Hello my little Vintage Darlings ♡

Yet another lovely month has gone by and as usual, there have been darling items that I’ve absolutely adored all throughout February.

While it is a little over a week into the whimsical month of March, I still would love to share my February favorites with you Loves.

First off I wanted to tell you all that I’m sorry for being very inactive this past week! You may have heard that those of us on the east coast were hit with a nor’easter last Friday and being that I’m in Pennsylvania, we got hit pretty bad and lost power for four days. It ended up completely throwing me off my blogging schedule as I obviously couldn’t draft, edit photos, read & comment on other’s blogs, or post anything. It honestly has me a little stressed as one of my goals this month is to really focus and grow my blog to eventually reach my ultimate goal of turning it into my own little business. However, I will be working extra hard this next week to get all caught up!

Now that, that has been said, let’s get right into my lovely favorites!

♡ Celebrity Big Brother – If you don’t follow me on Twitter, then you may not know that I’m absolutely addicted to the reality tv series Big Brother. I’ve adored the American version since the very first season and I’ve watched ever since, even subscribing to the 24/7 live feeds. Well this February was the first ever US edition of the celebrity version and I just loved it so much. While it was a shorter season than usual, 3 weeks compared to the normal 3 months, it was the best the American version has been in the past few years! The houseguests actually played the game as opposed to sticking with what one person says and not playing for themselves. A bonus was the fact that there were zero showmances! Well unless you count Metta and Orwell. While I may not have liked who won (Omarosa was robbed!) I just loved it so much and was very happy to get in my BB fix!

♡ Disney Movies – As someone who loves princesses and is enchanted by magical fairytales, I obviously love Disney and all the movies. Though lately I’ve been watching them a lot more frequently, especially all throughout February. There were some days where I’d watch one or two several nights in a row! I even finally got around to watching the live action Cinderella and I completely adored it! It’s honestly one of my favorite movies now and I just can’t stop watching it. Lily James was simply perfect as Cinderella!

♡ Lemon Cake Tea – With my love of getting cozy with a dainty cup of tea, I’ve been on the search for new delightful teas to try and I found an absolutely amazing one! It Red Rose Sweet Temptations Lemon Cake tea and its happiness in a teacup. One of my favorite things is the delicious taste of lemon tea cake and this tea tastes exactly like it! Sipping it from a vintage tea cup is like taking a delicate bite out of a fresh baked lemon cake. If you Darlings come across this tea, don’t hesitate to buy it!

♡ Lavender Beach Body Lotion – With my love of all things pastel, I originally got this lotion because I needed a filler for my Victoria’s Secret order and thought the bottle looked pretty. I figured it would be yet another lotion that I only seemed to use for photos, but I was so wrong! I ended up adoring the scent so much, it’s like lavender daydreams in a bottle. It’s a lovely soft, light scent and the feeling of the lotion on my skin is delightful. It makes my skin feel so soft and doesn’t just sit on top of the skin. The scent also lasts for a bit, which i love.

♡ My Planner – With one of my angelic goals for February being to get into planning, I did just that and bought a Big Happy Planner. The one that I’ve bought is the memory planner and I’ve been extremely happy with it! It has darling rose golds and pastel pinks and I just love that it’s an undated, vertical planner. It’s been not only helping me stay organized and keep enchanting monthly memories, but it also had been helping me get back into art! I just love getting new shabby chic and vintage looking stickers to make my weekly layouts look so dreamy.

♡ Dew This Rose Clay Mask – As someone who takes her skin care routine very seriously, I wanted to switch things up for the upcoming spring season and add more delicate & romantic rose skin care into my routine. PINK ended up coming out with a new spring beauty line and this included clay masks. Loving the light scent of roses, I just had to pick up the Rose Clay mask! I’ve been using it all month long and it’s now one of my favorite masks. It has been gentle on my soft, delicate skin and has helped make it feel even softer. Plus the scent is absolutely darling!

While I still plan on loving all of these things throughout March as well, I can’t wait to see what new favorites this month will bring me!

Let me know in the comments what some of your February favorites were! Also if you’re new to my blog and if you’re already a follower, feel free to leave a comment with your most recent blog post linked so I can catch up on some reading as well as drop you some comments and likes!

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Hello my little Vintage Darlings ♡

With the month of love over and a new month full of growth and blooming flowers upon us, I have a new list of goals I have set to achieve during the month of March. I’m delighted to say that February’s angelic goals were a success as I’ve worked on them throughout the entire month! Reaching them has not only made me happier, but they’re helping get me to my main end goals.

While I still plan on working on last months goals, like my lettering practice, I have a few new and enchanting goals I’d love to reach in March and I’m excited to share them with you Loves!

♡ Grow my Blog – One of the main things I’d love to succeed in this month is growing my blog. So far I’ve been blogging for a little over a month and while it is going well, I’d really like to kick start it this month. With having the dream to have my own little business as my job, I really need to get this blog moving. I must stick to my blogging schedule and I truly need to start networking everyday. Being that I go through anxiety and periods of not wanting to be social, I really need to be sure to push past that this month. I plan on joining blogger threads and discovering new blogs to read as well because I’d love to meet new bloggers and become friends with some!

♡ Plan a Garden Tea Party – Always dreaming of a romantic garden tea party during the spring, I want to bring this enchanting idea to life. With it still being cold and snowy here in PA during March, I can only start making plans for it. Using Pinterest I will be looking into dainty finger food recipes, adorable baked goods I can make, and decor ideas. I’ll also be trying out new teas and hopefully find some more darling teacups!

♡ Be Enchanted by Nature – With my love for frolicking through fields of daisies, traipsing through magical forests, and visiting strawberry fields, I’d love to spend more time being amazed by the beautiful nature. I’d adore spending time watching the waterfalls or having picnics in the park while enjoying the scenery. Many of the things I have planned for spring involve being outdoors, so I think this goal will be absolutely easy.

♡ Spring Cleaning – The fresh start of spring is one I absolutely adore. Everything is gentle, light, and airy. There’s nothing I’d love more than a breezy spring day where the fresh air blows through the open window with the afternoon sun shining brightly as I clean the house and make everything new again. Dusting, decorating, and putting fresh floral linen sheets on the bed is sure to make it feel and smell so much more like spring!

♡ Wear More Romantic Dresses – Finally deciding to completely be myself without caring what others might think, I want to start wearing more romantic dresses this spring. Lovely light floral prints, pastels, and linens to feel like an ethereal spring fairy dancing in the meadow.

♡ Update my Wardrobe for Spring – As the seasons change, I enjoy changing and updating my wardrobe. This season I hope to add more dainty florals and enchanting pieces to feel like a delicate spring princess.

♡ Go on Whimsical Spring Adventures – For a long time I’d let my imagination run wild with dreams and ideas of what I would do during the spring time. Sadly I’ve never set out to actually do any of those thing, that’s going to change this time. I plan on setting out on whimsical adventures from my wildest dreams not just in March, but during all of spring.

♡ Look into Starting a Garden – I’d absolutely adore attending to a little garden. Flowers are just so lovely and enchanting, I’d just love to start my own garden. I’m hoping to look into which delightful flowers, and possibly some veggies, that I would love to grow!

I’m so delighted to start working towards my angelic goals this month! With the way I accomplished them last month, I believe in myself that I can easily achieve all my March dreams.

What are some of the goals you’ve set for yourselves this lovely month?

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Hello my little Vintage Darlings ♡

With my love of magical fairy dust, I wanted to share one of my absolute favorite makeup palettes with you Loves today. Enchanted by dreamy pastels and darling sparkles, the Glitter Bomb Palette from Too Faced is one of my go to’s. It’s just so angelic and with a simple swipe of color from it, it can leave you feeling like a beautiful fairy.

A palette I bought months back, I find myself reaching for it often, especially this past week. Adoring this palette myself, I wanted to create a review for any of you Darlings out there that may still be on the white picket fence about picking this up. I truly hope that by the end of this post, you’ll find the Glitter Bomb palette as enchanting as I do.

When I first saw the previews of the Glitter Bomb palette, I simply knew it had to be mine as I absolutely adore a glittery makeup look. I was never one to shy away from “out there” makeup looks after all. This palette was everything I dreamed of; not only did it have glitter shadows, but some of them were delightful pastels and had names like “Fairy Dust” and “Rosé All Day.” It was as if this palette was made for me!

Getting it, I thought the packaging was darling. It’s a sleek black with the word Glitter spelled out in rainbow letters. Inside the letters are colorful, little sparkles that move as you move the palette around. It’s such a lovely design!

Moving on to the most important part of this palette, the shades are absolutely stunning. This dreamy palette comes with 8 glitter shades and two base shades. One base shade is a white and is meant to brighten up the look of the glitters on your eye and the other base shade is a matte black shadow meant to darken and smoke out the look of the glitter shadows. Both of these bases shades go on very smoothly and truly help the shadows pop. I personally prefer using the brightening base as I adore lighter shadow shades.

As for the main glitter shadows, these are so perfect and left me completely enchanted by them! They go on so nice and buttery, which is surprising as they are a glitter shadow. I’ve been using this palette since the summer and I’ve yet to have an issue with patchiness or the glitters feeling chunky on my eyelids. One swipe of color leaves you sparkling like an ethereal fairy!

The Swatches you see in this post were done with just one swipe over NYX’s glitter glue primer, which makes these gorgeous glitters not only pop even more, but last all day without creasing!

You can easily create many looks using just this palette alone or mix it with others for even more angelic looks. You can even get away with using Fairy Dust or Rosé All Day (with a light hand) as a highlight! Personally I’ve been loving the dreamy pastel look I’ve been wearing a lot lately using the shades Fairy Dust, Rosé All Day, Confetti, and Hot Damn! With a dusty plum added in the crease as a transitional shade, this pastel look is a darling and dreamy look that reminds me of princesses and lilac skies.

I’m honestly extremely happy that I made the purchase for this palette as it’s been a staple in my recent looks. I know many people might see the word “glitter” and shy away from this palette thinking they’d either never use it or wouldn’t be able to come up with any looks because of them being glitters, but I believe anyone can make this palette work. If you’ve been debating on getting this, you’re in love with glitter, or you’ve been wanting to try something new and outside your makeup comfort zone, I truly recommend the Glitter Bomb palette.

I think you Darlings will love it as much as I do!

I hope you Loves enjoyed today’s enchanting post and it helps you decide on whether or not you’d like to give this palette a go!

Let me know in the comments if you plan on trying it or if you already have!

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Hello my little Vintage Darlings ♡

I was recently nominated for another blogger award by the lovely Hannah and I’m super excited to answer another one of these! So thank you so much to Hannah for nominating me!

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The rules:

• Put the award logo/image on your blog.

• List the rules.

• Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog.

• Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well.  (if someone could direct me to the creator that would be fab…)

• Tell your readers 3 things about yourself.

• Answer the questions you were asked.

• Nominate 10 – 20 people & notify.

• Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question (specify).

• Share a link to your bests post(s).

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Three things about me:

♡ I’m from Philly born and raised and no the playground is not where I spent most of my days (I mean I think I’m funny).

♡ I love the tv show Big Brother and have watched the American version since season one episode one. I’m also a live feeder!

♡ I used to write fan fiction for the tv show The Nanny.

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Here are the questions that I was asked:

♡ What’s your one must have item as a blogger?

I’d have to say my blogging journal. Recently I’ve been getting into planning and bullet journaling and I’ve decided to keep a separate bullet journal just for blogging. It’s been helping me not only stay on top of posts, but also helping me plan out new ideas for darling posts. Plus it allows me to get creative with my planning, which I absolutely adore!

♡ Which persons blog have you enjoyed reading most of all lately?

I’ve been enjoying so many lately that I simply can’t choose just one!

♡ If you could use a colour theme for your blog, what would you use?

Everything would be dreamy pastels like lilacs, blush pinks, mints, and icy blues!

♡ What do you find most difficult when blogging?

What’s the most difficult for me is that I sometimes go through periods of not wanting to be social, even if it’s just on the Internet, due to my anxiety. This affects my blogging because I don’t want to talk to anyone or even pick up my phone, so I end up not posting or really being active on WordPress or social media. I could still click publish on a blog post during this time, but I don’t want to publish a post and expect people to read, follow, like, etc if I can’t do the same for their posts that day. This is something I’ve actually been trying to push past the last few days, which explains my lack of posts.

♡ What made you write your first blog post? (Leave a link to your first post)

I’ve said this in my other tag, but it was The Clique community on WordPress that first drew me into blogging. While the Dylan Marvil blog I had years ago is now deleted, my first true Clique blog as a Massie is still up for me to cringe at. Here’s my first actual blog post on it (aka more than two sentences): https://themassiehopeblock.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/finally-back-in-westchester/

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My 5 questions to you Darlings:

♡ What is your absolute favorite time of day and why?

♡ What’s your favorite fairytale?

♡ What’s one goal you have for March?

♡ What was your favorite thing you did this month?

♡ If you had to choose, would you rather it rain sprinkles or snow glitter?

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Here are the Loves I chose to nominate:

Alyssa – LissysBakedTreats

Sophie – Frosting Fairy

Ashleigh – FlippersandFlatWhites

Discovering Your Happiness

Chantel – ChantelKeona

Jasmine – JustJasmineElla

Jenny – SparkleandStyle

Natalia – NataliaTalksAbout

Glaiza – GlimmerOfHappiness

Amaryllis-SweetLittleAdventures

Please don’t feel like you have to do this awards tag! It’s completely optional!

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I adored getting to answer this tag and I hope you loves enjoyed reading my responses. Thank you again to Hannah for nominating me!

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Head in the clouds that grace the lilac skies, I’ve always been a dreamer. With my angelic daydreams and enchanting wishes, I knew just what I wanted. I wanted to create my own magical kingdom full of whimsy and wonder. A delightful world where dreams are encouraged, happiness is bliss, and everyone is free to be who their hearts desire; a wonderful little dreamland where everything is enchanting. I wanted to create my own little fairytale world, so I did.

I’ve created my own personal fairytale where everyone who enters can become the majestical being they’ve always dreamed of. Whether that’s a princess, fairy, mermaid, unicorn, or even a dainty little woodland creature. It’s a beautiful, angelic place where everyone is free to reach for their most wildest dreams, make wishes on dandelions, have whimsical tea parties, and frolick through fields of fresh flowers without the judgement of others. It’s a lovely little land that’s open to all people, no matter who you are or what you identify as, all of you are welcome and safe here.

That’s what my blog is for me and what I want the message to be behind it. For it to be this enchanting fairytale kingdom that teaches all of you Loves that it’s okay to be a dreamer. This is a magical space where I hope to inspire all of you that it’s okay to be you, even if society tries to tell you otherwise. There’s someone out there that accepts you for exactly who you are and thinks you’re beautiful. That you deserve all the love and happiness in the world, especially the love you have for yourself. La vie en Rose Diaries is the fairytale world I created to do just that. I want all of you Darlings out there to know that this blog is a safe and welcoming place to all. I will never judge you and instead hope to inspire and encourage you and let you know someone is here for you if you ever need it.

This fairytale kingdom I’ve made is a dreamy world where you are all free to be you and let your inner beauty shine.

You are all beautiful and I hope you see that. ♡

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I hope you Vintage Darlings enjoyed today’s little post. I just wanted to create a short post about the message and meaning behind my blog. ♡

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Hello my little Vintage Darlings ♡

Have you ever seen someone carrying a darling little bag and wondered what enchanting things they keep inside? Well today I’m letting you Loves take a peek into my girly, princess bag and see all of my must have essentials!

I’ve recently switched back to using my Henri Bendel Riverside Convertible Clutch in this gorgeous dusty rose shade as I wanted to use a smaller bag for the time being. As someone who usually carries a lot of magical things with her, I wanted to limit myself to just the princess essentials. This bag is perfect for any fancy princess out there as it is a dreamy shade of pink that adds the right amount of class to any outfit.

Though we aren’t here to talk about this beautiful bag, we’re here to see the wonderful things hidden away inside. Just what does an enchanting princess keep inside of her bag?

Spilling the dainty bag out, the first thing that comes out is one that’s whimsical and hypnotizing with its charming sparkles. With a delightful pink color and a darling name, this is something every princess should keep in their bags, a hand sanitizer. This lovely one is called Champagne Sparkle and has an image of the Eiffel Tower on it. It smells like champagne wishes and dreamy roses. I absolutely adore it!

The next wonderful item you’ll find is a soft baby blue book with a precious little quote, “Wake Up. Makeup. Repeat.” This is the place I write down any enchanting blog post ideas if they come to me while on my whimsical adventures. The best part is that it is also a mini planner, which is perfect as I can schedule on the go.

Being that I am very girly and have a love for makeup, my bag obviously contains some lavish items I simply can’t be without.

Every princess needs her favorite fairy dust with her at all times. Mine happens to be this angelic pink fairy dust that’s wonderful and dreamy. Keeping it with me and just knowing it’s there makes me feel magical.

Needing the feeling of soft, delicate lips, I also love to always have at least two different balms with me. My newest favorites being a vanilla mint balm and rose sugar, which smells like romantic rose petals.

This aren’t the only lip products I have in my bag of whimsy though, I also keep my current favorite shade of a Too Faced Melted Matte in Sell Out and a MAC lipstick in Elle Belle; the packaging of which is just completely darling!

The last thing I keep in my dainty bag, is my adorable and soft faux fur wallet from Guess. A gorgeous shade of blush pink, the feeling of this wallet is luxurious and is my favorite addition to my princess bag. It’s the perfect size to store my smaller Henri Bendel card holder that currently has all of my important cards such as credit cards, IDs, and other necessities. I feel as though I’m holding onto a pink cloud every time I pull it out of my bag!

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I hope you all enjoyed taking a peek into my enchanting little bag! Leave a comment letting me know what some of the essentials you loves carry in your princess bags!

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Hello my little Vintage Darlings ♡

Today’s enchanting post is going to be more of a personal one as it’s something I’ve been dealing with for the past week. That being the not so wonderful feeling of self-doubt. It’s something I unfortunately deal with often and though it is one of my goals this year to lessen it and believe in myself more, it still pops up every once in awhile. I’m sure many of you beauties out there can relate.

For as long as I can remember, self-doubt has had too much of a role in my life. Many times I have let these feelings of doubt take over and stop me from doing the things I loved most. Things that would be the first step in creating my dream life were tossed away simply because I chose to believe in my own negativity. I let these thoughts have control over my happiness and make me feel as if I’ll never be good enough, that I’ll never make it anywhere, and never find my place.

I’ve always been a big dreamer. One of my biggest dreams since I was just a child was to be my own boss and create something wonderful that I could call my own. I wanted to do something that made me happy and that I could be so proud of. I never wanted to have work for someone else in a job I would most likely never feel truly passionate about. Always in love with the arts, I wanted to create and inspire. Even at such a young age I had these wishes and hopes for myself. I always told myself growing up that, “Someday, somehow we will get there. We’ll make it and have the most amazing business.” But as I grew older and the words of other people who only wanted to bring me down were whispered to me day after day, those feelings of self-doubt crept in.

As a child people would laugh and say “keep dreaming kid” as if my dreams were laughable and unrealistic. As if I’d never be able to achieve them. Instead of people encouraging me and believing in me that I could be and do anything, they just kept trying to crush those dreams. Of course I was still a child, so that doubt hadn’t settled in yet. I was stubborn and I told them that I’d prove them all wrong someday. 

As the years went on and my dreams evolved, people’s laughter grew, namely my own family’s. They unfortunately never believed in me or encouraged me to reach for my dreams. Anytime I would start to put forward the work towards achieving that end goal, they would be right there to tell me I’d never make it. That I’d end up giving up and that it would never work. That I’m better off working at a minimum wage job that would never fulfill me. The worst was when they’d tell me I’d never amount to anything in life. As a dreamer, those words completely crushed me.

Sadly I let those words affect me negatively and in walked self-doubt. As I would be working on the things to get me to the finish line, I would suddenly start having thoughts that this was all pointless. Putting in all this work and effort is for nothing as I’ll never make it. I’m simply just not good enough or cut out for this life, so I should just give up now…and I did. I would always give up and let my own doubts win. It would hurt me so bad to do so and I would end up crying alone in my room feeling like I was letting myself down. Like I was letting the younger version of me with big dreams down.

There were times when I would set my mind to something I truly wanted,little things, and I went out and got it, but whenever it came to the big goal, doubt has always stopped me. What I want more than anything in life is to grow my blog and turn it into my own little business. Not only do I want it be a magical space to put my words out into the world and inspire others and let them know they’re not alone and it will all be okay, but I want it to become my business. Something I created for myself so that I can say that I finally am doing the job I love because I wholeheartedly love blogging and for once I think I finally found my niche after six years on WordPress.

Though this past week, self-doubt has come back to visit. I can’t help but have thoughts of not being good enough to have my blog grow and to be noticed. There’s no possible way I’ll ever make it as a blogger and this blog will never go anywhere. I’ve already noticed a decrease in engagement, so I must already be losing my touch. No one will care to read it and keep coming back, so I should just give up now right?

But I’m not. I’ve given up too many times in the past and threw away any progress I was starting. I refuse to let the future of this blog become yet another ‘what if’ in my life. It’s not easy to ignore my doubts and I’m sure they’ll be back to trying and make me give up again, but I have to push through for the sake of my dreams.

I’m still doubting this blog as I sit here and type these very words, but luckily with the help of the amazing loves who have been supporting me so far, the encouraging words I read from another blog to beginners, and wonderful quotes I’ve found on Pinterest, I know I’ll get through it.

To any of you out there also dealing with self-doubt, you can push past it. Don’t ever let it stop you from living the life you want the most. If you feel you have no one that believes in you in right now, I believe in you. I believe you can do anything you set your beautiful mind to. ♡

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