The Summer Edit: Part 2

For my second instalment of the Summer edit I wanted to let you in on my absolute must-haves for my hair, body and beach bag…

The Summer Edit: Skin care

Whether you’re stay-cationing or vacationing Summer brings with it a need for certain essentials and having just returned from the beautiful Deauville in Northern-France I thought now would be perfect time to share my absolute holiday favourites with you. Hopefully just in time for anyone about to make the most of the last few weeks in August.

Having enjoyed a sunshine break back in May, our August French break was more shopping and eating than sunbathing but I did get to have a few hours relaxing on the incredible beach there, honestly never seen such a long and wide stretch of sand before. It took ten minutes to walk the width of the beach in order to dip your toes in the sea! And with sunshine comes dried locks and sun kissed (red) skin… so in my first Summer essentials edit I wanted to share my absolute skin saviours, the makeup, the prep, the tan and all the gloss…

The Sunday Edit: Inappropriate

Now we are mothers are we still sexy? Our bodies may have changed but we are still the same person, we have just created small humans. We still like the same things, still have feelings, desires… we still want to be desired and feel attractive. When so many people are so quick to judge, where do you feel comfortable drawing the line?

The Beauty Edit: My Every-Day Essentials

In the first of a little mini-series on beauty I wanted to answer a few questions people have asked on Snapchat and Instagram and show you what my beauty essentials are. I am starting with my skin and my every-day beauty routine.

The Beauty Edit: Get Your Pins Out!

I have written about Vita Liberata so many times now but that’s because it really is so good. And with this turn in the weather I wanted to re-hash an old post to give you a quick step by step so you can get those pins out this weekend!

The Sunday Edit: Weekly Inspo

Another weekend gone in a flash, it seems like the older I get the quicker life seems to go by… doesn’t stop the Sunday dreads though so here’s my weekly inspiration post to help me and hopefully you feel revved up to make this week a good one. Whether you’re a stay at home mum, mum to small babies, working mum, mum to teens, mum to a mum or mum to be, we are all a boss of something… we are all doing a great job… we just sometimes need to be reminded of that. And reminded to look after ourselves as well as our families.

This week I am setting myself three simple goals:

The Lifestyle Edit: Monday Blues

I hope everyone had a really lovely Mothers Day yesterday. I decided to skip my usual Sunday evening post and enjoy some more mummy-time so I thought I would bring my Sunday inspo to a Monday morning in the hope it’ll perk you up as you start the week. Monday mornings are never much fun after all….

The Shopping Edit: Confession Time

I love coming clean every Friday on exactly what I have spent my well earned pennies on… confession time!

The Beauty Edit: Messy Hair…Kinda Do Care

As a mum having time to wash and blow dry your own hair is a luxury and I think personally it comes round about once, maybe twice a week (at a push) for me (shameful) hence multiple cans of Batiste can be found in our house at any one time. In my defence my hair is quite long and takes an age to dry!!!

The Shopping Edit: Gold & Leopard

This week I finally purchased one of my dream beauty buys – the Mason Pearson hairbrush. It has literally been on the ‘Christmas List’ for years, and this year my dear mother decided to gift me some money so I could buy one myself. I think she felt it was far too much to spend on a brush so couldn’t quite do it herself, she made some excuse and handed over the cash…. and yes it is very expensive for a hairbrush… do I think its worth it? Hard to tell really. It does make brushing your hair feel like such a luxury though. And I have a lot of hair so I have to brush it regularly. It also looks very pretty on the dressing table. I went for nylon and natural bristle, the website has a clever little tool that lets you put all your hair details in and then up pops their recommendations. I also went for the largest, far quicker brush-time with this mane.

If you buy one online here they are offering 25% off until Monday!

Mason Pearson hairbrush

Second on (what I am now calling) the list of guilt… a very reasonable H&M cardigan. This is from the H&M basic collection and cost £14.99. Anyone that has read past posts and followed my IG will know I am obsessed with leopard print so when I spotted this simple cardigan on route to the changing room I had to make a quick pit-stop and grab my size. I am afraid I have searched online and they don’t have it but if you head to the Basic range in your closest store hopefully it will be in stock. I have also included an alternative here that is gorgeous and this amazing cardigan I didn’t even see in store but am now coveting!

So I left everything else in the changing room and came home with just this feeling smug that I hadn’t spent too much money.

Until….

My husband and I had discussed Valentines and to be honest we don’t really buy into it, I think after Christmas and then my birthday is in January, February we are done with gifts and trying to keep those purse strings closed. But after a bit of a rough few months health wise in our family he thought I deserved a treat and within seconds (of course) I knew what I wanted… a simple gold bangle. And today I found the perfect one! In a little local jewellers. It is beautiful and I will make sure I post it on IG next week… if I am allowed to wear it pre-Valentines…eeek.

And there it is… the list of guilt.

Did you buy anything new this week? Any finds you want to share?

Thank you for reading…

Love,

Vx