A is for Ashley Madekwe.

Recently I've a tiny bit stuck for post ideas ( I have no imagination *sighs*) so all day I've been sat in my room trying to think. Eventually I came up with the idea of an A-Z is for posts seen as I'll be able to blog about this 26 times. The hardest part of this post was figuring out who to do for the letter "A" I first had ideas of Ashley Benson, Azealia Banks or Arctic Monkeys, it has taken me about two hours to think of this beautiful women. And if you don't know who she is, have you been hiding in a cave your whole life? Ashley Madekwe starred in the amazing tv series called Revenge, her style is so casual yet so gorgeous. You wouldn't of guessed that shes actually 31 years old (she looks early 20's gosh) and her figure is to die for.  She pulls off any outfit and out of every single one of her outfits on google/pinterest the four above are defiantly my favourite! I just want to be her haha, I think i may be developing a girl crush on her.. Also Ashley is feature in this months company magazine! Tell me in the comments what you think about this blog post, and whether or not i should continue to do these? I dont think I will be daily these posts daily but I might carry it on throughout the whole year to make it more interesting. Hope you enjoyed this post, much love shannon x

music played while doing this blog post- don't save me haim/ whispers in the dark mumford and sons/ lover of the light mumford and sons/ just be paloma faith.

50 random facts about ME.

I did originally plan to do this idea as a youtube video until I realized that I have no battery's for my camera:( I've saw many of my favourite bloggers and youtubers do this post/video so I thought why not give it a give and you can get to know me a little bit better.

1. I hardly ever watch TV, I just don't find it interesting.
2. My current weird obsession is sloths (don't judge me, okay)
3. The current length of my hair is: nearly at my bum. YAY!
4. I live with my mum and dad in the town of Nottingham.
5. Every single day I listen to radio one, without a fail.
6. For some reason I'm not creative at all:(
7. I have a secret love for michael buble,shushhhh.
8. When im older I want to be a lawyer.
9. My height is around 5ft 8ish.
10. I used to have five rabbits, when I was younger.
11. In my room I have new york wall paper, can you tell I love NY?
12. Company magazine is my all time fav.
13. I have very low body confidence
14. When I was in year 8 I had the biggest comb over *crys*
15. I have a little tiny (huge) obsession with hello kitty.
16. Peter Pan was/still is my favourite childhood film.
17. I hate cooked mushrooms.
18. Lush is one of my favourite companies.
20. I have two best friends, Phoebe and Tasha.
21. Never in my life have I broken a bone.
22. Nando's and Frankie and bennies are my favourite places to eat.
23. I spend the majority of my nights watching youtube videos (sad life, oh well).
24. I'm current in year 10.
25. half way! and I can get my leg behind my head, strangely.
26. My eyes change colour all the time.
27. I've know phoebe from nursery, awwww cuties!

28. I can not save my money.
29. I have troubles sleeping for some reason:(.
30. My favourite subject is french.
31. All throughout my life I have been bullied.
32. Sometimes I go in a weird mood and just dance around my room to one direction ( im a freak:)).
33. I need to film some more youtube videos soon.
34. I actually love cats, even though ive never had one.
35. I'm constantly on my iphone, I love it so so so so much.
36. Blueberries are my favourite fruit (thanks to phoebe).
37. I only wear make up to cover the redness on my face.
38. My shoe size is either a 5 or 6.
39. Don't laugh at this one, I pretend to be a sloth in awkward situations.
40. Everyone from my school knows about my youtube.
41. I always try my best to be happy.
42. Im fourteen years old and addicted to caffeine:-).
43. When Im older I want to live in Brighton or London with my bestfriend Phoebe.
44. The majority of my closet is from Topshop or New look.
45. I absolutely hate it when people crack their knuckels, oh my gosh ew no!
46. My birthday is on the 12th of june (the same day as Anne Franks)  
47. I love reading books about wars and romance.
48. I'm running out of things to say, erm I also love giving advice to people it makes me happy.
49. I want to go to university and study Law.
50. Last one finally! Im quite shy at first but then once you get to know me I open up.

My everyday face make up.

So yet again I have been lacking with my blog posts *sighs* but I really do want to get back into blogging. I didn't know what sort of style I wanted my blog to look like so I re-designed mine inspired by some of my favourite beauty and fashion bloggers. I haven't been wearing make up for four days, I know I'm surprised too! I noticed that I actually haven't done a beauty related post with my new camera and wanted to test it out. So after around an hour and a half of just setting my camera up and getting the right location I produced some okayish pictures and thought I'd create a post from them. 

I absolutely love Rimmel London make up products and personally I think they're one of the best drug store brands. The Rimmel match perfection foundation was a really random purchase for me, seen as I thought I fount my perfect foundation last year but I was wrong. The colour of this foundation is actually amazing and matches my skin tone perfectly ( it does what it says on the bottle!). The powder on the right is also from Rimmel and is very hyped up about in the beauty world. As you can tell I love love love this powder and have brought so many of these, every time I hit pan I almost want to cry. Is that sad at how much I love it? The powder gives amazing coverage and matify's my foundation really well. 

Next of my every day make up is eyes. This small little palette for only four pounds (yes £4!) is an exact dupe for the Urban Decay naked palette and is a fraction of the price. As you can see the palette comes with 12 beautiful and very pigmented colours. These collection of colours will give you a gorgeous natural look and will enhance your eyes! The name of the palette is called " Heaven and Earth" and when I hit pan on any one of these colours I am defiantly repurchasing it. When I use eye shadow I mainly just use one brush which is the Eco Tools eye shadow brush. I don't think you can buy this individually as I purchased mine in a set of five. This brush is so lovely and soft and so worth the money.

I love doing this part of my face and enjoy it the most, these two cheek products are a must have for me! I actually recommended one for a friend of mine saskia  who also has a blog (if you click on her name it will take you to the post she mentioned me in). This gorgeous blush is by Mua in the shade English Rose, I didn't used to like blush on me but this blush has changed my opinion. It has beautiful highlighting colours so your basically getting two products in one, however the highlight is not to over powering and give you the perfect shine. The next cheek product is my all time favourite and I brought this ages and ages ago and actually can't find it in any shops:(. I was watching a random beauty video on YouTube and she mentioned this product and she said " its not to orange or to brown it give you the right amount of colour". I totally agree with what she said and I don't use this as a bronzer I use it as a contour product.

Urg, this photograph is annoying me! I think its my ocd kicking in again haha, anyway I've only just discovered these amazing eye products and they are AMAZING! Okay going a little bit wild on the capital letters there but they really are amazing. The mascara at the top is by Avon a brand that I usually wouldn't buy because you can't try the products before you order them. But my mother was offering to treat me in the Avon magazine and I thought you can't go wrong with a new mascara! The wand on the mascara separates my lashes so evenly and adds alot of volume. Next onto eyeliners the products I either love or absolutely hate, the eyeliner shown in the middle of the picture I used to hate so so much. I can't use this product on my waterline or my upper lash line as it just doesn't look good and looks horrible on me, however I use this eyeliner on my lower lash line and it looks amazing! The last eye product is by No7 and its just a simple eyeliner however the actual eyeliner is so soft and lovely to apply.

Lips, a category that I love so much. I feel asif a lipstick or lipgloss can change your whole look. One of my all time favourite is Vaseline such a simple and easy to get hold of product that keeps my lips so smooth. Oh yes, now on to this lovely lipstick! This lipstick is part of the new Kate Moss matt collection and the colour is too die for, its in the shade 107. I actually posted a picture of the actual lipstick on instagram so ill link it HERE. 

I hope you enjoyed this new post and if you use any of the things I use leave a comment in the comment section. Or if you have any recommendations also leave them in the comments. I know this is a rather long post but I can ramble on for ages, I'm like a little old granny!

  

Example.

So yet again I haven't blogged in a while, my bad! But at the moment I have still 

been really busy and I don't really know what to blog about. Later on I'm going to sit down and just write ideas down in a note pad, because I break up from school tomorrow (15th February). If you follow me on facebook or twitter you will know I went to example on the 12th of February. It literally was the best night I have had so far in 2013! 

EXAMPLE!

Benga was the main support act, and he made the place come alive and jump haha!

 After waiting outside in a five mile line (luckily we were near the front) in the freezing cold for 45 minutes, we got really close to the front and had a perfect view. By the end of the night I figured it was a bad choice wearing my creepers, because now my feet are messed up. 

I hope you enjoyed this little blog post and I promise I will be doing some beauty and fashion related posts but I just need the time and some ideas, shannon x 

Get to know me better.

I've saw quite a couple of beauty and fashion bloggers do this post 

and answer these set questions. So I thought why not do it myself?
Here's my answers, hope you like this post.

1. Do you have any siblings? 

Yes, I have a brother who is exactly ten years older than me.

2. If you had to choose between mascara or foundation, which would it be?

Foundation, I would not be able to survive without it. 

3. What's your favourite food?

This is quite a hard question seen as I love food, but it would have to be

jam on toast or fruit.

4. Do you have a 'party trick' or an unusual talent?

Could this class as an unusual talent? I can put my leg behind my

head and can touch my leg with my head.

5. How would you describe your dress sense?

My style used to be boring but im slowly coming out of it, I would say that my
 style is describable but ill tell you what I love, I love skirts,

 collared shirts, knitted jumpers and tights and 

my lazy day favourite leggings.

6. What's your favourite film?

I could not answer this question without naming nearly every 

single film, but i love any film by Disney!

7. What's your star sign?

Gemini 

8. What's your one beauty item you cannot live without?

Foundation or moisturizer

9. What is your job?

I'm actually still a student and don't have a job:(

10. How did you come up with your blog name?

I don't like my blog name but its the same as my youtube name 

and I chose that so no one from my school could find it,

however people still have oh well..

11. What's your favourite fashion/ beauty trend this year (so far or to come)?

Monochrome, I have saw that in lots of fashion magazines. And
skater skirts I've been wearing them a lot recently.

I hope you enjoyed this post, and if i get bored later on tonight I will probably 

make another post, i love you and hope you have a wonderful day 

shannon xx

I'm back finally and for good!

Hello again.

I know it's been a while since I lasted blogged and one of my new years resolutions was to re start up my blog, I've been planning a couple of posts for this new year ahead over the Christmas holiday break. I haven't been uploading to YouTube either and thats because I used to film off my iPhone 4s and it was getting extremely hard to film. If you don't follow me on instagram/twitter/facebook, then you wont know that for Christmas I received the most wonderful present from my parents which was the Panasonic Lumix camera. 

While I've had a little break from blogging I've been taking a lot of pictures and just wanted to give you a little update of my life, I shall be posting either daily or every two days depending on school work. My next exam is in April so I don't have that much revision to do, i just have a lot of catching up to do on my course work. Many students in years ten and eleven will understand how stressful exams and exam preparation is. Over the past two or three months my life hasn't really been at the highest point and I've had very bad depression and anxiety, so in January like many other people I made some resolutions.

Here are just some of my resolutions:

♥ get back into blogging and posting to my instagram regularly, I've been lacking at updating everything recently. 

♥ say yes, I know that sounds so stupid but I hardly say yes to things I need to start enjoying my life again.

♥ start reading again, I used to read so much but now I hardly ever pick up a book.

♥ experiment more with my style, I need to stop playing it safe and dare to be different!

♥ and this a very common resolution that most people fail at or give in at, but to become more healthy and lose a little bit of weight, and I am very proud to say that already I have lost five pounds and for once I am happy with my body shape.

now for the pictures of the past few months:

I took this photograph only a couple of days ago when it snowed in england.

I finally went to my first Youtube meet up on the 1st of december, and hugged Sam
Pepper, Maz and FoodforLouis. I also met some other amazing youtubers there!

I had to include this photograph because autumn was the best month of my life.
Thanks to tasha, i love her ♥ 

I hope you enjoyed this little catch up and I will probably see you tomorrow or on saturday!

I hope you had a lovely day.

shannon

♥

October favourites.

 So I'm finally getting round to updating my blog again!And I know that October hasn't properly finished yet however I just wanted to get back into the blogging attitude! I have been loving ever single one of these products and will happily repurchase them when they run out!   

             

           

  So firstly is this amazing facial scrub by the brand St.Ives, and it is the fresh skin apricot scrub for all skin types. I actually received this as a sample along with a £1 off coupon, and as a result I absolutely love this scrub! I have noticed a big difference to my face ever since I started using it. The smell of the product is gorgeous, its smells exactly like mango's and apricots.I found that the facial scrub left my face feeling refreshed and hydrated and a little goes along way with this scrub. 

Next is this bronzing face powder by the brand NYC, and I'm not a huge fan of their products but i really love this. I brought this bronzing powder ever since i seen a youtuber talk about it. The actual product is just the right shade, it's not to orange and not to brown. It's just the right balance of colour which gives your checks a flawless finish. I actually use this product for contour, and it's really cheap I think it retails under £5 which is amazing for 9.4g! The bronzer apply's so smoothly, to apply it I use my Eco Tools blusher brush. I would really recommend either testing this at your local drug store or actually purchasing the product!

Before i started using this product I would hardly ever wear eye shadow, but this No7 eye shadow is now my absolute fav! This eye shadow actually reminds me of The Naked palette "Half Baked" however this eye shadow is a fraction of the price. The name of the eye shadow is "Wheatsheaf" and retails for £7, but every so often boots do a £5 off make up voucher. Overall I ended up buying the eye shadow for £2! I would still pay the full price for this eye shadow because i think the quality of it is amazing. Also the product is very pigmented and is so easy to apply.  

Next is this lipstick by Rimmel London and this is in the 08, normally I wouldn't go for a colour like this on but it actually suit me! The thing i love most about this lipstick is the smell, personally I think it smells like cupcakes from the very sweet smell. I think the finish of this lipstick looks absolutely amazing on any skin tone, the overall finish is sort of matt with a little bit of a glossy finish. This lipstick is amazing for the money and I have brought more lipsticks since buying this from the Kate Moss collection!

My final favourite is this gorgeous nail polish by avon, i wouldn't normally buy products from avon because of the fact you cant test them. However i took a risk with this nail polish and I love it so much. I can't remember how much it was exactly but it was under £5 and the bottle is really big ( 12ml). The actual colour reminds me of the galaxy sky, from the different colours of glitter. The nail polish is really opaque! and apply's really easy.

So thats all of my October favourites.

What was your favourites this month?

Hope you enjoyed reading this,

Love from 

Shannon

x  

                                                                                                 .