Wednesday Loves <3...

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter Break!

Back to some beauty blogging..

I have two new loves this week, Strawberry scents and blue nails!

I've always been a fan of strawberry scents, but sometimes they can be completely over-powering. Nothing beats the smell of Yankee Candle's - Strawberry butter cream but I have found the most beautiful smelling body butter ever! Its Body Shops Strawberry Body Butter and right now on-line there is 50% off all 200ml Body butters making it a steal at £6.25! Girls it is defiantly time to stock up while they are that price, i seen them in stores at the weekend for £18 so that truly is a bargain. 

Next is blue nails. I've always been a fan of navy on my nails and it always seems to be my go to colour, and recently I picked up a few model's own polishes and picked up a new navy (NP012 - In the Navy) when a lovely bright blue called 'Feeling Blue' caught my eye.

The colour is so bright and vibrant and my boyfriend referred to it as very 'Smurf' like - which is surprisingly accurate considering how little he notices usually haha. See the resemblence? 

To spice it up a bit on my ring finger I painted the nail then added electric blue glitter and sealed it with a top coat. I like adding something extra to my nails to make them stand out a bit more and usually it is a disaster, but surprisingly this one turned out well! I picked up 24 small pots of different coloured glitter on ebay for like £5 or alternatively you can get fine glitter in good crafts shops if you don't want to wait on long postage!

Finally one final bit of cuteness! I helped look after my boyfriends dog this weekend and she seriously is the cutest thing in the world, so I shall leave you to gaze at her loveliness.

Kisses

Steph

xxx

The Easter Blues...

I'm Stephanie and I have the Easter blues - they do say admitting it isthe first step to recovery right? I have a paid day off work and I feel pretty damn rubbish, which is odd becauseusually I’d be glad for a nice day off work. There are several reasons for thisof course, most of them just bad luck. First of all I went to the dentist todiscuss the extremely painful wisdom tooth that is currently tearing itselfthrough my poor gum. Now if your friend tells you they have a broken leg do youthen proceed to kick the leg to make sure it actually hurts? No, I’m sure younice people reading this would never do that! Yet my dentist still felt theneed to continuously poke it until I actually cried to which he responded"Flip it must hurt!" Luckily for him I’m polite and a bit of a scaredycat but it did take a lot of strength to hold myself back from screaming"No s*@t Sherlock!" FYI my tooth still hurts from the prodding!

Secondly a free day off is utterly fantastic but not so fantastic whenyour wonderful father's birthday falls on Easter Sunday and you have to ventureinto town to get the last bits of his present. This wouldn’t have been too badif the rest of the city hadn’t been off and also decided to venture into town -I have little patience and not one for shopping in crowds. Of course this was self-inflicted;clearly I was just kidding myself when I thought I could get in and out in ajiffy.

Now from the outset you really wouldn’t think I had the Easter blues as Iprobably laughed more today than I have in ages. That’s the joy of friends!After a horrid morning and an extremely busy city centre Alex came to the rescueand we were on a mission! She has a wedding to go to - but only the eveningbit. This always proves a dilemma as you need to dress more casual but howcasual can you go? Alex and I go out regularly and we have more dresses betweenus that we care to admit and we were embarrassed to see that actually none ofthe dresses we own have the correct wedding length! But then we wondered howshort can you actually go? You spend £30+ on a new dress for a wedding and ifyou wardrobe consists of dresses a hell of a lot shorter you probably won’twear it again, so we set off to find the impossible.

First we hit new look. I actually love this place. Cheap, stylish andStudent discount - what more could you want right? Yet after trying on a good20 dresses, some which were so laugh worthy it was unbelievable, we left emptyhanded! Similar situation in River Island and Jane Norman. We nearly found adress in Oasis but turns out some things defiantly look better on the hanger!So with aching feet and a rumbling tummy I was running out of patience withdress shopping, so I shipped her into Lipsy against her will. I get why shewanted to avoid the place, its crazy expensive but I was desperate! So aftertrailing the sail rails we found it!Tah Dah!

  Now this model must be scary tall cause it came just above the knee onAlex and was perfect - almost! Just when we thought we had the perfect dress wehad the size dilemma! The 10 was just not zipping up. I was physically sweatingtrying to do this and it was impossible - she blames her mother as like hermother she was blessed in the breast department! So I went hunting for a 12 butwould they have one? Of course not, they did have a 14 though which of coursezipped up like a dream but was a teeny tiny bit too big. It took me a good 20 minutesand a lot of begging but she finally bought it - I may have to learn how to sewand take it in for her mind you!

Then life looked up - a heavenly light some may say. I found a newfoundation! I have a day foundation and a night foundation which may seem a bitodd but when you work in an office full of 40 year old men who will neverappreciate a nice dewy finish you stick with a nice cheap foundation. This oneof course is rather pricy but will be perfect as my night foundation. It leavesan amazing dewy finish, has good coverage, the colour is perfect and is yellowbased!It’s Bobbi Browns Moisture Rich Foundation

So all in all it was shaping up to be a good day, I was on my way homewith my new perfect foundation, a bottle of wine and all the motivation Ineeded to write a blog post until I came home and realised I had run out ofoil. So I am writing this huddled under the duvet with a cup of peppermint teatrying to warm up.

Don't let the Easter blues happen to you! It’s pretty rubbish. But itmight shape up to be a good night. My amazing boyfriend has kindly agreed tolet me stay at his lovely warm house with movies, a takeaway and lots ofsweeties! At 20 you are allowed to eat your Easter eggs before Easter right?

Have a very blue free Easter!

Steph

xxx

So i&apos;m writing a blog...

I'm Steph & Welcome to my Blog! 

I contemplated writing this blog for a while now, actually I mainly contemplated whether to publish it or not.  It’s not that I don’t enjoy writing. I suppose I have been writing a blog to myself for a long time now, it just strikes me about being so open on public domain is a bit scary.  

The next challenge I faced was the topic the blog was going to follow. I personally don’t feel the world wants to know about how I lost a whole pound by running for a bus or when I feel like crying for no reason yet I am struggling to find what else to talk about. I then had a sort of epiphany and wondered if I actually needed a topic? I could easily just include all the things I love in the world without homing in on anything too particular. So it has been decided, this is going to be a blog about well... everything. Everything is a pretty broad word I suppose so I shall narrow it down a bit:

1.       Books – I love to read, and I do have a rather odd taste in books at times. Chick lit, vampires and a touch of science fiction is mainly where I will be focusing, but as it is summer it will be mainly chick lit I am afraid. I will give you a quick review and I will try not to leak any spoilers and promise to tell you when a book is not worth reading but I will try to give you good detail in the review to ensure you understand what it included in case we have very different tastes.

2.       Beauty – Don’t think that this means I am going to try and fob myself of as a new beauty guru, believe me I know very little about beauty and could not tell you how to create the perfect Smokey eye without looking like you fell asleep. The area I plan to dabble in is more what I use on a daily basis to look at least a bit better that I did when I woke up. Don’t fear though, I will not be using widely expensive products; most of them are just as good as what you can pick up in boots anyway. I do however promise to give you my whole hearted opinion on everything that I do encounter and never plan to be endorsed so do not worry.

3.       Food – Occasionally I find a good recipe that I will share with you all, sometimes I will want a good recipe from you all but the bottom line is... I love food. I will probably give you a few reviews about restaurants in my home town, so they may not be of interest to many of you, but if I have had a good meal I will definably tell you about it, even if it is a quick trip to McDonalds.

4.       Film/TV – I am a cinema buff (I do occasionally just go to get some cheesy nachos but shhh it’s a secret) so I will tell you what I like about all the films I see and the points I would prefer to get. I do not get a lot of time to watch TV unfortunately but when I have a series I want to see I will make sure I watch it at least in the week it aired (I love you sky +), so I will tell you about all the new series I have discovered and hope that some of them appeal to you all.

5.       Life – I will of course tell you about my life a bit, it is a blog after all but I promise to try and make you laugh as opposed to cry, smile as opposed to making you frown and not brag about anything good that’s happened to me. I have encountered many blogs which have done all 3 of these points and I will not be venturing back. Below if a few pictures of some of the people i love most. 

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Onwards and upwards as they say?

Steph

xxx