April Favourites 2014

The last monthly Favourites I did was in January but I feel that I shouldn't write about things I like unless I'm absolutely sure I LOVE it. I also don't change things a lot and so its very rare that I use new things unless I need to. Some of these things will probably have been in a previous monthly Favourites post so I will link them below if they have. For some reason, I have just bought so much makeup lately and I really don't know why. Oh well.

Makeup Products:

Rimmel London ScandalEyes Rockin' Curves in 003 Extreme Black: I've only recently bought this because my previous mascara ran out. I didn't pick it for any particular reason, if I remember correctly I bought it as half of a 'Two-For-One' offer at Superdrug. I actually really like it, the wand is absolutely MASSIVE and so works perfectly on your top lashes. I don't use it on my lower lashes just because it clumps them together which I don't like. The shape of the wand adds plenty on volume to your lashes which is perfect; it was also relatively cheap as well, £6.99 so I think its a decent product to buy.





Rimmel London Stay Matte Power in 001 Transparent: I LOVE this power. It is my makeup saviour, it really is. I use this every single day to 'set' my concealer and T-zone, and only really briefly on the rest of my face. It just takes away the shine which I absolutely hate. I also think it softens your foundation, especially if you use liquid which I do, and makes your skin look FLAWLESS. I chose Transparent because I wasn't sure how the other ones would transfer onto my skin, so if you have trouble getting the right correct foundation or concealer, then I would suggest this one. At only £3.99, its an absolute perfect product and I would recommend it to anyone. And it was the other half of the 'Two-For-One' on Rimmel London products so BARGAIN.




Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in Deep 35: I have needed a new concealer for so long that this was literally the only reason why I went into Superdrug (I wasn't expecting to get distracted by mascara or powder, oops!). This one was pretty much the only one that I saw and so I didn't know what colour to get. I can never fit the right shade of anything and so I just guessed. The concealer matches my foundation which doesn't help because my foundation is a bit too dark, the joys eh. Anyway, instead of buying a new concealer, I just added 2 pumps of my mom's foundation into it to make it lighter so it was perfect.


Maybelline New York Eyestudio Lasting Drama Gel Eyeliner 24H in 01 Black: I have mentioned this in my November Favourites before but since then I did switch to another eyeliner. However, I am firmly back onto this one because it is just the BEST one I have ever used and I know I say that about a lot of things but I really mean it. Its just perfect. Its the perfect formula which produces a beautiful black line and I love it. You can read about it my November Favourites.




Hair Products:

Umberto Giannini Overnight Beauty Moisture Balm: I love this product, I think someone gave me it as part of a gift set or something because I know I've had it for so long. I use it the day after I've washed my hair just because I think it gives the best results. I put it all over my hair, then put some simple plaits in it and leave it overnight. This way just makes my hair feel so much better and so much softer. Another thing that I've noticed as well is that it locks my curls in a lot nicer so I think this is a really good product.

Feel free to check out my last blog post: Why do I write this blog?

Why do I write this blog?

Blogging is something that I really enjoy doing. Even though I haven't been doing it for long, almost a year now, I do like having control over something I've created by myself. There's something about being able to explain everything that's been going on in your head, that absolutely fascinated me. And that's the thing with blogs, they can be exactly the way you want them to be. You can make them about cooking or fashion, sports or gardening, makeup or lifestyle, or just a random mix of things like I do.



I always just sit on my bed when I write,
just because its the most comfortable

I like having the freedom to just sit down for 20 minutes to an hour, depending on the type of post, and just WRITE. I usually start with a topic that's been on my mind for a few days, or a new product I want to review, and then I just start. I don't really have to think about what I say because it all just comes out. I'll often stop and re-read things over to make sure they make sense but apart from that, I don't really filter myself because why should I? To me, this is my own little diary. Each post is a brief look into my world. My experiences. My life. And as I'm getting more experienced with it, you can see the change in my writing style from when I started. I'm confident with the way that I write and how to publish posts and things, even if I don't know how to follow other peoples blogs. But that's why I like doing this, because I'm learning. Every post documents a tiny part of the blogging world that I'm beginning to understand more and more each time. I know I'm inconsistent but trust me when I say that my little creation is always on the brain.
 

There are so many times where me and my friends have conversations and I realise that it would be the perfect blog post yet I never actually commit and write it. I do sometimes write posts but won't publish them if I don't feel like they're good enough. Its just about trying to make this the BEST that I can actually make it. And if you take anything from this, it should be that whatever you fancy like doing, there's always somewhere where you can start. Try it.

Feel free to check out my last post: World's WORST Teacher

World's WORST Teacher

Since I started my A-Levels at a different place to where I've spent the last 5 years of high school, I had to meet new teachers in September and learn different teaching styles. Now altogether, I have 9 teachers (2 for each subject plus one General Studies teacher) and I can safely say that 8 of them are amazing. I completely trust their ability in teaching me and feel that any failures that I have at the end of the year will be my fault, and my fault alone. Apart from Statistics.

My teacher is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, the WORST teacher I have ever encountered. I don't think she understands the course well enough herself, let alone confident enough to teach it. I don't think it would feel as bad if we were still at GCSE because as difficult as they are at the time, you can basically blag your way through them. It is definitely NOT the same at A-Level and so we need a teacher who can TEACH and she can't.

If anybody asks her a question, she'll either panic and tell us something that doesn't make sense or she'll just Google the answer. Look, I understand we're in the technological age where we have the advantage of using a wide range of resources to acquire information needed but it's only 2014. We are not yet at a point in history where the use of teachers are obsolete.

She is so bad, its absolutely unbelievable. She once marked my homework and wrote that the "rank was in order not the data" which is true. I did write that the data was order because that's what my notes said. The notes that SHE made us write down, I'll have you know. She's constantly contradicting herself with information, one lesson she'll tell us that we need to know a formula and then the next, she'll say "we don't actually need that one because the exam will use a different one". She gives us equations and makes us do a few questions using that equation, only after we've spent an hour being confused, to say that we didn't really need it because its only one button on the calculator. I mean, what the hell is wrong with that women?

The worst thing is that Statistics  is that it isn't even difficult work, my other Maths teacher asked the smartest boy in my class if he was struggling with Stats and he said he was. My Maths teacher looked absolutely horrified, I don't think he really believed us when we said that she couldn't teach but hearing that boy say how horrible it was must have made him realise. Another thing is that our Stats grade goes together with our Maths A-Level and so all the hard work we do in Core 1 and Core 2 will be for NOTHING. So that's brilliant, I mean really, just fabulous. As if I'm not stressed enough, I have to LEARN Stats.

So I told my mom about it and she officially complained to the Head of Sixth Form at my school. I had a meeting with her and basically all she said was that I should revise myself and keep going to lessons. This doesn't really help because its what I've been doing for months really. It's just frustrating feeling so stupid because I can't even answer one question on Stats, that's how bad it is. I mean, I tried a past paper and almost burst into tears because it just made me so angry that I couldn't do it.

It's awful feeling bad at something when you know you could actually do it. I need to keep trying though, I mean this is my life. I'm not letting that woman's incompetence ruin my chances of passing my A-Levels.

Feel free to check out my last blog post: The Story of the NAKED 2 Palette

The Story of the NAKED 2 Palette

I've been watching makeup videos on YouTube for so long but its only recently that I've tried to replicate certain looks that I like. I've never had any real eye shadow palettes  apart from one my auntie bought me a few years, and so it didn't really bother me until now. I'm not one for intense bold eye shadows and so I thought some sort of Naked palette would be PERFECT for me. That was until I looked online at the website and saw the price... Holy frickin' cow. 

I don't really have a lot of money since I'm a 16 year old with no job (the joys eh), and so the money that I do have, I wasn't prepared to waste on makeup. And it would have been a waste considering I wouldn't have wore eye shadow to school and I really don't have a social life (this is no joke people, its so sad).

Anyway, since the Naked website was a dead end, I decided to look to Amazon for cheaper alternatives. I found one which was a Japanese product I think and so I ordered that one for £13. I knew it was going to take a while to come, about 3 weeks in the end, considering it was being delivered from across the world. I checked Amazon about 2 weeks after it'd been dispatched, and it said that the price of my makeup had been raised to £15 which I wasn't happy about, especially since it wasn't the actual product I wanted.

Anyway, when it came, I opened the box and to my surprise, Amazon had switched that crappy makeup product with the beautiful NAKED 2 palette. I seriously almost cried out of just sheer happiness. It was just brilliant and even better than that, when I looked at the invoice, it only charged me £13 instead of £15 so BARGAIN. Usually NAKED palettes are around the £40 mark and so I was amazingly lucky to be given that one. GOD BLESS.

I'll give you the link for the Amazon page where I got the NAKED 2 palette but first a little DISCLAIMER. There is absolutely no guarantee that you'll get the same product that I did, it might just be luck on my behalf so just bear that in mind. I shall be doing a review in a few weeks time anyway so look out for that as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trendy-Shadow-Palette-Eyeshadow-Makeup/dp/B00GXY5G10/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1396792699&sr=8-2&keywords=trendy+aitao

Feel free to check out my last blog post: UPDATE MARCH 2014

 

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