London Sept 2009

As I said in my previous post, I had a very busy couple of days!! This post is pretty much just going to be an overview of what I got up to, the haul will follow in a separate post. Hopefully in less than 2 weeks this time!!

The buses and trains were all present and on time this trip so I got into London as planned at 10:40am. Then it was straight onto the Underground (delightful sweat pit that it is in warm weather) and met Jasmine at Selfridges. I was quite excited to see that Shu Uemura had set up in Selfridges, but I only ended up buying one eye shadow from them. Then we absolutely had to go and see the new offerings at MAC! Nothing really jumped out at me from the new collections, and after seeing the new pigments in person I decided not to buy any of them. While I was paying for what I did buy, we saw Jen (Mizz Worthy) walking past and shouted!

I arranged to meet up with Jen at Hammersmith later on for the event. We managed to wonder round to a few more counters before Jasmine and I had to go on to other things. I went off to Maybelline :)

We met up again at Covent Gardens and wondered over to Souk, which is where we'd decided to eat. It really was an amazing place. The entire restaurant is lit by candle light and there are red and purple drapes all over. At one point, the music was turned up, followed by a belly dancer! Jasmine got some video on my camera but it was too dark in there.


The food was amazing, and there was a lot of it! I think we'll be going again to sample more of the food.

Then Jasmine and I headed back over to Victoria to get the coach back to Oxford (and go past the Sleek stand at Superdrug at Victoria!). The driver managed to break the coach, so we had to wait for another one. We lost our awesome seats.

We had planned to get a vlog recorded once we got back, but I'm pretty sure I fell asleep on Jasmine on the coach at one point, so maybe it was best that we didn't get round to it.

Next day, before heading back to the coach, Jasmine took me round to Sally's Beauty Supplies. I'm sure it's 1000% better in the US than over here, but I did pick up a few goodies. Then back on the coach to London! I remembered my iPod this time so I had a couple of new albums to listen to.

I got a little more shopping done, and had a sneaky cocktail in Covent Gardens at my favourite bar, before catching the train home from King's Cross.

London is always a great deal of fun, but I was absolutely exhausted when I got home!