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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Smooch Cosmetics Week - Nearly Naked Lipliner
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Hey beauties,

This week is Smooch week.

I was very, very kindly sent a bundle of products to try, so I figured I would dedicate a week to reviewing said products.

I have given them a good test and I feel this week may come in handy, if you do ever fancy purchasing a few new items.

Can you believe this is my first ever lip liner?

As a total lipstick lover, I'm ashamed to say it is.

The Smooch Cosmetics lip liner in Nearly Naked* is a simple pencil and brush duo.

The pencil itself is a pretty muted berry shade, almost a your lips but better kind of colour. The product is soft and smooth to apply.

The pencil sharpens well, without causing any damage to the actual lip liner itself.

I have used this liner under ever lipstick I have worn since receiving it.

The matte finish helps to grip any other product placed on top, providing a great barrier and eliminating any feathering.

Personally I feel this is now a must have product in my collection. I would repurchase 100x over.

The brush is a great little extra. It's soft and easy to work with.

You can purchase this must have on the Smooch Cosmetics website for £4.95

Smooch Cosmetics Week - Lipsticks
beauty | lipstick | popping pink | review | rocking red | smooch | smooch cosmetics | trufficious | truffilicious | trufflicious | when flowers fall | whenflowersfall

Hey beauties,

This week is Smooch week.

I was very, very kindly sent a bundle of products to try, so I figured I would dedicate a week to reviewing said products.

I have given them a good test and I feel this week may come in handy, if you do ever fancy purchasing a few new items.

These are three shades from the Smooch Cosmetics lipstick range.*

I was sent Rocking Red*, Popping Pink*, and Trufflicious*?? (It said Trufficious on my box, Trufflicious on the webpage and Truffilicious on the tab in Chrome.)

The packaging is the usual matte finish, with Smooch's signature lace detailing. They definitely stand out in my lipstick draw.

With each lipstick, you receive 3g of product.

All of theses lipsticks have a gorgeous glossy finish. The red and brown shade both being rather pigmented, and the pink being a little more sheer. Although with a little bit of work, as you can see in the above photo, you can get a very good colour pay off.

As a lipstick lover, I am always keen to try out new products, and these have not failed to impress me.

The Smooch Cosmetics lipsticks are not drying in the slightest, and are very comfortable to wear. I feel they're a great product to just apply and forget about for a couple of hours.

After a few hours, they could do with a little re-application. But I feel that is to be expected with such a glossy product. I personally have a tendency to rub my lips together more when I'm wearing a glossy lip product.

I feel the longevity of these products is backed up by the fact that they are a little staining. Meaning even when they do become a little thin, you don't have to worry too much about the clown lips look. I feel you always have some kind of colour on your lips.

Each lipstick is available for £7.50 on the Smooch Cosmetics website.

Rocking Red || Popping Pink || Truffilicious

Friday, 1 March 2013

#FridayFitness - Smoothie week
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Well, hello there.

I decided not to include an update last week as mother nature was visiting, and if I'm completely honest, I felt like utter poo poo.

This week I haven't eaten brilliantly and I'm feeling really guilty about it.

It always happens towards the end of the month, whenever money is starting to get a little low.

But, yesterday was pay day, and I relished in buying tons of fruit and veggies, ready for a week of smoothies.

I've done this before, I lost a bit of weight, but the bigger advantage was that I felt amazing for it.

This time I'm not going as hard with it as I did before. Last time I was having 4 or 5 smoothies a day and nothing else. It was bloody hard.

This time I've decided to have 2 or 3 smoothies a day, and a small evening meal.

Weight wise, I'm still sitting at 217lbs, the same place I was last time I weighed in.

I'm hoping this will get me off this plateau and help me lose a little before my birthday.

This mornings smoothie consisted of

four strawberries

half a mango

a handful of spinach

almond milk

natural sweetener

It honestly looked disgusting, but tasted amazing.

If you're a fan of smoothies, please leave your favourite combos in the comments below and I'll be sure to try them out.

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Recent Videos
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Hey, beauties!

I hope you're all having a great weekend. I've done a lot of blog prep for the next few weeks, so you can expect some pretty regular posting coming up.

Today though, I've pretty much spent the majority of my day cleaning the house. I'm literally just sitting down for a break now.

I figured I would share with you the videos I have posted recently, just in case you have missed any of them.

Enjoy!

This months Lily advertiser is Sarah of www.bowsandblushx.blogspot.co.uk

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Not a baby anymore...

Bug is officially a little brat. A cute little brat, but a brat nonetheless.

It's been such a long time since I last wrote a post for Bug's corner, that looking back at the last one, I've noticed how much he has grown up!

He's now toilet trained, to an extent. He's awful at sneaking away and doing his business somewhere in the house, so now we have taken to shutting him in the room we are sitting in so he has to ask to go out.

Liam tried to teach him to bark at the back door when he needed to go outside, but it just ended with him barking at anything and everything that he wanted.

I think the next milestone will be getting Mr. Bug doctored. He seems to think that Mischief is a dog and that she is actually interested in some action. My poor kitty cat never gets a moments peace. Except, for when either of them are sleeping.

He had his first walk in the snow last week, and I think he enjoyed it. Although, I think he may have enjoyed defrosting by the fire when we got home, more.

I still love my little Mr. so very much, but I have to admit that I'm looking forward to him growing up a little bit. He's most definitely stuck in the dogs equivalent of the terrible twos.

This months Lily advertiser is Sarah of www.bowsandblushx.blogspot.co.uk

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Got a party to go to? Rushing from work? Then you need to watch this!
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As you all know, I attended the #northernbloggersxmasparty on Friday night.

In this case, I was lucky that I don't work. But for some of the girls, they either has to book the day/afternoon off, or rush to get ready in between finishing work and the party starting.

I had planned to film something different today, until I thought about creating this tutorial.

I show you how to take a simple work look, and turn it into something a little more evening out appropriate, using only three extra items.

Let me know what you all think of the new layout to my tutorials.

I think I like it!

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Catch up with VLOGMAS!
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Hi, my loves!

I thought I would post the last couple of days of VLOGMAS, just in case you missed them. I have been uploading in the evening of the same day, but that means they have been completed in the early hours of the morning, meaning a lot of people have been missing them!

I hope you all are enjoying these little daily vlogs. It seems I have lost a couple of yt subscribers since starting them, so maybe I will create a vlog channel for next year.

I will back with my regular posts on Thursday! It's been a super busy week!!

Sunday, 2 December 2012

When Flowers Fall does VLOGMAS!!
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Yup, you read that right!

I've decided to take on the challenge of vlogging every day until Christmas. I've never really vlogged properly, so today being the first day, was quite the experience. I used my phone, mainly because the charger for Liams vlogging camera is at his work and we have to go and pick it up tomorrow. But, even though my phone isn't auto focus, it is HD and I didn't get too many blurred moments.

I really have caught the bug for this and I think I'm going to become a bit of a vlogging addict. I may even have to invest in a new camera, because I can't always use Liams and my Nikon is way too chunky to be holding in the air.

So, without further a do, here's day one! Like I said, it's not brilliantly sharp, but I promise it will get better!

Don't forget to subscribe to the WFF channel to make sure you don't miss a day.

Lots of Christmassy hugs!

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Videos Galore!
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Hi, my lovelies!

It seems I have taken to neglecting the bloggity in favour of the youtoobs this week. I filmed a total of five videos so far, I've already posted three, two of which you can find below, and two that I am saving for a rainy day. You will know about the other very shortly.

I'm totally feeling the buzz for it again and I really hope anyone reading this will take the time to pop over to my channel and maybe even subscribe? There's a ton of videos on there and if it all carries on like this, then there will plenty more to come.