October 17, 2018

Lookbook: Fearless in Pink! 🌷| Polo Ralph Lauren Pink Pony Live Love 2018

It's finally October! Which also means it's cancer awareness month. I'm super excited to be partnering up with Polo Ralph Lauren to bring you guys today's outfit. Every year Ralph Lauren has a Pink Pony collection in an effort to support the fight against cancer and to reduce disparities in treatments available.

The Pink Pony 2018 collection has fresh and chic pieces, perfect for millennials to style as part of their everyday casual outfits. This year it's all pastel pink and pastel blue themed which I absolutely adore!

100% of the pink Live Love graphic t-shirt sales will be donated to support programs for screening, early diagnosis, treatment, education, and patient navigation. The donations help to ensure that everyone gets the access to quality treatments during curable stages.

Be part of the solution and order a #PinkPony shirt on Ralph Lauren. You'll get to support the cause, make a difference all while looking fabulous! If the shirt doesn't tickle your pickle, there's plenty of other stylish pink pieces in the Pink Pony collection, where 25% will be donated. Feel good, look good. <3

I chose to be Fearless in Pink. What will you be _______ in Pink?

Disclaimer: Complimentary shirt from Polo Ralph Lauren

October 15, 2018

Tom's Kitchen Birmingham | Christmas 2018 Cocktail Masterclass Experience

If you ever hear me say that "i'm not drinking again" assume that I'm still drunk or something because I love nothing more than a good cocktail. Earlier this week I went to a cocktail masterclass at Tom's Kitchen Birmingham with my blogger friend Sian Victoria. It still blows my mind how I ended up in a room full of Birmingham's Award Winning bloggers and there's little me. Anyway back to the drinkies!

Tom's Kitchen is now running cocktail masterclasses where you can learn about your favourite drinks and make them from scratch with your friends. Since the festive season is coming up, we did a Christmas themed class. For our session, we had Noel (his name is literally Christmas!), he was so entertaining and lovely which definitely uplifted the experience even more.

Before we started, we got taught about all the bar basics and how each equipment is used. For our first cocktail, we had a pretty strong one to get everyone out of their shell and into a boozy mood.

Lemon, Lavender and Thyme Martini

A classic gin martini with a floral twist, it reminded me of recipes you see on Pinterest. This one is definitely strong, it's almost pure alcohol! Made with lemon, lavender syrup, fresh thyme, gin and vermouth. I'm a massive fan of floral flavoured gin, so I really liked the lavender twist (I added a little extra of the syrup into mine hehe). It's not sweet and really calming. If you prefer your martini to be diluted, a really cool and useful tip we learnt is to simply stir it for longer before straining and serving because the ice has more time to melt.

Santa Hat

For our second cocktail, we had a Santa Hat. You can see that the sugar rim makes it look like an cute upside down Santa hat. This one is my favourite! Those that have a sweet tooth will absolutely love it. Made with tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice and pomegranate juice. It's sweet and fruity; you can't taste the tequila at all (well I can't lol). Which is great but also dangerous because it literally tastes like a yummy juice mix. I want to drink this all day long on Christmas thanks. Make that summer too! I think this would actually be a treat on a sunny day or at a pool party.

Aged Oak Alexander

Sadly the last one :(, we finished off the class with a dessert cocktail. If you like Pina Coladas, you'll love this! Me and Sian want to go back for more. It's made with oak aged vodka, double cream and vanilla syrup. I'm pretty sure that I'm missing an ingredient or two but there's only so much a girl can remember right? The aged vodka has a lovely woody scent to it; mixed with the vanilla it brings a different dimension of flavour to the drink. If you prefer a vegan version you can ask the staff and they'll switch out the double cream for soya milk.

So there's a little insight into the cocktail masterclass! I definitely recommend it as it's a great way to spend the evening with your friends and it was so fun to get hands-on shaking up our own cocktails. The service is excellent as they tailor it to your liking to ensure you have the best possible experience. For example, if there's a cocktail you don't like you can ask the staff to switch it for something else. The class cost £35 per person, which is a good value since each cocktail cost around £10 alone.

Which cocktail out of the 3 would you like to try?

TL;DR:

£35 per person
You get 3 cocktails per class
Each session lasts for roughly 2 hours

Disclaimer: Cocktails were complimentary

October 12, 2018

Halloween Party Essentials 2018 | Rosegal Wishlist

Ig: @MichelleCheungg | Left vs Right brain makeup

Halloween is coming up and I've got you covered with some spooky and cools finds from the Rosegal Halloween Sale! These are costume ideas and essentials are ones I personally haven't seen people rock yet, so you've come to the right place if you're looking for something unique! Don't be a basic skeleton or Harley Quinn this year :)

LED masks are definitely going to be popular, moving it's way from the rave scene and now into Halloween. Way to spook up the club and to stand out from everyone else! Look amazing effortlessly ^.<

1. Full Face Glowing Mask - Fire Engine Red

2. Party EL Glowing Mask - Multi

Omg this next one is hilarious! It made me laugh the second I saw it. Not feeling the neon lights but still adore the electronic scene? Go as EDM producer and DJ - Marshmello!

3. DJ Marshmello Mask Cosplay Costume

Drink in style with these cool shots glasses.

4. Skull Head Shape Glass

Personally, I'm over wearing dresses to parties because I want to be able to dance properly! So a good pair of chic leggings/trousers is a must for this year. This one is lacey and sexy.

5. High Rise Lace Up Pants

Prefer a chill night in but still want to be part of the Halloween spirit? Be a festive spider mermaid!

6. Halloween Spider Mermaid Tail Blanket

Hope you guys adore my finds! Rosegal is currently having a massive sale with items up to 70% off! :)

Disclaimer: Post contains affiliate links from Rosegal

October 04, 2018

L'oreal Elvive Extraordinary Clay Dry Shampoo Review

I've been bleaching my hair for over 10 years now, so without any doubt, my hair is damaged and dry. Dry shampoo is essential to me as a good hair treatment because 1) I don't want to further dry out my hair from frequent washing and 2) I travel a lot! In Asia it's super humid so your hair gets greasy and sweaty every day. During my Hong Kong adventures, I bought along with me the L'oreal Elvive Extraordinary Clay dry shampoo and it been a pleasure!

Boots £3.99

At first, I was turned off by the scent because it has like a "clean ocean" scent, I personally prefer floral ones. Besides the scent, I absolutely adore this product and have been using it religiously for a good month. At the moment this is my favourite dry shampoo because it does a really good job of absorbing the oils without leaving my hair feeling super dry! Some dry shampoos absorb the oils in the mid-end section as well, which I'm not a fan of because it leaves my hair feeling crunchy, ew!

I just exposed my extension track for this review lol but I wanted to try show you guys how fine it sprays out. The fine powder is lightweight, doesn't leave gritty residue and there's no a grey cast on my black roots. Which I loveeee!

However, since the powder is so fine you do need to spray out little more compared to other ones like Batiste.

It makes my hair happy, clean and volumised~

Pros:

The small can is great for travelling
No residue
No white case
No crunchy/straw-like texture after
Clean and volumised results

Cons:

I don't like the scent! Please make another variation :c
You need to spray more compared to other ones

September 17, 2018

MORPHE IS COMING TO BIRMINGHAM UK! | NEW STORE

So we all probably know by now Morphe Brushes has officially left BeautyBay! While the break up may seem like it came out of nowhere, earlier July we received the news that Morphe will be opening up their first store in the UK. It's going to be opening October in Westfield Stratford City to be exact. Buttt Morphe isn't stopping at London, THEY'RE OPENING A STORE IN BIRMINGHAM TOO! The store is located in the Bullring shopping mall, on the second floor and opening Autumn 2018, so I'm guessing October or November.

We can expect Morphe to be hitting other major cities too, Manchester maybe you're next!

This is so exciting as a Brum Blogger because often brands tend to forget about other UK cities and everything is normally only in London. We can finally get to try the products in person and hopefully we'll get some of Jeffree Star products stocked too. I need to swatch them palettes to make sure I don't purchase a faulty one *cough at them Jaclyn hill vault palettes* I was unlucky and received a faulty Dark Magic palette, I'll have a post of that coming up soon!

They're also hiring for roles on their website:

And it's been announced it on their Instagram story too!

ARE YOU EXCITED AND WHICH MORPHE CODE ARE YOU GOING TO BE USING?

I'm going for sister James' code of course!

I will be beyond devastated if I can't use any codes in store after all that influencer marketing.