I'm Back!

Helloooo!

Okay, so I know I said "stay tuned" for more exciting posts while I was on holiday in Australia but I didn't have much internet so unfortunately I couldn't do any :P But I'm gonna try to make it up to the few people that read my blog and show you some of the stuff we got up to!

First off, look at this hot chocolate I had at the airport..

look at that disappointed face. it knows I shouldn't drink it when I'm trying to be healthy.

Anyways, I can't put too many pics up because of I'm not sure whether the people in it want to be on the internet like this so I just put the ones of me in and other funny/cool stuff I saw on my trip! And lets get on with the picture showwwiiing...

this was the view outside our plane window, that wee island looks rather lovely!

and so was this! aaah that beach looks so gooooood. you'd never see a beach with golden sand like that where I live!

This is a panoramic shot of Movieworld in Gold Coast, Australia! Not really that interesting a spot but hey it's panoramic.

Dad and I had the most delicious Peanut Butter flavoured Ben & Jerry's icecream GOD it was gooood, especially in that hot Australian sun! Man I wish we had Ben & Jerry's in New Zealand. :P

Me and my friend Sam went on a merry go round woooo haha, major thrills, my adrenaline was pumping like crazy I almost had a heart attack.

Omigooosh look who it is! haha Patrick Star and Sandy in the back, I swear that would be the worst job at theme parks because it was soooo friggin hot and if I was in one of those pretending to be happy when I'm dying on the inside I would just sedtjhgfbiwekv. Just imagining it is horrible.

Just take a moment to really let that picture above sink in.

THOSE MANNIKIN BOOBS ARE MASSIVE. Is that the norm for Australian girls? Cos mine are seriously just mosquito bites compared to those things.

hahha we just had to take a pic of this..I mean wow. Just wow.

What is with the mannikin's in Australia!??! This little school girl looks friggin scary as! Look at those creepy blank eyes and creepy emotionless face and the CREEPY snake pigtails! >shudder< when I was in primary I would've run home crying if I saw this chick.

Sam grabbed a sno-kone without me while we temporarily lost each other, geez thanks Sam. (She's not gonna see this anyway she doesn't know I have this blog ha)

We got some quality sunbathing time while we were in Australia and some quality shadows on the sand pics and some not so quality bikini pics which I am NOT putting up..

I blocked out Sam's face cos she probs wouldn't want it on here haha but yeah we did scary makeup one night when we were meant to be sleeping but yeah haha this is what mine turned out like!

Anyways I think that's all for now! So yeah just a brief summary of some stuff we got up too :)

Thanks for reading! Hugs via the internet!

xx

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Bit of a Beauty Haul!

vas happeenin!?

heeey so I thought I'd introduce to you all the fact that I rather like makeup. haha :) And what better way to do that than a wee "haul" / "what-I-think-about-what-I've-purchased-so-far" post!

For me I feel tired and dead without any makeup on and so using it just makes me feel like I can get stuff done (which still doesn't really happen but hey) and I feel more awake and confident when I'm out :). Anyway last week my mum had some vouchers that were gonna expire from a pharmacy and another department store which both sell makeup and mum didn't know what to use the vouchers for, so I suggested that I've been looking for something in particular that I would rather like to get haha, and so she took the hint and this is what we both ended up buying...the Revlon Photoready Color Correcting Primer, Revlon Colorstay Eyeshadow Palette, Revlon Colorburst Lip Butters, Maybelline Color Tattoo By Eyestudio, Maybelline Master Precise Liquid Liner (btw sorry I don't have a clearer camera for the pictures and swatches but it's gonna have to do!)

Revlon Photoready Color Correcting Primer 002

Well, I've been using this for about a week now and let me tell ya..I love it! :) It's the first primer I've tried and I'd previously done a lot of googling about the best "drugstore primers" and I'm not American but the brands they talk about under the category of "drugstore" sound like they're cheaper options which is always good haha. I'd read a lot of reviews on this one but I found it was kind of a hit or miss for some..but ultimately I just decided on buying this one because it's either gonna work for me or it's not. This is probably the most expensive makeup thing I've actually bought but we got it a lot cheaper because of mum's vouchers yay mum haha :) My main reason for wanting to buy a primer was to make my face makeup stay on for longer. I find that if i do wear foundation to school (I use Maybelline Superstay Makeup 24hr in "True Beige") so that means I put it on at about 7.20am and I don't touch it up during the day because that would be really weird at my school (pretty much no one wears a noticeable amount of makeup apart from like a few girls) and also I really wouldn't be bothered, when I come home at around 4.15pm its pretty much gone and at night when I go to wipe of my makeup, I'm pretty much just wiping off eyeliner and mascara. So I went and picked this up and I use it over moisturiser (Aveeno Positively Radiant Daily Moisturiser Spf 30) and under my foundation or tinted moisturiser and whatever else I'm gonna wear that day. It comes in a wee, well not that "wee" it has 27ml or 0.91 fluid ounces of product which is a pretty large amount for makeup, glass bottle with a pump and a plastic lid. Pretty sturdy, easily pump-out-able (forgot the word for like ease of pump-outage hahaa) packaging which is goood, but I mainly care about what it actually does for me..

It's a pale pinky kinda creamy, moisturiser consistency and I just use my fingers to swipe it on ma faaace. The pinky colour doesn't actually show up on the skin but I think it must have something to do with the "color correcting" claim. Some other people said it didn't make a difference to them but for me I feel like it mutes the redness and unevenness on my skin and makes it look that little bit better and it also feels really nice and smooth, although I tested some others on my hand at the store and they felt reaaaly siliconey and extremely smooth, but this revlon one's not quite that smooth. I definitely like that it mattifys my skin, I'd say I have combination skin, oily t zone and dry cheeks/tip of nose sometimes and this makes my skin not oily and I've noticed my t zone stays matte for longer than it would without the primer which is awesome :) but it still feels like a moisturising mask over my not so oily areas. I'd say it also does keep my foundation on for longer, a wee while ago I helped out as a waitress/kitchen hand for a friend's uncle's function and it stayed put! I put on my foundation at around 1pm or 2ish with the primer underneath, went to the function at 5pm and did not do any touch ups, it was also quite warm from the dishwasher/bbq/sun and the 100-150 odd people around/pretty cute bar guys ;) haha, came home at around 11pm, went to take off my makeup with my skin looking pretty darn alright (a little oily but much less than it would be without the primer) and makeup actually came off on the wipe. Like woah, that pretty much never happens, without the primer all I end up wiping off is maybe a bit of lippy, eyeliner and mascara. But I could visibly see foundation left on the wipe! To me, that's evidence that this primer definitely does make my foundation stay on longer which I love, love, looove. I was a tad iffy at buying it because I'd put on my friend's Revlon Photoready Foundation and it had given me rashes the next day :P and also the foundation has tiny bits of glitter in it, the primer does too but much less visible than their foundation. Overall and so far, I'd say I'm loving this primer and it was worth the money, I think it'll last me a looong time and with the foundation on top it makes my skin look really silky and much better than without makeup I think! Go check it out if you're looking for a primer, I'd definitely recommend!

Revlon Colorstay Eyeshadow Palette in "Attitude"

We bought this because there was this 3 for 2 thing on and mum and I stood there for ages at the Revlon counter wondering what should be our 3rd free item and so we picked this! It's quite a neutral palette which I kinda needed as I'm running out of this one mum and I have kinda been sharing for yonks. It's a really good everyday palette, pretty self explanatory really, nicely pigmented, I've been using it quite a lot now and yeah loving it! They're pretty much all matte except one colour, number 2 as labelled on the back, it's not super glittery or anything but just a nice sheen to it, pick it up if you're looking for a good everyday eye :)

Revlon Colorburst Lip Butter in "Red Velvet 040"

I looove these lip butters, before buying this one mum and I share "Creamsicle 065" shown below...

It's a nice peachy sheen kinda colour and is really moisturising and reasonably sheer, I like to pop it in the centre of my bottom lip over almost any other lip colour and it does the whole fuller lips thing because its colour kinda acts like a highlighter! In the swatch it looks quite white/peachy but in real life it looks a little pinkier. I've already used it up quite a bit over Spring/Summer :)

So since we had to use up some vouchers I bought the one in Red Velvet inspired by Zoella's pretty and slightly dark vampy lipstick she wears a lot of the time...

It's definitely more of a Winter colour so I don't think I'll be bringing this one with me to Australia although I might for a night out. Most of the lip butters are quite sheer but I love that this one is quite buildable and also really nice and moisturising, it really defines my lips and it's the perfect darkish red colour on me as others I've tried normally end up to orangey and too bright red and just don't look good on me. I'd definitely recommend it because it's suuuper pretty and creamy and yeah I just love it, so check it out! :)

Maybelline Color Tattoo By Eyestudio in "35 Tough as Taupe"

Moving on to Maybelline now! I was looking out to buy this one because I previously bought another Colour Tattoo in "25 Bad to the Bronze" and I loooooved it.

It comes in these wee pottles and I wouldn't say it's a creamy consistency because it won't come out if you turn the pottle upside down but once you put your finger in there and warm it up a bit it is really easy to work with and is quite creamy and then it sets and stays on for ever. It definitely is waterproof as well! I went in the shower with this on one day and it stayed really well! The water just forms those little droplets that kinda sit on the eyeshadow without smudging it or without it coming off and so I am definitely packing this in my bag for my trip to Australia because I intend to do a lot of swimming! Bad to the Bronze is such a gorgeous, definitely universally pretty colour on any eye. It has hints of golden shimmer in it and its just awesome!

Because I loved Bad to the Bronze so much I decided to get a matte colour too...

Tough as Taupe is a pretty taupe colour (obviously haha) and it's a great neutral shade, nice and matte and has everything I like about Bad to the Bronze but matte and taupe! Nothing more to say really because I think you get the point that I love all of these! Wish I could buy all the colours haha but I decided to spend money on colours I would use the most which are usually quite neutral so I picked up these two! :)

Maybelline Master Precise Liquid Liner in "Blackest Black"

Last product woo! Okay so I got recommended this liquid eyeliner by a friend as I was looking for one I can quickly do just an easy black line on my upper lid with. I am yet again loving this eyeliner! Normally I use my gel eyeliner by Maybelline, but sometimes I'm in a rush (well not sometimes..most of the time) and I don't have time to get out the brush, dip it in and take my time applying, and also sometimes I haven't had time to wash my brushes in a while, so it's all dirty and I don't use it then..sooo I decided to pick up this while I was at the supermarket yesterday because my friend said it's good and I believe her haha :) Anyway you may not be able to see it cos my camera is not quite THAT clear but it's actually a brush with the finest wee bristles all shaped into a felt tip pen..shape (haha don't quite know what other word I can use..) I can get the tip of my winged eyeliner to be sooo sharp I might just stab someone hahaa, it has a nice flow of inky stuff and it sets to stay on for a looong time! Don't think there's much else to say but yeah! I put a wee normal 2B pencil up next to it to compare sharpness and thickness, although the pencil isn't sharpened but wey heey.

WOW that was long..maybe I should've broken it up into separate, mini reviews but oh well, I hope you've enjoyed my haul/review of the things I've bought recently and excited to use! I think that was a pretty good introduction into how much I love make up hah

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Bex xo

ps. I love this font but the annoying thing is that the exclamation marks look like L's hahah see look this is an uncapitalised L "l" and this is an exclamation mark "!" They look the same ARGH haha oh well, you guys can just guess whether you think it's supposed to be an exclamation mark or L hahaha

freedooooom!

wasaabi peeps!

oh myyy lordy, i had the most boring week full of revision and studying and mental puke but i am pretty much finally free! I just finished my last geography exam for the rest of my LIFE today and blegh let's not talk about it, but I'm so glad I'm not doing geography next year, I have no idea what went on in my silly little head when I decided to do geography at the start of this year. I thought it would be more about cultures and more interesting things about the world, but its more the statistics etc etc and I dunno..just not really my thing I guess..Anyway I was soooo bored of doing absolutely nothing during this week I procrastinated by taking an especially long time to do my make up even though I was just staying at home, and I took some hot selfies as yet another form of procrastination...

oh yeah that's haaawtt (notice 1D in the background btw? ha)

man i should just call this whole blog PROCRASTINATION because that's pretty much everything I put on this thang. What I actually enjoyed though was that where my desk is in my room, the sun shines in oh so wonderfully and warmly so I was sitting in my room in pretty much togs tanning and studying haha woo multitasking!

maybe I should move on to what I did today and what I'm looking forward to doing in the next week or so :) anyway after my examinaation in ze morn, me and some friends went and had lunch together and hung out for a while, then I came home excited to watch x factor usa which I missed last night! and i've kinda been having such a lazy, fat arse day, I just watched today's episode and omigosh I LOVE Carly she has brilliant vocals and she's just so amazing for a 13 year old GOD and same with Diamond, makes me feel like shit when I hear them sing so beautifully! Moving on, after this I really really REALLY need to wax ma legs, I pretty much don't do anything to them in winter cos whey hey what's the point when you pretty much wear long pants all the time and I don't have a bf sooo no reason too but now thats its summer (aaaah so excited) the forest on my legs is calling to be cut down, sorry natural environment but not many people like you, the tops of your trees are pretty prickly. anyway, (omigosh 'anyway' AGAIN) tomorrow I'm going to a xmas event in the park which happens every year where I live, should be fun. Always gets me excited for christmas and as you know I'm extra excited for christmas this year, AUSTRALIA here I come! That's pretty much all that's coming up and what I did today..not much really, hopefully I will have more fun things to blog about in the holidays so STAY TUNED! 

better go cut down the forest now :) byeeeeee, hope you all have lovely days/nights/whatever time it is where you are, thanks for reading x!

P.S. btw I'd really appreciate if at least one of you could possibly comment to let me know what you think of what I'm doing! :)

Hectic Times!

Alohaaaa!

Didn't think it would take me this long to finally write another blog post but my life's been pretty hectic lately and I probably didn't write my first blogpost at the ideal time because this whole term is probably the craziest time of the year :P BUT today I kinda have a day off! I'm just sitting on my bed leaning against my new upholstered bedhead (WHICH I LOVE) looking at my pretty naked room (I've had to clear my house out recently as we were having some work done on it) and staring out the window. The green trees are slowly dancing and swaying around in the wind with subtle frostings of light green/yellow sparkling out where the sun hits them. And there's this one tree with pretty wee white flowers through it which kind of look like cauliflowers from here haha, the light blue sky is peeping through the patches in the trees, birds are a singa-lingin' and it really is such a booootiful day! Days like these make me feel really fresh, happy, warm and beautiful even with the lack of makeup I have on today. I have a wee bit of a rejuvenating ritual I like to do on days like these; I wake up, have a shower with some special, nice smelling body soap stuff (vanilla today mm), I don't wear any make up, I let my hair dry naturally and use no hot tools on it, I condition my hair with moroccan oil, moisturise my whole body haha, and chuck on some bum pants (sweatpants whatever you call them, just any comfy pair of pants really!) and a super plain but comfy top. And then I j chill for the best parts of the day but eventually have to go back to the dreaded four letter word that starts with a W and ends in ORK. I think I really like to enjoy and bask in particular moments like this because I feel that as I grow older I'm just gonna have less time to really just relax, not worry about anything and just be happy living the moment I'm living even if they're short, cheesy but true I think :).

btw here's a shot of the desk i mentioned in my last post, i am absolutely in love with it, bit of inspiration for me to study on it I'd say :)

...although it hasn't quite kicked in yet, but i will get on to studying!
I'm quite excited about having this opportunity to revamp my room and decorate it now that I've started with completely clean walls, I'm definitely wanting to get my inner interior designer out and have fun with it and feel awesome in an amazing room! anyway bit of a shorter, happy post today, earlier this week I was gonna write kind of a depressing post reflecting my depressing mood but I don't want to put that on other people cos that's just silly, so since having an AMAZING night last night at a concert I was not expecting to have so much fun at haha my mood has definitely taken a fun wee high climb on this rollercoaster hahah odd metaphors, love itt. and for someone i know who might be reading this, how are ya daaarl? HA

thanks for reading! sending some cheesy as ever, sunny, warm smiles your waaay :) x

First Blog Post: Procrastination :P

I've been sitting here for about 5 minutes with my hands on the keyboard not really knowing how to start off my first ever blog post. I probably should've thought about what my blog content was mainly going to be about before I made a blogger account but oh well..just going with the flow here. I've decided I'll talk about procrastination. Which is what I'm doing right now. It's not like a lot of people have already talked about this topic before or anything...(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjIsdbBsE8g)

hmm yeah okay well according to the dictionary here on my laptop the definition of procrastination is : delay or postpone action; put off doing something . Well yep that's true! Why did I even add that in..obviously a definition from the dictionary is going to be true. Anyway I procrastinate in a lot of ways..like today I was meant to do my chemistry work for school on my brand new, really awesome desk that just got put into my room. But now I've started this blog! And I'm writing this post randomly because I just really do not want to do my work. I think I have a short attention span or something and who said women can multitask. I definitely cannot. But I'm definitely a girl...yep hahaa. I try to listen to music while doing my work to make it more fun..but then I just end up reading the same line of my work over and over again while jumbling up the lyrics in the song and making a real mess of word vomit in my brain. "carbon dioxide is thinkin bout cha ooh no no no absorbed from the atmosphere do ya think about me still do ya? do ya? or do ya not think so faaar aheeeeaad.." Yeah I think you get the jist, that's pretty much what goes on for hours and hours during the holidays which really is just such a waste of my life because I'm not finishing anything that I desperately need to get done in the next 4 daaays aargh. Ew school starts again in the next four days. I really wanna delete that sentence because it's starting to haunt me and I just don't want to think about it. The last term of the year is always the worst. SO many exams going on. The only thing that's keeping me going right now, is knowing that I'm going on holiday to Australia during christmas with one of my besties and I'm sooooo excited to just chill on the beach. Golden sand running through my fingers. Perving at the tan, gorgeous guys. Laughing til I pee myself. No worries at all. I LONG FOR CHRISTMAS TO COME EARLIER.

Anyway I really have to get on to my chemistry work. :P I'm stopping procrastinating right now. If you're procrastinating by reading this blog STOP. Well maybe stop after I've finished, cos that's just the polite thing to do haha. Thank you so much for reading it if you did..well you probably did if you're reading this line cos it's not like you find a blog and skip to number-whatever line this is! I know I've probs got a long waaay to go in creating quality blog posts but this is my first so cut me some slack haha. Thanks again! 

BEX.a.member.of.the.female.sex. xx
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