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Well howdy! 

It's been a little while since I was last consistently posting, and as much as I have been trying time recently. It just hasn't been there. I've been really lazy when it comes to WFF and I have to admit, I feel awful about it. 

So, I have planned out time each day to get something for the blog done and dusted. I really do love writing content for it, but as many other bloggers will probably tell you, sometimes you just don't know what to write. 

I would love to know what you guys would like to see from WhenFlowersFall. What do you think it missing? What would you like me to feature? If it's more beauty or fashion, parenting and lifetstyle; or even if you like how it is at the moment with a random mixture of everything, please let me know in the comments below. All feedback is good feedback, and I think that's what I've been missing recently. 

Anywhooo, today's face was put on to hide the fact that Scout woke us up at 4am this morning. He hasn't been up that early in months and it was a total shock to the system! 

I decided to go with a messy, red toned smokey eye, and bitten lips. (Which didn't last long, as Scout woke from his nap ten minutes after application.) 

I've fallen completely in love with MAC Pro longwear concealer again, and it's becoming a staple in my every day makeup.

With that being said, I am going to tootle of into bed now, and hopefully catch a good amount of zzz's. Fingers crossed we don't have a repeat of last night. 

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Oh, hey giant picture of my face.
Today's make-up was minimal. We had a PJ day and I had a bit of cleaning to do, but I still wanted to feel somewhat alive looking. This probably took me five minute to slap on and it's honestly a great combo.

The products I used today were...
Benefit Fake Up Concealer
Benefit Hello Flawless Powder
HD Brows Palette
Collection Volumising Mascara
Astor Blush (I have no idea of the name.)
Elf Matte Lip Colour - Tea Rose
Model Co Lipgloss - Viva

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Happy first Monday of 2014!

I ended up taking a little break over the holidays, and even though it wasn't planned, I'm sure glad I did. I became rather ill over Christmas and all of my plans just flew right out of the window.  I really hope you all had an amazing couple of weeks.

Liam's back at work today, so I guess that means that I am too. I hoping to get straight back on my normal posting schedule, so you can expect to see a some more of me from now on. 

Today's face is my first play with the Naked 3 palette. Believe it or not, this is the first one I've actually owned. I had really high hopes for it and oh my, it did not let me down. 

I do own the MUA dupes for one and two, but after using this this morning, I'm really thinking I need to bite the bullet and purchase the real deals.

Used today...

Bourjois 123 Perfect Foundation - Light Vanilla

 NYX As If concealer - Fair

ELF Translucent Powder

NYX Blush - Stone

NYX Mosaic Powder - Plummy

ELF Baked Blush - Pinktastic

Benefit Browzings - Medium

Urban Decay Naked 3 - Strange, Dust, Limit, Nooner & Blackheart

Bourjois Liner Pinceau

Maybelline The Rocket Volum'

ELF Matte Lip Colour - Tea Rose

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I thought I'd make Monday make-up a regular thing again. Although todays has been harder to post than I thought. It seems with pregnancy I've lost all of my self confidence and I currently want to attack my hair with a bottle of hair dye and a pair of scissors. Hopefully these posts can bring a little of it back. Hopefully.

I haven't worn make-up regularly since I started suffering with morning sickness, so it will be nice to make it part of my routine again.  I'm not normally a fan of strong lips, but I was inspired by an instagram pic of ombre lips and I fell in love. I would say I'd wear it to the xmas party I have coming up, but then Liam won't come near me.

I'm now going to tackle my very glamorous mountain of washing up and laundry. Let's see how long this stays on my face.

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Hey beauties!

Yes, I finally have my mojo back. Since the move I've really struggled to find a new routine, but I am determined to make this work. 

I'm focussing this week on blog posts and videos, so if you have any requests or suggestions for either, please feel free to leave a comment below. 

Make-up wise, I've really started to enjoying playing around with different styles and colours again. Even though I'm not doing much today, and probably not even leaving the house, I really wanted a use a pop of colour and this bright blue is just perfect! No doubt it will be dripping off of my face within the next couple of hours, it seems we are actually having some sort of Summer?! But if I'm honest, I'd trade a face of make-up for some hot, sunny days anyday.

Today I'm wearing...

Dr. Jart BB Beauty Balm

Benefit Fake-up - Light

Benefit Browzings - Medium

Benefit Speed Brow

NYX Jumbo Eyeshow Pencil - Gold

BM Beauty Eyeshadow - Dusty Road

Dainty Doll Eyeshadow - Copacabana

No7 Extravagent Volume Macara

NYX Bronzer - Cafe

NYX Blush - Natural

NYX Round Lipstick - Vitamin

I hope you're all having a goof Monday so far. Enjoy the sun whilst it lasts!!

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Well, howdy doo my little beauties. 

I'm so sorry for the lack of posts and videos etc. Especially when I kept saying that it would be back to normal. 

I've spent a lot of time since turning 23 feeling pretty pants if I'm honest. Without trying to sound dramatic, I had a bit of a mini breakdown a few days ago. I was very much struggling with keeping my mood high, and after visiting family in the past couple of weeks, I felt I knew what I was really missing. 

At the end of the day, I know a lot of my low moods and 'feeling bad' days are down to my depression/anxiety, so I know that things will always be getting better. 

I'm at a stage now that I feel like I'm finally feeling somewhat 'normal', in a sense that I can now leave the house on my own, go to the shop, go to meet-ups etc. All things I wouldn't even have thought about this time two years ago. But, the biggest issue for me is still work. After being out of work for these past two years, I'm now feeling really frustrated that this is my only problem that hasn't really been helped by the medication I have been taking. I would love to get back to work, but deep down, in the pits of my stomach I know that I would still have huge issues to get up and go, that's if I did manage to get through interviews etc first. 

I've been looking online recently and I feel sick doing it, but I'm hoping that one day a job will pop up and my head will finally shout loud enough to be heard over the beating of my heart. If I'm going to push myself to get through this, I want it to be for a job that I'm passionate about, something that I know I will enjoy doing. Which, if I'm completely honest, I haven't had for a very long time. All jobs I've applied for before have been because I felt like I had to. Money pressures and such like. Those pressures are still very much there, but now the understanding of my issues is there too, it seems a lot easier to focus on what's important. 

So, after that very long winded catch up on me, I now want to get myself back to feeling good. I've spent these past couple of weeks feeling really cruddy and I've just let it happen. This week I am bringing back Friday Fitness, a new diet (I've fit my highest weight :S ), and hopefully regular videos. 

Blogging and Youtube is something that I love with all my heart and if it bought in pennies, I would make it my job, but that's really a longterm goal. Not exactly something that can happen over night. So, I'm now going to throw myself back into it, stop rambling and get on with today's actual post!

Well done to you if you managed to get through that lot! 

Please excuse the grainy iPad photo, the Mr stole my camera this weekend and it needs charging. 

I chose to keep today's face light, only using Benefit's Fakeup in Light and Medium as my base. If you're having a good skin day, it's amazing. 

On my eyes, I'm wearing maybelline colour tattoo in 'Light in purple' and 'Turquoise forever' on my top lid, and MUA single shadow in Shade 10 smudged on my lower lash line. I'm wearing Benefit Bad Gal Lash mascara and 'Guipure' from my Sleek blush by 3 palette on my cheeks. 

On my lips is just The Body Shop lipgloss in watermelon. 

As you can probably see, my eyebrows are in a somewhat appalling state at the minute and you will see a post on them coming up within the next week. 

I hope you've all been really well!

Sam

xoxo

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Hey my beauties!

I finally have my house back to myself! My poor sister and niece had gotten stranded at ours for an extra day and didn't end up leaving until yesterday. She sent me a couple of photos of the roads she encountered on the way home, and all I can say is, thank goodness I wasn't driving.

It was so lovely to see both of them and you can see a few snippits of what we got up to, plus my birthday antics in my newest vlog below. 

I'm hoping to get back to my good blog & youtube routine within the next couple of weeks. It's Liams birthday tomorrow so I have another week of travelling to go see his family. Obviously when life happens, blogging comes second, and believe me when I say I miss it. 

So far today, I have edited two videos, written this post, made a surprise for tomorrow and I'm currently willing Youtube to upload quicker. Because of this, my make-up today is really simple. 

I hope you are all well! I shall be back properly very soon!! Promise! 

Sam

xoxo

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On my face today...

Murad Skin Perfecting Primer (Matte)

Garnier BB Cream

HD Brow Palette

MUA Eye Shadow - Shade 10

Maybelline Color Tattoo - Turquoise Forever

Next Volumising Mascara - Black

Next Blush Palette

Colour Couture Highlighter

I've just noticed that in the madness of driving back from Cheshire last week, I actually missed this last week! Naughty Sam!

Today is the 2nd birthday of my adoptive niece/best friends daughter and we took her to a local farm and playbarn. 

I don't think I quite thought this make up through though, because after a couple of times down the huge, scary drop slide, it was literally dripping off of my face. Haha. It was so warm today and I completely forgot how energetic Amy is! Her favourite words todays were 'more' and 'again'!

When I reached the car I realised my eye shadow had creased and my foundation was soooo patchy. Next time, I shall go barefaced.

Hope you have all had a fab Monday! 

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MUA Mosaic Bronzer - Natural Glow
NEXT Volumising Mascara - Black

Happy Monday, Lovelies!

Soooo, I haven't done one of these for 3 weeks! 

Bad Sam!

After having an eventful weekend of wearing a full face of make-up, I thought I would give my skin a little rest and go lightly with it today. 

I was over the moon to see the Murad Primer in the bottom of my goody bag from the #leedsbloggermeetup2012. I've tried a sample of the dewy finish primer and you can see the review for that here. This one applies very much the same, but I think I definitely prefer the matte finish. 

Today seems to be turning into a rather lazy day. My insomnia is playing hell at the moment, so I think I'm going to spent the rest of the day relaxing, catching up on my blog reads and drinking tea. 

Perfection. 

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Hi Lovelies!

I feel like I haven't done one of these in so, so long!!! 

Todays look is a look I have just created in a tutorial, hopefully I can share it with you soon!

What do you guys think of the purple hair? I'm still a little unsure, and this isn't going to last very long so I need to figure out whether to do it permanently or not! :/

Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine!! 

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Pink to make the boys wink...

WHAT I'M WEARING

Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation - Just a super small amount

ELF All Over Colour Stick in Lilac Petal

Pink Eye shades from the ELF Clutch Palette

Lancome Hypnose Drama Mascara

MeMeMe Light Me Up Lipgloss in Illuminate

I felt like keeping things simple today, the weather's warm, although the sky is grey and I really needed a touch of colour.

Today I'm focusing on getting a few blog posts sorted as I'm starting my new job soon and the house move is still on going. I really don't want to fall off the edge of the blogging planet again like I did when my laptop broke.

How's your Monday going?

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Naked Face Time

I cannot believe I am still ill! If someone has a miracle cure for the common cold, please tell me. :( 

Today I'm trying to give my face a rest and my body a little rest. For the past month we have been a little crazy with the drinking and not so good with the 'being healthy'. 

Time for a detox!

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Bunged up and feeling pretty rotten

Happy Monday Lovelies!

I'm not going to drag this one out because the title pretty much sums it up. 

I'm currently working on my updated favourites video, so you can expect to see that a little later today. 

Hope you all have a bit of this sunshine that's gracing Otley with its presence today!

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Monday Make-up is BACK!

So, it's been well over a month since I last did a Monday make-up and I promised yesterday that it would be returning.

Today I'm going to a much awaited We The Kings gig and this is what I came up with for my face. 

I didn't want to go too overboard as I know I am going to be roasting once the gig is in full swing, and to be honest, make-up running down your face is never pretty. :)

As I write this, it's just started to rain. Wonderful!

I hope you are all having a fab bank holiday Monday. 

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 I have to admit, this isn't today's make-up. It's actually yesterdays but I loved it so much I wanted to share it!

I'm wearing the Maybelline 24hr color tattoos and Topshops 'All about me' Lipstick.

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To the dark side...

I feel like it's been a good while since I last wore a dark eye. I also tried out new mascara today, so keep your eyes peeled for a review coming up this week! 

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Pink lips and a lions mane.

Sporting my new 'do', it's a little wild right now so simple make-up is important.

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My Glossy Box Look

I recieved my February Glossybox this morning and was thrilled to see a couple of make-up items. 

Keep your eyes peeled all this week to see my reviews. 

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Something a little different...

This started off as a smokey eye and ended up rather pointy! But I like it!! 

I hope you're all having a good Monday! 

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