365 Photo Challenge - Crash and Burn

Hey guys,

So i've realised that I am pretty much failing at the whole taking a picture everyday! In my defence i've been pretty ill and haven't really felt like taking pictures and I can already foresee myself getting back into uni projects and neglecting the challenge so I am going to quit while I am ahead! 

To be honest the photo challenge was my way of blogging more because it gave me something to blog about but it has become a bit of a chore finding something to take a picture of everyday as unfortunately my life isn't as exciting as I would like therefore my photos became very mundane!

I will continue the habit of blogging more often but will wait till something of relevance comes up to blog about :) As I said I will be starting new uni projects soon so will have plenty of photography work to share with you :)

 In the meantime I do have an outfit post of what I wore when I went out with the girls last week for cocktails and cheesy disco music :)

Excuse the photos taken against the wall in our house, it was pretty dark outside as we were just heading out!

Jo
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Day One Of 365 Photo Challenge - Lush Beauty Regime

Hey Guys :)

So today is the first day of my 365 photo a day challenge (would have started yesterday but had to go to work then sleep forever so didn't get round to taking any photos!)

Day one isn't the most exciting but I thought I would start with a pic of my new beauty regime of 2013! I got a few products from Lush for christmas as I absolutely love their stuff but can never normally afford it. Some was stuff I already use and some was new things to try! 

The Vanilla Dee-Lite body lotion I use at the moment, it smells incredible and is a great constancy - quite thick so it goes onto your skin great and it soaks in really quickly so you aren't left feeling greasy afterwards plus the smell last for ages :)

Snow Fairy I have had before as it was recommended to me by my housemate Hannah and I love it! It is a shower gel and It also smells amazing and leaves the bathroom smelling of bubblegum which I'm sure my boyfriend appreciates! 

The popcorn lip scrub I haven't used before but I do have the bubblegum one which does the same job only with a different flavour :) I think they are great and I often use them after I have applied my foundation because it means any trace of foundation on my lips are gone and I can apply a lip balm afterwards and I'm ready for the day :)

The Blousey shampoo and Retread conditioner I haven't used before but a friend of mine works in Lush and said that they are great for damaged hair! Although my hair isn't necessarily damaged I used quite a lot of heat on it and want to prevent it from drying out :) I tried these the other day and my hair felt amazing all day and smelled amazing too! The shampoo smells of banana :) 

These would be the kind of products I would use maybe once  week or less as they are expensive to buy and really my hair just needs a bit of TLC every now and again :) 

Do you use products from Lush? Or do you think they are overpriced?

Jo 

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£250 Pandora Blogger Challenge!

Hey Guys,

I read about this great competition on Louise's blog from John Greed Jewellery whereby you browse their website and create your own dream Pandora bracelet using the charms available and the only rule is that it can't be over £250! Then all you do is blog about it and leave a comment with a link to your blog on their website here.

Ive always admired other peoples Pandora bracelets and wanted one of my own but always found them a bit out of my price range (or should I say my boyfriends price range!) So I jumped at the chance to take part in this competition, hope you like my dream bracelet :)

I started off with just a plain silver bracelet, I was tempted to go for the single woven black leather bracelet to make it look a bit different but I would like a Pandora for day to day wear as well as evening and I think the Silver will look nicer in the evening :)

1. I chose the plain silver bracelet so that I could jazz it up with my own charms :)

2. I chose the crown because in my family being the only girl I was always known as the princess :)

3. I chose the Love, faith and hope charm in the hope that this bracelet would bring me all of those things :)

4. I chose the stocking to represent when I got the bracelet which would be this christmas :)

5. I chose the treasure chest because I figured it's not a Pandora bracelet without Pandoras box ;)

6. I chose this one because pink is my favourite colour and I love the beautiful 3D swirl around this charm

7. I chose this again because I love pink and I thought that the flower design is beautiful!

8. Lastly I chose this charm because I love the way that it looks as if it is filled with pressed flowers :)

I still can't believe that all of this came to exactly £250!! Even if I don't win this competition I would seriously consider asking for a Pandora for christmas!!! Hope you like my entry :)

Jo

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All that glitters ain't gold...

Hey guys :)

This is a bit of an impromptu post as my next post was going to be showing the photos from my second shoot last week, however I am still in the process of editing so will post those at the end of the week most likely :) So keep an eye out :)

So, today I handed my first uni project of the year, and the worst one to be honest, it was a marketing report on Topshop and took me forever to complete! However 5000 words and 47 pages later it is done and handed in :D

To celebrate I decided to have an afternoon of chilling out and having a bit of time to myself as I don't really like I have been able to do that since I went back to uni. One of my favourite girly things to do when I'm on my own is paint my nails :D I love experimenting with different colours and designs but its been a while since I really looked through my collection and OH what a collection it is!!...

I dont think I quite realised how many nail varnishes I actually had! Which inspired this post :)

Here you can see my entire nail varnish collection... yes I am a bit of a hoarder and I NEVER throw nail varnish away so some of these I have had for a few years now... oops!

Quite a few of my nail varnishes are pink... which if you know me you will not be surprised at! 

I have found that recently the bag I usually keep them in feels decidedly small, maybe I need to sort through my nail varnishes... or just get a bigger bag! :D

A lot of my nail varnish is Barry M, i'm obsessed with their nail varnish they always bring out the most beautiful colours and glitter varnishes and I can't help being attracted to sparkly things!!

Here are a few experiments I have done lately all using Barry M :) you can also find these on my instagram :)

What do you think of my collection? Are you also a nail varnish hoarder?? :)