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A Little Life Update: Coffee-Fuelled, Overworked and Under Moisturised
How the hell are we in June already? It feels like only yesterday that I was sitting down and sharing with you guys my first post of this year, and here we are, almost halfway through the year already. With that said, May was bloody amazing. One of the best…
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My Life Between Coffee Breaks: A Short Memoir
There is a version of my life that looks very polished from the outside. The finished makeup. The structured calendar. The carefully worded blog posts. But if you zoom in, really zoom in, you will find that my days are stitched together in the margins. In the in-between moments. In the space between one coffee…
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January: The Month I Tried To Do It All (And Somehow Did Enough)
For the new year, I am going to bring back the good old-fashioned favourites post. I can remember when I first started blogging, these were my favourite posts to write. I liked to believe that it was the only time I could see the good products through the huge over-consumerism and actually get to the…
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The Worry
I started out my last update incredibly excited for the month ahead, and I couldn’t gush more about my excitement for the new month. It started out positively and we had a wonderful time on our first trip down to Cornwall as a family of three. Sadly, when we got home, things took a turn…
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Salt Air and The Rust On Your Door
As promised, I am back with a new monthly update to fill you guys in on everything that I have been up to, what I am spending my time doing and what I am spending my money on. I will try to keep the word count down on this post compared with my last update,…
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The Big Update
I know that after my post a couple of months ago, you guys may be wondering why I’m yet again posting on my little corner of the Internet. As I mentioned in my previous post, I had reached a point where I was unable to juggle all of the different plates that I had spinning within…
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April Obsessions: The Beauty, Style and Joy I Can’t Stop Reaching For
I can’t believe that we are already in April, and I am sitting down to write another favourite post. If I cast my mind back many years when I was initially writing favourite posts, it only ever used to feel like two minutes since I wrote the last one. I will now and forever measure…
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Real Life, Pain and Regretful Online Shopping
In every monthly update that I share with you, I am honest. Sometimes to a detriment. However, because I share the shiny side of life, I also want to be honest and share the times when I am not bursting with sunshine and floating on cloud nine. In February, I spent more time in the…
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Another Month, Another Overshare
I feel like I say this every single month when I sit down to write this post, but I truly cannot believe how quickly time passes. One minute I am vaguely recovering from the chaos of Christmas, and the next I am already halfway through January, blinking at the calendar like it has played some…
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General Update: Slightly Frazzled But Happy
Firstly, let me start by wishing you all a very happy New Year. I say this as someone who did not welcome it in with sequins, prosecco or a countdown, but instead chose the radical act of being horizontal on my sofa and asleep well before midnight. I am not anti New Year, I am…
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Rare Beauty Warm Wishes Soft Matte Powder Bronzer Review
It takes a lot for me to get excited about a bronzer. I feel like once you find one that works, you cling onto it for dear life and refuse to be tempted by anything new. However, when Rare Beauty launched the Warm Wishes Soft Matte Powder Bronzer, I was intrigued. The brand has a…
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Should We Think More About Gel Manicures?
Today, I want to share a post all about gel manicures. If you have been reading here for a while, you will know they have long been a staple in my routine. I have written about them countless times, and for good reason. For me, they have always felt like a no-brainer. They are long-lasting,…
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Wrinkles, Wisdom and Why I’m Embracing Both
As I write this post, I am just a few weeks shy of turning 29 years old. A couple of months ago, I am pretty ashamed to say that I had a freak out about getting older. I was thinking about inching closer to thirty and my mind went into overdrive. So I thought in…
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The Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray Review
I wrote a beauty post the other day. As always, I began adding links to reviews that I have previously wrote about the items that I spoke about. But I was shocked to realise that I have never actually reviewed the Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray. So, for that reason I quickly added it…
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The Gel Bottle Inc Nail Products
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — I do my own manicures at home. Not because I’m antisocial (well, maybe a little), but because the thought of sitting in a salon after a ten-hour day of office small talk is my idea of torture. I’d much rather be at home, hair tied…
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Press Pause: The Day I Broke Up With PR Packages
This might sound like a controversial thing to say on a beauty-focused blog, but I’ve stopped accepting PR packages from big beauty brands. Back when I started my first beauty blog in 2013, I was desperate to get noticed. I spent a small fortune of my own money on products, stayed up late writing reviews, and…
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How I’d Promote a Site If I Had To Start From Zero Tomorrow
Some people out there who have sites simply post just to fulfil a hobby. Others do it because they want to make a career out of their site. Personally, I feel like I sit somewhere in the middle of that. I began many moons ago because I just wanted to share my opinion with people….
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In Another Universe, I’d Be Doing This Instead
There is something quietly surreal about looking back at your career and realising how little of it was actually planned. I have shared before that I very much fell into what I do now. There was no grand strategy, no carefully mapped-out path. Just a series of decisions that, at the time, felt small but…
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From Brainstorm to Publish: My Content Game Plan
by quite some time, I mean well over a decade. In fact, I have now been sharing my life online for more than half of it, which, when you really stop and think about it, feels slightly surreal. With that level of consistency comes the need for structure. Creativity may be the heart of what…
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The Metrics That Keep My Digital World Going Round
As I have mentioned before, alongside this blog, I work full-time in marketing. It is a space I have grown into over many years, gradually building both experience and confidence. During that time, I have learnt a great deal about the digital landscape, particularly when it comes to understanding how people interact with content online….
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From Chaos to Clicks: Top Blogging Lessons
I have been blogging for an incredibly long time now. Long enough that I sometimes forget there are people entering the space today who were probably still in primary school when I first started uploading grainy photos and typing away into the internet void. And while parts of blogging have changed dramatically over the years,…
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What I’ve Truly Achieved Since Hitting “Publish”
There is no denying that creating my first blog all of those years ago has provided me with some amazing opportunities. It is never lost on me that I am incredibly fortunate position. However, none of it landed in my lap. I have worked incredibly hard for the opportunities that have been given and for…
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The Fendi Baguette Review: Expensive, Iconic and Completely Worth the Obsession
There are some bags you buy because they are practical. There are others you buy because they fill a gap in your wardrobe. And then there are bags you buy because they have lived rent free in your mind for years and refusing them feels less like financial restraint and more like self-betrayal. The iconic…
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No, I’m Not Selling My Hermes Handbags
There has been a very specific shift over the past couple of years, and if you have even the slightest interest in luxury fashion, you will have seen it unfolding in real time. Women are quietly, and sometimes quite publicly, selling their Hermès bags. Not because they have fallen out of love with them, not…
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Confessions From The Bottom Of My Bag
Today, I am turning back the clock and writing a classic what’s in my bag post. If you have been around the blogging world for a very long time, you will know these posts absolutely dominated the internet back in the early 2010s. Honestly, I do not think there was a single blogger alive in…
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The Designer Bags I’ll Never Let Go Of
There are certain things in life that feel like milestones. Not the obvious ones like buying a house or landing a job, but the quieter, more personal markers of who you are and what you love. For me, handbags have always sat firmly in that category. Long before I could afford them, I was obsessed….
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Closet Confidential: The Rules I Live By for Getting Dressed
I have always admired the women who can throw on something wildly unexpected and look like they were born to do it. The clashing prints, the exaggerated silhouettes, the colours that feel one shade away from chaos. I watch them the way one watches modern art, impressed but slightly confused. The truth is, that is…
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Hangers, Heels, and Harmony: My Closet Secret
There are two types of wardrobes in this world. The kind that look like a serene Pinterest board where everything hangs in tonal order, and the kind that resemble a fabric based crime scene by Thursday evening. I have been both women at different stages of my life. If you have been reading here for…
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