Sketch | Lifestyle

On Saturday, my friends and I went into London to celebrate one of their 18th birthdays at an amazing restaurant called Sketch. Situated in Mayfair, the restaurant brings it's own character and personality the minute you walk through the main entrance. The restaurant itself has 5 eating rooms, we ate in the room named 'Gallery'....hence the hundreds of interesting art work on the wall. 

This room was very fitting for us 4. It felt very youthful, vibrant and full of life. Plus everything with pink! The chairs were comfortable, it wasn't too noisy and the staff were extremely friendly. 

 Food

I think I could eat the food over and over again. Even looking at this picture is making me hungry! I had this vegan noodle soap, with tofu, mushroom, spinach and, garlic. It was SO delicious! On the sides I went for a not so healthy plate of chips, but the chips were also amazing so I can't really feel guilty!

We also had some amazing cocktails called 'Sketch Spirtz'. It contained champagne, grapefruit and pomegranate so you can understand why the cocktail was literally fluorescent pink! This was also amazing.

Never being to Sketch before, I was unsure of what to wear especially there was no dress code on the website! So I thought I'd go settle for smart-casual but slightly more towards the smart side. The main focal point of my outfit is the lovely mauve duster coat from Missguided in an very faux suede material. The colour of this coat is gorgeous and I could not resist it..plus I did blend in nicely with the surroundings! Underneath I wore a very simple cami nude dress. This dress is elegant, comfortable and with the silkiness it adds that little touch of glam (it also hid my food baby!). 

On my feet I decided to wear these nude fluffy heels to complement the nude dress and a very sparkly silver clutch!

PLEASE excuse the horrendous, totally awful quality of this picture!! 

Love Hannah
xoxo

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Mid October Favourites

 

 ASOS Watch 

I never use to be a big wearer of watches. I found them a bit clumpy and 'boyish' on my tiny wrists so I never really delved into the watch industry. However when looking through the ASOS website and coming across this watch, I fell in love with it and for only £12.99 I had to buy it. I love the elegance and classic look of it, the gold and black complements each other so well and it always makes me feel that little more put together and ready for the day! 

Guinot Skincare products 

I purchased these products at the beginning of the month and haven't looked back. There will be a whole separate post dedicated to these two products so I won't go into full detail about them, but they're so gentle, so good my skin and have really made a whole lot of difference to the appearance and touch of my skin. 

True Match Foundation 

I fell in love with foundation a year ago but sort of went of it in the new year and didn't use it since but some part of me wanted to re-try it and I'm so glad I did. I love the coverage it gives, not too full and cacky but still enough to cover any redness or discolouration. The duration of this foundation is amazing and the silkiness of it on the skin makes it feel invisible! 

Succulents

Quite an odd favourite but I really am loving them at the moment. I love them in other people's houses, I love in shops, I love in my room..I just love seeing them everywhere! It's always nice to have some sort of greeny in your room or somewhere in your house and I feel like they're a lot easier to maintain then flowers because they last a lot longer and give off a different, more interesting look. I have one fake one which is from IKEA and my two real ones are from Homebase!

UO Rings 

I really don't need anymore rings, my collection is growing rapidly but what made these rings stand out was the simplicity of them. There's 8 rings; some midi, some 'normal'; different textures; different designs but they're not too loud and in your face which I love. They're perfect everyday rings, especially if you want to wear a little bit more jewellery. They're perfect!

Marble Phone Case
I've loved the marble cases for such a long time, but the cheapest I could find was like £30! I am not one for expensive phone cases so when I came across this faux marble phone case for only £3 on amazon I was acetic. I was a bit wary of it because it was only £3 but when it came it was perfect. The design is simplistic and pretty and the most important thing it protects my phone perfectly!

Love Hannah
xoxo

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Autumn Lips | Beauty

Autumn is my favourite season to start experimenting more with my makeup, but in particular my lipsticks. I feel like it's more 'socially accepted' to get out your darkest berries or blackest purples. Personally, I love going for berry and brown toned lipsticks, I find these colours work best with my skin tone and my blue eyes...but that doesn't mean I don't occasionally wear my favourite dark purple lipstick! 

No7 Sassy - This colour is one of my favourites for Autumn. It's a really lovely purple shade, but not as dark as my other purple lipstick, so it's definitly much more wearable for the daytime. It also has a hint of shimmer in it which at first I wasn't too keen on, but I think it does add more of a glam and unique finish on the lips. 

Collection Scorned - This is my darkest colour. It's an, almost black, purple colour with quite a glossy finish. I love wearing this colour in the evenings, or if I want my lips to be the focal point as I feel like wearing this colour with dark eyes may be too much for me! I've loved this colour for nearly 2 years and it's never let me down! 

Rimmel London Amethyst Shimmer - Out of all the colours, this is probably my most worn lipstick and I'll always reach for this one when I'm rushing out the door because it's such a long-wearable, glossy, lovely shade of aubergine. This lipstick screams Autumn! 

Rimmel London Coffee Shimmer - This lipstick is definitely not new to my blog, it's featured quite a lot and so it's no surprise that it's making a feature on this post! This lipstick is a gorgeous brown shimmery shade which works so well with my skin tone. I've been wearing an awful lot lately and always gotten so many compliments! 

Rimmel London 80 - This last shade is the most nude of them all. What I really love about this shade, is that although it is quite a nude colour it still has that hint of berry colour so it's still perfect for Autumn. I'd wear this lipstick if I was going for a really simple, neutral 'no makeup' look with a hint of glam.

Love Hannah

xoxo

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What Would Audrey Do? | Lifestyle

Audrey Hepburn. Everyone knows of her, everyone wants to look like her and everyone looks up to her and when I got the chance to go to the Audrey Hepburn exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, I was ecstatic. 

I knew even before going to the exhibition that I wanted some sort of book to keep as a memo, whether that would be an autobiography or a collection of photographs. But when I saw 'What Would Audrey Do?' I immediately picked it up. 

Everything about this book is so special. Starting with the cover, that drew me towards it to begin with, I feel in love with the delicate font, the black and red (very Hepburn-esque) colour and then the selling point: 'Timeless Lessons for Living with Grace and Style'. Being a 21st century, modern teen the fashion of living with grace, I think, has disappeared to an extent. Personally, style and grace is what I live for! 

The inside is separated into 10 categories of situations, circumstances and personal things that allow you to understand, literally, what Audrey would do. For example, the fashion and personal appearance chapter which is my personal favourite, tells you how to do your hair, makeup, how to dress like Audrey would. Now, I'm completely all about the 'do you' trend but if, like me, you look up to Audrey Hepburn it's lovely to have an insight into how she dressed and what styles and makeup she was into. 

It's not all about what's on the outside, in fact, what I love a lot about this book, is that most of the chapters are based on things that everyone goes through like work struggles, heartbreak and romance, for example, so it's such a useful book for gaining tips as well as knowing what to do if Hepburn was in that situation! Although, because the society when she was alive and in her younger days is a LOT different to how it is know so some of the points I don't necessarily agree with, like not being allowed to ask a boy out which is incredibly old fashioned if I do say so myself, but overall I think it's more of a book that helps you and guides into making more morally, accepted decisions. 

I'll sit down with a cup of tea with this book and could read it over and over again. It's not one of those books that you can only read once and it's also not one of those books that you have to read book to front. If I need some advice, I'll just pick the relevant chapter and read that! That's is why it's the perfect book - there's no right or wrong way of reading it. 

I would recommend this book strongly, especially if you're not a heavy reader. It's written beautifully, the advice is so helpful and overall it's just an amazing insight into the mind of an amazing woman. 

Love Hannah

xoxo

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Autumn Makeup | Beauty

Products featured:

The Body Shop Wonderblur 

Rimmel London Match Perfection in Ivory

MAC Studio Fix Concealer in NW15

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer in Fair

Rimmel London Stay Matte powder in Transparent 

Maybelline Eye pencil in Blonde

MAC Palette - colours: Omega, Sable, Shroom and Charcoal 

No7 Shade in Truffle 

Seventeen High Drama in Black

Kohl Eye Pencil in Black

Maybelline Lash Sensational in Black 

Benefit Posie Tint

MAC Soft and Gentle Highlight

Eylure Lashes in Volume

Collection lipstick in Scorned

Autumn makeup, the perfect opportunity to play around with dark, vampy colours. Using berry and browns to create the perfect eye look, or getting out those garish lip colours creates the best look for autumn. 

Personally, I love using earthy colours, so browns and dark purple with black eyeliner. This is my go-to look throughout Autumn and it never gets old for me. Collections 'Gothic...' on the lips and shimmery, matte browns on the eyes are my favourite combination. What's yours? 

Love Hannah

xoxo

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How To Manage Studying And Blogging | Lifestyle

Managing Studying and Blogging - it may sound simple, but unless you've tried you will never understand. 

I started my blog last year when I was in the early stages of my AS levels which, of course, are incredibly tough and time-consuming. Anyone who's gone through a levels won't deny that. So I had NO idea that blogging would take up so much of my time and I had to be devoted to my studying because a levels are pretty darn important! Throughout the year I felt like I gradually became a lot more successful at managing my time and finding the balance between studying and blogging, although it was difficult as I would MUCH rather blog that study for obvious reasons.

For me, keeping that balance wasn't something that I could just get away with lightly, in fact I had to find different ways to either take a break from studying and do something on my blog or the other way round (most of the time it was this way round!). As I undertake on what many say is the 'hardest year of your life'; A2 levels,  managing studying and blogging is something I really need to keep up and for those of you in the same position as me, or finds it hard to balance different priorities, I've put together my top 4 tips for managing studying and blogging:

1) To Do Lists Are Your New Best Friend
Strangely, I have become quite obsessed with creating to do lists. They're so perfect at getting realistic about what you need getting done and when. It's also so satisfying ticking/crossing a task off when it's finally done. 

2) Create A Timetable

 Nothing screams 'I am organised and can manage my time well' than a timetable. By creating a weekly timetable, you'll be able to manage what needs to be done for what day or what you're doing on each day so you're able to work out when you're free/not free to write a blog post or finish that essay and get it completed swiftly!

3) Be Realistic and Fair
As much as I would like to think that I can get 3 essays done, 4 blog posts written and revision for a test completed in a weekend. It's just not realistic what-so-ever. Make sure you understand how much you can actually do, not how much you'd like to do. Also, if I'm blogging and I know that I actually have an essay due in tomorrow then this isn't being very sensible and so prioritising more important things, like school work, is going to be a lot more realistic than taking photos for a post! 

4) Use Time
By this, I mean recognise how long things are going to take and prioritise the longer-taking tasks. So, and essay would normally take me around 2-3 hours so I would have to prioritise this over writing a blog post which would take much quicker than that. Time is your friend! So use it wisely!

Love Hannah
xoxo 

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New In - A Little Beauty Haul

I feel like I've been away for such a long time! Not only have I been away to Yorkshire for the week, I've also been hit with the very awful writer's block bug) which I'm sure we're all guilty of getting) but now I'm feeling back on track and ready to get started with some new content. 

Over the last couple of weeks, I have picked up some random beauty bits and thought I would share them in this post! 

Lash Sensational Mascara 

After seeing the advert for this a million times I gave in and bought it. Although I wasn't 100% sure on it when I first gave it a try, it really is growing on me. With the right technique, the mascara can make your eyelashes look so lovely and elongated. Plus, it's waterproof! 

Sleek Matte Me Lipgloss in Birthday Suit

I've written a completely separate blog post on this lipgloss so you can check that out here if you want to find out how I feel about it! (Hint: I LOVE it and you should too!) 

MAC Studio Fix Concealer 

I'm not usually a regular shopper at MAC, I've had good and bad experiences with their product but I've wanted to splash out on a really good concealer to use as a highlighter for such a long time and when I was in duty free coming home from my holiday, I decided to treat myself. So far I have been loving this, the coverage is perfect and it manages to stay stuck for the whole day. 

Eylure 'Volume' Falsies 

Eylure are my absolute favourite brand of eyelashes and so I decided to pick up another pack of falsies. I went for something new and a bit more dramatic so the 'Volume' pair stood out to me. I've worn these a couple of times and I've always gotten a lot of compliments!

Love Hannah
xoxo

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