COMPETITION! Dahlia Fashion is giving away blouses!

I have much love for Dahlia Fashion, currently owning two of their dresses from their boutique (and a belt) and encouraging my friends to buy stuff off their website!

So I couldn't pass up the chance too enter their competition!! A blog entry is worth 10 entries :O
The prize is two gorgeous Dahlia blouses in on trend colours, with pretty collar and cuff detailing!!

You can enter the competition here: CLICKY

Or check out their facebook profile and go from there! Dahlia Fashion on facebook
You can enter how ever you want, with facebook and twitter options available too!

Good luck if you are entering :D

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3 p="p">

Festival Guide: FOOD

Today will we be talking about what kinds of food you should pre-pack for taking too festivals, since damn, dem festival food stalls can be pricey! £4 for chips and gravy. FOUR POUND. WHAT IS LIFE.

Anywaysssss, when going to festivals, if you are camping over, you should always take food supplies. With all the excitement of Reading, I wasn’t terribly hungry most of the time, but I still made sure I ate some food to keep me going. You must do this too!

1) TINS. TINS OF EVERYTHING (and a can opener)

Yes, tins are the most important thing, apart from cutlery, you could take to a festival food wise. By tins, I mean spaghetti hoops, baked beans, ravioli, beef wellington, ANYTHING that you can cook in a tin, get it. I even took a tin of sweetcorn for a healthy kick on one of the days. TINS. They might be heavy on the way in but you will praise how easy they are to chuck on a fire or BBQ (remember your tongs too) and heat up. PLEASE REMEMBER TO OPEN THE TIN BEFORE YOU COOK IT. IT WILL EXPLODE OTHERWISE. And once it’s cooked, voila, you have a meal in a tin. Sorted.
I suggest you aim for two meal tins a day (one for breakfast, one for dinner!)

2) CEREAL BARS/MINI CEREAL BOXES

Brilliant idea. My friend did this. I wish I had done it. Having one of these in the morning, either a bar or a box, is a great bit of dry food added to your breakfast, along with the tin of food. Plus, with cereal bars you can pop one in your bag if you get peckish in the arena!

!ALTERNATIVE! ~ Alternatively, if you want a sugar rush, you can also have those multibuy chocolate bar packs but they might melt, so be warned!

3) BREAD

If you want to take bread with you, I suggest you freeze it first in resealable bags, 2-3 slices per bag. They will last a lot longer and it will be a lot more organised than buying a loaf the night before and having it get a bit squished and end up not using it...
ALSO take some sort of skewers or buy them when you get there so you can toast bread, sausages, marshmallows, over the fire.

4) DRIED FRUIT

If you want to take fruit with you I’d highly suggest dried fruit. You can get small packets too pop in your food bad, and also in your arena bag if you want. I think next year I am going to follow my own advice and take some dried fruit. You can also take fruit in a tin, but I think dried fruit is easier (and lighter. Remember you have to potentially carry this lot too your campsite!)

5) LIQUIDS

I will be covering all the liquids from alcohol to water here. It’s easier to sum it up in one paragraph! With water, I suggest you take an EMPTY two litre bottle with you and fill it up on site and pop it in your tent AND ALWAYS KEEP IT FILLED. Fill it up every evening or something. One thing I was always needing was water, especially in the morning. If you fill it up in the evenings, you will have some water in the mornings when your mouth is dry, and to brush your teeth with. It might get a little warm in your tent but what can you do? As long as you are hydrated, that is what matters!
With alcohol, I recommend you definitely decant it into a plastic bottle, as camp sites don’t often let glass bottles on site. If you DO decant it into a plastic bottle, I implore you to label it somehow. Vodka and water can look very similar in a plastic bottle. VERY SIMILAR.
Alternative liquids to take; juice in cartons (please don’t buy them from the fridge. Buy them from the shelf!) and UHT milk from the shelves. Don’t take anything that you have bought refrigerated!

• You can buy food in nearby supermarkets (or on site supermarkets, but a nearby Tesco’s will be cheaper) when you get there, but I suggest packing a majority of your food before you go so you don’t have to worry about it when you get there!
• There is a multitude of stalls within the arena, but if you are like I was, then you won’t even get hungry because you will be too busy enjoying yourself!
• Make sure you definitely have breakfast! Have a tin of something, some bread and a cereal bar/cereal box.
• REMEMBER TO TAKE DISPOSABLE BBQS. If you are going as a group, discuss how many each you will take. We were a group of six, and we used about two per day, cooking things on our fire in the evenings.
• In reference to fires, you can often find firewood being sold on site, or on the way to the local supermarket (it was £1 cheaper outside).
• Remember things like matches/lighters, tongs (for taking things on and off fires and BBQs), can openers, plastic cutlery, paper plates (if you really want, we didn’t use any) and skewers.

Okay, that’s everything to do with food! If you have any questions, please ask! I am a festival newbie, so I might not know everything, but this is what I learned from my experience this year at Reading!

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3>

Reading Festival: It was awesome!!

Last weekend I attended my first festival in my 24 years of living. How I have gone this long without attending one, I do not know (lack of money probably) but I know now I WILL NOT GO ANOTHER YEAR WITH OUT ONE. That and not really attending live gigs? HOW HAVE I LIVED.

Reading Festival 2012 was an amazing experience for me. I arrived on the Thursday to my tent already set up by my friends, who arrived on the Wednesday. There was six of us and three tents, though my tent ended up being a food storage tent and I took over the empty compartment of my friends tent as they had no choice but to bring one of those big tents with three compartments (their normal one had lost a pole). I was grateful for this though as it was my first time properly camping and it was better to be in a tent with people!

Arriving Thursday morning, I spent the day chilling out with my friends (and perhaps getting a little bit drunk by 2pm on sidekick and then vodka) and experienced my first camp fire (no marshmallows though. Next time!) No gigs or music was on on Thursday, so we did spend the day at our little camp site, but it was nice, I loved having our own little bubble. The atmosphere and the camp fire and the lights of the camp site, it was all so lovely I can’t wait to do it again! I officially love camping!

Friday is when the excitement for the live music started! After an awful nights sleep (remember your blow up mattress kids) I didn’t actually feel tired as I was too excited!! We had some ASDA price tins of spaghetti and bread for breakfast on disposable BBQs and when we were all ready, we headed too the arena!! I was so excited!! The main stage was huge and it was amazing too see all the stalls of food and the different tents!! The weekend started with Deaf Havana (who I hadn’t really heard of but were really good!) and I soon got into the flow of the music, making my way to the front of the main stage for one of my favourite bands, You Me At Six. If you want to be at the front of the main stage for a band then you must be there early.

TIP: IF YOU ARE NEW TOO FRONT OF THE CROWD AT GIGS, FIND A BARRIER AND STICK TOO IT.

It was my first time fighting to the front and the band before YMAS was a band called Crystal  Castles...I hadn’t heard of them before. I wish I had because then I would of stayed near the barrier from  the beginning! Within seconds of them starting, the crowd heaved, sending a lot of us into each other in a wave of scary-ness. Three waves later, and an entire row of us were floored, but luckily there is a very friendly atmosphere at festivals and everyone helps everyone else up so no harm was done. It was pretty scary and I decided then that I should move out of this area, and managed to shuffle too the side a little and to the front barrier. That was my only scary experience of the festival!! You Me At Six were amazing and I completely forgot about the scary experience earlier!! We also saw Tom Delonge perform with his band Angels and Airwaves which was awesome!!

Saturday was a surreal start in the arena. The ‘secret’ Green Day gig started earlier than we thought and we didn’t get in the NME tent to watch them at first, since there were security guards and barriers up at all the through ways too it. We accepted this and sat down to watch on the big screens. And then they cut the big screens without warning. THIS IS MY FIRST FESTIVAL. I DO NOT TAKE THIS FROM ANYONE. I informed my friends I would meet them later and legged it to the nearest barrier as people booed. I wasn’t the only one and after about 5 minutes there was a count down. At the end of the count down we ran, the metal barriers dragged out of our way and we made it into the tent! I got to see Green Day live and in person!! Amazing experience (yes, that word is being used a lot in this post) and well worth the naughtiness of charging the barriers ;)

Billy Talent and Feeder were the other highlights of the Saturday and I will say, I think I thoroughly enjoyed the Billy Talent gig the most out of all the gigs I attended over the weekend!

Sunday was an epic day, with All Time Low (who I have now fallen in love with), Bullet for my Valentine, Foo Fighters and Less Than Jake. The weekend went so quickly and I was surprised that it was Sunday already!! Sunday was one of the only days me and Becky risked the camp site toilets (the other being Thursday) and they were disgusting. I was glad I only used them twice! The arena toilets were far nicer, flushable and with toilet paper. In the mornings, us girls actually had a ‘pee cup’ in which we peed if we were at the camp site, in the privacy of our tent. Worked a treat and much cleaner than those campsite toilets...

We left Sunday night after the Arena closed and managed to get home in good time, arriving back by half 1 Monday morning, which gave me all Monday to recover, and bathe. Sweet sweet bathing. We didn’t shower once, but we had baby wipe baths and on the Saturday, me and Becky performed a bottle wash on our hair and underarms at the campsite, so we felt fresher after that!

My experience at Reading Festival was amazing and I can’t wait to see the line ups for next years festivals so I can decide which one I want to attend!! Possible Reading again!! It was so awesome and I can’t wait to attend another festival!! Till then, I will be attending live gigs, planning already to go too a Billy Talent gig in November!!

The full line up that I saw was: Deaf Havana, Angels and Airwaves, Crystal Castles, You Me At Six, Green Day, Twin Atlantic, Enter Shikari, Billy Talent, The Vaccines, Mastodon, The Cribs, Feeder, Gaslight Anthem, All Time Low, Bullet for My Valentine, Kaiser Chiefs, Foo Fights and finished with Less Than Jake

I will be doing a ‘Festival Guide’ series of posts soon, and revisit them festival time next year!! So look out for them! If you have any questions that I might be able to answer  during the fesitval guide posts please ask them in the comments!!

Note: All photos were taken either by me or by my friends!

STAY BEAUTIFUL
Kitty xoxox~<3 font="font">

WEIGHT RESTART: Week 1 Day 1

Hey beautiful! How you doing today?

Yes, we are back to my weight loss diaries! Finally! Good to be back! I have been away due to being with the boyfie and things, and last week I was just not feeling the blogging vibe, but I have weighed myself today and feeling good!

So lets start off with some facts and measurements! I know its been over a month since my last weigh in, but don't expect a massive difference, as I pig out when with the boyfriend, and also, I have had lots of take away chinese and general bad food in the past month!!

Weight:

13 stone 10 3/4 pounds/87.4 kilograms. That's a loss of 2 pounds/1 kilo! It's not much but I am super impressed and happy I haven't PUT ON weight to be honest! Considering I have had three chinese take aways in three weeks, I think not being over my last weigh in is impressive haha! If I hadn't had them, imagine how much more I would of lost!

Measurements: 

• Bust: 36 inches/91.4 cms ~ 1 inch/2.6 cms off! Whoop!
• Waist: 32 inches/81 cms ~ 1 inch/3 cms off here too! Tiny waist here I come ;)
• Hips: 46.5 inches/118 cms ~ 1.5 inches/6 cms off WOW, that is a bit of an impressive trim for me!

Exercise:
  
  Not really any today, just a bit of walking to my friends house!

Food:

~ Skinny Sprinkles
~ Cranberry juice, whole meal toast, vitalite and honey
~ Green tea with lemon + sugar (less than one tea spoon)
~ Home made ginger biscuit
~ Quorn ham slice sarnie and muller rice strawberry
~ Coco Pops + sweets

The last bit was because I was at my friends and she gave me coco pops for dinner haha!! I didn't mind, nom nom nom!

So, lets get back on track with the weight loss! Have you been losing weight recently? Got any tips or hints I can use and share with other readers? Let me know!!

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3 font="font">

Mini Haul! MUA Post!

Hey guys! Just a quick mini haul, as the postman delivered my MUA goodies today :D

I took advantage of the offer that MUA were doing where you could buy two of their Eyeshadow Trios for £4 (RRP £2.50) and you get a nail crackle free! I went for the Broken Arrow nail crackle and Eden and Blue Babe for the Trios, as I already have Passion and I am always super impressed with it!

Eden

Eden is a lovely greeny set, with a golden sheen to it

Blue Babe

Blue Babe has some really popping blues on it and the white colour has a gold sheen, where as the blues are more silvery

Broken Arrow

Broken Arrow is a rich purple with a slight shimmer too it, can't wait to try this!

Swatches and reviews will come soon!!

Have you tried any of these?

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3 p="p">

The Boyfriend Does Henna! PHOTO HEAVY

Hey every body! The other week, when I was visiting the boyf, he decided to change his hair from Henna dyed ginger, to dark again. Here is a photo blog of the process!!

BEFORE PHOTOS

He bought LUSH's Caca Noir Henna to turn his hair back into a darker colour! Henna looks like so much fun to work with, but very messy business ;) Let's start shall we!

STEP ONE ~ Pop into a bowl. Add hot water!

STEP TWO ~ MIX, MIX MY PRETTIES, MIX

Mix until it looks like this lovely gloop

STEP THREE ~ Pop on a baine marie and heat until hot, but not burning, otherwise you will burn your head!

Touch test!

STEP FOUR ~ Apply to head, making sure your hair is fully covered all over!

Remember dem gloves

STEP FIVE ~ Wait! You can either let it air dry, or do what boyfie did and wrap it in a plastic bag at first, heat, leave covered for an hour, then let hair dry for 3-4 hours!

STEP SIX ~ Thoroughly wash off and leave to dry and see your new hair colour! NOTE: Henna does develop over time, so you will see it changing colour to darker/more vibrant over a few days

Finished colour!

No more ginger! Woo!!

Have you tried Henna dyes?

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3 p="p">

July Favourites!

Hellooo! I thought I would do a July Favourites, since I have seen them about but I have never done a monthly favourites post! This will probably be shorter than most, and I will be using stock photos as my camera is currently lacking battery and my charger is at home, but hopefully you will still enjoy it!

Angels on Bare Skin...this is definitely something sent from Heaven!! Since I was a teenager, I have used Clearasil. Yes, Clearasil. I know I know. I thought it was good for me and my skin! Turns out, I was oh so wrong. Since using Angels, my skin has improved so much, with hardly any more break outs apart from hormonal monthly ones and a reduction in my oily face!

I switch between this and Catastrophe Cosmetic, but over summer I prefer this as my face becomes oilier during summer and this clears it right up, and even helps with the monthly hormonal break out!! I am suffering that time right now, and I have one tiniest of spots on my chin and that's it! This face mask is brilliant <3

I am a sucker for lovely smelling hair, and boy does this do the job. I think I lacked the money for a while, to buy this, so I went back to cheap hair stuff, but now I work, I can buy as much as this as I want and my hair smells AWESOME for a few days! It lasts aaaaaaaaages, and it makes my hair super soft!

I must say, I am in love with this. I've had it for ages, but I always forget about it till I wear it again and then I am like I LOVE YOU BBY NEVER LEAVE ME. I love it so much I have just ordered two more colours off the website. These are just so easy to make a lovely look on your eyes, so quick too! I wish they would make them in more colour combos!

That's it for my July favourites! What have been your favourite things to use this July? Have you tried any of these things? Drop me a comment!

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3