Don't Hold Yourself Back

If you’ve been an avid reader of my blog, you’ll be aware that sometimes I have these random bursts of wisdom where I want to inspire everything and everybody in my sight.

Here’s a little food for thought:

Recently, I have found myself being “held back” a bit. I have always been like this, I know I have, but I only recently realised how much of a big deal it is.

I always add in a random photo of the sunset-This one's stunning innit?

I am at high school, and everyone knows high school is full of total dicks (including yourself/myself). I think it’s because we’re all trying so hard to be cool.

Anyway, I have noticed that I no long (rarely) have the ability to speak in front of people that intimidate me (“popular” people). This isn’t because I’m a loser; it’s simply due to fear of hate. I overhear these people talk about others in such a mean manner, that I would hate to know if anyone treated me like that behind my back.

From tumblr (I can't remember who sorry!)

Moral of the story: don’t be a dick. Treat others with respect, even if they don’t treat you with it. Know yourself and respect yourself. Do whatever YOU want to do (as long as it isn’t illegal or putting anyone or yourself in danger).

Just a quick post, I will be doing a review next-I swear!

Current Skincare Favourites

My skincare routine changes often, usually depending on my skin and the weather. Today I thought I’d show some of my favourite skin products.

Garnier.

I have been loving Garnier products recently-some of my favourites include:

Micellar Cleansing Water: mostly for removing makeup, is extremely soothing.

Pore Refining Toner: I love this toner because I actually feel like it’s working whilst on my face.

Gentle Cleansing Milk: thinner texture than milk (as it’s not actually milk of course), I usually apply this after toner.

Olay Gentle Scrub.

This is just a normal face scrub. It feels so lovely on my skin and washes off easily and doesn’t grab at skin.

Moisturizers.

Proactiv Solutions: Oil Free Moisture: I don’t use this moisturizer overly often as I find it to be very thin.

Botanics of Australia: This is my favourite one at the moment.

Face Mask.

Skin Clarifying Mud Mask: everyone loves a mud mask.

Bore Strips.

Biore Pore Strips: always a favourite, I think I’ll always come back to these.

These are just my current favourites, maybe I will update this sometime. Have a good week! 

Beach Getaway Photos

Oh no. It looks like I have not lived up to my word and uploaded a new post before the weekend. In my defence, I was extremely busy at Relay for Life. As I said in my last post, I recently went on holiday and took quite a lot of photos. I thought I would show the best ones. Enjoy! 

I look insanely weird here-and I'm actually wearing pants not a skirt!

Beauty Travel Essentials!

Hello all. So, it feels like it’s been forever despite it only being a week or so. This weekend just gone, my family and I went on a small holiday to my see some family and celebrate my cousin turning 18 (Photos coming soon!) I tried my hardest to “pack light” as we were only going for 3 days.

I don’t know about you but I find that there are a lot of beauty essentials that are required when going away.

Here are mine:

Eyes.

I have been loving this Physician Formulas Shimmery Nude palette recently! Because I don’t apply eye shadow too often, this is a nice palette with a range of different colours that is easy to apply and travel with. I bought 2 mascaras because I am trying out The Colossal and the first time I used it, it smudged down my face despite being waterproof and smudge proof-weird. The two eyeliners I decided to bring were the Rimmel Scandal Eyes & a BYS Smudger Eyeliner.

Face.

Two of everything apparently. My chosen foundations were: Maybelline Dream Liquid Mousse and Loreal True Match, I mostly used True Match as I am really loving it. I bought my Australis Pressed Powder and Maybelline Fit Me. Concealers included: Maybelline Fit Me & Maybelline Super Stay 24hours.

More Face.

I have been adoring these ELF Blushes recently so of course, I bought them with me. Two primers of my choice were the Garnier Perfect Blur and Rimmel Stay Matte. A Covergirl Bronzer finishes this section off.

Lips.

FROM L-R: Striking-Revlon Colourburst, Maybelline Babylips, BYS-Crimson Joy, Boe Beauty-Better Bare, Australis Colour Inject- Gangsta Rap, Australis Go Long- Trendy

Extras.

A moisturizer, Face Wash, Bobby Clips, Hair Tie, and Facial Wipes of course!

Deodorants.

Mitchum do the best deodorants in my opinion.

Brushes.

All of them being Real Techniques, amazing.

Well that’s me for now, I promise there’ll be another new post before the weekend! 

Online Shopping!

I’ve been obsessed recently with online shopping. I find it handy as I don’t particularly enjoying leaving my house and there are some fabulous sales you can find online!

 Today I’m going to be sharing some things I’ve bought online recently.

Tobi Black Platforms

I wanted some platform shoes so badly. I found these on Tobi.com and, because they were my first purchase (which means 50% off) I got them for a great price. They were delivered within a week and I was extremely happy with the customer service.

Boohoo Purchases

I made my first purchase from boohoo and bought two crop tops. I can’t say I was extremely happy. The material on the white crop is so thin (see-through in fact) and I wasn’t expected that at all. The purple crop I bought to try and inspire myself to wear more colours but so far it hasn’t worked. Boohoo had a great shipping time as well which is a thumbs up In my book. In all honestly, everyone raves about boohoo so I think I will probably give them a second chance.

Glitters for Dinners TartanTop

I don’t honestly know why I bought this. I think I just got too excited and wanted anything from their store. Everything in their store is so gorgeous yet I chose the only piece of clothing that wasn’t anything like my style. What I mean is: I don’t enjoy showing my stomach, and over the shoulder tops don’t look nice on me either. I would definitely purchase from GFD again. My shirt came with stickers and in such nice packaging I was very pleased.

Well, although I bought more online, I only included clothing items that I haven’t featured before, or beauty items. 

April Favourites

 Oh look- another month has ended and I am another month closer to graduating.

This month I have gone ballistic over beauty related things and had a hard time narrowing it down to pick my favourites. I haven’t done a favourites blog post in a while so I hope you do enjoy.

Diet Rite: Ginger Beer

I have never really been a fan of ginger beer. Although, recently my mum offered me some of this and since then, I literally drown in it every day. Not kidding; I drink it every day and that is so unhealthy.

Maybelline Fit Me Concealer

It has taken me a long time to find a concealer that I love and I am so glad I finally have I bought it randomly one day just to see if it was good or not. It is actually fantastic. Can be used as a general face concealer as well as an under eye concealer.

Revlon Colorburst-Striking

This month I have been going insane for red lips and these new (ish ?) lip stains from Revlon I have fallen in love with. They are extremely pigmented and are long lasting. Note: the photo looks like its orange but do not be mistaken it is actually red.

Garnier Perfect Blur

I don’t want to give a full detail review because I plan on doing that soon but it is crazy how much I love this.

Candle-Vanilla and Fig

What can I say? I caved and have now bought into the candle phase. But at least my room smells good am I right?

Garnier Gentle Cleansing Milk

I usually use this at night time and it is so lovely! It looks like milk (although doesn’t have the same texture) and is great for soothing your skin before bed!

So those are all my favourites for the month of April! If you have any suggestions for other products I should try please do leave a comment.