MY EIGHTEENTH! Birthday Haul!

As you may have already guessed from my last post it was coming up to my birthday! On the 13th of August I turned 18! Finally! I was definitely the baby of all my friends but I've caught up now!

As I told you before my plans for my actual birthday day was to go to the salon in the morning for some pampering, then going out for a meal in the evening and then out drinking with one of my friends, Chelsea.

I did spend the morning at the salon and it was LOVELY. I have to say that the eyebrow threading and leg waxing was much more painful than last time, but I can actually now say that my legs are much much smoother than last time and my eyebrows are much more natural looking and are such a nice shape, so they were both definitely worth the pain!

Sorry to all the people who don't like feet! This is my beautiful pedicure. This is an O.P.I nail varnish and I wish I had asked what it was called because I love it! 

In the evening of my birthday I went out for a meal with my family. Chelsea had some important last minute plans so had to cancel on me, but it was still lovely to have my family all together for once - the last time we were all together was for my Granddads funeral, pretty much a year ago! The only person who was missing was my mummy, but I'm seeing her in September.

For my birthday we went to Chiquito's, which is a Mexican restaurant. It has very lovely food - not to mention a very large selection of alcoholic beverages - but there were only two waiters on hand so it was very slow. Nevertheless I had a very lovely time and I'm so pleased with the evening. 

I'm claiming this to be my first legal alcoholic drink, although my first was actually a 'Strawberry Daiquiri' and this is a 'Woo Woo' but I forgot to take a picture of my Daiquiri ;) 

I got some very lovely presents for my Eighteenth, I'll include pictures below!

Made a display for my lovely readers of all my birthday presents!

Okay so let's start!

My mum lives over 3 hours away so unfortunately I didn't get to see her on my birthday, she did however get my presents posted down to me! She got me some balloons, some beautiful flowers, some biscuits in the shape of '18' (which were very yummy!) and a lovely little decorative dish!

My best friend Amy lives a long way away as well, but I'm seeing her soon! Eee! Anyway she posted my presents down for my birthday. As I was out in the morning I was worried about missing the post which I did! They posted it at 10:33, so I missed it :( I was so upset! Previously the post lady had delivered the parcels from my mum which had the writing "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL THE 13TH" and we had had a big discussion about how it was my birthday on the 13th and since then she was checking I hadn't opened my presents - she was lovely. Since I had missed it I couldn't go pick it up for 24 hours so I was pretty bummed. Then I heard a knock on the door. She had brought the packet with her when she was delivering the letters. She told me she had to attempt to deliver the parcels before 1PM but as she knew it was my birthday and it wasn't a very big package she decided to bring it with her just in case. I told you she was lovely!

Me and Amy had recently been expressing our love for fineliners, but I've only ever been able to afford the cheapest ones - these ones are the nicest ones I've ever tried! I also told her how much I really wanted a large badge for my eighteenth as I've never had one so she got me one (and then my brother got me one too -.-). She also got me my favourite card of the year, it's so pretty! And being the lovely lady she is she also bought me some more Barry M nail varnishes to go into my collection and the Guava one (blue one) she got me is now my favourite colour ever! Amy also got me two face masks! But they were so lovely I had used them before I took this photograph!

I'm going to put my sisters and eldest brothers presents to me in one picture. When I was little I LOVED these dollies from Marks and Spencer. I liked them because of how their hair felt - I used to pull it out of their heads and leave it lying around the house, it drove my parents crazy! So for my eighteenth they both had the idea of buy me a new one! My brother also got me a large badge!

My other brother bought me a few little presents which is more than I expected so that was lovely. I'm not sure if he thought about it or whether he just winged it but he got me some nail art pens which I have been desperate to try! He also got me a lovely paperchase pen, and I love paperchase!

My dad bought me quite a few little things for my birthday. My main present was him paying for me to go get pampered at the spa, but he also bought me a lovely pair of shoes. They are so surprisingly comfortable and I can walk in them! They're beautiful and are my most expensive pair of shoes. 

My college friend Sarah got me a lovely bath set for my birthday, and as funny as it sounds I can't wait to use it all up so I can use the beautiful tray it comes in! I love the look of it and it will probably hold all of my jewellery! 

My school friend, Poppy, got me a beautiful present from ESSENTIAL which is a lovely jewellery shop! She got me a gift box of a gorgeous bracelet and a lovely ring! I'm a bit funny about rings but I really like this one and I can see me wearing it more than any of my other rings. 

And what's a birthday without buying yourself a birthday present?