July Favourites 2015

You may not know, but I am not just into reading, sheep and Disney. I love make-up and beauty. I love learning about what helps our skin and what makes people look nicest. So here are some favourites from this month, beauty, books, clothes and other things that don't have a category!

Beauty

Rimmel Extra 3D Lash mascara
This mascara really lengthens my eye lashes. I wasn't expecting very much, as it is their cheapest mascara, at £4.99. However, it really works. If you are looking for a budget mascara that really does the job, either as your first mascara or as a replacement or upgrade, this is definitely the one to go for. Watch our The Falsies, this mascara is going to blow your mind (apart from the Wonderlash mascara from Rimmel)




Rimmel Lasting Finish Colour Rush lip crayon in 610 Sun Kissed/Collection Work the Colour lip butter in 3 Vintage Rose
I find lip butters/crayons easier to put on than lipsticks and they last longer. They glide on so easily, with vibrant colour and stay on for a long time. I cannot find the Rimmel lip crayon on the Boots website but I shall look in the store and see if I can find it. Anyway, they are both the same sort of colour but the Rimmel one is slightly lighter than the Collection one. The Rimmel one is slightly more expensive at £5.99 and the Collection one is cheaper at £2.99. Both are very good products.

Skin

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water
I have the travel version which was £1 but the full version in £3.99 or something similar. It takes off all of make up so quickly and it doesn't hurt my eyes. It keeps my skin hydrated as well, as I can get quite dry skin. Also, the bottle is so cute!








Soft and Gentle 48hr Protection Deodorants
Soft and Gentle recently brought out a new range of nice smelling deodorants. I like them because they smell nice and make me smell nice. I am currently using orange blossom and grapefruit in the morning and the smaller version of watermelon and lotus flower in my bag when I go out, either to school or otherwise. I am counting this as skin because I couldn't think of another category for it.



Electronics
 HP Pavilion laptop in blue
I recently got this laptop and it is the single best purchase my Dad has ever made for me. I love it. I can now spend time writing blog posts in my room with a cup of tea and toffee waffles. It plays music out of its beats audio speakers that are built in! I recently upgraded it to Windows 10 and it made it even better! I really recommend this laptop as a purchase that will last you.



Clothes


Primark Minion pyjama top and bottoms
These pyjamas are the comfiest, sweetest things ever. They look so nice and they can be mixed and matched with other minion pyjamas depending what you want to wear. I only have one pair so I just wear them together but they are so cute and comfy and really cheap, as they are from Primark.


Primark Winnie the Pooh pyjamas
More pyjamas! These ones have shorts so they are great for hot summer nights (or hot pyjama days!)
They are really cute and I love Winnie the Pooh so they are my other favourite pair of pyjamas! Sorry, I don't have a photo because they are in the wash!


Books
Harry Potter
I can't really say anymore. They are my favourites and I love reading them again and again. My favourite has to be Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix! So there we go. Harry Potter everyone.







So there we go! Thank you July for this amazing month. I couldn't have asked for a better month of summer.

Stay Happy,
Katie

Book Review - July 2015 - The Night Circus

Firstly, the cover. It is beautiful! Black and white the signify details in the book, with a red scarf around the lady's neck to symbolise another part of the book. All together, it is very meaningful and represents the book exactly.

Secondly, the story. A fantasy novel, mixed with romance and adventure! What more could you want. Reading this is the dark of the night is where it is best read, as the atmosphere is perfect. The blurb is:

The circus arrives without warning

No announcements precede it

It is simply there, when yesterday

it was not

This automatically drew me in. I was encapsulated by the mystery that surrounded both the front cover and the blurb. I just had to read it. 

A summary of the story would be that there is a circus that arrives at night and opens at midnight. The acts are not like any other circus. You walk around the different tents, rather than sitting in the same tent for a long amount of time. Two magicians fall in love, Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair. What they don't know is that they are rivals. One of them must die for the battle to stop between them. 

However, you must be able to read a good portion at a time. You cannot only read a page a night. It is a very fast story line and it needs reading constantly, because if you put it down for a long time, you will not understand

Altogether, read this book. I highly recommend it.

Stay Happy,

Katie x

My Summer 2015 Bucket List

I make one of these every year, to remind myself of the things I want to do, rather than have to do!

1) Go to the beach with all of my friends - I really want to go to the beach with all of my friends on a really hot day so we can all swim together and drinks smoothies together!

2) Really take advantage of the heat - Wear the clothes I want to wear because it is so warm, because next year, I will have grown out of them and will not have had a chance to show them off.

3) Have a sleepover in the tent in my garden - Having one of those sleepovers that people see in the pictures and movies would be the best! Especially with my best friends!

4) Do some sort of exercise every day - Whether it is walking, skipping, taking a run or swimming in the pool, just to get me fit for the next school year! Horrible thought, isn't it, especially if you are going into a year of exams, like I am!

5) Appreciate how lucky I am to be going on holiday - I know that many people can't go away this summer, so I should be lucky that I am going away with some of my favourite people

6) Take as many pictures as possible - To remember the summer, because I have a feeling that this is going to be the best summer yet!

7) Make a scrapbook of everything that happens - Again, to remember the summer!

8) Read as much as possible - I don't get a lot of time to read, so the summer is the perfect time to relax and read as many books as I possibly can!

9) Spend as much time in the garden with my rabbit, Nugget, as I can - I want to spend as much time with him because he is quite old and I want to make the time we have together the best possible.

10) Make at least 3 new boards on Pinterest! - Why not! It's unlimited!

11) Stay in touch with as many friends as possible - I always forget to do this! I start the holidays and automatically stop being sociable, which always means I miss something big that happens!

I hope this is a good idea of what my summer will be like!

Stay happy,
Katie x