'7 Things' - June Edition

I thought I'd try something new on my blog this month! Sprinkle Of Glitter started these posts a few weeks ago and they've inspired her to do goals she's been wanting to reach for a long time, so I thought I'd give it a try too. 

Below are the seven things which I hope to achieve in the month of June - I know there's not too long left of this month but it will at least mean that I have to be a  bit more determined and get everything done in less time.

1. Be Healthy - Whether its going out for a bike ride or having a salad with my dinner, I want to try and be a little more healthy. I'm not going to diet because dieting as a fad doesn't work but I'm going to try and introduce more vegetables to my meals and get myself moving.

2. Keep Blogging - Now I've completed my six months of blogging everyday, it would be easy to give up and never blog again or blog randomly with no pattern or regularity, so I'm going to try and consistently blog for the rest of the month and keep my content new and interesting.

3. Don't Always Be A 'Brand Baby'- I'm a bit of a lover of more expensive brands and often stupidly pick them over their cheaper counterparts. This month, I'll try and use some of those cheaper brands - sometimes you can discover great things in these kinds of environments - you don't always have to spend a lot of money to get a great product.

4. Stay Organised - Whether its keeping my room tidy, working through my lists of things to do or keeping up with when events and meetings are happening - I want to stay on top of my life this month! Last week, I missed a pretty huge meeting because I hadn't written it in my diary, so staying organised is key for me.

5. Experiment - I recently brought the Urban Decay Naked Palette (Check out my review HERE) which obviously wasn't cheap so I want to use it to its fullest. Some of the colours are easier to use than others, so I want to try and experiment with the palette and try and create some looks that perhaps I wouldn't have tried otherwise with colours that I haven't yet used.

6. Socialise - And I don't mean constantly go out with my friends -  I just want to make an effort to keep up with my uni friends whom have gone home after we completed our last year together.

7. Have Fun - I've got so many fun and exciting things happening over the next few weeks and I want to make sure I enjoy them to their fullest - so my goal is to have the most fun I can and enjoy life before it changes in September.

I'd love to hear your own personal goals in the comments below and will of course let you know how I get on with my goals at the end of the month!

Blogger Favourite: Lights All Faded

I love it when I find new blogs from reading other people's recommendations. There's a lot of rubbish produced online so to find a recommendation which you know is great is fantastic. So today, I thought I'd give it a go!

Although I read a lot of fashion, make-up and other beauty blogs, I also read my friend Dani's "Lights All Faded" travel blog. Dani is an Australian backpacker who is currently travelling around Europe and America and blogging her experiences throughout. 

She's written reviews of hostels, recommended places to visit during her travels, shared tales of the good, the bad and the ugly and kept all her visitors up-to-date with her experiences as she travels. I also really love her insightful posts where she works around ideas of taboo in travelling, representation of cultures, explores travel philosophy as well as her posts with personal handy hints in relation to packing, hostels, transport and more.

On her site she has a travel map so you can see where she's visited so far, a little widget so you can see what city she's currently exploring and details on past trips as well as her hopes for future trips across the pond! She posts blogs very regularly (usually a couple of times per week) and is always on Twitter updating with funny tidbits and interesting on-the-spot tips as she hops from city to city.

I'm not a huge traveller myself but find it so inspiring reading her experiences in places which I would love to visit, so be sure to check out Dani's blog at LightsAllFaded.com now!