Boyfriends, Exes & Heartbreak

Hey beauts.

I really felt like a ramble today, I have other posts already wrote up and ready to be uploaded. But today I felt like uploading something a little more chatty, something you girls can really relate too. It's also currently around midnight on Saturday night / Sunday morning, and I find sometimes my rambling comes out best late at night. Anyway, moving on, you guessed it of course the topic is boys. Something a lot of you gorgeous girls I'm sure centre a lot of your time around, I do too don't worry.

Growing up as a huge Disney fan I've seen all the Disney classics, all featuring the famous true loves kiss. No awkward first dates or late night tears, one kiss and it's happy ever after. Pfft in our dreams. As a young girl I grew up believing all of Disney's classic films stories. I couldn't wait for the day my prince charming came along, whisking me away into the sunset. I wanted the fairy tale wedding and a one true love. Reality check - it's not that simple honestly I wish it was. Something a lot of us girls I'm sure have learned already.

Boyfriends are amazing, don't get me wrong I'm not here to slate and shame all boyfriends. I have a boyfriend and I love him to pieces, I wouldn't change him for the world. Before Henry I had a few car crash relationships, that definitely weren't a fairy tale. But I've taken a lot away from this and learnt a lot about boys. I had never felt the need to have a boyfriend up until secondary school when I was around 13 and got my first proper crush on a boy. He didn't like me back, nothing blossomed from this crush but I wasn't too bothered by this. Ever since this crush though I felt the urge to have a boyfriend. Like they were a brand new limited edition MAC lipstick - I had to get one ASAP before they were out of stock. I didn't seem to understand that I have my whole life ahead of me and the time will come. I strongly believe that good things do come to those who wait. There isn't much point having a boyfriend just for all the novelty bits. They're great but it's those moments when you can't stop laughing for hours on end together, or when you can sit in silence just appreciating each others company that makes being with someone you love really special. Not so you can go around captioning photos of you and him 'goals' if there isn't anything special there. Don't begin to worry yourself if you're sat there watching all your friends getting into relationships, meanwhile you sit at the other end of the table fifth wheeling. It just means somebody whose bound to put a huge warm smile on your face will come into your life eventually. 

Have you ever bumped into an ex and had to make awkward small talk? Yep me too. After breaking up with my ex boyfriend on his terms, I became that ex girlfriend who was always checking his instagram to see which new girl he had wrapped round his arms. I think we've all been there, when you can't stand to see your ex happy and moving on, meanwhile you're still sat eating Ben & Jerrys straight from the tub sobbing your heart out. I feel you. It hurts when you think it's only you that care or you're the only one hurting. Boys can often hide it very well though, they don't always show the sensitive side. Don't give them the satisfaction of knowing they've broke you, or hurt you a lot. If you see them in the street walk past them with your head held high and a sassy strut. You've got this. If you let him know he's got to you, when the going gets tough for him he'll come crawling back. He'll assume you're still madly in ;love with him. But then you can be the one to tell him no.

Perhaps everyone needs to experience heartbreak to break their heart open to feel other things. Nobody said it was easy. It will hurt and you'll be a hysterical mess for a good week or two. Be gentle with yourself. Don't be mad at yourself for hurting, you are definitely not alone beautiful. I'm not a relationship expert and by no means are we all the same. This is just what I've learnt from my experiences so far.

" Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary" - Oscar Wilde

I'll hopefully be doing a lot more posts like this one, talking about girly situations and how to handle them, if you want me too that is!

Kiera 

 ♥

 Twitter • Instagram • Email

My Favourite Drugstore Makeup

As a beauty blogger I'll use every excuse I can think of to buy new makeup, even though I just simply don't have the room for it. I have an addiction and I'm cramming as much into my drawers as possible. I own a range of drugstore and high end makeup, I differ between the two a lot. However, there are certain things from the drugstore that work better for me than any higher ends brands, vice versa. Today I thought I would share my favourite drugstore products with you all for those of you who may be on a budget or just starting out with makeup and don't want to spend a fortune! You'll be surprised what little gems can be found hidden within the shelves of Boots or Superdrug!

Starting with the base as always. I found choosing a favourite drugstore foundation much harder than I expected, just proves how many amazing foundations the drugstore have to offer. I'm a huge lover of Rimmel Londons foundations, this being said recently I've been reaching towards the L'Oreal True Match. This foundation had a lot of hype around it a couple of years ago, I only tried it for the first time last year and I reach for it quite a lot when I'm not using my Estee Lauder Double Wear. This foundation is medium to high coverage and makes your skin look flawless, it gives your skin a gorgeous glow when the light hits your face. It's duey without being oily, and it lasts all day with or without a primer.

I'm all for contouring and highlight - my favourite part of my makeup routine! So this makes me extra picky about the products I use. If you're a fair skin girl like me then you'll know what I mean when I say sometimes contour products can make me look 'muddy' especially the cheaper ones. I used to only use Benefits Hoola Bronzer, but after using it for years on end and getting a little fed up of always paying out so much for it, I went on a hunt for a drugstore dupe! Now I couldn't find a dupe of Hoola, but I did discover the Sleek contour kit, and it's fab! I have mine in shade light and it matches my skin tone perfectly! It comes with the perfect contouring shade and a beautiful highlighter that reflects beautifully under the light. It has a lot of shimmer and is a gorgeous champagne colour. I've been using this contour kit for months now and it's my go to every day product for contouring. A quick makeup tip - this contour shade works perfect as a crease colour! You might be surprised that in fact a lot of bronzers work amazingly for this!

Moving on to brows. Now I'm not sure if this is cheating because I class Benefit as a drugstore brand as well as high end, but I thought I'd throw it in here anyway. You may have seen this product popping up on my blog a lot recently. Benefit recently released a lot of new brow products and one of them was the Goof Proof Brow Pencil - I've spoke about it before so I won't go into too much detail. To sum things up it's frickin' amazing. It makes filling and shaping your eyebrows so easy. It definitely makes achieving eyebrows on fleek a lot easier to achieve. 

Ah the classic Kate Moss 107. If you're into makeup, or watch a lot of beauty gurus on youtube /read a lot of blogs then you're bound to have heard of Rimmel London's Kate Moss lipstick in shade 107. If not, where have you been all this time? Under a rock?. This is almost every beauty bloggers go to berry shade in the winter, I'm no exception. I too wear this all through the autumn / winter months. It's a gorgeous matte lipstick  that lasts all day and the shade is just perfect. I'm onto my fourth one so far and I can see myself having to repurchase another, and at such an affordable price I have no guilt about doing so. Rimmel, please never discontinue this lip shade, ever. 

Next we'll talk about eye products. Some drugstore brands produce the most beautiful eye-shadows and let me tell you there are a lot of dupes for expensive eye palettes in the drugstore. Surprisingly, I actually prefer some drugstore dupes. My all time favourite eye-shadow palette, over riding any high end palettes I own is the Easy On The Eyes palette in Birthday Suit by seventeen. What a palette. This is personally right up my street. It contains 8 gorgeous matte and shimmery eye-shadows, three creamy shadows and a little eye primer - admittedly it isn't that great but the rest of the palette makes up for it. As you can probably tell my go to shade in this palette is Radiant Gold, which is of course the gold shimmery one. I use this on most days when I feel like making more of an effort with my eye makeup, by sweeping it all over my lid. Followed by which ever products I pair it with,  I won't go into a whole eye tutorial now. I love and wear every single shade in this palette, the creamy shadows are a dream to work with. All the shadows blend so easy and are true to colour, their pigmentation is incredible.  

Of course I had to include my Maybelline Colour Tattoo in on & on bronze - can you tell I like coppery / gold eye-shadows. It's because I have blue eyes and these colours are really complimentary with blue! This is my go to eye product for parties, it's so gorgeous and the shimmer reflects under the light. This lasts so well, like honestly I sometimes have trouble taking it off, the lasting power is that strong! It doesn't crease either which is a must for eye-shadows when you know you'll be dancing the night away and it will most likely be a hot situation!

If you have any drugstore favourites that you think I might like then don't hesitate to let me know - I'm always on the hunt for new products to try!

Kiera x

♥

 Email • Twitter • Instagram 

Beauty things I suck at♥

Hey beauties.

Today I thought I would share with you all a few beauty things I suck at. Unknown to a lot of people is that us beauty bloggers aren't actually perfect at everything to do with makeup. We just don't like to admit it! We too have those days when we just can't seem to get our eyeliner on fleek or find the motivation to get out of bed to wash our makeup brushes, which in fact was over due a wash two weeks ago. Ssh don't tell anyone I'm that awful at washing brushes. Truth is we are just like you normal folks and are fairly partial to the odd paddy over our make-up when things just aren't going your way.

photo taken from here

Shaping / Filling in my brows | Brows were never a big part of my makeup routine until the whole 'brows on fleek' trend came about a couple of years ago. Until then a bit of clear mascara was good enough for me. However, now brows have become such an iconic part of makeup, and can most definitely either make or break your whole look. To put it nicely my brows most definitely aren't on 'fleek'... I just don't get how you girls do it!

Washing my makeup brushes | I really wish I could be like all those other girls who have the motivation to wash their brushes after every use, or at least have a schedule for when they do them. Now I don't want this to be misinterpreted and you all assume I'm gross and don't wash my brushes at all, I do. Just not all that often. I know, how dirty. But I am trying to get myself into a little routine, I promise!

Applying lip liner | Now I'm all for  a deep berry red at winter time. With this gorgeous lip colour comes the chore of lining my lips with liner. After years of wearing 107 Kate Moss you'd think I'd have the hang of it by now, but in fact I don't. I definitely can't achieve the pouty look I desire.

Moisturising | I'm an oily skin gal. So I find it far too easy to skip the whole moisturising step. Yes I am aware of how important it is, I'm just too lazy. I also despise my skin type so I'm always scared of increasing the oil in my skin. That being said, lately I've gotten better with moisturising and have found some ones that work fab with oily skin!

Paintings my nails | Ugh what a mess. As much as I love nothing more than going and getting a set of acrylics on and having my nails painted a gorgeous colour,  I hate painting my own nails! I can't ever seem to do them neatly, and often end up painting my skin as well my nails. To save myself the stress, I'd much rather pay for somebody to do them for me, at least that way they'll actually look nice!

There a few things I absolutely suck at when it comes to beauty! 

♥

Summer Edit - Makeup Edition♥

Hey beauts. Long time no see. I'm still baffled as to how we seem to be at the start of August already, have I been under a rock whilst this year has flown by? As it's finally summer and in the UK we've been lucky enough to have actually had some sunshine I thought I would start up a little series throughout this summer. I'll be talking about anything I've loved this summer or any favourite memories I want to share. Of course today we'll be starting with makeup.

During summer I'm not one for a full face of makeup, layers of foundation and spending hours correcting my eyeliner. I much prefer a lighter makeup look, because nobody wants to be sat across the table from you at a summer party watching your foundation slip of your face from the sweat. Obviously some people still go all out in summer, which is fine! However personally that isn't for me. This summer I've been trying to clear up my skin, in order to do so I've had a lot of no makeup days, but when I do wear makeup it's quite minimalist.On to the makeup now.

First up, as always the base! Since I've decided to ditch the foundation this summer a base has become more important in my makeup routine than ever. I'm wearing BB creams a lot recently so I need something that will blur my pores and any fine lines to help the BB cream look flawless. I've been using the No7 Airbrush Away primer a lot recently, and I love it! It feels so refreshing on my skin, it hydrates and moisturises, creating the perfect base for your makeup. I never used to think primers were all that important in your makeup routine, and I've had my fair share of trials with a few before and haven't always had much luck. This one is a little more on the pricey side but so worth it, it's become my go to primer!

Finding a decent BB cream has proved to be a lot more difficult than you might think, so many of them literally add nothing to my makeup whatsoever. Although I am looking for something more lightweight on my skin, I still want a bit of coverage and my skin tone to be evened out. Before I went away on holiday last week I popped into Boots on a hunt for a BB cream and I found the Maybelline dream BB fresh. I've loved their products in the past so I thought I'd give it a go. Easy to say I quickly fell in love with the BB cream! In summer I'm all for glowy makeup, exactly what this product gives you! It makes your skin look fresh with a light to medium coverage, and adding a gorgeous natural glow. I never expect much from a BB cream when it comes to coverage but this could be build-able and it does blur any imperfections.

Like I said previously, I'm really digging glowy makeup at the moment, of course it wouldn't be glowy without a highlight! This product isn't your typical highlight and could be used as a blush too. Take my word for it when I say it gives your skin a stunning glow and a bronzed look at the same time! It's of course my Mac Mineralized Skin finish in Light Year, I do believe this product is unfortunately discontinued.  It has a subtle amount of shimmer, and the champagne, bronze and hint of pink all work nicely together to create a stunning natural glow. I often use this as a highlighter, but sometimes I do use it as a blush.

When it comes to eyebrows, lazy is an understatement. I've always struggled with filling and shaping my brows. Recently Benefit released a load of new eyebrow products. They just get brows so right! I received a mini sample of the Goof Prof brow pencil in shade three, I was really excited to give it a go. To say the least it's amazing! It's so easy to use and helps me to fill and shape my eyebrows to perfection. I will definitely be buying the full size. Easy to say it's possibly my favourite brow product I have ever used! Now I'm eager to try out some other brow products from Benefit.

Lastly, by no surprise of course I've been loving a MAC lipstick! Now my usual go to lipstick is Velvet Teddy. I'm coming to the end of that lipstick sadly. So I've decided in order to prolong it's life I would venture into some other MAC lipsticks I own. I've had the shade Brave for a while now, but never really seemed to fussed about it. I put it on the other week and I can't believe I've overlooked it for so long! It's such a stunning shade, it does have a slight hint of a pink undertone which isn't usually my go to lip colour, but because it's so subtle I don't mind it! It's become one of my new favourite lip colours.

That's everything I've been loving for make-up this summer, what products have you been loving this summer?

♥