Seven 'who' questions

1. Who was the last person you saw?
My mum.

2. Who was the last person you texted?
My friend, Greta

3. Who was the last person you hung out with?
Cannot remember, it's been that long!

4. Who was the last person to call you?
My friend Milly

5. Who did you last hug?
Umm... I hug everyone a lot!!! Probably Greta again!

6. Who is the person you're most like?
Greta and I have quite similar personalities, her mum calls me Greta plus one!

7. Who was the last person to like your Instagram?
My friend Milly

I promise, I do have more than two friends!!!

My thoughts on: MOVIES

I love movies. I think that they are absolutely amazing.

That could just be this entire post, I mean, I have given you my thoughts on movies. Bye now!

But never you fear! I will always elaborate and go into such excruciating detail that it will make you want to cry!

You see, the thing about movies rather than a TV show, is that it transport you from wherever you are, to somewhere completely different. When I watched a movie I really WATCH a movie.

Personally, I'm a rom-com fan. I love all of those movies where boy meets girl, but uh oh! Something goes wrong but it doesn't matter because it all ends happily. They are so predictable and all the same and incredibly cheesy - but I love it!!!

I also love kids and family movies because I really am a 5 year old at heart! In the summer, I watched Aladdin and Monsters Inc for the first time, and it was like my eyes were being opened to a whole new world (see what I did there?) and I really really enjoyed both films. I also have a slightly worrying addiction The Smurfs. I mean, little singing blue people! What's not to love!?!? However, one of my biggest flaws is that I have never seen Finding Nemo. People find this shocking, so I'm sorry if you just had a heart attack or something!

Action and adventure isn't really my thing. I'm not a huge fan of The Hunger Games series (gasp!) because I just find the fact that it is all about kids killing other kids quite... disturbing. I went and saw The Scorch Trials in the cinema a few weeks ago, and I found that completely terrifying!!! The thing is, I don't really like being scared, where as I know that some people love it. Jumpy movies really scare me because I have a very over exaggerated jump (not on purpose!) so when I jump at a movie, people around me get hurt.

As for horror, not a chance, not even going there.

Sad movies are actually really growing on me. I used to hate them because I'm quite a happy person normally, but I have been watching more and more of them and I have started to really enjoy them (if 'enjoy' is quite the right word to use!). I don't actually cry that much at movies, even though I think that I am the kind of person who would cry at movies. I can honestly say that the only movie that I have ever really bawled at is Marley and Me. People who haven't seen it just don't understand what it does to you!

Ok, I am now going to skip out the billions of other movie genres out there to give you my recommendations! This is going to be a very long list.

1. She's The Man - I did a post a little while ago on how amazing this movie is, that will tell you everything you need to know!

2. Date Night - Hilarious, I know it off by heart!

3. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - without a doubt, best Christmas film ever. That's including Elf!

4. High School Musical - because it just is fabulous.

5. Love, Rosie - a recent addition to my favourites, a lovely heart warming romance.

6. Titanic - because Leonardo DiCaprio is in it. I'm joking of course, that's not the ONLY reason...

7. Gnomeo and Juliet - because why not?

8. 27 dresses - although no longer one of my absolute favourites, I did watch it four times in one night once...

9. Johnny English - because it will cheer me up no matter the mood I am in.

10. 500 Days Of Summer - I didn't like it the first time I saw it, but by the fifth time, I was sold.

11. Easy A - a nice little rom com about a girl who pretends to sleep with loads of people.

12. Marely and Me - No matter how many times I cry, I can't stop watching it!

13. It's a boy girl thing - Just a nice teen film.

14. Legally Blonde - It's just incredible (despite the second one being atrocious)

15. Miss Congeniality - lets face it, who doesn't love that film?


Trust me, I haven't even begun to scrape the top of the huge barrel of movies that I love - these are just the ones that came to me while I typed this! I could go on for hours about all the movies I love, and one day, I will, I promise!

See you soon!

I GOT MY BRACES OFF!!!!

Today I am most excited because something happened that I have been waiting for for a very long time!

I got my braces off!

Now like most teenagers, I have had to go through the gruelling process of orthodontics, to fix my teeth.

But my teeth were worst than most and were constantly a huge source of embarrassment for me. I had a GINORMOUS overbite as well as a HUMUNGUS gap between my front teeth. No lie, you could fit coins in-between my two front teeth!

So because of this, I had to have horrid horrid horrid retainers for a year and then train tracks for nearly two years.

My retainer was to bring my bottom jaw forward and fix my overbite. I couldn't eat with them in, so had to take them out all the time. I couldn't pronounce half the alphabet properly due to the lisp they gave me and they always tasted like poo.

The average overbite for someone getting train tracks in 2mm. Mine was 16mm. Just take a minute to think about how huge that is - over one and half centimetres between my top and bottom jaw!

So after what can only be described as an awful year with my retainers, I was so glad to get my train tracks!

I was told that I would have them for 18 months, which trickled by at a snails pace - trust me.

Right from the beginning I could see the difference in my teeth as the gaps began to close. The biggest change was when I had an elastic band around my two front teeth and that gap that used to be able to fit so many things, shut. It was pretty darn incredible.

My teeth 4 years ago

However 18 months came and went and every single check up, I was expecting to hear the magic words, telling me that I would be getting them off. No such words came until two months ago when I was given the magical date: 19th November.

So now, here I sit with beautiful straight teeth, shiny and polished and wonderful, and I know that the past three years, as un-fun as they may have been, have most definitely been worth it.

My teeth now!

In the least vain way possible, I literally cannot stop looking at myself in the mirror! I cannot stop smiling! It is so incredible!

If you would like me to do a post on coping with braces or tips and tricks, or something else, let me know, but for now I am going to go and gaze lovingly in a mirror!

See you soon!

Eight 'have you ever' questions

1. Have you ever talked on the phone for more than two hours?
No.

2. Have you ever stayed awake for the entire night?
No, half past three in the morning is the absolute latest I have stayed up!

3. Have you ever met a famous person or a celebrity?
I met Jacqueline Wilson, my favourite author when I was 11.

4. Have you ever stayed in your pyjamas all day long?
That is my entire life...

5. Have you ever fallen down the stairs?
Yep, many many times.

6. Have you ever sung in the shower?
Errrrr... how can you be in the shower and NOT have a little sing song?

7. Have you ever bunked off school?
No! I'm far too much of a goody goody!

8. Have you ever read an entire book in one day?
Yep, much more than I'd like to admit!

Hairbrush funeral

Today, we gather here in this little corner of the internet to pay respects to something that has recently passed on and left a hole in my life.

My hairbrush was good and worked hard all the time. It was always there when I needed it.

But now it's not.

I have very crazy, curly, uncontrollable hair, and have had from a very young age. The hairbrush that I had wasn't really working for me, and so I bought this hairbrush from Primark for £1.50. That was years and years ago now. Funny how time flies... and you just begin to take these things for granted.

Because this is no ordinary hairbrush. This is the best hairbrush in the entire world, and it means more to me than anything else. It doesn't even bother me how sad that sounds. Every single day it was me and the brush against my hair, against the world.

It stuck by me in times of trouble and was there in some of the most important times in life. It has stayed with me, despite the number of times I used it as a microphone, despite the number of times I yelled at it, blaming it for my hair problems.

It never left.

But now... it has.

This hairbrush is soooooo good, and I recommend it to absolutely anyone with thick, long, curly, frizzy hair, or really, just anyone with hair! It is hot pink, (but Primark also do one in black) and it just couldn't be more fabulous.

But for a few weeks now, a small rip has been forming along one side of it, and last night, the entire front of it came off when I was in the shower (and yes, I know, it's really bad to brush your hair in the shower).

I screamed out, as it felt as though my heart was breaking.

Nothing would ever be right again... nothing ever will be untangled in the same way...

So now, as I mourn this loss, I have to begin thinking about the future. Nothing will ever be able to replace that hairbrush in my heart, but I do need to get myself down to Primark for a new one, because I'm not sure how to survive without it.

Let us join together to say our goodbyes and remember my hairbrush in a positive light as it moves on to a better place.

Trampolining

Today in PE (yes, I still actually have to do that) I had a very good time! I know! Who knew that was even possible???

We were doing trampolining, and it is the first time that I have ever done it more than just bouncing around in a friends garden.

There was only a few of us doing it, and two trampolines between us, so we all got a lot of go's and quite a while on the trampoline.

And it was so much fun!

Every single one of us who did it said how much fun it was, and how much we enjoyed it.

At first we just did some bouncing, learning how to stop suddenly and how to use your arms to get you higher in the air and bending your knees and everything. It might sound like basic stuff, but it did take a little while to get used to the trampoline.

These were proper trampolines as well. They weren't the circle ones you typically find in a garden (which I found out are circular because it helps to keep you in the centre and stops as many accidents from happening) but rectangular ones with crash mats and big crosses to show you where to bounce.

I was a little nervous because I'm pretty uncoordinated and in a way, it is quite similar to gymnastics. You always have to have your toes pointed, legs straight (except when you're bouncing) and arms neat and not like a windmill.

Got to say, I didn't do amazingly well in all of these aspects.

But it was about being amazing. I mean, it was about learning how to do something new and learning the technique and everything, but it was really about having a good time and enjoying bouncing.

I love bouncing. I think that I am quite a bouncy, bubbly person normally, but jumping up and down on a proper trampoline is amazing. It's just so magical, it feels like flying. The only other thing that comes close to that feeling is swinging.

I managed to do the seat-drop and the half turn (both fairly self explanatory) and then a seat drop and a half turn, leading to another seat drop.

Although I often lost control of certain parts of my body, and there was many a face plant with legs and bum in the air, it didn't really matter, because I just got up and had another go.

I really really am not a sporty person at all. Anything to do with balls, throwing, catching, running, kicking, you name it, I can't do.

And although I wasn't incredible at this, not in the slightest, it was so nice to have a sport that I could actually do. It isn't something that you have to be good at to do.

It makes me feel like a little bit of a traitor to my entire way of life to admit this, but I'm kind of looking forward to next PE lesson!

See you soon!

My makeup epiphany

The title might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but back in the summer I had a sort of wakeup call that changed a lot for me.

You see, I used the wear loads of makeup. I'm not saying that that is a bad thing in the slightest, but it was the cheapest you could find and I never did it very well.

I had huge dark eyebrows, and such thick eyeliner it was basically my entire eyelid.

I hadn't quite grasped the concept of what bronzer was supposed to do because I went out everyday with huge great big orange streaks on my face.

I always wore foundation that was too dark and looked a little like an orange clown.

The thing was, I didn't really see all this. When I first put it on in the morning it would look ok because of the lack of day light in my bedroom, but by the time I got home from school, I would look absolutely terrible.

But I was almost caught in a web. All the makeup made my skin bad, so I had to wear more to stop my skin from looking bad, which just made it look worse.

There were many times when I wanted to change, break the circle, but I just didn't know how.

But then at the beginning of the summer I went to Guidepost. I don't know what it was, but on the last day I got out of the shower and saw all of my makeup running down my face and I realized that I wear so so so much, and it doesn't do anything for me whatsoever.

It didn't make me look better, if anything it made me look a lot worse.

Then over the summer I had a complete detox. I didn't wear makeup for months, giving my skin the chance to breathe.

It really worked, I had better skin and I was really grateful for it. Of course, I'll never have perfect skin, or anything close to it due to the fact that being a teenager is great fun, but then who has got perfect skin? (No bragging in the comments!)

However, this is something that I have been wrestling with since going back to school.

School is really difficult, because you've always got to look your absolute best so that you don't get laughed at behind your back, but at the same time aren't being called horrible names because you wear too much.

To be completely honest, it really worries me looking back about what everyone might've been saying about me!

But the thing is, I like doing my makeup. I like making myself look a little more human than before. I like going out and buying new things to try, it makes me happy.

So once again, I'm caught in this web where I like wearing and doing makeup and its what everyone else is doing, but I'm also very afraid that I might start to go overboard again without noticing.

At the moment, I think that I wear fairly minimal stuff. On an average school day I have a light layer of foundation, powder, a little stroke of bronzer, some mascara, maybe a little nude eye shadow and a nude lippy.

No eyeliner, no eyebrows.

But I still wish that I could be the person who can wear no makeup to school, but I am too afraid. That's an awful excuse, but it is valid enough in my mind.

I think that for the moment, I am going to try to keep it minimal and maybe scale it back a little, because I don't want to be fake, or plastic or dependant on makeup.

See you soon!

Nine 'what' questions

1. What is your favourite colour?
Yellow

2. What did you do last weekend?
I slept, I did some work, I went to a bonfire night with fireworks and I had a friend over.

3. What is the most important part of your life?
My friends and family are really important to me.... but also my bed!

4. What would you rather be doing?
Nothing! I love writing my blog! Well actually I'd probably rather be sleeping!

5. What did you last cry over?
I had a panic attack about school work.

6. What always makes you feel better when you're upset?
There is this video of my friends and I doing a school project that keeps going so wrong, and it's sooo funny. I watch it all the time and it always makes me laugh!

7. What do you love about your life?
The fact that I have so many amazing things and people in it with me!

8. What are you worried about?
Not getting school work done because I'm writing a blog!

9. What did you have for breakfast?
Weetabix!

Fairy Lights!

 

It gets me very excited that now Halloween and Bonfire Night are all over, Tesco and all of the other big supermarkets have begun to get all of there Christmas decoration stock in.

And that includes fairy lights!

Which get me very very excited!!!

So after my parents had been on a walk down to our nearest Tesco, they gave me a box of fairy lights that they had bought.

And I was so so so happy, I put them up immediately.

I don't know why I love fairy lights so much, I feel like they just have a way of making everything cosy and Christmassy. I also think that they are great as an all-year thing rather than just a Christmas decoration. I have a string of blue lights that I have up in my room all year (although they aren't on much, must be said). However, they had been put away in storage when I was expecting some building work down, and so I got them out at the same time as I put my new ones up.

And I literally cannot tell you how flipping fantastic they are!!! Now, what with the nights drawing in and everything, it is usually pretty dark by the time I get home from school, so going up to my room and switching on my fairy lights and my bedside lamp gives my room such a lovely cosy atmosphere, I just want to stay in here forever (which I admittedly do!).

Although, something I must comment on is how expensive fairy lights are! I know I am a cheapskate, but the cheapest, plainest, worst string of battery operated (the horror!) lights is still £5! Is it just me who thinks that is quite a lot? If you want a good long string of coloured lights, it can be like £15! And don't even talk to me about the special shaped ones!

So, although I believe they are a little overpriced, I still think that it is worth it considering the amount of joy that I have had from them. Sitting here, at my desk in my slippers and pyjamas all warm and cosy with my beautiful lights around me... it's perfect.

I don't ever want to take them down. I've decided that in summer I will trade the coloured lights (reluctantly) for a pretty string of clear ones, maybe in some special shapes or something. I'll have to see what Primark has to offer!

Oh and I'm sorry because I kind of promised that I wouldn't talk about anything Christmassy until it's actually slightly more appropriate, but I couldn't really resist!

See you soon!

Ten 'how' questions

1. How did you get one of your scars?
I have a scar on the tip of my middle finger on my left hand where I sawed it with a hegner saw in a yeah 7 technology lesson.

2. How did you celebrate your last birthday?
I had all of my friends round and we had a lovely big sleepover where we watched The Other Woman and Date Night.

3. How are you feeling at the moment?
Tired.

4. How did your night go last night?
I had the orthodontist, then I came home and wrote a blog, then I had dinner, then I showered, then I watched some YouTube, and then I went to bed.

5. How did you do in primary school?
Pretty well I think, I always enjoyed school.

6. How did you get the top you are wearing?
School shirt, so I got it because I had to.

7. How often do you see your best friends?
Every day! Yay!

8. How much money did you spend last month?
Too much quite possibly.

9. How old do you want to be when you get married?
In my 20s.

10. How old were you when you lost your first tooth?
I think I was 4 or 5.

What if... I won the lottery?

A little note before I start, I have decided to start what could turn into a little series of 'what if' posts where I let my imagination run wild. Let me know if I should do more!


If I won the lottery, I would get very very excited (as would most people). The fact that I have never entered the lottery is clearly not a factor here, although I suppose it is quite an important part of it.

The first thing that I would do would to hold a huge party with all my friends and family to celebrate.

I'd like to think that I would give a large chunk of it to charity where it could be put to really good use, especially with winter coming up. I would love to go to some places where charities are based and help out, as well as seeing for myself why the causes are so deserving.

I would probably invest quite a lot in starting my own business (my dream is to start my own wedding dress business) or at least put the money aside for the future when I am more ready and able to start a business.

I would also love to buy a house. Nothing huge or particularly expensive, just a nice little place for me to live in the future when I leave school and want somewhere to live, somewhere that is completely mine.

I would definitely jet myself and my family off on holiday somewhere lovely and hot in the cold winter months, where we can just relax and chill.

And I would have the most epic, the most awesome, the most amazing shopping trip around Primark with my friends.

Oh, and I would pay my school to get rid of cross country!


What would you do if you won the lottery? I'd love to hear about it!

See you soon!

Is it actually already November?

Today's post is going to be a bit more of a general chitty chatty chit chat. Rather than me having something that I absolutely must talk about, I'm just going to see where the wind takes me!

You know something though? I literally cannot believe it is November! I can barely remember anything that I've done with my life this year. It feels like every year I live gets quicker and quicker. I remember being in primary school and the school year would take what seemed forever, but now, I can't count the number of times I say how fast everything has gone.

Actually, that's a lie, not everything has gone fast. Cross country is still upon us and that is most defiantly not going fast, and neither am I! I consider November to be more of a winter month that an autumn month, (although we are still enjoying the tail end of autumn at the moment) and I still have to do cross country three more times! It's cold and foggy and just very unpleasant to be running (or not running if you're me!) in.

But still, nevertheless, I have pretty high hopes for November. I don't exactly know what those high hope are for, but I feel more positive entering November than I did entering October. I think that it is something to do with the Christmas season coming upon us (YAY!). You have no idea how much joy filled my heart when I went into Tesco, and all of the Halloween stuff was being replaced by Christmas trees!

I am most excited for Christmas, it is my absolute favourite thing in the entire world! The way I see it is your birthday multiplied by Easter, multiplied by a million, add 4, minus 2, add infinity, minus 1. That is literally what Christmas is for me, sprinkled with a little bit of magic!

Actually, I am trying really hard to not go into too much detail about Christmas, because I know that I am going to get too excited and I'll never stop talking. However, I am planning to do my own little Blogmas this year (which is clearly really different from daily blogging) whereby everyday in the lead up to Christmas, I talk about something Christmassy, e.g. How I decorate my tree, How I decorate my room, Gift guides... etc ect. Get excited for that people!

That is a month away though, and you may be aware of the fact that this month I am doing the November Photo Challenge, where I take a picture and upload it every day, according to the list I posted yesterday (go check that out!). I'm actually looking forward to it, it should be lots of fun!!!

So yeah, November should be really really good, but where has 2015 gone? By the time I have got my head around it being November, it will be 2016!

Oh, and apologies if this is coming a little later than expected, I'm trying out a new 6:30pm upload time - let me know what you think!

See you soon!

Foundation of the month - October

Foundation: Rimmel Wake Me Up
Brand: Rimmel London
My shade: Ivory (100)
Price (from Superdrug): £8.99
Rating: 7.5/10

For the month of October, I was trying the very highly recommended Wake Me Up foundation. Everyone who has spoken about this has said that it is probably their favourite high street foundation, so I was going in with possibly unrealistically high expectations.

Because of this, at first I was quite disappointed, but by the end of the month I had actually grown to like it quite a lot. Do I think that it deserves all of the hype it gets? No, not particularly.

 

Thinking back, the thing that I remember from the first time I applied it was that it was quite hard to work into the skin, and it took a while to get rid of the brush marks. This got better as I got used to it, and I also learnt to not put so much on. (I try to use one pump, and a teensy bit more if I need it!)

 

I think that the reason that everybody loves it is because of it's coverage, which I have to admit, is really very good. I covered my problem areas and it made my skin look very natural. It is quite a heavy foundation, so I'd recommend it more for winter. Sadly though, it didn't last for very long. It didn't go patchy, it just kind of faded all over. By the end of the day it was still there, but it was pretty much see through.

Lastly, my absolutely favourite thing about this foundation is that it's SPARKLY! As it is a special anti-fatigue foundation, I think it designed to illuminate your face, but I love it. I sparkle!!! I actually don't know how effective it is on my face, but where there is still traces of it on the back on my hand, it's all glittery!

As for the packaging, I actually really like it, but I'm always very wary around glass bottles, because I feel that if I drop it, it would shatter and just go everywhere. However, it has been dropped many times, and it's still in perfect condition.

I hope this helps you, I did enjoy using this foundation and I think that I will repurchase it, but there is still plenty left in the bottle.

See you soon!