my first tattoo experience!

Hello there gorgeous!

I'm not sure if you know but I turned 18 recently and for my birthday I decided to get my first tattoo.

I must admit my mum wasn't thrilled with me getting a tattoo. Although both my parents have tattoos (mum has one and dad has so many I don't even know!) my mum was concerned that I will regret it, something would go wrong, it would hurt too much or I wouldn't like where it is.

However my dad, since I was around 16 I think, has always been of the mind that I am an adult and can make my own choices. I think he has always believed that because we are so similar and he knows that I don't make rash decisions. I must give him some credit actually he helped me finalise my design. 

I decided I needed to make the design myself because it would be easier than going to a tattoo parlour and trying to explain what I wanted and paying extra for them to design it. I just used word because I have zero artistic talent, with a picture I took from Google Images of bird outlines, printed it out and gave it to the artist once I'd decided on a place. I rearranged the quote to be on two lines (just taking out the "and") because I knew I only wanted it to cover a *relatively* small area so for work etc. it can be covered.

Anyway here it is!

1 day after, still healing and scabbing hence the kind of bumpy look, it will be smooth soon :)

where it is actually on my arm

Pain wise, I wouldn't really say it was painful, probably about a 4/10. It's more unpleasant than anything. Plus I picked a chubby area of my arm (well, chubbier it's all chubby!) because I while reading around abut tattoo pain, it seems to be that the closer to the bone/the skinnier the area the more pain.

Oh and it hardly cost anything because my dad knew the tattoo artist, I think it should have been around £40/£50 because it only took about 4 minutes. Weirdly I know that it took a little longer than One Directions new song as that was on the radio at the time!

I would just say, if you're reading this because you're wanting to get a tattoo, just be 100% sure that you are happy to look at it forever. I did draw my tattoo on myself in eyeliner and see if I could live with it.

Anyway, that's it my lovely!

If you have a blog please do leave it below as I always love new ones to read!

Lots and lots of love, Beth xoxoxo!

outfit from my 18th!

 OOTD from my 18th birthday meal!

plum wedges from Primark, around the £15 mark I think
ordinary black Primark leggings, £3

cute stud style buttons on the shirt

brown waist belt

sheer top from Top Shop
£15 in the sale, was £30
vest top underneath from Primark

Hope you liked that lovely!

Just a little post today, short and sweet for once ;)

Lots and lots of love, Beth xoxoxo.
do you have a blog? be sure to leave it below and I'll check it out! 

18th birthday make-up!

Hello lovely!

I turned 18 on the 12th and I thought I would share the make-up that I wore with you!

Coming up soon as well will be a kind of "day in the life" of my birthday, an outfit of the day and a post on the tattoo I got :).

I was planning on putting all the post together (make-up, outfit, tattoo and generally what I did), but when I was sorting out all of the pictures I realised that it would be an absurdly large post!

Products in the order used:

-Wilkinsons Fruity Hand sanitiser

-Bobbles 

-Boots Essentials Moisturiser 

-Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer (Medium)

-Brush from a Blush Professional kit, used for concealer

-Revlon ColorStay foundation (for normal/dry skin in 180 sand beige)

-Real Techniques expert face brush used for foundation

-Blistex Relief Cream (for dry lips)

-Rimmel Professional Eye Brow Pencil

-Loreal Super Liner Carbon Gloss

-Barry M Bold Waterproof Eyeliner (in black)

-ELF Studio Cream Eye Shadow (can't find the colour online but I think Champagne) 

-Brush from a Blush Professional kit, used for eye shadow in the inner corners of my eyes

-Max Factor Eye Brightening Mascara for green eyes

-MAC Lip Pencil in Soar

-MAC Cremesheen Lip Stick in Hot Gossip 

oooh don't I look young!
-no make-up-

using flash...

natural light... 

So, there's the finished look!

Pink lips, big winged liner, defined brows and just a very plain face (no blush etc.).

Hope you like it :)

I had by far the best birthday ever this year...

As always, if you fancy a chat I'm always on Twitter @LookLifeBeauty

And if you really liked this post and fancy giving me a late birthday gift why not pop your email in the box above and get notifications when I next post?

Lots and lots of love, Beth xoxoxox.

p.s. do you have any MAC lipstick suggestions? Hot Gossip is my first ever and I've fallen in love!

my week in pictures #2!

Quite a dull week this week, as Saturday was my birthday so most of the pictures were taken on that day which will be up in a separate blog post :).

But I figured I should still post a week in pictures! 

Here we go...

Monday 7th January 2013
My little sister came home from school and gave me about 10 packets of Harribo because she doesn't like them; omnomnom!

Tuesday 8th January 2013
Brought a new lovely lovely blogging notebook from the Paper-Chase sale :)

Wednesday 9th January 2013
Oh so much college revision :(

Thursday 10th January 2013
Blueberries and Greek style yogurt, yummy!  

Friday 11th January 2013
First birthday prezzie! White roses from the grandparents :).

Saturday 12th January 2013
I turned 18!

Sunday 13th January 2013
One of  my favourite birthday presents!

There you go lovely! My not-so-exciting week in pictures, more exciting posts to come very soon :') 

Lots and lots of love, Beth xoxoxo. 

birthday wishlist!

Hello you gorgeous thing! 
I am insanely excited, in a matter of (currently 8) days, I will be an official, fully-fledged adult! That's right, I'm turning 18! 

Anyway, as I have had a stupidly long day which has consisted of meeting the boyfriend for breakfast (we had tea and scones, it was ridiculously cute!) and then sitting and not moving from my computer doing college work all about murder (ooooh jolly...), I wanted to get excited about something.

With that in mind, here is my birthday wishlist; some items I know I'm getting (as they are a prezzie from me to me) and some I will just endlessly dream after...

1) My Tattoo!
Now obviously I can't whack in a picture of this amazing tattoo that doesn't yet exist, but you all know what tattoos are. My tattoo is (hopefully, I'm going to see a lovely lady about it tomorrow) going to be a quote on my arm that I'm going to get done on my birthday morning. So if you're interested in seeing that, make sure to be following me on twitter (@LookLifeBeauty), as I'm sure to be tweeting all the way through it! 

2) M.A.C lipstick! 
I've filled and emptied the online basket in MAC more times than I can count and never been able to push that button, have you seen the prices?! But always in the basket are two lipsticks; Creme D' Nude and Brick-o-La, I just love them! 

3) Illamasqua highlighter!
Specifically, Gleam in Aurora. I genuinely do not have the words to express my feelings for this product, Google it, it's gorgeous!  

4) Comedy DVDs!
I haven't brought DVDs in so long, just because £10 is a lot to spend all at once for something that lasts maybe 2 hours and I won't want to watch again for at least a week. So anything with Sarah Millican, Jon Richardson, Russell Howard, Greg Davies, David Mitchell or Miranda Hart and I'm happy!

5) A nice meal out with the family and boyfriend!
Unfortunately this won't be happening this year, my big brother will be off back at uni and my mum will be working... But I am going to compromise, breakfast out with dad, lunch out with my boyfriend and a night in with my mum!

Do you get as excited as me about your birthday? I just think it's the best day (minus Christmas)!
Fancy making an extra birthday wish come true early and giving my twitter/blog whichever you fancy, a follow? I promise to love you forever :)
Beth, xoxoxo