In my January favourites post I wrote about how I had been loving my 'I love you to the moon and back ring' my boyfriend brought me!

Just wanted to make another post to rave about how lovely and intricate it is! It's in the colour Rose Gold (you could get it in that colour, Gold, or silver) and I really just wanted to recommend the site to everyone as it is literally hands down my now favourite jeweler! Everything on the website is positively gorgeous and charming, and if I had the money I really would purchase everything. Going to insert some pictures below of things I'm looking to save up for from them^.^
                                     http://shopdixi.com/product/kingdom-turquoise-amulet-ring






Please say that you think they're jewellery is adorable too! Otherwise am I just a sucker for cute little things? Hehe!

Chloe

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Just wanted to make a quick post as I've been doing my GCSE Photography for about 5 hours now and giving it a break so I decided to do a really quick review of my Nails Inc. London nail polish! I've actually had it quite a while now and it's getting to the stage that Nail Varnish gets to, when it kind of is going dry and a bit stickyish.

But besides that, I'm suprised it's last this long! This one is in the shade 'shoreditch' which I think is such a perfect colour for Spring/spring going into summer! It's a kind of a hot pink/pinky-coral colour which will definitely compliment a golden glow skin colour in the summer, and I think is such a great colour for any skin tone in fact!

When applying, it has a really nice smooth brush that isn't too small which I find really helpful when using a lot of coats and building the colour up. It takes about the average time to dry, and when it is, it has this super glossy finish which is really nice!

The nail varnish is definitely a hard wearing and chip resistant one, and I'm forever one for chipping them in the first few hours of wear!

I only have one Nails Inc nail polish, but I really want to purchase the shade Piccadilly Circus, which is a gorgeous dark cerise colour!

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What's your favourite nail polish/shade? :) 

Chloe
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Wanted to make a post on the makeup I'll probably wear on Valentines day! So here it is, a super quick run down on how I will wear my makeup and hair!

Firstly, I prime my skin with my Garnier perfect blur, then I used my Maybelline dream satin liquid foundation using a stippling brush from ELF(Brushes I use shown in image on the right) , to make sure it is completely blended into my skin, sometimes I will use my fingers after quickly if some parts are not blended as much.

Depending on dark circles, I used Garnier's caffeine roll on anti dark circles! Then sometimes I will use a concealer, usually the Dream Matte concealer from maybelline:)
I set everything with a pressed powder, then used my MUA shimmer kisses quad blush on the apples of my cheeks.

Moving onto brows, I'll usually use an angled brush and a light brown/medium brown eyeshadow just to fill them in, but recently I have been using a pencil just to fill in the ends. Then I'll use a brow gel to make sure they stay in place!

For my eyes for Valentines day, I decided to first use Calvin Kleins cream eyeshadow in 'Bare Silk' and use my ring finger to cover my whole eye lid, then I took a champagne colour for the first quarter of my eye on an eyeshadow brush, then using a light pink/salmon eyeshadow, I blended that in with the champagne, then I'll go again with a darker pink on the outer corners of my eye and blend everything in to make it look smoother and a softer finish to get rid of any harsh lines! Finally, for eyeshadow, I will take a dark brown and blend that in to the crease of my eyelid to give a little drama!

For eyeliner, starting from the middle of my eye, I made a small/medium thickness line and winged it out a little. Then I curled my eyelashes and used a few coats of mascara on the top and bottom lashes! And finally, for lips, I used Rimmels moisture renew in the shade Rose shimmer, then put a little pink lip balm over the top to finish.






This look is really pretty! It's really hard to explain how I put on makeup through writing! But I tried my best! 

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This year (I say this every year but lets hope I mean it now) I am determined to have a fit body, ready for the bikini season, but in general, just to be healthy and have a body I love! I've created a workout based on finding fitness routines online and I'm just going to share with you my favorite workouts down below- as a reference for me, somewhere I can go quickly to access them, and to share them with anyone who reads this!

Crunches x20

Toe reaches x20


Sumo squats + weight x15


Pendulum Hops x 30

V-sit ups, x15


x20


Squat jumps x 10


x15



x10








FINALLY, finish with 30 second plank. 

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Going to try and do this every day/every other day! Hopefully I'll see some results! Comment below if you try it out :)
Chloe
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In a few days I'm going to make a post with an idea I have come up with for makeup/hair/outfit for valentines day, but today I'm going to just post some pictures that I have seen around which I think will be really cute for valentines day! ❤ I think the colour pink is always perfect on valentines, whatever shade, whether it's the darkest or palest! Whether it's a light shade on your eyelid, or a bright pink top or skirt! It's a very girly, pretty and feminine colour I think, and I think Valentines day is a day where women and girls bring out their natural beauty with these warm toned colours and show their femininity!

In a way, I always wondered, and still wonder, why pink and red are actually associated with Valentines day, I even looked it up! I find the actual description as to why pretty interesting, and a very lovely way of looking at it, even with science!


"The colour pink symbolises love. It’s softer than the passion that red brings to mind. In colour psychology pink provides feelings of caring, tenderness, self worth and acceptance. Pink makes us crave sugar. Out of all the colours pink is the sweetest (cakes are supposed to taste sweeter if served up on pink plates!).

Pink has a calming effect. It causes the hypothalamus to signal the adrenal glands to slow their secretions, thus reducing heart rate and blocking anger (Science Digest). It’s used in some prisons to diffuse aggressive behaviour. This effect has been used in sport. Sport’s teams sometimes paint the locker room, to be used by their opposing teams, pink to neutralise them! Some studies of the colour pink suggest that male weightlifters seem to lose strength in pink rooms."
http://bordeaux-undiscovered.co.uk/blog/2008/02/why-pink-on-saint-valentines-day/


Along with this, I really love making an effort even if I'm not going out anywhere special too, it's fun and I don't think anyone (especially if you don't have a partner) should stay in, sulking and drowning their forever alone attitude with icecream and romcoms, at least do it with a bunch of your single friends! Have a girly day out shopping, have a coffee date, go for a run, do something, that at the end of the day, will make you look back on the day as fun or productive!

Saying that, this year, for the first time, will be a valentines day that I actually have a boyfriend, which is quite special for me! I'm sure there are lots of you experiencing this too, which is rather exciting, even if you don't do anything remotely special! ❤


Here are some pictures that I found from WEHEARTIT, which I thought were really pretty!

Chloe
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So today me and my boyfriend decided to do some baking! And for a while I've been eager to try making 'nutella brownies' after seeing them on MacBarbie07's youtube video, although I didn't follow her recipe, I went searching about online and in recipe books to see if I could find any other recipe! Here's a picture of the 'final' product if you like, of our brownie/cake!


It doesn't look the most appetizing in this picture, but I can assure you 100% that it tastes divine! Went back for another cheeky piece as did my Dad,brother and my boyfriend! We topped it off with a layer of chocolate frosting and walnuts { sadly I didn't get a picture, obviously too eager to devour it before photographing it! }
~ I call it the 'nutella brownie cake' because it seemed only one half of it had come out like a brownie, and the top of  it just seemed to be pure cake! A bit like a marble cake! ~


♡ NUTELLA BROWNIE CAKE RECIPE ♡

INGREDIENTS 
~ 175g softened butter
~ 175g golden caster sugar
~ 3 eggs
~ 200g self-raising flour
~ 1 tsp baking powder
~ 4 tbsp milk
~ 4 rounder tbsp of Nutella or chocolate hazelnut spread (we used Asda's own- so much better for price and tastes the same!)
~ Walnuts (no specified amount, just use however much you prefer!) 

♡  Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan 160C. Butter and line a base of a 9" square tin or any tin you would like to use- the original recipe was for a cake of about 20cm round tin, but as we wanted a more brownie looking turnout, we went for something smaller! (we also used a silicone 'tin' as it was a lot easier to remove the cake from after!)
♡ Put the butter, sugar,eggs,flour,baking powder,cinnamon and milk into a bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon for 2-3 minutes (until light and fluffy) OR use an electric whisk! (We went with the good old manual way, but I'd recommend using an electric whisk- a lot more effective and less time consuming! - unless you have a man in the house!) 
♡ Tip 3/4 of the mixture into the tin, then spread it level, then spoon the Nutella on in four blobs (we went overboard with about 6 blobs, but hey ho! Chocoholics are us!) Top it off with the remaining quarter of the mixture, then swirl the mixture so the Nutella binds in until the mixture looks somewhat marble like! Finally, smooth the mixture all over! 
♡ Sprinkle the top with walnuts, then bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes (for ours, we cooked for about 50 minutes as it seemed ready! Just keep cooking and checking on it, then use a cocktail stick when checking, and stick it into parts of the cake - if the cocktail stick comes out clean, it's probably ready!) 


Enjoy! 
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Crazy how this year is already taking it's toll, a month in already! I'm going to show you some of my favourite products and items from last month and give a quick review on them! :)

My first favourite of the month is a ring I received for Christmas from my wonderful boyfriend, it says 'I love you to the moon and back' and if I'm honest, I had asked him for it before hand so it was no surprise as such, although when I did open it, I was delighted at the quality and intricate details of the ring! I'm obsessed with it, it's very sweet and I could wear it with any outfit no doubt!

 Another favourite of mine this month has to be a Barry M nail varnish, one of the 'textured nail effect' ones, in the shade Duchess it's a very pretty pink colour, and because it is textured, it seems to dry ever so quickly which is a bonus for me as I'm pretty much the most impatient nail painter ever!

 Another definite beauty favourite I've had this month has to be something I've actually only brought today, I suppose it's not a beauty favourite as such but it is the N-SPA body mists, a lot of my friends have purchased these and I'm always the one borrowing them as they just smell divine! Very fresh and they seem to last a long time! They had an offer on them today in a supermarket, 2 for £4 whereas usually they are £3 each. I got the scents Vanilla and Raspberry.