Cupcakes and Chronic Illness

Traveling can be difficult as someone with a chronic illness, and travelling with a big black dog is no different. While I am not referring to the popular metaphor depicting a big black dog as depressions weight on your chest, my own big black dog did sleep on my body weight. His feet by mine and his head on my chest.  He is of course the best friend I could ever ask for. Man did he impress me while we were travelling. For those of you who don't know, we went from Stansted UK to Pordenone Italy. This trip was split over two days, two coaches, three trains. The first leg of the trip was early in the morning but Jaxx was wide awake and ready to work.  From Stansted UK to London Victoria, where we changed coach, was uneventful. On the coach to Paris I had the start of an allergic reaction, to I suspect the cleaning solution the coach stank of. I took my emergency meds and put my mask on.  When we got off of the coach on the ferry, I used my wheelchair and the driver was ver...

Is it not true that sometimes the greatest gifts in life are free, or only payment required is your love and a little time? Or, well, in this specific case a lot of time. My boyfriend bought me a number of amazing gifts over the weekend, a VOG mask to help prevent airbourne allergens reaching me, a set of new AMAZING unicorn brushes which I obviously love, and a 38 case of my favourite drink. But you know the best thing he did for me this weekend? Well, two things actually. The first, relatively free, the second just precious energy spent. He helped me take my dog out for the day . Poor Jaxx works so hard for me, and the closest thing to a day out he usually gets is to the Cricket field within wheeling/walking distance. While this is great, I do feel awful that he doesn't get to experience more of the world (Although that is changing next week). So my boyfreind drove us to the local forest. We parked up in the disabled bay to drop me off with the wheelchair (I'm still waiti...

Hey guys! Hope you're all doing fantastically, I thought I'd do a ''Whats in my bag'' style post, with a chronically ill style spin! I'm just a really nosy kinda gal, so I enjoy reading these posts! If you've done one, drop me a link and I'll come check it out! Without further a-do, here's the juicy content :D This is my WW bag, I love it because it goes over my body when I'm in my wheelchair, the straps are thick and it has lots of places to hide things away ;) So when you have an Assistance Dog, you need to take treats everywhere you go. I love this treat pouch because it draw-strings closed and clips onto my bag keeping the treats fresh.  This is my Epi kit it's a cute pencil case from WHSmiths and my prescribed rescue medication and epinephrine pen. I also keep a note pad inside to mark down my symptoms and where I was etc. Next is my wallet and keys. My wallet was given to my by a friend of mine, so I don't know where it came fr...

Oh sweet baby Jesus do I love this make up pallet! The pigmentation of the shadows is simply beautiful, glides on, blends super easily! The colours they've chosen, they're so versatile! I know when I opened the pallet I thought my goodness I'm never going to wear these. That was a lie, I lied. They're the most amazing, unicorn feeling princess causing eyeshadow I've ever had the pleasure of using! Seriously, I feel like a queen in these looks! 10/10 Urban Decay pallet. I'm going to be uploading a photo tutorial of how to do both the dark pink look, and the blue look. Stay tuned!

Hello you beautiful humans! A few of you expressed an interest in this look below, being done as a walk through tutorial! That's awesome, I'm so excited. Or I was  until the camera wouldn't play ball. So, I hate to let people down, I've screen grabbed what I can and I'll explain in written form! So, you want this ^ ? Okay, awesome.  Some basics before we get started.  I don't use any primers! You can if you choose to but, personally, I don't. I use Smash Box studio skin hydrating foundation in shade 1.0 (Yes I'm fucking white and pasty, leave me alone =p ) I use benefit cheek parade to create a contour and Barry M strobe cream for my highlight.  If you can't see your cheek bones easily, and you're not sure how or where to contour, let me know and I'll upload that as a tutorial next week!  To create this look I use Urban Decays Electric Shadow Pallet (Man is it beautiful, just everything about it)  So lets get star...

GUYYSS!! I did a thing to my hair. I'm making this post today as opposed to the intended tutorial, and while I'm super sorry for not being able to get that out to you guys sooner, there's a super awesome reason as to why! I've been asleep most of today - that isn't the great reason - the great thing is that the reason I'm so sleepy? I  walked all day yesterday. I might not have been supposed to, health wise, but I did it. This gives me a lot of hope, that I can acertain the ''pay off'' for a day of walking. There are some beautiful hikes in Italy that I'd really love to do. This means I  may be able to! Okay so  my hair:  I had medium light blonde hair and micro-bonded human hair extensions. I lightened my roots and they went a touch brassy. Me dying my hair was a mess! SO I called in reinforcements. My friend, trained hairdresser now chronically ill, came and rescued my poor locks! What we used was what I already had at home! So we...

Hey all! It's a big world out there, don't you know? I decided to mix things up a little, following on from my post on Spoonie Central Beauty blog, I had to change. We all do eventually, and this blog is a testament to my change. People can change in all kinds of ways, when I was with my ex I lost so much of myself. I'm slowly regaining that, and I find that I want to write more, to inspire more, and on a broader range of topics in conjunction with Chronic Illness (and my obsession with cucpakes and pink of course!). It's funny, because I used to be terrified of change; I cried when my parents moved the sofas! But now? Now I'm choosing to embrace every second of it, don't get me wrong sometimes it still throws me through a loop. Point is, I'm getting there and I'm working on it! I have a beautiful dog, I am safely home with my family and have a wonderful partner who helps me remember how lucky I am every single day! Q: Why did you change the name?...