Room Tour

 

So after doing a home-ware haul for the new things I bought for my room, I then wanted to film a Room Tour!

 

You can watch it here, or just take a look at my pictures below :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZ6QHr4Abk

 

 

Youtube

I've recently arrived home from the most amazing time of my life, travelling some incredibly beautiful countries and I thought it was time to give something new a try.

 

I have been watching Youtube videos for years now, and always wanted to give them a go myself, so that's what I have done.

 

My first video is now live, so I'd love it if you'd check it out.

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIMQWx0g80

Thankyou!

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How To- Toning Brassy/Yellow Hair

 

Hello lovely readers,

At the beginning of last year I decided to take the risk of dying my hair a lighter shade of blonde, using shop bought hair dye. I already knew it was quite likely my hair may go slightly yellow, but since I had blonde hair already, I thought there would be much less risk involved. Obviously I was wrong, that's why I'm here to help anyone else in the same position as I was. (I had VERY yellow hair.)

 

Firstly, don't panic. Although you may feel like your orange/yellow hair cannot be fixed, it definitely can! and pretty much straight away. When I washed the dye out of my hair, I was almost ready to run to the shop to buy a darker colour, in hope it would cover it up (this would have probably just made my hair a darker shade of orange and damaged it further, so I'm glad I didn't!) Instead, I purchased some toner, in the form of shampoo and conditioner.

Purple cancels out yellow, so I knew I had to look for the darkest purple colour shampoo I could, which was how I found the provoke touch of silver, twice a week brightening shampoo.

(For some reason some cameras don't like picking up purple colours, so this looks fairly blue, but as you can see, it's a pretty dark shade.)

 

It was super cheap from savers, and it made such a difference to my hair after just one wash, so I would definitely recommend this one! (I would also suggest buying the conditioner for an even bigger difference.) I have used this twice now, and my hair is already so close to being the blonde shade I wanted.

In between using the Provoke shampoo, I have used the John Frieda sheer blonde colour renew shampoo and conditioner. These are a bit lighter than the other shampoo, but have definitely helped make a difference! They also feel less harsh on my hair, and leave it feeling soft, and smelling amazing!

John Frieda Colour Renew Shampoo

John Frieda Colour Renew Conditioner 

        Alongside these, I would definitely recommend using a hair repair mask to help put the moisture back into your hair. I have used the Toni&Guy reconstruction mask, which has made my hair a lot shinier and healthy looking.

 Thank-you so much for reading. I hope this has been helpful to some of you!

 If you have any hair tips you'd like to share, please let me know!

 

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Halloween Gingerbread Biscuits

 

Soooo, the other day I decided to make some Halloween inspired biscuits, and I thought I would share them!

 

Ingredients:

350g (12oz) plain flour

2 teaspoons of ground ginger (you can leave this out if you want plain biscuits)

1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

100g (4oz) butter or margarine (sliced into chunks)

175g (6oz) light brown sugar

1 egg

4 tablespoons of golden or maple syrup

 

For the decoration:

200g icing sugar

A few drops of orange food colouring (or red and yellow, mixed)

Writing icing

 

You will also need Halloween shaped cookie cutters (unless you're good at cutting shapes with a knife)

 

1) preheat the oven to 190° and grease a baking tray.

2) Put the flour, ginger, bicarbonate of soda and butter/margarine into a mixing bowl. Rub together with your fingers until it looks like breadcrumbs.

3) Add the sugar to the mixture, and stir. Then break the egg into a bowl and mix it with the syrup.

4) Add the egg and syrup into the mixture until it makes a dough.

5) Knead the dough, and roll it out, until it's about 5mm thick. Cut out your shapes, and put in the oven on the baking tray. Bake for about 12-15 minutes

6) When the biscuits have cooled, mix a few drops of the food colouring in with the icing sugar, and add as much water as needed. (You can miss out the food colouring if you've made ghosts).

 

Happy Halloween!

What will you be doing?

♥

 

 

Halloween Make-Up Ideas

With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it was a good time to share some easy to do Halloween make up ideas, using basic products!

 

 

 For this classic skeleton look, you need black eyeliner, black eye shadow, mascara and a bit of white eyeliner for the teeth. This is perfect if you love contouring! I contoured my cheek bones, nose, and all around my face using black eye shadow.

 

 

 This one is a bit simpler. All you need is a black eyeliner, and your favourite mascara and lipstick! You could go all out and go for a dark lip too! I wanted to keep it more neutral on the lips, so more attention is drawn to the eyes, therefore opting for a light pink colour.

 

 

Creepy doll - For this you need to make your eyes look as big as possible! (without covering up the rest of your face.) White eyeliner can help to create this illusion. Then you just need to use a lot of pink blush, for the cheeks, and using a black eyeliner, create the scar type things.. Conceal your lips, and using a bold lipstick create a lip shape smaller than yours!

 

 

 

 The not so scary cat look - probably the easiest and quickest look out of them all! Just create your favourite Smokey eye, put on your 'go to' lipstick, then add a cat's nose using a black eyeliner and a pink lipstick or eye shadow for the middle. simple!

 

I hope you enjoyed this post, and that it gave you some ideas for easy make-up looks, that make it look as though you made an effort, (without really making much effort!)

 

I would love to know what you are going as for Halloween! Let me know in the comments.

 

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