First ever Lush experience & Haul

On the 6th March, I turned 22. On the 6th March, I went into Lush for the first time ever. As shocked as I’m sure you all are at my lack of blogger-esque lifestyle, I’m here today to share my first Lush experience and the products I picked up. So I was in Lincoln for …

Enough of the fight! Remain in control of your anxiety.

I know there’s a whole bunch of really useful blog posts about staying in control of your anxiety, but I wanted to add my own into the mix in hopes that there's something to help someone! Anxiety is something I’ve been dealing with since I can remember, however in the last 4 years it’s something …

What’s In My Bag?

I’ve got a lot of pretty intense posts coming in the next few months that I’m currently working on so I wanted to do a nice, light-hearted fun post today! One of my favourite videos or posts to read is What’s In My Bag, there’s just something about taking a peak into other peoples bags …

An insight into my bucket list

I was going to post a long “bucket list” list until I realised that a good proportion of my bucket list is to visit lots of countries and do lots of things within those countries (for example, in Iceland I would love to see the Northern Lights and visit the Blue Lagoon). I’m going to …

NYX Collection & Review

Recently, I discovered NYX when shopping on Very.co.uk and I’ve heard a lot of good things about their lip collections ‘Lingerie Liquid Lipstick’, ‘Liquid Suede Lip Cream’ and ‘Soft Matte Lip Cream’ so I absolutely had to buy some. And then I went back a few days later after my first order had arrived and …

New Years Resolutions and Challenges

SURPRISE, I’m back! After a month and a bit of a blogging hiatus due to mental and physical health issues, I’m returning to the land of ashlexyz. I’m ready and motivated to come back to the blogging world so it only seems right that my first post of 2017 is my resolutions, even if it …

Boyfriend describes my make up

I saw this on Ilse Danielle's blog and absolutely loved the post so I thought I'd recreate my own version using my boyfriend, Josh. He always watches me doing my make up and has questioned a few of the products before, so I'm intrigued to see how much he really knows and how much he …

No Spend November Fail

So I put myself on a spending ban throughout the end of October/November and as I’m sat at my laptop twiddling my thumbs thinking about a post to write, it’s come to my attention that I’ve failed. Drastically. Technically, I’ve not really been buying much at all but my boyfriend has been splurging a little …

Interview Tips for an Anxious Mind

There's an elephant in the room. I have anxiety. Not really an elephant though is it? After all, I have previously wrote a letter to anxiety. To be more specific, it's general and social anxiety. With that in mind, you can imagine how torturous interviews are right? However my interview statistics are quite impressive. I’ve attended …

Living with your partner

Moving in with your partner is incredibly exciting for most and the honeymoon period of living together will probably be the best time of your life. But this period doesn’t last forever and soon enough, you’ll start discovering things about your partner that annoy the eff out of you. It’s not going to be easy …