Charlotte Tilbury Limited Edition: 'The Queen'

Earlier in the week, I purchased my first Charlotte Tilbury lipstick. I've never bought a lipstick as expensive and damaging to my bank account than this one, but I loved the colour so much that I just had to get it.
It's called 'The Queen' and it's a new one from the Matte Revolution range.

As i'd never bought anything from Charlotte Tilbury before, I was just expecting a lipstick, not the beautiful packaging that came along with it. When I received it from the post man, the outside of the box just looked normal,  but when I opened it, it was gorgeous and everything was wrapped so nicely. It even came with an envelope which had all my order details in it!

I unwrapped the layers of purple tissue (after taking many photos - naturally) and finally got to my lipstick. The box the lipstick was in looked so luxurious and I couldn't wait to get into it! Up until this point, I didn't think I could get any more impressed with this brand, but when I saw the actual lipstick with it's rose gold packaging I nearly cried. It's honestly one of the prettiest packaged lipsticks I've ever seen!

The colour is equally as gorgeous. It's a mix between red and pink and it's meant to resemble the crown jewels. When I put it on my lips, it felt really nice and the colour looked even better. The smell and taste (not that I've actively been eating it) is lovely too, it reminds me of the smell of a mac lipstick.

The lipstick has such a long wear too! I had it on for at least 4 hours while eating and drinking before I felt like I needed to touch it up a little bit. I think this was definitely worth the money I paid, and as soon as I have the funds, I will be purchasing something else from CT!

Let me know if you have any Charlotte Tilbury Products and what you recommend!

Dais x

Lush Star Dust

Lush's Christmas and autumn/Halloween products came out recently, and it got a lot of people (me being one of them) very excited.

I love Lush all year round, but when I'm in the season of long hot baths, dark nights and candles I find myself taking many more (probably too many) trips to lush. So imagine my excitement when I took my weekly trip to lush to find the seasonal bath bombs out and stocked on the shelves. I picked up a few things from there, bath bombs such as northern lights, autumn leaf and the Christmas time classic 'so white'. Although, after trying them all (and loving them all) I have to say I've found my new fave Christmas bath bomb.
Star Dust is not only the cutest and in my opinion one of the most Christmas-esque bath bombs in the shop, but it is actually so inexpensive for a lush bath bomb, I mean £2.95 is a bargain in my eyes for this cute little guy. According to the lovely lady in lush, it was around last year but I definitely can't remember seeing it!

I ran my bath, got my new autumn PJ's out from next, made myself a hot chocolate and lit some candles. I plopped the bath bomb into the bath and just looking at it fizz away was so relaxing, the colour which was fizzing out was a gorgeous creamy white and I really do think it's one of the most visually relaxing bath bombs I've ever observed de-fizz in my bath. Just as I thought it couldn't get any better, I started seeing little tiny stars floating about in the water. At this point I couldn't wait any longer and basically dived into the bath.

After doing a little bit of research about these little stars, apparently they're edible..I can't say that I tried to eat them though, first of all they looked way too pretty floating about to stuff in my mouth, and second of all I really can't see them being actually put in the bath bomb to be eaten... if anyone has tried one of these supposedly edible stars let me know!

I stayed in my bath for as long as I could, totally relaxed, surrounded in tiny stars, white water and the smell of a subtle vanilla until I knew I had to get out (because Victoria was on ITV and I was NOT going to miss a royal wedding of any sort). My skin was so soft and had such a delicate smell of vanilla on it. Star dust contains oils to soften your skin, and it certainly did!

If you haven't tried this yet, I would 100% recommend..I can see myself with 15 of these bath bombs stocked up for when Christmas is over..I've got a little while yet though.

Whats your fave lush bath bomb? Let me know!

Dais xx

Stationery Haul

Does anyone else absolutely love shopping for stationery?

It makes me feel so organised knowing that I've got copious amounts of little notebooks to write things in and it makes it even better when they have pretty flowers and patterns on them!

I recently went shopping and as I'm going to be going back to college in a few weeks, I thought I should probably try and get a few of the pretty things before they're all gone!

TKmaxx is amazing for cute notebooks. They always have really good brands and for a really good price and I could spend hours and hours looking through all the stationary they have. 

From TKmaxx, I picked up an American Crafts notebook. I've seen these before on Paperchase and I was going to order one, but I saw this one for half the price! It's so pretty and the pages have flowery borders and I just LOVE it. 

I also got this 16/17 Planner. I feel like these kind of planners are so good, because I haven't got loads of empty pages at the start. I fell in love with this one, and it was the exact size I was looking for. All the dates are quite spaced out and it's one of my fave planners I've ever bought!

From WHSmith, I got just a normal pink A4 notebook, (that I didn't take a picture of) some flashcards and pens. Flashcards help me so much with revision, and I've got a feeling I'm going to be doing even more of it now that I'm in my last year of college. I also went into the works and saw the CUTEST pens!! They're gel pens and have the little dog on from the secret life of pets! I couldn't just leave them in the shop!

Buying things like this actually makes me excited to start back at college, and I'm sure I'll be buying more little things like this in the future! 

Is anyone else obsessed with cute stationery? 

Dais x 

Sunday Routine

For me, Sundays are usually the day I like to try and sort myself out for the week. It just makes me feel much more organised when everything has been done on a Sunday, and i'm much more relaxed and ready for the week ahead.
So I thought it would be nice to show you what I get up to on a Sunday!

When I wake up, I like to take all the sheets off my bed and put them in the washing machine (Sunday is clean sheets day). I think this makes it much easier for me to get things done as I'm not going to jump back into bed and scroll through Instagram for hours. I have breakfast and then start to get ready.

I then usually get in the shower and wash my hair. This wakes me up so a lot! I use the Aussie shampoo and conditioner and the soap and glory daily face wash. It's one of my faves and is really really gentle on my skin.

When I get out of the shower, If I have enough time before I go to work I let me hair dry on it's own while I do my make-up. Sunday for me is not really a day that I wear a lot of make-up. My Sunday staples include Collection Lasting Perfection concealer, Soap and Glory Archery eyebrow pencil, Soap and Glory Eyeliner Pen and my Sleek Bronzing palette.

After I've finished my make-up, I tidy my room up a little bit and then sit down with my planner, to do list and a cup of coffee. I think that writing down what you need to do organizes my thoughts really well and I feel like I know exactly what I need to do and by using my planner, I know exactly when I'm going to do it. After I've written down all the things I would like to do during the week (things like revision and planning a few meals (that usually never get made))  I start to get ready for work.

After I've finished work at 4, I get home and put my fresh bedding on (which makes me so excited). Now that my week is planned, I can start to chill out a little bit. Some one my fave things to do to relax a little bit on a Sunday is to catch up on youtube and have a bath. As it's summer, baths are few and far between but I do love having a long bath on a sunday night.

So this is what I get up to on a Sunday!
Do you do any specific things on a Sunday? Let me know!

Dais x

Scrub Love Body Scrub Review

I haven't done this for ages...

But now that I'm back from my holiday I feel like it's the perfect time to start blogging again and it's always so much easier when you actually have something to talk about! Recently I tried out a body scrub from "Scrub Love" and it gave me the perfect reason to make a blog post!

I'd never tried a body scrub like this before, with me being a soap and glory addict, so when I was asked if I would like to try this out I was so excited!

When I got back from my holiday I found an amazingly cute package waiting for me, which made me even more excited to try it out! The same night I ran myself a bath, popped in a lush bath bomb and got my scrub ready at the side of my bath. 

With it being mint scented I couldn't wait! I feel like mint is such a refreshing scent. I applied the scrub using circular motions onto my skin. Honestly the smell of this is absolutely amazing, it reminds me a little bit of mint choc chip ice cream (my fave flavour) and it feels so fab and gentle on the skin. 

On the instructions it says to leave it on as long as possible for it to do the best job. So I left it on for most of my bath, I certainly didn't mind seeing as it's one of the nicest smelling scrubs I've ever used! When it was time for me to get out, I washed the scrub off and to my delight, I continued to smell very minty. It took me about 5 mins to get all the scrub off and my skin felt amazing! After getting out of the bath and getting dry, I didn't even put any moisturizer on! I know you're supposed to but I just really didn't feel like I needed too (I also didn't want to stop smelling like mint).

Honestly, I think this is one of my fave scrubs I've ever used - probably on the same level as soap and glory's breakfast scrub. But because this one is made from coffee, I just feel like it makes my skin look amazing! I would defo recommend this to anyone looking to try a new body scrub! 

Have you ever tried a Scrub Love scrub?

Dais x

*Thank you to Scrub Love for sending me this! Although, all opinions are 100% my own.

Sleek Solstice Highlighter

Today I went into superdrug and fell in love.

This is the Sleek Highlighter in Solstice, it's so gorgeous. There's lots of different highlights for different parts of your face and the packaging is beautiful. 

I am actually in love with this, the purple highlight is for your brow bone and it's quite subtle and doesn't look too much, it adds just a little sparkle and I feel like it really finishes off my eye make-up. It's not a powder texture it's more like a cream highlight, which I really like because i feel like it will stay on for ages, and who doesn't want that?

The second one in the palette is called 'Hemisphere' and is a shiny purple. This is for your cheekbones and it looks so amazing and I've found myself looking in the mirror moving my head from side to side just watching it shimmer...is that weird?

The third one is a mix between white and yellow and it's to highlight down the bridge of the nose. It's called 'Subsolar' and is really subtle but really works, especially if you contour your nose. 

The last one is a champagne-pink shade, and is called 'Equinox' and this one is to enhance your lips by using it on the cupids bow. I have to say, I hadn't actually heard of highlighting your cupids bow before but I feel like it makes my lips look a little bit plumper and completes my lipstick. 

And the packaging is so pretty! It's like a gold - mirror effect and I just love it!

I would 100% recommend getting this if you're looking for a new highlight and this one was only £9.99 and considering it has 4 different highlighters I think that's really good!

Have you got a fave highlight?

Dais x 

a few things i've been loving

I haven't posted anything in forever ( I know i say that everytime) but I thought today I would share with you my recent favourites!


Obviously, one of my first faves is food. I bought these maryland cookies from the co-op a few days ago and i've been obsessed ever since. They're honestly so nice and probably my fave cookies of all time.

I picked up this essie nail polish recently in maximillian strasse her, it is honestly one of the best essie polishes i've ever used, you only need one coat to make them like in the picture and as you may know from my homeware haul, I love all shades duck egg, although fiji is yet to be replaced as my all time fave.

Ah look, another food fave.. I picked this up from tesco recently and thought it would accompany pj's and old episodes of all the midwife quite well, and it certainley did. Although, just a heads up the cherries are NOT sweets and are in fact, real cherries so...they could count as your 5-a day?? maybe???

When I was in Bath a few months ago, I picked up a few things from soap and glory. One heck of a blot and the kick ass powder concealer are so amazing, especially when you're out and about and want to fix your make-up on the go! The kick ass cream concealer is brill for dark circles under your eyes and if you look like you haven't slept for weeks (like me) this is perfect for you and I would defo recommend.

 I've spoken about this before but the naked 3 pallet keeps returning into my life and i keep returning to love it. Recently I've been using it a lot, especially the matte shades and as my eyeshadow skills continue to grow (slightly) i'm sure i will continue to use this.

So those are my recent favourites. Granted, a few are food but you're lying if you say you don't love some specific items of food as much as makeup...
have you got anything you've been loving lately?
Dais xx

Sunday Skincare Faves

All week I seem to be so busy, I sort of start neglecting my skin a little bit. So on Sunday's I like to really look after my skin and I thought I'd show you what I use because I absolutely love them.



I love the peaches and clean cleanser by soap and glory. It gets your make up off so quickly it makes wipes seem useless for fast make up removal. Next time you go into boots, looking for the make up wipes i'd definitely try this instead.



This Una Brennan face mask has been a skincare staple of mine for so long. There are so many good facemasks and cleansers in this brand but this is probably my favourite. It really moisturizes your skin and it makes you feel so clean which is always a lovely feeling after a week of wind and rain in your face.














The smoothie star body butter by soap and glory is probably one of my favourite scents that they do. I think it used to be called something else but I'm not sure. Its not a refreshing smell but its so cosy and it's defo a winter night time smell. It soaks in super quick and after i've used it i can't stop smelling my skin.




So those are my end of week skin care faves,
If you've got any tell me in the comments - i'm always looking for new ones!

Love Dais xx

Autumn Essentials

Autumn excites me so much, with Halloween, bonfire night and the run up to Christmas there's so much to do and I just love it, and as the weather gets colder and more rainy I actually have an excuse to stay in, curled up on the sofa all day. But, when you do have to face the outdoors there are a few things that are much needed to motivate me to leave the house.

Obviously a scarf is just a necessity round this time of the year, I got this one from Primark last year and I still love it this year so I've pulled it back out of hiding and it will hopefully keep me from freezing to death.

Dark lipsticks are basically made for Autumn, and I really love the Topshop Beguiled one and, everyone's favorite, Kate Moss 107. Neither of these were overly expensive and they make me feel very autumny and cosy so they're always on side to help me look a little bit more presentable.

During Autumn and Winter my hands feel really dry and I really hate dry hands, so I take a little hand cream round everywhere with me to make sure that my hands are always soft and hydrated. This one is a travel sized soap and glory one and it smells really clean and soaks in quite quickly, but it's the perfect size to carry around.

I have got to admit, during the colder months the lighter colours in my naked 3 pallete are rarely touched, but I love the darker colours for this time of the year and they go really well with a dark lip too. Although 50% of the time doing eye shadow takes up too much time and I do tend to skip it.

Honestly...can someone tell me why I've never tried a pumpkin spice latte before last week? I think I'm in love with them, they basically taste like a mix between autumn and winter and if someone gave me a gallon of it, i'd happily drink it until I was sick...what a lovely image.

What are your autumn essentials?

dais xx

Autumn Gingerbread Cinnamon Cupcakes

Autumn is probably my favorite season out of them all. I love sitting down with a hot chocolate and a soft blanket and watching YouTube, Netflix or my favorite DVD and it being acceptable to do so, without the constant feeling of guilt that I should be out with friends or enjoying the 'nice' weather. With the days getting colder and shorter (thank god) i feel like this is the perfect time to get back into baking, which sort of took a back seat for me over the last few months- but I found this recipe which produces the perfect autumn/winter cupcakes..you can thank me later.

Gingerbread Cinnamon Cupcakes

Method:
Step 1- Preheat the oven to 180C and place 12 cases into a cupcake/muffin tin.
Step 2- Cream together the butter and sugar for about 2 minutes.
Step 3- mix the spices together with the self raising flour in a separate bowl
Step 4- Crack the 3 eggs into a cup and whisk them a little bit until they're combined.
Step 5- Add a little bit of the egg then mix, then a little bit of the flour and mix. Keep alternating between the two until you've used all the eggs and flour (I would suggest stopping a few times and folding in the flour round the sides of the bowl)
Step 6- Stir in the milk
Step 7- Plop about a tablespoon and a half of the mixture into each cupcake case and put them in the oven for about 17-20 minutes (17 was plenty for me or they would have burnt)

While they're cooking in the oven, make the toffee and the buttercream.
BUT to me the toffee was kind of an unnecessary step and if you're looking to cut cleaning up time I would skip this bit. I didn't end up using the toffee on top, and the toffee I did put in the buttercream, you couldn't really taste.
Step 8- Melt 50g of the 200g of butter in a pan with the sugar until it's turned into a toffee sauce and then add a little bit of milk, you can let this cool because it melts again so easily.
Step 9- Whisk the remaining 150g of butter until it's smooth
Step 10- Add the icing sugar and 3/4 of the toffee sauce (if you're using it) then put it in the fridge for a little bit while your cakes cool down
The amount of buttercream the recipe says doesn't make enough for all of the cakes and I doubled it
Step 11- When your cakes are cool *insert sunglasses emoji* stuff the buttercream into a piping bag and pipe on little swirls of icing.
Step 12- Decorate with anything you want! I used little sparkly gingerbread sprinkle and gingerbread toppers from sainsburys, but you can use anything really! Then that's it, you're done.

If you make these please make sure to leave me a comment below telling me what you think!
(and good luck trying not to eat every single one in one sitting...it's tough)

dais xx

homeware haul

wow it feels like years since i've done a blog post! i literally say that every time I write one but it really does.
Anyway, now that the school year is starting back up again I decided to re-decorate my room to get myself more motivated, i'm not exactly sure if that excuse justifies the amount of money I spent but let's just go with it...

Wilko

I've decided to have an accent wall in my room, before it was white and although i really like white, it was just too white. So i thought a duck egg wall would look nice. Now, I'm not too sure if paint is classed as homeware but for the sake of this haul it's going into that category.
I bought this paint from Wilko and it was only £10 for a tub of it. I'm in love with the colour and it looks really nice on my wall. There is just normal duck egg but after 30 minutes of closely comparing the two colours me and my friend decided the darker duck egg would look nicer.

I also picked this white bedding up from wilko, i've wanted white bedding for a really long time but honestly, i may as well of been living in a hospital, my room would have been WAY to white. We looked everywhere for some plain white bedding with no frills or patterns on it and we couldn't find any..anywhere.
but eventually, hidden away in wilko we found this for only £7.99! I love how it looks with my wall and it makes everything look really clean.

The last thing(s) I got from wilko were these cushions. Keeping with the duck egg theme, these were only £4 each and I feel like they also look really nice against my white bedding.

Primark
I really love the home section in primark, although trying to resist buying multiple candles is a task and a half, they do actually have good quality things for not very much at all.
Me and Lauren were in primark just looking for clothes when I saw this and it was on sale for £4.50 which I think is so good... and also it fits with my duck egg wall so...winner.
It's honestly so soft and considering I got the cushions and this blanket from completely different places they're a pretty good match.

Ok, I honestly can't remember why I bought these. They were definitely an impulse buy, but I just think they're so cute. I love how they're all different patterns and quite 'retro' and I'm sure I'll put them to good use, and they're really good for £2

These are the last things I bought from primark and they're definitely not homeware... but I wear them in my home i suppose soo hahaha i'm really funny not.  They were way too cute to not add in this AND they're called snuggle socks..I'm sorry but you can't leave something with the word snuggle in on the shelves.

Ikea
I picked up a bedside table from Ikea which really fits in with my room and it was only £15! I also got this chair from Ikea for only £11 which I think is so good and it's a really nice design. It's actually really comfortable to sit on, which you wouldn't think for an £11 chair, I really like it.

I got these candle holders..which i'm actually using as pen holders. These make me seem so organised and I love it...we'll have to see how long that lasts.

So that's all I bought for my room, I think it looks so much nicer now and you always feel better when you've got a clean, decorated room.
Have you bought any homeware (or cute bambi socks) recently?

love dais xxx

Lush and Primark Haul

i've been getting ready for my holiday recently and that only means one thing...shopping.
i've been to town countless times looking for bikinis, shorts and other holiday attire but it's crazy at this time of year and i think i've left it a little bit too late because i'm finding it really hard to get my holiday wardrobe ready!

but some good has come out of my trips to town and i thought i would show you what i have bought because i love reading hauls and seeing what other people have bought (so im banking on everyone else loving them too)

LUSH

 1. big blue- this is my favourite bath bomb ever (seen as phoenix rising has now disappeared from lush *cries*) i love the sea so this really relaxes me.
2. dragons egg- i've used this before and it's so exciting and the smell reminds me of a sweet shop so i couldn't resist picking it up.
3. fizzbanger- i've never used this before but i loved the cinnamon smell that it had which reminded me of phoenix rising (as you can tell i'm finding its discontinuation very hard to deal with.

 PRIMARK

 this is a skort but having a whole picture of it really didn't do it justice. I love the pattern on this and it fits really nice so i thought this was amazing for just £6- buying this made me feel quite happy because it's something that i can actually use on holiday!

I could probably use these on holiday too but really, i just bought them because of how cute they are. The purple ones are my favourite because they remind me of being a little 7 year old running around the playground, anyone else? just me? ok. 

judging by the lack of 'holiday-esque' clothes in this haul i think i'm in serious need of a little bit of asos shopping.
have you bought anything recently?

love dais x