First attempt...

This is my first attempt at an ombré lip...

I don't think it looks too shabby! I used Topshop's Ohh La La for the middle, Rimmel's Retro for the outer and Jemma Kidd's Monroe to line. Although the Monroe didn't really show up.

Step 1. Use a fairly hard lip balm just to moisten your lips slightly.

Step 2. Use your lightest lip shade and apply to middle of lips not going right to the edge. 

Step 3. Use a very small brush to add the darker shade around the edge and blend

Step 4. Use an even darker shade with a brush just to add some shadow.

And voila, bare in mind I am very novice at doing this I got some pretty good results. I would add a coat of Lipcote on top as well to make it stay.

Topshop and boots don't sell the shades I have used anymore unfortunately but any coral, bright red and dark red colours would be fine. 

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gotta buy, buy, buy

Here's a few new purchases that I've made recently, it's gonna be a random mix of things and I'll update every first Sunday of the month, in a way I hope some months I don't have anything to update it with! Ha.

Funko Pop Vinyl's Groot and Dancing Groot; Guardians Of The Galaxy was one of my favourite films of 2014!

New dress from Miss Selfridge, Mono T-shirt Tunic, £25.00

New jeans from Miss Selfridge, Lizzie Black Shredded Jean, £40.00

Bam! Shirt from H&M (can't find this online unfortunately, H&M's website is pretty terrible)

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The 7:39

So who watched 'The 7:39' last night on BBC1? It had mixed reviews on twitter and from me to be honest. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the casting choices, Olivia Colman is of course an acting maestro and Sheridan Smith is always a joy to watch. David Morrissey is one of those actors to me where I go 'what have I seen him in?' But they all seemed to be the best choices and their interwoven stories kept the viewers entertained. In a way it was predictable as most viewers including myself expected the glaringly obvious to happen, that Morrissey and Smith's characters would get together therefore cheating on their respective partners. However the clever way that the monotonous train journey was portrayed can be felt by many across London and the surrounding areas. Many revelled in seeing their train provider South West Trains appear and trying to work out which route they were on (somewhere in Surrey, I guessed Guildford, Woking or Surbiton?). The relationship between them seemed innocent at first but then it dove deeper into Sheridan Smith's happiness with her Fiancé and David Morrissey's lack of excitement in his marriage.

I feel the main let down was the lack of surprise in the story. It seemed inevitable that they would become friends even from the first arguement their characters have, then predictable when they start getting drunk and then end up in a hotel. The next interesting part will be the will they won't they get together and will they tell their partners and families. Well we will find out tonight on BBC1 at 9pm. Will the couple 'take it to the grave' and return to strangers on a train or will they cave in and tell all of their affair?

It was just a Fling...

I have lived in Chelmsford all my life except from my three years at uni and have never attended the Fling Festival until this weekend. I went on Saturday and it was great fun. After a year off the local festival returned to Central Park. My friend Amy was working there in the early afternoon so at about half 1 I gained my wristband and met up with her infront of Stage 1 with two Pimms Slushies in hand. Yes you heard me Pimms out of a slushie machine, it was amazing. I hadn't heard of many of the bands playing, had anyone? But there was lots more to do besides the bands. They had tents with cabaret acts, the big sing a long, accoustic stage and even a recycling bit where you could make your own hat. Mine had a crocodile stuck to it, obviously. We drank cider and pimms and sunbathed whilst making lots of new friends. I remember 'Dead Cannons' being pretty lively and the Dj's played some pretty good songs. I would highly recommend this festival to any fellow Essex dwellers.

Me and Amy

more photo's to follow, keep checking back. 

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Edit: 

Yep that is a hat with a plastic crocodile on it and me making a stupid pose.

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Photos...

The view from the hill at "The Park"

The Glastonbury sign.

Me and my sister at the campsite. It was her 26th Birthday whilst we were there!

YEAH!

JUMP, I think that's how the camera works?!

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GLASTO Dos and Don'ts...

This is a quick guide on things to do and not do in preparation and at Glastonbury festival. Bare in mind this is only after my first time of attending this year and is based solely on my experiences. Any comparisons to experiences of yours is completely coincidental...

DO -

- Plan where you are going to camp before hand. We didn't and ended up walking for miles, FYI we headed for Dairy Ground and it was a really nice place to camp! Close to The Other Stage and not too noisy.

- Prepare to walk far to your campsite! (we walked for an hour and a half, doh)

- Plan your journey. If you need the west car parks find out how to drive to them through the village which we WILL be doing next year.

- Keep checking the weather forecast and change outfits accordingly. If you pack well before time you will end up in flip flops in the rain like many girls I saw.

- Be prepared for walking as aforementioned, but not just from the carparks all around the festival. Don't wear wellies if it's dry they will just make you uncomfortable. I wore ankle boots and they served me well!

- Take suncream whatever the weather forecast and re apply it, although I did this and still burnt my face and chest.

- Wear dresses, leggings and tights if you are girl. (or boy if that's what you're into) I found this the easiest because you can put leggings in your bag. It does get colder later.

- Put all your preconceptions of what the toilets are going to be like to one side because they will be even worse than you could have imagined.

- Buy a cheap tent from Tesco, mine was only £15 and completely waterpoof, it was amazing!

- Expect to meet strangers and instantly become best friends, I met some great people.


DON'T -

- Sit on any toilet seats, they are rancid.

- Expect not to queue for things, toilets, water, food etc. You will have to wait.

- Forget a hairbrush, I did and seriously my hair was nearly in dreads.

- Think you can't wash. Me and my sister managed to wash at our campsite and washed our hair under the water taps. Just don't hold up the people getting water!

- Think you won't see anybody you know. You will, I bumped into my good friend Katarina and found out she was camping like 100m away from me. Also saw somebody I knew at Uni. It's still a small world even at glasto.

- Compare it to any other festivals you been to before, it's completely different.

- Worry about your appearance, even though I did wash my hair ( seriously I had to). There is no need to spend hours in the morning putting on make up I saw a guy just in shorts caked completely head to toe in dried mud and a lot of people in hareem pants and poncho's. Seriously just don't worry.

- Have a budget of how much money you think you are going to spend. That will go out of the window, there are 'Lazy Daiquiri's' to buy and jerk chicken to eat!


I'll probably think of more things later but that is it for now :)

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GLASTO Part 2...

So Saturday. Looking at the line up there wasn't anybody we particularly wanted to see in the day but it being Glastonbury there is so much more to do. So we walked around and stumbled into the cabaret and circus part of the festival. It was mega sunny this day as well so we sat in the shade of the circus tent and watched some male jugglers and female performers. They had big metal rings and were like jumping in them whilst they were rolling?! Skills. So the first band we saw were Noah and The Whale. They were really good and I like their songs such as; "5 Years Time", "L I F E G O E S O N" and "Waiting For My Chance to Come". They are a real feel good band and it was so nice to watch them in the sunshine.
 Now our first trip to The John Peel Stage was in order to see Johnny Marr. The famous Smiths guitarist knew what the crowd wanted and after one of his solo songs he dove straight into "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" If some of you aren't "The Smiths" fans then you might be thinking where have I heard that song before? Well it would probably be when producer come dj come singer Mark Ronson hashed together a cover with Daniel Merriweather. (youtube it if you want to sit through 3 minutes of pain) But Johnny definitely did it justice and the tent was filled with people singing a long.
 Again we didn't really mind who we watched but I wanted to see Two Door Cinema Club. I went to see them in London earlier this year and they were insanely good and they didn't disappoint at Glasto. Dressed to the nines in full on suits (in 25 degree heat may I add) they properly went for it. I sang a long to every song and fully deserved to be on the "Other Stage".
 We then made our way over to the pyramid stage to prepare for The Rolling Stones and caught the end of Primal Scream who had Haim on stage with them. The crowd were interacting well with them and and Bobby Gillespie didn't disappoint in his neon pink suit. Actually thinking about it there were a lot of well dressed musicians at Glastonbury I like that they all put in the effort!
 So The Rolling Stones. Bare in mind that I was born in 1991 and most of the music I grew up with was trashy pop with a bit of T-Rex, ELO and Queen dabbled in (thanks mum and dad) I wasn't overly looking forward to The Stones. That might sound a bit blaisé but it's the truth. We were well amongst the crowd but pretty far back but the screens were working and we could see them on stage. They came on to Jumpin' Jack Flash, yes I know this one! Mick Jagger at nearly 70 years old definitely still has it going on. Wearing a sequin jacket he was jittering around the stage and his voice was still just as strong. The only let down for me was the guitar solos were rather long and I must admit we didn't stay right until the end, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

SUNDAY, last day booo :(

Because it was the last day we got up pretty early to take a couple of trips to the car to pack up our stuff because my sister had decided she wanted to drive home that night instead of getting caught in the traffic on monday morning. And it was definitely the right decision. So after many arduous trips to Blue East Car Park 11 we walked through to the Avalon stage and caught the end of Bruce Forsyth, strange act for a festival you might imagine, but anything goes at Glasto! He had a huge crowd as well.
 We then watched Of Monsters and Men, Editors, Vampire Weekend and Mumford and Sons. Who were all excellent. Of Monsters and Men have such a unique sound and their album is sublime. Editors who I have seen once before at V Festival really blew me away, they have a really strong stage presence and looked like they were having the best time, as was I!
 Now Vampire Weekend I was really looking forward to as I have never seen them before and love them. Their debut album was a genius mix of complicated fast lyrics and quick beats. They played all the hits off of that album including "A-Punk", "Oxford Comma" and "Cousins" and their new single off of their new album "Diane Young", which I need to listen to at least once a day to keep me sane :D
  And then came the headliners Mumford And Sons. Now say what you like about the banjo playing, waistcoated foursome but I love them. They put on a damn good show and all of their songs are catchy and I love both albums; Sigh No More and Babel.

We left Glastonbury 2013 with a sense of elation but also a bloody good view as we walked back to the carparks you can see the whole festival and suddenly realise what you have been a part of for the last 5 days. It really is like another world. I can't fit into my blog the amount of stuff we saw and did and ate! The food is amazing, there is literally hundreds of different food stalls serving anything you could imagine.

BRING ON 2014.

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GLASTO Part 1...

Okay so I was a Glastonbury festival virgin and had no idea what to expect but oh my gosh I recommend it to anybody umming and ahhing about whether to register and buy tickets this Cctober. First off it is MASSIVE. It will be the biggest festival you have ever been too. The largest festival I had been to before it had been V festival in Chelmsford and it's easily 5 times the size. The only down size to this is that we (me, my sister and her boyfriend) had to walk an hour and half from the most easterly car park to where we wanted to camp. To say our shoulders were in agony is an understatement. But once we had chilled out it was time to explore and get ready for three amazing days of music.

So the artists we saw on the first day (the Friday) were Haim, Jake Bugg, Professor Green, The Vaccines, Foals and The Arctic Monkeys, (FYI I'm looking back at the line up to remember these, it's so hard to remember who I actually saw!) In my opinion The Vaccines were easily the best all day and in contention for best artist we saw all weekend. They were so energetic and even though they were on the pyramid stage I could see them and hear them. They were putting in a lot of effort and getting very sweaty. I also have both their albums so could easily sing along to their hits such as "Bad Mood", "No Hope", "Teenage Icon", "Norgaard", "Wetsuit", "Post Break-up Sex", and "If You Wanna".
 I had heard a lot of hype about Haim but only knew their debut single "Forever"; which I danced and sang a long too in the sunshine! But their other songs were likeable too. They loved to just jam as well where they wouldn't necesarrily sing a song but just throw in some ooos and la's and jam on their guitars.
 Jake Bugg was excellent he is synonamous for being a quiet moody little teenage and he pretty much was seeing as he didn't sat one word during his set. But boy can he play guitar and sing well! I really enjoyed his set.
 Professor Green was as you'd expect, lively  and 'havin' it!' His crowd wasn't as large as expected due to his stage time of 5 pm but I enjoyed it.
 Now to me the sound coming from a band and the quality is very important, especially in the large crowds at Glasto. And Foals just didn't live up to my expectations it was sometimes hard to hear what song they were singing. Although saying this I still enjoyed their set and 'My Number' went down a storm!
 Arctic Monkeys, Arctic Monkeys, Arctic Monkeys, where do I even begin. For me they were a let down. Well the technical side was a let down on Glastonbury's part. The screens weren't working for 90% of their set. This meaning that us stood at the very right to the stage could not see a damn thing. Their sound wasn't very loud either and it just didn't seem like they were making very much effort. Also at the end of their short set I expected an encore so waited for near on 20 minutes and they still hadn't come back so us and many other people bailed. Then later on I hear that they did actually do an encore. Which makes me angry because it didn't seem like they were there for the fans at all.


Okay this is part one check back later for part 2. Also I'm going to do a DO's an DON'Ts for the festival at a later date to help out all you newbies.

I also took lots of photos with a weird film camera I had so will do a photo post!

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LOVE THIS SONG... "baby, baby, baby, baby right on time!" x

Okay so...

I know I always do these posts saying I'm sorry that I haven't posted but I really am and I have no excuse really to not have posted since June and I will try and keep up with it now. Not that anybody actually looks at this blog anymore so...

 Anyway here is an update on my life if anybody was wondering (which you probably weren't) I graduated from Uni in July and have been working in Miss Selfridge since then. I also interned at More! Magazine for two weeks which I can talk about in a new post. Also I'm living back in good ol' Essixxx which is fun. I'm actually looking forward to Christmas so that it will be busier at work and so that we can listen to xmas songs instead of mind numbing pop/hip hop/dance all day.

 Ahh almost forgot I bought some new trainers on Saturday...

Nike Hi Tops in lilac! sorry about the terrible photo, my phone camera is shocking. But yeah I love them.

BYE!

I know this song is old...

But I love it, can't get it out of my head.

excitement.

I'm off to center Parcs today with my housemates! I'm well excited. I've probably packed way too much stuff seeing as we are only going for three days. But it should be good. I'll try and keep you updated. Here's what I'm wearing today :-)

we are young

Absolutely love this song. x ^_^ x

GFW

So I was at Graduate Fashion Week yesterday. Me and some others from Fashion Journalism were manning our stand and giving away our final years magazine called Segue. It was the S/S 2012 edition and contains a piece of work from every student from my course, it's a hefty magazine and looks awesome! I looked around many of the other stools and the other uni's displays were impressive.

Here are some photos I took...

The view when you walk in.

The UCA Epsom stand with my course friends Katie and Sammy organising the Segue magazines.

Our stand from the side displaying work.

I also went to a talk at the George stand with Gemma Cairney, Kate Walsh and Jo Elvin. They spoke mainly about Fashion Journalism and how they got into the business. The main point I gained from the talk was do as much work experience as you can!

I'm going to be updating everyday now, so keep checking back.

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Oh Hi

Hey! So I've finished my final major project and my last day of uni (ever) is on Monday so I'm going to come back to this blog. I'll try to update as much as I can, I have some everyday mineral samples to talk about and I can show you the beauty magazine that I made. I'm writing covering letters at the moment... fun.

Here have a mystery jets song that I can't get out of my head...

I'm going to see them at Brixton Academy tomorrow! I'll tell you all about it :)

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you blue my mind

I bought this H&M nail polish today.

It's called 'Blue my mind', I've never tried H&M polish before so this was a new experience. The bottle is a cool shape and it's easy to apply. The colour is really bright! I had to put two coats and a top coat though because it's quite thin. What do you want for £2.99 though?! Perfect.

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mystery jets

NEW SONG

Someone Purer off of the upcoming album Radlands, enjoy.

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Oh Hai :)

My hair is big today.

ok?

abraham's daughter

Arcade Fire's new song Abraham's Daughter for the soundtrack of 'The Hunger Games' has been released today, take a listen!

Also my mum handed me down this bracelet for my birthday and I've finally got round to adding charms to it:

My sister bought me the 21 charm, I found the ballerina one and I purchased the cat from ebay ^_^

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flo

So my Florence and The Machine tickets came through the post the other day and obviously I have started planning my outfit! I want an epic sequinned/feathery maxi dress...

I've been looking on ebay because my budget is tight so here is what I've found so far...

This is £5 atm!

and this is 99p ha

my search continues.

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so close, but yet so far.

As of this minute I have done 3118 words of my 5500 word dissertation. Only 2382 words to go and 4 days to do it in. O.O

Once all of this is over I will be back to blogging everday (maybe) again :)

13 Days till my birthday.

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count down.

4 days until loan.
15 days until dissertation hand in.
20 days until my 21st birthday.
23 days until Hamburg.
27 days until Uni starts again.

until then, I give up.

happy new year.

happy new year, I hope 2012 brings you all the happiness you deserve :)

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they heard me singing and they told me to stop

SPRAWL II VIDEO!

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do they know it's Christmas time?

10 Days Till Xmas :)

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Sonntag

I hope you're having a glorious Sunday :)

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200th POST

YAY this is my 200th post on my blog since I started it up again with posts of my University work. So for anybody who cares this is going to be a double post, including my first vlog and a little bit about some Bourjois make up I received.

Sorry about the poor quality it's recorded on my crappy webcam. 

So I received the Bourjois eyeshadows in the post today after talking to their representative at Handpicked Media Gets Social. I have actually never used any Bourjois products before, mainly because they are quite expensive but other than that I don't really know why I haven't! I got Intense numbers 02,05 and 08; gold, green and brown. I'm wearing the brown in the video above, although you can't really see it.

The colours are highly pigmented and because I have brown eyes I chose colours that would bring them out. I lined my eyes with black eyeliner then used a fine brush to add a line of brown. These little pots are so cute as well because they have a handy little mirror in them.

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Midweek blues

Seeing as it's Wednesday (and you all know I hate Wednesdays right?!) I thought I'd add a want list of things (if I had money) I would buy this week! Take a look...

Topshop Metallic Skirt by Boutique £70.00 

 How amazing is this? I have a skirt like this from Topshop that I bought a couple of years ago in black and I love it, want this gold one!

Topshop Glitter Bow Cross Body Bag £22.00 

This is so cute, but it is quite small so it would be good on a night out.

Cocoa Butter Body Butter £12.50 but 50% off today with code WINTER

I love Body Shop body butters and would own every scent if I could, this is a lovely wintery buy for dry skin.

Models Own Nail Polish - Scarlet Sparkle £5.00

Glittery nail varnish and Christmas go together so well and especially glittery red!

Sass and Belle Ditsy Owl Cushion £14.95

I really want this! Think this may be on my birthday list (:

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Matte Finish

This week my nails are matte black...

I used Barry M's no. 47 Black and Rimmel Pro Matte Finish Topcoat. This is the first time I have used the Matte finish and I really like it. I used two coats of my black nail varnish, waited for that to dry and then just applied one layer of the matte finish. I really like the effect and I think it would look really good on all solid colours.

I purchased mine from ASOS £4.50

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s u n d a y

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My body is your body

Received my free sample of Burberry's Body perfume today. If you are looking for a perfume to buy for somebody for Christmas Burberry are always a safe brand to choose and this year is no different. Body is a floral fragrance and has notes of rose and iris. It's also quite 'musky' with base notes of sandalwood, musk, amber and vanilla. It's good for all ages and can be found in many high street stores.

My free sample, with a beautiful image of Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley.

It is quite pricey but it is a luxury brand. 35ml, £45.00, Boots

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