grew so much as he followed Ruby out for walks and had someone to jump on. My two Persians don't appreciate a flying puppy landing on them! Seeing Ruby again was so lovely but she looked like she had changed so much. She's so big compared to Alfie who has turned 14 weeks old today!
I met my baby cousin who was adorable, visited grandma and granddad, had Chinese food, watched X-Men ( the latest one) and the X- Factor. I love spending time with the people who matter the most. It's like food for the soul.

Here are my weekend treats.

Saw the new Company magazine in Sainsbury's and had to have it and it comes with a free eyeliner- bonus!
My Glamour magazine had been delivered to my mum and dad's house.
My mum brought me back some little treats from Primark. Oh I adore Primark so much. I am getting withdrawal symptoms because I haven't been in about 8 weeks now. I love getting bags of goodies from there! I bought so much there in the last few years that the amount of hauls I would have had would have been unbelievable! oops!
A hot pink, twist leatheresque studded bracelet reduced to £1  (One of my favourite colours)
Glittery nails £1
A pack of 3 necklaces neon and skulls £2 - I absolutely love neon colours and love skull jewellery! I love these.
Chocolate face mask £1- I've tried Montagne Jeunesse face masks before on girly nights in and they are always fun and I'm quite impressed with the quality. I hope this one smells of chocolate- although I might try and lick it off which won't taste very pleasant I'm sure!

Sweeties! There's a new sweetie shop just opened near to where I used to live in Lancashire that sells old-fashioned/ retro sweets. I had to go in and stock up on some goodies to take back with me. These will last me a long time as I don't eat sweets that regularly. I probably will now that I have bought them though! I was like a child in a toyshop. I just stared at the containers on the shelves for about twenty minutes, span round and then declared that I didn't know what to get. I used to do this when I was little too! Decisions, decisions!

From left to right I bought (after half an hour!)
20 chocolate cups- I remember these from when I was a lot younger. The chocolate used to be so good inside! I haven't actually tried one yet - can you believe the will power ?!
Sugared almonds- I love almonds and these last a long time- yum.
Cherry lips- Not everyone's cup of tea at all as they taste a bit like perfumed soap. I used to buy the Floral gums and they would last me for ages. I needed some more cherry lips in my life!
Aniseed drops- I've never actually had these before but I like aniseed so it must be a win win.
Finally, almond nougat. I've never had this before but my other half said that it's amazing and his favourite so I got double the amount.

So there we have my weekend treats!

What did you get?