February Favourites 2016...

Well it's the start of March and that means one thing and one thing only FEBRUARY FAVOURITES! I honestly think this is the best thing about being a blogger that I have the urge to try new things because I want my blog to be versatile and as a person I want to try new things and not be stuck in a routine! So this month I have skincare, beauty and clothing that I have loved. Enjoy....

So this month has been a lot of cosy clothes that look fashionable when layered up and a flawless skin look with a strong contour, defined brows and a glimmering highlight. I chose a lot of these because I went on a lot of adventures and documented these journeys on social media and wanted to look nice while doing so.

Starting with beauty

So unlike last months favourites the beauty section is all drugstore products. Some of these I did mention in my go to products but this month I looked through all my makeup and looked at products I rarely use. Starting with the Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation £9.99, it is really hard for a pale person to buy a foundation that is a true match but this perfect. It is a very light shade for me in Light Vanilla and I have purchased this over and over it gives me a flawless coverage without feeling thick. It uses a fruit therapy formula consisting of apricot, melon and apple to give the skin a healthy glow which I absolutely love.

Along with the foundation I am also really enjoying the Avon Ideal Flawless Cream Concealer (Fair) £7. This stuff is amazing! it says it in the name but it is so creamy, I have been using this a lot recently to do under eye and to carve out my brows and make them look sharp and it does an amazing job I cannot rave about it enough!

Nails-wise I have been loving the Primark Plain Nails £1, I have been feeling a lot happier since I started spending the time to put false nails on and these are so pretty. I currently have the rose pink ones on but the white ones are so sleek and classic.

The swatches in the second picture do some justice to show how pigmented these highlighters are especially when they are only £3 in Superdrug. These are the Makeup Revolution Baked Highlighters in Pink Lights and Peach Lights, I tend to use these with a wet brush as it picks up product more easily and the pay off is beautiful especially for a gentle shine on the cheek bone or cupid's bow.

Excuse the other swatches on my hand haha. This lipstick is the Soap & Glory Fabu Lipstick in Naked Beige £8.99, this month I have been trying to use all my other lip products not just my MAC Lipsticks. This lipstick is a dark brown toffee colour and is rather creamy, I really liked this lipstick due to the fact I have really got into my brown toned lipsticks such as Whirl and Velvet Teddy. I know I can always trust Soap and Glory for good products as they have an amazing range and I have always enjoyed their lipglosses.

Scent of the month

I am literally in love with the Victoria's Secret Mango Temptation £12ish, it is a very sweet smelling scent and I love to give myself a good spritz of this before I leave the house. I love Mango so I had to pick this one when I bought mine at the Trafford Centre, that's why I'm not 100% on the price as it was the 5 for £30 deal. This will take me forever to go through and I finally got my hands on a pretty striped bag...

Now onto fashion

So this month I have been LOVING striped tops. I love them with leggings or black skirts or under pinafores. I just think they are very slimming and classic and can be really feminine for girls as well as masculine for boys. I found the two in the image above in Primark for around £5/6 each and they are beautiful! Especially the one on the right as the hem and the sleeves have like a crochet effect on them which shows through.

Next up is this Anchor Slouch Tee £3 from Primark, I love this top paired with my black skater skirt,black tights and chelsea boots as it is really feminine and cute. I have a similar top to this in burgundy with black hearts on and it is super comfortable, both suit being layered with a grey sleeveless cardigan.

I have mentioned these jumpers before in a Primark haul, these were both £10 each and have this zipped detail down the back. They are super comfy and loose and work perfectly with leggings or jeans like in the image below. For the price these are amazing and the zip detail really looks nice at the back, these are well worth the money and come in a range of colours from light pink to striped.

Now these trainers are the Nike SB Zoom Stefan Janoski's in Navy £60. I received these as a gift two christmas' ago and I hadn't wore them a lot until I found them in my wardrobe with the black ones. I styled them as you can see above with a baggy grey jumpers leggings and a leather jacket as I was going out shopping with Nathan. They are super comfy and come in a range of colours from black to floral print.

Fun Favourite's

 This is the Fujifilm instax mini 8 Polaroid Camera £60 I received this halfway through February and I love it. I use this mainly for me and Nathan to document our adventures and cute couple selfies. It's nice because Nathan likes to take pictures of just me and put them on his noticeboard at camp or in his wallet for when he is away in the field. Nathan bought me this for a Valentine's present and it is in the shade Raspberry which was a total shock to me because it is perfect! I just think the camera is so nice and the pictures are really classic and give an airbrushed effect.

My movie of the month has to be Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, I have laughed a stupid amount of times at this film I swear I have watched it like 5 times in a week so far. Whether it is singing Britney Spears to a zombie or how cute Augie is it just makes me smile this film. Like I said the character Augie in the film (on the left) is so lovely and such a good character he makes me laugh hysterically. But all in all this film is awesome and really good to watch if your into funny horror films.

Well that is all my lovelies for this months favourites,
hope you enjoyed seeing what I was loving.

All my love,

What's in my bag 2016 edition...

So I am naturally a nosey person in regards to what's in peoples bag videos and room tours etc. So let's not beat around the subject and I'll show you what's in my bag...

So this is the bag I received for my 20th birthday of my mum I think it was from Primark and I absolutely love it! It has a longer strap which I use over my shoulder as I'm not a crook of my arm bag person. So the second image is a brief overview of my bag, as you can see there are two pouches a large one saying 'nobody said it was easy and a purple one with a unicorn on saying 'dream big' these I will explain later on as I either take one or the other depending on my day.

I carry a range of electronics/gadgets with me including two portable chargers and my Fujifilm instax mini 8 camera in Raspberry and my headphones. The little lenses shows in the two above pictures are lenses that I use on my phone to take interesting and cool pictures. I bought these on Amazon for around £5 and they are amazing and so worth the money!

So onto the pouches I use these to store my items I'll probably end up needing. Such as bobbles, tablets, hair grips, hand sanitiser because I am a germaphobe and tissues. The larger one I put more in such as hand cream and a brush and pens whereas the smaller purple on holds single grips and one or two bobbles and my sanitiser along with paracetamol and a tissue. These are so handy and has saved my life more times than I count I also like to put my glasses in here and a contact lenses pot with solution in incase my eyes become irritated. So yeah that's my little safety raft...

So along with my purse that is in the overview I also carry my keys, I love my keys bit sad as they are specialised to me with key rings from our friends winter wedding photo booth, a heart keyring I got made and Nathan has a matching one. As well as the key rings with my name on off my little sister, a USB a dream catcher keychain which I love and a little bronzed pixie that was on my grans keys so she is also with me.

Now I am paranoid about my smell so I'm like 'AGGGGH MUST SMELL NICE AT ALL TIMES!' so I have a roller deodorant that smells so good from Imperial Leather I love these because they get right to the skin especially after the gym or anything there good to use. I also have two sprays one in the sugar crush scent from Soap and Glory (Citrus aggggh!) and my favourite Impulse in Tease. My handbag perfume that I carry with me is one of Nathan that he got me from Canada by Ralph Lauren called Romance, he knows I love fresh and floral scents so this is perfect for me and he loves when I wear this..

Finally, onto my light reading. I wasn't reading for such a long time but I have finally got onto reading the second book from The Mortal Instruments line I loved the first one and I am thoroughly getting into this. Jace though mmmmm...

Well that is all my lovelies I hope you enjoyed this post! Thanks for reading as always!

All my love,

My Valentine's day....

So I had a very lovely day with Nathan my very handsome fiance on Valentine's day, about 2 weeks before I decided I really wanted to go to the zoo and Nathan suggest Blackpool Zoo for a Valentine's day activity so I was super happy! I decided for my blog I would document mainly the Zoo trip because it was amazing and I got to see my favourite ever mammal the ELEPHANT! So here goes...

We decided that it was probably a good idea the night before if I stayed over at his as we had to leave at 9 as the zoo opened at 10, and we wanted to pick up breakfast on the way there. So after our lovely sausage and egg mcmuffin from Mcdonald's we made it to the zoo dead on 10. I was like seriously amazed when I seen a turtle the size of like a car it was huge and I still think it might have been fake it was that big! 

So in the Small Primates section we seen some beautiful animals, I'm not 100% on the name of this specific one but we found it funny how it blocked the door so it could sunbathe haha.

Next we went onto seeing the big cats, there were 3 beautiful Amur tigers one was a female called Alyona and her mate Zambar with one of their 2 babies Barney. When we first got to the enclosure they were asleep and the top image shows how the two who I'm hoping are the two mates are 'arm in arm' haha. They were honestly stunning and Alyona was used in the live feeding talk they are truly fascinating and beautiful creatures.

So next to the tigers in a smaller enclosure were the meerkats which I loved, if you've seen the video on facebook of the meerkat stood up shouting 'Allen Allen' then you can see why I thought this was funny but they were truly adorable.

Onto the truly most beautiful cats I have ever seen were the lions. There were two lions in this part the grown male lion called Wallace (brilliant name) and his recently born cub in 2015 called Khari. Khari was so sweet and wanted to constantly play with his dad. It amazed me seeing how big he was and how fast he had grown in a year..

Next we visited the Bornean Orangutans I'm not too sure which one is the one in the picture but they consisted of 4 Orangutans I'm thinking the one in the pictures was Ramon the only male. There was also Vicky the oldest female and her two daughters Cherie and Summer. They were so amazing to see how much they relate to humans even if their a little hairer haha

Blackpool zoo had a group of female giraffes which were so interesting to look at. You never really realise how big they are until you see them up close but there coats were so beautiful and I had a sneaky stroke of one when it stuck it's head up to the fence but the nice keeper said it was okay haha.

From a young age I loved zebras purely because they began with Z. These were Hartmanns zebra's and they seemed to have a baby in the enclosure. I don't know what it was but looking at the coats made me so interesting because i love the patterns and how shiny and well kept the keepers keep them.

We then visited the Wallaby's along with the red kangaroo's. There was one that you can see on the bottom right picture on the far right that kept bouncing around and into the facing field. It literally just bounced past me and Nathan. I don't think it's clear but the one in the left picture the greyish one on the right had a baby joey in her pouch that kept popping its head out I was completely in love me and Nathan must have watched them for around 15 minutes.

Onto Nathan's favourites! The Iberian Wolves, I was utterly excited about these as we stood there discussing which was the alpha,omega and beta (complete Teen Wolf nerds) but they were so beautiful! There was one however that was wondering around near the bottom of the enclosure and it made me really sad. The enclosure was named Wolf Ridge and was on the outskirt of the zoo with a high ramp to see down on the wolves, these wolves are infact led by the alpha male and the female. Then leading onto the second in command the beta wolf and the lowest ranking the omega wolf.

The water based animals at the zoo were amazing, especially the penguins. These were Magellanic penguins originating from South America  specifically Chile, Argentina and the Falkland Isles. As you can see from the pictures there was one cheeky little penguin that wanted to get a closer look at us and liked to do a little drying off dance which consisted of a little wiggle. I loved these they are so graceful and cute.

We then visited the sea lions at around 2:00 and watched there display. There were 10 sea lions but only 3 were used for the show, these were a 3 year old names Ruby a 9 year old called Anya and her sister the oldest Gina who was 13. They were so well trained and funny and Ruby was rather cheeky she wanted to do everything her mum and auntie were doing so she felt the need to come over her rock every time the other two did.

Got a lovely panorama aswell of the pool and a cheeky selfie with my handsome soldier.

AND FINALLY! My personal favourite the Asian elephant! The one we met was called Kate and she was the only elephant they had as the others were from a circus which sadly died. However Kate was rather cute and loved to see her picking up food with her trunk. I can't wait to see the elephant enclosure when they do it up and bring in more elephants which is what the speaker Amanda said was going to happen.

AND of course we took some selfies!

Once we finished at the zoo we went back to Nathan's to get ready for our meal as we decided to go to our favourite restaurant Chopsticks. They decided to do a special candle lit night which was lovely especially for couples.

AND FINALLY! Me and Nathan did get each other a few things for Valentine's I was totally shocked by what he got me as it was utterly perfect and I spent weeks on his gift a customised Star Wars box with matching Star gifts and his favourite food and drink!

Mine from Nathan including an Fujifilm Instax mini 8 polaroid camera,flowers to match my room and a bag full of bath bombs including unicorn horn, Avobath and Rose bath bomb! Not to mention a very special card my first saying Fiance along with two bears one from the Zoo as my favourite animal the Elephant who I have name Oscar and two bears that are now called Barney and Anna! 

Nathan's consisted of Koppaberg 4 pack in Starwberry and Lime, his favourite food Sensations crisp and Haribo Strawberry laces. A stormtrooper pillow, Jean Paul Gautier aftershave and a thermal changing Kylo Ren Mug. 

I honestly had the most amazing day as our first Valentine's as an engaged couple, and cannot wait for our get away for our year and half anniversary! Anyway I know this was a little rushed but I hope you enjoyed my lovelies! 

All my love,