Changing your lifestyle

Now, I'm probably one of the last people to be giving advice for getting fitter but, I want to change. Deciding you want to loose weight or just be healthier in general isn't about running for an hour and having some rabbit food every once and a while. It's all about changing your lifestyle. Start planning now and start changing your lifestyle today so when it comes to summer its a routine. You don't need to jump into a crazy gym membership and live there all day everyday. You start off slowly, only making a few changes to your diet and exercise routine. 

Exercise

Make yourself a weekly plan of exactly what you want to do. If anyone knows me I love to be organised and I always make lists of everything I need to do. Plan your week, a week ahead. Decide what you want to do and grab a friend to join you if you need that little extra motivation. Here is a little idea of my new exercise timetable.

Monday - Go for a run after school

Tuesday - After school gym with Erin, Eilidh and Lydia for DofE

Wednesday - Recovery day

Thursday - Drama Club (not really exercise but it gets you up on your feet for 2 hours)

Friday - Go for a run after school or use youtube fitness routines

Saturday - Recovery

Sunday - Swimming with Eilidh

A simple timetable like this is easy to stick to and doing it with friends makes it more enjoyable to continue. 

Diet

Having a balanced diet it extremely important to keeping a healthy lifestyle. However this is not the time to starve yourself of everything and only eat lettuce everyday. Everything in moderation.

Step one - Drink a glass of water as soon as you wake up. I drink water a lot and I love having some in the morning because it wakes me up. In the morning everyone has to pee. Drinking a glass of water before you pee flushes out all of the bad stuff from your body and the water adds clean stuff into your body. If that made any sense? 

Step two - Eat Breakfast every morning!! I am so bad at doing this but having something like a breakfast bar or a banana can fuel you enough for your next meal and kick starts your metabolism for the day.

Step three -  Lunch is pretty important during the day and being at school its really difficult to eat a balanced or even a healthy lunch! It's best to bring your own lunch to work or school so you have complete control of what is going into your body. If you can't do this everyday thats fine just stay away from foods with high fat and sodium content.

Step four - Dinnertime is where you pile on the veggies and get rid of the carbs. Carbohydrates take hours to burn through your body and need to be exercised off because they are placed in your body as part of fat. Keeping away from strach-y food at dinner is better for you because you can't burn it all off while your'e sleeping. Eating some form of protein, meat or vegetable can give you a balanced meal at the end of the day.

Step five - Snacking throughout the day is something we all do but are we actually hungry or just bored? If you ever feel like you need a snack your'e body is telling you that it needs water. Drinking water throughout the day decreases the amount of food you eat and reduces bloating. If after your water you still want something, grab some fruit, a yoghurt or put it all together and make a smoothie. Simple and good for you.

So after a pretty long blogpost how are you feeling? Are you going to change your lifestyle or just feel better about yourself?

Love,

Caitlin x

Benefit Must Haves

Guys!! OMG!! I'm a benebabe!! I applied for a job at Benefit cosmetics and after a long, long, long interview process I am officially a BA for benefit cosmetics. I also think this is the perfect time to tell you about benefit must haves.

The POREfessional is not only one of benefits number one products but I use it everyday because it's AMAZING! The POREfessional minimises the look of pores, blurs your imperfections, keeps makeup lasting all day, plus it keeps you matte and shine free. 

Benefits bigger than BB is perfection in a tube. I was given some samples and fell in love. I'm not a huge fan of the oxygen wow foundation because there isn't a shade light enough for me. (I'm a ghost, not kidding) So when I tried the BB cream I was very sceptical because I didn't know if it would work for me, but it blends perfectly into my skin, has a liquid to powder finish and has SPF 35! 

Rockature box'd blush is definitely my favourite blush of them all. All of the box'd powders are great but I always reach for rockature for some reason. Idky? Rockature has the best packaging and is rose gold colour. You could apply it as a simmer-y highlight or use it as a rosy contour or use it as a blush. It's a completely multi-use product!

They're Real! Okay, number one selling mascara in not only the UK but the world!! Benefit sells this mascara at 1 every 10 seconds! It's crazy but I completely understand why. It lengthens, separates, volumises and does everything in-between. Its plastic double brush makes application simple and a few coats gives you false looking lashes in seconds.

Benefit launched new hydraiting tinted lip balms a few weeks ago and they are perfect. They give subtle colour and have a gorgeous shine to them. There are 4 balms and they correspond with the matching lip and cheek stain. Benetint = Benebalm, Lolitint = Lolibalm and it goes on. I find the best thing to do is to take the tint and apply it to my lips and then apply the matching balm. 

Here are some benefit must haves that I highly recommend to anyone wanting to expand their collection.

Love,

Caitlin x

My Netflix Addiction

Okay guys. I have to admit something. There is no need to hide it anymore. My name is Caitlin, and im addicted to Netflix. 

Haha! Only joking, but in all seriousness I do have a tiny problem. Everyday when I get ready for school, going out, at the weekend, I bundle myself up and sit for hours and hours on end. My friend calls it the black hole because its almost impossible to stop watching a show because the next episode is right there waiting for you! 

I have had a Netflix subscription for 6 months and have completed 4 seasons of the Vampire Diaries (anxiously waiting for season 5!) 2 seasons of Scrubs, Grimm and Orange is the new black plus dozens and dozens of movies because there are literally hundreds to watch and choose from!

I have become emotionally attached to some of these shows and it's so bad! I have no social life anyway but this has made it 10x worse because i'd rather sit in my room with food and Netflix than do anything else. 

Out of all the TV subscriptions that are out there I think Netflix gives you the best for your money. Not even kidding. It's great. Trust me. 

Love

Caitlin x

Message to Netflix - Please listen to me and release the 5th season of the Vampire Diaries!!! And release Dance Moms!! I hate having to wait every week for the next episode... too many feels 

10 Summer Must Haves - Part Two

6. Having too much powder on your face isn't the smartest idea during the hot summer weather. Cream blush or cheek tints is the best way to go! NYX rouge cream blush is the ideal solution to stop your makeup looking all cakey and gross. These blushes come in so many different colours, they are 100% waterproof and sweat proof plus they are only £5.50 on the NYX website. BARGIN!

7. Nobody wants to wear heavy lipsticks or sticky lip glosses during the summertime. That's why lip stains are the way to go. I am a huge lipstick fan but I have a soft spot for Rimmel 100 Kisses lip stains in my collection. They come in so many different colours and last hours and hours! With a clear balm on the end of the stain a little shine is perfectly fine. (like my rhyme guys?) These stains retail for £5.99 from your local boots and superdrug. My favourite colour is 'Carry On Cherry' its a perfect cherry red that looks like you've been eating a cherry ice lolly! 

8. Fragrance and perfume are different for everyone. They are all personal preference and just like makeup products different brands come out with seasonal fragerances every few months. One that will never go out of style will be Marc Jacobs Daisy Eu So Fresh retailing for  £51.50 for 75ml. It's light and fresh scent suits so many people and is easy to wear throughout summer. 

9. SUGAR CRUSH! omg can we just take a minute to drool over this amazing duo! Sugar Crush is my favourite scent from soap and glory. It smells like a mix of cream soda and lime! Super fresh but also really sweet! I have had two of the body washes and always repurchase them! The Buttercream is aimed for dry skin but I thinks it works for all skin types. It's one of the only scent combos I've tried that lasts until your next wash. The Body wash is £6.50 and the buttercream is £10.50.

10. My last summer must have is hair dye! Summer is where you can change up your look, get experimental and be creative. I dyed my hair red summer of 2012 and Feria Preference by Loreal is the dye I highly recommend for people going for red hair. The colour is Scarlet power P67. It nourishes, keeps hair healthy and gives intense shine and even colour. Its £5.89 from boots and is definitely my favourite boxed dye.

That's my top 10 summer must haves for 2014. I hope you enjoyed this two part blog post and I might do some more in the future.

Love,

Caitlin x

10 Summer Must Haves - Part One

Summer is here and that means its the perfect time to step out of your comfort zone and try a new fresh makeup look and change up your style. Here are some perfect summer products from the 

highstreet and highend store's.

1. Loreal Lumi Magique Primer is the perfect summer glow in a handy pumped bottle. This can be used a dewy face primer or can be used on top of your makeup to add a healthy summer glow. With only being £9.99 I feel it is a must have this summer and is a perfect dupe for Benefits High beam.

2. Garnier BB Cream is great way to get coverage in the summer but not feel all cakey and gross throughout the day. I have tried so many drugstore BB Creams and I haven't found one that works as well as this one. Plus its only £7.99. It gives a light to medium coverage but feels so light and comfortable on he skin. The packaging is a squeeze bottle and makes the product come out much easier than a glass jar and it's the perfect size for traveling.





3. If a BB Cream isn't enough coverage for you I highly suggest using MAC Studio Fix powder. This powder has a full coverage and a matte finnish. This powder can be worn on its own because it creates such a flawless finish. This powder is on the pricey side being £21.50 but so worth it. Even with the summer heat dewy skin is on trend but oily skin is not! Remember to set you makeup with a powder regardless so your makeup lasts all day.

4. Who wants racoon eyes?! I sure don't! That's why we need to beat the heat with some waterproof mascara to stop the racoon eyes from happening throughout the day. From experience I find that waterproof mascara holds a curl better and as the name suggests it, it doesn't smear all down your face because it's waterproof. Another summer staple retailing at £7.99 from boots.

5. Cream eyeshadow is another summer staple. It's waterproof, easy to apply, comes in so many colours and you can find it in highend and highstreet stores. Benefit creaseless cream shadows are exactly what they say. Cream shadows that don't crease! I never need to set these shadows and they don't seem to melt off in the hot summer days. These shadows retail for £15.50! Pretty steep but Maybelline do identical cream shadows for a fraction of the price for only £7.99.



Part one of top 10 summer must haves!

Love,
Caitlin x

Creating a Custom MAC pallet

So I went into town recently and popped to my local MAC store and to my surprise it was dead! Maybe it's because it was a Tuesday morning but I knew I didn't have to rush. 

I've been thinking about depotting my MAC single shadows for a long time to create my own pro pallet. I was going to buy the pre-made warm/cool toned pallets but then I relised what was the point in spending £120 on two NUTRAL pallets when I have loads of nutral singles at home and all 3 Naked Pallets. 

I decided I'm going to create pro pallets of my own! A natural everyday one, a smokey intense one and a crazy colourful one. I decided that because it's summer I'd make myself a fun colourful pallet. To do this I bought the pallet tray and insert and they came to about £20. Then I bought 10 crazy eyeshadow colours and depotted the 5 I had at home this came to £100 as an eyeshadow pan is £10 each. 

When wanting to create your own pallet I highly suggest not just picking up random shadows! Choose the colours you want and have tired out then line them up in order of how you want your pallet to look. I suggest doing this because you can clearly see where the shadows will belong in the final product.

I had so much fun creating my custom pallet and luckily since I knew what I wanted the final product to look like creating my pallet couldn't of been easier. When creating a pro pallet I highly suggest doing some reserch and knowing what colours you want inside your pallet. This makes the process quicker and easier for you and the MAC staff.

From Left to Right the colours are-

Chrome Yellow, Paradisco, Rule, Passionate, Fig 1, Vibrant Grape, Stars'n'Rockets, Parfait Amour, Electric Eel, Moon's Refection, Aquadisiac, Swimming, Sumptuous Olive, Idol Eyes, Electra

Love,

Caitlin x

Tanya Burr Cosmetics

I have read so many blogpost's about Tanya Burr's makeup line and I'm a little late on the craze. However, that's not stopping me on writing a little post on my thoughts about the line.

The colours are super pigmented and so glossy! They also smell like strawberry's and cream which is obviously a plus if you're a sucker for nice smelling makeup. The packaging is clear and rectangular with a black lid and sponge applicator. The glosses retail for £6.99 each.

I bought 6 out of the 12 lips glosses from superdrug in the 3 for 2 deal. I got a range of colours from pink-y nudes to a vampy red. The colours I bought are Champagne Toast, Afternoon Tea, Picnic in the Park, Aurora, Exotic Island and Vampire Kiss. 

I didn't buy any of the nailpolish's but I really want to get Little Duck, Midnight Sparkles and Peaches and Cream. They look like stunning colours and have a super sing finish.  The polishes retail for £5.99 each.

I can't wait to get more of the Tanya Burr collection and I highly recommend you to get some yourself!

Love, 

Caitlin x

How do you Hoola?

Hey guys! Sorry I was MIA this past week but I haven't had access to a computer and I didn't realise I could use an iPad to write a blogpost! Who knew? 

AnywayBenefit Cosmetics has been running an Instagram contest called #HowDoYouHoola where you can take a selfie with your own Hoola Bronzer where you can win a personalised Bronzer! I have always loved Hoola Bronzer and I live to wear it with Rockature Blush. The warm matte Bronzer works so well with the was Rose Gold blush. To top off the whole bronzed look Hoola Lipgloss just adds that perfect bronze-y Finnish to the How Do You Hoola look.

They also have a second contest where you re-post a picture to win all 4 new Benefit lipbalms. LoliBalm, PosieBalm, BeneBalm and ChaChaBalm. These lipbalms are exactly like the cheek stains but are fully designed for your lips and have a glossy balm finish.

Before these contests are over I suggest you enter to win some amazing prizes and while you're there follow me @caitlinfreeland __ 

Love,

Caitlin x