It's already been a month since the last time I did this post?! How weird is that, I really do agree with the fact that people say the older you get the quicker the years go. This year is going so fast I feel disorientated, I just want it to slow down a little (I'd prefer it to be slow over summer please) anyway on to a few songs this month that I'm really enjoying.
I've always been a pretty big fan of youtubers who do covers, Andrew Garcia is no exception. I've listened to his youtube for a few years now and only recently have I really gotten back into it after re-listening again and he is just a fab as I remember. His voice really is flawless, if you like this check out his cover of Latch!
There isn't really much else I can say about this song other than I find it super catchy and keep listening to it on repeat. I don't see it being everyone's cup of tea, but I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
N.E.R.D always have been and always be a band that I love for so many reasons, they are just so good and their songs make me want to party. If you've never heard of them then I am shocked and appalled and you should be ashamed, obviously I'm kidding but seriously check them out.
I remember way back when Charlie Simpson was in Busted and I'm sorry to admit it, but I just didn't like him. I was about 8 and in love with Matt so Charlie didn't really get a second look (I bet he is truly devastated) but now I'm older I have seriously fallen in love with this man. How amazing is his voice seriously?! This is a song that's being released on his next album, and if all of the songs are like this then I am lost for words and SO EXCITED.
I think I actually heard this in Anna's most recent get ready with me video. This really is such a cute little song and just make's me feel all happy and calm inside.

I hope you appreciated this post! x

The full name for this product is 'Clean & clear morning energy skin energising daily facial scrub', but I felt that for a title of a blog post that was probably a little too much and so I kept it short and sweet! Unfortunately due to a number of reasons I've not had huge funds to splurge on make-up, skin care and hair care this month and I am super super sad about this. When I was out in town about a week ago I spotted this little gem on sale (I'm 50% sure it was ASDA and it was around about £2-3?) anyway, I was stood staring for a good 15 minutes because I have very little money and there were so many other products I wanted. I felt if I bought this it would hopefully numb the need to spend money, but as it was one of the cheaper options (and I have no self control) I caved and bought it and I've been seriously impressed.

The packaging just looks really nice and bright and I think that is what stood out a lot for me, the fact that it wasn't as subtle as most packaging I would usually tend to go for but it still managed to catch my eye. It also think there seems like a lot of product which is great, I tend to use it every other day at the moment and use a 2p sized dollop and this still does the trick and helps brighten my skin and smooth everything out which is a serious plus for me!

I'm still having a few problematic areas at the moment with my skin and although this hasn't cleared them up, it has done its job and made my skin look a lot brighter which just gives it such a healthy glow. I also find after using it my skin does feel a lot softer. I think for that reason I would seriously consider buying it again.

Have you ever used this product? What are you thoughts about it?

I want to thank Jodie for commenting on my last post and nominating me, if you haven't already you should definitely check out her blog because she's beautiful and her blog is A++. I really like the idea behind this post as it's about introducing more small bloggers to one another, which is really sweet and I'm up for being friends with all of you because you're all fabulous. So over on Jodie's blog it says that after you are nominated you start by posting 11 facts about yourself, then answer the 11 questions that blogger has written and finish with your own questions and nominate other bloggers. So without further rambling my eleven facts are:

1. Liverpool is basically one of my favourite places ever.
2. My favourite food is roast potatoes and gravy, I would eat this as a normal snack if I could. In all honesty I just really like potatoes. Orange juice is also my favourite drink (without pulp if you want to be really nice and buy me some).
3. I'm pretty sure I'm part cat, I make cat noises without meaning to and curl up in a ball which I'm certain isn't normal...
4. My geography is terrible, don't ask me anything about anywhere because I will not have a clue and will embarrass myself very badly.
5. If I could do any job in the world it would be either a teacher, or something like a radio presenter or something with writing. 
6. I use the word fabulous too much in one day.
7. At some point in my life, I need to own a french bulldog as they embody all that is good in the world. LOOK AT HOW FRICKING CUTE THEY ARE, I CANNOT COPE.
   
8. I used to be able to read tarot cards and play the ukulele, I haven't in a few years and I really want to start both up again.
9. I'm a Leo and I believe and love things stuff astrology wise.
10. I love summer, the sun, the heat and being tanned. That is when I am at my happiest.
11. I cannot handle spicy AT ALL, even most potato wedges are too hot for me. Which is extremely distressing.

And now on to the questions that have been asked:

1. Describe yourself in three words.
   I think I would probably have to go for strange, imaginative and ambitious.
2. What is your favourite past time?
   Probably laying in bed, listening to music and reading blogs!
3. If you could be one age forever, what age would you be and why?
   I don't know why but I feel like by 26 I'll be a bit more grounded and have more of an idea of what I'm doing and where I'm going to I feel that would be a cool age to stick at. Not too old and not too young.
4. Pick a movie character to describe your life.
   One of my closest friends once compared me to Wednesday Adams off of the Adams family, so I feel that is a brilliant one to go with! Or Tina from Bob's burgers (not a movie I know) as we are basically the same person.
5. Who would you want to play you in a movie of your life?
   Definitely either Kat Dennings or Mila Kunis. They are fabulous, sexy and great.
6. Favourite person and why?
   I don't know whether this means people I know or like famous people?! SO MANY CHOICES so I'm gonna do them all. People I know I'd say my favourite person is my mummy, because she's my mummy. Famous person it has to be John Krasinski, Ryan Gosling or Scott Disick.
7. What can you not leave the house without?
   My phone is probably my main one, as it basically just has everything I need on it and also headphones because I love listening to music whenever and wherever I can.
8. What's the one thing to give you a guaranteed pick me up?
   Going out for a coffee somewhere cute or feeding me endless bags of twirl bites.
9. If you could raid anyone's wardrobe who would it be?
   This is so difficult oh my god. It would probably be between Alexa Chung, Kylie Jenner and Vanessa Hudgens. I love all of their individual styles, and couldn't pick one because I just want all of their clothes please? If I HAD to go for one, it would be Vanessa Hudgens as she will literally wear anything that she likes and looks good in it all and I love everything she wears.
10. Finish this sentence: If I could be anywhere right now it would be…
    In a super hot country laying on the beach, shopping and exploring.
11. Most importantly, why did you start writing/creating your blog?
    I wanted to start it because media has always been a huge passion of mine, especially after studying it. I've also always enjoyed writing and rambling, but when I started sixth-form I got much more into beauty and lifetsyle bloggers and vloggers and since then I always wanted to start a blog of my own!

Thank you so much Jodie.
So now it's my turn! I'm going to nominate:

1. Chloe at chloeblogss
2. Rebecca at autumncozy
3. Emma at emmalouise-fashion
4. Izzie at hola-bambi
5. Victoria at victoriakaterina
6. Roxanne at roxannech
7. Kirsty at pearlsandsparkle
8. Helena at helenamulhearn
9. Farah at madein1996
10. Rebecca at rebeccabrits
11. I lastly tag anyone who reads this post and whats to do it, you have been nominated!

The Eleven questions I'm going to give you all are...

1. Why did you start your blog?
2. What is an average day in the life of you like?
3. If you could get one thing for free with no catch at all, what would it be?
4. Whats your best memory in life so far?
5. Any guilty pleasures?
6. What do you find most attractive in the opposite sex?
7. Has blogging taught you anything. If so, what?
8. Favourite song, movie and book.
9. When's your birthday?
10. What is one of your most memorable dreams?
11. If you were an animal, what would you be?

I had so much fun doing this, so I hope you guys enjoy it and have a crack at it yourselves!
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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!