MOTD OOTD

Makeup

- Mac face and body C3

- Mac Pro Longwear concealer 

- No7 Perfect Light loose powder medium

- Soap and Glory Wonderbronze Sundaze

- Accessorize Baked Bronzer Duo Laguna Shade 3

- No7 Beautiful Eyebrow Blonde

- L'Oreal Chrom Shine Silver Brown

- Collection Extreme 24 hour felt tip liner (used on eyelashes also instead of mascara) 

- Mac Pro Longwear lip pencil Nice 'N' Spicy 

- Carmex

- Ted Baker Black Nail Varnish

Outfit 

- Shirt Primark

- Necklace currently £4 in New Look sale!

- Fur lined leggings Primark

Emma x

Bedroom picks!

Over the last few months I've been refurbishing my room, here's a little inspiration if you're doing the same.

Bird cage - dunelm mill

Lights - home poundsaver 

Lily candle - John Lewis

Picture frame - dunelm 

Picture frame and heart - dunelm

Do not disturb - dunelm 

Flowers - dunelm 

Vase - next 

Flowers - dunelm 

Vase - homebase 

Bottle - next 

Jars - dunelm 

Bedding - Christys

Hope this helps! 

Emma xxx

Boots Picks!

Thought I'd post on some beauty products I've picked up from boots, they're some gorgeous picks for autumn! 

First is 'hocus focus' by soap and glory, it's a brilliant illuminator and makes your skin look flawless. I apply it underneath my foundation and pop a little on my cheek bones for my highlight. It's a beautiful pearly colour. I'll insert a picture below. 

Another product from soap and glory is their setting powder. I liked this product as it didn't cake but I found myself reapplying it nearly every hour. I'm not sure if it was my skin but I much prefer Rimmel stay matte powder in translucent for keeping shine away. Any suggestions on another good setting powder? 

Also in the picture above I'm wearing L'oreal colour riche lipstick in Eva's red. It's a pure red with slightly warm undertones. It's also matte and very velvety but doesn't dry the lips out, it lasts well too. Probably the best red highstreet lipstick I've ever bought! 

 

I've also purchased a new autumnal nail varnish, a beautiful colour from Barry M gellys called Paprika! 

 

To match I've been using another soap and glory product - a beautiful bronzer. The colours mix magically to create a pearly not shimmer finish. They make the cheeks look beautifully bronzed and bring a glow to the colder weather. 

 

As well as a bronzer I also got a soap and glory lipstick which I'm totally in love with. It's a gentle nude for that kylie jenner look which has been so on trend. It's perfect to match with a winged liner or smokey eye because the colour isn't too loud. It's amazingly moisturising and feels like it's giving the lips the goodness of a balm along with a brilliant strongly pigmented colour. I love it! 

 

For that kylie jenner inspired look I've been pairing this lipstick with a new Maybelline colour drama product. This is in the colour nude perfection and it really is perfect! It's a cross between a lipstick and lip liner.

Here's a picture of how I've been wearing these two products.

Hope this post has been helpful! Also start looking out for the boots 3 for 2 deals on make up in the run up to Christmas! 

Love Emma xxx

Disappointing Foxy Locks

I had always wanted Foxy Locks extensions for such a long time I'm a big follower of the creator Imogen who I'd watched on youtube and who's hair I'd always admired. I finally bit the bullet three months ago and purchased the 165g set of latte blonde for £78 just like Imogen. I followed by getting my hair matched to the colour (not at my usual hairdresser because she was on holiday) the colour wasn't too far off and I was ok with that I'd had trouble with orange and pink undertones in extensions before and usually it was a case of toning my hair to match. It didn't work. 6 weeks later my usual hairdresser who knows so much about colouring and so much about my hair matched my hair up it was much better but the extensions just started to become more and more pink. I think this is down to heat use. The extentions were thicker than Wildest Dreams my favourite brand of extensions but they didn't react to heat very well. I've always been able to keep a curl in previous brands of extensions but even if I pin curled my hair several hours before a date, day or night out the curls soon dropped to straight after an hour. They didn't always fall the way I wanted them to either. I found the clips incredibly scratchy, they latch onto your hair and rip parts out. My hair has now thinned down the sides due to this. They are uncomfortable to wear for more that 3/4 hours and whenever I leant my head to rest. I've been wearing clip ins for more than 4 years and I have never experienced such poor quality clips. The hair frayed and split after a weeks use despite using gentle heat and Loreal heat protection. Also I had to resow 2 clips that ended up falling off. 

I have never been so disappointed in clip ins and in future I'll be sticking to what I know. They were such a waste of time and money. I hate to give bad reviews but here is one. 

(An example of the curls dropping out - sorry for the bad quality.) 

Sorry for ranting but I would not choose the extensions ever again. 

Emma x 

New Hair!

Hi guys so here's a little update on my hair. I've always been blonde but I wanted to try my hair darker especially since we're going into winter this is what it turned out like! 

 As you can see the low lights are a lot darker and spread through my hair. I have one low light to every highlight where as before I had two highlights to every low light.

I'm loving the change in colour it feels a lot warmer coming into autumn. 

I've also had to change my extensions which I'm very happy about I wasn't loving the foxy locks extensions at all! I'm currently wearing wildest dreams hair extensions - 18inch cookies and cream. They are by far my favourite clip ins! 

Hope you like the new hair! 

Feel free to leave and questions. 

Emma x

Life Update

Hi guys I promised you an update in my last blog post as to why I've been away for so long so here it is. 

I've been spending a lot of time visiting family I even drove to Manchester on my own and I've been going on days out recently with my family and boyfriend which have been lots of fun. I've also been having lots of nights out with all my friends who are home from university because I've missed them all so much. I've started working for New Look which I'm really loving as well as the 50% discount. This means I've been working a lot and it's made me very tired as there is quite a bit to learn. I'm also going on holiday in less than four weeks with my boyfriend and his family to Portugal which I'm incredibly excited for. We get back the day before I start my second year of university which has come round so ridiculously quick. I've got a fair amount of reading and organizing I have to do before this as you can imagine! Tomorrow or today (I'm writing this in the early hours of the morning so excuse my grammar) I'm going to ladies day at Newbury races which I'm really excited for followed by a meal at Prezzos and drinks afterwards. I can't wait to wear my Missguided dress (blog to follow) it's amazing! 

Thanks for reading and apologies I've been away,

Emma x

OOTD Brighton

Hi guys so I know I've been away from my blog for ages and I'll be posting later on why that is I just didn't want to leave people waiting any longer. Last week I took my Nan to Brighton we had a great time and I just wanted to show you what I wore! 

 (so many mirror selfies) 

Sunglasses - Rayban 

Bag - Primark (similar one still in store)

Top - Topshop 

Skirt - Missguided (very see through)

Denim Jacket - Primark 

Shoes - New Look 

Hope you like this outfit and thanks Nan for a great day out (I know you'll read this).

Emma x