Happy times.

Hello lovelies!

Recently there has been a lot of stuff going on in my life, oh how I love the teenage years! It's such a scary and exciting time. I have applied to university, been trying to hold on to friendships, studying hard and getting ready to leave home. I'm excited about life. I'm excited about leaving my home town, and I'm excited about achieving some of my life goals. However, I'm also sad to be thinking about leaving things behind. I'm sad to leave my family and friends, being able to wonder around and not get lost and I'm also sad about leaving my school which I have been at for 7 years - I can't even believe it's been 7 years! 

Today I am feeling pretty positive about things. My friends are amazing, I have an amazing summer planned and I am making the most of every day I have left at home. If I could give anyone a tip on how to stay happy in tough times it would be to PLAN. Plan things to keep you going, to look forward to. I have a trip to London planned in a few weeks time to see Beyonce, a holiday with my best friend and a festival to celebrate the end of school with some of the most amazing people I have ever met. 

Just live everyday to the max. Enjoy life and you will look back on your younger years with fond memories. I can safely say I will be happy with my teenage years when I look back on them in a few years time. I hope you can all do the same.

From Pinterest. I do love that website!

xxx

Review: Rimmel London Apocalips

Hello lovelies!
These little beauties have been all over the interwebs. They are the new Rimmel London Apocalips.

I have the colours 'Celestial' (pinky nude colour) and 'Big Bang' (bright red)

They are a lip lacquer, they have a creamy consistency, and amazing pigmentation. I first brought 'Celestial' and it is the most amazing minky pink colour, i always gravitate towards this dusty rose colour when ever I buy new lip colours and must have over 10 of a very similar colour but I just love it. My perfect 'your lips but better' colour. I wear it during the day with just a touch of mascara and some blush, and also out at night with  lots of contour and a dark smoky eye. 

I brought 'big bang' today when in superdrug (a girl can never resist those 3 for 2 offers!). When I saw it I just imagined wearing it with a totally monochrome outfit so it adds that pop of colour we all want. It's definitely an oh la la look at me type shade, soooo bright! Although, I probably won't get too much wear out of it. A night in with a hot chocolate and a good TV show is more my style, and I don't think the TV will appreciate my statement lip as much as a night out on the town, but hey, I could give it a go!

The applicator itself has a little dippy hole thing in the middle which picks up the product. I find I can apply all the product i need in just one sweep of the brush!

Left; Big Bang. Right; Celestial

Look how amazing they look!!!!!

Above: Big Bang.      Below: Celestial

As much as I love these products, I can't see myself getting as much use out of them as I do my Revlon Lip Butters. They are very slippy slidy and I think that if i wore them out then they might just end up all over my face. However, if you blot them out a little bit they turn in to a stain and last a really long time with the colour pay off still there. 

All in all, a winner! Rimmel are on a roll at the moment!

xxx

It's Festival Season!!

Hello!

It's festival season and wow-wee I am rather excited about it! I recently went to BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend on the Saturday of the two days, it was one of the best days of my life. I love the atmosphere of festivals and talking to everyone you meet. I am lucky enough to also be going to Boardmasters in Newquay in august thanks to a few lovely lovely friends who decided to put all their money together to buy me a ticket for my 18th birthday in October. I am so lucky to have such great friends! I thought I would share with you my festival OOTD and a few cheeky pics from my weekend in London! (Warning, this is a picture heavy post!)

What I wore..
Denim jacket - Primark last season.. used to be a plain denim dress but I cut it up and added lace!
Top - Primark £6
Leggings - Sainsburys £5
Wellies - Joules £38
Hackney weekend lanyard - Hackney weekend - £7!

I had to have my picture taken here. 

Ed Sheeran on the main stage.. AMAZING!

Pretty pink flags

Dance Arena!

Me and my bestie rocking our ponchos and the duck face in the rain!

Most amazing line up ever.

Wellies!!! Mine are the blue ones with dogs on and are from Joules as mentioned above. 

I will be sure to show you some photos when I come home from Boardmasters! If you are going to a festival soon make sure to take wellies.. the mud is unbelievable and a lot of people lost their flip flops in the mud. I hope you all have a great summer (if the sun ever makes an appearance!)

Cat xxx

7 Things for 7 Days - June

Hello!
I am loving SprinkleofGlitter's 7 things for 7 days' posts, it's such a great idea in which motivates us to do little things during the week, so I have decided to join in on my little blog!

The idea is to share 7 things that we want to achieve during the week, even if it is just little goals for a week, here are my 7 things!!

1. Create - I need to start making some prints for my A Level art course, this week I will get this done!

2. Sort - I want to start sorting out my room, even if it is just one draw at a time, sorting something is better than nothing!

3. Plan - I want to go out more with friends this week, I have organised to go to Falmouth with my art friends on Thursday so we can have a nice day out of school and just chill while looking at Falmouth Uni's Summer Art Exhibition, I am looking forward to it!

4. Drive - I just want to do a few more driving lessons to help my test come quicker! I am loving driving at the moment and can't wait until I get my licence!

5. Write - I want to write a post a day on this little blog for this week, I really want to start making it my own and make my little part of the internet how I want it, I also want more content on here as it feels a little bit empty as I have only just started blogging, however I am really really enjoying it and want to carry on with it and make it my own!

6. Spend!!! - I am going to London this weekend to go to Radio 1's Hackney weekend on the Saturday, I am staying in London for 3 days and have been saving up my pennies so I can splurge all of it on Oxford Street! I am so excited it's unreal and my friends would agree with this, I won't stop going on about it! Mwhahaha!

7. Relax - I really want to relax in London this weekend, I'm thinking of it like a little city break, I am going to try not to worry or think about anything all weekend and just let my hair down and enjoy myself!

I really like this little idea, it really does help to keep me motivated and I look forward to crossing something off my list (I am a hardcore list kinda girl) If you want to join in with this fun then you should go and check out THIS post by Louise (SprinkleofGlitter) and let me know you're goals for this week! We are making a friendly little '7 things for 7 days' group so we can check out each others goals and check back to see how we got on with them!

Let me know how your goals go!

Cat xxx

Reveiw: Revlon Lip Butters.

Hello! I feel like everyone and their dog have raved about Revlon Lip Butters, and you are probably all bored of hearing about them but I am going to share my opinion anyway! I have 3 lip butters in the colours 096 Macaroon, 025 Peach Parfait and 050 Berry Smoothie. 

I got my first lip butter about 2 months ago after hearing so much hype around them and I caved and brought  3, the boots 3 for 2 deal didn't help! I got them home and was really excited to try them, I wasn't disappointed! They have a lovely creamy texture and are very moisturising on the lips, They do have a slight smell to them but it's not noticeable unless you swatch them. I personally really like scented things so I wish they smelt more fruity.

L-R Macaroon, Peach Parfait & Berry Smoothie.

I have been using my lip butters everyday for 2 months now and I can't get enough of them! I love the finish on the lips and I really like how it doesn't feel like you are wearing anything, The lasting power of these aren't too bad, 2-3 hours which is good for a lip balm, however, if you drink or eat anything then they will be gone!

L-R Macaroon, Peach Parfait, Berry Smoothie

They are quite sheer to start with but you can build them up to make a more opaque colour, the swatches above are swatched quite heavily. I like how you can build these up as you can get a few different looks from each lip butter. Overall I am head over heels in love with Revlon Lip Butters and I am definitely going to be buying more in the future! Next on my wish list is Candy Apple and Raspberry Pie! 

Cat xxx

My necklace collection and storage!

Hello! I was always one of those people who just had boxes and boxes of necklaces that always used to get tangled even though you tried your very hardest to stop them, but one day all the tangleness got too much and I went out and brought this jewellery hanger from Next Home and it cost me around £20 which I thought was reasonable.

It is a lovely brass metal hanger in which is just drilled on to the wall and it has 12 little hooks along the bottom in which you can hang your jewellery on, I like to store all my long chains and a few shorter ones on this as they look nice on my wall!

I have stuck some little purple butterflies around the holder, I got them as a gift but I think they were from Homebase and they came in a pack of 6. I also added a couple of little cards from friends that make me smile. 

I have quite a lot of longer necklaces as you can see, I would tell you where I got them all from but it's a bit difficult so I shall tell you where I got the main ones from. From L-R... Blue multi chain - Sainsburys, Pearls in a bottle - Accessorize, Long blue disks and stones - New look, Brass owl - Ebay (99p!!!!!), Feathered owl - Accessorize. If you want to know where any other the others are from just ask, the majority are from Accessorize & New look! I will get around to doing my Bracelet storage and Collection soon! 

Cat xxx

Life gets in the way

Life gets in the way of blogging stuff, however, now my exams are over I am here, and I shall be here for good! I have a lot of plans for this little blog, lets hope it can be a place of fun and frolics! I have my camera at the ready, posts planned and I am ready to go!