How to Organise/Declutter Your Wardrobe

Does your wardrobe have clothes on the floor and scattered around? You can't find most things easily and everything is creased? Here are your top steps for decluttering and organising your wardrobe!

Step 1: Pull EVERYTHING (and I mean absolutely every single item of clothing you own) out of your wardrobe and onto your floor or bed or even a table/desk. Start making piles of each thing (eg: jeans, shorts, long sleeve tops, skirts, singlets, coats etc) and fold them neatly.

Step 2: Go through each pile, think to yourself if you have worn the item of clothing in the past year or if it even fits anymore. If you haven't worn it or doesn't fit, put it into a new pile that will will either donate the clothes or throw them out if they are super worn out.

Step 3: If it's winter hang up all of your coats, cardigans, long sleeve and short sleeve tops and winter dresses and skirts with the coat hangers that are velvet. And if it's summer then hang up your singlets, tops, dresses and skirts! If the hangers are plastic or metal the clothes will easily fall off and create the mess! The velvet hangers are also very thin so you will end up with more hanging space. 

Step 4: I prefer to fold up my jeans and shorts and put them in my shelves so they are easy to pull out and put on. Everything that I put in my shelves, I like to put them in fabric boxes like this one:

Step 5: Get some of those vacuum sealing plastic bags so you can put your current non-season clothing in and put at the top or the back of your wardrobe to save space and when you open the bag back up, the majority of your clothes won't be too creased, or even creased at all!

Step 6: For hanging clothes, I put everything into sections of what type of clothing they are and then in colour order so it is really easy to find!

Thanks for reading this if you have!

Video Alert x 3!! Mascara Reviews, Get Ready With Me Filming Day Edition and Perfume Collection!

Hello people!

I was in an epic filming mood a few days ago so I made 3 videos in one day!!! Since I had decided to film that day, I filmed a "Get Ready With Me - Filming Day" video, which was actually much harder than it sounds....

Embedding the video won't work which is annoying so click this sentence for the video!


After I filmed that I asked a friend what she would like to see me do and she suggested a mascara review and perfume collection!

Yay this embedding worked!!

And I can't embed the last video! :( Does anyone know how to make the Youtube search easier on inserting a video??

My 5 Mascara Reviews! Click it


If you have any requests for videos I could make please let me know! Thank you for reading if you've made it this far xx

Video Alert: 40 Beauty Questions Tag

Hello people!

After hour of preparing, filming, exporting, uploading and hoping that my internet won't cut out, my new video is finally live! I definitely love tag videos so there will for sure be more to come :D

For some reason blogger won't let me embed the video so here is the link: http://youtu.be/PNZwIgR94GA

Please let me know how you like it and it would seriously mean the world to me if you followed me on here and subscribed on my youtube channel.

xx

My Top 5 Nail Polishes

Hello People! (is there anyone there?? please let me know in the comments, i really don't know if anyone does read my posts.. :( )

Last night I decided I didn't want to wear the nail polish "You Only Live Twice" from the Skyfall Collection by OPI so I took it off my nails and sat at my make up trolley and tried to decide which to wear next. I literally sat there for a good 5 minutes trying to decide which colour to put on...

While I was umming and aahhing about which colour to choose, I thought to myself "hmmm I love a lot of these colours, I should pick my top 5 and write a blog post!" So here is that blog post.

I would never be able to choose my number one favourite so I'm not listing the colours in any particular order. Here they are:

Left to right: You're Such a Budapest by OPI, Pure Pearlfection by essie, Teenage Dream by OPI, an unnamed colour by KIKO make up milano and Bag a Bachelor by nails inc. london for Cleo. 

I've only recently bought You're Such a Budapest but I absolutely LOVE it. You only need to use 2 coats of it and it stays on for soooo long (I've had it on my toe nails for about 3 weeks and it hasn't even chipped!). 

I bought Pure Pearlfection about a year ago and love the colour and all but you need about 3-4 coats on your nails for it to show the actual colour. After it is on though, it stays on for a good couple of days without chipping. It is also a really good colour to put on top of a solid colour to add some glitter and shine.

When I was in Fiji at the start of 2012 I went to the spa at the resort and got a manicure with this colour. I loved it so much that I bought it at Duty Free at the airport on the way back home. Like the other OPI nail polish, you only need 2 coats and this is also another colour that stays put, possibly a bit too much. It's like all other glitter nail polishes where you have to soak a cotton pad in nail polish remover and scrub quiet hard to get it off. 

The orange nail polish by KIKO was given to me by my french exchange student last year and she also gave me a pink, blue, red, silver and metallic coloured ones. The quality of this nail polish is absolutely amazing and the orange is such a good colour when on your nails. I've found that with some orange nail polishes, they seem to kind of "blend" in with my skin tone and it just looks weird but this orange is a shade that you can see well and it's lovely to wear during the summer with other bright colours. 

Lastly, but certainly not the least, is the Bag a Bachelor. I actually received this nail polish with a magazine and for a nail polish that is given to you like that, it is really good quality! It dries super quickly after about 2-3 coats depending on how dark you want the shade of pink to be, and it doesn't peel off easily if you chip any of your nails. This shade is perfect for spring and summer and I loved to wear dresses and skirts with it because it reminds me of being a ballerina :D

Thanks so much for reading this, if you have made it this far! I would love to hear some feedback if you have read this, and until next time, be sure to add a spark of glitter into your life 

Video Alert: Autumn (Fall) OOTD

Hello people!

Yesterday I posted a new video on my youtube channel! As it is spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn (fall) in the southern hemisphere, I tried to make the video so it could relate to both halves of the world so the look that I did can also be a spring outfit and make up :D

Please let me know how you like it and subscribe if you would like (it seriously would make my day if you did because I've been making videos for about 3 months and still no subscribers :( )

Anxiety: My story and how I deal with it

Hello people!

Today hasn't been a particularly good one for me emotionally and I thought I should write about it, explain what I've been going through and give tips on how to deal with it.

In 2011 I was diagnosed with anxiety, more specifically performance anxiety but it has now become more general than performance. It all started when I was performing infront of about 50 people for my school music class performance night on my clarinet. Backstage I was becoming a little shaky and I thought to myself that it was just normal nerves that everyone gets, but one thing that was different about my nerves was that no matter how much water I drank, my throat would still be dry. Finally I walked onto stage and shakily held my clarinet up and began playing my piece. 

I got through the first few lines fine but when it came to me having a rest while the piano accompany played in the gap, my legs were quivering, I could barely hold my clarinet and started to freak when I saw everyone bearing their eyes into me. When I was about to start playing again, nothing came out, I just couldn't get a note out and I completely froze on the spot. I quickly said sorry under my breath and run off stage and out the back. I pretty much shoved my clarinet into one of the teachers and slid down the wall when two of my friends bolted towards me and asking if I was ok and all of that stuff. I can't really remember what happened after that but I do remember sitting outside in the cool breeze with a friend that wasn't performing for at least another hour and him just trying to calm me down and take my mind off what happened. Eventually my mum came to pick me up and I went home and slept it off. I thought that was the end of whatever had happened and quickly forgot about it but right before a speech for house captain voting at school, I completely freaked and was so paranoid that I would freeze up again, I ended up dropping out of the vote and made my way crying down to the music block where a very good friend of mine was, who happens to be the conductor for the band, and I bawled my eyes out and told him what happened. For the rest of that year at school and half of 2012, I couldn't perform and do any speeches for classes to my full potential. 

Anxiety didn't only effect my performances, it also effected my socially and emotionally. I had become so paranoid that I would have to stay home from school a couple of days and I was always scared and convinced myself that none of my friends actually liked me and were just pretended to be my friend. When I had my "good" days I knew that my friends weren't like that and it was absolutely absurd to think that but it is amazing how your mind plays tricks on you like that. 

After much too long of a wait, I went to the doctor and she told me to see a psychiatrist and that I had anxiety. I saw the psychiatrist a total of about 6 times within 7 months and he did teach me a few calming techniques but he mainly spoke about why we get anxiety and I wish now that I had gone to another one so I could learn more techniques.

In my last 6 months of high school, my mum had been prescribed "chill pills" to get her heart rate and blood pressure down as she was really stressed with work and what not and the doctor said that before any performance I had, I could take half of one of the pills and it would calm my heart rate down and I wouldn't become anxious or paranoid. I am so happy those were available to me and of course I wouldn't have been able to get through the bad stage of my life without my family and some really close friends that knew when to keep my mind off the subject and one in particular would always lightly pinch my leg when we were performing in band to let me know that I was ok and to keep it together. I couldn't have asked for anything more in her. 

It is now the 5th month of 2013, just over two and a half years after my first anxiety attack, and I still do get the attacks every now and then. I think that I am not good enough and that everything I have ever done is worthless and just burst out crying and occasionally hyperventilate for a few seconds. In these moments I feel like something bad is going to happen to me and for some reason I should be scared and prepared for the worst, but in reality what on earth is going to hurt me while I am sat on my bed on tumblr and youtube all day?! 

If you think you may have anxiety, go to your GP and explain your symptoms and you can work from there. I find that when I am having an attack, I need to get out of what I am doing immediately, get into some fresh air with some water, and maybe a cold pack or a wet cloth or towel to cool my head down, and most importantly have someone there who knows what is happening and you can tell them to either babble on about nothing to keep your mind occupied or tell them to shut up and to just comfort you by being there until you are ready to talk.

This was quite a hard topic to write about and multiple tears were shed but my number 1 short-time cure for an attack is to just keep crying until you can't go no more. I always feel so refreshed after crying, I know it sounds weird but it is the 100% truth. If anyone is reading this and needs to have a quick talk and if you have any questions about anxiety, please message me or leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I see your message. I know what the feeling is like and will try to help anyone that asks for it. <3

How to: Live with unpredictable hair

Hello people,

I woke up this morning and continued along with my little routine in the bathroom and when I looked into the mirror, I literally saw a lion!! My hair was that poofy not all of it fit in the mirror view! Some days it isn't like this but the majority of the time it is. It's not that I have curly hair but not straight hair either which makes it really hard to deal with, I have spend time (and damage) straightening or curling it or I have to put it up in a braid or a bun, neither of which I particularly like. 

On some very lucky mornings I wake up and my hair is almost completely straight or has nice waves depending on the humidity but here's what my hair looks like straight after brushing it on a bad morning:

All poofy and frizzy!!!

I've tried SO many different de-frizzing products and absolutely none of them worked and even the shampoo and conditioners I have used hasn't made a difference! Now since I heat style it on some days the ends of my hair are becoming a sort of grainy feeling and just not very healthy while I am trying to grow my hair so it really isn't helping in the growth as I am having to have hair cuts often :(

If anyone is reading this, please let me know what your hair is like and if you have/had similar hair to mine, what do you do it to make it liveable with!

Dark circle cream as foundation?

So I am happy to say that I do have pretty good skin and am not one to have to put layer over layer of foundation each day. Now when I first got into the whole make up thing originally I was just putting the "Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse Foundation" on my face and that was it. 

Then I later discovered the I didn't like the dark circles under my eyes so consulted Youtube for a beauty guru that had some sort of under eye cover up that I could actually buy in Australia and was in my price rage. I came across a guru who used the "Garnier Roll-On Anti-Dark Circles" cream and instantly went a bought that.

I used the mousse foundation and the roll-on together for a while but I guess the foundation became too old and weird so I threw that out and never ended up buying another one so I used the roll-on for all over my face instead of buying a new foundation. 

Now 4 years later I am still using the Garnier Roll-On the majority of the time on my face as foundation! I do have proper foundations that I use for special occasions but I seriously think that since I live in Australia and the climate is always quite hot and humid, there is no use using these two foundations when they are going to sweat off anyway! 

I absolutely love the "Mac Select SPF 15 Foundation" and Benefit's "Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow" foundations and wear them ALL the time in winter and always when I am going out to a party or a dinner or any sort of nice outing but when it comes to the hot sticky weather, I simply find it no use wearing them as I am pretty much wasting the product (and I want them to last as long as possible since they are so expensive in Australia!). 

Hello World!

Well hello there!

My name is Emily and I'm an Australian teenager and have been making Youtube videos for about 2 months now and loving it but sadly no subscribers :(

I've seen a couple of blogs and thought it would be pretty cool to start one so here it is! Since this is my first blog post I thought I'd say one thing that has happened to me each year since I was born:

1995: I was born in Sydney, Australia

1996: I travelled, with my parents obviously, to England for my first birthday

1997: I pulled on a friend's plait after she did it to me and got told off by her mum for doing it to her             child first.

1998: I moved up to the state of Queensland in Australia.

1999: I started dancing and the first concert I performed in, we danced to the "Groovy Chicken"

2000: I had my first "boyfriend" in preschool

2001: I started primary school and luckily a good friend from dancing was in my class!

2002: My best friend's "boyfriend" broke up with her to "be with me"

2003: I was a commentator at a school assembly for the first time in my life

2004: Entered my first Eisteddfod for Speech and Drama

2005: I got my "pen license" at school and thought I was the smartest kid in the class even though another 10 people had theirs...

2006: My family and I travelled to Singapore and Phuket to visit my Godfather and his family over the Easter holidays

2007: My grade at school performed High School Musical and I was a cheerleader!

2008: I entered high school and began the many realisations of who my true friends are

2009: Went to Sydney for a second time for the school music tour

2010: My 3 bestfriends "left" me half way through the year, one moved back to England, one moved to a school an hour away from where I live and the other went on an exchange to New Zealand for 3 months.

2011: I was diagnosed with performance anxiety which prevented me from performing in my school band and class speeches without having to do it at lunchtime with just the teacher and one other person in the room

2012: After graduating from high school I went to England and France for 6 weeks for my end of school celebrations

And that is a very small recap of my life so far!