Essie Winter Colours

colours: tuck it in my tux, double breasted jacket, jiggle high jiggle low, jump in my jumpsuit

I found this set in T K MAXX the other week, and I fell in love with it straight away. I think it was about £10, and it's four of the Christmas 2014 collection (which I distinctly remember lusting over last year). If you have a TK MAXX near you, sometimes it's worth a quick look in to see if you can find little treasures like these! I think my favourite shade is the pinky-red, double breasted jacket, because I'm really into pinks at the moment! I love jiggle high jiggle low too, the silver, because you can't go wrong with a silver at Christmas! My least favourite is probably tuck it in my tux, mostly because it's quite sheer and needs an extra coat to get a good colour.

Do you have any of this collection? Or do you prefer this years extra sparkly winter collection?!

n xx

Winter Travel Make Up

 MaxFactor colour correction under eye

Collection lasting perfection concealer

Rimmel hide the blemish concealer

Rimmel stay matte powder

 MAC omega 

Rimmel brow this way

Clinique lash power mascara

Bourjois volume 1 second waterproof mascara

L'Oreal super liner mat-matic

Soap and Glory sexy mother pucker xl extreme plump

Blistex intensive moisturiser

Lush the kiss lip scrub

As you're reading this, I'm actually coming home from being in France with Jay's lovely family on a mini skiing holiday. I didn't want to bring much with me, but I wanted to cover all bases if I wanted to! I don't want to spend ages putting on foundation, so instead I went for a simple base. I use the Collection concealer for under eye and blemishes, and the Rimmel concealer around my nose and cheeks for redness.

Rimmel brow this way has become an essential in my daily make up, along with my long-term favourite MAC omega. Mascara wise I wanted something long lasting and waterproof, so I went for this Bourjois one which I've yet to try out but looks promising! Finally I'm taking not one but two Blistex moisturisers, because we're going skiiing so it might get quite cold! I don't know if I'll use Soap and Glory sexy mother pucker, but I wanted something easy and low maintenance.

I'm sure at the last minute I'll find an excuse to throw in something extra, but I'm really excited for what I'm taking with me!

Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see a full review of!

n xx

Wrapping Favourites

Though I don;t think presents are the most important part of Christmas, I do love a good bit of wrapping. I remember getting really excited when I was little and my mum would let me help wrap presents, so I've had a fair bit of training as a wrapping elf. These days I've stepped things up a notch and go all out with bows, ribbon and sparkly tags. I thought it would be fun t show you some of my wrapping favourites this year!

One of my favourite places to stock on wrapping essentials is definitely Paperchase. I've taken advantage of their 3 for 2 on wrapping paper the last few years. I know it's not the cheapest, but 3 rolls tends to be more than enough so I don't mind! This year I picked up this gorgeous brown paper one with white trees (pictured) for the main bulk of presents and one roll of a cute penguin pattern that I'll use for my sister's presents. Last year I also picked up this amazing box of wrapping accessories for £8.50 that has two sizes of bows, ribbon, plain and glittery tags, p1lus a few little bells. It was a seriously good buy and I'll definitely be buying it again next year.

Mostly I just love having a wander around places to have a look what I can find in places like John Lewis, Tiger, Next and Marks and Spencer.

Do you love wrapping presents more than opening them like me?!

n xx

Christmas Lights

One of my favourite things about this time of year is all the lights that go up, and how pretty streets look. I especially love Norwich's Christmas lights, because Jarrolds always looks so lovely. I love just wrapping up warm, getting a hot chocolate and going for a wander around to see everywhere all lit up with my family, or even sometimes alone. 

What're your Christmas lights like?!

n xx

Catch Up

It's been longer than I expected (sorry about that), but I'm finally back! The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy, including the dramatic death of my poor little Toshiba laptop, Rosa. I now have a beautiful HP, which I'm in love with.. though I'm still getting to grips with Windows 10. It's like iOS 7 all over again.

Other things that have been going on includes the standard mass of christmas shopping, and starting to get more and more festive over the last few weeks. I'm happy to announce that the nights in of knitting and marathoning kind-of-rubbish christmas films is well underway at this point. My sister has also moved in with her partner since the end of November, while they're looking for a more permanent house in the area. It's a little crowded with five of us here, but we're surviving.

I think they're the two biggest things that have happened, but it's been crazy!

I hope you're all having a lovely December so far!

n xx