New Stuff

I got some new stuff over the week as I was buying Christmas presents for the family and thought I would treat myself.


First is a Fraulein concealer palette which has many shades to fit to your skin tone. This palette is amazing, as I have really dark circles under my eyes the lilac colour does wonders to counter the darkness and make my skin look even.

Second my mum gave me a Colourworks glitter eyeshadow palette which is going to be perfect for nights out and Christmas.

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Next I bought a Stargazer lipstick in a Plum colour to achieve a dark sultry lip.

My dad and his wife went to Las Vegas a few weeks ago and went to Sephora and bought me a Kat Von D eyeshadow palette which is gorgeous, I can't wait to try out the colours. 

They also got me an O.P.I nail varnish in the colour Turquoise Blasted, I tryed it out on my sister and I really like the colour.

Till next time

Heather 

xoxo

Acrylic Glitter Nails

My sister is learning to be a nail technician so she has be practicing on many people including myself and this weekend she did my nails which are amazing!
In a nutshell she basically mixed glitter with clear powder in a pot, then has another pot filled with retention. Then she just dabbed her brush into the retention and then into the glitter to make a bead and dabbed it on the nail starting at the cuticle. She then repeated this to do all my nails.

Here is the finished product. My nails look short but i'm trying to grow them long again.

Till next time

Heather
xoxo

Vintage Pin Curls

Last night I put pin curls in my hair, hair sprayed it all then wrapped a scarf around my head and slept on it. When I woke up in the morning I took all the pins out and used my fingers to brush through the curls. I used a round brush to brush through each section and then I just used my fingers to place the curls how I wanted them.
After that you can just style it how you like I added a flower clip to one side, my fringe didn't go right so I just pinned that back. This style takes practice, I think next time it would look good on freshly dyed hair so through the S shape there will be a shine and definition. Also I think a finishing frizz serum would be good to make it look less fluffy. I will be trying this again and hopefully will start doing some tutorials :)



Till next time

Heather
xoxo

Things I haven't got round to watching!

You would think being unemployed I would be watching all the programmes/films that I want to, well I haven't strangely enough, so here is a list of things I need to defiantly watch soon! Please comment and let me know if any of these are good or if you have any suggestions.

• Dexter season 4 on-wards
• Arrested Development
• The Walking Dead
• Six Feet Under
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• On the Road
• Savages
• Looper
• Lawless
• Skyfall
• Pitch Perfect
• Spring Breakers
• The First Time
• Silver Linings Playbook

I will add/take away from this list if I have seen the film :)

Till next time

Heather 

xoxo

Del Rey

I've been listening to a lot of Lana Del Rey this month, her style, look and music defiantly inspires me. I love her 40s waves and hopefully if I get myself some heated rollers I can recreate the look! I have also been listening to her album so much, she re-releases it in November with more new songs on it, I'm so excited.
I've also been listening to some of her older songs under her original name Lizzy Grant, my favourite's so far are 'Yayo' and 'The Happiest Girl in the whole of the USA'.
I need to see her live, she better be playing near me soon!

Anyway I will write soon

heather
xoxo

Anxiety

Right so I haven't written anything in 2 weeks, mainly because nothing happened but also because I'm tired of explaining myself but I will do a quick summary of how my anxiety started, my symptoms, and what I'm doing to help it.

A week after my 18th birthday I soon realized I couldn't leave my house to go to 6th form, it was literally like someone flicked a switch. I was so nervous every morning and after a month or so of going through the same anguish every morning of getting ready, panicking, crying and having a dodgy belly I eventually was too exhausted to go to school and just wanted to curl up in a ball in my room. So I only went in to collect work or sit exams and then I got my a-levels and left. After school was over for good and my friends were preparing for university I would avoid most situations if that meant leaving my house as I was paranoid about needing the toilet in public.

It got to last October when I went the doctors after being previously told it was a faze, She realized I couldn't carry on this way so she put me on 20mg of Citalopram and told me to try and find someone to talk to. I spent 8 sessions with my mums friend who is training to be a counselor which was good just to talk over my struggles but nothing really happened.

My doctor then referred me to a programme called Beating the Blues which was online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy it helped and gave me different ways that I could combat my anxiety but I felt I couldn't relate to most of the problems given. I am now on another form of CBT but this time its one to one so I can talk about problems that relate to me and what symptoms I have. My doctor also put my medication up to 30mg which I have found works better to deal with my anxiety.

I'm still trying to work on getting myself out of the house more and my problem is timed appointments which I still get very nervous for even if I've been there before. But on the plus side I can go to my local shops, and make trips in the car to family's houses and shopping centers with my mum. Most of my family thought it would go away in a few months and I could get a job by now but a year later I'm still trying to deal and live with this in my own way and hopefully sometime in the future I will be able to get a job and get there without any worry.

I hope this is informative enough, comment if you have any questions or queries :)

heather
xoxo