Emily's Blog: September 2015

My 19th Birthday!

Hello!

It was my Birthday a week and a half ago now... wow time's gone fast!
But yeh, I had a great day spending time with my family. I didn't do anything with my friends; I just met up with them before I/they went to University.

In the morning I opened my cards and me and my Dad ate our croissants my mum bought for breakfast... (my sister and mum were at school/work) took our dog for a walk, which was cute. When we got home my mum had just got home from work (around midday). We then went into town/by the harbour front for some tapas and cocktails which was so nice (I will insert some photos below!) Unfourtunatly though we couldn't sit outside because the weather wasn't that great.
When we got home my sister was home from school and we ate cake, drank coffee, and I opened my presents... (we could actually sit outside to eat the cake as it was sunny - whaay!)
In the evening me my sister, mum and dad went out with my auntie, uncle, and cousin to a nice pub close(ish) to where we live and opened some more presents!
I had a lovely Birthday with everyone, but it went too fast!!! :(

I will insert some photos below of what I got & what I did:

My 1st Birthday according to my sister!

Thank you for reading! (Was about to say watching for some reason?!)

My next blog post will either be about this photo app my friend was talking to me about called 'Cheerz' or an update on University. (Both of which will be up this coming week anyway)

Love, Emily x

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University

Hello!
So yesterday I moved to Falmouth to begin my Journalism and Creative Writing degree! Yay!
I'm all unpacked and set up (just need to put up my fairy lights now). I have a 'meet your mentor evening' tonight and 'introduction to your course' tomorrow 10am-13pm.

I've seen/spoken to two of my flatmates and they seem really nice and cool! We'll probably leave soon for the meet your mentor thing... I hope they're still here, it seems awfully quiet ha ha!

But yeh, it is Freshers week this week so I will get to know more people and my flatmates more. I will do another Uni blog post before the year ends.

For the meantime I will bombard you with a few photos!

OH and other good news, I passed my driving test a couple of weeks ago!!! Also, it was my Birthday last week, so my next blogpost I shall post soon will be about that.

Thank you for reading

Love, Emily x

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beauty

Prom Makeup

Hello!

I thought I'd do a little post about what makeup I did and used for Sixth Form Prom (it was back in July, but oh well!)

For foundation I used Rimmel London's Lasting Finish 25hr in the shade 'Ivory'. I blended this in with my Real Techniques blending sponge. I then used my Collection Concealer in the lightest shade on my blemishes and under my eyes, of which I blended in with my expert face brush and deluxe crease brush for under my eyes. I used Rimmels Clear Complexion translucent powder to set my makeup in place. Then onto one of my favorite parts... Contouring! I of course used Benefit's Hoola bronzer, which I am finally running out of after a year and a half! I used the brush it came with and then blended the product in with the Real Techniques contour brush and I then used Mac's Soft and Gentle on the tops of my cheek bones, on the bridge of my nose and on my cupid's bow - yet again using my contour brush.

After I finished my face makeup I filled in my brows with the shade 'Buck' from Urban Decay's Naked 1 palette using my Real Techniques brow brush.

Now for eyes... I watched a video on YouTube recently where they used tape to create a straight line going up towards your brow, this makes the two separate eye shadows easier to blend together and for me, it works really well and makes you look like you're fabulous at makeup, when in reality you cheated...

For my eye makeup I decided to opt for a smokey eye, I used the shades Smog, Half Baked and Creep (from Urban Decay's Naked 1 palette). I put the shade Smog all over my lid then put the tape from the outer corner of my eye upwards so I could use the darker shade - Creep (a black sparkly shade). I followed the line of the tape upwards with a small liner brush from Real Techniques and blended it across the top of my eye, whilst blending it slightly in the center of my eyelid (if that actually makes sense...) I then used Half Baked in the corner of my eyes, along my waterline and in the outer part of my eye I blended the darker shade down along the other half of my waterline.

Sellotape trick (Photo source)

I used Eylure lashes on the top and applied L'Oreal Million Lashes mascara on my bottom lashes.

I literally fell in love with these lashes; they are super easy to put on and the glue it came with is actually decent. You can also get so many different styles of lashes from Eylure and individual ones if you'd prefer!

I hadn't purchased more expensive falsies in the past because I was scared of them. I have tried cheaper ones in the past but I completely failed at putting them on! But after buying these lashes for Prom I couldn't get enough of them, so I purchased another pair when I next went shopping and I will be buying more soon as well! Although they're around the £5 mark, which may seem a little pricey for something you're only going to wear a few times, they are defiently worth every penny, best lashes ever.

Finally... For my lips I used the Rimmel London Kate Moss lipstick in shade 08 (of which I've spoken about a lot in previous blog posts!) I love this lipstick shade; it's so pretty & natural looking yet still noticeable.