Lots of love for leather...

(I'm not as orange as I look here…it was the lighting I promise!!)

Vest - Primark

Necklace & skirt - H&M

Shoes - Step in Style

Watch - ASOS

I loved my makeup here, I wore EL Double Wear with lashings of Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer. I used the NYX bronzer and my favourite Mac blush ever, Lovecloud. A swipe of my favourite Essence highlighting powder and my skin was a gooden. I kept eyes simple with just a lightly contoured lid from my Naked Basics palette, some liquid winged liner and my favourite Demi Whispies. Lipstick was one of the MUA matte liquid lipsticks which is probably the worst makeup item I've ever used in my entire makeup wearing life. It lasted for the life span of my photography session when it completely shrivelled up on my lips, dropped off in lumps when I spoke, left a waxy residue after I took it off and stained my lips. Great colour, vile product (sorry). 

I had such a great night out in this outfit, it's not often I go out with this much flesh on show but hey, if you can't dress up for a girls night out then when can you??? I'm really struggling with what to wear with this skirt, everything that's not completely form hugging makes me look a lot bigger than I am. Any suggestions welcome!

Loves

xxx

Twickenham OOTD...

So I went to watch England vs Barbarians at Twickenham last week in the corporate box (cheers for winning the tickets Dad!) and loved my outfit! Again another simple one, just jeans and a black t-shirt, with my trusty Dr Martens and a blazer. I actually put my extensions in as well for a change! 

T-shirt - Cotton On (Australia)

Jeans - Zara

Blazer - Vera Moda

Handbag - Aldo

Watch & Necklace - Asos

And of course, here's a few pictures of the match because who doesn't like looking and a bunch of rugby players??

Loves

xxx

OOTN - Embracing a longer hemline....

You know you're getting older when you wear a jacket and embrace a longer hemline on a night out! I went out with the girls and Ty (poor guy) to Leicester for a few Cosmopolitans and a gossip last night, and aired my calves in a midi dress. Previously I thought they made me look like a middle ages business woman but I loved the colours and design of this one, made it feel a bit younger and much more my style.

Dress: New Look

Leather sleeveless jacket: Matalan

Shoes: Step in Style

Watch and bracelet: ASOS

Necklace: Primark

I wore my hair extensions again, Chanel lipgloss over Mac Saint Germain, and Ardel demi wispy lashes.

Hope everyone had a great weekend

Loves

xxx

Face of the day featuring Revlon Lip Butters....

I went round my friends house the other night (only just got around to posting this) and I wouldn't usually make so much of an effort but I was bored so started playing around with some different makeup before I went out! I've hardly tanned recently and been wearing a really light covering of Bourjois Healthy Mix and a touch of powder so this seemed to looks REALLY heavy on my skin which I wasn't much of a fan of. 

Benefit Porefessional primer

EL Double Wear

Bobby Brown corrector in Light Bisque

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection concealer in Medium

Rimmel Stay Mat Powder in 005 Silky Beige

Vivo highlighter 

W7 blush (cheap but amazing!) in Baby Pink

Benefit Lemonaid

Urban Decay Sin from the Naked Palette 

Bourjois Extreme Black clubbing mascara (waterproof)

HD Brows in the darkest shade (no idea what it is)

GOSH eyebrow gel

Mac eye Kohl in Smoulder 

Revlon Lip Butter in Cupcake

Love how LONG my hair looks in this picture!! I've got extensions in as always but they're only just under an inch longer than my real hair so I just wear them for volume...and my hair looks SO long here!! *does victory air punch and happy dance at the same time*

Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine beauts!!

Loves

xxx

New year, new hair....

Hello lovelies

I've had the chop! After much debating, I've gone for a full fringe! Sorry about the random pics, playing with my new camera!!

Also, big love to Leanne for the mention on her blog, she's amazing so if you don't already check her out then do it now!!

Hope you all like the hair, this is without extensions so no doubt you'll see it longer than this in the future as I can't seem to live without them!

Loves

xxx

Pack your bags...

What a hectic few days I'm about to have! It's my best friends birthday today so we're all off to a hotel in Leicester (mainly for ease of stumbling back to bed at who knows what time in the morning) then off for a Nando's then to get merry in a ladylike way (NOT!!)

I've been very methodical about this bag packing malarky (terrified of forgetting something) and laid it all out on my bed....

I'm wearing my new Lipsy playsuit (as if I bought something from there!!? Don't tell anyone, I'm ashamed, but I do love this little beauty!) and my New Look wedges which are so low for me! I'm going to feel like a midget! Then just standard dark tan, huge hair (new extensions.....exciting!!) and big lashes/bright lipstick. 

Hope you all have lots of exciting plans for the bank holiday!

Loves

xxx

Everyday hair tutorial....

Hey lovelies....I've been promising this for a while and it's taken me about two months to get around to uploading, this is actually from when I was videoing on photobooth on my mac so I apologise it's not as great quality as some of my newer ones, and apologies for having to keep getting up to plug/unplug things! Back when I was a bit more amateur...although I still am lets be fair!

I didn't show the extension I used in the video because I didn't have a packet of them, but as soon as I bought my new one's I took a picture for you....

Anyway...here it is. Any questions just comment here or on my youtube channel :)

Loves

xxx

Big, bigger, biggest....

Yet another volumizing success. Schwarzkopf volumizing powder was an absolute godsend this morning when I woke up with freshly washed (read; FLAT) hair. I hate hate hate my hair when it’s just been washed, I prefer it the day after when it’s not so soft and floppy. Anyway I got up this morning and very careful poured a bit into my hand as instructed, rubbed my hands together then ran my hands through my hair. I had to do this three times because I was putting so little on at a time for fear of looking like I had some dandruff type problems.

The results were exactly what I wanted. Nothing to dramating and huge as my past experience with the Batiste XXL Volume spray, or with my usual back-comb the hell out of it and set it with Tresemme Freeze Hold hairspray, but then I was only going to sit at my desk all day anyway. It gave it just enough structure to not be all over the place, a bit of lift at the root, but wasn’t too sticky so I’ll still be able to do something half decent with my hair over the next couple of days (yes that’s right, I only wash my hair about twice a week….)

Anyway enough of that, I’ve also done my May favourites in another little video for you so take a look….

I do apologise though, I could have gone on for hours because this is my first of these types of posts so I have a silly amount of favourite things, I promise my next one won’t be so jam packed, I just couldn’t narrow it down to just a few!

Curly Sue....?

First of all I'd like to say a huge huge thank you to all my lovely comments on my first YouTube video, and I got like 6 subscribers within about half an hour which was lovely!

So anyway I popped into my local Superdrug today and it was having a makeover which was very exciting!! There's all new makeup stands and it looks like the perfume area is having an overhaul, but it was still a bit of a mess. Can't wait to see the finished article. The mess didn't stop me spending money though....

Even looking at this picture is upsetting me. I've heard so many good things about curling wands, and there's so so SO many pictures on people's blogs of their hair when they've said they've used one to create their look. So I popped down to Superdrug and bought the Remington Pearl Wand (heard so many good things about this one!) and let me tell you it has stressed the HELL out of me :(

I cannot get it to work, my hair just looks frizzy and afro-like (much like my natural hair actually!) I even sat and watched youtube tutorials for an hour and I still can't manage it. And as for trying it on my hair extensions....well that was a disaster. I resemble Curly Sue from the 90's film actually.

So anyway there were actually a couple of more successful items from today's trip....

I literally stood in the hair dye isle for about 15 minutes, with plum in one hand and black cherry in the other. Then I put down plum and picked up a lighter red colour. Then I just gave up and stuck with Black Cherry which I've used for the past 6 months. The way I see it....if it ain't broke, don't fix it! I'll probably dye it on Saturday before the big night out on Sunday!

I've finally done it, and spent £12 on a hair brush. The Tangle Teaser is an absolute godsend, I used it on my towel dried hair after my shower, and on dry (and very knotted) extensions, and when usually I'd have a brush full of hair, I didn't when I used this. I think it needs a few more tries to see if it really was worth the money but so far, I think this is an absolute beaut brush, it might even make my extensions last a bit longer!

Again, another thing I'm pretty excited about....volumizing powder. I haven't tried it yet but I went for a cheaper one just in case I hated it. I'll do a quick review on this when I've used it.

I've been on the look out for a bronzer like this for ages and have been toying with the idea of the Fake Bake bronzing block, until I spotted this. It's a dupe for the Fake Bake bronzer, but for a smidgin of the price. I can't remember exactly but it was around the £5 mark. It's from the Famous collection by Sue Moxley and they had about 5 variations of it. This one is Shade One in Golden Rose. The colour is so shimmery and even though the bronze strips are quite dark, the pinks in it lighten it up and make it really easy to wear. 

I decided I need to collect some more eyshadows as I'm a bit boring on that front. I got the Beauty UK number 4 pallet, and I have to say I'm a bit scared. I mean...it's got green in it...!!! I only EVER use gold or brown, and the occasional pink, so this is breaking me in gently. 

I'm really trying to get away from black or dark purple nail colours which I usually wear, especially with summer coming. As soon as I saw this colour from the limited edition Gosh range I decided this was the way for me to go. It's 001 in Lavender and the first Gosh nail varnish I've ever bought so can't wait to try it out!!

Another Beauty UK treat, their lipstick in Candy. Love this colour, but I'll leave it there for now on this as I'm going to do a post about my lipstick collection soon. 

And lastly, I took advantage of the two for £4.99 offer on Collection 2000 and got another two of my absolute favourite lip glosses I've ever used. I'm not usually a lipgloss fan, I tend to just use a balm alongside a lipstick, or just a clear lipgloss over the top of a lipstick to make it less obvious. These are from their Lock 'n' Hold collection which claim to last for up to 6 hours. I don't know about that, but they taste incredible, and stay on for ages, even when I'm sipping my vodka lemonade and lime on a night out. These two are in (l) break dance and (r) rock steady. Break dance is actually really surprising for a lipgloss, the colour is a REALLY strong coral even without wearing it with lipstick. Big big recommendation for these. 

Don't leave me hanging on the telephone....

Beautiful day in the sunshine today, went to see my best friends cousins band at Music in the Mead in Hinckley and we were graced with beautiful weather. 

Anyway, I used this little beauty to do my hair this morning, my hair was due a wash and it was just a bit limp and rubbish, so it would be about the time I'd reach for the dark brown Batiste dry shampoo to bring it back to life. Instead this morning I tried their XXL Volume new spray...

(sorry these are the same pictures as yesterday, I didn't see any point of taking any more today!)

Anyway all I can say about this is WOW!

My hair this morning needed the straighteners over it before I'd even take a picture of it because I'd put it up wet yesterday! But anyway, this is how it looked to start with....

I admit my hair isn't totally flat but my hair never is. It's got quite a bit of movement to it and is really thick so never looks mega lank or greasy, and also my hair is used to only being washed twice a week. But to me, this is far too flat, I like my hair BIG.

So anyway after straightening I usually just backcomb and choke myself on hairspray until I get the desired effect. Today I didn't pick up a comb or my trusty Tresemme, and just gave Batiste XXL Volume a chance....

This is literally ALL down to the new Batiste spray, and it stayed like this all day. If it did flatten down a bit all I had to do was jjush it up with my hands and it went back to looking like this. Also, really loved the fact that it made me not want to put my extensions in. Think this is the first time I had my hair down extensionless and have been happy with it for over 12 months. 

The only tiny down point of this product is the fact it's a white spray, like the original dry shampoo. Which is fine because I do rub it in really well, but I personally would love to see a version for dark hair like they did with their original formula in a few months. Other than that, AMAZING and it will be a staple in my hair regime from now on.

You know those weekends....

...where everything is perfect? The girls are back from uni, all the boys were out in Leicester on Saturday in Office looking tasty, the suns shining, far too much rose was consumed and just generally a beautiful weekend.

In fact the sun's been shining for a week nearly now..... here's a few random outfits from work last week....

Crop: H&M sale

Trousers: Oasis (far too big for me now I've finally become a skinny minnie but I love them too much to part with them)

Brogues: Office

Shirt: Primark

Belt: Primark

Jewellery: Primark/ River Island/ New Look

Wedges: New Look

I went out with the girls last night but not got the pictures from that yet but I'll get them on when I do. I was going to wear the coral dress I posted on here a while ago but I didn't feel right in it when it came to going out so went for denim high waisted shorts with a Topshop vest tucked in and over the knee black socks. 

Had the day off today, so made the most of the gorgeous sunshine and walked into town to meet Steph for a costa, and we had a wander around Boots and The Works (lipstick, nail varnish, and some new books!)

Nail Varnish: 17 Supreme Shine in Simply Pink. Really pale colour but quite nice for the summer so I can give my poor nails a break from black and purple! 

Lipstick: 17 in Hot Chilli....amazing colour as you can see from the pictures underneath. 

Mum and Dad took me out for a Nando's too, which I will never complain about. Still so warm so went for my Topshop mustard jumper I got in the sale over leggings, and my new New Look wedges. Of course, the new lipstick made an appearance!

Sorry I look so rough, my hair was a state after last night (bit too much Tresemme freeze hold and back combing) and my skin looks terrible. Bit of a detox this week I think!)