Confidence

I have never been someone that's had loads of confidence either in school or out of school. Around my friends or family I was fine but with people I didn't know so well I could barely splutter out a sentence to them. Being very shy as well didn't help one bit, even now I hate being the center of attention just putting my hand up in class is something I don't like doing but I have to do.

Over the years I have gained confidence and tried to be less shy by doing little things like offering to read out loud in class, speaking or performing in front of a crowd of people and many more things. And everyone of them has taken me that one step further to being more confident and coming out of my shell a bit more.

Being confident in yourself and how you look is a whole different thing, you get judged daily about how you look or what your wearing. I admire people that hold their head up high and are fully confident in them selves and don't care about what other people think. But unfortunately I know I will never be that person because deep down somewhere I will always care what other people think about me and I am not proud of it but its something that just can't be helped. Please be confident in yourself because you are beautiful in every unique and wonderful way.


"Confidence is something you create within yourself by believing in who you are."

Ella x



Mac Twig | Review

 

The other day when I was out shopping with my lovely friend Hannah (Go have a look at her amazing blog) and I went and picked up my first ever lipstick from Mac! It took me a while to decide which one I wanted (because for £15.50 I wanted to get it right!) but I finally decided on the colour Twig.

Twig is a lovely pink/brown nude shade, but it is a little darker then some of the other nude lipsticks I own, which I was a bit worried about at first, however it is very moisturising and the colour is rich and stands out more than other lipsticks. I think this shade could suit anybody and any skin tones. I also love it because I dont feel its to obvious so its a brilliant lipstick for everyday use.

I have fallen in love with this lipstick and I can't wait to try out some more Mac lipsticks/products. They have such great colour ranges and there products are such good quality.


What Mac lipstick do you reccomend?

 

Ella x

How To | HTML For Beginners

HTML can be very difficult and is almost essential in designing your blog if you want to do more than what blogger lets you. I needed HTML for things like centering my titles headers, dates and gadgets but to find all the HTML I needed I had to visit several different websites which was quite annoying. So I am going to give you some simple HTML you can use in one place and how to use it.


How to center page navigation links:

These are the links usually under you blog header (It is the bar at the top of my blog that says, home, about me, blogs and disclaimer). If you want to center this head over to your Template page then click on Customize and on the top left hand menu press Advanced.

From there select Add CSS and copy and paste the following code into the text box:

.PageList {text-align:center !important;} .PageList li {float:none !important; display:inline !important;}


How to center your blog header:

Centering your blog header is very easy and can make all the difference to your blog. To do this its the same as the first tutorial (Template - Customize - Advanced - Add CSS)

Copy and paste the following code into the text box:

#header-inner {text-align:center !important;} #header-inner img {margin: 0 auto !important;}      


How to center your blog post title and date:

This is the title and date at the top of your blog post. To center go to the same place where you have entered the other code (Template - Customize - Advanced - Add CSS)
Copy and paste the following code into the text box:

Centering your post title:

.post-title {text-align:center;}


Centering your post dates:

.date-header {text-align:center;}



Hope this helps you all. HTML will help you a lot in designing your blog but it can be extremely confusing! I used every single one of these codes to help me in designing my blog.

Comment below any questions you have about designing your blog and maybe I can help you.

Ella x

 

 

 

 

 

 

March Favourites

Welcome to my first ever favourites post, I can't actually believe its nearly April already, these past 3 months have flown by. I am going to show you all the things I have been loving this month.

Polaroid Printer - Fujifilm Instax share SP-1

I actually got this for Christmas, its basically a printer version of a polaroid camera but it connects to your phone so you can print off any photo you like. I love this because it's the perfect thing to use for printing cute photos. I am hopefully going to put the photos on my wall.

Soap and Glory Hand Maid
I can't even explain how good this smells, one thing Soap and Glory manage to get right every time is how good there products smell. It makes your hands feel so fresh and clean the gorgeous fruity smell is a lovely added bonus.

Wonder by R. J. Palacio
I have never heard anything about this author before but because a lot of people were raving about this book I decided to get it. It is so moving, and is such an inspirational story that everyone needs to read.

Rimmel Wonder'full mascara
I have mentioned this before in another post but honestly this mascara is the best I have ever tried, I recommend this to everyone. It doesn't make your eyelashes clumpy or sticky at all it lengthens them and I would pick this any day over the Benefit Roller Lash.

Yankee candle in Honey Blossom
I decided to pick up a Yankee candle the other day, it took me a while to decide on which to choose because they all smell so good! But I ended up with this one in 'Honey Blossom' which is a lovely Spring/Summer smell and also the colour is matches my room ;)

Ganier Micellar cleansing water
 I haven't had this long as you can see by the amount in the bottle and I have only just started using this daily but it takes my makeup off so easily and thoroughly. Also its great because it has No Perfume as my eyes are quite sensitive to fragranced face products this is perfect.  

So there are my March favourites, my birthday is next week (31st of March, so excited!!!) so I will possibly be doing a post on what I get on that day. I hope you all enjoyed this post Happy Easter Holidays!! 

Whats your favourite thing this month?

Ella x