Beauty Inspiration: Hair

        

Part Two! Today it's all about hair, and my number one look at the moment is a textured ponytail. They just look so good. Like last week for beauty, I have a few points about my everyday hairstyle.

1. Keep heat styling to a minimum.

2. Have your hair out of your face.

3. Add a braid to a ponytail for some definition.

4. Use clear hair ties, it makes the look more put together.

5. A little bit of hairspray never goes astray.

6. Go for the messy-chic look.

Welcome Back!

Hey there, I'm officially back, yay! I've been away from Em Charlie for 5 and a half weeks, and I've missed blogging quite a lot. So many things have happened since I've been taking a break, I read a few books (Pretty Honest by Sali Hughes is beautiful), performed in my first Shakespeare play, started playing basketball and wrote assignments for senior, sigh. 

Even though I haven't posted anything, I haven't neglected the blog either. I've been working on my photography skills and there's about seven pre-written posts and secret pinterest boards with inspiration and about planning for 30 potential posts in my journal. So, fingers crossed this relaunch goes the distance and I can blog consistently for once!

Wild Wood by Colin Meloy

First of all, can I just say how happy I am with this photo? Not to spoil the story, but it is focused on light vs darkness, so some symbolic photography is going down.

Wild Wood is the first book in the Wild Wood Chronicles written by Colin Meloy, the lead singer of The Decemberists, a band I really like. I borrowed it from my best-friend Madie's older sister Caitie's friend Felix, so it took a fair amount of effort to get my hands on this one.

The New Em Charlie

Image: Quotev

Check it out everybody! This is the new blog design update I've been thinking about doing for a while now, and I'm gonna have a quick chat about it, along with some other new details you're gonna want to know about.

THANK YOU

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This is my 50th post on Em Charlie, Hooray! I didn't think that I would ever be at this point in a blogging run, I can barely update my personal Facebook on the regular. But since January 31 2014 when I opened this blog, I was hooked on sharing my life with this little space of the internet.

SNAP HAPPY

As you might have noticed, the images on Em Charlie have become a lot better in quality. I've ditched my iPhone 4s for the Canon 600D with a 18-55mm lens. This baby, took about a year of saving up and I'm so glad to finally have it, and to use it! I've been taking a lot of test shots and working on my technique, so hopefully its onward and upward!

Now, just to clarify, I didn't buy this camera for blogging, nor do I think a DSLR is necessary for blogging (I took the picture of my camera on my iphone). I bought this so that I can start making films, good ones, because that side of creativity has really interested me, and I think I'd like to make some really quality content. I might share a few of my projects on here, would that be something you'd be interested in? Anyway, let me know, and I'll be back on Friday for a beauty post, (finally!).

xx

CHATTING TO MADIE GRACE

Hello All!
Today I have something new to share with you. This is an interview series by bloggers for bloggers about blogging! I know a lot of you have your own blogs, so if you'd like to be involved, comment down below or shoot me an email.

My first blogger is the amazing Madie Grace. Madie was the one who inspired me to start blogging so it was only right to start with her. Let's get started!

E: Who are you and what is your blog?
M: I'm Madie and I'm from Madie Grace.

E: Tell us a bit about your blog and what kind of content you create.
M: My blog is basically a representation of me - it's all things beauty, fashion and a sneaky bit of food.

E: How long have you been blogging and what are your goals for the future?
M: I've been blogging for thirteen months now, and my goals are to create better content and just be myself in blog posts and do different ideas instead of trying to fit in with all the other beauty bloggers.

E: What bloggers inspired you to start blogging?
M: Definitely Zoella and PersonallyPaige.

E: What is your advice for new bloggers?
M: Just to start a blog for yourself and put up content you'd want to read instead of doing it because it's in or because everyone else is doing it.

E: So just be you?
M: Yes exactly!

E: If you could pick your favourite thing about running Madie Grace, what would it be?
M: Being able to express my interests and personality into my blog and having people read it and be interested in it is really cool.

E: That's so lovely! Next one, how do you stop yourself falling for blogger's hype?
M: Before buying anything I always read reviews and I always wait a couple of weeks to months and if people are still raving about it I will check it out. If not then I don't bother.

E: What products have you found through blogging that you absolutely love?
M: M.A.C. Lipsticks, The Balm Mary Lou-manizer and Bondi Sands Tanner.

E: And finally, Where do you see yourself in a few years? Are you still blogging?
M: A lot can happen in one year, so in a few years I don't know what will be happening but I certainly hope so!

Find Madie:
Twitter @madieeegraceee
Instagram @madie.grace
Tumblr www.madieeegraceee.tumblr.com
Youtube www.youtube.com/madieeegraceee
Blog www.madieeegraceee.blogspot.com

LINKS FOR NEW BLOG DESIGNERS

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Hello my loves! I have a list of amazing links for you, all about blogging, html and the like. These links have really helped me out in understanding blogging design, and although I'm yet to apply them, that's my goal for the rest of January. So, lets get into it:

1.  I Can Build A Blog: This is such a treasure trove of design help, both for Blogger and Wordpress. (It's also written by Dana from Wonder Forest, who is practically blog design loyalty)

2. 5 ways to clean up your blogger template + 5 more ways to clean up your blogger template: These post are by Bloomin' Rouge and both have HTML shortcuts and  is really easy to follow. In my opinion, these two posts should be seen by anyone having a look into blog design!

3. The Essentials of Blogging: It's pretty clear that everything has its essentials, and blogging certainly has a few! I'm not talking fancy cameras or anything, but this shows what you should add to your blog design-wise. The Private Life of a Girl

4. How to add social media icons to blog posts: A bit more specific with this one! This is something that I know a lot of people want to do but don't know how. The tutorial is simple and easy to follow (ticks in my books!) Sweet Electric

That's all folks! I hope this helped you out, and make sure to leave any blog design tips in the comments below! I'm really looking forward to updating Em Charlie HTML-wise, and maybe a new blog design sometime soon?

JANUARY 1ST UPDATE

Even though we'll be calling it 2014 till' March, 2015 is here. I hope you've all had fantastic holidays and you're going into the new year with a clear head (easier said than done!). Today I'm just updating you all on changes to Em Charlie, news, and the like:

- On twitter and at the end of blogposts, I've signed off as Emilie. Its actually spelt Emily! I was nervous starting blogging and putting my real first name online, but I'm much more comfortable after 11 months of it!

- I've changed my usernames on social media to @MissEmCharlie (shameless self-promotion there!) Also, I'm making an Instagram, so stay posted for more on that.

- Photo quality will be getting better, as I've saved up for a DSLR, which will be arriving sometime in the near future!

- How would you feel about changing design? I'm spending most of January working on HTML and such, so not heaps of posts this month! I'm going to add social media buttons, email subscription, contacts and about me pages, and a disqus commenting system. If you have any tips, please leave them in the comments below!

- Post wise, I'm making a goal to post about 5 times a month! Not in January but February onwards I'll be hitting up your bloglovin'!

- More about posting, what do you want to see on Em Charlie? Would you like a laid back or editorial style on here? Just beauty, or incorporating book & film reviews, advice, fashion, music, maybe videos?? Anyway lemme know down there.

That's all, folks! This post is quite long but I really want to make this space amazing for you all! Put your thoughts in the comments and I'll get cracking with them.

Happy New Year!

Emily (with a y) xx