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Macadamia oil

Hello my beautiful bloggers, 
Wanted to share this product with you all. 
When i first heard about Macadamia oil, i thought, oh its just another product thats ment to work wonders on your hair. I have brought a load of different products before that are ment t0 rejuvenate your hair. Honestly i thought "no its not going to work!" But hey i thought id try it. I saw the packaging first its so beautiful with the brown swirls and bright green labels. Its something that shouts "Buy me! Buy me!" My hair is naturally curly, long and thick, when i straighten it, its a frizzy nightmare! I opened it and it smelt gorgeous! It smelt very sweet and a little bit almondy (is it even a word?). You would expect to see normal clear oil, it was a pinky orange! It is very light and delicate when i put it on my hands. I put it all over my hair and it soaked up perfectly and didn't make my hair look or feel greasy. It felt so light and my hair was frizz free, shiny, bouncy and so soft! I actually couldn't stop touching my hair. It also contains natural ingredients, so no harsh chemicals! 
Another amazing thing Macadamia Oil does, is it leaves your skin soft, supple and glowing, if applied to skin. I cant describe how amazing this product is! Overall i would give it a 10/10! 
BUY! BUY! BUY!


To buy Macadamia products click here or go to a hair/beauty salon.

A fresh start.

weheartit.com

Hey xx

Decided i wanted to do reviews on products, more than writing random chit chat. I will be chat about makeup, nails, hair, products and fashion. I want to start reviewing and writing about different products. I want to be more creative too, so now i will try and master photography skills. Wish me luck...
From this last blog i want to start a new chapter.

autumn/winter

Aztec Print

River Island-£22

River Island-£22

www.supermarketsarah.com

Knitted

River Island-£35

Superdry-£54.99

Superdry

Nails! Nails! Nails!

Photo shoot

Hey! 
For my moms birthday i got her a day at a photoshoot with me. So on friday we went down to Birmingham  ID studios, its not a very big place and it was hard to find! It took us 20 minutes to find it, its on a little street called temple street... but in the end we found it! yay! :) On the website it said you have to be on TIME, so we were a little bit worried because we were about 10 mins late...

4:45pm-8pm


When we got there we were greeted by a boy and he took our bags off us, and checked us in. We walked into the waiting area/hair studio it was quite small and maybe needed a splash of paint, other than that, the equipment was very new. After that we sat down for a few minutes and they gave us a short survey to fill in and some refreshments, i had orange squash and my mom had a coffee, i think they should have more of a choice. 
    
We sat for about 6 minutes then we were taken to the makeup studio, the room was kinda cramped and there were about 6 people in total in there. The makeup artists were friendly and i swear one of them were from telly! They were good at there job, i would give them a 9/10. I wanted smokey black and sliver eyes and bright blue based pink lipstick. My mom had a natural look and she looked AMAZING! This took about 10 mins tops. 
    
After that we went back into the waiting area/hair studio and admired our makeup in the mirror, 3 minutes later i was called for my hair styling i wanted the "Kim Kardashian" hair . The hair stylist was SO friendly! He gave me so many tips on hair and beauty, he gave me the Kim kardashian look, i certainly looked like part of the kardashian family *wink wink*. My hair took about 20 minutes and we chatted away for about 10 more. I had huge flowing curls and i have to admit i looked pretty and so did my mom. I would give the hair stylist 10/10 on personality and on styling! 
    
After that we were taken to a photo studio and greeted by a lady she was also friendly. The changing room or should i say corner was hugely disappointing! It was about 1 meter wide and 1 meter length! No lie! It was a corner with a curtain! Me and my mom struggled to get changed in the amount of time given, but we had no other place to get changed. Another little moan i have to say is about the photo scenes, a small room with sections and curtains to get the backgrounds. Other than that the photo shoot  was brilliant! The photographer was friendly  and took some amazing pictures! The nicest thing i was told all day was that i was a natural at modelling! I am now looking at modelling agencies :) 
    
Once we were finished we were taken to a photo room to view our pictures. I loved every single one of them! We both got to pic a photo for our complimentary photo 7x5 print, since we were there last clients he gave us a A4 print. To buy the photos were quite expensive £50 each! The sad thing was that we couldn't have a print of both of us it had to be a picture of yourself. Sadly they didn't even give us small prints of our pictures we were told "Your pictures will be deleted when you walk out", i don't think they should of said that.We had to pay £5 each for the P+P which is alright. BUT you have to pay £25 per person for a deposit which they give you back in 5-10 working day which i think is a bit silly. Overall i was pleased with the experience . 

(Pictures to come.)

what i did yesterday :)

Well i went to Bullring yesterday with my cousin,brother,mom + aunty. My mom and aunty wanted to get some MAC makeup so me, my cousin + bro went up and down the lifts in Selfridges haha! We got to the bottom floor to find sweets EVERYWHERE! The most amazing thing i saw was the Bullring bull made out of jelly beans! It was massive!

It must of taken agesssss to make! We had £10 each to spend on sweets (£30 all together)! I was like a little kid choosing all the sweets i wanted! I had:

• candyfloss bubblegum
• Toxic waste (reallyyy SOUR sweets)
• Jelly Belly jellybeans 
• Hersheys chocolate bars -cookies and cream
• 2 long lollypop things :)
• Marshmallow fluff spread
• limited edition Coca Cola 
• Willy Wonka taffy thing
• Hersheys Kisses
• pick and mix sweets (sweet thing i think they were called :L)

-The thing i wanted the most was the vodka lollypop which has a dead scorpion inside it, urmm chocolate 

covered ants, worms in toffee + monkey tea!! But....you had to be over 18 to buy them -_-!

-Another thing i wish i brought was these amazing cupcakes. Decorated beautifully and they looked delicious!

Just before we went to Bullring i had to go pick up my glasses B) they said i have to wear them all the time now :( but i like my glasses, but i don't no what everyone else think. All my family and friends like them but are they too much to wear all the time? I guess it only matters what i think really, but i would like your opinion?

Another thing i brought this amazing dress- by AX Paris picked it up for £15 off the website. Its gorgeous, navy blue colour dress is just above your knees, its looks Ah'mazinggg with a large chunky gold necklace, gold pandora bracelet + large gold earrings.

Birmingham riot :(

Riot


MONDAY 8TH AUGUST I was at my Dads house in birmingham on saturday when i heard about all the rioting in Tottenham, i was very shocked about all of this. On Monday 8th august i knew Birmingham was going to join the rioting, around 11pm or 12am there was a break-in at the JET petrol station opposite my dads house. A gang of black youths about 6 of them came with baseball bats, bricks and a public bin! I recorded all of it. They smashed the glass and inside the shop place, it was horrible to watch but there was worst to come. Birmingham bullring shopping centre was looted and smashed. What more could happen?! SORRY I CANNOT SHOW THE VIDEO OF THE ROBBERY BECAUSE IT WILL BE HANDED INTO POLICE FOR EVIDENCE.




TUESDAY 9TH AUGUST No one dared to walk the streets today,very quiet thats very un-likley for Dudley road! Something was going to happen tonight... around 2pm all shops were closed because the riots were coming this way. Shop keepers stood outside their shops with weapons ranging from sticks all the way to spears! Yes spears! I think the most protected buildings were the temples 100-300 people stood in front of their temple in Smethwick. Smethick Sikh temple has a lot of history, years back it was white people didn't like brown/black people in England so they burnt the temple :o its the oldest temple in Europe! 
"FIRE!"Anyway about 8:30 my cousin came to stay and we were looking out the window and we saw a load of black smoke coming from the park 1 min down the road! It was about 8:50 and we ran down to the smoke there was a fire at the back of the park. It was sectioned off from the rest of the park and loads of things were dumped there. There was tiers,sofas,car door, wood and what looked like 2 gas tanks! The fire was not yet by the gas tanks, the fire was spreading rapidly it burnt a tree and it collapsed into the middle of the road! It was 9 and my dad called the fire brigade and told them there were 2 gas tanks that may explode any minute and that there were loads of people around the fire! They told us they were on there way (station bout 5-10 mins away), 30 mins later: Fire brigade still not arrived, we rang again and they said they cant arrive yet because of the riots! The fire was now about 1 meter away from the tanks, the smoke was TOXIC. We stood as far as we could away from the fire. 1 hour later: Still not arrived!!!! The fire was dangerously close to the gas tanks maybe could last 2-3 minutes till the fire would touch. It was 10pm still no sign, it was too dangerous to stay there. We had to hold our breaths and run through the smoke to get home. We were nearly home and we saw 3 fire engines and 2 ambulances FINALLY arrived! About 11pm smoke still everywhere and gas tanks were marked safe by the fire brigade. 
"Something is gonna happen!"I was sitting in my bedroom looking through the window and saw about 80 muslim(asian) youths with baseball bats,bricks, bottles and whatever they could find. They were protecting the area. But Something was going to happen! Around 11:30 things got worse...Every black person caught on the streets where given dirty looks. But the worst thing was they were smashing up cars that had black people in! That was wrong.

WEDNESDAY 10TH AUGUSTCouple of hours later around 1:20am one of the cars came back. It was doing a speed of around 90mph and drove up the road. I heard one of the muslim boys shout " Get ready! Get your stuff! Get to one side!". As it sped up the road all the muslim gang got into the road and surrounded the car and smashed it up with baseball bats and bricks, the car slowed down a bit about 30mph then all of a sudden the driver put his foot down and it was driving at 50mph and run over 3 men aged 21-32yrs. The car windscreen was smashed up and the bonnet was smashed, but yet it still drove off. They went flying in the air and they looked like rag dolls(sorry to say) and they smashed on the floor. I know it sounds bad but i knew they were dead, one man had a faint pulse i think. There was blood everywhere all you heard was "call a ambulance! HURRY!" You heard all of the gang crying and screaming :'( They lay lifeless on the floor, i was shaking and i burst out crying, it was horrific to see 3 people die in front of you. All the boys were asking the cars that were going past to take the dyeing men to the hospital, the people in the cars were too scared to take them. Around 5 mins later the father of the brothers arrived he lived a minute away from the incident. He straight away started CPR on his son, then he found out that his other son was also in the accident, he was devastated. 10minutes later the ambulance arrived and they stayed on the road because there was no time to get to the hospital. Sadly the too brothers died there, Shazad and Abdul were pronounced dead at the scene, R.I.P. Haroon Jahan was critically injured and was rushed to hospital, the gang that was protecting the area cleared the area and rushed to the hospital. The murder investigators sealed of the crime scene and started investigating the area. My dad had to give a statement to the police, i couldn't talk i was still in shock. 100's gathered at City Hospital. At 6:30am Haroon Jahan was pronounced dead, R.I.P. Hours later the police found the smashed car and arrested a 32yr old man. I had a video of what happened straight after the accident. I talked to a BBC radio reporter and told him what i happened- "it was horrible to watch, because you don't expect people just to die in front of you. It was really bad. This shouldn't of happened if the police came earlier and asked what was going on it could of been stopped." Listen to it here only available for 6 days. Later that day i was interviewed by Sophie(BBC midlands today reporter) to be on the news. Also i had a witness video of the incident that i signed over to the BBC, it was on the news and website. Loads of people gathered around the mosque(muslim temple) and around the incident. There were reporters from around the world asking us questions.

Paying respects The road was open again from 10pm and 100's of muslims M All of the community, family and friends held candles, laid flowers and wrote messages. After speaking to the father of Haroon, he asked for peace now, and he was heard. For 2 days now there has been peace. Breaking news: 2 teens have been arrested and so has another man. The 32yr old has been bailed out but is still under investigation. Their killers WILL be caught and dealt with severely. If you saw or know any thing please contact the police. I will update if i hear or see any news. Never take your life for granted.


-Funeral Thursday 18th August 2011- Winson Green

R.I.P Haroon, Abdul + Shazad. May god bless your souls.♥

July

July

sorry its late i was going to do it yesterday, but i had fantastic news! My mom got me tickets to go and see The Wanted in march with my cousins and best friend. Anyway here it is!...

Barry M Instant nail effect.-Pink fizz

 This nail polish is amazing! Its quite simple to do, just put a base coat colour on your nails (i put on a baby pink colour). Then apply instant nail effect and its magical, it turns into a whole new effect. I had a lot of compliments on my nails, they looked fantastic! Its long lasting and doesn't chip. So i would say 10/10 :) 

                 Loreal lash architect 4D mascara

I love this mascara, it looks very appealing with the shiny tube. Its quite wet which is okay, but i think it could be a bit dryer.In saying that, the mascara doesn't seem to overly dry on my lashes. I hate it when mascara starts to flake, but this one doesn't. The brush is quite small and twisted, a twisted brush is meant to give the false lash effect and easily coat all the lashes. Also it doesn't go lumpy on my lashes! It does what it says, but it could curl the lashes a bit more. I think the black mascara has more of a effect.

Keeping up with the Kardashians- sky-151

Im actually really into watching this! Theres not really much to say, its really interesting watching what happens in their lives. There just the same as everyone else, they argue, laugh together and there a really nice family. I think all of them are so pretty! Who wouldn't want to look like them!?

Adele-set fire to the rain

I think Adele is one amazing singer, her voice is so unique.This is the best song she has done in my opinion I really want to go see her in concert or something. Someone buy me tickets haha?

buys-

 

Red Tie Top

Cream/stone trousers

     

Floral flip flops

Fish pedicure?

Fish pedicure? yes, fish pedicure.

Last friday my mom + aunty had a fish pedicure, yes there is really a fish pedicure! It doesn't sound realistic. But i can say it is very real. You have to put your feet into a tank of water with little tiny fish in there, its weird, very weird. My mom started to laugh and scream at the same time! She said its very ticklish and scary. These fish eat....SKIN! All day they eat peoples skin off their feet...YUK. Anyway you have to keep your feet in there for 15-30 minutes, these fish go in between your toes and around your feet. My mom described it as "little kisses on your feet!" haha! After the time is up you take your feet out and they feel as soft as anything! So this friday i'm having a fish pedicure! Ill have to take a video! Wish me luck, i cant stand people or fishes in this matter tickling my feet! I hope none of the fishes get hurt if i do get ticklish feet! Bye xx

One Direction on Alan Carr's chatty man! ♥

One Direction on Alan Carr's chatty man! ♥

Something to watch on a friday night, oh and especially if you are a FAN of One Direction ;) So glad i have an amazing friend who BB's me any time, anywhere telling me who's on tele + if i should be paying special attention haha!
*One direction's Zayn and Alan Carr dance off! click HERE* Zayn is defiently the dancer, eh?

One Direction + Alan Carr

 Aww dont they look nice ;)

I ♥ Krispy Kreme!

I ♥ Krispy Kreme!

On Saturday I went to Bullring in birmingham with my cousin and Dad, it was about 11:30 and we walked into Selfridges and the smell of fresh doughnuts had me in a daze. My mouth was watering! I ran to the line which had like 30 people in, i waited and waited and waited... till it was my turn to pick my doughnuts. I was going to just have 1 but i waited in that line for ages, so i brought a dozen which was like £10! very expensive for doughnuts. I picked my dozen very carefully not letting my dad or cousin pick one (yes i was mean at the time, but im the one who waited in the line!)I was like a little kid picking what ice cream they want from the ice cream van! I picked:

• 2 maple glaze
•  original glazed
• 2 cookies and creme
• 2 chocolate dreamcake
• mango passion cheesecake
• cinnamon apple filled
• chocolate iced with spinkles
• butterscotch fudge
• sugared doughnut

♥

i didn't eat them all at once i ate 1 doughnut when i brought the doughnuts, i walked around for a bit and it was about 3pm and i walked past starbucks, i absolutely love frappichinos, there so YUM. I love the chocolate one :). 

 ♥

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Indian wedding

Indian wedding

As you can see i have gone a bit crazing with the blogging :D. My Mom is good at beauty, when i say good i mean REALLY good. She can do anything with just mascara and lipstick. She has really inspired me to learn more about makeup and beauty. In August its my Mom's, best friends, niece's wedding. My Mom is doing her hair and makeup, on Tuesday my Mom went to the bride-to-be house to show her how its going to look. It took a couple of hours but it looked AMAZING! I didn't know my mom was that good at hair and makeup so now she is REALLY,REALLY good! Her hair was gorgeous, ill take some pictures on thursday(going to her house). Ill describe it- one side of her head my mom done loads of twists and they turned into loops and she built it up....actually this is hard to explain so you will just have to wait for the pictures, it looks better than it sounds. The lady my mom is make-overing(<is that even a word? o.O) is really pretty, even without makeup, to be honest i don't think she even needs makeup! I have learnt quite a lot of things from my Mom, but i am good at beauty too. Like i'm good at nails and hair and my Mom is good at makeup and hair(but i'm better at hair haha). I think we should form a team and have a beauty salon! We would be RICH! We should call it....urmm.... GOOD BEAUTY! No, not really, ill let my mom pick that ;)

♥ 

-Its an Indian wedding and they have a lot of detail in their weddings, everything has to be PERFECT! These weddings are very stressful, but are worth it. I love the brides, they look fabulous on the wedding day and through the ceremonies which start at like 7am! I don't think they sleep! They have a lot of gold jewellery, the dress weighs a TON! They have to spend all day in it, even party in it, they are quite uncomfortable

 ♥

Henna takes a looooong time, to do all the detail, before the wedding the bride has 'Mendi'(henna) done and it is very detailed, the  grooms initials are hidden in the brides henna and the groom has to find them, if he does then its true love, if they don't find it....then....they will have to think again before they get married haha.

♥

The makeup is stunning, loads of different colours and detail. All the colours mix together and match the jewellery and wedding dress(lengha). Some brides like a lot of detail, some like simple makeup.

♥

Thats all about Indian weddings, ill uploads the pictures next week. Bye x

♥

Comeround-Soda Stream

I love SODA STREAM!

On the internet there is this website called Comeround (www.comeround.com) and it is quite amazing you have to sign up for it but it takes like a minute literally. Anyway Comeround is a bit like a advertising company, this is how it works.

-You have to sign up to be a party host (they only pick 1000 people. So be quick).

- If you have been picked you will get a confirmation email. Click on the link that has been sent to you.

- Invite your guests through email, add a personal message. ( you NEED to invite at least 10 people)

- Tell all your guests to accept the invitation which would be sent through an email to their email address. They have to click the link which will be in the email, and put their name and D.O.B + go through the instructions ( pretty simple). You need at least 10 people to accept the invitation.

- If you have not invited enough guests they will send you a email.

- A couple of days before the party date you will receive your party package, it will have enough goodies for 10 people!

- On the day of the party enjoy and talk about your goodies and comeround.

- After the party take a photo and upload it to the Facebook page. Answer the questionnaire that will be sent to your email.

For more information click HERE

My SodaStream!

I saw this on t.v. and I wanted it SOO much! Luckily Comeround was shipping this out to all their party hosts (i was a host!) I received it a couple of days before my Big Time Rush party, I got home and ripped my package apart! I stated at this fabulous machine! It came with 7 flavours- Diet cola, orange, lemonade, blackcurrant, energy drink, grapefruit, raspberry + cranberry(my favourite). It also came with a gas bottle, but it was completely safe, it wasn't flammable or explosive. I had to try it so i opened it up and made a bottle of diet cola, it actually tasted really good :) you have to try it! Click HERE  for more information about SodaStream.

I hope you buy a SodaStream and share the fizz.<3

Big Time Rush!!!

Big Time Rush come to Birmingham!

My first signing was amazing! On the 12th of July me and my 2 friends Fiz + Chloe went to birmingham HMV to meet Big Time Rush!!! There was a bit of a problem first....well quite a few problems haha!

1* We couldn't find HMV! We followed these 3 girls secretly, thinking they were going to the signing too ( + they were!) so that was lucky, it was my idea to follow them, but my friends didn't think they were going to the signing!

2* We needed to buy a cd each that costs £7.99, me and Chloe only had £2 each but lucky Fiz had like £30 with her!! I don't know why you would need £30 for a signing but it came in handy. Right this is like the 2nd best thing that happened on the day! Me and my friends were paying for our cd's and because the waiting room was right by the till we saw Big Time Rush before everyone! it was amazing...all of them walked out and smiled at us we were like a couple of steps in front of them! We just stood there frozen as they waved at us. How lucky were we?! :D

3* We met these really nice body guards and we were late for the signing because we had to go to the back of the shop to buy cd's and he let us in the front of the line! We had an amazing view of the boys!

- We waited in line for 1 hour but it was worth ever minute we had the BEST view ever! So we took loads + loads of videos! ill upload the videos later to a new post because i have to go upstairs to get my phone haha! Anyway then Fiz got on top of Chloe's shoulders and shouted James and he smiled at us!! i have a video of that too :) about 1 hour later we got to the table were the boys were sitting to get our posters signed! we got to the table and we all screamed lmao! James (the one with the beautiful hair) was the first to sign our posters, he said hey Shannon to me and called all of us darling and said ''how are you?" in a american accent! Then he shook all of our hands! Then Kendall signed our posters and said hello, + shook our hands, Fiz told him he has a nice accent and he said "thankyou". Then Logan signed our stuff and shook our hands, and told my friend Fiz she had a cool name! She screamed, she was an OBSESSED fan! Then Carlos :) said hey and signed our poster, his smile is amazing!! I walked out a very happy girl! I promised i wouldnt wash my hand again! (but i did). We ran to were their car would be coming out, and we met this body guard he was a bodyguard for - The Wanted, One Direction, Mcfly  , The Saturdays and loads more. Chloe was a BIG fan of The Wanted ( i am too but she is loads), she told the bodyguard and he was going to ring Nathan from The Wanted but he had the wrong phone :( oh well. We followed him to the car park and there were quite a few girls there. They were all actually really nice, i thought they would be mean and snobby but they were the opposite! We met another bodyguard called Paul he was nice too :) We asked him if we all lie in the road could we stop them from going? he said we could but the bodyguards would catch us before we could get on the road! We stood there for 30 mins, it was worth it! Then 3 cars came out blacked out windows and quite big, 2 of them had to share a car, aww :'). Once all of them had gone we said goodbye to the girls + bodyguards. Then went to meet Fiz's sister to go home. 

4* Fiz's mom was ment to be picking us up, but something happened, i don't know what? Oh well, we had to catch a tram but none of us had money accept for Fiz's sister. She was nice and payed for all of us :)

-That was my amazing day over. I was still exited because of the signing for 2 weeks! The next day i saw them on DayBreak they were really good at preforming, and i told my Mom thats who i met because she didn't know who they were haha!

- I would love to meet them again one day so i would have to keep my eyes peeled and search the internet for a couple of hours! :) I hoped you enjoyed reading my first post - 29th july 2011- <3