1000 Follower Giveaway!

                         

I'd just like to start by saying thank you so much to every single one of you who follows and reads my blog! I received an e-mail yesterday saying my blog had reached 1000 followers! To me that is amazing and never thought I'd get to this stage when I started blogging a year a go! 
So to say thank you I wanted to do a small giveaway to show how much it means to me! It's not much but I hope you like it :)

Terms and Conditions:

1. Winner will be picked at random via Rafflecopter.
2. If you are under 16 then please get parents permission as I will need to ask for your address.
3. Once giveaway has ended I will contact the winner who will have 48 hours to reply and if not then another winner will be chosen again at random.
4. Prize cannot be exchanged for cash.
5. UK only.
6. Sometimes things can get lost in the mail. If this happens I cannot be held responsible. I will ask for a proof of postage receipt.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Blog Update

Hello my lovelies! I just wanted to make a quick post letting you know why I've not been continuing with my new schedule I said I was going to be doing. I have just started a giveaway and didn't want to take the focus away from it by writing more posts....does that sound bad? I hope it doesn't. As it's my first giveaway I really want it to do well as I'm sure most of you would too so please please enter if you haven't already :). Also I feel the schedule I made is a bit too much for me at the moment so I'm gonna work something else out and maybe do something like post Monday, Wednesday and Friday and then maybe a bonus one on Sundays. I don't want to make this post a long one so once I've figured out what is gonna work best for me I'll let ya's know! I hope you understand xoxo

#BritishBloggerSelection

Hey guys! I just wanted to share a blog group I've just discovered on a blog called Little Vintage Camera which was created by Ellie. What happens is if you are a British blogger then you join in and every week Ellie will send you a theme to blog about and you can pick something to do with that theme to write about. It sounds really fun and is a great way to bring other bloggers to your page. Head on over to Ellie's blog to find out how you can join in. I can't wait to find out what the first theme will be :D xoxo

My tattoos

I got my first tattoo when I was 18 (I think) and it's a pair of ballet shoes. Why did I go for ballet shoes? Well....as you may know from one of my previous posts I love to dance so I wanted to get something that meant something to me so that's why I went for a pair of ballet shoes. I thought it was special to me and of course I still do and I don't regret it. I thought ballet shoes were nice and appropriate rather than a tattoo of a break dancer haha! This one is on my right wrist and wasn't too painful :p So yeah here's a pic of it :)

My second tat is a heart but I wanted it a bit different to any normal heart. I have to say that I actually came across this heart on one of Britney Spears perfumes bottles - Believe. When I saw it I fell in love with it straight away and wanted to get a tattoo of it. I know it sounds a bit sad but hey ho! This one is on my hip and was the least sore out of all 3.

And last but not least my third tattoo. I got this one when I was holiday this year and yes don't worry I made sure the place was clean and was a proper tattoo place :) I actually saw a picture of someone who has this on instagram and I loved it as soon as I saw it! Obviously it's the lyric from Rihanna's song so whenever that song comes on I'm always prancing about lifting my top up (not like that) showing it off haha! This is on my side just under where my bra sits so I feel it's quite sexy and especially if I'm wearing a dress that has cut outs at the side ;). This was very sore so if you're thinking about getting a tattoo in this area then prepare yoursef! :p 

I've also just realised since taking this pic of it that the "e" on the end has faded slightly which I'm quite annoyed about since I only got it done in April :(

I would love to see if any of you lovely people have tattoos so let me know in the comments below and leave a link to your blog and I'll check it out! Thanks for reading xoxo

Charles Trippy

Hey guys, so in one of my previous posts about Charles Trippy who's a YouTuber who went through awake brain surgery (see further down for more details of the story) I said I would leave the link to his vlog he was going to upload to his channel of him being filmed during surgery so here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVpqMv2YUo

Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to his channel if you would like to see more of his videos. Thanks guys!

                                     

Welcome To Gemstrends

Hello! So I've decided to start blogging and have no idea how it's going to go! I want to do it for a bit of fun and because I love reading and following other peoples blogs and also love watching beauty gurus on YouTube! This isn't going to be one of those beauty blogs but will have a bit of everything in it such as fashion, some beauty products as I am subscribed to GlossyBox so I want to share with you what I receive every month, and just simply other things that are going on in my life. So who am I? My name's Gemma and I'm 23. I'm from Scotland and work full time as an Optical Assitant in an Opticians at the moment. Thats me in the picture above being a bit of a bam really and taking an "selfie" for Instagram :D I would love some suggestions from anyone as to what I should blog about and what people would love to see!