Hi my name's Ashleigh, and I'm an Instagram addict. I'm kidding obviously (or am I...) but I've always thought that its really sweet when you get bloggers who do little monthly updates of their lives through the photos they've taken. I post quite a lot on IG, but I've never felt any of the photo's I've taken are particularly note-worthy. This month however I have taken quite a few and so I thought why not give this post a go and see if I can keep it going, simply because I just think it's a really sweet and fun idea. These aren't in order, so I'm sorry, but I'll explain them in order of date just so it makes a bit more sense!

At the beginning of this month I went with my friend Zach to Essex university to visit our other friend Sean. With both of them being at different universities and myself working full time, we don't get to see each other a lot and so it was so fab to be able to spend the night drinking, dancing and just having fun with them. I definitely miss them both a lot *queue sad music* anyway I'm going to stop before I have them both read this and mock me for being soppy.

Second is the photo of the sunrise, I live in the middle of the countryside and I have to walk to my bus stop pretty early in the morning and this sunrise was so beautiful and had amazing colours so I thought a cheeky snap wouldn't hurt!
The next photo is of the little horse, which is the Chinese zodiac of 2014. The reason I took a photo of it is because I found it's eyes really funny and big, I'm quite clearly more of a child then I let on. This was a night I went out to try a Chinese all you can eat restaurant and the food was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

The next photo is of my lovely valentines card. I didn't receive any this year and it's probably one of the first years I've been single for valentines day in a while, which I'm totally okay with but also slightly passive- aggressive towards which I have no shame for. I got this from someone I work with and it made laugh so much because it was done on a post-it note and took about 30 seconds, if that isn't adorable I don't know what is. The day after I went and spent the day in Norwich, which was great because although I've only been a few times I just love the place and think its beautiful and awesome. I also got to try my first wagamama's which I was slightly apprehensive about as me and spicy food are not exactly friends so I was worried I'd have to force myself to eat some spicy food and die inside. However, I got this lovely chicken and noodle dish which I really enjoyed.

The last two photo's are from a night that I spent with my closest friend Frasmine. We haven't seen each other in a few months, but as soon as we're back together it's like nothing has changed and we're exactly the same as we use to be. We spent the night chatting, wearing face masks and watching keeping up with the Kardashian's (we cry all the time because we don't look like Kardashian's) and the last photo is of the extremely funky PJ bottom's I had to buy because in my tired state I forgot to pack some pajamas and Jasmine told me I HAD to buy these bottoms because they made us laugh so much. I'm glad I did because oh my gosh are they comfy!

So that's my month! I know there is still a week left, but I haven't got a whole lot planned in that time and as I've been a bad blogger recently I felt a post was in order. I'm going to try and do this monthly, if I can carry on taking photos at the rate I did this month! Did you enjoy this kind of post? Let me know!

Well hello there! I love doing these posts because I literally find new music every week and if you're like me then music just makes you feel so much better, so here's another little post for you with some songs I'm loving at the moment.
This is seriously one of my favourite songs at the moment, Mike's voice is just so wonderfully acoustic and it makes me feel all warm and lovely inside. The lyrics to this song are just so perfect and I just keep listening to it on repeat because it's so pretty!
I've always really liked chase & status and I loved this ages ago and I heard this when I went out to see Sub Focus the other weekend and the love just came flooding back for it and it just makes me want to go out and party with all my friends. So whats not to like?
This is another one I loved years ago and recently heard on the radio, I'm not usually a big fan of kiss but as soon as this came on I think I liked them a little bit... This was actually on the first Bridget Jones film and I can still picture the scene (I'm basically becoming Bridget Jones-minus the smoking) and also who remembers Craig David? Whatever happened to him? That guy had some tunes.
I've always been a big fan of sleeping at last and I think they cover this song beautifully. I prefer it over the original (I hate the original SORRY NOT SORRY), I think this version adds a lot more meaning to the lyrics.
I actually shared Hozier in one of my previous music to my ears posts and my love is still going strong, at the moment I really like this song the instruments and the singing just make it all absolutely beautiful. I sit at night with some candles going and just lay listening to this!

So that's it, a few little songs that I love at the moment and that I hope you love as well!

Ever since being a little girl I have always loved hair, I think every little girl looks at long pretty hair and just wants it more than anything. As I've gotten older I've experimented more and more with my hair styles, lengths and colours and I thought this would be a good opportunity to show a few to you lovely readers! I've always been pretty indecisive with my hair; one minute I want it down to my butt and then the next I want a choppy bob. One minute I want lovely natural brown hair with a natural ombre in it, then the next I want bright red hair. I literally cannot make my mind up on what I want and then when I do eventually do it I usually really don't like it, I'm too fussy for my own good!
I was a little bit naughty and got to about 12/13 and started secretly chopping my hair because I just always hated the outcome of a real hairdresser (my mum was NOT a happy bunny) and so I stopped and just let my hair do its own thing, then go to the hair dressers and hate my hair for a while again and it just basically carried on like this. I've never had a great experience with hair dressers; fun fact for you when I was 15 me and my friend decided it would be really funny to dye my hair blonde and it was really really funny and I still laugh at it because it was so worth the time and the effort we put in, just for the laughs we get now! Anyway, my hair dresser at the time told me that it make me look like a slapper. I was speechless and so after that I decided I did want to try cutting my hair, but properly this time.
So I went and bought two different pairs of scissors; ones for thinning and ones for actually cutting the hair itself and this time I actually told my mum what I was planning on doing thank god. By the time I started to cut my own hair I think I had just started sixth form and had honestly watched about 30 you tube videos and read about 20 different techniques. I can honestly say I love cutting my own hair as it is some much easier and simpler and A LOT cheaper if you have a rough idea of what you are doing and what you want to achieve. The first time I did it, I cut myself a full fringe (I couldn't find a picture sorry!) and it actually turned out really well and after that I carried on doing it myself. So I've been cutting hair for about 2 years now.
I'm also a bit of a bugger for dying my hair a hell of a lot, I once dyed my hair about 20 times in a month and I'm not exaggerating. I soon learnt my lesson after that. I'm glad that I was always allowed to dye my hair because I felt it gave my area experiment with my looks, mainly with colour is how I'd experiment as I HATE really short hair on myself. The shortest I would go now is shoulder length/ or just under my shoulders, I think short hair makes my face look really chubby and round and that isn't a look that I can rock very much.

If you are looking at making a change to your hair and you have a fear of hair-dressers like me then in all honesty you should give it a shot! If you can handle that you might not like it or make a mistake, then grab the scissors and give it ago. I'd say my main tips would be:

• Make sure you use good products and tools: I bought proper hair dressers scissors and look after them a lot and because of this they stay sharp and I have no issues with them. Also with hair dye I have personally found that more expensive hair dyes and research different types and read reviews! My favourites are the L'oreal Recital Preference dyes, the colours are amazing and the dye is such a good quality!
• DO NOT DO IT UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE: This is so important, if you are half and half on what to do I wouldn't recommend it because if you hate it you will be so angry. Ask other people for an opinion and really consider it before you do anything about it please.
• Look after your hair: This mainly applies to if you dye your hair; because it will get damaged no matter what. I have had some horrifically dead hair in the past and there are two options I've found. You either cut it ALL off and start from scratch or you work your ass off to get the condition back. I was told I needed to cut it all off but I didn't want to, so I trimmed it myself and used a whole mountain of products and home remedies (the smell of raw egg makes me sick to this day) to make my hair healthy and eventually it did without needing to cut it off!

So that's it for now! I hope you enjoy reading this, I know it's a bit of a ramble but by now any of you that religiously read my blog are probably used to this by now. Let me know if you decide to cut your own hair and how it goes!