New Beginnings

Hello and welcome back to my blog!!

Do you all remember me?!?!

Well hows the first few months of 2016 been treating us all? For me it has been pretty good in all honesty, i have started my course which i am loving with some amazing new friends. I have also been sorting out my skin routine to make it better for my skin types and the conditions i put my skin through, I am happy and nothing much could be better right now!! 

Today I am talking about new beginnings and starting fresh.
When I say new beginnings i mean anything big or small, every fresh start is healthy for you even if it doesn't feel like it.

I have started my beauty therapy course as of two weeks ago nearly and this was completely new and different to me, I am only 18 and my whole life has been just between two different schools my primary school and my high school, so coming into a whole new learning environment only knowing one person was a total culture change for me, yes it was hard and scary but now I couldn't be happier about it. When it comes to first days I always try to remember that its mostly everyone's first day not just yours so as you're thinking about how you look if your makeup is good or your clothes suit you all the people around you are most likely doing the exact same about themselves. Everyone wants to make a good impression on the first day so as a natural human reaction you think about yourself and how to make yourself more appealing to the new people around you.

On my first day of course there was two girls in particular who scared me i felt incredibly intimated by them, one we will call her 'Lily', she was already wearing the uniform that i now wear so i assumed that she was a second year and that she was looking at me and laughing as though she was thinking look at this little girl shes stupid and trying too hard you know the usual things you think people are saying about you, sitting next to 'Lily' was 'Charlotte' she is the absolutely gorgeous girl sitting there with her hair done nicely heels on just looking a lot better than i did, they were together so my mind went off again thinking oh god they are talking about me talking about how bad i look ect ect. It turns out that these two people are now two of my best friends. I thought that they were looking at me, judging me and laughing, I now know that they weren't laughing at me they were talking about how maybe I'm in their course too and positive things like that and yet I looked at the situation entirely negatively. 

Now from these girls plus a couple others in my course and my amazing boyfriend I have started to look at the positives in life more than the negatives. This way of life is so much better for me and it is all down to new beginnings.

Start a fresh, a clean slate actually forgiving yourself for your past mistakes can be super healthy for you, so please try to do this for you! 'new beginnings' can mean anything, whatever it means to you. Try a new hairstyle, do your makeup differently, change your hair colour, move the furniture in your room or house around just change things occasionally even small things and you will be happier and it'll feel like a new challenge, a new section of your life even if everything else is still the same you can be happy and find a sliver lining with your change in your life.

I hope that today's short but deep post has given you all something to come away with. If you have any requests for upcoming posts or anything you want to say about today's post please let me know either in the comments below or via one of the contact options on the side!

And until next time, be happy and stay gorgeous :3 xxx

Models Prefer - Match Maker lipsticks first impressions!

Hello everyone!
Happy 2016 (yes almost a month late but still)!

I made a sneaky wee purchase when this product I had been looking at for a while now went on sale for $11 from $30, it made it impossible to walk away from! I got these from a life pharmacy. Models Prefer don't seem to have a online shop but I just looked up Models Prefer Match Maker and got heaps of results of international especially Australian sites containing the same product.
This set has 6 lipsticks and 6 nail polishes that compliment the colour of each lipstick. Today I'm doing first impressions of the lipsticks, let me know if you want to see the nail polishes also!

This is the packaging and layout.

I was instantly drawn to the colours in this as they are all my favourites! There is a wide variety of seasonal colours within this pack. Just from looking at it like this the nail polish colours are super close and match the lipsticks that they correspond with. The end lipstick is a very light pink so has a white nail polish to compliment it.

From left to right: Barcelona, Cancun, Santa Cruz, Bora Bora, Waikiki, and Santorini. Looking at the colours I am amazed at the quality, particularly from a brand that I have never heard of before. As I said above the colours are seasonal with Barcelona suitable for Christmas and winter, Cancun for autumn, Bora Bora and Waikiki for spring, and Santa Cruz and Santorini suitable for summer. 

Swatches of these show the quality and the texture of the lipstick. From these swatches along I can tell that my favourites and soon to be staple lipsticks are Waikiki and Bora Bora. These are definitely my colours! Barcelona seems to more of a lip gloss texture and it very glossy whereas Cancun is the most matte out of this set. After washing the swatches off the colours that took the most time to wash off are Barcelona, Bora Bora and Waikiki. I was unable to do a 'kiss test' or any long wear test with these today but if you would like to see a full review with wear times ect within let me know!

Overall I am very happy with this purchase and can tell that I will get good use from the products and for $11 it was even more worth it!!

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Until next time, stay gorgeous and be happy :3 xxx