Hi everyone!

A little while ago I created a post about my history with glasses and I thought I would share with you my experience with contact lenses. I've only been wearing lenses "everyday" for a whole year (well in April it was a year!) So what have I learnt with lenses?

Originally I got contact lenses because I was doing cheerleading once a week and summer was around the corner at the time so I wanted to ditch the specs and wear some sunglasses with clear vision! However, I only paid for 2 day wear per week and I had to dispose of each lense after every wear. It was a ridiculous amount as well and I didn't want to pay for that!

I changed to a high end optician and was able to wear lenses 6/7 days a week and they have up to two weeks wear in them!

I currently wear Acuvue lenses and have special solution to put them in overnight before the next day.

After your first contact lense appointment, you'll be told how to put the lenses in in THE most complex way possible. You have to hook one hand over your head, pull your top lid up, pull the bottom lashline down - basically it's confusing! And there's a certain way that the lenses have to go in your eye - avoid the wrong way at ALL costs because that is one thing I kept doing throughout the first few months of wearing lenses (granted, I still do now!) and nothing hurts worse than an inside out lense.

I struggled a lot with the steps that the optician gave me, a lot of flinching occurred and it took me a while to get the lenses in every morning. So I searched around on the internet and found this handy little video:

It's a complete lifesaver and I have been using this method ever since. So, if you're new to lenses and are struggling to get your lenses in, then definitely use this method as it makes it so much easier.

So with my type of lenses, I have to clean them after every use. This is a pain in itself as if you have THE slightest piece of towel fluff on your hands, then its everywhere! On the lense, in the solution - argh it can be a right pain. However, using kitchen roll or paper towels minimizes this annoyance by a whole load!

Do I prefer lenses over glasses? Honestly, yes! I feel like I have a lot more freedom and I can wear loads of different eyeshadows and eyeliners (so exciting!)

And the lenses don't feel like they're in my eye. I have fallen asleep in them, they haven't fallen to the back of my eye and my eyesight has got better! There's so many myths about contact lenses, and they're all so wrong. I definitely recommend researching into lenses before getting them! 

​See you in the next blog post,

Hi everyone!

Oh I am so so rubbish - I have completely gone off of here for the whole month of June and I honestly have no reason to support my excuse...I think I've just become super lazy! However, I'm back and what better way to compile everything that happened in June together. 

A lot has happened over the previous month, seeing Beyoncé, #Brexit & receiving a new Prime Minister has all happened within the space of 30+ days - crazy! But I'll touch upon those things later... 

I never thought I would become a runner at the beginning of this year, but after the passing of my Grandfather back in March I started to comfort eat a lot. I was gaining weight, getting more stretchmarks in new places and generally feeling completely rubbish. Understandably, grief will bring a lot of change to our lives and gaining weight was something that I didn't want to happen!

Months passed and I was still eating rubbish and moving less and more weight was piling on. Luckily, I'm fairly tall so the results aren't obvious to others but to me I could see the changes!

Anyways, I've started RUNNING?! I hated it at first but on my 3rd week in (I know I'm not very far in yet) I'm slowly starting to enjoy it! I'm currently only running 2-3 times a week and inbetween days I'm doing a Zumba session on the Wii- probably not accurate as I could easily sit down and shake the remote, but I'm genuniely attempting to copy the woman on the screen (regardless of my lack of rhythm!)

So we'll see how this phase goes - my attempt is to get fit by Reading festival and have that "bikini body" when I go on holiday at the end of the year!

Yes, I'm STILL going on about the referendum - but I haven't shared my point of view on here yet, it's better late than never!

By unpopular opinion, I voted remain in this year's referendum at the result was something that I didn't quite expect!

My reasoning to vote remain? In all honesty, all I heard throughout the media was to "remain in the European Union" and I rarely saw anything to support the idea of leaving (the occasional camera shot of Boris Johnson would appear but that was about it!)

I felt that what we had with the EU didn't need fixing and that we were doing alright. I couldn't trust Farage as far as I could throw him (do I need to mention the NHS money that was promised?) and I thought that my future would be in complete danger if we were to leave. I was worried about trade in our country and more importantly, the effect on small independent companies was going to be huge.

However, a few weeks in and not a lot has changed...let's just hope that we really made the right decision! (I give props to David Cameron for stepping down - he didn't believe in Brexit so why should he go against his own word? I just hope our new Prime Minister Theresa May gets us through this, you know girl power and all...)

Now let's avoid some political rubbish from me and switch onto more exciting things! 

I got to see Beyoncé at Wembley at the beginning of the month....and in all honesty I was disappointed! Okay, she is a brilliant singer and looked absolutely beautiful with her traditional braids and gorgeous costumes but I wasn't very entertained... I'm not a fan of her new stuff, I feel like it's touching upon Kanye West genre (which I'm not a fan of) and I feel like you can't sing along to it very well unlike some of her classics? Anyways, everyone has different tastes in music and sadly it wasn't mine! 

I have recently started working regular hours with my part time job that I've had since October(ish) time and I am really enjoying it! I work for a local magazine and there is never a dull day as I get to do new projects each day, and it's really helping me with experience for when I start university next year!

Anyways, that's life in a nutshell - I'll attempt to get back into my usual routine of writing regularly again!

See you in the next blog post,