M- Make up remover

Hello everybody

Welcome to the thirteenth day of A-Z April. Today I am going to let you know my favourite makeup remover. I hope you enjoy.

         The original Garnier cleansing micellar water.

This is £4.99 and you get 400ml, but at boots it's usually on offer for around £3.
It says on the bottle that you can get 200 uses out of it and I do find that to be true as it lasts for ages.
All I do is use a cotton pad and put two to three drops on two pads and use one for my face makeup and then one for my eyes.
As it is a water based product I find that it isn't at all greasy and removes my make up very quickly and easily.
I haven't tried the one for sensitive skin as I don't really need it and get along just fine with the original.
This is supposed to be a dupe for Bioderma which is now available at boots for £10.50 for 250ml. I haven't tried Bioderma but I've seen reviews saying they are very similar to each other, so I would recommend trying the Garnier one first if you haven't tried a micellar water so you can see if you like it and you want to save a little bit of money.

So that was my review of my favourite makeup remover. I hope you enjoyed. What is your favourite make up remover?

Love Em xx

L- Lipsticks

Hello everybody,

Welcome to the twelfth day of A-Z April. Today I am going to tell you my favourite lipsticks. I am going to be saying my favourite for each type of lipstick, so I hope you enjoy.

Berry- MUA matte in wild berry
This is my go to berry lipstick for autumn time. It is the perfect colour and I find that it goes nicely with my skin tone. As it is only £1 and Matte I find that it is a little drying but I just put some lip balm on before I wear it and it's fine.

Purple- Mally in Orchid 
This lipstick is a deep purple and works really well with my fair skin tone. The actually lipstick bullet is unusual and it is so nice to apply as it is really difficult to go out of the lines of your lips.

Red- MUA in vintage rouge 
I find it really difficult to find a red lipstick that actually suits my skin tone, so I hardly ever wear or buy red lipsticks. But this one is like a deep vampy red shade and it looks really nice. Again as this is only £1 it isn't the best quality but I do really like and I find that it lasts well for the price.

Nude- Makeup revolution in The one
This is my absolute favorite nude lipstick and it lasts for so long and is a beautiful colour. This lipstick goes with every eye look if it's natural or smoky. It is a brown toned nude so stay away from it if you don't like those colours. I think it would go with every skin tone though because it is so neutral.

So those are my favourite lipsticks. I hope you enjoyed reading this blog. What is your favourite lipstick?

Love Em xx

K- Kohl eyeliner

Hello everybody,

Welcome to my eleventh blog for A-Z April. Today I am going to be writing about my favourite eyeliners so I hope you enjoy.

Liquid liner;  L'oreal paris Super liner perfect slim. In Intense Black.
I am really bad at applying liquid liner as I find that I just draw the lines too thick. So out of makeup that is the thing that I am going to have to try and work on the most. I have tried loads of gel liner in all different forms but because this is a pen applicator I find it so easy to apply so I would definitely recommend this if you are looking for a new black liquid liner.

Gel liner; Rimmel London waterproof gel eyeliner. In 002 Brown
This comes in a little pot with a tall lid and in the lid there is a brush that is amazing and is really helpful when applying this eyeliner. As you could tell for the colour name this is in brown and I wear this when I'm going for a natural eye look during the day so it isn't too intense. The formulation is really nice and doesn't flake during the day.

Jumbo pencil; Maybelline Big eyes liner.
This is a double sided eyeliner one side white and one side black. I love the white in my waterline to make me look more awake and the black mixed with the L'oreal paris liquid liner for a really nice greasy smudgy smoky eye look. They are very pigmented colours and last all day another one I would recommend.

So those are my favourite eyeliners. I hope you enjoyed this blog. What are your favourite eyeliners?

Love Em xx

J- January highlights

Hello everybody,

Welcome to my tenth blog of A-Z April. Today I am going to tell you about my two favourite moments from January so I hope you enjoy.

Okay so the first favourite memory is towards the end of January. All of my mum's side of my family came round to my Grandads house and we all had a lovely meal cooked by him. Nothing was really going on e.g it wasn't somebodies birthday we all just went to spend time with each other. It was really nice just to spend time with each other as we are really close but also busy and I enjoyed it very much.

My other favourite moment from January is making a better relationship with my Dad. We didn't really have the best relationship in the past but recently it has gotten much better. There wasn't really a defining moment that made me realise this but I just think that as I have gotten older I feel like I can express my feelings more. So that with that and both of us really trying to make it better and I feel we really have and I'm very happy about that.


So those were some of my January highlights I hope you have enjoyed reading. Let me know what some of your highlights have been from the year so far below.

Love Em xx

I- Independence

Hello everybody,

Welcome to the ninth day of A-Z April. Today I am going to talk to you about How I am trying to be more independent.

As some of you will know as I wrote about it in my Goals for the future blog, I have anxiety so I'm always a little cautious about doing things really by myself. But I find that I'm getting better at it and trying to be more independent.

For example;

I think that secondary school has really helped me become more independent, as I am now in the second year. The first year of school I used to walk with my brother but now as he has left school I have to walk by myself. At first I really didn't and was just panicking but now I have gotten used to it and really don't mind.

Another way of trying to be a little more independent I have done more baby steps by walking to my friends house in the easter holiday. She only lives a few mins away but I didn't feel panicky at all and actually enjoyed it.

So those are some ways that I am trying to be more independant and I am trying to much more baby steps in the future. What are your ways for being independent? I hope you enjoyed reading.

Love Em xx

H- Hair masks

Hello everybody,

Welcome to the eighth A-Z April. Today I am going to tell you what my top three hair masks are. The order of what I put them in isn't in order of preference because I like them all differently as they all do different things. Okay let's get started.

1.) Rub Rub Rub shower scrub - Lush

As you can tell from the name of this it is a shower scrub and meant for your body. It is make with sea salt though and is really good for your hair. I use this pared with Whoosh shower jelly, also from lush, as that has seaweed in. Them both used at the same time give a really nice beachy look to your hair the next day, so when I do beachy wave I use this the day before as well as sea salt spray. I apply the whoosh shower jelly to my roots and the shower scrub to the bottom 2/3 of my hair after shampooing. I then wash it off and condition.

2.) protective and volume hair mask- Naobay

I got this in a glossybox and I've never bought from Naobay before so I was very excited to try it. I was very impressed once I've used it and now use it around twice a week. This is formulated for all hair types and I find that once I've used it I find that it leave my hair really soft and silky. I shampoo my my hair first then put this in and leave for around 3 mins then wash it of, because this is really conditioning I don't use conditioner after as I don't think it needs to.

3.) Luminous colour masque- Maria Nila 

Again I got this in a GlossyBox and have never heard of the brand. So when I gave a try I was again pleasantly surprised. I apply this after shampooing all over my hair. I then leave it for just over five mins but you can leave it in for three mins. I find that that it really hydrates my  hair after washing it of then conditioning. One of the best things about this mask is the smell, it's really sweet and reminds me of sugar crush by soap and glory.

  

Thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed. What's your favourite hair mask?

Love Em xx

G- Goals for the future

Hello everybody,

Welcome to the seventh A-Z April. Today I am going to tell you my goals for 2016 and the future. As you might be able to tell this isn't beauty related so this is a bit different for my blog but I wanted to write it anyway.

Become more confident,
I have had anxiety as long as I could remember really but in the past 4 years it has gotten worse then it was before and then in the past year and a half I have started having panic attacks. Although I don't really know why I have it for sure or like what started it, I'm pretty sure most of the reason was my self confidence. I won't say all of it now as that could be another blog but I just think the quicker I get a little more confident in myself the quicker my anxiety will die down. I know it is easier said than done but it's all about baby steps.

Try to stick to things,
In the past I've joined/done things and done it for around a month and then gave it up. I've done things like joined brownies, learning to play the piano and violin and joined clubs at school like the choir. I'm not really sure why but after a few weeks I would often just get bored of it and not enjoy it anymore, so then I would stop going. This year I'm going to try to stick to things to try and find something that I really enjoy like blogging.

Try to show my emotions.
I'm not sure why but I'm really bad at showing my happy emotions and it's something that recently have been really aware of it and conscious of it. At Christmas I was really lucky to receive a laptop from my mum and apparently when I opened it I looked like I didn't like it. My mum knows that I'm not good at showing emotions so she knew I liked it. I think that because I wasn't expecting it I was overwhelmed and didn't know what to do. I think that is why I hate opening presents in front of people because they might think I don't like it when I really do.

So those are my goals for the future. What are yours? thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed.

Love Em xx