Blue eye shadow is never something I've got on well with but come Winter I always try to give it a go. I really a a plan of a pale face with a pinky lip and cheek when going with a shimmery light blue eye. I much refer light shimmery blues in Winter. If I ever try a blue in Summer it's always a very bright blue. Let me know about what you try out in a certain season that you may not usually like. If you have any questions about the make up I'm wearing in these photos then please do ask away in the comments I've chosen not to write them here because everything you've seen before and there's nothing special, in fact I'm pretty sure half of it you can't buy anymore!

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Cheap and Cheerful Christmas Red Lip:

Every girl needs something cheap and cheerful every now and again, I first bought this lipstick when I was seventeen and needed cheering up after the worlds worst haircut since then I've only really used it when blogging, but no more! I've decided that Christmas is the perfect season to break out the glossy red lip, however first I need to invest in a good red lip liner because this smudges everywhere! (although for £2.99 you can't complain). This is the Collection Volume Sensation Lipstick in 8 Cherry Pop, so if any of you know a good lip liner match then please do let me know. The aren't joking when they say volume sensation either, coming from a Spanish background I've been blessed with lips slightly bigger than most but when I use this product they become so much more plumped up and glossy looking.

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Bomb Cosmetics Little Hotties:

We aren't much of a candle house so even in Winter there aren't a million and one scented candles dotted around the house, one thing I do have is an oil burner which can also burn wax melts. On a trip to Stratford I found that one of the shops was offering the opportunity to fill a box of Little Hotties for just £5.(Certainly cheaper than filling a box of Yankee wax's or any other brand.) This was over a year a go and the box is still almost full which shows just how long they can last. The box boasts up to 132 hours of burning time, but of course this depends upon how full you've made your box.

As for the scents this of course depends upon your personal preference, to give you an idea I have scents such as "cotton fresh", "Lemon", "cinnamon" and "biscuit". Although the range includes anything from "Cherry Kiss", "Mint" and "Tropical Sands" to "Raindrops on Roses". You can also pick up a little booklet which comes with recipes of sort to combine together different wax melts to create a certain scent; "Mint" "Bergamont" and "Summer Loving" creates the scent "Herb Garden", or you could create your own mix or just burn one at a time it's completely up to you.

I have to say I really enjoy using these the little tea light with the warm and colourful wax on top gives me such a cosy feeling.

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15 Festive Favourites Tag:

What better tag to add to blogmas than the 15 Festive Favourites?

1. Favourite Festive Food?
I'd say my favourite past of the Winter season is actually after the main dinner when everyone's just sat in front if the telly and we have a feast of cheese and crackers.

2. Favourite Reindeer?
My favourite reindeer is probably Comet, thanks to the film The Santa Claus. He was such a funny reindeer within the film and made little Erika laugh her head off every time I used to watch the film.

3. Favourite Day of Christmas?
I'm pretty sure this is in refernce to the 12 days of Christmas song. In which case it just have to be 5 GOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD RRRRRRRINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS!

4. Favourite Christmas Song?
I'd have to say that my favourite song changes a lot, in all honesty any Christmas song gives me a warm fuzzy feeling and brings back memories. I really wanted to chose a particular song but I just couldn't .

5.Favourite Christmas Present?
Wow this one is hard because I have to admit I'm very spoilt at Christmas time. If I had to chose I'd say my GHD straighteners because they were a real luxury and they're really amazing. I've had them for years and they're still almost new.

6. Favourite Christmas Film?
I've actually done a Top 10 Christmas films during Blogmas, but my all time favourite film is definitely The Muppets Christmas Carol. It's amazingly funny and heart warming and it's just not Christmas unless it's been watched at least 100 times!

7. Christmas Cracker Toy?
I'd probably go with the little coloured fish that supposedly shows what mood you're in. It's there every year and every year it never works but it's traditional.

8.Christmas Cracker Joke?
This one has to be the classic from The Vicar of Dibley Christmas episode where poor Geraldine has to go through 3 Christmas dinners.
 "What do you do when you see a spaceman?"
"Park in it, man"

9. Favourite Christmas Decoration?
Am I allowed to say candles for this one? There's something really magical and christmassy to me about having the lights really low and lots of candles making flickery lights. To me that's a cosy christmas.

10. Favourite Christmas Candle Scent?
We don't really have too many scented candles in our house we're more of a tea light family so at the moment I have no answer for this one.

11. Favourite Christmas Advert?
Usually I look out for the John Lewis ad, but this year the Sainsbury's one was pure magic! It told such a beautiful story.

12. Favourite Festive Tradition?
Probably decorating the tree, that's when Christmas properly starts when there's a tree in the corner of the room all lit up with pretty lights.

13. Favourite Place to Spend Christmas?
It's got to be at home, there's no other place to have it for me.

14. Favourite Festive Fact?
The song Jingle Bells was never written to be a Christmas song.

15. Favourite Snowman Accessory?
The scarf, don't ask me why but it needs a scarf, it just does.

I hope you enjoyed my festive tag, consider yourself tagged if you want to give this one a go.
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Ginger Stained Glass Window Biscuits:

This is a recipe I've made with my mum for as long as I can remember. Since Christmas is all about traditions I thought I'd show you. I took this recipe from the BBC website but we changed it a little as we went.

You Will Need:

-350g of plain flour

-1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

-1/2 tsp salt

-2 tsp ground ginger

- 100g butter

-1 free range egg

- 4 tbsp golden syrup

- fruit flavoured boiled sweets 

1. Preheat the oven to 180C
2. For biscuits, mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and ginger.
3. Rub in the butter to make the mixture look like breadcrumbs, add the sugar
4. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with the golden syrup, then add to the flour mixture and knead til you make a dough.
5. Crush the sweets with a rolling pin
6. Roll the dough to around half a cm thickness, and cut out your Christmas shapes. Then put them on a lined baking tray.
7. Cut out the shapes you want in the centre of each biscuit and fill in the hole you make with the crushed sweets.
8. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
9. Remove the biscuits from the oven and leave to cool so the melted sweets can set.