7 things in 7 days | June

Recently, Louise (spinkleofglitter) has been setting herself 7 realistic goals to achieve in 7 days on her blog, which i thought was a great way to sticking to your targets, (i'm particularly bad at this). She said this method had actually worked, and she had achieved everything on her list by the time she wanted to have achieved them. She then asked her readers to join in, and for these 7 things in 7 days to become interactive within the blogging community, which i think is a great idea! So of course, i wanted to have a go and see what happened!

Louise's 7 things!

As i said, i am particularly bad at setting myself targets, i never stick to them and they're always a waste of time for me, i've even stopped making new years resolutions for myself this year. So here goes, my 7 targets for the next 7 days:

1. Starting with a simple one, start eating healthier!
2. Get all my work done on time this week, stay longer after school if i need to.
3. Talk to at least one new person, being shy sucks.
4. Enjoy my dance show on Thursday!
5. Take time to relax and de-stress, to not let the little things get to me.
6. Make a new plan for my bedroom to get re-decorated
7. And finally, work on my blog more, i've abandoned it over the past couple of weeks due to exam stress!

Those are my 7 things, if i achieve them or not, i will let you all know!

I hope everyone's enjoying the start of summer, even if you're living in the UK!

Laura x

Busy busy busy!

I am in the middle of exam period, meaning lots of hours of revising and doing exams etc, which isn't exactly fun. I have two more left, then i'm free (almost) for the summer. Although i do have two weeks of work experience in July, which should be fun also. I have exactly 11 and a half days of school until we break up for summer, which is exciting! I hate school, the quicker year 11 goes, the better!

I'm currently being drowned by physics books and notes and my mind is numb from working. I also have child development, dance and ICT coursework to catch up on, so i'm getting a lil bit stressed! Although in two weeks, all the work should be over, i hope. And then i can look forward to another year of it, yay. Although i am excited that this time nest year i would have finished and prom will be just around the corner, very exciting! Although i do have some amazing friends to get me through my last 10 months of school.

I'll be blogging again soon!

Laura x

Glamour Magazine Benefit Freebies!

For any UK readers, Glamour magazine are giving away benefit freebies in their July issue, which is out now! They are giving away sample sizes of bad gal lashes, porefessional, and that gal primer. The magazine is the same price as it always is, which makes the freebies even better value. I picked up two copies today, with the mascara and porefessional inside. I have been eyeing up the porefessional for a few weeks, and i was very excited to see it as a free gift on the front of my favourite magazine, and there isn't a difference in price. I looked on the website, and the full sized bottle is 22ml and is priced at £23.50, the bottle in Glamour is 7.5ml, and only cost £2. Now, from my very genius mental maths skills, you can buy 12 Glamour magazine with the porefessional inside and it would be 4x the amount in the full sized bottle for the same price. Bargain or what? I am definitely be getting alot more Glamour magazines in the next two weeks. The cashier may think i'm slightly weird, but oh well. I should mention that my pores are really visible on my face, and i hate it. Already, porefessional is my saviour. Also, £23.50 is really out of my price range, £2 is much more my budget! The covers of the magazines are different to every freebie they have, it's the same content but with different stories about different celebs. But this month i'm not too bothered about the magazine, more about the freebies. I will probably do a proper review on the porefessional primer once i have used it for a while so i can give my honest opinion on it, but in the mean time,  i will enjoy using my first high end product :)

There are more freebies inside Glamour magazine, with a sample of pantene shampoo, and a voucher for a free graze box. I have two since i bought two magazines, but i doubt i'll use the graze vouchers..

 

The samples of porefessional and bad gal lashes

I say to EVERYONE, get yourselves down to your newsagent and pick up a copy of Glamour this month, or pick up two, like i did!



Face of the day | FOTD

So i've done outfits of the day and i've done nails of the day, but i haven't done a face of the day yet. So today, i thought i would try doing one. I'm not sure how it will turn out, actually it was quite difficult to capture all my makeup on camera, but hopefully it looks okay. Please bear in mind that these were taken first thing this morning, and i am not a morning person, as you will soon see!

Wow, i look so happy!

The products i used on my face:

Collection 2000 colour match foundation in Light

Collection 2000 16 hour concealer in Light

Rimmel stay matte powder in warm beige

Rimmel eyebrow pencil in hazel

Bourjois delice de poudre bronzer shade 52

Maybelline colour tattoo in on and on bronze

Maybelline cat eyes mascara

Natural collection white eyeliner

Barry M limited edition lipgloss

The body shop vitamin E face mist to set!

The final face! I'm a little more awake and happy now lol. Yes those are my pj's and that is my bed hair, i was just too lazy to change and do my hair for the photo's at least my face is done!

I'm on half term atm so sorry for the overload of posts, i have not alot better to do, i don't usually get alot of time during school time. I hope you liked my first face of the day, let me know what you think and i may think about doing some more maybe?

Jubilee nails | NOTD

The Queen celebrated her diamond jubilee yesterday, 60 years on the throne. It's a proud year for Britain, with the diamond jubilee and the Olympics, and i was feeling quite patriotic last night, so i decided to paint my nails to match. Now technically speaking, i'm crap at nail art. I tried doing little Christmas trees and Santa at Christmas but i had no such luck. So i was very pleased but surprised with myself last night when i (sort of) successfully did little union jacks on my nails. It's actually fairly simple, and seeing i'm very cack-handed and have quite shaky hands, i think they turned out pretty well!

This is what you will need:

• Barry M base coat, top coat and nail hardener
• Barry M cyan blue
• White and red nail art pens

 

The first step is applying the base coat to protect your nails. You can obviously use any base coat, blue white or red, but these are just what i have. Wait for the base coat to dry before applying the blue

Although this is quite an opaque nail polish, you may need to apply two coats to make it completely opaque. Wait for the polish to dry before adding the second coat. You will then need your white nail art pen.  

(Excuse the messy edges and oily cuticles:/)
Using the white nail art pen, draw onto your nails a white cross, and then a kiss shape so it looks like this ^

Then the tricky bit.. grab your red nail art pen and get the nib ready. My nail art pens take quite a while to dry, make sure yours are completely dry otherwise the white will smudge and the red and white will mix together.

Okay, so i know they're a bit messy, but i'm no professional. But here's the finished result!
I'm pleased with my creativeness although i'm probably not the only girl in the country to do jubilee nails, but oh well, i likes them. Again, please excuse the smudginess and messy edges, this is hardcore nail art to me.

I hope you all had a great jubilee weekend and celebrated in style, and have a good, extra long weekend!

Summer Diary 2012 | Entry One

Welcome to my summer diary :) I've decided to keep a blog diary of the summer of 2012, and I'm beginning with June. I hope it's not too boring for you, i don't exactly have an exciting life. The weather this past week has been absolutely gorgeous, blue skies and scorching hot temperatures. But this is England, so of course, it didn't last long. Yesterday and today have been grey and typical English weather. Just TYPICAL. Hopefully the rays will be back soon, and hopefully not when i'm still in school, being stuck in a classroom when i could be in my garden sunbathing is the sort of torture that the school love to deal us. It's so not fair. Anyways, enough moaning.


Today me and my mum went to the royal bath and west show, which is basically a country show with loads and loads of stalls, animals and lots more. It's huge. I've been every year since i was only a few weeks old, it's kinda tradition. I loved all the animals, all the little piglets and guinea pigs (i want one!), and i also loved the stalls, which is where i bought some things :) It was absolutely packed, everyone and their mother were there (literally). After looking round the many stalls (there were hundreds), we went to the village green where there was entertainment. Now, being a dancer, i feel like whenever i watch other people dancing, i am constantly evaluating them (it's force of habit, i blame my btec dance course). It's not exactly a bad thing, but being on the btec dance course for a year now, it seems i have somehow become a bit more professional about dance. Whatever i'm babbling on about, the entertainment was very poor. There was some sort of carnival club 'performing' ie, none of them had a clue what they were doing, even though the routine consisted of stepping side to side with a few arm movements. The next act we saw where a dance school. Lets just say, they've not had much training. The choreography was simple, and the routine went on for about 10 minutes, i was so bored by the end. Little groups took turns in dancing, and when the others weren't dancing, they were stood at the back having a chat and fiddling. And when they did all dance, it wasn't together and they did it with minimal effort. All i will say is that you wouldn't see that on a west end stage. And, they weren't even out of breath at the end of it. If my btec dance teacher had given us a 10 minute routine with technicality and all sorts, we'd be passing out by the end of it. No offence if you happen to be one of the dancers performing, and i know it's not exactly strictly come dancing, but i'm just saying how much i have matured about dance, i've had good training and can spot poor dancers from a mile off.

Anyways, smiley faces back on, here is what i got :) Makes me happy all the time hehe

From left to right..Pink sunhat with leopard bow, this was £10 and looks gorgeous on!

White tie up shirt with leopard print, this was £21, but i think i'll get alot of wear out of it

Floral playsuit, this was £12 and is so cute!

Sweets! My mum filled three bags, one for me, one for my brother and one for herself and guess how much it came to? £21! Ridiculous, but sooo yummy

Belts were £1 each which is a bargain, and i really like them.

I also got some small cactus' (or cacti) which were so cute, they had different coloured flowers on them and i now have about 10 cacti on my window sill lol, they were 5 for £12 which i think is quite fairly priced.

So that was my day at the bath and west show, i don't really do anything interesting so i'll probably post these about once a week or every two weeks, i hope they 're not too boring!

x

Born Lippys | The Body Shop

I am a huge fan of the body shop, i have been for quite a few years. My mum used to always go in there, and i was pretty fascinated by all the lovely smells and different products there were. I've recently started going into the body shop once again, and i don't understand why i haven't been in there for a couple of years, i must be mad! I went in there after reading good reviews on some of the products, which made me want to go in and have a look. The body shop aren't particularly cheap, so every so often i save up and have a little splurge. The body shop is a treat for me, and I'm sure me and the body shop will become much more acquainted over the next few months! A few months ago i purchased some of the born lippy's as they were only £2 each, and they had a 3 for 2 offer on, bargain. I was very impressed by them, in the winter my lips get dry and really chapped (mmm, attractive), and the born lippy's saved my lips completely, so already a big thumbs up from me.

I was browsing the body shops website a few weeks ago and i noticed they had brought out a new range of born lippy's, but in stick form. I had a look at them, and first off i give them a 10/10 for the packaging, it reminded me of an artist we studied a couple of years ago in art (for the life of me i cannot remember their name). It's very gimmicky and sucked me right in, i wanted all of them! There are six colours available, and as you may have seen in a haul a couple of posts ago, i went and purchased two of them. I vow that next time i pop into the body shop, i will get some more, i LOVE them. 

 

 

They cost £3 each, and you get quite alot of product with that. They are a lip balm, but add a slight hint to the lips, especially the darker colours. They do the same job as the born lippy's in pot form, but they're slightly easier to apply. They go onto your lips really well, and they also have great staying power, lasting for about an hour on the lips. Lip balms aren't made to stay on all day, but i don't mind topping up. You can really smell the flavours as you apply it to your lips, which is always good. They smell delish, and love to have a good sniff before i put it on my lips (i'm aware that sounds slightly weird, lol). I have pink berry and pomegranate, and i have had alot of use out of pink berry, at first i thought it smelt a bit sour but i've got used to smell now and i actually quite like it. Pomegranate smells nice too, although i haven't used it as much as it gives a red tint to the lips which school would not like. I will be trying it this week though as i'm now on half term (yay!).

The downsides to this product is the awful plastic packaging. As i said, i love the design, but i'm not very keen on the actual packaging, it looks a bit cheap for the body shop, and i think they could have done alot better for £3.

Other than that, i love the new born lippy's. They're very nourishing and moisturising to the lips, the packaging looks great, and they're a good price.