The Autumn/Winter - TAG ♥

Hey guys!

I hope you're all doing well, as i type out this little tag i'm sitting in my music classroom listening to 'Story of my life - One Direction' because its amazing and i can't get it out of my head! anyways that isn't what this post is about... i haven't ever done a tag post on this blog and the reason for that is because i've never been tagged by anyone to do a tag. However i'm still going to do this tag! Just a disclaimer i didn't think of this tag by myself i did see it on someone blog and i thought it was a cute tag, so there you go! Let's get started!

What item of clothing do you love to wear in winter but wouldn't be seen wearing in public?

There isn't really anything that i wouldn't wear out in public that i wouldn't wear in my own home, if i had to pick one i would probably have to say my christmas themed onsie... 

Most wanted item for autumn/winter?

I really really want a sully from monsters inc onsie... i may have to find somewhere online that sells them and buy one ready for christmas! 

Favourite boots to wear in winter:

I don't really wear boots in winter, i wear hi-tops mainly... i've really been into wearing heels or boots or sandals... all i need is a good pair of hi-tops and I'm good to go!

Are you a fan of UGG boots?

Honestly... No. I think they are horrible. They are up there is with crocks. I hate seeing people walking round with UGG boots on and they have worn them so much that they are walking on this side of them... ill insert a picture for those of you who don't know what i mean... 

EWWWWWWW!
*Image from google images*

It's snowing/raining outside, what are your favourite wellies to wear?
Honestly... i would just wear my old hi-tops... how bad am i at this tag already... if i'm not wearing my hi-tops outside i would be in bed in the warm :'D

What is your favourite autumn trend?
I haven't really got one... i love wearing darker make-up during these seasons, i love dark smokey eyes and dark lipsticks, can't have too many dark lipsticks for these seasons <3

What is your typical winter day consisting of?
If i'm not at school, i'm usually in bed with either my laptop, a cuppa tea and a blanket, or sometimes if i'm feeling a bit rebellious i play on my xbox, nothing keeps you warm like killing a few zombie on left 4 dead! ;D

Cup of tea, hot chocolate, or coffee?
ALL THREE! who can pick just one lets me honest! I love a good cuppa tea in the morning, coffee during the day to keep you awake and energised and then a hot chocolate a couple of hours before doing to sleep to relax you! PERFECT!

Do you like or dislike that it's starting to get dark?
I dislike it more than i like it if i'm honest. I hate having to get up for school in the dark and leaving school in the dark... its feel like i should be in bed and not getting ready to fight the cold that the english weather brings. In a way thought, i also kinda like that, it makes me feel like its closer to... i'm going to have to say it... Christmas!

Christmas is coming, do you have any idea of what you want?
Nope. No idea at all... i guess i just have to hope that santa has good taste and knows me well... he should he's know me for the past 18 years ;D

There you go! This tag didn't really tell you much about me but i thought it would be a cute and quick tag to do for you guys! I hope you are all having a good day!
Post Soon x

Sophie where have you been?

Hey guys!
WOW! its been nearly 2 months since i updated this blog... those 2 months have gone so quick i can't even explain! So... What has been going on?

Mid October i went to Greece for a week, it was one of the best weeks of my year so far just because it was a time where i can just relax and enjoy time with my family as well as the bonus of being away from school and teachers! The only downside with the holiday is that even before it started we got diverted to a different airport for 2/3 hours while the plain refueled due to the bad weather we couldn't land.
As well as being on holiday last Monday it was my 18th birthday! yep i said it right 18... i don't feel it. Everyone asks me "what does it feel like to be 18?" and the honest answer? It feels the same as being 17, 16, 15 haha!
I could make a whole blog post about what i got for my birthday but im not going to due to many reasons. The one thing i will tell you guys on this blog is that i got my first car! Yes, my own first car! For those of you who know your cars its a "Fiat Punto Active Sporting" in an electric blue colour!
Its the car i have wanted since looking into getting my first car, the colour is my favorite colour in the world and to find a car in that colour was just amazing! 

On the actual day of my birthday i didn't do much, i stayed at home and my family ordered a take away in just so we could relax and not get all dressed up to go out. I didn't mind doing this actual it was my idea. This Saturday i'm seeing all my family and friends at my late birthday party which will be fun and we can all dance the night away! 
Apart from those two main things i haven't really been up to much, i would have updated you guys a bit more but i have been struggling with what to post and tell you guys, if you have any ideas i would love hear them!
Well that's it for now, expect a few new blog posts coming soon, maybe a couple of reviews!
Take care x

Crazy cinema experience! ♥

Hey guys!

So yesterday (Thursday 29th August 2013) me and my friend Jess went to see  One Directions new film 'This is us' in our local cinema.

I'm not going to do a whole blog post about the film because it is truly one of those films you have to go and see for yourself to enjoy it! It's an actual eye opener on the boy's life and now they act like normal boys and have fun with being on the road, you also get a look back on their lives before and it's just all cute and wonderful! 

Anyways back to what this blog post is really about. While we were waiting for the trailers to start and then finally the film three very friendly women with capital FM  hoodies walked through the door! I started jumping around and predicting why they were in there and I was right! They had tickets in their hands! 

If you don't know why I was so excited if because there is a festival in Birmingham this weekend called Fusion Festival were loads of amazing acts all come together for the weekend! Me and Jess had already got tickets for Sunday and we were throwing back and forth on the idea of getting them for Saturday and its a good thing that we didn't! 

The three lovely women asked for someone to go down to the front and answer a question about Jessie J and a 7/8 year old boy ran down to the front to answer the question which would win EVERYONE in the cinema at that time a ticket to the Saturday section of the festival. And guess what?! HE ANSWERED IT RIGHT!! bless him because it was a room full of people and he must of been really nervous. 

But yeah that was my crazy cinema experience! It was just a quick post but I hope you all have a wonderful Friday with what ever your doing and make sure you go check 'This is us' out at your local cinema! 

Take care x

Gradient Sunset Nail Tutorial ♥

Hey Guys! 
Many of you will not know this but i love doing my nails and experimenting with new designs and colours.

Recently i have been loving the gradient look and with it sort of being the summer time i thought it would be a great idea to do a little nail tutorial which you guys can do yourself or to your friends. There are many tutorials on YouTube which shows you how to add a palm tree or little birds onto this design but for me i just wanted it to be plain, simple and bright!

So i hope you enjoy my step by step picture tutorial to help you achieve this vibrant look!

I first started off with 3 beautiful colours. A red, yellow and bubblegum pink!
Now you can use any colours that your guys want but due to me watching the 'sunset' look i decided upon these.

The colours from left to right: ELF Smokin' Hot, NYC Lexington Yellow, ELF Gum Pink.
These colours really did blend well together creating the contract between the colours.
 The next thing you will be needing is a cosmetic make up wedge sponge, you can get these rather cheap if you get them from the right places. I got mine from ELF while on a little bit of a spending spree in the past and have never used them for makeup as ive always used a brush. You get 8 of them online for £1.50 from ELF which i feel is a bargain!
The next thing i did was apply these colours onto the sponge in stripes, starting with the yellow and then pink followed finally by the red it should look something like this 

Now you have your colours ready get your nail prepared for the colours with a base case! (For this mini tutorial im just going to used a fake nail so you can really see the end results) If you want to save some time paint the base before you start.
If your do end up using sheer colours i would add a base coat of white to enhance the colour. I however didn't do this as the colours i have very bold and do not need any help enhancing.
Time to apply the colours from the sponge into your nail! 

You're going to do this by placing the sponge on your nail directly and start to rock the sponge over your nail to allow the colour to transfer. Once you have done this it should look something like this! 

As you can see the colours have blended really well and you can fully see where one colour should start and end.

Next your going to allow this to full dry and then add a top coat to seal in the design! For this I used a matte topcoat.

or you could give the Sally Hansen super shine top coat if you're looking for that shiny nail look (or any other topcoat of your choice) ! 

Once applied it should look something like this (all adding a top coat will really do is hold your polish design for longer and blend the colours together more evenly! 

And that is it! 

Simple right? I told you but would be, even though the summer time isn't really the classic summer time here in England doesn't mean you nails can't be bright and colourful! 

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial I hope to do more in the future for you guys if you liked them! 

Have a good day/night

 Take care x

Despicable Me 2 ♥

Hey Guys!

I hope you're all having a great summer holiday, even thought the weather in the UK isn't to the best standards has it has been in a while.

Today's post is going to be about Despicable me 2!

Now for some of you out there that don't know what despicable me is, its a film based around a criminal mastermind that uses 3 orphan girls to help him with his new master plan but throughout the film his love grows for the 3 girls and changes him into a better person! The first film ends with the once criminal mastermind adopting the girls and taking care of them. 

The second film is still along the same lines as the first one, they both have the genre of Family/Animation/Comedy/Crime. This film does have a little love twist which the other one didn't have. In this film Gru the main character who is the voice of Steve Carell gets asked to work for the Anti-Villain League to help discover a new powerful super criminal. We still have the family bond in this which is nice to see. The 3 girls who Gru adopts are Margo, Agnes and Edith. The 3 girls are played but Miranda Cosgrove, Elsie Fisher and Dana Gaier! All 3 of them play a big part in both of the films and allows younger views to connect to them via their animated actions in the film.

We also get to meet many new characters in this film which is good for us as an audience so we don't get too bored with the same characters but lets be honest who can honestly say their bored with the minions around! 

I love the minions in these films so much, they are so cute and you could just imagine if they were real ha! It would be the best thing that would have ever happened, sad I know but they literally make me laugh so much that my sides hurt and now that there are the purple evil minions that have been Introduced to us it makes it even funnier :D

My opinion;

Personally this film is amazing and I loved every minute of It at the cinema and would 110% go watch it again without a moment of hesitation. It's a feel good, laugh out loud film and we all need a good laugh in a while! 

I took my brother to see this film and he loved it just as much as I did! 

If you get the chance too I would defiantly go see it in the cinema in 3D because some of the 3D effects it are mind blowing especially at the end, so make you you stay until after the little sections of credits to see the extra minion part at the end! 

Overall I would give this film a 4.9 stars out of 5 because its a great film but I still think the original still wins my heart! 

I hope this sort of helped you guys with deciding is it your type of film or not but like I have said before you need to experience the viewing for yourself to know if you like it it not! So why not go for a couple of hours "day out" to the cinema and give it a go! 

Have a good day/night 

Post soon x

How to turn a shiny/glossy lipstick to a wonderful matte texture! ♥

Hey guys! 

Over the past couple of months I've been trying to find a matte (red) lipstick that is not high end and doesn't break the bank for a drugstore lipstick! 

The one I've been looking at now for a while is the sleek; stiletto lipstick which is the perfect red cheap matte I've been looking for... Now the only problem is, is that every single time I have gone into my local Superdrug they are ALWAYS sold out! So while I'm waiting for it to come back into stock and for me to finally get my hand on it, I have been doing some research as to how you can turn a normal shiny/glossy lipstick into a matte texture!

I've tried many different things out and none of them have given me the effect as to what this one technique has done and it's face powder... Strange right? But it works! 

If your looking to do this you don't want to use many random type of face power because different ones can change the colour of your lipstick depending on your skin colour and what you use.

I'm going to show you what I mean by showing you a before picture of my lips really shiny and the after effect of the powder!

The lipstick I'm going to be using is MUA; Shade 3. It's a very bright hot pink colour  which I think is stunning up against a tanned skin tone. I'm not very tanned but then again I'm not really pale!

Here is the before picture;

Sorry for the bad quality and how the texture looks on this photo as i started to take pictures the skies turned grey and the rain started pouring :(

Once you have applied your chosen lipstick you need to take a fine translucent powder which you can then dab onto your lips. For this I'm using the ELF; high definition powder which is a fine white dusty powder which you can see from the picture before!

Once you have your powder ready it time for you to dab it all on your lips! For this I'm going to be using my finger to apply to save getting lipstick on a brush which I would then have to wash for the next time I wanted to change the colour up. (I'm lazy like that and it saves the brush from getting too damaged from over washing)

Take small amounts and gently tap on the lips, you don't want to rub on the lips because depending on the formulation of the lipstick it could cause little bumps to form and make your lipstick look awful.

Once you feel like you have applied a generous amount onto your lips it should start to look a little less glossy and it should look something like this!

again not another great picture but you can get the overall idea of what it should look like and what it does!

This little technique is just for the time being i am looking to get the matte lipstick from Superdrug but for now this will do as a little trick to get me by!

Thank you for looking and i hope this little tip will help you!

Don't forget to check back soon for some reviews!

Take Care x

  

Quick update post!

Hey guys!
As you can see from the titles this post is just going to be a quick update on some things!

First of all i just want to say a Happy Birthday to my Nan who i love a lot and has always been like a second mom to me! I am currently getting ready for her birthday meal with my whole family and thought it would be a good time to post a happy birthday to her as well as some updates for you guys!

So here we go...

THERE IS FINALLY SOME SUN IN THE UK!!

Crazy i know... for all my readers who aren't from the UK you may not understand why im so happy about this but the past couple of years or so we haven't had much sun and its annoying because i love to just sit and relax and watch the world go by in the sun, nothing like it!

So with this in mind make sure you keep some sun cream near by and add it into your make-up routine in a morning, your skin will thank you for it in the long run!

Next is hair colour!

I am still purple but i wanted to let you guys know that in the next few days i will be putting another post up all to do with my hair and in relation to previous post on purple hair dye and what i thought about it in the long run, so if you guys are looking to dye you hair that purple colour make sure you keeps your eyes out for that.

Two more things for you guys to possibly get excited about... depending on what you read this blog for...

I have 3 yes thats right 3 make up reviews coming up for you guys... a foundation, powder and lipstick product which i can't wait to share with you guys as well as a...

FILM REVIEW!!!

Yes i have recently been to the cinema to watch Despicable Me 2 and i can't wait to share my thoughts with you guys and get your feedback on to what you thought about it or if you haven't been to see it yet, why you want and should go see but yes! im so excited to be back blogging for you guys, now that i have some motivation and some ideas flowing inside of my brain, so yeah!
I will post soon and i hope you have a wonderful evening/morning depending on where in the world you are!

Take care x