Clothes Show Live 2013 Birmingham: Reveiw

The Clothes Show Live is held every year in December at the NEC in Birmingham. This year I was lucky enough to go! *yay* as I am studying Textiles and Fashion as an A Level at College. Honestly when I found out we were going I was as excited as I’ve heard pretty good things about the event so i couldn't wait to go. We went on the Last day of the event which was Tuesday the 12^th and let’s just say the journey there was very tiring, we went on a couch and I think it was about 2hours and a half to get there so if you sum it up we spent 5hours sat in a coach :( .

Anyway, inside the NEC there is this really BIG room filled with many, many stalls and a mini catwalk for students to show off their designs. We went to the beauty department first which was basically full of many stalls of famous makeup brands such as Bare Minerals, Rimmel, So Susan, Jelly Pong Pont, W7, Smooch, Barry M etc.

Now when you think about brands like this you’d be pretty surprised about the prices, I knew they were cheap but I didn't know that I could get some amazing makeup items at such low prices. ( I do think this was because we went on the last day as a lot of stalls had further reduced their prices *hooray!!*)

Continuing on,  the items that I had purchased where from So Susan, Bare Minerals, Jelly Pong Pong, Smooch, W7, Parfum Manifique, Company, Cosmopolitan and Elle.To be honest I haven’t heard of some of the brands so I thought it would be cool to try out these items and see how good they are. Although Barry M, Models Own did had a good offer going on I didn't feel the need to buy it as it mainly consisted of nail polishes and I didn't need any at the moment. Surprisingly Rimmel weren't selling any products they just had testers out so I’m not sure if they had sold out or not but they were doing makeovers at a fair price.

Bare Minerals had this take my by surprise goody bag which was £18 then £5 then to £2, I couldn't believe it that I had got this for £2 so I purchased two bags. Inside this you got 2 eye shadows, a lip gloss and a makeup bag! OMG such an amazingg deal!!

So Susan and Jelly Pong Pong had a fantastic deal where you get 4 products for £5 there were 2 choices to choose from but i couldn't decide which one to get so just purchased both.Smooch and W7 had a deal going on which was 10 items for £10 with the RRP £80 for all of them.

I also purchased 5 perfumes for a total of £20, making it a total of £4 each. Now to be honest I have never come across the company Parfum Manifque until now, in the bag the had perfumes called Poppy,Bad Romance,Stardust, Fleur Rouge and Secret Flower I checked on their website few days later and noticed i had grabbed myself a pretty good deal as they retail from £28-60 

Price? I think it was £33 we had to pay for entry and the fashion show as well as transport which is not bad I guess as the fashion show was the best bit of the whole day.

Also allot of people wonder how much money they should bring so to help you out and to decide for next time i have calculated how much i spent and this was around £55 on my purchases.

I didn't buy any clothes as i felt that i do have far too much or they did not have my size available but if you would like to purchase clothes when you go they do have a wide price range.

Overall, the experience is good not just because i grabbed some pretty amazing bargains but the fashion show also helped and inspired me on new designs that i could be including in my Textile Coursework. However it was a bit disappointing with some stalls and also was hoping for stalls like Sleek, Borjouis,Benefit etc. to come as they have previously come. I do think that the only thing that makes up for the tiring day is the fashion show which we went to at 3pm. Would i be going again? Maybe depends on which stalls would be there. 

but now for my favorite bit........THE PICTURES!!

Elles' Goody-bag for £2- Dec and Jan Issue plus OPI Shatter Nail Polish and St. Tropez Everyday Body Moisturiser

The Fashion Show

How good the the So-Susan and Jelly Pong Pong products seem, i'm loving the 8 hour Cheek stain and the Caribbean Sun Bronzer

Cosmo and Companys' Good-bag for £2 also inc. a perfume sample, drink,sweets etc.

Cosmo Body Good-bag was £2 also inc. a drink, free hair dye sample ticket (which i've lost :(   ) etc.

P.s  I'm sorry that the pictures aren't as high standard I had forgot to take my camera so all picture were taken on my Phone and we were seated quite far from the stage.

Disclaimer: I am not being sponsored to write this post, everything purchased is from from my own money.

&&HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!