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

WAGON'S COFFEE BAR!

This bank holiday Monday I hung out with my bestest friend, Em! We spent the afternoon catching up over a late breakfast at the Wagon's Coffee Bar, down Princess Avenue in Hull.

Unfortunately where we had planned on going was actually closed, so this place was our option B! It caught my eye because of all the pastel coloured writing on the window! I FREAKING LOVE PASTEL COLOURS!!!

The cafe was very small with around 5 tables. It had just the right amount of space between each table so you didn't feel all squashed together!

The cafe was like a little vintage shop too! It sold lots of pretty jewellery, hand bags and gifts! I enjoyed spotting all the different things scattered around the cafe that you could buy! Very clever idea... Okay... I may or may have not bought a pair of earrings! 

Okay, so I ordered something very different, nothing like I had tried before! A Mexican hot chocolate!? It was made with dark chocolate and cinnamon, so it was kind of spicy in a nice kind of way! I loved all the miss matchy cups and saucers! I especially liked the way they put a normal mug served on a china saucer! I would never think of doing something like that, but I think it worked really well.

I do a great drinking pose... NOT!

Whereas Em seems to do it pretty effortlessly!

So as soon as I saw pancakes on the menu, that was me sold! Of course I ordered the maple syrup pancakes with crispy bacon!

The sweetness of the syrup and the saltiness of the bacon is just soo ummmmm!!! Oh and they also layered butter in-between each pancake, which is very naughty but such a brilliant idea! All the butter soaked into the pancakes... I. Was. In. Heaven!

All gone!

These are the cute little earring I bought!

The place had a very creative, quirky vibe going on! I especially loved the way they displayed their menu's in funky looking photo frames!

Love, Laura

xoxo

YouTube: Boots Haul

Hey! So it seems I have a bit of consistency going on with my YouTube channel at the moment! Looks like I am uploading a new video every Sunday! So I'm gonna keep going with that! My most recent upload is this Boots Haul. Friday was payday for me, which most definitely meant a trip to the drugstore! I picked up some laaavely bits, so head over to my channel if you wanna check them out!

I hope you're enjoying your bank holiday Monday, I know I am!

Love, Laura
xoxo

Thursday's Thoughts #3

So, it's Thursday night. Which makes it Friday tomorrow and hello bank holiday weekend! Luckily for me I have also taken the rest of the week off work! So I am going to jam pack my week full of fun things with all my friends and family!

So the last few weeks I have been eating a whole lot more healthier (except the popcorn, Fanta and crispy m&m's I ate last night at the cinemas)! I am thoroughly enjoying my porridge with blueberries and banana every morning for breakfast! Last weekend I ran out of porridge and I kinda freaked out! I have just been loving my little routine of my porridge, a cup of tea and a glass of water for breaky! Talking about tea, I can't believe I am actually saying this... but... I no longer take sugar in my tea, or coffee! I thought it would take me a while to get used to but honestly by my second cup of tea with no sugar I really didn't care! Recently I have been making lots of little changes to create a more healthy diet! For example I am having almond milk with my porridge and I am drinking a lot more water and hardly any fizzy pop! Hands down, this has a lot to do with the Cameron Diaz, The Body Book! It is really educating me and making me want to change my diet! On the plus side I am still eating yummy foods and I really don't feel as though I'm on a diet as such, I'm just feeding my body the right kind of foods!

FYI! My hair is finally growing!! At the beginning of the year I had a lot of my hair chopped off so that it was shoulder length. The reason for this was because I had the ends of my hair, dip dyed blonde! Which by the way I absolutely adored and if it wasn't for the bleach damaging the hell out of my hair I would definitely keep that hair style! Apparently ginger hair can't take bleach as well as blonde or brunette hair! But finally I can actually see some growth going on, plus my hair is looking and feeling super healthy. Which to be honest, I'd take that any day over dry, rat like hair!

If you are wondering what the random photo of the flowers are... these are the beautiful flowers I bought my mum today! I'm not going to go into to much detail to why I bought her them, but my mum has been going through a lot of pain this past year and thought it would be the perfect way to brighten up her day!

Love, Laura

xoxo

YouTube: What's In My Makeup Bag?

 

 

Hey!!! I have a new video up on my YouTube channel. I go through my current make up bag and show you everything that I am using at the moment! If you're nosey like me, then take a look!

 

Love, Laura

xoxo