Other Christmas Gifts!

Afternoon my lovely readers. Today I'm going to be sharing with you some other gifts I got for Christmas. If you haven't seen the beauty things I received then you can click here. I'm so so appreciative to my mum, dad and the rest of my family who got me presents. I was truly spoil this year! My main present this year was an iPhone 4S and I was absolutely ecstatic when I opened it up! I also got other things which I am going to share with you now. 

Throw and Hot Water Bottle - Primark, Wellie Socks, Multi Coloured Beanie - TU clothing at Sainsburys

Tartan Snood - F&F at Tesco, Big Ben Tweety T-shirt + Pajamas - Primark, Bed Socks - Unknown

All of the above from Dunelm

Colony Costal Breeze Candle - Dobbies

Strawberries and Cream shower gel, Nemo - Disney Store, Tangle Teezer - Boots, Shower Comb - Wilkinsons

Love Sign and 2014 Diary - Wilkinsons

And of course, no Christmas is complete without mountains of sweets and chocolately goodness! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, what did you receive?

Beauty things I got for Christmas!

In my previous Merry Christmas post, I mentioned that I would be doing a "What I got for Christmas post", but I have decided to split my presents into two posts: beauty and miscellaneous things. I know Christmas isn't just about presents but I love seeing what people got for Christmas so I thought I'd share that with you! I hope you all had a wonderful day if you celebrate Christmas, I did! :) Anyway, onto the presents!

Sleek Contour Kit - Light, Sleek Blush - Rose Gold, Collection Concealer - Light, Collection Illuminating Touch  Concealer - Natural.

Rimmel Stay Matte Powder - Translucent, MUA Undress Me Too Palette, NYC Eye Brow Pencil - Blonde, Revlon Eye Shadow Contour Brush. 

Osco 3 draw and pen pot which I will store my make up in.

Tresemme Big hair set, Body works body butters, L'oreal Skin Perfection set, Tresemme Heat Protectant, Tresemme Texture Styling, Simple Oil Balancing Scrub, Simple Face Mask, Lush Rock Star Soap.

What did you get for Christmas?

Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone! This is just a little post to say MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope you all have had a really good day, spending time with your family and pigging out on plenty of food. I've had one of the best days ever and am so thankful for all of the gifts I received today, my body isn't so thankful for the amount of good that I've eaten today - woops! Soon I will be posting a "what I got for Christmas" post if you all would like to see that? :) Have a lovely rest of the day, I love you all! Thank you so much for all of you reading my blog and leaving so many lovely comments! :)

Christmas Wrapping

Only 6 days to go guys, where has time gone! It doesn't feel like long ago that I was opening last years presents, now I'm wrapping this years! It's crazy!

One of the best things about Christmas for me is the wrapping. I do most of my mums wrapping for her because she cannot stand it But for some reason I absolutely love it! This year I wanted to be very vintage and traditional, I'm not quite sure which word describes it best, I'll let you decide that. 

But anyway, I went for the brown paper theme. I got some parcel paper from my dad's work but you can get it from anywhere. I got some red and white ribbons from tesco and hey presto! Super cute present. There are many different types of ribbon available but I thought red and white was fairly traditional :) 

How have you wrapped your Christmas presents this year? 

Instagram!

Hello everyone, just a quick post to let you all know that I have made my blog an Instagram account!

It's username is "makeupyourmindblog". I will be uploading photographs whenever I can of all different things and I'd love it if you all followed me :) 

Christmas Essentials

It's coming to that time of the year again, aka my favourite time of the year, yes it's nearly Christmas! I cannot control my excitement and I want to share my excitement with you by doing another Christmas related post! So this is what my Christmas essentials are!

Fairy lights
No christmas or cosy night in is complete without some fairy lights. I have fairy lights around my headboard which you will see in my christmas decoration post later this week. They just give a cute feel to any room.

Christmas films
Watching christmas films is one of the easiest ways to get into the christmas spirit. Ones I highly recommend are Elf and Home Alone 1/2/3. Christmas 24 on sky is a good channel to watch, it's like constant christmassy goodness!

Hot Chocolate
When you're sitting in on a Friday night, watching a christmas movie, there is nothing better than drinking a cup of hot chocolate and stuffing your face with chocolate. Delicious!

Christmassy PJ's/onesie
There are some gorgeous pajamas and onesie's out there to make you feel all snug on a cold winter evening. Primark pj's are the best, I highly recommend them!

Skin care products
Even though in the winter we seem to get lazy and tired, you cannot let your skin suffer. This is why it's a good idea to get moisturisers that keep your skin hydrated during the cold. Not just for your face either, the rest of your body is affected too which is why I recommend the Soap and Glory Righteous Butter.

There you go, there are my Christmas essentials! Do you have any other essentials?

Christmas Tag!

It seems like I haven't written a blog post in foreverrrr! Sorry about that, I'm still here! After reading through a few blogs I saw that the Christmas Tag was becoming quite popular so I decided to take a few questions I liked and answer them for you :) 

Do you prefer a real or synthetic Christmas tree?

For as long as I remember, I've always had a synthetic tree because I find it'll be a lot cheaper and less messy!

Favourite colour scheme when decorating the tree?

We don't really have a "theme" on the family Christmas tree,it's all a bit of everything! I'd probably say if I had my own tree it would be red white, and silver!

Do you get dressed up on Christmas day?

Kind of, myself and my brother usually receive an outfit for Christmas so we usually wear that.

Favourite Christmas movie?

ELF by far! 

Favourite Christmas song?

Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you, or any Michael Buble's songs!

When do you open Christmas presents?

We open all of the presents in the morning once we've had breakfast. Then my auntie and uncle come round later to deliver their presents!

There you have it - my Christmas tag! I tag all of those reading this to do this tag and leave a link as a comment! :)

OOTN | House party!

Friday just gone I was invited to a house party by one of my best friends, Zoe. I genuinely didn't have a single clue on what to wear, so after a lot of searching through blogs I finally came up with an outfit which I'm now going to share with you!

I wore this cream, lace crop top which was from New Look in the Generation section, this was only £9.99 in the summer. I paired it with a pair of high waisted, wet look disco pants which I got from Primark for £7.00 which is a bargain. I wore my maroon converse with this to add a little bit of colour and wore a red lip for the same effect! 

What do you wear to house parties?