Great Buys from Poundland this month.

Health & Beauty. 

Schwarzkopf Total Repair.

After all that hair dye, hair chalk and bleach London products this total shampoo and conditioner repair is great, and just for a pound you can't go wrong. This shampoo and conditioner isn't sold in boots but it is sold online and the average price of them are around £4. So a £3 save isn't too bad.

Rated 3.9 out of 5 on MakeupAlley.

http://www.poundland.co.uk/health-and-beauty/haircare/shampoo/gliss-total-repair-shampoo-250ml

Garnier Hair Recovery. 

Garnier is a well known brand and is brilliant for a pound as this shampoo and conditioner. On Ebay these are selling at £5.99 so a saving of nearly £5. 

Rated 3.5 out of 5 on MakeupAlley. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/health-and-beauty/haircare/conditioner/fructis-repair-shine-conditioner-250ml

Mellor & Russell Miracle Nourishing Hair Oil.

This is sold on amazon for £2.49 and the reviews on this are amazing. After reading three differents blogs all really loved this product. And from what I've read this is great for all hair types and can be used to control frizz as well as putting the natural shine back into your hair. I'm not saying this is anything on Moroccan Oil but that £30 a bottle and lets face it, £9,000 a year we can't keep buy it for that price. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/health-and-beauty/haircare/conditioner/mellor-russell-miracle-nourishing-hair-oil-50ml

Creightons Bronze FAKE DON'T BAKE.

Selling on amazon at £3.99. And have used myself, this is amazing stuff. I'm not really into tanning so much now, but when I used to this was great, as long as you put moisturiser on first then apply the tan with a mitt, it apply evenly and look nice. Also, this isn't too dark, I'm really into having a natural look and not into loads of tan, but if you want it a bit darker then just build it up. And if you've put too much on just jump in the shower and it will even the tan out even more and go lighter. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/fake-dont-bake-self-tan-cream-100ml

Arm & Hammer Extra White ToothPaste. 

Retailing at £3.99 and again having really good reviews. It's nice to have a different toothpaste, different to the same old Colgate or something. So yeah again not a bad saving. 

Rated 4.3 out of 5 on Makeup Alley. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/health-and-beauty/dental/toothpaste/arm-hammer-complete-care-paste-125ml

In the Home.  

From five different colours to choose from and with summer coming up, so your bound to have your home friends coming down to see you and vice versa it's nice to have fresh towels when they come round, and I defiantly don't think they complain with two for one pound!! Guest towels, Hand towels and face towels all come in packs of two. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/home-and-garden/around-the-home/homewares/guest-towels-2-pack

Your student house probably stinks of something rotting, I mean, look, I know how trampy we can be so this wooden box containing incense sticks and create a nice, musty camden smell in your student house, and can even be quite romantic if you have a special man coming to stay over. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/home-and-garden/around-the-home/candles/wooden-incense-box-with-sticks

I know not all students are going to have a garden or really give two shits about there garden but if you do have a garden and maybe thinking of having a garden its a thought to have a couple of these around the garden... just to make out your a little more grown up then what you really are. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/home-and-garden/gardening/solarlights/stainless-steel-cylinder-solar-light

This hanging tea light holder is just something nice and decorative to try and prevent your student house from looking like a drug den (which it probably does) so yeah and again like I keep repeating, its a pound!!!

http://www.poundland.co.uk/leisure-and-entertainment/outdoor-living/hanging-heart-tealight-holder

If your a hipster like me you'll love going on picnic's, it's free, cheap and you can get pissed, high and have a good FREE time so this picnic blanket for a pound is great for all those vodka spilliages and droppings of fag ashes. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/leisure-and-entertainment/outdoor-living/picnic-blanket

Like I said before if you probably don't give a shit about your garden but even three of these little candle holders will make any garden cute. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/leisure-and-entertainment/outdoor-living/striped-glass-tealight-holder

If it's one of your housemates birthday, even if you hate them, this is good for putting loads of shittly decorated cakes on. 

http://www.poundland.co.uk/party-and-celebrations/celebrations/food-accessories/cupcake-set-3-tier

Decopatch Origami Rabbit.

John Lewis. Decopatch Origami Rabbit. £6.50

Can also be found for the same price at..

Hobby Craft

www.thedecopatchplace.co.uk

http://www.johnlewis.com/decopatch-origami-rabbit/p1195479

Decopatch Pack of 3 Paper. 

Can also be found for the same price at.. 

 John Lewis

www.thedecopatchplace.co.uk

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Decopatch-paper-pieces-pack-8-Designs-In-your-choice-of-Colour-/291099364828?pt=UK_Crafts_Other_Crafts_EH&var=&hash=item43c6dfcddc

Poundland. PVA Glue 500ml. ™£1.

Can also be found at..

WH Smiths

The Works

The Range

John Lewis

Wilkinsons

http://www.poundland.co.uk/pva-glue-500ml

The Works. Chunky Paint Brush Set. 99p.

Can also be found at..

Wilkinson's

Hobby Crafton

John Lewis 

 The Range 

WH Smiths

http://www.theworks.co.uk/p/paint-brushes/chunky-paint-brush-set/5051238009063

I was given this wonderful gift as an Easter present. If you enjoy anything crafty and creative then you have to try out these gorgeous little creations. These DecoPatch figures, can be placed anywhere in your house and still look good. I think the quirky patterns has a lot to do with that, and after you've done one, you'll want a collection of them. They are so easy to and look fantastic after you've finished them. 

So.. Here are the Steps. 

Step One:

Take the label of your animal and get the paper out of the packet. 

Step Two: 

Get a small cup and pure about half a tumbs worth of PVA glue into the cup.

Step Three:

Add around four tea spoons of water to the cup with the PVA Glue, making it 

a nice light watery glue. 

Step Four: 

Rip up your Paper in whatever size you like.

Step Five: 

With a paint brush, paint the area where you are about to put to paper. 

Step Six: 

Continue to stick and place paper on to the Animal until completely covered. 

And thats all! Vey quick and easy to do, and the results should end up looking like this... 

A new start for StudentObserver this coming May. I apologise for abandoning this blog for quite a few months now, BUT I will make it up to you. I've had to adjust to the new work load of second year at university and have been writing for bonafide-supernova.com as well which has been loads of fun and will link you to future write up's I do for them. This May get ready for a new look, a different range of new posts and better bargins. Yay. Miss you all! See you in May! 

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I understand most students defiantly want to avoid Christmas present due to their lack of disposable income. However i'm going to give you a sneaky insight of how I make christmas presents or could be birthday's or whatever occasion, but for you're presents to look beautifully wrapped and much more cheaper than buying patterned christmas paper.

Firstly, Head to Poundland, forget the awful crappy thin wrapping paper, thats out of the window, I never want to see you using any of that again. Buy some mailing brown paper, it looks like that ^ and it's only a £1 for ten meters. Also some of this string while you're there. 

Secondly, Get some ribbon, you can buy this from all over but the cheapest will be places like, Wilko's, The Range, The Works, Hobby Craft, local markets, more high street theres also places like John Lewis, WH Smiths, Fenwicks. Have a look on Ebay or Amazon because they may have some good deals on ribbon. Also shops like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, will have them in.  

Now, the tags I have brought them from Poundland in the past, if not again they will be sold in the place's I've mentioned above or you there's the post office but also you can make them yourself by cutting out a template and then punching the hole with a hole puncher. 

If, ribbon and the tags are getting a little to pricey than you want (even though they shouldn't come to that much) rip up some old cloths or go to a charity shop by some material sometimes charity shops sell curtains or bedding, and with the material you can make something like this. 

This year for present's (Birthday's) I did something like this. So I got the mailing paper and then brought some pattern card or paper, and created the bow myself. This is really easy to do and looks so lovely and unique when you're giving a present. With this all you have to do is cut out the shapes and put it together, I'll see if I can find a YouTube Tutorial because it's to hard to explain. 

These are also really easy to do, here you can see the lace looks really pretty again here, so just have a see what you have lying about. If you don't mind spending a little bit. Ikea do some lace curtains for £12 and you would defiantly be able to wrap a lot of presents with that because it's a lot of material. 

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80070763/

Here's just another little example of how to create your own bow. 

Some of these video's are every cheesy, just so you're warned. 

Really feel bad for not posting anything in so long, and need to get back into it, but have had a pretty crazy month starting with moving house and they're being problems with it, new job, new Uni year, i've found it pretty hard getting back in the swing of things, so that's my excuse and apologies so will be posting a lot more! Moving on! 

TARTAN & CHECKS, are always a must every winter. For some reason this trend is just everlasting, but I love it and thinks it looks beautiful. However. I do think theres a certain way to wear this pattern. And be careful the pattern doesn't look taccy, where the red is really bright or something. Dark colours for this kind of pattern works so aviod taccy looking patterns. Also i've noticed some tops that are this tartan/ check pattern, which most of the time I think it doesn't work, so try and keep the pattern on the bottom unless it's a dress. 

I've also started to link the clothes to the site and the exact page where I got it from so you can easily find/access it. So I hope this is better. 

Asos. Tartan skater skirt. 19.99.

http://www.asos.com/Daisy-Street/Daisy-Street-Tartan-Mini-Skirt/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=3375555&SearchQuery=tartan&sh=0&pge=0&pgesize=36&sort=-1&clr=Greentartan

Newlook. Tartan Dip Dress. £22.99

http://www.newlook.com/shop/womens/dresses/red-check-cap-sleeve-shift-dress-_302037269?intcam=INT-2013-14-WK34-HOME-ZBck-0014

Topshop. Tartan check Trousers. £42

http://www.topshop.com/en/tsuk/product/clothing-427/trousers-447/tartan-check-balloon-trousers-2375751?bi=1&ps=20

Marks & Spencers. Tartan style wooly big thick scarf. £19.50. 

http://www.marksandspencer.com/M-S-Collection-Checked-Scarf/dp/B0038FVECC?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_5&nodeId=3147183031&sr=1-5&qid=1384949491&pf_rd_r=046959AC8JWHF1D80XS0&pf_rd_m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_i=0&pf_rd_p=321381407&pf_rd_s=center-3

Newlook. Check drawstring bag. £17.99

http://www.newlook.com/shop/womens/bags-and-purses/black-and-red-check-drawstring-backpack-_297889069

The first garment being the skirt will look beautiful with some grey tights and little ankle boots. Everyone needs a skirt like this, this winter. The dress is something you could more wear at the weekends or an evening, I usually HATE a dipped hem but for some reason it works on this dress and only a few other items, but like I said, it works well here. I know the trousers a little expensive BUT, they are gorgeous, you can wear them with lots of things and they will last you longer. As for the scarf, I have it and it's so lovely and big, the last scarf I brought from Asos it was small and thin, and I hate those kind of scarfs, we are in winter now and it's started to get really cold so be careful when buying scarfs online I'd recommend going in and trying some on, the one thing you want is a nice big thick, long snuggly scarf.

Homemade is the way forward; always is and always will be. It's the way forward because it's cheaper then buying in retail or online but also it looks good and you can make it to suit you. Today for you savaging students, are these real cool bowls you can make from your flat / student house and takes minutes. 

Go get yourself to a charity shop and buy some old records vinyls. They come in all different sizes so depending how big you want them, you chose. But you can get them in most charity shops and they are really cheap, like a £1 or something like that.  So here's some ideas of what you can do with melting Vinyl records and a short video on how to do it.