Hello everyone! It's that time of month again - the beginning, so i though i would show you my favourites from March! April has come around so fast, i feel like the world has started to spin faster and time has sped up, but that would be impossible! I have quite a few interesting products this month, including food, hair products and beauty products, so keep reading!
Herbal essences split end protection intensive care hair mask
I love this product, it works like a conditioner. You put it in your hair once or twice a week instead of your normal conditioner and it helps repair split ends and prevent them from happening if you haven't got them already. You leave it in for ten minutes while you shave your legs or whatever and then you rinse it out. It smells delicious, as you would expect from herbal essences, like raspberries.
Batiste floral and flirty blush dry shampoo
I love this dry shampoo! I have never really used dry shampoo before this month, which is when my mum went to Tesco and bought me this. It smells quite nice but i'm not thrilled by it. It does work a treat on my hair though, i spray it in when i haven't got enough time to wash my hair before school and it just refreshes my hair, but obviously wash your hair as well if you do use dry shampoo - it doesn't clean your hair, only refreshes it. I also have a blonding dry shampoo which is a sort of yellow instead of white and it makes your hair look slightly blonder.
Maybelline colour sensational lipstick in 832 - kiss pearl
I love the colour of this lipstick! It's perfect for school as it's quite natural but it's also good for parties as it has a light sparkle to it. It has a great texture and it's a great product considering its a drugstore lipstick.
Maybelline The Rocket Volume Express Mascara
I love this mascara but obviously it can never replace my old 'They're real' mascara from benefit. It is good though, it lasts a long time and with a few layers it looks quite dramatic. I use it for school and for parties, its a great mascara!
Accessorise black pencil eyeliner
It's not the eyeliner itself thats particularly good, well - it's quite good but thats not point, its the style that goes with it. I have recently started wearing this on my waterline recently and i have found that it actually makes a huge difference to the face. I wear it to school as mine isn't particularly strict on uniform rules and i feel a lot more confident in it. I really recommend this style!
So…? Kiss me - perfume
I discovered this perfume last week when i was unpacking the last few boxes from the house move. It comes in a pack of four, along with: so…? Eternal, so…? Superstar and so…? Sinful. I love this the most, it has a sweet yet spicy smell - it smells quite alluring in a way. I wore it to a party the other day and it is actually quite strong, i also love the packaging. It's small but effective!
Bomb cosmetics bath bomb
I absolutely love bath bombs, i especially love bomb cosmetics because it appears in a lot of places and lush because, well, how can you not love lush? I have started having a lot more baths recently because i have had the time to do so. Bath bombs just add to the bath, they can give it a gorgeous smell, a gorgeous colour or a gorgeous feel. They are just wonderful!
Doctor who series 2
I love series 2 of doctor who, i love doctor who full stop but this month this series just reached out to me. Of course, i have seen it at least 20 times before (before you laugh I'm not even exaggerating) but i loved it again once more. It makes me cry, but i won't tell you why (spoilers!)
Oreos
I have also grown a sudden obsession with Oreos! I love the different layers, people off the chocolate biscuit and then biting away the cream inside and then another layer of chocolate biscuit! I have a pack of two in my lunch box every day because they. are. amazing!
Garnier fresh essentials cleanser and toner with grape extract
I love this cleanser and toner, i love the smell. They have a very subtle smell of grape and i love they grapes! They have done a lot of good to my sin, i don't get as many spots as I used to and it feels fresh after I've put it on. *Check out my daily skincare routine*
Hello everyone! I don't think there is anything better than a bath, and what's better than a bath that smells like chocolate? I don't think anything! I think having a bath is the most relaxing way to wash if it's done right.
Every good bath needs a bath bomb and this is amazing! It looks like you could eat, I really as going to eat this! But it's a bath bomb that smells like chocolate. It's got a lot of different layers, the bottom looks like the biscuit bit and it has lots of bits in the bottom which I presume it's for exfoliating. The next layer is the 'chocolate cheese' layer which is really smooth and sort of works like a massage bar. The top is just the icing on the cake really (lol), it looks pretty! There are two 'raspberries' on the top that melt and they smell gorgeous! My bath really did smell like a chocolate shop!
I used Paul Mitchell blonde shampoo. You only use this twice a week and it maintains your blond hair if you have has it died or whatever. I am beginning to use a bleach from John Frieda that you spray into hair when it's towel dry and you do this about twice a week and I'm also putting in this shampoo to try and stop it going ginger! It comes out a gorgeous purple colour and when you rub it into your hair it looks like any normal shampoo! It works a treat! It's quite expensive: around £10.
This is the conditioner that I used. Again, you only use this once or twice a week. It keeps your hair from split ends and makes it smooth like any normal conditioner would - see it like a face mask: cleans, exfoliates, moisturises, makes smooth. They work, they really do! I really reccomend them.
This is a brilliant exfoliating scrub. I use it on my legs after I have shaved them to make them as smooth as possible. I also wear it on my face to help get rid of spots and again to exfoliate.
Find the best light in the house and stand so you are facing it, the best selfie is taken slightly above your head, facing slightly downwards. If you are using apple technology 'turn the camera around' and shoot!
Selfie type 2:
This is my favourite trick! Take your apple device and place it somewhere with good light, facing you. Start filming and literally pose, don't stop. Stand in each pose for about 5-7 seconds. When you've finished 'posing' stop the video and go to 'photos', you need to then go to photos and go to the video. Play it and screenshot any poses that you love, if you find that difficult pause the video before you screenshot. If you don't know to screenshot you need to press the power button and the home button at the same time. This comes in useful for photos where you're jumping midair like this one:
Edit every picture that you are satisfied with - my favourites are Instagram, insta-effect, iPhoto, touch colour, pixlr express, waterlogged and aftershape. The best photography app for selfie type 1 is definitely retrica - it's very popular with teens because there's no 'after-editing' because the effect is already there. It's a really easy app to work with.
Waterlogue costs £1.99 and is brilliant! It makes photos look like paintings, it's beautiful on the right photo!
Pixlr express has loads of different effects and is the most time consuming because the photo completely 'handmade'. It's very professional and completely free!
iPhoto is brilliant for cropping and enhancing photos, it's not such a good effect program. It's good for brightening, sharpening, shadows and contrasting - it's good for the essentials and I would NEVER delete, it handy and I use it to edit most of my photos before they go onto effects.
Aftershape is for after you've added the effects, I wouldn't use it on every photo but it's good for littl effects in the blog such as the profile pic.
I edit practically every photo on Instagram, it's my diary. I put about 3 photos on everyday, it's great everyday editing software! It's good for everyday:
