Favourites | April 2014

So this month I thought I would do something different and have some non-beauty favourites thrown into the mix. There isn't many and they're slightly peculiar but, I love them nonetheless. 

Beauty:

No7 Beautifully Matte; I could not speak more praise about this product. I literally love it to bits. With a brush it glides on beautifully and, if I haven't said it enough, covers my flakey nose! There are also a lot of colours that fit to everyone and doesn't leave you with an ounce of shine (unless you're very oily). It is also Hypo-allergenic so if you have sensitive it won't irritate it too much!

Maxfactor Colour Elixir Lip Liner, 04 Pink Princess; this is probably the most perfect lip pencil I have ever had the pleasure of purchasing. It sits on and defines lips perfectly and can be used as just a liner, or over the full lip.

Calvin Klein Lipstick, Mesmerise; if you hadn't noticed a theme yet, pink is the new black. I've been loving this colour on my lips and worn it nearly everyday. 

Nivea Lip Butter, Raspberry Rose; Not only is this pink and smells amazing, it also smooths your lips and saves you from the chapped look. My friend introduced me to them when she showed me her coconut one. Although I'm not a coconut fan, the properties and texture of this beautiful lip balm is definitely worth a little hype. Why not try it for yourself?

Soap and Glory, Girlingo Moisturising Spray Mist; most of you know I have just returned from Lanzarote and since then I have peeled so much! However, this mist, or moisturiser. It literally saves the skin. Two lots of this and I've not peeled since. 

Non Beauty;

Alton Towers Ticket; Yes, this month I went to Alton Towers. I tend to take a trip every year as I find this is one of the best places in England. Not only are the grounds beautiful, they are littered with roller coasters. Whats not to love? Although my friend did make a very good point; why do we scare ourselves just to raise our adrenaline levels? I answered with who cares?!

Portable Battery; This is the pink block at the top. We all know smart phone batteries are not the best because we use them for too many things, but now we don't need to run out of battery halfway through the day. If it's getting low or you need a top up before going out, rather than carrying a charger and having to find a plug now we can carry these little handy things. Power to everyone.

Babybel, Gouda; I know this is the most random favourite ever, but I can't help it. I just love Cheese. These are incredible and you should try them.

Mini Matchmakers; I've always thought Matchmakers were too long, you have to break them up and then they melt in your hands. Now, they've made mini ones and it's possible made them my second favourite chocolate all over again, (yes, second, nothing comes before white malteasers. I still don't know why they aren't made anymore!). 

Graceling; If you're a vivid reader of my blog you'll know I'm a huge fantasy fan, and that's one of the reasons this is my all time favourite book. I recently found it again while I was digging around in the loft, I had put it up there while I went to uni (as i couldn't take everything) and read it again very quickly. This story is so original, along with its sequels Fire and Bitterblue, that it has every right to be number one on my list. I mean who else would think about people with multicoloured eyes being graced with special powers. I wouldnt. This adventure story is possibly one of the best reads I have ever had the pleasure of reading and if you're a bookworm I highly suggest you get stuck into this. Leck, Po and all the other characters will have you glued to the pages. 

Nikita; I have watched all four seasons this month, and loved every second. Even if I did shed a few tears at the end. If you like things like Mission Impossible or Die Hard, you're bound to be a fan, so what are you waiting for? Go watch!

Thats all my favourites from this month. Let me know if you are liking the same things;

Holiday Bejeweled Madness

Everyone knows of the game bejeweled, but lately there have been loads of games popping up which are all the same but different. For my trip on holiday I decided to download some of these and see how different or similar they actually are. 

Original:

I love the original and it always reminds me of holidays as before I downloaded this I would only have ever played it on long haul flights. My personal best is level 19, do you play it?

My mum then showed me this version;

Farm Heroes:

While this game is the same as Bejeweled, getting 3 or more in a row to make a match, but different. As you can see from the above photo on the left side there is a section to show you what items you are supposed to collect, above that is how many moves you have. It's a good game but sometimes it can be a hard task to actually complete the levels. I think I have been on the above one for about a week and half, and no I still can't do it!

Then, there is;

Candy Crush:

I swore when the candy crush fandom came out that I would never play this game, but when you run out of lives on the other games you're playing, it is inevitable that I would get another version. It seemed my holiday was all about these different versions of bejeweled. However, I stand by the reasons why I wouldnt get this game, it is just another game that does the same thing as, it's not one of my favourites and I rarely play it. 

Frozen:

This however, happens to be my favourite. It is basically bejeweled, they are exactly the same but I think I find this one more exciting because you play through the movie of Frozen. I have spent god knows how many ridiculous hours playing this game instead of sleeping and I still play it now. 

If you're going to get one of these get Frozen Free Fall or the Original Bejeweled. They are both amazing.

Dress Code | Travelling Home

On my way back from Lanzarote I knew that as soon as I got off that plane I would be cold, in anything I wore. As My luggage allowance really wasn't as much as I would have liked I didn't take any jeans with me so I decided to wear my baby pink maxi skirt from BooHoo.com. This has a small slit up the side of it (and is long enough for me to wear as a dress, oh the joys of being short) and the material has a silky cotton feel to it. I know that doesn't make any sense, but it's true. 

My little cute "He loves me, he loves me not" crop tee is from New Look. Yes, this is another purchase from the Generation Range. I've had this for about three years and I still love it! I think the font paired with with the daisy chain is super summery, so perfect for holiday. 

I also paired this with my Grey leather look jacket from New Look and some Toms.

What outfits do you wear on the plane?

Food | Holiday Eats

Hola! 

I am back from Lanzarote, in case you guys hadn't noticed, and I thought I would share with you some of the best meals I had while I was out. There aren't very many as I forgot to take my phone to the meals and some of them weren't worthy of being shared with you guys. I'm trying to be good to you. 

The first night I went round the corner from my hotel, Bluebay Lanzarote, it was a wonderful restaurant the staff were extremely friendly and the food, well just take a look:

I decided on the Veal in a Diane sauce. Even though I detest mushrooms the sauce didn't taste too much like it, and it was beautiful. The chips were proper chips. Not the fries you get in McDonalds or from the frozen isle. Proper chips that are potatoes chopped up and cooked in a fryer. Literally the most amazing things I've ever tasted. However, no veggies. For some reason they like to serve rice instead, which went well with the sauce but I would have preferred some Broccoli. 

The Next night when we went out we took a taxi to the spanish square and had a few drinks at Mandy's Snug Bar. I will never get over the sizes of drinks. A standard Malibu is about 3x the size of one at home! 

Then after that we decided to go have an Italian, at Pablos. 

I was the only one to have a starter so I thought I would go for something slightly more healthy. Salmon and Avocado. Which was so amazing, words cannot describe this. It was a bed of lettuce and avocado with a bit of seafood sauce and onto, as you can see below, was the salmon. 

Moving on to mains; the parents had Chateubrien. Which my Dad couldn't finish so I got too taste, even though I myself has steak. They really know how to cook them as well. I like my meat rare and some people in England just don't know how to cook it to perfection, but the people in Lanzarote do!

The last place we ate was a grill house and I had Battered Squid. I didn't think this warranted a photo because I'm sure we all know what it looks like. However, the desert was something to die for:

Hope you've enjoyed eying up my tasty food and are now very Hungry. I'm cooking my dinner as i type this so I am going to go back to it before it burns. Don't want a house fire by leaving the hob unattended!

BirchBox | April

So it's that time of the month again. This did arrive while I was away so I'm not sure on the date, and my neighbour decided to leave it outside in the rain, but thankfully only the box was damaged from it! With that lovely note out of the way:

First Look:

Contents:

TheBalm Cosmetics, how about them apples? cheek and lip tint, £26 for palette; An easy to blend cream that offers a gorgeous long lasting pop of colour to cheeks and lips.
I absolutely love my Down Boy blush from The Balm, and I've never really seen or heard of anything else by them so this will be very interesting to test out!

RMK, make up base, £28.00; A lightweight lotion to smooth and hydrate the skin - and make foundation last.
Well after the holiday, I seem to have a bit of dry skin on my face from burning! This should hopefully do the trick in moisturising and smoothing this so it's not visible.

Yin Yang, natural skin cleanser, £13.95; This all natural skin-balancing range contains nourishing coconut, sweet orange and wheat germ oils. 
This was beautiful, I tried this in the shower today and it definitely does what it says on the tin.

Laura Mercier Souffle body butter, £27.00; A sumptuous lotion packed with vitamin-packed shea butter, grape seed oil + honey to deeply nourish limbs.
Have to say I'm not a fan of this. The smell isn't the greatest and isn't the best feeling either. 

Colour Club, Gala's gems nail polish, £15.00 for four; Our collaboration with London-based Spanish blogger, Gala Gonzalez, includes this pretty Birchbox exclusive polish. 
As much as I love he pearly shine, off-white colours don't suite my fair complexion, would have preferred the minty green. However, that said, these are beautiful polishes that sit very well on nails. I may incorporate this colour into my next design.

Lifestyle Extra:

Propercorn Sweet coconut + Vanilla, 90p; A sweet new gourmet guilt-free flavour from this subscriber-favourite brand.
Not a huge fan of coconut, but this is very tasty.There's no picture because i got my hands into these too quickly, but at under 40 calories can you blame me? Go and get some!

The Beauty Scenario Tag

Hoping where you are is as sunny as Lanzarote was. As I don't get back till 11:30pm I decided I would post this instead of a weekly update so I can do a post on my holiday. Its coming don't worry.


The Questions:
1. You have to get rid of all your foundations and you can only keep one high end and one drugstore, which do you keep?

I haven't actually tried many High end foundations yet, but I am planning a trip to London soon, and I will be coming home with as many samples as I can so I'll update you when the times comes!
Drugstore would definitely have to be No7 Beautifully Matte. It's just amazing and I love it. I'm never shiny and it doesn't sit on my nose funny, if you've read my other posts you'll know my nose hates me and likes to be flaky.

2. You go for an interview and the lady interviewing you has lipstick on her teeth. Do you approach the subject or ignore it completely?

I think I would have to ignore it. I'm not sure how I would confidently tell someone who is interviewing me they have lipstick on their teeth...

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which lipstick do you put on to make yourself feel beautiful?

It would depend on the circumstanced but I would either go for my signature Estee Lauder Red lipstick or my Rimmel Colour Rush lip pencil in a baby pink colour (It's packed so I can't find the name!)

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years, how would you do your hair and makeup differently?

I would actually do make up and my hair! And probably take a course teaching me how to do it!

5. You ask your hairdresser for a shoulder length Pixie Lott hair cut, but they hear wrong and give you a pixi cut. Do you a) Smile, say thank you, leave and call your mum hysterical b) Cry in the chair and things get awkward or c) Complain to the manager and demand a refund.

A) I'm not good with confrontation i'll just go home and cry! I'll let my mum do the complaining!

6. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day city break and you have 1 hour to pack. Which 'do it all' palette do you pack in your makeup bag?

Probably my mew collection eye shadow palette, because even though it's blues they aren't too dark and they can still go with everything!

7. Your house has been robbed, don't worry everyone is safe, but your beauty stash has been raided. What's the product you really hope is safe?

I don't go a day without concealer or mascara so if they took them I would be barefaced and red! 

8. Your friend borrows your makeup and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs

I'm not one to lend things out and if I do, I'm always their watching them use it! Or I give them little samples that i've got so that they can ruin them as much as they like! 

Hope you've all had a lovely week!

TV | Game of Thrones S4E1

Today's post is all about a series I know a lot of you will be watching, but do any to you understand it? Although I am loving Game of Thrones, my main reason for watching it is the hope that as it goes on everything will become more clear and I'll start to understand what is actually going on!

If you know and can explain this to me, please do!

So Monday's is now Game of Thrones night, unfortunately by the time this post has gone up I will be on holiday in Lanzarote and will have missed an episode! So I'm going to write about the opening to season four.

I enjoyed this episode, still immensely confused, but enjoyed it none the less. Khaleesi's dragons look like they're going to cause a bit of trouble this season, as they're growing up and "dragons can never be tame." I'm really hoping there is going to be something incredibly interesting to happen with this! I'm a massive dragon fan so they better not go crazy!

I feel like Sansa is being a bit hard done by, forced to marry Tyrion as she is no longer marrying Joffery and then finding out her entire family has been slaughtered. If only she knew about Arya!! I hope Arya and the Hound stay together, they make such a good killing team! 

Well those are all my thoughts for now. stay tunes for episode two thoughts coming as soon as I get back! 

Dress Code | Ripped Denim

So last weekend I decided to sport some ripped denim jeans. These little babies were more on the pricey side of New Look and their Parisian line, but they caught my attention the moment I saw them. 

That's basically how I shop. If it jumps out, I buy it, if it doesn't I don't look twice. These are the perfect laid back skinny because they cling to your figure but only just enough, the rips don't stretch and you can still eat lots of food! 

Top is that annoying material, like linen, that creases as soon as you touch it. However this top is so beautiful that I just couldn't pass it up, even if this was from the teenage section. Beauty of being a petite female. 

The slippers I got for christmas so I don't actually know where they are from, I think Marks and Sparks (Marks and Spencer) and they are sooooo comfy *input heart eyed emoji* they feel like you're walking on pillows. Great for a stay at home day.

Thats all from me! 

Haul | Boots

As you can see this week I have a huge mix of goodies that I decided to try. I also felt like writing OH look another boots haul! I am taking most of this with me to Lanzarote, which is where I am now so will let you know all about them when I get back!!

I grabbed myself some brush cleaner from Estee Lauder which was a bargain at £12, especially when I enquired at the Clinque one and the woman at the counter told me it was £30!! Daylight robbery? Hopefully now I can give my brushes a proper clean. Also from the Estee section I got myself some blusher in Sensuous rose, this is £23, slight expensive but I was treating myself!

I have heard so many great things about Botanics so I thought I would see how good their eye make-up remover is. It's always hard to get mascara off, lets hope this is a goodun'.

Then I got to soap and glory and found it was three for two, so I bought the Archery brow which I have been itching to try as my brows are a bit scares at the moment, and two of the daily double eyeshadows to try and give myself some stability. I spend far too much time trying to decide what colour to wear on my eyes, now I have two easy choices!

Then of course there is another of the Rimmel colour rush lip pencils, which are just beautiful and I still can't get over how amazing these smell! I want to eat them!

Another eyeshadow I got was one of the collection work the colour pallets, these come in a range of colours but I went for the blue one specifically because they aren't too bright but are still colours and I don't own any blue eyeshadows. Crazy right?

And last but not least my hair dye. Ever since I started dying my hair red I have always tried to find different ones that I like. However, I will always end up back to this one, it smells amazing, the colour is beautiful and it doesn't leak for too long!

That's my spending habits done, hope the weather back home isn't too bad!

Spring Time Nail Designs!

As I'm going on holiday tomorrow a lot of conversations this week between my mother and I have been about our nails. She got hers done on Thursday and they look amazing! So I turned to my favourite place of inspiration - Pinterest. 

Typing in Nail Designs is always a guilty pleasure of mine because I love to see all the different, funky designs people have started to do. I even saw ones that were burnt news paper - very clever! Whilst going through and picking my design, I decided to share with you - along with the design I chose - some of the designs that I really like and will hopefully get done throughout out spring and summer. 

I'll definitely be getting the Minnie Mouse pattern for when I go back to Disney Land - how cute!


The top right one has to be a favourite out of these four! I love the aztec design and the miss match of colours and design. I thought the polka dot one was cute and would be perfect for spring with the pastel colours. I really was torn between getting this one and the design I've actually chosen as the pastel pink and the flower just seemed like the perfect holiday nails!

Here is the design I actually went for:

Hope you all have a lovely week. Be back soon!

Dress Code | Working Girl

Sometimes I just like to be all smart instead of casual and Next is always the best place to do it. There range of workwear is perfect for any kind of body type. My trousers are very figure hugging and boot cut fit round the bottoms. 

I also love this little peplum top with a lower back from New Look. It also has small shoulder pads which create a good look. 

There's never really much to say about work attire, its smart, it looks good and you'll always get notice if you're dressed to impress. Interviews always go better and people in the workplace will think you're professional.

First Look | Real Techniques Dupe?

During my boredom in the past few weeks I have been trawling through amazon. My search led me to these: New Pro Cosmetic brushes. After looking at these for a couple days I finally decided to buy a couple. I will be taking these with me to holiday so that I can see just how good they actually are before I blow my own trumpet. 

On first look these brushes look and feel just like the real techniques, so super soft and the fibres seem pretty strong. They handle and stand are just like the Real Techniques ones except these only come in pink. I got 03 + 04. These are exactly like the stippling and expert face brush. 

At a glance these could make the perfect dupe for the Real Techniques bushes, I guess we shall find out when I get back from my holiday. 

If you would like to give these a try too you can get them here, the only problem is they take 7-21 days to get to you. Let me know, 

The Weekly Update #14

 Bought myself some new clothes for my holiday | Built my new wardrobe with papa | Favourite buffering position

 New Bedding | Eeep favourite childhood film, song of the south | Lunchtime: fruit and a kindle

THE most disgusting sweet ever | Love this quote | Dominos means I was naughty this week

Must Watch of the Week: I'm all about the box sets this week, but Game of Thrones is back ;) 

Product of the Week: Soap and Glory, sugar crush. No words needed.

Naughty Thing of the Week: Not posting on the days I'm supposed to - sorry!

Wishing For: Sunday, because that means Holiday day.  

My Thoughts | Divergent

In tribute to this amazing book being turned into a film and being released yesterday I thought I would share my thoughts on it.

When I saw all the hype about The Hunger Games and Divergent and how they were supposed to be spectacular I never thought it would be something I would love. I think a book or film is only as good as the emotions it makes you feel, good or bad. If it makes you cry or smile or laugh it's good. I like something I can connect with, and being an aspiring writer myself I love to read new ideas and this is one of four ideas that I've read lately that have blown me away. 

There are a lot of books out there that have this new earth vibe going around and some of them are epic stories, like Divergent, and some of them I just haven't quite gotten into, and I'm on chapter 7 (no spoilers about the current read in my life).

Divergent was faced paced and full of everything I need in a book; romance, action, conspiracy and brilliant fight scenes. I'm a massive fantasy lover and this book ticked all the boxes for me. With every turn of the page it leaves you wanting to know more. Tris is such a strong character that it literally becomes like you're reading your friends diary all the while telling you a tale of personal choices, corrupt governments and a cheeky bit of romance. I especially likes the bit about the drugs, as weird as my first thought about it was, it brought in an extra element to the storyline. 

I'm trying not to give any spoilers away about the book incase some of you haven't read it, or seen the film yet. I know some people like them and some don't, trying to be respectful to everyone here! Just know that I would recommend this book to anyone that loves a good book. I'm also going to see the film tomorrow!

Let me know your thoughts,

Food | Odd Combination

So the other day I saw this interesting combination of billed eggs, avocado and toast. The picture on the right (not my photography) if the photo I saw, and while my attempt (the photo on the left) isn't as beautifully presented, it sure tasted pretty amazing.

I boiled two eggs at a medium setting. and then sliced up half an avocado. I didn't have any bread so I improvised and used a bagel. My dad wasn't very appreciative but upon tasting this I found that this actually tastes amazing! 

Any other combinations you think I should try?
If I find any other recipes that I like I'll make sure to post them
Have a great day,