7 Autumnal Things

Hi beauts. I recently saw Katie from Katies World of Beauty to do a post similar to this. I enjoyed hers so much I fancied re-creating it on my little space too. I have pinched a few of her ideas and tweaked them to make them suit my lifestyle.

1. Walks - There is nothing I love more than walking my little dog Lady all year round, I particularly love doing it around this time of year. I love throwing on a snug winter jacket, walking to costa to get myself a gingerbread latte and then walking Lady through my local fields, watching her bury herself in crisp orange toned autumnal leaves.

2. Reading - There's nothing I love more than sitting back with candles burning, all snug in a fleece, with a book. This is one of my favourite ways to sit back and relax. This is when I often also come up with Christmas gift ideas and blog posts too.

3. Bake- If you haven't gathered from my baking posts already, me and my step sister Blythe love baking!! Especially in Autumn/Winter. The smell of fresh cookies gives me such a warm feeling. I cant think of anything better than taking fresh warm cookies out the oven and eating them with a marshmallow hot chocolate.

4. Shop - My absolute guilty pleasure is shopping especially around this time of year, I always get far too carried away amongst all the autumnal jumpers, lush bath bombs, and the specials board at Starbucks, often testing out all their new fall limited edition drinks. I enjoy the fashion trends a lot more around autumn so it becomes a lot easier for me to spend way more money than I should.

5. Candles - Yankee must make a lot of money from the amount of candles I seem to stock up on the second it hits September. I love too pick up all the Halloween/Christmas edition candles before they sell out. I'm not really that interested in candles throughout summer but I certainly make up for it around this time of year!

6. Pumpkin Carving - Despite now being too old to go out and trick or treat, nothing stops me and my sister from carving pumpkins.Every year we try and out do each other, fair to say neither of us are that brilliant. Haha. After we've finished using the pumpkins to carve, we love to use them to make pumpkin soup, If that doesn't cream AUTUMN at you then I don't know what will.

7. Bonfire Night - Bonfire night in my opinion is so under rated!! I love getting wrapped up in a scarf and a warm coat and standing around a fire with family and friends, watching fireworks go off too. We also usually toast marshmallows to make our own smores. What's not to love about that?! 

Those are seven autumnal things that I do, what are yours? If you couldn't already tell this time of year makes me so happy and feel all content!

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Autumnal Beauty Tips & Tricks

Hi lovelies!

Back in Summer 2014, I did a post on 'Summer Beauty Tips & Tricks '. One of my most popular posts to this day. I thought I would switch it up and do it for Autumn this year.

FOUNDATION

Personally, I think during autumn/winter matte skin looks gorgeous. Throughout summer we all head towards to more duey, glowy looks. I'd ditch the BB creams, whack out your favourite foundation and create a flawless look.  I personally love the Mac Pro-Long wear. It's semi-matte and a full coverage gorgeous foundation. This is my go-to foundation this year.

REDS/PURPLES

This Autumn/Winter experiment with something darker, maybe a red lip? Or a cranberry eye-shadow?. I know dark colours aren't for everyone, but I can't help myself and buy a whole range of reds/purples around this time of year. If you're not brave enough to wear a dark lip or eye-shadow colour then how about a nail polish? Red is such a classy, elegant nail colour in my opinion.

PRIMER

We all know Christmas is around the corner, although we wont admit it to ourselves. This means long days of shopping in the freezing cold wrapped up in warm scarves. Therefore you're going to want your make-up to last. Find yourself a good all day primer, I love the Benefit Porefessional. This means you don't have to worry about visible pores as this fills them in, blurring them out. Also if you do opt for a matte foundation, by using a primer they become a lot more easy to blend in.

MOISTURISER

Autumn/Winter especially in England becomes a lot colder, and can often dry your skin out. Especially if you do use a lot of matte products in your make-up routine like I do. There's nothing worse than trying to blend out make-up over dry patches of skin, as the foundation then usually clings to it. Not the best look. For this time of year I love the Liz Earle Skin Repair Moisturiser. Even if you do suffer with oily skin, this doesn't mean to say you shouldn't moisturise either. REMEMBER TO ALWAYS RUN THE MOISTURISER DOWN YOUR NECK TOO!

EX-FOLIATE

If you don't want dull, ill looking, dry skin this time of year then ex-foliate at least 2-times a week!! Get rid of all that dead skin before you moisturise. This also helps give your skin a good old clean, getting rid of the dirt from your pores. Which prevents black heads, so its a win win situation. I'm not just talking about your face here, ex-foliate your body too! It's best to exfoliate your legs after you have shaved them. That's if you still bother around this time of year haha!

There my Autumn beauty tips and tricks, do you have any of your own?

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Disney Tag | Movie Edition

Hey lovelies.

I recently saw Brogan from  BroganTatexo do this Disney tag but movie edition. I knew I had to do it myself the second I saw it! Hopefully you'll enjoy this post as much as I have writing it up.

1. A scene in a Disney movie you wish you could experience?

 This was impossible to only to choose one so I've got two! In Tangled when Rapunzel is surrounded by all the Chinese lanterns in the lake. It's such a beautiful scene and always gives me goose bumps! My second one is Ariel's wedding day - it was so lovely and when she kisses her farther I always end up in tears. I think I'm the only one that gets touched by that scene? It's mainly due to the fact that they'll be separated:(.

2. If you could choose any characters to be your best friends who would you choose?

Anna from Frozen - she's just one of the most realistic princesses in my opinion. I love how she wakes up with messy hair, not looking her best, as we all do. We'd get along well most likely because we both love chocolate!
Tigger from Winnie The Pooh - as a child I grew up loving Winnie The Pooh, Tigger was always so happy and funny , he just looks like so much fun and he could always put a smile on my face.

Who are your favourite Disney princesses?

Ariel from The Little Mermaid of course!!

Belle from Beauty & The Beast

Snow White from well Snow White haha!

Name a scene/moment in any Disney movie which never fails to make you cry.

When Mufasa passes away in the Lion King - this definitely touches a lot of us. When the Beast is locked away from Belle, I always get so upset especially the first time I saw the movie and thought they'd never see each other again! Also in Fox and The Hound when Copper turns on Tod, because Tod is coppers prey:(.

What is your favourite Disney movie?

This is definitely impossible to choose one - I love so many but my top films are;

The Little Mermaid 

The Aristocats

Beauty and The Beast

Finding Nemo

Frozen 

Winnie The Pooh

Mary Poppins

Monsters Inc

Fox and The Hound 

Oops.. I seem to have a lot of favourites.

What are some of your favourite Disney songs?

I actually have a whole Spotify playlist dedicated to Disney songs and  I also own numerous of the albums, I have it playing right now as I'm writing this post but some of my favourites are ;

Fixer Upper - Frozen

Part of your world - The Little Mermaid ( basically the whole playlist)

Hakuna Matata - Lion King

Chim Chim Cher-ee - Mary Poppins

Everybody wants to be a cat - The Arisocats

Mother Knows best - Tangled

Belle ( Little Town ) - Beauty and The Beast

Which Disney prince would you want to marry?

The good old classic Prince Charming from Cinderella - you can't go wrong with him.  I did always think it would be The Beast from beauty and the beast however my heart always leads towards Prince Charming!

If you had to be a Disney princess who would you want to be?

I'd love to be Ariel. I'm such a water baby so being a mermaid would be great for me. Even if she does loose her tail at the end and gain legs - spoiler alert.

Which princesses dress would you most like to own?

Ariels wedding dress. At Disneyland you can have weddings now and you can wear the princesses style wedding dress and I love Ariels wedding dress so much!  Is my obsession with the Little Mermaid coming through yet?

Which Disney castle would you most like to live in?

Anna and Elsa's castle, I love how stunning and classy it is. So sassy.

Which Disney side kick would you like to have?

Olaf. He's so small, cute and would never fail to make me giggle.

List some of what you believe are the most underrated Disney films.

The Fox and The Hound. 

The Aristocats.

Brother Bear. 

Inside Out - this ones full of emotions literally. 

Meet The Robinsons. 

I tag you all to do this tag. 

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Blog Revamp!

Hey lovelies.

As some of you may have noticed this little space has been given a makeover. If you're an older reader you may know how often I frequently used to complain about my blogs appearance. From the header to the font, I despised it all. For ages I convinced myself the Blogger templates were good enough for me. This just wasn't the case, ever. I didn't believe I took my blog seriously enough to bother investing in a gorgeous template.

Last week I decided to bite the bullet, I logged onto Etsy and found myself a gorgeous template, that I actually loved and for a reasonable price. Some where going for £150?! That's insane. I wanted something classy and monochrome based so my header would add a pop of colour, making it stand out more.

I then took it upon myself to finally get my butt around to adding social media links on here. Something that I probably should have done from the start, to save me time instead of having to place them at the bottom of every single post I write. This is actually pretty simple.

I've changed the template around a bit, making it exactly how I wanted it to look. I then went on to create myself a new header. I loved my blogs old header, I truly did. However unfortunately it didn't fit the theme I was going for. I found some beauty pictures on google to incorporate into my header. I actually designed my blogs header on PicMonkey, this made it super easy and I love the outcome! With PicMonkey you can edit any overlays you add on and rub out edges to make it look more sleek and less 'put together'

Overall, I'm so pleased with my blogs new look. It still may not be as classy as some other peoples are, but I'm in love with mine, this is the first time I've actually not despised something about the way my blog looks... for now!

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3 for 2 Boots Haul!

 

Hey lovelies, on a recent trip to Boots I noticed they had one of their famous 3 for 2 offers on. I couldn't help myself and decided to pick up some bits I've been dying to try for ages now! I specifically header for the Bourjois counter.

 

 

I've always been intrigued by this foundation and there's always been something about it that's made me wonder what the '123' pigments would do. I've heard a lot of people claim that this works miracles when covering redness which is something my skin suffers with highly. I've used this a few times now and I love it. This gives a gorgeous semi-matte finish and the coverage is lovely! This makes my skin look perfect.

 

 

I've honestly never loved a red lip product so much. I saw a lot of hype about this product when they were first released but I didn't see the point. I wasn't bothered by their launch and I wasn't eager to try them. I was swatching away in boots as you do and fell in love with the formula and pigmentation and colour of this particular shade.  This shade is 03 velvet. This is a gorgeous sassy red, I wont lie I did have Christmas in mind when I bought this. EEEK.

 

 

Lastly the good old famous chocolate bronzer. I decided to opt for the bronzer & highlighter. The highlighter looks gorgeous and not too shimmery. I've always wondered if this actually smelt like chocolate - it does!! I'm completely in love with the scent, every time I use it. This is a really nice dupe for the hoola bronzer if that's out of your budget! 

 

That's all for todays little haul!



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