Random Favourites

Heya :) ♥

So instead of doing a normal beauty blog I thought I would do a random favourites blog, but not like an end of the month favourites as you can see it isn't the end of the month but a mid-month favourites blog. 

Favourite Movie 

So recently I have been watching more movies as summer has finally started but all my other friends are still at school so I have just been sitting around my house catching up on movies I have missed due to revision and having two little brothers that never want to watch what I want to watch even if it is one of their favourites (silly boys). So my favourite movie is HAIRSPRAY. 

I feel like this movie is a real pick me up sort of movie and anytime I feel down or depressed I watch this movie and I have an instant simile on my face for the rest of the day. My favourite part of the whole film is the ending. I just fell like the ending was put together really well, that it wasn't to cheesy that it made you cringe but it also wasn't to predictable that you knew what would happen which I think is hard to find in alot of new movies.

Favourite T.V. Show 

Currently I have been obsessing over BONDI RESCUE. I just really seem to enjoy it. It is like a documentary but a lot more interesting, I feel mean saying that but I do find some documentaries slightly boring and to factual, but I also like that it isn't predictable 'as you will never know what is going to happen on the busiest beach on the world' ( said in my voice-over voice). It is about a group of lifeguards that patrol Bondi Beach as it happens, and you get to see all the different scenarios that get thrown at them and how they deal with it and how they also have a laugh in between and enjoy it. Also some of the lifeguards are kinda hot. Teehee ! 

Favourite Ice-Cream Flavour 

Last week I was in town and I can't remember what shop I walked into but it had a deal on Ben & Jerry's ice cream and I almost died. No exaggeration is needed here. My all time favourite Ben & Jerry's ice cream was on sale and I was not about to miss it. Now don't get me wrong I love all Ben & Jerry ice creams but every one must have a favourite, and mine just happens to be CHOCOLATE FUDGE BROWNIE, no doubt about it and I'm not ashamed to admit it when the sale was on I ate two big tubs of the heaven in one week an I'll tell you one thing I could not care about the calories that I ate when eating those two tubes. OH MY GOODNESS my mouth is watering now as I speak/write

Favourite Fizzy Drink/Soda 

During the exams I thought I would go healthy and drink diet coke instead of regular coke as that that is my attempt of cutting down. And also now Coca-Cola are putting names on the coke so everyone wants to find their own name an guess what I did. After about a month of searching  and finding cousin's names and brother's names an names I din't know existed till recently I finally found my own name and I was over joyed, and because of all this searching I have become slightly addicted but am trying to control myself. 

Favourite Food 

I feel like this  whole blog is ever so slightly unhealthy but I can guarantee you that this favourite is a bit healthier. So because it is now summer, there are now more summer fruits on offer that are fresh and so good that I could live on summer fruits for the rest of my life. But when it comes to summer fruits I find them nicer in the summer as they haven't been imported from really far away but have been grown locally and are really fresh so I tend to eat a lot more fruit during summer as they taste nicer so my favourite food is STRAWBERRIES. They are just so sweet and tasty and bite-sized which is what I also love about summer fruits you can just sit and pick at the fruit. 

So I hope this blog wasn't to long an rambly. An now that the exams are over I will be blogging a lot more over summer so if you have any requests of what I should blog about let me know in the comments below an I will try and do that for you. 

Hope you all have a great day and I will talk to you later ♥

Revision Tips

Heya :) ♥

So I mentioned briefly in my last blog that I have been revising a lot recently for the exams that I have coming up, so i thought as one nice person to the next I would share some of my revision tips with you all in a hope that they will help someone. 

Now it has taken me five years to finally get ways of revising that work so these techniques won't necessarily work for you all but it might help some one.

When I revising I cannot just read through the book and learn it I have to write it out in bright colours to make it more enjoyable to read and look at, if you can even make revising more enjoyable. When I write my notes I tend to use the Stabilo point 88 pens as they come in a variety of vibrant colours. Also when writing notes I will highlight the key words and phrases that I need to remember. The highlighters are relatively cheap compared to the pens, the highlighters came in a pack of 4 for £1 with the colours pink and orange (as you see in the picture) and also yellow and green. The pens where slightly pricer at £8.94 for a pack of 20. 

Another technique I use when revising is mind maps or spider diagrams or what ever you want to call them, these are nicer to read and you can stick a few pages together or have a big piece of paper an make a huge on and stick it on your wall so you will always see it. With mind maps you could use pictures to describe what you are saying as most of you know the famous saying a picture paints a thousand words. I also use the Stabilo pens when making mind maps. Also drawing diagrams helps me as I would be able to picture them in my head during the exam alot easier than a huge block of text. 

When ever I write notes i ten to keep them in note books so you are less likely to lose a page, and what always happens me is when I lose a page it is always a huge mark question on the exam so I learnt from my mistakes and have now kept all of my notes into note books and one note book for each subject. Also with note books you can go into any local stationary shop and pick up a notebook for no price they are that cheap and they don't need to be super expensive as your not planning to go around showing them off to all your friends like you would a new bag or pair of shoes. 

 So they are just a dew of the tips that I use when I'm revising for exams. I hope that some of these tips helped you and that everyone who is doing exams will do very well in them and if you aren't doing exams you're a lucky duck! 

Speak to you all soon ♥

Update :) ♥

Heya :) ♥ 

So I'm really sorry I haven't been blogging a lot recently as I have been super busy with school, 'important' exams and trying not to stress out or have any panic attacks, so I haven't really have the opportunity to whip out the old laptop and get typing. 

I thought for this blog I would just update you all on what is happening in my life over the past few weeks and the coming ones as well. 

In the next few days I will be turning 16! FINALLY ! So I know to some of you this may not be a big deal (now here comes the start of the rant) but when your friends all have birthdays at the start of the year and will all be turning 17 in a few months I enjoy being the same age as them even if it is for a little bit. They will all be learning to drive soon and will be able to do things a whole year earlier than me which they remind me every time we see each other. But I'm just happy to be 16 soon. But unfortunately I was born at a good time when you are in primary school as all your friends aren't on holidays and in school it is the wind down to summer, but it isn't such a good time when you reach GCSE's and A-Levels as the mean people who organise the exams decide that my birthday would be a good time to plan the exams and it is normally the nicest week of the whole year and I'm stuck in side revising it just isn't fair.
 (Rant over) 

 Because of this and my amazingly good persuasion technique I convinced my parents to let me have a big celebration for my birthday. Now I know if you live in America this is normally a big event but over here in the UK it is normally the 18th or 21th birthdays that are the big days. So anyway I'm having lots of my friends round at my house and we are having a huge bouncy slide and a BBQ (if the weather holds up) and I can't wait. 

As I said I have exams and I was thinking about sharing with you about the techniques that I use to help me revise, now I know that everyone revises differently as me and my brother have very different techniques, but I thought it may help some of you guys so it is worth a shot. I will write some of those type of blogs as I know I'm not the only one sitting exams. 

Finally the last major thing that has been happening in my life is that we (my family) are thinking of getting a new dog as sadly our old dog Bob passed away last year after 16 wonderful years with us, so if any of you have any dog names I would be more than happy to hear them as we are having a bit of bother coming up with names that we all agree on, so any names to be left in the comments would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you :) 

Hope you are all having a great day ♥

Music #2

Heyaaaaa 

Hope you are all having a great day 

So since my last music blog post I have been listening to a lot more music instead of just the same music again and again and again which for about 2 months I did when One Directions new album came out!!! (it is soooooo good). I'm a loyal Directioner. 

So anyway here are some of the songs that I have been enjoying recently 

Ollie Marland 

This guy right here is a singer, that would be why he is in my music blog but anyway, I stumbled across him on twitter first i think and then looked him up on youtube and discovered how amazingly talented he was, so I watched a few more of his videos and thought that he was good enough to go into this blog. He is a British singer and I think he is 18 (don't quote me on that). This is one of my favourite songs that he covers and I personally love it.

Pink ft. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason

So this is a song I have been currently obsessing over with my little 10 year old brother, we actually stand in our kitchen and sing this song at the top of our voices like we are professional singers and it is very funny. But this song is so catchy and different to her normal stuff. Don't you agree? I like it because even though it is kind of a sad song the music to it isn't slow and depressing it is quite fast which I think makes it so much better. 

Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man 

This song is such a wonderful song and it reminds me to take every opportunity you get to do something amazing and worth while. I love all of Bruno Mars's (maybe not correct punctuation there but awell), I think all his songs are amazing and without going all deep and meaning full, because then we would be here forever, his lyrics are really fanatstic and he gets a message across well in a song which makes me love him even more. This song is a love or hate thing, but I have found a very small group of people that don't like it and I straight up told them they were wrong (WHOOPS) but thankfully they took it as a joke.

I hope you all enjoy these videos that I have reccommended 

And I will speak to you all very soon Have a great day ♥

Quote of the Day #3

This is a quote that I wish I lived my life by. Personally I am the sort of person who would care a lot about what people are saying about me and I wish I didn't but unfortunately I do. If I'm ever getting dressed to go out anywhere constantly racing through my mind will be
- 'what are people going to think', 
- 'what will other people be wearing' ,
- 'will people be staring at me', 
- 'will anyone judge'
- 'who will they tell' 
Just stupid things like that and a lot of the time no one will ever say anything but I will be thinking that they do which makes me really insecure. It has gotten so bad that I can't leave the house without make-up on or else I will think people will be judging me becasue of my acne or the way my hair is or anything like that. 
I'm going to try and remember this quote when ever I start getting insecure and hopefully it will help me be less anxious and not care what others think 
I hope this can help any of you that feel the way that I feel and we can get over it together 
hope you all have a great day ♥

Revision Snacks

 Recently I have been revising for my GCSE's so I have been eating alot more snacks to get me through my exams such as 

• Sensations crisps especially roasted chicken & Thyme (they are the best)
• Coca-cola (diet or zero as I'm trying to be healthy #fail) 
• Big bags of GIANT chocolate buttons 
• lucozade pink lemonade which has to be the best flavoured drink ever created in the history of drinks. Who agrees? 
• Maoam's MaoMix (the best because you get a selection of them and they are amazing)
• Haribo's jelly babies 
• and HOT CHOCOLATE. Recently I have become obsessed with hot chocolate as I don't like any other hot drinks or anything coffee based except a caramel frappuccino but it isn't a hot drink. I have gone through 3 tubes of it and am half way through the 4th. I don't know if it is overly healthy for me but I don't care it is the only thing that is getting me through these exams.

All of these foods are helping me get through my exams and I am currently holding back on starting a diet but that can be organised after the exams can't it? 
If any of you have a favourite food that you like to wat when revising let me know and I will try them out. 
Hope you are all having a great day and I will speak to you soon ♥

Review | Revlon Lip Butter

Recently I went out on a whim and bought the new Revlon lip butter in Peach Parfait. I needed a neutral colour and had be recommended this one by a friend, I already have a few but they would be slightly brighter than this one. 

I liked this colour as it gave my lips a shimmer instead of colour and it has left my lips feeling incredibly nourished and smooth.
This past month the revlon lip butter has been my staple lip colour as I haven't been out much due to school and revising. I also like it because it isn't bright you are able to get away with it in school, well my school anyway (but shhh don't tell anyone). 
With the range of lip butter there is a variety of colours which are all very well pigmented just like a lipstick.
The packaging is really cute and I like the diamond effect on the front and back, all the names are candy related which i think is really sweet (get it) and makes me feel happy when i read it. 

If you have any colours that you would like to recommend me just leave them in the comment section below and I will gladly readthem and maybe try them out, also if you have any products that you would like to see reviewed tell me about them and I will see what I can do.

  
hope you all have a great day and will hope to speak to you soon ♥