August Favourites 2015

August has flown past and now we're mere hours away from September. I've been loving a lot of things this month, so if you want to sit down and watch my video, I hope you get some inspiration for new things to try/watch/do. It's a real mix of things, so there's something for everyone!



Love, Milly xx

My Blogging Tips

After nearly a year and a half of blogging, I've started learning what people want to see and what they don't, and how to draw people on to my little place on the internet. I decided to share the things that I wish I knew when I began my blogging journey, in order to help some of you who might be thinking about starting a blog or just need a little guidance in that area.




If you have any more tips suggestions for videos or blog posts, I would love to hear from you so please leave them below.

Love Milly xx

Stripes & Denim Summer Lookbook

 

Ever since I've watched YouTube I've always love the perfectly styled videos of gorgeous outfits in beautiful settings, and since I decided to start YouTube, I wanted to do one of my own. During the 'outfit-picking' process, I lay out all of my clothes and noticed a theme - basically everything was striped or denim. Therefore, that is the theme of my own summer lookbook, which I am very proud of. I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at it and tell me what you think, because I spent ages editing (and posing), with the help of my brother who filmed for me.



Love, Milly xx

My Everyday Makeup Routine

On my Instagram, I got a request to film my everyday makeup routine and, although I tried to film it right away, the odds simply weren't in my favour and practically everything went wrong. But it's here now and I am able to share with everyone who's interested, what my face looks like on the average day. My routine is pretty basic because it is the foundation of every makeup look I do and it's also pretty cheap because I haven't found any high end products worth incorporating into my daily makeup.



Love, Milly xx

Empties #1

I've collected up all of my used up products from the past few months to share with you and give my opinion on whether I think they are worth buying. My mum was a little confused by my box of empty things, but she's getting used to the struggles of being a blogger! My video is up on my YouTube right now, and I would appreciate any feedback, video requests or subscriptions as I'm always looking to improve everything I do.



Love, Milly xx

My Response to 'You Look Disgusting'

If you haven't seen it yet, a blogger/vlogger called Em posted a video in the last few days called 'You Look Disgusting', and I decided to voice my response in a video and blog post. In it, she shared the hate she has been receiving on her recent photos of herself with and without makeup, to bring light to the problems with our society's perception of beauty and perfection. I personally have never understood how people can feel okay posting negative things about people online because it is something I would never consider doing.

Discrimination of any kind is totally wrong, but discriminating because of something we can't control? That's ridiculous. However rigorous our skincare routines are, however we change our lifestyles, whatever our doctors do, sometimes there is no way to cure acne because it is down to hormones being a pain and it is not anyone's fault.

As I said in my video, I found the comments on Em's pictures in which she is wearing makeup and is supposedly more beautiful to be the ones which made me most angry because they made it seem as if she is a piece of branding who is either not good enough or wearing too much makeup. Wearing makeup is something which makes her feel more confident and she does not wear it to cover up for those people who think "she looks disgusting" or those who thinks she is wearing too much. Like many girls and women, she wears it for herself and to feel pretty.

I personally think that our society's view of 'perfection' is distorted and it puts so much pressure on young men and women to look good in order to meet this ideal that doesn't really exist. A lot of videos relating to 'skin shaming' and 'perfection' have been drifting around the internet in the past few years, but I'm glad that Em's video has been seen by so many people and I hope that maybe, we might finally get through to people that hate is never a good idea.

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I hope you liked my post and video. If you watched the video, you will have seen that I am starting a series called #BeautyfulChats on YouTube which you can use on Twitter or Instagram and which I will use to choose a topic to talk about in a video each week. Let me know your thoughts on 'skin shaming' and Em's video below or on Twitter because I would love to talk to some of you!

Love, Milly xx

Mini Beauty and Clothing Haul

Today's video is a mini haul, because I've got a few things recently which AREN'T from charity shops! (I know, totally crazy right?) I hope you like the video because I'm starting to get into the swing of filming and I really enjoy sitting down to film and edit. Feel free to subscribe and follow my social media if you would like to.

 

 

Thank you for reading/watching, and I will hopefully get a post up for you all tomorrow!

 

Love, Milly xx

My First Video!

As you might know, this summer I set myself the challenge of starting a YouTube channel which would run alongside my blog. Today I finally uploaded a video that I am fairly happy with, although it is totally awkward (that wave though?). I think I'm going to be posting a video tomorrow, but it depends on whether I can film and edit in time. Thank you for your continuing support!

 

Love from Milly xx

 

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