A longgg Break away from blogging!

I totally forgot I had this little beauty. Wow! Nearly two years on and life is a lot different! 

I have been married nearly two years (tomorrow!!) 

I have finally graduated and landed (very luckily my first job!) and mainly feel like a boring adult! 

My beloved little grandma passed away :( 

I have the cutest kitty cat!

Fashion and beauty has evolved LOADS over the past 2 years! I'm still as obsessed as I was when I first started blogging in 2009/10.

Our wedding day!

Here are a few photos of our magical day. I would not have changed it for the world!

September already?! Update

Wow where has the time gone? August has flown by its a distant memory now :( life has been a blur! ( I have just found time to write this post on my waking night at work hehe whilst everything is calm)

I swear the older you get the faster time goes!

Anyway here are a few things that have happened recently:

I'm working (woohoo) found a job in June.
I have been organising my wedding for the past 4 months intensively (so glad the organisation is over and done with but so sad that my big day is over)
I turned 23!

I'm kind of glad to be getting my life back to normal after uni and wedding planning, I'm looking forward to spending more time on my blog and doing stupid little things I couldn't do before such as going to Nandos, catching up with friends and going for day trips out as one the funds did not permit and we did not have time!

Here are a couple of snaps happy blogging x

Its summer!!!! foraging for my summer makeup favorites..

Wow, hasn't the weather been just wonderful! Perfect weather for lounging out in the garden and sunbathing! :D

I don't know why but I always feel that the sun has an instant effect on my mood; I always feel loads better! good old vitamin D.

Since the sun has been out my skin is slowly but surely darkening and I can finally where some of my darker foundations out of my chameleon collection.

at the minute I am loving nars sheer glow, not too much coverage but enough to cover my freckles up without it feeling thick!

My current favourites at the minute are:

Life at University

I have finally finished all of my written work at University!! YESS! I am pending one placement until I can fully practise as a dietitian so I won't graduate until next year boo!

However since I have stuck out 4 years of the bloody place I thought I would give my insight of what University life is all about for people who are about to go. Here are some tips for future fresher's and I am sure some of you will relate to them..who have lived the university experience.

Image courtesy of Tumblr unfortunately its not my own!

• Going to university is your chance to get out into the big bad world and be miss independent! Choose a different city (pending on your course of course (haha)) this enables you to experience life independently for the first time, you will learn a hell of a lot in the first 6 months you are away from home...I'm talking about washing (or lack of), feeding yourself, making money last and when prying yourself away from the social attributes of university making sure you do work!

• Choose university halls in the first year of study- you will makes lots and lots of friends who you never even thought you would rub shoulders with...its such an interesting time and you will learn so much about different people- leave your door open and don't be frightened to throw yourself out there and be the first to make the move- everyone is as nervous as you- just don't get too drunk and make an idiot out of yourself- People do remember. I have made some friends for life who I will never lose touch with- its like you have grown up together and you have an unique bonding experience.

• Please DO remember that anything embarrassing you did in the first week of university -everyone will remember for the whole duration you are there, be careful!

• Take every opportunity thrown at you and do it, yeah student rep may sound boring but it looks great on your CV and you never know where it may take you in the future

• you will have good and bad experiences and times when you just want to go home- this is normal! Everyone feels like this at some point!

• You will put on weight/lose weight when starting uni- do not worry this is temporary by second year you will have calmed things down and you should  be back to where you started!

• University from my experience was not clicky- everyone got on with each other so take the opportunity to go out and get to know people!

• Lastly have a good time and have fun- all the free time as a student will be soon over and believe me you will miss it like crazy! This is the time in your life where you build your foundations for your career and life!

Hair progress

Hello, I hope everyone is well. I thought I'd post an update on how my hair doing.

 

Over the past year I've been trying so hard to grow my hair...that means, keeping it swiftly away from hair dressers (I DO NOT CARE IF I HAVE SHIT ENDS!!) and washing it in sulphate free shampoos and straightening it as little as I can.. my GHD's are gathering dust in the their lonely corner..

 

This is the length of my hair currently straightened:

 

Its taken so long to get here but it is finally starting to get long!

 

 

 

Things that I have personally found that have helped to achieve this length are:

• Time and patience- yes ladies sorry I really don't think there is a quick fix;
• Less heat and sulphate free shampoos I feel have helped keep the condition of my hair;
• Not going to the hair dressers- I'm sorry but you cannot be trusted when I am growing my hair!

Issues I have had:

 

• Product build up- its disgusting and it makes my hair itchy and flaky, I guess the only way to overcome this is to use clarifying shampoos.

Has anyone got any great tips for keeping hair in tip top condition?

Month on Instagram

Hello everyone,

This is basically what I have been up to in this past couple of weeks: healthy eating (trying lol) nursing my sick husband to be! Between that I've been really busy with university work- getting my self in an absolute pickle and getting dates/times/places mixed up my brain is well and truely frazzled!

Hope everyone is good,

A x