One Lovely Blog Award

Thank you to the lovely Toni from Clarke Couture who has nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award. This is a nice little tag which helps bloggers to get involved in the blogging community and let's us all get to know each other a little bit better!



To take part in the award you need to:

• Display the award logo at the top of your post.
• Thank the person who nominated you and leave a link to their blog in your post.
• Add this set of rules to your post so that your nominees will know what to do.
• Add 7 facts about yourself into the post.
• Nominate 10 other blogs and leave links to each of them in your post.
• Let the people who have been nominated know that they have been nominated 
• You must FOLLOW BACK the person who NOMINATED YOU on GFC and BLOGLOVIN.

Check, Check and Check! So onto the 7 random facts about me!

1. I have started planning a Northern UK Meetup which will hopefully happen in February, keep checking back for info on this or e-mail me if you'd like to get involved!
2. I am a product tester (this isn't my job) I do this as a blind test, meaning I do not find out what the product is or who makes it, I purely have to give schedualed feedback on the effectiveness of different products. My opinions aren't seen publically (like when people review things for their blog), it is just used as market research from the company making the products before they decide whether to produce and sell the item I'm testing. It can be annoying when you love the product because you don't know if it will ever be produced, and even if it is, you don't ever find out what it was to go and buy it!
3. I have also been a mystery shopper which involes me getting a set number of things to review in a shop/restaurant/bar etc and giving feedback to the company. It can be quite complicated and there's sometimes a number specific questions you need to ask their staff, hopefully getting the response they've been trained to give.
4. I have naturally light blonde hair and have never dyed it, it looked white when I was little.
5. I am 26 years old, but nobody ever believes me, I've always looked really young for my age which can be a bit of a pain at work when people don't respect you or have faith in your ability.
6. I have a 'Bucket List' of 100 things I want to do during my life, I think I've completed around 25 of these in the last couple of years.
7. One of those is to be a TV/Film extra..seems to be the hardest one to achieve. If you've any tips please do let me know! :)

So that's my 7 random facts, I hope you feel you know me a little better. My nominees are:

Alex at Roses and Lipsticks
Lauren at Britton Loves 
Nicola at Pink Confetti
Kristen at Everybeauty Talks
Nicola at Something like Nicola
Jess at The Beauty Sanctuary
Jill at A Little Soap Box
Mairi at Wished for Ruth
Aisling at Rosy Smiles
Ines at Pretty Little Things

Looking forward to getting to hearing some facts about you!

The Liebster Award

I'm really pleased to have received a Leibster Award nomination from Brooklyn at A Fond Memory, I didn't expect to receive any award nominations or tags from other bloggers for a while, so thanks very much to Brooklyn, I'm excited to get involved.

I've seen previous bloggers liken this award to a chain mail and have therefore declined to do it, but I think it's quite a cool way to get involved in the blogging community and meet other bloggers, especially since this award is designed for bloggers with less than 200 followers. So I'm happy to take part and hope those of you I nominate aren't offended by it.

The rules for the Liebster Award are:

1. Answer the questions sent to you.
2. Nominate 11 other bloggers with less than 200 followers on twitter.
3. Ask them 11 of your own questions.
4. Notify them of their nomination.

Brooklyn's Questions to me:

1. What is your favourite thing about blogging?

I think it's meeting like-minded people with similar interests and being able to share ideas and tips. Not all of my friends are interested in beauty, photography or travel, or they may be interested in one area but not the others. I like being able to use my blog to connect with people who love these things on a similar level to me.

2. What made you start blogging?

Well I've previously started 2 blogs, waaaay back in my teen years, I went through a phase of making and selling cupcakes and started a blog about it, but I quickly got bored of it as it turned into more of a chore than an enjoyable hobby. Fast forward 6 years and I decided to start this blog about things that I already love to do on a daily basis, that way I won't get bored of what I'm doing. I've always enjoyed writing and a period of sickness off work and the resulting boredom is what really made me get started!

3. What is the thing you find most challenging in running a blog?

Probably finding the time to write and edit posts and do all of the photography, it's time consuming and sometimes difficult to fit into my daily routine.

4. What is your biggest inspiration?

I'm just excited about life. I love travelling, I love beauty, I love reading, I love spending time with my friends and I love trying new things. I just think life inspires me, the people around me, the things I love, and the motivation to do as many of the things I love as possible.

5. What is your biggest fear/pet peave?

By far my biggest fear by far is spiders! I know it's a phobia, I know it's irrational, but I hate the creepy (not so little) buggers! They move way too quickly, it is not natural and I just can't bring myself to go anywhere near them! My pet peave is probably rude or impolite people, it just doesn't cost anything to be nice and a bad attitude can really have a rubbish effect on someone elses day. It really isn't hard.. so be nice!

6. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

I have no idea and that is what I love about life. If you'd asked me this 5 years ago I would have painted a completely different picture to how my life actually looks today and I'm so glad my life is how it is right now. We can't predict the good or bad things that will happen to us or the opportunities that may come our way, life is random, exciting and beautiful... I wouldn't want it any other way.

7. What are your go-to everyday makeup products?

I've done a holy grail post here and am in the middle of doing 'my daily makeup' post, so please check back for that or follow me via bloglovin or twitter for my blog updates.

8. Do you feel self conscious without makeup?

Yes I do, over the years as I've experimented with makeup I fell in love with using it and coming up with different looks so I began wearing makeup everyday. One day I went into work with just my usual eye make-up on and everyone said how ill and tired I looked! I'm very fair skinned and probably looked like a ghost. The thing is people have gotten used to how I look with makeup on and I'd rather not hear their comments when I look 'like death'. I also look about 12 years old if I put nothing on my eyes. So I'd say I am self-conscious without makeup, it isn't that I don't like the way I look without it, I just prefer the way I look with it on and so it seems, do other people!

9. What is your favourite item of clothing?

This one is sooo hard! I love clothes and shopping for new outfits and there's so many of my clothes I could never part with; so I'm just going to go with what I wear most out of everything which is plain old light denim blue skinny jeans. Not the most exciting thing I own by far, but they are a firm staple in my wardrobe.

10. Who do you aspire to be (in terms of bloggers/youtubers)?

I wouldn't say I'm aspiring to be like anyone else as everyone out there has a totally different style and personality. But my favourite blogger/youtuber that I watch is Lily Pebbles, I just really enjoy reading her posts and watching her videos and being around my age I relate to her content a lot more that some of the other bloggers I read.

11. If you could only shop at one clothing store, which would it be?

Ooooh, this is a very close call between Topshop and River Island. I'm going to say River Island because looking through my wardrobe I think I have more stuff from there, however when I walk into Topshop I never leave without wanting something where River Island can sometimes have an off day.

So onto my questions...

1. If you could pick a superpower what would it be?
2. What is your favourite makeup brand and why?
3. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
4.What's your favourite time of year?
5. What's the most disappointing product you ever bought and why?
6. If you could only wear one item of makeup for a whole week, what would you choose?
7. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
8. What career would you choose if you could be anything in the world?
9. What's your favourite food?
10. What's your favourite outfit?
11. Who is your favourite person in the world?

 And the bloggers I'd like to nominate are:

Corrine at Lady Ellumina Fashion
Sarai at Sarai87
Claire at Lovelace & Daydreams
Kerry at Style La La
Sophie at The Bird Song
Sophie at Styles by Sophie
Brooke at Brooke Elise Beauty
Madame Lucia Blog
Olivia at Olivia's Beauty Blog
Lucy at Lost in the Lipstick Aisle
Justine at Life is Short Buy the Makeup

I look forward to hearing your answers ladies!