GRWM- Makeup for Christmas Day!

Hey everyone, today I have for you a GRWM, and this is the first one i have done, so I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to do this (take the pictures) so I hope you enjoy it! This GRWM is going to be for Christmas day, and I will be showing you the makeup I will be wearing!

Hope you enjoy it!

Okay the first thing I am going to do is my makeup. Before I apply my makeup, I am going to wash my face with the Simple Facial Wash Gel. I just apply that to my face and cleanse my face. I then wash it off with a cloth, and then apply the Simple Hydrating Moisturiser.

After my moisturiser has completely dried, and my face isn't sticky, I will then prime my face with the Baby Skin primer, and this is £7.99. I am apply this onto my face, and as I don't have a eye primer, I put some on my eye lids.

I then put on my concealer, and I am using the Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer. I apply this under my eyes, and on my spots, and just where there might be a bit of redness. I really like this concealer, its really light and it doesn't feel like your wearing it. This was £5.99 in the sale.

I then apply powder, and at the moment I have the Natural Collection Powder, and I know Natural Collection isn't an amazing brand, but I have only just started using powder, so I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on a makeup item I might not even like. I do like powder, so if you could recommend me some good powders in the comments that would be great!

I then do my eye makeup and I was aiming for a smokey eye so I first applied this caramel brown colour over my lid.

I then apply this brown colour in my crease and blend well.

Finally I add this black bluey colour in the corner eye and blend together with the brown.

(Here is a little picture of what it turns out like!)

At this point I would usually put on eyeliner, but for some reason I have lost my eyeliners, which is really annoying but I will hopefully get a new one for christmas. So I then go on to my eyebrows, I fill in my eyebrows with the brown eyeshadow colour from my Sleek Palette and then to put them in place I apply the Natural Collection clear mascara to them.

After that I put on my mascara, for my top lashes I use the W7 Mascara, and this mascara seperates your lashes really well. For my bottom lashes I use the Clinique High Impact mascara, and this gives my bottom lashes lots of length.

For my lips I thought I would wear a nude pink colour, so I decided on a mix of lip products. I was firstly going to apply this Topshop Lipstick in Pillow Talk. I then add the Tanya Burr Lipstick in Just Peachy. Its a really gorgeous glossy pink colour, and I tried to recreate Tanya's lip choice from her vlog the other day.

Hope you enjoyed it, and I will speak soon!

Bye!x

Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone! I cannot believe it is christmas eve! I literally can't contain my excitement for tommorow... I wanted to take this chance to say thankyou to everyone for reading my blog, and giving it such amazing great feedback! There has been over 10,000 people who have read my blog, and I have only had it since September. I only started this blog, to write really, to tell everyone what beauty things I love, and things I would recommend and its turned into something amazing for me. I have anxiety, and I can't say what I am feeling to the people who help me, and I l know I don't talk about my anxiety problems much, but I am planning to. I was thinking of doing a Dealing with Anxiety post, and I will basically talk to you about what I have gone through, and what helps me and how things can help.  After December I will be going back to posting once a week, as I can't think of a lot of post ideas, so if you would like to give me some ideas that you would like me to do, then that would be lovely! But you don't have to! I jsut wanted to say thankyou for such amazing support, and I hope you get amazing presents, eat tasty food and spend the day with your family. Christmas is a time to have fun and be with family, so I hope you have an amazing christmas!

Have a merry christmas, and a happy new year!

Bye!

Marie xx

The Christmas Tag!

Hey everyone, today I have for you the Christmas Tag! I can't believe its only 11 days until christmas, I am so excited for christmas that I am shaking as I am writing this. Last year wasn't the best christmas for me or my family, so I am trying to do everything in my power to make this one amazing! I hope you enjoy this tag, and let me know in the comments..... whats your favourite thing about christmas?

Do you have any christmas traditions?

Well every year, a lit up sleigh comes down my street and around where I live, and me, my mum, my dad , and my sister all watch it, and we donate some money, as they are doing it to raise money for a charity but I am not entirely sure what it is, I think it may be the Salvation Army.

Whats the best present you have ever got?

I think every present you receive is amazing, but 2 years ago when I had a broken leg, I was always cold, and I couldn't go out and buy a onesie, but for christmas my auntie bought me a stitch onesie, and Stitch is my favourite disney character. I think I might have a picture, if I do, I will insert it below! It might not be amazing quality...

What is your favourite christmas film?

My favourite christmas film is between, Nativity, Elf, The Home Alone Films, or The Grinch.

What is your favourite christmas song?
Band Aid 30 - Do they know its christmas?   or

One more sleep- Leona Lewis.

What are you doing on christmas eve this year?

I am really excited for the 24th because I will be spending the day with my best friend Andrew, and I will probably have family round in the evening that live in Bexhill.

What is on your christmas list this year?

The most expensive things on my list this year are Benefit Makeup and Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream Perfume.

What advent calendar do you have this year?
I have the Maltesers advent calendar this year.

Have you done your christmas shopping yet?

I did it last weekend with my sister, and they are already wrapped and under my christmas tree.

Whats your favourite christmas candle?
Yankee Candle- Christmas Eve

Yankee Candle - Christmas Cookie

Whats the best thing about christmas to you? 

Spending it with family, opening presents, christmas dinner, and just being together with people you love.

Do you have a fake or a real tree?

I have a fake tree because my mum doesn't like pine needles??

Have you decorated your room?

Yes I have and you can see what I have done, as I have done a DIY on how to make your room more festive!

Whats your favourite thing to do on the run up to christmas?
Watch christmas films, bake cakes, cookies and food, decorating my house, and shopping for christmas presents.

That is the end of the Christmas Tag, and I hope you enjoyed it! 

Bye!x

DIY- Christmas Cupcakes + Vanilla Cookies!

Hello everyone, today I have for you 2 recipes, and one of them is how to make these christmassy cupcakes, and the second recipe is how to make my Christmas Vanilla Cookies.

These are quite simple to make, and they are very tasty!

Hope you enjoy!

CHRISTMAS CUPCAKES

Ingredients: to make 12:  133g self raising flour

133g margarine

133g caster sugar

1/2 tsp baking powder

2 eggs

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

To make icing: 55g margarine

250g icing sugar

Boiling water

Food colour of your choice

christmassy decorations

Method: Preheat your oven to 170 degrees

1. Put the christmassy cupcake cases into the cupcake tray.

2. Cream together the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy.

3. Add the egg and the vanilla extract and mix.

4. Add the flour gradually.

5. Put the mixture in the cupcake cases

6. Pop in the oven 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.

7. Once your waiting for the cakes to cool, you can make the icing.

8. You put the butter in the bowl and cream together with the icing sugar. To make it a bit easier, I add a bit of boiling water to make it easier to mix. If its too runny add more icing sugar. If its too dry and more water.

9. You can then pipe your icing, I added a bit of yellow food colouring. I then put a little edible (Father Christmas, christmas pudding, snowman,stocking) on top of it.

CHRISTMAS VANILLA COOKIES

Ingredients: 170g margarine

150g caster sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 egg

281g plain flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

Icing- (I got the Dr.Oeteker Pink Icing)

Any other decoration you would like to use!

Christmas cookie cutters

Method: Preheat your oven to 180 degrees

1. Cream together the butter and sugar

2. Add the: egg, vanilla extract, baking powder

3. Add the plain flour and stir together to form a ball.

4. Put in the fridge to chill for 10-15 minutes.

5. Put your ball of dough onto a floured surface, and roll out about 1cm thick. ( Yes, i am watching Zoella)

6. Cut out your shapes, I had a christmas tree, and a gingerbread man!

7. Pop in the oven for 11 minutes until golden brown.

8. Let them cool, and then ice and decorate them.

9. Eat them with a cup of tea!

I really hope you enjoyed this post, I love doing baking, so if you would like me to post more recipe's, then let me know in the comments!

Bye!x

November Favourites!

Hello everyone, today I have for you my November Favourites, and I have been loving a lot of different things this month, so I hope you enjoy it! Let me know in the comments if you like me posting 2 times a week, and if you would like me to do it permanently! Enjoy!

BEAUTY

The first beauty product I have been loving in the month of November is this Models Own Powder Eye Shadow in the shade Peachy Keen. I like to put this shadow in the crease of my eyelid and blend it with a white eye shadow, and this just gives your a eye a bit of colour, but not a lot, so I would recommend this shade to girls who don't like to/ or not allowed to wear a lot of eye shadow but still wants to look like your actually wearing some. I actually got this in a Teen Now magazine like 2 years and I have only just rediscovered this, so I don't actually know the price.

The second beauty product I have been loving in the month of November was another eye shadow, and it is the N07 eye shadow in the shade Stay Perfect and its a gorgeous shimmery pastel purple colour and this was £5.59 which I think is pretty reasonable. This eye shadow is an amazing subtle colour and I wear this during school as my eye shadow as your not allowed to have a full on smokey eye, so this is what I have to stick with, but its just a gorgeous shimmery colour, and it lasts almost all day which I think is amazing.

The last beauty product I have been loving, well its basically 2 products but I have been loving this lip style, and its this MUA Red Lipstick in Shade 1, and the Natural Collection Clear Lipgloss. I have been loving this mix a lot because it gives you quite a bright lip, but also glossy as well. The MUA lipstick was £1.99, and the Natural Collection Clear Lipgloss was £1.99. This look stays on for almost 2 hours which isn't bad I guess.

SKINCARE

I have only been loving one skincare product and that is the Garnier Mincellar Cleansing Water, and this is £3.59. This is one of the best makeup removers I have ever tried, and it gets everything off. I take off my makeup every night, and I wipe off any excess in the morning and usually there is very rarely any makeup on my cotton pad, which I think is amazing! There isn't much more I can say about this but its a really good makeup remover.

FOOD AND DRINK

The first food I have been loving in the month of November is Sugar Shreddies. I find this favourite pretty childish, but I love these as a little snack, and there isn't much I can say. They are really tasty!

The drink I have been loving in the month of November, is the Innocent Fruit Smoothie Orange Juice, and I drink this almost every day, and it counts as one of your 5 a day and that's good! Its really refreshing and I buy the smooth one instead of the *with bits*. They are usually £2.50 for a massive bottle.

CLOTHING

I have been loving only one piece of clothing this month, and this is a pair of gloves. These are from Jack Wills, and these were £9.00. They are so gorgeous and they have a christmassy pattern, and they are really festive. They are woolly on the outside and it is really fluffy and warm on the inside which is perfect for the winter.

SHOPS

The first shop I have been loving a lot is Lush. I bought a bath bomb around 2 years ago, and I had an allergic reaction, so I went off Lush, but I bought a sensitive skin bath bomb and it did treats to my skin. So I started to buy more and I just love having baths now! 

The next shop I have been loving this month is Costa. Every time I go into town I always buy a Costa, I order either a Homemade Peach Lemonade or a hot chocolate. They always cheer me up for some reason, I just love Costa so much!

MUSIC

I have only been loving one song in the month of November and that is Real Love - Tom Odell. You may recognise the song from the John Lewis advert. I just find this song so calming and chill. I have been listening to this song non-stop, and its one of my favourite songs.

That is the end of my November Favourites, I hope you enjoyed it!

Bye!x

DIY Christmas Room Decor Ideas!

Hello everyone, I cannot believe that its December, I am so excited for christmas! So for this festive season I have decided to do a room decor ideas post, and this is for people who might not be feeling in the festive spirit who want to be or for the people who can't think of anything to do to make their room more christmassy. I have been asked to do blogmas but I don't think I will be able to do, so instead I will be posting twice a week instead of once!This might be a long one so I hope you enjoy it!

Countdown to Christmas Blocks

What you will need:

2 wooden square blocks (Can buy from the Range if UK, Target if your from USA)

Christmas patterns (Can print some off)

A rectangular wooden block.

Stick on numbers (or you can print some off online)

Green paint and white paint.

What to do:

1. Paint the square blocks white and while your waiting for them to dry, paint the rectangular block green.

2. Cut out squares from the christmas patterns as the same size as a side of the square. You need to cut out 12 of those squares.

3. Once the wooden blocks have dried you can stick on the squares onto each side of the square blocks.

4. You then need to then cut out a 0,1,2,3,4,5 and these numbers go on the first square block, and then you need to print and cut out a 0,1 2,6,7,8 which need to be stuck onto the second block.

5. You then write on the front of the rectangular block 'days till christmas', and then your done!

Bauble Jar

What you will need:

A big mason jar.

Baubles

What to do:

1. You get a bunch of different baubles (doesn't matter what size) and you basically just put them in the jar until the very top.

2. Thats it!

You can put this wherever you want in your room and it just adds a nice touch to it.

Mini Christmas Tree

What you will need:

A mini christmas tree

Baubles 

Fairy Lights

What you need to do:
1. This DIY is pretty simple, you put up your tree wherever you want in your room, preferably near a plug socket (as you might be plugging in your lights). 

2. You wrap your lights around your tree and then decorate it with baubles.

Fairy Tinsel Lights

What you will need:

Tinsel

Battery Powered White Fairy Lights

Sellotape

What to do:

1. You hang up your tinsel wherever you want to, and stick it down with some sellotape. I put it along my shelves.

2. Once your tinsel is secure you wrap your fairy lights around your tinsel, and stick the battery pack thing down to whatever surface is nearest.

Personalised Ornaments

For this DIY, its not really a *do it yourself*. You can go to a christmas shop or a christmas fair, and buy a personalised ornament/decoration and it lets people know its your room and that you like christmas! I got mine done at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London.

Christmassy Duvet

This DIY isn't really a DIY either but you can do this stuff yourself. I think to make your room even more festive is your bed. It has to look 'the part', so I bought this Christmas duvet from Primark and they have one like this but in blue aswell. This was £12.00!

Christmas Backgrounds

What you will need:

A phone

The patience to pick a background.

What to do:
1.You go onto google and type in, 'tumblr christmas backgrounds'.

2. You pick a background and you set it as your background on your phone.

Simple as that! (Quite proud of this btw!)

This is the end of my DIY Fesitive Room Decor Ideas and I hope this gave you some help to make your room more festive!! Let me know in the comments if you have done any of these ideas!!

Top 5 Favourite Lip Products!

Hello everyone, before I get into today's post, I seriously cannot believe that Christmas is so soon! As a little sneak peek, the first Christmas themed post will be How to make your room christmassy! I am very excited to do this one, and let me know in the comment what other christmas posts you would like me to do. Okay today I will be telling you all about my 5 favourite lip products I own . I hope you enjoy it!

The first lip product I love so much, is the Tanya Burr Lipgloss in Just Peachy. I have never tried any of Tanya's lip glosses before so I decided to just go for a neutral colour. I love this lip gloss so much, its really moisturising, and creamy and I know creamy isn't a word you would you use to describe for a lipgloss, but it is in a way and its a gorgeous pinky coral colour, and I think it goes with every outfit. It gives your lips a nice shine, but a bit of colour aswell. This was £4.16 in the sale on the Superdrug website.

The next lip product I have been loving this month is the Pink Baby Lips Electro, and I love this because the normal Baby Lips Collection don't give much colour, and then they bought these ones out to the shops, and it gives so much colour, and its a really moisturising lip balm. Its a gorgeous hot pink colour. This is £2.99 and this was from Boots.

The next lip product I have been loving is this lipstick called Pillow Talk, and its a gorgeous baby pink colour. This was £7.99 and its such a nice nude lipstick, and it applies really well. The best thing about this lipstick is that it stays on for 2 hours, which I think is amazing, usually lipsticks don't stay on for longer than 1 hour unless its a berry shade. This lipstick suits every skin colour, whether your really pale or tanned.

The next lip product I have been loving a lot is this Maybelline lipstick in Summer Pink

and before you say anything, yes most of my favourite lip products are Pinks. Its a red pinky colour and I wore this so much during the summer during the Autumn-Winter. I am not allowed to wear full on red lips(my mum doesn't let me:///) so this colour was perfect. This was £6.99 and this was from Boots.

The last lip product I have been loving is this gorgeous coral pink , and this is also one of the Maybelline Lipstick, and the name of this lipstick is Coral Heart. Its a really shimmery lipstick and there isn't much I can say about it, and this is my all time favourite lipstick. This was also £6.99.

That is the end of my post, hope you enjoyed it!

Bye !x