Being a Chronically Beautiful Girl

Hello my beautiful readers I hope you are all having a good day. As you can see by the title of today's post it is a Halloween Yankee Candle haul from Yankee Candle direct. U nfortunately h ere in the UK we don't have big a selection of Halloween things but I did manage to get my hands on a few things. The first items I am going to show you are the 3 super cute glass votive holders which I thought would look prefect on my windowsill. They only do three styles votive holders, the pumpkin, the skull and the monster which really does remind me on Frankenstein. The price of these votive holders is £6.99 but with it being so close to Halloween now you might find that places are selling them at a discounted price. Pumpkin  Skull Monster My other purchases were the Halloween edition wax tarts in Candy Corn and Witches Brew. Each wax tart cost £1.49  but like I said previously with it being so close to Halloween now you might find that places are selling them...

Hello everyone my name is Leona and I am a Bookaholic. Welcome to my very first Bookworm Thursday blog post.  As you all know this blog is where I post about all my favourite things and one of those things is books. I have had of love of books since I was a teen but over the past 6 years I haven't been able to read as much as I would like because of the medication that I take for my health problems. The meds as well as constantly battling with malnutrition takes it toll on my brain and I end up having brain fog as well as trouble concentrating which means that sometimes there is long periods of time where I can't read. It really does suck when this happens because I love to dive into a good book and forget all my troubles.  So what will I be doing for my bookworm blog posts you may ask, well I will be sharing with you my to be read books, hauls, reviews, wishlists and tags. There is one more thing that I wanted to mention before I go and that is last month I fi...

Hello my beautiful readers and Happy Sunday!  For today's blog post I thought I would do a My Life in Picture's post seeing as we have now entered a new month. Every photo featured in this blog post is taken from my instagram ( @leonacrohnslife ) so if you don't want to wait for these life in picture's post you can follow me on there.  Owning a cat means nothing belong to you anymore, lol --   The cat life --   My new art supplies!!!! Sketching pencils, charcoal, watercolour paints, watercolour paper and paint brushes --   Trying to clean a cat leg with poo on it ended up with me being bitten and hissed at by Miss Snowball --   So yesterday I purchased my first ever iPhone. I have gone over to the dark side, lol --   New skincare purchases from Debenhams. Trilogy Mineral Radiance Mask, Lancôme Bi-facil eye makeup remover, Clarins Water Comfort One-Step Cleanser and Eye Contour Balm --   My very first iPhone is up and running so the q...

Hello my beautiful readers, I hope you are all having a good day. My pick for today's Tunesday is All We Know by Paramore. I chose this song because on the 26th July Paramore's debut album All We Know is Falling turned 10 years old. I honestly cannot believe that it's 10 years since they released their very first album, it makes me feel so old lol. :D That's it for today's blog post, I have placed links to all of Paramore's social media at the bottom of the page so u ntil my next post remember to stay happy and positive. Just because you have a chronic illness, cancer, scars, an ostomy,  a hickmen line, a picc line, a feeding tube or have had an amputation, it  does  not  mean that you are not a beautiful person. Follow me on twitter   |  facebook   |   instagram   |   tumblr   pinterest   |  goodreads Paramore's social media   Website:   paramore.ne t Facebook:  www.fac...

Hello my beautiful reader's I hope you are all having a good day. As you can gather by the title, today I am posting a Tunesday. For today's tune I have pick The Script's most recent release Man on a Wire from their newest album No Songs Without Silence which was released last year.  I was inspired to pick The Script for this week's Tunesday as this Saturday they will be playing to 72,000 people at Croke Park in Dublin. Now I would be lying if I said I wasn't jealous of all those 72,000 people because I have been a fan of The Script's music since they released their first album in 2008.  And one more thing before I go if you don't believe that all the band did all their own stunts then check out this video  https://youtu.be/Oq2YtJYbze4 Okay so that is it for today's post, thank you very much for reading and until my next post remember to stay happy and positive. Just because you have a chronic illness, cancer, scars, an ostomy,  a hi...

Hello my beautiful readers, how are you all doing today?  Now I am sure every single one of you will know by now about the new Urban Decay palette that will be released this summer, the Naked Smoky Palette.   As I am massive lover of Urban Decay eyeshadows I really, really, really wanted to do a blog post on my 1st impressions of this new palette but unfortunately as a not so popular beauty blogger there is no way that I will get my hands on this palette before it is released so I am going on and using picture's (t he two picture's that are featured in this post are from kandeej.com)   that I have seen on other blogs.  Picture from kandeej.com Picture from kandeej.com So will I be buying this new naked palette and the answer is................ yes I will.  When it comes to my regular makeup or should I say "my go to makeup" I am a smokey eye girl, actually the only time I really ever veer away from my smokey eyes is in the summer were opt...

Hello my beautiful reader's I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday. For today's post I have decided to do a my life in picture's. I was originally going to do these posts at the end of every month but I am bad at using my instagram so that meant I didn't have enough photographs to do a life in picture's post for January. Seeing as I am such a bad instgrammer I have decided to do these posts every 2 months instead of every month but if  you don't want to wait until then you can always follow me on instagram  @leonascrohnslife .  I have done far too much rambling so lets get onto the photographs.  Pretty flowers ||   Using her activity board ||   If you like to add flavoured syrup to coffee I really recommend that you try the Monin Cinnamon syrup ||   My Pro Makeup case arrived a day early, I am sooooo happy right now!!! ||   My Illamasqua order came. So many gorgeous eyeshadows!!!! ||   This little bug was being a right little...

Hello my beautiful readers, how are you all doing today? Now I know that I said my next post was going to be a haul but when I saw these pictures on instagram I thought I have to do a coming soon post on these.  Now as a lot of probably know IMATS (International Makeup Artist Trade Show) LA took place this past weekend and at this years IMATS Sugarpill annouced that they are releasing some new chromalust eyeshadows. As you can see from the picture above there are going to be 9 new eyeshadows in the shades Penelope, Clickbait, Mints Soda, Holy Ghost, Grand Tiara, Hug Life, Countess, Charmy and Strangeling. These new eyeshadows will go on sale at the end of this month and will be available to purchase from the Sugarpill website  www.sugarpill.net . This past weekend they also annouced at IMATS that all their pressed eyeshadows will be available in single pan refills. This is really good news for us Makeup Artist's because unfortunately not all our clients love...

Hello my beautiful friends, I hope you are all having a lovely Friday. A few days ago I found out that Hourglass are going to be releasing 7 new eyeshadow palettes so I thought to myself I should share these details with you all.  Each of the palettes is going to contain 5 eyeshadows and will have a mixture of shimmer and matte shadows. From the picture's that I have seen the palette style is exactly same as the Ambient Lighting and Ambient Lighting Blush palette, the price of eyeshadow palettes is also the same as the Ambient Lighting palettes, $58.   The palette's... . Atmosphere (cool neutrals) Color Field (olive tone) Exposure (plum shades) Graphite (smokey shades) Infinity (warm neutral shades) Monochrome (rose tones) Obscura (earth tones) At the moment I do not know when these will be available in the UK but they are currently available on the Sephora website to VIB members.  Will you be purchasing a...