The "What is in my bag" tag and competition

I was tagged by the little miss lovely Alice from Cup and Saucer to do a "What is in my bag" post, everyone should check out her blog, she is very witty and gives me a good giggle as well as being absolutely lovely!

Alice tallied up how much in monetary value she carried around with her but I don't want to know, I did a drunk calculation once when I was  trying to negotiate my way home but only freaked myself out more knowing that most of my expensive items were on me. Heavy items though so I could have bashed any threat over the head with my handbag... Anyway, my handbag is new and a butter soft leather one from H&M of all places. It is pretty great as it has lots of pockets and compartments for all my sundry items.

So general stuff in my bag:

My purse: which is a mulberry one, excellent size, I can fit so much in it, not just cards but change too.

Umbrella: I live in Scotland, it rains.

Glasses: My eyesight is actually pretty shocking, but as I am vain I don't wear my glasses a lot. I mostly wear them at work or if I get a headache.
A pen: when would carrying a pen round not be helpful? I carry around a "fancy" one I got given at work because then I won't lend it to people and end up pen-less like every time I actually do lend out a pen.

Plasters: I am terrible for having inflated confidence in new shoes and often neglect breaking them in, which results in feet that look, well like mine, blister central.
A diary: I am the worst at remembering anything I have committed to. Seriously, I am that person who remembers that they are seeing someone and the day but who this person is never really sticks in my brain. As a result I always double book. Always. This even happens at work, which is not remotely professional so I have to grow out of it as soon as possible.

Electronics:

Iphone: My personal phone, this germ infested piece is my best electronic friend and time waster.

Blackberry: Work phone, but I can't use it. Blackberries baffle me, it takes me 3-4 attempts to get my password in right and I actually dislike the thing. It is not user friendly at all.
ipod: my iphone's memory is not huge, my music alone would fill it and I am really sentimental over old messages/ conversations and pictures so I kept on deleting my music from my iphone or rationalising it on itunes when I synced, which was rubbish, when driving home at Christmas when I really wanted to listen to my christmas music only to find I had deleted all of it. Not a problem now!
Keys: I am the key master, I make lovely music when I walk...

Products:
(This explains why my bag is always so heavy.)

Cosmetic bag: Accessorize- a great purchase, originally purchased after the hair spray accident of 09' when I had a giant bottle of hair spray in my purse and the lid had come off, I then pressed the nozzle down, seemingly with my armpit strength, spraying the entire inside of my bag with hairspray, so much that it came through to the outside, not great, looked like pee and stained really bad.

This bag was intended to shield my bags a little from all the potentially messy things I put in my bag. Now it is handy because I swap my bags around all the time so I just dump this is what ever bag I am using without picking through what I actually want to take with me.

Lipsticks: Left to Right; Mac, YSL, Burt's Bees, Paul and Joe, Revlon and Dior. Seriously too many I know. Actually when I emptied my bag to do this post I took out another 4, thinking that 10 was a little excessive...

Perfume: Vera Wang; "Glam" Princess- contrary to the name this perfume is unfussy and pretty. It smells strongly for ages as well, which is a major plus for me.
Anti-scratchy cream: I have eczema, which is water and stress triggered. I am very rough when it comes to itching, I can't "itch around it" I really go for it, so I got this cream thinking it was worth a go and it does work, it is a minty/ spicy kind of formula that seems to distract me from the itch.

Lip balm: Nuxe Reve de Miel. You will have seen this before, I too love it. It is expensive but it will last for ages and they sell it in M&S in the beauty department I didn't know they had. Very heavy duty, a bit clarty and sticky so I normally wear it at night but it is fine if you just put a bit on.

Mirror: Forever 21, having a mirror and using it to apply lipstick works a lot better, and attracts a lot less attention than doing it in your iphone screen like I used to do.

That is all that is in my bag, but I thought I would rave about this bag a bit more. If you want to skip this section just remember what everyone else has written about the Zara city bag and apply. If you are still reading, I love this bag because it is great for work, the main pocket contains all my items I would use for both like my cosmetic bag and keys but the front/ back zipped sides separate my home and work life. I keep my blackberry, my diary, glasses and ID in one pocket and my iphone etc in the other. This is so great because you know where everything is and don't have the repeated experience of driving into your handbag for your iphone which is ringing and coming out with a blackberry which is not.

Hope you enjoyed this, it was certainly eye opening for me. 

This is actually a competition to win a mulberry bayswater, purse and iphone case hosted by money supermarket, so look at the rules here I am tagging;

 Beka Nicole from that seams lovely

Charlotte  from fashion girl

 Hannah  from dimples diary

 Hannah  from tea. three. sugars

 Maddy  from unstitchedd

 Snow  from garoons

But please, any other followers please have a go and link me below, I love nosing around others bags and realising that I carry too much junk around with me.

Love for love,

Emma x