None of us were prepared for the shut down of the beauty sector last year and although they were able to open for brief periods in between lockdowns, it’s likely that you’ve found yourself in some sort of ‘hairy’ personal care predicament – pun very much intended. I’m not going to pretend that I’m someone who is always in the beauty salon or hairdressers but even I have struggled to maintain what little beauty standards I have so I’m here to share my essentials that have kept me just about presentable over the past year. Eyebrow Tint My absolute favourite product that I’ve discovered during the pandemic is Eyelure Dybrow*…

Last Saturday, myself and my family took on the task of solving a series of mind boggling puzzles set out in ‘Trapped! An Escape Room’ by Macmillan Cancer Support. I had seen a random post on Facebook about these game packs that Macmillan were offering and decided to investigate. Macmillan currently offer four different game packs which you can access at home and play virtually with a team. Note that you will need to set up a virgin fundraising page as they recommend giving a donation – the instructions on how to do this are sent to you via email and on the website. Now as I said, we tried…

It’s 03.02.2021. I’m currently writing this having just opened my blog account and website and I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m not very techy but I’m panicking you see. I’m 3 weeks away from my maternity leave start date and incase you didn’t know, maternity pay is terrible! I’ll be paid less than £700 pounds a month for the privilege of wiping a baby’s bum. Now I’m very lucky to have a partner who has a decent job (guess mine is okay too) who can afford to foot the bill for our home and most of the bills during the months that I’ll be keeping our child alive…