What's in my bag?!

Hey lovely people! So I know I said I was going to post about my holiday but after thinking about it I decided not to for 2 reasons. Uno: it would be a suuuuuper long post and duo: who really wants to read me going on about my holiday, ey? Especially if it would be uber long. Anyway, I thought I'd do a 'what's in my bag' post as it's late on a Monday night and I felt like writing. Also, I really like watching these videos on YouTube as I'm nosy and as I don't do YouTube (I have actually filmed a few videos just never uploaded them) I thought I'd write a blog post showing you all what's in my bag.

Firstly, I'm just going to apologise for the photos as I don't have a fancy dancy camera so just took them on my little digital camera and the lighting is terrrrrrible! I took them at like 9 this evening with artificial light so don't judge! Also, I've tried to edit them a little bit to make the lighting look a bit better.

Here's my bag.

As you can see it's the one that everyone on youtube seems to have with the studs at the bottom. I got mine in this grey kind of colour. I would've normally gone for the black as I prefer black bags because I feel they're more neutral and don't show up dirt or anything. But, I already had a nice black bag and wanted something a bit lighter for the summer that wasn't white.



A little sneak peak as to what's inside!

First off, I have these bits and bobs. I have a mini Impulse True Love body spray(which I should've really photographed with the front up!), an inhaler, a Boots lipsalve, a Sephora lipgloss in frosty white reflex and 2 nail files. The inhaler and lipsalve I keep in the little pocket on the inside of the bag. The lipsalve really isn't that great but I was in Boots one day and decided to use the Soap&Glory Sexy MotherPucker lipgloss(obviously used my finger not the wand) - bad move! Just as a warning, don't ever use this when you have slightly chapped lips. My lips started buuuuurning! I didn't have any lipbalm/lipsalve on me so I had to buy this as it was the cheapest one. Anyway, I just keep that in there just incase anything similar ever happens. The smaller nail file is from a set from Boots I believe(they were a present) and the bigger one has a case and is from Sainsbury's. I needed a new nail file and saw the bigger one whilst food shooping with my mum. I thought the case was a really good idea to keep the file nice and tidy in my school bad as I had one before that the edges all frayed on. Obviously now that I'm not in school at the moment I threw it in my bag. The Sephora lipgloss was just something I threw in once when I was wearing it and the Impulse is just incase I smell - phwoar!

Next, I have 2 pairs of sunglasses. Now, I know what you're thinking! Holly, why do you need 2 pairs? Well, imaginary blog readers, why not? Basically, the top ones in the case are from Claire's about 2 years ago and were £4. I really love them and only ever wore those until I found the below ones in Primark this year for a £1. I keep the Claire's ones in my bag constantly in a case and always have just incase I'm out and have forgotten sunglasses then I was wearing the Primark ones and just threw them in. That's the basic answer! I liked the Primark ones so much I went out and bought a second pair. And I thought they were such a bargain at £1. The other day I went to a friend's and didn't realise I had the other pair already in there and wore the second pair so when I got there I had 3 pairs of sunglasses which was perfect as the other 2 girls didn't have a pair themselves!

Here I have my mp4 player&headphones(too cool for ipods;)), my keys, a flannel and a random 20p. I really love my headphones. I got them recently at Sainsbury's for half price. I like the in ear ones and normally get just poundland ones or something but they always break! Anyway, I got these one and the ear buds actually turned out to be memory foam! How cool is that! Obviously I'm not old enough to drive yet(not long left!) so I just have my house key. The kermit the frog one is my current front door and the smiley face one is for my old front door before we had the windows and everything done. Each keyring means quite a lot to me(as stupid as the sounds). The giraffe that says Holly on it was for my latest birthday off my mum. My favourite animal is a giraffe and obviously my name is Holly. The black circle with a H on was from my dad's parents as my cousins kept arguing over their keys so they bought all of us them even though me and my sister never really had that trouble haha. The star keyring my grandad got in his cracker one year and I really like stars. He didn't want it so he gave it to me so it kind of reminds me that time. And lastly, the pound thing is for like lockers and says Holly on it. Wow, that was a lot about keyrings! I have a flannel basically because I hate having a sweaty face - ew! As disgusting as it sounds to carry around with me(don't worry hasn't been used yet). It looks like it has a yellow tinge to it but it doesn't really I promise! I bought 2 so I could swap them and wash them. But yes - ew!

Next I have my purse and my 'gym purse'. My purse is from Disaster Designs and I had it for christmas this year. I really love it! As you can see it pretty much has your average money and cards in it. The picture in the little window is of my and my sister sleeping the day I was bought home from the hospital - cute! My 'gym purse' (you guessed it!) holds my gym card and my key that you use to put in the machines like a memory stick type thing. The purse is from Claire's and my mum bought it for me as she used to look after my card, but she had to change her hours in work and so I had to find my own way to the gym. I don't normally keep it in my bag as I normally just take that and not everything else but I was meant to go to the gym today but didn't unfortunately. In school time I go to the gym every Monday with my friend Naomi and not so much in holidays haha. Sorry the second photo is the flash one as the one without flash was slightly blurry.



Lastly, I have my 2 baggy things. The revlon one holds my make up and was a gift from a girl I was friends with long ago but it's the perfect size to hold everything. The butterfly bag has all my tablets and what not in there. I have something which we haven't really gotten to the bottom of yet and I won't really go into much detail about but I basically have all the medication I would need for it.

I have a mirror(gift), Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder, a puff, Avon supershock gel eyeliner, Maybelline one by one volume express mascara and nivea pearl shine. These are my basic everday make up items minus my foundation and concealer. I normally carry around my concealer as well but I haven't really been wearing foundation over the summer.

So these are all my medicines like travel sickness tablets, ginger biscuits to soothe sickness, ibuprofen and also some plasters as well.

So that's all that's in my bag! D'you think it's too much? haha

Thanks for reading!

Holly

xx

Outfit Numero 1|Leaving Meal

Hi lovely people! So I know I said I would post about my holiday next but I thought I would do my very first outfit post before it.

On Monday one of my oldest friends had her leaving meal. I hadn't spoken to her in about oooh say 6 months? until I had a mail on Facebook in June inviting me to a meal with about 20 other people. Only 15 of us came in the end though due to people being on holiday and what not. I was a bit worried about it at first but ended up having loads of fun and catching up with people I hadn't spoken to since school finished.

We had been pretty good friends since we were 3 and have always been in school together until we had this argument in Decemeber and didn't speak until now. As you can imagine I was pretty shocked to find out that she was moving to England to go to a musical theatre college. Although, It was my stubborness that stopped us speaking, I will miss her and do hope she enjoys it and what not. Anyway, enough with the life story, on to the outfit...

I decided to go with this smart-casual (smasual?) outfit as I wasn't sure what the dress code was.

Sorry for the rubbish in the background, the smudgey mirror and the overall pretty bad photo haha but it's the only one I managed to take

If you can't tell from the picture, I basically wore black leggings, a white vest top and a wrap around turquoise/teal patterned top.

I wore it with these wedges

and this leather look jacket

Sorry I didn't get a photo of me wearing the jacket and shoes either.

Leggings - Moda at Asda

Vest Top - F&F at Tesco

Wrap Around Top - Weird Fish

Wedges - New Look

Jacket - New Look

I found the wrap around top in a village/town near to where I live. Now I don't normally go for Weird Fish as a brand as I find they're quite over priced but me and my mum had gone into a surf type shop looking for a back to school bag(weren't any - boo!) and came across this in the sale. I believe it was about £12 which isn't that bad and was in a size smaller than I normally get so I was pretty chuffed that it fitted nicely. I saw this as the perfect time to wear it!

The wedges I also found in a sale in my local New Look for £6! Thought they were a bargain as I have big feet and find it hard to find shoes that fit. However, these were the tiniest bit too small for me so at the end of the meal when I stood up to go outside, my feet were in agony! Hopefully they will stretch though haha!

This jacket is this seasons stock at New Look and is £39.99 and can be found here. You can also get it in burgandy and brown. I wouldn't normally pay that much for a jacket but my mum bought it as a present to me for helping her at work with admin stuff and I had been lusting over a leather jacket for ages! I would wear an outfit and think the only thing missing was a leather jacket. Anyone else get that? I obviously wouldn't get real leather but this feels pretty much like leather and as strong as leather so hopefully will last me a while. The fact that people's leather jackets seem to last ages justified letting my mum pay that it in my head haha. Also, I had at least 3 people at the meal say they like it or it looked nice.

Here's a picture of me and 2 of my girlies.

Hopefully you can see the top a bit better in this even if it is black and white. I wore my everday makeup with my 'speacial occasion' foundation haha. Basically my more expensive foundation that I got from Sephora so isn't easily accessible. Also, I had my hair natural with a few bits, that had to decided to go straight, curled. I put in some Tigi Love, Peace&The Planet Totally Beachin' Coconut Mango Vanilla Body&Waves Styling Mist(mouthful!) to give it more texture and make it more 'poofy'.

Face

Make Up Forever HD foundation in N115

Collection(2000) Lasting Perfection Concealer in 1 Fair

Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder in 001 Transparent

MUA Mosaic Blush in English Rose(as blush and highlight)

Eyes and Lips

Avon Supershock Gel Liner in Black

Maybelline One by One Volume Express Mascara in Black

Sephora Lipgloss in Frosty White Reflex

So that was my outfit! Sorry for all the bad photos haha.

I'd love to know what you think!

Holly

xx

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Well Hello Again...

Hello lovely people!

Ok, so I haven't posted in months but I do have good reasons, promise! Well some good reasons...

Well first off I have just finished year 11 and for those of you who know (well and don't know) that's the year of the dreaded GCSE's. When I uploaded my first post I thought "I'll upload like once a week" but that clearly didn't happen! Firstly, I had coursework to complete and hand in. I took Child Development which is 60% coursework based and pretty much took up a lot of my time what with visiting the child, writing the visit up, having it checked then altering it.

My schedule during term time since the start of GCSE's looks a bit like Monday-Friday: school; Saturday: go out with friends and Sunday: do all homework/coursework. So you see I really didn't have much time free, which some of you may disagree and think I could've fitted in like half an hour here or there but I mean how many people are actually reading this? haha.

Anyway, then this took me up to exam period where all my waking hours I spent revising at home or in school. (Well at least I was meant to be haha.) I had 14 exams and the last one was on Monday 18th June. I spent the rest of the week just enjoying having nothing to do. I did contemplate blogging during that week as I had though once my exams were over I would write again but I left for Mallorca for two weeks on the Sunday and thought I may as well start after that. Then I got back and it just slipped my mind. Which is no excuse really. I have spent the past couple of weeks seeing friends, helping my mum at work and on the days where I am doing nothing, I spent the day watching Youtube videos haha. I really don't know why I didn't sooner but I guess I just thought "well no one's reading so why does it matter?" But I really do love reading blogs and lurrvveee writing as well and since it's a boring Sunday, I thought why not now, ey? I will try my best to post regularly and have some ideas of what I should write.

Phewwf! That was a big paragraph! I probably should put some pictures in of my holiday to to break it up a bit, shouldn't I? Well here goes...

mmm sandy...

Our hotel was brilliant! Would really recommend it!

Really loved these tufty umbrella things. So cute! (excuse the black dot at the corner of the picture by the way)

So I'll leave it at that for now:)

Was thinking of doing a holiday type post of what I can remember anyway haha. What d'ya think?

Sorry for all the excuses!

Holly x



First Post! Woo!

Bonjour!
So uhh well this is awkward... come here often?

I have no idea why I started this post with 'Bonjour!' haha. I'm obviously not French, in fact I'm Welsh, and I don't do French.  So I thought I'd do my first post as a sort of 'get to know me' as it were. I have no idea how many people will actually read this and be interested in it but here goes. Well like I said I'm from Wales, the south to be precise, and I'm in Year 11 studying towards my GSCEs. I took a 'get to know me tag' video idea from Youtube and decided to do it here and answer the questions obviously so let's get on with it.

Name:
Holly as you probably guessed. Not going to give my last name as I don't want any stalkers. ;)
Nickname:
Hol, Hols anything really. Most people just call me what they feel like at the time.
Birthday:
Incidentally, it's next week! Which will be the 23rd of February and I was born in 1996 so I will be 16. Ooooh!
Place of Birth:
Well my place of birth was my local hospital and have lived in the same house ever since!
Star Sign:
I am a Pisces which is the fish. (What d'you call a fish with no eyes? Fsssssssh!)
Occupation:
Well at the moment I don't work but I'm hoping to find a little part time job soonish. Preferably would be in WHSmiths or Superdrug/Boots something like that. I definitely don't want to be a waitress (no offence if you are!) mainly for the reason the I have this fear that whenever I'm carrying plates of food, I'm going to fall over. :S
Hair Colour:
I am naturally blonde. (Strawberry blonde if you want to be technical. Not in the fact that i'm ginger i just have loads of shades or blonde, ginger, brown etc running through my hair.) I'm lucky in that respect and I really love my hair colour and have never dyed it or highlighted it. Always have been blonde and I get it from my Grandad so I feel like we have a connection that no one else has with me or him.
Hair Length:
Just past my shoulders. For the past 4/5 years I've always had my hair cut short, each time different lengths (shortest I went was just able to tie it up), but at one point last year I just thought 'y'know what? I'm going to grow it!' So I've decided to grow it. Not too long just long enough to do more things with it. That was a long answer for just past my shoulders!
Eye Colour:
I have green eyes which again I get off my Grandad (again with the whole connectiong thing. Is it just me who feels that?) I get my skin colour from him too, so basically, I get my colouring from my Grandad.
Best Feature:
I'm not too sure to be honest. Does this include personality? I don't feel I have the best personality, maybe I'm just hard on myself I don't know. I quite like my eyes so I'll just say my eyes.
Braces:
Nope. Never had braces and I don't need them either. However, I do hate my teeth. I find them really yellow and my toothy smile really ugly and weird but my friend Shannon always comments how straight and nice they are which always makes me feel a bit better about them haha.
Piercings:
Currently (I think I've used that word a lot in this post haha, sorry.), I have my lobes pierced twice but in the summer I'm hoping, I say hoping but I've already asked my mum and she's said yes, to get a small ring about half way up my ear. I'd love loads of other piercings like lip but it's a bit awkward at the moment with school and what not and with the job I want in the future it's not really what's the word? accessable? I don't know haha. My sister is the one who got my into all the piercing things. She has 2 on her lobes like my and her cartilage pierced twice aswell with rings. She wants loads more and will probably get them as the job she's aiming for is more flexible. Long answer haha.
Tattoos:
I don't have any as obviously I'm not old enough, but I don't think I ever will get one. I think they can be really pretty but although I have a high pain threshold I don't think I could handle the pain basically. Also, I don't like the idea of being stuck with something for all my life especially if I were to grow out of it. If I did get one, I'd get something pretty like a daisy or some sort of quote somewhere that I could easily cover up if needed.
Righty or Lefty:
I am a righty.
First...
Best Friend:
My first best friend was/is a girl called Naomi. I'm still really good friends with her now. I can tell this is going to be a long answer so get comfy haha. I've known her since she was born which was in the July after I was born so I was 5 months old when we met. Our mum's met when they were pregnant with our older sisters as they are the same age aswell and are only like 2 weeks apart. They met in an antenatal class and became friends then our dad's met and became friends and so on. We always get together as families on bank holidays and boxing day or we go out the 4 of us or me and Naomi just go out. We go the gym together so I get to see her every Monday which I love as we didn't used to get to see each other much as she goes to a different school and we have different friends etc etc. Anyway, that was my first best friend. :)
Award:
I can't really remember to be honest. I probably had like small awards but the first one I really remember was in Year 6 where I had the Diligence Award which I was so happy with (even though I had no idea what it meant haha!) But when my mum told me after I was so happy they had picked me. I remember sitting there and them describing why the person had got the award and for some reason I though 'oh my gosh this is going to be me' and it was! I don't want to sound big headed or anything but I just had this feeling. And that's one of the days that made me think I was psychic haha!
Sport:
I'm not sure. I think it may have been swimming or judo not too sure. I did judo from when I was 6 but I think I did swimming before that, again not sure. I also did swimming for about 6 years when I was young. (If you knew me you'd never have thought it!)
Holiday:
My first holiday was Pontins. If you don't know what Pontins is, it's basically a holiday park in England. There's a few over the country but we've been going there every year since I was little with the Sun Holiday offers but last year was our last year. :( I think my sister thought being 16 and 18 was too old to go to a kid's holiday park haha. But it has to be one of the best places when I was little. The first year I went was the year I was born and I won a bonnie baby competition! Basically, it was raining so my mum couldn't take us to the parks and my dad was doing a pool or snooker competition so my mum decided to take us into the main entertainment hall and see what was on. It happened to be a bonnie baby competition. I can't remember what made my mum enter me but she did. All the other babies were screaming and crying but my beautiful sister was standing next to my mum making me laugh by me just looking at her haha which made everyone go 'awwh' and made me win! We got a photo frame engraved and has a photo of me in. Sorry, long again haha. Just have a lot to say. ;)
Concert:
It was the Tweenies when I was like 7 haha. I also went to see Bear in the Big Blue House teehe. I think my first 'pop' concert was probably The Hoosiers.
Favourtie...
Film:
I have 3 which are all from different genres haha. Bridesmaids, Despicable Me and Alice in Wonderland(the Time Burton one). My favourite genre is rom coms. I do love some action films like I loved Sherlock Holmes. Also, I do love School of Rock and I have a guilty pleasure of Camp Rock haha.
Tv Show:
My ultimate favourite programme if Friends. It can always cheer me up and awh I just love it! But unfortunately it's no longer on tv:( me and my sister did go halves on the box set though! I love and watch other programmes like 90210, Hollyoaks, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls, Waterloo Road, Desperate Housewives. I have a guilty pleasure for Jeremy Kyle aswell teehe. I have found a love for new programmes aswell like New Girl and Rules of Engagement. I pretty much just watch E4 most of the time.
Colour:
I have 3 again haha. Blue, red and silver.
Song:
I don't really have one. I have millions of songs that I love and can never get tired of. I love all the music by U2, Florence and the Machine, Muse, Mumford & Sons, Beyonce and so on. I have a bit of a guilty pleasure in Demi Lovato haha.
Restaurant:
I'm not too sure. I think I have to go plain and simple with Harvester.
Store:
I think it would have to be Superdrug haha. As sad as it is. I find it really hard to buy clothes and just get more pleasure out of buying and looking at make up etc.
Book:
I don't particularly have a favourite book but all my favourites are by the author Chris Higgins. Also, I loved the Twilight series. I'm not a twihard fan but I did really enjoy the books and felt they were well written - nothing compared to the films.
Magazine:
Glamour. I just think it's amazing for £2! I'm not really a fan of gossip mags. I mean I love reading interviews with celebs but I hate when they're like a secret source or Katy Perry's mother's brother's daughter's friend's boyfriend's aunt told us blah blah blah which I find a lot of magazines tend to be about. I think Glamour is really thick and packed with fashion, make up, articles andinterviews with celebrities. I would happily work for Glamour.
Shoes:
Well this is going to sound really embarrassing but my crocs. They aren't you're average crocs. They're trainery look a likes. Think of convereses but made my crocs. I love the look of converses and I own a few pairs (none paid full price) but the crocs are so much more comfy! In the winter I just live in them and when it rains in the summer. I live in flip flops for most of the summer though. I just buy a few cheap pairs from tesco or primark and they last all summer. I'm pretty heavy on my feet so it's not worth buying expensive pairs.
Currently...
Feeling:
Pretty lonely actually haha. This half term has been pretty much crap. But other than that I'm feeling alright.
Thinking:
About this haha.
Single or Taken:
I am single. Shocking I know ;)
Currently...
Eating:
Well I just finished eating my tea which my lovely mum made. It was Quorn chicken nuggets, peas and sweetcorn and chips. I'm not veggie but my sister is so we tend to have more veggie stuff than meat haha. Now, I am eating an orange that took forever and a day to open. It was one of those ones that have loads of pith on.
Listening to:
Rules of Engagement. I love it.
Watching:
Rules of Engagement haha.
Wearing:
Grey leggings, a red long sleeve top and a black hoody. Sounds attractive I know haha.
Children:
I would love children one day. I love children haha.
Marriage:
I would love to get married one day.
Career Goal:
I would hopefully like to become a teacher either in an Infant/Primary school or an English teacher in a secondary school. I would like to be a teacher in an infant school more though. I wouldn't mind be a journalist on the side aswell haha.
Believe in...
God:
Urrrm I'm not too sure to be honest.
Miracles:
I believe in miracles where you from you sexy thing ;) I kind of do and I kind of don't.
Love at First Sight:
I think you can like someone at first site but you have to get to know someone to fall in love with them I think.
Ghosts:
No way haha. I kind of think it's one of those things where if you believe in them then you see them/hear them.
Soul Mates:
I don't think so. Not sure why just don't really like the sound of them. Weird I know haha.
Heaven and Hell:
I think it's nice to believe that your family are up in heaven looking down on you, watching over you.
Kissing on a First Date:
Yeah why not haha.
Yourself:
Uhh not really. I don't really have much confidence and I am pretty hard on myself. I hope it will change but until then. It's not like I'm not happy in myself. I've kind of over the years learnt that I have to live with who I am and what not because it won't change so yeah.

Anyway, that's me! This was an incredibly long post and you might have noticed that I got a bit tired towards the end haha. Maybe my next one will be something more interesting and fashion/beauty/hair related or maybe just about something random haha. Hope you didn't find this too boring and would consider reading more of my things? please? haha.
Holly over and out. ;)
xx