So I went to Superdrug today...

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Tomorrow is Red Nose Day, and one of my friends is letting me spray his hair gold tomorrow. Unfortunately me being the disorganised person I am, I only got round to buying the spray dye for him tonight! But of course, I went to Superdrug so buying spray dye doesn't stop there...I didn't have a load of money with me so I didn't buy loads of stuff, but here is a mini-haul of what I did buy:

Left to Right: Superdrug own spray hair dye in blonde/gold, Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer, Collection 2000 Extreme 24 Hour Felt Tip Eyeliner, MUA Heaven & Earth Eyeshadow Palette.

So I've heard so many people rave about how good this Lasting Perfection concealer is, so I thought I would try it for myself. Me being the failure at life that I am, I accidentally bought it in medium instead of light. Whoops! It still worked very well, and when I tested it out earlier it was really effective for me. It was quite a good price too, I bought it for about £5 I think! (Although next time I buy it i'll double check the shade of it first...)

Now this eyeliner is amazing, and recently I have been loving winged eyeliner so this is a must-have for me! As it's only £3.99, I have bought this eyeliner a few times before, but mine runs out quicker than most people's due to the amount of times I have drawn moustaches on myself while using it. It's really good as it stays on all day without smudging, but it's really easy to take off. LOVE this!

Now I have the MUA 'Glamour Days' Eyeshadow palette which I am a big fan of, and I know that Fleur De Force (her blog is HERE if you want to check it out) has been raving about it. It's only £4, so I thought why not! I love the colours because they are very neutral and quite muted. The texture of these eyeshadows is awesome, and they are so pigmented! I love all these shades because you can do different types of smokey eyes, or every day looks all with the same palette. I am really looking forward to trying this out!

(Can we just take a moment to appreciate my photo skills here - all pictures were taken on my iPhone 4s! I'm rather impressed.)

So I know I didn't buy that much, but I thought I would do a little update as I always get a bit over excited after buying makeup. Any excuse for a good old blog post! :) Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed seeing the new products I have bought. (What I have realized is a lot of big-time bloggers get paid for writing these so always buy more high-end makeup, but I quite like the fact that I use quite cheap makeup as you guys can see what a normal teenager without a job would buy and wear. What do you guys think? Do you prefer it?) Let me know if you have any makeup bargains that you like to buy, or if you want a review on any product on this post or any other posts so far!

xo

E.L.F Favourites: Eyes

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So recently I have been snooping around on HERE...this is the E.L.F website, and ELF stands for Eyes Lips Face. Their products are fantastico, the products are all pretty good qualilty for an indredibly cheap price! As I am planning on buying a lot of their products soon, I thought I would give you some posts about the website just like I did with my Dolly Bow Bow review. (If you haven't read that already, you can read it HERE!) I will be doing more of my E.L.F favourites if you like them :) okay, so let's begin with my top 3 eye products!

Eyes:

Ok so believe me, it was very difficult to try to narrow all of the eye products into the top 3. I love eye products, and the ELF eye makeup is dirt cheap! It's my idea of heaven. So these are my top 3 eye products on the website:

So this is ELF's volumising mascara. It is only £2.50, and it looks very promising! Mascara is my one essential makeup product that I carry around with me EVERYWHERE, so I have very high hopes for this. It looks just like another high street product would, but for half the price. Can't wait to try this out!

This is ELF's Waterproof Eyeliner pen. I have heard many reviews on this and about 95% of them are positive! Recently I have started wearing this type of liquid eyeliner again, and I have loved it because it makes your eyes stand out so much more. This eyeliner pen is £1.50, so i'm a little wary of trying it because in some cases, you get what you pay for and if this is the case...I shouldn't have very high expectations! But from what I've heard, it's a very good eyeliner but some people found the tip a bit hard to use at first. It might be a bit of a hit or miss products, who knows!

This is ELF's Studio Eyebrow Kit for £3.75. Now I don't draw on my eyebrows or anything like that, but I think this eyebrow kit would be quite subtle so you can fill in any sparse gaps in your eyebrow. I have a scar that goes diagonally across my right eyebrow which is very annoying and difficult to cover up, so maybe this would solve those problems? Watch this space!

So thanks for reading, I'm sure you will be seeing a lot more of my E.L.F Favourites in the next few months! Soon I will be ordering a lot of their products which I will do a haul and review video and post on. Definitely check out the E.L.F website if you haven't already, there are some really great products for a bargain price!  

(Soon I will probably be uploading some beauty videos to my youtube channel, LottieRa2197. Feel free to check it out! I'll make sure to let you know when those videos are going up!)

xo

How to organise your desk!

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Today i'm going to be doing a post on how to organise your desk, especially if you are a messy person like me. Now the pictures aren't very good quality, but i'm sure you'll get the idea anyway. I would like to refer to my desk as an organised mess!

1. So this is a picture of my desk overall. It looks quite messy, but it is all organised, I swear!

2. Use a clear plastic box to store some of your beauty products in. Now this is quite a small box, so I have only kept the most frequently used in this.The products are:

- Clean & Clear Oil Free Moisturiser (prevents blemishes)

- New Look 'Just Pink' Body Moisturiser

- Brazilian Keratin Therapy Hair Serum

- The Body Shop White Musk Smooth Satin Body Lotion

(Now I also have a Soap&Glory Hand Sanitizer added to this mini collection!)

3. If you have any old teddies that you don't really know what to do with, sit them on the side of your desk so they're out of the way but still there to look at. :)

4. If you have any lids of boxes lying around, use them for storage! I have a round lid that I keep my festival type makeup in. This includes Fairy Dust, Barry M Dazzle Dust, Shimmer Blush and some glittery lipgloss :) I like this because it's separate from the rest of my makeup yet is still a nice feature on my desk!

5. Get a small jewellery holder to keep in all your earrings. Mine looks a bit messy at the moment but I have sorted them to make sure there are only earrings I wear in there :) Also, I keep my original packaging of some earrings (in this case, Claire's) so when you take your earrings with you, they won't get lost.

6. I keep my glass bottles of perfume at the side of my mirror because I use them quite a lot! (I also have a Betty Boop shimmer box in the picture which goes with my festival makeup but it's too big to fit in the box!)

7. Keep a box full of your makeup with your hair things beside it. I am currently using a box that my friend gave me for christmas so it's very colourful on my desk! If you keep your daily makeup in the box, it saves time in the morning searching for all your things!

8. This is said box. If you use any palettes for your makeup, put them at the bottom and keep the smaller things at the top!

Thanks for reading, hope you liked these pictures on my desk and maybe this has given you some inspiration for organising your own desk! One day I will do a proper room tour as a blog post and for one of my youtube videos. (LottieRa2197 - subscribe and i'll love you forever!) Let me know if you have recently organised anything in your rooms, or if you are planning to entirely redecorate anything! I would love to hear it from you!

xo

FOTD - Mother's Day

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Happy Mother's Day/Mothering Sunday, hope you have had a good day whether you're a mum or not. I thought I would do a FOTD post today, but I feel awkward taking pictures of my face so in the picture below, you have my eye.

(My eyebrows look awful here, I know)

The makeup is a bit smudged as I put it on at about 10 this morning, so this is my eye after 6 hours of makeup.

• Concealer - Soap and Glory Kick Ass Concealer
• Mascara - Collection 2000 'multiplier' (I think that's the name)
• Eyeliner - Soap & Glory Supercat Eyes
• Barry M Kohl Eyeliner in White
• MUA Eyeshadow Palette - Golden Shimmery Colour

That's all I wore today! I'll probably do a bigger FOTD post soon, but I really need to update my makeup collection first. Thanks for reading! Let me know any post ideas you want to see in the comments :)

xo

MUA Eyeshadow Palette Review - Glamour Days

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I would like to apologise in advance as I am aware the photo quality is shocking here - unfortunately I don't have my camera/iPhone on me right now, so I had to take these pictures with my iPod. I'm sure you'll get the idea of the colours and such anyway!

Today i'm reviewing the MUA 'Glamour Days' Eyeshadow Palette. I bought this a while back for £2 I think, and you can probably tell it's a bit used up! I promise to take some better pictures as soon as I can. I'd like to point out that I am very disorganised and a while back I lost the eyeshadow brush that came with this palette, so I am using a much smaller one in its place. Woops.

I love this eyeshadow palette as it has a mix of bright to neutral colours, and they are all very pigmented. It's really easy to apply and the colours last pretty much throughout the whole day! Very rarely do I find an eyeshadow palette which I will want to buy again, but with MUA, I think it's really good quality for a bargain price!

Although it stays on for most of the day, it is fairly easy to remove which I like. This is really useful because if you change your mind a lot, you can switch between colours really quickly and simply!

Overall, I really like this eyeshadow palette and I will definitely be trying out some more from the MUA collection. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed this quick review! If you like any other products from MUA or want to see another review of their products, let me know in the comments! :)

xo

My Bucket List

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So in the past few days I have been having a quarter life crisis as I am already about 1/5 through my life yet I don't feel I have done anything remotely different to anyone else. This got me thinking about what I want to have done by the time I die, so I made a list of over 100 things that I would like to do! Some of them I have already 'ticked off' using this: /

So here is my bucket list ladies and gentlemen, I hope it will give you some inspiration to start one yourself - or add some more to your list! (If you really don't know what to do for your own list, feel free to copy and paste mine and tick off what you have done so far!) Obviously mine is personalised to me so they will be different from your own, but it should give you some thoughts about it. Enjoy!

My Bucket List:

My plan is to write all of these down in a notebook, and take a picture when each thing happens!

1. Reach 100 subscribers on youtube
2. Bungee Jump
3. Skydive
4. Go to Africa and do volunteer work
5. Get a saturday job
6. Go to 3 new festivals
7. Stop biting nails
8. Go on TV /
9. Meet Ed Sheeran /
10. Contact a youtuber /
11. Write 100 blogposts
12. Get an A* in school /
13. Go to University
14. Buy a macbook
15. Buy a fancy camera
16. Be part of a flash mob /
17. Learn more makeup techniques
18. Inspire somebody
19. Create a happy jar
20. Get another piercing
21. Buy new makeup online
22. Buy something from Dollybowbow
23. Make a cheesecake by myself
24. Raise £100 for charity
25. Go deep sea diving
26. Have children
27. Dye my hair 5 different colours
28. Hit 1000 followers on instagram
29. Do the splits again /
30. Get hair extensions
31. Learn to juggle /
32. Make a mermaid tail
33. Overcome 3 fears
34. Grow fruit/vegetables
35. Write a letter to my idol
36. Make a scrapbook
37. Tell the truth for a whole day
38. Own a pet /
39. Meet Lianne La Havas
40. Meet Lauren Aquilina
41. Customise my own clothes
42. Go to New York
43. Buy my own house/flat
44. Get a job in medicine/media
45. Get braces
46. Spend time in Italy
47. Get "Life" top. Hand out lemons.
48. Read "The fault in our stars"
49. Ride a hot air balloon
50. Give out free hugs
51. Write a song
52. Learn to play guitar
53. Go to Vidcon
54. Complete a New Year's Resolution /
55. Contact Chris Lilley
56. Read 100 books in a year
57. Sign an autograph /
58. Live in my dream interior design
59. Be vegan for a week
60. Meet Jenna Marbles
61. Jump into a pool fully clothes
62. Learn to drive
63. Own more than 10 bags
64. Stay up all night with friends /
65. Write to Carrie Fletcher
66. Get a tattoo (?)
67. Have epic water fight
68. Have a bath in a bin /
69. Say yes to everything for one whole day
70. Go paintballing /
71. Pour milk on Oreos
72. Meet Nina Nesbitt
73. Have a silly string fight
74. Go on an awesome rollercoaster
75. Get drunk /
76. Complete a loyalty card /
77. Stick with a bucket list
78. Vlog a video of my whole day
79. Live with a best friend
80. Build a blanket fort
81. Get talent spotted /
82. Buy grocery shopping myself
83. Learn to drive
84. Go on the radio
85. Learn 10 new recipes
86. Own whiteboard 'To Do' list
87. Have a least 5 piercings
88. Pass my maths GCSE
89. Get in a fight with someone /
90. Buy 3 of the same beauty products as Zoella
91. Have a university packing list put into action
92. See Madness live /
93. Donate blood
94. Grow out shaved hair side
95. Go to an art exhibition
96. Pass all GCSE's with C's and up
97. Eat an entire pizza
98. Play spin the bottle
99. Knit a scarf
100. Go a whole day without screens
101. Adopt a turtle
102. Buy a homeless person a full meal
103. No TV for a week
104. Have a picnic in the park
105. Audition for BGT in front of Simon Cowell
106. Make my own earrings
107. Go on holiday with friends
108. Milk a cow /
109. Print out instagram pictures
110. Make a birthday cake for a best friend

So I hope you enjoyed reading my bucket list and maybe learning a bit more about me, maybe in the future I will do an updates version of this list! Yesterday I came across my old bucket list on a scrumpled piece of paper ripped from a school book, so I will make sure inread that later and see the similarities. Let me know what you thought about my list, and tell me a few things you want to do in the comments!

(p.s, help me complete number 1 on the list by subscribing to my youtube channel! - http://m.youtube.com/user/LottieRa2197?feature=guide yay!)

Thanks for reading!

xo

Some retro/vintageness for you all...

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I wish I could say I had time to do a good long post today but I don't, and I didn't want to leave you with nothing so I thought I would collect some nice retro and vintage pictures for you all. I liked finding these pictures, and I am aware that some are more modern than others but I like them all because they have a nice old fashioned sense about them. Enjoy!

Evolution of styles here.

Reminds me of Cath Kidston!

Love these dresses...

I know this isn't clothes related, but I like it anyway :)

Some retro American-ness!

This picture is so cool!

I am aware this is Marina & The Diamonds but it looks retro...

Ok thanks for looking at this incredibly short post! Will be posting regular things soon, just have to catch up with all my work and stuff :) see you all in a few days! Until then...

xo

Dolly Bow Bow Website Review

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You may have heard of dollybowbow.co.uk which is basically an online website that sells clothes, jewellery, headwear, and home/gift products. This is run by Kate Murnane, who also posts youtube videos which are mostly about beauty products and such. If you want to see her videos, click HERE :)

Anyway, today I decided to do a quick review of her website. I have not yet ordered any of her stuff as I still need to sort out my bank details, but I have been looking at her website for a long time and I really love it. (Side note - I will also do reviews on the other parts of the website, but this post took longer than I expected and I probably need to start doing some coursework, so it's going to be a series of reviews instead.) Enjoy!

Design

I like the layout of her website because it's really simple to follow and it looks awesome! There is a toolbar at the top to navigate around the website, and if you hover on the options it will give you more specific choices of what you want to look at.

Clothes

As there has recently been a sale on the website, there is not a massive selection of clothes left (most are out of stock) but i'll show you some pictures of my current favourites anyway:

1. Bella Lace Playsuit (Black) Sale price - currently £9

Personally I really like this because I think it is simple so you could wear it casually or really dressy. I would love to buy this as I think it would be perfect at festivals, and if you don't want your legs on show then you could buy a pair of colourful tights to 'set' the outfit - I think it would look great! I really want to buy this as it is simple, so you can decorate it with different accessories.

2. Disco Pants (Black) Price - £23

These disco pants have only just come in stock so I am very excited about these, at first I wasn't so keen on them and I wasn't ever going to buy them as they were only stocked in American Apparel for about £78 I think. I was SO HAPPY when she put these in stock! To some people, £23 can be a bit much seeing as they are a bit like shiny leggings but from what i've heard, they go with any outfit so I think the price is pretty darn good. Again, I would love to wear these at a festival as they are a bit more daring than regular leggings and trousers!

 3. Fisherman Knit Jumpers (Mint and Pink) Price - £21

I think these jumpers are really nice, as they are colourful but not too over the top. The knitted patterns are really sweet, and I think it is perfect for staying warm and looking nice at the same time! (Definitely a must have top if you live in England, it's probably a good idea to invest in a good pair of gloves as well...) For me, these jumpers are a tad too expensive but they are really sweet and I probably will end up buying one. Even if it was only a few quid less, I would be slightly more encourage to buy it! I need to get a job. *Watch this space!*

4. Reese Floral Skinny Jeans (Floral) Sale Price - currently £12

I think these are really sweet and would make any outfit instantly awesome. You could wear a simple top with this and add a statement necklace, and BAM you have a lazy but pretty outfit in minutes. I love these because they are bright and interesting to look at, I definitely would like to buy these!

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed! I will do reviews on the other parts of her website like I said earlier, but I really need to catch up with my work so i'll leave you with this for now. Definitely check out the website properly as there is some gorgeous stuff, and maybe you will find something you really like that I won't have mentioned! Let me know what you think in the comments :)

xo