Travel: New York

New York:

I went to New York in late October so this is kind of a late blog post on it but here it finally is!
After this 5 day trip I have totally fallen in love with New York. Before I went I was exited but a bit nervous about all the crowds of people and have overwhelming I thought it was going to be.
We went with family friends and because there were 7 of us, we were lucky enough to book a limousine to pick us up from JFK when we arrived which really set the trip of to an amazing start.

We did so many of the famous and iconic things to do while in New York. We decided to not to go up the Empire State as you would have the picture of the safety cage in your pictures and you wouldn't actually have the Empire State in your actually pictures once you got to the top. So we went up the Rockefeller Centre instead, which I would recommend to everyone.
My favourite thing we did was when we woke up early one morning and went to Grand Central Station for breakfast and had a look around. It's really pretty and we even went back for lunch to the oyster bar and had the best oysters I have tasted in a long time.
I of course did lots of other things including several shopping trips to Sephora as we don't have it here in the UK. I got this Too Faced Grande Hotel Café Christmas gift set which contains 3 palettes. Each with 6 eyeshadows and ether a blush or bronzer in each too. I would totally recommend it for the holiday season or for Christmas gift. Along with being beautiful and looking amazing, they also smell really good.
So overall if you ever get the opportunity to go to New York take it and enjoy every moment. Even though this blog post was short and hopefully sweet! I hope it gave you a little insight into my trip and what I loved.
 But if you have any questions or want any tips feel free to leave me a comment below.

My healthy eating journey...

I starting being a pescatarian when I was around 5 and stopped when I was 14 as too many things around me were tempting me into meat again especially salami! But after a year and a half break I am back pescatarian as I felt when I was eating meat, my diet became a lot more unhealthy as I wasn't thinking about what was being put in my mouth and instead eating everything and anything. Which was not great as it was making me feel not so great inside. I decided to change things around 3 months ago and I thought instead of putting in 50 percent effort, I was going to put in that full 100 percent. So I joined my local gym where a couple of my best friends go and kick start my healthy eating by becoming pescatarian again.

I feel going to a gym with friends really does help as you have the support and motivation of others around you that also want to achieve the same results as you. The results I wanted personally was to tone my body, become more physically fit in general such as, being able to go on a run without feeling totally out of breath with in a short amount of time. Along with hopefully gaining a bit of muscle too. I felt these were achievable goals that I could one day reach.



Food wise I began looking into different recipes, then looking into the ingredients it contains and the health benefits they would bring me. I found that having a smoothie bowl for breakfast really helped me get of to a good start everyday, they were simple smoothie bowls but topped with lots of healthy things such as chia seed, flax seed and spirulina powder to add the extra goodness and especially the iron you need when cutting out meat.


I will keep you updated about my new healthy start and will be sharing some of my favourite recipes and tips soon...

my favourite Lush products...

 I have tried several Lush products over the years and love the majority. Especially the bath bombs and bath oils. Lush as a brand is one of my favourite due to the ingredients they use as they are all ethical, natural and the brand is 100% vegetarian. Along with being against animal testing, have 'naked' packaging and make everything by hand. All of these things make it such a grate brand and makes me want to shop there.

Butterball

My first lot of favourites are the moisturising one as this is very important to have soft skin in my opinion. So the first one is Floating Island, its a bath oil smells like pina-coladas which is so refreshing and it has a piece of vanilla pod in it and that adds to the smell. It has lots of oils in it and is the most moisturising. The next is Mmmelting Marshmallow Moments also a bath oil which is very sweet smelling, kind of like candy-floss. It contains almond oil making it super soft on the skin. The final one for this category is Butterball, a bath bomb which is amazing to watch explode with the little bits of cocoa butter coming out and swirling around. It feels really good on the skin but does leave your bath very greasy for a few days even if you clean it well which, is a down side.

Yoga Bomb

 The next ones are the relaxing ones. The first is Honey Bee, bath bomb it has a lovely yellow colour making it look calming, it contains essential oils also adding to the calms. Its one of those bath bombs that makes you want to sleep in the bath! It smells like it sounds of honey. The finally one for relaxing is Yoga Bomb, a bath bomb it sounds like it would be relaxing like yoga and it is with deep, rusty orange colours and warming scent. Containing gold glitter it also makes you feel kind of special as you relax, this is definitely one of my favourites out of all of them.

HoneyBee 

The final category are the fun and sweet smelling ones. Blackberry is a bath ballistic giving out many shades of swirling blues. It fizzes a lot and for a long time. Smelling like sweet blackberry crumble almost. Next is Creamy Candy, a bubble bar is so cute looking bright pink with a little white flower on top. It literally smells like a sweet shop, covered in sugar! It creates mountains of pink bubbles but can be chopped up to use for more than one bath. The next is The Comforter, a bubble bar slice, very sweet but more deep scent, its massive so use over at least 5 baths! Finally is The Experimenter, bath bomb its more musky but is amazing shape, kind of hexagonal and has around 6 colours that all explode and mix together, looking like fire works!

Creamy Candy 

spring to summer transition fashion...

At this time in the U.K. weather can vary, one minute being sunny about 20 degrees and then the next raining 3 degrees. So hopefully some of these outfit ideas will at lease give you some ideas or inspiration for the mixed weather. So I've put together three outfits for you...

                                                                     This first look is one of my favourites it is simple but very effective. The white jeans go with many, they look summery but are still keep you warm. These once are the Joni Jeans from Topshop for £36.00 fitting perfectly. Paired with this Ted Baker silk shirt adds the elegant touch, flowing beautifully as you move, with gold detailing buttons on the cuffs and top button. To keep warm a burgundy cape is great, mines from Urban Outfitters. Finishing the look of with these Zara black shiny shoes.

The next look I picked is getting more on the summer side, the jumper is another Ted Baker with the white colour, embellished with green and crystal beads, it means you don't have to think about adding a necklace. I put it with this white floral patterned skirt from Zara it's fairly short but works well with the jumper tucked in. I accessorised with my favourite Calvin Kelvin sunglasses in a tortoise shell design and also my orange bag is from then too. I was wearing some suede loafers from Park Lane but you can't see them!

 My final look is my most worn, look at the moment by far! It's easy to throw on and still looks like you made an effort. The top is one of my most resent purchases, from children gap actually! In this lovely baby blue with scalloped edge with white detailing. Put with my burgundy Joni Jeans from Topshop, very comfortable like I said before. Accessorised with my small navy longchamp le pliage bag and Miss Kurt Geiger heeled sandals in cream.

I would love to know what your go to outfits for this weird weather transition from spring to summer, so tag me in your Instagram pictures of your go to outfit. x

Review: M.A.C Fluidline eye-liner gel

M.A.C fluid line eye-liner gels are always great and are known for being very long staying, this colour dark majesty was part of the limited edition collection heirloom mixed. Which is unfortunately now unavailable but any from their staple collection have exactly the same formula. The staple collection only contains five shades (about 16 shades in the US thought!) but I would recommend Blitz and Glitz for a more glamour look as its black with gold flex in it or black track for a classic black winged line.
 The packaging is always exquisite and classy but this is just something else about this one, the black box with the fine silver glitter just makes it seem special.

 The formula is very smooth and easy to apply with no dragging on the eye when applying. I use my real techniques angled brush that they call the brow brush but I personally think it works perfectly with this and is in both the eyeliner and starter kits they do making buying brushes fairly affordable as for five brushes its about £12-£20 and about 18 dollars in the US depending where you purchase them from. I would recommend directly from the real techniques website.

If you can find a way to get hold of this edition, I would if I were you. Its a charcoal black with flex's of super fine silver glitter. which looks really nice with all colours of eyeshadow. But if you can't there are very similar colours out there such as blitz and glitz, it just has gold glitter instead of the silver but it will complement in a very similar way.

The fluid line is one the pricier side for a liner but does last a really long time, I use this one most days since Christmas and haven't even made a dent in it really. It retails for £16.00 in the UK and 16.50 dollars in the US.

Overall this is a beauty must have for everyone and anyone.

Review: Tanya Burr Cosmetics - Lipgloss

I got these three colours from the Tanya Burr advent calendar. I was so please with the selection of colours in this collection and have been wanting to try them for a while.
These once are a sample size of 5ml which is pretty good but the full size once are 7.5ml which retail for £5.99 and can be purchased from feelunique.com and super drug.

But are they really worth the money...

Bewitching

I personally think it depends on which colour you purchase.
Bewitching is my favourite out of all of them as it applies very well and is not sticky on the lips. The colour is very bold and is fairly long wearing about 3-4 hours. Which I think is good for a drug store lipgloss. The main complaint I have about all of the lipgloss's is they all have this extremely strong almost marzipan smell its fine if you like that smell but I personally find it very sickly.

Candy frost

My least favourite colour is Candy Frost as by the name it is very frosty and has large chunky of glitter that just do nothing for the lips. I thought it would be nice to highlight the lip but it doesn't really do anything. Its a very bright pink in the container but has hardly any colour pay of when applied. which is disappointing as I can't even use it for dress up parties! And it has 'that' smell!  

Macaroons 

I'm not totally sure of this colour called macaroon's yet as its the
same texture as bewitching and has the great colour pay of but
I just don't think it will work for my white skin. I think it would look great on olive or darker skin, so might hold onto this for the summer and see if it looks better with tanned skin. I'm hoping it does as orange lip colours are my all time favourites along with berry shades. So I will update you on this in a few months when the sun starts shinning again.

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