Making Magpie Obsessions About Me ...

This post has been along time coming but last night it just hit me so before I switch things up come April. I've felt that this year blogging has been way less enjoyable and has become a bit of a chore rather than the pleasure it started out as. Beauty blogging has changed so much in the last few years and I kind of feel like I'm so out of it at the moment. I'm trying to save to buy a house at some point so I can't justify crazy price tags or huge boots hauls anymore. I work full time too so I don't have the time I did at the beginning to spend on the blog and I think as my heart isn't in it anymore - I'm not making the time for it. 

I want this little piece of the internet to be wholeheartedly about me. I love beauty products don't get me wrong but it's not all that I'm about. Spending the weekend drinking wine and laughing till my cheeks hurt with my boyfriend is far more me and I want Magpie Obsessions to reflect that. I have a huge interest in interiors and crafting that never really gets it's space here. I'm going to mix it up a bit from now on and not feel so enclosed by the 'beauty blogging tag'. I love reading beauty blogs and I've learned so much from writing this little blog. I'm sure I'll end up in Boots every now and again buying more lipsticks than I'll ever need and I'll still post about it but I'm also going to make an effort to share all of my favorite home things, tips that I've picked up and also general lifestyle chats. 

Right now as I write this I'm surrounded by coconut candles, drinking a glass of prosecco whilst my boyfriend is cooking up a treat in the kitchen before we watch a movie. I'm excited for this new chapter which will officially begin on Tuesday (there's something about the first of a month isn't there)!

Blog Obsessions - My Favourites

I think it's literally been over a year since I sat down and shared my favourite blogs. So after feeling the love a little recently and from loving reading posts like these by others I thought it was about time I sat down and shared all of the blogs I love reading ...


Milk Bubble Tea - I adore Becky's blog her photography is out of this world she could literally make a peg on a clothesline look amazing. I love her wish lists, recipes and beautiful trips away.

The Londoner - Rosie's blog was one of the first that I read before starting my own. I'm a massive dog lover so the adventures of Custard keep me coming back as well as the incredible recipe's and travel adventures that feature regularly.

Secret Diary of Fashion Journalist - Laura has single handedly made me obsessed with statement necklaces. Again one of the first blogs I followed - I adore every post she writes always so on point.

Gh0stparties - My obsession with Kate's blog is mainly down to her flawless skin. I have bought so many products from her recommendations and they have never let me down.

EssieButton - I adore this girl! I love all of her posts, dream of having her make-up collection and love watching her youtube channel.

Milkteef - As a massive lipstick fan Emma's blog always ticks the right boxes her lipstick collection really is to die for and her full face swatches of every product she buys means all her reviews really help you decide if it's worth buying or not.

Blue October - This blog has the perfect mix of everything, amazing fashion, lifestyle and beauty. I love flicking through all of Lizzie's posts regularly.

Magpie Obsessions Product Directory

Just a little post to let you know after checking out some of my favourite blogs I came across Kate's product directory on Gh0stparties here.  And I just thought it was the best idea so I've added one of my own to the above bar and it can be found here.

Magpie Obsessions Product Directory

It features links to all of my reviews for the last few months and I will be updating it from here on out. I haven't added the old posts that lost their images as they're just no good.

Magpie Obsessions.

So I've been thinking about doing this for a little while as 'Little Pretty Things' just wasn't doing it for me. Also as there's a whole host of little pretty things out there in the world I didn't think it really allowed me to put my stamp on my own little bit of the web. So I've gone for a name change and thought it was either time to do it now I'd never get around to doing it. 

I've gone with 'magpie obsessions' as it kind of sums me up - I like anything that sparkles, it just sticks out to me and it ends up in my life. Obsessions just because since starting this blog I've realised I'm pretty obsessive I go through a lipstick faze and end up with 20 then a blusher one and the same will happen. I think this name just fits and will be around to stay. 

I just wanted to give you a little introduction and let you know I've changed the link - 

http://www.magpieobsessions.co.uk/

I hope it doesn't cause too much confusion - I figured to get it done within the first few months of my blogging life would be easiest :) My love of make-up and pretty things continues just with a bit of a different name. 

The beginning of the end is over.

So the months and the standard Wednesday morning coffee's, Friday afternoon's grime time have finally reached the end. My first term of my final year is officially over, it left me thinking that actually a few images sum up my work and research from the last few months and I've included them above. 

It's all going too fast and next term means it's about to get tough, I'm going to be deep amongst journal articles on product placement. But for now I'm going to spend a little time excited for Christmas especially as my wife is coming to stay tonight (post to follow on this!) 

Basil Street Nails Inc.

My name's Georgina and I am addicted to Nail Varnish. 

There I said it ... I am a full on nail varnish, nail art, nail wrap addict.
I have well over 50 colours in my current collection with more being added nearly on a weekly basis.
My favourite brands when on a budget are Barry M and Models Own, however if I want to spend a little extra I will always buy Nails Inc.

In my December subscription of Glamour magazine a free full sizes Nails Inc nail varnish was included. I never usually get excited about these things as find the colours in freebies are always pretty unwearable. However this month's included maybe my favourite nail colour of all time - Nails Inc Basil Street.

I've been using it for the last few weeks and it is the perfect day time nail colour. Nails Inc. are known for the amazing quality of their polishes and of course this doesn't change with this edition. I've got alot of nude shades but have never found one as spot on as this. 

It is available from the Nails Inc. website  

It's pretty hard not to want every single colour on their site, their Heathrow matte finish is definately next on my Christmas list. 

Christmas Hair.

I've been through pretty much all the shades of brown hair dye's on the market. A lot of the time I've ended up with nearly black hair, which hasn't been a great look as I'm naturally pretty fair skinned. I've noticed I seem to follow a pattern throughout the year, light browns with blondish tones for the summer then as winter sets in I want a reddish glow for the Christmas Season.

This Christmas I thought rather than buy a brown with a reddish hint in it I would go out and out with a deep red. I decided to try Garnier Nutrisse - Morello Cherry. I normally stick with Loreal but my mum needed a dye too and Garnier was on two for £8 at boots. (sucker for an offer)

So before the dying process began my hair in all honesty was a host of gingery brown tones, light brown and dark brown all in one. So I wasn't really sure how this would take, and couldn't stomach the smell of a hair colour remover on this occasion. 

My hair normally takes the exact time they suggest for it to develop so I followed all the instructions on this one precisely as I really didn't want a strong bright red. It was a struggle to get the amount of hair dye provided to cover my hair completly too. My hair isn't that long at the moment so was surprised when the bottle seemed to run out very fast. 

This pictures don't really show much of a difference at all and I can only really tell when the light hits my hair. I think I might need to buy a full on red dye for it to take on the dark brown I've built up. It's evened out my hair colour really well though. 

Next time I'll be stripping this out with a colour remover and placing a full red Loreal mousse on it to hopefully get a lovely Christmassy shade of red for December. 

With Love, Georgina xo. 

From Twitter to Blog.

I joined Twitter on the 24th February 2009. I joined because it was suggested in a lecture I was in on persuasion that Twitter was the site that was changing the world the PR - and quickly. At the time it was relatively new, and I didn't really see the point. I was in my first year of my Public Relations degree and I joined without really doing anything with it for about a year.

However since then and to date I've somehow fathomed 346 followers and I've written 3,793 tweets. I'm not sure how it happened but Twitter has become a bit of an addiction. It has become second nature to write type all of my thoughts and opinions in 140 characters or less.

I use twitter for news, to keep in touch friends and in amongst it all I've found some pretty cool people. I've realised recently that I turn to twitter for the majority of my queries. I've also noticed that recently my bookmark list is ever growing full of blogs.

So this blog is basically for all of the things in my life that need 140 characters or more. And the pretty things I find in between.

With love, Georgina.

First blog post. Ever.

Rather unimaginative title I know but this is more for formatting than anything else.

As a lover of all things social media and a final year PR student it seemed about time I started a blog. And basically a place for the bits of my life that need more than 140 characters.

For all of the other bits check out twitter.com/georginacallen

With love, Georgina xo.