It's fair to say I hit a brick wall recently. Sometime last week something just clicked and I was not okay all of a sudden. I've said before what a weird time university is and there was a point last week when I just went "I want to go home" and as luck would have it I was due home that weekend. It did me the world of good, along with meeting with my personal tutor on Tuesday to try and work out of my rut and getting my braces off yesterday as well. Life throws so many curveballs and sometimes it throws them for absolutely no bloody reason whatsoever and catching them can get so so overwhelming.

How To Help Uni Feel Like Home

Hello frens!!

So as you've gathered from the title of this post, I thought I'd make a lil list of the things you can do to help yourself feel a little more at home at university. It feels like an odd time to be publishing this since most people are already at uni and seem to have settled in really well, but I also know that there may be some who are still struggling (I know I am) and first semester can often be the hardest time. I wanted to start branching into student blogging a little bit more and writing about student life and how I'm finding it so I guess this is my first post in this idea.

Five Good Things From The Week #3

(This week has been so much more positive than last week, things are 100% looking up)

Gallivants In Leicester

As if I hadn’t already banged on enough about it, this weekend I went to see my best friend in Leicester!! Like I said in Five Good Things yesterday, I’ve had a really rough week to say the least and if I’m being completely honest the only thing getting me through at some points was the thought of seeing Vicky this weekend and being with someone who knows me better than I know myself. We had a night in on the Friday and watched Netflix and ate a lot of Ben & Jerry’s and pizza and then got a good ten hours sleep like the grandmothers we are!! On Saturday we gallivanted around a little bit, went on a lovely shopping trip where I picked up some bits for my next makeup tutorial (VERY excited about this one so I hope you are too) and then went on a pretty big bender I won’t lie!! I’m currently writing this after having done the stressful train change from Leicester to Nottingham and I’m on the two hour journey from Nottingham to Manchester so I thought what better time to write a post and share some cute photos that Vicky took for me.

Five Good Things From The Week #2

a nice painting I did a while ago.

I'm going to be completely honest with you, this week has been massively up and down. Had a pretty shitty weekend and spent the week trying to come back from a massive slump, so it's been very all over the place. However, some good and very positive things have happened so here they are.

Favourite Winter Lipsticks

Wow. This is possibly one of the most generic blog posts ever during autumn/winter. But you know what, I'm a cliche blogger so I'm going to do it anyway!!

All of these lipsticks (apart from three), as you probably will have guessed, are indeed liquid lipsticks. I just don't seem to get on with normal stick lipsticks anymore. Liquid ones are so much easier to apply and much more long wearing and the best part is you just don't have to worry about smearing when you eat or drink!!

Five Good Things From The Week #1

01 // I had a couple of lovely catch ups with my older sister this week. It's so nice to have a family member living close by and while we don't see each other constantly and have separate lives it's very nice to meet up for brunch (PSA for my Manny friends - Home Sweet Home is one of the best brunch spots in the entire county) or go to hers for dinner sometimes, her housemates are all lovely and it's nice to go somewhere that's a little more homely and less lonely than halls are.

02 // I booked train tickets to go and see my best friend Vicky in Leicester for next weekend!! Lovely gal she is offered to pay the difference for me to get the train instead of the coach so I'm swanning down there next Friday evening to see her. I only saw her a couple of weeks ago but I can't wait to see her again.

03 // I cooked a really good chicken schnitzel the other night. I may have an unhealthy relationship with food sometimes and my parents may say I can't look after myself, but after eating that and a mountain of broccoli, carrots and sweetcorn, I felt very very good about my adult-ing skills.

04 // I haven't been quite brave enough to whip out Unicorn Blood (pictured above) yet, but I have been venturing into the darker lipstick territory!! Androgyny also by JS and Mars and Bachelorette by  Coloured Raine have been firm favourites recently. This is what happens when your favourite nude (FYI - JS Celebrity Skin) runs out and you can't bring yourself to spend £16 on a new one so you gotta stick it out until Christmas.

05 // I redesigned the blog!! Yes, once again the blog has had a revamp and get this - this time I have drop down menus!! I'm so excited about the endless possibilities drop down menus bring. 

What are five good things from your week?

Em xx

The Most Basic Autumn Ensemble

Wow, "ensemble." You can really tell I'm an English student can't you 😂

Also, wow is this an outfit post?? Yes, yes it is. I finally found someone to take photos of me and not make me feel really awkward or self-conscious as they do, so thank you VERY much Ellie (who set up her own blog just yesterday which you can look at here) for taking these (and many more) photos for me.

So what is the most basic autumn ensemble??

Life In October & November Goals

I honestly cannot believe it's already November, the time has gone so quickly this year. It really feels like only yesterday I came out of my last A Level exam and frittered the entire summer away on Netflix. I can't believe I've already done a month and a half at university. Some days it feels like I've been here for six years but at the same time I can remember the day I moved in like it was a week ago. It still doesn't feel real, somehow. I feel like I'm going to move back home in a little while, instead of being here for another three years. 

a fun autumn makeup look!

Hello everybody and welcome to my first blogpost in a while!!

Today I'm sharing these fun photos with you because this is a tutorial I filmed a while ago but have only just got round to editing and uploading (was uploaded today at 11am)

I mean, I do enjoy a LOT how well the eyeshadow matches the wall of my uni room, I think that's pretty cool and completely unintentional haha. Also s/o to Lily who gave out some handy photo editing tips in a recent post about how to get that lovely warm tone to photos, hopefully I'll have a few more to try it out on soon, as you can probably tell these got very red but I'm kind of enjoying it anyway?? I'm still trying to get my head around the ins and outs of colour theory but I'm liking having a new thing to focus on. Gives me a nice distraction from the bore that is Great Expectations, that's for sure.