Haircare Routine.

This is a post that I've been wanting to do for a while now. For years I've struggled finding the perfect products and routine for my hair. Which, if you're reading this you're probably thinking "surely she's joking?" I promise you, I'm not. 

My hair is so, so fine but luckily for me I have a lot. Apparently that's what works in my favour. 

I was also, never in the routine of getting it cut, it was one of them one time luxury things which I've not learnt it THE worst thing to do. 

To most of you reading (or all) The stuff I'll put in this post might be common knowledge, but I've learnt this common knowledge the hard way. 

The first thing I did was find a salon that did my hair exactly as I wanted and get into the routine of going there to get my hair cut every 6 weeks. After 2 appointments I noticed an instant change. After every cut it felt much healthier. I soon discovered it was the struggle of trying to style my hair like they did.

After searching endlessly and trying numerous products, I finally found the shampoo and conditioner that did exactly what it says on the bottle and does what I want it to do. 

It was the Loreal Elvive Fibrology Thickening shampoo and conditioner. Honestly It's amazing. 

The tangle teezer is also a perfect product. I find because my hair is so fine, no matter how many times in a day I brush my hair, it still get's obscenely knotted. Its a nightmare. 

The tangle teezer just glides straight through the knots. I'd be honestly pulling my hair out if it wasn't for this! 

The first step of my routine is brushing through my hair. I've found if I brush through my hair right before stepping into the shower, it washes so much easier. It also dries in a way that's a lot more maintainable after and not just like a massive frizz ball. 

The second thing I do, it condition straight away, this is purely because it gets rid of any knots that I've missed before or something. 

Thirdly I shampoo. The only downfall I have with this shampoo is it leaves a really straw like feel on my hair, that's not because I've conditioned before it does it when I haven't too. I don't fully understand why that is, but it honestly still works a trick on my hair. 

Lastly, I put more conditioner through it to give it the softer feel and healthier look. 

All in all, I've found this routine to be the best for me. It looks and feels so healthy and a lot thicker than it did before I started the whole process. 

Easter Weekend Antics.

If there's one thing I love about Easter, it's that it's a bank holiday. That means, a 4 day weekend from work, I mean, what could be better than that? Also, I love that it's acceptable to eat chocolate for breakfast on Easter Sunday. 

This Easter I got quite a few chocolatey treats that I didn't expect to receive at all. But I love them.

It was also mine and my boyfriends first Easter spent together. (cute right?) 

I basically lived at his family home with him for the whole 4 days of the weekend. Now, that's not too different because I spend every single weekend there, but it was the first Easter bank holiday that I'd not spent at home with my own family. Not that we do anything during it anyway, but still, was odd not being at home. 

On the Thursday night we had a quite chilled night, went for food and bought each other an egg, was so cute although I don't exactly know why. 

Friday I worked and did some overtime because in all honesty, I needed the money. I don't know what we did on Friday night but I feel like saying it was just another quiet chilled one in. 

Saturday my boyfriend went out with all his mates to the local pub and I stayed in his bed for the whole day and fed my Pretty Little Liars obsession. I've started watching it from the beginning again and I am absolutely loving it! 

After wasting a few hours of my day watching it, I eventually dragged myself from his bed and got ready to go and meet him down at the pub. We ended up staying in there and watching the England match and then the Kell Brook fight was on and we couldn't miss that! Especially with Kell Brook being a fellow Sheffielder. I really enjoyed myself on Saturday night having a drink and stuff. Was great to do something simple but different. 

Sunday, was definitely a quiet one in. We've spent most of our weekends recently watching Game of Thrones. It's another obsession of mine that I wanted to get my boyfriend involved with and can I just say, he is also now hooked. We've just started season 4 and we now have less than a month to watch the rest of 4 and the whole of season 5 before 6 starts the day after we see Noel Gallagher in Liverpool so the pressure is slightly on for us. 

That's all my weekend consisted of really, which to some people my age it would seem pretty boring but to me, it was so perfect. 

I'm not one of those for going out and drinking loads all the time and stuff. 

Leaving my boyfriend however was incredibly hard. It's hard every weekend when I leave him but it's just getting harder and harder every time. 

Did you have a nice Easter weekend and did you get plenty of chocolate treats? 

Current Make Up Favourites.

Quite recently, I've been LOVING make up and almost every little bit of money I have I've spent on what make up products I can. 

It's becoming a slight addiction for me. 

These products I've been Addicted to lately and I cannot get enough of them! 

1. Spectrum brushes ; siren collection - I'm lucky enough to have THE best boyfriend in the world and he bought me these for valentines day. I love them so, so much. They're honestly the best brushes I've ever had. I feel like I need to buy even more. 

2. Make up revolution contour kit - I recently found a revolution Contour kit that I didn't even know I had. I am currently Learning how to contour but omg seriously, how annoying is it?! In all fairness though I was exactly the same with winged eyeliner, but practice makes perfect. 

3. MAC Velvet Teddy - I cannot even tell you how long it took me to get this! In my home city of Sheffield, the MAC store that we have is really small so stock is very limited. I heard from a friend that It was in store and dragged my boyfriend down to the local shopping centre with me and got the last one they had! I love it so much and can honestly see why so many people also love it! Definitely worth a purchase. 

4. Boots No7 foundation - THIS IS AN ACTUAL GODSEND. Seriously. This has been my go to foundation for the past 3 years now and I love it! I use it every day and it lasts me a good month or two. It's super cheap and the coverage is amazing. I don't buy other foundations because 1 I love this one and 2 its the only one I can find that is perfect for my olive skin. If you pop into your local boots store and head over to their stand, a member of staff will give you a colour match and it will find the perfect shade for your skin! It's well worth it. 

That's it for my current make up favourites. What are you loving at the moment? 

Liz Earle skincare routine.

Does anyone else get those periods of time where your skin looks absolutely amazing and you barely have to maintain it, but suddenly out of nowhere you break out really bad. Usually for me it's when it comes to that certain time of month we all love to hate. You know what I mean. 

I had a skincare routine that was AMAZING and it worked so, so well. But, I annoyingly ran out of the main product and in all honesty, at the time I couldn't really afford to purchase more. 

I kept up with the routine despite not having the product I needed and found it wasn't really working, what I expected to gain from continuing I don't know but they say you don't know unless you try. 

One thing with my skin that I did notice however was, the more water I drank throughout the day, the more my skin cleared up and took less maintaining. 

Me being me though, I got bored of drinking water and even more so that I knew I had to. (I have no idea how my mind works sometimes). 

Whilst searching endlessly on the internet for alternative skin care routines to try, a name that I saw a lot more than others was Liz Earle. Now, I have heard a lot of amazing reviews, not only online but also from friends and work colleagues. They've recommended it to me so many times and so many times I've considered purchasing some BUT I think what put me off a little was price of it. 

This month I got paid a little more than I had originally expected which was a nice surprise and I thought "you know what, I'm going to buy myself some Liz Earle" because, why not? 

The staff that worked on the stand in the Boots store in my local shopping centre were so helpful and gave me so much advice! They advised that as it was my first time trying product I would be better off buying the starter kit they do. 

In the starter kit you get mini samples of the following products  :

1 x Intensive nourishing treatment mask. 

1 x Instant boost skin tonic.

1 x Skin repair moisturiser. Dry/sensitive. 

1 x Cleanse and polish Hot cloth cleanser. 

2 x Muslin cloth. 

The starter kit only came in at an amazing £26 too which isn't too bad at all. Honestly in the 3 days that I've been using it morning and night I've noticed a HUGE difference in my skin and it's definitely worth trying! 

And as for the price, it's that old saying "You get what you pay for" 

Fresh New Look.

So, apparently today is the official first day of spring and can I just say what lovely weather it was today too? It was lovely in Sheffield where I live. Now, I haven't done this post to speak about the weather. 

Now, surely we've all heard the saying "spring cleaning" right? Well this time, I've not only given my bedroom and wardrobe a spring clean, but also my blog. 

In all honesty I think the changing up of and cleaning my blog is something that was long overdue.

For a long time now I've not been 100% happy with. Finally though I've taken the plunge and got myself a new template from Etsy and modernised it a bit more. 

I might have said all this before but honestly, this is all something that I feel like is still very new to me and I'm still in the process of getting myself out there on Twitter and Instagram but it's honestly one of THE hardest things to do. It's such a long process and will be definitely worth it. 

I think the problem is I've been trying to compare my blog to others that I see when searching through the internet. I don't yet feel like mine is up to their standard but then maybe that's just me being hard on myself. I do however feel a lot better for it having a completely new look. 

Hopefully you guys all like the new look of my blog too! 

x 

Glossybox Unboxing and First impressions.

Hello all, and welcome to my first ever post like this, how exciting?! (Probably not very but you know what I mean).

Glossybox and monthly beauty subscriptions are something that I am very new to. I've been wanting one for a while and after doing some pretty extensive research I soon discovered that Glossybox was the best out there and went for it. 

So, the first box I received was a starter kit and omg, the excitement I got from it was unreal. 

1. Wilkinson Sword shaver - £6.99 ; I wish I could say something about this but the truth is, I can't I have misplaced it somewhere and have no idea where it's gone. It looks really good though and I'm hoping I can find it soon and try it out. 

2. The vintage cosmetic company tweezers - £8.00 ; When I saw that I got these in my box I was legit so happy. I've had my beady little eyes on them for a while now, like every time I go into Boots for new make up I find myself gravitating towards these but never bought them for some reason. So to now have some I'm happy. 

3. Royal Apothic Lip Tinties -£14 ; In all honesty, this is something that I've not really seen anything of, as soon as I put a picture of it on Instagram though my friend text me how jealous she was that I had one. My first impressions of it are, I really like it. It's really small and pretty and the lid is rose gold, which I just love. 

4. Naobay protective hair mask volume conditioner - £10.64 ; 

This is honestly the product I think I'm most anxious to use. That's purely because 1. I've never used a hair mask and 2. I'm very set in my ways with my hair care routine, my hair is so fine that any slight change or adjustment to it, it doesn't like for a while. I know, it's weird. However, I will use it to try and see what it's like :). 

5. Nicka K New York 24 hour waterproof eye liner - £3.99 ;  

Eye liner is something I've only just at the age of 20, almost 21! Just come to terms with and got the hang of using. Admitedly my winged eyeliner isn't all it should be yet, but with practice I will get there with it. I cannot wait to try it out with this eye liner! 

Glossybox March Edition. 

1. Luxie rose gold large angled face brush - £10.42 ;
My first impression when I saw this brush was omg I love it. I can't wait to use it and hopefully buy more from the range. 

2. Olay Regenerist luminous skin tone perfecting cream - full size £29.99 ; 
I am forever trying new facial care products and this is one that I'm really excited to use and see what it will do for my skin. 

3. 417 catharsis vitamin mineral shampoo and conditioner - full size £16.98 each ;
This is actually the first product that I've used and honestly, I wasn't too sure about it. it will be featured in blog coming soon that is my hair care routine. So make sure to keep a look out for it! 

4. Hey Honey good morning honey silk facial serum - full size £28.81 ; 
Can I just start this off by saying this smells gorgeous!! This is another facial product that I'm very excited to use. On the back of the packaging for it, it actually says its perfect to wear under make up like a primer and makes your skin look glowing all day long. 

5. So Susan light diffuser  - £14.00
This is another item from the box that I am yet to try BUT first impressions are that it's really cute and smells so much like chocolate. The shades are gorgeous too. I'll try this tonight and let all you lovely's know what I think of it if you're interested :). 


And sadly, that is all for this post, I really hope you all enjoyed it and would like to see more please do let me know in the comments or on any social media :) 
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x 

21st Birthday Wishlist.

I know my 21st Birthday may be only like 9 weeks away but I can't help but feel like it's quickly creeping up on me and I am not at all yet prepared for it. 

The other night whilst out with my boyfriend and his family, I was talking to his sister and she asked what I'd like for my birthday and honestly I had absolutely no idea. She very cleverly came up with the idea of me doing a wishlist, that way I could think about what gifts I would actually like and I could share it with you guys. 

So, here it is! 

I think I did a Christmas wishlist post so some of the stuff might be on both. 

1. Marc Jacob Rose Gold Watch - For Christmas I got a Rose gold one and honestly I LOVE IT. It was such an unexpected gift from my parents. 

2. Urban Decay Naked Pallet Vault - I have recently found out that Meadowhall (my local shopping centre) actually have this in store and it's breaking my heart a little because, I have no money to buy it myself. 

3. Michael Kors handbag - My very lovely boyfriend also got me a beautiful Michael Kors handbag for Christmas and I honestly love it so much, I had my eye on two in particular and he got me one of the ones I'd looked at and the other one is the one featured on here now. 

4. Pink Pretty Green Polo Shirt - Pretty Green is without a doubt one of my favourite brands! I think it also helps a little that I appreciate the indie scene it's slightly connected to, and I'm a HUGE fan of oasis. Noel obviously being my fave, even if Pretty Green is Liam's brand. Awkward. 

5. King Charles Spaniel Pup - If you didn't already know because I've not mentioned it, Lady and the Tramp is my favourite film in the whole entire world. So, it only seems fitting that I have a cute little pup like Lady. When I eventually get one, it'll be a girl, she will be called lady, and I will get her a blue collar. Pretty sad that I've already planned it out right? 

Well, they're the only gifts I could think of for now! If I think of anything else, chances are I'll do another wishlist post in the next 9 weeks!