20 questions tag!

Hi my lovelies!
Today I have the 20 questions tag for you, everyone likes a good old tag every now and again, I was actually tagged on youtube but hey.

1. Thing you cannot leave the house without?

Phone

2. Favourite brand of make up?

cant choose so Mac, Benefit and revlon

3. Favourite flower?

Daisys or lillys 

4. Favourite clothing store?

Topshop

5. Favourite perfume ?

Daisy by Marc jacobs

6. Heels or flats?

Depends what occasion, obviously if your not doing anything then flats but if your going out to a party or something then heels

7. Do you make good grades?

Mostly C's and B's

8. Favourite colours?

I love pastels, so light shades of blue, pink, green, lemon and I love coral pinky shades:) 

9. Do you drink energy drinks?

I dont mind powerade but My new years resolution was to not drink a fizzy drink all year, if your in America i think you would call it soda.

10. Do you drink juice?I love all fruit juice except cranberry!

11. Do you like swimming?

I dont mind it, its alot of effort to go there and get changed and walk out looking vile though.
I love do it when I'm at my house in spain though!

12. Do you eat fries with a fork?

mostly

13. Favorite moisturizer?

Face: Monu recovery balm
Body: Soap and glory righteous butter.

14. Do you want to get married later on in life?Definitely!

15. Do you get mad easily?

Not really

16. Are you into ghost hunting?

No! hate all that stuff, so scary!

17. Any phobias?

Not any serious ones.

18. Do you bite your nails?

nope

19. Have you ever had a near death experience?

no ahaha!

20. Do you drink coffee?

I do, milk 1 sweetener

Thanks for reading!

Live, Laugh, Love 21/03/12

Hi guys!
Just thought I'd do a quick post while I have a moment, my camera seems to have gone walkabout so until I get the chance to have a proper look for it I'm going to e picture-less!
I've not stopped for the last few weeks, busy busy busy!
Last week I had a 'virtual baby' for my health and social care class at school.  I called my little girl Gracie and I got a little too attached I think!  I was really upset when they turned her off!   I had to look after her for a weekend and she cried ALOT!  You had to work out what she wanted from her different cries and either feed her, change her nappy, rock her or burp her.  It was at times difficult especially waking up at night to feed her which took around 30 minutes but for the most part I thought it was fine.  It was definitely something I wasn't used to and I know it wasn't as difficult as a real baby.  I think the point was to make us not want baby's and to show us how hard it was but for me I found it really easy and would do it again anytime!

Excuse the quality of this photo, it was taken on my Blackberry, just to send to a friend.  If I had known I was going to blog about it of course I would of made more of an effort!
But anyway, my little Gracie! yep... definitely too attached to the plastic doll:(
This week I also go my prom dress! yay!
I wont put a picture up of it just yet, as I don't have one that does it any Justice so it'll just have to be a nice surprise!  I plan on doing a post on my prom and what happened so let me know what you think of that, its in June so its quite a long way off yet!
Anyway I'm going to stop babbling on with myself now as I'm going to watch my beloved Manchester City play against Chelsea, should be interesting!
All my love, Alex.X

Friday favourite and Fudgeroo!

Hi guys!

Hope you had a nice week, This is my Friday favourite and Fudgeroo.
What is a fudgeroo? My fudgeroo is the product I disliked this week!

Favourite!

So first of all my favourite this week is my Angel Fish Sleek fish: smoothing serum

I absolutely LOVE this, it is very much a rediscovered product for me...
 I got an Angel Fish hair products set for Christmas 2010!  At the time I wasn't interested in hair/makeup/beauty etc... So it just went to the back of my pile of presents with all the other 'smelly bath stuff'  
Anyway, I was up in the loft with my nephew the other day helping him look for something when I came across my Angel fish set completely unopened!
Anyway, I really love this! 

 It smells delish too, like coconuts on a tropical island... dilly dang delicious!
I put it on damp hair and run about a penny sized pump through my ends and it makes it look so shiny and feels reaaalllly soft!

Fudgeroo!
For my fudgeroo this week I have got a nail varnish remover...
However its one of those ones where theres a sponge in a little tub soaked with remover.  I already have one of these, its the one from boots which I will link here! and this one is truly amazing and I would recomend it to anyone! All you have to do is stick your finger in, wiggle and litterally within seconds you pull your finger out nail polish free!  it even gets glitter off really well.... anyway I had mine since christmas and it just started to dry out, I thought it was great I got 3 months use out of it for just £2.00, so I asked my mum to get me a new one if she saw it on her travels... she came back with this.

It is the same concept as my other one except its awfull.
First off the actual stuff inside smells horrid!  it leaves your nail with a strange white-ish residue.
Yuk!
Then the worst thing of all, the lid isn't sealed properly, so when you twist the lid thinking you've shut it properly, the liquid still gets out.
I shut the lid as tight as it would go and put it upside down and loads of liquid came pouring out out.
I don't even know where my mum go it from, she just said 'a little shop' I'm guessing it was about 50p from a little cheapy shop.
Sometimes you do have to pay a little extra for good quality product!

All my love
Alex.X

February Glossybox!

Hi guys!

Hope everyones doing well, I finally got my February Glossybox almost 2 weeks late:(
It wasnt their fault as the nice lady I spoke to on the phone explained to me, another company had issues and quite a few boxes were late this month. 

If you don't know about Glossybox it's a monthly beauty box, every month they send you 5 luxuary high end sample products to try, it costs £10 per month and is available in the UK and Ireland.

It came with the most gorgeous packaging as always, the light pink box which is really cute and girly (also amazing for storage because its really strong!) then the products are wrapped in black paper which is beautifully tied with a lovely dusty pink ribon and a Glossybox sticker!

This is exactly how it looked when I opened it, there is usually something big in there to stop everything moving around but not this time unfortunately.  Inside is the 5 products which sit on top of fuzzy black cardoard. 

The products I got:

1) Como Shambhala - Invigorate shower gel

2) Becca - beach tint

3) Awapuhi Wild Ginger by Paul Mitchell - styling treatment oil 

4) Dr Bronners Magic Soaps - Lavender Hand Sanitiser

5) BM beauty - Pure Mineral Eyeshadow

Como Shambhala - Invigorate shower gel

The company claims it will 'Cleanse and energise your skin'
Its has eucalyptus, Geranium, Lavander and Peppermint essential oils and it's a 50ml sample but for the full size which is 30ml it is £20.
I didnt get very excited about this product. For one I'm not a big fan of the scent its very floral and minty and quite strong.  At the end of the day its shower gel, I'm not even a quarter of the way through the bath stuff I got for Christmas so this is just another thing I have to use up! 

Becca - beach tint

I got the Becca beach tint in the shade 'Water melon'

It's a water resistant colour tint for cheeks and lips and I quite like it, I've only swatched it on my hand and haven't tried it anywhere else so I cant tell you much, but it felt really creamy and is really pigmented and also felt really light on my skin so I think it'll be really nice for in the summer!
 it's a full size product which I didn't realise at first because it's only 7ml! 

 It costs £20 which I do think is a little pricey for the amount you get. 


Awapuhi Wild Ginger by Paul Mitchell - Styling treatment oil.                                  

This is by far my favourite product!

 I was so excited to get this because I'd really wanted to try a new hair serum because I hadnt been using one for so long!
I used it lastnight on my damp towel dried hair, just 2 pumps and massaged it into my ends.
I woke up and my hair was silky, soft and really shiny! I LOVE it!
I even got compliments at school, someone even asked to touch my hair because it looked so soft ahaha!
This is also a full sized product, you get 25ml and costs £7.50 but you can also get 100ml for £25.95.
It smells really nice, the main tone is ginger which I would usually hate and then other spicy undertones.  Even though they are quite warm smells its still manages to smell refreshing!

4) Dr Bronners Magic Soaps - Lavender Hand Sanitiser

This is a lavendar spray hand sanitizer by Dr Bonner. 
I got a 59ml bottle which costs £3.99
It smells really strongly of lavendar which isnt really a scent I like but that doesnt bother me too much, I prefer the gel/liquid sanitizers where as this is a pure liquid spray.  This company is all organic and this product is free of                gmo-alcohol and petro-carbomer thickener, also this company don't test on animals which is always nice!


5) BM beauty - Pure Mineral Eye shadow

This was another thing I was quite disappointed with because I really don't like loose pigments/shadows... I think they're really hard to apply and I always manage to get product everywhere! 
I got the shade 'Noir' which is black with really fine glitter, I dont think I'll use it much because I already have pretty much the same shadow in atleast 2/3 pallettes which I am much more likely to use.
The little pot i got was 1g and that would cost you £7.00


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To go to the Glossybox website click here!

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Gotta say Glossybox not hugely impressed with this months box, hopefully next months will be better!


Thank you so much for reading!
I would love to hear your feedback so drop me a comment below!


All my love, 
Alex.X

Live, Laugh, Love 18/02/12

Hi guys!
This week has been completely crazy!
I've been so busy!
My mum and dad went on holiday on Monday which is why my other posts were so late,  and it generally messed everything up.  I've been staying with my sister all week so I've not been in my own house surrounded by my own things, which is never very nice.
I was hoping to do a review of some sort but of course with me being away from home i didn't have anything to review!
My Glossybox was shipped today tough so should be with me in the next few days so i cant wait to do a review on that!
Me, my sister and her husband have had a good old time watching films and getting fatty since they've been away and I cant wait to see what my present is when they get back on Monday, so it definitely isn't all bad!

I went to school on Wednesday for 2 hours of maths revision like the good little student I am, it was nice to  have a catch up with my girlies even though I'd only seen them 4 days ago, I missed them<3!
I was supposed to be going into Manchester for a lovely shopping day with Laura but she had art coursework  that needed finishing, something came up for me and my mums giving me £130 when she gets back because i didn't go on holiday with them woooo!  So I said maybe if we go next weekend we'll both have more money and more time to spend.
I go back to school on Monday because half term is over, I'm not that bothered really.
Don't get me wrong, I find most lessons ridiculously boring but the breaks where me and all the other girls are sat down having a good time, food fights with the lads where the head comes in and screams at us, singing happy birthday to someone so loud the entire canteen looks over. I love our table!
Anyway, I'm waffling... sorry:(
Alex.X

Friday favourite's and Fudgeroo's!

Hi everybody!
This is my first 'Friday favourite's and fudgeroo's post so I'll explain a little bit about what it
is and then I shall get on with it!
So, basically every Friday I'll do a post about one product I loved that week (the Friday Favourite)
And one product i have hated (the Friday Fudgeroo)
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So this week my Friday Favourite has been my new e.o.s lip balm!
I got it on Tuesday off Ebay.
My mum had the package waiting in the car for me after school the little cutie!
I paid £4.65 for it and the shipping was free.
I will go into more detail in my February product hall at the end of the month!

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My Friday Fudgeroo this week is the natural collection blush in the shade 'Rosey Glow'
Its not the actual blush thats the fudgeroo, the blush is great!
Its really pigmented and stays on all day, the bad part is I only got it last week and I opened my make-up bag yesterday to discover it was all completely cracked:( I know for a fact I hadn't dropped it or banged it against anything. I had other powder products in there which were all fine and undamaged.
This has happened once before with a natural collection blush where it cracked straight away!

Hope you enjoyed my Friday Faves and Fudgeroos even though its now Monday!
I'll go into more detail of why I'm updating late in my 'Love, laugh, live' post which I will be putting up tomorrow.
Alex.X

Live, Laugh, Love 05/02/12

Hi everyone!

This is my first weekly update based around what i've done in my week. 

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So, this week i have been ridiculously busy with exams:(
The pressure of year 11 is really really starting to get to all of us. 
Only 12 weeks left of school and i really don't want to leave, i cant believe how fast my final year has gone!
Im dreading my last day, and im unbelievably nervous for college, but what has to be the absolute worst thing about it is leaving the people who i've seen everyday for the last 12 years.
I dont care what anyone says to me about college being a new start, 12 years is a long time especially since i've known these people since i can remember.
At the moment im just trying to make my final high school days the best they can be, as everyone says 'Your school days are the best days of your life!' 
Just thinking about it makes me want to cry!
Anyway, enough of me being a moanypoo..
ITS SNOWED! WOOOOOO
last night (saturday) I got a very strange phone call off my sister Caroline to say she needed me to come round to her house because her husband was stuck in the snow and couldn't get home so she was on her own.
I said ok, and she said she looked out of her living room window and there was footprints in the snow going up to her door and then they stopped, none going back. I was like oh my god! spooky much!
So off i went to hers to rescue her like the good sister I am.
Anyway, excited to tell you all about next week - hopefully it will be a bit more eventful!
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Inspirational quote of the week:

"Dance as though no one can see you, sing as though no one can hear you, love as though you have never been hurt before.  Live as though heaven is on earth." - Anonymous
This is an extract out of a poem, i think its really nice how the author didn't publish it with their name, shows how they don't want any recognition or attention for it, they just wanted to share and help people without anything in reurn. The world would be a much better place if more people were like this:-)
ByeX