Serious Blog Chat♡

Aloha, you amazing people!
I made this blog to write about whatever I fancied, whether that be makeup or more personal things, and today I wanted to just spill my guts out to you guys and ask you some advice.

I love this blog. I've had it for probably about two years now although I only really started taking it seriously in January-ish. Writing blog posts is one of my favourite things to do. The whole blogging experience just makes me so happy. And I'm starting to feel quite proud of it.

But, at the moment, I'm having to be proud of my blog on my own. That's the only way I can really describe it. I don't mean that I want people to know so they can be proud of me, that's not at all what I'm saying.

It took a while for my blog to get going but recently it really has been. I have over five and a half thousand pageviews and am getting a lot more comments than I used to.

I'm so grateful for that. Anyone who reads my blog I love you to pieces and thank you so much for the support.

But today I wanted to talk about people knowing about my blog.

I'm not saying I want everyone at school to know, or anything like that. I'd rather keep it secret from them for the minute.

But I want to be able to talk to my family about it.

And that's where I need some advice from you guys.

None of them know that I have a blog. And I desperately want to tell them, especially my mum. I guess I'm just scared what her reaction will be. Also I don't know how to tell her.

(It would be so great if she could just read this post to explain to her I have a blog and didn't know how to tell her, wouldn't it now?!)

I wanted to post this because 1. I needed to get it out so I didn't bottle it up. And 2. I need some advice from you guys, how can I break it to her? If you have any ideas or if you have had to tell a family member something like this and have some advice, please please please comment or send me a message (using the form at the right of my blog).

I always used to finish my posts with 'Keep Smiling' and I wanted to remind you guys to smile. It will work out in the end.

Ellie xoxo

Summer Outfit Ideas ♡

I have a bit of an addiction to clothes, so I decided to go outside in the sun and take some pictures of some cute summery outfits and plonk them all together in a summer outfit ideas post. I have said where the clothes are from and put links for most of them. Sorry for most of the clothes being from New Look but it is honestly my favourite clothing shop, they have beautiful, good quality, fashionable clothes that I love for really affordable prices. *not sponsored*

Outfit One

Top: Primark

Shorts: New Look

Bracelet: Spain (some market sorry)

My cat was sitting on the sun lounger looking at me thinking I was a weirdo for taking loads of random pictures in different clothes haha!

Outfit Two

Top: New Look

Shorts: New Look

Outfit Three

Top: New Look

Shorts: New Look

Outfit Four

Shirt: H&M (last year so not available)

Skirt: New Look

Which outfit was your favourite?

Ellie xoxo

Drugstore Beauty Wishlist ♡

It's been a while since I did my last makeup wish list post, so I thought it was about time I let you guys know what I am admiring and trying to resist the temptation of buying on the shelves of Boots and Superdrug at the minute. I only included drugstore beauty items in this post but if you want me to do a post on my high end makeup wish list, let me know and I will.

1. Seventeen Stay Time Concealer - £4.49

2. Barry M Eyeshadow Pencil - £4.59

3. Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream - £8.99

4. Revlon ColourBurst Lip Butter - £7.99

5. Soap & Glory Supercat Eyeliner - £6.00

6. Bourjous Rouge Edition Velvet - £8.99

What's on your makeup wishlist?

Ellie xoxo

Summer Beauty Essentials ♡

Summer, summer, summer! As you can tell by the title, I am going to be talking about my summer beauty essentials. Hope you enjoy :)

Simple Moisturiser
Winter is when your skin trnds to be most dry but it is still important to moisturise in summer and for that I love this product. It puts so much moisture into your skin without making it oily. It has no harsh chemicals and it is definitely an essential for summer.

Nivea Hydro Care Lip Balm
I talk about this so much, its unreal, but this lip balm hydrates your lips so well, it actually works and isn't just a gimmick like a lot of lip balms.

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer
For a very light coverage, highlighting concealer that is perfect for under your eyes, this one is my go to as it feels very light on the skin and glides on so smoothly.

MUA Bubblegum Blusher
I'm pretty sure this was in my spring essentials too but this Blush is a gorgeous bright pink, which gives you a pink flush to your cheeks but still looks natural. It has incredible pigmentation and lasts all day too.

Sleek iDivine Storm Eyeshadow Palette
This palette is the most beautiful, versatile, pigmented palette I have ever tried. There are so many looks you can do with it, whether you want natural, smoky, colourful, shimmery or matte. The eyeshadows are amazing quality, it feels like it should be a high end product and they never fall down during the day.

Collection No Clumps Mascara
This has beaten my New Look Mascara by far. It is now my holy grail mascara, it is the best Mascara I have ever tried. It gives so much length and volume, it does everything it says and it is such good value for £2.99. This isn't really specifically a summer essential but Mascara is and this is my favorite.

MAC Hot Gossip Cremesheen Lipstick
BEST! LIPSTICK! EVER! This is my favourite lip product and it has amazing pigmentation, doesn't look cracked and is a beautiful colour. Cant say anything more about this!

Soap & Glory Righteous Butter
This really moisturises my skin for summer and sinks in quickly. Soap & Glory is one of my favorite brands and the scent is gorgeous.

Water
Sounds weird but water is actually amazing for your skin and hydrates you as being dehydrated is the worst thing that can happen to you in summer. Drinking water is probably the most important thing when you are in the sun so make sure you do it!

Sun Cream
An obvious one but this will protect your skin from the sun but still get you a tan. If you don't put sun cream on you can burn and burning increases your risk of cancer (just something they told us at school) so it will just take a quick minute but putting sun cream on is super important.

I may also be doing a summer fashion essentials because if I had included all of them in this post it would've been so long.

What is your summer beauty essential?

Ellie xoxo

Everyday Makeup Summer 2015♡

I did an everyday makeup post in early spring but most of my products have changed since then and I felt like doing another one so here is my everyday makeup at the moment for this summer. I do tend to change up the eyeshadows and lip products that I wear occasionally but this is just my favourite look that I wear the most. I don't wear all this makeup to school, I have a separate post about what makeup I wear to school but this is the kind of thing I do at weekends and holidays and just when I feel like wearing makeup, as I don't wear makeup every single day.

Base

On any everyday basis I won't bother with foundation or anything like that so this is probably what I will go for - just concealer and powder. If I am going out for a while and it is a very hot day I will also probably add a primer which would be the Maybelline Baby Skin in Warm Apricot.

The concealer I would pick is the Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer, mainly under my eyes and I don't tend to wear concealer over my spots as it usually makes them worse. I will then powder with the Maybelline Matte Maker as this will keep my makeup looking a lot more sleek and stop it from sliding all down my face. I like this as it doesn't have much coverage so still gives a natural look.

I don't really put any blusher on as I always get quite rosy cheeks anyway in summer and as I am not wearing foundation, my skin still has colour in it and doesn't really need it.

Eyes

As I said, I change my eyeshadow up quite a lot, but the look I have been enjoying the most recently is from my Sleek palette (I have come back to this after being obsessed with it before, you may remember I used it in my last everyday makeup too, but I am going to use some different colours this time).

I put hearts over the shadows I picked but I will firstly use the shimmery light gold all over my life then take the pure goldy shade in my crease. This look is quite shimmery but it looks really cute on the eyes and is very nice for summer.

If you know me you will know I used to be obsessed with eyeliner but, although I still love it, recently I have actually been liking not wearing it as it makes a lot more heavy and it looks more natural and summery without it so I often skip that step.

I will then use my new favorite mascara, No Clumps by Collection, and add a few coats of that to my top and bottom lashes to make them more volumise and lengthened which really shapes the whole look.

Lips

Probably my favourite part of this whole look as I get to apply my favourite product, my everyday lipstick is the MAC Cremesheen Lipstick in Hot Gossip and I wouldn't normally wear a lipstick on an everyday basis but it looks really natural and I just love how it looks and it really goes with the look as it is natural but still pinky and a bit bright.

That was my everyday makeup routine for summer, I hope you guys enjoyed this post and let me know in the comments what other posts you want to see.

Do you wear makeup on an everyday basis?

Ellie xoxo

PLL Get The Look - Aria ♡

So, as you probably know from all my posts, I am obsessed with a show called Pretty Little Liars, which if you don't watch, you really should because it's amazing!

Anyway, one of the characters called Aria has amazing outfits, so I thought I would do a get the look for her. This doesn't have to be for her its just quite a nice look if your going out or if you want to wear a bit more makeup. I can do ones for other characters if you want me to. 

I found this in my drafts and realised I had never posted it so I have just edited it a bit and I thought it would be a cute thing to post. This is going to be quite chatty and not exactly a tutorial. Hope you all enjoy!

Makeup

For the base, I would just pick a medium coverage foundation as Aria doesn't look like she wears heavy foundation, she just has quite a natural base but her skin looks really flawless. Then make your brows quite defined as Aria always has quite a strong brow look. As you can tell from the pictures, Aria has some good cheek bone action going on, so you will want to use a bit of bronzer and some blusher and highlighter to create a naturally flushed look.

Onto the eyes, we are going to be recreating the look in the titles, which is a really nice bronzy eye. So I would first of all take a matte light brown eye shadow and put it all over the lid. Then, I just took a gold shimmery colour near the lash line and blend it up, and a darker brown in the crease and blend it down. Then, I took a liquid liner and did a thin line on my lash line and took a pencil liner on my outer waterline and smudged it out. Then I used a light shimmery highlight colour in the inner corners and applied some really good mascara to my top and bottom lashes.

Hair
So you just want some really loose waves. In the first season Aria has pink streaks in her hair but you don't need to do this. Aria, in most of the episodes has her hair down and just natural a little bit wavy.

Outfit
This is where Aria really becomes her character. You'll notice she likes her belts and statement necklaces, and she likes to dress up, even for school.

I just picked this blue flowery dress as its quite similar to a dress Aria wore in season 4. I made it more her by adding some boots and a leather jacket.

I hope you enjoyed this get the look, if you want me to do more for different characters then let me know, they don't have to be Pretty Little Liars ones.

Ellie xoxo

Summer Holidays♡

Helloooo guys,

So today I am just doing a bit of an update post. As you guys probably know, its the summer holidays! I don't really know why I am doing a whole post dedicated to this but I thought I would anyway.

So now it is the holidays I am going to be spending a whole lot more time on my blog. I don't want to make too many promises but I am going to try and post around every two days this holidays for most of the time.

They will be little update or review posts and just chatty posts not like the kind of posts I do normally. I will still be doing two normal posts a week but I will also be doing extra posts.

I am hoping to do a lot this summer (I will probably do a bucket list some time soon) but I am also going on holiday to Cornwall with my dad, his girlfriend, her daughter (basically my sister) and my brother. I am not too sure if I will have wifi so I can't promise I will post every two days then but I have scheduled posts for two a week and I will also be taking a lot of photos which I will post when I get back.

I am super excited for this holidays as I was so bored with school and everything and can't wait to spend more time with my family and friends and spend more time on my blog.

I also have a huge change coming up in September which I will probably let you guys know about nearer the time.

I love you guys and I hope you have a good summer.

Ellie xoxo