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Feeling extra specially festive today! Possibly because me and my Mum have been decorating the house like mad women because my older brother and his partner and coming down this Christmas and so he insists our house to be very OTT with Christmas decor. My Mum especially is obsessed with the Christmas lighted houses and garlands so I thought I'd photograph some tonight to put on here just for a quick and cute picture post! Last year I was such a scrooge and didn't feel festive which was so rubbish but this year I am super super excited!




Sorry it's such a short post! I have a lot of work to do for Photography ahhh, it's frustrating! But hope you enjoyed, let me know in comments what's your favourite thing about Christmas! xo

I thought for my next post I'd do a massive photo spree of all of my staple products that I most use in Autumn and will carry on to use in the Winter!

• MUA - Mosaic Blush - 2.50 - I love love love this blusher for how inexpensive it is, when I first saw MUA products I assumed they wouldn't be great as they were very cheap, but after trying their lipsticks and eye-liners I generally liked the quality and consistency. I'm always a bit wary about skin products that are cheap as I had a bad experience once before using pound lands own foundation which brought me out in a massive skin rash and I couldn't wear makeup at all for like a few weeks which was a nightmare! So really I was conscious about purchasing MUA'S powders but I thought I would give it a go anyway! These products are actually really lovely and the blush is a very subtle pink shimmer which is lovely for the winter as my skin goes quite pale and colourless and this just warms my face up gently again! 
• MUA- Bronzer - 1.00 - This bronzer is really great if you want to lightly warm/brown your skin but contour also. I wanted a matte bronzer and this pretty much matte but I think there is a very little amount of shimmer which is okay, I do try to build this up very lightly rather than put it all on at once as it is very easy to get to much on the brush!

• T-ZONE Anti Blemish BB Cream and Spot Zapping Gel - I have known about the brand T-Zone for so long now, I remember my older brother using a lot of the gels and creams and face washes a lot when he was in his teens and apparently it was really great for acne and blemishes. When I first used it I wasn't really that impressed or understood the hype for it as to me it didn't really help my skin at all! So I shifted to other brands but recently I saw they had a BB cream and I wanted to give it a go. My first impressions is that it is EXTREMELY liquidy, just tip the bottle onto it's lid and the product pours out and has like a milkshake kind of consistency (the best way I can describe it! ;) ) I immediatley thought that this was not going to have any coverage because of this but surprisingly a little goes a long way.. as I found out the hard way! It doesn't have a massive amount of coverage, but for days where my skin is looking better without foundation this substitutes really well! 

•  RIMMEL MATCH PERFECTION FOUNDATION - I don't think I can say a lot about this foundation! I've been using it and re-buying it on and off for the past year or two because it just is a great foundation! It's one of those foundations that hasn't got anything spectacular about it, but it has nothing wrong with it either which makes it one of my staples!

• I tend to use quite a few brushes for my makeup but these are the main ones I use! Real techniques expert face brush (do I even need to begin on how great this brush is?!) And then two newer brushes which I purchased from TK MAXX and they are the Elite Models Powder brush (#48) and the I ON beauty Angled blusher brush. I'm not sure how popular or well known these brands are but I haven't heard of those two before, but the brushes are amazing quality and the hairs haven't fallen out at all and the brushes are really great at picking up the product easily so I don't have to keep rubbing the brush to pick more up. I think these brushes were about six pounds each! 

• For my face/eyes are these little pots of joy! Calvin klein cream eyeshadows! These were an absolute bargain buy from poundland! I know, crazy! I re-bought a few of these to keep me going in case the stock ran out (I don't think they sell them anymore! :( ) and they are just great! These are the first cream eyeshadow's I had used and they are quite sheer if you just apply with you finger but I have started to use a dome eyeshadow brush which picks up a lot of more of the product! They are in the shades sheer nectar and vintage metal and I have been using them a lot more recently because they are quite sparkly which is lovely for coming in to the festive season! They also work as a great primer for any other eyeshadows.

• Finally, makeup wise, I have been loving my Naked 3 palette (Who would have guessed!) as it has so many sparkly golds and darker colours which are lovely for transitioning into winter! 
• My lips have been getting very chapped as it is getting colder and I'm so bad for forgetting to put lip balms on before I go out as I find the best ones are very annoying and sticky and so obvious to look at! So I have started using the Clinique chubby sticks, these are great lip balms which have very sheer colour which is great because it doesn't matter what kind of makeup you're rocking as it tends to just go with whatever! The balms are very moisturising but I sometimes find I have to re apply them regularly which may be irritating for some!
• I have definitely become very attached to winging out my eye-liner recently and it's something I do everyday now as I think it just makes my eye's pop! I find winged eye-liner most easiest with the pen versions and I previously used Eyeko skinny liquid eyeliner which was great but it dried up with in a few weeks! I tried to find one similar and maybe with a pointier tip and I came across Asda's own George precision felt tip liner! It's long lasting and so easy to apply and I have a feeling it's going to be something I repurchase once it's used up!

• Some other little things just to finish this post of is hair/hand/skin care wise! I use a lot of heat on my hair in the winter more than I do the rest of the year, especially nearer Christmas, I find I curl my hair and straighten it rather than scrunch it with mousses or sea salt like I would when it's warmer! And so I wanted to find hair products that would protect my hair, I have so many different heat protections and I found these were the best! - Schwartzkopf gliss liquid silk- I find this best for curling as it just makes the curls so shiny and lovely! And my holy grail of this year (not even an understatement) is the Loreal Paris studio hot smooth cream! This stuff is the bomb! It's like a cream which you take a walnut size and smooth it in to the ends and mid lengths of your hair, leave for about 10 minutes to dry, then straighten! It protects and creates shine, but the best bit is it makes my hair stay dead straight for that day, and the day after! It's insane and has to be one of the best hair products I've come across in my opinion.  
• I also have started using hair oils, I'm really trying to re nourish my hair and stop split ends and so I've been using Mellor and Russell's argan shine hair oil, you only need a little and it's really helping to tame the frizz of my hair as well as conditioning.
• The frosted cranberry hand cream is something I mentioned in my last post from my little Body Shop haul, I've been using it pretty much every day and my hands are lot more smooth and not getting dry at all! Not to mention the very lovely festive smell it has! 
• Finally, I've been using a lot of Derma V10's bio oils and creams recently as I can get quite bad skin on my back and it really brings me down, especially as I used to wear a lot of dresses and vest tops which are backless, and in the summer- bikinis, it's a real stab to my confidence, not to mention extremely irritating and the bio oil is literally the only thing which has helped it and I've seen a lot of results and it's really helping my skin! I also use it on my face at night too, and in the morning my skin is always radiant and glowing because of it! It's going to be a fab product to use over the winter for if I get chapped skin in the cold!

• Madagascan Vanilla Flower Fragrance Mist -£5
• Frosted Cranberry Hand Cream - £3.50
• Japanese Cherry Blossom Fragrance Mist -£5
• Frosted Cranberry Lipgloss - £7.50

I realize I haven't posted in a while! *cries* The exam season starts on Monday for me, so from here on to the 17th of June posts are going to be small and rare as I need to focus on revision if I want to pass all 18 of them! I have some spare time this morning as I'm heading out at about 11 to see my boyfriend, and currently I am sitting delving into a lovely coffee and a bowl of coco pops, sitting in a towel after my shower, does anyone else end up lounging around in a towel for about 3/4's of an hour after showering? Or am I just lazy?

Anyhoo, I thought hey why not post my skin care routine, seen as I haven't done this before! It's nothing to scream and rave about, I have combination skin and it's not the best as I am a teenager,- stress,diet and puberty get in the way of my flawless skin unfortunately, and I tend to stick to scrubs and heavy duty moisturizers then toners and so on.

In the morning, I just splash my face with warm water and go straight into doing my makeup, I feel like the natural oils on my face are a better base for my foundation, otherwise my makeup and go a little flaky throughout the day, however in the evening, I'll start by using some makeup remover wipes, these are from Primark, and they're actually surprisingly really good, they don't irritate my skin and it get's my eye makeup off super quick!

So, like promised, I said I'd do a wee little post on the things I got for my birthday! (yesterday). I had such a great day with my family and my boyfriend, and I feel very spoiled!

I usually open my cards first, so I got all in all about £50 from family members, and a few scratchcards as I am 16 now! *gives smug look*

My main present was my new laptop, I'm so glad to get a new laptop as I had my previous one for nearly 5 years and it was painfully slow! Didn't run youtube videos, took about 10 minutes to load pages up (I kid you not) (Not even an exaggeration) So I didn't use it very much, only for things like blogger because I'm not so keen on the app! It's a Dell Inspiron, it's so fast and ah I can't really express my love for it!

Other things I got were clothes,a ps3 game, a mini photography studio with the lights and backdrop etc, then some bracelets, an epilator (probably not very exciting but the transfer from using razors to epilators is thrilling for me). And some other bits and bobs!

From my boyfriend, I was so very lucky and spoilt by him because he brought me some clothes from H&M, and the Naked 3 palette! And his family got an ASOS voucher!

I'm literally so in love with the Naked palette! How many of you reading have got the palette too? Or one of the others? I heard the best reviews about the third one so that's the one I wanted the most!  Might do some tutorials in the future using the shadows once I'm used to using them and decided some nice looks with them! :)

I have come to the realization that I was in definite need of a new blog post very soon! I've had a lot of school work recently, mainly art and photography - (photography exam is on tuesday, preparation for Art has started) so I've been very caught up! And really I've been waiting for something really or reasonably interesting to talk about it a post.

So today, I am blogging firstly because I have recently purchased (well, Mum purchased) me a few pairs of jeans, now I'm really fussy when it comes to jeans, as I can never truly find a pair that fit nicely! I'm the kind of person who either has jeans a bit too snug around my legs and too loose around the waist - vice versa. Topshop jeans I have found are the best fitting for me, or surprisingly jeans/jeggings from Asda fit me nicely. However, my new jeans, are by a brand called Monkee Gene, now I had never heard of them to be honest, so I thought it could be one of those unheard tacky brands so I wasn't sure whether they'd be great quality, but after looking up the website in which they sell the jeans, I found they were really well made and after trying them on, you really can feel the quality of them, and how comfy they are!

Now.. unfortunately, for me, Mum ordered them in a slightly more snug size for me *hides* *sobs* and we're unable to exchange them because they had a good price and now the offer isn't on! But, they do fit, with a little effort, (beauty = pain) (pays to look good) (etc) so I will not give up!

Here they are! I got them in the colours Grey, Black, and went for an adventurous limey Green!













Secondly, in this blog post I want to talk about this competition that E.L.F cosmetics are holding to find the face of the brand for 2014, you can win a trip to New York and a photoshoot and lots more things.

All you have to do is register, then upload a few images of yourself (don't have to be professional!) then once uploaded, other people can vote for you, the highest voter can win a holiday for a family, but E.L.F themselves actually choose the winner for the trip to New York.

You can register here!

I've entered and I guess what I'm kind of trying to politely ask is to click onto THIS link and vote for me! I doubt I have much chance of winning but it would be such an amazing opportunity to miss out on so even if my chances are low, I still want to try! Thankyou so much! If you register and want me to vote for you just comment your link and I will! :')

The final part of this blog post is just going to me throwing a few ideas and discussing some thoughts I've had the past few weeks,
As I'm 15, a lot of people my age have a clear idea of what they want to pursue in their future, what they want to do, be, see, and a lot more, and there are a large majority, which I fall under, who are unsure still- we're all told that it's perfectly fine to be unsure, but I do wish I had the drive to know what I want to do, and how to get there.

The past few days I've realised why I don't have that drive, and I think it's honestly because I either don't believe in myself enough to push for really high aspirations, or that because every job and idea people and I have seen, has completed BORED me, this sounds really silly, but I honestly, after scanning through millions of job titles, still fail to see something that I really could see myself enjoying. I'm perfectly happy ending up doing a small job maybe in a shop, or something like that, that gets me money, then doing things I really enjoy outside of that job, so say I work in a shop, and I do photography,blogging, outside of that, maybe also earning me money- I'd genuinely enjoy doing that! My real dream, is too travel, with someone I love, I want to travel around the world, photographing everything beautiful that I see, then writing about it, making videos about it, and somehow earning a living out of that, I think I've been inspired by other bloggers and youtubers to have this idea.
I'm forever changing my ideas of what I want to do, but my main goal in life and the future, is just to be happy, have fun, and make every moment a memory I can look back on and make unforgettable.