If you're interested in all things beauty then I'm sure you would have scrolled past this palette on your Instagram feed once or twice already. However if you're not a beauty junkie let me introduce you to the Too Faced Chocolate Bon Bons eye-shadow palette. There are 16 dreamy shades all of which have a delicate chocolate smell, presented in a beautiful sugary pink tin which is bound to perk up any dressing table. Now, lets talk about the shadows, there are a couple of the pink shades which I don't think I'd wear on a day to day basis, however I think they could be really fun to experiment with for a fancy dress look or if you were going to a festival. My favourite colours from the collection are Almond Truffle (matte), Bordeaux (matte), Blackcurrant (shimmer), Earl Grey (shimmer- which swatched beautifully), Sprinkles (Subtle glitter/shimmer) and Satin sheets (shimmer). I'm sure you'll see me wearing these eye-shadows in plenty of blog posts this year, and I'll be sure to let you know if I am!
I'm a huge Too Faced fan, as all of their products are cruelty free and many are vegan. As a vegetarian I'm trying to make more of an effort to have only cruelty free make up and if it's vegan than that's even better! This palette also contains no parabens, which is nasty preservative chemical that cosmetic companies use to keep products from going off. I'm really excited to see what products Too Faced have coming out in the next year, as I've loved everything I've tried so far! I've got my eyes on the Sweet Peach palette when it launches later on in the UK this year, the colours look so pretty and perfect for the summer.
*This product was sent to me, however all thoughts are my own! I love Too Faced!
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here in London and so I decided to join in with the festivities and have afternoon tea with one of my best friends at The Orangery in Kensington Palace. I was kindly invited to try out the festive afternoon tea here and I thought it would be the perfect thing to do a few weeks before Christmas. During the festive season I love to pack my weekends full of fun things to do just so I have something to look forward to throughout the whole of the month!
So I slurped my way through a lovely pot of winter berry tea whilst my friend sipped on Christmas tea, which smelt just like Christmas cake! My friend and I are both veggies, so we treated to a fully vegetarian afternoon tea complete with cucumber and mint, hummus and vegetable and egg mayonnaise sandwiches. My favourite part of the tea were the scones, jam and cream, described on the website as Orange-scented and currant scones served with Cornish clotted cream and English strawberry jam - I could of quite happily had a stand full of these! Other sweet treats included an mini orange mouse, Christmas cake, cherry and almond tart, mini chocolate mouse and a slice of the British classic, battenburg. My friend and I had a wonderful afternoon catching up over tea and cake,whilst making exciting plans for the next year. The festive afternoon tea is £26 pp, and £36 pp for a glass of champagne each.
* I was kindly invited to review the afternoon tea, however all tea & cake related views are my own!
So I slurped my way through a lovely pot of winter berry tea whilst my friend sipped on Christmas tea, which smelt just like Christmas cake! My friend and I are both veggies, so we treated to a fully vegetarian afternoon tea complete with cucumber and mint, hummus and vegetable and egg mayonnaise sandwiches. My favourite part of the tea were the scones, jam and cream, described on the website as Orange-scented and currant scones served with Cornish clotted cream and English strawberry jam - I could of quite happily had a stand full of these! Other sweet treats included an mini orange mouse, Christmas cake, cherry and almond tart, mini chocolate mouse and a slice of the British classic, battenburg. My friend and I had a wonderful afternoon catching up over tea and cake,whilst making exciting plans for the next year. The festive afternoon tea is £26 pp, and £36 pp for a glass of champagne each.
* I was kindly invited to review the afternoon tea, however all tea & cake related views are my own!
As some of you may or not may not know, I'm a little make-up obsessed. During my recent trip to New York I spent a lot of time (and money) in the holy grail, Sephora. Whilst drooling over everything in the shop I saw this from the corner of my eye and made a bee line for it. It was like no make up palette I'd seen before. The set is inspired by the romantic view of Paris from a cosy hotel-room window. The Too Faced Le Grand Palais gift set includes a beautiful glittering makeup palette with a whimsical staircase and a few of the brand's most popular products. I've been itching to use the eye shadows ever since I bought them but I've been good and refrained until I'd photographed them for this blog post. The set contains, 18 eye shadows, two blushes, a bronzer, a highlighter and samples of their 'better than sex' mascara, melted lipstick in peony and their shadow insurance primer. One of the things I love the most about the palette is not just the glittery eye shadows but the names of the shades, including: Yule Log, Wish List, Midnight in Paris, City Lights and Party Dress. How cute and festive?!
This year Too Faced have become one of my most lusted after beauty brands, after constantly seeing them pop up in blog posts or videos I just knew I had to get my hands on a few of their products during my trip. What's even better about the brand is that they're cruelty free and a large amount of their products are also vegan, which is just amazing and has made me love the brand even more. This palette was made without Parabens, Sulphates and Phthalates which is pretty incredible when you think about how many chemicals are put into your make up by other brands. They're a little tricky to get hold of in the UK and this palette was sadly a Sephora exclusive, however you can pick up some of their products in Debenhams.
It has been a while since I've posted, I've been busy with deadlines, work and moving back to London for Christmas so it's always a bit hectic around this time of year. So I've decided to share with you what I've been up to. I recently took a trip to a new cafe/restaurant that's opened up in Tooting called Graveney and Meadow. By day it serves cakes, baguettes and coffee's, then transforms at night to a pub and restaurant serving tapas and cocktails.
My delicious carrot cake, and in the background you may be able to spot my boyfriend's hazelnut brownie, which I can also say was very nice!
This was my second visit to Graveney and Meadow and it will certainty not be my last. So far I've tried their gluten free chocolate cake and the carrot cake, both of which were delicious. The layout of the cafe itself is really lovely, there is plenty of space for mums with buggies but also great for groups, it has a very cosy and welcoming environment. Another aspect of the cafe I loved was that they had some of their products ready and bagged for you to take home, (pictured above) so if you were in a rush and fancied a treat you're able to grab a bag and carry on with your journey (they would also make great Christmas gifts!) I particularly like the look of the flapjacks, pastel meringues and hazelnut chocolate, and they're not too expensive either prices are mostly around the £2 mark.
Have you found any secret treasures like I have in your local area? I'd love hear about them, especially if it involves cake!
If you've been following my blog since its started you may have noticed that I love Kelly Brook. So when I heard New Look were releasing a make-up line with her I was very excited. The combination of two of my favourite things how could I not be?! That's without mentioning the extremely cute packaging, polka dots, bows and rose gold, it's every girls dream. For a celebrity line this make up is VERY reasonable I got both of these products for £5.38 (with student discount) which I think is a really great price, they would make lovely stocking fillers or secret Santa gifts. The line includes; a mascara, a brow kit, nail varnish, lip-gloss, a highlighter pen, eyeliner, bronzer, blush and two eyeshadow quads.
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So I went into new Look and noticed they had some of the products by the tills so I picked up a nail varnish and lipgloss. I picked up in the nail varnish in the shade Ace which is such a lovely sparkly black, which will be perfect for christmas parties! I'm forever adding a glitter topcoat on top of my nail varnishes, so for this shade to have glitter already in it is perfect. The varnish itself is pretty good, I only needed about 2 costs and I got good coverage, I got lots of glitter on application too. The line has loads of other nail varnish colours including a really nice navy called "A source says".
I'm not usually a lip-gloss kind of girl but this shade was just too pretty not to buy, It'll go perfectly with one of my favourite lipsticks (which is Rimmel London Lasting Finish Lipstick in Asia), I really like pink nudes like this. The lip-gloss smells very nice which is a nice touch as quite often lip products can have a bit of a chemical scent to them, this lip-gloss smells a bit like marshmallows which just makes me want to eat it! The only thing about the lip-gloss that i'm not too keen on is the applicator, I find it a bit awkward to use, I'm not too sure whether that's because the length of the handle or shape of the brush.
Have any of you managed to get your hands on any of this line, I'd love to know what you think in the comments below.
I always feel intrigued by Lush and always want to go in and be a massive fan but for some reason I never go in or just simply forget about it. So the other day I had a bit of time to kill whilst wating for a train and thought it was the perfect time for a quick trip to Lush. I decided on buying two of their famous bath bombs; Space Girl and Dragon's Egg, and it is fair to say I am in love.
These two bath bombs both have a sherbety scent to them, space girl smells like a cross between parma violets and love hearts and dragon's egg bath bomb has a hint of refreshers, I clearly love a sherbety sweet. I find some of the more fruity or spicy scents a little bit too over powering.
The website describes Dragon's Egg as "Like an everlasting gobstopper, this ballistic keeps on revealing layer upon layer of surprises. It gives up its gifts in an unfolding drama, leaving you in a bath of molten gold. Along the way you will experience a firework display of colour, a fiery crackle of popping candy, a swirling landscape of creamy foam and a drift of paper dragon scales." I really love this bath bomb it made my sunday night bath so fun, I felt like a kid again. However I will say that if you are not a fan of glitter this is perhaps not the right one for you, I came out of the bath and I was covered in gold glitter and to be honest I still am, (not that I'm complaining).
Space Girl is also pretty cool, it contains space dust/popping candy to fit with its "out of this world" theme and it's sweet scent almost stops my cravngs for my favourite sweets.
Next on my Lush to buy list are two bath bombs from their christmas collection, Party Popper and Golden Wonder, I've heard pretty good reviews about the Golden Wonder and I'm pretty sure if I loved Dragon's Egg then I'll like this one!
Sorry for such a massive gap between my
posts I've been finding it really hard to find the time between moving and
starting uni, but I've just been finding it hard to start a post in general,
but hopefully this won't be a regular occurrence. Anyway back to the actual
post, I've seen a few girls on YouTube do this tag and I thought I’d do one
myself. I'm obsessed with nail polishes so I found it pretty hard to get it
down to just five polishes, but I think I've chosen some good ones.
First off is Nails
Inc. Basil Street, this is one of my all-time favourites , it’s such a great
nude colour and suits my skin tone perfectly, is great colour to transition
between summer and autumn.
Next is a new
purchase and is Essie's cascade cool which is a perfect blue tone pink and
makes me feel like Barbie, I am so in love with this colour. Although not a
typical autumn colour, it’s a great way to perk up dull and rainy days.
My third choice is
Barry M's red black which is another go to shade for me it's a perfect dark red
colour you can wear with any outfit and is the most typical autumn winter shade
out of my selection.
I've slightly
cheated with my next choice as I've chosen a duo of colours, 17 Fast Finish in
the shade Baked Cherry with a top coat of Katy Perry for O.P.I in the colour
"Not Like the Movies". I think this creates the perfect autumn
combination as it just reminds me of Christmas and gets me excited for that
time of the year and the two polishes complement each other perfectly.
The last polish is
another Katy Perry for O.P.I, called E.T and is an amazing metallic green
colour but has that really pretty rainbow tint to it that a lot of nail
varnishes have at the moment. It's so tricky to explain but just take a look at
Topshop's latest nail collection and you'll know exactly what I mean.
I hope you enjoyed
this post and sorry again for the lack of posts hopefully I’ll get back into
the swing of things. Let me know what your favourite autumn nail varnish picks
are.
I picked up this mask a few weeks ago in Superdrug as I saw
it was half price (£1.95) and have been after a good hair mask/conditioning
treatment for a while, as I have long hair and use straighteners often.
I don't know much about hair care and brought this product solely
on the price as it was pretty cheap. It says on the tub that you use this
product almost as a replacement to your conditioner and just to use shampoo, so
of course with my first try at using this product I completely ignored it and
used my conditioner. My hair (when it was still wet/damp) afterwards felt
amazing, really smooth and soft. However after drying it and waking up the next
day my hair felt a bit greasy almost if I’d left hair wax or hair spray in it,
so I was pretty disappointed as I was expecting the product to be okay and not
to leave my hair feel greasy after I had just washed it!
With regards in how you are meant to use the hair mask it
says that it is for use once a week and just to resume your normal hair routine
in the week and in between washes.
Over all I am pretty impressed with this mask especially as I
paid under £2 for it and it does seems to work. The only doubts I have about
hair masks not just this one but in general is that, are they any different to
using a conditioner? Would I get the same results if I left a conditioner on my
hair for 5 minutes? And does paying more money mean better quality?
I would love to know if any of you have tried out any hair
masks and found they've worked or not or if you have any that you would
recommend.
I've never been the type of girl to fake
tan however after missing my tan from my holiday in Corfu, I decided to give it
a go. I wasn't sure about going the whole way and getting myself a spray tan
but I heard about Garnier summerbody moisturizer from vloggers Tanya Burr
and Anna Sacconne-Joly and felt that this could be the one for me.
I got brought this is the deeper shade
as I have a natural olive and thought this would be better for my skin tone. I
got this from Wilkinson’s for the bargain price of £2.50 but it is also
available from Boots and Superdrug for a slightly higher price. I'm always on
the look out and researching into more affordable products that are still great
quality so I was really pleased when I found this product with such a good price
tag!
What I like about this product is that is doesn't have a horrible fake
tan smell to it which most products do even other gradual tan products like the
Johnson's Holiday Skin body lotion. It says it has an apricot scent to it and I would
have to agree it’s very fruity and summery which is great for this time of the
year.
The application and how I found using
this product:
Before applying the product you will
want to have exfoliated to get rid of any dead or dry skin the product may
cling on to. I find the easiest was to do this is to use my body shop body
scrub and to also use a shower puff which you can really cheap from most supermarkets
or chemists. Then moisturize you legs a little let that soak in and then apply
the gradual tan just so you get the best effect from the product.
Just to give you an idea of what the product look likes.
After the first time using it (I put it on before I went to sleep) I noticed a difference already, which was quite a surprise, as I wasn't expecting to be so effective so quickly. I was left with a really nice subtle glow and I was really pleased with the effects. I continued to use this for 2-3 more nights until I felt I had the look I wanted. The tan lasted after this for around 4-6 days even after using a body scrub. Overall I'm really pleased with this product and definitely would recommend it if you're looking for a short-term tan. Let me know if you use a gradual tanner or another type of fake tan, i'm interested to know what other people are using and how they get on!
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