So, I'm in the thralls getting everything packed for the move down to London. My room is losing all the lived in charm as everything is gradually packed into boxes. I'm not upset about leaving tbh, I can't wait to get out of this rubbish city. its an hour away on the train so when homesickness sets in I can just hope on a train!
We got the beautiful 3bedroom flat in Greenwich, and house mates to boot, so its just a case of filling out all the paperwork. The flat is a stones throw away from the o2 arena, the view from the balcony is amazing.

I just want to go now! its only a week and a half until move in day but still! I'm impatient at the best of times.
I went too look around my Uni the other day, and I can't wait to start now. so everything is happening.

So today I was walking through John Lewis on the way to the car park and I remembered something I'd wanted to have a look at.  Amie - Spring Clean cooling clay mask. I like face masks, I rarely have a bath without applying a face mask, and as my previous mask is on the way out I thought I'd look for another one. I've bought from Amie before, the moisturiser and I really like it.

so as this is a review based on my first impressions, lets just get on with it.
I like the scent, its minty with a citrus undertone.
when applied it starts off feeling really refreshing and cool, and as it dries you get the usual tight feeling.

I'm actually sat here with it on so i shall remove it and tell you how it feels... brb

woah, alot has changed recently.

my summer was going pretty slow, I was getting quite down and basically I just thought everything was shit. (excuse the language)
This tends to happen in summer, I'm not sure why but I really don't enjoy summer that much - I think its the lack of motivation and having nothing to do tbh. well this summer has been a massive roller-coaster - anyway lets not make this post morbidly depressing.

to cut a long story short, I was very worried about getting a place at uni, and if I didn't what the hell I would do. you may know that I was planning on moving to London with my other half as he is doing a top up year - my problem was that at that point I wasn't on a course and would've had to have found work for a year etc.

I'm not really cutting a long story short am i?
oh well.
basically now I have a place at UEL and I'll be doing child development. So, I can actually go with him now. bring on the student loan!

we've found an amazing flat - that's literally overlooking the o2 arena. hopefully just waiting for 1 more house mate to confirm then we can go down and get everything signed!

anyway. enough about me.

this tag is currently going round on you tube but I thought I would just do it on here... it probably wont be as good but oh well!

where is ur cell?
 downstairs
where is ur significant other? home

haircolor?
 blonde
mother?
 Northern Ireland
father? Hospital

fav thing? Fred.

last dream?
 odd
dream or goal?
 midwifery!
room ur in?
 bedroom
hobby? beautification

fear?
 loss
where do you want to be in 6 years? midwife. or pregnant :)

where were you last night?
 work
What ur not? positive

one of ur wishlist items?
 money
where u grew up?
 LE3
last thing u did?
 ate
what are you wearing? uniform

tv?
 off
pet? old

computer?
 home-made
mood?
 reasonable
missing someone? yes

car? doesn't work

something ur not wearing? socks

fav store?
 boots
summer?
 really?
love someone? YES

fav colour? pink

last time u laughed?
 yesterday
last time u cried? everyday.

wearing said uniform! off to work I go!

k that's it, pretty boring but it passed some time! ciao xx

I managed to get a picture of the C2000 polish I got the other day, that is pretty true to life.

(Fruit Salad)
I know the quality isn't that great, but you get an idea of the colour. I love this polish, it dried really quickly and I only needed 2 coats and for £1.79, how can you lose?

this is what I looked like when I weighed 10st3. and it was this picture that made me realise how much I'd gained recently.




I used to think I was still actually fat when I took these...? maybe I was...


I don't think I can post one of me now yet. but I might do...

you may or may not be aware about my weight loss 'journey' I have mentioned it before.


well anyway. over the last few years, I have been on a mission to loose weight. which I did do successfully ( I initially lost around 4and a half stones altogether) I'm going to be honest, with my self and you. (if anyone actually reads this) because it seems to be a downfall of mine - denial.

I don't want to ramble too much about this because it will become very long winded and boring. I was doing really well and had reached a pretty healthy weight for my height (5'9") my lowest weight was about 10 stone 2 pounds. for so many women their are ruled by numbers, and statistics and loosing a certain amount by a certain time and if it doesn't happen it is the end of the world. I know because I was one of those people that let my obsession with reaching a certain weight and thinking I would be happy when I got there that it all spiralled out of control. I lost all my will power because when I reached 10 stone 2, I just could not loose any more, no matter what I did. things started to go down hill from there. I used to go to a rosemary conley class to get weighed and exercise, but I think because i just wasnt seeing the numbers go down, i didn see the point in going. this is where my 'problems' started I think. basically for the past 6 months I've rarely exercised (which I was doing 4-5 times week before) and my eating has been terrible. now I love my food, and I've loved eating some of the things I didnt for a long time, but something had to give. I knew I was gaining weight, I knew it would get out of hand if i didnt get back 'on it' but I just could not summon the will power or motivation to stop myself. don't get me wrong I haven't gained a huge amount. well... I don't think its a massive amount - there we go with the denial. I know I've gained and now I know I need to loose it again.

I was looking through my pictures on my computer last week, when I stumbled across some body shots I'd taken at my lowest weight. I'm not sure why but something clicked, it was strange because as soon as I saw them it was like someone had shot me with motivation. When I was loosing weight before I had the most incredible amount of will power, and i really worked hard at loosing weight. So I know I can do it again.

so, here's the thing. I want to get to 10 stone, by the 2nd of September. that gives me, around 2 months to lose 1stone 4pounds.(do the maths if you want to know my weight now)

which I think is very achievable. I'm not going to be silly and starve myself, I know exactly what to do. exercise. now for me, exercise DVDs have been a godsend, for my lifesyle they suit me perfectly. I could do it whenever I want and I really enjoy them. most of them are by rosemary conley, and ive had really good results. so this is my main POA. as well as watching what I eat, and basically cutting out the crap and eating better meals. I don't believe in diets. they do not work. theres one simple rule you have to follow if you want to loose weight and that is to burn more, eat less! that doesnt mean starving youself, you can survive on a lot less food that you think you can. watch your sat fats, and just get of your arse and exercise! ;) I'm no expert but this is how i managed it the first time round. and its how i'll manage it again!

I've set myself some deadlines, but I'm not going to loose sleep over it if i dont loose a certain amount by a certain time. I think the key is to just go with it, enjoy the journey and dont start to resent it. its an amazing feeling of pride and control when you loose weight.

basically, I aim to loose around half a stone every 3 weeks, so an average lose of about 2.5 pounds a week. I'll be weighing myself every Monday so I might start doing a weightloss update blogpost.

so. I weighed myself last Wednesday and I weighed 11.7 pounds. But my official starting weight is 11.4 pounds as of this morning (5/7/20)

so there we go no more lying to myself, that is what I weigh. I care very little about what anyone else thinks about how much I weigh. this is for me.

thank you for reading. I will be doing other posts on my weight loss if anyone is interested. (pictures, food, exercise etc)

xxciao

Hi,
I had to pop into town earlier, and for once it was actually my boyfriend that needed to go to boots, but I couldn't leave empty handed now... so I went over to the Barry M stand after remembering a notd I'd seen using the BM polish in Berry Ice Cream, I'm quite a fan of the lilac shades and was sure I didn't have one like this already ;). ppft. anyway. they are on offer at the moment, 2 for £5, so obviously I had to get two right! I actually went for a shade that I deffinatly do not have already which is, mushroom. now, I'm not sure about this colour yet. it just doesn't seem like a shade you would wear on your nails? its a nice colour im just not sure about it on my nails anyway. it seems alot darker on the nail as well. ANYWAY. I'm loving the berry shade. alot.




I'm going though a nail growing stage, for along time I kept them really short and un-manicured, purely because I was at college and I couldn't wear polish for work so it seemed pointless. but now im off college, I can start looking after them again and wearing all my nice colours again. yay. I use Sally Hansen nailgrowth miracle, which I swear by. This is seriously an amazing product. I've notice an increase in price recently though, it used to be around £5 but now its near enough £8-9 so its pretty pricey but I would deffinatly pay full price just because I know I will get results. having said that I was just having a loot on ebay and found some on buy it now for £1.50 each so I bought two! including p&p it cost £6 for two bottles so im pretty pleased with that. I will do a more detailed review if anyone is interested.

ciaoxx

I just wanted to do a quick post about Christina Aguilera's new album.

I don't usually do posts about music, but I've been listening to this album for about a week now and I'm really liking it. I was just browsing spotify and thought I'd give it a listen, and now I cant stop.
it reminds me of a Santigold album I have, who I also love.

anyway. thats all.

x

Yes, everyone has posted about the Benefit pencils free with Glamour, its old news. I was sad enough to get all three last Thursday from work... (sneakily hiding them out the back) before anyone had a chance to buy them...



anyway here is a quick FOTD using said pencils mainly. This really isnt anything exciting, as I do have work and tbh can't be bothered ;)
I'm loving the 'it stick' the most I think.



Also at work I spotted a free Jemma Kidd Lipgloss in this months Red mag so I may have to procure one of those today, it looked really nice.

anyway, Ciao xo

Epilators seem like the scariest thing in the world, let’s not lie. I'm not sure whether it’s the noise it makes or just the whole contraption in general but let’s just say when I first used mine I was less than looking forward to it.
I wanted a change. I got bored of shaving, and the quick regrowth. at first I bought wax strips, but soon tired of them, I seemed to be left with have the wax still stuck to my skin after ripping them off and it was simply too much hassle, I read a few reviews on epilators and pretty much went on to Amazon and bought the cheapest one I could find. It happened to be this one, at a cheerful £17.50.

Not know what to expect I thought I would try it out first on my forearms, just to get an idea of the pain... now this is the worrying but, I kinda liked it.

I went on to do my under arms and yes, it hurt quite a bit more but it was bearable. It was oddly satisfying seeing all the tiny hairs pulled out at the root, if a little disgusting at the same time.
I've had my epilator for about a month, and I’ve really only had to use it on a hand full of occasions I find I can go quite comfortably without using it for about a week and half before I see re growth, which it quite good for me as I’d usually need to shave about 3 times a week. So rather than this being a review on the particular epilator I bought, (which does do a good job but I’m guessing there are much better ones out there....) it is a review on epilating in general, for me I don’t think I’d go back to shaving now, whether it’s the sado masochist in me or whether it really is a better method of hair removal...

wow, its been a while since I posted... and actually quite alot had happened. My last post was all about going to London for an interview on a makeup degree, well... that didnt quite go as well as i'd hoped and I ended up not getting a place on the course. For a while I didnt know what I was going to do next, whether to stick with the makeup artist route or not... I was rejected from the other courses i'd applied for before even being offered an interview so suffice to say I was feeling a bit shit about the whole thing, although not as dissapointed as i thought i would be... I'm the kind of person that never just sticks to one idea or one career path for that matter. I've never really known what i want. which leads me to where i am now. me and my fiance are still going to London, (he got onto his top up course so, and wasnt a question of us living apart) only now I'm going to become a Midwife rather than a makeup artist. I know, a rather big gap between the two careers, but it is somehting i have alwasy wanted to do and now ive come to realise that i can i suppose, which sounds like a bit of a cliche.. but isn't. ANYWAY. people are confused by my sudden change of plan becasue for a while i really did believe i wanted to be come a makeup artist, but something changed, and it was odd but when i made that decision to do something else it felt right. it felt like i should have chosen this path a long time ago. but we live and learn don't we. Ive learnt so much doing the artistic makeup course this year, that i have no regrets and I can still do freelance work on the side if i feel so inclined. I feel this blog will change a bit, and maybe i'll share more about me, and my life, with the occasional beauty post thrown in for good measure. I want to share my experiences as i move to London and start a whole new life.

anyway, rather than bore you all to tears, i'll end it there.

ciaoxo

wow, I'm bored.

hello, just a quick post, we're going out for a belated birthday lunch for my other half soon...and this is what I'm wearing


top dress: primark
jacket: newlook
leggings: george
boots: office

anyway I hope this post works I'm doing it from my iPhone! I might do a FOTD too but tbh i'm not really wearing alot of makeup! ahh well have a nice day all Sophie x

Hello, just a little update. I got an interview for a uni course in London (specialist make-up) at West Thames, so I'm happy and excited, I really want to live in London, me and the other half are both hoping to be accepted onto courses. I'm hoping to hear from The London College of Fashion too, so fingers crossed. n ow its all about getting my portfolio together etc.. eeee excited.

Hello all, well its been well over a month since I last posted something. oops. I just thought I'd share some make-up that I've done at college recently, nothing majorly exciting, theatrical ageing, nose putty etc.. anyway. here are some pictures.