Summer Clothes haul :-)

Well hey there! I just want to start off by saying sorry for the lack of posts, I've had a lot going on in my life and I just haven't really been in the mood to write, but last week I did a lot of clothes shopping with my mum because I was in some serious need of more summer clothes that I could wear for both casual and formal events.

I'll start with what I got from Topshop and this was like a month ago and its the 'MOTO bleached denim jacket' and it was £48 and honestly, I don't know what I would be without, I love it so much and I throw it over the top of any outfit. The other day when I was in town with my friend I got this amazing black and white, sort of aztec pattern, midi dress, and it is  honestly the most beautiful dress ever. It was £28 and for topshop, I think that was a reasonable price for a dress. It has quite a high neckline which I like and has no sleeves so i would wear a cardigan or my denim jacket. If you'd like, I could do a separate blodpost on how I style midi dresses, casual and formal. The last thing I bought from Topshop was this knee length/midi bodycon skirt that was £28 which I know is a little pricey for a skirt but it was too pretty to leave. It has different sized flowers and black and white print panels on each side and blue black and yellow flowers over the whole skirt and I just love it so much.
Then I went to debenhams with my mum and let's just say, we did some damage there...I got this beautiful blue and white aztec print midi dress (what a surprise) wiith short sleeves which is very convenient if I just need to throw something on and leave the house. It was £15 from a brand I'm not very familiar with, it was in the section with all the random brands of dresses, but the brand of this dress is called 'IZABEL London'. But yeah, I am loving that dress. And the last thing I got was this black maxi skirt from Warehouse for £17. The original price was £22 but it was 20% off on that item in debenhams. it's just a plain black flowy maxi skirt and I usually wear my white crop top t shirt from topshop with it. I just really love it and I always wear it.

Photos will be added soon I promise! But it is late and I still need to take photos of the clothes and put them on my computer and then arrange them so I thought you guys would care more about the actual post and I'll have the photos hopefully up and sorted tomorrow.
Also, great news, I now have a working computer which means when I do add photos I can position them where I want and it will be easier to to write more.

Hope you enjoyed this post, it is a bit different to my usual makeup and beauty posts but I haven't really bought any new makeup recently. I am planning on changing them up a bit, a few personal posts may be coming up soon.
If you have any requests of what you'd like me to write about then please let me know in the comments below or tweet me @halasbubble or @halasherif13 xx
have a great week guys, I love you all
Hala xxx

Makeup Haul :-)

Ooh. I've done a LOT of makeup shopping recently and decided it was time to write up a haul. I've been trying these products out for a few weeks so I'll be able to give you a quick review of some of them but if you want a full review on a particular product, then let me know :-) enjoy guys x

Also can I quickly say, my blog photography is really bad I know, it's because I blog on my iPad so it's pretty limited to where I put the photos, it is a work in progress though because hopefully in a few months, I'll get a laptop and be able to take photos with my good camera. But I am really sorry about the photography and sometimes lack of photos xx

I think I'll start with the high street/drugstore makeup. So I have five new products from boots and superdrug. They're mainly blushes because I've been trying to get more into them because I've always been a little scared to use them. I bought three, one of them being a cream blush. Woah. Cream blushes scared me until I got this one. I got the 'Maybelline dream touch blush' in No.6 and I think it's called berry. It's a really cute, muted pink with a lot of shimmer. I really like the consistency of the product and the colour, I feel I would like it a lot more if it didn't have as much shimmer because there's a lot of shimmer in blush, also, I feel that, in general, cream blushes suit people with more dry skin because it makes their skin look a lot more glowy, and also if you love that really glowy and dewy look. For me, I'm not scared of them anymore, I just don't feel very comfortable wearing them because I don't like the feeling of the wetness on my cheeks. But I really love the colour and it was around £5.99 from boots, which I think is quite a reasonable price for the blush. Ok, onto my other two blushes, one was a repurchase of my natural collection blush in 'peach Melba', it is literally the prettiest summery neutral colour ever, it's a really muted pinky peach and I think it's the perfect colour for your cheeks on summer if you want a day time blush. And it was only £1.99 which i think is amazing for the quality of the product. The last blush I got was actually my first ever Sleek product. Oooh. So excitinggg! I bought it in the shade 'pixie pink' which is literally the brightest pink ever..when you look at it in the pan. However, when you swatch it, it's actually a really cute summery, Barbie pink. It's just so pretty I think I'm in love! It was £4.49 when i bought it, but apparently they're usually a bit more expensive. Now briefly moving onto one of my Favourite drugstore brands, Rimmel, I am seriously loving the 'natural bronzer' in No.22 'sun bronze' it is literally the perfect colour for wanting a bronzed look. I usually just use it to do an all over bronze but when I experiment makeup looks, it's really good for contouring as well. I think it was around £4.00 but I'm not entirely sure. Also from Rimmel, I bought the 'scandeleyes waterproof kohl kajal' in No.005 'nude'. I know what you're probably thinking, how the hell can a nude eye pencil work, but trust me guys, put this on your waterline and it immediately brightens your eyes up, I don't usually wear eyeliner, so I use this and it really does help with brightening my eyes up. And that was only £2.99, so again, a pretty good bargain. Last two makeup items from boots. The 'Maybelline, The Rocket Volume Express' mascara. It really is worth the hype guys, I love it because it doesn't clump my lashes at all and really lengthens them. I boight mine when it was on offer for £5.99 but i think the usual price is £7.99. Last one guys, I bought the collection 'lasting perfection 16 hour wear concealer' because I fell for the hype, I just feel that it does nothing for my under eye circles, I don't like the consistency and I just feel it drys even my skin out. I love the coverage it gives but I feel it's just too heavy for using as an under eye concealer and it seems to dry quite quickly, making it really difficult to blend out. But it was only £4 so i want to upset with the money side, it's just i thought with all the hype, it would be a lot better. I honestly recommend if you're someone who wears more concealer than foundation, invest in a high end brand one because they really are worth it. I've only like using my Estée Lauder and MAC one.
I just wanted to quickly add in some makeup brushes, I finally decided to buy the real techniques brushes and guys, they're totally worth it. They're perfection! I bought the stippling brush which cost £11.99 and I also bought the starter set brushes which were a set of five brushes, deluxe crease brush, base shadow brush, pixel point eyeliner brush, accent brush and the angles brow brush. And those cost £21.99.

Okayyy. Wow. That is a lot of shopping, don't worry guys, I haven't purchased as much high end makeup so it's only three new products and two brushes. I guess I'll start with the MAC products and the are my first MAC lipstick in the colour 'hue'. I'd not know what else to say apart from that it is perfection and the perfect colour. Just wow. All the MAC lipsticks are between £14-£15 depending if they're in a limited collection or the permenant collection. Hue is in the permenant range and it was £14, which I understand is a little pricey for a lipstick, but honestly, it really is worth it. I also bough the 'pro longwear concealer' in shade NW20. It is perfect for my under eye circles and the concealer doesn't budge. And that was £14.50 which is a reasonable price for a high end concealer. Last makeup item was the Benefit 'They're Real' mascara. I use it everyday and it just gives my lashes such length and a little bit of volume. And the small one is £9.50 and the full size is £19.95. Which i thought was a ridiculous price at first, but it really is worth it. I think I'm going to purchase the full size soon. These were in my previous post from yesterday so I'm not writing as much on these. I purchased the MAC '234' blending brush and I find it amazing for blending my eye shadows in. Which was £12.25 from the makeup store in bicestervillage but the original price is something like £17.50 which is quite expensive brush. I also got the urban decay 'good karma crease brush' it's a really good crease brush I actually use it more for blending.i didn't actually buy this, my mum's friend bought it for me randomly when she saw me looking at it which I found really sweet of her. and it was £16.



Welllll,that was a long post. I'm gonna upload it now and I'll add photos when I find the time to sketches and make sure they look good but. Think you guys deserve another post since I've left you for two months with nothing..x

Have a good week guys :*
Love youu,
Hala xxxxxx
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May Favourites :-)

Hiiiiii. So I'm backkkk!!!! Yayyyyyyy!!! <3
I've missed you guys so much :-( and Monthly Favourites are my favourite to write and read so I decided to come back with my May Favourites :-)

Makeup. Boo yeah

I have bought so much makeup this month it's actually ridiculous. Hehe. Oh wellll. This month I bought my first MAC products and I've been loving them but my two Favourites would have to be my Mac lipstick in 'hue'. It is actually perfection. It's a glaze and think the glazes are my favourite, they just glide on your lips so evenly and smoothly, a lot go people like the cream sheen the most, and. Love them as well, but they go on a little bit harder than a glaze but anyway, hue is such a pretty nude pink, it has no shimmer but because it is a glaze it still got a shine to it, and all MAC lipsticks smell incredible!! They literally smell like vanillaaaa. Mmmmmm. Also from MAC, I've been loving the pro longwear concealer in NW20. I have really bad dark circles under my eyes and I've been looking for a good concealer for ages and I went into MAC and asked them to help me find one and I came out with this one. It's such a good concealer and it doesn't budge. I definitely recommend it for anyone who is looking for a good concealer. Moving away from MAC, I bought this months 'ELLE' magazine and they were giving away free 'they're real' mascaras by 'benefit'. I almost flipped because I've been wanting to try it but didn't want to spend £20 on the full size in case it wasn't as good as everyone says it is, but also wasn't willing to pay £10 for the tiny one, but 'ELLE' were giving it away so I just had to get it and oh my god guys, it's actually incredible! I love it so much because it doesn't clump at all, I hate mascaras that are clumpy so I'm so please I found one I love. I definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a lot more length, if you want more volume, I'd say give it a try, because it may not give you as much volume as you'd like, for me it's perfect, because I need length, not volume on my lashes. Lastly for my makeup Favourites, I rediscovered a blush that I've had for ages but just stopped sing it, it's from natural collection and the colour is 'peach Melba' and I'm in love with it! It's the perfect colour for summer I think, it's a bronze colour but with a bit of peachy colours in it. And it was only £1.99!
I've also been loving a few brushes this month, I purchased my first real techniques brushes a few weeks ago and I love them so much, I bought the stippling brush, which I think is great for applying foundation and buffing it in to your skin, and I also purchased the starter kit which is the purple collection one, and I love them all, but my favourite has definitely been the deluxe crease brush, I use it for my concealer and it really blends the concealer really well. I recommend the brushes a lot. They're definitely worth the little investment. :-)


Clothes :-)

So I went to H&M for the first time a few weeks ago and came out with two new outfits, one was vertical striped jeans, they're black and white stripes, and they really make my legs look slimmer and they're bang on trend with the monochrome and and stripes. With the jeans I wear this loose fitted off white tank top and it says across it 'I never liked you anyway'. I saw it on polyvore recently and didn't know where I could get it but I saw it and almost ran to it, it is such a wearable top and I just love the phrase on it, I feel so sassy when I wear it :-). The second outfit is a maxi dress, and it goes just above my ankles, and it's kind of dipped hem and I just love it, it's black and white, of course ;-) and its vertical stripes, but not strait stripes, it's patterned and it's so cute and I love the material.

Foods. Yum!

Ok, two foods I've been loving have been the cadburys marvelous creation chocolates, but the one with jelly popping candy and smarties. It's absolute heaven like oh my god #foodporn. Yum yum yum. And I've also been loving curiously cinnamon cereal but not with milk. They're heavenly and I love them so so so much. Mmmmm

Music
I've got so many artists but the main ones have been paramore and Nina nesbitt. I've recently been loving paramore even more and they're just plain amazing, and Nina, I've been listening to her for around two years now and my friend and me are seeing her in October when she comes to where we live. Ahhhhhhhh. I'm so excitedddddd!!!!!

Man I've missed blogging but I have some exciting news, I'm going to try blogging everyday in July. It's going to be hard, I know, but I need blogpost ideas guysss, so tweet me or comment below

Love you guys <3

Come talk to me please :*
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Quick update

Hey guys!!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've had a busy week. I came back from France on Thursday evening and that whole week I was without Internet so i couldn't post anything, not like I had any time anyway. Too busy rowing:-) I was hoping to have time to write a few more posts so I could upload them at different times without worrying about them but I have to start revising for my end of year exams that are coming up and I have an end of unit physics test on Wednesday so I've been cramming as much revision as I can on that at the moment. Ugh. I hate physics. But. Wednesday will also be one of the best days of my life because....IM SEEING ONE DIRECTION!!!!!! YAAAAAY!!! I'm so excited. Ill hopefully write a post about it if I find time :-)
Also. I have just made a twitter for my blog because people I know follow my personal and I don't really want them to know I have a blog. So for updates on my blog follow @halasbubble
Other places you. Can find me:
Twitter - @halasherif13 - my personal. Come say hi
Instagram - @hala_m14

So yeah. Sorry for the really quick update but I felt bad for not posting but yeah
Byeeeee

Love you

Hala xxxxx

March Favourites 2013

Hi! :-)
Me again!
I decided instead of doing a post on my haul I would do my march Favourites. I have written a bit of my haul but I remembered that it is now the start of April! YAY! I have a very exciting month ahead. On Thursday the 4th until the 11th I'm in the south of France for a rowing camp! I am so excited because its my first time in France and rowing is something I really love! I love having something I know I can commit to :-) and on the 17th I'm going to experience the best day of my life...IM SEEING ONE DIRECTION LIVE!!! AGHHHHH! Sorry, my inner fangirl just came out of me. Well this is awkward...
Anways, on with my march Favourites!
I have quite a few Favourites and I'm gonna break it into sections, makeup and beauty, music, clothes and food. I'm going to try my best and do this every month because I don't know about you, but I love ,on they favourite posts/videos.

Makeup yay!

There are a lot of makeup and beauty items I am absolutely loving this month! First, the 'Rimmel apocalips lip lacquers'. A lot of people rave about these and I'm gonna be one of them. I can't tell you how much I love these guys! I love the packaging, I only like using dove applicators for my lips (with a few acceptions) so I was really happy that these were the same for the lip lacquers. If you aren't aware of what I mean by lip lacquers, they are basically lipsticks in a lipgloss form. They have amazing pigmentation, and when you first put them on, they will be glossy, like a lipgloss, but as the day goes on, they become more of a lip stain and I really like that. I have two of them, no.101 celestial, a sort of muted, almost bright, pink, but also at the same time, quite nude. I also have no.600 nude eclipse and it's just your standard very nude colour. Some people might be a bit scared to try this colour out, and honestly, last year, I would've been the same, but I decided that this year, I was going to be bit more stand out with my makeup. I want to step out of my comfort zone with makeup.but yeah, love those a lot. Next up is another lip product and it was another thing I saw that a lot of people loved and it's the revlon lip butters. These had mixed reviews but I was at boots and it was 3 for 2, so, I Ended up buying 3, one in shade 075 lollipop which, from the packaging, looks like a very bright fuchsia pink, but it, along with the whole range, comes out quite sheer but still has the nice pink, fuschia colour. I also have the shade 025 peach parfait which is a really pretty peach colour and has a lot of glitter. Again, it comes out really sheer and with this one, it looks more like its just glitter on your lips but you can still make out the peachy colour in it. And last of all on the lip front is the nivea lip butter! I have it in vanilla and macadamia and oh my god guys,it smells amazing and for me, I've always had dry lips and I've tried so many lip balms but nothing works. I used to use a Nivea lip product and that worked so well but then I lost it and never had the chance to uh it again,but then I saw these and I was like 'I love Nivea and they smell good! I'm getting that!' They really help with moisturizing my lips and smell amazing. Definitely recommend those or any Nivea product to anyone who have dry lips :-). But yeah, been loving those lip products a lot!

Next up are two nail polishes and they are both Models own and I love their nail polishes! If you know me, you know I have a slight obsession with nail polish in general so it's not surprising I have nail polishes in this. So the first one I've had since the start of February and its the shade 'hedkandi beach party' and it's a really bright orange and it's a really summery colour, since in the UK we've had almost no sun, I try to cool it down by painting my black crackle nail polish over the top and it actually looks really good. The next one I purchased I think almost two weeks ago and I already love it so much! It's the models own scented 'blueberry muffin' and when I saw this, being the nail polish addict I am, I had to get it. It's a pastel blue/lavender colour and I have barely any pastel colours so I really liked this shade. But anyway, it said that it was scented and I was like 'OMG I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE' so I smelled all of them and chose this one, I got home and tried it and I was a bit disappointed when I put it on because it didn't smell and I was like 'oh well, at least it's a nice colour' but then after it had completely dried. IT SMELLED LIKE BLUEBERRY MUFFIN GUYS! I love it so much and I know it's gonna be a colour I'm gonna be using a lot. But yeah really love those nail polishes. I have two more beauty items so I'll try to get through quickly, I decided while shopping with my best friend, immy on Saturday that I really needed a face cream and she told me the simple 'kind to skin hydrating light moisturizer' was the one to get, and I love it! I know, I only got it on Saturday, but for me, it only takes a really short amount of time for me to really love something. But yeah, it's a really good moisturizer and it really does hydrate my skin and it isn't scented or anything, it's just a plain and proper cream. And I like that. Last thing is something else I got on Saturday and its the Rimmel stay matte powder, and I knew I was going to love it because Tanya burr has it and is always raving about it. And she is right. It's amazing! I have the colour 001 transparent and it's a really good powder.

Music!
Now, I'm a Directioner, so yes, I am one of those crazy fangirls, and I'm ok with that. I love them. So obviously, all the time I love their music, but this month, I have some very good songs. First is 'Radioactive' by Imagine dragons. I've only recently started liking their music mainly because I didn't know it was the who sang this song. Hehe. But yeah. Next one is 'my songs know what you did in the dark' (long title) by Fallout boy, I love love love this song. It's always playing and I'm actually listening to it right now, haha :-). The last one is 'mirrors' by Justin Timberlake. I really would like a piece of him ;-) haha, but seriously, I love this song so much! And me and my friends are always singing it.

Clothes

I've really been loving my biker jacket from Henry Holland. It's an army green and the sleeves are faux leather. It's so handy and I always throw it on before I leave the house. I think it was £44.50 on sale, but the original price was £55 and I got it from debenhams. Another item of clothing I'm loving is my 'new York city' grey tee from TOPSHOP. I think it's quite old and I saw it on polyvore and I loved it. I really love baggy tshirts so I was so glad when I found it. It was £18 which I think is pretty good for TOPSHOP and for how much I wear it. Last item, my onesie from primark. It's a Disney one and I love ittttttt. It was £13 and it's super soft

food

Food I've been loving this month has been MINI EGGS! I love mini eggs and they're just so good. If I'm honest, I'm not a huge chocolate lover, so for Easter, my parents don't get me a big chocolate egg, because I don't like them. I'm more of a sweet person. I love the malteaster bunnies though. Yummmyyyy

Well, that was a long post. Wow! But I hope you enjoyed it
If you wanna talk to me, tweet me @halasherif13 or instagram me a pic of your march Favourites with the tag #halasbubblefaves
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I tried putting pictures so I don't know if it worked. If it does, sorry for my bad photography. When I get the chance, for the makeup, I'll do individual shots and swatches and edit this post, so keep an eye out, it's only because its almost 1:30 am here in the UK.

Love you,

Hala xoxo

Hiya! :-)

Hi guys, so basically this is post is just an intro to my blog. I've been wanting to start one for a while now and I have finally got round to doing it.
I've always loved fashion, I remember I'd go through notebooks with just design ideas, the only problem I have is that I'm rubbish at drawing and I really hope I can get better.
I guess I've always loved beauty and makeup as well but it was never a proper interest of mine until last summer, thanks to my best friend, she basically told me everything I know, and now, I have quite a collection, I'd say I have quite a bit considering I started collecting last summer and I am only 14 years old. I love makeup and I love watching YouTube videos and recreating the looks, but my passion really is fashion, I'm always buying the magazines and watching the fashion shows on TV. I hope one day I get the chance to go to one, it's my dream to go to LFW. In December, I went to clothes show live with a few of my closest friends. It was an amazing experience and the whole day was amazing. I spent all my money on makeup and I guess that's where my makeup collection started. The actual fashion show was brilliant, it wasn't a typical fashion show where the models would walk up and down and pose, it was theme and they were dancers and everything was choreographed. It was brilliant, if you love makeup and fashion, I really recommend you go. I really hope I get to go again this year.

Like I said, I'm 14 and I live in the UK, you can probably tell from my name, I'm not originally British, my family are Libyan and we are Muslims. I'm full Libyan and I'm very proud of that. I'm in year 9 and I just made my GCSE choices. I'm doing 11 because I'm doing a twilight subject. I'm doing English, English literature, biology, physics, chemistry, Maths, philosophy and R.S, Spanish, textiles, I.T and Arabic as my twilight. I'm really happy with my choices and I'm so glad I have the chance to do textiles as a GCSE.i

I should probably mention the blogs I read. These people are also youtubers. I read zoella, she's my favourite blogger and her YouTube videos are amazing. I love her so much! She does beauty and makeup blog posts. I love sprinkle of glitter, Louise. She's the funniest person ever, and she has the cutest daughter. Tanya burr, I love her as well, and I read a bit of Viviana does makeup. Check their blogs out as well as their YouTube channels!

I really hope this was an OK introduction and that you people that are reading this will stick with me. If I can, I'll do a post of a primark haul, I went a bit crazy when I went there on Saturday...I'm not very good with photos and such because I am posting from my iPad, hopefully I'll figure out  how to put photos up from my iPad so excuse me if the photos are rubbish quality. But yeah. Thank you so much for reading my first blog post and if you have any ideas of posts I could do, then please let me know, I'd love your input. Also, I'll hopefully set up a twitter just for my blog, but for now, follow my twitter @halasherif13 :-) have a great day!


Love you
Hala xoxo