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This month there has been one perfume that I have been reaching for over all the others and it is the Marc Jacobs Dot. This perfume not only has the cutest bottle ever but its smells amazing too! I love perfumes that you can spray on in the morning and can smell a hint of it throughout the day as well. Another reason I have been addicted to this scent is that I bought I while I was on holiday in the States a few weeks back. Every time I spray it the smell instantly reminds me of the warm Vegas air and the many frozen cocktails we drank. I do not want to give in to the fact that I am not on holiday anymore so I think this is why I have been spraying it more than the others. I am not even going to pretend that I am any good at explaining the notes in the fragrance so I will let the internet have that one. So Base Notes  explains this fragrance way better than I ever could. 1.    Top Notes - Red Berries, Dragon Fruit and Honeysuckle 2. ...

This product is the one product that i could not live without and would be lost without. From around October 2013 i have been suffering with really bad dry lips that just don't seem to want to clear up. The crack and peel really bad and i really tried every lip product out there but nothing seemed to work. Then i was watching one of Estee Lalonde's videos and she recommended this product for anyone that had really dry lips. I had bought everything else to see if that would help so thought it wouldn't hurt to try this and see. This product really is amazing, its very thick and creamy. I apply this product every night and layer it on and when i wake up in the morning the product is still there and i wipe it off and feel like i have a new pair of lips. I would highly recommend, if, like me you suffer from really sore cracked lips that really can be annoying - you should check it out and see how amazing it really is! I bought this through Feel Uniqu...

So my name is Stef and I am 24 years old and still living at home with my parents. I always thought I would be the type of person that wouldn’t want to move out of my parent’s house until I was at least living with someone else. However, recently I have been thinking a lot more about moving out and living on my own. To have my own little place that could be all mine, that I had worked hard for and that I could make my own and something I could call my own. However, I work full time as a Manager at a fast food outlet, though I make a good wage at the end of the month I still do not have enough money to move out. Why does the price of living have to be so god damn expensive? To even get a small one-bedroom flat that I wouldn’t consider to be worth the money is £500 a month and that’s rent alone – no heating or electricity. I am starting to get a little bit dishearten that I will never be able to move out unless its with someone else. But I really like the idea of living ...

So i missed out last week's weigh in post as i gained 1lb and was drowning my sorrows in a tub of Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough. After 7 week's it really has hit home how hard it really is to lose weight and to motivate yourself to reach for the Strawberries rather than the Turkish Delights. However, i feel like i have came so far in the last eight week's losing a total of 8.5lbs which for someone who has been a yo-yo dieter for over 10 years i do feel is a huge achievement. Its more about changing the way you look at food and swapping out junk for semi healthier options which i do in most cases - however, the chinese is always calling my name and that is where i find it a lot harder to say no to. After coming home from a crap day at work and cooking for myself just does not sound appealing so i eat take-out. Which, is something i am trying hard to change. So after my 1.5lb gain over Week 6 & 7 i thought about how i want to look for my holiday and i feel...

Not gonna write a lot this week - had another really bad week with no sort of plan as to what i was going to eat so ended up putting on 0.5lbs! Not shocked about this but I do think it has been the kick up the butt i needed to really push it this week and not use all my Syns and actually eat free foods rather than the junk and McDonalds I've been eating. So another week i am starting fresh - lets see if this can be better than last... Target Weight - 1 Stone and 3.5lbs to lose before my Holiday in June!

This week was a real tough week for me. I felt unmotivated and was contemplating giving up more than one in the week. Nothing appealed to me this week more than junk food and i was snacking more than i was eating a proper meal - which was frustrating. I would tell myself each day that this was my treat day and that tomorrow would be better - but instead of lasting one day this lasted the whole week. I went out for dinner and drinks with work the night before weigh day - so i kinda thought all week that this would ruin it anyway so i may as well not try. After talking with my friend that i go with,  i felt a lot better. I was telling her how i was thinking of giving up and feeling crap cause of how bad i ate and she gave me some great advice - she told me there was no point in feeling guilty for hours after eating something that was junk because there was nothing that i could change after that. So we have both decided that we should draw a line in the side this week and...

In my old age I have become more and more sentimental about remembering things that I done in past years – I love Facebook's ‘On this day’ and ‘Time Hop’ I love that they can show you what you were doing in years past and places that you checked in. I love how it takes you right back to that time and how you were feeling at that point in my life – even if there are things I would rather have forgotten about. So before the New Year I bought myself thins Question and Day Book – 5 Year Journal. This journal asks you the same question for 5 years and you answer if over and over again until its been filled up. The reason I like this is just with Time Hop etc. you can see exactly how you were feeling that day or what you were doing as well. Also because you are answering it over and over again you can see how your opinion of certain situations or answers change over time. Another reason I love this is that I have such a bad memory when it comes to things I’ve done, I forg...