My Summer Essentials

As summer is approaching, I thought I should share with you some "summer essentials" which I am loving so far, and if you are planning to go on holiday or on a shopping trip with your friends, this will hopefully give you some ideas on where ti shop, and what to buy!

So here are my summer essentials:

          1. Body shop: "Virgin Mojito Body sorbet" this is Body shops new range for the summer, and it smells amazing! I would highly recommend these products, if you are into very sweet scents (not so much if you prefer warmer scents) but it is amazing on the skin! This is my favourite Body Shop range at the moment as it smells like summer, and the perfect moisturiser!

2. Pastel Nail polish: You can't go wrong with pastel coloured nail polish! My favourites are form the Barry M Speedy quick dry collection (£3.99 each) and they have amazing summery colours, from pastels to bright colours! My favourite colours is the pale orange ( Full throttle- 450), pale pink (kiss me quick-515) and the beautiful lilac colour (Lap of Honour-502). 2 coats of this would be perfect, and will go with every outfit, they are very fast drying, and are very long lasting!

 3. MUA-Elysium Palette: This palette has the most gorgeous pinks and natural colours, to get a perfect summers makeup. The pigmentation is amazing, and long lasting, which you want in eyeshadow. Not only has it got beautiful and easy blendible colours but you can get from almost any drugstore, and MUA also have many other beautiful eyeshadow palettes.

4. Sunglasses:- You can get so many varieties of sunglasses, and you can always add different styled sunglasses depending on how you want to make your outfit look. Both my black, and daisy sunglasses were from New Look, and my leopard print sunglasses, were from Dorothy Perkins.

Again, sunglasses are very important for the summer weather, and you can get amazing sunglasses at the moment from different stores, and can really change the way your whole outfit looks!

5. White T-shirts: These are absolute essentials for the summer, as they go well with pretty much anything, and even if you go for a plain white top, you can go and accessorise it with a statement necklace. Patterned or plain, white tops are an essential summer must have!

6. Shorts: From denim to colourful, shorts are perfect for the summer weather, and go with pretty much anything, to get the best results, wear a plain top (black or white) and then you can accessorise it how ever you are feeling, I feel that shorts are a must have when it comes to summer.

7. Sandals: Sandals are the perfect footwear when you want to go for a walk on the beach with your friends, get different shapes and colours, there is a whole range of different sandals to choose from, as well as ballet pumps.

8.  Dresses: Everything goes with dresses, and you can go for plain or patterned, when it is too warm for tshirts and skirts or shorts, dresses make your outfit better, especially with some new sandals and sunglasses.

These are My Summer Essentials, and hopefully these may give you a few tips on what to get your hands on this summer, remember to comment below or message me on twitter @itsamyyp and hope that you have enjoyed!

Amy x

5 Summer Snacks

Here are some ideas on what to have for a summer breakfast/ snack, if you don't want to have too much of anything, but want something to fill you up!

Hope you enjoy!

1. Fruit and yoghurt: This is my all time favourite breakfast during the summer months, as it is so simple to make, yet it fills you up. For this you will need:

.Fruit of your choice (I like using different berries)

Danone Yoghurt (any flavour)

and this is pretty much it! You can use what ever fruit you want, and as much or as little as you want, as it is summer, I would recommend strawberries, raspberries and pineapple with your breakfast, as it has a lot of flavour, and will fill you up the whole morning.

2. Strawberry infused water: This is absolutely delicious and just gives a bit of flavour to your water if you don't always like having pure water. You can either use bottled or water or tap depending on what you prefer, and instead of strawberry, mint and lemon slices are also lovely!

3. Egg/ chicken salad: If you don't like egg you can choose a ready cooked meat such as chicken, and it will be just as good, I usually use, lettuce, 2 eggs cut in half, cucumber, Caeser Salad dressing, carrot shavings/sticks and thats it, but you can add whatever you want to your salad.

4. Frozen grapes: This are absolutely delicious, the best time to have them is if you keep them in the freezer for 1/2 hours and they are almost frozen, but not completely, if you do like them completely frozen, I would recommend keeping them in for 2/3 hours.

5. The final snack that I like to have in the summer are homemade ice-lollies. I think this is my favourite because you can use what ever juice you would like such as Lemonade, orange juice, orange squash, blackcurrant, etc.

 For this you will need:

 4 Ice lolly moulds

3 segments/pieces of fruit that you want, kiwi, strawberry, lemon, rasberries, blackberries, blueberries are all extremely nice, and if you really want you can add yoghurt instead of juice, if you want it to be like frozen yoghurt. 

If you use juice fill it up (without water) 3/4 of the way the mould if you like it strong and then fill it with water for the rest. If you use lemonade you don't need to add the water, but add the lemonade half way, put the fruit in and then fill the rest of the mould. After this, put it in the freezer for around 4-5 hours. And hope you enjoy!

So there it is 5 Summer Snacks, which I like to have, hopefully you will like them too, and are all very easy to make. Thank you for reading!

Amy x

50 Facts about me

Hi everyone!

As I have used this blog for around 6 months now, I thought that it would be a good idea, to let you know a little more about me! After 11th June I will make sure I post alot more but I can not promise anything, as I am pretty busy. I am also going to try and post 3 times a week or more if I can!

Anyways lets get on with the 50 Facts about me tag!

1. My Birthday is on 4th June

2. Dogs and foxes are my favourite animals

3. My favourite place to eat is in any Italian restaurant, I just love Italian food!

4. I get really bored doing the same thing over and over again, so I always need to change something around the house, or bedroom.

5. My dream job would be a professional photographer, and specialise in animal photography.

6. I used to want to work with animals, such as at a zoo, or vets, but I changed my mind.

7. I have a phobia of mannequins, dolls and spiders.

8. I did ice skating for 8 years, but had to stop because of GCSES

9. I hate bananas and when I mean I hate them, I mean i hate being near anyone eating one, and hate the smell...

10.  Doctor Who and Friends are my favourite tv shows.

11. Love Rosie and the Hunger games trilogy are my favourite movies.

12. I always like pleasing people, and I never want to disappoint anyone. 

13. I've always loved animals and make-up since I was about 2.

14. I have won a photography competition where my GCSE photography final piece is going up in an art gallery.

15. I can't watch Marley & Me, if i watch it I will cry from beginning to end.

16. I love horror movies!

17. I broken my wrist (green stick fracture) but I like saying I broke it...

18. I have a fear of hospitals.

19. I really want to live by the beach.

20. I want to travel the World, but not on my own, with some of my friends or family.

21. The top of my bucket list is to ride an elephant, and swim with dolphins.

22. The fact that we are only a tiny planet with millions upon millions of stars above us scares me.

23. I believe in ghosts and supernatural stuff, as well as Aliens existing as I find it really hard to believe we are the only living things in the universe.

24. In my life I've had 1 dog, 4 cats, 5 hamsters and 1 rabbit.

25. I used to love telling people I had a horse, but in reality it was just one in a field near my house, i just didn't know what else to say...

26. I love going shopping, and whenever I go somewhere I kind of need to buy something, even though I probably don't need it.

27. I own way too many clothes.

28. Photography is my favourite subject at school.

29. My goal is to reach 800 followers on my blog...

30. I never get bored of listening to the same music, I can basically listen to one song for the rest of my life and I wouldn't care.

31. When I was little I used to dress up my cat, sorry cat.

32. I was a pretty naughty child such as, pinching people in the street, phoning the police, pulling down the curtains etc...

33. I have a really sweet tooth.

34. Tango ice blasts are my favourite drinks ever, and wish I could have one everyday for the rest of my life.

35. For GCSES I took Art, photography, RS and History.

36. At college I'm taking Photography, communication and culture and media studies.

37. I used to love making my own magazine.

38. 3 of my poems have been published into a book.

39. I love learning about history, especially ww2 and the holocaust, I find it really interesting and a good way to learn from our mistakes.

40. I always wanted a youtube channel, but I don't know if I do anymore.

41. I hate talking infront of people.

42. I love watching animal documentaries, especially by David Attenborough, but pretty much all the time they will make me cry.

43. Comedy and Horror are my favourite genre of movies.

44. I can't watch Titanic because I just cry the whole time.

45. As you can tell i get easily upset by movies or tv programmes.

46. I would love to make my own house from scratch, because that would be so cool!

47. I'm very girly, I am basically just a typical teenage girl.

48. I love going on long walks in the countryside.

49. I like learning about space, which is the only thing I like about science.

50. I can't find anything on the map which is really bad but all well.

So there it is 50 facts about me! I hope that you have enjoyed, and now you know more about me!

Amy x