Favourite Things

Favourite lip products

- I am cursed with chapped lips, this coupled with my anxious lip biting leads to some pretty unattractive lips. I have however, found a mix of products that I love and have really worked for me and my desert lips.  Nuxe Rêve de Mie is a perfect nighttime savior. It is heavy, so it really isn't the best for day to day wear unless you are conservative with the application. Homeoplasmine is a french product I picked up in Paris after some blog searching. It doubles as a talking point as it is also nipple cream (apparently). It is the best nipple cream I have ever had on my face. I have no idea how it works but it is the quickest and most effective fix I have found for my lips. Finally Smith's Rosebud Salve is the perfect every day one. Lightweight, pretty smell and a slight hint of colour. Just make sure it doesn't melt in your bag, but if it did I could relate to you.

My favourite guy graduated in July on the only day in Glasgow to not rain and be above 20 degrees. In a 100% wool kilt and robe he was a happy-hot bunny. I am very proud of this little hard worker who graduated with a distinction in Chemical Engineering. I am slightly bitter knowing his first wage though.

Bag- & Other Stories

I am into mini bags. I have always been a big bag kinda girl- just in case I saw an abandoned puppy and needed to carry it to the vet (my house), but there is something intensively satisfying about not having to sift through a sea of receipts and bobby pins to find my phone. With a mini bag you have to rationalise the junk you carry around on a daily basis. I attribute my new better posture to mini bags- no longer am I dragged down by a bag full of every lipstick I own.

With love from,

Emma x

Look at this stuff, isn't it neat?

The Little Mermaid: Part of your world 

 Disneyland Paris

Favourite Things

1. Sandal Weather. Cracking out the gold Swedish Hasbeens for a day Natural Trust garden tours. Sincerely, these shoes are the comfiest things in existence, the leather is so soft it is like not even wearing shoes. They also make your feet look small which is a blessing for my less than feminine giant, skinny feet. These are all very positive points without even considering the fact they are gold.

2. My sisters hair. Well, she has had purple hair for maybe a year now but it looked very pretty today and with a purple field full of foxgloves I kind of had to take a picture of it. She is ridiculously good at predicting, whether accidentally or intentionally, things that will become a new trend before they actually become one.

3. My mum's super cute outfit for our day out! She looks amazing in a dress and hopefully acknowledging how great she looks will mean she will wear them more. You look great Mama.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend full of sun and family time!

With love from,

Emma

Favourite Things

1. Make-up Brush lovin'. I am not a make-up girl and I never will be but when you get a tool that makes your easy make-up look just that bit better with minimal effort I am there. I love brushes, excluding the odd feeling that I am in fact, painting my face. Seen above is a mix of the Body Shop, Forever21 and the infamous Real Techniques core collection. I find the face brushes my biggest savior, it really makes my foundation last longer and saves that streaky tide mark, which, I ashamedly have had more than once. I actually love the Forever21 ones, they were awfully cheap and it gives me the tools to mess around with eye make-up- aka practice my panda/ Taylor momsen black eyes.

 2. Casual bird watching. My garden, it is bird free. Full of 5 killer cats though. However, Stuart lives with two pups that the birds seem indifferent about so I actually get to see wildlife. Here's a blue tit... ahhh, tit... funny.

3. Made some twee cupcakes. I love my new piping nozzle that makes this grass effect, it was originally purchased to make a cake for my granddad's birthday- he likes bowls, grass piping nozzle seemed logical. Anyway, before I ruined an 80th birthday cake figured I should try it out. Made chocolate cake soil too- commitment to twee! Also, surprise:

Tony couldn't leave me alone for a minute. Creeper going to creep! (And kill birds)

 Happy Sunday everyone!

With love from,

Emma x

Favourite Things

Evening re-reading of my favourite book by the sea.  This is my Granddad's copy of To Kill a Mockingbird that he gave me when I was reading it in school. It's a great book, and one I claim to be my favourite, in order to substantiate this claim I feel I need to have read the book more, so it seemed logical that as Stuart got out his bike that I would grab out this to read while serenaded with the sweet sound of his breaks screeching. He Trails bikes by the way. Jumps around on things on a bike with no seat. I know nothing more.

 

Holiday presents. The best friend skipped off to Poland for a post-university treat and returned with chocolate treats for me. Personally a nice fridge magnet would have gone down well, but edible gifts are great, especially when they are as pretty as these babies. There is an element of danger with these though, my Polish, not so good even, so each mouthful is remarkably similar to my imagined experience of Bertie-Botts Every Flavour Beans. Thankfully, the ones that particularly intimidate me like Italian coffee and whiskey were quickly identified and forced on to Stuart.

Locating the last of the Scottish snow for a snowball fight on the warmest day of the year so far. Ignore the bins, tactics in snowball fights do not allow for aesthetically pleasing snow pictures.

I hope you all had a glorious weekend, and a sunny one for those of you in the UK. I hope no-one got burnt and that no-one took their tops off because it was sunny and over 10 degrees- pet hate. It is not that warm. I have no desire to see pasty nipples in May. Anyway, that spiraled quickly.

With love from,

Emma x

Favourite Things

Winter walks. We drove out to find the last of the snow in Scotland so headed towards the ski resort in the Highlands. We succeeded in our mission and found snow. It was beautiful. This winter I felt I had missed out snow wise so this made up for it. All is forgiven weather, all is forgiven.  P.S. yes, that maybe a snow angel next to me there, just maybe.

New flats. Although I rarely wear flats on here I do wear them a lot to University or when I have to move anywhere remotely quickly, as numerous people have called me Bambi on ice while observing me in heels. I saw these "Maisy" shoes on the Topshop website and I bought the nude ones full price, then when the sale started I noticed that the black ones went in so I grabbed them too. These shoes are pretty great, they remind me of the Valentino studded shoes. They are leather and suede mix and I enjoy the colours of the studs, they are a gun metal and rose gold so it is a bit different to the normal gold and silver. I have no regrets.

Magazine piles used for shoe elevation.  All these magazines are my sisters and ended up in my room after a clear out. My summer job is to look through them and make a folder of cut outs that I like. Although I kind of like them being utilised in this way...


What are your favourite things this week?

With love from,

Em x

Favourite Things

1. New make-up palette and Body Shop brushes! I am going to be honest, I know nothing about make-up. My first memory of make-up was bright blue eye shadow that I wore to primary school because I thought it was cool. It was in the 90's mind. Now as an "adult" my make-up bag consists of lipstick, a mascara, eye liner, foundation, concealer and a brow pencil. Pretty basic. I wish I was good at make-up but I always scrimp on it because you have to take it off every night and it is gone, not like my clothes, they are still there to hug me in the morning. But, I found this youtube video by the cotton-candy haired Victoria and I was sold. It is a highlighter, eye shadow palette, an eye liner and a eyebrow pencil all in one. I even bought brushes too. This girl should go into advertising, she could sell me anything. If next time you see me I have pink hair you will know who is responsible.

2. Routine pill popping. I have taken these pills on and off for years, firstly as a response to a really bad almost mullet like haircut, but now I use them mostly to maintain my skin as I have eczema and to sort of my nails which I destroyed by wearing nail varnish daily for 6 years, whoops. I have noticed a difference in each area these pills advertise to help, my hair grows at a crazy rate, my eczema is slightly more maintainable and my nails grow so quickly and look very shiny. They work well with my sister too, but I don't know how other people have got on with them.

3. Weekend walks. I live with my boyfriend and his course is very intensive and I always have something I could be reading so it is actually pretty rare that either of us take the weekend off, unless we have visitors. But this Saturday we wandered into the west end for a little bit of a change, he had never really seen my campus so I gave him a tour. And, although this may shock, it was warm! So warm that I took off my jacket voluntarily, March you better have started as you mean to go on!

What did you do with your weekend?

With love from,

Emma x