My day in photos

Hey guys,
On the weekend my family and I went to a small village called Cowbridge near where I live. I decided to take some photos and blog about it so, enjoy! :)

We had coffees at a cute little cafe before heading to the shops.

Yummy hazelnut latte time

After some coffee and cake we headed off to the shops. Everything looked so pretty and Christmassy! (I'm allowed to get excited now that it is December)

 

I hope you have enjoyed this slightly different post - comment below what you think AND if there's anything else in particular you'd like to see on my blog.

Love, 
Emily. Xxx

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Mini Mac Collection

Hey guys.
Today I've decided to do a quick blog post on my little Mac collection.

First up I have 3 Mac eyeshadows. Woodwinked is probably my favourite, it's such a lovely and wearable colour. However, I would definitely recommend it to more tanned skin people (unlike myself..oops). I do like Pink Venus however as it's quite a bold colour I don't wear it that often. But, it looks great for a night out or something similar.

Pink Venus, Honey Lust and Woodwinked

Next, we have my all time favourite Mac purchase. The studio fix fluid. This stuff is heavenly! It is more suited to oily skin types and therefore may not work so well on dry skin. It is suited to oilier skin because 1) it is oil free and 2) it helps absorb and disperse oils from your skin. It is quite high coverage and very buildable.

Mine is in the shade NC15. (C will cancel out redness)

Finally and my most recent Mac purchase is my studio fix concealer. I had wanted to get this for quite a while as one of my friends has it and absolutely loves it! At £15, for the quality of this concealer, I would say it's definitely worth the money. It covers every single spot! It is slightly less effective under the eyes, for that I would recommend the pro-longwear concealer (sticking to the Mac theme).

Studio Fix Concealer in the shade NC15

Thank you guys for reading and I hope you enjoyed this post. Comment if there's anything you want me to post on my blog in particular!

Love, 
Emily. Xxx

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Yankee Candles

Hello again everyone!

Today I am writing a blog post about one of my favourite things, candles! And for all you Yankee junkies out there: this one's for you.

There was never really a day I started buying candles, however I do remember starting to use and buy them a lot more near my year 10 exams as I find them very calming.

Firstly, I have my jar Yankee candle as you've seen many times on my blog! If you don't already know my sister bought this for me for my birthday this year. I have the 'Lake Sunset' candle. It's a very light and soothing smell (I really can't describe scents...) This size of Yankee candle is however very expensive (mine was around £16.99) so I haven't bought myself one yet, fingers crossed I might be lucky enough to receive one for Christmas!

Next, I have a few tarts. These are different to the small sampler candles because you burn them in a tart burner. In my opinion these are better than the sampler candles because their smell seems to fill the room and is stronger.

Pink sands is my favourite of these

This is the tart burner I have been using. It's from Poundland! I'm looking to buy one from Clinton's or anywhere that sells one that is a bit more attractive but, this will do the job for now.

Next, I love using these little sampler candles. You can buy these in all the same scents as the bigger candles but for a much cheaper price. I believe they're around the £1.80 mark however I'm not too sure. These aren't so powerful as the tarts when burnt however they are still lovely, especially on a cold, wintery night in!

As always with Yankee candles the packaging is super cute and the colours on these specific ones are lovely too! I've been burning a lot of these as we go in to the autumn / winter months which explains why I only have more summery scents left!

These little tea light holders are from Ikea.

This is my favorite way to burn tealights / Yankee candles, it's from Ikea.

This blog post was an idea from a lovely follower who's instagram is @bethaniebriggs, big thank you to her!
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Lots of love,
Emily Xxx

My Halloween Makeup

So this year I went to two Halloween parties. I went as a cat for one and a vampire for the other. As the cat was a much simpler look, I thought I'd show you guys how I created the vampire look!

I started with my MAC studio fix foundation. Try and use a foundation slightly too pale for your skin if you can. Next I used my MAC studio fix concealer to conceal any blemishes.

I then focused on the eye make up. I began by putting 'blingo' by benefit all over my lid. I then took 'holy smokes' benefit's cream eyeshadow and swept this in to my crease. I used the collection 2000 eyeliner on my upper lash line and a chocolate pencil liner on my bottom water line. For mascara, I used the benefit they're real! mascara. My favourite.

I then lightly bronzed using my bourjois chocolate bronzer.

For the lips I used a YSL red lipstick in the shade Rougue Par Couture 13. I also put this around the edges of my lips to look like blood.

Finally I took benefit's 'raincheck?' eyeshadow and mixing this with the red lipstick created a wound on my face. I wore this make up look with a black lacy top and a leather skirt.

The finished look!

Darkest swatch: holy smokes! Middle silver swatch: blingo! (ignore all other swatches)

I hope you all had a FAB Halloween and I'll hopefully blog for you soon! 

Lots of love, 
Emily Xxx

Instagram Q&A

Hey guys!

Sorry I haven't blogged in what seems like an eternity, I am yet again blaming school. Anyway, on with the show!
Today I have decided to do a Q&A blog post. I put a picture on my instagram (@emilyford1_) asking you to leave me comments of any questions you'd like answered and I've chosen some of my favourites below.

1. Favourite drugstore products? As I'm only 15 I mostly stick to drugstore make up and therefore this is quite a difficult question as I use and like lots of products. Umm, I love the sleek blushes, Kate Moss lipsticks, babylips lip balms and I'm sure there's more but my brain has frozen...

2. Favourite MAC product? The studio fix fluid! It's amazing. It costs £21.50 I think but in my opinion it is SO worth it. It's especially good for me as it works best for oily skin.

3. What are you going as for Halloween? Pretty boring this year, just a cat.

4. How old are you? I'm 15 :-)

5. Do you like chocolate? Of course!

6. Favourite 'IG'? I have lots of accounts I love but my all time fave is probably @amybastiani. Her photos are so pretty and she seems lovely.

7. How do you edit your instagram photos? I don't do too much. I use an app called afterglow and put the brightness up a little bit and the exposure up quite a lot. My #1 tip for instagram photos is LIGHTING! Natural lighting is the way to go guys. Your photos will look so much prettier.

8. Favourite shoes? My new Topshop boots of course. They're so comfy!

These were £52 but I sneakily borrowed ma good pal Alice's student discount so I had around 20% off. Yipee!

That's all for now guys! I hope you've enjoyed this slightly different post. Make sure to leave me a comment if there's anything else you want to see on my blog.

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Lots of love,
Emily xxx

Lush Lip Scrub

Hi everyone! 

Sorry I haven't posted in what seems forever but I do have an excuse! School :( However I'm sure I'll get in to more of a routine soon and be posting much more regularly. Anyway enough of the boring bit, on with the review! 

Lush's Lip Scrub in Bubblegum.

This lip scrub has been a favourite of mine for sooo long however I recently re-purchased one so I just couldn't resist a good ol' blog post. Haha.

Even the packaging, as always with Lush, is so pretty!

The lip scrub has quite a thick texture, I'm presuming this is due to all the sugar inside. The sugar is what exfoliates your lips and leaves them lovely and clean. It is also meant to bring out the true colour in your lips (you will notice the change depending on how dry your lips are) as all the dry skin is a lighter colour than your natural lip colour. It also tastes SOOOO good! I don't even know if you're meant to but after exfoliating my lips with his scrub I admit I do lick the remaining scrub off... I've only tried the bubblegum lip scrub however I am pretty sure Lush do two other types. A minty flavoured one and a popcorn one. Yum! 

Overall I love love love this scrub, I have dry lips all year round and now winter is approaching I'm preparing for the worst! If you suffer from this too I highly recommend this product as it really does help! It's around the £5 mark which I believe is a total bargain. Mine always last super duper long and work so well! Thanks for reading guys and I hope you enjoyed this post. 

Do you use this product? Do you like it too?

Lots of love,

Emily xxx

Cadeaux de la France

Bonjour!

Earlier this week I posted a picture on my Instagram (emilyford1_) asking you guys if you were interested in seeing a blog post on some French goodies my mum bought back for me. So, here it is!




Here's a picture of all the gifts together. They all came in this pretty box that my mum had chosen, she also got to choose the gifts for the inside.

The first thing I noticed was this gorgeous smelling pink soap! I haven't used it yet (I only got it today!) but I'm sure it'll be lovely. If you'd like me to blog a review of any of these things just let me know! 

Next, there was a few more soaps. These however are much more of an unusual scent. I would recommend them as I myself like the smell however I would say make sure you do before purchasing them. The purple and white are especially unusual and I'd have to say the purple is not quite to my taste but my mum likes it so she's going to use it instead!

They come packaged like this but I removed it and took another picture so you can see all the lovely soaps below:

Now moving on to lovely smelling things for your drawers! I don't actually know what they're called but basically you can put them in a drawer, cupboard, maybe even a handbag and they give a mild refreshing scent to wherever you put them! My mum got me two of these one with paper packaging, one with fabric.

They both smell lightly of lavender which although I'm not usually a fan of, I like in these circumstances as it's not too strong.

Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Make sure to let me know in the comments if there is anything, prehaps a more detailed review of one of the products in this post, you'd like me to blog about.

Love,

Emily xxx