Current favorites.

Sooo,

Sorry for not popping up a post last Thursday, this week has been super busy and I won't be naughty again

•slaps wrist•

Straight to it then, in this post I'm going to share some of my August favourites with you.

I have been loving Aussie hair care this month, especially ther colour mate range with peach. It leaves my hair super soft and shiny and smelling good. My must have of the range is the leave in spray conditioner as it's a nice alternative to using the argen hair oil if you're in a hurry. 

Next on my list is the Lush Dream Cream body lotion. The formula I'm loving is the new self-preserving formula. You can listen to Mark and Jack Constantine discuss the merits of self preserved vs preserved with Helen Ambrosen here http://youtu.be/CCDFGrIHRfQ these guys are the reason Lush has lots of amazing products. On my skin this goes on nice and smooth and for me I find my skin absorbs this version better and I like that it is less lavender-y than it's predecessor. Don't worry though they still sell the old one if that's your boo. 

Next some make-up! Yeah! So I have been using this gorgeous eye shadow by Barry M. It's part of their dazzle dust range in the colour 'tan'. I would describe this as a rose gold with a shimmer. It's nice as an accent or a highlighter but also as an all over shadow paired with a dark red lipstick. 

•lovely lovely lovely•

Lastly a nail varnish. Suprise, suprise! 

This one is by Miss Sporty and is part of their metal flip range. The one I have is called crazy plum and it has a beautiful green to purple colour change effect, with a metallic finish. There is also one in the colour Aurora borialis, which is bluey. This needs two coats but has a nice colour payoff and lasts a long time on the nails. 

I do have one more thing that isn't a make up fave. It's a bit random but is the San Pellegrino Lemonata lemonade. It has 16% lemon juice and is super sharp and refreshing. Nice with lots of ice. They also do an orange version. Also I don't like lemon so for me to recommend its gotta be good! 

Thank you for reading this blog! If you liked it please add it to your reading list and to can look out for a next post next Thursday. 

Lucy. 

Watermelon nails

Heya, 

So,straight to it! 

I love nail art, I like quirky things I like elegant things. I like transfers and stickers and falsies. I especially love painting them myself and having a bit of fun with it. 

When I was in my last job I wasn't allowed nail varnish. This made me sad and whenever I had a couple of days off together I'd pop on a bit, but never had time for fun. 

Now I can! 

I'm a bit out of practice but I decided to do some fun watermelon nails. Here is the result.

Not bad for a first attempt. I used to do nail art all the time here are some. 

I am super looking forward to getting back into it, let me know if you have any ideas.

Lucy. 

Work

In this blog post I would like to talk about the wonderful world of retail. 

In particular I would like to talk about my journey from school to the present.
When I left school I had no idea what I wanted for me and my life I saw a careers advisor and I found it super unhelpful. the advisor basically pushed me into going to a sixth form college with out asking me anything or letting me know about other pathways. the meeting was about 3 minutes long and I felt like I had signed the next few years without a clear vision in mind for the future.
At college I took, 3D design, photography, media and business studies. Really I only wanted to do graphics and fine art but as it was a sixth form college I was told I had to take 4 courses. After a while this completely overwhelmed me and I soon found myself concentrating on the social side of college rather than the academic.

After two years of college and failing my courses due to none attendance and lack of, y'know actually handing in the work, my college decided they'd rather not have me back. 

So back to talking about work. During college I had a job working at a paint your own crockery shop and later on at Debenhams. These were only part time jobs. After college I had been unemployed for about 6 months, when finally I got a job working for lush as a Christmas temp. 

After Christmas I got kept on and spent the next 5 years there. 

I loved my time at lush and made my way from a sales assistant to key holder. After a while I wanted more, I wanted to move up to a management role but unfortunately it wasn't an option in my store at the time. It was time to move on and I got a job as a counter manager at a make up concession. I'd wanted to do it for ages I thought it would my dream job. It was awful the company didn't care about me and I didn't feel I had any support from my area manager. The company was transitioning from being independent to being owned by an umbrella company. There was a lot of paper work involved and I had to hard sell everyday. It was harder than I ever thought. I just wanted to put make up on people. I left in August of 2013 and never looked back. 

After a couple of temp jobs I ended up at greggs. Not ideal. Actually, not a bad company to work for if you don't mind early starts, but not what I wanted to do. 

After a year and a half I'm going back to lush and I'm so happy. This past year has been a massive learning curve for me. I've learnt how other businesses work, about different customer bases and mostly I've learnt how I can adapt and how've I grown to accept different situations everyday. 

At some point I would love to go back to college and pursue what I love doing. There are so many amazing beauty and art courses where I live. 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, there are other pathways in life and don't let the bastards grind you down. Enjoy yourself and do your best. Even if it hasn't gone exactly the way you thought.

If you liked this please pop it on your reading list. I normally post on Thursday evenings so look out for that! 

Lucy. 

At lush

As a beauty manager

Birds and Bakeoff

  Hi guys,

This week has been a nice lazy week as last week was horrible. I had a 7 day stint at work where 6 of those days I had to be up at 5am.

♦not cool man♦ 

So I have had some nice mornings of not doing very much apart from some housework (boring) and just doing bits and bobs that I've needed to sort out for a while.

Due to having this time to relax I have had some lovely garden time. At my old flat we didn't have a garden, just a balcony so apart from a plant or two there wasn't much greenery to enjoy. Just a lot of car park and bypass.

We have just moved back to my parents which means that they have a garden. Their garden is the sort of garden that has lots of trees and plants and little places to hide and be calm, you cant hear much traffic and it's nice just sitting still when so much is up in the air. 

When I was in the garden a little bird came down and was honestly about a meter away from me. I went and grabbed my camera and snapped him for you.I think it's a handsome little robin.I normally hate birds but this one was to cute to hate on.

So lets do a little bit of beauty, I hope to do a bit more beauty in the future but at the moment due to my working hours I cant do all my make up properly which makes me super sad. Also I'm not allowed to wear nail varnish to work.

•BOO!•

For now here is one of my all time favorite products by Barry M.

This product as I'm sure a lot of you already know is called touch of magic lip paint. Its such a fun product as it looks green but actually has a wonderful pink colour pay off, and it's a stain. the way it works is that the formula reacts to the alkaline in your lips and the colour ranges from a subtle pink to a super bright summery pink. As I said before, it's a stain so the colour lasts on your lips but because its so creamy and smooth it doesn't dry out your lips like for other stains. Barry M have recently changed the name and packaging to this product and it's now called genie. 

Finally I wanted to talk about the great British bake off. yes! GBBO is back BBC 1 have nicked it for themselves but it is still as good as ever! So far I think it's been quite good and I really enjoy how disapproving Mary is being so far. personally I think disappointing Mary is much worse than just Paul saying it bluntly. judge for yourself.

♥ Always make your own fondant.♥

I could honestly talk about bake off all day, but I'm going to leave it there for now. Sorry that this is going up on a Friday not Thursday but I fell asleep at my laptop last night. Super sleepy. If you liked reading this please look out for my next one next Thursday 

There are some exciting devolpments happening right now so I will let you know about thjose next week. YAY! 

Lucy

•x•

Things I have been enjoying..

so far this month.

You didn't think that intro was it did you? I just thought I'd pop up a few things that i have been loving this month so far.

First off, my make-up base for July/August has been these products.

 Rimmel stay blushed in the shade 001 pop of pink. This is a really nice cream blusher, when it comes out of the tube the consistency is very light weight. It looks super bright to start but mellows out into a lovely sheer pink. I normally stay away from cream blushers as I always find they interfere with my foundation but I have found this doesn't and it's build-able. 

Product number two I've been using is the Rimmel BB cream 9-in-1 skin perfecting super make-up in very light. This product has a very light coverage and that's why I chose it for summer. it has an SPF of 25 which is nice and high considering the hot summer we've been having. If you want more coverage I wouldn't recommend it but very good if you want a dewy effect. the only thing that could improve it is that although it mattifies it can slip of my nose so if you have very oily skin then it might not be the best for you.

Last but not least is the Rimmel wake me up foundation in ivory, this has a nice texture that goes on very smoothly and helps to make me look awake when I have an early start. It conceals spots but again this isn't a super heavy coverage product, just light and pretty for summer. 

Combined you get a lovely dewy look, that can be set with powder (I use Rimmel matte perfection) and/or with a bronzer, I've been using solar powder by soap and glory.

well that seems to be very Rimmel heavy.

These Earrings.

I have been wearing these so much. I love the nautical theme. They're almost like big studs which is great and I've been wearing these when my hair's in a bun or plaited around the back of my head. 

♦beautiful♦

 

next up...

Socks.

I got these from the sale section in urban outfitters and I just couldn't resist. black- check, ankle- check, glitter- double check. so pretty and when I popped them on extra surprise, bloody herringbone design. BOOM!

♥

 

Last on my list de amour today.

Chocolate. 

what else?

Hotel Chocolate are celebrating 10 years of being chocolaty geniuses. To celebrate this they have dizzy pralines on offer 2 selector packs for £6.50. These chocolates are so good. they come in dark, white or milk and inside have a beautifully smooth hazelnut praline. like Nutella enrobed in chocolate. we went for milk chocolate. 

•lovely•lovely•lovely•

Thank you for reading this -slightly rambley- blog. let me know what you've been loving, and if you loved this blog, you can find it updated weekly every Thursday. 

Lucy x

A little bit about me.

Heya,

I thought for a while as to how I should start this blog and I came to the conclusion that an introduction to me and what this blog is about was the best way.

So, my name is Lucy, I'm 24 and I live in Britain. I live with my fella, Chris, and our hamster (such grown-ups) Mordecai. 

I bet you're asking yourself right now 'what can I expect from this blog?' well, I'll tell you. Probably a lot of beauty and accessories. Food, little recipes I like or places I've been. If I go away I'll pop on little videos and bits and basically just stuff I like. 

soooo, hope you got as far as here without closing the tab or falling asleep, I'm going to upload every week and then maybe little bonus posts every so often. I'm nice like that.

If you liked this post please pop me on your reading lists for more fun stuff.

Lucy x