Happy pay
day!! For a short month February has felt soo long finance wise! This has meant
my online wishlists for many shops are huge so I thought I would share one of
them with you!! So here is my current ASOS wish list... so many petty
things....
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Thursday, 9 February 2017
The Beauty Blogger Tag
I love a good old tag and have
spotted this one going round for quite a while so figured I’d give it a go! I
feel a little bit of a fraud doing a ‘Beauty Blogger Tag’ as I feel my blogs
taken a bit more a lifestyle twist lately. However beauty is where Lipsticks
and Lashes started and I can blog about my love of make up a little less, but
my bank balance will confirm that I am still a complete beauty addict!
Why did you
start blogging and how long have you been blogging for?
I have
been blogging for just over 3 years, I started writing in this little space on
the internet as a way to practice my writing and to be a bit creative. I was
super bored, very lost in life and need something to get my teeth into. Hello
Blogging! Logging onto Blogger.com and starting this blog was one of the best decisions
I’ve made. I thought it would just be me writing to myself when I first started
out, I had no idea about the blogging community and that people would stop by
here or be as super lovely as you all are.
Whose blog
did you fall in love with first?
A Beautiful Mess was the first blog
that I got completely lost in for hours, I think at the time I didn’t really
grasp it was a blog or what blogging even is!
What was the
first blogosphere hyped about product you bought and was it worth the hype?
God I’m such a sucker for when it
comes to purchasing hyped up products! I have no will power! I would love to
say that after 3 years of blogging I’ve got a bit wiser but nope not at all! So
what was the blogosphere hyped up product I purchased, well that would have to
be Rimmel London’s Apocalypse Lip Lacquer. I think I liked it at the time but
too be honest it definitely wasn’t worth the hype!
What are
your favorite five things about blogging and being a beauty blogger?
1. Making blogging buddies!
2. Finding new products I just have to try out due to someone’s
lovely blog review
3. Blogging has increased my confidence loads!
4. It’s a great creative outlet
5. I get to waffle on to my heart’s desire about things I
love!
What have
you learnt from being a beauty blogger?
That I am more skilled that I thought
I was! As a blogger you’re a writer, a photographer, a PR pro, good at
marketing… the list is endless!
Have you
changed anything since being a beauty blogger?
Personally, my confidence has grown,
that’s the magic of finding something you love and enjoy doing. I definitely feel
more confident within myself. In terms of how I blog, I hope I’ve improved as I’ve
gone along, I think blogging is something you continually strive to be better
at. At least I hope I’ve got better as my first couple of post all those years
ago are pretty cringe worthy!
What advice
would you give to a beauty blogger just starting out?
BLOG FOR YOU! If you start blogging
to gain followers and popularity you’re wasting your time! Blogging is hard
work and needs to be something you do because you love doing it.
Name your
top five brands:
MAC, Benefit, Bobby Brown, Urban
Decay, Lush
Recommend
your top five favorite beauty products:
Laura
Mercier Foundation Primer
MAC All
That Glitters Eye Shadow
Benefit they’re
Real Mascara
MAC
Amplified Lipstick in Girl about Town
Bobbi
Brown Shimmer Brick in Rose
Hope you enjoyed this tag? I would
like to now tag you all to have a go at it! Make sure you let me know if you do
complete it as I would love to stop by for a read!
Monday, 6 February 2017
February Goals...
Hello and
Happy Monday! As I mentioned in yesterdays post I’ve been in a bit of a rut and
this year I’m trying to promote lots of positive change in my life and be a bit
more productive. I know a lot of bloggers do monthly goals posts and I love to
read them and I think by doing my own version ill be stating to the universe
what I’m aiming for and it will hopefully spur me on! I’m also shocking at
doing series posts over here, I get bored pretty quickly so we shall see how
many of these I do but I’m excited to get started!
So here are
my goals for February...
1.
Buy
a new car and sort out the old one – I’m half way through this one already – I’ve
put down a deposit on such a cite little KA. Its just got to go through an Mot and
a service then it shall be mine! I’m so in love with it already!
2.
Get
a new phone – my phone is driving me up the wall! I have an iPhone 5s and the storage
is horrendous and I really don’t like the camera. I’m also having to buy extra
data each month as my allowance is pretty lame so I’m spending a small fortune!
ANNOYING!! Luckily for me I’m due an upgrade however I’m clueless when it comes
to technology so I’m unsure what to go for. I’m falling out of love with Apple
at the mo and would like a change so I’m thinking about a Samsung Galaxy 7. Any
advice or suggestions on this one would be hugely welcome?!
3.
Blog
regularly – I love blogging and want to spend a bit more time on this little spot
on the big world wide web. I’ve been a bit sporadic lately but want to get back
to regular posts and do more reviews and lifestyle posts. With this space!
4.
Colour
my hair grey – I love the grey hair trend that’s doing the rounds and I really
really want a grey ombre look. There’s two catches to this – my hairs a mess at
the Mo, its a weird orange colour and needs a bit of bleach work done before I
can go for the grey. So I’m not 100% confident I can do a home job on it but I
am going to give it a try!! Eeeek!!
5.
Edinburgh
– okay so this is a give, I’m heading there next week and I’m so blinking
excited!! The furthest north I’ve been is Liverpool so I’m so happy to be
finally venturing to Scotland. Its a bit one on my bucket list and I want to
enjoy every minute of if.
6.
Take
time to look after myself – I’m still not well with this Thyroiditis and its so
tiring. Its a long term thing so I’m trying to crack on and not let it get in
my way but I’m also trying to make sure I listen to my body more and look after
myself when I need to. So this month I want to focus on a bit of me time, this
could involve things like a glass of wine and a good book, a bit of crafting or
anything that’s just relaxing.
7.
Read
a book – I have a massive to read list and have been slacking with it so I really
want to get back into reading and want to read at least one whole book this
month.
Wish me luck!!
Sunday, 5 February 2017
Life Lately...
This was the view from my morning run a few days ago, how
beautiful is where I live? I can’t imagine not living near the sea, its keeps
me calm and has a kind of magic about it.
So there been some radio silence over on this little space
on the internet lately as there has been so much going on in my real life world
I’ve had to have an impromptu mini blogging break. So where have I been, I hear
you ask! Well I’ve turned 31... yikes... I am officially properly in my 30’s
now and its terrifying! Its made me reflect ALOT on where I am and where I want
to be. I’ve spent the past year in some weird anxious place where life has kind
of been flying by me. I’ve felt lost and unconfident and I’ve just been
treading water. Its not been awful but its not been fun either. I kind of
thought that by the time I was in my 30s I would be all grown up and settled
down by now. You know the whole married with babies and a white picket fence shebang
by now. Nope, I’m learning that I’m pretty crap at adulting.
Anyways the tides are turning, I’ve finally moved out of the
parentals loft, what was meant to be 6 months turned in to 2 years... so now I’ve
moved in to a friends spare room and I have actual windows, can stand up
without bashing my head and I have actual walls where I can hang things – luxury!
Its feels good and has been nice to have a bit of change. Moving house made me
realise how fiercely independent I am and how terrible I am at accepting help!
So many lovely people offered to give me a hand and I turned them down, I have
in my head that I don’t want to bother folks and that I can look after myself.
How could I forget how stressful moving is?! So I did it single handed and told
myself off a lot for it! My new aim this year is to let people in and accept
help, team work makes the dream work and all that!
This weekend I also purchased a new car, like I said lots of
new changes going on very here! My poor bashed up Honda civic has had its day and
is unlikely to pass its MOT which is die next week so the times come to part
ways with it. So I’ve gone for a ridiculously cute black KA Sport which should
be with me by the end of the week. I’m so excited!!
So that’s a brief low down on my life lately! I’m excited to
have a bit more time coming up and to get back to blogging more regularly!
Sunday, 15 January 2017
8 Reasons Why I am a Shit Blogger...
**Dramatic
blog post title alert**. So I’ve been blogging for around 4 years now, which to
be frank is quite possibly the longest I’ve stuck with anything. I really do
enjoy love blogging, however I am well aware that I am not your typical blogger
and definitely don’t fit in the ‘in blogging crowd’, and here is why....
1.
I
don’t have any white walls or floors in my house, or any fresh flowers (feel
free to send me some!). My house is messy. There is dust and everything! My
floors are cheap brown wooden laminate – just in case you wanted to know?!
2.
I’m
not sat on twitter 24/7 – I’m so out of the loop with the latest twitter dramz.
I forget when chats are happening and can very easily forget to check my
twitter account for a few days, ok, ok... weeks.
3.
I
don’t own all the latest beauty products to do all the latest up to date reviews
– how the hell do people afford to do this?!
4.
I
hate having my photos lf my myself on my blog – I cringe a bit m the inside
when I do put the up.
5.
I
forget to blog regularly, when people chat about their blog schedules I’m like
WTF?! If I can get my act together to blog more than once a week I give myself
an actual high five.
6.
I
spend an unhealthy amount of time in my PJ’s and when I am like all properly
dressed I md to have a standard jeans, tee and converse look that would get
pretty boring if I were to venture into talking about fashion over here.
7.
I
don’t own a marble table, faux marble table cover or a marble pot... I don’t own
anything marble, genuine or fake.
8.
Bloglovin
followers. Twitter analytics. Bounce rate. GFC followers. ALL THE NUMBERS. I am
clueless, I have no idea what half of it means!
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Oh 2016, you beast...
Oh 2016, you
fucker. Before you think I’m going to start on about all the celebrity losses we’ve
had this year, fear not, that’s not where I’m going with this at all. I’m sat
here in my pyjamas lamenting over the end of this year and what I want from
life in general for the next one.
I feel like 2016
has been a bit of a blurgh kind of year, I wanted to say it won’t be one that
stands out for anything in particular but after speaking to my sister who is
pretty frank with me, it ain’t all been bad. The year started pretty awesomely
with my 30th birthday (I’m still horrified that I’m 30), I went with
a big group of friends to Dublin for the weekend and it was such a blast! Full
of Irish dancing, Guinness and laughs. I also met a man this summer and got my dream
job in September which I am loving. However my mum has been seriously ill which
has been stressful and had a big knock on to my own health. I’ve been poorly
for about 3 months with my thyroid and have zero energy and motivation which
has been horrendous as isn’t me at all.
Over
all I feel that this year has been hard and a little stagnant and ive been
pretty lost. So 2017, I’m coming for you, I want to make you a year that I
remember for all the right reasons, that I laugh till I wet myself on a regular
basis, that I spend time in the moment, that I appreciate all the small things.
I feel that I have been ploughing through life lately with no real reason other
than to get through the day. I want to stop and enjoy life and that’s the plan for
2017. Nothing big just being grateful for all the good things in lif
Thursday, 29 December 2016
The Glasses Shop // New Specs
2016 has
been the year I’ve had to bite the bullet and accept that I needed glasses (insert
horrified face emoji here). I think a mix of using screens more and turning 30 has
hit my poor blinkers and I’ve gone from having pretty ace eyesight to squinting
whenever I try and read something!! If I didn’t cave and get glasses I would
have needed a severe amount of Botox to get rid of the lines from trying to
focus!
Anyway
around the same time I decided to embrace being a speccy four eyes I received an
email from the lovely folk at The
Glasses Shop asking if I would like to chose a pair from their range and I just
jumped at the chance!
The Glasses Shop has a huge range of glasses
and sunglasses at pretty cheap prices! I was a little nervous about ordering
prescription glasses online but the whole process was pretty easy. I decided to
go for the Horace Wayfarer
glasses in Tortoise shell which sells for $34.95. I just filled in my info
and let them know my prescription for each eye.
I was really
surprised they arrived really quickly from America and they are great! They are
really good quality and very stylish. I think there fun and slightly quirky
too. Very me! I am a little in love with them!
Have you
ever ordered prescription glasses online before? I would definitely be doing
this in the future! I felt a bit rushed when I was choosing at the opticians
and there wasn’t much choice. This way meant I could take my time and find the
perfect pair!
