Fragrance Friday's! #1

This is a segment that I would love to make a regular occurrence on my blog. I'm a big fan of fragrances whether there's for myself or my other half or just friends and family.

This week, is one of my latest purchases which is DKNY Be Delicous!

I believe that this has been out for ages now but I only brought it a few weeks ago and I absolutely love this smell as a summer fragrance.

With its overwhelming smell of green apples and cucumber. It's one that makes me feel fresh and clean. This is one that I often will wear on a warm summers day. I will get compliments from co-workers, with people asking what I'm wearing.

It's a long lasting perfume which is what I look for within a fragrance. I don't want to be having to top up a fragrance throughout the day because of the fact that it's faded.

I made this purchase at Boots costing £37.00. It's a 30ml bottle which a decent size in my opinion. I have purchased a bottle for a friend for her 24th birthday and she absolutely loves it and she can't wait to wear the perfume now she has it.
I personally would recommend this perfume to anyone who is wanting a fresh scented perfume, thats long lasting and just beautiful.

Until Next Time..

Freeman Cucumber Peel Off Mask

This is something that I have lately become addicted to using them. Freeman mask is so nice for my skin and helpings lift dirt and moisturises my skin is nicely when it's having its bad days. I will do one of these masks every week often on a night in with my other half.

It retails for about £1.50 which is very good value for money especially when you can get between 2 to 4 masks out of one packet. These can be purchased at Tesco's. I normally get 2 because I do one and so does Tristan! We are both such divas when it comes to our facial routines.

I love that feeling when your peeling off the mask after it's been on for about 10 minutes it makes me feel like I've just peeled off the dead layer of skin on my face. It's just beautiful, just like the name of it.

I would recommend, if someone was looking for a high street or drug store face musk because it ticks so many of the boxes.

Freemans do have a more of a selection of face masks but this the only one that I have personally tried. I will definitely be picking up there other ones soon. Is there any face masks that you guys would recommend, if so let me know below in the comments section

This Gives Me Goosebumps!

I just had to write a quick blog about Adele's brand new song called, Hello. 

Oh my god this song has such a deep meaning and the lyrics made me sit there and think about my life. I honestly don't normally become affected by a song but I don't know what it was but this song, made me re think about things that have happened in my life.

I know that this song has been a massive hit with the world. I do appreciate Adele's music considering that doesn't pump out the albums like other artists out in the world. I always find that Adele's albums have a lot of meaning and it's apart of her life into the album. I always find that this sort of artist are my favourite. She is an amazing woman, with a voice that words can not describe. But she raises the roof! So much love for her right now. 

I just want to say, that she looks fabulous in a storm. Her hair and makeup in the video is spot on.

If you haven't seen her music video or heard her song then click the link below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A 

Have a good day. Until next time.. 

Things I Regret

Everyone has things that they regret doing, so I thought I would just say a few of them. 

1. Crashing my little howie (car)! I crashed my car in July 2013! I hit a rock which sent me into the air and promptly down an embankment and the car almost rolled (it went to roll but didn't, thankfully). This was quite a shock to the system considering I crashed it on the way to work at 3:40am. This did really knock my confidence in my driving ability but yet it has thought me a lesson! Everyone has to get their first crash out of the system and I've done mine. But my now otherhalf has helped me in my driving confidence and I'm getting better! 

2. Not focusing on myself more, I've only recently started to think about myself and spend time and money on things I want and do! I go out and buy myself a new perfume or a new pair of jeans as and when I want! I started blogging because I wanted to not because someone else has told me too! Happy Kim! 

3. Spending too much time on people I thought were my friends and then just to be dropped. As soon as I started my Tesco's job, finished sixthform and started going out with my otherhalf, which was all within a few weeks of each other. I was dropped by the people I thought were my friends. So at the moment in my life, it's just me, my otherhalf, family and work friends. 

4. Having to give up on badminton. I use to play badminton professionally but had to give it up due to my back. I have a trapped nerve in my back and it would go in a middle of a game and then I couldn't play any more because my back just wouldn't let me. The pain would be so overwhelming that I couldn't move. I still suffer with back pain now but not as much though. Sad times! This was my favourite thing to do. 😔

So there a few things that I regret either doing or not doing!.. Is there anything you do or don't regret doing? Comment below if you want to let me know!
Until next time! 

About Me

I've been blogging for just over a month now and I thought it would be about time for me to introduce myself and tell you guys a bit about myself and my life. 

I go by the nickname Kim, I'm 20 years old and from a small town called Rochester which is located in the garden of England better known as Kent. I'm a bit of a fruit loop, I will dance around even when there is no music playing, I try to make a laugh out of almost things in life because laughter is contagious. I like to make sure that everyone has a smile on there face at least once a day whilst they are around me.

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I'm a Space Ranging Merchandiser for a large retail supermarket chain called Tesco's. My job title makes me sound like a super hero but I'm far from one of those.

I work in one of their warehouse that are dedicated for online shopping. What my job involves is bring new lines into the warehouse and working them into the aisle so you guys as the customer can have them delivered. I sort out the seasonal lines as well into the store which hearing the words Christmas in August is a bit of a bummer to be honest it takes the fun out of Christmas.

This isn't everyone in my immediate family theres siblings missing but my family none the less! 

Family life is very important to me considering that I'm from a very large family. I'm the youngest of 7. I have 3 older sisters and 3 older brothers, I'm a proud auntie to 6 and a step aunt to 4. My older brothers and sisters are very protective and it's very hard to get us all together at anyone time. Our lives are hectic and we are all shift workers so when I see my siblings it's something that I appreciate in life! It's something special. We're not one of them families that live inside each other's pockets. 

My partner in crime and life is Tristan. We've been going out now for just over 2 years. The last 2 years have been lovely, we met whilst at work. Tristan also works for Tesco's just like me. His a kind caring man that knows how to protect and look after me. His got some witty and at times smutty humour which make me laugh and smile. He took me aboard for the first time last year, to Spain, he couldn't believe I hadn't been aboard before and he wanted to change that. We are similar in character but I'm probably the louder one out the 2 of us. His happy to appear in my blog posts and supports me fully in what I do. His has been spoken off and will be mentioned within future posts.

My man

Well that's just a little bit about me and my life that I lead, if there's things you want to know or anything you want to see then please just let me know below in the comment box. I will reply back as quick as I can.

Until next time.. 

Simple Vs Clean&Clear

I've been using Clean&Clear Dual Action Moisturiser for a couple of years now and I thought I would change it up and use Simple Kind To Skin Replenishing Rich Moisturiser which I have been using for the last 6 weeks now. 

I thought I would do a comparison of the two products. Clean&Clear is a very well known company for skin care but I feel like Simple, over the last year or so has been out shining them. Simple is well know for the minimal ingredients within there products. From this persona they have they portray makes us there customers believe, there products are better for the skin due to the lower ingredients within there products. 

Price

I personally purchase my skin beauty products from Boots so it maybe cheaper in other places. Simple costs £4.19 for a 125ml bottle and Clean&Clear costs £3.20 for a 100ml bottle.Price side of things the Clean&Clear is cheap for the amount of product you get and the cost of the product.

So thats one to Clean&Clear, zero to Simple. 

Texture

The texture of the product is very important to me when it comes to moisturiser because of the fact I want something that feels light on the skin and doesn't feel too heavy and sinks nicely into the skin. Simple does exactly what I want it to do, the fact that the product is fairly light and takes a couple of minutes to settle into the skin. I don't personally find it too sticky compared unlike Clean&Clear that to me is so sticky. I personally find the Clean&Clear too heavy on my skin and that it just sits on my skin it doesn't sink in very well.

One all.  

Packaging

This might be seen as an odd thing to review a product on but i always believe that the packaging of a product will reflect on the quality of the product inside. 

i found the packaging on the Clean&Clear to be very basic. its just a simple squeezy bottle/tube. Whereas with Simple the product is packaged within a box and within the box you'll find a bottle. This sort of packaging attracts me personally, its very simple and clean packaging. I prefer things that have been boxed up an protected a little. 

So for packaging Simple takes the lead. 2 - 1 to Simple. 

Results

Simple is a rich moisturiser and does exactly what it says on the bottle, its a deep moisturiser. I suffer with dry skin on the sides of my face and Clean&Clear would help moisture them for a couple of hours and they would start to flake under my make up and it was just blurghh. Awful. I find that Simple moisturises all day and my make up sits nicely on my face after using it. 

Winner is Simple with a 3 - 1 lead to Clean&Clear. 

I think its pretty obvious on who I'm loving most out of Clean&Clear and Simple. 

Simple is just a nice product, good packaging, does what its says. 

Clean&Clear is good but Simple is slowly becoming my new favourite skin brand. 

Whats your favourite skin brand? or one that you would recommend? Comment below and let me know! 

Until next time. 

Skin Care Tips

Looking after your skin is very important. It's the biggest organisms that we have, and often is the main thing that causes us issues. Whether it's issues like dry skin, oily skin or blemish prone skin, lots of people in the world have a issues with their skin. 

My skin isn't perfect, I have my flaws. I have suffer with breakouts and have large pores. The skin on my upper arms can become dry for no apparent reason. 

Here's a few tips on skin care: 

- Shea butter can be used to help soften skin & reduce inflammation. Also it can help the appearance of scars. 

- Suffer with ingrown hairs? The best solution for this to exfoliate your skin to remove the dead skin cell which can cause the ingrowing hairs! 

- Shaving can also cause ingrowing hairs. I find that the best thing to do is to exfoliate the skin before you've shaved. With waxing, I recommend exfoliating the day before you are going to wax. Make sure you are not shaving with a dull razor, dull or old razors can cause more harm than good! 

- Reducing the amount of sugary drink in take, this help with the reducing the amount of blemishes you develop. Replace sugary drinks with water, water is your best friend for you skin! Try to drink around 2 litres of water per day. If you are going to drink sugary drinks like coke or fanta then equal it out by drinking the same amount of water as you do fizzy.

- Wanting to reduce the appearance and redness of acne breakouts then place a ice cubes on the area. 

- Suffering with random breakouts of acne, it could be that your makeup brushes or sponges are needing to be cleaned. Brushes and sponges are a breeding ground for bacteria. When left uncleaned the bacteria will just multiply and cause problems. So clean your brushes and sponges, girls! 

- Eating fatty acids will help your skin appearance. Helping your skin or look a bit plumper and younger. Getting out there and start eating things such as salmon and avocados.

- Eating foods that are high in amino acids will help with the collagen production within the body. 

- When moisturising your body try and use moisturisers which don't have a scent to them. Yes, I know I'm a sucker for scented things, however, the perfume within the moisturiser can affect the PH level within the skin causing irritation and redness.

If these tips are helpful to you then use them and spread the word! I'm no skin guru to say the least, these tips which help me! If you have skin care tips yourself that you would like to share then please leave a comment below. 

Until next time!

My Favourite Bloggers & Vloggers

I've been in the blogging world now for about a month now and I have found some amazingly talent bloggers and vloggers out there. I just want to compile a list of everyone who I love right now. This list is in no particular order. 

Leah

Leah is 19 and from North West, England and has a lovely youtube channel dedicated to beauty products, fashion hauls and lots more goodies. I discovered her via somebody else I follow retweeting one of her posts and thats it since then I've been addicted to her channel. Leah posts weekly videos which go up on a Friday night at 6pm, this is where I sitting there on my phone or laptop waiting for her video to go up. I just absolutely love her right now. 

Leah seems like someone that I would get along really well in person with. She comes across as a very fun and bubbly girl in all her videos. I really do think she could go far in the future. All the best to you! 

So if you haven't see her channel, or have her on Twitter then here links are here. 

Twitter: @leahxo_yt 

Youtube: Leah xo

Naomi 

Naomi is 22 and from South East, England and has a beautiful beauty, home & life blog. Naomi posts everyday or every few days and the content is amazing, she will post about life one day and the following will be beauty and so on. I love when blogs are like this because it spices things up and gives a lot more to talk about. I do find that some of the titles of her blogs do make me laugh. One of her most recent posts is titled "26 reasons cats are little shits" now this made me chuckle a little bit. I read the post because of who creative she is with her titling of posts. I do love her channel and I would recommend anyone who doesn't know her to subscribe to her. 

Twitter - @ohhellomango 

Stef

Stef is from Scotland. She's got both a blog and a youtube channel where she will blog or vlog about beauty products, books and anything that interest her. She is an avid blogger because she blogs loads for example in September she blog 42 times. I'm still working through reading her blogs and watching her videos, its going to take some time.

She seems like a really lovely girl that loves her nails a lot. She's had create content on everything she does! I do love her blog and channel. So subscribe if you haven't already. 

Twitter - @Scotstefsnails 

YouTube - ScottishStefsNails

Christina

Christina is 22 and from London. She has a beauty and lifestyle blog. I do love the content that she has. I do love going through her blogs when they go up and her "10 places I want to travel to" blog has really got me in the holiday mood which is good because I go away in a few weeks time as well as have an amazing holiday booked for next year. She has won a few awards for her blog which I think is a massive achievement, so well done there. If you don't already follow her! She seems like like such a lovely girl! 

Twitter - @XtinaG 

I love these 4 lovely ladies right now and I wish all the best to you in the blogging and vlogging world! There were more bloggers and vloggers to choose from but I couldn't fit you all into a blog that wouldn't the length of my arm. I hope to discover more people as talented as these ladies. I hope you enjoyed today's blog! 

Professional Rio Nail Art Pens

I haven't really been focusing on my nails much recently, coming up with new designs or looking for new design aiding tools. This is due to my life becoming more and more hectic recently. 

Anyway back to nails.. I've brought this Professional Rio Nail Art Pens. It cost me £19.99 from Tesco Direct. It's a little bit pricey for my liking but I went for it anyway. 

Looking at the product online, I like the duel use of the product, I.e that it came with the brush or striper and a dotting tool within one single unit. 

I ordered the original version of the product which comes with 6 colours which are; red, blue, yellow, black, white and green. Each little bottle that comes in a 10 ml size bottle which is a fairly normal size for a nail polish. 

The packaging was brilliant and it was not damaged upon arrival, which I was slightly worried about to begin with. 

The nail polish themselves are not runny, which I have found before with other nail strippers in the past. Using the brush feature was very easy and I could use it with ease. The dotting tool side of things I found a lot more harder because I found that the nail polish would dry as I was trying to use it which was slightly disappointing. 

The product itself comes with a "how to" DVD which I didn't know when I ordered it. This was a lovely surprise for when I opened the product up. I have watched the DVD and does lead you through things perfectly! As well it teaches how to do Marble effect nails which was helpful because I've tried in the past and failed miserable. 

I would recommend this product to anyone that is either starting out within the nail industry or someone who likes to have a play around with nail designing, like myself! It's a great little set! I love it! 

I hoped you enjoyed this and if you like this then please leave a comment below. 

Until next time!

My Unhealthy Obsession

I have a slightly weird obsession with hippos since dating my otherhalf, Tristan. For our first Valentines together he brought me hippo plush toy which I can't get enough off. I love it that much that he brought me a second one for my birthday later that year.

I have taken hippo is Birmingham for a 3 day getaway as well to Devon for a week away for Tristan's birthday. I absolutely love hippos and this doesn't just stop at plushy toys it carries on to, pillows, doorstops and onesies! I keep asking Tristan to get me anything with hippos on it.

During both Tristan and I's most recent holiday we went to Colchester Zoo and there they have pygmy hippos. I'm going to lie this was the only reason why I want to drive the 160 mile round trip to the zoo was to see the hippos. Whilst I was there I spotted a little blue hippo in the gift shop so obviously I brought it.

The only way I see myself when I have hippo around is the same way Abby Sciuto out of NCIS is with her hippo called Burt that when she squeezes him he farts.

I just love hippos!

 

 

Anyway it's was a bit of a random time spent together today, I hope you guys don't see me as being too weird.

Until Next time..

Winter Skin Care

With the cold winds and scarfs and thick fluffy socks at the ready, it can only mean one thing. That winter is coming. (Game of Thrones reference there, haha) Well it will be in a few weeks so I'm preparing myself now for it.

I suffer with dry skin and its made worse within the winter time due to the coldness. It is also effected by the fact I work in a dry and sometimes humid warehouse and my hands suffer the most because I'm consistently picking things up and pushing heavy things. 

So for the dry patches I get on my arms and my legs I use Nivea Body Moisturiser Rich Nourishing for Dry Skin! This moisturiser has Almond Oil within it which helps soften the skin and helps to restore the moisture. This Nivea moisturiser has what they call Hydra IQ which is meant to  help promote a non-stop moisture supply within the skin! All I'm going to say is that this product works fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone that suffers with dry skin! This is quite a big bottle and it has last me ages, I can't actually remember when I brought this but I think I've had it since about August and it's still going strong.

I suffer with dry skin on my face from time to time, so I use a Clean&Clear Dual Action Moisturiser! This moisturiser will be what I use during my skincare routine but sometimes I don't use it because I forgot or just can't be bothered to use it. However when I don't use it, I suffer with dry skin so this is a another life saver. It's designed for obviously moisturising as well as helps prevent spots and blemishes from appearing! But another great moisturers! 

My hands is what gets dry the most and this is because I use them a lot at work by picking things up and pushing heavy objects around for 8 hours a day! I use 3 different hand moisturisers dependent on what my hands are needing! 

1. Vaseline - Healthy Hands + Stronger Nails

This moisturiser is brilliant because it is multi purpose product due to it being designed both moisturising the skin as well as help strengthing the nails by up to 50%. This hand cream contains Keratin + Stratys-3 which combined helps moisturisers not just the top layers of skin but the core and deep down layers too.

2. Garnier Hand - Intensive 7 Days Hand Cream HYDRATING. 

This hand cream is designed for normal to dry skin. This moisturiser is an ultra-hydrating formula which is enriched with L-Bifidus and Aloe Vera which helps sooth the skin and restore the moisture and natural skin quality. Everyone knows that aloe vera is full of vitamins and minerals which are hydrating properties.

3. Garnier Hand - Intensive 7 Days Hand Cream RESTORING. 

This hand cream is designed for dry and chapped hands. This hand cream has L-Bifidus and Shea Butter to help intensively replenish hands with moisture making them feel supple and soft. 

All the hand products above I would recommend to anyone this is due to the pure fact that it all of them help me maintain and care for my skin and nails. 

All the products above are so good that I can't put into words how good they are. I LOVE them all! Hope you enjoyed and if you have got your own skin care products that you use that you want to share then please leave a comment below. 

Until next time!

Well That's September

September has been a jam packed month. I launched my blog, which launched on the 18th of September. I spent a couple of days creating blogs and coming up with ideas for the future blogs. 

As I say, I'm just a girl with a camera and a laptop, writing about things that interest myself and hopefully you guys as my readers. I would love to know anyones feedback about my blog, how I can improve it.

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Tristan and I went and saw Hitman: Agent 47 at the beginning of the month as a date night and all I'm going to say is that its a fantastic. I haven't seen the old hitman movie and I was told by friends that, that one wasn't very good. So I was very optimistic about this movie but this one is brilliant. I think they have left it on an ending where they can take the movie in so many different angles. If they are making a sequel to this movie I will definitely will be see it. 

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This month has also included a week off from work. Where my other half and I have packed as much as we could into it. It started off with a relaxing day where Tristan took me out for breakfast and lunch and a relaxing evening walk. 

We tried a new restaurant that we haven't used before, in Wateringbury, Kent, it's apart of the Chef and Brewer chain. When we got there it was very quiet, there was only a few people in the restaurant. For lunch and I had a pulled pork sandwich served with chips and no word of a lie, I think my sandwich was like 2 to 3 inches thick. The sandwiches we had were made with freshly cooked bread which they had cut thickly. Tristan orders a chicken and bacon sandwich which looked just a nice as mine. I will definitely be going back there and I would recommend it to anyone who lives locally to it or is visiting the area. 

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We also went out clubbing into Rochester for my brothers birthday on the Saturday. We also when to Colchester Zoo which is over 160 mile round trip away. Where I got to feed the animals whilst there and managed to get this brilliant goat selfie. 

Left: Clubbing for my brothers birthday | Middle: GOAT SELFIE! | Right: Chinese Garden at Colchester Zoo.

We also celebrated my mum's 60th birthday with her after she came back from Germany. She's a amazing woman with so much wisdom. As I say your mum is also the woman you look up to in life no matter what.

We also went and saw American Ultra in the cinema. I absolutely loved this film, it has a brilliant story line which held my attention for the length of the movie. I can't get over the fact that Mike which is the character that Jesse Eisenberg, killed someone with a spoon. Eisenberg plays the character so well. I would recommend anyone to go and see it or get it on DVD when it comes out. 

We spent the last couple of days of our holiday relaxing playing xbox and watching movies because of the fact that I came down with a snotty cold which made me just want to stay in bed. 

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The 25th was payday for us, so Tristan took me out for dinner. We always do something the night of payday, whether it's cinema or dinner. We went back to the Chef and Brewer in Wateringbury which we first tried whilst we were on holiday but went for dinner. The food of a evening is amazing! I must say it was so fulfilling and tasted fantastic. Both Tristan and I ordered the Rib and Pulled Pork for main and I haven't been more shocked about the size of meal before until now. The rib was massive, I do have a photo but it isn't the best quality considering it was bad lighting and I was trying to take the photo on the sly. This meal was fantastic I would order this again and recommend it to anyone. The meal was served with sweet potato fries, sweetcorn and salad.  

It looks dry in the photo, but it had been slow cooked for 8 hours and was so juicy and tender. 

Left Photo: A little selfie from our date night! Mwahhhh! Right: Bunch of my favourite flowers brought by my favourite man! I love my lillies!

Tristan and I went out with 15 friends from work for dinner at the Buddha Belly which is located in Maidstone. Buddha Belly is a restaurant which is a buffet style restaurant that supplies food that is from Europe all the way to the far east. It's a pick and mix buffet which I loved, they have something for everyone. I'm not one for hot spices so I stayed cleared of the Indian food. It was amazing, I would recommend it to anyone. It was £15.95 per person for all you can eat, which is a good price.

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I decided to play around with my hair one day and I remembered watching Zoella's tutorial on how to do Half Up-do Top Knot. So I decided to have ago and rock this look whilst out shopping and doing old jobs. I think it's a good hair do for casual day out as well as for going out in the evening.  

Well that's everything for this month, it has been brilliant I've throughly enjoyed this month and can't wait for October to begin. Let me know what you've been doing this month down below! Until next time..