Complimentary Compliments

Why is that most people find it so difficult to accept a compliment?

I think it's because you don't ever want to sound full of yourself but it's often like you think that you don't deserve people to say nice things to you but you know what's more difficult? Giving someone a compliment and having them reject it

"You look really nice today" - "No I don't" Oh ok where am I meant to go with that? 

I have some advice for all you compliment haters, just say thanks. Even if you don't believe that person, even if you think you look like crap, just smile and say thanks and remember it! Because when you are feeling your lowest, you just have to remember the times that someone paid you a compliment and how it made you feel good and then pay that compliment forward. Next time you see someone with a nice outfit on or next time someone comes up with a great idea tell them and pass the love around!!

Compliment my fashion, my blog posts, my inability to be a serious drinker or anything you like and I'll be a happy bunny!!

ASOS October Wishlist

ASOS Embellished Dress//ASOS Embroided Jacket//ASOS Suede Courts

I absolutely love clothes shopping but with a full time job and living in the countryside sometimes getting to the shops is too much of a mission so ASOS is the perfect solution for this. Their clothes are absolutely lovely, often very affordable and fill half of my wardrobe.

The embellished dress is very pretty but I'm not sure where I will have an opportunity to wear it (which doesn't stop me very often). The jacket is really different and also one I'm not sure I could pull off!! These shoes look really comfortable and look like something that I could wear to work as they aren't too high.

I want, want, want!!!

What's In My Makeup Bag - September 2013

I'm a nosy beggar so love seeing what other people have in their handbags or use on their face. There must be some other people out there who love this so I thought I would give you an insight into what I'm currently using (Disclaimer: I am no makeup genius, I just slap it on!!)

MAYBELLINE BABY LIPS CLEAR LIP BALM - Purchased this in Tesco just before I went on holiday as I hate chapped lips and I knew that the sun and sea air would dry them out. Absolutely love this product, its not too tacky and I like the packaging

MAXFACTOR MIRACLE TOUCH LIQUID ILLUSION FOUNDATION IN CREAM IVORY - Hate the texture of this product but love the coverage, it feels like show makeup from when I used to dance which feels wet and really heavy on the skin. This is now way too light for my skin tone after my tanning sessions in Cyprus but I still use it under my darker powder as it makes my makeup stay in place all day

RIMMEL WAKE ME UP CONCEALER IN IVORY - I recently did a full review on this product here but I am now nearly out of this much loved product (insert sad face here)

MAYBELLINE PRESSED POWDER IN SOFT HONEY - This was ridiculously orange on me before but is now the perfect colour, it's a bit of a "meh" product i.e. I don't really care about it either way but it does the job

RIMMEL EXAGGERATE EYE LINER IN 100% BLACK - I don't like this eyeliner, well I do, but not for the use that I wanted it. It reminds me much more of a liquid eyeliner and I find it much harsher than other pencil liners I have used before.

RIMMEL LASTING FINISH LIPSTICK IN ALARM - This is my favourite lipstick colour and I actually own three of this exact shade, one for my makeup bag, one for my handbag and one for my drawer at work. It instantly picks me up and makes me feel sexy, confident and smartens up every outfit

BOURJOIS BRONZING POWDER - Love this product, does exactly what I think it should and this product has lasted ages

BOURJOIS BLUSHER IN ROSE FRISSON - Same for this product, thumbs up Bourjois!!

MAYBELLINE MASTER DRAMA KOHL LINER IN ULTRA BLACK - I have been using this liquid eyeliner since I was about 15 (not this exact one, just this brand). It does exactly what I want it to and it will take a lot to convert me from this one.

TOPSHOP CREAM HIGHLIGHTER - Did a review on this one before here but after reading a few more beauty blogs I actually know how to use a highlighter!!

MAXFACTOR FALSE LASH EFFECT MASCARA IN BLACK BROWN - I didn't realise that this wasn't black until like the 4th time I used this. I normally pick black but I like that this is more subtle and slightly more grownup

Independent Women?

I love living in Suffolk, especially when you drive past an old drunk man on a child's bicycle at 10am on a Sunday morning and he then gives you the finger. I have never wanted to run someone over so much in my life!

Sunday is spinning day and I had a really great class today (absolutely knackering but it actually makes me feel like I have accomplished something). Good luck to those people who were completing a four hour spinathon in aid of MENCAP, I struggle through 45 minutes I have no idea how they are going to do it but it's for a really great cause, so well done them!!

Something struck me today during spinning, what the hell happened to independent women? Destiny's Child sang all about being independent, Charlie's Angels kicked arse and in spinning today a group of 10 women couldn't even count down from 8 loud enough to be heard over some moderately loud music. It was faintly embarrassing to be honest. Each woman felt too self conscious to count out loud when they were sweaty and working out in an enclosed room, who was there to judge them? I didn't get it so there I was happily shouting away numbers and when no one else joined did I feel embarrassed? No not really.

I used to be that girl who was too scared to ask anyone anything or speak out but I was sixteen years old. These were beautiful, grown up, successful women and it makes me sad that they were that conscious of their own voice. Luckily the instructor pulled it out of them (mainly by making us continue in low squat which is ridiculously hard when he thought we were too quiet!!) and I hope that experience made them care a bit less, because in all seriousness who cares? And to prove that here is me looking sweaty with no makeup for everyone to see!!!

Bel and Dragon Cookham

I know if I say Cyprus one more time you are probably going to reach through your laptop and slap me but bear with, I will probably only mention it about a million times more and then I'm done I promise. On the Tuesday before we went, my parents drove me and my sister to Cookham which is where my Uncle lives and works. Its a beautiful little place on the Thames and only 30 mins from London so a great little place if not a tad expensive (Want a 2 bedroom semi detached house with a garden the size of a postage stamp? Do you have £750k? No? Then maybe try Lowestoft)

We had a lovely evening meal at the Bel and Dragon on the high street in Cookham and it was one of the tastiest meals I have ever had. The Bel and Dragon is technically a chain restaurant with restaurants in Windsor and Reading but it really doesn't have the feel of one. The decor is immaculate and looks like the interior of one of one of the many pictures I pin on Pinterest (if you don't follow me then check me out here)

The food was really great and the wine was lovely. When I normally drink rose, I have to put lemonade in it as it's too acidic but it was very drinkable (i.e. too drinkable and got a little rowdy). I have lots of rubbish Iphone pictures of absolutely lovely food; I had red pepper soup, roasted chicken and then caramelised peaches with cointreau and raspberry ripple icecream. No wonder I need to go on a diet.

See doesn't it look delicious? My sister had lobster for the first time which as you can imagine ensued in the hilarity of taking pictures with half a lobster shell, you can't take us anywhere!! The tables are all painted in blackboard paint and they have chalks supplied which I think is meant to be for children but also meant that we drew rubbish pictures of hearts and dragonflies and left messages for the waitresses. All in all a fully enjoyable meal!!

Goodbye Cyprus

Boohoo holiday is over for this year and I'm sad to see it go! As I write this (2 days ago now :() I am half way through the plane journey back and feeling very uncomfortable. Why are the seats so bloody tiny?!?! I feel like I would fit if I didn't have any arms but I do so I feel like I am constantly in the personal space of the poor bloke next to me.

I also wish I didn't have eardrums, not only for the fact that they really hurt but then I also wouldn't be able to hear the child that has been screaming for the past two hours. I understand that they can't help it, they are kids etc. and I would scream too if I was stuck in the tiny space between someone else's lap and the seat in front but it doesn't make it any more fun to listen to.

Is it just me or did you think that flight attendants were meant to be able to apply makeup well? Not the case for Mandy, the very harrowed looking Thomas Cook attendant. I have never seen so much eyeliner on one person in my life and I went through a stage of being proper emo as a teenager (I had the fringe and everything)

And the flight seems a million times longer than the flight out there. Maybe it's because I'm leaving the sun behind but I feel very grumpy!! I wish I had the superpower where I could just transport to places or be like Harry Potter and be able to Disapparate to hot climates. I mean I know Harry was fighting Voldemort but I really feel like wizards would go on more holidays.

So now I have been back for a little while, I feel ready to embrace Autumn but that doesn't mean I don't miss this view...

Return of the Fatty

So I have taken an unscheduled hiatus from the blog world. To be honest I knew September would be a difficult one with the holiday, holiday preparations, friends leaving for uni, friends leaving to have babies, going to the gym and work but to be honest the main thing holding me back from writing was me. Blogging had become a pressure, a pressure I felt I couldn't live up to. To say I was disappointed in myself is an understatement, I had worked so hard to gain followers, to interact with people, to sponsor blogs I love, to participate in giveaways and start to put money into my little part of the internet and then I gave it all away! Who's going to keep coming if you have nothing to say?

I started to struggle with the fact that no one was commenting, days with minimal page views were bad ones and to be honest I started to doubt myself. It's been a while since I doubted myself but I could feel that all too familiar feeling of confusion creeping up on me. It felt like I was in high school again, not sure where I belonged and caring too much if people liked me. Who was I to put my world on the world wide web and demand that people take note and listen to me? My life is uninteresting. It revolves mainly around food, work and sleep. I don't go to fancy parties, I don't even go out that often, I don't have a boyfriend or anyone that is even remotely interested!

But that's not the reason I do it. I love the comments I get, I love the interaction between people I would never have known existed before, I love writing. I now realise "so what?" So what if I don't blog everyday? So what if someone disagrees with my opinion? So what if I don't lead a busy interesting life? General advice is that your blog must be about something; travelling, makeup, craft, being a mummy but that's not true. I read lots of blogs and not because of what they are for but for the person that wrote them. The blogs I enjoy the most are those with personality and I have bucket loads of that. I have a voice I want to share and a passion for sharing it so no promises, just a desire to write and be me