What's in My Hospital Bag for Baby?

Welcome back to my blog,I hope you are all having a wonderful day. I have another mumtastic blog for you all. 

I have never been as organised for anything in my life like I am for this baby! From the moment I found out we were having a baby I planned planned planned. One thing I was very excited to do was pack my hospital bag , but I had to leave something till the end otherwise I would be going crazy trying to find things to keep me occupied. 

Your advised to have you hospital bag ready around 4-5 weeks prior to your due date so just incase your little bundle of joy decides to make an early arrival you have one less thing to stress about! I have searched and searched through this World Wide Web for the "perfect" hospital bag list, being my first pregnancy I was so confused as to how much and what of to put in the bag. I will leave a couple of links down below to the lists I found most helpful, I eventually just took them as a guide line and done my own bag to how it suits me. 

Using a bag we got in River Island, which was purchased to be a nappy bag for both me and Shane, so he didn't want all pink sparkles and the lot so we decided to opt for a cute black bag. Nice,spacious, and simple. 

What I packed:

2 duo suits

6 vests

4 onesies

1 baby towel

5 hats

6 pairs of socks

6 bibs

6 mittens

5 muslin cloths

1 receiving blanket

Soft toy rabbit

Outfit for going home

Toiletries bag:

24 newborn nappies

Babi oil

Changing mat

Baby wipes

Nappy cream

Bath wash

Hair brush

Comb

Dodies

What do you ladies think of his going home outfit? It might be a bit big but isn't it cute! 

Now ladies, that is everything packed and ready for my little man, I may need more nappies but there are shops around my hospital, and remember that the hospital does supply things to you.

You may think it's quite a lot, but I'm preparing for throw ups and all the lovely things that comes with a baby.

some of the websites I found helpfull:

http://assets.babycenter.com/ims/pdf/uk/hospital_checklist.pdf

http://www.boots.com/en/Going-to-hospital-your-baby-bag-checklist_1125664/

Also have a look on your hospitals website because they sometimes have a list of things to bring. Most if not all baby books have a guide for the hospital as well.

I hope this helped some of you, are you having a baby soon? what did you put in your babys hospital bag?

Lots of love

Bella. X

Lushious Locks

So it’s finally time to Put your hands together and give a clap to the wonderful woman that is Stacey Kinsella! This lady is the genius behind Lushious Locks, so what is it that has all her clients running back for more? well ladies I’ll fill you in.

I get a lot of questions about my hair, where I get it done, is it good, it is bad, how much,the questions are endless. So I’m here to tell you about what goes on behind the hair.

 Anyone who has been following my posts will know a small bit about the hair guru to many ladies and the mastermind behind these extensions. 

Stacey has her own salon, I will link all her information throughout this blog. If you have any more questions after you have finished reading, leave me a comment or message me on any of my social networks.

I have been getting Lushious Locks for nearly a year now, and it’s safe to say I am now fully hooked! Above is a picture of my hair. Before and after, needless to say It completely transforms my look, from a shabby mess into my inner supermodel with “Lushious Locks”. These extensions build length, volume and provide you with healthy looking hair. I can count on Stacey to keep my hair looking lushious and fresh at all times.

This is the most recent photo of my hair after 4 months! You can do as you would do your own hair, straighten it, curl it, dye it. Unlike many other methods of extension application out there this system requires no heat, no glue, no sewing or braiding so it doesn’t result in any damage done to your natural hair. This method is called micro beading, it is done by placing a tiny bead at the root of your hair and clamped down causing the extension to attach to your hair.

 Stacey recommends you get them maintained and every 6-8 weeks to keep them fresh I personally get maintenance and a top up for an added umph but this is optional. Lushious Locks uses the finest 100% Human AAA grade Remy hair which has been personally chosen by Stacey herself guaranteeing the most natural looking finish.

Before I discovered Lushious Locks I used to go though the everyday process of clipping in and out strips of hair extensions, which was personally a pain and I didn’t find clip in extensions to be comfortable. I’m all for “no pain, no gain” but in the case of hair its important to be comfortable to prevent headaches and all sorts. 

This method is the most comfortable application I have tried. Lushious Locks blends beautifully with your natural hair and is incredibly hard to detect. Stacey has a great saying “get the celeb hair without the celeb pricetag” a full head of beautiful long Lushious locks for only €225.I say ladies get your bums moving and on your way down to Lushious Locks for a sprinkle of Stacey Dust and watch your look transform.

So forgetting about the amazing quality hair and her flawless experience in the industry, why do her clients travel from all corners of Ireland to go to her you ask? Well ladies she is a gorgeous woman on the outside and she is just as gorgeous on the inside. She doesn’t just do your hair to pay the bills, Stacey puts her heart and soul in to each and every one of us, loves what she does and strives to please.

Stacey has gone to all lengths to insure in the times of the rescission we don’t need to spend big prices for big hair. 

She has also organised photoshoots with three beautiful clients to show us all just how fabulous her Lushious Locks are. She decided to do this Photo shoot to show us the extensions in a different way instead of the back of the head. 

Not only is she brilliant in extensions she is also very talented in hair styling from “up do’s” to voluminous curls.

Going to stacey is like going over to a girlfriends house having chats. I couldn’t recommend this girl enough. The customer service is amazing she really does take pride in what she does and all of her clients. So ladies Like I say get down to Lushious Locks now and give Stacey a visit I promise you it will be worth your while. If your anything like me you will walk in a shabby dog and walk out a supermodel feeling like you can conquer the world.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Bella. x

Face Of The Day

As always I'm trying to think of different ways to help you & give you something good to read. I have decided that every few days I'm going to feature a post on my blog with ALL makeup information, what I wore and how I achieved the over all look. 

 From what I can see on my social networks this kind of post would be beneficial to you and also can stop me from repeating myself. I am constantly getting comments and mails about what products I used in a photo I posted and so on, so if I provide you all with every little detail, were all happy.

Non of these posts are sponsored, I'm not paid to tell you that I use certain products. If you would like a review or have any questions on the products I use then please ask me in the comments below or email me, i will leave my contact details below. 

Lastly before I get into this, Not all of these will be from makeup tutorials I do on youtube, if you would like a tutorial on any of the looks again, like this post, share it and leave a comment. Non of the photos I use are edited in any way to enhance the look of the makeup. I take all my photos on the iphone 5 camera, nothing special. 

Lets get to it.

I always use a base before my foundation weather its a primer, bb cream or cc cream it's there.

 For my face I used:

see photos below for reference

• NYX HD studio photogenic primer, applied with my hands as I would apply my moisturiser.
• Fuschia makeup concealer palette. Where I used a dark brown shade in the hollows of my cheeks, on my nose, under my bottom lip and around my temples to contour, blending that all in with my real techniques contour brush. 
• Again using the same concealer palette I picked up the lightest shade and used this as a highlight under my eyes, on my chin on the bridge of my nose bringing it on to my forehead. Blended out with my Real Techniques blending brush. 
• L'oreal Nude Magique liquid foundation. I applied this around the outers of my face blending inwards.
• Rimmel London Clear Complexion powder. I set my foundation.
• Sleek contour palette in light. I then contoured the hollows of my cheeks and up towards my temples with the Real techniques contour brush.
• Fuschia Makeup. I used #1 as my blush (yes it is an eyeshaddow). 

For my Eyes & Lips:

see photo below as reference to colours

•  Fuschia makeup eyeshaddow pallete, I used shade #1 and applied all over lid using a fluff brush from smash box cosmetics.
• Using the same pallete, shade #2 applied to the middle of the lid and blended up towards the brow. #3 applied with a small pencil brush in the tear duct to highlight.
• Bringing shade #1&#2 to the bottom lash line and blending out.  
• Inglot matte black gel liner and a thin liner brush to line my top lash line.
• Fuschia make-up light concealer to highlight and carve out the brow.
• Lip is concealed with a light concealer from Fuschia and then again using eyeshaddow #1 & #2 I applied this to my lips for a matte lip finish. 
• Lashes are individual lashes in Medium and long on the top. short applied to the bottom and lashings of scandaleyes retro glam mascara.
• all topped off with a highlight on my cupids bow from the Fuschia makeup concealer palette. 
• brows I used Cresty Cosmetics in dark brown.

I Hope that answers some of your questions and gave you a little help on what kind of products I use to create different looks. Like I said if you have any questions at all never hesitate to ask me.

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Lots of Love

Bella

June Favourites!

What is it with us ladies that has us crazed over others beauty faves? I am personally a huge culprit to religiously sitting back and watching those monthly favourites videos that pop up once a month has passed. For those of you who aren't familiar with the monthly favourites it's nothing to do with our menstrual cycles! It is a list of products and things, fashion, beauty, books, films whatever has tickled your fancy or you see yourself grabbing more often that month. 

My love for these videos derive totally from the fact that I am a beauty addict. I LOVE to see what people are buying, what's new, what's good,bad and simply amazing! So if this sounds like your cup of tea or your just want to be nosey keep reading. 

First things first, yes these are usually in video format, I like recording videos, but I also like writing blogs, so your getting this in blog form. This will also be just beauty faves of mine. I hope you enjoy. 

Grab a cuppa, sit back , relax and read. 

Let's get down to the good bits, my monthly favourites, what has Bella been buying, and using this month? 

Not so long ago I decided to join a beauty subscription service "glossy box "( I would definitely recommended to all you beauty lovers out there!) long story short this subscription service gives you 5 sometimes 6 if there feeling nice, beauty products to try out before they hit stores or just while they are released. The great thing about this particular one is that it gives you (most of the time) a full sized product to try out. My pet peeve is sachets, I just can't cope with them. So in my 3 previous  Glossy boxes I received a couple of products that I just can't stop using!

So Susan Cosmetics:

This blush is considered a "universal" blush, it claims to nourish the epidermis, while reducing redness and also offers uv protection. While I can't exactly say it does all these things because I don't know if it nourishes the epidermis or gives uv protection, what I do know is this blush is fabulous, it is so highly pigmented I can see it lasting me a very long time. It blends beautifully and gives a gorgeous glow as it has a small highlighting effect in it as well. I have also used this blush as a base to a natural eyeshaddow look, so it's universal in some way that I know! 

As this is a product from a subscription box the price is in pounds, this retails at £18 and you can shop it on sosusan.com

Garnier Skin Naturals:

BB cream, something I said I would never try again after a couple of humongous let downs! As it came in my glossy box I told myself to just try it out and see how it goes, much to my delight I'm happy with the outcome. If any of you beautiful readers are Irish or English, you will have been blessed with the fabulous weather we have all been graced with the past month or so.  One thing that isn't so great that comes with the heat is the increased amount of perspiration your fabulous body produces, leaving us unfortunate makeup wearers with an awful patchy appearance. One very hot day in early June I decided to use this BB cream, as I have never understood the "hype" I wasn't aiming very high in my outcome. On application as most I feel it to be quite sticky, one I really buffed this into the skin (using a foundation brush) I was actually quite happy with the outcome. My skin felt nice, and all through the day my sweaty face did not make a patchwork out of my makeup, I now find myself grabbing this during the hot sweaty days. 

Don't expect full coverage because a BB cream isn't a foundation, it's a moisturiser that is highly pigmented. 

I'm quite pale and I used the medium one ( because that's the one I received) so I did need a bit of tan.

Garnier BB cream can be bought in any boots or superdrug. I think this products retails around €10

Rimmel London Scandaleyes Retro Glam Mascara:

Last product from my Glossy box faves is this mascara. I don't know about you but I personally get a bit of a fright when I see a big clumpy looking brush, don't get me wrong I love my big lashes but these frighten me. I feel that big mascara brushes can tend to make your eyelashes look a bit heavy and thick ( in a bad way) again being a product I received I had to give it a go because that is after all the point of these boxes! The brush has an hour glass shape to it which gives you nice plump lashes, fanning them out to give a wide eye effect. I got over my fear after a couple of coats of this as it really does give a false lash effect! 

Rimmel is available in pharmacies, selected Tesco, Dunnes, penny's, boots and superdrug stores nationwide.

Soap & Glory Butter Yourself Moisture Lotion:

Last but not least this favourite of mine has recently came back into my beauty regime! After a good scrub in the shower or a soak in the bath, I put a good amount of this godly stuff onto my palms and butter myself up! The bottle says "rough elbows? Bumpy upper arms? Lower legs? Deploy.." I can honestly say that this stuff works! It smells like an orgasmic fruit explosion has happened, and that smell stays. Just to clarify the amazing-ness of this smell, imagine a lynx add, the women are all running after the men in herds, that is this moisturiser for us. Herds of men running after that wonderful scent.

Soap & Glory can be found in any boots store. 

Now your brains have been filled with the knowledge of my June faves you can now either write a wish list, jump up, run and buy, or you can just accept what I have said, give this post a like and if your in a good mood after reading this, then follow and share it on Facebook. 

Another little thing before I go, I love writing my blogs and making my videos, if you beauty's like reading and watching please follow me and share my blogs and YouTube around. Even if there is 5 of you I appreciate that my blogs and videos put a smile on faces & help you out.

One last thing! 

Share your favourites with me! Comment down below and let me know what your faves are! 

Lots of love

Bella. X

Ready To POP!

Just 6 weeks left until my belly decides it's time for a pop! Being my first pregnancy I am no expert of course, but who's to say any of us are so please don't take my blogs in the wrong way. I want to share my experiences as a first timer and mommy to be with everyone and who knows my posts might help or even put other mommas mind at ease. 

With only six tiny weeks left till d-day I find myself wondering what kind of mother I will be, what will labour be like, my first reaction to holding my child for the first time, how will I cope as a new mum, will I be good at it,what is my life going to be like? I'm now feeling a huge whirlwind of emotions which I'm sure are perfectly normal at this time, I mean I am bringing a whole new life into this world! 

I have so many questions that I would need a thousand booklets to write them down in and I'll probably never get them answered, and if I do the answers will never be right, your parenting is different to my mums parenting and I'm sure mine will vary too and who know if we are right? At the moment I'm just doing what I suppose every other woman does and just goes with it. There are no manuals, no books, it's not a lesson we can take in school. I suppose doing it right is just doing it with love and care. 

How can I love someone so much and have not met them yet! It's such a strange feeling to think that the alien movements inside my stomach are actually part of me, I have contributed to the creation of a life! I think we need to all just sit back for a minute and appreciate what an amazing experience life is, how amazing pregnancy and making new life is.....woah! 

So I'm 20 years young, and me and the love of my life had a long long discussion one day about starting a family, the idea became real and we started to plan. We both wanted to start a family young, we don't see ourselves with anybody else and why not have a baby when we are both at are healthiest point in life? So 4/5 months of trying for a baby and it was at a photoshoot that I was feeling very strange and my clothing wasn't fitting quite right and I felt very bloated! The photographer said I think you might be pregnant. 

Driving home that night me and Shane had talks and it was so very possible that we might be. Home and the test done to our delight we were. I honestly can't explain how happy we both are.

 This was planned and I don't think any amount of planning and talking prepares you for the actual event. You don't plan the sleepless nights (before the baby has made an apprehence), the mood changes, the emotional effects on yourself, how you see your body, your relationship the lot! We aren't told that itchiness, increased body tempature, heartburn, sleeplessness, faintness, bleeding gums,rashes and so much more are all a part of pregnancy.

The main things that have gotten me through to the six week mark is Shane and his complete patience, even though we all think every now and again that men are being insensitive but really cut them some slack, there as oblivious to all of this as you are, the difference is it's happening to us and they just hear about it. The second thing is every now and again when I'm hating the way my body looks, or the heartburn has gotten so bad that no amount of gaviscon will helpi it, I feel the kicks of our baby in my stomach and I just think to myself, stop complaining you are about to be someone's whole world, your baby is in your stomach and even though it's causing these things you don't particularly like it will all be worth it when you hold him for the first time, he get his first tooth, his first day at school all these firsts I'm sure one day you will think back to that time you where sitting in bed with heartburn and you felt him kick inside your tummy that it was all worth it.

Putting aside the worries of raising a child and becoming a mother and how we will feel about that and how we are going to do it, I need to express the worries for actually getting the child into this world. We all know the baby didn't get in our bellies by rubbing our nipples together, that part was fun! Up until now I haven't really thought of the evacuation of the baby from the belly part, it's okay to be scared I am terrified. I keep telling myself it's like having a big poo, but really multiply your biggest poo by 5 and I think we will be getting somewhere! So we have had all the fun of the baby making and then the baby baking, I don't think my 5 pregnancy books will prepare me for the moment of the evacuation. 

Let's be real here, it's the final count down is playing in my head right now, but you don't just say "open sesame" and the baby just makes it's grand reveal! There is a whole lot of cramping, pushing, drugs, people seeing more of you than you have, and then once you get the baby out, did you know you have to go through that again! I didn't, not until recently anyway. 

I don't want to scare anyone, I'd only really be scaring myself! Just think if it was as bad as people tell us it is, then why do people keep doing it! 

So breath do a few oohh's and a couple of aahh's, shout at a couple of people and then relax! We can do this, we are built for this very task. I want to say congratulations to every woman who has done this, and good luck to everyone who is about to. 

I'll see you on the flip side ladies.

" it's the final count down... Do do dooooo dododododooooo" 

Mommy to be 

Over and out!

Bella 

For more baby things have a look at my youtube channel!
Youtube pregnancy update
Youtube is it a boy or a girl?
BABY HAUL!