L'Oreal Color Riche Nails.

I've been refraining from doing any ~beauty posts since I started my blog; even though that's what I want to do!  There are a few reasons why; they're mainly the blogs I read and I very often buy products that I read about, and then think 'whats the point in writing about this now?', especially over products that are constantly being reviewed! (Moroccan Oil, anyone? The Claudalie skincare products are making the rounds a bit too much atm too). So, I'm going to try and write about products I've 'discovered' myself. I'm a poor student waitress so a lot of the products I buy aren't high end, although I do have the occasional splurge. Another reason is that I don't have a 'snazzy' camera to take photos with, my phone isn't even good enough which is a bit pathetic really! I will get this problem sorted out!

     So I've seen these polishes on the L'Oreal counter for a while now but avoided looking too much closer because I knew I'd want them all! And today after a further look, I am in love. All of the shades really are to die for! I only invested in one, I got 503 Addictive Plum. It's a lighter plum shade that has a bit of a 90's feel to it. My all time fave polish is Nails. Inc's Victoria, I always end up getting burgundy sort of shades! The pots are only quite small, which I think is a good thing because all of my polishes end up drying up and going cloggy anyway after a while! They also come with quite a big brush which makes things a lot easier!

     The varnishes retail in at £4.99, which I consider to be reasonable compared to Nails. Inc and Models Own, and are currently on Superdrug's 3 for 2 offer! Even though I want them all, I'm trying really hard to save atm, so I think I'll limit myself to another 3, I'm thinking 107 Beige Boheme, 605 Rive Gauche Green and 210 Shocking Pink.

Diet Update.

Yesterday was day 1 of my 'Big Summer Diet'. I fully intended for it to go well, and it did; I even went on a run; well jog.

     But today my legs are aching and my relatives who are staying with us made a BBQ and so it would have been rude not to have eaten! So now I feel like yesterday's efforts were a waste of time! I have an unhealthy relationship with food (I read far too many magazines/channel 4 documentaries...), and if I want to lose weight then I need to start saying NO!

     So tomorrow morning (even if my legs are still aching) I'm going to get up and go on another run, and I am going to steer clear from any unhealthy foods!

21.47

It has been a very long time since I last blogged, and considering I said that as soon as I'd finished uni I'd get into it, I'm not doing a very good job!!! To get myself back into it I decided to do a little wishlist of things I want :)

Firstly is this bag from Zara! I've never been into tan coloured things, and although I'm more drawn to the black version of this, I think for A/W this would be far more suitable! I've got loads of outfit ideas planned out for when it starts getting colder! (not that its warmed up yet...:S)

I know I'm probably one of the few people in the world without the latest iphone right now! I've got a blackberry atm, but the internet on it is really naff so I don't get as much use out of it as I'd like; the other phones on the market that seem very exciting, so when my contract runs out in a couple of months I think I'll be conforming with the rest of the world!

I really want a Fiat500 too! I think they're just too cute! Although this will have to stay on my wishlist sadly :( I looked up the payments on one, and along with my insurance etc, it would consume all of my money! I need to start looking at a much cheaper car really, but one day I would really like one of these!

That's probably all I want atm which isn't much! I'm in dire need of new clothes too; I went shopping earlier on this week with the intention of having a huge blowout; but nothing caught my eye which was quite frustrating! at the moment I'm working 5 or 6 days out of the week and doing nothing with the rest of my time so I suppose I should save my money! (or at least buy new PJ's / jogging pants with it).

21.37

Hun, you never looked so beautiful...

I wasn't sure what picture to use; I put Lana Del Rey as I'll probably never mention her again!

Today I discovered I can have Spotify on my phone! I had it on my old one, and I'm not quite sure what made me think I couldn't have  it on this one, so I've done without for 6 months! Anyway I have it now, I've spent alot of the evening making playlists. I don't really listen to much 'new' music, I just listen to the stuff that I liked years ago when I really loved music! When I put music on, I generally put music from The OC on. I really 'bum' the show, it's my all time favourite and I'm always claiming it changed my life and all sorts. It did,  really. Anyway, the soundtrack from it is so good and most of my fave songs of all time are from the soundtrack. Even the covers are better than the originals; Ryan Adam's version of Wonderwall, and Jem's Maybe I'm Amazed, for example. I've got all 4 season's of The OC on DVD and I usually re-watch it every summer. Summer (for me) is just round the corner; but I don't know if i'm mentally rady to start from Season 1 just yet (I'm really wierd and sensitive about it, honestly). I think I'll start watching it when by boyfriend puts his massive telly in my (our (MY)) room, in a month or so I imagine.

Back to the music! I've been listning to Lana Del Rey's album which is really good! Shes also had a Mulberry named after her; I don't think it's been released yet, but it's rally nice. I'm not usually fussed about Mulberry handbags because they're largely satchels, but this one's more 'handbaggy'. Not that i'd ever (well maybe in a few years) pay that sort of amout on a bag, but I imagine there would be alot of replicas. I don;t have a problem with fakes; I know it can seem really cheap and tacky, but it all depends on how you dress it! I have a really good replica coming in the post this week, when I start doing more ~fashiony~ posts I'm sure it will be mentioned!

I really can't stick to talking about music can I!? When I was in my teens I loved music, 'it was my life', I'd buy NME every week and Q every month and get really excited when I 'discovered' a new band, and couldn't wait to tell my friends about it. I thought I'd never be able to be friends with anyone that didn't like the same type of music as me aha, which seems really hilarious in hindsight. I suppose my friends do like alot of the same music as me, I was just a kid and obviously now I realise it's just a hobby and there's more to life! But it's still funny thinking about it.

I wanted to go and see The Maccabbees on Monday night, they were doing a gig right round the corner from where  live, but it was my theory test (passed! :D) the next day so I had to get the train home,I was a bit gutted. I've seen wuite a few bands at this venue, I went to se The Subways there with my friends years ago, little did I know I'd be living about 3 roads down a couple of years later! We were really impressed that Pete Doherty crashed his car outside there a fe years previously. I've also seen Pete Doherty there actually. The last 'gig', I went to was Weezer in Brixton over the summer. They're my boyfriend's favourite but they never come to the UK so I'd promised hm that if they ever came I'd take him. It was one of my fave shows, I really like the band so I knew all the words and it was such a good atmosphere. Briston itself was an absolute dive. So was the Travel Lodge in Covent Garden we stayed in.

I haven't been up to much else! Taking advantage of not having any work/revision by cooking a roast an watching loads of tv! Going into town wth my flatmate tomorrow to pick something up for Mother's Day. I've got her some PJs and I'll get her some S&G bldy spray that  I wear that I know she likes, I'm not sure what else. I'm really close with my Mum, she's my best mate. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't speak to her on the phone every day!

I'll stop now because I'm really blabbing. I didn't intend my blog to be just a diary of my day to day activities andramblings, but I'm just getting used to posting regularly atm, and my only followers are my friend and boyfriend, so whatever! Hopefully I'll find my feet and get the confidence to do more interesting posts soon.

21.23

Skinny for July

I'm not 'obese', but I am overweight and if I carry on like I have been obesity is where I'm headed!

I’ve decided that the time has come to lose some weight. I’ve been on countless diets before that really work. The problem is, I don’t stick to them. I think my problem is that I tend to think ‘oh, I’ll just have this now, and then tomorrow I’ll work really hard’. And then, do I? Do I bugger. I need to take things more seriously this time and really try to enforce my willpower.

My biggest decision was which diet to follow! I decided to opt for Calorie-Counting; it’s effective with relatively quick results. According to weightlossresources.co.uk if I stick to 1100 calories a day, (starting from today) by 9^th June I will be at my target weight of 25lbs lighter! This even seems quite close!

My other option was Slimming World. I’ve done this before, I know it works. I’m not sure if I’d see results as rapid as from the calorie counting though; in the past I was losing about 1lb a week. I think the main pro of Slimming World is going to the group to get weighed regularly, I know this would help me, not wanting to turn up at the meeting and to have ‘put on’. 

The pro’s of a CC plan are; I can have whatever I like (in moderation obviously). What with everything now having to have the calories on the box, it will be easy to keep track of. I’m well aware that 1100 calories isn’t likely to have me very full; so I’ll be forced into filling up on healthier foods.

Both plans allow me to have that treat of a few biscuits or chocolate bar after my dinner. This is my main problem, I never feel full after a meal unless I’ve finished it off with some sort of desert! Because I know this is where I fall short a lot of the time; I’m just going to work it into my plan. If I plan ahead, less it likely to go wrong!

I’m not sure when I’m going to start my plan; if I’m doing this, I’m going to do it properly and not have any excuses! As it’s the end of term and I’m going to be saying goodbye to uni friends for a while I imagine there’s going to be alcohol/meals out involved! So it seems daft to start now and deny myself these things; but starting on Aprl 1^st is such a long time away. I’ve planned a takeaway/film night with my flatmate for tomorrow night, so I think I’ll start Wednesday. Not the most normal day to start something, but whatever! I won’t deny myself the odd night out before I finish uni though!

My second biggest problem is going to be eating out; it’s something that me and my boyfriend do a lot, it’s ‘our thing’ I suppose! Like I said before, a lot of the time the calories are on absolutely everything, so I can try and stick to my limits and even save some calories up/use less the next day if I have to! I’ll also get weighed ‘officially’, at a Boots or somewhere where I know it’s accurate.

I never stick to anything, but this time I’m really determined to do it for the sake of my health!

20.28

I am so terrible at keeping promises...

 As much as I've enjoyed my week off, I'm starting to get a bit fed up and restless now! I was in work for an hour before getting sent home because it was quiet today; I don't know what I'm going to do with myself if they can't offer me hours over summer!

I go to LJMU, which only has two semesters and so I finish for summer 29th March, and then go back late September. Which is 6 months off. This is such a long time, last 'summer', I spent the first 4 months looking for a job and being really skint, which wasn't very good at all! My best friend lives in Manchester, so it'll be good to go up for little holidays and nights out and shopping, and my friend from uni is staying in Liverpool over summer so I'll still be able to go up there!

I'm living at home for my final year of uni, so when I 'go back' in September, not a lot is going to change really! Even though I get a bit miffed about having to live with my parents at the age of 21, and missing out on things, it gets outweighed by the fact that I save so much money ready for when I graduate, this year is really important so I need to concentrate on work, and I actually hated living in halls this past year! Students seem to be under the impression that getting a student house is so much better than halls; but I really don't see how living in a mouldy shit-heap miles away from anywhere that not even the council want would be better than the flat I pay 100+ a week for, but that's just my opinion...

I've just been typing my thoughts over my blog this week which has been a nice way to unwind! I want to start uploading more pictures soon :) 

Going back to 'summer' (my 6 months of boredom), I've been thinking about re-re-re-re-re joining the gym and going back to Slimming World. As well as going on the sunbeds. Just to give me some little hobbies and make me feel better about myself! I think Slimming World is really effective; and I think that going to the meetings once a week and the fear of having 'put on', is enough fear struck in me to avoid food I shouldn't have! The gym thing will have to be seriously considered though, because the amount I have joined and not gone to in the past is ridiculous! I don't know what I think will be different this time.

Tonight I'm catching up with last weeks corries because I was in work and missed them! I'm also VERY concerned with the fact that Gossip Girl still hasn't been uploaded!? It must have had a break in America or something. I'm not happy. 

20.28

I am so terrible at keeping promises...

 As much as I've enjoyed my week off, I'm starting to get a bit fed up and restless now! I was in work for an hour before getting sent home because it was quiet today; I don't know what I'm going to do with myself if they can't offer me hours over summer!

I go to LJMU, which only has two semesters and so I finish for summer 29th March, and then go back late September. Which is 6 months off. This is such a long time, last 'summer', I spent the first 4 months looking for a job and being really skint, which wasn't very good at all! My best friend lives in Manchester, so it'll be good to go up for little holidays and nights out and shopping, and my friend from uni is staying in Liverpool over summer so I'll still be able to go up there!

I'm living at home for my final year of uni, so when I 'go back' in September, not a lot is going to change really! Even though I get a bit miffed about having to live with my parents at the age of 21, and missing out on things, it gets outweighed by the fact that I save so much money ready for when I graduate, this year is really important so I need to concentrate on work, and I actually hated living in halls this past year! Students seem to be under the impression that getting a student house is so much better than halls; but I really don't see how living in a mouldy shit-heap miles away from anywhere that not even the council want would be better than the flat I pay 100+ a week for, but that's just my opinion...

I've just been typing my thoughts over my blog this week which has been a nice way to unwind! I want to start uploading more pictures soon :) 

Going back to 'summer' (my 6 months of boredom), I've been thinking about re-re-re-re-re joining the gym and going back to Slimming World. As well as going on the sunbeds. Just to give me some little hobbies and make me feel better about myself! I think Slimming World is really effective; and I think that going to the meetings once a week and the fear of having 'put on', is enough fear struck in me to avoid food I shouldn't have! The gym thing will have to be seriously considered though, because the amount I have joined and not gone to in the past is ridiculous! I don't know what I think will be different this time.

Tonight I'm catching up with last weeks corries because I was in work and missed them! I'm also VERY concerned with the fact that Gossip Girl still hasn't been uploaded!? It must have had a break in America or something. I'm not happy.