Current favourites

It's been ages and ages since I did my last favourites post so here we are with a new set of favourites! I surprise myself with these posts because I'm not normally one of those people who changes products or gets attached to new things regularly but it seems I do..hm who knew it, maybe I'm not sure of a creature of habit.

First is the beauty type products which I've been loving! If you've seen my recent make-up haul post (its here if you haven't read it!) I spoke about the Rimmel London Stay Matte Primer, since then I have fallen in love with it, bit weird I know. But in the past few weeks I've been wearing just powder during the day instead of a liquid just because I've been super busy and I often found I was reapplying through the day and getting shiny, but I've found using this as a base for makeup has really helped and I'm finding I don't have to reapply powder and if I do its normally mid afternoon. Highly recommend it!

At christmas I got a tonne of beauty products and things and I'm still slowly working my way through them and finding new things I like. Recently I've been loving No7's Beautiful Skin, Cleansing lotion. I have pretty sensitive skin and find a lot of products I can't use but this is hypo-allergenic and very gentle on the skin. I'm also prone to breakouts and this hasn't brought any on which is even better! I tend to use the lotion at night to remove make-up and it works so well! It's gentle on skin and can remove all my make-up pretty much instantly with a wipe of cotton wool after applying it, and you only need a little bit to so my guess is it'll probably last me a while! I know you can get it at boots, usually on 3 for 2 or some other fabulous promotion.

 Finallllly make-up wise is the Maybelline New York, Master Precise liquid eyeliner. I never wear eyeliner, only ever to fill in gaps when I'm wearing eyelashes, but I bought this in the hope I could teach myself to apply it properly and try something new with my make-up. So far, so good! It's easy to use, really soft, almost like a fine liner and sits in place really well. It was around £6 or £7 if I remember correctly so I'm pretty happy about this little purchase. (If anyone has tips on applying eyeliner easily let me know!)

My next favourite is my favourite purchase I've made in a couple of months! This lovely statement, yet subtle necklace. I bought this from New Look, and was only £5.99. It's great for wearing with a cami for a dressy occasion or a casual occasion. I really really like it! It's also not heavy or noisy to wear...if that makes sense. 

Finallly, slightly random but still one of my favourite things at the minute! My diary. With a busy few months coming up with exams and birthdays and trips and work and god know what else this has been my best friend recently. I know its late in the year to be raving about a diary but honestly I recommend buying one if you're as disorganised as I can be sometimes. It just lets me know/plan where I should be and what I should be doing, even with my revision. It also lets me plan college work, trips and life in general which is brilliant for me. I'm just really enjoying being organised. (It also means I can collect my lego stickers somewhere from when I babysit, which is the best part of course...)

Thanks for reading, I love doing posts like this:-)!

@littleblogx

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Christmas time favourites

I haven't really used many different things since my last favourites post. But since it's been Christmas I've had a couple of new favourite items, mainly beauty items, that I've been using a lot more and loving!

I'm not normally a candle person, but after a recent visit to a local garden centre I fell in love with the Christmas Yankee Candles. I am loving the Christmas cookie and Christmas eve ones especially! Even as I sit and write this I have the Christmas cookie one flickering away on the corner of my desk. They really do smell like Christmas and I will not hesitate to buy them or use them again next year! I'll probably leave them out all year because they're delightful, and I don't care if my room smells like Christmas in the middle of June. 

This month has been filled with gatherings and Christmas nights out. For the majority of this month, when the event has allowed, I've been using the MUA lipstick in shade 4. Although its not that long lasting I love the colour and for £1 I really wasn't expecting much from it, which is another reason why I like it so much, its cheap but cheerful. 

Whilst we're on lip care, I've also been loving the EOS lip balm in strawberry sorbet which I got as a present for my birthday. It smells so good, is small enough to pop in a bag and its a pretty good lip balm as its moisturising and doesn't leave your lips too greasy after its soaked in or rubbed off.

Last but not least in my current favourite hair product; the Schwarzkopf leave in Gliss, liquid silk express repair conditioner. In fact this product used to be a favourite of mine when I was younger and had very long and knotty hair. Since I've been growing my hair and its getting longer its started getting a lot knottier and because I'm head sore and hate trying to get a brush through my mangled hair I thought I'd give this another go. And I'm so glad I did! I honestly love this product so much; It makes my hair feel super super soft and makes it shiny and manageable. I can also brush my hair now without making myself cry or giving myself a massive headache. This is reasonably cheap as well, I think I paid about £2.99 for it and it lasts a long time. So I highly recommend this to anyone with knotty or unmanageable hair!

There are my current Christmas time favourites! Thanks for reading and I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and New Year!

@HanMcFly

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Current favourites

I enjoyed doing my last favourites post (which is here; My Summer Favourites) so much that I thought HEY, lets do another! This time isn't quite as exciting really and a few of these things I've already spoken about in other posts (oops for always raving about the same things!) But...

My current clothing favourites include my sparkly new Converse All Stars, in Grey with baby pink trims (Which actually look neon in the picture!) from none other than Office (They're Office exclusives) for £40 with student discount. Although they were ridiculously painful the first few times I wore them, they're starting to get easier to wear and I LOVE them; They're so versatile and pretty!

My second clothing favourite is my autumn/winter coat from New Look, which was around £35...I think; I'm rubbish at remembering and finding it on the website! But yeah I really like the colour and the design, I don't think my poor photography really did it any justice. It's practical but is still a lovely coat; I did find that I had to get a size bigger than I normally wear because the sleeves are a little short, but other than that its my new favourite coat!

This past month or so I've actually spent money on make up and girly things like that, which is quite unlike me. I've also been wearing more make up to. I recently re-purchased the Rimmel London Stay Matte powder, which is my current favourite (I tend to alternate between that and my Clinique stay matte powder) as it gives a natural cover and stops me from being too shiny. I also bought MUA's pro-base fixing mist which has become my best friend! It's pretty good to say it was only a fiver! I've also tried the MUA lipsticks recently to, which are also quite good! The nail varnish is an Avon one and other than that I don't know anything else about it, other than its really girly and subtle which is brilliant when you can't really wear bright nail varnish(at least not whilst I'm trying to grow my nails!) like me! 

Finally my last favourite is rather random! I bought a Nintendo GameCube about a year ago and it came with a couple of games. As of a few weeks ago I started playing Finding Nemo and it's become my favourite game ever to play! I'm such a big kid, haha and I thought I'd share my love for this game with you just in case any one reading was a GameCube playing like myself! 

So there we go! My current favourites! I really enjoy doing these type of posts and doing mini reviews! I think I might start doing more reviews and things; what about I do not know! Anyway, thanks for reading!

@HanMcFly

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My Summer Favourites

I'm not one of those people who buys new things every month and uses different things all the time, I pretty much just use the same things all the time, especially if I know they're good! But I thought, with my inspiration coming from other bloggers and from YouTubers, that I might do a little favourites post about my favourite beauty, clothing and other items so far over this glorious period of weather we've had in Britain! 

One of my favourite shops is New Look, purely because they sell some really nice clothes which are reasonably priced, considering I cant spend all my wages on clothes each month! Oh but how I wish I could! When I was on holiday I did a bit of shopping in Newquay, which is where I picked up my first favourite of the summery season! 

Oatmeal Crochet Back T-shsirt - £5 from New Look (Possibly might be back to £9.99)

I loved the material and the speckled type pattern that it has and the colour is neutral and quite summery I thought! The back is crochet and laps onto the shoulders, which looks really nice. The tshirt is oversised but I went for a size smaller than I normally would and I'm glad I did because I don't feel like its too small or too big! When I got to the checkout in New look and found out that it was only £5 I was even happier with my little purchase, I wish I'd got a few more, maybe in different colours now! I find that this tshirt is great for casual days out and is extremely comfy for travelling!

With the weather being rather warm and not being able to find a decent pair of sandals yet I've pretty much lived in my grey Toms. 

Toms University Classic, Light Grey Canvas- £36.99, Office 

They're the comfiest and most practical shoes I think I've ever owned! I've worn them far too much and they're looking really scruffy now but they're still incredibly comfy and I wont be getting rid of them any time soon! Highly recommend Toms because they're so comfy and practical! As well as the amazing work the company does giving shoes to the poorer in the third world countries. 

Apart from the odd pair of labelled shoes; Converse, Toms and Vans which I own I'm not a labelled clothing type of person; I prefer the high street shops. But recently my dad bought me this lovely Superdry Vest whilst on my holidays, as a little present. I am completely in love with it! 

Superdry vintage low arm vest- £19.99 Superdry store 

I love the colours which are reallllly girly and summery. The vest has low cut arms so a lot of side/bra is on show but if I wear it with a white bandeau I feel more comfortable with wearing the vest! I just love it and its been worn quite often over the past few weeks with this lovely weather we've had! So thank you father for buying this for me! 

Finally I have some random favourites which I've fallen in love with and used quite a lot over the past few weeks! 

1- Hayfever Tablets
2- Sunglasses- £1 Primark
3- The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare, book three
4- The Body Shop, Born Lippy, Strawberry Lip Balm- £3 The body Shop

First is the Hayfever and Allergy Relief tablets which have been an absolute GOD SEND these past few weeks! I've never had hayfever before but this year it has been awful! I've tried several types of tablets since the hayfever season started and these seem to be the best ones I've found! Plus they're only about 40p!

The sunglasses have also been a God send and have been everywhere with me! They're just simple black framed sunglasses, with pink and grey rims, which I originally bought to take to a concert with me for the queue during the day. They only cost me £1 and they're possibly the best things I bought this year(I cant be trusted with expensive sunglasses because I just loose them, oops!)

My summer reading this year has been given to me by a close friend, who has given me a full summer reading list! With the weather being so nice I've had lots of time sat in the sun so I've read rather a lot just recently! I'm currently reading The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, and I'm only on book 3 but I am truly IN LOVE with the series! I recommend the series to ANYONE who wants a book they won't be able to put down! And whats even more exciting is that they've made the first book into a film, EEEK!

And finally this The Body Shop, Born Lippy Strawberry lip balm has also been a favourite of mine! It was only about £3 to and has been brilliant to put in my bag for work, days out or before bed! It slightly tints the lips to so for someone like me who either doesn't have time or is too lazy to put a full face of make up on is brill! 

Hope you enjoyed :-)! 

@HanMcFly

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