Emily's Blog

Recent purchases & what I've been up to

Hey guys, today I'm going to talk about some items I have bought recently & what I've been up to :)

Weston-Super-Mare

I'm going to start off with a few items I've purchased recently.

The other day I bought some hair dye in the shade natural dark, it is L'Oreal Paris' excellence crème. I've been wanting to dye my hair for months now because I hate the colour of my hair; I dyed it a dark red last year (for like the 3rd time) and then dyed it a darker brown in the summer and now it's like a weird gingery brown colour. I don't know why I didn't buy a hair dye sooner, but at least I have the kit now! I'm so excited!!

Another item I have purchased recently is a Natural Collection blush. Natural Collection, if you don't already know, which you probably do if you live in the UK, is Boots' own makeup brand. Their products are so cheap and I would recommend 90% of the products I've bought from them!

I have bought a blush from Natural Collection before, but a long time ago. I do already have a trio blush palette but I wanted another blush because the blush shades in my Sleek palette are extremely bright and I wanted a more natural pale-pink colour. The blush is absolutely beautiful for just £1.99, it stays on for ages, is adequately pigmented and gives your cheeks a gorgeous natural rosy colour.
I purchased the shade 'Pink clouds', which I think is such a cute name!

On Tuesday me and my family went out shopping and went to The Range, Tesco Home and Homesense (and had a cheeky lunch at Costa!) I only purchased one thing as I don't have much money left ha ha!

I purchased a cute glass cup in Homesense, which I love. I purchased this mainly because I'd seen Zoella's video on some new items she'd bought for her house and I loved the little (and large) glass jars and glasses she'd bought! This glass cup was only £1.49, can you believe it?! I couldn't resist buying it.

My sister, who's Birthday it just was, bought a few glass items in Homesense, which I'm a little jealous of! Ah well, there's next time...

Last but not least... I got a piercing done on Monday! I got my forward helix done (also known as your anti-helix). I've been wanting this piercing for absolutely ages; I think it's just so pretty and unique. I got it done for £20 in a little Tattoo place near(ish) to where I live. I didn't actually think it was really painful, I mean it did hurt I'm not going to lie but it wasn't mega bad. I just felt the sharp needle going in, which made me tense and I tried not to make any squeely noise, ha ha! But after that it was fine, I could just really feel that something was there.

What I've been up to...

Most places in England have a week off (half term!) So I'm just going to briefly describe what I've been up to and what I'm doing the rest of the half term.

On Saturday me, my mum and my sister (Ruby) saw our Great Auntie. My sister, as it was her Birthday on Sunday, opened her presents from her and we talked and ate our lunch, was cute :)

Then on Sunday, as it was my sisters Birthday, she obviously opened her presents then me, my sister, mum and dad went to Weston-Super-Mare, which is like a little seaside place. We went on the pier, which has a few little rides and a lot of arcade games etc, we had some chips, went on the beach and had a stroll and climbed on some rocks was very nice (& we also took some selfies, of course! ;)) Later on we went bowling (I came 2nd, wohoo & my sister came 3rd with one less point then me - so close!) After that we went to TGI Fridays for a meal which was yummy!

Then we went home and had cake a couple of hours later! So we all had a very good day!

Bowling scores

On Monday I had my piercing done and did some biology revision.

Tuesday we went to The Range, Homesense, Costa and Tesco Home, which was cute :)

Wednesday morning I did some revision and in the afternoon me and my sister went to see our friend, which was very funny!

I'm not doing anything really today (Friday) so I'll just be revising. Me and my sister are going to Costa in the afternoon though, which will be nice!

But the weekend will be fab; we're going to see our family who live in Wales which will be fun!

So, that's my holidays! Hope you have a good rest of your half term (if you're on half term!) If not, then I hope your week was ok at school...

Thank you for reading <3

Love, Emily x

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Liebster Award

Hello guys!

I have been nominated for a Liebster Award by the lovely Briony <3 (I didn't even know what Liebster awards were before I read her post! Ha! Shows how much I've been keeping up with things!)

Basically a Liebster award is something you receive and give once you've been nominated! It boosts someone's blog reputation if they have under 200 followers and it gives people a chance to get to know each other :)

THE RULES:

- Answer 11 questions from the person that nominated you
- Nominate 11 new blogs and make 11 new questions for them to answer

- Finally, let them know you've nominated them!

My Nominations Are:

Melissa
Ruby

Who ever has a Blog, has under 200 followers and is reading this, I nominate you!
I don't really follow many blogs at the moment, and the ones I do follow have over 200 followers, apart from about 3, ops! I will follow more people after this though.

My answers from Briony:

1. What is your favourite colour/design you've ever had on your nails?
This is difficult.. um I like pastel and matte colour nail varnishes

2. What is your favourite lip balm?
Baby lips

3. Who is your favourite artist/band at the moment?
Artists- Rihanna, Jessie J, Katy Perry
Bands- Bastille, The Script and Imagine Dragons

4. How often do you wear eyeliner?
Like 5 or 6 out of 7 days

5. Your dream career?
Probably to write for a magazine about makeup and /or fashion, take photos of fashion models and do their makeup.
Or I think it'd be super cool and fun to be an actress :) - But that would never happen!

6. What is your favourite face wash to use?
At the moment I'm loving Soap and glory's face wash called Peaches and clean; it is fab-u-lous :)

7. Jumpers or cardigans?
Jumpers!

8. Your favourite pair of shoes?
Probably my brown heal shoes - even though I haven't worn them yet!
Here's a picture of them; I'm rubbish at describing things:

9. Why did you decide to begin blogging?
Because it looked like a fun thing to do and I wanted to display my interest in beauty things to everyone! (I am going to make my blog more of a lifestyle/personal blog as well now, like about books I read, ootds, holidays etc!) But most of my posts will still be about beauty items!
Also, I didn't know last May, but within the past few months I've been thinking about studying Journalism at University, although I'm not 100% sure on this just yet! But if I did decide to do that, blogging would really help! I'm also interested in Psychology, but the thing is I don't really know what I'd do with the degree afterwards; I don't want to be a Doctor of any kind or a councillor.

10. Do you watch any YouTubers?
Of course! Who doesn't? I'm going to name a few (a lot) of my favourites... of course the lovely Zoella! Tanya, Sprinkleofglitter, Marcus, Joe Sugg, Pointlessblog, Jim Chapman, danisnotonfire, amazingphil, pewdiepie, cutiepiemarzia, caspar lee, janoskians, tyler oakley, sawyer, troye, velvetgh0st and joey :)

11. If you could recommend ONE beauty product to everyone, what would it be?

One?!? Um, it would probably have to be Bourjois' healthy mix foundation/serum

My 11 questions are:

1 What are your fave 5 songs at the moment (I know it's hard to pick just 1, so that's why I put 5!)

2 What is/was your fave subject at school?

3 Do you prefer dark or light coloured hair?

4 Favourite book(s)?

5 Rihanna, Beyoncé or Katy Perry?

6 Skirts or Trousers/Jeans?

7 Do you have any tattoos or want any tattoos in the future?

8 Internet or TV?

9 Coffee, Tea or Hot chocolate?

10 Favourite kind of dishes? Like Italian/Greek?

11 Do you prefer to spend your money on clothes or makeup?

Love, Emily x

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beauty

Real Techniques

Hey guys! Today I'm going to talk about something that every girl needs in their life....

REAL TECHNIQUE BRUSHES! by samantha chapman

Now seriously, these brushes are the most fabulous brushes you'll ever purchase! The sets and the single brushes are all fabulous prices (especially the sets - such good value!) The brushes look so girly and lovely as well and when you purchase the sets, they come with a little stand you can put them in. The brushes also feel soft and feel so nice when you put on your make-up, and the eye brushes are the same. All of the brushes put the product on so delicately but so well.

Different types of brushes

There are so many different brushes and a few different sets.

I own the core collection, which consists of the buffing brush (my second fav), contour brush, pointed foundation brush and the concealer brush. This set costs £21.99, which may sound a lot but to be honest I think it's pretty decent; you're getting four brushes, which would be like just over a fiver each which I personally think is great. I also have the starter set, which is the same price, but comes with five eye brushes. The set consists of the pixel point eye-liner brush, accent brush, brow brush, base shadow brush and the deluxe crease brush.
The newest brush I've purchased is the beloved expert face brush, which costs £9.99. This is my fav brush. It is so so good.

They sell many other brushes, including the blush brush (£9.99), powder brush (£12.99), stippling brush (£11.99) and the foundation brush (£9.99). I haven't got these brushes, but I'm planning on purchasing the powder brush soon and might buy the others in the future (maybe not the blush brush; I already have a blush brush from The Body Shop).
They also sell little sponges, which look really cool. They are called Miracle complexion sponges (£5.99), you use these to blend or apply your foundation or concealer.
There are also a few separate eye brushes they sell, which are not in the 'starter set', which includes the shading brush (£7.99), lash and brow groomer (£7.99) and fine liner brush (£6.99).
Another set they sell is called the limited edition duo fibre set which are £23.99 and consist of three brushes. hey are slightly more expensive because they are limited edition (so get your hands on them quick if you want them!) and because they're 'duo fibre'.

What I use the brushes for

Core collection: I use the buffing brush to blend my blusher / bronzer in when I apply it. I also use it to apply my powder, which is stay matte pressed powder in peach glow (which I think is the cutest name haha!) I use the contour brush for... you'll never guess what, contorting! I use Bourjouis' chocolate bronzing powder lets call it! I don't really use the pointed foundation brush much, but when I do.. you can guess what I use it for. I use the concealer brush to apply my concealer with (obviously). God, this is all so self explanatory I don't even know why I'm bothering to explain all of this!

Eye brushes: But I'll carry on anyway... I use the base shadow brush just as a general eye shadow brush, I just put the shadow all over my eyelid. I use the deluxe crease brush to apply a darker shade on the crease. I use the accent brush to apply my Maybelline colour tattoos (which I wrote about in my previous blog post) and I use it to blend the darker shade of eye shadow I've applied outwards. I don't use the pixel point brush a lot, but if I were to use it I'd use it to apply a thin line of eye shadow close to my eyelashes (where you'd apply eye liner). I use the brow brush occasionally if I want really natural looking brows, or if I'm not doing much that day. I just use my MUA eye shadow palette in Heaven and Earth for my brows (Superdrug don't seem to sell this palette any more so I'm going to link the Undress me too palette, which looks quite similar). If I'm not using the brow brush for my brows, I use the Rimmel Professional eye pencil in dark brown, which I think is absolutely amazing (I'd also recommend Bourjois' eye pencil sharpener. I know it's only a sharpener, but honestly it's so good!)

Expert face brush: This brush is flawless. It applies foundation like a dream. It is so smooth on your skin and is perfect as it leaves no streaks. It is also great for blending concealer as well. I do apply my concealer, at the moment I'm using Benefits Bo-ing and 17's stay time, with my concealer brush, but I do blend it with the expert face brush. Basically there are no flaws with this brush, I haven't got the foundation brush, but I do have the pointed foundation brush and can safely say it is much better. Don't get be wrong the pointed one is good, it just leaves a few streaks on my skin and I then have to use my fingers to blend the foundation in. The foundation I use by the way is Bourjois' healthy mix serum in the shade light vanilla 51. (I have written a blog post about this foundation, so feel free to check it out - ha ha!) This is the brush I would recommend the most, 5*.

Thank you for reading

Comment below your fave Real Techniques brush(s) or the ones you would like to purchase!

Love, Emily x