❤ BLOGMAS - Day Three - Gift Ideas ❤

Hello Lovelies!

I am writing this on my iPad today, so excuse the typing :) 

So today I am going to listing some things you can get for anyone, however as I don't really buy for males I don't really know what to suggest so, the following items are a bit female, but you can choose for who you want to buy for.

I'm going to start with female gifts. The following ideas are for all ages, but it just depends on who, you are buying for. Lets get started!

So the first set of gifts are LUSH products. Seriously, I am sure, even if someone can't stomach the smell of a LUSH store, I am sure that they will absolutely love it! 

I recommend...

Bath Bombs

Sex Bomb 

Butterball (Which is amazing for someone whom you may think cannot stomach the smell of a strong bath bomb!)

Space Girl (My sister recommends this because she is a space fan, so she absolutely loved this one!)

Bubble Bar

Melting Snowman 

Pumpkin 

The Bubblegum Lip Scrub is also so good during the winter because it really soothes your lips.

The next area of gifts is again, beauty. These products are from Boots.

Soap and Glory

They do a lot of gift sets which you can choose from. 

The Sugar Crush body wash/body scrub. This stuff smells amazing! I am sure ANYONE would enjoy this body wash/scrub.

ALL of their body moisturisers are amazing and I can't pick one! But yes, their moisturisers are lovely.

Hand Food. This is the best hand cream I have ever ever had in my life! It is so good and you can get the small handbag size or you can get the bigger tube, but either one is great.

Barry M

I really like their gelly-hi shines and I also like their rupegular colours.

Their best range are the darker tones because the lighter ones do need multiple coats. So I definately recommended their dark purples, reds and blues.

OPI

I really love OPI nail varnishes, they are seriously amazing. My favourite collection is the Skyfall colours and the Minnie Mouse collection. 

I really really REALLY love Big Apple Red. It's not a harsh red colour, its a soft, Christmassy colour which is great for this time of year.

Now this section of my post is for everyone....

Books

I really love the Cathy Cassidy collection 'The Chocolate Box Girls'

Graceland - a book of Elvis Presleys home

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Is It Just Me? - Miranda Hart 

Cupcake -Rachel Cohn

The Dan Brown collection - I asked my dad and these are his favourite books.

More Items

Gilly Hicks body sprays

Pens and notebooks from Paperchase

Box Sets of their favourite programme

Films that YOU love!

Anything YOU like that is suitable for them! 

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post and has given you an insight into what to get for your family or friends. 

Goodbye lovelies have a lovely day/night x

♥ BLOGMAS - Day Two - My Christmas ♥

Hello Lovelies!

I hope you enjoyed my first BLOGMAS post! 

So today I am going to be talking about my personal Christmas and what I do at Christmas. 

I love Christmas, it is amazing. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year, everyone comes together and so many people are friendly. The atmosphere everywhere you go is so jolly and festive. I just wish that it was like this all year round! 

Christmas day always changes, every year. We sometimes go to my dad's sisters, my aunt, or sometimes we go my mum's brothers, my uncle and sometimes they come to mine. This year, we are going to my dad's sister, my aunt and we are going with my nanny and grandad. 

On Christmas morning, I get up and wait in bed until my sister gets up. After my sister gets up, we go and wake up my parents. Then we run downstairs and open our presents (which for me is a very exciting time in the day!) Then we'll have an AMAZING breakfast! (Writing this now is making my mouth water!) 

I just love the atmosphere at Christmas! The lights, the baubels, the fake snow and the candles! Everything is just so cosy, red and warm. 

I think the best time of Christmas is definitely the food! Christmas dinner is always the best! The turkey, the mash, the peas, the parsnips, the bread sauce.... THE EVERYTHING! 

I really can't tell you how much I LOVE CHRISTMAS!! 

It is TRULY the best time of the year and I just hope you all have an amazing Christmas, but I'm sure you will because Christmas is the happiest time and if you need to express your Christmassy feelings.... EXPRESS THEM HERE, or in the street, or in the shower, or in the bath, or in your hous.....

I hope you have a good week x

♥ BLOGMAS - Day One - Christmas List ♥

Hello Lovelies! 

So, this year (and hopefully the following years!) I am doing Blogmas! It is basically the YouTube series called Vlogmas, but in a blog style. Every other day I am going to be posting a new post, related to Christmas! And this is my first one! 

So today I am going to be sharing with you, my 2013 Christmas list.

• Lush products
• Cath Kidston products
• Cath Kidston duvet set 'Provence Rose' or 'Antique Rose Bouquet (white)'
• Yankee Candle
• Compact Mirror
• Nail Varnishes
• Cath Kidston crush mug
• Tangle Teezer
• Disney DVD's
• Topshop Joni jeans
• studdedpetals.co.uk -> 'daisy xx tee' or 'flower ying yang tee'
• Sims 3 Into the Future
• Horrible Histories Box Set series 1-5

So that is my Christmas list. I'm not expecting to get everything on my list, but hopefully I will get some of it. 

Have you written your Christmas list yet? I love writing them, it gives me a chance to actually remember what I want and then become really excited to get all the stuff!

I am super excited for Christmas and I hope you are too! How do you celebrate Christmas? Well that question is going to be answered in Tuesday post, so keep updated.

Have a lovely day or night, wherever you are x

How To: Rocky Road

Hi lovelies!

Today's post is a How To on Rocky Road. It is one of my favourite deserts, so I hope you enjoy it.

You want your Rocky Road to be quite thick, you don't want to end up with a thin Rocky Road.

I say this because this is exactly what happened to me. I am going to give you the recipe, doubled - just to insure you have a thick Rocky Road.

All you need is...

250g butter

600g milk chocolate

6 tablespoons of golden syrup

400g digestive biscuits

200 grams marshmallows (or however many you want really!)

Cranberries (however many you want)

Glace cherries - Around 9 

Icing sugar to dust (optional)

I did the method in two lots because you have to melt the chocolate and butter, this would take a long time because there is a lot of chocolate and butter.

So I advise halving the mixture and doing the method in two lots.

Method:

1. Melt the butter, chocolate and golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat, you do not want to burn the chocolate. Put aside around 125ml of the chocolate mixture.

2. Put the biscuits into a freezer bag and using a rolling pin you need to bash the biscuits making crumbs and small chunks of biscuits. 

3. Fold the biscuit pieces into the chocolate mixture, try not to break down the bigger parts of biscuit.

4. Add most of the marshmallows into the mixture and then pour into a tray, lined with grease-proof paper. 

5. Chop the glace cherries and add them to the mixture. Also add the Cranberries

 6. Sprinkle the rest of the marshmallows and drizzle the left over chocolate.

7. Refrigerate overnight

So I hope you have enjoyed this food tutorial. I love Rocky Road and I hope you enjoy making the Rocky Road and if you do make it, maybe you could Instagram it and tag me - @imlozza

Bye bye lovelies! 

How To Thursday - Make Your Nails Look Neat

I  love having long nails, unfortunately, my nails are very weak therefore they break whenever the get long.

So, I had to come up with a solution to make my nails look neat without being odd lengths and badly shaped.

First, wash your hands with warm, clean water. This will make your nails soft which is makes it easier to file them. You could also do this after a bath or a shower because it does the same job.

Next, you need to get a cuticle pusher/orange nail stick, and push the skin at the top of your nails away from you, this will make your nails look longer and neater.

The next step is to use a good nail file. I find the nail files from Boots are the best, the black ones, they're amazing! All I do is file my nails to make them all have curved edges, I also make sure they are all the same size, otherwise they don't look neat. My thumbnails are quite long, and it looks neater when they are curved all the way around the nail.

Using the pointed edge of the cuticle pusher, I then clean under my nails. This just gets all the grime from under your nails. 

Now I just go wash my hands under hot running water and soap.

I now use OPI's Nail Envy Original to strengthen my nails, it also helps them to grow a little, however, when they grow they tend to break extreamly short and it hurts a lot, so, I just use the nail envy to strengthen my nails. So, I just file my nails everyday so they don't grow as much.

I put two coats of this varnish on, and everyday for a week I top it up with one coat. Then at the end of the week I take it all off and repeat the process.

I hope you all enjoyed this post and find it useful c:

I'm going to be doing BLOGMAS this year, which is basically VLOGMAS. If you don't know wha that is, it is where you post a vlog, everyday leading up to Christmas. I'm going to be doing the blog version  and I am really excited to do it :)

Bye bye lovelies x 

Review - Everyday Products

Hello everyone!

Maybe the title doesn't make sense, but this post will explain everything. One note, every Friday (or every Friday I can post) I am going to do a review on something! Today, I am going to give you a quick review on products I use daily!

I am going to write this in the order I use the products in.

The first 'product' I use is water. It's hardly a product, but it is a great way to start the day. I simply wash/splash my face a couple of times with the water. I then just dry my face on a dry towel/flannel. I do this after I have breakfast and before I've brushed my teeth. 

Now I brush my teeth, I use a Colgate toothpaste, but you don't really need to know about that...

I then use Nivea day moisturiser, I massage the moisturiser into my T-Zone (forehead, nose & chin) and then use circular motions to moisturise my cheeks. 

Make up time! (Now I only use these make up products if I'm going out, for school or filming a video.)

The first make up item is Rimmel London Wake Me Up Concealer. I just pop this under my eyes and on any red patches on my skin. I DO NOT put it on spots or dry skin, because the concealer will just dry out the skin/spot even more. This concealer is amazing, it covers my sleepy eyes in the morning and covers up any redness very quickly. So I totally recommend this product!

The next make up product I use is Maybelline Rocket Volume Express in the colour black. I don't curl my lashes, i just put the mascara straight on. This mascara is amazing! It has a really nice brush and even though I have brownish lashes, it doesn't look false or un natural.

I'll then pop on some lip balm, now in the spring/summer and beginning of autumn I'll use a babylips, usually a clear one because its the morning. In the late autumn and winter I just use plain old Vaseline. It really helps my lips out, making sure they don't begin to crack.

If I need to, I'll just spray in some dry shampoo.

Last but definitely not least I put on a drop of hand gel and spray some scent on mah boddyyyy :D


Then I'm done!

I hope you have a very lovely day/night/evening whatever :)

Lauren x 

Confidence

Confidence.

Noun

1. The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust

2. The state of feeling certain about the truth of something

Something every human being has right? Wrong. A lot of people out there, and maybe one or two humans reading this now are not confident, in themselves or just in general. As you can see from the above definition, confidence means trust or feeling certain about something. Hopefully this post will help at least one person feel better for themselves.

BODY CONFIDENCE

Dove models

Victoria Secret models

What image do you prefer? Personally, I think the top one is prettier than the bottom. The women in the first picture are confident in themselves, they feel pretty enough not to be air brushed. They don't have thigh gaps and they are not the slimmest women in the world. Compare the top picture with the bottom picture. Yes, the girls in the bottom picture are pretty and yes they're slim, but does it make them confident?

My answer to that question is no. they have been airbrushed to make them look slimmer, they have been given bigger thigh gaps and have been tanned up. Personally, I think it doesn't look nice one bit. They look false and are a bad influence on children. 

I believe that models on bags, billboards etc. should all be un-airbrushed and natural, just like the top photo.

This is my opinion, I don't want you to change your view on life or models, I just believe that magazines and companies should calm down the airbrushing.

I also think that 'Little Things' by One Direction relates a lot to this topic - please listen to it and listen to the lyrics carefully. I am listening to it right now, as I write this and I this topic and the song are a match made in heaven. 

PERFORMING/STAGE CONFIDENCE

If you feel nervous or embarrassed about getting up in drama class or at a school performance - don't be. Everyone in the class or everyone part of the performance, has to do the same thing as you. Everyone is a team and you're all working together, don't feel like you're an outsider. 

If you're in class and you feel embarrassed to get up - don't. Jump up there and show everyone what you have to offer. If you feel like you're going to be teased about how much effort you put into your performance - don't. Your classmates should be proud to have someone as good as you in their class. if you don't try your hardest that will effect your grades and it will effect how the teacher thinks of you. Don't let silly people effect your education 

Don't let ANYONE make you feel bad or un-worthy because YOU are amazing.

Lauren x