The Versatile Blogger Award

Not so recently, I was nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award by my friend Emma over at Puddle Side Musings and I'm just now getting around to doing it. Thank you to Emma for nominating me. Her blog has lots of posts about crafts and planner decoration so make sure to go over a check it out by clicking this link. So onto the award. The rules are:

• Thank the person who gave you this award and include a link to their blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself so people can get to know you.
• Nominate 15 blogs/bloggers you enjoy for the Versatile Blogger Award and link to them.

Here are my 7 facts about me:

1. My favourite film is Jurassic world. I've seen it about four times already. 
2. Will Smith is one of my favourite actors. 
3. I once ran a half marathon and I'm one of those weird people who enjoys going to the gym. 
4. One of my new years resolutions this year is to write a song a day, even if it is the worst song of all time, just so I get into the habit of doing it and hopefully I will get better at it. 
5. I am a major procrastinator and always leave everything until the last minute.
6. I am currently taking a gap year to decide what I want to do with my life. 
7. If you didn't know already, I am obsessed with YouTube. I love making videos and I really love watching videos. 

So those are all my facts. The blogs that I am nominating for this award are:

• This Lady Writes
• Jess Talks Pretty
• Beckie Eschle
• HelenaMyBeauty
• Makeup & Beauty Mayhem 
• Let Them Fly
• Essie Loves It
• Get Ready With Laura
• Lala London
• Lauren Elizabeth
• Tu Es Belle
• That's Linda
• Kate Rose xo
• 30 Plus and Beautiful
• Just Charlotte

So that's it! I hope you all enjoyed this post and thanks to Emma again for nominating me. If you liked this post then please give it a +1 on Google Plus or save it on Bloglovin. Talk to you soon. 

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Sisterhood of the world Blogger Award

Hey guys! I've been nominated for the "Sisterhood of the world Blogger Award" by the lovely Cristina from cristinayats so I thought that I would do the tag for today's blog post. Thank you for nominating me Cristina :) So here is the tag:

The Rules:

1. Thank the blogger who nominated you, linking back to their site

2. Answer the ten questions that have been set you

3. Make up ten new questions for your nominees to answer

4. Nominate ten people

5. HAVE FUN

The questions Cristina asked me:

1. What is your must have for winter? (piece of clothing, not beauty)
A onesie and fuzzy slippers, I couldn't survive without them!

2. A beauty product you could not live without
I think it's just mainly eye makeup, not any particular product.

3. What is your favourite online shop? (it can be about anything)
Probably Amazon because there are so many things you can get on there.

4. What is your favourite Christmas film?
I really love The Holiday and have already watched it twice this Christmas. I also really love the Home Alone films.

5. What is your favourite candle scent?
I really love vanilla scents but I don't trust myself to have a candle. I'd be scared I'd accidentally knock it over or leave it lit and cause a fire or something. 

6. What is your favourite lipstick for winter?
I love a red lipstick for Winter and Christmas but I also think berry would be really nice too. I don't really have one specific lipstick.

7. What is your favourite hairstyle?
I don't really have one, just wear my hair down most days.

8. A fashion icon
Cara Delevingne is one of them. I did a blog post before about how much I love her style.

9. What is your favourite Christmas song?
I love the Band Aid song and All I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey.

10. What is your favourite thing about Christmas?
Family time and food!

Here are my nominees:
Natalie from Coral Tinted Perceptions
Chantelle Hudson
Helly from Helly's Blogs
Molly from What Molly Loves
Stef from Scottish Stef's Nails
Veronica from VeroSays
Carrie from CazmosWorld
Molly and Stacie
Andreea from Your Beauty
Beauty at Tiffany's

And my questions for the nominees are:
1. Who is your fashion inspiration?
2.  Do you have any pets?
3. What is your favourite quote?
4. Favourite song right now?
5. What is your new years resolution?
6. What is your middle name?
7. Glass half full or glass half empty?
8. Favourite TV show right now?
9. What is your favourite wild animal?
10. One makeup item that you couldn't live without?

So that's it. Thanks again to Cristina for nominating me and good luck to all of the nominees :)
If I haven't tagged you above but you would like to do the tag, then feel free to do it, and comment below with the link to your post so I can see it. 

The Liebster Award!

Hey guys! I've been nominated for the Liebster Award again by the lovely Brittaney Penny. Thank you so much for nominating me Brittaney :) So here are the rules:

Rules:
1. Link back to the person who nominated you.
2. Answer questions given by the nominator.
3. Nominate 5-11 other bloggers with less than 1000 followers. (Stats taken from bloglovin'.)
4. Create 11 questions for the nominees
5. Notify all nominees via social media/blogs.

Questions from Brittaney:

1. Favorite  Food?

I don't really have a favourite food. I go through phases where I eat loads of the one thing until I get sick of it and then rarely eat it again haha. I've been eating pizza with garlic sauce a lot lately. It's definitely one of my favourites right now. 

2. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?

I think I would change it to something really funny or weird. Something that's easy to spell and pronounce but is a little bit different like Boris or something haha. On second thoughts maybe I would just change my name for a day or something :P

3. Do you bakes, if so, what is your favorite recipe?

I don't have a lot of time for baking but I do baking every so often. My favourite things to make (and eat :P) are chocolate biscuit cake and homemade chocolate chip cookies. 

4. What's your family like? (Are you married? Do you have children? etc)
I'm not married and I don't have children. I have a mom, a dad, two sisters, a dog and two fish :P
5. Do you have a weird quirk?
Not that I can think of. 
6. What's the last picture you took on your phone?
It's a selfie of my sister. She likes to take pictures of herself on my phone and put it as the screensaver to annoy me. 
7. Have you ever danced in the rain?
Yes.
8. What's a sickness you have faked to get out of going to work/school?
I think it was just general sickness back then. I hadn't thought it through very well.
9. If you could wake up tomorrow in someone else's body, who would you choose and what would you do?
Anytime I try to think of an answer to that question, I always wonder what happens to my body. Would the person I become switch bodies with me? Then I have no answer because I don't trust anyone else to get everything I need to get done finished. I feel like I would go back into my body the next day and realise that they had ruined my life :P
10. What's your favorite book and why?
I have literally no idea. There is way too many to choose from. 
11. What do you usually order at a restaurant that you have never been to?
I wouldn't go to a restaurant I'd never been to without seeing the menu or hearing about what food they do because I'm quite a fussy eater. Also, I get a lot of anxiety when I go into unknown situations like a new restaurant so I like to know as much as I can beforehand. 

Now here are my nominees:
Rae from Pastel Carousel
Laura Elizabeth
Lucy Jane
Jessica from Colourful Stuff 
 and Lauren from What Lauren Did Today


Here are my questions for the nominees:

1. Do you have any pets?

2.What do you do or want to do for a living?

3. What is your favourite TV show right now?

4. Who is your favourite YouTuber?

5. What's your favourite thing about Christmas? 

6. What makeup item could you not live without?

7.  Cats or dogs?

8. How old is your blog?

9. What was your favourite post that you've ever published?

10. What do you want for Christmas?

11. What embarrasses you?

So there you go. I'm off to notify the nominees.Thanks again to Brittaney for nominating me. I hope you all liked this post and I talk to you next time. 

Tag: Using Mom's Wardrobe and Makeup

Hey guys! So today I decided to do a Tag that I saw on ilikeweylie's Youtube Channel which was using my mom's wardrobe and makeup. I thought this Tag sounded really fun so I decided to try it.

Wardrobe 

Top: Pennys/Primark

Necklace: Pennys/ Primark 

Trousers: Dorothy Perkins

Boots: Pennys/ Primark

I felt like a big child playing dress up by putting on all my mom's clothes because they all were slightly too big for me. I don't think that I would actually be able to wear them anywhere because of this but I still managed to wear them long enough to take the pictures even if I did have to keep fixing the trousers. If they fit me perfectly, I wouldn't mind wearing this outfit somewhere. I really like the boots and the necklace.

Makeup

Products used:

Elizabeth Arden Flawless Finish Foundation (perfect beige)

Rimmel Natural Bronzer (sun bronze)

Bourjois Healthy Mix Correcting Concealer

They're Real Mascara by Benefit

17 eyebrow shaper (natural brown)

Tesco eye pencil (05 slate blue)

Essence lipstick (31 glamour queen)

The makeup was a bit of a challenge because my mom doesn't use any eye shadows or blush or keep either of them in her makeup bag. She says that eye shadow doesn't suit her and she prefers to use bronzer on her cheeks. I decided to do the same as her with the bronzer but I just couldn't leave my eyes that plain. I used concealer on my eye lids first to even out the skin tone and then I used a greyish blue eyeliner the whole way around my eyes and winged it out slightly. Other than that, everything was done pretty much the same way I do my own makeup except that I had to fill my eye brows in with a pencil instead of brown eye shadow like I am used to.

My Mom :)

I hope you liked this post :) It was really fun to do! I tag anyone who wants to do this. Make sure to leave a link to your blog post in the comments, i'd love to see it. Also, I reached 200 followers on Bloglovin today so thank you all so much for continuing to read my blog and commenting. It means a lot to me. 

This Or That Tag

Hey guys, today I wanted to do the This or That Tag. I like trying to figure out which product or item I would hypothetically choose over the other so I decided to do the tag and see if it would be difficult to choose items over others. It was pretty easy actually and here are my answers:

makeup
blush or bronzer- bronzer
lip gloss or lipstick - lipstick
eye liner or mascara - eye liner
foundation or concealer - foundation
neutral or color eye shadow - neutral eye shadow
pressed or loose eye shadows - pressed shadows
brushes or sponges - brushes

nails
OPI or china glaze - OPI
Long or short - long
Acrylic or natural- natural
Brights or darks - darks
Flower or no flower - no flower 

body
perfume or body splash - perfume
lotion or body butter -body butter
body wash or soap - body wash
lush or other bath company - lush

fashion
jeans or sweat pants- jeans
long sleeve or short- short sleeves
dresses or skirts - skirts
stripes or plaid - stripes
flip flops or sandals - sandles
scarves or hats- hats
studs or dangly earrings - studs
necklaces or bracelets - bracelets
heels or flats - flats
cowboy boots or riding boots- cowboy boots
jacket or hoodie - jacket
abercombie or Hollister- hollister

hair
curly or straight - curly :P
bun or ponytail - ponytail
bobby pins or butterfly clips- butterfly clips
hair spray or gel - hairspray
long or short - long
light or dark - dark
side sweep bangs or full bangs- side sweep
up or down - down

random
Rain or shine- rain
Summer or winter- winter
Fall or spring - spring
Chocolate or vanilla - vanilla

Hope you liked this post. I tag anyone who wants to do this post. Make sure to leave a comment below with a link if you do, or even leave a comment with your answers if you want.

The Autumn Tag

Hey guys, I was tagged by FieldFlowers to do The Autumn Tag and I was really happy because it was a tag that I had been wanting to do since I first saw it. I'm not really a summery person so autumn and winter are my favourite time of year. Here are the questions:

Favourite thing about it?

Halloween! I just love it scary things and getting to dress up.

Favourite drink?
Hot chocolate 

Favourite scent/candle?
Vanilla, It's always my favourite.

Best lipstick?
I prefer to wear darker colours in autumn and winter.

Go to colors for the eyes?
Neutral browns

Favourite music or band/singer to listen to?
That doesn't really change by season but lately I've been listening to a lot of Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande and Eminem.

Favourite outfit to wear (i.e. boots and scarf combo)?
I like the layered look with boots and just anything with a really cosy hoody.

Autumn treat?
homemade cookies

Favorite place to be? 
In doors, sitting by the fire.


Hope you liked this post :) I tag whoever want to do this :) Please leave a comment below with a link to yours if you do.

The Liebster Award

Hey Guys! I just got nominated for the Liebster Award by Stacey from Be Yourself and Be Fabulous. I'm new to her blog but it's really good, so make sure to go check it out and follow it :) The Liebster Award is a chain blog award given to up and coming bloggers with under 200 followers by a fellow blogger to help everyone find new blogs to read and new bloggers to connect with. Thanks so much Stacey for nominating me. 

The Rules:

You must link the person who nominated you.
You must answer the 11 Liebster questions given to you by the nominee.

You must pick 11 bloggers with under 200 followers to be nominated for the award.

You cannot nominate the person who nominated you.   

You must come up with 11 questions for your nominees to answer.

You must go to their blogs and notify your nominees.

Stacey's questions for me:
1. Why did you decide to start a blog?
I started watching a lot of YouTube videos (more and more for about two and a half years) and thought this looks so fun and I knew Zoella had a blog before she did YouTube, which helped her build up the courage to do YouTube so I decided to try one for that reason, and also to see if it was something that I liked which I found that I really do. 
2. When you first started your blog, did it start out as something else, or was this always your genre?
No, my blog has always been a beauty, fashion and lifestyle blog.
3. Do you put yourself on a schedule when you’re going to blog or do you just wing it? 
I sort of do. I make a weekly post called The Friday Favourite to make sure that I post at least twice a week, once on Friday and then once any other time during the week so that my blog never has two Friday Favourite's in a row. I usually post whenever I feel like it though other than Friday and as much as I want but the Friday Favourite just makes sure that I post at least twice in a week.
4. If  you could blog about only one thing (excluding your genre) what would it be?
I don't know, I think that if there was something other than my genre that I wanted to post, I would already be posting it. I really like my genre and can't think of anything else that I would prefer to be doing.
5. If you could read only one blog for the rest of your life, whose blog would that be?
Probably Louise from Sprinkle of Glitter, I really love her blog, and she's really dedicated to it so I know that I wouldn't run out of posts to read because she never goes a long period of time without posting, and I think that it is important for your readers to know that you are a reliable blogger.
6. Do your friends and or work acquaintances know you write a blog? 
No, only a handful of people know about my blog including my little sister, my cousin and my best friend. I just recently told two of my best friends that are in France with me about it because it is pretty hard not to be able to talk to anyone about. I do like having the secret sometimes though and feel kind of like Batman or something when I'm sneaking around trying to take pictures and planning blog posts haha.
7. How long does it take you to come up with an idea? 
I usually don't have to think too hard about something to post and might even have a big list of blog posts to do for the week that I'll have to wait to use, but I do remember once that I got writers block even though I had a couple of idea's to post but just found it really hard to write them and wrote about three different posts that I had to scrap because I didn't like them. I think I eventually just did a NOTD because it's more of a show rather than tell post and then my writers block was gone by the next post I did. I've been pretty lucky though that it was the only time that I really had writers block in the whole time I've had my blog.
8. How long have you been blogging?
Nearly five months now and I have no intention of stopping anytime soon :)
9. Aside from blogging, what other activities do you enjoy?
I like hanging out with my friends, watching scary movies, singing, playing the guitar and watching YouTube videos (not all at the same time :P)
10. Do you subscribe to your own blog?
I don't subscribe to my own blog because I already know when I write a new post, so there isn't any need for me to get updates of when I post something new.
11. How did you feel the moment you read I nominated you for this award?
I was so happy to think that someone liked my blog enough to nominate it for the Liebster Award.

My nominees are....

Laura from Pretty Little Makeup
Lucy from A Little Of Lucy
Bryony from Pianos And Petticoats  
Redlipstatement 
Lauren from The Devil Wears Tartan
Gabriella from With Eyes Like Diamonds
Lauren from Mega Beauty
Yasmin from Be You 
Rackel Kat Blog, Meow
Lexi from Rawlly Yours
Holly from I Blog The Fashion

My questions for the nominees:
1. Why did you start blogging?
2. Is this your first blog or have you had a blog before?
3. What do you do to combat writer's block?
4. What is your favourite thing about blogging?
5. Do you have a least favourite thing about blogging? If so, what is it?
6. Do your family and friends know about your blog?
7. What is your favourite type of post to write?
8. How long have you had your blog?
9. Why did you choose the name of your blog?
10. Who is your favourite blogger?
11. Who is your favourite YouTuber?

Hope you liked this post. Thanks again to Stacey for nominating me for it :) Feel free to leave a comment below with your answers to the questions or do the post on your own blog, even if I haven't nominated you in this post.

Tag: Seven Deadly Sins Of Beauty

Hey Guys, I decided to do the seven deadly sins of beauty tag because I read one on Carrie's Blog today and thought it would be fun to do.

Greed- what is your most expensive beauty item?

My Mac 15 eyeshadow palette. It was around €200 but i got mostly neutral colours so I use it almost everyday.

Sloth- which product do you neglect the most due to laziness?

Probably gel or liquid eyeliner. It takes so long because I always want it perfect and it never goes on completely perfect so I sometimes end up having to re-do it :(

Wrath- which item do you have a love/hate relationship with?

Eyeliner, I hate it for the reason above in the last question but I do love how it looks when it's on right.

Gluttony- what brand makes up most of your make-up collection? 

Benefit. I love their products. My main primer, mascara, concealers, blush and highlighter are all from Benefit.

Pride- which product gives you the most confidence?

Mascara because it opens up your eyes and draws more attention to them :)

Lust- which item is at the top of your beauty wish list?

Nars sheer glow. I've heard amazing things about it.

Envy- Which makeup product/look is great on others but not yourself?

A bright red lip. I have tried it in the past but think it doesn't suit me and makes me look like a clown :P

Hope you liked this post xx I tag whoever wants to do this post :) Please leave a comment down below with a link to your blogpost if you do. I love reading them :) 

Get to know me in 21 questions!

Hey guys! I thought that doing this Tag would be a good idea for one of my first posts just so you could get to know a bit more about me before I post anything else. So here it is: get to know me in 21 questions. Hope you like it J

1. Are you named after anyone?

I am actually named after the character Laura Ingalls from an old TV show called “Little House on the Prairie”. My mom thought that she was a really nice, kind character so she named me after her in the hopes that I would be the same :P

2. How old are you?

20

3. What’s your middle name?

Louise

4. What nationality are you?

Irish :)

5. What do you do for a living?

I am a student but I also work as a part time sales-assistant.

6. Have you got any siblings?

Yes, I have one older sister and one younger sister, both who I am very close to.

7. Have you got any pets?

 I have a dog named Derek.(I know.. Random name for a dog :p) He is a crazy little Jack Russell and I also have two goldfish.

8. Have you any children?

No

9. How tall are you?

5,7

10.What’s your eye colour?

My eyes are a strange bluey-green colour.

11. What’s your hair colour?

Dark brown

12. What’s your favourite colour?

Blue

13.What’s your favourite clothes shop?

 I’d probably have to say either River Island or Awear. I really like River Island’s style; it’s really young and has a kind of cool “gangsta” edge to it :p

14. What is your favourite makeup brand?

That’s hard. Probably Benefit. It’s really good quality and I love their packaging.

15. What’s your favourite beauty product at the moment?

 Probably my Shy Girl lipstick by Mac. I wear it almost every day.

16.What’s your favourite TV show ?

I’m loving Pretty Little Liars. I really love mystery shows and this one has got both the mystery and the style. Can’t wait for the new series to come out.

17.What’s your favourite song at the moment?

One that I’m really liking at the moment is The Way by Ariana Grande ft Mac Miller. Another one is Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore. They’re both very different but I love them both.

18.Who is your favourite celebrity?

Jennifer Lawrence! I love her. She is sooo pretty and funny, and she’s such a good actress. I love all her movies.

19.Do you play any instrument?

I play the guitar.

20.What was your favourite subject in school?

English. I liked it so much that I’m doing it in college now :)

21.What do you want to be when you grow up?

I am hoping to train as a professional makeup artist once I have completed my initial degree.

I tag whoever wants to do this :) Please comment and link your blog post if you do!

-MissLauraBora xx