Hiya 2014..

               Hiya!

This post isn't exactly planned but I wanted to write something to round off the year. 2013 has been a pretty great year.Well the year didn't start off so great with me getting braces at the end of January but I'm just counting down the weeks until I have perfect teeth. Both February and March revolved around a lot of school work and coursework, yay. Except I went to a formal in February with some of my friends which was so so fun!

April was much more exciting, I headed with some of my friends to my friends holiday house at the coast for a few days to chill before exams started the following month. I also celebrated my 17th birthday at the end of April with an amazing cake woo yeah!

Both May and June were full of exams but also a lot of lying about in the sun which NI got a surprising amount of! I also got to see Hairspray the musical which was incredible since it's my all time favourite musical! Summer was about the same, a lot of relaxing and just spending time with friends and family. We also all went to my friends house at the coast again which is always really nice.

For my mum's birthday we went to Dublin to visit some family and went to Dublin Zoo, the weather was amazing!! I also finished the summer off by seeing Avicii live which was crazy!!

Me and a unicorn (it only had one horn)

Many of my friends also started celebrating their 18th birthdays during the summer which has been so exciting but weird at the same time. (4 months and counting) In October I attended my own schools formal which was such a great excuse to wear a great dress and get my hair and makeup done :D

I also dressed up as Amy Winehouse for Halloween hehe

November and December were both pretty chilled which was really nice as school, has been crazy recently. I spent Christmas with all my family and got some amazing presents! And tonight for NYE's I'm spending it with my friends and bringing in the new year the right way!

 

Ps. I plan on going back to posting once every Sunday in the new year :)

Hope you guys enjoyed this slightly more personal post..

Hope you guys have a great NYE!!

Love, Julie xx

S&G Soaper Heroes

               Hiya!

Hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas and ate as much chocolate as I did, oh boy. I wanna share with you guys a bath/shower set I got out of many, that I particularly love. It is the Soap & Glory Soaper Heroes (good pun lol) set, contains minis of their best selling products. It includes Girligo Scented Moisturising Body Mist, The Righteous Butter,(which I've mentioned before way back HERE) Flake Away Body Scrub, Clean On Me Skin Softening Shower Gel and finally a holy grail product for many Hand Food Hand Cream.

All these products have the signature S&G scent which is incredible, if you've never smelt it I seriously advise you to go to your nearest Boots now and give them a sniff!

I wanted to let you guys know about the amazing set in case you wanna pick some bath stuff up in the sales, I highly recommend this! Also if you've never tried Soap & Glory this would be a great way of testing out a wide range of their best products before you buy a full size.

 

What is you favourite S&G product?

Hope you guys enjoyed!

Love, Julie xx

Black on Black on Black || 12 Days of Christmas

               Hiya!

Like I mentioned in my previous post HERE, I don't paritcularly wear a lot of colour and I dont think that's necessarily a bad thing. I wanted to share with you guys how you can wear all black and still look incredibe and make a statement. Sometimes I think people believe to be remembered they need to do something wacky or out of the ordinary to catch people attention but I don't agree at all. I like to look good but still be comfotable in what I'm wearing without feeling like a clown or people are staring for the wrong reasons.



Blake Lively

                          Vanessa Hudgens            Chloe Grace Moretz            Caroline Flack

                                                                   Millie Mackintosh

 

When wearing all one colour remember to include different textures to not make it look so boring. Both Millie and Vanessa wear fur which instantely makes the entire outfit more interesting. And Chloe and Blake both wear leather bottoms which acts in the same way, making the outfit make more of a statement. Blake also adds a scarf to one of her looks which adds more texture and layers to the overall look. Caroline shows off her legs and plays it up which slightly sheer sleeves to her playsuit. Chloe also has a beautiful cut out in her top.

It's also nice to see a mixture of casual and dressy, more glamorous outfits by just using the colour black.

Which of the looks is your favourite?

Hope you guys enjoyed!

Love, Julie xx

LoveLaurenElizabeth || 12 Days of Christmas

               Hiya!

A little while ago I wrote a post on the Youtuber SarahBelle93x HERE who’s style I really loved and that’s what I decided to do again today only this time it’s about Lauren Elizabeth’s style.

Lauren is a 20 year old Youtuber (LoveLaurenElizabeth) from Chicago now living in LA. She has a pretty damn successful channel and also works with other channels including Awesomenesstv. Laurens style is such a perfect mix of classic, grungy and slightly boho. Why I find her so relatable is because she doesn’t buy lots of cheap items from places like Forever21 and only wear them once, she has gradually built a wardrobe including lots of pieces that can inter change with each other and make so many different looks and outfits.

One of Lauren's most recent looks and one of my favourites.

 As you can tell from the photos she doesn’t wear colour all too often but neither do I and she shows so many different ways to wear all the same colour yet incorporate textures and patterns to make the overall look appealing. If you have never checked out Lauren’s channel here are a few links to some of her best fashion videos in my opinion.

 

Holiday Lookbook

My 10 Fall Fashion Essentials

 

Ps. Also check out Lauren's other videos on depression and bullying as she's also very wise fo her age and has some great advice. She's not only a fashion inspiration to me, shes just an inspirational person in general who I look up to.

Pps. Check out her brother Hudson's channel too, TukieLuth! He makes super funny videos that I promise, won't fail to make you laugh.

 

What yotuber's style do you loo up to?

Hope you guys enjoyed!

Love, Julie xx

Divergent || 12 Days of Christmas

          Hiya!

A little while ago I did a post HERE of The Hunger Games book series and my thoughts on it and it seemed to go down well so I decided to do another post on a book series I love even more. Divergent.

 

If you have never heard of Divergent it is, again a science fiction trilogy set in a dystopian version of Chicago. Chicago is slip into 5 factions each representing a different human charateristic. The story is mainly based around a 16 year old girl named Beatrice Prior and it follows her decisions whether to stay with her family or leave and find her true self. Of course there is a little romance thrown in when Beatrice meets Four, her myterious yet protective trainer during the initiation. Obviously there are many twists and turns thrown in as the book is very fast paced and there's always something going on. Overall the book is about bringing down a corrupt government while Beatrice tries to find her true self and come to terms with the fact she doesn't belong in one fation but is in fact Divergent which is something completely different and unique.

I decided to re read the books last week as the trailer for the first movie has been released HERE and reminded me just how incredible the books are. Also as I still haven't read the 3rd installment and I'm patiencely waiting for Christmas when I can finally finish it! If you have never read this trilogy I strongly advise you to check it out!

 

Have you ever read Divergent? What did you think?

Hope you guy enjoyed!

Love, Julie xx