Dear, December | the beginning.

Dear December,

With you comes magic and love. Children, even adults, pretending to be steam trains by blowing into the cold air and Christmas lights lighting up the way to warm shops decorated with colourful wrapping paper.

The cold brings snuffles and red noses, watery eyes and fluffy gloves, warm hugs and leaving the heating on for when you get home.

Christmas songs and parades, Christmas films and advent calenders. 

Warm jumpers, hot tea, hot chocolate and endless mornings where you can't quite bare to get out of the hot shower.

All things merry and bright, these make your cold weather worth it, December. It makes me smile at everyone who walks by, even if their brows are crunched over someone shoving them in the Christmas shopping rush. The embrace of the heating at home makes the half an hour wait for the bus not seem so bad.

But, December, the best part of you is walking down my street and seeing every home lit up by the Christmas tree in the window. Some real, some fake, some even white! But all are lit up with glittering lights, colourful and white. Baubles hung carefully or sporadically by excited children whose parents stand back with a watchful eye, smiling at their children's giggling. 

It's knowing that the carpets or floors are going to be matted with glitter by the end of the evening and one or two decorations will end up on the floor already. It's knowing there's going to be a gap at the back of the tree because little arms can't quite reach that far.

December, you can sometimes be full of bustling people and the mad race to the counters to pay for the last stocking before anyone else but everyone has the same idea in their minds.

December is the lead up to Christmas and even if the people are frustrated over the cold or stuffy shops, we are all as excited as each other.

December, I can't wait for you to begin.

Kate x

Skin Insecurities|

I feel like I owe some sort of explanation as to why I haven't blogged in so long but honestly it's changed from day to day! Either I've not felt inspired or I've not had time after going back to university and feeling like I've been thrown in the deep end without any sort of floaty thing. They weren't kidding when they said that second year is harder!

Anyway, recently, probably more like the last few months rather than weeks, I've had some real difficulty with my skin misbehaving when I needed to look decent. 

At first I was really self conscious and sad about it, I really hated going out and even when I tried to put make-up on it just looked worse. I had big spots on my chin and even worse, on my cheeks. 

To be perfectly honest, it probably was just hormones and the weather changing mixed with my already super sensitive skin. I've been trying loads of different things over the summer to get rid of my imperfections and they genuinely have been working. I will do a follow up blog post about the skin care I've been using, baring in mind that it will all be suited more for oily/spot prone skin because that's what I have.

I think I went through a good solid 2 weeks of feeling horrible and sad and quite frankly, ashamed of my skin. I mean, no-one likes spots. I'm not saying I have acne because I don't, I have oily skin which I sometimes find really difficult to control and I get bunches of spots.

Over the last 3, 4 weeks I've stopped caring and it's made my life so much easier! I don't care if you can see some spots through my make-up or if you can see my spot scars when I take my make-up off. I feel like people now have such a horrible attitude towards spots when they are perfectly normal and lets be honest, loves, we all get them. Whether you're young or older, you'll get a spot every now and again. 

Don't compare your skin to others because that'll make you feel even worse. It's such a big weight lifted off your shoulders once you don't care. Spots can be hormonal, due to stress, maybe not taking all of your make-up off before you go to bed, they can even be caused by weather changes if you've got sensitive skin like mine. Weather changes make my skin break out like nobody's business and also make my lips super dry and chapped, it's not a pretty sight.

Please don't think you're unattractive or be ashamed of spots, loves, they're completely normal and everyone gets them, don't let anyone fool you. No-one notices them unless you point them out! Leave 'em be and enjoy your beautiful life, a spot isn't worth missing out on a beautiful Autumnal day. 

I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday :)

Kate x