Our Moment: Review

Hi there!

I am back with another review today and this time it is on one of my favourite products i own! As you can probably tell today's blogpost is about One Directions - Our Moment fragrance. I love this so so so much, the packaging is so cute and reminds me of something princessy. This fragrance is meant to be a 'fruity, playful fragrance with fresh fruit and seasonal flowers hints with undertones of warm musk. I'm not really sure what all that smells like but this does smell so good!

This is the top of the lid and many people have said how they don't really like the packaging, in a way i agree and in a way i disagree i love the shape of the bottle and the cute fancy writing and the lid but its not really that suitable to just throw in your bag because of the odd shape. I also find that the smell doesn't have a very good staying power so i would like to be able to throw it in my bag but it does look rather cute on my dresser.

I got the biggest bottle available of the perfume and it has lasted me quite a while. I got it around this time last year and i have just under half the bottle left considering i touch it up like 3 times some days so it is good quality for the price you pay. I think i  paid around £39 for it but it is cheaper in some places. The smaller size is £21 for 30ml and the medium size is £29 for 50ml and mine is £39 for 100ml.

My verdict on this product is that it is good value for you money if you don't want to take it around with you and i give it a 8/10.

Let me know if you have tried this perfume and what you think of it. What is your favourite perfume?

Cosy Sunday Outfits

Hi there!

This is just going to be a really short post today about an outfit i wore last Sunday. It was a rainy day so i wasn't planning on going anywhere and this is what i wore.

It was a really simple outfit, i just had an over sized grey thin material jumper on which is so cosy and comfortable and was only £5 from primark! I was also wearing black leggings from primark which were only £3 and for the price you cant go wrong although these do start to wear a bit thin so you can see your underwear so i only really wear mine indoors just in case. I was also wearing the cutest socks ever which i got from London zoo, they are supposed to look like ladybugs and are so comfy and are the softest thickest material and keep my toes nice and toasty warm, i think these were like £3 and they had so many different sorts.

Sorry this was such a short post i just wanted to add here how i got my GCSE results and I'm so happy with there i got mostly B's and C's which i was shocked when i see them because i didn't think i would get any B's and the same day i found out i had a job interview and the on the Friday i found out i got the job and start next Sunday! I may not be blogging as much as I'm starting college and starting work but i will find time to blog because i love it!

New dressing table

Hi there!

Ive been searching for a dressing table that i like for months now and i found one which i loved and it was on offer at £30 and when i went to buy it i found out it was sold out and they wasn't getting it restocked, so i searched again looking for one that i liked until i found this one! This is actually a Ikea desk but i brought a mirror and i use it as a dressing table. It was my first time putting something like this together and i done it all by myself, can i have a round of applause please?  I did actually struggle quite a bit but got it done in the end. This desk was on offer for the Ikea family for only £29 and then £9 delivery so i brought it and then the mirror i have on it is from the range and was £9.99 so it was a bit of a bargain. 

I literally love the detailing on the mirror it is really vintage because they have worn the paint in places and it matches perfectly with my desk and it the perfect size for me. But it just looks so much more expensive then what it actually was.

On either side of the mirror i have my deer pot which i have a blogpost on which you can find here. I also have my Hollister spray which i don't really use that much but i think it looks quite pretty but is more of a summer scent so i wont be using it any more this year. I also then have a pink candle and i cant remember the scent of the make but it smells delicious and i love it. Then i have a picture of me and my bestfriend, i just have that there because its pink and it all matches and looks adorable.

On the other side of have more beauty products behind the stuff i have my makeup brushes and its a shame you cant really see them as the pot they are in is so darn cute, I then have my urban decay setting spray which i use after I've done my makeup and does help me a lot because i have oily skin. I then have my body lotion which i put on my arms mainly because my skin gets quite dry. Then i have my Garnier micellar water which i love since i have been using it my skin has looked so much nicer and softer. Then i have my night time face cream which i put on after taking my make up off.

This is inside the draw which is a complete mess as the moment as i have yet to sort it out. I have so many bits in bobs in there like baby wipes, cotton pads, random pieces of makeup, hair spray, dry shampoo and some random hospital papers, i have no idea why they are in there. I might do another post on my makeup organisation when i get it sorted out if you would like to see that.

Lastly here is a picture of the whole desk you can see my makeup bag and naked palette there and overall i really love my desk and cant wait to get it sorted out and looking how i want it to look.

OOTD: Feeling Floral

 Hi there!

 So i took these photo the other day and i just love this outfit so much! I love how pretty they go together and i recently got the scrunchy and it is so simple yet so cute like the kimono.

Kimono : here

Top : here

Jeans: here

This is my new kimono and i love it so much! It is so comfy and it way better quality than my other one i had and the tassel's haven't fallen off yet *touches wood*. I have linked where all my clothes are from if you want to recreate this cute little outfit there's where you can find the stuff. 

Im really enjoying doing OOTD blogposts so let me know if you enjoy reading them because i will totally do more of them if you want me too! And also sorry this blog post was so short!

Weekend Walks

Hi there!

This weekend my auntie was down from where she lives and we decided to go see my family who lives in London. We were going to stay overnight but i didn't feel well so we only stayed for the day. We spent the morning shopping in the town and i may have brought quite a bit oops. Can i just add in the fact that almost every shops is 4x the size of the ones where i live, oh how i wish i lived in London.

We had a little lunch and there was nothing else to do so we took a drive to Bedford park to walk the dog. This park is the prettiest place I've been in a while. I wasn't feeling well at this point so i sat down and didn't go for a walk but it is beautiful walk if you ever go there, you can walk round for ages and they have deer and other animals.

This park has a little cafe and you can either sit in the cafe of sit on a bench outside because it was a nice day we sat on a bench and honestly it can one of the best views, because this was on such a hill you had the most amazing view of London and because London is my favourite place i could happily sit there all day just looking at the view. You could see the o2 and you could even see part of Kent if you looked close enough. I tried to take a photo but my camera just didn't do it any justice but i will add some photos in so you can sort of see what it looked like.

I hope you enjoyed this post today and if you live near this area you should so take a trip up there just for the view and the ice cream! 

Love,

Shelbs.

London Zoo.

Selfie with the llama

Hi there!

So the other day i went to London Zoo with my nan and had such a good day, I took my big camera and had so much fun taking pictures and im actually pretty proud of some of the photos i took so i decided not to put them to waste and make a blogpost on them.

This was taken at penguin beach and literally the penguins were so friendly they came right up to the glass and i actually got a selfie with one of them and they are so cute!

This photo i took when we went to in the butterfly part, i didn't really like this part and it was so hot in there and the butterflies flew all around you and it made me feel a bit claustrophobic

This again was in the butterfly part, i only managed to get 2 photos in there before freaking out and running out of the tent thing.

When we stopped to get a ice cream we sat down on a bench and i looked behind me and there was a bunch of chickens roaming around near us. They were so friendly and came right up close to you and i love to see free ranging chickens because i hate it when chickens are locked up in cages.

We stopped of again to get some lunch and my nan brought me the nicest cake. It was actually a chocolate chip muffin but i couldn't not take a picture of this beautiful thing.

When i was younger the giraffes were always my favourites so i got a bit snap happy when we came to them and i just love this picture so much and i don't know why.

I love this photo because i managed to get it at exactly the right time when they were walking past each other so they look like they are making a 'X'. Im sorry im strange.

As you can clearly see this is a flower, not much more to say about this one.

This photo is my actual favourite! I love it so much its actually my lockscreen on my phone. This was in the rainforest part and i see these dangly lights and had to get a photo because how pretty are they?!!!

More flowers..

Another flower..

I really enjoyed taking and editing these photos so i hope you enjoyed reading it!

Mini College Haul.

Hi there!

I am starting college in September and i needed to get some books and supplies. When doing our food shop in asda i decided to have a little look down the stationary aisle and i found the cutest things so i couldn't help but to do a blogpost on them.

The first thing i noticed was this diary, i never brought a diary at the beginning of the year and this one started in July so it would be perfect for writing all my hospital appointments and things i need to remember for college. I love the pattern on this because London is my favourite place in the whole world so i just had to get this and it was only £3!

The second thing i see was a matching notebook and I'm a bit of a freak when it comes to notebooks i have so many that i don't do and i see this and again it had the London print and i freaked out and had to get it to match and this was only £3 as well! 

The thing i loved about the notebook is that when i opened it i noticed this on the first page, I'm not to sure if you can read what it says on the picture but it says 'This is place for the thoughts, inspirations and doodles off..' and i think that is such a cute little thing to have in the front of a notebook so i fell even more in love with it.

I also picked up some pens and a folder for 50p! And a A4 notebook to put to write notes in. So it was a pretty successful trip and I'm very happy with the things i brought! I hope you enjoyed this post let me know if should do any more hauls!

Making a Cheescake

Hi there!

For ages i have been wanting to make a cheesecake and the other day i was so bored so i decided to make one. We had most of the ingredients in out house so all together it only cost me about £1 to make. 

The ingredients you will need are:

• 400g digestive biscuits
• 200g Creamy soft cheese
• 50g Brown sugar
• 50g melted Butter
• 100g Icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence

1. I then put the 400g of biscuit into a zip lock bag to and bashed them with a rolling pin to make fine breadcrumb looking things. 
2. Once i has bashed them up to be as fine as possible i melted some butter on the oven.
3. I then put the biscuits, melted butter and brown sugar into a bowl and mixed together until they looked like the forth picture.
4. Then i got a tray and poured the biscuit mixture in to make the mash, using a masher i mashed it down to make it as tight together as possible.
5. In a large mixing bowl i then put the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla essence and mixed together to make the topping for my cheesecake.
   
6. I then spooned the mixture on top of my biscuit base until it was completely covered.
7. Then i put the tray into the fridge and left it for one hour to set and then i ate it!

I was honestly pretty impressed i made this and it tasted quite good. My mum and nan both enjoyed it (well that's what they told me). But i will definitely be making this again because it was fun making it! Let me know if you have any good recipes that i can try out. 

New Kimono

Hi there.

So I finally gave in on the trend and brought a kimono. I got my from a brand in Debenhams called IZABEL. It was £20 and I was pretty happy because the ones I've seen in town have been like £40! It has little tassels on the bottom which looks adorable!

I just love how you can have a simple out like mine was then you just add a kimono and it looks so much better and looks like you made more effort! I'm so glad i brought one of these finally because i know i will get so much wear out of this before summer ends and hopefully they will be fashionable next year!

I love how this outfit looks and i would definitely recommend getting one if you are on the fence of deciding to get one, but i would do your research on prices as some are waaaay over priced for what they actually are.

Sorry for the short blogpost i just really want to show you my new kimono because i reallyyyy love it! Let me know if you have one and where you got yours from in the comments.

Cheesy selfie

Note: Just after i had wrote this post i wore the kimono out and almost all the tassels fell off but the store happily took it back and i got a new one which i love even more and i may do a blog post about it.