Hello you beauties!

Even though I live in England and everyone knows that the weather isn't always the best, but there are times where it is warmer than usual. Sometimes I feel like foundations are too heavy for the warmer weather. So what should I do instead?

I've found that CC or BB creams are a better option for those warmer days. Whenever I wear foundation during the warmer hours, I often feel like my face is melting off and my foundation begins to irritate my skin and feel sticky. So I want something lighter for my skin that still offers coverage. And CC and BB creams definitely do that - although they don't offer as much coverage as foundations but they offer enough for it to still feel comfortable.

Admittedly I don't actually own that many CC and BB creams as when I find ones I like, I prefer to just stick to those as I use foundations for most of the year and don't want to spend a lot of money on products I do not use much.

My favourite CC cream is definitely the Max Factor CC Cream. It offers a great coverage and you can barely feel it on your skin, meaning it is perfect for when the weather is warmer. However, there are not many shades in the range - I think I only found 3, those being 'fair', 'medium' and 'dark'. I am a considerably pale person so I thought that the 'fair' shade would be the best for me but it is actually slightly too light for me and if I'm not careful then I feel like it washes me out. I have found though that if you use a bit of bronzer with this shade (unless of course you are an extremely pale person) then it's not too bad. The bonus is that it is actually quite moisturising and doesn't cling to the dry patches around my nose, which I love because I suffer from dry skin so I struggle to find foundations and creams that don't cling.

The only problem with this CC cream is the fact that I don't think it's that available in drug stores anymore. I know it is a product that was brought out a few years ago and the only place I have ever seen this is a B&M store (which is where I bought my bottle of it) and I think it is also available on the amazon website. If you do manage to get a one though they are a reasonable price - I'm pretty sure I bought mine for less than £5, which is definitely a great price as it lasts for a long time.

My favourite BB cream is the Garnier BB cream (or also known as a tinted moisturiser). This offers slightly less coverage than the Max Factor CC cream as it instead gives a more natural glow with a bit of extra colour to your skin. This is a product I would definitely recommend for those extremely hot days or those days where you're feeling confident about your skin.

Again, this cream only has a few shades (the same as the Max Factor cream) but because these are more of a tinted moisturiser it means that one shade can be suitable for a range of skin tones, at least in similar spectrums.

In contrast to the Max Factor CC cream, this BB cream is much more available in the drugstores - I bought mine from Tesco for around £5 but I know you can also buy it for around the same price at many other places such as Boots and Superdrug.

If I can, I will always use foundations as I do not like my skin and believe that foundations offer a much better coverage, but I will still use BB and CC creams where necessary.

Are there any BB and CC creams that you use and would recommend to other people? Let me know in the comments!

I'll be back next week with another post for you all.
Byeeee!

Hello you beauties!

Now that we're into August I really do feel like summer is here so what I wanted to do today is share with you my summer bucket list. It's my first summer with my boyfriend and despite us both having to work, we both plan on having amazing adventures and days together so I wanted to think of a few ideas for us to do.

1. Go on a picnic
2. Go on a cinema date
3. Spend more time with my friends
4. Do plenty of shopping for university!
5. Work hard to save money for university!
6. Have a movie night
7. Pull an all nighter
8. Watch a sunset
9. Go on many walks to anywhere
10. Party with my friends before we all get separated for uni

Obviously there are many things I will also be doing that aren't on this list but these are just a few things I am hoping to do this summer.

What are your plans/hopes for this summer?

I'll be back next week with another post for you all.
Byeee!

Hello you beauties!

It's not very often that I actually write fashion posts as for some reason I tend to focus more on beauty, so I'm trying now to bring more fashion related posts to you all.

Today I want to discuss colour, and what colours I like to wear and what I usually avoid. Everyone always talks about what colours suit certain people and what colours they should avoid, and I always believe it depends on your eye colour, hair colour, skin tone, etc... I don't know if you all believe that too but that's my opinion on it.

Colours I usually tend to avoid are green and yellow. I just don't believe that they are very flattering colours on me. I have blue eyes so I feel like if I ever wear green then it clashes too much and just doesn't look right.

Also, I'm a very pale person so I feel that whenever I wear yellow, especially a light yellow, then it washes me out. Which of course is never very flattering - who wants to look paler than they are!?

However, there are many colours that I love to wear and feel very comfortable and confident wearing. My favourite colour to wear is definitely purple, but that is probably more due to the fact that it is my overall favourite colour and not the fact that it actually looks good on me.

One colour that I especially love wearing is red, because with my blue eyes I just feel like it is very complimentary and also makes me feel confident and empowered.

I also love wearing blue, especially a dark blue because I believe that blue (just like black) is a colour that anyone can wear and not have to worry about. It works with anything but can still brighten up an outfit if you don't want to wear black, or want to wear a black top but do not want a whole black outfit.

What colours do you like/dislike wearing?

I'll be back next week with a new post for you all.
Byeeee!

Hello you beauties!

I'm aware this may be a controversial subject as I know many people don't like Primark - whether that be because they disagree with the use of the sweatshops or because there is the stigma that Primark clothes are 'chavvy'. But I, like many other people, do still choose to shop at Primark and I do not hide where I get my clothes from. Why should I be ashamed?

It's true, most of my clothes are probably from Primark (or from supermarkets) and when people ask me where I got a t-shirt or a dress from, for example, I do not lie and tell them it is from somewhere considered more appropriate and expensive. I will openly inform people that my clothes are from Primark, and probably did only cost £3.

I am not ashamed. I'm only 19 and don't earn a lot of money. I work usually between 12 and 16 hours a week (sometimes can be less) at just over £6 an hour. I could afford a pair of Topshop jeans, but then it'd probably leave me with very little money left over for the rest of my pay period.

Primark clothes are great for the price. I've found many great items of clothing in there, each usually less than £10 each. And they last me for a very long time. I hardly have to spend any money on clothes which means I can spend that extra money on other things, like spending time with my boyfriend and my family.

Now in no way am saying anything bad about anyone who does like to spend a lot of money on their clothes, or dislikes Primark at all. You all have your own opinions. But I wanted to share mine.

Where do you like to shop for your clothes?

I'll be back next week with a new post for you all.
Byeeee!

Hello you beauties!

I'm back with another makeup post for you all today and this time I have decided to discuss mini versions of full sized makeup items and why they can be beneficial.

Everyone always wants the full sized item of popular makeup items but often these can be very expensive and therefore a waste of money if you decide you don't like it. That's why I find the mini versions of products to be better value for money sometimes.

Yes, you still have to buy them and you might still consider it a waste of money if you don't like it, but wouldn't you rather waste £10 rather than £30 for example? If you decide you like the product after trying out the miniature version, you can then go and buy the more expensive full sized product and know that you will use it all not waste your well-earned money.

One brand that I personally believe is great for their mini versions of their products is Benefit and I own a few myself. I believe they're great value for money. I was lucky enough to be given a special offer where I bought 3 of the mini products for just £15 (Usually 3 for £25) in Boots when individually these minis cost over £10 each.

This offer has helped me to discover some of the best makeup products I have ever used and didn't break my bank! Benefit offers most of their products, especially the most popular ones, as mini products and I decided to buy the Rollerlash Mascara, Porefessional Primer and Hoola Bronzer.

The Rollerlash Mascara mini really is tiny but it is such a good mascara! Not the best mascara I have ever used (I definitely prefer Maybelline mascaras still) and I probably wouldn't buy the full sized item at £20.50 as I have many mascaras that I like more that are also a lot cheaper but I am glad to have been able to try this mascara as it definitely would be worth the money.

The Porefessional Primer definitely has become my favourite primer of all time now and the only reason I haven't yet bought the full sized item is because I still have primers I got in beauty boxes that are quite good and I want to use before I buy any more. Once I do run out of my primers though, my go to one will definitely be the Porefessional one because, even though it is pricey at £26, it does it's job so why not pay extra and know you're getting your monies worth?

The best purchase I made with this offer though was definitely the Hoola bronzer. The girl at the counter actually recommended this to me, saying that all you need is the mini version as it lasts ages. Now I don't usually use bronzers because most that I have found always become too orange when I use them or are too dark or too light for my skin. But this bronzer is honestly the best I've ever found and the girl definitely wasn't wrong. As it is more expensive than most bronzers, it is a lot more pigmented and so you only have to use the tiniest amount meaning the product lasts for so long! If I ever find that I run out of this mini bronzer, I will definitely buy the full size one (priced at £24.50) because I honestly think it'll be the only bronzer I ever have to buy again!

I do own a few mini versions of their newest brow products but I have not actually tried these because I got them either free in a magazine or in a beauty box and they're all actually too dark for me!

But I am very impressed with Benefit as a brand so I will definitely try the mini versions of anything they produce if I ever get the chance to.

Are there any mini products that you've tried and loved and think are worth the money? Then let me know as I'd love to try out your recommendations!

I'll be back next week with another post for you all.
Byeeee!

Hello you beauties!

The part of my makeup routine that I struggle with the most is definitely my eyebrows. I don't know a single makeup user who doesn't complain about their eyebrows at some point. I feel like they're such a crucial part of any look. Which is why it's so hard to make them perfect.

I personally have always found it a struggle to find the right eyebrow product. I've tried out everything but can never decide what is right for me. Especially shade wise. While I'm a natural blonde, my eyebrows have always been darker than my natural hair colour. So blonde products are always too light for my brows but light brown products are unfortunately too dark. I'm yet to find anything that is the perfect shade for me.

But when it comes to eyebrow products, I make sure to try the 3 P's; Powders, Pomades and Pencils.

When it comes to powders, these are probably the ones I use the least. Don't get me wrong, powder makeup products are definitely the easiest to use (such as highlighters and blushes, as opposed to using the cream version of them) but when it comes to my brows I find that it is extremely difficult to find a blonde powder that doesn't turn orange. I tried out the light brown version of the Maybelline Master Brow Pro Palette and while this probably gives the best pigmentation of any powder I have ever used, it was slightly too dark for me. But did they offer a blonde version? Of course not.

Another powder eyebrow product I have tried is the Freedom Duo Eyebrow Powder in the shade 'Blonde' and while this is definitely a blonde colour, I find that both shades in this are slightly orange-y and therefore don't quite look right when applying them. And for anything to show up I find that I actually have to apply quite a bit of the product first. While it's not the worst eyebrow powder ever, I bet there are even better powders for around the same price.

I tend to use powders when I want a subtle eyebrow look.

Pomades are the products I have used the least. I only actually own 1 pomade and that is again by Freedom (as unfortunately I cannot afford the Anastasia one). Again, it's in the shade 'Blonde' but I have the opposite problem with this as I did with the powder by them. While the powder was probably too light, the pomade is (I'd say anyway) too dark for me. It gives my brows a very heavy look and makes them look sticky. It's reasonably easy to use you just need to make sure to have a very light hand and a very good eyebrow brush!

I usually use the pomade when I want a more dramatic look/want to stand out more.

The final P in this post is pencils. I used to only ever use pencils but once I started to experiment with powders and pomades, I just seemed to forget about the pencils I owned. But that's because, at first, I simply couldn't find anything that was any good! I would use the Rimmel eyebrow pencils all the time but they only had 3 shades; Hazel, Dark Brown and Black. So I'd use the Hazel shade as it was the lightest but it was definitely too dark for me. Obviously I didn't notice that at first, wore my brows with that shade and looked stupid but let's try and forget that dark time of my life.

My relationship with pencils changed when I found out about the Soap and Glory Archery brow pencil and tint, which is more of a crayon rather than a pencil. I found this pencil to be amazing as it allowed me to get really defined lines when shaping my brows and the tint is great to fill in the gaps in my brows - using the actual pencil part to do this definitely makes the brows too bold! For just £10 this is 100% a pencil I would recommend.

While pomades have proven to give the most pigmentation and this is usually what someone looks for in a product, I would definitely suggest you use the Soap and Glory Archery brow pencil and tint above anything else as it is easy to use and easy to travel with (as you don't need to worry about packing a brush for it - so if you forget an eyebrow brush it doesn't matter). It's reasonably cheap too and still gives off amazing pigmentation. Oh, and the shade matches better too (although they only have 3 shades - blonde, brown and black)!

I hope you all liked this post! If you did, be sure to subscribe/follow, comment and share with friends.
Byeeee!

Hello you beauties!

Long time no see! It's been a while since I last uploaded a post - 4 weeks to be exact. And I really do want to apologise for that. I made a promise when I started this blog that I would stick to a schedule and I have failed to do so.

There are many, many reasons for my absence from this blog and I know some of you may simply not care what these reasons are, but I want to explain myself anyway.

The first reason for the absence is my A Level Exams. Yes, the dreaded exams. These have taken priority in my life for the past 3 years, so this year was no different. I was so desperate to pass this year that I literally forgot about everything else in my life and simply focused on those. I even pressed pause on my relationship so I could focus on my exams. But now, despite the weeks of unwanted stress, I have completed them and should now be able to use my free time to focus more on this blog again.

There have been many other things (that I am not going to disclose with you all, unfortunately) that has caused stress in my life and honestly, it has been hard. It has made me very, very ill and so a focus on my life has been to just cope, rather than worry about writing for you all. I'm getting better now - while the stress is still affecting me, I feel a lot healthier now that a lot of these things have gotten themselves under control. There is still a lot that I'm stressed about though, which isn't helping me a lot.

Mainly due to stress, I have also found myself simply not enjoying blogging anymore. Wow, that really isn't something I ever wanted to admit. But it happens sometimes. Just because there is one time I don't feel like blogging, doesn't mean I'm going to give up altogether. Blogging is always going to be something I enjoy but I just feel like I needed a break. And that break is what I got. And now I'm excited to start blogging again.

The final reason for not blogging recently is the fact that I simply haven't used makeup within the past month or so. I am the person who only usually wears makeup when I go out - drinking or for family events, etc. Due to college/exams, I have been stuck between either home or college and so felt no need to wear makeup. And what's the point in writing blog posts about makeup if I haven't been using it? I was running out of ideas of things to post about. That's the problem with running a beauty blog - while the world of makeup and fashion is very large, you can become restricted in what to write about. But now I have more free time on my hands, I do believe I'll be out of the house a lot more and therefore using makeup a lot more.


However, even though I've sorted out a lot of things meaning blogging is going to be easier for me, there is still a lot going on in my life (such as preparing for university and my relationship) that take priority meaning blogging is not going to be something easy for me. Therefore, I have decided to change my upload schedule. Yes, it means that I'm going to be uploading less but it means that I will be able to still write with a passion and give you posts that are worth your time to read.

So I'll be changing my schedule to posts every Wednesday at 9am. Yes, it means I'll only be posting once a week so half the amount of posts will be going up each month, While it doesn't seem good that I'll be posting less and less, at the end of the day, it'll help this blog grow. It means I am more likely to come up with great post ideas to keep you all entertained and gives me extra time to focus on writing them - I can focus on one a week rather than panicking and writing 2 or 3 a week.

I may upload extra posts if I feel the need to - like for birthdays or special events - so you're not necessarily restricted to just one post a week from me, but that is all you should expect. Please don't expect too much from me. Life can be hard sometimes and so things become less of a priority. I just hope I can always have the support of you readers though.

I hope you can all understand my reasoning for my absence and continue to support me and my writing.

I hope you liked this post. If you did, be sure to subscribe/follow, comment and share with friends.
Byeeee!