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beauty

  • Thank God For My Ugliness

    I’m grateful to exist outside the beauty standard Read more

  • Beauty In Motion

    Only once something is still can we see it for what it really is and determine whether it is beautiful or not. Read more

  • Makeup Trends I’m Still Here For | Personal Beauty Favourites

    Makeup is a fast moving market. It seems like whenever I get the hang on what’s in style, the world has already moved on to something completely different. Social media is a massive influence on makeup and fashion trends in general, which it always has been. I first got into makeup thanks to social media, Read more

  • My First Project Pan | No Buy 2020

    I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas or general holiday season doing things that you love! Now that all of that excitement is over, let’s get back into making plans for the new year. I think by now readers of this blog will know that I’m going on a no buy in 2020. If Read more

  • Red Lips – May, Myself And I #4

    May 4: Red Lips I think it’s pretty apt that I’m writing about red lips on a Saturday night. A long time ago (it makes me feel quite sick to think exactly how long ago it was!) I used to go out out on a Saturday night and I’d always be wearing red lipstick. I Read more

  • The Brands I’m Still Using | Cruelty Free Makeup

    A good few months ago now I did a huge cull into my makeup collection and checked up on all the brands I currently use. In a bid to become better, I promised myself that I would only use cruelty free brands. I documented the whole thing here (see part 2). As you can imagine, things Read more

  • Things I’ve Been Loving | February 2018

    It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, which are basically favourites but I don’t do them as often as everyone else. In fact, my last one was way back in November 2016! So it’s certainly about time I do another one. There’s been such a mixture of things I’ve been loving recently Read more

  • How Cruel Is My Makeup Bag? | EYES & LIPS

    Following last week’s post, I am back today to look into the rest of my makeup bag. Today I’m tackling the eyes and lip products I use the most. As I explained last week, I really want to make this change. I feel like I should start making better decisions for both myself and the Read more

  • How Cruel Is My Makeup Bag? | BASE PRODUCTS

    This concept is something I have seen on several blogs or YouTube channels over the past year or so, and it’s something I really want to get involved in. In fact, full disclosure, I did try this several months back but without much commitment or conviction. I’ve decided that this year I want to start Read more

  • Current Skincare Routine: Glossier UK Review

    Despite my love for all things beauty, I have never had a proper skincare routine. My skincare for the past six years or so has just included the cheapest items I could find, because my God can skincare be expensive! However, I recently decided to properly treat myself and bought a selection of things from Read more

  • Benefit Brow Bar Experience: Wax & Tint

    In a couple of weeks I’ll be turning 21 and instead of tackling all of the proper issues that are going on within this time, like reevaluating my future, my ideals and relationships,  I chose to get my eyebrows done professionally. Because I’m a woman now. I have only ever had my eyebrows done once Read more

  • The Beauty Edit: Best Of 2016

    I haven’t done a beauty post in a little while, but my love for makeup hasn’t subsided any in that time! Today I want to do a little round-up of some of my favourite products from 2016. These products may be ones I have tried for the first time this year and have loved or Read more

  • 10 Steps To Refresh and Reboot Your Body

    Do you know those days where you just feel a bit ‘meh’? For some reason you just don’t feel 100% and it’s getting in the way of everything you’re trying to do. Well, here are 10 little steps you can take to feeling refreshed, rebooted and ready to tackle that to-do list once again: Take Read more

  • Things I’ve Been Loving: November

    Okay so I know I’ve just posted a monthly, wrap-up style post (if you missed that then you can check it out here) but November’s been a busy month for me and I have more things to say! This time round I want to focus on the small products that have kept me going and Read more

  • Four Small Things I’m Loving Right Now

    Things have been a bit odd for me these past few weeks. I moved back into university accommodation and have just started the final year of my degree (*que hysterical shrieking*). Most of my time is now spent trying to settle back into a normal routine and getting stuck into work. So when there’s lots of Read more

  • Four Simple Ways To Get Your Shit Together

    There’s nothing worse than feeling lost and stressed. The summer is basically over now and we’re all getting back into our normal routines; our workload’s are increasing and things are generally starting to pick up. In this time it is so easy to feel like things are getting on top of you and you’re starting Read more