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luckyduck12

Where are the nearest supermarkets??

Ugh I'm coming down from Aberdeen by plane so baggage is limited to 40kg, because my mum is coming down with (and staying the night)which will be INTERESTING. No drunken socialising on the first night for me then. *sigh*

Kick her out to a hotel, tell her it's halls regulations. For all i know, it probably is.

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lostphotobooth

Oh btw, not sure if you all know, but apparently we need to bring our own clothes hangers!!! I completely forgot and now I'm going to have less space for clothes :mad:

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lostphotobooth

Oh btw, not sure if you all know, but apparently we need to bring our own clothes hangers!!! I completely forgot and now I'm going to have less space for clothes :mad:

Damn. May use it as an excuse to buy new clothes when I'm down there :woo:

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jennikay

Damn. May use it as an excuse to buy new clothes when I'm down there :woo:

Doesn't help that Oxford Street is within walking distance :pinch:

I may just not bring any, and then when my mum brings my contact lenses down a few weeks later, she can lug a few down with her :biggrin:

I'm nice like that haha.

Will see how packing goes first haha.

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lostphotobooth

Oh btw, not sure if you all know, but apparently we need to bring our own clothes hangers!!! I completely forgot and now I'm going to have less space for clothes :mad:

I might just leave my clothes on my desk/chair, thats what I do now anyway :biggrin:

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lostphotobooth

Doesn't help that Oxford Street is within walking distance :pinch:

I may just not bring any, and then when my mum brings my contact lenses down a few weeks later, she can lug a few down with her :biggrin:

I'm nice like that haha.

Will see how packing goes first haha.

I love shopping :awesome:

I've decided I'm going to try and get a job at Lush because you get 50% off, and I spend waaaay to much in there every month. :p:

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lostphotobooth

jennikay

I love shopping :awesome:

I've decided I'm going to try and get a job at Lush because you get 50% off, and I spend waaaay to much in there every month. :p:

Haha I love shopping as well :h:

And likewise with Topshop :p:

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lostphotobooth

Haha I love shopping as well :h:

And likewise with Topshop :p:

My wages will probably go entirely on Lush products. :awesome:

I could spend hours in there! (And hundreds of pounds...)

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lostphotobooth

jennikay

My wages will probably go entirely on Lush products. :awesome:

I could spend hours in there! (And hundreds of pounds...)

I'm a bit of a Lush virgin tbqh with you haha. I hardly go into the store tbh! But it does smell really nice everytime I walk past so....guess what I will be doing next time I'm in town :p:

I'm the same with Topshop haha. Ever since they started selling like different 'boutique' brands and this 'Studio' section of the site, I'm hooked. And the Topshop in Oxford Street has a vintage section (loooove vintage clothing haha) but I dunno what the prices are like. Probably overpriced as usual haha :rolleyes:

Currently saving up for two pairs of Uggs :ninja:

(Classic Shorts in Sand and Chestnut haha).

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lostphotobooth

I'm a bit of a Lush virgin tbqh with you haha. I hardly go into the store tbh! But it does smell really nice everytime I walk past so....guess what I will be doing next time I'm in town :p:

Currently saving up for two pairs of Uggs :ninja:

(Classic Shorts in Sand and Chestnut haha).

I looooove Lush. I'd start off with shampoo/conditioner - solid shampoo bars are really cheap considering how long they last (mine's lasted 4 months and there's still some left - it was £4!) which balances out the conditioner which is a lil more expensive than normal ones.

They do a shampoo bar for hard water areas which I have and am going to try out when I go down - water in London is apparently even harder than where I live now :eek:

but it has mixed reviews so I'll let you know if it's any good when I try it out :awesome:

I'm not a huge fan of Topshop tbh... mostly because I have a few expensive staples and then everything else is checp wear-once stuff from Primark :biggrin:

loooove Primark. :biggrin:

Haha, I'd never buy real Uggs. :ninja:

simply can't justify spending that much on something I only wear for a few months a year. I got some nice ones, decent quality (real suede!) for £20, I'm happy with them :smile:

might get some chocolate ones though :ninja:

shopping

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lostphotobooth

jennikay

but it has mixed reviews so I'll let you know if it's any good when I try it out :awesome:

I'm not a huge fan of Topshop tbh... mostly because I have a few expensive staples and then everything else is checp wear-once stuff from Primark :biggrin:

loooove Primark. :biggrin:

Haha, I'd never buy real Uggs. :ninja:

simply can't justify spending that much on something I only wear for a few months a year. I got some nice ones, decent quality (real suede!) for £20, I'm happy with them :smile:

might get some chocolate ones though :ninja:

shopping

Serious

I may have to get myself down to Lush. I inherited my dad's genes so I have hair that greases quickly (if I don't wash it at least once every two days, it goes manky haha) and I've heard loads of people on here raving about some sort of shampoo from there for greasy hair. May have to investigate!

I may have to track you down and have a chat for all things girly haha :p:

especially to do with Lush, being the Lush virgin I am.

Haha, I'm warming to Primark. I just hate going into my local store as everytime I go in, there is ALWAYS clothes on the floor, chavs walking around picking everything up then dropping it :/ Maybe that's just where I love haha. Though it is heaven when going in on a schoolday morning. I'm going to do that before I go to uni as I've found Primark jeans to be better than Topshop ones!

Uggs last years though :eek:

so you only need one pair and they last you for ages. I know I'll wear them loads (like everyday lmfao) so I'm saving up for one. Doesn't help that I need to shell out for a new iPod next month either :/ I may just wait til the Imperial bursary comes through then buy two pairs of Uggs :p:

Where did you get suede ones for £20 :eek:

That's real cheap. But I suppose I'm a sucker for a label :ninja:

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lostphotobooth

Serious

Where did you get suede ones for £20 :eek:

That's real cheap. But I suppose I'm a sucker for a label :ninja:

I have to wash mine every 2 days or it goes greasy, is that abnormal? Lol.
I looooove Lush. If I get a job then I'll buy you stuff with my discount :woo:

Yeah, I have to say I HATE Primark on weekends, holidays etc. Huge queues and loads of people. I've only been to the Oxford Street one on a Saturday afternoon. Not good. :frown:

Though it has a fabulous range of make up/bath stuff that there isn't in my local one :woo:

I got some blusher pearl things from there for £2 that were better than the £5 ones from boots :yep:

Yeah, my £20 will probably last me ages too :yep:

I hate hate hate seeing people who buy the really cheap ones with no structure and end up walking on the sides of them :frown:

mine are good though. Sainsbury's! I loooove Sainsbury's for clothes, particularly underwear. :love:

Cheaper than La Senza/Ann Summers/M&S and good quality. I'm a weird size :yep:

I'm hoping the one in Kensington has a clothes department!

Yeah, we shall have to go shopping together :yep:

I seem to remember you're on a similar budget to me (maybe I can afford Topshop then - I have it ingrained that it's too expensive :p:

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Having said that we're on a similar budget though, I'm FAR less restrained with my money (it's generally a case of 'oooh! shiny' and suddenly I've spent £100 :p:

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lostphotobooth

jennikay

I have to wash mine every 2 days or it goes greasy, is that abnormal? Lol.
I looooove Lush. If I get a job then I'll buy you stuff with my discount :woo:

Yeah, I have to say I HATE Primark on weekends, holidays etc. Huge queues and loads of people. I've only been to the Oxford Street one on a Saturday afternoon. Not good. :frown:

Though it has a fabulous range of make up/bath stuff that there isn't in my local one :woo:

I got some blusher pearl things from there for £2 that were better than the £5 ones from boots :yep:

Yeah, my £20 will probably last me ages too :yep:

I hate hate hate seeing people who buy the really cheap ones with no structure and end up walking on the sides of them :frown:

mine are good though. Sainsbury's! I loooove Sainsbury's for clothes, particularly underwear. :love:

Cheaper than La Senza/Ann Summers/M&S and good quality. I'm a weird size :yep:

I'm hoping the one in Kensington has a clothes department!

Yeah, we shall have to go shopping together :yep:

I seem to remember you're on a similar budget to me (maybe I can afford Topshop then - I have it ingrained that it's too expensive :p:

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I don't know haha, but my hair seems to grease so easily :/ and I have an oily complexion (gee thanks dad :pinch:

). Doesn't help that ALL my relatives go "Oh, you look more like your dad as you grow older" haha. So I'm turning into a man...awesome.

You'll buy me stuff? Do you mean, I can use your discount haha. Cos that's a bit overly generous, is it not :p:

I've never tried Primark make up haha. I usually buy it from Boots though cos of the fact I have an Advantage card, which isn't the best reason haha.

Sainsbury's! Really! The one we have here is tiny and has barely any clothing and stuff and whenever I go down that aisle, the clothes aren't really my taste :/ I find it hard to buy underwear too :p:

Only cos I have literally an ironing board structure haha. And I cba to get measured; the best thing to do (I find) is just try on loads of different sizes of bras to see which one you are. It helps if you know the number part of the bra size though I find haha.

Haha, and that sounds awesome. From the vicious rumours around, there seems to be a lack of girls? (Or dare I say it, girls who 'make an effort' :ninja:

don't shoot me for saying that haha, just some rumours I've heard! But maybe from a cousin who's jealous her university years at Imperial are now over :p:

) And oh God, please don't let me venture into Topshop. I only want a pair of Uggs so I think going to Selfridges is a better idea and just attempt to flash my College ID Card (when we get one) instead! If they don't allow that, then maybe Office will??

Can't believe am already planning shopping trips haha. Surely, we should be concentrating more on the courses we are about to embark on :p:

But then again, we're both from up north (compared to London haha, except, you're more north than I am :p:

) so I suppose making the most of living in a posh address AND near Oxford Street is something we should take advantage of!

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blip

i've just read your posts you two :ninja:

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lostphotobooth

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Yeah I mean you can use my discount lol. :p:

I wouldn't get most of my make up from Primark, but I'll get 'occasional' things from there, or stuff where it doesn't matter the quality.
Apart from Primark make-up, it's Benefit for me :rolleyes:

sooooo expensive but soooo good :biggrin:

also some Boots 17 stuff and Avon.

I have the opposite sort of problem with bras. My back measurement is quite small, but I'm still a size 12 - go figure :rolleyes:

But I have the tummy to match, so don't worry :p:

Yeah, I don't know if there's actually rumours about girls not making an effort, but you get that kind of impression! :p:

I'm sure there are plenty of girls who do make an effort, but I think we're outnumbered... Having said that, I don't 'make an effort' as such - don't straighten my hair or wear makeup every day, but I like to look good, if you see what I mean. :smile:

Why don't you get your Uggs off the internet? I think Amazon do them quite cheap, but I only briefly looked at real Uggs before I decided I didn't want real ones enough to pay that much for them :p:

I'm sure we should probably concentrate more on our courses, but there'll be time for that when we're actually there :biggrin:

shopping is important too :yep:

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jennikay

I've never tried Benefit stuff, only cos it's so expensive, and I don't use make up often enough to justify buying something from there. I think it's Georgia though that I was pining after a while back but never had the guts to enter my debit card details in order to buy it :p:

Haha, nahh I don't plaster myself in make up everyday. I usually do without it, unless it's a day where I *might* see someone of importance. If you know what I mean haha. But yeah, I like to look nice too; my mum doesn't believe me when I say I'd do anything to work in the fashion industry; even if it paid peanuts. But I really do mean it when I say that. I'd looooove to be in the fashion industry. Cept, it's so competitive, I gave up wanting it ages ago!

I'm tempted to get Uggs off the Topshop website cos then I'll refrain from venturing into the Oxford Street's vintage section haha, but we'll see! I think I'll be ordering them when I get to London as right now, I doubt I can fit everything I need after realising how many coat hangers I really need haha. I want to try them on first though cos I heard that you should buy a size smaller than you are, but I don't want to be wearing the wrong sized £150 uggs forever lol.

If I'm honest, I don't really know what biochemistry entails... I only picked it as a backup (originally applied for medicine...then decided I didn't want to do it :pinch:

) because I was good at biology and chemistry. Maybe not the best idea now... but we'll see how things go. Anyway, it's only three years, and tbh, I don't know what else I'd have applied for anything if I did take a gap year. Eine problemo (Neil from The Inbetweeners styleee :biggrin:

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lostphotobooth

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I don't use it often, but I like to have good makeup when I do wear it! I love their 'foundation faker', some kinda gorgeous.
I just buy the kits to be honest - lots of little things because I don't wear make up often enough to use the bigger sized things up! I've had their realness of concealness kit for about 18 months and still haven't used it all :rolleyes:

Oh good, someone else who doesn't wear make up every day :biggrin:

tbh I tend to conceal anything nasty and then maybe put some mascara on (if I can find it! Which I can't at the moment :frown:

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Yeah my Uggs are a size smaller, but that's only because they didn't have my size in :p:

You could always go into Topshop with no money to try them on and then get the off the internet? :smile:

Well, if you enjoyedBiology/Chemistry the I'm sure it'll be fine :smile:

I remember after one of my physics exams, actually looking forward to the maths exam I had the next day, because I knew I could do that. Maybe I'm just weird, haha.

Edit: I was just thinking, how glad I am to have someone to discuss this sort of thing with! I don't have many female friends at home, I tend to hang around with guys quite alot, but I looove talking about clothes and stuff. I normally just bore my boyfriend with it :biggrin:

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jennikay

I've wanted to invest in Benefit Georgia, and I may do so now :biggrin:

However, I've heard it doesn't show up on some skin tones?? Hmmm. Must investigate that further...or see if I can try it somewhere!

Haha, well, to be honest, if I get anything nasty, I just dab some Sudocrem on it at most. If I can be arsed, I do foundation, blusher, concealer, mascara, eyeliner, etc. the full works, but only on days where I am likely to bump into someone I need to look good for :wink:

Otherwise, sudocrem it is, and then I just either blend it in for when I go out or wipe it off :] It works a treat. Sounds a bit odd, but you have to see it to believe it.

And that is a vair vair good idea. But going into Topshop with no money is a bad idea...just makes me depressed haha. Maybe like you and Lush? :biggrin:

Idk if they do them instore though. I know Office do...but I'd feel odd asking to try them on and then not buying it there. I think I'll see how much they are in Office first and if they let me have a Student Discount, I'll get them there. Thank God Oxford Street is so near to the halls haha. Esp. in times like these!

Ohh maths exams were the ones I dreaded the most! I never in a million years thought I'd get an A so to come out with one was surprising :eek:

and I'm not being modest, I really am bad at maths haha. Chemistry was the one which I looked forward to. Needing high Ds/low Cs or thereabouts to get an A made me feel at ease and I do kinda like the subject. Just I wouldn't want to study it at degree level!

Haha, well, my friendship group is mostly of girls who don't wear make up/make too much of an effort (well, not obsessively like me who trawls clothing sites 24/7 :pinch:

) and the lads, well, you can't exactly ask them if a brand of mascara makes your eyelashes longer :rolleyes:

And just think, the boy:girl ratio is bad enough at Imperial haha. With most of the girls coming from ICSM too!

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Yeah, if you go to a Benefit counter and say you want to buy it if it shows up on your skin tone then they'd definitely put some on you. I went to the Harrods counter for the realness of concealness kit, and still managed to come away with my full face made up. :biggrin:

The lady at Peterborough wasn't as nice though, at all :frown:

Oooh, I hadn't thought about sudocrem. It is a bit of a miracle cure for everything :biggrin:

though tbf most good moisturisers are. I have a Lush one (again! :rolleyes:

) which clears up my eczema quite well.

I have a boyfriend now, so don't need to do the full works for anything other than nights out/parties :biggrin:

Yeah, going in Lush with no money would make me pretty depressed :frown:

all these nice smelling things I couldn't have! So like, all these pretty things you can't have :biggrin:

Ohhh I hated Chemistry. I got a B at AS and was going to carry it on to A2, then couldn't be bothered :biggrin:

but I'd put myself down to resit unit 2, and somehow got an A :eek:

I was VERY surprised :p:

Yeah, I didn't need much in my last exams to get an A in Maths/Further, but I still needed an A in both modules to get into Imperial, but it wasn't hard anyway :rolleyes:

(me being very unmodest! :biggrin:

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I would imagine the M:F ration would be a bit better in Biochem than in Maths :rolleyes:

In fact, I've had a nosey on unistats and the rations for Chem and Bio are both better than Maths (it doesn't have a Biochem option.)

Eh, it doesn't matter much. You generally end up making better friends with the people in your accommodation anyway. :smile: