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Blogmas #1: Christmas has arrived!

1 December 2015

 I was thinking about stopping my blog for a bit and starting fresh in the new year. I've been ill with kidney stones and not feeling myself. It is the first of December as it is unlike me to not be in the spirit already, all day being a right moner until on my way home as I was passing through Waterloo station in London. They has a brass band that was playing Christmas songs, and that was it! I officially started to get excited and decided to try and blog everyday this month.
Its going to be posts of 24 things I am loving each day in the lead up until Christmas. I'm going to wing it and post on the day every day so I am really living in the moment...so here it goes!

Day 1 and it is time to put up the tree and some little decorations! Now this is something I will always do, even if I am doing it on my own because I really just enjoy it! The designer eye in me is never 100% satisfied with the outcome but I never will be.

One thing me and Nick have decided to do each year is buy a new tree decoration which symbolises us and this year, its a gooden.....
I mean how amazing is this! A pizza! Who ever thought of this is a genious and I love him/her a lot! Its from Paperchase by the way and you cant get it online so pop to your nearest store quick, its a keeper! Me and Nick do order quite a few dominos through the month, mainly Nick I would admit as I do prefer a stone baked pizza but our love for it is the same, non the less. So this is the year that we bonded over pizza! Sounds made but food is the key to a mans heart.
This was our decoration from last year. Love birds moving into their new home together! Plus it went with our white, silver and mint green theme of the year. This years has broken that but it will be nice over the years to collect decorations that mean something to us!


These are a few other bits I have around the living room. The snow globe is from when my friends went to New York and I have kept it ever since as I dream of going there, especially at Christmas.

Those crackled glasses are for candles. The burner is from Yankee Candles and the smaller one from ASDA, both using Christmas scent. The smaller glass has my candle in from my advent calendar today. Yankee 'Icicles' and it smells divine! Fresh but warming at the same time, that feeling you get when you catch the cold breeze of winter as your sitting indoors with a hot chocolate and a blanket. You can actually buy the Yankee Candle advent here for 50% off.

The last is a mint green and gold stag I got from Paperchase and I just love it! I love a woodland themed christmas and the white tree behind it really finishes it off nicely.

I hope you have had a wonderful first day of Christmas, enjoy your sleep and I'll see you tomorrow for more Christmas fun!!

Love Khrissie xxx

Duvet day with Tanya Burr

13 October 2015
Today I wanted to share with you a recent make up release I have been lusting over, the new and improved Tanya Burr cosmetics line. Now I have been following Tanyas footsteps for years now so I am and always will be a proud 'fan' of hers and seeing as she is my age I always feel I can relate to her.

I am a packaging designer by day so these things dont go unnoticed fby me and it is usually a reason I will pick something up. I love the fact she has considered her target market but given it a grown up edge for those like me who are on 'team overs' (luckily without Simon Cowell I might add) with the metallic accents and simple typography. I thought I would pick up a couple of pieces to try and to see how they faired on a day to day basis as I know she is a perfectionist so I trusted that these would be nothing but spectacular. 
 Hollywood eye palette 
Some of the main products that intrigued me the most in this collection was the new additions to her line, the eye palettes. Now I'm getting to the point in my life where I want to try and nail an everyday smoky eye look that will take less than five minutes while I ponder over twitter in the morning. I thought this gorgeous golden toned palette 'Hollywood' over all the rest would give me the best chance at achieving my goal and so it quickly went into my basket. 

The eyes shadows are velvety to the touch and have a beautiful colour pay off. They all work together like bees on a summers morning, seamlessly blending into each other like melted chocolate. A must have for the bronzed goddess look which will last you throughout summer and autumn, just as the leaves are turning golden and the morning sky is shining behind the trees. 
The base colours work best applied with your fingers and softly worked into the skin with a clean fluffy brush. Creating a smoky eye is effortless and with little practice that perfection I want to achieve in the mornings will be a distant thought. Some colours are quite sheer on first application but are perfect to build up to the desired consistency, especially if you are practising eye looks.

Gold coin has to be my favourite colour (top right) from the palette, as it looks so elegant when worn alone with a nice layer of mascara and an inner corner highlight. I can see this being a keeper in my everyday palette collection as the versatility of it is just perfect for me. 
The next purchase I made was of a nail polish. Now I am a hoarder of sorts when it comes to nail colour. They are so cheap and easy to store that I just cant help my hands gravitating towards them every time I step into a drugstore. Now, if you see me on a daily basis at the moment you will notice I look the same most days. Not because I decide to wear the same clothes every time I step into my wardrobe, but I have a new undying love for the colour grey. 
Duvet Day £4.99
I know its possible I look like a rain cloud floating through London on my way to work every week but I just can not help myself. Black just isn't me anymore, and it took me a while to realise that it accentuated my RBF (resting bitch face) more than I would have liked. So when I saw this on the shelves with its shimmering gold lid, muted tone and perfect name 'Duvet Day' I just couldn't say no. I would have been like visiting Battersea cats and dogs home without bringing back a new best friend. Sorry Christian, I have a new love now.

Do have a peak next time your in Superdrug, you might be surprised. Congratulations to Tanya too for all the hard work and dedication into making something you truly have a passion about. This is one for the women out there.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post this week. Do keep me up to date on any new purchases you have made recently and do let me know I'm not the only one in the grey gang this year. 

See you next time
Khrissie x

Sleepy Sundays | Zoella Beauty

20 October 2014
Not long ago you would have seen Zoella launched her own beauty range. I knew it would be bath related as she is always talking about lush and other bath related products in her vlogs. I have followed Zoella since back in the day when I started my first blog (so embarrassing). I have followed her year on year, seeing her grow as a person and her confidence flourish! Its amazing to see where she has got to and I look forward to see where she goes from here. 

Her audience is younger than I am but seeing as I'm the same age as Zoe and I love a good bath; now I have moved into my new apartment and it has the loveliest deep bath, I couldn't resist! I brought one of everything as I really wanted to give the whole 'Zoella' experience a go! The packaging is very Zoe as it reflects the style of her blog, which is very fitting to her audience. As a packaging designer I couldn't help swoon over the rose gold foil, as I just love a little bit of metallic on my packaging.
They are all £5 except the bag and mist which are £8 on Feel Unique, which is so affordable!
First up I lit the cute little candle. I love that its in a tin as it keeps it protected from the water splashes and bubbles while your in the bath. Upon sniff inspection I instantly approved of the woody, florals smells. The candle lit easily and didn't crackle as the wick was warming up. 
Next up I added in two bath fizzers. I'm not going to lie I thought Zoe would have created a bath bomb but then you only get one use. You can get up to eight uses with these and each cube is carved with a letter Z and has a similar fragrance to the candle, so how can you resist? It does make me think of a dishwasher tablet a little bit but doesnt that mean your going to get a really good clean? I chucked these in an off they went, fizzing away like I was creating a champagne bath for myself. Delicious!

It was then time for me to fill my bath with lots of bubbles! I always add bubbles to my bath, I can't help it! I used to think it would not clean my hair properly but to be honest I think it helps. I've been used to using bubble bars for a while now, that going back to using a bottle of liquid bubble seemed strange to me. It bubbled up really quickly but I did have to use quite a bit to keep the bubbles going. After this fizzy bubble combo my bathroom smelt like a sweet shop, it was lovely! I then put on some Towie on my laptop which I rested on my sink (shh!) and had a lovely soak.


Once I finally got out of the bath, a good 40 minutes later and looking something like a prune I dazzled myself in some Blissful Mistful which I can honestly say smells amazing! She has a great sense of smell. I love the idea of being able to spray your body with a smell which isn't an expensive perfume and feel that little bit cleaner, I've been addicted ever since.

Lets not forget the adorable makeup/pencil case which comes in the collection too! I had to get the guinea pig on it, but which one is it? I can't quite figure it out? I loved the colour of this one and thought it matched the rest of the collection perfectly. Its also a really generous size and would be perfect to keep all your beauty bathroom essentials in as the outside is waterproof.

The last item in the collection is the 'Creamy Madly Dreamy' body lotion which I didn't actually use as I'm one of those terrible people who always forgets to moisturise after the bath or shower. I will get better, I promise.

Overall, I was pleasently surprised with the collection and can actually see me using these products for bath times to come. I've already used the candle and body mist again, which are my favourites! I think Zoe has done a brilliant job and has catered the smell of the products to the majority of our noses, as who doesn't love a good girlie/woody scent? I still want Zoe to bring out a set of miniature of 5 bath bombs with names all relating to disney films... I can see it now!

Have you tried any of these products from her range?

Love Khrissie x

KhrissieLoves... Vlogging Pt. 2 (holiday edition)

14 July 2014




 

Evening Ladies & Gentlemen!

Here I have Part 2 of my vlog as I had to separate the footage as there way too much! It's been so fun trying to learn how to edit these things, and I still have lots to learn but hopefully its watchable without being too annoying? 

I seem to talk a lot in these vlogs ha! It was my first ever vlogging session and I didnt really have a plan on how it was going to come together, so this is me just being me! We play mini golf and get a little bit crazy at the end of the video....

Part. 3 will be uploaded next weekend.
I hope your enjoying this little holiday series and if you want more just let me know

Are any of you heading off on holiday this summer?
Or have yu already been somewhere. Let me know as I love hearing
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