♡Room Decoration Ideas♡

Hey guys
So today I have a room decor post, as I did one before but it was so bad, so I'm trying again today, this time it is a collab with Madeline from Always Smiling. So go check out her blog and instagram and her version of this post.

I have three little ideas to make your room more cute and we heart it, so let's get started...

Quick & Easy Brush Holder

• A glass (or plastic) clear container
• Beads from an old jewellery kit
• Makeup brushes

So most girls will still have an old jewellery making kit from when they were younger, and the chances are you will still have some beads left in it. 

All you need to do is, either just use all of them and make it random, or pick out some of your favourite colours and use just those colour beads. I chose just to use pastel pink, pastel purple and white to go with my room, and put them in a glass container type thing.

It will just look like this:

Then you add some brushes:

Cosy Corner

• Cushions
• Blankets
• Cosy stuff

So it's nice to have that area in your room where you can just go and relax on your electronics, or reading a book, or watching your favourite programme or movie.

It's a really easy idea, just pick the corner of your room that you want to be THE cosy corner - you probably want it to be near a plug because us teenagers and young people like our electronics, and it's so annoying when your comfortable and you have to move to charge your phone or computer or whatever - and throw a blanket on the floor, and cushions against the wall, then sit down, grab some more pillows and blankets and relax.

Quote Poster

• Picture (landscape or any other picture that doesn't have faces because they'll just get cut out.)
• Printer (to print the picture)
• Scissors
• Blu Tack
• Wall

This is pretty simple. All you have to do is print out a picture (maybe like a sunset), it can be as big or small as you want, and on the back draw backwards the letters of the quote you want to use. Do more of what makes you happy. Just say yes. Think postive. Stay hopeful. Tears remind you you're alive. Once you've drawn it out, cut it out with some scissors. Don't make the writing too small or flimsy otherwise the poster won't work well. Done? Just put a bit of blu tack on each corner and stick it to your wall. it will look especially good if your wall colour or wallpaper goes with the picture. That's the last DIY, it's a lot easier than having to cut out all the letters and stick them separately.

I hope you all enjoyed this room decoration post.

Keep smiling :)

Ellie xoxo

♡Haul// Lush, Zoella Beauty & More♡

Hey beauties
So today I have a little random haul for you all. I'm not including the makeup I have bought recently, as I haven't bought much and I'm saving it for a collective haul which will be up separately soon.


Lush
I bought quite a few things from Lush recently. I've been in on two separate occasions. The first time the Easter range wasn't out yet, so I got:

Space Girl bath bomb
I love this so much, I've already used, but it made my bath so amazing, it's smells quite musky but its a nice smell. In fact, I love it so much it was in my February favourites.

Ickle Baby Bot bath ballistic
This is a pretty basic bath bomb, it just gives your bath a blue tint and makes your skin feel so soft. Its nice but I wouldn't buy it again because its not really worth it.

Creamy Candy bubble bar
This was from the Valentines Day range, I ended up giving it to a friend but it smelled amazing and looked so cute and pastel pink.

Fluffy Egg bath bomb
This is what I just bought from the Easter range. Its sooo amazing omg. It smells so sweet and good and looks so cool. I would've bought the whole Easter range, it all looked amazing.


WHSmith
So this was the first place I went as I had a gift card that I got for Christmas that I hadn't used yet. Me being me, I didn't actually buy books though.

The first thing I bought was a 24 pack of sharpies that was meant to be £16 but it was £8.50 if you bought anything else. I've been using them so much at school and for my homework, they were such a bargain and they included pastels so I had to get them!

I then bought Pitch Perfect, which was £5 and this is on of my favourite movies but I didn't own it on DVD so I thought I would get it.
The only other things I bought were sweets basically.


Superdrug
So the only thing I'm including in this haul from here was the Zoella Beauty Soak Opera which I have been using so much since I got it and it smells amazing and makes your bath so bubbly and your skin so smooth. I like to pair it with a bath bomb from Lush when I'm pampering myself.


Clintons
I really wanted to buy some candles, but I thought they didn't have Yankee Candles at my shopping centre, I was walking past Clintons and saw them and screamed. I only ended up getting one but I got the Yankee Candle Small Jar in Salted Caramel. This is the most amazing sweet scent, it's gorgeous. It was on offer because it was apparently a Christmas one, but they need to start doing this scent all year round, as it's amazing!

So that's it for my random stuff haul, I hope you enjoyed it, I will have a makeup haul up some time soon.
Keep smiling :)
Ellie xoxo

♡One Letter One Brand Challenge♡

Hey beauties

So today me and Claire decided to collab and we have a little challenge post for you. It's not one we invented but we just thought it would be fun to do. So if any of you do this please tell me in the comments and I'll check yours out so let's just get onto the One Letter One Brand.

Avon
Benefit
Collection
Dior
Essie
Fresh
Garnier
Herbal Essences
I Love...
Jack Wills
Kate Moss (Rimmel)
Loreal
Maybelline
Nyx
OPI
Philosophy
Q
Revlon
Sleek
Ted Baker
U-
Vaseline
W-
X-
YSL
Z-

Sorry I couldn't get them all but there are some I just couldn't think of.
So make sure you go check Claire's blog and her Instagram because they are amazing.

Hope you enjoyed this little mini post and I will have a new post up at the weekend.
Keep smiling :)
Ellie xoxo

♡New Look Pure Colour Makeup♡

Hey beauties

So quite a few clothing shops have makeup lines. The most well known is probably Topshop. But a lot of people shop for clothes at New Look, and just walk past the makeup they have. But today I wanted to tell you that next time you go there, don't rush past the makeup, stop and have a look because it is very good. Click here to browse the makeup line.

I haven't tried that many products from the line, but I thought I would do a review on it anyway. If you want a full review of it, Fleur did one so click here.

This line is such good quality and amazing value. Seriously, the ones I've tried from it are amazing and deserve a lot more hype.

I'll start with the product I have used the most. Sorry that this is in basically all my posts, but I've never found any mascara better - it's the most amazing! I like the New Look Pure Definition mascara. This is meant for definition, but I think more than that, it gives the perfect amount of volume and length, but you don't feel like your wearing any mascara. It's £5 I think, but it's better than any other mascara I've tried. You can just do one coat and you get amazing long volumised but still natural lashes, and if you do a few coats, you can look like your wearing false lashes. If I had to say one bad thing about it, it would be that when you take it out it's pretty clumpy and you have to wipe it, but a lot of mascaras are like that.

(This is what my lashes looked like with it on at the end of a long school day.)

The next thing I've tried is the eyeliners. The only one I've tried is the black one, it's amazingly pigmented and goes on really smoothly and doesn't smudge or come off through the day. If you do want to smudge or blend it, it's got a sort of creamy feel, so it blends really easily. The packaging to mine broke quite easily but it still works fine and doesn't make a mess, so that's not too big of a problem.

Haha yes I did write ily in eyeliner, and you can see it comes out really black, because I just wanted to say I love you all and I am so grateful to anyone who takes the time to read my blog.

The last thing I have tried are the eyeshadows. The pigmentation is incredible and they last a long time, although they can smudge a bit of its raining a lot. I have 13 Cream and 25 Chestnut. The one thing that I would say is that although the colour selection is nice, they are mostly shimmery colours. But they are amazing value single eye shadows and are worth trying, especially as the packaging reminds me of Mac, its very sleek.

If you were wondering, they have special packs like ones with matching lipsticks and nail polishes, and the one I got which had the mascara, black eyeliner and two eyeshadows in really gorgeous neutral shades, for £7 which is amazing!

I will definitely be trying more soon and I really recommend you do too.

This post is not sponsored, I just thought I would do a review and let everyone know how good the makeup is.

Keep smiling :)

Ellie xoxo

♡Life Update♡

Hey beauties

So todays post is going to be nothing to do with beauty, I thought I would just do a little post saying what I've been up to recently and what's coming up.

So today has been such a sunny day and I went to the beach, as its not too far from where I live. It was so sunny and nice and we had fish and chips and now I'm so excited for spring and summer!

School is boring as usual :/ my birthdays coming up which is exciting and the Easter holidays.

So I have lots of fun blog posts coming up and I think when I get home tonight and tomorrow, I'm going to completely plan out all my posts for January, as I have been inspired by other bloggers.

I think I'm going to do a spring series, so every other post will be something about spring. Also, I am going to start doing advice posts on certain topics.

If any of you want to collab, please contact me, the best way is Instagram but also via twitter or in the comments?

If people wonder why I do so many collabs, it's because its a nice way of making friends and getting your blog out there, as well as getting theirs out there, and it can help the readers find new blogs to read too.

So I don't really have much else to say, I hope you guys had a nice weekend and are looking forward to spring. I'll see you guys soon with a more beauty related post.

Ellie xoxo

♡February Favourites♡

Hey guys

So february has been quite a fun month. How was your month? Tell me in the comments.

This post is a collab with the lovely Ellie. She has a really good blog and she's a really nice girl, especially as she didn't arrest me :D to go to her blog, you can click here and to go to her instagram, you can click here.

So, I don't have that many favourites this month, as I've basically been using the same as last month, but anyway, as usual I'm going to start with beauty favourites...

Lush

My lush favourite has been Space Girl. I hadn't tried it before this month but I used it the other day, and no joke, it is so amazing! There is a video of what it does in the bath on my instagram here, but definitely try it out, because it's the best bath bomb ever.

Makeup

So one makeup product in particular I have been loving is my Sleek palette in Storm. I did a full review on this, which you can read here. I have been wearing it a lot when I don't have school and you can make so many looks, it's gorgeous.

I've also rediscovered my Baby Lips this month. They're not the most moisturising, but they give your lips a nice tint of colour.

Fashion

My onesie omg. Sorry not sorry :) in February we had half term so I spent most of the month in my onesie and just comfy clothes.

Nails

So two nail polishes I have really been loving are both pastel colours.

The first one is from this Juicy nail varnish set my friend gave me for Christmas, it's a nice pastel pink colour and is opaque so it's good once you've had one coat. The other is a Mavala nail varnish in a matte pastel purple colour called Mystic, which is really opaque, like the first one.

TV

Pretty Little Liars. Obviously. Sorry I have been talking about it in all my recent posts, but there is no question, I have literally been obsessed with this show since I started watching it, thanks to Gabby. I am quite near the end of season 3 now and it's amazing. I literally shout stuff at my iPad whilst I'm watching this show. If you don't watch it, you need to.

YouTubers

So I have been loving a lot of youtubers, but some particular favourites this month are Gabby, who is amazing and just go subscribe to her because her videos are amazing and her vlogs are hilarious, Quisha, who has an amazing channel and uploads so regularly it's amazing, also she has some amazing videos about anxiety, Eve, who is one of my all time favourite Youtubers, her channel is gorgeous and her editing is flawless. Caitlin Rose is one of my biggest inspirations, perfect channel and Jim, who you all probably know but he is bae and can always put a smile on my face.

Music

So I don't really have that many music favourites this month. I've been quite liking Sam Smith this month, especially the song Like I Can, which I've been listening to on repeat. Also, I've still been loving 1989 by Taylor Swift.

I really need to listen to some different music so if you have any recommendations comment them below and I will definitely check them out.

Food & Drink
Mini eggs. I probably talked about them in all my recent posts but seriously they are my favouritest thing ever. So yummy!

A drink I have been loving is the Galaxy Frothy Top hot chocolate. I got this the other day and literally, it makes your hot chocolates so frothy and sweet and amazing.

Book

I'm not much of a reader, but this month I bought Love Tanya and I think it is the best thing ever! If you don't have this book you should definitely get your hands on one because it is just perfect, it has sections about her childhood, sections about makeup, hair, fashion, love, confidence and so much more! And a cheeky Q&A at the end:) JUST BUY IT IF YOU LOVE TANYA

So I think that's all my favourites, remember to go check out Ellie's blog and read her version of this post. 

Keep smiling xx

♡Birthday Wishlist♡

Hey beauties

So I asked on Instagram what posts I should write, and a few people said a birthday wish list, my birthday quite soon so I'm going to do that. Before I get started, I want to do a disclaimer. I am not trying to brag or boast and that I'm not expecting all of this at all, I would be so happy just to get one of these things as they are things I would love to get, but I am in no way saying to my friends or family, or you guys, I want this, this and this, give them to me. This is just a way you might get to know me a bit more, or if your birthday is coming up, give you some ideas, as this was requested. I will be so grateful for anything I get, but let's get started...

So the first thing I would really love to get is a Mac Lipstick. I have heard amazing things about these and don't own anything from Mac, so it would be a big staple in my makeup and I would probably wear it all the time if I did get it. I would want a natural colour that I could wear on an everyday basis, a nude but a pinky nude not a browny one. I would also really love to get something from Benefit. Anything would be amazing, I just would love to try some Benefit and it would be a big treat for me.

The thing I probably want the most would be netflix. If you've read my other posts you will know that I now have Netflix, but you probably don't know that I only have the 30 day free trial, so what I would love would to be able to carry on having it a bit longer.

I would love to get Joe Sugg for my birthday. Haha there is no way that will happen but I can dream <3 if any youtuber, big or small, tweeted me that would be the best birthday present I could ever get! 

Another thing I would be so grateful to get is an EOS lip balm. There's so much hype about them but they're so difficult to get hold of so I would love to get one.

Any Youtube Merch would be a perfect present because I'm a bit addicted. Do Suggs not Drugs ladies and gents. You can tell I'm a bit hyper whilst writing this hehe:)

Some more Real Techniques brushes would be brilliant!

Some nice new pieces for my wardrobe? I don't know, maybe some more spring/summer clothes like cute crop tops and shorts and skirts. OMG I WOULD LOVE A TRXYE JUMPER BUT I'M NOT SURE IF YOU CAN STILL GET THEM:(

Anything from Victoria Secret would make me extremely happy. I would also love to try out some more products from Soap and Glory.

Other than that, basically makeup and clothes and beauty stuff, is what I would love to get. 

So I hope you guys enjoyed this kinda different little post. It was kind of weird tbh. I would be so grateful if someone gave me a bit of fluff :D what even am I on about?? Basically I would be grateful and love any present I got.

Keep smiling xx