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Recently I've been loving this really easy to make DIY conditioner. The main 'active' ingredient is Rosemary Oil. Why rosemary oil? Because it has a whole host of benefits for your hair and it smells amazing too! Its been keeping my hair soft and manageable and the scent is so minty and refreshing! Some of the top benefits of rosemary oil is it can be used as a hair growth enabler,it  helps with unexplained hair fallout and aids in repairing damaged hair bringing back its bounce and shine! It also targets the bacteria that clogs the hair follicle. But today I am focusing on 'repairing damage' and keeping my hair looking healthy with a simple leave in conditioner. Start off by filling your clean spray bottle with water and then pouring it in to a jug. Microwave in high heat for 1 minute, it should be boiling. Add 10-15 drops of rosemary oil into your boiling water and give it a good stir. This part is optional but I like to add in a teaspoon of conditioner and again...

After a long day of packing I think I'm pretty much set! So I'm able to share with you what will be in my carry on and my travel outfit!  Can you believe I forgot my purse! So first up, as my carry on hand luggage I'm taking a rucksack. It fits more stuff in it comfortably and I can sling it on my back and forget its there! This one I picked up from  #PRIMARK  for about £8. Its got that distressed traveler vibe as some of the thread work is unraveling so that's pretty cool I can pretend I'm a seasoned traveling pro or something I'm a book worm so I'm packing two books, LA Candy and Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad, they are new to me so cross fingers I like them otherwise I'm screwed for the week! I'm forever forgetting my sunglasses so I spend most of my time shuffling around like a mole on ground level, so I thought I'd best pack my sunnies in my hand luggage, that way I have them to hand on landing and they don't get squashed! I picked t...

I am so excited! On Friday I'll be taking a 4 hour plane journey across Europe to one of the Canary Islands, Lanzarote! This will be my first out-of-country holiday in 4 years! So I thought I'd share with you my holiday essentials! Lets start with makeup! When traveling the last thing you want taking up lots of weight in your luggage is your makeup, so I've scaled down my makeup bag to what I consider my 'essentials'. ~ Skin79 Hot Pink BB cream | Why a BB cream, because its awesome! This particular one has SPF 30 UV protection, it also has great coverage and as its colour adapting as I tan I won't need to worry about my face not matching my body. ~ Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer in Warm Medium 3 | I've been loving this concealer, it has great coverage and will help disguise any blemish that appears on my holiday. ~ NYC Smooth Skin Bronzer in Sunny | This matt bronzing powder is perfect for adding holiday glow before the holiday glow gets on your ...

There is lots of debate about whether we should be worried about using products that have Parabens as part of their formulation. And there are lots of products out there now that boast to be Paraben free. So I decided to do a little research on the subject and to find out what they are and we don't want them! What are the used for? Parabens are used by cosmetic companies as a preservative , to make a products shelf life longer. They have been widely used since the 1950's and are relatively inexpensive and effective which makes them so popular with cosmetics companies. There are other natural preservatives such as grapefruit seed oil and vitamin E but they are not as effective over the long term. There are four chemical parabens that all have a similar molecular structure that are commonly found in our products: Butylparaben  Ethylparaben Methylparaben* Propylparaben* *These two are the most commonly used. You will most likely find Parabens in pretty much any personal care pro...

I first heard about the Yes To range while watching a SLOABN (SecretLifeOfABioNerd) video on YouTube, and when I saw that Boots had started carrying some of the range I had to give it a try. Information | Brand | Yes To (tomatoes) Product | Daily Balancing Moisturiser for Combination Skin Size | 50ml / 1.7 fl oz Price | £11.99 Purchased at | Boots Made in | USA Would I re-purchase | Yes, maybe Yes To claim to be a brand with products that are as close to natural as the can get. This particular product has 97% of its ingredients listed as natural. Its key natural ingredients are Tomatoes and Watermelon. Ingredients Aqua, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyrospermum Parkii, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice*, Glycer in, Cetyl Alcohol, Theobroma Cacao Seed But ter, Glyceryl Laurate, Capsicum Frutescens Fruit Extract, Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides, Phenoxyethanol, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil*, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Po...

Ready for another Heatless Hair Adventure? We are still on straws, but this time I promise the result will be less poodlerific! Here's what you will need! What we are going to be doing is making our straws thicker to create more of a substantial curl/wave effect. Start buy gathering 4 straws together, if you want bigger fuller curls use more. (I'll try that out at a later date and post the results) Secure with masking tape, you can also use little hair ties but I find this works better for me. You want to make enough straw rollers to cover your head, I've made 8 in total. And then once your ready, your hairs all combed through, spray a section damp with water and wrap your hair around the straws from top to bottom, I find this the easiest way to do it. I then repeated this all over my head, using 7 of my 8 straw rollers and left them in for approximately 3 and a half hours. The result... Pretty, tight waves. I'm also wearing the red lip gloss I made from my last post!  ...

I'm sure you all know by now that I love a DIY. And today I'm sharing with you this super quick and easy DIY for lip glosses. Here's what you will need: ~ Eye shadow's or Blushers ~ Containers ~ Castor Oil First up what you want to do is scrape in to your containers an decent amount of your eye shadow or blush. The first two are MUA blushers in Shade1 and Bubblegum. Then I have a magenta eye shadow, a pale pink and a coral. And finally a cream bush I  thought I would try by Natural Collection in Rosy Pink. Then simply add in your Castor oil, I just eyeballed it to get the amount I wanted, then simply mix together to combine, make sure you get those little bits. And here we have all six. What I noticed was that once the shadow or blush was combined with the castor oil the colouring would change, so each lip gloss ended up different to how it had look in powder form. So this is a really important thing to consider. These are our swatches. The second from the top was the M...