Homemade Christmas Gifts Ideas♥

Hey beauts. 

With Christmas literally just around the corner I thought I would share some DIY Christmas gift ideas, that I've been gathering on my DIY Christmas pinterest board. Home made Christmas gifts always come across that a little more thoughtful and sentimental. These are also cute if like me you're doing secret santa this year and stuck for ideas!

This is my personal favourite gift idea. Hot Chocolate in a jar?! What more could you want. This would be perfect for those with a sweet tooth. They could enjoy this on Christmas day whilst watching all the Christmas films and shows on TV.  This is super easy to make too, you don't particularly need to be creative for this gift either. 

Cinnamon Body Scrub. Everybody's skin needs a good ex-foliate in these Wintery, cold months. This would be more suitable for the older generations of your family - so any aunts, your mum, older cousins and nans, as they would probably appreciate it a lot more. With it being home-made too, it means everything you use will be natural so it shouldn't irritate their skin either. Like both of these gifts they can also re-use the jar after too. 

This ones perfect for grandparents. Without a doubt, your grandparents will have a stack of coasters within their home. Mine do anyway.. Usually their plain and not that exciting, but they're always being used. So this year you could make them personalised, so they look a lot more sentimental on the coffee table. They'd also give whoever you gift them to a warm feeling inside, because everybody loves a personalised gift.

Everybody loves having snow globes to put up around Christmas time. They're a simple but gorgeous decoration that's subtle and blends with any decor. Usually a snow globe may seem quite last minute to people, but if you've made it yourself then it will show you've put the time and effort into their gift. Snow globes would be perfect for young children as you could personalise them, for example a Frozen themed snow globe would go down a treat for so many little children this year.

Biscuits scream Christmas to me as it's the time of year that my nan always buys the massive tins and constantly has them out whenever we visit around Christmas. My nan or nana would absolutely love this selection of all their favourite biscuits. It looks cute and tastes great too. This would also just be cute to make for your own home around Christmas for when people visit. 

I wanted to include a gift that you could make for somebody who is longer with us, Earlier this year I lost my aunty Cath and we were so close. This Christmas will be tough without her, however me and my sister have decided that we are going to make personalised lanterns to light on Christmas Eve in memory of Cath. So that she knows we are still thinking of her and love her so much still. 

Keep a look out for more Christmas posts!!

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*all these photos were taken from Pinterest, I do not own any.

NEW HAIR♥

Hey lovelies!

I got a hair cut!! 

This isn't something I'd usually bother sharing because I usually just get a trim and you can barely notice it. However this time I got quite a bit taken off. I mentioned wanting to get my hair quite short to my friend Maisie a few weeks ago and ever since, she's been tagging me in short hair videos and nagging me to do it. PS thanks for the push to do it Mais aha!

I finally decided to go ahead and just get it chopped off, my hair's always been so thin and flat, it very rarely looked healthy.. I was so nervous about doing it because my hair was the longest it's ever been but I wanted a change. 

My hair feels so much thicker and healthier now, it's so much easier to handle and I've had so many lovely compliments since doing it. I curled my hair last night, then slept on it and the curls lasted all night and all day, that's including the wind that seemed to go in every direction possible. When my hair was longer if I was to curl it, they would drop within an hour, not any more. 

I did also want to become a brunette, but I'm not brave enough to dye my hair. Knowing me I'd regret it anyway - also mum wouldn't approve haha. 

I've been getting very over excited about having got my hair cut.  If you see any hair tutorials for people with short then feel free to tag me!

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Mac Pro Longwear | Review

Hi lovelies! 

Today I'm reviewing the Mac Pro Longwear foundation. I also have a dupe for this foundation too. I've been using this foundation for a few months now and it's my new must have foundation.  I use shade NW20 and I am fairly pale, this matches my skin tone perfectly. 

This foundation retails for £25.50, this is a little more pricey than your standard drug store foundation but so worth it!! It's 30ml, which is the average amount to get in a foundation bottle. It has a pump, which locks, this comes in handy for travelling. If you've travelled with foundation before, then you know the struggles of it when it decides to leak everywhere. This prevents that, thankfully. 

If you have oily skin, and long for a foundation that lasts on your face and doesn't slip and slide everywhere, then this is the one! It's a stunning semi-matte foundation, which is high coverage and lasts all day. It blends so well and works with either a brush or a beauty blender. 

Last Saturday I applied this at 10 am in the morning and didn't take it off until around 10 pm that night. It was still perfectly on my skin before I took it off. I had also been out all day, gone on rides hugged friends and snuggled up in scarves in the cold too. It hasn't ever made my skin look shiny and the gorgeous finish lasts all day. My skin gets so many compliments whenever I wear this. It also works amazing with cream products too, it doesn't make any additional products hard to blend. 

Personally I think primer isn't that necessary with this foundation, whilst primers do improve the lasting power and blurs pores. This foundation works perfectly with out one so there's no need to stress if you don't have a primer to go with it. 

DUPE TIME - I am aware that not everybody can afford or even wants to pay a lot of money for a foundation so I tested out two drug store foundations and found that they are amazing dupes. The first one being the L'Oreal True Match, this has the same lasting power and coverage, however I do usually have to top up my powder with this one. Besides that they're identical. This retails for £9.99. The last dupe I found was the Revlon ColorStay, this has had so much hype through youtube and blogs. It's very clear why, this is the perfect dupe and matches the MAC foundation perfectly. This one retails for £12.99

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Travel Bucketlist 2015

Hi lovelies. From a young age I've always known that I've wanted to travel around the world. Holidays to Spain didn't cut it for me after a while, as amazing as they were, I've always wanted to see more of the World.

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I put together most of the places I wish to visit and thought I would share them with you all. I don't want to be one of those people that grows old and sits back and says ' I wish I travelled too..' or ' If only I did that..' I want to finish my education and take a year or maybe longer to see the most beautiful parts of the world.

My Travel Bucket list consists of these places;

Galapoagos Islands

Barcelona - so photogenic!

Greece

Amsterdam

Rome
Iceland - to swim in the Blue Lagoon!!

Paris

Dubai

Sydney

Venice

Fiji
Germany
Norway - Northern Lights

All 50 states in the USA

Bora Bora

China

Hawaii

Norway

Every single Disney park - Don't pretend you're surprised to see this 

I would justify all these places but my only justification is that they're all beautiful places, and all have amazing cultures that intrigue me immensely.
 I still haven't discovered everywhere that I wish to travel too, no doubt this post will be updated at some point int he future. Hopefully I will slowly start ticking these off at some point*fingers crossed*. 

Where do you wish to travel to?

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(all photos marked with an * are not mine and all copyrights go to Pinterest)

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