Look of the Day 13th August 2014

Hi Friends! It's been a long while since I've done one of these posts but I'm feeling extra good about myself today so I thought why not share it with you all!

I haven't been out much on my own lately with it being the summer holidays so when I was kindly offered the chance by local Mary Kay beauty consultant Abe to try out some skin care & beauty products I organised the time to get my natter on.

The look is extremely basic but it's the skin care behind it that makes the primer, foundation etc work at the highest levels. I'm going to be real honest with you, the days I'm not wearing make up and exhausted I often go over my face quickly with a cleanser and a cotton pad then fall asleep (dun dun dun!) but recently I've taken to dealing with my made up face before getting tired and it's really made a difference to my complexion.

A new post will be up tomorrow about the products I tried & tested.

Thanks to the Mary Kay ladies- Abe & her team for lending their time.

Thanks for popping by folks
Dawn x

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Bloomin Girls Festival

Hey Everyone!

An amazing festival is coming to the Manchester Academy for one day on Wednesday 23rd July that combines fashion, beauty, fitness and music aimed at girls 14-17.

If your looking to have a good time, Bloomin Girls have got you covered! You'll have all access to the event and a chance to sample your favourite beauty, fashion and hair products as Bloomin Girls  have teamed with MUA, Boohoo and Batiste! 
If you thought that was was the icing on the cake then this has to be the coolest cake topper as Neon Jungle will be having a meet and greet all for free just click here for tickets! This is a fantastic chance to have fun and build on your potential.

How Keeping Active Helped Me

Growing up my Dad and I would sit for hours watching sport and eventually I caught the sport bug and start to run around the track at my local park. Running cleared my head and I felt so much better about myself as well as feeling a lot more confident about my body and meeting new people. I am the youngest daughter with Two older brothers and socializing was something that I found difficult but I didn't have to worry about anything when I was running. The confidence I gained from activities like Phys Ed at secondary school help me to manage personal struggles and look past them.

Something as simple as going for a walk or doing a gentle work out before I sit down to blog or record a video is the difference between the process going smoothly or me ending up in an anxious heap. Looking back on that time I wish I had kept up with it as it was beneficial to getting me through the tough moments and  it could have given my life more direction.

A lot has changed since my early teens and I've recently gotten back into sport and I'm really enjoying working my way slowly towards running with the passion I once had. Not for competition but for Me because I owe it to myself to be the best person I can be mentally and physically.

If your interested there's more information on their Facebook page and exclusive videos and photos on their Twitter page.

I would love to see your posts of your time at the festival so please favourite this so you can I can view your posts. Have a sweet day blogsters!

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The Accidental life of Jessie Jefferson by Paige Toon

Hi everyone.

This is the first Paige Toon novel I've read and it most definitely won't be the last. The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson is Paige Toon's first teen Novel and even though I'm Ten years older than the age demographic I fell in love with story.

 Jessie is going through a difficult patch in her life. Her Mum has recently passed away and never told Jessie who her real Dad is. Jessie is living in the same house she shared with her Mum and it just her and her step Dad Stu. All that's getting Jessie through this rough time is her new friends and her crush Tom. As Jessie parties away the pain she still can't escape her Mother's memory. Stu seeing Jessie's life is spinning out of control thinks telling her who her biological Dad is will bring her back down to earth. Jessie Dad isn't just some average Joe he's Johnny Jefferson, legendary rock star who has put his wild parting days to rest and now a reformed family man. Jessie has to adjust to her new L.A. life, step siblings and a new love interest on the scene.

I absolutely loved this book. I can't say I love it from beginning to end because Jessie was grieving her mother but after that Stu was stepped up and became the most beautiful character I've encompassed from a novel. I read this Two months ago and I can't wait to read more from this series and her other books. I wish this book was around when I was a teen.

Which books are you enjoying or reading for the summer?

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Tea Tree cleansing wipes by Sainsburys | Budget Buys

Hi Amigos! I've been trying out a few cleansing methods lately and I thought it would be a good idea to go from a budget/ non costly brand that everyone could get their hands on to well known and slightly more costly brands and see how achieve some knowledge of what the individual products do or don't do best.
I've got some great news under this review also!

Sainsburys is one of the UK's big 5 top supermarkets. They often have deals on known name skin care and beauty products so it can be a good place to check out if you want to get a deal. Sainsburys also have their own line of skincare brand that in facial care that mainly consists of cleansing wipes.

A fair bit of fraying on the second round of cleaning my face but
but it did manage to get most of my make up off.  

I've chosen the tea tree variety of wipes as I have uneven skin tone and oily skin which Tea Tree helps to manage. These wipes clain to not only remove make up leaving your skin cleansed and toned, feeling refreshed soft and smooth with added B3 anto help clear clear skin.
In the cleansing wipes range you can choose from Aloe Vera, Vitamin E and eye make up remover pads. Click here for more information.

What I liked about these wipes were as you take them out of the packet you don't have the overwhelming scent of tea tree oil as I have experienced in the past. The scent is nice but too much of it can be over powering and I often remember after using a similar product that I felt as if the scent was following me around 20 minutes after use so the fact that this scent is mild and non offensive is a thumbs up for me.

The wipes are soft and gentle on the skin but it was difficult to get a great deal of use out of one side of the wipe as if you wipe to long on one section the wipe will begin to fray and become fluffy and come apart.
This was disappointing as I try to get as much use out of the wipe before discarding it and I had to use two wipes to remove a light amount of foundation and eye make up.

Final thoughts
These cleansing wipes do stand up to to the test of removing dirt and impurities on a face with zero make up a lot better than a full face make up. I would say it's ideal for a refreshing quick fix in the morning before washing your face or if your out and about during the day.

I've been nominated for my second Liebster Award by Kim  & Kyle so I just want to say thank you both so much for nominating me. Check out Kim and Kyle's amazing blog here. 

I'm going to have a post up every day this week so be sure to pop by and see what happening. I uploaded a new book review yesterday if you'd like to check it out here!
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Mini Beauty Haul

Hey Bloggerinos!

I haven't been on a beauty shop/ haul in a while and sometimes I have no idea what I like but yesterday I was calm and focused as I slowly strode around Oxford Street. As I haven't gone crazy in a while I it would be smart to budget myself. I slightly went overboard but I'm still quite proud (high fives all round). So lets get down to some gandering!

The first area in the beauty department I gravitate to has been the Collection display as I've notice that the Goth Glam lipsticks have been discontinued. I was hoping that I would be able to get my hands on another tube of the delightful Revenge because even though it's summer I'm deeply in love with it.

 No such Luck there but Scorned was available so I decided to give it a go. I think Scorned and I will get on amazingly and I can always mix it with other lipsticks to get the desired effect I'm going for. Blog review coming soon!

I've forever been looking for a fluffy blending brush and it just wasn't happening so when I saw this brush was only £1.99 I snapped it up! If it doesn't work out it only cost Two quid. It can also be used for blending concealer. Keep your eye out for a review!

A White pencil applied in the right place can work wonders on my eyes. It can make you eyes look more awake, make your eyes appear bigger or you could just have fun with it for Halloween look. I've never had a white khol pencil (2 true) before so I'm going to play around with it and see how it goes. Youtube videos, here I come!

I love, love, love a matte lip, who doesn't? I don't have very many in my collection but I use blotting paper to gently dull the shine on my glossies. Cream Puff by Collection is nothing new but it's still popular. To be honest I wasn't sure if any of the colours were for me so I played it safe here but I think can mix it up and make it work.

As well as loving my Burgundy lipstick I have possessed the spirit of Nicki Minaj's lips circa 2011. I picked up Perrie's lipstick from the Little Mix collection and fell for lilac colour immediately so this £1 lipstick from MUA (which was the only shade left) is perfect for me as I'm starting to feel more confident with and with out make up.

If you haven't caught on that I'm going slightly loopy on the lip products and having fun, mixing it up so I got this fair Pink/ Rose gold type shade as I could match it up with any lipstick I choose. It also has a nifty sharpener in the lid so it's great for on the go.

The Eyeko liquid eyeliner pen was free with Glamour magazine last month in conjunction with Alexa Chung's cover. I've yet to try it but if it's a goodun I'll be a loyal supporter.

I hope you enjoyed this as much I love writing it. It's been a right feel good day today and I just desperately wanted to share with you all.

Take care and blog ya soon,

Dawn x

My Story - YouTube, Blog Life Ups and Downs

Hi Amigos!

It's been a while and I'm so so sorry. I've been trying to sort out life, thinking about what I want to do with my blog and YouTube channel.

I've had my YouTube for over a year and it's not been the easy task juggling being a Mother and trying to be consistant with the content on my channel and blog.

I guess I'm writing this blog as a way to get my feeling out as I'm wondering if anyone feels similar to how I do, so here goes!

At first I had no idea what I wanted to do with my blog. This isn't my first try at the blogging scene but it isn't  much different to be honest. Initially I wanted to have my blog site centre around being a new mum, which was a great idea but I felt so much of my time was being a new Mother that I wanted to do something different to break up my time.

I'm not sure how or why I decided to do make up reviews because besides from wearing eye liner and lipstick here and there at school I've never really been into. A strong part of it I would say came from watching many beauty videos on YouTube. I would watch all the Get Ready With Me, Favourites and other types of videos and wanted to be part of that community but it never felt like the real me.

What I liked about the people in front of the camera is their passion.  That's what I wanted most of all for myself, to have the passion to talk about what I loved and cared about and it wasn't so much about beauty, it was books. Sadly by this time I had invested a large of myself into thinking that beauty was the way to go and trying to push myself into something I wasn't 100% about made my anxiety sky rocket on the inside which in turn made me depressed.

That's when I decided it didn't have to be all or nothing.  I didn't have the confidence to talk the beauty talk but I still could share what I loved about beauty in the form of a blog. The anxiety was still there but it was less and I felt better but I still wanted to bring my love of books into my blog.

Writing about books brought me back to square one again and I felt so down on myself. All I wanted to do was share about the book I was reading and if I could do that with beauty why couldn't I do that with books? Luckily for me I had my wonder boys to fall back on and distract my mind from all the anxiety I was feeling.

We have to keep smiling, no matter what.

Over time I started to push myself into doing things I didn't like, for example sitting front of the camera and chatting about anything I could think of just so I could try to get comfortable enough to make sense. I eventually did but by that time the people who had started their path on YouTube at around the same time I did were on the fast track and I had much appreciated tiny audience. I used to get quite upset about it but I would look at my life and think I have a lovely little family of my own, how can I let something so small that was meant to be enjoyable stress me out?

This is my path. Maybe blogging and YouTube isn't right for me but I'm finally starting to feel comfortable in what I do. If anything is going to happen like everything in my life up to the moment of me writing this I'm going to have to be patient.

If you want something you have to work hard a push past the negative and stay in your own lane. That way when you get to where ever life takes us we can enjoy it outright.

I know this was a really long worded blog today but if you got to the end it means a lot.

Sorry if I seem patronising, I just let my hands take over on this post. It's honest and feels raw so it is what it is. I'll gladly ask questions if their are any.

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I would love to know your story also, please leave links below.
Thanks again x

fan girl freak out and update (video)

Hello Everyone!

It's great to be back on the good ol' blog, how are you all?

I decided to do a chit chat type catch up video to talk about where I'm headed and what you crazy, cool kids will be seeing here in the next few months. I'm not used to talking like this so hope you like it.

See you soon lovelies x