First up, thank you for the support over the last blog post, I hope it helps you and helps with any confidence issues!
So... I got my hands on the Roller Lash by Benefit today! Ahhhh its so pretty so here goes a quick blog post on my thoughts!
Thursday, 29 January 2015
The one with the Benefit Roller Lash
Hello everyone!
First up, thank you for the support over the last blog post, I hope it helps you and helps with any confidence issues!
So... I got my hands on the Roller Lash by Benefit today! Ahhhh its so pretty so here goes a quick blog post on my thoughts!
First up, thank you for the support over the last blog post, I hope it helps you and helps with any confidence issues!
So... I got my hands on the Roller Lash by Benefit today! Ahhhh its so pretty so here goes a quick blog post on my thoughts!
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Friday, 23 January 2015
The one with the Liebster Award!
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I was nominated by the lovely Bébhinn to do this so without further a due I shall answer her questions and then you should go check out her blog! It's a good'un!
I was nominated by the lovely Bébhinn to do this so without further a due I shall answer her questions and then you should go check out her blog! It's a good'un!
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The one where I live in Ikea!
I cannot remember ever getting excited when going into Ikea. We went in often since we lived only an hour or so away from one and I have had Ikea furniture in my room for a long as I remember but trips there never excited me. However, since uni and especially since having my own flat, I LOVE it! I think there are Ikea’s all over the world but if your unsure what they are they are basically a MASSIVE store that sells flat pack furniture and all things home ware and décor. I’ve been twice in the last 3 months and have come out with arms full of goodies on both trips. The market place at the end is my idea of heaven seeing lots of pretty things to jazz up my new flat and I have so many things that have zero purpose! Like a jar that has one of those hook and catch lids? Sure you know the ones. If I had brought a few I could put pasta and rice and stuff in it but I have just the one. Not entirely sure what to do with it. sits on my dressing table a bit lonely so if anyone has any functions for it please leave them in the comments! I just seem to get a little bit excited by seeing all the sets together and just wanting that kitchen and lounge and bedroom and study to look just like they do in the store! It’s impossible however. One, you will never be able to put it together quite the same. Two, my student budget wont allow for me to do it and three, name me one kind architect who has designed a house will equal square rooms! Thus, the better and more suitable option is to just live in side it!
Sunday, 18 January 2015
The one with the online dating
Good day to you all!
I would like to impart some wisdom on what is becoming a particularly popular online presence, that being the world of online dating. My room mate and I joined a website called POF, acronym for the website Plenty of Fish. First issue I had was right there, I kept wanting to call it FOP, to which a flop this whole experience has been. But nonetheless I signed up and completed the online compatibility and personality tests which brings me to issue two, it took an hour and a half to complete just these tests. Add this on to the extra 45 minutes to resize the photos and find a suitable and not at all pretentious username and you've taken 2 hours plus to create a profile. In this time, I could have gone to a bar in central London and met someone in the flesh. Not by judging someone wholly on a picture.
Issue three comes from the personal description part of this whole set depreciating process. Im not entirely sure if this is just me but I had the issue that I needed to write enough to not be considered a fake profile, but not as much to come across as a psycho who shares their life history online! Rewind to the part where empty personal descriptions make me wary. An empty one makes me extremely nervous. I feel like the person who has written it is not in fact a 22 year old trainee lawyer but a 50 year old sex slave ring leader. Call me Anxious Annie or Cautious Clare but i've seen too many CSI's to trust an empty personal description box.
Issue four: photos, both my own and others. My photo choices are not very varied. I'm not extremely photogenic and shy away from the camera pretty much always. So finding a photo of me that I like and is not one of me where I'm gurning in the background is extremely difficult. Especially since I'm morally outraged and against selfies. And then onto the topic of other people's photos, if you put up one photo that is a black and white head shot, then I will assume your a creepy 50 year old. Put up 5 selfies, and I will assume your a self-obsessed prick. And put up 5 photos of you out on nights out, topless with 7 girls, then I know your a self-obsessed slut.
Issue 5: The whole concept of online dating. That your basing your decision on a picture. I am guilty of this and is a reason I hate myself, and try not to but thats just something I have to accept is a reality. Even dating in real life, I hate judging someones personality based on what they look like... ugh hating myself for writing this but its the harsh truth! But during the online dating process, theres a part when this judging is intensified by a hundred. On POF there is a app and on this is a part called 'Meet Me' where a series of photos come up to which you respond with a Yes or No. I hate this with every inch of my being and the whole idea is so self depreciating! Won't continue with this rant as nothing more will be written through angst.
Issue 6: First dates. You literally have no idea who you are meeting up with. They could be anyone, you don't have any idea if they actually look like their picture and you could be kidnapped right there off the streets. Adding another name to my list here, Suspicious Sally. Also, the other end of this, is the fear that you are not what they got from your pictures or personal description and that there will be the awkward 'ahh nice to meet you stranger who has a capability to look completely different in person than on the photo'.
Issue 7 is the last but most infuriating point, that people just drop off the face of the earth! I was texting someone for about a week, promises of meeting up and had spent the whole week talking to each other. He managed to find and add me on Facebook and we had plans to meet. Then, out of nowhere, did not get a good morning text and never heard from him again. My stalker tendencies have kicked in and made me not delete him off Facebook but nonetheless frustrating!
So I hope you have enjoyed my imparting wisdom. And I depart telling you this, don't bother with the hassle of it all! Go out, meet a person not a CV and don't fret about the complications of it all!
Love and Hugs
Anxious Annie, Cautious Clare and Suspicious Sally
xx
I would like to impart some wisdom on what is becoming a particularly popular online presence, that being the world of online dating. My room mate and I joined a website called POF, acronym for the website Plenty of Fish. First issue I had was right there, I kept wanting to call it FOP, to which a flop this whole experience has been. But nonetheless I signed up and completed the online compatibility and personality tests which brings me to issue two, it took an hour and a half to complete just these tests. Add this on to the extra 45 minutes to resize the photos and find a suitable and not at all pretentious username and you've taken 2 hours plus to create a profile. In this time, I could have gone to a bar in central London and met someone in the flesh. Not by judging someone wholly on a picture.
Issue three comes from the personal description part of this whole set depreciating process. Im not entirely sure if this is just me but I had the issue that I needed to write enough to not be considered a fake profile, but not as much to come across as a psycho who shares their life history online! Rewind to the part where empty personal descriptions make me wary. An empty one makes me extremely nervous. I feel like the person who has written it is not in fact a 22 year old trainee lawyer but a 50 year old sex slave ring leader. Call me Anxious Annie or Cautious Clare but i've seen too many CSI's to trust an empty personal description box.
Issue four: photos, both my own and others. My photo choices are not very varied. I'm not extremely photogenic and shy away from the camera pretty much always. So finding a photo of me that I like and is not one of me where I'm gurning in the background is extremely difficult. Especially since I'm morally outraged and against selfies. And then onto the topic of other people's photos, if you put up one photo that is a black and white head shot, then I will assume your a creepy 50 year old. Put up 5 selfies, and I will assume your a self-obsessed prick. And put up 5 photos of you out on nights out, topless with 7 girls, then I know your a self-obsessed slut.
Issue 5: The whole concept of online dating. That your basing your decision on a picture. I am guilty of this and is a reason I hate myself, and try not to but thats just something I have to accept is a reality. Even dating in real life, I hate judging someones personality based on what they look like... ugh hating myself for writing this but its the harsh truth! But during the online dating process, theres a part when this judging is intensified by a hundred. On POF there is a app and on this is a part called 'Meet Me' where a series of photos come up to which you respond with a Yes or No. I hate this with every inch of my being and the whole idea is so self depreciating! Won't continue with this rant as nothing more will be written through angst.
Issue 6: First dates. You literally have no idea who you are meeting up with. They could be anyone, you don't have any idea if they actually look like their picture and you could be kidnapped right there off the streets. Adding another name to my list here, Suspicious Sally. Also, the other end of this, is the fear that you are not what they got from your pictures or personal description and that there will be the awkward 'ahh nice to meet you stranger who has a capability to look completely different in person than on the photo'.
Issue 7 is the last but most infuriating point, that people just drop off the face of the earth! I was texting someone for about a week, promises of meeting up and had spent the whole week talking to each other. He managed to find and add me on Facebook and we had plans to meet. Then, out of nowhere, did not get a good morning text and never heard from him again. My stalker tendencies have kicked in and made me not delete him off Facebook but nonetheless frustrating!
So I hope you have enjoyed my imparting wisdom. And I depart telling you this, don't bother with the hassle of it all! Go out, meet a person not a CV and don't fret about the complications of it all!
Love and Hugs
Anxious Annie, Cautious Clare and Suspicious Sally
xx
Thursday, 15 January 2015
The one with the christmas gifts and the sale buys!
Good day to you all!
I have a heffer of blog for you today as instead of splitting this into christmas gifts and shopping bits I thought it would be easier to combine the two! Especially since they would be very odd length posts as there is a lot that were gifts and only a few bits that I brought. Links are all in the picture captions! Also, apologies for the photography, the sun did not want to cooperate but I hope these are not too blurry or dark!
Sunday, 11 January 2015
The one with the beauty resolutions!
Good evening, morning, afternoon, insomnia stricken early morning!
I thought this would be a great post to do since I am extremely lazy when it comes to certain aspects of beauty so needed a kick up the back side to stop me from being so lazy! So here it goes, my beauty resolutions!
Hair
1) Deep Condition
I am so very lazy when it comes to hair care. I am definitely a shampoo, condition and leave to dry girl and have discovered that my hair doesn't appreciate it! So I have purchased some leave in deep conditioner and am aiming to use it once a week! I am using a Tresemmé Split Remedy (£5.75 from Boots!) and thus far its proven to be great. I am not expecting it to cure split ends but it does reduce the 'ratty' feel of them!
2) Get it cut!
I have never got regular hair cuts and have tended to leave it to the very last minute! But now that my hair is getting long again, after a disastrous decision to cut it very short, I have decided to get regular trims! Even if its just a trim every 6 weeks I know it will keep my hair healthy and let it grow better too!
3) Stop dying it
I went through a faze of dying my hair every other week after another disastrous debacle when I dyed it red... (very questionable decision in hindsight) It is now very close to my natural colour and I am pledging to leave it so it can repair itself after months of damage :(
Beauty
4) Cleanse!
I have never used a cleanser to take my make up off always choosing to use a wipe but after the amount of raving reviews about Emma Hardies cleanser I have ordered it and am waiting for it to arrive! I am very excited for this as it is the first 'high end' regime product I have ever purchased! If you have used this let me know in the comments or on my twitter to let me know what you think about it!
5) Moisturise
Similarly to the previous one I am lazy when it comes to moisturising! I only ever use it when I am getting ready in the morning! I am currently using the No. 7 day and night creams and I can't say enough good things about it. It is very affordable and one pot lasts a long time so would highly recommend it!
6) Regular eyebrow wax
This has been implemented for a few months already but is something that is still very new to my life. Before my aunt used to pluck my brows for me and that was all I ever needed until I stumbled across the Benefit Brow Bar. Now I have a wax and tint every month and I don't know where I would be without it! They shape them depending on what suits your face and will wax in a way to enhance growth in places that need to be filled ect! A wax and tint does come in at £18 but they have a great rewards programme that makes it worth it! I am lucky that my mumma pays for mine but I'm pretty sure thats just a ruse so that I go home to see her once a month!
General
7) Drink more water
I am pledging to drink just water during the day! I wake up and drink a pint and then drink it as i would any other drink during the day (bar the essential cup of tea). I can already tell the difference in my skin and myself! The cheapest cure to any skin dilemma!
8) Take vitamins
Not primarily beauty but it makes me feel good so I'm throwing this in here! I am anaemic and have folic acid deficiency so am taking regular medication for that so alongside eating food with high levels of iron and folic acid I am pledging to take more vitamins to keep my immune system up and make sure my body is getting everything it needs! Beauty comes from the inside people!
9) Do yoga!
Another random one but I love this form of exercise! I can't do a great amount of sport since having the third operation on my knee so beside the regular long walk/run I love doing yoga. Its so calming as well as a good core conditioning work out and it doesn't feel like you've done a whole exercise programme after!
10) Remove negative people!
A nice end to this resolution list but nonetheless an important addition. I have discovered after a series of unfortunate events that you cannot dwell on or keep negativity in your life if you want to remain happy. Get that bad energy out and you will feel a hundred times better! Think of it as Feng Shui for your life! Organise one and the rest will fall into place!
Hope you all have enjoyed this! If you guys have done one or will now do one let me know I would love to have a read and see what your resolutions are!
Love and Hugs
A xx
I thought this would be a great post to do since I am extremely lazy when it comes to certain aspects of beauty so needed a kick up the back side to stop me from being so lazy! So here it goes, my beauty resolutions!
Hair
1) Deep Condition
I am so very lazy when it comes to hair care. I am definitely a shampoo, condition and leave to dry girl and have discovered that my hair doesn't appreciate it! So I have purchased some leave in deep conditioner and am aiming to use it once a week! I am using a Tresemmé Split Remedy (£5.75 from Boots!) and thus far its proven to be great. I am not expecting it to cure split ends but it does reduce the 'ratty' feel of them!
2) Get it cut!
I have never got regular hair cuts and have tended to leave it to the very last minute! But now that my hair is getting long again, after a disastrous decision to cut it very short, I have decided to get regular trims! Even if its just a trim every 6 weeks I know it will keep my hair healthy and let it grow better too!
3) Stop dying it
I went through a faze of dying my hair every other week after another disastrous debacle when I dyed it red... (very questionable decision in hindsight) It is now very close to my natural colour and I am pledging to leave it so it can repair itself after months of damage :(
Beauty
4) Cleanse!
I have never used a cleanser to take my make up off always choosing to use a wipe but after the amount of raving reviews about Emma Hardies cleanser I have ordered it and am waiting for it to arrive! I am very excited for this as it is the first 'high end' regime product I have ever purchased! If you have used this let me know in the comments or on my twitter to let me know what you think about it!
5) Moisturise
Similarly to the previous one I am lazy when it comes to moisturising! I only ever use it when I am getting ready in the morning! I am currently using the No. 7 day and night creams and I can't say enough good things about it. It is very affordable and one pot lasts a long time so would highly recommend it!
6) Regular eyebrow wax
This has been implemented for a few months already but is something that is still very new to my life. Before my aunt used to pluck my brows for me and that was all I ever needed until I stumbled across the Benefit Brow Bar. Now I have a wax and tint every month and I don't know where I would be without it! They shape them depending on what suits your face and will wax in a way to enhance growth in places that need to be filled ect! A wax and tint does come in at £18 but they have a great rewards programme that makes it worth it! I am lucky that my mumma pays for mine but I'm pretty sure thats just a ruse so that I go home to see her once a month!
General
7) Drink more water
I am pledging to drink just water during the day! I wake up and drink a pint and then drink it as i would any other drink during the day (bar the essential cup of tea). I can already tell the difference in my skin and myself! The cheapest cure to any skin dilemma!
8) Take vitamins
Not primarily beauty but it makes me feel good so I'm throwing this in here! I am anaemic and have folic acid deficiency so am taking regular medication for that so alongside eating food with high levels of iron and folic acid I am pledging to take more vitamins to keep my immune system up and make sure my body is getting everything it needs! Beauty comes from the inside people!
9) Do yoga!
Another random one but I love this form of exercise! I can't do a great amount of sport since having the third operation on my knee so beside the regular long walk/run I love doing yoga. Its so calming as well as a good core conditioning work out and it doesn't feel like you've done a whole exercise programme after!
10) Remove negative people!
A nice end to this resolution list but nonetheless an important addition. I have discovered after a series of unfortunate events that you cannot dwell on or keep negativity in your life if you want to remain happy. Get that bad energy out and you will feel a hundred times better! Think of it as Feng Shui for your life! Organise one and the rest will fall into place!
Hope you all have enjoyed this! If you guys have done one or will now do one let me know I would love to have a read and see what your resolutions are!
Love and Hugs
A xx
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