I first heard about JORD watches over a year ago when I saw a travel blogger I love, Amanda at Living in Another Language, post about them. She was working on collaboration with them and it was such a perfect fit as she and her husband loved the outdoors as much as I do. I immediately noticed how pretty the watches were and what a great concept to create them out of wood. So when JORD reached out to me to collaborate, I was all in.CONTINUE READING
LIFE
My Experience with Birchbox
I know there are one million reviews on beauty boxes out there, some of them a bit hard to trust as people are sent boxes for free. I decided to try Birchbox after seeing a Christmas promotion where you got a free full size Ciate eyeliner pen. Yup, I want that, and as it’s the same price as a box, I’ll give it a go for a few months. Here’s my thoughts on the first four boxes I received.CONTINUE READING
NOTD :: Rose Libertine
It is very rare that I paint my nails only one solid colour. I’m a fan of accent nails, glitter, different coloured tips, and generally doodling all over them. It is also pretty rare that I paint them pink. I’ve just generally not found a pink I’m crazy about. That is until I picked up Rose Libertine on a whim when I had picked the rest of my nail polish off in London and didn’t want bare nails. CONTINUE READINGSleek Eyeshadow Palettes
I’m going to do a post of all the things that I wouldn’t have discovered if it weren’t for reading beauty blogs, but thought I’d start with these eyeshadows. Pretty much the only makeup I ever wore was eye makeup, a wash of eyeshadow and some mascara. Most days that’s still what I’ll slap on, but now that my skin isn’t as ‘youthful’ as it used to, I tend to wear more products, thusly over a year ago I started scanning youtube for makeup tutorials and beauty blogs to look for the best products. I’m a researcher.NOTD :: Turquoise and Black
I’m trying to use up my mini polishes, because I forget they are there amongst all the full sizers. I love this colour and when it’s gone will probably get the full size version. CONTINUE READING
