Woah, where have I been? | HelenaAsia

wow it feels strange to be blogging again... I feel so bad that I haven't blogged in nearly 2 months...and I was aware of it. 

so where was I the whole time!?

okay so for reals this is all it was, lack of time, way too much projects (homework),  piano practise 24/7 since I had an exam and d of e. 

i was relived to have gotten told that I passed my piano exam (grade 1 btw, you gotta start somewhere right?) 

i went to a gig... okay lies but it was fun nonetheless it was like a school gig thing called gig night, but two of my girls, emily and ella, performed and were absolute frickin amazing! 

i went on a super fun d of e walk with my crew and we sang and almost got lost but cannot wait for the real thing! (which we actually have to walk for 8 hours and then sleep in a tent and walk for another 6ish hours)

my birthday was great! It was well spent with my girls at my house eating a massive millies cookie and batting a balloon and making noises at 3am. 

also some good news for me is that I've managed to find some really good bargains for the camera I want! (Canon 600D) so I'm hoping to buy get it next week! I'll be taking some fineeee pictures! 

so for the most recent thing, I'M IN THAILAND! I've been in Thailand for 2 weeks as of my spring break and it's hot over here. like seriously hot and I even went to the beach but ended up getting sun burnt...for the first time ever! it hurts a lot. there was a lot of water fighting since it's the Thai new year but sadly I didn't join in that fun.

my inspiration for blogging is very slowing coming back to me so I will be trying to post some more stuff in no time :) 

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Happy Birthday Alfie! | HelenaAsia

Today is Alfie's birthday and he's 2 years old! Ahh it doesn't feel like I got him 2 years ago, feels a lot longer! Since there's not too much to say, other than I frickin love this dog to bits and pieces, I still wanted to take some photos and just dedicate this post to my lovely pup <.3

and for those of you who noticed how I have been failing at my 4 posts a month...really badly... so so so sorry :/ 

As for my next post, I'll try to gather some inspiration! Ciao :D

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Would You Rather | HelenaAsia

Hey! Whilst reading through some blogs, Ella did this blog post and  I thought it'd be a nice idea to do it too! On to the questions!

1. Messy hair and nice makeup or no makeup and nice hair?

I could go with either but I'll go with messy hair and nice makeup 

2. Shave your eyebrows or have all your eyelashes fall out?

As much as I would hate it, let my eyelashes fall out because falsies probably wouldn't look as bad as drawn on brows

3. Shop at only MAC or Sephora for the rest of your life?

Ahhh as much as I love MAC, I pick Sephora since I would have skincare, haircare, makeup and more! 

4. Leave the house with overdone blush or big foundation line?

Hmm, overdone blush?

5. Wear MC Hammer pants or cycle pants in public?

Cycle pants, I would just go cycling!

6. Bright orange spray tan or strange tan lines that can't be covered?

Tan lines for definite, bright orange? - no way!

7. Bad hair cut or bad hair colour?

Bad hair colour, bad hair cut would be harder to fix!

8. YouTube or Twitter taken away forever?

ooh wow I can't even choose! Nope not picking haha

9. Give up using makeup brushes or mascara?

...mascara... I think :/ not too sure

That's all the questions! Wow that little bit of me is annoyed that it's 9 questions and not 10 haha oh well.

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Options?! GCSEs?! | HelenaAsia

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Hey again! So just thought I'd blog about something... well, important (?) going on right now...

It's time for me to pick my options! I'm talking GCSEs options for year 10 (9th grade?) and I know some people will find this is a boring topic but in all honesty, I've found it quite exciting! Yanno thinking about what you subjects you want to take and what you want to do with your future.

As I write this my choices are Business, Media and Music and I think iMedia or Drama as a reserve and I'm waiting to go to my options evening, which actually might make me change my mind about something so you never know! 

My biggest risk is taking Music, and I mean I love music and I play the piano (barely) and singing is something I love to do so much! I honestly get so scared singing on my own but I decided that maybe taking GCSE Music is hopefully going to make me conquer my fear and I can obviously learn something out of it :) I don't want to go through the rest of my life thinking that I could've at least tried but didn't cause I was scared.  

If you think it's a stupid idea or cheesy then suit yourself but at least I won't regret not trying it or really considering it if I don't end up taking it but I know that I want to and I guess that's good enough for me. 

I'll try to update on Twitter so if any of y'all want to know what happened then you know where to look :D 

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Oh Yes, New Year Resolutions

New year, new me... phahaha  I know what you're all thinking, that's totally gonna happen isn't it? You see what I realised is, if you think like that then there's not much chance it is. I want to actually try to get my 2015 sorted out and well...better. 

Now before I go on and on about 2015, can I... we just take a moment to just look back on 2014...

What did you think? Whatever you thought doesn't matter anymore. If you had a great year or the worst year ever, forget it. Let's all just pat ourselves on the back for actually making it through the year!

2015 is going to be the year that you make better than last year, if you had a rubbish 2014 then make 2015 better. If you had an awesome 2014 and you don't think that 2015 is gonna be any good, prove yourself wrong and make it even more fun and exciting :D Woah there, Helena motivation juices flowing today eh? 

For my New Years Resolutions here is what I came up with so far:

• Start (and hopefully finish) a scrapbook
• Workout at least once week for 30 minutes ~ going well so far ;)
• Drink 500ml of water everyday ~ I'll try more
• Read at least 12 books 
• At least 4 blog post a month :D
• Learn me some photography ~ includes me getting a DSLR 
• Learn how to use iMovie better 
• Make an effort with my appearance ~ I'm just so lazy 
• Try to make thumbnails with my blog posts! ~ failing

If I come up with anymore which I do sometimes, I might add them to the list. I know it's the middle of January but I thought that I'd wait just in case I came up with more ideas!

Let me know, what your resolutions are! :)

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What I Got For Christmas 2014 | HelenaAsia

Here it comes - the ever so famous famous post where I take you through my presents of 2014!

I'll take y'all through the other present and leave my main present till last :D and do I really have to do a disclaimer?

The first of many presents I got was this beautiful notebook, which has this peacock on the front - I didn't realise it was a peacock at first, I think I'm blind o_O - and it's just lined and has peacock feathered background on the opening and the back, so pretttyy. This is from TKMaxx if anyone was wondering :)

PJs and dressing gown ~ my gosh ~ I can't even explain how soft these are! Especially the dressing gown, which is from New Look (I didn't pick this out but I just saw the label) and the pyjamas are from Primark  - I got a similar pair last year but yanno how it is, you got to get new PJs at Christmas :D

A clothing item I did pick ~ Topshop Joni Jean, petite of course as I'm so short and tiny "^_^ I think I got these on Boxing Day too though they weren't in the sales. I don't think I can go back to normal jeans after these - they are so frickin comfy and fit really well!

Soap and Glory Eyeliner Set
It has 4 colours: black, brown, blue and green and they're all kohl. I was actually there when my mum was buying them so I kinda helped her pick them out ;) 

Me and my best loves did secret santa this year so my secret santa, Emily, got me Zoella's makeup bag and a gorgeous Ted Baker set which smells amazing *clap clap*

Dali got made me this awesome Tumblr pillow and got me the few little bit and bobs below! Love them all *more clapping*

Now for the one and only...

Yes, a MacBook Pro, I honestly couldn't have been anymore grateful than what I am ~ I love my parents so much and  I absolutely love everything that everyone got me ~ side note: those little polaroids are also from Dali :D   

THIS IS JUST ONE BIG HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE

LOVE YOU ALLLLLLL *VIRTUAL HUG CUDDLE*

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A Very Merry Christmas | HelenaAsia

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 I know it's late but better late than never right? I hope that everyone had a really, well, merry christmas :) I hope to do another post on what I actually got for christmas but I actually need to find some time to take some pictures of everything. 

I know I haven't been blogging much but I don't know what's up with me - urgh enough of me and my blogging situation but I will continue trying don't worry! 

Soooo what did I do for christmas? 

Honestly I think I got up at 10? Then I stayed in bed for another 2 hours to watch Searching For Santa Paws and it was really cute :) I did open my presents after this and was obviously really happy with everything and gave my mum a massive hug! We had Christmas Dinner after, yummmmmy as always!!! I had a chill evening with my present (telling you in my other post what it was) and that was it... (also forgot to mention I skyped one of my best friends, Kinza!)

Hope everyone one of you had a lovely christmas x 

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GIF Quest! HelenaAsia

Hey fellow readers! I'm feeling so bad right now, the cold has finally won it's battle in making me ill :(

I'd thought I'd do this tag that Dali tagged me in a while back because it was funny and it made me laugh! 

AWAY WITH THE RULES!

• Include Lily's tag image above ^
• Tag two or more people when you're finished
• Try not to use gifs that other people have already used. If you do, it's still okay!
• Come up with your OWN, UNIQUE 10 scenarios

1. When your teacher shouts at the whole class

2.  When you find out there's no food in the house

3. When somebody asks for some of your food

4. When you walk outside and it starts raining 

5. When you find something you lost 

6. When you can't open the lock of a public toilet 

7. When your music is too loud 

8. When you see a spider

9. When you wake up late 

10. When you try to flirt

MY SCENARIOS!

1. When you drop your food

2. When someone tells you a book/movie spoiler

3. When it's that time of the month

4. When you see snow for the first time in ages

5. When bae doesn't reply 

6. When you realise you have homework due the next day

7. When you get concert tickets 

8. When you don't know what someone's said after numerous times

9. When you missed calls from your mum 

10. When you get a present you don't like 

There you go :) hope you all enjoyed this tag and I tag everyone and anyone to do it! 

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We're talking BOOKS baby | HelenaAsia

Have I ever spoken about my love for books? Because I don't think I have and I could probably go on for hours... I won't though, but really there are too many books out there and not enough time in the world me to read them :( 

I thought I'd share with you the books that have been sat here unread and my thoughts at the moment...

and please no spoilers, I can't deal with them, they make me physically want to bang my head against a wall for 10 hours yelling "WHYYY WHYYY MEEEE"

The Maze Runner - movies out, but books gotta come first. Now if you didn't know Dylan O'Brien is my love and he's the lead of the movie and I honestly can't wait to watch it but I've heard people, including my favourite booktuber, PolandBananasBOOKS, say they don't like this book. I think she said that anyway... I could be wrong. I will have to read it and find out for myself, my own opinion after all. Okay so since this was in my draft for a while, I will add that I have read the book and I frickin loved it! Also I couldn't bare the though of not watching the movie so I went to the cinema...alone to go see it - yes it was really frickin a-MAZE-ing!  

The City Of Ashes - so late to this game, The Mortal Instruments, wow I loved the first book and I also plan to read The Internal Devices (prequel) I am currently reading this book but I am slightly wondering whether I should read Gone Girl first?

Gone Girl - again, there's a movie and I had to read the book! Can I just tell you how excited the blurb of this book gets me! If you don't know what it's about then get googling and you might just want to read it!

Looking For Alaska - I've had this book for a while now and I think I might use it as a filler book for when I'm feeling like I need a little break from The Mortal Instruments series! I have seen this book around sooo much and heard so many good things about it! Fun!

Those are my unread books so far and I can't wait to read them, let me know if you want me to blog about them or maybe keep y'all up to date on Twitter :D

Also let me know if any of you have any recommendation for books...
as for now... BYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Diaries & Writing | HelenaAsia

Woah! Hey there! It feels so nice to be blogging again since I know I haven't for 2 weeks :( Sorry about that but school has been a complete pain and I couldn't keep my blogging on top so I decided to take a break :/ 

Buuuut, I am so happy to be writing again and that's what I wanted to blog about today :) I always loved having a diary and I've had 3 so far: 2012, 2013 and this years and honestly I think that over the years it's been really nice to every once in a while go back to look at what you've done in the previous year/s.  For me, writing in a diary has helped whenever you need to get something out, whether it be anger or maybe something super amazing happened and it's a really personal way of documenting it :) 

I actually went back and read my diary from 2012 and I didn't realise how much juicy stuff that thing has in it! I never managed to finished my 2013 diary and stopped in August for some reason and this year I stopped for 6 months! I have gone back to writing in my diary as often as I can and I really want to stick to it - kinda like my blogging haha. I challenge any of you to try to keep a diary and make it anyway you like! I don't write everyday and I tend to keep and stick in cinema tickets, train ticket, little shenanigans that could give that day a little more life, weird but I kinda like it.

Sooooo after all that, I do hope to be writing more on here, this blog that I love and miss! Look forward to some more posts coming very soon I promise since after all it is the half term :)

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Skincare? Body Shop? Wishlist Time!| HelenaAsia

I know what you're all thinking... is this sponsored or something but no haha, I remember back about a year and a half ago, me and my girlies loved going to The Body Shop and Lush and we'd buy stuff from there for Christmas and Birthdays! Since then the love has slowly faded but recently I've really want to delve into skincare and first I looked at Simple but then I realised The Body Shop have a good range right? So I went and used the Skincare Diagnostic Tool... 

Let me just tell you, I think you should try it and see what products you've been recommended for your skin because I'm gonna say I want to buy all of the products I got recommended! It is out of the The Body Shops skincare range not other companies, in case you didn't catch that haha! 

How it would go!
1. Vitamin E Cream Cleanser
First I'd go in with the cleanser and remove all the dirt and any makeup off my face and they recommended the Vitamin E cleanser because I think that this is for all skin types :)

2. Seaweed Clarifying Toner
The seaweed range is for combo skin and I definitely would say that I get so oily around my nose >.<  and the whole seaweed range is to help control oil and mattify your skin a bit.

3. Seaweed Day Cream
This day cream seems right up my street and this will probably be my first purchase from the wishlist! It says "Moisturises dry areas, balance excess sebum and gives a matt, shine free completion :)

4. Tea Tree Night Lotion
For those that didn't know, tea tree is amazing for your skin and since sometime we can all get the odd spot here and there, The Body Shop recommended this night lotion as something to help deal with that! It works overnight hopefully leaving you with better looking skin in the morning.

Extras!
There are a few little extras that they pop in...

• Vitamin E Eye Cream
• Seaweed Iconic Clay Mask 
• Seaweed Pore-Cleansing Facial Exfoliator

These little extras are going that little step extra in your skincare routine and maybe aren't that essential ^_^

I know this post is a bit different... hmm I don't know but I hope this may have helped if you are wanting to get into skincare and were a bit stuck! I know The Body Shop isn't the cheapest but it does have a wide variety that would help everyone's skin <3 nbsp="" p="">

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Things Aren't Always What They Seem | HelenaAsia

Confessions time! I thought I'd share with you something that, well just occurred to me about blog 

that has surprised me...

Starting this blog back in April I thought that I would be more a beauty blogger, and even though I did include lifestyle in the slogan(?) of my blog, I didn't actually know if I would be blogging about lifestyle stuff that much. As it turns out I blog about my life and what I like in my life than I do beauty. 

This is something I realised and I thought that I wanted to share it with you all because it kinda shows that sometimes things don't always turn out how you thought they were going to. I am completely okay with the fact that I'm more of a blabber on my blog because I feel like it's me. It's my genuine content to post what I'm thinking about and what's going on. 

I am obviously still going to be posting beauty stuff, it's just so happens that's going to be when I feel inspired and I don't wanna force content out of me that I'm not happy with. I don't want to turn this into a rant or anything because it isn't meant to be, I just wanted to mention it in a blog post.

I am really starting to feel like I love what I post and I want to put more effort in and make every post count and really start to add more personality and style into how I write and design my pictures and what not.

I really want my blog to represent me and what I love and I don't think I was really doing that before, I hope to really improve my blog and I hope y'all look forward to seeing this happen :)

Love Always, Helena x 

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Autumn Lovin' | HelenaAsia

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Autumn, as us Brits call it is finally among us! Wow that's the first time using that word among...

I have been waiting for autumn for so long! I have to been completely honest in saying that I do actually kinda miss this summer and I feel like it went a bit too fast :( 

That being said, I LOVE the autumn! It's always been my favourite season :) There's something so wonderful about this season to me... the slight warmth with a breeze, sweaters and knee high socks, the deep wine red and burgundy and the darkness coming at earlier hours...

I could honestly sit and think about it all day, the way the leaves fall off the trees, the nature of it to me is beautiful considering that everything is pretty much dying at this point... As Dali also pointed out in her blog post about autumn :)

This year I am gonna make it a really cool autumn and there are a few little fashion items that would complete my go to autumn look :D You could possibly see some sort of blog post on that too? I think that's also one of the reasons I adore autumn, the clothing is to die for - just like the nature haha...

Can't wait to see if it snows though this winter, I do like the winter but I just feel like here in England it gets a bit too cold for my liking and the constant raining making my school shoes soaked is the most horrid feeling ever.

Autumn Always < 3 hehe 

Let me know what your favourite season is? I'd love to know... 

Ciao x  

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Stars, MAC, Year 9 and more! | HelenaAsia

I decided that I wanted to go bit freestyle with this blog post just do a short and simple post...

I have been having some blogger block but I guess not too much, sometimes I have ideas but it's finding the time to actually get them in a post and taking the pictures and editing them and what not.

Liebster Award | HelenaAsia

I get nominated for things and I never seem to do them! I don't know how long ago Dali, DaliRae, and Pips, PrettyInPips, nominated me for this award but here I am finally doing! THANK YOU PIPS & DALI! Those blogs are perf!  

August Faves - Randoms! | HelenaAsia

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Woah summers gone fast and I'm actually so happy that it's finally Autumn! Sorry for being MIA with all the blogging recently but I just wanted a quick break and I'll be back to normal soon once school starts again urgh...

Thailand So Far // Travel Series | HelenaAsia

Alright loves, let's get started! I've been in Thailand for a week now and the weather has been super hot for this time of month, since it's supposed to be raining and well kinda chilly. Anyways I haven't done much but I'd thought I'd share with you some of the things I did do!

LETS START WITH ANIMALS!!!

Just A Dip Of Purple | HelenaAsia

Hey hey!

I know this isn't a part of my travel series but I'm still deciding some things on that so bare with me :) 

I really felt the need to just blog from within! Since I'm on holiday I have some time to chill...which I use to blog ;) I wanted to just blog about something that I have just been really loving ALOT!! 

You gonna guess it?!

Nooo???

PURPLE DIP DYE!!! Woooo

I dunno if I'm getting but there is a very big chance I am :D All I know is that I plan on getting it done and I am so EXCITED!!!

I actually wanted a "new look" for school... and naturally my brain, or more so my HEART, gravitated towards purple hair dye...I don't even know if my school would allow this haha. Pinterest has just been feeding my love with pictures of pretty hair with pretty colours all ending up on my "hair board" ! 

I know I know this isn't the usual post but just wanted to keep it real and fresssshh!! Love y'all <3 comment-3--="">

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Wanderlust // Travel Series | HelenaAsia

Wanderlust. Oh my favourite word. It actually is, I don't know why but I just love the way it sounds and the meaning. If you didn't know wanderlust means the desire to travel and that's definitely me!

Packing Problems // Travel Series | HelenaAsia

Back with some little and big packing problems that some of us probably face when packing to go away! Second in the travels series, hope you enjoy!