I Survived Semester 1

I don't know how but I've done it. I've survived semester 1 still relatively in tact. The last 3 months have definitely been some of the hardest of my life, being sat in the library for hours and hours is not something I enjoy by any means; but I'm hoping it will all work out in the end. The first two pieces of coursework I got back (apart from the dreaded proposal) came back with a 2:1 which I was so chuffed about and I am desperate for this to continue. 

Respect is something I talked about in the last of my essays of this year and it is something I am struggling with. When does a situation become one when you're not respecting yourself by staying in it? Why don't people have the respect for you to tell you they're drop kicking you? It is an ongoing battle royale in my head and my opinion (and feelings) changes every day.

Christmas is coming! After the complete disaster of last years Christmas (thanks dad) I am hoping for a semi return to normality this year. Christmas has always been my ultimate favourite time of year. I get to exert my control freak nature over the tree, get to eat all of the pigs in blankets and dress head to toe like I should be an elf in Lapland. It's great. This is the first Christmas my dad has ever been sober for so it will be pretty interesting to see how it turns out.

I don't think I've ever said how proud I am of my dad for being sober for as long as he has. He's been parted from his one true love since the 18th February (which means when I post this it'll have been 10 months!!) and he's done an amazing job. Our relationship with each other is still extremely fractured and I am trying to work through some of my issues with him by myself, which is difficult in itself. I have 22 years of memories, feelings and disappointments to work through and to try and conquer. It is not going to be easy.

So for now I am off to start cooking our house Christmas dinner and wrap my secret santa pressie.

So if I don't blog before (which I probably won't) I hope you all have the most magical Christmas and New Year.

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

This is your life Hev #4

Here I am again! Volume 4 of my little writings and its all a bit manic. Uni is still kicking my butt, personal statements are my new found Achilles heel and I have also had to face up to some truths I was massively hiding from. So let's get into it.

This whole uni final year torment is real and I am struggling. One of !y projects failed and I am in bits about it. I worked so damn hard on it to fail it just makes me so upset and not want to try again. The next onslaught of uni work is about to begin which terrifies me something rotten. Watching friends graduate over the last two weeks has also installed the fear of god into me and has really made me realise this is my last year at this game.

My personal statement is like torture and for some reason will not write itself. I think I am just so scared because my writing is so shambollic that it will never be good enough to let me pursue my dreams.

My darling fainting episodes are back which has filled me with eternal dread. Last Friday I fainted getting out of the shower and smacked my coccyx off the floor and it fucking hurt! I really hope this isn't the start of a series of fainting again and I am going to the doctors this week to check myself out.

On Saturday I had a trampolining competition, which I somehow got through grimacing in stupid amounts of pain, coming 16/70 I am so proud of myself with the agony of my arse (story of my life my arse hurting) and doing a completely new routine!

Last weekend was also one of the nicest weekends I've had in such a long time (i really didn't want it to end) and I'm pretty sure my defences are now sat on the floor. Nothing like having big life realisations in the middle of players is there? These realisations have also terrified me and I don't like it, my inner control freak is really not happy with me! I am trying to get with it and go with the flow though.

So there you go, this is the last couple of weeks of my life, how's yours been?

Lots of love,

Hev

xoxox

Hey It's Me

Hi everyone,

So I've been away for a bit. Final year has hit me like a steam train and up until 2 days ago I was completely snowed under. I have a few weeks of my life not being too intense until it revs up again and hits me full throttle until the end of may- joy!

I am currently trying to apply for a teacher training role within food- it's always what I've wanted to do since I was little and I hope and pray someone wants me to do it too!

My love life is still pants but I am trying to be more positive about it. Tonight I am also going to slimming world! lets hope I can crack my obsession with food once and for all!

I'm hoping to maybe put some beauty bits together but I wouldn't hold your breath!

Lots of Love

Hev

xoxox

Life

Sometimes in life I am genuinely baffled as to how I have stayed sane. Life at the moment seems to keep throwing annoying curveballs and blockades in the way of what I want to do and who I want to see in my life. I am constantly wondering what horrendous thing I did in my past life to make this life so that absolutely nothing seems to go my way and I just get shat on left, right and bloody centre. I am 22 years old and my life should be slowly blowing into some sort of rhythm. I should be meeting people who are willing to be seen with me and want to have a connection with me. Instead I'm hanging onto losers from my past who did nothing but hurt me, yet they seem to all be sat there in a cinema watching my life fall to pieces in front of them, throwing popcorn whenever my head comes up on screen and laughing their big heads off.
I should have some sort of financial stability, but I am unemployed, living off savings and trying to pay my rent with a student loan that won't even cover the majority. I should be on the road to finding the person I want to spend the rest of my life with and have my future beautiful, bouncing babies with but that road hasn't even got planning permission yet. I should have got a fucking handle on my food intake by now but apparently that is never going to happen, and I do not like how close I am creeping to 12 stone. Most days my life seems perfectly fine from the outside, as I was frequently told at school 'you're so rich! you have no problems!' then please give having an absent, alcoholic father a go. Or a dyspraxic in denial borderline bi- polar steam rolling himself into a mental breakdown brother. Or a mother so ground down and quite frankly pathetic that she will not remove herself from the most toxic of situations because her rose tinted fucking glasses are so thick they will break her neck if she's not careful. It is so difficult not being able to go near things or watch things because OCD will tell you you'll die or get possessed because of it.
From outside of my pity bubble, I think I am trying to say that I am completely stuck and lost and incredibly lonely. I am tired of going clubbing solely for the purpose of meeting someone because they are all arseholes. I am tired of aimlessly scrolling through tinder and swiping right on people because then, invariably they're all arseholes. I find it beyond difficult to meet anyone in my real life, all I do is go to uni on an incredibly girl filled course or trampolining where again everyone is a girl or gay. I am so broody that I would have a baby this afternoon if I could and I am starting to understand why girls go and get pregnant at 16 I know, what a turn up for the books. I need to stop relying on KFC to make me feel better about anything for god sake, the only thing a large original twister meal is going to do is make you fat Hev.

So yeah, I'm stuck in a huge, lonely rut and I would just like a date with a nice boy and feel slighlty less that my world is spinning off around me and I am stuck just watching it not knowing what to do.

I think this is going to have to start with me sacking off the wasters in my life.

Trahh

xoxox

This is Your Life Hev #3

 

This week started with a huge bang. Moving into final year has been so intense ALREADY that I am starting to wonder if I will be able to cope with it. This year is going to be so challenging, having 3 deadlines in for November already (just kill me) that I am having to start writing now, one week into Uni. I have also come to the bloody horrible realisation that I can't leave anything to the night before either, especially as I am desperate for a 2:1 this year. 

I think me writing about beauty bits is going to have to take a bit of a back burner this year as I am so busy. I still adore beauty and am constantly reading and watching what's new and a great product but 1. I can't afford new products and 2. I simply do not have the time to photograph anything for the blog now. Hopefully there will be pockets of time to write about stuff that I absolutely adore at some point this year! I think this blog will end up being more me having a chat about my life and what is going on in it, which I think I am going to enjoy immensely and I hope someone else in my little corner of the internet like it too.

This week also marked the start of me and my course of Rifampicin and Clindamycin to try and tackle my HS, this is for 3 months and has already turned my wee sunny delight orange and makes my mouth taste like a spoon which is fabulous. I am really hoping I am in the 3/4 of people who this treatment works for and will but this horrendous condition into some form of remission for as long as possible. Wish me luck guys! 

I have had possibly one of the fattest weeks for me on record and it really shows on the scales. I am in such a horrendous eat everything mood at the moment and I am trying to snap out of it but I am really struggling. If anyone has any advice please let me know.

I also got tweeted my Dr Christian cos I asked him a question, not the most exciting thing in the world but it was still cool!

The biggest excitement of this week is that my cousin has had a baby boy! Congratulations Chris and Jess and I cannot wait for a munch!

So thats it, a nice roundup of this week, not as mopey as last week was it?!

Lots of Love,

Hev 

xoxox

This Is Your Life Hev #2

So my blog is my little sanctuary. I can write about what is bothering me, what is pissing me off and rarely what is going right in my life and I'm quite enjoying this little roundup of my head space right now, it is so cathartic to write the absolute mental vomit that goes round my head down. I know I don't exactly have the gift of the gab in written form, or in actual day to day life but I do try.

I undertook a week of work experience in a school last week in the food department. It really made me feel completely positive that this is the career I want. I genuinely 100% want to become a food teacher, how mental is that? For the first time I fully know what I want to do and it is so nice to have a direction that I want to stick to. I know it is going to be scary and I will have to learn not to cry (I started welling up thinking about this little year 7 boy who reminded me so much of myself it hurt), but I think it will be worth it in the end. I mean, look at the holidays!

In my personal life this week it has been a complete roller coaster of emotions, I've been horrendously angry, felt deliriously happy, relieved and also like someone had sucker punched me in the stomach. It's been that kind of week. It's been the kind of week where I have had to face up to one of my biggest flaws; my inability to do anything sober me would want when drunk. We've all done it, messaging people, ringing them, snap chatting naughty pictures when plastered etc etc, but it never normally leads to you nearly sabotaging something actually quite strangely good, and then making you realise you actually care about that person way more than you admit to yourself. There were reasons for my sabotage, I was feeling hurt, angry and like I had been mugged off in front of the entire world. Jumping to instant conclusions is one of my bad points as well, coupled with the fact that I was fucking livid didn't really make for a good situation. Its all ok again now though wooooo.

But on another note, I am terrified of dogs to the point of thinking one of them might be around me makes me cry, one is currently in my house at home. It's my dads sponsors (a whole other chapter in my life that) dog, a pomeranian and is probably harmless but my brain doesn't see it like that, so I had to stay at my aunties like a little baby. One of the things I would love to do is get over my fear of dogs, because it doesn't just mess with my life it messes with everyone else's lives around me who have dogs.

I sarted writing a blog post on this when I was curled up in a ball on Friday night on my bed crying, but I am really glad that I left it until now to write some actually put together something mildly (I am rubbish at this writing malarky) coherant together.

Sorry if its been a bit depressing!

Big Love,

Hev

xoxox

The AMERICA Haul

 So yeah, comes to something when you come back from America and you need 3 pictures to fit everything in...

Sephora and Duane Reed ruined me. I'm not upset or angry, but then I'm also quite baffled that that is just how much I actually bought. 

Most of it was from a list that I set up on my notes that had been chopped and changed since February when we booked the trip, and some of the products were samples that I got from Sephora (like the 2 Nars products for my birthday, hello).

So here goes:

Covergirl Lash Blast, Clump Crusher and Tru Blend foundation.

Anastasia Dip Brow Pomade, travel brow set and Brow Wizz.

Beauty Blender.

Urban Decay Naked Concealer, All Nighter setting spray, Seven days of shadow sample and Naked Basics 2 palette.

Kat Von D travel eyeliner set, Tattoo Liner and sample of studded kiss lipstick.

Nars birthday sample of satin and velvet matte lip pencil.

Tarte Tartlette Palette.

MAC Paintpot, Velvet Teddy, Extended Play mascara and Spice lip pencil.

Becca Jaclyn Hill highlighter.

Glam Glow Mini Double Cleanse Mask.

Wet and Wild eyeshadow trio.

Physicians Formula eye pencil trio.

I think thats it!

I will eventually do a video on all of these so you can see all the products in depth and hear some thoughts on these!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

The Kiko Haul

It's been a whole month since me and Charl trotted off to Rome *sobs* and so it is about time I got off my arse and blogged about the Kiko products we brought when there.

We were staying about 5 minutes away from Termini and used it for the metro whenever we needed it, it was here that we did our damage in Kiko.

When we were there most products seemed to be on sale, which was music to my ears as I have always wanted to try some Kiko products. I ended up getting 2 lipliners, 2 lipsticks, an eyeshadow quad, 2 nail varnishes and an eyeliner. 

I have had quite the play with these and I have to say for the most part I am thoroughly impressed. The eyeshadow quad is absolutely dreamy, perfect for Autumn/ Winter. I have been majorly into a more pink based eye for a while now and this has quenched my thirst! I think this was on sale for only 5 euro (!) so if you're near a Kiko I would urge you to have a mooch if it is still around!

The lipsticks and lipliners are great, super creamy and easy to apply (especially for someone who cannot put lipliner on to save my life) and last a fair while on me. I am sure each product was under 3 euro and they all came from the SMART range. 

The nail varnishes are nice, I got a dark purple and a blue, which I don't have with me today but they apply nicely and have lasted ok for such a cheap nail varnish, which was 1.80 euro each.

The only product I am disappointed with is the eyeliner, which is in a golden colour and swatches beautifully, but this didn't transfer to the eyes as opaquely for me unfortunately.  

Have you tried any Kiko products and what would you recommend?

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Blog Issues

So I think my blog layout is distorting my images and making them look grainy and well fucking pants. Does anyone know of a good blog layout which doesn't do this to my images, as I spend some time making them look nice and then they get on my blog and it looks like a 5 year old took them blindfolded.

Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks millions!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Everyday Makeup Tutorial

So here is the video I have attempted to upload 4 times in the past week because of the failure of google chrome!

But here it is, my first attempt in a long time at a makeup tutorial!

The editing is probably shoddy as so please bear with, but I hope you enjoy it!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

This Is Your Life Hev #1

It is currently 2am and I made the fucking monster mistake of going to sleep at 9pm (damn you body tricking me into thinking you needed sleep...) so I'm massively wide awake now. Big woop.

I'm not really sure what I want to write about now, I feel like I've been super neglectful of this blog even though I haven't posted for like a week but I have enjoyed rambling like a moody 13 year old about my life on here, I think it's been cathartic. (Look Charlotte, I'm using big words).

Lady Chatterleys Lover was a massive let down the other day, where was the sex? Where was Robb Starks penis? Don't think I will get over this. 

I am scared to weigh myself because I have absolutely no handle on my eating. I used to have a handle and now I don't. I have a gym membership I don't use and can't afford and wasted £60 on a slimming world membership that lasted for a week before my big old operation. Great time to start trying to diet eh Hev? I just want to be 9 and a half stone again, and the fact that I lost 2 stone to the great big OCD year long panic attack of 10/11 without changing my eating probably hasn't helped my attitude in the slightest. Can I get that metabolism back just without the OCD? K thnks.

Oh yes, this is the first time I've mentioned OCD on my blog and you probably think I'm a medical mess (which trust me baby, I am) but that isn't an avenue I can talk about yet. I could however probably ramble on until the cows come home just how FUCKING INFURIATING it is when people say 'oh I'm so OCD' about arranging a couple of tins in complete neat order and that is it. Please come jump into my life and discover what not just having OCD is, but what having a fucking OCD that makes you sound like a fucking nutter and isn't just about cleaning, having to chant the same sentence in your head over and over to shut your brain up because it won't stop trying to get you hurt. If anyone has or has any information about scrupulosity OCD then please come at me with it. 

Had my birthday party on Saturday, had the typical Heather O'Neill drunk as a fucking skunk piss everyone off birthday shenanigans and the hangover that has followed makes me never want to leave the house and go clubbing again. I'm 22 and I'm getting tired of it. How lame.

I'm lonely. 

For possibly the first time in my life I want a relationship and the current situation I am in isn't really healthy for me and really is not going to lead me to that end, stop trying to kid yourself girl.

I would like to stop swearing so much, but I can't.

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Back from New York

I am back from the most amazing 5 days in New York and I did some massive damage...

A haul will be soon of aaaaall I bought!

Lots of love,

Hev

xoxox

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22!

Cheeky Selfie

It's my 22nd birthday. Hopefully I will be spending all my dollars in Sephora and at the top of the Empire State Building right now, having been woken up by my sister and aunty dancing around to Tay Tay at half 4 in the moring because of jetlag. Anyone else who shares this glorious Virgoan birthday (cough cough Liam Payne) with me happy birthday too!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Rome Ceilings

So this is a bit of a random post but when in Rome ALWAYS look up. You won't regret it.

Rome Vlog

So I have delved back into the world of youtube once again, this time to show you our shoddy vlog in Rome!

Hope you all enjoy!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Rome: Santa Maria Maggiore

This is such a beautiful Church in Rome and this happened to be practically outside our hotels doorstep which was so stunning. Our hotel hosts told us that this was the second largest Church outside The Vatican and it really was huge. I get the feeling that this Church isn't really part of the main tourist drag but it is just too beautiful to ignore on your trip to Rome. Getting here couldn't be easier, either hop on the Metro A or B to Termini or walk up Cavour from the Colloseum. We took the 5 euro tour to the top of the Church which is so worth it to see the beautiful mosaic and statues at the top. Just remember to cover your shoulders and knees when going in, although sheeths are available.

I also think that my blog layout might be making my images look grainy and horrible, I promise you they don't look like that in real life!

Rome

Having just got back from the most fabulous city break ever I thought I would let you know that numerous blog posts are coming with ridiculous amounts of photos and me slobbering all over them like a crazy lady.

Rome is such a beauty and I want to go back again and again. Once you get past the selfie stick sellers (who magically turn into poncho sellers in the rain) not taking no for an answer it is definitely my favourite place I've ever been to (since I'm going to New York next week that might change...).

As someone who can't eat dairy I was shitting my pants about being able to eat but I had the most fabulous food time as well, topped off by finding dark chocolate dairy free gelato *inserts heart eyes emoji here* so don't be too worried about finding food over there if you have intolerances!

I also changed to about a quarter shade darker which is quite the achievement for me ;)

Bear with for the numerous blog posts as I can't find my camera...

Lots of love,

Hev

xoxox

Guerlain My Terracotta Bronzer

The My Terracotta bronzer was the prize I won in a competition ran on a model recommends blog, and I won the palest shade in this lovely rubberised green special edition packaging.

In all honesty I would never have brought this bronzer on my own, as the price tag is well out of my league as a recently unemployed cash strapped student. The bronzer is definitely a more orange toned bronzer with small specks of shimmer, which give a really nice glow to the skin, meaning I can go without a highlighter if I wanted!

The bronzer took a little while to get used to and discover what brush works best with it, and I find that a normal blush brush works best. I originally tried a duo fibre but I didn't feel like it gave off enough pigment to my skin.

The shade works nicely with my NW10-15 skin, as long as I don't go overboard and blend it well. This is definitely not a contour shade but more of an overall give some colour to your face shade.

If I had a a disposable income again and wanted an extremely luxurious product I would definitely repurchase, just like if you do have the means to buy it I would highly recommend as it is a great bronzer. If you aren't so cash happy there are definitely some high street dupes for this bronzer, which is probably what I will buy when this runs out!

The My Terracotta Bronzer by Guerlain is for sale for £37.50 at John Lewis now.

Have you tried the My Terracotta Bronzer out? Please leave me your thoughts!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Roman Holiday Makeup

By the time you will be reading this, me and my sis will have taken off *fingers crossed* from Birmingham to Rome! I mentioned in my August post just how excited I am to be going off to one of the cities I learnt so much about during my A-Levels for 5 days of culture and pizza! So I thought I would give a run down of exactly the make-up I am taking with me, to withstand the intense Italian heat!

I am intensely pale, tanning evades me but burning is a star feature of my holidays no matter how much factor 50 I slather on! This is one of the reasons I have opted for my Bobbi Brown BB cream, as it has SPF 35 in and will help protect me from the sun. I have also opted for this for its lightweight feel, perfect for sweaty walking days! The colour is still a little dark (in extra light) for me so I am hoping by the end I may blend in with the colour better than before! I am taking my mac concealer in NW15 with me as it is slightly thicker than I normally wear, but is super creamy and will help to cover the blemishes the BB cream simply does not cover. I am also using my M&S powder as I have complete trust in its mattifying properties! Underneath all of this I am using my Laura Mercier Oil Free Primer, which is great at keeping oil at bay and keeping your make-up on for longer.

For the rest of my face I am taking my Guerlain Bronzer, as it gives the most gorgeous sun-kissed glow and a great sheen on the top of my cheeks, negating the need for highlighter! For hiding the appearance of what will be an intense pizza and pasta face I am taking my Illamasqua Eye shadow in Justify, which is a great contour shade, and transition shade on the eyes. On the lips I am taking my beloved L'Oreal lip liner in Labbra which I have mentioned before in case I want a darker lip, and over the top my L'Oreal The Nudes lipstick in Julianne's nude for day to day wear.

For my eyes we kick off with the Urban Decay Primer Potion which needs no explanation. I am taking my mac quad for whatever look I fancy plus my L'Oreal eye liner just in case I want some drama to my eyes. Topping this off with my L'Oreal Volume Millions Excess mascara with the Soap and Glory Thick and Fast layered over the top to create huge, dramatic lashes. Finally, I will be taking my Charlotte Tilbury Eyebrow pencil (which I think is the Brooke shade) which has a spoolie on one end and a great pencil on the other.

What make-up will you or have you been taking on holiday this year? I would love to hear all about it!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Pilonidal sinus update

I AM HEALED AND I FEEL LIKE THIS!!!!

Exactly 7 weeks after my op I am healed. I don't think I could quite put into words how happy I am that my arse has gone and closed up. I feel like I've been on such a roller coaster over the last 7 weeks with my booty, dealing with such an embarrassing yet all too common problem among the population. 

I am acutely aware that I have had it extremely lucky, especially after watching last nights embarrassing bodies where a man didn't have his heal for 6 years!!! In the grand scheme of things, even though my stitches split, my adverse reaction to morphine and I had to get my bum packed everyday I have had a pretty straightforward affair.

Would like to say a big thanks to my surgeon for cutting it out, all the nurses at the hospital for putting up with me and the nurses at my doctors for making me feel at ease and for finally telling me I'm healed! 

If you believe you have a pilonidal sinus I would urge you to get it sorted out, even though the op is silly painful and you won't be able to sit down for a while it is well worth getting it looked at as soon as it appears, don't let it get bigger and tunnel down further as this will probably leave you with a bigger hole! 

So all in all I couldn't be happier that I am now fully healed, not having to attend the doctors everyday just in time for Rome on Monday!

If you have any questions on this please feel free to ask

Lots of love,

Hev

xoxox

London Zoo

For Charlotte's birthday we ventured into London for the weekend. We had a great weekend, saw Casablanca at the Opera House (tears), ate all the food and popped into London Zoo. Make no mistake, if you know me you know that zoos are one of my favourite places in the entire world. I think its because whatever your age you can feel like a child again, and see so many animals that you would never be able to see in the flesh without a zoo being present.

The zoo was massive and took up our entire Sunday which was lovely. Based in Regents Park, we got the tube to Regents Park Station and walked the leisurely 20 minutes to the zoo in some glorious sunshine! As we are both students we got the concessionary price of I think £24 which included a donation to the upkeep of the zoo.

We walked round so many different areas it was hard to keep up, only missing going into the Bat walkthrough *shivers* and the butterfly farm as there was a massive queue outside. We had food there, which was expensive but I didn't care as both pizzas were made purely out of Buffalo Mozzarella which doesn't contain cows milk so I could actually eat a pizza!

Overall I thought the zoo was brilliant and on a par with my favourite Jersey Zoo! My favourite area was the aquarium, fish are so beautiful and it was lovely to see so many different species from all over the world! It will get expensive if you have a large family like ours is but it is well worth it for a nice summer day out with your family or friends!

What are your favourite animal to see at the zoo?

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

August 2015 Skincare Routine

My Skin is the absolute pits. I have had intense acne since I was 11 and I am 21 now and nothing has changed. I used to just abide by only cleansing and toning and was terrified of moisturiser as I thought it would make me even oilier silly me. I decided at the start of this year to try and get my skin care into some kind of check to give all the skin medication I am on (Erythromicin, Dianette etc etc) Some room to get on with things. I have been using this routine on and off (I am the definition of lazy) but I think it is making some improvements, even if it is just in moisture retention. So lets go through what I do's. Oh and I am in no means an expert, I am le pants at this stuff and I know no routine is going to cure me, but anything that can help I am into.

We shall go from left- right of this picture shall we?

1. Ren Clear Calm Mask: This is something I apply about once a week, it leaves my skin feeling a lot nicer but I have to be honest not sure on its spot fighting powers.

2. L'Oreal Micellar Water: Great at removing eye and face makeup, this normally comes out if I am wearing anything super heavy on my face, or if I can't be arsed to cleanse at all.

3. Super Facialist by Una Brennan: This stuff is such a nice first/ morning cleanser for me. It doesn't remove the heaviest of makeups but it smells divine and makes my skin feel really nice and smooth afterwards. I sometimes use this rubbed in before then washed off in shower, as the texture changed from oil to a more watery, emollient finish.

4.Emma Hardie Amazing Face: Smells incredible, with a lovely balmy texture which glides all over my face and takes away any of the remaining makeup on my face. This is my second cleanse baby, removed with a nice warm flannel. The only issue I have is with the packaging, as the lid has decided to completely fall apart on me.

5. Botanics Ultra Calm Night Moisturiser: This is a great budget night moisturiser, sinks into the skin nicely and I can always, always tell when I haven't used it.

6. Ren Clarimatte Clarifying Toner: This is my delve into the acids world, I use intensely in my spotty areas and around my jawline to prevent the rough skin I can sometimes get under there.

7. La Roche Posay Serozinc: The newest member of my skincare family, this is such a refreshing spray, which I bought specifically to try to heal my spots faster and I think this one might be helping with that.

8. Vichy Aqualia Thermal Serum: Super moisturising, super pungent of roses for about 10 seconds and I will use instead of my day moisturiser most days.

9. Simple Rich Day Moisturiser: This is ok. Smells strongly of suncream which can be off putting when I am hanging out of my arsehole but it works. Currently on the lookout for something better.

So there you have it! My current skincare routine. It seems stupidly long and I will skip alot of this if I am being lazy but I try to keep at least the cleanse and the serozinc in 100% of the time.

What are your thoughts on these products?

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

Happy Birthday Charlotte

Hope you have the best day because you bloody deserve it

Lots of love

Hev

xoxox

The New Baby: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ70

Soooo I got a new camera...

As a joint present between me and my sis for our birthdays, we got this absolute beauty of a camera. We had been looking for a decent camera for ages, one that would photograph beautifully and video in full HD (a pants attempt at vlogging anyone?) and we feel like we found ourselves in this camera. We purchased it from John Lewis for £294 and can be found here. I am rubbish at knowing all of the ins and outs of the camera but all I know is it takes really nice photos in a variety of settings!

This should mean that for the most part my blog post pictures should improve dramatically, and I might get to do a few youtube videos too.

We are going to London at the weekend so will be trying it out in all its glory around the sights!

If anyone has this camera and has any helpful tips and tricks please let us know!

Lots of loveage,

Hev 

xoxox