Follow me on Bloglovin :)

Hey guys,

I came back after a 4 month break to read a load of posts about GFC ending. WHAT!? I am utterly confused as some people are saying it is only google reader that is going and others, GFC all together.  If the latter is true, after finally getting 158 of you lovely followers, you chummys all may disappear over night :(, which is not good!

Just to be on the safe side, you can follow me on Bloglovin here...

http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?blog=4028135&group=0&frame_type=a&link=aHR0cDovL2x1Y3lsb3ZlczEuYmxvZ3Nwb3QuY28udWs&frame=1&click=0&user=0 

...and I will most certainly follow you back! :)

If you know any more about this and if GFC is going, I'd love to know so that I can g through and follow you all on bloglovin.

Lots of love, Lucy

25 Facts About Me!

Hellooo,

I have like 50 hauls to do (bit of an exaggeration) but I've been to work and am utterly shattered and so have a bit of a back-log of pictures and posts, to fill that gap I thought I'd hop on the band wagon and do a '25 Facts About Me' post.

1. I am a sweet maniac. I have to be in the mood for chocolate but I could eat sweets all day every day. My particular fave is giant sugared strawbs.


2. I'm very English. My parents have done part of their family tree, the furthest afield we have come from is Birmingham, which is about a half hour drive away, which is sort of boring I'd like to be part Italian or Irish or something.


3. My middle name is Elizabeth which is also the name of my nan's mum.


4. I did ballet for ten years going twice-three times a week until the age of about 15-16 when I gave up for my GCSEs, I regret giving up so much.


5. I am a little bit obsessed with Polar Bears, they're so beautiful and yet fierce and dangerous animals. My boyfriend adopted me a polar bear for Christmas. I love him haha.


6. Talking about boyfriends. I have been with Liam for coming up to 11 months, which has whizzed by. He makes me laugh so much, he's my boyfriend and best friend in one.


7. My favourite TV programmes are Big Bang Theory, New girl and Miranda. I'm a sucker for American TV and comedy things.

8. If I could be any superhero I'd be Superwoman (duuuuh ^^^^)


9. I used to swim for my county and came first in breaststroke, (I also met Tony the Tiger aka the frosties mascot, at one swimming competition. True story) but if you were to throw me into a pool now I'd look like a drowning fly. I lose skills very quickly.


10. I cry at EVERYTHING. I read a leaflet about childline earlier...started crying. Whenever I fall out with someone, hurt myself, read something sad etc etc I am a crying machine.


11. Saying that however, I never cry in movies, I was the one out of my group of friends sat there feeling bad because I didn't cry during Marley and me. The only movie I have cried at is Toy Story three, but can you blame me?


12. I am half way through my Degree at Uni and am studying Education Studies, it is so difficult and such hard work, but I guess that's the same for all degree courses.

13. I actually think I have a clothes/ make up addiction. I live for trips to town and could easily spend hundreds in a single visit, I don't though, I some how find the will power. I get a massive buzz from buying new things and feel somewhat deflated if I come home from a shopping trip with nothing new.

14. I love tea, I could live off solely drinking tea/ iced tea for the rest of my life. It doesn't matter if it's regular tea, extra strong tea, green tea, herbal tea...if it comes in a tea bag, I'll drink it. My particular favourite is the mint infused iced tea from Boston tea party.

15. I'm not a vegetarian but I cannot eat any type of meat that does not come from a joint. for example, If my mum cooks a joint of beef for Sunday lunch, it's fine, or if we go out for sunday lunch and I get turkey and the man cuts it up off the joint, it's fine. But any meat in ready meals of from a take away or even if it's like chicken curry in a resturant...can't eat it...I'm odd.

16. My friends often compare my personality to that of Eliot in Scrubs. I'm not really sure if that's a good thing, but I can see where they're coming from. I can be a bit wacky/kooky/wierd which i'm not always sure is a good trait haha.

17. I have asthma and have done since the age of three. I can remember being diagnosed. I have to take inhalers every day, but I wouldn't be me without it. Even if my best friend Han does sing the part from the Kylie Minogue song which goes "breathe, I know you find it hard but baby, breathe" to me...lots. 

18. I have serious issues about my nose. I never paid to attention to it untill maybe college when everyone seemed to have small little button noses. I wouldn't mind Ellie Goulding's nose because at least her's is small from the front, mine is like having a small planet on my face...enough about noses.


19. I used to get bullied for being short, I was very short back in the day, but in about year 10 I shot up to 5 ft 8 being taller than all of them mwahaaa, although I'd rather be short lol.


20. My first holiday away was with this bunch of girls (including me on the left) and another two not in the pic. We went to a little-ish town in Majorca called Santa Ponsa. It was amaaaazing!!!! I love my girlies crap loads. I've known some of them since reception (aged 4) and the others have joined along the way.

21. In school my friendship group consisted of about 25 people, during the summer between finishing school and starting college in 2009, we spent every day together, it has been the best summer of my life so far.

22. My favourite movies of all time are Toy story, Monsters Inc, The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. I'm a massive kid.

23. I sometimes spend hours just messing with make-up...cue face like a lion...

24. I'm painfully shy, like painfully. When I was little, if there was a family gathering at my grans, I used to run in and hide behind the sofa. I love meeting new people and making friends but I sometimes find it really hard. It has definitely improved with age though. I care much less about what people think nowadays.

25. And finally...what else can I talk about except Lucyloves? Still not sure about the blog title...but I love my little blog, I've always wanted a YouTube channel but all beauty gurus seem to be so beautiful and they still look amazing with no make-up on. But my blog is my escape and I love reading other people's blogs. Even though I often think mine is pretty crappy, I just love writing about make up and clothes and things which I love stupidly lots. So please feel free to follow me *wink wink*

Aaaaand that is it. I rambled a bit didn't I haha, oh well. Hope you guys have all had an amazing Saturday and have a very lovely Sunday :)

Lots of love, Lucy xx  

A Picture An Hour 17/01/13

Why hello there guys!

Soooo Yesterday was a pretty 'do nothing' day but I decided to do something which I have seen floating around the blogosphere and that is taking a picture every hour from When I wake up until bed time. This isn't super exciting because nothing that extraodinary happened, but it's a sort of, follow me around for a day thing and it took rather a lot of 'OOH AN HOURS GONE, PICTURE TIME' and editing and whatever else and so I hope you guys like it...

10am

I had a lie-in and woke up to this lovely view, a very gross Worcester sky.

 11am

What to weaaaaaar!?

 12pm

Ready for town, dressed up SUPER warm, it's minus weather outside!

 1pm

A fire in the cute little cafe/resturant in town.

2pm

Finished eating a delish ham, egg and chips meal and a cross-eyes looking Liam.

3pm

 On the way to TKMaxx. A dull looking back-ish street.

 4pm

Bagssss (haul coming soon) and a foot pop.

5pm

Watching Miranda back at Liams. I love this show sooooo much!

 6pm

Junk food eating snuggled up under the duvet.

 7pm

Catching up with YouTube vids!

 8pm

Heading back home past a misty looking Worcester Cathedral.

 9pm

It's snowing pretty crazyish outside!

10pm

PJs and day old make up!

11pm

Reading blogs and drinking tea, aka the usual!

 12pm

Readinng my new book by Miranda Hart (duh) and blogging this! (btw what do you think of my new banner? I'm not too sure)

And it is currently 5 to one and so I'm off to bed (after Big Bang Theory). I really enjoyed doing this and am thinking about doing one more often, maybs one a week? I'd love to hear your guys' opinions :)

Have a lovely Friday!

Lots of love, Lucy xx

If I were a... | Tag

If I were a gemstone, I'd be a blue opal.

If I were a scent, I'd be the smell of the sea side.

If I were a pair of shoes, I'd be a pair of ballet shoes.

If I were weather, I'd be a warm day but with a cool breeze.

If I were a facial expression, I'd be a blush.

If I were a car, I'd be a Clio.

If I were a time of the day, I'd be early morning when the sun is rising and no one else seems to be around.

If I were a month, I'd be January.

If I were a place, I'd be a little seaside town.

If I were a liquid, I'd be bubble solution. 

If I were a taste, I'd be something sweet like honey.

If I were a sea animal, I'd be a little fish.

If I were a food, I'd be a bag of sweets.

If I were a colour, I'd be red, white and blue.

If I were a musical instrument, I'd be a guitar.

If I were a flower, I'd be a Gerbera Daisy. 

If I were a song, I'd be 'Big Yellow Taxi' or 'Wonderwall'.

If I were a planet, I'd be Neptune.

If I were an object, I'd be a ribbon.

If I were a fruit, I'd be strawberries (with sugar and cream of course)

If I were a sound, I'd be crashing waves.

If I were a day of the week, I'd be Sunday lunchtime.

I found this tag on the lovely Ellie's page from A little wishing.

Thank you for reading :) Link me your 'If I Were A...' tag and I shall very happily read it and subscribe :)

Lots of love, Lucy xx

Back to uni - supplies haul

Helloooha,

So this is a little out of the 'beauty, fashion' area but I always find these interesting to read so thought i'd give it a go :) I really don't have to take much to my University lectures as we're usually just bored to death by the lecturers reading out the power point presentation. Never the less, there are some essentials I do take and a few things I take purely to help myself.

 My bag is this cream and brown faux leather bag from Zara, it was only £22.99 and I think it is adooooorable! The longer strap is removable and adjustable and for the price feels pretty well made. Inside there is a zippy pocket, a cream canvas pocket and little leather one which is big enough for a card or something.

These plastic pockets came as a pack of four from Rymans for something like £3. I take these as we usually get tonnes of loose bits of paper which usually end up getting squished and ripped in my bag, however these keep them much more readable.

This binder from WHSmith was £11.99, a little pricey tbh but I liked it and the fact it's split up into sections makes it easier to organise and to keep notes together.

An academic planner is a necessity for Uni, we have so much research, tasks, group meetings, tutorials, draft dates, hand in dates, presentation dates, room changes e.t.c. without one i'd probably fail. This is a day-a-page diary, giving me loads of room to write on. This was again from WHSmith

My pencil case is again from WHSmith it was like £2.99 which is pretty damn good. I've filled it with markers, highlighters, coloured pens, mechanical pencils and normal pens as I find making my notes colourful helps when I go back to use them. I also have little post-it 'tabs' which I use in my binder as well as in text books to bookmark things.

And that is it :) Thanks for reading guys. 

Lots of love, Lucy xx

How Much Does My Face Cost? Tag

Helloha :)

As you may be able to see I mainly use drugstore products so I thought that my 'How much does my face cost?' wouldn't add to all that much....here's the result.

All photos from Google

1. Simple anti-blemish moisturiser - £4.99

2. Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Liner - £7.99

3. Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream - £7.99

4. Soap and Glory Hocus Focus - £13.00

5. Maybelline Colour Tattoo 24HR in 'On and On Bronze' - £4.99

6. MUA Professional Eye Primer - £4.00

7. Benefit Bad GAL Lash Mascara - £16.50

8. MUA 'Undressed' Pallet - £4.00

9. Balance Me Under Eye Cream - £11.00

10. 17 Photo Flawless Skin Primer - £4.99

11. Revlon Lip Butter in 015 'Tutti Frutti' - £7.99

12. Topshop Blusher in 'Neon Rose'- £6.00 

13. 17 Instant glow light bronze - £4.59

Total...£98.03

I'm pretty damn shocked that the total is almost £100 :O Plus i'm sure i'll find that I missed things off. Although I guess this total would be much more if I used mainly high end products...I think i'll stick to Drugstore.

Thanks for reading, why don't you see how much your face costs? :) 

Lots of love, Lucy xx

p.s. Don't forget to follow :)

Storage ideas for your beauty things :D

Helloha :)

My room is pretty tiny and used to be stuffed full with make up, hair things, jewellery, cleansers, moisturisers, lotions and potions of all sorts so I came up with some good ideas (if I do say so myself) for storing these things and I gathered i'd share these with you because, well it might give you some ideas :)

I keep my makeup in a little chest of drawers on my bed side table. These are made of a thick carboard and have little ribbon handles, they're decorated in a pretty floral pink and blue pattern. I got them from WHSmith where they do them in a range of designs for £14.99. Also on my bedside table I have this blue and white polka dot GIANT tea cup which I just decorated with a ribbon, it's actually supposed to be used as a plant pot but I wanted it to store stuff in that's usually loose on my side. It was £4.99 from Poundstretcher although i've seen them in loads of garden centres and D.I.Y stores such as Homebase.

 I have a long shelf where I store my toiletries and decided to divide them into boxes and bags depending on what they are, for example I have all my hair stuff in one box. body butters in another bag, nail stuff in another etc. I got a load of different boxes and bags from different places to make it all look a bit mix and match :)

Finally I thought up some cute ways to store jewellery and bits and pieces. I took a long beaded necklace which I don't wear any more and hung it from a handle, I looped a range of my bracelets onto it and use it as a cute little bracelet holder. I used a tin bucket just to keep random things in and I hand sunglasses on the outside of it. Finally I took a 'mug tree' (the thing you hand mugs on in the kitchen) and used it to hang all of my necklaces, bracelets, rings e.t.c. on.





Thanks for reading this post, I hope it gave you some ideas :)

Lots of love, Lucy xx

It's fun to be cheeky sometimes :D

I seem to be posting like a post man on post tablets today.

I'm a spring chicken to the blogging world in that I only started at the beginning of July although, since then i've gotten far too into it so I thought i'd introduce myself to you. Helloooha, i'm Lucy, i'm 19 years old, I go to University, my favourite colour is blue and my favourite animals are Polar bears :D. This blog (Lucy Loves...) is largely about hair, make-up and fashion all of which I am pretty obsessed with.

 So if you're reading this (thanks btw) and are interested in hair and make up tips, OOTDs, DIY things, advice, reviews and a load of other things, then i'd really appreciate it if you could carry on having a look through my numerous blog posts i've done so far, and if you like, think about following? :) (how cheeky of me!) I will also more than likely follow back.

I try to post as often as I possibly can and try my darn hardest to be interesting and to write blog posts which will be helpful in some way to those who read it although your comments, feedback and constructive criticism is all more than welcome.

By the way, i'm a student on a budget so most of the products I use are high street or drugstore, with just a splash of high-end.

That is all, thank you for reading :)

Lots of love, Lucy xx

Worth the hype?...Revlon balm stains

Revlon 'Just Bitten Kissable' balm stains, have become quite a talking point recently being compared to high end products such as Clinique's 'chubby Stick'.

So they're basically a lip stain in a stick.

I love Revlon's lip products in general (being a big fan of their lip butters) so I just had to give these a go. I brought it in the shade 'Rendezvous' a beautiful orange/coral colour. To product applies nicely and is very simple to apply even without a mirror due to it's pencil shape. It also has a nice minty smell which is pleasant.



I guess the main claim of this product is that it's a stain and so has staying power, which it does. I applied it before lunch and it was still going strong afterwards. It's not completely non-transferable, so like if you did kiss someone (as tested on my hand) it leaves a lip-balm mark, but on 2nd/3rd e.t.c. test the transfer is much less viable. Also I applied a swatch to my hand and it takes some scrubbing to get off.

Due to it's staying power however, the Revlon balm stains lack in the moisturising department. It can make your lips feel pretty dry, not dry in the sense that they're sore and cracked, but in that you feel like you have no moisture on them as you usually do with glosses and balms.

The range of colours in the Just Bitten range, are beautiful and the staying power is great. I do recommend these stains but suggest maybe applying a moisturising lipbalm underneath or over the lip stain to keep your lips soft.

Hope you found this some-what helpful :)

Lots of Love, Lucy Xx

Lucyloves OOTD

Night out clubbing :)

The blouse is a black and white striped one from the New Look brand 'cameo rose' seriously can't remember how much it was but i'm pretty sure it was around the £15- £20 mark.

The bodycon black skirt is from H&M and was £3.99 (BARGAIN ALERT)

My shoes are a black wedge with elastic cross over details and they were £19.99 if I remember rightly.

My black, white and gold stud bracelet was £7 reduced to like £2 in the sale from Miss Selfridge. 

The 'Amaze balls' bracelet was £2 in the sale, again from Miss Selfridge. 

The last bracelet is a florescent pink wrap around with a cute little button fastening. It was £2.30 from Accessorize :)

Watch this space for more OOTDs soon :)

Lots of love, Lucy Xx