Westfield Haul!

Hello, my lovelies!

Hope you're all well! Today I wanted to tell you about the products I purchased on my most recent shopping trip to Westfield so I'll get straight into it!

Lush 

I have been in Lush a few times before and I have only just begun to purchase things from there (I have no idea why I hadn't been practically living in there before). This time, I got four things which smell bloody AMAZING. I hope you enjoy me attempting to describe their scents :') 

1. 'Honey Bee'

I have bought this one before and so I already know that this bath bomb smells lovely. It's quite sweet but not sickly sweet (in my opinion) and smells of honey (my capability of description is on point today as you can tell). All you do is run a bath and then put the whole thing into the bath. I do have to say, however, that this does not look very attractive when fizzing up in the bath due to the yellow colour but I promise it's worth it. These bath bombs cost £3.25 each.

2. 'The Immaculate Eggception' 

Since this is an Easter-time special, I thought I would give this bath bomb a go. Once again, this is quite a sweet smell but I quite like it. Apparently, there is something inside the bath bomb so I was very intrigued to find out what the fuss is all about. This one was the most expensive product I purchased as they are sold at £6.95 each. 

3. 'Green Bubbleroon'

This is another amazing product I have already tried out. This is basically a bubble maker. You basically have to put the product under the tap and rub it into the bath. It smells more fresh than sweet which makes having a bath using it very relaxing. This product is sold at £3.50 each (but I think I may have only had to pay a cheeky £3.50 for two pieces). Buy this! It's soooooo good. 

4. 'Dorothy'

I went for something different with my second bubble/soap product and this smelt a little different to the others. It smells quite fresh too with a little sweetness. It basically smells of rainbows…hence the rainbow on the top. This costs £3.25 per piece. 

Clothes

When looking around all of the clothing shops, the colours that seemed to be frequently appearing were coral and lime green - colours you would usually associate with spring. This made me feel like I had to have these colours and so I bought a few tops from different shops:

1. Topshop

Front of T-Shirt

Back of T-Shirt

This shopping trip was all about the tops even though the main thing I am in desperate need of is jeans. I have, in the past, got a few nice bits and bobs from Topshop but this time, I bought the most flattering and pretty top I have had in a long time! It is a floral-patterned t-shirt with dark blue, hot pink and lime green colours all over it. This item is £34. 

2. Dorothy Perkins

Front of Vest Top

Back of Vest Top

For this item, I was thinking about the transition between spring and summer as vest tops are perfect for this time. I LOVE the lime green coloured stripes and the zip at the back of this vest top as these give it a bit of an interesting edge. This item was £20. 

Front of T-Shirt

Back of T-Shirt

This is the final item I bought and it is another floral-print t-shirt. As you can see, both coral and lime green colours are all over this and so I loved it instantly. When I tried it on, I felt really comfy and I am one of those types of people who loves to be comfortable. This t-shirt was £18. 

So those were all of the items I bought. I am so excited to try out the Lush products and I am planning to get a lot of wear out of all of these new tops. 

Hope you enjoyed my awkward modelling attempt! Vogue better be in touch soon :') Love you all lots!

Megan xxx

P.S Here are the links to all of the products I have mentioned in this post: 

Lush Links (Home Page of Wesbite - https://www.lush.co.uk)

'Honey Bee' - https://www.lush.co.uk/product/202/Honey-Bee-Bath-Bomb

'The Immaculate Eggception' - https://www.lush.co.uk/product/5837/The-Immaculate-Eggception---Pink

'Green Bubbleroon' - https://www.lush.co.uk/product/5659/Green-Bubbleroon
'Dorothy' - https://www.lush.co.uk/product/132/Dorothy-Bubble-Bar
Topshop (Home Page of Website - http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=12556&catalogId=33057)
T-Shirt - http://www.topshop.com/en/tsuk/product/clothing-427/tops-443/t-shirts-2290019/blue-orchid-tee-2582374?refinements=category~%5b256506%7c208524%5d&bi=1&ps=200
Dorothy Perkins (Home Page of Website - http://www.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=12552&catalogId=33053&cmpid=DPSS10_L_2650&_$ja=cgid:1693933948%7Ctsid:19766%7Ccid:52283188%7Clid:1279005594%7Cnw:g%7Ccrid:35745692428%7Crnd:621850737922880555%7Cdvc:c%7Cadp:1t1&gclid=COGrouafp70CFeKWtAodensA1w&geoip=home)
Striped Vest Top - http://www.dorothyperkins.com/en/dpuk/product/clothing-203535/tops-t-shirts-1974337/limewhite-stripe-waffle-shell-2779306?refinements=Colour%7b1%7d~%5bgreen%5d&bi=1&ps=20
T-Shirt - http://www.dorothyperkins.com/en/dpuk/product/clothing-203535/tops-t-shirts-1974337/petite-1929563/petite-floral-quilted-tee-2767125?refinements=category~%5b1163172%7c208650%5d&bi=1&ps=200

'Cause I have some bad days

Hello, my lovelies!

Gawd I can't believe I haven't spoken to you all for over a month! I really miss writing on here so I want to get back into the monthly routine so I can give myself a break from college every once and a while.

Today, I wanted to go back to one of my previous posts and just tell you a little bit about why, at that point, I may have been wrong in some ways (NOT COMPLETELY). In THIS blog post, I said this;

"I know some people may read this blog and think “this girl is so strange!” Yes. Yes I am strange. But I am incredibly proud to say that I no longer care". 

For the past few weeks, being at college and with friends and at parties etc. has made me realise that of course I care! I am an incredibly paranoid person and so when somebody even does as much as mention my name, I come to the conclusion that this person dislikes me or is bitching about me or wants me to remove myself from the face of the earth. I suppose that is quite a dramatic approach to what I'm trying to explain (I'm not that bad, I promise!) but sometimes that is a dramatised version of how I feel. 

I wonder sometimes, "what if I were a sporty person?" or "what if I had really curly hair instead of boring dead straight hair?" or sometimes even "what if I were a completely different person? Would people like me more?" However, I then remember some of the things I have been taught growing up such as "your real friends will be the ones who love you for who you are no matter how crazy or shy or funny or even GINGER you are" and "you shouldn't live your life trying to please people who, at the end of the day, won't be there forever. Be yourself, and you'll please the people who will stick around." Those things make me feel like I don't have to change, but sometimes I do go on my 'wild' fitness programmes (like at the moment, I have put a fitness playlist together for myself on YouTube and I'm going swimming every Saturday morning haha!) or my 'be a better human being' goals just because I feel like change can be good sometimes.

 I don't know one person, not even one, who doesn't care about what people think of them (even if they pretend they don't or cancel the bad thoughts out) but I know that unfortunately, some people can't deal with their paranoia and cannot cope with being themselves. So on that note, I thought I would finish by saying if one of those people happen to be you, remember that you don't have to change for anybody whether they are your family, friends, enemy, boyfriend, girlfriend, the popular people in your college/school, or even your pet. If they care about you, they wouldn't want you to change for the world. 

Thank you for reading, lovies! 

Megan xxx

P.S Thought I would end on a high note and show you this image of a baby kangaroo I saw on Twitter. :) xxx

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!

Happy New Year, my lovelies!

I seriously cannot believe how quickly 2013 passed by and so many things happened that, if I even attempted to list each of them, I would most definitely miss a huge chunk of them out. Last year was definitely one for my personal achievements such as getting good GCSE results, moving onto college and making new friends, and creating this blog and my YouTube channel giving me more confidence for this new year. I really have you lot to thank for the confidence, though. :)

This year, there is so much I want to achieve so I haven't set myself any specific New Years Resolutions, but more so 'goals' …mainly because that puts much less pressure on me and because I'm such a perfectionist that I would be scared to even start my 'resolutions' anyway. So, I'm going to write them on here so you lot are my witnesses and you can push me when I let a goal slip a bit.
So, here we go…

• My FIRST goal is to be a much healthier person. I eat A LOT of, lets be honest, complete crap almost every single day as opposed to eating a bit of fruit and going out for a walk or something. If you are a person I know, you have to push me with this one because this is one of the things that just NEEDS to be done and I KNOW I will fail on without being slapped every time I touch a brownie or something. :') 
• My SECOND goal is to upload a blog post at least once a month. When I first started writing on here, I genuinely thought that writing on here once a week would be humanly possible with all my A levels and other commitments to worry about (and my blog was never meant to be something I worried about!) and I was completely wrong and ended up skipping sooooo many of my Christmassy posts I had planned :( so AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH on a SUNDAY, I will post a new blog post to here. 
• My THIRD goal is to get my YouTube channel up and running whether it be a cover every now and then or a stupid challenge or a little chatty video or a beauty video or whatever. Just as long as I can say that by the end of this year, I have a channel on YouTube. I would absolutely love you guys to come on that YouTube-y journey with me because it'll be fun. :) 
• And my FOURTH goal is to be an all round nicer person. This year, I know I haven't been the best person I can be as I know I can be a much nicer, yet much firmer person. So, now that I feel more in control of panic attacks and what not, I feel like I have all the ingredients if you will to be a much better person. So if I ever step out of line, let me know and it will be very much appreciated. 

So there we go those are my goals for this year and I really hope that you guys enjoy what I have to offer for this blog and YouTube and stuff like that this year. I am honestly so grateful you have stuck around. 

Love you all lots!

BIG MIDGET GIRL HUGS!

Megan xxx

P.S. I'm doing my next blog post on how Disneyland Paris, Christmas and my New Years Eve went sometime this week too as I really want to remember as much as I can and share how amazing it was (without sounding like I'm bragging about Disneyland but OMG it was so magical :') ) Hope you all had a lovely Christmas too!

The 'How to Get into the Christmas Spirit' Guide!

Hello, my lovelies!

We are a little further into the beautiful month that is December and so I thought I’d try to give everyone some Christmas spirit and give you some Christmassy ideas of how to spend your lazy December days. So here is my ‘How to Get into the Christmas Spirit’ guide!

Number One: How to be Cosy

December is the first month of the season of winter and so that means that it is (usually in places such as the UK) very cold. I know many relaxing ways to keep warm during the winter season and so here are some tips for you all.

Have a nice, long, warm bath. The key to having an enjoyable bath (for me anyway!) is to put lots and lots of lavender-scented bubble bath mixture into your bath. I have a favourite bubble bath at the moment and it is called ‘Radox Relax Bath Soak’ with ‘lavender and waterlily’. It is a lavender-scented one which just makes you feel incredibly relaxed and is great in a hot bath. You will feel all sleepy and snuggly and Christmassy and just amazing once you’re out of the bath.

Get about 14 different blankets and snuggle on the sofa. This is one of the main reasons I love Christmas as it just gives you the excuse to hog the sofa and cuddle up to a heap of quilts and blankets without anyone questioning whether you’re too hot or not. You can also wear a onsie or, if you have a pet like me, you can snuggle with blankets, in a onsie, with your pet which is what I am doing here:

Whack out the hot chocolate and tea. This is something I do all year round anyway but it’s a great way of warming yourself up when you’re inside on a cold day. I prefer tea personally but let me know if you prefer tea or hot chocolate. It’ll be nice to know if I’m in the minority or the majority here.

Number Two: How to Decorate the House

Christmas is the best time to make your home even more home-y with lots of reds and greens and pretty fairy lights and tinsel and not feel like you’re going way too overboard. It’s also the only time of year where it is acceptable to have a huge piece of bark with leaves and stuff on it plopped in the middle of your front room but there we go. Here are a few ways to make Christmas in your home:

Get a tree from a park and put it in a room in your house or something. That’s always a good idea. This is known as ‘the Christmas Tree’ as you can decorate it with lots and lots of pretty things and it is a ‘symbol of Christmas’. My family’s Christmas Tree is actually a fake one where we just put it together every year instead of buying loads of different ones. We always put fairy lights on it, baubles, and lots and lots of Disney character Christmas Tree decorations. We then put a little angel on the top to make it all pretty.

Buy a nutcracker that rocks on a rocking horse. We have this because mum thought it was Christmassy and stuff. 

Put a wreath on your front door. This makes Santa feel welcome when he comes and makes him more likely not to skip your house (number one, Santa IS real please do not question my knowledge and number two, he really does skip houses!) Also, decorate the house with lots of other Christmassy ornaments. 

Number 3: How to Prepare for Christmas Day

The third and final step is the most important for me. This doesn’t mean to go out and buy the Christmas dinner or to wrap a load of awkwardly shaped Christmas presents. It means to do little exciting things that make the lead up to Christmas extra cute.

WATCH A CHRISTMAS FILM! This is a hugely important part of Christmas for me as, every year without fail, I watch ‘Elf’ with my family which is my favourite Christmas film. However, one I do recommend other than ‘Elf’ (as I know ‘Elf’ is an easy option for me to rave about) is ‘Nativity’ which stars a huge class of primary school kids and teachers and it is the cutest film ever.

LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC! You WITHOUT FAIL should listen to some cheesy Christmas music such as Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ or ‘Last Christmas’ otherwise what is the point in Christmas, really? Pop it on your iPod, get a CD and listen to it in your car, whack on the Christmas music radios or whatever and you will be in a Christmassy mood, trust me.

Finally, OPEN YOUR ADVENT CALANDARS BECAUSE THERE IS CHOCOLATE AND STUFF. This is one of those things that doesn’t really need explaining as chocolate is the gift from the heavens and you should love chocolate regardless of whether you get a little Christmassy shaped treat each day of one month so show me all your advent calendars and we can compare and see who’s got the best one.

So this was a little different and I hope you all enjoyed it. If you did, if you could follow my blog on Google+ that would just be brilliant. Hope you all have a fantastic week and I’ll speak to you soon!

Love you loads.

BIG MIDGET GIRL HUGS!

Megan xxx

What's in my winter bag?

Hello, my lovelies!

TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER WHICH BASICALLY MEANS CHRISTMAS IS HERE!

Anyone who knows me well enough knows that, this year, I’m looking forward to Christmas an extra special amount. This is because, firstly, it is my great nan’s 100^th birthday and we devoting our Christmas Eve to celebrating it on behalf of her. Secondly, with my family, I’m going to Disneyland Paris from the 20^th December to the 22^nd December which I will be writing a blog post or posting a vlog up to my YouTube channel about my time there. Last but not least, my family and I are celebrating Christmas Day at my house (which we have never done before) so it will be a nice change. I’m so excited!

Since we are now in the magical month of December, I thought that this month should be devoted to winter through my beauty, music and life themes. So, for each Sunday of December, I will be doing my very best to put up a winter based post!

Today, I am going to be discussing what I have in my winter bag (trust me when I say the majority of the stuff inside has literally no use to me whatsoever!) and I will make sure to link some of the products I have in there after this post. Just a quick note, there won’t be any pictures this week as number 1, I look hideous today so I can’t take any of the products on me and number 2, I have so much college work to do it is actually ridiculous.

Okay so I’m going to start with some of the stuff that doesn’t really need links or anything along those lines. So first of all, I have a sketch book, a journal, and my college ID card. These were given to me by the college so I am not really sure of the company or the retailer they were from but I suppose that’s not such a huge deal. I also have my oyster card, my iPhone and my door keys which are essentials. I also have Terry’s Chocolate Orange Bar  wrappers which I am going to remove right now. :’) I usually carry around a bottle of water to keep me hydrated throughout the day too but apparently I went for the unhealthy option on Friday and bought a bottle of Diet Coke…

Okay so now for my winter essentials. Throughout the winter, my lips are always incredibly dry and I usually bite them a lot which makes them even worse. This is because of the coldness and the wind and sometimes can be due to being de-hydrated. So I usually carry around some lip balm or lip gloss to prevent this. This is usually my little pot of Vaseline which is the most amazing stuff ever (for me) when it comes to chapped lips. As long as you apply it throughout the day, your lips should be mended by the evening.  It’s just so cool and I recommend it. J

I have literally just put into my bag my cream scarf, hat and mittens from Warehouse which me and my mum bought yesterday which are more expensive than we realised before getting to the counter. They are made of wool and are honestly so comfy. I bought them as I know I am going to be getting an awful lot of wear out of each of them and so I hope each of them serve their purpose for the price we bought them at. Since it’s winter, I recommend you all have some nice and warm bits and bobs such as a coat (like the Parka Coat I have or the new one I bought yesterday which I will do a review on soon maybe), a scarf, a hat, and some gloves as they could all help to prevent colds before Christmas so you don’t feel stuffy and miserable. I’ll put the link to Warehouse at the bottom of the blog post to the mittens and the rest of the set.

Right so that’s about it. I don’t really have an awful lot in my bag to do with winter, it seems so if you lot have any suggestions for wintery things I should own this year, let me know in the comments below this post for everyone else to see or let me know through any of my social networking sites.

I hope today’s post was useful for you lot and, next week, I’ll make sure to upload a post with lots of pictures for you!

I hope you all have a lovely week and I shall speak to you next Sunday!

Love you all lots

BIG MIDGET GIRL HUGS

Megan xxx

P.S Here are some useful links for you all to go and check out to find some of the stuff I have written about in this post J

Vaseline from Boots - http://www.boots.com/en/Vaseline-Lip-Therapy-with-Aloe-Vera-20g_11145/

Warehouse

Hat - http://www.warehouse.co.uk/slouch-knitted-bobble-beanie/cold-weather/warehouse/fcp-product/3033051001

Scarf - http://www.warehouse.co.uk/single-pom-pom-scarf/cold-weather/warehouse/fcp-product/3053033001

Mittens - http://www.warehouse.co.uk/knitted-mittens/cold-weather/warehouse/fcp-product/3043051801

Album Review | Jessie J's 'Alive'

Hello, my lovelies!

In today’s post, I wanted to talk to you about my favourite album at the moment which is the wonderful Jessie J’s album; ‘Alive’. This album is honestly one of my most favourite albums ever alongside Ed Sheeran’s ‘+’, Example’s ‘Evolution of Man’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Off The Wall’, and Paramore’s ‘Brand New Eye’. I wish I listened to it much earlier than just three days before seeing her sing live in concert at the O2 but, regardless of that, I’m in love with it. In this post, I’ll have a little fangirl moment and you guys can chat back to me in the comments about how amazing the woman is if you fancy it!

Okay so my favourite up-beat song on the album is probably ‘Excuse My Rude’ ft. Becky G. I am just in love with it because it says, straight up, how basically all of us humans feel about that one certain person (the one we say we ‘hate’ on a daily basis). It speaks about all of the bad qualities in the person she hates and why she hates those qualities but she manages to do it in a humorous and catchy way. I believe this song will soon be quite big and could almost act as a ‘let off steam’ mechanism for the human race (or maybe, one day, a school like East High in High School Musical will break into song telling each other what they hate about each other with this song – I’m secretly hoping for that to be my college. That will turn out to be one of the most amazing experiences of my life; to be a part of a cheesy little musical!) Anyway, the tune of the song just makes you want to get up and dance even if you are fully against dancing. It’s true, it will.

‘Hero’ is the next song from the album that I am in love with. If anyone remembers Jessie’s first album, they will remember her very first single ‘Do It Like A Dude’ which was quite heavy and had a lot of punch to it. This song has that same punch and heavy-ness to it however, it has more meaning. We are told that Jessie J ‘don’t need no hero’ meaning that she doesn’t need to be in a relationship with someone to be happy. I love how this song allows you to just go crazy and gets you lost in it. It is not a typical ‘club’ song that you would hear in the current charts which is what makes the song stand out for me. This song live is also just flawless. I just love Jessie J full stop. She’s just brilliant.

As much as I love every song on the album (especially the two above), my absolute favourite song from the album is ‘Breathe’. This song is a slow ballad and it is great to sing along to with it at full volume. The off-beat parts of the chorus make it really interesting and just brilliant to listen to. Jessie J shows of her vocals (which I am SOOO jealous of) which are just out-of-this-world AMAZING. To be honest, you really really need to listen to all three of these amazing songs to understand my love for them. They are all perfect and amazing.

I hope you enjoyed today’s blog post guys. I hope you’re all having an amazing Sunday, hope your week is a good’un and speak to you next Sunday!

Love you all lots

BIG MIDGET GIRL HUGS

Megan xxx

I GOT RETWEETED BY TANYA BURR OMG WHAT?!

Hello, my lovelies!

I thought I’d do a ‘life’ blog post for you today and then next week, an album review of someone who I’ve been loving the sound of recently.

On Tuesday this week, I went back to my secondary school to collect my certificates for my GCSEs and to see some of my old friends. I wasn’t expecting anything too fancy or long so I wasn’t amazingly excited to go to it but now, I am so glad I went. We walked into the school and our old teachers gave us our yearbooks and our little DVDs full of memories made throughout the five years we had been there. Then we were directed up to the hall which looked absolutely stunning. There were drinks and food at the back of the hall and balloons attached to every chair in white and red. I’ll show you a picture that my friend took of it.

Secondary Image of the hall

We were there for a good 3 hours listening to teachers giving speeches and receiving lots of different certificates and awards and, afterwards, we all got to stay and have a chat with old teachers and friends. It was honestly so lovely and I wanted to take an opportunity to say that I had the best 5 years at my school and thank you to anyone reading this who spent that time with me.

Primary Image of my balloon

Primary Image of my yearbook and DVD

Also, I had the most amazing twitter experience this week. The YouTuber, Tanya Burr, posted a make-up tutorial on YouTube earlier this week (which I will link you to after this post is finished) of her re-creating Ariana Grande’s typical make-up look. I followed the tutorial and took pictures of myself with the make-up. Tanya sent out a tweet yesterday asking her viewers to tweet her pictures of their re-creations of Ariana’s look after following her tutorial so that she could retweet some and so, since I took my selfies already, I thought I might as well give it a go. BASICALLY I GOT NOTICED BY TAYNA BURR AND OH MY JESUS I NEEDED TO LIE DOWN AFTERWARDS. So that has literally made my week.

Primary Image of my Ariana inspired make-up

Screenshot of my RETWEET WHAT?!

To complete my week, I slept over at my cousin, Lucie’s house and we ordered a Chinese which took about 3 days to arrive. It was well worth it though as afterwards I don’t think I have ever been more hyper. While I was there, we rung my brother and his girlfriend up who are both over in Australia and we had a really nice chat. I don’t think I’ve truly realised how much I miss them until that moment when we had to let them go. Hopefully, I’ll be able to go over there and see them one day.

So I hope you liked today’s post guys! I’m going to post an album review next week so I hope you look forward to that.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and I love you all lots.

BIG MIDGET GIRL HUGS!

Megan xxx

P.S Here is the link to Tanya's make-up tutorial! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYBBWHiFuXQ