Chloe Olivia

It's been a long while since I did a beauty post so I thought I'd update you on my most recent love of hand creams and moisturisers!!  I've never been a person who ventures into buying hand creams and moisturisers, I've always used other random beauty products but never ventured out of my comfort zone. Recently one of my friends at uni told me about The Body Shop hand creams and I just had to venture out there and give them a go... so here we are, my new found obsession.  I think my favourite scent from their hand cream collection is the coconut one for sure, this literally reminds me of holidays. I am also crushing over the strawberry scented one it's so nice! Let's talk about how handy it is... The size of the bottle is perfect for travelling, with it only being 30ml, I can put this in my travel bag so my hands stay nice and moisturised when I get on a plane that sucks all the moister out of you! Also it is the perfect handbag size. It...

Hey all, this post is a more photography inspired post. I love taking images. I take my shots on the Nikon D3400 and I'm obsessed with the quality of the images it produces. After taking a photography course at college, I fell in love with imagery. So for this post, I have decided to share my editing techniques that I use on Photoshop, nothing overly fancy. Just simple editing skills to help make your images look that little bit more contrasted and vibrant. First of all, a little context into this image - it was taken in New York. I love the vibrant colours in this image. Before I edited it the colours were not as bright and the contrast wasn't as developed. I first decided to use camera raw filter to increase the contrast and then I lowered the exposure a little. I then made the clarity of the image higher so the details were more exposed.  Here is a screenshot of the some of the editing:  This next image was taken in Puerto De La Cruz, in Tenerife. Th...

My whole life I dreamt of visiting New York City. I watched many films located in the heart of the city, fell in love with Gossip Girl and my lust to go there grew stronger. In January, I got the opportunity to visit the states with my friends from college as part of an academic trip. My dream came true. With our A-levels coming to an end it seemed right to head away on this once in a lifetime opportunity.  The only issue we encountered was when we arrived the water system in JFK airport was broken so the airport was flooded. Everyone got evacuated and we didn't receive our luggage for the whole trip! This meant on the first day we had to spend most of our time buying new clothes, which I mean is fun but when you only bring a budget of money, it kinda sucks... luckily we received our luggage back in Manchester when we arrived home. So let's get onto the fun parts of the trip. We stayed in Maddison Square Gardens in a hotel called Hotel Pennsylvania, ...