mollydotw: November 2016

Friday 25 November 2016

The Holidays Are Coming!

It's officially the 25th of November so just one month until Christmas Day, plus December starts in five days which means we can definitely start getting festive, singing Christmas songs and putting the decs up - let's be honest though we've all been doing/wanting to do that since September right?

But at least now the Scrooge's of the world can't moan at us for getting excited too early, yay!

Recently my boyfriend and I had a festive little evening at our local city where the Coca Cola van was visiting (in the U.K it's like a little tradition that you know Christmas has begun when the Coca Cola advert featuring the lorry comes on the TV, so to be able to see it in real life is very exciting - maybe it's just a British thing!? Haha) and everything was so cute and lit up - I couldn't get enough of it!

So what do you love most about the Christmas season? For me it's fairy lights, cosyness, knitted jumpers, fluffy socks, dark evening, cold and icey weather, Christmas Costa drinks, and the food (obviously).

Molly

xoxo

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Wednesday 23 November 2016

A Little Change

_{Blogging is a hobby I enjoy so so much, and the past two years have flown by at a scarely quick rate.}

_{When I first started blogging I didn't really have a clue what I was doing or what I wanted to write about and basically just posted whatever was on my mind, or clothes I'd picked up from Primark - and although the content wasn't great or eye catching at all and each post from the first year makes me cringe horribly when I read them back now - they also make me smile.}

_{It was such a chilled out time - and I want to bring that vibe back - just with better photos, flatlays, and general content aha.}

_{So here I am, writing this from the Blogger app on my iPhone, pajamas on, in bed and a days worth of makeup and needs taking off - completely and utterly chilled. No photos need taking and no content needs planning - just me writing away to a blog and you reading this, and whether that's five of you or five hundred, I'm going to try and make audience size less important and the content I post more important and more personal to me and hopefully enjoyable for you guys of course ;)}

_{The point to this post is that I want to change up my content a little and rather than going out shopping or buying a new piece of makeup and stressing over taking the perfect photo of it and making sure my post is perfect to show you all what I've been buying or trying, I would like to try blogging about day to day life, topics we can all have a chat about, and things going on in my life - something I can look back on in a few years time and remember what I was up to in my younger days - that's much more interesting than looking back and seeing what foundation I was using at 20 years old right?}

_{Of course I won't be cutting out beauty posts completely as I do enjoy reading and writing about new products as much as the next blogger, but I'm just taking a little step back from that and making a few little changes.}

_{I hope you can all kind of get what I mean, and I haven't put you off ever clicking my blog links again haha - but trust me on this one - you might be pleasantly surprised!}

_{Also thanks to all you lovelies that replied to my tweets about changing up my blog - I appreciate all your replies and advice - little cuties.}

_{Have you thought of changing up your content recently?}

_Molly

_xoxo

Thursday 3 November 2016

How To - Easy Autumnal Instagram Theme

Everyone here loves Instagram right?

Some more than others - and I'm definitely a BIG lover of all things insta and find 'themes' extremely pleasing to look at - especially those which are seasonal related.

Recently I've been taking a lot of autumnal photos when I'm out and about and uploading them to Instagram and my page has never looked more cosy - I love it!

And whats even better is I've found a lovely quick and simple way to edit them to create the 'theme' which only includes the Instagram app itself and the tools provided - as personally I cannot be doing with uploading and editing on a number of different apps and THEN uploading to Instagram nah nah nah.

So heres a few simple steps on how to produce a quick and easy Autumnal looking Instagram:

o Taking the photo -

When taking an Autumnal photo I always try and get as much colour into it as possible by keeping it light and bright.

I take pretty much all my Instagrams on my iPhone 6 and make the photo lighter by tapping on the main subject in the photo.

I also try and position the camera so any dark areas are cut out as much as possible - although a little bit of darkness can be cosy so just find the right balance.

o Editing (my fav bit)

At the moment I'm just using the Instagram app on it's own to edit my photos as its soooo quick and super easy.

To make the colours pop in the photo I start by adding the filter 'Lark.'
This instantly lightens the picture slightly and also gives it an orangey/yellow tinge - which is perfect for Autumn time!

Original Photo:

With Lark filter:

After applying the filter to the photo I also like to go into the 'edit' section and add or take away a little bit of brightness (normally adding), put the saturation up slightly - but not so much that it makes the photo look cartoony and unrealistic.

To make the photo extra cosy and bright I always use the 'warm' edit and put it up to between 80-100.

Photo completely edited with the following:

Lark 100

Brightness +5

Saturation +13

Warmth +100

Here's a few more examples of before and afters using the edits above (numbers of each edit vary on each photo - because it depends on what looks better for which photo :))