My Summer Scent

Last year I was on my way home from Spain and I spotted Red Jeans in the airport and I had to pick it up. This purchase was completely influenced by Barbara from The Persian Babe on YouTube. I have watched her for so long and ages ago she mentioned this perfume so I had to try it out. I have never had so many compliments whilst wearing this perfume. Friends, family, work colleagues, everyone asks what I'm wearing. I've even been described as 'the girl that smells like a worldie.' Charming!

The packaging is so cute. It comes in this tin which I like to keep as it looks nice in my bedroom! It would also be goo to keep makeup brushes or eyeliners inside once the perfume is empty! It then comes in a glass bottle with a pink liquid insides with a red lid. It looks so nice! 

Now I wouldn't know where to begin when describing the scent so I'm just going to take a quote from Boots:

'Top note: Peach, blackcurrent apricot, freesia

Heart: Violet, rose, lily of the valley

Base: sandalwood, vanilla, musk'

It literally smells divine. Perfect mix of florals and sweets. Buy here!

This is my second bottle of Red Jeans and it's officially my signature scent of summer. Brings back such lovely memories of my first summer holiday!

If you get a chance definitely smell this perfume as it's gorgeous and doesn't break the bank at under £15!

Thanks for reading!

Hannah x

Ah-mazing Dresses at Fanny Crown & Discount Code

Today’s post is all about a brand I have fallen completely and utterly in love with. They are called Fanny Crown and are located in Paris. Yes, that’s right, PARIS. Ohh lala! Fanny Crown offers so many gorgeous dresses including wedding, prom, graduation and cocktail dresses in a variety of styles and lengths. So you will find something you love on the website. Dresses can be tailor made to fit your body measurements so your gown fits like a glove and looks fabulous on you; what else is excellent about this company you may be wondering? They accept PayPal and ship worldwide!! What more could you want, eh?

Fanny Crown is an amazing and luxurious company who contacted me to ask to join this competition to win a dress of my choice. It was so hard to find THE dress but after looking at so many drop dead gorgeous dresses, I found this floor length, orange, Aztec embroidered beauty (Buy here.) This would be so perfect to attend a wedding I’m going to next year. It screams Summer and I love how bright the dress is. Recently I have been getting adventurous with my clothes and bright colours get you noticed! Which is great when you’re a diva like me haha!

This post is going to be all about my dream dress and how I would style it for the wedding. I’ll discuss makeup, accessories and even what hairstyle! So if you’re into all of the above, please enjoy reading the rest of my post!

Makeup

My favourite part of a night out is doing my makeup. As this dress is so bright, you may want to tone down the makeup, however, I feel like a red lip would complement the dress really well. Also, I feel lost without a red lip, it just completes my look, you know?! I’ve gone for MAC’s Russian Red as it is blue toned so it will make my teeth look whiter in photographs!

For my eye makeup I thought I’d go for a matte smokey eye. I would use a soft brown colour all over, with a tiny bit of black just to emphasise the crease of my eyelid. Also I would use a little bit of shimmer on my inside corner of my eyes to highlight them and make me look more radiant. For this I would use the Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette or anything similar!

Accessories

I wouldn’t go too overboard on accessories, because if you know me, I’m not big on jewellery anyway! But I absolutely fell in love with the cute bracelet from Ernest Jones. How pretty is that? The rose gold goes so well with the gorgeous Aztec embroidery on the upper part of the dress! I may wear some rose gold studs also but that would be it with jewellery!

For shoes, I’d go for nude strappy sandals, just like these from Dune. Simple and chic; so the dress stands out more! These sandals are gorgeous and are totally worth the money as they’d go with any outfit really!

Hair

Hair up is a must. I’d probably go for a milkmaid braided style with little strands hanging every now and then to frame my face a little bit. Then the neckline of this dress can be exposed and so will my décolletage, which I find to be an absolutely delightful part of my body.

If you have a special event coming up soon I highly recommend Fanny Crown as their dresses are just perfect. You will definitely find it difficult to fall in love with just one! Click here to head over to Fanny Crown's website!

To make this post even more exciting, Fanny Crown are also providing Hannah Notes' readers with a discount code for 15% off! The coupon is valid between June 3rd - 19th July 2014. All you have to do is enter this code at the checkout - HANNAHNOTES14

How exciting right?! I'd like to thank Fanny Crown for contacting me and asking me to join this competition and for giving me the coupon code for all my lovely readers! 

As always, thanks for reading!

Hannah x

Collection Lasting Colour Lipstick // Makeup Review

It's Monday which mean makeup review! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend and have had a great day so far! It's June which means I go on holiday at the end of this month!! YAYAYAYAY! Expect packing blog posts and outfit organising! Today I thought I'd write about a lip product because, if you didn't know this already, I am a lip product addict and need help. When I'm in Boots or Superdrug I always end up buying a new lip product! I just can't help myself! Is anyone else like this, or is it just me?

MY NATURAL LIPS

My lips are very dry and chapped most of the year. I always use a lip balm before applying any lipstick and at the moment I'm using the Nivea Hydro Care. Mostly because it's cheap and has an SPF of 15 included, which can never be bad. I tend to always go to Nivea for a good, hydrating lip balm. My lips are quite large and are a prominent feature on my face. They're quite pale and take to many lip colours nicely.

PACKAGING 

The packaging is rubbish to be honest. I've got two of these lipsticks and the older one has broken. It's basically a black plastic case. When you compare the packaging to the price you are paying for the product though, it is a fair casing. The way the lid goes onto the bullet is quite secure too which is always a plus. However, on Sweet Tart the lid barely stays on due to the damage on the case!

PRODUCT 

I have two colours, one in Sweet Tart which is a Barbie pink and then one from the Gothic Glam collection in Revenge. Both colours are creamy and easy to apply, however 'lasting colour' isn't really applicable in my opinion. As the lipsticks are creamy and moisturising, they don't have a good staying power. If you're eating or plan on kissing anyone whilst wearing this lipstick, blot lots of times because they WILL transfer and can get really messy (especially if you're intoxicated while applying the lipstick haha). I love the colours of this lipstick and the formula is gorgeous, I just wish they lived up to their name, 'lasting colour.' That would make these lipsticks ah-mazing. They're brilliant buys for the price you pay. 

PRICE

One of the best things about this product is the price, £2.99! I know £3! SO cheap and cheerful when you need a lipstick pick up on a rainy day shopping! Also, right now in Boots they're 2 for £5, so get down to the Collection counter! Collection Lasting Colour Lipsticks at Boots.

Hope you enjoyed reading this post!

Hannah x

Secrets of Blogging Tag // Tag Week

So for the last tag of the week, I thought I'd make up my own! I feel like tag posts help connect bloggers throughout the world and the thought of knowing people and communicating with them worldwide makes me happy! The blogging community is continuously growing and new bloggers do find it hard to gain a following. I'm not saying that I am a successful blogger, I have just grown my blog to 100 followers and just want to help other blogger's get their blog noticed! 

Just because you don't have as many followers as other bloggers, doesn't mean you're any worse than them. You just need to continue blogging and creating content which you enjoy reading and producing. Soon after, people will discover your blog and the rest is history!

I called this tag the, 'Secrets of Blogging Tag,' because I want people to get an insight to why I blog, what I like to read about, who knows about my blog and other blogging related topics which this tag will hopefully address! I tag everyone to do this post as well as who I've tagged below! Link me if you do this tag as I'd love to see your answers! Now on with the tag!

1. When did you start blogging and why?

I started blogging on August the 29th, 2013. I began blogging because I was about to start university and I wanted to share my experience with the internet! I explain this in my first post titled I like to write. If you look at this post, it's a little paragraph and what makes me laugh is the Bloglovin html which I copy and pasted incorrectly on the post! I began blogging under the name Hannah The Fresher but on March the 24th, 2014 I changed my blog name officially to Hannah Notes which you can read about in the post titled Changing Names - Hannah The Fresher // Hannah Notes. 

2. How many people 'in real life' know about your blog?

There are two people who know about my blog 'in real life.' My Mother and my best friend who's thinking about starting a YouTube channel. However, I've never actually shown either of them my blog, they just know I write one.

3. What are your favourite posts to read?

As a bargain hunter, I love eBay find posts but I also love posts which focus on one product and show different ways it can be used. Like recently, I've seen a few blogs posting about coconut oil which I've found really interesting to read!

4. List a new blog you've recently discovered.

Nouveau Chique - I love the design, the posts, the photographs and the writer is gorgeous!

5. What is the post you're most proud of?

Okay, so I've thought so hard about this question and I did have two possibilities but it is for sure Confident & Beautiful // Makeup. This post was a part of a mini series I did in March/April of this year. I put so much effort into the series but I loved how the photos came out for this post as photography isn't my strong point if I'm honest.

6. Any advice to future bloggers?

Keep posting. I know it's hard sometimes but keep posting! I usually sit down and wrote two or three posts at a time and take photos separately and add them in the day before a post goes live. Schedules and organisation is key to running an efficient blog.

BLOGS I TAG:

Emmi Hearts

Smiles Avenue

Fashion Mumblr

High Street Hopes

Love Desiree

I'd like to say to anyone doing this tag, feel free to use the heading picture to start the post. Also link me to the post so I can read your answers! Hope you like the tag!

Thanks for reading!

Hannah x