The Disney World Tag | Blogtober Day 13

I saw The Disney World Tag on Instagram, screen shotted it straight away and absolutely wanted to do it. So here goes...

1. Favourite park?
Magic Kingdom, hands down.

2. Favourite character to meet?
Mickey and Minnie when they are together in Mickey's little place.

3. Favourite nighttime show?
Wishes firework display - beautiful.

4. Favourite ride in each park?
Magic Kingdom - Splash Mountain (may change to Journey of The Little Mermaid once I have ridden it!). Hollywood Studios (MGM) - Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. Animal Kingdom - Kali River Rapids. Epcot - Soarin'. Blizzard Beach - Cross Country Creek (love a good lazy river) or Slush Gusher (I am yet to ride Summit Plummet due to weather circumstances each time! Got 3 from the front last time and it got closed!!). Typhoon Lagoon - Crush 'n' Gusher.

5. Favourite dessert?
Mickey's Premium Ice Cream Sandwich. It is cookies and cream ice cream sandwiched together in two Mickey biscuits! Yummy!

6. Favourite character memory?
The very first time I went to Disney, I was about 7 years old, and I went with my parents, my brother along with my aunt and uncle. Meeting Minnie Mouse for the first time was so amazing, I can remember it clear as day and was so unforgettable. We even have some photos of the moment. My favourite is all of us smiling with Minnie whilst I'm hugging the life from her and my Dad is kissing her cheek. Love that picture and memory!

7. Favourite souvenir?
I can't choose between two. They are both from the first time I went - one is a ring and one is a key chain. The ring is just a dainty little gold ring with Mickeys face engraved into it. And the key chain is golden and in the shape of an old picture frame with the castle on the front and it opens up and the princesses are inside.

8. Favourite land in Magic Kingdom?
Fantasyland - but I love Frontierland also!

9. Favourite country in Epcot?
It's such a boring answer, but I love England in the World Showcase, because I love seeing all the English stuff in the USA and also seeing their portrayal of England is interesting too.

10. Favourite part of Festival of Fantasy?
Beauty and the Beast's float.

11. Favourite restaurant?
I love the Rainforest Cafe at Animal Kingdom mainly because of the surroundings inside there. It's so detailed and fun - although I am looking forward to trying other restaurants I haven't before (including Be Our Guest - so excited!).

12. Favourite magical moment?
Literally every moment from the minute you walk into the park to the minute you leave is magical. Even stepping off the plane at Orlando International, you feel the magic because you know you're heading to Disney!

Love Em x

Sick Day | Blogtober Day 12

Guys I'm ill! I'm so gutted. I started to feel it a little the day before yesterday but then yesterday got a little worse and now I am literally not wanting to move anywhere. Autumn and winter are my favourite times of the year, but I hate the colds that come with it! I've now enjoyed moving into my house, getting back to uni and shopping so now I am in bed typing this post up with the flu. Great. I feel so weak and ill and tired so I am going to be having a few early nights in the next few days. And no matter how old I get, when I'm poorly I will always miss being at home with my mum looking after me and my dog giving me cuddles all day... but I'm at uni so not this time, Em!

Because of me being ill today, I haven't done much. Literally had to drag myself to the restaurant for dinner with my friends today but as soon as we were back I crawled back into bed like a little sloth haha. So I thought to myself about today's post and just thought I would do a little list of things that I do on days when I am sick:

- Lazy days in bed

- Disney movies

- Tasty snacks and feel good food

- Long baths

-Sleeping (not just when I'm ill haha)

- Candles

- Hot water bottles

Is there anything that you always do when you're sick?
Love Em x

Liverpool Haul | Blogtober Day 11

So because I'm back in Liverpool, one of the first things that I wanted to do was go shopping to pick up a few bits. I love the stuff that I found so I thought I would share them with you. Theres some beauty, a couple of accessories and just a random thing which is pretty cool.

L'Oreal False Lash Flutter Mascara - £10.99. L'Oreal Lipsticks in Eva's Nude and Blake's Red - £6.99 each. Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick in 30 - £5.49.

I picked up another one of my mascaras as I was in need of a new one and I have changed from Maybelline The Falsies to L'Oreal False Lash Flutter (I never thought I would change from the falsies!). The mascara is amazing. It has a plastic brush but isn't just normal shape and makes the lashes look incredible. I also wanted to get my hands on a couple of the new L'Oreal collection of nudes and reds and I chose Eva's Nude and Blake's Red - both stunning colours and Superdrug had L'Oreal products on 3 for 2 which made it even better! I also wanted to pick up the Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick in shade 30 after watching Essie Buttons video where she featured this - it's such an autumnal berry colour and is literally stunning. 

Left to right: L'Oreal Blake's Red, Rimmel Kate Moss in 30, L'Oreal Eva's Nude.

Next, I headed to Lush again... surprise surprise, nothing new there. I literally find myself addicted when it comes to this time of the year so I went in and picked up another few bits.

Reindeer Rock soap -  £3.10 per 100g (my piece - £5.46), Fizzbanger bath bomb - £3.35, Snow Fairy shower gel, small - £3.75, Luxury Lush Pud bath bomb - £3.50.

When I last visited Lush last week, I was stuck between choosing the soap Yog Nog or Reindeer Rock. I went with Yog Nog but still ended up going back and getting Reindeer Rock. It is made from dried lingonberry infusion and contains bergamot oil and toning cypress. The soap is a gorgeous purple/maroon colour with little reindeers embossed onto it with a gorgeous berry scent. I then picked up the Fizzbanger which I have never tried before and as you can see it is such a bright yellow colour so I’m looking forward to seeing it in the water. I think it is supposed to be like fireworks as it contains popping candy with a scent of citrus apple and cinnamon. It contains ylang ylang and cinnamon leaf oil and the website also mentions petitgrain which is used in aromatherapy to calm the breathing and heartbeat and to help with anxiety so I am looking forward to seeing if that works. Snow Fairy is one of the Lush Christmas classics which I pick up every year. It’s bright pink, smells like candy floss and has slight glitter in it – could a shower gel get any better, really? Finally from Lush I picked up the Luxury Lush Pud which I had last year, but it has been changed. Last year it was a purple colour and this year it is literally fluorescent pink. It contains tonka absolute, ylang ylang and lavender oil. It also has the same scent as Twilight which is one of my all time favourites from Lush.

Necklace - £6.00.

Necklace - £5.00.

Thermal travel mug - £3.00 (I think).

Finally, I headed to Primark. I picked up a couple of really cute necklaces. I especially love the big flowery one, I think it will look so cute with a big chunky jumper in the winter time to make it look a bit more dressy. And the travel mug is the random purchase. This little baby had caught my eye the last couple of times I went into Primark and I thought to myself 'no Emma you don't need it cause you don't drink coffee or tea' but I couldn't resist the glitter any longer. This will now be my excuse to take hot chocolate everywhere with me - not that anyone needs an excuse for hot chocolate wherever they are right?

Hope you liked this little haul. 

Love Em x

Liverpool City Centre | Blogtober Day 10

Liverpool is my second home and has been for 2 years now and if there is one thing I love about Liverpool it's the city centre. They have an amazing centre for shopping, nights out and even sightseeing for tourists.

The shopping is incredible with literally every shop you can think of (except selfridges... I miss you selfridges) and is stupidly big with restaurants and things to do as well such as the cinema and mini golf. The nights out here are crazy and me and my friends always have a good time when we go out. There is also many places to do things for tourists including a big wheel like the London Eye, museums and the Albert Dock.

One of my personal favourite things I've discovered in Liverpool is Central Perk. As a crazy Friends fan, it was so exciting to go there. The coffee house is so similar to the one in the Friends TV show with a big screen playing Friends all day long every day - not to mention the food and drinks are awesome.

Love Em x

Adjusting Back To Univeristy Life | Blogtober Day 9

After leaving my second year at uni for the summer, I wasn't expecting for it to be so weird coming back. I did get literally four months off uni over the summer so I was back home and found a little part time job in a bakery to keep me going, but leaving that job and coming back to uni has felt a little strange.

This year, as you know, me and my friends are in a house rather than halls of residence. The house is lovely and doesn't look or feel like a student house at all and is a lot better in comparison to halls. Don't get me wrong, I loved my first year of university halls - literally the best year of uni... but after second year in halls we were ready for our own house.

In first year of uni, we were in halls with all girls doing the same or similar courses to ourselves and as we were all freshers, all wanted to do the same things - go on nights out, sleep till whatever time in the day, miss a few classes due to stupidity the night before leading to a horrendous hangover and basically have an amazing first year - and that we did. Second year was a lot quieter.. we were put in halls with some first years and some third along with international students. I liked my second year but it didn't even compare to first year.

Third year has only been going on for a week now but I do love it and having the house is a lot more practical and better for us. Halls included a lot of rules obviously but some were just ridiculous - at 20 years of age and not allowed the girls or boys from other halls in our halls past 11pm being one of them. But having four months off over summer didn't make it easy to come back. Getting used to home comforts again and being around all my family and friends made me not want to come back but it is going good.

Love Em x

Lush Northern Lights Review | Blogtober Day 8

Northern lights is a limited edition bath bomb from Lush from their Halloween 2014 collection and priced at £3.50. I will be honest, when I walked into the shop and saw this bath bomb, I wasn't blown away. The shape of it interested me as it is obviously not a normal shape for a bath bomb with it being long rather than round, however with it just being a lilac colour, I didn't expect too much.

However, all was changed when I saw the lady from the shop put into a bowl of water and saw it explode into a rainbow of colours. Northern lights smells incredible including jasmine and ylang ylang within its' ingredients. It also leaves little stars in your bath as well (which do dissolve) leaving your bath look like Bonfire night with all the fireworks of colour and the stars making it look even more like the sky. After a while, the bomb leaves your bath a pale lilac colour when all of the exciting explosions have come to an end. It leaves your skin feeling amazingly smooth and soft and smelling gorgeous. It is a very calming bathing experience and I will definitely be going back to Lush to pick up a few more before the collection is taken out of stores.

Have you given anything from the Lush Halloween/Christmas collection for 2014 yet? It all looks so amazing and I think a few more repurchases will be to follow when I have tried out more of the collection I bought. 

Love Em x

Lush Haul | Blogtober Day 7

Around this time of year, Lush definitely becomes one of my favourite shops. Don't get me wrong, I love Lush all year round, however I just find that during autumn and winter I have a lot more baths. So as Lush released all of their Halloween and Christmas products, I was drawn in and found myself with a rather full basket. I also prefer the more festive, Christmassy scents rather than the summery and sweet scents. So I'll start with the couple of Halloween things I purchased and then share my Christmas ones.

Sparkly Pumpkin Bubble Bar: £3.50
The label reads: A warming and cheerful bubble bar to add sparkle to cold nights... 

I'm probably going to say this about every product I bought, but this smells amazing. It is a bubble bar so you will get more than one bath out of this pumpkin and it will turn your bath water orange. It is covered in orange glitter so it may leave you with a sparkle on you so if you don't like that then this might not be the one for you. The sparkly pumpkin contains juniperberry, lime and grapefruit oils so will leave your skin feeling lovely.

Northern Lights Bath Bomb: £3.50

The label reads: This sparkling, colourful bomb turns your water into a night time spectacle. 

Northern lights is a bath bomb and is literally so surprising. When I was in the shop, my friend picked it up to smell and one of the lovely sales assistants asked us if we would like to see it in action – incredible. It has lots of different colours inside it so don’t be deceived by just a purple exterior. Containing jasmine and ylang ylang, this bomb will turn your bath into a firework filled sky – including stars within the bomb as well.

Golden Wonder Bath Bomb: £3.75

The label reads: Run yourself the perfect temperature bath, get in, and then take a moment to let go of the world outside your bathroom, before launching your ballistic into the water and watch it fizz away.

Golden wonder is one of my all-time favourite bath bombs from Lush and I always make sure to grab a few every time they are re-released. Golden wonder is absolutely huge and shaped like a gold and white present. When you shake the bomb, you will hear it rattle and when you drop it in the water it will turn your water a bright blue colour, releasing three miniature bombs inside of different colours and an array of golden stars. The scent of this product is quite citrusy, containing orange, lime and cognac oils leaving you feeling relaxed and smelling amazing.

Christmas Eve Bubble Bar: £2.95

The label reads: Crumble the bar under the hot running tap, to allow the water to agitate mounds of bubbles for you with no effort on your part.

Christmas eve bubble bar is another favourite of mine from last years’ collection when I first tried it. As the label says, you just break some off and crumble it under running water – you don’t need much of the bubble bar product so you can get more than one bath out of them all the time. This product is very calming and will send your water a greeny colour. The bar contains Irish moss powder which will turn your water all silky also containing jasmine and ylang ylang essential oil.

The Christmas Penguin: £2.95

The label reads: Orange flower absolute and mandarin oil make this bubbly little chap a real pick-me-up.

A new product for me to try as I missed out on this little guy last year. Isn’t he just the cutest thing you have ever seen? Another bubble bar so crumble him under your running water to create lots of bubbles containing orange flower absolute, Sicilian mandarin and lemon oils which will revive and refresh your skin.

Dashing Santa: £2.95

The label reads: The citrus essential oils in this satsuma-scented bath bomb will put a spring in your step.

A new product for 2014 containing mandarin oil, bergamot oil and orange flower absolute, this Satsuma scented bath bomb will send your water a gorgeous pinky-orange-red colour – perfect for a nice relaxing bath. I’m really excited to try this one. I usually buy the father Christmas bath bomb, but I find that he can be a bit messy! He also smells incredible.

Cinders Bath Bomb: £2.50

The label reads: Warm up this bath bomb's hot fruit punch fragrance and listen to the crackle of popping candy.

This is my absolute favourite scent ever – pure Christmas. This cute little bath bomb contains vegan popping candy and stimulation cinnamon leaf oil. Cinders sends your bath water a yellowy-orange colour and smells absolutely incredible. When you drop your bath bomb in, be sure to listen carefully to hear the popping candy crackle just like you’re fireside on a winters’ night.

So White Bath Bomb: £3.50 

The label reads: Run yourself the perfect temperature bath, the through your white snowball ballistic at the side of your bath to watch it shatter and erupt in fizzing colour. 

So white – another favourite. This bath bomb may not look amazing from the outside, but smell it and you won’t be able to resist. So white is apple scented and contains bergamot oil, rose absolute, neroli oil and orange flower absolute. This bomb will smell your whole bathroom out with the gorgeous scent of apples, whilst fizzing away to the pink core, turning your water a delicate pink. So white also has a friend this year - the so white shower gel with the same scent... I can't wait to get my hands on it!

Shoot For The Stars Bath Bomb: £3.50

The label reads: Paint the swirling colours of the night skies over the surface of your bath.

Again, not the most exciting bath bomb to look at, however this bomb will turn your water multicoloured with its explosion of colour. Shoot for the stars will also leave a trail of silver, according to the website. The bomb contains the same scent as the classic soap, honey I washed the kids, leaving your water eventually a midnight, shimmering blue.

Butterbear Bath Bomb: £1.95

The label reads: A creamy vanilla-scented bath bomb with cocoa butter to soften the skin.

This little bear is so, so cute I couldn't resist. Butterbear contains the same scent as the butterball bath bomb, however it is shaped into a cute little bear. I don't think that this little guy is going to do much to the colour of the water as such, but as the cheapest bath bomb released for Christmas, he is cheap and cheerful, smells amazing and perfect for all ages.

Yog Nog Soap: £3.40 per 100g

The label reads: A creamy skin drink of soap made with soya yoghurt and a fudgy blend of festive spices. 

Yog nog, the most delicious smelling soap ever, contains soya yoghurt and some festive spices to release a beautiful Christmassy scent. Also containing a fudgy blend of clove bud and ylang ylang essential oils, dusted with cocoa powder and very soft, you will feel and smell all festive after lathering up with this spicy little soap.

I hope you liked my halloweeny-festive Lush haul. I am in absolute awe of the products this year and already can't wait to get back in the Lush shop. I will be sure to do another haul if I manage to pick up any of the other products not mentioned from the Christmas collection, but you can buy all the products mentioned at www.lush.co.uk or in store now. 

What is your favourite Lush Christmas product?
Love Em x