Exciting News!! 2014 the year of change!

Hello Lovelies.


WOW! I knew the year 2014 would be a year of change for me but I wasn't expecting things to change so suddenly and amazing changes happening too.!

If you read my last post you know the year started off with me and my long term boyfriend splitting up. Although initially it was hard I have really come into my own since. My goal was to really enjoy life and spend as much time with friends and family as possible, say yes to as many things as I could and get life experience.

I can honestly say I never thought changes would happen so quickly especially within my career. For the past 4 years I have worked along side DermaQuest, DermaPure and Youngblood products. They are absolutely amazing and it's no secret how much I love the company as I tell everyone even in my current employment who doesn't stock it. I have been lucky enough that for the past three years I have gone down to London to help the Dermapure team out with the ProBeauty event hosted at ExCel. I always have a ball and it's been great to get to know all the team and the other side to the company.

Last Wednesday I woke up to a voicemail from my local rep asking me to ring her, I did so and after I rang the CEO of the company to be told that the Northern Rep had handed her notice in and the job was mine if I wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can imagine my excitement and after listening to what the job entailed I accepted.

My whole career has been working up to this, my goal was always to have my own business or work for a brilliant company. Seen as tho I've had my own business and hated it this was my next target. I can't wait to start although a little nervous!

I believe life only throws at your what you can handle....and with my new mind set and lease for life i'm looking forward to the challenges it will bring, the experience and the next chapter of my life!


"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and life the life you imagined"

Love to all

<3 xxx

Current Perfume Favourites - Jan 2014

Aloha Lovelies, 

Like any other girly girl I love my perfumes. To find the perfect fragrance is a tough job but once you find your loves you hold on to them. I'm not a snob when it comes to perfume i like high end and cheaper ones, i also like to wear very different scents i'm not a person who sticks to one scent i.e. all musky, all sweet etc. So here are my current fragrances that are on my dresser at the moment. 
Here's a brief over view of how my perfume is set out on my dresser.

 Miss Dior: I love this perfume, i have the pink one. I'm on my very last squirts but i can't bring myself to get rid of it. The bottle is so beautiful. I think i shall keep the bottle once im done and use it as decoration. The fragrance is light and slightly sweet.

 Victoria Beckham: Intimately Beckham: I am LOVING this fragrance at the moment and my go to day fragrance. It's great value for money and smells alot more expensive than it is. The bottles are good sizes too. I always get comments when i'm wearing this. The smell is slightly musky slightly sweet, but one i think everyone will like. 

 Clarins: Eau Des Jardins: (pronounced - oh de jar-dan) I first smelt this at work and love it. Its a very fresh summer fragrance. It's great value at £30.00 for 100ml. Keep a look at at christmas and throughout the year for the kits they bring out. They contain the full sized fragrance, shower gel and body lotion all for £30.00. You can squirt as much as you like for that price. 

Marc Jacobs: Lola: I was given this as a gift from my boyfriends mum as she didn't like the scent. It's a heavier scent so i tend to wear it on a night out, more musky. You only need a small amount. The only downside is the bottle. It looks great but the lid makes it quite hard to store is you don't have a large amount of room. 

Britney Spears: Fantasy: Another one of my great value scents. A perfect day time fragrance. It's light and fresh. Britney's other scents are very pleasant too. The perfume shop do some great gift sets in this too. 

Next: Live,Laugh,Love: My greatest bargain of them all. This is only £10.00 YES £10.00. Next do some amazing fragrances, their PINK scent especially is lovely. This is sickly sweet so some of you may not like it but i love it. My weird admittance with this is that it's my 'bedtime scent' I have a phobia of things smelling including me, my apartment, my car and anything around me. So yes i wear perfume to bed, weird i know. But with this being so cheap i use it as my excuse. 

Narciso Rodriguez: For Her: I smelt this on a family member and fell in love and honestly if i'd have smelt it from the bottle first i wouldn't touch it. It's a very strong scent so you literally need one or two squirts. A very heavy, musky scent. It's definitely a personal choice to wear this one. Don't judge it on first sniff. Spray a little and let it settle for a good minute then re-smell it and it totally transforms into a different smell. I love this. I only wear it on a night out, i got this from my boyfriend for christmas in a kit with a mini to put in my purse. They also have two pink versions which are very similar but nice too. 


What are your favourite scents for me to try?

Love to you all

Lizzie xxx

SkinCare Mythbusters - True or False

Hey Lovelies, I got chatting to a client about advanced skin care today at work and it dawned on me that actually magazines, TV programmes and other marketing all print stuff about beauty and skincare that we instantly take for gospel, even GPs don't know true skin care - so here are my top myth busters of skin care, some or all of them you may already know but if not here are some real truths about skin and how to look after it.

You don't need to wear an SPF in the winter?

FALSE: No matter where you live in the world you should wear a minimum of Sun Protection Factor (spf) 30 in the summer months and a minimum of 15 in the winter months. Even if its bouncing down with rain or dull and cloudy UV rays still penetrate the atmosphere and still cause skin damage. The worst time to not wear an SPF is when it snows as the white snow reflects sunlight even more, causing the rays to bounce from the floor up to your skin back up to the sky causing even more damaging effects on the skin. Whether it's in your make up, moisturiser or a topical spf put it on EVERY DAY! You'll be thankful for that extra time in the morning when your a pensioner and have the skin of a 40 year old. Sun damage is the biggest cause of premature aging within the skin. So what's the best anti aging cream you can buy? An SPF!!

I have oily skin I can't moisturise?

FALSE: I made this mistake for many years. I have such oily skin, and I'm not talking I have to blot once a day oily, I'm talking within an hour/two hours I have to practically re-apply my whole make up. That is until I changed my skin care. The worst thing to do is deprive your oily skin of moisture you just have to make sure it's the right kind. Your skin is lacking water not oil. If you put water and oil into a bowl they separate and the oil floats on top. Same for your skin if you have excess oil it pushes the natural water away. Look for HYDRATING moisturisers and go for lotions rather than creams or an oily formula as these are light weight. Hydrating means water based rather than oil based. Give it time....I'd say anything from 2 weeks to a month. Use the product sparingly and I guarantee you'll see a difference. Don't get me wrong I'm still oily but it takes a lot longer for it to show through make up, my skin is in better condition and my make up goes on better.

There's a reason to have a separate day and night cream?

TRUE: No this isn't a marketing ploy from skin care companies to get you to buy more, there is a genuine reason for separate day and night creams. In the day we need a product that is going to protect us from pollution and the elements, provide spf, maybe be an antioxidant and provide moisture. In simple terms you need a product that is going to be active and fighting, but when we sleep our skin heals itself, provides new cells, new collagen and works within calm waves. You need a night cream that is going to aid healing and work gently within the skins natural rhythm at night.

If my skins dehydrated I need to drink more water?

TRUE AND FALSE: So this phrase gets said to me every single day and I repeat myself every single day. So yes if you drink water your skin will become more hydrated BUT what people don't understand is exactly how much water you have to drink for this to happen. When you drink water all your vital organs take it first, yes it will reach the skin but by the time it reaches the surface of the skin there's not much water left, therefore you wont notice a massive difference on the surface of your skin. To combat dehydration you need good hydrating products such as moisturisers or masks and a combination of drinking water too. To see a difference in skin you need a consistent 2-3 litres a day of the clear stuff.

Cleanse, Tone and Moisturise are the most importantly things in skincare?

FALSE: It has been drilled into us for years to cleanse, tone, moisturise and so people do this religiously without thinking about what they are doing. Yes cleanse to get rid of any make up, pollution and oil from the skin to create a clean surface. Yes tone as this gets rid of any trace of cleanser and allows better penetration of products. Yes moisturise as this keeps the skin feeling soft......What are you missing??? TWO key steps to a routine, which without these there's almost no point in toning and moisturising. They are Exfoliating and Serums.
Once you have cleansed your skin use an exfoliator to gently buff away dead skin cells and excess product revealing healthy skin underneath. Dry skins with no exfoliation have a build up of dead skin meaning when you moisturise you're actually moisturising dead old skin instead of the healthy skin underneath. A bit of a waste of product. When a client with dry skin asks me to change their moisturiser as its not working I always ask them to either start or up their exfoliation first, 9 times out of 10 that's the solution. Oily skins create a glue on the surface of the skin trapping dead skin, old oil and make up onto the skins surface this makes the skin look dull along with the risk of creating blemishes and blackheads. No matter what your skin type exfoliate once to twice a week NO MORE! Any more and you sensitize the skin. Do it at opposite ends of the week like Thursday and Sunday for perfectly fresh, clean and healthy skin.
Next use a Serum. Moisturisers only target the top layers of skin while serums work on the lower layers of the skin. They do this by being a smaller molecular size (the size of the ingredients are smaller so they can penetrate through the skin layers better) Our skin renews every 4 weeks (28 days), so what's at the top of your skin was at the bottom 4 weeks earlier. If we target the bottom layers we treat how it rises, so we want anti aging, healthier collagen, more elasticity, more hydration. Treat the skin before it comes to the surface.


I hope you learnt a little something or you finally understand why you are told to do certain things. I have much more information like this if you want to know more. Or if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments below and I shall answer them in my next Mythbusters blog.

Enjoy having amazing, healthy skin

Night night

Lizzie =)

Look of the day - Meet and greets

Hello my lovelies, 

Hope you've all had a fabulous weekend, i can't believe how quickly time off work goes and it's back to it tomorrow. Today was a day of meeting with family and going to see people. I wanted to be presentable but not too dressed up. 

 For my make up I used:

- Benefit Porefessional Primer
- Estee Lauder - Double wear foundation shade "Desert Rose"
- MAC ProLongwear Concealer shade "NW20"
- Urban Decay Naked Basic Pallet 
- MAC - Gel Liner in black 
- HD Brow Pallet in shade "Foxy"
- 2 true bronzer (shade doesnt have a name or number)
- MAC blush in shade "Melba"
- Rimmel stay matte powder in shade "004"
- Maybelline Falsies mascara in black
- MAC lipstick in "hot gossip"

It was very simple and didn't take long. I used the eyeshadow pallet to underline my bottom lashes. Used the bronzer to give slight contour and a nude lip to finish it off. Perfect for when you want to look complete and presentable without it being too time consuming or look to heavy. 

As you can see up close a very subtle eye look(although you cant see the dark in my crease very well in his photo) and also how i shape my brows and fill them in. 

Next is hair - i'd just taken a shower so my hair was fresh. I let it dry 80% naturally and applied a small amount of the Revlon Orofluido oil to the mid and ends of my hair as you can see from my photos it doesn't look greasy or weighed down. 

I blow dried my hair with my GHD AIR hairdryer with no nozzle until it was completely dry. As im useless at drying my hair with a brush i have to create the "blow dried" look with my straighteners. Its very simple i straighten my hair then ad a slight twist at the end. You can see how it came out. I love it, it's nice to wear yours hair straight but the twist just adds a bit of volume and movement so it's not completely flat. With a little hairspray it stays like this. A little touch of elegance. 

Next my outfit - It's still really cold here in the UK (but no snow thank god) so a warm but comfy attire was needed. I chose simple jeans from River Island, they're skinny but they're higher waist-ed not the low rise ones so you don't have the worry of hoicking them up every time you sit/bend down and there's no worry of them slipping down to show your underwear when you walk. 
I have a plain long tank top on under neath from Primark. And to say it was only like £3.00 it washes really well and i put them under everything (i buy a selection of colours)I then put this crop jumper over the top from Bank, it's not the thickest but i was warm enough. I like the buckles and the edginess it gives the outfit.
To finish off i wore my khaki wedges from New Look, comfy and stylist at the same time. 

  
If you have any requests on blogs you would like to see i.e. how to fill in your brows please let me know =)

Niget Niget
Lizzie x