I am rubbish when it comes to surprises and keeping them a secret! This one though, I have to say, I was rather chuffed with myself over. My husband has always wanted to see the Northern Lights, so for his 40th Birthday, I booked a trip to Iceland! On his birthday I had wrapped … Continue reading Iceland Day 1 – chasing the Northern Lights
Monday 22nd January and after a heavy weekend of dancing including the first competition of the year at Lymington on the Sunday, I started what was to be an intensive course in Professional Makeup Artistry at Mode! I had been looking forward to this course as it is the main course that I was interested … Continue reading Mode Makeup – Certificate in Professional Makeup Artistry
Last year I was mentioning in quite a few posts that I had some exciting changes coming up with my career. Having run a cleaning company for almost 13 years, I had made the decision in the mid-part of 2017 to do something for me! I've always loved makeup and hair (despite not being very … Continue reading Mode Makeup – Bridal Hair Up Course
Wow, where on earth did January go? My last post was almost a month ago!! So much has happened since then, that despite intending to write blog posts as the month was happening, it proved almost impossible! So, I thought I would work the month backwards and start off with the Empties post as it's … Continue reading January Empties
Following on from yesterday's More Than Moisture set, today's post is the second set I picked up which is the Fresh Pressed Vitamin C. I have used the Fresh Pressed kit a few times and have reviewed it already so check out Clinique Fresh Pressed Vitamin C for how I got on with it the first time I used … Continue reading Clinique Sets – Fresh Pressed Vitamin C
If you've followed my blog or Instagram for a while, you may have seen that I am a bit of a skincare junkie....ok that's a bit of an understatement! There a a few products that stay consistent for me and one of them is the Moisture Surge from Clinique, of which I have no idea … Continue reading Clinique Sets – More Than Moisture
In August last year, the lovely Laila Samson (who has a fab group on Facebook), sent me some nail wraps to try and then review....which you can read about here ----> Jamberry Nail Wraps – a review. Nail Wraps are great....albeit a bit fiddly, if you practice, they become easier to do! More recently, Jamberry released … Continue reading Jamberry Nails – Skinnies!
Happy New Year!! 2018 is here and hopefully along with some changes, there'll be plenty of exciting times ahead!! Career The biggest change for me this year has already started. In the middle of last year I made the decision to stop the job I was doing, and had done for almost 13 years … Continue reading Happy New Year and 2018 Goals
The final empties post of the year on the final day of the year! I think this December's post has the most empties of all of the ones I have written so far! So here's what I used up in December..... Dior Forever Foundation This was one foundation where I was glad that I took … Continue reading December Empties
A couple of months ago I read a post by the lovely Samantha at The Beauty Spyglass on a Super Fruit Serum by Scienea that she had won on Instagram. It sounded amazing and in a reply to my comment on her blog, Samantha told me to check them out on Twitter as she thought they were … Continue reading Scienea Super Fruit Serum
Beauty and the Ballroom 