Tag: featured
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Ethical Beauty update + BDS guidelines 2023
Salaam (hello) everyone, I hope you’re doing okay. Based on the current atrocities happening in Palestine, if you’ve an ounce of humanity I’m sure you’re feeling all the strong emotions – anger, heartbreak, rage, helplessness, guilt, frustration…and the list goes on. Many of us have been deeply disturbed to witness the inhumanity and literal…
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A post from the heart…
*dusts, anti-bac wipes and even busts out the hoover* Ahhh. Now we have a fresh, clean surface it is time to stretch my fingers and relearn how to blog – crazy to be saying that! There was a time where I couldn’t imagine ever not blogging, it was my little corner of the net where…
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SUMMER 2018
Well hello there! I can’t believe how long it has been since I’ve last posted on here…whilst I’ve managed to remain fairly consistent on Youtube, my blog did not get the same fate. I think a huge part of it was that honestly I fell out of love with blogging, which pains me to say…
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Confessions of a makeup hoarder.
Those of you who have been readers of this blog for a while now, (silent or otherwise), will know that I have spoken many a times about the need for change and not buying more makeup – but this time it’s a different kind of change. Let me explain. In the past, I’ve always set…
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Boxing Day Beauty Haul (Just a LITTLE late to the blog(!))
Hello everyone! I hope you’re doing really well. Todays blog post is a bit of a continuation from a recent youtube video I filmed…my boxing day beauty haul. I ended up filming a bunch of videos that day which I then posted over the next 5-6 weeks cause…there is such a thing as too many…
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For an inspired 2018 | My diary of choice
Hello everyone, wow three posts in a row?! That is the most I’ve posted in over a year haha. I’ve definitely made the most of these holidays to record content and also ease myself back into blogging. Whilst the blushing giraffe will always be a beauty blog first and foremost, I am definitely going to start…
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2018 Goals
Hi all, I hope you’re doing well. 2018 is here and its time for my annual goal post, which to be quite honest, I publish for myself. I mean sure, if it encourages or inspired any of you then I’m very happy about it ^_^ but by putting them onto my blog, it kind of…
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2017 Beauty Favourites – highend and drugstore
Hell everyone, not to do things by halves, this year I filmed TWO loooong videos talking you through the best of the best, from my makeup collection! I wanted to do two versions, cause I genuinely love both sides of the spectrum. Unfortunately youtube didn’t let me save the products and links to reviews under…
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Goodbye 2017
It is currently 6:18am and I am feeling incredibly nostalgic about the year that we’ve just had. In some ways it flew by, but when I scroll through my camera-roll and my instagram account I realise how much has actually happened. 2017 was the year I trained to become a teacher and graduated with ‘outstanding’.…
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Huda Beauty Warm Brown Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette Review + YT Video
Hello everyone! Todays review is on the new Huda beauty mini ‘obsession’ eyeshadow palettes…well specifically the one in warm brown. She has four palettes, all with a distinctively different theme and they cost £25 for 10g of product. This is my first ever experience using her shadows and in general I’ve not tried a lot…