My Top 5 Picks - Nail Polish

Hey everyone!

I love a lot of products, that's a given obvious from my blog. I recently was going through all my make up and sorting it all out because honestly it had went a bit crazy and I was buying all thee new things that I knew I didn't need! I decided to put myself through make up rehab and that's how came up with the idea for this post.

I decided to pick out my top 5 of each type of product and so I thought I would make a little series on my blog to share with you all what my top 5 make up product picks are.


To begin with, nail polish is my downfall. I literally have over 100 bottles of the stuff, it's an addiction. This was really hard but these top 5 picks are my favourite to wear in the Summer months because it would be so hard to narrow it down to my top 5 overall!

Barry M in my opinion own it when it comes to nail polish! Their formula is the best that I have tried, especially from their Gelly HI-Shine range. The polish stays on for a really long time and overall the brand is really good and inexpensive as they always have special deals and offers going on. It was really hard to choose my favourite from the Barry M range but I picked this pastel blue one for Summer as it is the one that I would reach for most often during the Summer months as it is a really casual colour and matches a lot of clothing.



The second brand that I have most nail polishes from is Rimmel. Again, Rimmel have a really good formula with their nail polishes however they aren't as long lasting as the Barry M ones but they do have a wide range of colour options and again it was very difficult to choose my favourite one. 

I decided on the muted/pastel lilac almost grey colour as it is the one that I have been wearing recently and it is so a gorgeous and such an

unusual colour. It is called 'Mary Mary quite contrary' which is such a cute name! I wear this nail polish on a day to day basis as it is so muted it matches with everything which is such a bonus!

A lot of people would refrain themselves from wearing red nail polish during the summer months, however I believe I have found the perfect red nail colour for Summer and it is from L'Oreal, a brand that I literally never buy nail polish from! This gorgeous deep, bright red gives the perfect pop of colour. I especially love to wear it along with red lipstick when I am wearing a white or eve monochrome outfit during the Summer. This colour is called '403 Femme Fatale' and I really think that if you love the colour red you should defiantly look into this shade for Summer!

Coral is one of my favourite shades to wear in the Summer, it is bright and fun and simply defines Summer to me. Rimmel again do my favourite shade of coral to wear in the Summer and it is called 'Orange Your Life' which is such a quirky name! When you put one layer on it doesn't look that bright but I usually end up having to use 2-3 coats, which kinda sucks to get the bright pop of neon coral/orange that I want to achieve. All in all it is a really fun bright summer colour!

The final nail polish that I want to put into my top 5 picks for Summer is one from NYC. I don't own a lot of NYC products, in fact I think I only have 3 of their nail polish's however I was really impressed by this shade. It is a beautiful green/blue. Not exactly a mint green colour, it is a lot brighter than that. The reason I really like this shade is because when you want something brighter than a pastel green then this is the perfect in between shade as it isn't exactly a neon-popping colour. The formula of the nail polish I really loved and it only took one coat which is a big bonus!

Sorry for this incredibly long post, but there was so much information and love for each of these nail polish's that I just had to put in!! 

Also, side note, each picture with the nail polish was done with one dip in the bottle and one coat just to show off how what the formula was like for each different nail polish.

Hope you enjoyed this post and I would love to know what your favourite Summer nail polishes are!?

Until next time, 

Love, Lisa xx

Recent Favourites

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! :)

I normally do monthly favourite posts, but this month I have been loving SO much and I just couldn't wait to the end of the month to share them all with you so I thought I would just do a random favourites post now and then at the end of the month I'll do another one :)


My first favourite is a nail polish. Barry M is by far my favourite brand to buy my nail polishes from. They are super long lasting and the formula is incredible! :) The colour I have been loving is called Sugar Apple and is a gorgeous mint green colour, perfect for the start of Summer! Mint green has been my go to colour recently and I love anything that colour so this nail polish is perfect for me and I have worn it practically for this whole month (and will probably continue to do so throughout the summer!)







The book 'The Fault In Our Stars' has by far been my number 1 book! I read this last summer as well and fell in love with it and with the movie coming out I thought that I should refresh my memory (or ruin my emotions after only recovering from reading it the last time!) and so I re-read it before going to see the movie (which I see tonight!) and I can honestly say it still made me cry the second time round which to me shows how good of a book it actually is. If you haven't read or heard of this book then firstly where have you been recently and secondly GO BUY IT that is an order from me to you because it is so good and heart wrenching and beautiful :)

 I am a lover of lip products and when I saw a lot of people recommending this particular lip balm I just had to try it! I'm a bit late on the band wagon but better late than never I suppose! Anyway, this lip butter by Nivea is my new favourite lip balm to put on for just lazy, around the house days and I also put some on before putting on a bright lipstick. It is really moisturising and rich on the lips and makes them really soft and smooth. Also the flavour is incredible and I could honestly just smell the tin all day..

On the topic of me loving lip products, another one the I have just discovered I am obsessed with is the Revlon Colorburst matte lip balms. I only have this one in the colour 'Showy' which is a beautiful bright pink colour. It really is quite bright but honestly with the right make up look it's easy to pull it off. if I can you can too! I will definitely be buying more colours in this product as it is so long lasting and the price, £7.99 isn't too bad considering how amazing the product is! :) I got mine at Boots; http://www.boots.com/en/Revlon-ColorBurst-8482-Matte-Balm_1416281/ (however you can get them at Superdrug, Feel Unique and any other stockists of Revlon)

My last current favourite is a piece of jewelry which has been on trend recently and at first I wasn't really a lover of them but then I found this one from Miss Selfridge and fell in love with how cute it was! I love flowers and the little beads in the middle of each flower really sets it off. The coral pink colour is really nice and matches a lot of my clothes, however there was other colour options and I think I will have to go back and get more of the colours! 

I got this choker from the Miss Selfridge shop, and it is also available on their website;http://www.missselfridge.com/en/msuk/product/accessories-299050/jewellery-1917538/necklaces-299214/coral-flower-choker-2920445?refinements=category~%5b267536%7c267535%5d&bi=1&ps=40

That has been most of my current favourites this month, there has been way more but I'll save them for the end of the month! :)

Hope you enjoyed, leave a comment telling me your favourites of the month and I'll more than likely try them out!! 

Until next time, Lisa xx

*Disclaimer- I am not sponsored, all views are my own and I bought everything myself*

March Favourites

Heeeeeey. 

(I always begin with 'Hello again' so I am going for something different!) 

Today I will be sharing with you all what my favourite items have been over the month of March. Firstly can I say WOW this year is flying by so quickly I am struggling to keep up -however the school year is nearly up so YAY! There is always a positive!

I have been loving so much this month and trying out lots of new products so I have quite a few to share with you today and hopefully you will feel inspired to try them and love them as much as I do. And of course if you want to, you can share with me what your favourite things of this month were in the comments :)

Side note, this could also be my last post for a little while as I will be focusing on my exams and coursework. So bare with me, I need to pass these exams!

Make Up

As it is now officially Spring I have been bringing back all my old make up favourites again to use in this season. I do this weird cycle thing where I only use certain products in a season and then put them away until next year so now I have to go and find all my last year Spring products so that I can get good use out of them!! 

My make up favourites of this month are both base items and they are Rimmel Perfect Match foundation and Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer. Both of these have been my staple for the month of March, they work so well together for a fresh, natural, easy to wear look.


Firstly the foundation I got from a recommendation from my friend who uses it daily and I thought that I might give it a go as I have been using the Rimmel Wake Me Up one for AGES and I wanted to try something new. I find that this foundation is really easy to work into the skin and it looks really natural. I have oily skin and my sister has dry skin and we both use this foundation and it works great for both of us so it is an all round product for every skin type! 

The Collection concealer is of course one of those cult beauty classics that basically every beauty guru on YouTube talks about and I couldn't resist the temptation any longer so when I saw it one day when I was out I had to buy it! and I am glad that I did because it is honestly amazing! It covers all my imperfections really well and I have quite a few scars from spots that I picked (EW!) so finding a really full coverage concealer is always really hard and I am never happy until you can't see a single blemish on my face - luckily this concealer does the trick and it was so cheap which surprised me! I think I may have bought a shade too dark for my skin though so I will have to go back and get a shade lighter but for now I am making it work!

Overall, for make up this month I really just tried to get my base perfect for the summer time and I think I have achieved this with these two products :)

Hair:

Recently I have began to notice that my hair is becoming a lot weaker than is usually is, which I put down to be severely damaging it by dying it every 2 months! However I went on a mission to find something to help repair it and make it not look so dry and straw like! I found this 2-in-1 product by Pantene:

It is a shampoo and conditioner which I never really would recommend as I don't believe on product can do both but I think this one is really effective! I have been using it for around the whole month now, for every wash (which is every 2 days) and have found that my hair is in fact becoming shinier and a lot more healthy than before, which is such a relief as I was looking like a scarecrow for a while there..

I would overall really recommend this product if you are finding your hair to be breaking off and looking really dull recently. I wanted to ensure that my hair looked shiny as it is coming into the Summer and I wanted that 'natural glow' look and I think that with continued use I will achieve this!




Skin Care:

My skin has actually been not too bad in terms of break outs recently (It's a miracle I know!) however I am still not satisfied with the blemishes and red scars that I have on my face!! So in an effort to try and use every product possible to find the right one I bought the Origins Clear Improvements Mask. 

I use this mask once a week, sometimes twice if I remember to and can be bothered to do it! I hate masks that you have to wash off however I am prepared to do whatever works to clear my skin for good. I find that this mask leaves my skin super baby bum soft after using it and since I have been using it for nearly 2 months now I am defiantly beginning to see an improvement in the colour of the blemishes, they are finally fading away! This product was £22 however I think that for the price of it and the fact it is lasting me a lifetime as you only need a pea size amount each time, it is worth the money!

I would highly recommend this product if you have problems with blemishes. I love relaxing in the bath with music on and this face mask. 


Music:

I cannot get enough of listening to 5 Seconds of Summer's EP! It is so perfect it makes me want to cry and eat ice cream every time because I know I will never marry them all. Bigamy at its best. 

My favourite song on the EP is Disconnected. It makes me want to dance around my bedroom pretending to be on a beach somewhere (I have no idea ok) but you really need to buy this if you haven't! I have been a fan of 5SOS for a little over 2 years now and they are seriously so kind-hearted, down to earth lovely boys who deserve all the success that they get. Just one thing though THEY NEED TO COME BACK TO HERE SO I CAN SEE YOU ON YOUR OWN TOUR OK THANK YOU (That was needed to be put out there.)

Random:

On March 25th I was lucky enough to go to The Wanted's concert, front row. I actually love The Wanted so flipping much and the fact that they are over now completely heartbreaks me (I could go off in a tangent here but I wont) The concert was seriously one of the best of my life. I went to their last concert as well and had an amazing time so I knew this would be unreal. I think they are all so talented, funny and beautiful boys/men now. 4 years on and I am still their number one fan. Anyway, the concert was so impressively amazing and I can't believe I will never see them again :( Thankfully they gave me the best night of my life, so the memories will last forever. (ok Lisa, stop being so soppy!) Of course I have added the ticket to my wall of ever growing concert ticket collection, it is actually getting ridiculous!! Of course The Vamps were also there on tour with The Wanted who I love as well, seems to be a running theme in this post with boys...hmm anyways. The Vamps were also amazing, it was my second time seeing them live now I just need to see them on their own tour if they would just release tour dates for here that would be great!

I feel that this post was very much boyband oriented (5SOS are not a boyband however..just a band..with boys in it.) Hope you enjoyed my March Favourites.

Leave me a comment what you want to see on this blog, I am always open to feedback :)

Until next time, 

Lisa xx

July Favourites :

Hello again!

For a new segment to my blog, I will be doing a monthly favourites posts. These will include my favourite make up product, song, nail polish, food, skin product and any other random things I have loved from that month :)

Make Up Product:

Ok so firstly my favourite makeup product of July has got to be the Olay Essentials Glow Perfectors BB cream. I bought this to take on holidays with me as I didn't want to be wearing a full coverage foundation daily whilst on holidays as I found my skin had cleared up due to the heatwave we had and also I have been taking better care of my skin recently so I thought a BB cream would be perfect for daily wearing. This one has a touch of foundation in it so I didn't feel too self conscious going without a full face of make up. I liked this product, it was very moisturising and creamy and it absorbed into my skin quickly so I wasn't sitting around hours waiting for it to be dry! Also the smell was very nice too, it kinda smelt like the beach! haha :L


Skin Care Product:

A skin care product that I have been loving this month is the B. Pure Micellar Water. I use this product one days where I am not wearing any make up just to cleanse my face and take away all the dirt and grease of the day away. The product itself is really inexpensive (£3.32) and I got it at Superdrug. I had never heard about this brand before but they are Animal testing free which I care about a lot so that was a major plus factor for me! This product also absorbs into the skin fast and leaves it feeling really cleansed out and fresh. I use it sometimes also in the morning if I feel a bit groggy! haha Overall really love this product and will also be trying other products from this line in the future! :D

Nail Varnish:

In my last blog I wrote about the NYC nail varnish and since I only just got it, that isn't going to be my monthly favourite (more than likely it will make an appearance next month!) but instead all of July I was wearing the Rimmel 60 Seconds in the colour Pop Your Orange. This is a really bright, neon orange and I have just been wearing this with everything lately. It doesn't really matter if it clashes with your outfit because I just think it works (unless you're wearing red of course!) But I love Rimmel as a brand and their nail varnishes do not disappoint. 

Music:

Ok I think we will all see this as no surprise but I have seriously non stop listened to One Direction Best Song Ever! It is no secret that I love the 1D boys and I don't even care that I am 17, I just tell myself that what if Niall sees me in the crowd some day? Yeah I do fantasise about that...moving on! The song is really catchy and so different from their usual pop songs, it has more of an edge to it and I think they are trying out new sounds which I love! And Zayn's high notes!? Dear Lord I think I stopped breathing! haha. The video is also amazing, its so funny and has such a great concept I love it! And Harry in that shirt...again I stopped breathing! Ok I could go on about the song and One Direction forever but I won't.. ;) It's just amazing..go listen to it if you haven't already..which I doubt! :D

Food:

I don't know why I am incorporating food into this.oh yeah cause I am a food addict and never stop eating, yip sounds about right! I eat lots of things, and I love everything so it was hard choosing what my favourite of the month was but this just sums me up really. When I was younger I always ate Shortcake Fruit Biscuits and whilst I was on holidays this month i found them in a shop and had to buy them, ever since I have non stop ate them! They are basically a shortcake biscuit with currants in them. You may be thinking 'ew currants in a biscuit?' I used to think that too, and I can't eat currants on their own but for some reason they are just so yummy in this biscuit! I dip them into my tea and eat at least 3 a sitting. They are also low on calories but heck if they were like 100 calories per biscuit I would still eat them cause they are amazing! Seriously try them!

Random:

There are a lot of random things that I love in life, so this was hard to pick one. I decided to go with bracelet making. I watched a Youtube video once and this girl showed you how to make 3 different designs of friendship bracelets and ever since I have bought all these things to make bracelets - embroidery thread, charms, clasps, fabric glue, beads - its crazy! I am thinking of starting to sell them but I don't think I have quite mastered the art of how to do it quite yet! haha but for now its just a fun hobby that I am enjoying using my creative side and it passes the time! :D

That is all my July favourites for this year anyway, so until next time adios amigos! :D

Love you all! :) stay beautiful. 

*disclaimer* all opinions are my own, I am not sponsored!