September: Mini Haul

Being overly organised mixed with excitement for this Froray. I have had a little splurge and bought a new lipstick and nail varnish (but I saw it in Elle and had to give the shades a try!) This is how my mission panned out;

I have fallen head over heels for autumn's new berry (a take on vampy lips and nails) pallette. Im going to make the most of this and dabble while it lasts.

Trying to find the right berry, but almost black, shade lipstick I desired turned out to be surprisingly challenging. The shades that looked perfect on the tube turned a more rosy colour when swatched. lovely but not what I was pursuing.

(Above) last minute I suddenly came across this little stunner. Revlon's matte lipstick in Black Cherry: perfect!

(Below) obviously with a mutual coloured outfit I want matching nails. Already being a fan, plus, raving about it *like a loon might I add* in one of my earlier posts, I opted for Maybelline New York's Colour Show (In Burgundy Kiss). Knowing this would give great colour and easy application with the wide brush.

What do you feel about the berry trend? Hit or miss? Love or loathe?

The Great British Bake Off

Pastries, cakes, bread, biscuits I'm hooked. The Great British Bake Off has a slowly become one of my go to programmes for when I need a little cheering up. A show filled with compitition, delicious food and the great presenter's  (that make me laugh endlessly) and fantastically enchanting hosts: Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood *those eyes*.

As well as fallen in love with the food and participants one contestants personality has caught my eye, her cute Indie/vintage style *sigh* is just a bonus. Her name. Ruby Tandoh. With these pictures you'll see what I mean.

Look at the table. Food food food.

She seems so sweet on screen and she has also worked for models 1.

Ruby admits that she shops at charity shops as she's a philosophy student. I am definitely taking a tip from her book. Her cardigan is a good example, so cute.

Picture Of The Day: POTD

This little cute post is new and my own way of sharing visual images of my day to day life, the people in it and what is important at this time. (I also want you guys to share your POTD's with me in the comments or social networks)

♚ this is one of my faves. It's of my little sister being curious about who she is. She loves drama and says she wants to be an actress, I always catch her practising faces in our mirror! ♚

Autumn's Here!

Summer has gone and left us all now *sob sob* and if I'm entirely honest this summer's weather has been surprisingly gratifying and warm (not nearly as drizzly and stormy as expected).

Although I think now it is time to admit and apologize for my very, very long absence from BethKara. The truth? I had a major dilemma as to whether I wanted to carry on with my blog at all. I had lost inspiration and put myself down comparing my blog to others. I wasn't happy with the static 'category' I had put me and my little blog into. But I'm realizing now that I enjoy spilling my thoughts and opinions down and not to put me in a box. I want my blog to be about anything, including my thoughts, plans, adventures, down days, good days, and about my hair, my beauty products, my envy of peoples style. I want it to be a mash up of everything anyone may ever think or experience. Not just a label on some piece of internet. I won't it to be me, not someone I may pretend to be. It should be something I should look at be happy with, and if people enjoy reading my blog that is a very happy, fat, and hugely satisfying bonus.

Now my blog is going through it's transitional stage, I should share that my poor, poor, chemically tortured hair has too. Being a sheep in girl world I wanted to try out the 'go blonde for summer' for myself. changing my brown locks to sun soaked blonde ones. Lets just say that me and my friend had a lot of fun (with some definite trial and error- aka going out with loud brassy toned hair *coughcough*). 

So here is my hair journey in a few summer snaps:

My first transgression was more of a golden blonde as my hair was previously brown. Then a few weeks later I completely bleached it- I definitely made sure I gave it a good condition afterwards.

I enjoyed my blonde for a long time but didn't feel like keeping up with the roots. The colder days and winter dawning convinced me enough to go brown for winter. But I wanted to re-inject some fun, this encouraged my next hair decision. 

OMBRE! (squeaks with glee). I think is look is so fun and I wanted to give it another chance. As you can tell by the photos ombre hair can change your look in different lighting. 

At this point in this entry all I want to do is thank my little helper, aka little ball of fur (also an actual dog), Belle for helping me out by naughtily tapping along the keys during this post.

96 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. Yes I really have started counting already, yikes.