The Liebster Awards | 11 Question Bloggers Tag

I have been nominated for the Liebstar Award! A big, big thank you to BeautyBe Blogger, for nominating me!!

What is the Liebstar Award? The Libestar Award was created to recognize, promote and welcome new bloggers to the blogging community. 

What are the rules of the Liebstar Award? The rules are pretty simple:

1. Thank the blogger who nominated you, including a link to their blog. 

2. Include the Liebster Award sticker

3. Answer the 11 questions the blogger gives you. 

4. Nominate 5 other blogs who have less than 500 Blog followers.

5. Ask them 11 new questions.

Here’s my answers to BeautyBe Bloggers' questions:

1. Why do you blog?

I blog because I love to write, writing is a big passion of mine. I also have a passion for all things Beauty, food, DIY projects etc, so thought it would be fun to share those things with the world! I also have gotten really big into watching YouTube videos and reading blogs, and kept finding myself wishing I could start a YouTube Channel, or have my own blog. So I decided why not start now rather than later. And here I am!! I

2. If you could eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be and why? 

This is tough, because I have so so so many favorite foods. If it had to be just one food I would probably pick potatoes... HOW CLICHE OF ME. But seriously, you can have potatoes so many different ways, so I wouldn't get bored as easily. And also potatoes are my favorite... If it could be one meal, it would be my favorite meal of all time; Roast Chicken, Gravy, Roast Potatoes, Stuffing and Butternut Squash made by my Mum!!! 

3. Favorite color?

I am the most indecisive person, so it's ironic that I don't have one favorite color. But if I had to choose it would be either; yellow, burgundy, purple or turquoise. 

4. Favorite makeup product?

My favorite makeup product has to be eyeshadow. I have a weakness for eyeshadow, and specifically Makeup Geek shadows. Eyeshadow is my favorite part of my makeup routine, as there is so much choice and so many fun looks you can do. And makeup geek is my favorite eyeshadows because they are so reasonably priced, and such high quality. 

5. If you had the opportunity to create your own bloggers' tag, what would it be?

I would probably create a tag based around makeup, for makeup bloggers. I think I would do something like the famous "Would You Rather" game with a twist. So the questions would be beauty based. I think it would be a fun game to play for beauty lovers!

6. How did it feel when you launched your blog for the first time?

It felt so amazing because I had spent so much time making my blog the way I wanted it, I was excited to finally let people see it. I was super proud of how my blog looked and so I felt proud that I had finally done something I wanted, regardless of what people around me would think!

7. What are your hobbies?

Does eating count as a hobby.... But seriously. I also love to read, and I am sad that I haven't done as much reading as I should since moving to America. Some other hobbies of mine are cooking, shopping, watching movies, playing board games, hanging out with loved ones, doing my makeup or my friends makeup, and doing fun DIY projects. 

8. Celebrity crush?

HOW CAN I PICK JUST ONE. It has to be either Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum or Zac Efron... 

9. What animal would describe your personality and why? 

I think a dog, and specifically a maltipoo. My dog is a maltipoo and he loves to lounge about, like myself. He also gets mad when people try to eat his food, this also describes me pretty well lol... 

10. Favorite film?

My favorite film has to be Pitch Perfect, both the first and second one. I honestly could watch both of these movies one million times. They are AMAZING. 

11. Would you rather eat a pot of worms or crawl into a hole filled with spiders?

Amm... Can i choose neither?? lol Because both of these things would be my worst nightmare. The thought of either of these makes me feel sick or gives me the shivers. But probably eat the worms.... 

The 5 Bloggers I nominate are:

1.  Lena Marterer 

2. Jessica Farweather - All Things Pin 

3. Katie Ann Hall - The Beauty Hall 

4. Sara Belleza

5. Roisin Giles - Roisin's Latest

My 11 questions:

1. What are 3 tips that you would tell a new blogger?

2. If you were given $1000 right now, what would you do with it?

3. What are your 4 holy grail makeup or skincare products?

4. List 3 things on your bucket list.

5. What's one thing you never leave the home without?

6. What pushes you to keep blogging?

7. Which would you choose to give up if you had to; makeup, hair products or your bed?

8. What is something you would tell your 12 year old self?

9. How do you manage your time with blogging?

10. Bath or shower?

11. What is your dream holiday location?

If you have gotten this far, YOU ROCK! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my blog, I really really appreciate it. I appreciate all your comments, and would love to hear from you! Remember if you are new, to follow and check out my social media links!

Love,

Jessica Ann xx

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Morphe 35O | Nail or Fail?

So I decided to come up with a new series for my blog, it's kind of like "hot or not", that you may have seen if you watch YouTube or read blogs. However I decided to come up with my own version, called "Nail or Fail", depending on if they nailed (good) the product, or if the product was a fail (bad). 

 For the first Nail or Fail I decided I would do the Morphe 35O palette, because there is a big hype with this product at the minute. 

Morphe Brushes is a high end brand, but with more affordable pricing. 
 I was a little skeptical before buying it because it is pretty cheap and has a ton of eye shadows, and usually palettes that have a lot of eye shadows usually are not so good quality. BUT THE QUALITY IS AMAZING and it only costs $22.99 for 35 eye shadows, which is a steal!!! (That is like 65 cents an eye shadow)

They sell tons of palettes like this with different colors, but this palette in particular is AMAZING. I love, love, love, warm orange, brown, reddish tones for my eye looks. I find it suits me more than cool tones do, and so this palette is AMAZING if you are into warm tones. Also, all the colors are super pigmented, so creamy and extremely easy to blend. 

Just in case you aren't already convinced, I decided to do some swatches of the palette for you to see the range of colors, and to see how pigmented they are. 

This is the first horizontal row. It contains more of the light colors from the palette, and includes the most amazing, dark foiled like gold that is perfect for all over the lid.

This is the second horizontal row. It contains some really great matte shades, which are all perfect for the crease or all over the lid. My personal favorite is the orange, it is perfect for adding warmth to the crease and just an all over amazing color. 

This is the third horizontal row. This row has a ton of great, great colors. The first and the fourth color are perfect for the crease, and adding some dimension to the look. The second color is a lot cooler than the rest of the colors in the palette so perfect if you don't want a super orangey toned look. My personal favorites in this row are the last two, both are so pigmented and just are right up my street. 

This is the fourth horizontal row. It contains lots of warm brown shades, pretty much like the whole palette lol. This row is a lot darker, so it is perfect for darkening the crease, or for dark smokey eyes or just adding darkness to the outer V of your eye! 

This is the last horizontal row. It contains more dark browns, and two foiled like shadows at the end. The last one on the right is another one of favorite in the whole palette, and looks absolutely amazing all  over the lid. IT'S AMAZING.

All in All, this palette is definitely worth the money. Morphe NAILED with the 35O palette. As you can see the colors are extremely pigmented. If the colors aren't your style they have other palettes you might like more that you should definitely try out. It is a great way to build your eye shadow collection with a range of mattes, shimmers and foiled like shadows. 
It is definitely one of my favorite palettes and there is such a wide variety of looks you can do, from natural, to more night time appropriate looks. Definitely check it out!

If you have any requests for other products you would like to see in the Nail or Fail series, definitely comment or contact me and let me know and I will be more than happy to do that!

Please remember to follow my blog, it is super easy and you can do it on your laptop, and on your phone if you click on desktop version and it would mean so much to me. 

If you have gotten this far, YOU ROCK! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my blog, I really really appreciate it. Because this is one of my first blog posts, please bear with the quality of things and hopefully with time I will improve and create better quality content.

Love,

Jessica Ann xx

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Where Do I See Myself In 5 Years? | Personal Post

I know, this is somewhat different from my regular posts, but I wanted to incorporate more lifestyle posts into my blog. I have realized how much I love to write, so lifestyle blogs give me more of a chance to do that. Also it makes my blog more personal, which is always a good thing right?
Plus I guess by writing this I am making my goals public, and if I don't follow through with them in 5 years, you can remind me of this post...

So, where do I see myself in five years?

Well I guess firstly I see myself married, couldn't leave that one out since I am getting married this May. And let me add happily to that, so I see myself happily married. (Any excuse to post another engagement picture)

Most likely I will be living in the United States and working towards becoming an American citizen. For those of you who didn't know, I am a British citizen, but I live in the United States on a student visa. So I guess that leads to my next "goal", to graduate from Brigham Young University in either Elementary Education or Early Childhood Education, I am still figuring that out. In the hopes to become a teacher (obviously lol). 

As well as graduating from BYU, I really really want to start taking some Beauty courses, specifically Make-up ones but other courses as well. Whether that means going to beauty school part time or by doing random classes here and there, I haven't quite decided yet. Make-up, is a very recent love of mine and I think it's important to do something you love and are passionate about. I want to improve on my skills, so that I can create better beauty posts and so that I can become better at something that I love doing. It is seriously my dream to be a freelance make-up artist, or to pursue something in the beauty industry. 

I also hope to still be doing my blog, and loving it. Hopefully in regards to that my followers will have grown and my blog will have reached out to more people.  Remember to follow my blog!! I also would love to start YouTube, (I know how cliche of me lol) but I'm just not quite there yet. If you know me, I am obsessed with YouTube and watching beauty videos, and recently I have started to think about potentially doing it myself. But for now I want to focus on my blog, and maybe when it grows then I will think about YouTube.  

In relation to my blog, I want to get more into photography because I feel like that is something I need to get better at. I am already working towards that, by saving to purchase an actual good camera. Then I guess practice makes perfect, so I want to spend time practicing and getting advice from my cousin, who is a photographer (she did my engagement pics), because getting help from someone you know makes life a little easier. 

I see myself more travelled in 5 years, but who knows because flying back home at least once a year doesn't give Trent and I much time to travel anywhere else, or much money. I would at least like to visit a few more States, and spend some time in Florida (MY FAVORITE PLACE ON THE EARTH, besides home) And maybe add a few more European countries to our list, whenever we visit home. 

All in all, I hope to be extremely happy, wherever I live, in a career I love whatever that might be. I hope to be pursuing my dreams, and being the best possible version of myself. And I hope the same for you :)

Please remember to follow my blog, it is super easy and you can do it on your laptop, and on your phone if you click on the web version and it would mean so much to me. 

If you have gotten this far, YOU ROCK! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my blog, I really really appreciate it. And I hope you enjoyed getting to know me more, and hearing some of my goals for the future.

Jessica Ann x

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5 Beauty Hacks You Need To Know

I have been super excited to write this post, because I love finding new ways I can improve my makeup, or save myself money, or make my beauty routine easier. So if you want to hear what 5 Beauty Hacks I actually use, and that you need to know, then keep reading...
But first remember to follow my blog, I have some fun posts coming up!!

1. Hairspray as Eyebrow Gel

I know this sounds kind of weird, but it works! I have crazy eyebrows, the hairs move and stick up in all sorts of weird places. So I love love love eyebrow gels to keep my eyebrows looking perfect all day. But I have tried a few eyebrow gels and found that none of the cheaper ones really work, and so you have too pay an arm and a leg for a decent eyebrow gel. BUT... If you get hairspray and spray it lightly into a spoolie, and comb it through your brows, its as good as an expensive brow gel!

So not only do you have perfectly set eyebrows, but you have saved yourself some money. The hairspray I use is $5 and the spooley I use is from ELF and I am pretty sure it only cost $1. 

2. Liner brush for applying lower lash mascara

As I have said in a post before, I am super super bad at applying mascara to my lower lashes, and even when I do I find my eyelashes can clump together or I get mascara all over my lower lash line. 
What you want to do is get a liner brush, you can get these from the drugstore for super cheap, and take the product from the mascara brush onto your liner brush and apply to your lower lashes. 

3. Lipstick as a blush

I know, this sounds like it doesn't work but its tried and tested by yours truly. Have you ever had a lip stick and thought it was such a beautiful color you wanted to have a blush the same color? Well now you can without having to spend more money. 
You want to simply use either your fingers, or a blush brush to get a light amount of lipstick and blend it in, and it acts just like a cream blush!

4. Applying water/setting spray to your eye shadows

This is probably my favorite hack, and I am sure you have heard it before. It is perfect for the palettes you never reach for because the eye shadows aren't pigmented enough.

But apply a little bit of water, or setting spray (which will last longer), to your brush and dip it into your eye shadow and apply like normal. This will help make your eye shadow more pigmented, even make it look like a cream eye shadow, or  give it a more metallic finish if it already is pigmented. 

5. The 3 Rule

I have struggled so so so much doing a perfect contour or bronzer, and actually applying contour product to the correct place. This hack has saved me and it is super super easy.
Contouring can be so easy if you use the 3 rule, so apply your bronzer in a three motion, and a backwards 3 on the other side of your face (Look a the picture it will be easier to understand). By using this model, it applies bronzer to the perfect places, making it dummie proof!

Also if you want to grab a pencil (or anything similar, I use a make up brush) and you want to have it so it's going from the top of your ear, to the corner of your lip. You are not going to obviously blend to your lip, but it gives you the direction in which you should contour. I use a small brush usually to trace a little of the line then go in with a bigger brush to blend out. 

Please remember to follow my blog, it is super easy and you can do it on your laptop, and on your phone if you click on desktop version and it would mean so much to me. 

If you have gotten this far, YOU ROCK! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my blog, I really really appreciate it. Because this is one of my first blog posts, please bear with the quality of things and hopefully with time I will improve and create better quality content.

Love,

Jessica Ann xx

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Happy Mother's Day

I don't usually post on Sundays, nor do I post stuff this soppy but for those of you who didn't know, today is mother's day in the United Kingdom. And I thought if I am going to post something on social media I might as well post it on my blog. 

Happy Mother's Day to my best friend, and the best woman I know. So unbelievably lucky to have a mum who is so thoughtful, and patient. And you deserve a medal for putting up with my tantrums, and bratty moments for 20 years lol. If someday I can be half the Mum you have been, then I will be happy.

Since I couldn't be at home to spend the day with you Mum, I made a little collage of some photos I had! Miss you more everyday!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mother figures in my life, forever grateful for everything you do for me. 

Love Jessica Ann x

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Subscription Box Reviews | Candy Club March 2016

STOP. Before you read this, please do me a huge favor and subscribe to my blog I would really really appreciate your support. 
If you know me, you will know that I love love love to snack, especially on things like candy, crisps, and chocolate...

Soooo when I was watching YouTube and a Candy Club tasting and review popped up, I HAD to watch it, and afterwards I knew I HAD to try it.

About: A premier month candy subscription box where you receive 2 to 3 pounds of luxury candy, tailored to the type of sweet tooth you have. 

Price: $27.99 1 month plan , $22.99 6 month plan, $19.99 12 month plan. You save up to 70% on retail value.

So anyway... ENOUGH with the boring details. Let's get into the exciting part....

THE CANDY

SOUR POWER WILD CHERRY BELTS

If you love cherry, and you love sour, this will be your best friend. I love fruit belts anyway, and I love all things sour and cherry so I was expecting to like this. And I LOVED it. Out of all three candy jars I received, it was by far my favorite and I may or may not have eaten half the jar for brreakfast. I AM SO HEALTHY I KNOW.... Not going to lie, just writing about them has made me open the jar and eat more. IT IS AMAZING.

ALBANESE MINI GUMMI BUTTERFLIES

This was definitely my second favorite of the candy. If you like soft chewy fruit flavored gummy sweets, then this would be right up your street. There is 6 different flavors; grape, strawberry, orange, blue raspberry, wild cherry, and green apple, which is good because if you hate all things cherry, then you just eat the other delicious flavors and you still get to eat these amazing candies!! The gummi butterflies where first of all super cute, who doesn't like butterfly shaped candies, and extremely flavorsome.

GIMBAL'S SOUR GOURMET JELLY BEANS 

Out of the three jars of sweets this was probably my least favorite, purely because I expected them to be sour and they were not as sour as I would have liked them. That being said, they are pretty great jelly beans especially if you are a fan of the fruit flavored jelly beans because the jar was filled with 12 fruit flavors.

The box also comes with salt water taffy, with their being different flavors each month. This month I got cotton candy, and it was the first time I have ever actually tried salt water taffy. And I really really liked it, and it's a nice extra to the box.

Candy Club were kind enough to give me a discount code: 50F-candydeal for 50% off to, so if you are tempted to try it now is the perfect time. 

So... All in all, I am a HUGE fan of the Candy Club box, and five sure (I say this instead of for sure) will be purchasing it again next month. And if you have a friend who has a sweet tooth, this would be an awesome gift!!!

I hope you enjoyed this review of the Candy Club box, and if you can, definitely try this at least once you will not regret it! If you would like to see this again next month or you yourself purchased the candy club box, comment down below and let me know!

If you have gotten this far, YOU ROCK! Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my blog, I really really appreciate it. Because this is one of my first blog posts, please bear with the quality of things and hopefully with time I will improve and create better quality content.

Love,
Jessica Ann xx

Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored by candy club, I just genuinely love the product and wanted to share it so others could try it. 

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