Bad Bad Blogger...

These last few weeks have been soo busy for me and unfortunately my poor little blog has been the one to suffer! I have missed blogging soo much lately and I have soo much I want to talk about I just haven't had time to sit down and actually do it. I have a couple of days at home now before I go to Las Vegas on Thursday so hopefully I can get a few posts up before then and I promise I will be back on form starting in two weeks.

I though I would use this post as an update kind of thing just to let you know why I have been so busy and also tell you all about what I have planned for the next few week because it is coming up to my favourite time of the year...CHRISTMAS!!! I love everything christmassy and have already started Christmas shopping so lots to tell you there.

So the main thing that has been distracting me lately has been work. I got a new job 2 weeks ago and since then I have not had one day off so of course any time I am at home I have been either sleeping, doing my assignments for university or spending time with my family and friends. I love my job, its working in a new clothes store a few miles away from me and I'm really enjoying it but I am glad I have the next two weeks off  because I have so much uni work to do. That leads me on to another thing that has been keeping me busy...University. I have just gone onto my second year of a business degree and the work load has pretty much doubled since last year so I am having to work really hard just to get it all done on time. That said I am still really enjoying it and its great to be back after the summer and see all my friends again.

That's enough of whats been distracting me, I have had a bit of fun these last two weeks it hasn't all been work so here are a few photos of what I have been up to lately.

My 21st Birthday Party

Me and my best friend at my 21st

Halloween

Fireworks

At the fireworks display

Now on to what I have planned for all you lovely followers before Christmas! I have so many ideas going through my head that I don't know if I will get it all done before Christmas but I really hope so. This will be easier if I just list what's going to be on here soon.

• A pretty big haul from ELF which I've actually had for about 3 weeks.
• Las Vegas review and probably a HUGE haul when I get home.
• More Nail Varnish of the Weeks however I've just started having cal gel put on my nails which lasts a few weeks so it may not be up every week.
• Christmas gift ideas for girls and boys because I always find other versions of these always include really expensive gifts so this will be a bit of a lower budget version.
• Christmas wrapping - I have decided to wrap my gifts a bit different this year so I will show you all what I'm doing with that.
• A Christmas Giveaway will give one lucky follower the chance to win a special Christmas present from me
• Reviews on quite a few new products
• Christmas Party outfits - Photos of what I will be wearing to a few Christmas parties this year.

Please let me know what you think of these ideas and if there are any other things you would like me to do in the run up to Christmas. Sorry for the extremely long post and thanks for sticking with me over the last few week.

Have a great day girls

xx

What are my holiday make-up must-haves????

Today's post is all about what I take make-up I take with me when I'm travelling. Now this is for a two week holiday in Cyprus so of course if I were going for a weekend in Paris or a few days in New York I would take completely different things but for where I'm going and what I plan on doing these are the bits I am taking. This is make-up that is going in my suitcase on the plane not things I take in my hand-luggage but I am planning on doing another post about what I take as hand-luggage so look out for that at some point this week.

Make-up bag by Jemma Kidd -TKMAXX - £4.99

When I'm on holiday somewhere hot (apparently Cyprus is 38 degrees centigrade at the moment!) I wear very little make up and when I do wear it I just want a light coverage and some colour. I also make sure I always take concealer with me in case I burn on my face, that way I can cover up some of the redness at night. So to make this easier I am going to section this off in to face, eyes and lips.

Face - During the day I wear no make-up on my face at all. But at night I tend to use a few different products, this time I am taking six products for my face. I have a tinted moisturiser just to even out my skin tone and I also have my concealer to cover redness or breakouts. I then have my bronzer which is great to bring out my tan and two blushers that I can switch between, one is a bright pink and the other more of a coral pink. Finally I have a highlighter which I don't use very often but is nice on holiday just to give a bit more sparkle to your face. All of my bronzers, blushers and highlighters are powder formulars as cream products just tend to fall of my face in hot weather.

Natural Collection Tinted Moisturiser in Beige - Boots - £1.99

No7 Trio Concealer - Boots - £10.50

GOSH Precious Powder Pearls in Magic - Superdrug - £7.99
* This is not available online for some reason but try your local store.

Natural Collection Blush - Boots - £1.99
Left -Pink Cloud
Right - Peach Melba

GOSH Giant Sun Powder - Superdrug - £12.99

Eyes - Again during the day I wear very little make-up on my eyes and the most will probably only be a swipe of waterproff mascara just to make my eyes look fresh and awake. For the evenings I am taking only one set of eyeshadow as I tend to just stick with a brown smokey eye at night which isn't too heavy or dark and looks good with a tan. I then have a black kohl eyeliner and two mascaras, one for the top lashes and one for the bottom.

L-R Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Blackest Black - Boots - £5.19
 Maybelline One by One Volume Express Mascara in Black  - Boots - £8.49
Natural Collection WaterGuard Mascara in Black  - Boots - £1.99

Rimmel London Colour Rush Eye Quad in Smokey Brun - Boots - £6.63

GOSH Kohl Eyeliner in Black - Superdrug - £4.49

Lips - Lipstick is my big downfall when going away as I can never only take one or two. This time I am taking 5 which may seem a bit excessive but I like to have a choice.For a gloss I tend to stick to the same one over the top of most lipsticks and the one I like is by 2true and just says 1 on the lable so I'm guessing thats the colour. I may also take another lipgloss and if I do it will be a GOSH lipgloss in 0082 but I don't have pictures of either of these glosses.  I also take lots of lip balms but I will mention more about those in my hand-luggage post.



L-R George Moisturising Lipstick in Liar - Asda - £3.50
17 Mirror Shine Lipstick in Beehive - Boots - Currently £2.59 Normally £4.59
Rimmel Volume Booster Lipstick in Flirt - I can't seem to find this online anymore
Natural Collection Sheer Natural Lipstick in Sandcastle - Boots - £1.99
No7 Stay Perfect Lipstick in Grace - Boots - £10.00



Hope you have a great day girls and let me know your holiday make-up must haves.

xx

And the point is...

Sometimes I sit down to write a post and I don't really have anything to write about but I just want to keep in touch so today I thought I would just show you some photo's of my hair and make up from Saturday night. Enjoy!