Review | Tresemme Keratin Smooth Deep Treatment Masque

Today I thought I would bring something new and a little different to my blog. I have be reading so many beauty blogs recently and taking loads of inspiration I wanted to do a review of one of my better beauty finds over the past couple of months.

It has been a mini resolution of mine to take better care of my hair. With it being so unmanageable (you can read all about that here) it is a hassle trying to take good care of it as well as making it look good without using all the heat of the straighteners! The way I manage my hair now is to have regular hair appointments to have my ends chopped and what not, and now using this fantastic masque along with treatment shampoos and religiously using heat protection spray! I tend to only use the masque once a week at the moment as I don't tend to wash my hair that often with it being so thick. I find if I use this masque too often that it makes my hair feel a bit greasy after the wash.  I absolutely love the smell of this product as I do with all Tresemme items and I find that the smell tends to last quite a while which is great! I love getting whiffs of the scent at little points in the day.  The directions of use suggest leaving this on for 3-5 minutes although I have found leaving this on for slightly longer works better for my hair with it being so thick. The first time I did use it though I had really good results after only leaving it for around 3 1/2 minutes.  Another great point about this is I only paid £3.00 for it as it was on offer in Superdrug at the time! But even without that, the price is great for the quality of the product. I am all about great quality on a budget and this ticks all the right boxes.  If you're looking for a budget hair treatment, I would definitely recommend this one. I saw great results within a couple of uses and I still use it once a week on my hair to keep it as healthy looking as possible. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed and if you have had any experiences with this product let me know, good or bad I would love to hear about it!  Lots of love,

10 Things About Me!

Good evening dearest ones. It's Thursday *I know it's totally not Thursday, this is when I drafted this post hoping that I would also be really productive and post it at the same time... as you can now see, this did not haappen...*, I hope you're all having a great week with what ever delights you might be up to. 

I'm coming to you with something different tonight. I have been blogging for a while now and I suddenly thought that you guy's don't really know much about me at all. So after a couple of notes to try and actually think of something interesting to write about myself  - this post was born.   So here goes, here are 10  things that you may not know about me. 
1. I am a twin, my twin is a brother and he's probably my favourite person in my life (apart from D).  He's also a bit of a thing on youtube, check out his channel here: sebmiling

2. I have 2 tattoos, one of a bumble bee on my lower back and 1 little squigle on my foot. 
3. I am an absolute hopeless romantic and I am easily won over with chocolate and flowers.   4. I have a cat called Tommy, whom I brought and then told my parents I found him in a box so that we could keep him... they still don't know the truth! - Oops! 

5. I am in love with nature and the great outdoors. If I could become a hippy and live in the woods at one with nature, I probably would. 
6. Food is quite possibly my favourite thing. I look forward to the parts in the day that I know I am going to be eating. 

any excuse to get a LOTR gif in! 

7. I have very dark brown eyes which my mother calls my reindeer eyes, they are my favourite thing about myself. 
8. I'm a bit obsessed with all thing LOTR/The Hobbit. I think I've lost count of how many times I have sat down with my brother and just watched one of these films. Thank you to my wonderful boyfriend for introducing me to the wonder that is these fabulous films. 

9. I have to be wearing nail varnish at all times. Even if it's chipped or peeling. At least it's still there. I have actually just done them tonight as I am writing this post.  have a lovely picture of my newly painted nails! 

10. I would rather spend a night in, with a really great film, a bottle of wine and my man snuggled up next to me than go out on the lash. Soppy I know and I actually don't even like the fact that this is what a prefer but I have tried to deny if for too long now, this is the truth and I can't hide it any longer. 
And there we have it. I don't even know if these points are actually anything interesting about me but, some of them are not things that I share too often so, go you!
So, you know more about me, I would LOVE to get to know more of you. Leave me some comments with some random facts about yourself, I would love to share some more with you. 
Until next time my lovelies. 
Lots of love, 

February Favourites

Hello lovelies! First of all, i know what you're thinking. Yes I know we're in March now but we're only at the beginning and I meant to post this earlier and surprise, surprise - I didn't get round to it. I have been crushing on 3 products through February, so much so that they have potentially changed my life in the beauty world forever! Or at least until I find something else. 

First and foremost, I have been totally jumping on the eyebrow band wagon. I have never been one for drawing on my brows or any of that, I just pluck the hell out of them and hope they look alright - I also dye my hair a lot and they are so differently coloured to my hair now it's getting embarrasing therefore when I stumbled upon Makeup Revolution,  I just couldn't miss the opportunity to try out drawing my eyebrows on.   I absolutely love the medium dark pallet as I feel this is the best that matches the colour of my brows and blends well with the colour or my hair also. It comes with a diagonal brush for application and also some mini tweezers which are actually great and it comes with a gel as you can see in the bottom lefy hand corner of the pallet photo.  I love to use this when I'm going out for the extra security that my brows aren't going to smudge off through the night!  If you're looking for a great brow pallet on a budget, I really recommend this one. 

Another February favourite of mine is this Clinique anti blemish liquid makeup. This is probably my favourite beauty product of all time. I used to use this when I was younger when my acne was at it's worst and I fell in love with it then. I only just started using it again as it is a little more pricy than my usual day to day makeup. I'm so glad I decided to get back to it though, I have never known a liquid foundation that covers my belmishes quite like this one does. Not only does it provide flawless coverage but it's also really light so I don't feel like I've caked my face in loads of rubbish.  If you, like me are an acne sufferer or just have some belmishes that you're wanting to hide but can't find anything that is doing the trick, I really suggest you try this one. Once you've used it, you will never want to go back. 

I have saved my fave Feb favourite until last. My best discovery.  Dry shampoo is my best friend, with my hair being so thick I can't wash it too much as it goes very dry and it is too much to manage - here's where the dry shampoo comes in. I always just brought batiste original as this is just force of habit that I have brought for years. However this February I decided to try something different. This dark brown dry shampoo was the result and I love it! I was so sick of the faint white powder that the original always left behind but this does none of that. It is so refreshing to my hair and you don't even notice that it's dry shampoo in it - Fabulous! You need to get on this if you have dark hair - it's a god send.  I hope you have enjoyed reading my favourites, let me know what you have been loving the last month! Thanks for reading, lots of love. 

The First Thought of 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! That's that bit out of the way, oh and also since I've not blogged in about 1 million years, MERRY CHIRSTMAS! I hope you have all had a fantastic one and you got suitably drunk last night and ended up tactical chundering on the pavement outside your house when you eventually got home after passing out at your friends Nan's house  *non of this happened to me at all, I don't know why you would think such a thing...*  So to start of the new year, I thought I would give you a lovely typical new year blog post highlighting the resolutions I would like to achieve within 2015 - hopefully actual achievable ones that I can stick to rather than give up on after one week. I mean lets face it, I can tell myself i'm going to stop drinking horrific amounts on weekends and eating my body weight in chocolate every time I come home from work but that is just not going to happen so here goes... 1. Complete my Apprenticeship.  Even though this seems like a totally obvious resolution for me to have this year. It's probably the most exciting and the most important. I am really looking forward to completing my apprenticeship and to move on to bigger and better things within my career.  2. Become more consistent with my blog I am excited for this one. I started this blog earlier in the year and granted I have been rubbish at it recently, I have made a promise to myself that I will become more consistent with it making sure I post at least once a week. I cannot wait to share all the happenings of 2015 with you all this year is going to be great, I can feel it in my bones! Be excited my dear readers, be very excited!  3. Spend more time with the people I love  Yes OK this sounds cheesy as hell but I have to put this on as this is the one massive lesson I took from 2014. I was so constantly caught up with work or being too tired to be with my friends or just spending evenings with my family. Well 2015 is the end to that trend, the lesson I learnt in 2014 was that when bad things happen to you, it's not going to be the people from the office, or the people I see everyday on my lunch break, its going to be my closest friends and family who are going to be there for me and this is what I need to be more thankful for. I am going to be spending more time with my family and my beautiful friends and less time worrying about things that can be sorted the next day. I would strongly recommend to any one who is reading this to do the same. Do not take for granted any of the people who love you the most, they are the most important and will ultimately be the ones there for you if any thing is to happen to you. And that concludes my resolutions for this year. Did you need a sick bag for the bit at the end there? I thought so, sorry about that one. It's new years after all, you've got to have some cheese in a typical new years resolution post right.. Right?! I wish you all the best for the coming year with all the love, happiness and good health that a year can possibly throw at you!  I will be seeing you very soon. 

Me, Myself & Acne

Well Hello there! I have been away for ages so I just want to sincerely apologise for that. Life has been absolutely hectic and I've not even done anything!

   I hate not being able to prioritise blogging as I abolutely love it but life has just taken over and that's sad for me to say BUT I am now back. I know you've missed me loads right?! *blushes*.   Anyway I am back with quite a personal blog about my struggles with acne throughout my teenage years. It is a topic which I have dodged for as long as I possibly can and now I am speaking out!     I have struggled with acne for my whole teenage life. Acne came to me as a compulsary part of puberty which I had to deal with and learn to manage just as my hormones were going up and down like a yoyo which, if you know anything about acne, isn't the nicest of situations.   I think that my acne was probably at it's worst when I was around 15. This was when I really struggled. Boys were becoming part of my life and I was starting to get bullied because of the "chiken pox" on my face. I literally felt that there was no one else in this whole world that struggled with acne like I did. When all your friends have beautiful skin,  it's really hard to feel that it's "just a phase which everyone goes through". Friends would get the occasional break out but it was nothing compared to the sore skin which I went through. I would get angry at myself for envying my friends. This is when I started to pick at my skin. I would pick and scratch to try and get rid of the dry spots. It's probably the worst thing I could have ever done as now I will be left with the scarring for the rest of my life so I really don't reccomend any one who is going through acne to pick. However I do know that at the time it seems like the only way to get rid of the spots/scabs.

I would say the hardest part of being a teenager with acne is the pressure these days to always look good. There's always something whether it's the fact that you've but on a bit too much weight so now the top of your thighs are touching or the fact that everybody's skin was just so perfect and mine looked like the himalayas. It made me so self concious, I never ever left the house without make up on, I wouldn't even answer the door to the post man if I didn't have at least foundation on to cover my skin. I would be so scared at sleepovers with my friends that when I woke up they would judge me because my make up would have worn off over night and they would truley see the 'state' of my face. Don't even get me started on trying to talk/interact with boys.

 

I actually went through a horrible experience with a boy who I liked a lot when I was about 14. He was my first kiss and to any girl, the boy you share your first kiss with is a special one. He actually bullied me slightly because of my skin. He grew up to be lovely and we were quite good friends towards the end of high school but he did bully me about my skin which you can imaging did not help my confidence on the boy front. It was hard for me to be myself around boys as I was alwasy contious of what they would think of my face. It wasn't until I left school really that my confidence grew. I met a new group of friends and a lovely boy who brought me out of my shell and I do truly believe that he made me who I am today. Nothing worked out romantically with him and we just parted as good friends now, it was sad but it also lead me to D who I could not be happier with.

 

When I was growing up, I never thought I would be able to let a boy into my life as much as I do with D. I don't really feel obliged to wear make up around him even though I would prefer to wear it, sometimes I just can't be bothered and that's totally fine. The fact that a boy can even look/kiss/call me beautiful when I'm not hiding behind a make up mask is all that I could ever have wished for, to feel totally accepted as myself. I actually went out in public the other day with nothing but some moisturiser and a bit of powder on my face and I was totally fine - go me!

 

So, now for the advice. If you are a teenager struggling with acne the best thing I can recommend is go and see your doctor. I actually didn't go and see a doctor until I was nearly 16, after I realised that there was literally nothing over the counter that was working for me. My skin was sore and it was starting to scar. I put it off for so long because I was nervous and didn't really think that a doctor would be able to do anything for me, I was totally wrong.

Now I'm not saying that you're going to go to the doctor, get one tablet and some cream and it's all going to go away. It's taken me ages to find the tablet that has worked best for me and I do still get some small break outs, nothing sore or scabby like I did growing up but they still happen. You have to try different things, every person is so different and their skin and bodies require different things. However you're never going to find out what your skin needs if you don't go and speak to your doctor. I also now have a dermotologist who is really good at giving me tips and everyday techniques which I can do to help control my skin, so if you've not already seen a dermotologist, definately give that a go as well.

 

Please just don't suffer in silence, there are so many people who struggle with acne and people just don't hear about it. I will do a post with the best make-up and tips of things to help control your skin but for now, this has been my story.

 

If you have any questions about dealing with acne or any tips to help keep break outs to a minimum, please leave a comment, I would love to hear from you all!

 

To close, have a confident selfie of my naked face! (First naked face selfie I have ever put on the internet - feel privaliged!)

 

Love,