What I'm wearing today 4

Hi guys!

California jumper - primark - £12

Skater skirt - New Look - Around £7

Coral bikini top - primark - £6

Velvet skater skirt - New Look

I like to think I look like Alex Kingston (River Song) with my hair like this!

Sky blue dress - Topshop - £33

Bracelet - Hollister - around £15

Shoes - m&co - £8

Hello everyone! I went shopping with my friends today and I bought three items of clothing. I was looking for items of clothing for my holiday in May in the carribean!

I got a beautiful sky blue dress that cost me £33 and I am in love! It's floaty and very light - perfect for evenings - although knowing me I'll spill food down it! - it's beautiful! I love the curve on the skirt, I think the dress makes me look adult but not in a childish way like a lot of adult clothes look on teens.  I love the bodice of the dress, I love the way it sort of drapes downwards and just hangs. I love the creases - infact I love everything about this dress! The length is perfect as well!

I also bought a black + Aztec floaty jumpsuit from primark that was £7 - it's perfect for my holiday in the carribean (Only 9 weeks!) because it's very floaty - it almost looks like a dress.

Also from primark, I bought a very pink coral bikini top, but you could easy wear it as a normal cropped sort of top.  It goes perfectly with my velvet skater skirt and my little heels. I think it enhances my figure as it's also padded - I love it!

I bought these shoes a week ago before i went to my other friends party and I think they go perfectly with my buys! 

I made the top outfit one day after school when I wanted to make a youtube video and didn't want to wear my uniform. I put on my pastel yellow California jumper from Primark and tucked it into my skater skirt from New Look and I realised how sophisticated it looked! Sometimes you just have to experiment!

Jelly x

Saturday bath xxx

Today I had the most beautiful bath! The bath bomb turned my water bright blue, it was amazing!

I don't think that there is anything more relaxing that a nice, long bath! I must have spent 30 minutes in the bath today just relaxing! I love feeling clean, having smooth skin and smelling wonderful! It's nice to pamper yourself! Don't you think?

When is finished I put my hair in rollers ready for Connie's shopping party tomorrow and I'm listening to Katy perry 'one of the boys' 

Herbal essences intensive care hair mask + clean and clear morning energy daily facial scrub

I put the hair mask on after conditioner and you just leave it on for ten minutes while you shave your legs or whatever and then you rinse it off and leaves your hair feeling silkily smooth! Oh, and it smells DELICIOUS!

The scrub is sort of self-explanatory, you just rub it onto a face and it scrubs off any dead skin cells or dirt and leaves your skin feeling smooth and soft!

Herbal essences ignite my colour shampoo+conditioner 

These smell absoloutely amazing!  They have extracts of Moroccan Rose in and it almost gives you shivers of excitement!  I don't dye my hair but it does good for split ends. 

Thankyou for reading!

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Jelly x

How to create a blog background using pic monkey

Hey guys!

I had a lightbulb and i thought i would give you a detailed demonstration of how to create a blog background on pic monkey!

1) Go to Pic Monkey and hover over design. click custom. It needs to be around 2000px x 1300px

2) Click on the butterfly and go to geometric. Click the rectangle

3) Make the rectangle the colour you want your blog to be, i want mine to be white but I've made it pink so that you can see it better.  The image needs to have a white rectangle merged sothat it becomes part of i even though its already white because it comes out grey on the blog. I would merge all background colours because it's easier to manage .

4) Add whatever decorations you like - here are a few I've created

5) When you have done that click save and name your background blog background 1 or 2 or whatever. Save it as a png because 1 - it isn't as many pixels 2 - its better quality. Then click save to m computer

6) Then click template

7) then click "customise"

8) then click "background" then "upload image" and then "choose file". Then obviously choose your background and click "done"

And then your done!

jelly xxx

My daily skin care routine

Hello everyone!

Today I'm going to share my daily skin care routine! I do this at around 9:00pm before I go to bed

Morning:

1) I wash my face using clean and clear daily facial wash with lemon and papaya extracts, I make sure I get around my nose, under my eyes and the chin because I used to always miss them out and get greasy there!

2) I then scrub my face using the clean and clear facial scrub with lemon and papaya extracts, this makes me feel very awake and really clean! It also helps to get rid of spurs because it scrubs at them, which is good.

3) I then moisturise my face using a simple moisturiser. I don't bother too much with this in the morning because I really focus on it at night and there isn't much point, so in the morning I apply it as if it were my foundation.

3) I then go onto my foundation routine

Evening

1) I take off my makeup using tea tree makeup wipes. Tea tree is very good for the skin! This take about five minutes. You don't have to be overly thorough, it just gets off the basic, obvious layers. The cleaner and toner does the rest.

2) I then get my fresh essentials cleanser and toner from Garnier and rub them onto my skin using makeup remover pad or pads. Cleanser removes any left over makeup and can work as a makeup remover but I think it's always to to over your face with a makeup wipe first to get rid of the majority of the makeup.  Toner is there to get rid of any left over cleanser and any dirt that the cleanser missed. They are essential and keep your face clean and smooth. My friends mum has been cleansing, toning and moisturising since she was 14 years old and I have to say that her skin is absoloutely flawless!

3) I then get my moisturiser from simple and rub it into my face. I always focus under my eyes because I have very dark circles and I hope that this will improve them over time. Just apply it as if it were foundation, take as much care. Don't just slap it on, a beautiful face without makeup is more beautiful than a beautiful face with makeup. 

4) I then massage moisturiser into my elbows and into my legs, ankles and knees to keep them smooth. Also my chest, right beneath my neck because it gets very dry.

5) On Saturdays and Sundays I have a bath before hand with a bathbomb, usually from lush and obviously wash using the previously mentioned scrub and wash from clean and clear

6) if I have a bad spot I will apply a small amount of strong spot cream morning and night to slowly get rid of it

I hope you enjoyed reading this post, if you like what you see click join this site!!!

Jelly xxx

What I'm wearing today 3

Pink sequinned crop top - New look - around £17

Black leather-look disco pants - New Look

Gold studded black heels - M&Co - £8 in the sale

http://www.mandco.com

I go to m&co quite a lot as I love the store and there is one in attleborough which is where my nan lives and is only 7 miles from where I live.  I must own about 20 pieces of clothing from there because I love it that much! I have only recently discovered the shoes that they have because I've only ever shopped in the Kylie section (9-13 years), which - by the way - is amazing! Their clothes are so trendy, cool and very mainstream. It's good because it focuses on teenager fashion, unlike a lot of kids brands who have very childish clothes for 11 year olds+ even though we only want the modern cool and trendy clothes and that's what Kylie gives! Anyway, back to the shoes, the shoes are all very trendy and cool. Although, there aren't many flats - they are mostly heels. But I'm not complaining!

I went to a party last night an these are the clothes that I wore! I wanted to choose something quite bold and sexy but elegant at the same time and I think I pulled it off. I later straightened my hair and did my makeup.

Me and my friend Carys before the party

How to makeup:

1) first I took the Nivea tinted moisturiser in natural and did my usual foundation routine

2) I then got my sleek blusher in flamingo and applied it to my cheeks

3) next I applied three coats of the they're real mascara by benefit

4) I then got Barry M dazzle dust in gold and applied it to the inner corners of my eyes

5) I then got my black pencil liner from accessorize and filled in my water line

6) I then got my scandal eyes liquid eyeliner in black from Rimmel and applied it very close to my lash

line - no wing

7) I then got my Effect 3D lipgloss from bourjois in no. 27 and applied it to my lips

I was going for a very subtle look so that my outfit could speak, if I had done my makeup as bold it would have made me look too over the top.

Carys wore a crop top with 'swag' on the front in bold letters with tights and shorts. She is wearing a Topshop gloss ink in a very deep, bright pink colour. She plaited her hair when wet and then blow dryed. She then took out the plaits and her hair came out VERY big and voluminous, she is very thick hair anyway.  The foundation she is using is the lasting perfection foundation from collection in ivory 2.

Thanks for reading xxx

Jelly xxxxxxxx

My top five books of February 2014

These books are not in preference order!

1) The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

I may have accidentally stumbled into something I didn't mean to when I picked up this book from the library. It looked a little bit disturbing and it had a love story but nothing prepared me for the gooey chocolate on the inside of the dry cupcake which is what showed. It's about a girl called Mara who is in an accident and she can't remember anything about it. Her best friend, her boyfriend and her best friends friend (who she doesn't like much) die because an old building collapsed around them and Mara was the only one who was alive afterwards. She then moves school because she needs to start a fresh away from where she used to live.  She befriends a boy called Jamie who tells her about the mysterious Noah Shaw.  She then typically falls in love with him and it goes on from there! It turns out that there is a series and the third book comes out in November (your kidding me!!!) but that's ok. I would give this book a 8/10 because it really is just amazing. It has the power to make you go upstairs and wonder what you'll see in the mirror, it's a phsycological fear

2) Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman 

It is very likely that you have read this or heard of it because last year it was massive! I tried it last year, but couldn't get into it do this year I was like "yeh, I'll read it!" I have to admit, it made me cry - I won't tell you the ending because that is horrid.  It's set in a different universe/time/world where crosses are "better" than noughts, like in this world/universe/time white people used to rule over black people and in this book it swaps it round.  It's a typical love story - sort of like Romeo and juliett - they want to be together but they can't because sephy is a cross and Callum is a nought. They have known each other all their lives and the grow to fall in love.  It tells you about their relationship through the book and the war against noughts and crosses.  It's a great book but I personally can't latch onto it that well so I'm going to give it a 7/10

3) Abandon Meg Cabott

This book is the last in the Abandon series by Meg Cabot. I ADORE this series and I saw this in the library so I was like "the last one! I have to read the last one because it really is such a haunting, beautiful series that has gripped my heart.  It's about a girl called pierce who dies and goes to the underworld.  She falls in love with the keeper of the underworld (John) and then she comes back to life.   In this book, she's already with john and this is where they try to defeat the 'furies' and how work out a way to be together.  I would tell you more but because it's the last book, it's like telling you the ending and I don't want to do that, so the only thing I can reccomend is read the books! I would give this series a 9/10 because I have loved them that much!

4) Watership Down 

We have something called a reading list at school, there is one for every year, and we have to read ten of these and 20 books of our choice (in year 8) to get a reading star award badge (I lost mine for last year! Oops!) and this book was on the reading list.  I saw the film a few years ago and a adored it so when I saw that this book was on the list I was very excited.  It's a very thick book and has very small writing so it's quite a hard read but I thoroughly enjoyed it!  It is quite hard to get your head round because you would think that a book about rabbits would be more of a child's read and the length would be more of an adults read and I think it suits everyone! Young children wouldn't be able to read it themselves as there is some difficult words and things that they may not be able to read and understand.  It's about a group of rabbits who run away from their warren because fiver, who has a sixth sense as such, says that something terrible is going to happen to their warren and that they have to run away.  The book is about the rabbits journey to get to the hills (Watership down) and what happens when they get there. I would rate this book 8/10 because it is unique, individual and I've never read anything like it. 

5) Inifinate sky

This book was also on our school book list and I was drawn in instantly by the blurb. It's about a girl who has travellers parked on her front lawn and she falls in love with the traveller boy (noticed a them with me and love?) and she can't be with him because her dad hates the travellers and wants them gone.  It's a typical love story and I adore it. Trick (the traveller boy) is really sweet and I just fell on love with him (please say I'm not the only one who does this?!?!) like I did the book. I would give it an 8/19 because it's enchanting and wonderful and any girl will love it!

What do you think? What are your favoutite books at the moment?

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What I'm wearing today 2

Trousers: mint green jeans - next

Top - PJ top says "stripes are the new spots" - next

Faux leather jacket - TKMaxx

Bag - Jarrolds (this bag is so old that it doesn't even have a phone pocket)

Socks - Cream patterened socks with black frills - Topshop

Shoes - black heeled ankle boots - New Look

Sunglasses - no idea where they are from but I found them today and I adore them!

http://lookbook.nu/look/5904245-Next-Mint-Jeans-Jarrolds-Little-Red-Bag-New