moving blogs?!

I'll keep this short sweet and to the point!

we are moving blogs... 

my new blog will be more personal and a little more 'me'! so if you fancy moving with me.. come on over to paigeey1993blogs as this is where i am staying for now! :) 

SEE YOU ON THE FLIP SIDE YOU LOVELY LOT! XX

as promised..

*photo a day* 

... will keep the doctor away.

something i probably should have actually started at the beginning of august, as appose to 4 days in, is the photo a day challenge.

i will be posting each of the photos on to instagram (paigeey1993) and Twitter and then i shall post a blog at all the photos during this challenge. 

why dont you you do this challenge with me? 

leave your instagram name name and i will follow you so we can see each others 'photos a day' 

hope everyone is having a beautiful day/night/evening/afternoon/morning wherever you are :)

xxx

June? July? where you go?

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT IT IS AUGUST! LIKE FO REAL?! 
How and when did that right there happen! 


wowzerssss!


well it is now the 4th of August and i am still in denial about this month having even started. this is only a short introductory, 'im back in the game', 'i haven't forgotten you' kinda post.


and i have decided i am going to be *from now on* blogging every single day in august! 
-and by i WILL be i do mean.. i HOPE to be.


and to live true to my word i shall post a more in depth blog about where i have been and what i have been doing these past 2 months tomorrow! 


but if you did miss me then you can always follow me on twitter -which i dont update too frequently but i am absolutely addicted to instagram so if you do want to see/hear/read more from me then following me on those will be the best way! 


 TWEET TWEET?
INNA-INSTAGRAM OF A SECOND- paigeey1993

in a hop, skip and jump my friends! :)

xx

big cook little cook

hey beautiful reader..


how is things going?


about a week ago, i had an epiphany..


I was on one of my youtubers binge where i go through every single youtube video a youtuber has ever made and this time it was the beautiful Nikki Phillippi ... and this epiphany was pretty much that i needed to get back into the gym, i needed to eat healthier and i needed to get my booty on a motivational wagon.


So the next day i was back in the gym but the biggest change.... is that i have been making is with my diet.


I have always liked cooking, but my idea of a healthy meal was salad from a bag, or said salad on a baked potato, or soup!


but in this past week i have made vegetable naan bread pizza, and home made vegetable soup, and i really do think ive done a good job at them.


here are some pictures of my creations and the foodies i used :)

* I used half of one red onion, 2 slices of breaded ham, cubes of fetta cheese, one piece of naan bread, a sprinkling of basil, tomato puree, half of one red pepper and a sprinkle of parsley and oregano. *

* All prepared and ready to go into the oven * 

* All cooked and ready to eat- it was very scrumptious *

* For the vegetable soup i used 1 Red onion, 1 clove of Garlic, 1tsp of mild curry powder, 1 large Potato, Broccoli, Carrots, Celery, Salt, Pepper and Parsley *

* Cooking away *

* The meal was for myself and my flatmates, and we had it with warm baguette, cheese and ham *

* All ready to eat :) - The taste of celery was quite strong, but i like celery so that was okay  :) *

These make nice additions to my short list of things i can really cook haha :) 

next week i want to make stuffed peppers with cous cous :)

see you in the next blog post :)  xxxxxx

Can you cook? whats your go to recipe to make? what is on your food bucket list to learn to make?

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ps. Heres the recipe i used to make my soup and The video where Nikki Phillippi makes her vegi naan bread pizza that inspired me to make mine :) 

its all about the nails.

Have i seen you here before?

These nail blog posts are becoming a regular thing of mine.. i hope you dont mind. I just LOVE to take photos of my nails when there all nicely painted and shiny. - it makes me happy :)


maybe i need a name for a series of nail posts, after all i can tell you now there will be more :) 


As i mentioned in my last blog post, i recently bought two new nail varnishes, and i am one of those people that when i buy new nail varnishes i dont want to wear another nail polish until i have tried the new ones i have out.. 


The colours which i bought were both from the BarryM line and both blues.
i dont know why but i am loving the colour blue lately, i feel that its a very serene colour, depending on which shade you have..


so the 2 shades i have are blue glitter and blueberry, i have already talked about blue glitter, in a previous blog post, but that was a very electric, sparkly rocker blue, 
whereas my next polish was a more calm, springy, pastel blue. 
(do you guys play draw free? it reminds me of one you'd find in the beach package of colours)

I applied the colour on tuesday night, and in 3 days my left hand practically completely un chipped (with the exception of inevitable wear and tear at the top of my nail) and on my right hand- which is the hand i use to write and do most of the 'heavy lifting' with, and so this hand has chipped a little.. but all in all i am so impressed with the lasting power of this polish, 


I always think that BarryM nail polishes succeed in the 'colour' department, but this polish has completely out done any idea i had at how long this nail polish would last :)


I really think that this colour is so perfect for spring, i know neon's are really hot right now, but i am so standard and love the pastel colours and florals... so be prepared to see more pastels and lots of florals in the next couple months :)

what colours or prints do you guys think are hot this season for spring? 

Thanks for reading :)
Paige xxxxx

*you can buy BarryM products in store at boots and superdrug or online :)

SLACKER! and Nails! :)

I have been the biggest slacker going these past two weeks!

When i first sat down and started this blog and wrote my first blog post i had so many high expectations of myself. i have completely let myself down.. i have no excuses, but an explanation-

well when i put up my last post on the 10th of April it was my last week at home before coming back up to university for my final term, so as you can imagine my week was full of seeing my family and my friends, and then on the 20th of April it was my 19th birthday and  then on the Sunday i came back up to my uni halls and that my beautiful reader is where i am typing this from now.
I have now been at uni for a week, and this week has been spent getting back into the swing of things of waking up early(er) and getting stocked up on food for this term and generally catching up with my friends here at uni.

i have utterly neglected blogging and vlogging (total count so far 3:1)

now my explanation has been read... onto the plan! 

I plan to write a blog post at least 3 times a week and a video on my youtube channel at least once a week

I dont want to be completely strict on myself with my blogging schedule, i want to enjoy blogging and look forward to doing it as a pose to thinking of it as a job. 

now something interesting...?

Nails!

despite the fact that i am freshly back at uni with my loan freshly in my bank.. SHOCKINGLY i have nada money once again, but this didnt stop me popping into superdrug to get a couple nail varnishes.. 

My absolute favorite brand of nail varnishes has to be the ones from BarryM i own multiple colors from there range and my most recent additions are a beautiful sparkly Blue and a serene pale blue

297 Blue Glitter * 306 Blueberry

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One thing i have to say i love  about this brand of nail polish is the durability, the fact that any polish i wear from this line always seems to last for a really long time. the 297 Blue glitter is a basic glitter nail varnish, one i think would look beautiful over the 306 Blueberry or infact any bue or any nail paint. 

I found that 2 coats was enough to coat my nail with the blue glitter with a few patched where you could see through to my nail, but with a small amount more my nails were left (as above) blue and sparkly!

even though i am sat in jogging bottoms and a baggy lounge top these nails just make me feel so much more happy than when they were plain and simple and boring, these jazz up any old outfit and make me feel a million bucks :)

what nail paint is your go to, feel happy color? 

thanks for reading my lovelies :) xxxx

Right now in superdrug all BarryM nail paints are £2.99 and when you buy 2 of them you save £1! http://www.superdrug.com/?gclid=CLf2v5q91q8CFaYJtAod5nWbDQ

splatterofshadow

hey everybody!

I have not blogged in 4 days, and i am beginning to shut down! 

when i started this blog i did not realise just how much i would love it, love it so much that after 4 days, i'm having withdrawal symptoms! 

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I wanted to use this blog post to tell my lovely readers about a new project i am starting, its called youtube.. (have you heard of it?) 

i very recently started my own channel which i will co-use with this blog, hopefully linking the two of them together like i am doing now.

The name of my channel is splatterofshadow.

i want to use this blog post to let you all know the reasoning behind the name and what the channel will be about, and hopefully at the end of this video you'll click on the link below and check out my channel (current videos: 1).

now splatterofshadow will be mainly a beauty and style related channel, well at the moment thats the plan. 

i want to put up videos such as hauls, tags and a few how to's if anyone want me to, as well as a few rambling vlogs which i'd rather film instead of blog about. 

now im sure everybody or most of you beauty girls and guys will have heard of the likes of:

Elle allthatglitters21 http://www.youtube.com/user/AllThatGlitters21

Blair juicystar07 http://www.youtube.com/user/juicystar07?feature=g-user-u

Ingrid missglamorazzi http://www.youtube.com/user/missglamorazzi?ob=0&feature=results_main

Fleur fleurdeforce http://www.youtube.com/user/fleurdeforce?ob=4&feature=results_main

Zoe zoell280390 http://www.youtube.com/user/zoella280390

louise sprinkleofglitter http://www.youtube.com/user/Sprinkleofglitter?ob=0&feature=results_main

i have to say that off the top of y head these are the beauty girls who i have been watching for years and have inspired me to do this myself.

i think Blair was the first beauty girl i watched, followed by Elle and then eventually learning about Ingrid, Fleur, Zoe and Louise later... and i watch all of there videos on a regular basis! 

I dont wear a full face of make up or do my hair pretty every single day, but it doesn't stop my enjoyment of watching there videos, and its not only there beauty tricks and tips i enjoy, i read there blogs and watch there vlogs too.

My youtube name is an adaption of Louise's blogging name sprinkeofglitter, i was up for hours trying to think of my own and then ended up changing around a couple words and adapting hers to my now name splatterofshadow, this name i think reflects my style, i am an absolute lover of eye shadows, eye creams, eye liners when i do my make up the whole look is usually created around what color my eye lids will be.

 

i have massive amounts of respect for the beauty girls, and what they do. im not wanting to make this (doing videos and blogging) a career of mine, im in uni and this is just a hobby which i happen to love.. i really hope you all check out my channel and let me know what you think of it :) 

do you have any youtubers you love? what videos do you like on the 'tube'?

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Happy Saturday 
Paige xxxxx

My channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/splatterofshadow?feature=mhee