Look Of The Month #1

I love look of the month posts from all  you lovely bloggers. I always get so much inspiration of what to try out next or what new clothes I want to buy. Granted, they usually make me spend too much, but never the less, I love them!  So, I thought I would do one myself.  This month I have been absolutely loving the half up do top knot look. It has become my daily hair style at the moment, I don't know if I may be over killing it, but I love it!  It's so easy to do and because I am up early for work it's a really quick go to hair style, I hate having my hair fully up so this is the perfect quick and easy compromise. 

This has been the basis of my look of the month. However I have also been obsessing over a basic nude makeup look. It is really popular at the moment and I love it because I can get made up but still look like I've not made too much of an effort, again for work, this has been a life saver. 

To create my nude eyes I have just done a basic shadow and mascara look. I have used this Clarins pallet. Taking the lightest from the far right and then creating a darker shadow in the creases of my eyes from the far left shade.  I think this works well as a two tonal look but keeps it basic and nude enough to create the perfect quick and easy everyday look. 

My favourite lipstick to compliment my nude makeup look is this Clinique beauty. Like you will know, I am a sucker for Clinique makeup. It always works brilliantly to compliment my skin and I feel that for the price, it always last so long. Definitely worth paying a little bit extra! This Soft Bloom is my favourite shade to wear at the moment, I love how it feels on my lips as well; a bit like a balm as well as giving a lovely colour. 

And that concludes the look I have been obsessing over this month. I do think I am going to carry on this look for a while! It's just so quick and easy to create. I might have a play around with some different shadow colours, maybe go a bit darker for the Autumn... Hmm so many ideas! But this will do me for now. Keep a look out for my next look of the month to see what I attempt next! Which looks have you been loving this month? I'd love to see some of them...maybe for some inspiration for my next look! Thanks for stopping by,

June Favourites!

Welcome to my first favourites post!  How is everyone finding the heat? I hope there's not too much complaining as you always long for it when it's not here - enjoy it!  Anyway - I read so many monthly favourites and I always love them so, time to do one of my own. Here go's. 

1. H&M slip-on sandals £14.99.  I love, love these shoes so much. Having originally brought them for my hols, they have actually seen a lot of wear these past couple of days with the weather reaching highs of 31 degrees here in Manchester! They are really comfy and so easy to wear just throwing them onto my feet before I rush out of the house. The buckle detail is something I particularly like as it makes the shoe a bit more interesting and also the little quirky detailing of the sole. I actually don't know what I used to wear on my feet in the summer before I had these, so easy to wear, comfortable and the perfect summer must have! 

2. Black & Gold Earing Studs - Primark £2.50 I brought them on a pack of studs.  I have been obsessing over these this month, they are paired with pretty much every outfit. I love the vintage look to them which is the perfect accessory if you're wanting to add a touch of vintage to any outfit. They have a lovely spherical shape to them, not easy to notice on the photo - giving a unique 3D effect to the stud. They are just big enough on my ear that they make a statement yet don't look to big to fit my lobe. I also do tend to wear quite a lot of gold look jewelry so they match really well with other accessories that I own. 

3. Sweet Retreat nail varnish - Rita Ora for Rimmel London I paint my nails weekly so I'm a bit of a nail varnish hoarder, my collection is ever growing as I get bored quite easily of colours and I just love buying new ones to try. June was the month I treated myself to this lovely paint and I'm in love with it. It's so summery and sweet - as the name suggests - not too 'in your face pink' and it doesn't look sickly either. It matches really well to my skin tone as well which I like as sometimes paler colour's can my me look quite pasty. It has also lasted pretty well on the chip side and it goes on quickly only needing a couple of coats. Sometimes cheaper nail paints take 3 or even 4 coats to actually make it look like I'm wearing varnish, however I found with this one that, that wasn't the case. It dried within a couple of minutes and has lasted really well - very impressed! I would definitely recommend purchasing a one of these from the Rita Ora collection - all the colours are adorable and so summery! Well that's it, the end of my first favorites post! I really enjoyed doing this post and I would love to know what you are all enjoying over the last month as well, leave me some links to have a read.  Thanks for staying,