Festival Checklist

I thought I'd put a little checklist for all of you going to a festival this year, to make sure you've got all the essentials. 

Basics

☼ Tent

☼ Sleeping Bag

☼ ID

☼ Money 

☼ Ticket

☼ Alcohol (no glass)

☼ Snacks

☼ Old phone

☼ Disposable camera

Health & Beauty

☼ Wet wipes, makeup remover wipes

☼ Dry Shampoo

☼ Makeup

☼ Mirror

☼ Hair bands

☼ Deodorant 

☼ Ear buds

☼ Tooth brush & paste

☼ Hair brush

☼ Sun cream & aftersun

☼ Body Spray

☼ Medication 

☼ Toilet roll

☼ Cooling mist

☼ Plasters

Clothing

☼ Underwear + spares 

☼ Lightweight tops

☼ Shorts

☼ Sundress

☼ Hat

☼ Raincoat 

☼ Tights

☼ Wellies/Docs

☼ Sandals 

☼ Skirts

☼ Socks

☼ Sweatshirt/cardigan 

☼ Sleepwear 

☼ Jacket 

☼ Sunglasses

☼ Jewellery 

☼ Bumbag

Extras

☼ Bin-liners

☼ Henna 

☼ Neon face paint 

☼ Glitter 

Hope this helped those of you packing for your festival, have an amazing time!

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10 Summer Must Haves☀

Heyyy! England's finally sharing the sunshine so I've decided to share some fashion and beauty must haves for this summer, hope you enjoy!

1. Topshop's Poppy Garden Print Bardot Top £26

Bardot tops are very in this year! This top in particular is gorgeous, I love the colours and print. Topshop sell many of these tops, in different styles and prints to suit everyone. One thing I love about these tops is they're very airy in the sun, which keeps you cool. I have this top and a similar white one  and I wear them all the time, they're so flattering and floaty. This top has a lovely cross over back and will look beautiful with a tan.

2. Guerlain Terracotta Joli Teint Natural Healthy Glow Powder £35.50

This product adds a lovely glow to your face and there are different shade to match your hair colour which makes it perfect for everyone. This powder gives a light coverage and pigments are less intense than a bronzer. It has a pink tint for blondes and apricot tint for brunettes and leaves a light sun kissed effect to deliver a burst of radiance. 

3. Topshop's Kingdom Ghillie Pointed Shoes £59

Now these lace up shoes have been noted as 'the shoes that stole summer' & they're totally right! I love the pointed toe on these shoes, and they're available in many colours. I've wanted a pair of these for ages and a pair of lace up heels. They're very slimming and look incredible on, an absolute must have!

4. The Body Shop Brush on Radiance £14

Aren't these highlighting pearls just the perfect shades? Truly gorgeous! They give a lovely shimmery finish and help give the skin a luminescent glow. Using these on the cheek bones and to highlight the nose and lips to create a perfect face shape. 

5. River Island's Pacha Crochet Halter Neck Top £20

This top is available in black and cream. It's the perfect cover up if you're on holiday or just to wear out when the weather is hot. Unlike most crochet tops, this top has a lined chest area so it's not see-through which I think is a bonus/ 

6. Mac Lipstick in Morange £15.50

I'm all about orange lips this year! I have recently purchased this lipstick and the colour is perfect! It really compliments tanned and olive skin tones. I thought this colour is perfect for festivals and just wearing out casually. Every girl needs a orange lipstick in their makeup bag this summer.

7. Topshop's Snake Chain Floppy Hat £32

I'm in love with these floppy hats. They can be dressed up or down, and will definitely get a lot of wear out it. It's important to protect your head from the sun if you're out for long periods of time, so why not protect it with something as stylish as this floppy hat? I really love the snake chain detail, a little chain can make a whole lot of difference.

8. Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Multicolour £44

This duo bronzer offers the pure, fresh radiance of spending days outdoors. I wore this product for my leavers ball and fell in love with it. You can read about my leavers ball here. Blend the two colours together over the face to give your face a natural tanned glow. Add the lightest shade to the areas which capture the light and the darker shade below the cheek bones for a subtle contour. This really is a beautiful bronzer which you'll all fall in love with!

9. Topshop's Floral Print Strappy Bodycon Tunic £36

This beautiful print should be in everyone's wardrobe. This is a very flattering tunic and the cross over back is gorgeous. 

10. Tarte Showstopper Clay Palette £38

This palette has everything you need for summer, it's warm shades for the eyes and cheek are beautiful. It includes 6 eyeshadow shades, a full size blusher and a highlighter/bronzer to create the perfect contour look. 

So There we have it. Those are my summer must haves.. What are yours? 

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YSL review

Now, I'm not going to lie, I wanted to buy the YSL Touche éclat Blur perfector because of the packaging, but I was put off by bad reviews and the price at £31.50. But after trying it in the shop, I knew I had to buy it! I do advise trying before you buy as this product suits some skin types better than others. Personally, this is the best product in my makeup bag and I now wouldn't be able to live without it. 

It comes with a lovely velvet pouch which is split into two, so the product goes in one side and the applicator goes in the other. I believe this is the only product on the market which can achieve a light coat and blur out imperfections of the foundation. It is used to apply over the foundation, during the course of the day to blur out any lines, flakes that the foundation has made during the day or it can be used on its own to make your skin feels gorgeous and smooth. It's a light pink balm but once it's applied to the skin it feels like a powder and makes the skin feel incredibly soft, like silk. 

People shouldn't mistake this product for a primer, it's a balm which disguises imperfections and enhances skin's natural, healthy rosy glow and this product does exactly that! It's now available in a sun kissed addition which can be used as more of a bronzer to give a sun kissed glow or for contouring. I will definitely be buying the sun kissed version for the summer, it's a must have after the high quality of the original blur perfector. 

You can buy the product here. 

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Top 10 Mascaras

Hello!

The start to my summer has been very busy so I've been unable to write many posts. But I've decided to share my 10 favourite mascaras with you, as I'm someone who never sticks to one as there are so many to try. 

10. Benefit They're Real! Mascara £19.50

Now, everyone raves about this mascara and I totally understand why! This mascara does create incredible results, it's lengthens the lashes and is very long-lasting. The application of this mascara is great, it applies the right amount of mascara to the lashes leaving no clumps. This mascara is now available in brown and blue. The reasoning this is number 10 on my mascaras is that I find it's not volumizing enough for my eyes as they're really small I need something thicker. 

9. Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Eyes Mascara £22.50

I do love this mascara and it really suits its name. Giving the outer lashes more length than the inner lashes, the results of this mascara are beautiful. I do find this mascara leaves a more natural finish, rather than giving the lashes full volume. But this is a lovely everyday mascara if you're looking for something a bit more natural.

8. Yves Saint Laurent Luxurious Mascara For Flash Lash Effect £25

So, I haven't got this mascara myself, but I have used it a couple of times which is why it's only number 8, otherwise it may be higher. I found this mascara really does what it says, it gives the lashes so much volume and defines each lash perfectly. It also extends the lashes, if you're a person who has quite short natural lashes then this mascara is perfect for you. 

7. MAC False Lashes Extreme Mascara £19

I recently received a free sample of this mascara in the post, so I haven't really had enough time to fall in love with it yet. I find this mascara leaves a beautiful, natural finish to the lashes. But also leaves them looking long and gorgeous. I also find you can build up on this mascara, applying more layers to create a more dramatic look. 

6. Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara £16

This mascara is for you if you love volumous and thick lashes! Although this mascara can clump, it can be easily fixed by using a good primer before and after. I find this is particularly good if you wear eyeliner on your eyelid, it makes the lashes longer so you're able to see them over your eyeliner. 

5. Eyeko Black Magic Mascara £18

This mascara creates dramatic volume and curls the lashes. It has an extreme black finish which volumizes the lashes even more. The lashes appear thicker and longer without clumping. Eyeko mascaras also come with a little shield which allows application clean and easy and it's easy to remove as well so you don't have to spend ages rubbing your eyes at the end of the day. 

4. Dior Diorshow Mascara £25

I absoulutely love this mascara, the volume doesn't deflate during the day, the perfect amount of mascara is applied to the brush so when it's being applied to the lashes it looks amazing! Everyone else who has used this product has loved it as much as I have!

3. Chanel Le Volume De Chanel Mascara £25
This is so close to being one of my favourite mascaras, I do really love it! It does everything a mascara should do, lifts, curls, adds volume and length, what more could you want from a mascara? It is definitely worth every penny, I only have the little sample I was given from my leavers ball, and I will definitely be buying the full size one as soon as it runs out. 

2. Benefit Roller Lash Mascara £19.50
Of course Benefit's roller lash is in my top 10! It really is one of the best mascaras I have ever used, I love it. It does everything it says, It really curls the lashes and gives them an incredible length. The brush is the perfect design to give the lashes a real boost. 

1. Urban Decay Perversion Mascara £17.50
Here it is, number 1, Urban Decay's Perversion. It's perfect for making eyes look bigger which is what I look for when buying a mascara. This has been my favourite mascara ever since I got the travel size in the 'NAKED on the run' palette, so I had to buy the full size as I know wear it everyday without fail. The volume this mascara creates is unbelievable, it's so amazing I cannot put it into words, I recommend this product to every who hasn't tried it. There's no turning back for me.

So there we have it. My 10 favourite mascaras, what are your favourites? I will be trying to post at least once a week from now on, I've just been so busy I don't know where the time has gone!
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Leavers ball

Hello

So I just had my leavers ball, and it was amazing! It's scary how fast the past two years of sixth form have gone and being with the same people for the past 7 years and that was the last time we'll be together as a year group is upsetting. But now's the time to go our separate ways and achieve great things.

The evening was held at Thropeness country club and it really was a beautiful venue with a lovely view of the sea. In this post I'm going to show what makeup I wore and my outfit and then I few photographs I took. 

So I'd arranged to get my makeup done at Chanel for the ball, as I love getting my makeup done. This cost £25 and with that you were able to spend that £25 on a Chanel product, which I think is really good. With this I decided to buy the lipstick she used and a lip liner to go with it. I don't have a photograph of my makeup close up but I'll list all of the products she used. For the base she applied 'le blanc de chanel' £33, which is a multi-use illuminating base, this made the skin look really fresh and gives a lovely finish when the foundation is applied. For the foundation she used 'vitalumière' £36, this gives a satin-smooth finish, it has a fuller coverage than my Chanel foundation but I thought this would last longer as I needed to keep it on all night and she gave me a little sample to take home with me to use. She then used the 'correcteur perfection' £27, long lasting concealer under my eyes and on my eyelids to correct the colour and creates a nice base for the eyeshadow. For my eyes she used the 'les 4 ombres' eyeshadow quad £36, the colours she used were the lightest 2 from the colour '266 Tissé Rivoli' and the 2nd darkest from the colour '202 Tissé Camélia', these eyeshadows are lovely, they're so pigmented and have a beautiful glittery finish. For my eyeliner she applied the 'écriture de Chanel' eyeliner pen with effortless definition £27, on my eyelid and to then make the flick shadowy she applied 'stylo yeux waterproof' long lasting eyeliner £19, in shade '88 noir intense'. The mascara she used was the 'le volume de Chanel waterproof' mascara £25, and also give me a little sample to use. For my brows she applied the middle shade of 'le sourcil de Chanel' perfect brows £43, just to give them a natural finish. I decided to wear a bronzer instead of a blusher, so she used the new summer 'les beiges healthy glow multi-colour' in colour No.2 £44, I absolutely loved this bronzer and will probably buy this before it goes! For my lips she used the 'le crayon lèvres' precision lip definer £17.50, in the shade '55 Fuschsia' and for the lipstick 'rouge allure velvet luminous matte lip colour' £26 in the shade '50 la Romanesque', I loved the lipstick and thought I'd have to keep reapplying it all night after I ate and drank, but I didn't need to! It's really amazing. 

This is my little Ted Baker clutch bag, which I am in love with. It was £99 but I got it when there was 20% off. It's a lovely leather cute bag, with a gorgeous gold bow detail on the front. This bag has patent sides and comes with a gold cross body strap, if you wanted to wear it as a cross body bag. I got so many compliments on this bag as it truly is beautiful. 

I got my heels from Lipsy, £65. They are just a plain black suede, with a gold clip to do up the strap on the ankle. These are surprisingly comfortable and I love all of Lipsy's heels, they have a cutest little details on the sole. My dress was from French Connection, £79. 

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What's in my handbag?

So, a lot of people do this post & it's always nice to look what everyone has in their handbag. Unfortunately, mine isn't very exciting but I thought I'd share with you guys anyway. I recently bought a new bag, see where in my last post here, so I transferred everything from my old one.

First of all, my purse (obviously).. I'm absolutely in love with my purse, it's from Ted Baker, you can read about all my Ted Baker purchases here. It has enough room for notes, coins and up to 12 cards, so it's a perfect size. It's got a beautiful gold metal and black leather bow detail on the front to show the Ted Baker mark. 

Ok, I don't carry around an Elle magazine every time I use my handbag, but this just happens to be in there as it's what I read when I'm at work before I start my shift. I get this magazine every month, it's just so nice to relax and read about the latest fashion trends and new beauty products to try out. I've only recently started buying this magazine religiously this year but I will definitely continue to do so.

I always carry around my mini bottle of Black Opium by Yves Saint Laurent for little freshen-ups throughout the day. It comes in this cute little case and the fragrance is to die for! Read about my favourite scents here.

 I also always carry a scrunchy and a hair clip, just in case my hair gets annoying during the day. This is so I can just tie it back or just clip the front of my hair back to keep it out of my face. 

My trustworthy Hervana blusher from Benefit, is a must. I have two, one to keep on me at all times and the other stays at home in my makeup bag. I like to touch up my blusher during the day, just to keep my cheeks rosy, and this blusher is perfect for that as it has a little compact brush in the box so it's easy to do so. I also carry around a pack of tissues for those 'just in case' moments. I also always have a lip balm on me, at the moment I have the Malin + Goetz lip moisturiser, as my lips always get dry during the day. 

& of course I always have my phone in my bag, but as I take the photographs with my phone, it make it impossible to take a picture of it. 

So, that's what I have in my handbag, what are your essentials? 

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A little shopping trip

While I'm outside, enjoying the sunshine & a glass of pimm's, I thought I'd share my recent purchases with you. I decided to go into town to buy one beauty product, but I always end up buying more than I can actually afford. 

I saw this bag in Warehouse in Debenhams, the original price was £36, but as there was 20% off everything I got it for even cheaper, but when I went to the checkout to pay, it came up as £21.60 which was a bargain! I had seen this bag a few weeks bag and I feel in love with it then, but I decided not to buy it, but today I just couldn't resist! I normally only go for leather bags, but this bag is so soft and it looks as though it is leather. It's a lot lighter in real life than it is in the picture but I thought this is a lovely bag for the summer. 

I've been eyeing up this touché clat blur perfector from Yves Saint Laurent for ages! What first got my attention was the beautiful packaging, I mean just look at it.. But then I actually tested the product on my skin & blimey, what a difference it makes. It makes the skin feel so smooth, and stops foundation from separating throughout the day. This product can be used as a touch up throughout the day or even a replacement from foundation. It comes with a application sponge and a velvet sleeve to keep it in. This product is now also available in with a sun kissed tint. This product was £31.50, but was worth every penny. There are a range of products by YSL that I want to try including the touché éclat and the touché clat blur primer. All their product make your skin feel so good, it's effortless.  

You know when you can't decide 

on which colour to buy, so you buy both? Yeah, me too & that's exactly what happened with these Revolution blush palettes. I got the colours Golden Sugar (left) & Hot Spice (right). I don't normally buy drugstore makeup but these palettes were just so pretty I just had to buy them. They were only £6 each! So, I can't really expect big things from them but for that price I don't mind at all! The Golden Sugar palette is more of a highlighting blush palettes which contain fewer matte colours and more shimmery colours, whereas the Hot Spice palette is a more pigmented blush palette with more matte colours and fewer shimmery colours. I'm not sure how good these palettes will be but from swatches I did in the store they seem pretty decent for their value so I'm pretty happy with this purchase. 

I convinced myself I needed a new powder brush, as I use the same brush for my powder as I do my blush. So obviously, I bought the Real Techniques Bold Metals arched powder brush, to continue with my collection. These brushes really do not disappoint, their bristles are so soft and the design is so beautiful it makes you not want to use and make the brush dirty. This brush is the most expensive of the collection at £25 but it's really worth the money and looks so expensive. 

So, that's all I bought on my little shopping trip and spent money on when I really should be saving. Hope you've enjoyed reading

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Ekkkk there's a new naked palette!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately been busy revising & sitting exams, but it'll all be over in a couple of weeks. 

So, has everyone heard the good news? Urban Decay are bringing out a new NAKED palette called "smoky". This is literally like a dream come true for me! I am in love with the NAKED palettes and now there's one for the perfect smoky eye. It's extremely beautiful!

Ok, so when I first saw this advertised, I got so excited! This product is to be released early-mid July.  The thing I love most about this palette is that it has a range of finishes, there're mattes, shimmers, metallics, and the shades are just gorgeous. I will definitely be purchasing this product when it comes out, as I've been so impressed by all their other products and their eyeshadows are so pigmented and long lasting. 

With these colours you're able to create many perfect smoky eye styles for different occasions and your own style. I love how there's a range of bronzes, neutrals, taupes, from the other NAKED palettes with extra silver, greys, black, brown and purple. AND it looks as though there is a new brush design, suitable to create the perfect look using that one brush. 

I'm now adding myself onto the wait list, if you're wanting this product as much as I am, I'd advise you to do so as well, as they'll be flying off the shelves!

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R1BW!

Hey guys! I managed to get the opportunity to go to Radio 1's Big Weekend on Saturday & Sunday. This was such a great experience. I love festivals & as this was all for free, it was amazing. There were artists there for everyone's taste of music. I managed to get tickets for me & a few friends to go, and loads of my other friends got tickets as well, so it really was a great weekend. 

When I found out that Big Weekend was coming to Norwich, I was so excited and knew I had to get tickets! The highlights of the weekend were definitely seeing Years & Years, James Bay & George Ezra. These are three of my favourite artists and to see them all for free was such a pleasure! I also managed to see many other amazing artists like Taylor Swift, Hozier, Imagine Dragons, Clean Bandit & many more. 

The atmosphere was insane, drinking in the sun, listening to live music, what more could you want. It was a shame that on the Sunday there were a few heavy showers but it didn't ruin it at all, as it's all part of the experience. My advice for festivals would be to only take what you need, you don't want to be carrying around bags in crowds. Make sure you bring enough money, as you're not allowed to bring your own food or drink into any festival, you will have to buy it there and the prices are quite high and have an amazing time, you're never going to see these people again so just enjoy it, who cares what you look like!

This was just a quick post, but after the weekend, I've been so busy working and revising for my exams that I don't have much time to post at the moment. But now that I've finished school I'll be able to post a lot more and buy a lot more products to post about(: 

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