Happy New Year!

Hello!

Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you have all had an amazing 2012. This post is just going to be to update you all on lots of exciting things!

I am planning to offer free blog button swaps and I have a post written and ready to publish with all the information! Blog button swaps are basically when your blog button would go in my sidebar for a month in exchange for mine going in your sidebar, all for free. Yay! I would love it if you could leave me a comment on this post letting me know if this is something you would be interested in - if you comment you aren't committed, don't worry! It's just so I can get an idea of whether people would be interested!

I posted a feedback post the other day and I would really appreciate it if you could fill it out! It's just some questions about my blog so I can find out what you all think of it. You can fill it out here.

I posted my first Youtube video the other day! I have been wanting to make videos for a while now but have felt really nervous about uploading them! I finally did though and I am really excited. I uploaded my second video this morning so the videos uploaded are my 'Best Beauty Products of 2012' and 'What I Got For Christmas'! It would make me very happy if you watched them!

You can click here to watch them. 

I would love it if you had any video suggestions for me to film as well.

My 500 Follower Giveaway is ending on the 17th January so if you haven't entered then you can click here. I am very excited to announce the winner and send out the lovely prizes to one of you!

Lastly, if you haven't seen yet I have a mailing list! If you subscribe then that means every time I publish a new blog post, it will be sent straight into your email inbox. How convenient!

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I hope you all have a lovely 2013 and I would love to know how you celebrated New Years!

If you want to read my New Years resolutions, here they are!

My New Years Resolutions

Hello! I hope you all have a lovely New Year. I don't want to create too many resolutions this year because I want to be able to stick to them all and make it realistic, so I have four!

1. Lately there have been some things that I think to myself 'Wow, I really wish I could do that!' and then I think, I can do that, I just need to try. For example, I have been thinking how I would love to be able to learn HTML, learn Photoshop and especially how to create blog designs. So a New Years resolution is going to be to learn those things and anything else I fancy trying!

2. I don't think many people's New Years resolutions would be complete without some kind of food or exercise resolution! My resolution is just to focus more on eating healthily and cutting out some of the chocolatey things I eat. I did quite well during the beginning of last year with healthy eating but then they bought out Malteser Bunnies and they're just so yummy! They're back this year too!

3. Relax more! I am not a very stressed person at all but sometimes I find if I spend all my time working, at college, doing college work or just doing anything, I get a bit overwhelmed with it all. I think it's really important that I start relaxing more and having a little bit of 'me time'. I was thinking a couple of evenings per week just switch off from everything else and have a little pamper session, go for a walk, watch a dvd or anything like that!

4. Continue with Youtube. I posted my first video on the 28th December 2012 and I aim to carry on posting videos and carry on blogging. I have been blogging since March 2012 and have loved every minute of it, so I am hoping Youtube will be just as fun and exciting. You can subscribe to me here if you would like to and please let me know if you have any video suggestions!

There's only four resolutions so hopefully I can realistically stick to them all! In one years time I can then look back over them and see how I did.

Let me know what your resolutions are as I would love to know!

Beauty Becky Feedback!

Hello!

I have seen a couple of other blogs posting feedback forms and I thought it was a great idea! I would really appreciate any feedback you have for me so please fill out the form below if you wouldn't mind.

It is completely anonymous and I really do want you to all be completely honest! I don't mind what you say as long as it is honest. I really, truly appreciate all of your thoughts and I will make a list of what is said so I can try and improve my blog!




Thank you for filling this out! I really appreciate it.

I hope you have a lovely rest of the day.

Week In Instagram Photos #10

Hello! I hope you have all had an amazing Christmas! I have been pretty busy lately because of Christmas and have only posted two photos this week... TWO! Oops. Here they are though and I hope you like them both!

The first photo was showing my new scarf that I received for Christmas! It is so pretty and I absolutely love it. Today I filmed a 'What I got for Christmas' video so keep an eye out for that as this will be in it. If you want to subscribe to my Youtube channel then you can click here and then you wont miss any of my videos, plus it would make me extremely happy as it's new and I only posted my first video on Friday!

I am currently saving up for a camera which you may know and the second photo is of my little Piggy where I am saving my money. I am doing pretty well and am so excited to buy a new camera! My dad recently bought a new Canon SLR which I am using and it is amazing! My 'What I got for Christmas' video is filmed on that so hopefully if you watch that and compare it to my first video you will be able to see the difference.

I have a lot of posts scheduled for this upcoming week so I hope you enjoy them all!

Let me know if you get up to anything exciting over New Years!

My First Youtube Video - Best Beauty Products of 2012

Hello!

If you have been reading my blog for a little while now then you may know that I have been wanting to make Youtube videos. I have been considering filming them for a while but have always felt quite nervous and worried about putting them up!

I was reading Dana's blog from The Wonder Forest the other day and I find her so inspirational. She seems to be very motivated and if she wants to try something then she will get on and try it! I was reading through a lot of her blog posts and they just gave me a lot of inspiration, motivation and the little push I needed to just upload my first video!

This video is my favourite beauty products of 2012. I did write it out as a blog post at first but it was very long so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to film my first video!

I really do hope you enjoy this and I would really appreciate any comments you have. Also if you subscribe to my channel it would mean the absolute world to me!

Hopefully I will be filming and posting videos from now on because I really enjoyed making this one! My dad has just bought a new SLR so hopefully he will let me film on that and I am planning on buying my own soon too which is exciting!

Do you have any video ideas that I could film? Do you like my first video?

Click here to go to my Youtube channel!

Christmas Day Outfit

Hello!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas day and got some lovely presents. I thought it would be really fun for me to do an outfit of the day of what I wore on Christmas day!

The top I am wearing is just a basic black top from Topshop which I tucked into the skirt.

My cardigan is a cream, knitted cardigan from River Island. I find this lovely, warm and comfy in the Winter, however the sleeves are only 3/4 which isn't always great on very cold days!

On my nails I have Barry M Navy and then Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe on top which is so beautiful!

The ivory bracelet is from Pandora and the rose gold from Monica Vinader which I wear everyday. The pearly one with the heart is a Christmas present from my parents and it's so pretty.

I absolutely love the skirt I wore as it's so pretty and it was a Christmas present from my parents! It's from Urban Outfitters and I find the length and fit is perfect. I knew I wanted to wear this skirt because I got it for Christmas so the rest of the outfit was basically just built around the skirt!

I wore simple black tights from Newlook which ladder very easily! I really need some new ones.

My Chelsea boots are from my parents for Christmas and they are amazingly comfy! I wore them all day Christmas day and they are definitely going to be my go to shoes from now on as they are so comfortable! 

I hope you all had a lovely day. Let me know what your favourite presents were! Also let me know if you would like me to do a 'What I got for Christmas' post as I know I love reading other people's!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I just wanted to write a short and sweet little post wishing you all a happy Christmas and I hope you all have an amazing day.

I am writing this on Christmas Eve so I can schedule it and you will see it Christmas morning if you are online! (Probably not because it's Christmas and there's lots of exciting things to be doing but hopefully you will see it at some point!) I have probably been up since about 5am, pretty normal for my Christmas morning! Hehe, I always wake up really early because I'm so excited. There's actually a video tape of me when I was little opening my Santa presents and the clock in the background said 3am! (I'm not quite that bad anymore...)

Anyway, I hope you all have a lovely day and get everything you wished for. I would love it if you all left comments telling me your favourite present or what you got up to for the day!

 Lots of love,

Week In Instagram Photos #9

Hello! 

I hope you have had a great week and I hope you like my photos!

My cat was so cute and cuddly // Her face makes me laugh! // My mum bought me this candle - it's my favourite and I had just run out // It was cold and I was all snuggled up in my coat and scarf

I don't think 22 hours and 55 minutes of laptop battery life is right // Bought myself some early Christmas presents! // My friend bought me this for Christmas. Yay! // Just found my 2012 New Years resolutions. Need to make 2013 ones soon!

My Asos jumper arrived along with a Halls sweet // I have coloured my hair darker // I want to go back to Greece! // The Macadamia oil from the set my friend bought me is amazing! Definitely going to buy a full size

This week has been so exciting because it's nearly Christmas! All the gifts I have bought people have been wrapped and under the Christmas tree for almost one week now! I absolutely love wrapping presents and I went to Paperchase a couple of weeks ago to buy wrapping paper, ribbon and gift tags.

I have been looking into Cameras more and I am so excited to buy one. I am definitely going for an SLR and I'm looking between the Canon 600d or 650d so please let me know if you have any advice.

My 500 follower giveaway went up earlier this week! Click here to enter. Thank you all so much for following me. It makes me so so happy and I was really excited when I noticed I had 500 followers!

I hope you have had a lovely week and have an amazing Christmas! Let me know what presents you get!

Bobbi Brown Long Wear Foundation

I went shopping the other week with my mum and we spent almost the whole day at either the makeup counters in John Lewis or Debenhams! I really wanted a new foundation that provided higher coverage than my YSL Touché Éclat (review here) for when my skin is having a bad day. We popped to the Bobbi Brown counter and I got colour matched. The lady put this foundation all over my skin and I really liked it, so I bought it!

I was colour matched to Porcelain which matches my skin tone perfectly! I would say this is quite a thick consistency when I first pump it out, however when I apply it to my skin it blends and sinks in amazingly well and feels very light. It provides medium to full coverage whilst still feeling light and looking natural. I honestly can't feel I'm wearing it once it's all blended in!

I have been using a traditional foundation brush to apply this which I find works well. I apply and blend it in sections so do my cheeks, chin, forehead, nose and then blend it down to my neck. It seems to dry fairly quickly. Not too quickly at all but quickly enough that I like to blend as I go, which honestly I do anyway!

Some foundations don't last well on my t zone as it can get very oily throughout the day. This one however lasts all day! I do powder my skin to set it like I do any foundation, but I can almost tell as soon as this dries it won't budge! I was seriously impressed when I got home after the first day of wearing this and looked in the mirror to find that with no touch ups what so ever, it was still on my face providing just as much coverage as when I first applied it.

I personally like a slightly dewier finish on the skin but dewy foundations aren't great for me as my skin is so oily. I don't like fully matte foundations so this is perfect. It is semi matte and I find it looks almost (not quite) matte when I first apply it and then as it settles in and my skin gets oily throughout the day, I am left with slightly dewier skin. My skin also doesn't seem to get as oily and shiny when I wear this which is great! I don't have to powder or touch up on any makeup during the day.

Overall I absolutely love this foundation and would highly recommend it. I actually went to Bobbi Brown on Tuesday to have my eye makeup done and be taught about some of their products which was so fun (and ended up being a little bit expensive!) I think I will be writing reviews of the products I bought when I have used them for a bit longer because so far I am loving them!

Bobbi Brown has never been a brand that I have bought much of before and I don't know why! Over the past two weeks I have bought five of their products and they have all made their way into my everyday makeup routine.

This foundation is available here for £30.


Have you tried this foundation? What is your favourite Bobbi Brown product?

Dior Diorskin Nude Tan Bronzer

The other week I went on a little shopping trip and made a couple of Dior purchases. One of the products I bought was the Diorskin Nude Tan Healthy Glow Enhancing Powder in 02, Sunlight and I have been absolutely loving it!

The packaging of this bronzer is beautiful. The little kabuki brush and the bronzer itself are packaged in cute velvet pouches which just make it feel that bit more luxurious!

The little brush actually feels really nice as well. I haven't used it to apply the bronzer, however it feels very soft so I will definitely be keeping it for when I travel or to pop into my handbag!

The bronzer looks gorgeous with the various different shades and 'NUDE' letters. I am very pale so I want a bronzer that will just add a healthy, natural glow to my face. The name of this is 'Healthy Glow Enhancing Powder' which sounds absolutely perfect, and it is!

This bronzer contains gorgeous pink, apricot and peach shades which help make the overall colour very natural and not at all orangey. It really does leave my skin looking very naturally sun-kissed and it seems to have a brightening affect which I love. The colour is very buildable, soft and easy to blend.

I tend to use my Real Techniques blush brush to either apply this just below my cheekbones for some natural sculpting or on my cheeks for more of a natural tanned glow. I feel like I have said natural about 20 times in this post (okay, maybe not 20!) but I think that is the main reason I absolutely love this bronzer. It brightens, makes me look like I have been out in the sun and adds gorgeous colour to my face whilst looking very natural! (Natural, natural, natural)

I would highly recommend this bronzer! It is fairly pricey and I was contemplating buying it for a while but I am extremely happy I finally bought it. It immediately took over from my Nars laguna as my everyday bronzer. I still love Nars Laguna (review here) but I find the colour of this one look a lot nicer on my skin tone and I love the pink / peach shades in it. I usually bring this onto the cheeks and don't wear a blusher with it.

You can find this bronzer here for £31.45.

Have you tried this bronzer? Are there any products you have found lately that have blown you away?