It's a Carnaby Christmas

The saturday after Black Friday me and my flat mates ventured out to Oxford Street to check out the sales, and to tell you the truth it was absolutely manic, but I managed to pick up a few things. I thought I would show you guys some of the pictures I had taken that day.

Personally I love Carnaby so when ever I visit Central London I inevitably end there, I wasn't going to put these pictures up because this isn't a planned post, I took these pictures to send to my family back home, but I figured you guys wouldn't mind seeing the christmas lights.

Carnaby is nestled in between Regent Street and Oxford street, it is a few small streets of shops all lined up and surrounded by old timey pubs and restaurants, some of the buildings are old and painted different colours with designs from different eras with modern twists to fit the shops they inhabit.

Of course while I was on oxford street I just so happened to pop into the Disney Store and happily found myself in the pumpkin cart from Cinderella.

Oxford Street in the evening

Oxford Street by day

Carnaby

Carnaby

Me sat in the Cinderella pumpkin cart in the Disney Store

I hope you guys have enjoyed this post, follow me on instagram for more pictures, all links are on the side of page.

Thank you for reading.

November Favourites

Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted in a while but I'm back and with christmas around the corner I have a few things planned. But right now I will be telling you my November favourites.

Beauty:

• Estée Lauder- Advance Night Repair
• Nivea body lotion- Intensive Moisture
• Nivea Cleanser- Daily Essentials, Gentle Cleansing Cream Wash

Hair:

• L'oréal Paris Elvive Smooth-Intense, Anti Frizz Shampoo and conditioner

Fashion:

• Urban Outfitters Stone Necklace
• H&M White Striped Shirt Dress
• Topshop Desert Boots

Urban Outfitters Necklace £8.40

Shop:

• Urban Outfitters
• Topshop
• Makeup Revolution

 Food:

• Gold Bar
• Galaxy Ripple
• Staffordshire oatcakes (I was so surprised when I was shooting a short film in central London and finding these, which are the speciality food where I'm from in Stoke-On-Trent
• Lobby- Also a food where I'm from, its like a stew

Lobby

Oatcakes

Thanks for reading, I hope you like these!

Moving To London

Hey guy, I know it has been a while since iv been active and I wanted to explain to you where I have been. Basically I got in to the university I applied for which meant moving to London, and so far its been the best decision iv made.

I love all of the people in my flats and the area I live in is amazing, I guess all the college work I did paid off.

After my nan died I decided to take some time away but then I had to moved down to London a week later, before having to go back home for the funeral, so I took a little extra time to get to know my new local area as well as explore central London. I will be posting the pictures of my journeys soon.

When I was younger we would travel to London a few times a year and I hated it, it was much too hectic for young me, people everywhere bumping into you, traffic everywhere, and the heat of the underground.

But now I'm older iv learned to appreciate these things and take them all in my step, as the capital city London has so much more to offer other than Buckingham Palace and the London Eye, everywhere you look there is something new to see. From all of the parks, to the architecure, and the hidden side streets packed with hidden boutiques on cobble stoned walk ways.

If you want to see more of my adventures around London then follow me on twitter to see when I post.

Thank you for reading!

September Favourites

Hey guys, sorry I haven't been around in a while but I will be putting up a post to explain why, but today I will be telling you my September favourites. It feels weird saying September favourites, like where has the year gone?!?!

Beauty:

• Once again the Maybelline Dream Flawless Nude Foundation (review to follow soon)
• Rimmel Scandeleyes Eye Shadow Crayon in Tresspassing Taupe
• Real Techniques Core Collection! iv been doing a lot of travelling and these have been life savers.

Fashion: 

• Pale blue and white pin stripe shirt from New Look
• Topshop leather jacket
• Primark navy and white long line striped top
• Black dungarees 

Shop:

• Urban Outfitter
• H&M Home

Music:

• Beauty Behind The Madness- The Weeknd
• Wonderland- McFly (my go to album when I'm ill)

Food:

• KA sparkling pineapple drink
• Fajitas

Thank you for reading, I have a lot coming of posts

 up in the next few weeks.

August Favourites

The end of the month is here which means its time for another august favourites.
This month because I had finished college I expected to get more posts up but then life stuck his nose in and I didn't get chance.

I you follow me on twitter then you will know that I took time away from my blog because my nan had become ill and was in hospital, and unfortunately she passed away, so I took a little extra time, and I know I have lost lots of followers over social media, so thank you to everybody else that has stuck around. This also means I have less favourites because iv had other things to deal with.

Back to my favourites:

Beauty:
Maybelline Dream Flawless Nude Foundation
Simple Kind To Skin Replenishing Rich Moisturiser
Nivea Daily Essentials Sensitive Cleansing Milk
Nivea Daily Essentials Sensitive soothing Cleansing Mousse


Fashion:
Primark wool cable knit jumper in grey with brown elbow patches (iv literally had this for like 4 years but its still a staple)
Silver triangle necklace from Warehouse

Food:
Graze boxes, I bought some of the individual boxes while I was at the hospital and they are so amazing
Cheesy garlic pizza
Mango chicken curry
Donut peaches

Music:
The Gardiner Sisters
The Weeknd

TV/Film
Hot In Cleveland
Fight Club

Youtube:
Gardiner Sisters
Patricia Bright

Person:
Of course my favourite person this month and every month in the past, present and future will always be my nan, she looked after me and my brother like we were her own. Im not going to write a huge paragraph here because no matter how much I write you will never understand how truly amazing she is!

Thank You for reading!

Clear Skin Challenge: New Products I'm Using

Im a week into this challenge and so far I think its going well, or at least it started off well...
I was eaten healthy at the start and it went down hill from there, I also haven't been drinking water which doesn't help.

I always see people talking about eating healthy to help keep your skin clear, and to an extent I believed it but didn't think it would have a massive impact. Oh how I was wrong! Im a self-confessed chocolate eating, crisp munching, coke drinking addict. But I have been eating pretty healthy for a few weeks so I it helped my skin and when that began to go down hill and I wanted to eat everything in sight (hormones right? But not that time of the month) my skin changed.

I got more blemished and my dark circles got darker. But I have bought some more skiing care products that I feel helped so here is my list.

• Nivea Daily Essentials Sensitive Cleansing Milk
• Nivea Daily Essentials Soothing Cleansing Mousse
• Nivea Daily Essentials Gentle Cleansing Cream Wash
• Simple Kind To Skin Replenishing Rich Moisturiser

As you can see most of it was Nivea which was totally accidental, I bought them on separate occasions from different stores, whenever I was walking past skin care I could just feel myself been draw to them, which I'm glad of because these are amazing for your skin.

These products are so gentle for your skin but I think they make a big different and I now live by them.

For the simple moisturiser I chose this because I have the simp foaming cleaners and the day cream, both of which I love, and I wanted something that wasn't going to be full chemicals and irritate my skin but works with the other products I have so it was a no brainer.

From these pictures (I'm sorry they are blurry) you can see most of my blemishes have gone down and I just need to stop the scarring, also try and reduce the redness around my nose. 

I have no idea why this is the wrong way.

From these pictures (I'm sorry they are blurry) you can see most of my blemishes have gone down and I just need to stop the scarring, also try and reduce the redness around my nose. 

If you guys know any products to help with scarring then please comment or tell me on social media all of my links are at the side.

*also I will be doing more in-depth reviews of the new products I have bought.

Thank you for reading!

Clear Skin Challenge

My skin has slowly been getting worse over the past 8 or so months, I think I was quite lucky as a young teen because I was a 'late bloomer' so it wasn't until my later teens where my skin began to change. I will look at my self everyday and be annoyed about by skin but then did nothing about it, but now I'm changing my ways!

Today I will be starting my own Clear Skin Challenge, I feel if I turn it into a challenge and document what it is I'm doing then I will be more likely to stick to it.

I will be documenting food that I eat as well as skin care products that I use and any products I use I will write a seperate review for! Iv got my filofax ready and it is now dedicated to this challenge so I can fill it in each day.

I have some 'before' pictures to show and I will add on after pictures in14 days.

These first pictures I took in my bathroom the lighting is just the sun through the window and no other lighting. 

And these last two are taken at night before bed with the bathroom light on.

As you can see my skin isn't ridiculously bad or out of hand but I have many trouble points.

I would say I have dry-combination skin, and as I'm getting older my skin is getting more on the dry side but then it will flip and become really oily. I have a lot of redness around my nose and at the moment I have one of those spots that grow huge, are really red and is really painful so I'm excited to see what products work to help that.

I have really dark under eye circles and on my left side it is slightly puffy like iv been crying and the right is generally flat darker. The area under my cheek bone is getting worse, I never usually got spots there before but now I do I like to call it 'contouring with acne'. As for my skin tone, I have medium-olive skin and my face is the palest part of my body, and I have really uneven skin tone, a lot of the times I will have ashy grey areas that look like death warmed up or yellow tones.


So there is the low down on my skin, lets see if I can change it! I hope you guys stick around to see it out.

Thanks for reading.

 Ps. I look happy in my pictures right!?!? I really hate having pictures taken sorry guys.

July Favourites

July is over already at the speed this year is going it will be christmas tomorrow. I hope you've all had a lovely month, here are my July favourites.

Beauty/Fashion:
Gillete Venus  Satin Care Sensitive Skin Shave Gel
Illamasqua Eyebrow Cake in Thunder
Clothing:
Black full leg dungarees from Primark (£17)
Tan Chelsea boots from ASOS (£20)


Shop:
New Look
The Works
WH Smiths

Music:
One Direction- Four (full album)


TV/Film:
The Lake House
Southpaw - Jake Gyllenhaal kills it in that film, go check it out.
Hot in Cleveland (newly Discovered)
Supernatural

Food:
Nectarines
Cherries
Full english breakfast,  I may indulged myself every once in a while.
Home cooked chips

Book:
Alexa Chung It

Person:
Alexa Chung

Youtube:
Lily Melrose
Becca Rose

Miscellaneous:
Disney Goofy Tsum Tsum, I love this little guy.

As you can probably tell since iv finished college I have had a little more time to indulged myself with junk food and TV, I haven't really left the house so not many beauty things.

I hope you enjoyed this post and that August is awesome for you guys

Thanks for reading!

Simple At Home Workout

I know that not everyone is able to go to the gym so I thought I would share with you guys a super simple workout that you guys can do at home, that doesn't need any equipment.

Before I start I would like to say that I am in no way an expert and I recommend you speak to an expert before doing these exercises because if you do some of these wrong you can do more damage than good. If you don't have an expert at hand then there are plenty of tutorials on youtube, I suggest Livestrong or Livestrongwomen.


-15 Crunches with leg lift (I have my legs propped up at a 45 degree angle on a chair)
-15 Tricep dips
-20 calf raises
-15 sumo squats
-30 bicycle crunches
-30 mountain climbers

Do 3 sets of these.

I hope you guys like this kind of post, if you would like more then comment or tweet me.

Thank you for reading!

Summerish Clothing Wish List

I know that summer will soon be over, especially in the UK we had like four sunny days and now the rain is ready to take over. But I have made this list of things I wanted to add to my wardrobe over the summer, some I have added.

• White skinny jeans.
• A some dungarees, long or short
• a striped tee
• a pair of brown chelsea boots. (I found a pair for sale on ASOS, £20)
• White Slip-ons (i bought from New Look, £17.99)
• Pinafore dress
• Red and black check shirt
• Patterned shirts and blouses 

These are the things i have been searching for, I feel that these few items could make so many different looks, but they can also transistion in to autumn/winter, especially if you have a long pair of dungarees.

Thank you for reading!

June Favourites | I'm Back

Hey guy long time no read... i suppose.

Anyway I'm sorry I didn't post anything over the last few weeks but I have been cramming in my college work, and now I have to wait until August to see if I have got the grades for university.

Even though it is late I thought a June Favourites would be the perfect post to get me back into the swing of things!

Beauty:
Rimmel lasting finish 25 hour medium coverage foundation.

Food:
Watermelon
Cherries
Watermelon sweets

TV & film
Vikings
Zombeavers
Friends
Take That III (they released the tour as a movie in the cinema)

Music:
Take That III (i feel like there is a running theme here)
Mcfly- Motion in the Ocean

There isn't anything mind blowing here but I have been so busy, so hopefully I will have a better July favourites.

Thank you for reading

May Favourites

I'm sorry I forgot to post this on the 1st but iv got so much college work to do I forgot so here is my late May favourites.

Beauty:
Maybelline Dream Flawless Nude Fluid Touch Foundation, this is low coverage, but it evens out your skin and blends in super easy, so if your in a rush this foundation if gold!

Green Tea I have been using green tea in a lot of homemade natural beauty products.

Experience:
I have never done experience before but I went to see Take That live and it was such an incredible show!

Shop:
New Look for accessories

Food:
Watermelon (my best friend had the bizarre idea of carving our names into a watermelon we bought, we named him woofers)
Roasted sweet potato
Fizzy watermelon sweets
Apricots

Music:
Taylor Swift - 1989
Sia- Chandelier
McBusted - I Red
Vance Joy - Riptide
One Direction - Girl Almighty


TV& Film
I have been loving Grimm

There isn't a lot of beauty but hopefully by the end of June when my college term is up I can concentrate more on blog.

Thank you for reading!

Smoothie Sunday

Im late again but here is todays super tangy smoothie, iv done a lot of sweet so iv changed it up bit.

Ingredients:
5 apricots
1 cup of raspberries
3 peaches
1 passion fruit
1/2 of a naval orange.
2 tspn chia seeds
2 tspn flack seed

I hope you like a lots of tang because this smoothie is jam packed.

(the pictures aren't the best but they have been taken late at night)

Thank you for reading

Avocado & Green Tea Hair Mask

Have you ever watched TV and wondered how the actresses manages to get frizz free, shiny hair? Well iv made a hair mask that gave me the answer and it was made using only three ingredients which I already had the house.

Ingredients:
4 teaspoons of olive oil
Half and avocado
Half a cup of green to (using just one tea bag)

I used a blender to mix this because it was quicker but also it helped the oil mix in with the other ingredients but if you don't have a blender all you have to do iv mash and mix it together.

I added plant of this too my hair, I sectioned off parts of my hair to make sure I didn't miss any spots then massaged it in. I left it for 20-30 minutes (I didn't want to miss corrie) then washed it out, I shampooed twice and then added conditioner to only the ends of my hair.

I picked these three ingredients because they all have plenty of benefits some share the same benefits so I thought mixing them would double the chances of healthy hair.

Results: 
For me this mix made my hair easier to brush, easy to straighten, soft and refreshed, also my hair wasn't weighed down and I have no frizz.

Benefits of the ingredients:
Olive oil:
Makes hair softer
adds shine
is moisturising and stops frizz
helps keep hair from tanlging

Green tea:
Helps with hair growth
prevents hair loss
helps control dandruff
can soothe itchy scalp (it can also help soothe psoriasis)

Avocado:
Helps hair growth
moisturising
adds shine
prevents hair loss
can treat dry and itchy scalp
helps tackle frizz
helps control dandruff

There you go a super simple, easy to make mask which promotes healthy hair.

I hope you liked this post.

Thank you for reading.

Smoothie Sunday | Apricot Delight

Once again I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried apricot, the only time I have eaten apricot is in   yogurt but I wanted to try the actual fruit so I made a smoothie.

Ingredients:
1 passion fruit
juice of half an orange
1 mango
3 apricots
100ml of coconut and pineapple juice.

This smoothie is for people with a sweet tooth, I hope you enjoy

When I payed for the apricots I was stood at the till for about 15 minutes because they weren't on the computer system so it took four different workers to work out how to pay.

I bought the coconut and pineapple juice because it is really expensive to buy coconut water on its own so I figured that this would be a good alternative and bought it, but silly me didn't read what was in it until I got home. It is full of added flavours and also milk, which I am sensitive with, I told you guys before I have a lot of bad luck.

Thanks for reading

My Current Travel Bucket List

I love to travel and explore, travelling is something I have been doing all my life so I wanted to make a post of all the places I wish to travel in the future!

A lot of of the things in my list are based in the UK, because the UK is a beautiful place to explore and I think people forget about all the places to go other than the big cities. Castles have always fascinated me so I'm happy to explore any castles thrown at me.

• Visit all the castles in the UK
• Visit the Vatican
• Visit Venice 
• Travel  around the British coast line 
• Go to the Harry Potter Studios
• Go and see the Gaints Causeway
• Go and see the northern lights
• Track mountain gorillas 
• Go to the Fiary chimneys of Cappadpcia 
• Go to Hobbiton in New Zealand (and New Zealand in general)
• Visit Red Square in Russia
• Visit Japan 

I love exploring cities whether they are sprawling cityscapes or more quaint towns, I enjoy looking at the architecture in big cities just as much as I enjoy finding book shop tucked away in a rustic town.

Places I have visited in the past:

Kalkan

Falmouth

Falmouth

Ireland

Kalkan

Ireland

I hope you liked this kind of post. 

Thank you for reading!

Smoothie Saturday...

I know, I know its a Sunday night but I honestly thought today was Saturday but its not! oh well heres a smoothie anyway.

So this is by far the best tasting smoothie I have ever had! EVER.

It it is a tropical smoothie, I told you I wanted to get more summery and diverse well here it is my tropical twister smoothie.

Ingredients:
1 cup of pineapple
1 cups of mango
1 passion fruit
1/2 papaya
100ml of water

You can play about with the amounts depending on what you want or like, I actually drank a lot of mine before I took any pictures I was running around my house like making my dad and brother taste it because it was so good!

I loved this smoothie and now that summer is coming there is more of a variety of fruits coming to the UK which has me very excited!!!

I hope you enjoyed this post

Thank you for reading.