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First of all, can you tell I took these photos when we were in the process of moving?! #paintchippednails
I'll probably be sharing bits and bobs of my wedding planning journey on here and once we're actually married I'm sure I'll be sharing more, but throughout the next year or so I think you'll all start to realise that I'm not the "typical" bride, whatever that may be. I think brides and weddings vary all over the world, but communities are quite tight and where I'm from there seems to be a wedding format you follow... or don't.
Although I've always been excited to get married, or rather be married, the wedding itself has always freaked me out. I love the idea of being surrounded by all my favourite people and just having fun but there's so many of the traditions that just aren't very me and I feel silly doing it they don't mean anything to me. So we're just doing it our way and although I'm sure we'll get some raised eyebrows along the way, we don't want to play a role on our wedding day, we just wanna be us.
So the first tradition I'm swerving is bridesmaids. I'm sure we'll have the little kids do something on the day but adult bridesmaids won't be a thing at our wedding. My girls know who they are and they will still be massively involved with the planning and execution of the day. I just want them to feel comfortable in whatever they're wearing and not feel like they have jobs to do. Out of everyone at the wedding I want my best friends and sisters to be able to let their hair down and have fun. So although I won't have friends and siblings dressed up in matching dresses, I did want to acknowledge them somehow.
I think when a friend gets engaged it's difficult to know how involved they might want you to be, so I found my own little way of telling my besties how much they mean to me and why I want them to be involved somehow.
I bought these little cards from Paperchase and they were perfect. I printed out a photo of me and the other person (a few best girlfriends and my sisters) and paperclipped it to the card. I wrote a huge, long note just saying what they meant to me and it felt great just to be able to tell someone you love them! I washi taped the envelope and sent them off in the post without any heads up. I got lots of "you made me cry" text messages and so I think they went down well!
For me, getting married isn't just about myself and Rich, we'll definitely have lots of family and friends involved in the whole thing. We want it to be casual, informal, fun and personal. So time to get planning I guess! Any tips please send them my way! I'm currently on the hunt for a casual, non-wedding dress type dress that isn't a fortune... it's proving difficult.
L'oreal True Match has always been one of the best performing drugstore foundations, in my opinion. It's the foundation I go to for medium/full coverage, with lasting power and I'm always confident that'll it look good on camera. The foundation formula hasn't changed in 10 years but customer's requirements have and now people want more from their foundation, they want added skincare benefits. So to celebrate 10 years of True Match foundation L'Oreal have updated and tweaked the formula to suit the modern day customer and I absolutely love it.
The original formula, although good, I felt could be a little too heavy. I like a medium/full coverage occasionally but only when it works into the skin, the old formula could sometimes sit on the skin like a mask and it was quite hard to blend in. The new formula has new pigments for a more radiant complexion, oils for a better blend with the skin and improved moisture replenishment for comfort on the skin. I can really feel the difference and it works so much better on my skin. It blends in much better whilst still keeping the coverage, just with a bit of added glow.
I'm a happy bunny but I do think that those of you with oilier skin types who relied on this foundation might be disappointed. The slightly chalkiness that may have kept your skin more matte has now gone, so I'm sure some people won't be happy about that.
Let me know if you've tried the new formula and what you think? Clearly, I'm a fan.
There's always a shift in my personal beauty department this time of year... did I really just call it a beauty department? Let's go with it.
The matte eyeshadows make an appearance, the deeper burgundies come out to play and everything just gets a bit more intense. In the warmer months I'm really aware of the bright daylight showing shimmer on my skin or revealing just a bit too much makeup so I tend to keep things quite low key. But in Autumn I like to experiment more with my makeup, amp up the intensity and put a bold lip with a bold eye, why not eh!?
One beauty product that always makes a seasonal come back is the 
