The Birthday Boy

Last Sunday it was Scott's birthday, so we spent the weekend celebrating by doing lots of his favourite things. One being horse racing, on Friday we travelled down to London to attend Champions Day at The Ascot Racecourse (apparently the most prestigious race day of the year!). I honestly wasn't expecting much but when we arrived I was kind of blown away by the scale of everything. It was almost like being in a huge arena! There was live music, a brass band, some amazing food in cute little vans and I even saw The Queen. Oh, and I won £40! Scott came up too, thank the lord, otherwise that would have been a long 4 hour drive home with a grumpy birthday boy! Then on Sunday he opened his presents in bed and I cooked us up some pancakes with lemon, sugar and Nutella (not together). Then in the afternoon we went for Sunday lunch at The Pipe and Glass Inn. It is the most gorgeous, warm welcoming, pub style restaurant. The food was incredible and the portion sizes were very generous! Scott had potted pork to start and I had the crab meat starter. Then we both had the Roast sirloin of beef for main. The only down side was that we were so full we couldn't fit desert in, so we took some salted caramel macaroons for take out. After a couple hours laze on the sofa watching Dexter, Scott's family came over with his presents and we ate my homemade blueberry and lemon curd loaf whilst watching the X factor. I then made Scott feel really old by telling him he'd now be in the over 25's category if he were to audition! The whole weekend was so lovely, it definitely made Monday at work a little more bearable, thinking of all the nice things we did (and ate). Here are some of the photo's we took over the weekend.

Love, Laura 

xoxo

YouTube: Autumn Berry Makeup Tutorial

Hello there! Excuse me for skipping last Sunday's Video...

But today I am back with something brand spanking new, a makeup tutorial. Something very different to my usual video, but I really wanted to give the whole makeup tutorial thing a go! There's something about talking and applying makeup at the same time  I find very difficult. Somehow I even managed to absolutely nail my liquid eyeliner ON CAMERA!

I have gone for an Autumnal inspired berry makeup look and this is what I have been wearing a lot recently. I hope you like the finished look, let me know!

Love Laura

xoxo

Food Festival Happiness!

On Sunday I had one of the most loveliest days! Probably because it involved eating food and wandering around markets, a favourite combination of mine! Every year in my hometown they put on a big food festival around Autumn time, featuring over 100 stalls,  selling lots of different local produce! Me being a massive foody, I always make sure I keep that date free!! This year me and my friend Hannah went along together. It was such a nice day, walking from stall to stall, tasting all the different foods they had to offer. These were some of my favourites... 

Every year I see people walking around with these huge sticks of sprouts! So this year I treated my dad to some. Lucky old dad... He does love sprouts, but I think he was expecting something a little bit tastier! 

Our bags were full to the brim, so we stopped off at Nero's for a long coffee break! We had a really good catch up and looked through all the yummy things we had bought!

After walking home, we enjoyed a slice of the carrot cake loaf and a cup of tea!

... and here is everything I bought! The homemade scotch egg and the Toblerone cupcake were my favourites!  

It's safe to say I had a very happy tummy on Sunday!

Love, Laura

xoxo

YouTube: September Favourites

Well, it is that time of the month again, well not that time of the month... But, yes, monthly favourites time!! I talk about my new Netflix series that I am obsessed with watching, as well as all my current favourite beauty products!! Oh and some little random, added extras!! 

Click the video above or click here to head over to my channel 

HAPPY AUTUMN EVERYONE!

Make it a good one!

Love, Laura

xoxo

YouTube: Matalan, Dunelm & The Range Home Haul

The plans to decorate my room have been going on for a little while now. Here are all the bits and pieces I have collected so far! I have a growing obsession with glass jars and start getting a tiny bit excited for Christmas!!  

Love, Laura

xoxo

The Origins GinZing Moisturiser

Hello, today I want to talk moisturiser! To be honest in the past I have never invested in a "decent" moisturiser. But this I can confirm, is very decent! I have been using this product for around 4 months now, so I feel as though my opinion is pretty solid and a worthy review!

The first thing I have to say about this product, it smells of freaking orange starbursts!! But unlike starbursts it doesn't leave you skin feeling sticky! In fact it does the complete opposite! The formula is a very lightweight, creamy texture, verging on a gel like formula. The product applies very nicely, taking only a couple minutes before the moisturiser has left the surface of your face and completely disappeared into your skin. This is great because it feels as though my skin is being hydrated almost instantly, as if my face was super thirsty and wanted a big cup of water! 

Which brings me onto my next point, this product is perfect to use before applying your makeup, because you are not left with any greasy residue. Which is exactly what I do and works very well for me! As well as using this as a morning moisturiser, I also use this on a night time just before bed. This also works great, I wake up the next morning with my face feeling as smooth as a babies bottom! I also love to use this product when I am having no makeup days because I feel that it makes my skin feel very refreshed and polished! 

Recently my skin has been a little unusual, I haven't been getting spots, more like lots of little rough bumps! The reason I am saying this is because originally I wasn't using a moisturiser whilst I was getting these strange bumps, because I was certain this would worsen the problem by adding extra oil and grease. So because my skin was neither improving or getting worse, I decided to bring this little product back into play! This most definitely improved my skin situation by a mile.  I then went on to realise that the Origins GinZing moisturiser is an oil-free formula, which makes perfect sense to me now! Okay, story time over!

I definitely think Origins is one of the few, more affordable brands in the high end skincare category. For me they definitely come out top for pricing and quality! This product is priced at £23.

You can buy this product here & here!

You may have noticed the other little guy in the photo?! Stay tuned for the eye cream review soon to come!

Love, Laura

xoxo

YouTube: Favourite Drugstore Products!

Well hey! Today is Sunday, which means video time! I have to say this is definitely my favourite video that I've filmed so far! It even includes some fancy close ups (oooooooh!). In this video I talk about all my current favourite beauty products from the drugstore! Though I did realise when I was editing this video that I own no eyebrow products from the drugstore, so if you know of any good'uns, let me know in the comments!

Love, Laura 

xoxo