Collection Cosmetics - Lipsticks

As a girl who's really interested by makeup (haha) I decided to do a mini review of something in the beauty world that I quite enjoy: Lipsticks. When it comes to shopping for makeup, I normally just look around counter to counter until I see something I like, then later decide if I'll buy it. Of course I have no intention on buying makeup because I need it, it's just something nice to put on and flaunt my face in the mirror. 

Pretty Please (5) Mango Tango (14) Cherry Pop (8)

I decided to go shopping and buy makeup just for fun. I was in Superdrug (a pharmacy in the UK) and I was looking at the Collection counter and it was the first time I seen it, and I loved it straight away because the makeup is so cheap, but has amazing quality as well! I was specifically looking at the lipsticks as that was what caught my eye in their counter because they were only around £2.99 each! Have to say that the packaging is great too, but they seem to loose the cute foil decoration once to handle in too much though.

I first purchased Cherry Pop because the quality was brilliant. On my lips, they looked perfectly fine and was the right colour as shown on the label. The pigmentation was perfect and the result was a cherry red. I was so pleased and I bought straight away! I looked kind of odd at the till because I only had one thing to buy and I didn't use the self check out haha. 

The next Collection lipstick I bought was Mango Tango. The colour is so bright and orangey and it works well for summer or a summery look. It has amazing pigmentation too like Cherry Pop, but the colour can be too bright on a tanned skin like mine, so I would advice putting a little bit on your lips, and use a non-shiny lip balm like Burt's Bees to blend and mix the lipstick, then finish with another healthy, shiny lip balm like Carmex or gloss on top. It works great!

The final but not the last Collection lipstick I bought was Pretty Please. I really like saying the name of makeup rather than numbers, don't you? Anyway, I thought of buying this because I realised that I didn't have a pinkey kind of lipstick and I wanted one. So of course I went to the Collection counter again and looked for one and I got one! Pretty Please is a shimmery kind of lipstick and has good pigmentation although it does tend to appear darker on tanned skin, so I would advice just putting Carmex on top or gloss.

Overall I really enjoy Collection cosmetics and do look forward to building maybe most of my makeup stash from their products.

Getting ahead of yourself

Serious blogpost #3

Have you ever been asked to do something e.g a project? And did it turn out good?

How about when you got asked. Did you say 'okay.' or something like 'sure! I'll make sure we have boats and ducks and by the end of the script I'll sing a song'? 

If you're like me and you like to plan ahead, like going to a trip abroad and packing an extra three pairs of underwear, then that's great. Is it considered normal? Maybe, but then you'd be called efficient or a good scout. And that's okay! Packing extra underwear isn't getting ahead of yourself; it's just thinking or planning ahead, not getting ahead. And getting ahead is very different. 

Getting ahead of yourself means to over-think or over-plan or to over-say about something, and normally it's not good. It has bad connotations, but sometimes it actually works out for some people. I have loads of experiences about me getting ahead of myself. Once, I had to come up with a project for a science investigation and I chose to do something about volcanoes straight away; not because I knew everything about it, but I was just simply interested. I came up with loads of theories, and I even ended up making a model of a volcano out of flour, vinegar and all things you can't possibly imagine using to make a volcano model. I also made lots of mini posters made from paper that I thought I could hand out to people and stuff.. I wanted to do and make more things as well, but I didn't have the time and they were too imaginative and almost not possible to be made by myself alone.  I did these things all at once which tired me out so much that I just wanted to quit. Then when the time came to present, I planned way too much ahead that I didn't even know the first word I would say in front of everyone. So I ended up having to skip my presentation and getting a low mark. I really didn't have a good time after I got that bad mark as I didn't know where I went wrong and why I skipped my presentation.

Then I found out why: it was because I got ahead of myself. I got ahead of myself so much that it tired me out. I don't even think that it's the worse kind of getting ahead of yourself, there might even be much more worse cases.
I'm not saying this is scientifically proven or anything but this might happen to you if you are an imaginative, efficient, independent-thinking person as you have the power of your brain to think ahead about something that you haven't done, but are going to, and therefore you have ingenious, vivid thoughts about the planned things ahead.
In the simplest way that I could describe getting ahead of yourself is simply like planning things, but instead of taking the time to plan, you proceed to do the ideas that come to your head and do them anyway, causing you to be ahead of a certain stage that you should still only be at. It's probably like someone riding bike with no protection gear whatsoever, and the person riding the bike has never had lessons and it's their first time on one. This then causes them to fall and hurt themselves.

As I said before, getting ahead of yourself does have bad connotations, but you can help it by just going with the flow of things, and keeping thoughts that you know are near impossible (although nothing is impossible) in your head; most importantly if you think you have a great idea that you think you should absolutely do or make or whatever it is, write it down first before you actually practically do it.

What I think about when I blog

Serious blogpost #2

It just comes to mind that sometimes, I think deeply about unimportant things like what kind of hairstyle do I want tomorrow, or how much sleep I'll get - this comes from me writing blogposts on my bed most of the time. And that just goes to show that I am little bit of a slacker when it comes to writing, as I have tons of ideas in my head, but never really at the write time as my laptop isn't there so I could post it here. Turns out that most of my ideas just float about until I lose them (and usually, they're great ones!)

Starting a blog, I thought it would be super easy as I like to talk about random but important things that matter (most of the time) and I definitely to like to share it with others. I thought 'yeah blogger seems easy to write things on) but when I have a great idea, and I see the 'newpost' button, it all seems lost in my brain and I end up writing about a completely different topic, but it's okay because I end up writing something anyway. 

I'm usually thinking about posting pictures on my next blogpost, or an actual blogpost, or a review. Then I just sit there (or in some cases lay there) and think 'heck I'm gonna write about not knowing what to write' and viola. 

Some of my posts aren't completely pointless, but I really do wish that on blogger's next update, they do a 'sorted posts' kind of page, so that on your blog (a personal one) you can just easily go to a page where there are only picture diary posts, serious blog posts, review posts etc etc. 

One thing that always happens is I just stare at my blog and think. Looking for some inspiration maybe? Who knows. It's a mission to make a successful blog that everyone knows and reads (by everyone I mean even aliens.) And trying to accomplish tons of goals all at once is kind of the same: a bit of pressure but you'll get there sometime. It's all about not giving up, and to know that patience is key. Knowing things that get you somewhere closer to where you want to be is probably wisdom.

Am I a tidy person?

Serious blogpost #1

If you consider the title personal, why not ask yourself in your head right now 'am I a tidy person?'

I think I am... In a way. I do organize why room all the time if it's messy; if there's a cup on my dresser, I would stare at it as if it's crime that it's there. It sounds crazy, but it does happen!

I keep all my things organized, like on my desk, the top part goes the pencils and on the right side goes any papers that I have to do from school or anything like that. But is that OCD though?

I know a lot of people that over-exaggerate the term ocd, something they'd say is 'I like things organized, or else it affects my ocd.' But isn't that just you being yourself, which is an organised person? To me, ocd is something really serious, like if a droplet of water falls on your shoulder, you immediately take a shower.

As an example, I was looking through blogs the other day and I was absentmindedly judging the colours used, design, layout etc etc. Then I thought about my own website, and how others could be doing the same thing. I have made A LOT of changes to my blog templates, colours, designs etc, but my recent one now seems really.. white? I guess it's the style now for websites, but of course I have a lot of inspirations coming from everywhere so it's probably just me. I do read a lot of blogs, and they all do have one thing that's the same and it's the design. Design (in my opinion) is so important. It's where everyone gets the impression of you. And my favourite blogs that I read all commonly have the same colour harmonies on their templates and it's all white/ cream colours with the 'vintage' look to it, and at the same time it's simple, chic, and a tad bit minimalist. OF course it's the content that I'm also after, but it's also the design that wonders me. And not just me but everyone else too.

At the end of the day, we can't really change ourselves? We can't just go 'okay tomorrow I'm going to be neater and have ocd.' We obviously come back to reality, and think that what we were thinking was insane and that we were inspired too much. So if you are a tidy person, don't judge yourself (which is really wrong) but do believe in yourself - and if you are a messy person, then be messy. Remember just not to judge people either way.

Outline manicure

Turns out that Sharpie pens are reeeally useful! Inspired by vintage nails, done by me! For this nail look I used Ciate's Caviar set in Cookies and Cream, and a good quality Sharpie pen from Asda :) Might be cheap, but it's a good alternative to expensive nail art pens! I'll definitely be buying a lot more coloured Sharpies too!

6 must haves for a cute room

A few delicious smelling perfumes definitely make your room smell amazing; and placing them on cute vanities adds a nice 'girls room' effect

Cute wall decors: if your room is either big or small, they will definitely make your room look pretty and unique

Inspirational enough? Along with wall decors, quotes and sayings can make your room a place that you'll enjoy to actually be in - waking up to a saying that you love can change your day

(Sorry for the bad quality) But, pictures of little indie owls on pretty frames sure make your wall decor more original-looking

Lights - you can never have too many sweet lights around your room! (or bed) This one happens to be on me and my sister's bunk

Finally, to make your room YOURS, you need a cute desk space to do work on! Haha

Chocolats de Beussent - Lachelle

Such lovely views on the other side of the road; Beussent's countryside is so beautiful!

Houses like these would be amazing to live in, planning on moving to France soon. Haha

The chocolate factory! A lot of delicious (and delicate) pieces of treats to buy or just look at!