One is not born a women, one becomes one....

 

 

Well hello my darlings....

 

I hope you have been having a truly festive time... I thought i would just swing by to let you know the festive goings on....

 

Well i must have been a really good girl as Santa really did visit our humble abode as i really have been spoilt my pressies include such things as a new handbag, necklace, earrings a darling figurine of Tinkerbell with the caption let your dreams fly :-).... and drum roll pleeeaasssee i am now the proud owner of a stunning princess cut white gold engagement ring yay!!

 

So i can now announce myself and my gorgeous fiancee are tying the note on 10th May 2014... this is 10 years in the making so i can't lie and say there weren't a few tears shed Christmas day as he got down on one knee, shaking with our song playing in the background to ask me to marry him :-) true tell your grandchildren story style....

 

The other new love of my life is Yankee candles new scent pink lady slipper, a scent of parma violets with a subtle fresh note perfect....This got me thinking of smells and how much they personally mean to me as i associate my fondest memories to smells, for example parma violets reminds me of my great Nana who died two years ago and Saturday afternoons at her house, since she passed I've kept her favourite Yardley's perfume on my dresser and just a mere spritz makes me feel close to her remembering her teaching me classic make up techniques i still use. My Nana was and always be my style icon so immaculate even in her last year of 92 years old she was fashion  perfect.....

 

 

Other smells that i love are suntan lotion and fruity cocktails a heady mix that takes me back to myself and my fiancees first festival together, friends all around us amazing music pure pleasure :-) and more recently our first holiday together to Corfu :-)

 

so any smells that take you to a moment in time?? personally its music and smells for me that can instantly make me smile or cry at a memory.....

 

Whilst i'm here my new years fashion inspiration...

 

 

and my take for new years eve with black blazer heels and glitz

 

 

what do we think???

 

oh and a pic of me and my gorgeous other half around 2 years ago :-)

 

 

 

have fun everyone mwahhhhhhhh xoxoxoxo

Beauty as you've never used it before......

 

 

Well hello there my lovelies......

 

 

Sorry I've been a bit AWOL lately just seems to never stop at the moment.... so lets catch up...

 

I am now in a very very festive mood now the trees up and there is sparkle all around, I've barely had time to think or move from my lecture hall and laptop it seems lately, with studies picking up just before our much needed chrimbo break (yayayyyy!!)

 

 So what have been up to well i took my gorgeous little god daughter swimming for the first time a couple of weekends ago which was amazing it truly melted my heart as she is only 6.....

 

I've almost finished my Christmas shopping...... which leads me to this post it was my uni xmas do last night and every girl knows how much goes into looking good on a big night out.... well in the process of this i have found a few uses for things that you will not believe i just had to share....

 

First off....

 

 

we all know this.... and this is one of my true staples i always have hanging around in my bag especially now the winter has truly set in.... so what did i use it for other than my lips you ask?? well two things....

 

1) when i was fake tanning (after thoroughly exfoliating my golden rule of any good tan) i hit the deep moisturise stage.... which is fine as i have mountains of lovely smelling body butters, but low and behold on my latest haul i forgot to pick up Vaseline which was a bummer as my pet hate of fake tanners the world round is that orange look that looks like you smoke a million a day around your nails... my remedy Vaseline or in this case lip balm a wallah :-)....

 

2) also comes in handy when I'm pencilling in my eyebrows for that sleek look....

 

Number two....

 

 

Got an old mascara knocking around?? i always do i just can't get rid of anything (4 wardrobes is my sign of this...) so i can't get into my lifesaving hairdressers until this Thursday great as my hair will look lush for chrimbo..... but that didn't help me this Saturday dyed brown hair 9 weeks in.... as I'm growing my hair again after my rash decision to bob my hair off (lucky it grows quick).... so roots flashing lights brown extension's hmmmmm not a great look.... out comes the mascara a trick i picked up when i worked at the hairdressers as a stylist....

 

a pic from my night out don't think i look too shabby :-) (I'm in the animal print)

 

 

Anyway folks off to write about hetrotophic nutrition (and find some wet look leggings and a top... any accessory ideas hola at me :-)) .. oh and I'm seeing my amazing family at the weekend swapping prezzies.... then out for a meal with my favourite people....

 

hope you have an amazing week everyone

 

Sam

 

XxxxxxxX