Leibster Award - PART 1 / daisydaisyxxo

After not being 'tagged' to do anything for over a month of being on here, I was suddenly tagged for 4 4 Leibster Awards and a 'first time' tag! I was going to do all 4 sets of Liebster questions in one post but I figured this would be a little too much for some of you to read so I thought I'd do them in parts. 

If this is your photo please comment and I will give you full credit!! 

I was firstly nominated by Emily at EmilyLoves.

Rules of the liebster award: 

• link back to who nominated you
• answer the 11 questions given 
• nominate 11 bloggers with 200 bloglovin' followers or less
• give your nominated 11 questions to answer

Emilys questions for me to answer:

1. If you were to spend a year traveling the world, where are the 5 places you would like to go?

Hmmmm I am quite lucky that I have been to quite a few places, but I would love to go to America (all parts!), Dubai or somewhere similar, Italy, China and Aus!!

2. What is your favourite book?

I must admit that I'm not a big reader, except magazines which don't count.. I can't actually even think of books I've read..

3. Other than blogging, what do you spend your free time doing?

I work A LOT between College, so if I'm not doing that I'm seeing my boyfriend and friends. And family!

4. Hats, bags or shoes?

I'd have to say shoes because I love trainers. I'm not too bothered though.

5. Where is your favourite place to shop?

Working in Topshop I would defo say there.. its so hard to work there and want every item of clothing!

6. What is your favourite recipe?

Im a very fussy eater and will make cakes and things but not actually eat them, and because of this I tend not to bake/cook too much! But I'd probably say double stuffed oreo cookies (basically a massive cookie wrapped around an oreo.. yes as good as it sounds, really!)

7. If you could have one designer item what would it be?

When I wrote notes for these questions I actually wrote a Barbor jacket (if that counts) but my lovely step daddy actually bought me one today so I'm not too sure anymore. 

8. Who is your biggest inspiration?

I'm not actually the type of person to aspire or be inspired by celebs and famous people. I'm more a get on with it girl. There are celebs I like and think do inspiring things but none that I would honestly say is my inspiration.

9. Tea of coffee? 

Neither, sorry.

10. What would you like to be doing in 10 years time?

If you know me personally you'll know that I want to settle down and do things very young.. So in 10 years I hope I own my own house, have a family, possibly be married but mainly be very successful and happy in my job.

11. What is your desert island beauty product?

I would probably say my makeup wipes (if that counts) because even if I haven't been wearing makeup I will still wipe my face morning and night, which REALLY refreshes me and wakes me up.

My questions:

1. Why did you start blogging?

2. What has been your biggest achievement whiles blogging?

3. Favourite foundation?

4. Views on MAC cosmetics?

5. Favourite highstreet makeup brand?

6. Favourite meal?

7. Do you dye your hair?

8. Are you against animal testing?

9. What do you hope to of achieved in blogging by 2015?

10. Skincare routine?

11. PC or Mac? 

People I nominate:

Its a wonderful world 

LifeLover

Touch Of Belle

The World Of A Blonde

Urban Beauty

Amy

desserts and decoupage

Beauty by Alice

blogbehindthelook

Emmas space

this is aine

IMPULSE & BARRY M / daisydaisyxxo

I have some very overdue posts that you will be seeing this week! Mainly because I haven't had enough time to properly write them up and post them before now.

Impluse have teamed up with Barry M to produce (the right word?) this lovely gift set that I received for Christmas but to be honest, you could give it for any occasion. 

I couldn't find the link to mine, but here is another similar which is still in the sale.

I wasn't very excited when I saw that the product was a Barry M lipgloss.. Although I can't fault the product, and as many of you will already know I HATE lipgloss. I cannot stand it!! 

Heres a horrible picture of my lips with the gloss on.

Have you tried any of the Barry M lipglosses?

OMBRE HAIR / daisydaisyxxo

I think I'm the ONLY person ever in the world to not jump on to the ombre hair bandwagon. I'm not sure why this is, as I dye my hair LOTS and ombre is defo something I've always loved. 

Yesterday I had a huge urge to do my hair and that is what I did! 

My hair looks a lot darker here than in person but I'd say before it was a light brown/dark blonde. I used ombre effect no.2

During

I actually washed it off before the recommended 25 minutes because it started to go this white colour (as shown) and it worried me. I washed it all off and although I'm still happy with the result I probably could have left it on slightly longer.

Taking photos on the camera proved near enough impossible to pick up the actual colour.. I'm not sure why but here are some lovely iPhone photos! 

Did you ombre your hair?! 

MAKE UP LOOK - PINK EYES / daisydaisyxxo

I'm certainly not known for doing makeup looks, as Ive only recently got more into my makeup and strayed away from the average smokey eye look.

I had seen a pink smokey eye look and I was really excited to try it out myself. I'm 100% not ANY good at makeup in any way at all please let me tell you!

  

I used my ELF palette that my mum got me for Christmas along with a few colours from my Topshop smokey eye set.

               

My mum told me I looked like Madonna with my makeup and my outfit etc. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not?! Hehe. 

I'm quite proud of my look as I actually really like it, and as I've never tried ANY kind of colour on my face I'm proud that I've done it. 

Would you like to see some more makeup looks?

DIY glass storage // daisydaisyxxo

This is my first DIY type post! Admittedly, you probably won't get many of these but I had an idea and I really wanted to photograph it to show you.

Me and my brother have recently swapped rooms and although their both pretty much done, we both still need furniture! But I had seen an idea similar to this on Pinterest a few weeks ago when I was looking for ideas for decoration in my room. It was so simple but they looked lovely to store little things in. I have always been quite arty so I tried to do it myself and I'm pleased with the result.

What you will need:

PVA glue or similar / glitter (mine is ultra fine but any will do) / jars (mine were from Dunelm Mill, the smaller one was 99p and the bigger was £2. So cheap!!!)

You might also need something to poor the glue and glitter in to, I used this old shampoo bottle

Poor the glue and the glitter in to the bottle. I used a funnel as I was doing it on my new bed (oops!) and I also added a little bit of water as I didn't want it to be too thick on the sides.

Poor some of the mixture into the jar and then just move the sides so it covers the whole things. I did this a few times to cover it properly, then I tipped out what was left.

I wish I hadn't put in so much water as it is quite thin now its drying, but I still love the way its turned out!

These were still wet so obviously they look a bit different now they've dried, but as I said I'm really happy with the way they've come out! 

Norway OOTD / daisydaisyxxo

Today I'm showing you a very QUICK and pretty rubbish OOTD from when I was in Norway. The photos are rubbish, let me tell you now and they're taken in a shop mirror. I'm really not making this post sound very good am I  - oops!

TOPSHOP black leigh jeans / river island jumper (now in sale) / H&M brown fur coat (now in sale) / walking boots (mums, very old!) / headband from a craft fair 3 years ago

Don't even know what face this is that I'm pulling!

Ice skating - kind of! This was amazing. Its basically a massive water feature in the Summer, but in Winter it freezes and people bring their own skates and ice skate. I went on in my shoes hehe