New Years Eve Nails

Hey Everyone,
I thought I should tell you what I am wearing on my nails today as it is New Years Eve.

 As a base coat I used on layer of the Maybelline Color Show nail polish in the shade 352 Downtown Red as is is very opaque and then put a layer of Essence Colour and Go nail polish in the shade it actually has no shade but it is a sparkly red purple colour on top.

I love this nail combination as I think it is very festive and fun.
What will you be doing tonight? I will be going to watch some fireworks and definitely watching the movie New Years Eve.

Happy New Year and here is to 2014

See You Soon

<3

New Phone Covers

Hi Everyone,
My Main Christmas Present this year was my new phone (Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini) from my Mother and Father and because it is so new, lovely and clean I thought I best get a cover for it. So whilst I was scrolling through "Vintage phone covers" on Ebay, I came across some beautiful vintage inspired phone covers and I wanted to buy them all. I gradually narrowed it down to two as they were only £2.90 each and so I ordered them. Today the arrived in the post and I absolutely love them, I definitely want to get some more of them in the future. when they arrived I was very pleased with the packaging and to my surprise the covers came with screen protectors and a little cloth each as i was going to go and buy some screen protectors aswell as I don't want my screen to get destroyed with scratches and dirt. I am very pleased with my phone covers and i thought I should share them with you as I know sometimes it can be hard to find good sellers on Ebay or pretty Phone cases for that fact.

Left: Classic Yellow Floral, Right: Classic Blue Floral

Phone Cases on Ebay: Here
Sellers Website: Here

See You Soon,

<3

*This is not a sponsored post I just thought to share the cases with you and tell you where to buy them.

Makeup Brush Holder- DIY

Hi Everyone,
A while back I done a quick little post on a glade candle that I had bought here which smelt utterly delicious and i will have to stock up on some before they go off the shelves as they are only limited edition. But anyhow the other day the wick burnt out and I thought the container was too pretty to trow out so i decided to turn it into a brush holder.
To get the leftover wax out of the jar i put some cling film over the opening and put it in the freezer as this would make it less sticky and easier to crack apart. when I took it out of the freezer i just jabbed a knife into the wax and it gradually cracked into pieces. once your empty the remaining wax out all that is left is the metal part of the wick which was glued to the bottom so I got some hot water from the kettle poured it into the jar, swirled it around a few times and then using the same knife picked it off the bottom. i was then left with a clean jar.

The other day I was in a local home store when I came across little packs of star plant fillers, they were for half price as it was the christmas sale so I picked up two packs to put in my jar as i can never find plant filler ever.

So when I got home I filled up my jar and jabbed in my Makeup brushes and voilá I have a spanking new brush holder which was as cheap as chips.

I Hope you liked this DIY and you try it out at home!

See You Soon

<3

The Dainty Little Tin

Hi Everyone,
As part of my Christmas present my sister got me this beautiful tin which I thought I should share with you. If you know me I love everything vintage and I have started a little collection of jars and tins (when i say little i mean getting out of control) and when I opened the wrapping paper I instantly fell in love with it. I love the shabby chic style of it and though I have not yet found a use for it soon it will have its own home in my bedroom.

The Tin is available to buy in Avoca stores

See You Soon

<3

Shortbread Biscuits

Hey Everyone,
The other day I decided to make some shortbread biscuits so I flicked through some recipe books and found a great recipe which is Truly Scrumptious so I decided to share it with you so lets get started.

Ingredients:
100g Margarine
150g Plain Flour
50g Caster Sugar

1. Turn your oven on to 150 degrees Celsius or gas mark 3 to preheat.
2.Dollop your margarine into the bowl. I like to mix it around to make sure it it smooth.
3. Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix together. when your dough starts to form take out your spoon and start to knead it with your hands until it forms a ball with no residue left in the bowl.
4. Sprinkle your work surface and your rolling pin with a little flour and roll out your dough.
5.Once your dough is evenly spread out cut into shapes either with cutters or free hand with a knife
6.place your biscuits on a tray that is lightly greased or has some greaseproof paper on it.
7. Bake for 10- 15 minutes don't let the burn, only let them slightly golden.
8. Place biscuits on cooling rack and sprinkle with caster sugar

I hope you like this simple recipe and you try it out at home you could also add some dried fruit or chocolate chips to the recipe to spice it up. Don't forget to send me pictures on Twitter and Instagram of your creations.

See You Soon

<3

Schedule 2014

Hello Everyone,
First of all I would like to say a GIANT sorry for not blogging over the past weeks and I hope that you can forgive me as I have been so busy over this festive time that I haven't had any time to Blog. But I am back and I have got a whole load of Posts with me and together we are going to send 2013 out with a Bang!
So there for over the next few days I will be blogging as much as I can and then when we hit 2014 I will start to blog once a week which means you will definitely get a Blog Post every Sunday. Also if have got free time I might sneak a little post in but otherwise be here every Sunday and I promise to try as hard as I can to have a great blog post up.
I was just looking at the statuses of my blog and overall;
On My Blog:
Followers: 1
Page Views: 1398
On Bloglovin:
Profile followers: 16
Blog followers: 10
I find this incredible as this time last year I had no followers and less than 100 page views

This is where You (yes you there reading this blog) comes in, I would love if you would follow, comment, like or even just come and read my blog and lets see together how many followers and page views this blog has on the 29th December 2014 and together we will grow and achieve.
I would like to say thank you to all of the followers that I already have and thank you for taking time to read this post it truly means the world to me.

Grainne

xox

<3

Review- Little Mix Perrie Lipstick

Hi Everyone,
Recently my favourite lipstick has been the Little Mix for Collection Lipstick in the shade Perrie's lipstick. I thought I should give you the run-down on it and why I love it so much. I bought this lipstick because to start off with my favourite girl from little mix is Perrie and also because I found that the lipstick was such a strange colour that I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it.

The packaging of the lipstick is a sleek black with turquoise trimmings with a flower sticker placed on the front to show that it is Perrie's shade.I have not yet found any problems with the packaging which is great as i have had it for a while now. The actual shade of the lipstick is a bright purple lipstick with a slight more to the blue undertone, it applies very smoothly and has a long staying power. I really like this lipstick and I think it would suit everyone especially blondes as is it such a bright colour. When I am wearing this lipstick I like to wear quite a natural eye look keeping it quite nude so that it will focus on the lips. I hoped you liked this blog post!

See You Soon,

<3

The Little Mix collection Is available in Superdrug stores and online here

November Favourites

Hello Everyone,
So it is finally December, which means it is time for my November favourites!

So this month I decided to cut it back a bit on my favourites so there is only seven... but only seven of the best! so lets get started;
My favourite scent for this month has been the One Direction Our moment Perfume, I don't know what it is about it I just love it so much.
My favourite hair product this month has been the Herbal Essences beautiful ends split end protection mask which has been working wonders on my hair and leaving it smelling great too.
The face product that I have been loving this month is my new Rimmel London Stay Matte foundation which they re-launched a while back. I have started using this since I have ran out of my Catrice BB Cream.
My Favourite lip product has been the Santa's Lip Scrub by Lush- Review
My favourite Eye product this month has been the Smokin' Eyes palette by benefit which is great for nights out.
The nail colour I have been loving this month has been the Maybelline New York Color Show Nail Polish in the shade Downtown Red, this is a lovely deep red nail polish which is great for winter.
The book I have been loving this month is The Hunger Games Mockingjay as after I went to see Catching Fire in the cinema I wanted to re-read the book to remind me what happens in the last part of the trilogy.
Finally my favourite song this month is actually an album which is Midnight Memories Deluxe Edition by One Direction.

See You Soon, 

<3

I Have Extended My Blog!

Hey Everyone,
You may be wondering what on earth does she mean by "extending her blog" but recently I have noticed my blog has been quite boring, so after a little bit of brainstorming I have decided to branch it out a bit and open up some doors. One thing I love doing so much is Baking and over the past while I haven't had time to do much baking as I have been very busy, but since it is getting closer to Christmas I have started to do a little more baking at home. I have decided to start featuring different blog posts every so often on my blog and letting you into some of my favourite recipes. I hope you like my new idea and I can't wait to see how it comes along!

See You Soon,

<3

Christmas Is Coming!

Hey Everyone,

It's finally December which means its getting closer to Christmas!!!! Of course I have been opening my advent calendar and next week or so I might start to decorate my room (eeeeekkk).

If you have not yet realise Christmas is probably my favourite holiday and my favourite time of the year. Mainly because   you get to spend l time with your family, you get to watch lots of movies, it socially acceptable to sing Christmas songs and everyone is happy!

I hoped you liked this random Blogpost,

See You Soon

The cold and The Flu, what should you do?

Hi Everyone,
You have probably already realised by the title of this post that once again I have the cold and it has came back worse this time then ever before!
I have put together a little list of things that I feel have been helping me through out this horrible time and i thought i should share them with you.

1. Drink plenty of water- I have noticed that if I drink lots of water basically my cold is gradually leaving my body because the water I am drinking is washing it out.

2. Take some vitamin supplements- at the time when you have a Cold or Flu your immune system will be very low and you will be lacking vitamins so I suggest to take some vitamin supplement to help your body fight off your Cold or Flu.

3. Exercise- I find that if you exercise even though you may not feel up to it, the more you sweat the faster the bacteria will leave your body. It is best to exercise indoors as you don't want to be outside in the cold unless you have lots of thermal layers on.

4. At night time wear cosier pyjamas and if you still feel cold add an extra blanket. If you suffer from cold feet like I do, wear some fluffy socks and if your feet start to get dry pop a blob of moisturiser on them before you pull on the socks.

5. I have recently started drying my hair fully before you go to bed as I think it doesn't help if it is soaking wet the whole night long.

6.Layer up with hats, scarves, gloves and lots of jumpers and coats because there is no proper way of defeating a cold without being warm.

I personally think that the only way of getting rid of the Cold or Flu is getting it out of your body and preventing it coming back.

See You Soon

<3

My Haircare Routiene

Hi Everyone,
Today I have decided to tell you what I am using on my hair as this regularly changes because I am always trying new hair products on my locks.

So first of all the Shampoo that I use when I am in the shower is the Touch of silver twice a week brightening shampoo by Pro:Voke Here. I think this shampoo is one of the best Blue shampoos you can buy and I like to use it the most when I have recently got my hair done so it keeps it blonder for longer.

The Conditioner that I have been using recently has been the Herbal Essences Beautiful Ends Split End Protection Intensive Mask Here. This is a mask which is only meant to be used once a week but i feel that recently my hair has been needing that extra boost of moisture at the ends and i feel that this mask gets the job done well.

If i feel that my hair is very knotty when I come out of the shower I like to use something like the Johnson's Junior Detangler because I think that if you can use this on a child and it wont hurt brushing out the knots it surely shouldn't hurt a older persons who can deal with a little pain.

Once I have all of the knots out of my hair and it is brush-able I like to use the Herbal Essences Bee Strong Strengthening Cream Leave In Conditioner Here as I think this works wonders on my hair and it smells really good too. I then like to use the Got2b Oil- Licious Tame and Shine Styling Oil on the very tips of my hair to make sure they are in good condition as the product is made with Argan Oil.

Finally I like to use the Vo5 Heat Protect Styling Spray any time that I am using heat on my hair to keep it from getting damaged and burned. I think this spray is great because it protects your hair from heat the whole way up to 230 degrees.

I hope you liked finding out what hair products I use. Leave a comment below telling me some of yours so that I can try the for myself!

See You Soon,

<3

Review- Lush Santa Lip scrub

Hi Everyone,
I was walking past The Lush Shop in Belfast last Monday so I decided to go in. Whilst I was inside I knew I wanted to buy something and because I never use the bath I saw no point in buying bath bombs, it then struck me that I should buy one of there well know lip scrubs. when I went over to the counter to have a look at what there was I noticed the had the limited edition Christmas Lip Scrub in stock.When I picked it up I told my sister that it was in the cola flavour and that I had seen some blog posts on it. I wasn't too sure if I wanted to buy it because of the fact that it was £5.50 but my sister told me that if I didn't I wouldn't be happy for the rest of the day so because of her I bought it and I am so happy I did.

All Lush Lip Scrubs are great if you have very dry flaky lips which is perfect for this time of year. The one which I bought was the limited edition Santa's lip scrub (only available around the Christmas months) which is coloured red and has extracts from cherries and dates which give it the cola taste (who wouldn't want that on their lips). I like to use this on the evenings that i have dry lips just before I brush my teeth and after I lick it off I'm left with soft plump lips. What I thought was cute when I took the lid of the jar was that there was little hearts made out of sugar sitting on top of the scrub The scrub comes in a handy little 25g jar which is great for on the go. What I really like about this product is that on the bottom if the container it tells you who and when it was made and when you should use it by. In my case it was made by Lukasz- thank you for doing a great job. On the 23/10/13 and it should be used by 23/12/14.

This product is great and overall I would recommend it to everyone no matter what flavour it is. If you have not yet bought this product you definitely should either by going into a Lush shop or by going online to the lush website Here.

See You Soon,

<3

Birthday!

Hey Everyone,
As you may know yesterday was my blogs first every birthday, I had planned that this would go up yesterday but unfortunately I was too busy and lost track of time so I suppose it is better late than never!

Thinking back over this past year for the first two months of having my blog I didn't really use it as I had no idea as to what direction I would send it in. Even though I started to use it in January it was really only based on my Skiing trip which I must say if you ever get the chance to go on one it is a once in a lifetime experience. In the month of May I really decided that I wanted it to be a beauty blog and so i wrote my first ever review on the Soap and Glory Scrub Your Nose In It face scrub here which to this day still stands to be one of my most viewed blog posts. Since then I have been uploading on a more regular basis and have altered the look of my blog multiple times to now what I think is something more that I like. Also in the past months I have joined up to bloglovin and I have had some wonderful followers on there which has made me still keep this blog up as for a while before that I was putting a lot of time into it and not getting anything from it.

Honestly looking over this past year you can see how much my blog has grown and I also feel that I have grown and learned so much from this experience. I would like to hope that my blog continues to grow over the next few years and that it only keeps going up. Once again a huge thank you to my followers whom have took the time to follow my blog and to read its posts.

Thank You,

Grainne <3

P.S. I am not too sure if I will get a blog post up on Wednesday as I have a GCSE Physics Exam on Friday please bear with me during this time.

Autumn/ Winter Look Book!

Hey Everyone,

Today I have finally got around to doing my Autumn/ Winter Look Book as it has took some time to getting all of the outfits sorted and getting the pictures took. So I best get started.

Outfit #1

 This first outfit is great for everyday it is very comfortable and cosy.
Top: Primark
Jumper: Primark
Jeans: Asda
Boots: Newlook

Outfit #2

 I love this outfit as it makes me feel very cosy and warm. Also this outfit is great for going on walks and going shopping.
Hat: Primark
Scarf: Tesco
Top: Primark
Leggings: H&M
Boots: Lotus
Parka Jacket: Dunnes Stores

Outfit #3

 This outfit is also very comfortable and can be very interchangeable from summer to Autumn.
Head Scarf: Newlook
Shirt: Primark
Leggings: Dunnes Stores
Boots: Lotus
Leather Jacket: Topshop

Outfit #4

 I love this outfit as it is great for the really cold days but it still can be worn on an everyday basis. Also you can dress-up or dress-down the outfit. This outfit would go great with some black tights.
Hat: H&M
Jumper: Primark
Dress: DV8
Shoes: Converse
Necklace: Primark

Outfit #5

 This outfit is one of my most recent purchases which I absolutely love. What I love about this outfit is that every piece of it can be worn with something else. This outfit would be great with some black tights.
Hat: Primark
Necklace: Primark
Crop Top: Newlook
Skirt: Primark
Boots: Newlook
Cardigan: Primark

 A close-up of the necklace!

Outfit #6

 This is the outfit which I wore to the last disco I went to. I went for a monochrome look. This outfit would even look great with some black tights, boots and a cardigan.
Crop Top: I bought this top in Newlook some time ago but then my sister lost it when she was in Spain so she then bought me another one in the Newlook sale.
Skirt: Boohoo
Black heels

A close-up of the pattern on the Crop Top.

Leave me a comment below saying your favourite outfit/item.
Don't forget to follow my blog on Bloglovin to see the new posts coming soon!

I hope you like it!

October Favourites!

Hi Everyone,
Once again it is the end of the month and what do you know I have some favourites to share with you. This month has flew by without a doubt and I cant believe it is already over. I didn't do much for Halloween and the next big event is Christmas which I cant wait for and something that is coming up this month is my Blog's first birthday which is crazy. getting back on the topic here are my October Favourites.

Body

My favourite scent this month has been the soap and Glory Mist you madly as it is a great long lasting everyday scent.

this month i have found my favourite deodorant of all time and it is the Nivea invisible for black and white. This is great and for me it does exactly what it says on the tin (or plastic packaging)

Hair

this month i have absolutely been loving the herbal Essences Bee Strong Strengthening Cream. I feel that this product has worked wonders on my hair this month.

Nails

This month I have been loving the MUA nail polish in the colour stormy skies. I think this is a great autumnal colour and it is not too dark but not too bright. 

Face

This month I have been loving the MUA face powder in shade 4 to contour my cheek bones as it is and exact dupe for Hoola Bronzer by Benefit and it is only £1.

My Favourite eye product this month has been the sleek eye shadow palette in Ultra Mattes V2 because it has got some great matte eye shadows in it which you can were anywhere at any time.

My favourite lip product this month has been the One Direction Niall Loves Cherry lip polish by MUA. It smells really good and is very moisturising.

Random

My Favourite candle this month has been from Glade in the scent Blackberry Frost.

My favourite read this month has been the Book Now Is Good. this is a really good book about a girl called Tessa who has cancer and before she dies she has a list she wants to complete, I would also advise you to watch the film as well as it equally as heart-warming and makes you teary eyed.

Finally my favourite thing to drink out of this month has been my goblet as it was Halloween and it is now going into the attic until next year :(

I hope you liked seeing my October favourites tell me some of your October favourites in the comments below!

See You Soon

<3

Hair Update!

Hey everyone,

Today I went to the hairdressers and I decided because of the fact that the weather is getting colder I should change my hair. I decided I would put a few darker colours through my hair to not give it so much of a "white" look!

I actually quite like it, what do you think?

See you soon,

<3

Happy Halloween!

How To Decorate Your Room For Halloween

Hey Guys,
I recently was in Tescos and bought some things to decorate my room with for Halloween and I thought I should do a blog post on it!

Before:

 After:

First I bought some cobwebs to put all over my Shelf .

I then bought this pumpkin candle which surprisingly smells quite good for being quite cheap.

I then bought these two cute little guys for the fun of it.

These have to be my favourite sweets at Halloween they are so yummy.

 I then bought this goblet and so far I have truly got the use out of it.

Finally I bought some tape to put around my doors.

I hope you liked seeing how I have decorated my room and it has given you some inspiration as well, don't forget to send me a picture on Twitter or instagram!

See you Soon,

<3