21st Birthday Dress

By coincidence I found the perfect dress for my Birthday in Las Vegas in Zara the other day! I was in there in a complete rush, I had the boyfriend with me you said "no trying on anything, we are just here to buy a scarf"! When he lays down the rules shopping, I stick with them, but when he saw this dress, he allowed me to bend the rules because it caught his eye at the same time it caught mine! 

Cue picture here : (image from Zara)

Now what I love about this dress is the pleated design. Even though it is white around the stomach area, I am still going to be able to enjoy a big meal for my Birthday dinner and you wont be able to see it ;)

The black and white colouring is timeless and classic. Neutral colours have become a new favourite of mine and this is dress fits that perfectly. 

I plan to wear it with some sort of black heels or wedges and my hair curled and maybe if I am brace, a lovely red lip. Perhaps Viva Glam Cyndi?

Some of my own pics...

I look forward to sharing some pics from the night of my birthday which is just over 1 week away!

Europe time again!

I am sitting here in a cosy apartment in Copenhagen thinking about how long it has been since I have written a blog post. With all the duty free shopping I have already done and I am going to do, especially when I get to Vegas in a couple of weeks, I am going to have so much to share with you all.

To start the posts off again, here are some pictures showing you what I have been getting up to in this beautiful city... 

Huge Lush Haul - New Years Sale

My YouTube channel has been terribly neglected in the past 6 months. I have had an itch to get back into videos and had so many things I have wanted to film about! 

I bought so many Lush items in the past couple of weeks in the sales and felt guilty if I didn't do a video! 

Here is the video and see below for a list of items I bought! 

Items I purchased:
Snow Globe Soap
Bohemian Soap
Sexy Peel Soap
Vanilla in the Mist Soap
Nou Bar Soap
Angels Delight Soap
Honey I Washed The Kids Soap
I Should Coco Soap
Glogg Shower Gel
Grass Shower Gel
Happy Hippy Shower Gel
Juicy Liquid Shampoo
Marilyn Conditioner
Candy Cane Bubble Bar
Gingerbread House Bubble Bar
Bearded Lady Bubble Bar
Creme Anglaise Body Lotion
Running to the Embassy Body Butter
You Snap the Whip Body Butter
Snow Fairy Lip Tint
Lip Dip
Bubblegum Lip Treatment
Coulour Supplmement - Dark Pink

Essie Lilacism - Swatch & Review

This is my polish of choice for the start of the New Year. It is the gorgeous Lilacism by Essie. As the name suggests, it is a lovely shade of lilac. 

This polish goes on extremely smooth, one coat gives you a sheer lilac and two coats give you the creamy luscious finish. 

I find this colour is very pastel and pretty for spring/summer, as we are in right now in Australia, but could also be a pop of colour to any winter outfit.

I adore this polish and highly  recommend it to anyone who loves their pretty pastels, or just wants a nice lilac in their collection. 

New Years Resolutions & Happy 2011

So it's that time of the year, the beginning of the year, where we make promises to ourself which we hope  to keep throughout the duration of the year. In light to this, I am going to share my resolutions from the different aspects of my life with you and this is the first post of many to come this year, this month, this week. :)

Blog:

- Maintain my blog regularly and this means daily posts or every other day. - No more studies means time to get blogging!

- Have a variety of posts, from fashion, hauling, reviews and swatches.

You Tube:

- I'm planning, fingers crossed, to film a HUGE Lush haul tomorrow. It should be massive and this will be the first to regular videos again.

Health:

- Lose weight! Sorry to be predictable but this will be the biggest challenge for me this year. I am going to be celebrating my 21st birthday in Vegas with my family, and ultimately I want to be wearing a lovely dress that can be fitted if I want it to be with out worry of showing any of those gross lumps and bumps!

- Eat in moderation. This goes hand in hand with weight loss. I need to learn to have smaller portions, and enjoy my guilty pleasures on the rare occasion. 

- Much. Less. Salt. I am addicted to salt. It goes on everything I eat and in everything I cook. 

- Exercise daily. This includes swimming in my pool, swimming and walking at the beach, using the treadmill that sits in my lounge room, trying bikram yoga and setting up my X Box Kinect Your Shape!

Beauty:

- Change it up. No getting stuck in ruts with my makeup, its time to experiment and then blog about it.

- Buy products which I don't have anything similar to and once again, experiment.

- Follow my skincare routine TWICE  a day, no exceptions!

- Make my hair into the silkiness it has potential to have, like my Mums!

Travel:

- Go to new places.

- Do things I wouldn't normally do, like snorkel in Fiji (give me 13 days and I'll be there)

And most importantly, have fun, stress less and enjoy life!

Kate Middleton Inspired Makeup

So I have obviously been seeing a lot of Kate Middleton recently and I love her elegance and simplicity, even though everyone might be over it by now - i'm not! 

So last night when Panancea81 uploaded this video with a tutorial on how to achieve simple Kate Middleton makeup, I had to do my own version today for work!

Overall, I am very impresed with how easy this look is to achieve, but at the same time looks lovely for a day at work. Kate seems to be very natural and very highlighted, so this is what the tutorial aimed at doing. Keep reading for a list of products I used! 

Face:

Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation in Tawny

Australis Ready Set Go Translucent finishing powder 

Mac blush in Peachykeen

28 neutral palette whitest shase (same as eyes) used as inner cheek highlight

Eyes:

Mac Bare Study paint pot

Coastal Scents 28 nutural palette, a blend of the lightest shades all over the lid, and the whitest shade for highlight

Benefit Bad Gal eyeliner - I used this on the upper and lower water lines as well as lining the normal areas of my eyes, I then set this with the black from the 28 neutral palette

Revlon Grow Luscious Mascara

Lips:

Mac C-Thru Lipglass

So what do you think? Easy? Elegant? Fast? 

Would you do this?

I don't think you have to be engaged to a Prince to try to look like a Princess. 

Interviewing on the Red Carpet...

I had such a fabulous night a couple of weeks ago doing the red carpet interviews for the opening night of the Gold Coast Film Festival. It was a fantastic evening with the opening film and the after party. I have been interning with a PR company here throughout the semester and this night she threw me in the deep end to interview the stars on camera. A lot of you wont know the stars as they are mostly Australia, a lot of Home and Away and Neighbors actors and more, but an actor some of you may know is Xavier Samuels from Eclipse. Photo below.

The red carpet seemed to be testosterone filled and there weren't many female stars there showing off there looks, however this actress looks fabulous in her nude heels and her skirt and tucked in top combo.

After a nervous evening acting like a bit of an entertainment journalist, I got to attend the after party, have a champagne and then go home and write up some stories. 

This was also the premiere night for my clip in extensions, which you can't really see but I will do a separate on those! 

Just thought I'd share my lovely evening with you! And welcome any new followers! Look forward to frequent posts now I have finished with my degree.

x