Quote of Today #4

 I am loving this for today! Not having the best of days and this definitely put a smile on my face!

Lots Of Love

 

KayleighJane

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31 Day Photo Challenge Day 2

Hi guys, 

I hope you are all okay! Here is my day number 2 photo for you! This is me on the way home from work stuck in traffic in my car bored! With no makeup on as well I may add! It has been a stressful day!!!!

Lots of love

KayleighJane

31 Day Photo Challenge - Day 1

Hi Guys,
So after being inspired by Louise from Sprinkle of Glitter's posts last month, I have decided to try and do my own 'my month in photos' series.

Basically I am going to try my bestest, to post a photo every single day this month, (yes I know this is going up on the 2nd but just roll with me here) hehe!

So without further ado, here is day 1!

These are my presents from my brother, he has been away for 2 weeks to San Fran & LA with 2 of his friends and these are what he brought back for me, he can by thoughtful sometimes!

SO I hope that you guys are excited about this, and if any of you decide to do something similar let me know!

Lots of Love

KayleighJane
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OOTD: Skater Skirt

Hi guys,

I hope that you are all alright, :) I am having a very strange week and have been getting lots of ideas for posts so am actually trying to get them written up so then I have a bank of some posts for if I get a bit of a block :)

So this is an outfit post for when I went out for dinner with my Mum, Auntie, Nan & Brother the other night. We went out to decide what we were doing for a family holiday away this year & for mine and my brother’s 21^st birthday which is at the start of April :) not that I am excited or anything about it. 

 Top – Soulcal

Skirt – River Island

Tights – Super Cosy from Primark

Yes I know its not the most exciting outfit in the world, I didn’t get a photo of the shoes I wore, I wore my Reiker grey Chelsea boots. This kind of outfit is a bit of a go to for me, I wear it to go out to the pub in and that sort of thing, I just think it looks nicer than jeans & a tshirt (feel free to tell me I'm wrong) hehe!

Anyway I hope you are all well and I will see you again very soon 

What kind of outfit is a ‘go to’ for you?

Lots of Love 

NOTD: Angora Cardi

Hi everyone, today I actually have a beauty related video for you! :) my first of the year! I paint my nails a hell of a lot, and I mean pretty much every other day! I love switching my nail varnish up, maybe I will do a nail varnish collection post for you soon :) 

Anyway I have just painted my nails with Essie’s Angora Cardi, okay for one I absolutely love the name of this, it just makes me smile. The colour is just sooo me it’s ridiculous, I mean I do love bright nails but this is just right up my alley as well! It is like a plumby brown colour which has a cream finish to it. I absolutely love it, yes I know I am not the best at painting my nails, I had to take a photo of my left hand today because  I had a nightmare and snapped off my thumbnail right down to the skin basically! *CRYYYY* anyway my lovely boyfriend bought me this nail varnish for Christmas so *well done Christopher*

I really want to try some more essie nail polishes soon, so if any of you have any ideas on which others I should try let me know :)

Lots of Love

OOTD: Night In The Pub

Hey guys,

So here is an outfit I wore the other night when I went to the pub for a few drinks with my friends! :)

Vest – Dorothy Perkins

Waistcoat – Matalan

Skinny Jeans – Dorothy Perkins

Dolly Shoes – Outlet Store

Nails – ImPress Salon Manicure

So I hope you guys like this short and sweet little post!

Have any of you had any new OOTD’s recently?

Lots of Love

OOTD: Black & White Dress

Hi Guys

This is an outfit that I wore for work the other day, I liked it before I went and got a few compliments on it while I was at work *YAY* hehe! I liked it because I thought that it was a little bit different and had a pop of colour, in my mum’s words “this matches your personality” whatever that means. You can draw your own conclusions on that one!

Dress: Primark

Tights: New Look

Cardigan: Dorothy Perkins

Scarf: Primark

Shoes: Toms – SCHUH

So I hope that you like this outfit J I certainly did!

Do you enjoy these outfit posts?

Lots of Love

KayleighJane

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Body Confidence - Inspired By Gok Wan

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all okay, today my post is going to be a little bit different from what I have wrote about before. I just watched the new TV series that Gok Wan is doing, Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth. This was the 1^st episode in the series and it was about body confidence. I will be the first one to admit I am a massive fan of Gok Wan and I think that he is amazing, so when I saw that he was doing a show with teenagers I was very excited to watch it.  For me I think that the show was outstanding in the way that it was made, I won’t tell you everything about it in case you haven’t seen it and want to watch it. But he is helping teenagers who want to change the way that they look because they have either little or no self-esteem, and some of the issues that he covered could have potentially been very (for want of a better word) ‘touchy’ for some people, however I think that Gok is so great in the way that he faces these sort of issues that he only educates and makes sense of things for people. So I suggest that if you haven’t yet watched the 1^st episode go over to 4OD and watch it.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/goks-teens-the-naked-truth/4od

However this is not completely the reason that I have decided to write this blog post. Watching this got me thinking about myself. I have never been the most confident girl in the world or the one that always fits in, and I still don’t think I am now. I am so adverse to compliments it worries me sometimes and I spend so much time on my makeup, hair and clothes that it occasionally borders on obsession. I haven’t always been like this though. As I was growing up I was quite a tomboy so I really didn’t care about what anybody thought about me and would be happy in a football kit or some trackies and battered old trainers playing football in my garden.

Me my Brother & Cousin Siobhan

As I grew a bit older I still didn’t really care, I don’t think I did until I went to high school, which to be honest I think is pretty normal. I still loved my sports and that kind of thing but something changed. Granted I did go to an all-girls high school and I don’t really think that helped me or anybody else in my friendship group for that matter. Im not saying that all girls schools are bad in the slightest. Because I think that I probably did learn more, but I do think that it does put quite a lot of pressure on girls to look a particular way. No I haven’t been to a mixed school so I can’t completely compare it but I am just speaking from my opinion. For a lot of my time in high school I was bullied for looking different and being different. I was always really small and wore glasses. (which I still do) and I also used to be one of only a handful of girls that did cheerleading from my school. So they were the things that I mainly got bullied for. I went through patches in my school life where I felt that nobody liked me and that I was just too different (or weird as I used to get called a lot) I did get a pass from the school so that I could go home for my lunch as I didn’t live far from schools that I wouldn’t have to be in school at lunchtimes. However this didn’t really help matters because the few friends that I had close to me differed off with other people and then when I came back into school after lunch I would be on my own, so I do now believe that running away from things does not help. I think it was only when I got intas o my final year or 2 of high school where I found my ‘group’. If that makes sense, I was always one of those people who flitted back and forward to different groups and trying to fit in with whichever group I was with. I suppose I owe a little bit of credit to my twin brother here for a bit of help with this.

Me & My Twin James

You may not know this about me but I have a twin brother, and in our town there was the all-girls school and an all-boys school. So we were in the same year and the kids from each year kind of crossed over in friendship groups and would meet in the mornings and after school and stuff like that. Well my brother was in quite a big group and after a while he kind of helped me to integrate into this group by just going with him to parties or just going and sitting on the park after school (like you did when you were 15) but from this group I managed to find a few girls that I got quite close to and still am today, about 5 or 6 years later. I loved the fact that they were all different to each other in ways but so similar in others and everyone seemed to gel together.  When I was with them I felt like I belonged and I wasn’t an outsider, and I don’t really think I have ever felt like that since.

Me and Some of my friends :)



However even though I had and still have a great group of friends, It never changed the way I thought about myself. I still in myself feel like the ‘runt’ which I know is a horrible way to say it but I can’t think of anything better, I look at my friends when we go out and they all look so beautiful and I just don’t feel like I look good enough, still at nearly 20 what people think about the way I look bothers me, I have found my own style a bit more now I must admit, and I don’t try and dress like other people, or in fashionable stuff that I don’t really like, but I still struggle to find clothes that suit me and that I feel really comfortable and confident in.  I think part of it is down to me not knowing my actual body shape and things like that, but I make the most of what I can do.

Me (A picture I actually like)

I am currently on a mission to raise my self-confidence and make myself happy in my own skin. I had a chat with one of my good friends Alex who is making a portfolio to become a model. And she suggested that we go and do a photo-shoot together over my birthday to see how I like it and how I find being in front of the camera. I am very scared about doing this I must admit, but I do think that if I can get over my nerves it will be a good thing for me to do, to see what I can make of myself and see if I would like to get some pictures together. (I think that’s a long way off) the reason Alex suggested this to me is that she said that before she started having these pictures done she was very self-conscious and that it has boosted her self-esteem a lot. (you wouldn’t think she was self-conscious from the pictures) So I am going to give it a go, no matter how scared I am, sometimes you just have to jump in at the deep end.

One of my goregeous friend Alex's Modelling pictures (By S J Walton Photography)

So I will be keeping you updated on how this goes I think, I have quite enjoyed writing down my experiences, I think it helped a bit. I am very looking forward to the rest of the Gok Wan series and I shall see if it makes me think any more about myself.

Lots of Love

KayleighJane xxx

NOTD: Bright Baby Pink

Hi Guys
I have enjoyed used many different nail polishes recently! :) And I have been trying out some new colours and things like that.

When I got my December Feel Unique Beauty Box I recieved a Nails Inc polish in Oxford Circus. It is actually the only pink nail polish that I own, however i really want Orly's Oh Cabanna Boy. I am not the most pink girl in the entire world but I am really happy with the look of this one and I think that I will be planning on getting some more pink things and especially wearing some some pink nail polish.

So here it is on my nails, I think it is a beautiful colour and I am glad that I got sent it because I would have never picked this myself. It does look brighter in person than on this photo but it is still lovely. It is only a small bottle but I dont think that it matters because I never use all of a bottle of nail polish anyway! :)

I will be doing more of these Nail of the day posts so keep a look out for them!

Loads of love

KayleighJane
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NOTD: Accent Nail

Hey Guys!
So I have just pained my nails and was really happy with them so I decided to do a Nail of the day post for you!

Here is what i decided on today, I basically wanted to do something random after spending most of my day doing Uni work :(

On all of my nails except my ring finger I have Barry M's Nail Paint in 310 Mushroom. This is one of my favorite nail varnishes and i wear it alot because it is so neutral, i think it is the only neutral nail varnish i own,

And on my ring finger i have OPI's Nail Lacquer in Rumples Wiggin. I absolutely love this colour, I did have this on all of my nails the other week and I absolutely loved it, I usually wear quite dark or bright nail colours and I think that this is a nice change for me.  
I have also used my standard Base and Top coat.

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails has always been a great staple for me as I am a great fan of Acrylic Nail extensions and even though they look great after having them removed my nails are a little bit worse for wear! I have found this to be a saviour :)

Also Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Top Coat has got to be one of the best if not the best top coat that I have ever tried! I still want to try her Mega Shine top coat but for now this is working for me just fine.

I had never tried the accent nail trend that is going round at the moment, mainly because I havent got all of my nail varnishes here with me at home. however I do really like it and when I get back to university I will be trying this with some other colours that I have in my nail polish collection.

So anyway guys I hope that you are all doing well and that you enjoy this post, I will be trying to come up with some new things that i can post about on here so keep your eyes peeled.

Loadsa love & hugs

KayleighJane
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