Liebster Blog Award!

Maddie, from Maddie's channel nominated me for the Leibster award! Thank you so much Maddie, She's super sweet and has a really cute blog, check it out :)

The Liebster Blog Award is given to up-and-coming bloggers who have fewer than 200 followers. The rules are simple:
1. Post a link to your nominator's blog with some information about him/her on your blog.

2. Share 11 facts about yourself.

3. Nominate 11 blogs with fewer than 200 followers.

4. Follow your nominator

.5. Notify the blogs you nominated.

11 Facts:
1.) I have two cats who I'm a bit in love with and I'm surprised I haven't talked about them more on here! 

2.) I got them both as birthday presents: one for my 5th birthday and one for my 18th and they're easily the best things I own! ^.^
3.) I have a habit of naming cats (and inanimate objects for that matter...) stupid names. My cats are called Blackie and Twinkletoes, I named my sisters Grey Grey, and Sunny's Evening Cat and Alfie. My laptop is called Bessie and my new phone I've decided to call Roman.
4.) I have really long blonde hair and green eyes!
5.) I thought a sea cucumber was a vegetable until last week...
6.) My ears aren't pierced and if I got something pierced it wouldn't be them, it might be my belly button but I'm yet to be that taken with anything personally :)
7.) My best friend from university came to visit me for the last 4 days and all we've done is go shopping, watch scary films and play pokemon on our old game boys. (How did I forget how good it was???)
8.) I really like elephants and giraffes!
9.) I am ridiculously broke.
10.) I love my dad SO MUCH
11.) I like to run/skip, whether just from A-B, around in circles, on a treadmill, or most commonly around a club after a drink or two (apparently I can be very difficult to keep track of! ooopsy!). But for some reason I really hate going for proper runs.

11 people:
1.) Natasha
2.) Iris
3.) Lottie
4.) Lucy
5.) Isobel Rose
6.) Bex 
7.) Beckawoo
8.) Soph
9.) Beth
10.) Emi
11.) Ashlyn

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Heart Nails and Sophee's Giveaway!

I had my first dabble into nail art today! It took a while and it isn't perfect but I had loads of fun and hopefully I'll get better!

HEARTS HEARTS HEARTS HEARTS! 

I thought this would be cute and not terribly difficult to draw. Hopefully it'll last a while!

I used my Maybelline Lilac nailpolish (from a haul) and some very old 17 red nailpolish. I drew the hearts out on sellotape with a cocktail stick before moving them with tweezers to my nails (some of them are a little bit wonky so don't look too close :P).

Also, I'm really excited about a giveaway from a blog that I only found recently but I keep checking now: Sophee - Make up, Fashion and Everything in Between. She's seems like such a lovely girl with loads of good insights :)

Anyway, I really love the purse she's giving away at the moment - it's such a vibrant colour and looks so grown up and classy. ^.^

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Laid-back Summer Hair

I'm pretty lazy when it comes to my hair, but when it comes to summer I love to twist and braid it to get it out of my face so I don't get too hot. Plaits also show off my highlights so I <3 them. These are the ones I've been using recently and they're super super easy as well! :)
Braids add a simple and sweet boho element to any outfit. I particularly like doing them with baggy or floral tops, with summer dresses, or on cold days with classic dark denim jeans.

This is probably one of my most used, a simple braid of the front my hair on one or both sides of my head. In this case both, pinned back so they meet in the middle at the back of my head! I feel all mermaidy :D It keeps the hair off my face but I don't have to put it up completely, making it look a bit softer for my faceshape. (I think having all my hair up doesn't suit me at all!)

 

 ^^ Close ups of the braids from each side :)  ^^

I've only just started doing this next one but so far I'm really liking it! The braids hold the hair out of my face, but it flows forward in a way that I really like :) The way I do it is to separate chunks of hair from above/behind my ears and pull them forward and tie them with a hair band so they're completely separate from the rest, then I put my hair up in a tight high ponytail and braid the chunks I've left out. I spray the front of my hair and plaits with light hold hair spray and smooth down a little to get rid of any fly-aways before bobby-pinning the plaits in place and letting my hair down.

 This look feels all ballerina-y to me so I tried it with my hair up in a messy ballerina bun which I really like, but it does expose the bobby pins. I'm a messy person so I don't really mind that kind of thing personally.

This one is a chunky waterfall braid on one side of my head (the side with the most hair), and on the other side a simple twist to keep it out of my face. This one I would wear more with jumpers and perhaps to slightly dressier occasions because it feels a little bit more grown up.

close up of the braid

There are loads of great explanations of how to do a waterfall braid and I'd probably be a bit clumsy in my own explanation, so I recommend using the powers of Google if you're interested. I learnt from MeghanRosette on Youtube a billion years ago so maybe that would be worth a look :)

 I thought a simple braid deserves a mention, because it's probably my most "worn" hair style. I like it with everything, it makes summer dresses more casual and looks cute and preppy with good jeans and a simple top. With my hair, the bits at the front fall forward which softens the look making it more wearable for me :)


This post has been really fun to do so I hope you like it!
<3 Daydreamer


P.S. Sorry about the differing quality of the photos in this post - I had a bit of a lighting epiphany half way through taking photos for this post so hopefully they'll get better from now on. I've also realized my camera is awful and makes moderate lighting look poor so looking into a new one in the future (when my funds allow)..