Sweetie Pie: Shower... Jelly?

So hi...

Now I am a pretty big fan of lush, I currently have 5/6 things of lush I'm going through or have to use. One of these things is the Sweetie Pie shower jelly, I got it in a gift set that my sister bought me and was really just confused by it, I mean you see plenty of shower gels, creams and the like but jelly? so strange. It say's it was made in order to celebrate Lush's 10th birthday.

The lid description says:

'If a bar of soap and a bottle of shower gel had a steamy affair, this would be the resulting jelly baby.'

I also love the how to use end which says:

'Stroke our wobbly bit over your wobbly bits in the shower.'

so inappropriate sounding, I love it.

Anyway when I was first bought the gift set I kinda skimmed over this beaut, confused by the idea of it, but recently I've been trying out different beauty and skincare bits because I really don't appreciate or use all the things I have, and as I had run out of my snow fairy shower gel, this seemed like an appropriate replacement. the first shower was an awkward time of wondering what the hell to do with the jelly and trying not to drop it.

Once all that was dealt with I was pretty fond of this product, It's got a lovely cherry smell to it and the jelly itself is all glittery which is kinda cool. It does feel like it takes a while to get the soapiness going with the jelly, but once it does, it all a good time. The faint cherry smell also lingers on the skin for a long time as well which is always nice.
This is definitely going to be a firm favourite in my shower routine.

Have you ever tried out the Sweetie Pie Shower jelly? what did you think of it?

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Mid Year thoughts

So hi...

So we're now midway through 2015, it's the middle of June and I can't believe how quickly this year has been going by, I've finished my first year of uni, made lovely friends, been abroad twice and it's been crazy. I also Blogged every day in may which was a super interesting experience which I was really proud of myself for doing, you may have noticed I when took a little break from posting. Though I wanted to keep a regular stream of blogging going I decided to have a little break to sort things out at home with jobs and life plans etc etc.
But I'm back on it now, and ready to power forward!
This year for me has been the best of my life so far. With the start of uni at the end of last year I really started to get into my sense of self and knowing what I want to do with the next few years of my life. My Confidence is one thing that has definitely gone up, I've stopped caring so much about other people's opinions and acted on my own wants and idea. This is everything from  my attitude to my fashion sense. I've had a complete mental re-haul. If I want to buy a dress i buy it, whereas before i'd worry about peoples opinions.
It's an amazing feeling to feel happy with yourself and feel secure with where you're heading. I know that Uni was the best decision I've made for my own progress and development and I still really hope to go into criminal therapy once I finish Uni.

As you guys know if you've been keeping up with my posts I've been abroad twice this year, I went to Paris in February with my Uni fashion Society and then to Spain, Salou a month later with my Uni Football team. It was amazing to go away and experience a different country, It light a flame for travel in me. I've also recently been catching up with Funforlouis' videos, which has inspired me even more. The travels and sights he experiences are simply outstanding. I hope to one day visit so many fantastic places.
But that'll have to be around uni for now.

So we're halfway through the year and at the beginning of Summer and I can't wait to see what the rest of this year holds for me. I'm working to earn as much as I can over Summer and Hoping to go Amsterdam for a few days towards the end of August with friends which will be incredible.

So 2015. Thanks for being so good to me! please keep it up.
How has your year gone so far?
Let me know down in the comments below!

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Instagram Healthy Food Diary.

So hi...

If you follow me on Instagram you may have noticed that I have been posting all my meals lately. This is because I've started to use my instagram page as a way to track what I eat and keep a food diary. Along with this I've also been following weekly meal plans that I found from Weight watchers. I decided to do all this as I've struggled with my weight most my life, or as long as I can remember. When I was born, I was actually 2 months early and so was tiny when I came out. Doctors didn't actually think I would survive and I was kept in the hospital for a while. Because of this panic my parents told me they used to give me a lot of food and things so I would grow normally and okay. Well that worked a little too well, From junior school I was bigger and a little taller than most of the other children. And although everyone shot up in their height and I didn't I still have always been what I consider pretty big. I've tried a number of things before but I never seem to shift.

This has always cause a lot of insecurities for me and although now I don't consider myself to be obese or anything ( I'm size 14 comfortably in 90% of clothing) I'm still, like most people rather unhappy with my body. So I decided to revamp. I've changed a lot of my eating habits already in the past year. I rarely drink anything but water ( and usually have about 5 bottles of water a day) and I don't tend to have processed food as I've gotten into the habit of eating fresher at uni.(minus the odd takeaway)

These still haven't been able to shift the weight I want and so here I am. after that long super personal ramble, Telling the blogging world my plans. This way I feel I'll be much more motivated to keep up to the meal plans I'm following and more motivated to generally improve my fitness and health.
Feel free to follow me on my instagram page. I may start to post my weight loss or gain after another month or so.
I'm hoping to lose around 3 stone of weight. And I think this can be done healthily in around 4-5 months, Let me know your thoughts on that?

I've also lost 8/9lbs within the last 2 weeks already purely due to the fact I got a tongue piercing, making eating solid foods quite difficult, so I didn't eat at all for about 5 days apart from the odd yogurt and soup. As I was still keeping myself busy and active I'm guessing that's the reason for the weight loss but it's a head start I guess?

With any luck I'll be writing an update post to this one with happy news and much slender fingers!

Bit over personal today but is there anything you've struggled with that you want to or have changed?

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Potter Love!

So hi..

Now this is a little bit of an odd post but I realized I bought these two items within a relatively short amount of time, to the point where I was wearing the top at the time the choker arrived and put them on together to realize that I looked like the biggest Harry potter fan!

 So I first picked up the top from Primark, I think it was only around £6 but I loved the faded burgundy colour and the simple print, Feels like it shows I like harry potter but I still like to look good and not obsessed! It's a super comfy material as well so it's just nice to feel cosy but look pretty good.

 The Choker I ordered online from Ebay, I was just looking for chokers in general and thought this was an awesome looking one, I actually ordered this before the top, and forgotten about it as it took a few weeks to arrive because it was shipped from Hong Kong, it arrived conveniently the day after the Primark visit where I decided to wear my potter top. I was so excited with how good the choker looked that I wore them together and realised how much of a fan I looked like. I don't mind though. I mean it is Harry potter.

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The Whole Make-up Collection: Base Products.

So hi....

Going to talk about the base products today, probably the smallest collection I have. These are my foundations blush/bronzer and all that shizz.

Let's first talk foundation. I don't use foundation all that often, I'm a lazy concealer and powder only kinda girl. But I do own three foundations.
First is the Rimmel Wake me up foundation in Ivory, I love this foundation but it's ( if you couldn't tell) a little bit too dark, i love the coverage and everything else on it but when i bought it I just picked up the lightest shade there and that it still too dark I can mix it with the match perfection foundation however for a more well matched colour.
Speaking of the second foundation I own is the Rimmel match perfection foundation in light Porcelain, this foundation is kinda runny and a little too light for my skin, which makes it a good mix with the wake me up colour.
Lastly is the Foundation I'm currently using which is the Maybelline Super stay better skin foundation in Ivory. This has a decent coverage and is the best colour match so it's what I'll currently make the effort to use.

Next I'll cover all the other bits since I currently only have one of each. For concealer I have the Rimmel wake me up concealer.
I also had the collection lasting perfection concealer however it's run out and I have yet to find a store that has the fair shade that hasn't been used to replace it. The wake me up one does a pretty good job however so it'll d for now.
For powder I'm pretty loyal to Rimmel's Stay matte powder, it does the job well and I couldn't really ask for much else.
I also have the MUA Pro-base Primer, thought it's nearly run out and in all honesty, I didn't feel that it made much difference. I am on the look out for some good primers however so any suggestions down in the comment section would be appreciated.
Last but not least is the Two faced no make-up make up palette, which holds my highlight, blush and bronzer all in one, I love this little palette as its extremely useful and easy!

And we're already done... I told you it was a small collection. I am on the look out to expand it greatly but I feel like with base products it's very important to get it right and not waste money because you picked the wrong shade or something.

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April Goals

So Hi...

Thought I would do another little goals type post. I tend to do this every now and again to show everyone where I'm sort of heading or what I'm hoping to achieve this month/season. It's not a super big list but ya know.

1: Keep up the Healthy Meal Plans! Recently I've started to keep up healthy eating through specific meal plans I've found on the weight watchers site, These were free and I have just finished a week, I could talk forever about healthy eating and my personal struggles but lets leave that for anther day! anyway I hope to upkeep this throughout the month!

2. Get outside. A little bit of an obvious one but I wanna make the most of the spring and summer season and get out and about, both at uni with the flatmates and once I'm home, this one is more whole of summer goal then only april but ya know.

3. Get More Creative!! Lately I've been feeling super uncreative, i don't draw or create as much as I used to and it sucks, I feel so drained of inspiration and creative flow, so I'm aiming to revive that.

4. Do more Fashion related posts! Don't get scared, be confident. Fashion posts are some of my favourites, how to style and personal style blogs cover maybe 40-50% of the blogs I read, I envy their fashion sense and confidence and really want to post a little more fashion along with the odd make-up and lifestyle posts.

5. Make more commitments and keep them. This is for both personal and social commitments, I feel like if i make commitments with friends, i'm more inclined to keep them I really want to give myself more commitments and things to do.

6. Stay in more frequent contact with friends and catch up more! To be honest I think I'm quite decent at this already as i tend to catch up with most friends when home but I want to keep up with it and text and talk to friends more, I really appreciate my close friends since uni.

What goals have you set for yourself this month if any? let me know in the comments below!

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Starting a Uni Scrapbook.

So hi...

I've always been the type of person that envied the cute little friendship scrapbooks I'd see people do or the creativity on Tumblr and in peoples diary's and work. SO when I seen Lilly Pebbles talk about the scrapbook she had done for the year of 2014 I got super motivated. I though that since I had just gone through a major change in my life ( aka uni) that it would be the perfect opportunity to start up my own little Uni scrapbook. 

 I got a load of free prints from various sites. Many photo sites will give you free prints when you sign up and then it's just a small postage fee, I got about 150 in total from two different places. I then picked up a number of cute little pieces from the nearby wilko. there are all relatively cheap, I think my favourite is the little ribbons. I also want to get some nice patterned washy tape soon. So far I've gotten most of the pages for 2014 finished, I'm thinking about showing a few of the completed pages once my first uni year has been finished. It's not a super flashy or creative scrapbook, but I'm proud of it and enjoy doing it.

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Make up Revolution Haul & opinions

So hi...

 This is quite a delayed post if I'm honest, I've had these products for quite a while now, but I can definitely give quite an honest and detailed opinion of the products as I've had time to properly test them out.

So Make-up Revolution, No words need to be said about this company as they are everywhere! They've even got a spot next to MUA in my local superdrug now. I got  these online before they got that spot however.

So the first thing I'll talk about is their lipsticks, I bought all 5 of their very bright range 'Scandalous' If I'm honest I don't know if I'll wear all of these, I'll definitely brave the Orange, Pinky colour and the Purple, However I'm unsure about the yellow and blue, I still like having the whole collection together. The quality of the lipsticks are lovely and they last quite well, Very worth the price. The whole set was in a deal for £4. I also bought the '100% vamp' Lipstick from their Vamp collection and I love it, It's definitely a 'vampy' colour but I feel I'll definitely use it in the winter and for nights out, I love it.

Next I clicked this super bright eyeshadow palette into my basket, I chose this as the experimenter in me thought I could definitely use a load of the colour for some really interesting looks, I had Halloween in mind for it as well, The pigmentation is rather good, I have to say the Grey colour was disappointing, You can't even tell it's on my arm in the photo above, but I have plenty of grey eye shadows so I'll live.

Lastly I picked up a foundation ' The Matte Effect' Foundation, I always like trying out new foundation but they tend to be so expensive for something that I might not even like. I had heard good things about this foundation and it was soooo cheap (£4 I think?) It's not a bad foundation for the price really, but definitely one for the very good skin days as it doesn't give huge coverage, But I do like to use it when I 'm feeling too lazy for full make-up as well as it gives a nice look.

And that's everything I got.

Any Makeup Revolution recommendations?

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101 things in 1001 days, Winter Update.

So hi...

Thought I would give a little update to my 101 things in 1001 days, Which I've decided to do after seeing Hayley from Water Painted Dreams do it, I thought It would be interested to try it out myself with a few changes to the 101 things, heres what I've gotten completed so far.

4th July 2014 - 6th April 2017

1)Try To eat healthier (Getting there!)

2)Lose a stone within a year

3)Pass My A Levels

4)Get into university

5)Go to The London Zoo

6)Take up a new sport

7)Do the race for life

8) Keep a Diary for 3 months minimum

9) Visit 15 different unknown places (0/5)

10) Visit Paris

11) Visit America

12) Learn 15 new skills (0/15)

13) Learn to drive

14) Go to airsoft/lasertag

15) Experience 40 New foods/meals(3/40)

16) Watch 100 movies I hadn't seen before(8/100)

17) Cook or bake 25 things I hadn't made before (5/25)

18)Make a list of 100 things that make me happy

19)Make a pizza from scratch

20)Buy a Polaroid camera

21)Get a new laptop

22)Start a scrapbook

23)Walk around a city alone.

24) Give up Chocolate for a month

25) Get a job

26) Attend a midnight movie showing

27)Become an organ donor

28)Give blood

29) Kiss in the rain

30) Go ice skating

31)Make Flower crowns successfully

32)Take my mum out for lunch/dinner

33)Buy 5 things from MAC(0/5)

34) Go a week without swearing

35)Save £300 in my bank account

36)Complete my Wreck this journal

37)Try 10 products from lush I haven't tried before(3/10)

38)Make a fancy cocktail

39)Get a massage

40) Learn to edit and design (blogs, vlogs etc)

41)Learn to say I love you in 10 different languages(0/10)

42)Go on a 'Date'

43)Go to an open acoustic season

44)Get a facial

45)Give money to a street performer

46)Save £1 for each task completed(£12/£101)

47)Make a playlist of 101 of my favourite songs

48)Attend A Cosplay Event

49)Draw something new everyday for a month(0/30)

50) Attend 5 Fashion Events(0/5)

51)Attend 5 concerts(0/5)

52)Write a list of 25 things I like about myself

53)Blog once everyday for a month

54)Dip dye something

55)Have a picnic in the park

56)Make 5 on my own Cosplay outfits (1/5)

57)Take a road trip with friends

58)Make a list of my 50 most favourite quotes

59)Donate all my unwanted clothes to charity 

60)Make my own jewelry

61)Buy a matching set of sexy underwear

62)Make a list of 25 books I would like to read

63)Go to the cinema on my own

64)Make my own shirt

65)Buy someone a gift just because

66)Learn 3 songs on guitar(0/3)

67)Don't eat fast food for a month

68) Learn to sow properly.

69)Go to 15 Restaurants I've never been to before(0/15)

70)Make a blanket fort

71) Reach 400 BL followers

72) Upload a video to YouTube That I'm really proud of

73) Keep a notepad on me for a month

74) Have a dinner party

75) Invite at least 5 people to stay with me at uni (0/5)

76) Find out my blood type

77) Keep a spending diary for a month

78)Complete a sudoku book

79) Do a box swap with an Another blogger

80)Visit a new country

81) Watch all the Harry Potter movies in one week

82)Get up early to watch the sunrise

83) Make a new close friend

84) Build a snowman

85) Don't rely on parents

86) Take someone out just because

87) Make 15 handmade gifts(0/15)

88)Have professional photos taken for my mum

89)Ask 20 friends to recommend a book and read them(0/20)

90) Spend a day in St.Albans And London

91) See a burlesque show

92) Buy something from Etsy

93) Work out everyday for 20 minutes for a month.

94) See a firework show

95) Go berry picking

96) Buy myself a tripod and a wireless remote for my camera

97) Join a club

98) Take pictures in a photo booth

99) Jump into a body of water fully clothed

100) Learn a poem by heart

101) Get a pen pal

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