Saturday 27 August 2016

How to stay organised // back to school collab with Lexi

Hey guys xo
How are you. Today is part two of my back to school series with one of blogging besties Lexi.
Today is staying organised. Which for me is very hard so I'm sharing my tips on how I do it. So I hope I hope you enjoy it.

In my school they give us a print out of our timetable, but I think I can speak for a lot of people but I always lose it within a week so I always will rewrite it out in my journal and I write one out to keep at home. I always do when I first get it in case I do lose it. But I got my timetable Wednesday I haven't lost it yet so fingers crossed I don't.



 This is my timetable from last year if your wondering. And please don't judge the hand writing I hadn't written in around two months.

My next piece of advice is too write out a to do list. I know we all have a journal but it helps just having a separate list especially for projects and essays due. I find it helps so much as although I always write every thing down in my journal this is so much easier.







I just write everything from essays to studying. The stuff on this list is stuff I came io with for the sake of this blog post as I don't write them in summer. I only keep on in my phone for my blog.

Keeping a good routine from day one is key. Get into a habit of not leaving homework till last minute I'm the worst for this, I wish I wasn't though. It's such s good thing to do homework on the day you get it and if you have a test ins week do a bit of studying every night instead of cramming. If an essay is due research one night and then plan the next and then write it the next. Short term thru seem like stupid ideas but in the long run it  really does pay off.


Always write a  list of reminders. Just things like after school activities  or if something changes. It's use their to remind you incase you do forget.







I could go on for days telling you tips but I have to stop somewhere. I hope you enjoy this little tips, and I know they won't be for everyone. But if I can help even a few people that its al that matters.


Hope you enjoy it and please make sure you go and check out Lexis biology as she is amazing and her she deserves the readers as I love her blog.
Check it out:Lexis amazing blog
Love you all 
Lauren 








Wednesday 24 August 2016

Back to school with Lauren and Lexi // Hair and makeup

Hey guys xo
So We all know in the coming weeks it's back to school. And for bloggers that means back to school posts. So me and one of blogging bestie Lexi from Lexii the newt decided we should a back to school series similar to our summer sleepover we did last year. There is going to be three posts over the space of this week so I hope you enjoy.
Lexis blog: Lexii the newt

I know with hair and makeup we all make am effort for the first month and then it's just hair it's just a quick brush of the hair or a bit of mascara but I have some really quick hairstyles and a makeup look for you.

So one of the cutest hair styles which once you get the hang of it takes less than five minutes. Dutch plaits. It's basically like French plaits but instead of bringing the hair over you bring it over. Its such a good hairstyle for school because it keeps your hair out of your face but it's not fully up, if you get what I mean.

Another one of my favourite hair styles is a half up Half down. I love this as you can still wear your hair down but by tying that tiny bit up it makes all the difference, keeping it out of your face but still doing something with it. Another option would be putting the pony tail part into a bun. This is so cute and adds even more to a simple and cute half up half down.

You can add so much to pony tails and I know a lot of schools make the students have their hair completely up, so why not add a plait into your pony tail. You can do it many different ways but personally I love when you do it at the back. As you can see from the picture I wear my pony tail
round to the side so when people look from the back they will be able to see the plait going up into it.

Other hairstyles I love are messy buns. I usually do this after I've had wavy hair as the bun is really big and has lots of volume. I would also sometimes wear a normal fish tail plait to back as it gets in the way with my uniform. It can sometimes take a while but it's worth it.

For my makeup I like to keep it very minimal as I don't have enough time to touch up during the day.
I don't usually bother with a primer as I spend most of my day sitting around it basically stays in place.
For the first step I either use BB cream or foundation. I usually go for foundation as it covers more but on days I feel confident I go for the BB cream. I usually use No7 or rimmel.




I then go in with concealer. I love the collection lasting perfection or Rimmel wake me up. Both of
these are amazing for covering and brightening . And boy do I need the concealer. I really don't like the early mornings.

I then do my eyebrows. I use sleek as its one of the only brands that have a shade that matches my eyebrows as they're a cool brown shade unlike my hair which is very warm toned.

I don't do any eye makeup just a bit of mascara. I don't bother Curling my eyelashes as they already naturally curl upward,which is very good for me as it makes my eyes look larger as there very small. I go for whatever mascara I feel like on the day but this time I decided to go for roller lash by
benefit. This is one of my all time favourite mascara. It really makes my lashes look fuller and longer.



I then go in with a bit of bronzer to warm up my face as I'm always very pale and this does really help add a bit of colour to my face especially in the winter months.

That's basically my school makeup rountine, I might do a bit more if I'm getting a picture taken for school or its a special day.

That's it for today. See you soon with my next post in the series.
Love you all Lauren xo




Wednesday 10 August 2016

Bronzed summer makeup look

Hey guys xo
Today is a collaboration with an amazing blogger thareni nicole blog. She's is such an amazing blogger so I would defiantly go and check it out as she definitely deserves it.
We're both doing summer makeup looks so I'll leave her link at the end. Mien is a bronzed look as I'm really loving the gold shimmery eye, bronzer and a nice lippy.

So here it is.
I started off with my seventeen primer. It really helps with keeping makeup on. I then moved on to my face.

I use my all time favourite foundation. The No7 instant radiance. I really love this as it gives a lovely glowy look. I then used my lifesaving concealer the collection lasting perfection. This really brightens up under my eyes and covers up my imperfections.

I used my Kate Moss Sculpting palette. I love this as unlike many palette so they cater for more than one skin tome. I use a good bit of contour as it is a bronzed look. I also use a bit of blush and then my fave highlighter. I also did a bit of contouring with my hoola bronzer.

For my eyes I did one of my favourite looks. I put the maybelline colour 24 colour tattoo all over my eyelids. This is such a pigmented and it gives off an amazing shimmer. Which I love. I then used my maybelline the nudes palette. I used one of the lighter shades of brown and put it in my crease. Then I used one of the darker shades of brown in my outer corner. This is really nice and easy eye look and it works great on all types. I then used my benefit roller lash mascara and its amazing and really
separates and gives my lashes a longer and fuller effect. For brows I used sleek and used a  dark brown

Then for lips I used my benefit hoola lip gloss. It's such a nice colour and it doesn't feel to sticky like
many lip glosses out there
That's what I did to create this summer look. Here is the completed look below.

Read her collab here

Hope you enjoyed. Love you all 
Lauren xo