Batiste 2in1 Dry Shampoo & Conditioner - Review

Hey Guys!

So recently Batiste sent me some of their new range of dry shampoo to try!

First of all Thank you Batiste for sending them me it was a lovely surprise to receive!

Next the smell of these are AMAZING and the packaging is so pretty and sleek!

I love the white packaging with the bright pops of colours 

I got sent the Orange & Pomegranate and Vanilla & Passionfruit.

There is another one in this collection which I haven't tried which I believe is Cocoa & Cashmere.

This dry shampoo is meant to be perfect for refreshing and removing excess oil in your hair while still conditioning it from the roof to the tip.

Many of you may not know but I have naturally curly & thick hair that has a mind of its own. I will post a photo at the end for this blog to show you what my hair is like.

I also colour my hair regularly which can cause my hair to dry out.

Many dry shampoos I have used in the pass have left my hair so dry from it absorbing all the oil that its looked like straw. This dry shampoo was different - it did leave a shine to my hair but there was one big downside with it for me.

It says on the can to shake the can, hold it 30cms away from your hair and spray in a halo like motion (in a circle above your head) but due to having really thick hair it didn't reach everywhere it needed too so I ended up having to section off my hair and spray it that way. I'm not sure if the reason for it turning sections of my hair white was due to sectioning it off but it wouldn't rub into my scalp and because my hair is curly I have zero percent chance of getting a brush though my hair to get rid of it so I needed up having to wet my hair and let it dry naturally during the day which at times it would have just been easier for me to wash my hair and let it dry over night.

I will defiantly buy this product again in the future - I always like to take a travel dry shampoo with me when I go away for the weekend or so just so I have a backup incase I can't get to wash my hair for some reason or I need to add some texture to my flat hair.

If you follow THIS LINK it will take you to the Orange & Pomegranate on the boots website which is currently on 3 for 2! It retails for 4.49.

What is your favourite dry shampoo?



Take Care
Post Soon x

Meeting Union J ♥

Hey guys!
So yesterday myself and Jess stood in a line in the cold for nearly 3 hours to meet Union J and get them to sign their latest album!
Although it was freezing cold and I couldn't feel my toes it was all worth it in the end! 
As we walked towards the table where they were they were all smiling and honestly looks so happy to be there in that moment with everyone which was so adorable! As I walked up to the table the first person I met was Josh!
Josh looked at me a state of shock and i honestly wondered what I had done! He then carried on to tell me hair was amazing and he needed to take a picture of it (My hair is bright bright purple with random bits of blue and pink in it at the moment) He took out his phone and took pictures of me and my hair haha!
I then carried on down the line next was JJ
He wished me a merry christmas and was smiling from ear to ear!
Next was George who I didn't get to speak to because we were being told to move down the line quicker and he also moved when I tried to take a picture with him but I didn't really mind!
Last but no least was the wonderful Jaymi!
He is so cute and asked how I was and we had the smallest conversation ever but it was so cute! He also wished me a merry christmas before handing me my CD and me moving to the side to wait for Jess!

Jess had made some beautiful cupcakes for all 4 of them. Ill insert a picture at the end of the post as well as the pictures I took with each other boys!
It was honestly one of the best Saturday nights of my life!

Hope you guys are okay!
Have you met anyone famous recently?
Take Care
Post Soon x

John Frieda Frizz Ease Dream Curl & More. ♥

Hey guys!
Hope you are all doing good!Today's post is going to be about hair care!
The four products are shall be talking about are:

 Frizz Ease Dream Curls Shampoo
 Frizz Ease Dream Curls Conditioner
 Frizz Ease Nourishing Oil Elixir
Frizz Ease Go Curlier Heat Activated Spray.

The first products that i'm going to talk about pretty much goes and in hand and that is the Shampoo & conditioner from this collection!
I have tried a few John Frieda products in the past when i has really frizzy, thick, long hair which i still have to this day apart from it's not long anymore. I wasn't really impressed with the collection that i tried before and for the life of me can't remember what it was... i'm useless i know :D
I was also bit dubious to try this as my hair is coloured and I honestly thought this would strip the colour out of my hair completely... I was wrong! My hair always loses a bit of colour every wash even thought the dye i use is a permanent and i think due to my hair type and less colour came out while using this shampoo and conditioner which amazed me!
The first time i used these together i didn't use any other products from this range on after because i wanted to see if the products could hold my types of curls without any extra help. I feel that they did hold rather well but did see some deflation in my hair after about the 3rd day of not washing my hair (For all of you wondering i only wash my hair two times a week due to the colour i have in my hair and how thick it is, my hair never gets greasy when its curly but if its straight it really goes greasy after the second day after washing it.) I honestly feel that these products are worth the money if your are looking for that nice curl in your hair! The shampoo retails for £5.09 on feelunique.com and the conditioner retails for the same at £5.09 on feelunique.com. Both of them are 250ml which is a good price of a more higher end of hair care.

The next product is the Frizz Ease Nourishing Oil Elixir 100ml. From the first picture about the product up against the rest looks really small which in size it is but honestly this product will last you for ages! I use this product mainly if my hair is looking a little dry or its is really frizzy from the weather outside! I feel that it does an amazing job to flatten the frizz without making my hair looking greasy and wet which lets be honest no-one wants their hair to look like that... At one time i would use two or three pumps per application due to my hair being thick and apply it evenly over the areas needed. Since taking these pictures I am not even 1/4 way through the bottle which I think is fantastic. I do not use this product every day but a couple of time a week if needed and its still got loads more left! Fabulous! This products is £9.99 on feelunique.com which is the average price for a hair oil but to be is a tad expensive but with how long it is lasting, well worth it!

The next product and last product I shall be talking about is the Go Curlier Heat Activated Spray 100ml. What you do with this product if apply to damp hair after a shower or bath and use about 10-16 sprays depending on the thickness of your hair. I used about 18-20 sprays for mine. You then blow dry your hair (I turned my head upside down and rustled up back to the roots giving the hair volume as I dry it) to activate the spray. From the feeling on my hair it feels like a fine hairspray type perm which didn't bother me at all and did help my curls last a long that they usually do. Usually I go to bed with my hair wet but when i do have a shower in the morning or afternoon i find this product helps a lot with the whole curling experience. This product costs £6.99 on feelunique.com

Overall i feel that these products are truly worth the price and i will 100% will be repurchasing these products when they run out!
I hope you guys liked this post and it helped you if you were thinking of purchasing these items!
Take Care
Post Soon x

*These products were sent to me to review*

Get to know me a little! ♥

Hey guys! 

HAPPY FEBRUARY!!! January has been and gone so quick! I hope the rest of this year goes slow else it is all going to go by in a blink of an eye! So any ways here is a little blog post of question I've found from different tags and added them all into one! So here we go!

1. What is your favourite make-up brand and why?

This is a difficult question. I use different brands for different parts of my makeup routine... I'm gonna have to say... Rimmel! They are one of the best drugstore make up brands with excellent quality products. (Some better than others) 

2. Favourite quote?

I don't really have a quote that I live by. At the moment I am reading a Demi Lovato Staying Strong 365 days a year book and each day they give you a quote to go with the day, each day I read it and try to live by that quote to the fullest (I may be doing a full book 'review' soon)

3. Do you colour your hair? 

I do. I never used to but I have started to know since I started to want purple hair, you guys may have read about me changing my hair colour in a previous blog post!

4. Do you have any pets?

I have a dog called Jasper who is a staffy cross, we are not sure on what he is crossed with as we got him from a local dog home. He's currently lying next to me in bed asleep, the lazy poop haha!

5. What was your favourite subject in school?

I only take 3 lessons... Film Studies, Media and Music... Media is my favourite out of all of them!

6. What's your favourite book? 

At the moment it has to be Demi Lovato's Staying Strong 365 days a year book, its perfect!

7. What's your favourite colour?

Every shades of blue... unless they are too light or too dark haha!

8. What's your favourite animal?

Do unicorns count? I like pandas, polar bears and penguins... you know the every day animals... I love dogs, i am a dog person

9. What's your Favourite perfume?

Again i have many... Lady gaga Fame, Taylor swift Wonderstruck, One Direction, Avon Infinity moments (I think that's what its called) :'D

10. What's your favourite season?

My favorite season is Winter, i prefer to be cold and able to warm myself up instead of being hot and trying to find a way to cool down. I'm just not a big on the snow, its pretty to look at but when i have to travel in it... noooooo

11. Have you been out of the country?

Yes, I've been to Greece many times and in April i am travelling to New Zealand which for me is half way around the world, im so excited but at the same time scared, i've never been on a plane for more than 6 hours....

12. Do you speak any other languages?

Not really, I had french lessons back in high school but i can only remember certain things which wouldn't help when visiting France haha!

13. Do you have any siblings?

Yes! I have a brother :)

14. What's your favourite make up shop?

Superdrug is the place to go when your make up shopping, i honestly love that shop and can spend hours in there!

15. What's your favourite restaurant?

Nandos. Nandos. Nandos. 

16. Who are some of your favorite YouTubers?

I have so many... Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Alfie Deyes, Marcus Butler, Tanya Burr, Jim Chapman, Pixiwoo, Emma Pickles, Caspar Lee, Thatsojack, shaaanxo, Grace Helbig, Mazzi Maz, Sam Pepper, MyNamesChai,  BeautyCrush, Promise Phan, Michelle Phan, Tyler Oakly... MANY MANY MANY MORE!

17. What are some of your favourite TV shows?

Eastenders, The Following, The Walking Dead. I have loads more, its depends on my mood haha

18. PC or Mac?

I have many PC's around the house but i love to use the Mac's at school for editing and being all creative, its so much easier and I just love the look of them.

19. What phone do you have?

iPhone 4s :)

20.  Starbucks or Costa?

Is this really a question? Obviously Starbucks <3

Only 20 questions! I could have put many more in here but i thought this could just be a part one and if you guys like it i could carry on with more questions like this for you guys to get to know me a bit more. Hope you enjoyed this little get to know me tag, and are having a great start to February!
Take Care.
Post Soon x 

NEW HAIR COLOUR! ♥

Hey guys!

Today's post is both lifestyle and beauty as you guys can probably tell from the title!
Now for the past couple of years ive been the type of person that has never been on the band wagon of always dying their hair from blonde to brown to red etc but there comes a time in everyone's life were you just have to take the bull by the horns and take that leap of faith! How cheesy did that sound?!

I've always been slightly worried because of seeing many friends and people around me dying their hair and then sometimes something going wrong along with all the disaster stories about peoples hair falling out!

The colour that i used was L'Oreal Paris Feria in P38 Violet Vendetta.

This hair dye retails for around £5 but it may be cheaper in certain shops due to promotions. 

(My own pictures, sorry for the energy drink sneaking its way into the first picture)

From the back of the box i thought my hair would have more of a purple undertone than i actually have. I would have inserted a picture of my hair before and after but i completely forgot i was going to do a blog post about it and by the time i remembered i already had my roots coloured. At the moment in time i am using my iPhone 4s to take pictures with and for some unknown reason my hair colour isn't picking up as much as i would like it too!

In the natural light the purple in my hair really does shine through. The formula for this dye for me was no problem, the packaging does tell you to test a strand of hair out of visible site for example a section behind the ear. The things i found that was rather strange about this hair colour compared to the other ones i have been looking at is that they say you should test it 48 hours before you plan on dying your whole head, many of them i have looking into have only said 24 hours, this however didn't bother me, i had already waited one day one more couldn't hurt ha!

If your planning on dying your hair at any time i would recommend having your split ends trimmed off as i found with the simple test strand that the colour did stick to the ends more than it should because of the moisture that they are needing.

Washing the dye out of my hair took for what seemed like forever! Every single time i thought it has all finally come out a magic piece of hair would appear with loads of dye. Make sure with any hair dye you use that all  the dye is washed out fully because you don't want to be ruining a towel ha!

Overall i am happy with my hair colour and the process that i went through and who knows i may end up being even more daring with colours next time! 

I hope you guys enjoyed this post and found it helpful if you were like me and a tad worried about dying your hair, try some semi-permanent colours before settling and always follow the instructions in the box!

EDIT

I thought i would just add to this post as its been a while since i used this hair colour. Honestly for me, it isn't the best hair colour i have used. Every single time i washed my hair more and more colour leaked out and many times it seemed as if i was washing the colour off my hair again. I think it may have something to do with my hair type as to why it does that because its not only this hair dye that has done it many of the others i have tried do too. Due to it washing out i had many random brown patches from where the colour has just simply washed out and compared to other hair dye this one didn't really give off  the purple-ness i would have wanted, but let me know what you guys think about this product as i would love to know if it worked for you!

Take care x