January Favourites

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I can't believe January has been and gone and it's now mid February! I don't even know what I did with my life but I do know these are a few things I loved in the month:

• Tangle Teezer Salon Elite Blue Blush
   

Hands down the best brush I've ever used. Before getting my hair cut on Saturday my hair was quite long. It always got itself into a matted, knotty monstrosity and made me wanted to go Bald never mind short (especially when it was windy) But then I got one of these bad boys for Christmas and it changed my life. It glides through my hair so easily, it's like magic!

• Rimmel Kate Matte Lipstick Wine 107

Berry lips are in this winter but being blonde and pale, I felt like dark lips would make me look even paler and look too in your face. Then I found this lipstick. I'll admit I originally picked it up because it's one of Zoella's favourites and she's one of my favourite people.. also because it's so raved about and I have to join the rave. It's a berry red wine colour so it's still dark and vampy but not TOO dark and vampy that I look scary :)

• Barry M Gelly Hi Shine Chai

I've been loving grey so much lately! I'm not quite sure why either because I used to hate it because it was a depressing colour and I'm not about rainbows and happiness. But I love it now and this is a beautiful shade of it. A dark dove grey it what I would call it because Don't know what chai is.. what ever it is, it looks beautiful on my nails. It's somewhere between wearing black or white nail polish, not as dark or light and not as in your face.

• Maybelline Falsies Mascara Flared Black

This mascara loves my lashes and my lashes love it. I naturally have long lashes but they're practically invisible because their blonde and point downwards so this mascara is just what I needed; it makes them black and flare out, ooh lovely!

• Soap & Glory Glad Hair Day Shampoo  

I got a tube of this shampoo for Christmas and used it from then for nearly every hair wash throughout January until it ran it out. I think I got about 10-15 washes out of it. I can't quite decide what it is about it I like. It gave my hair a texture which made it feel super clean and at the same time bouncy and not slippery. I'm defiantly going to repurchase the next time I'm in boots and I'll look for a full size one.

• Topshop MOTO Black Binx Jeans

I don't think I've ever been quite so in love with a pair or jeans but these jeans are like my alter ego, they make me feel confident and sassy! ;) They're high waisted which means that they don't fall down and they're are super comfortable. I have noticed that they lose colour quite quickly but other then that I love em'!

• Twitter

I finally got into twitter and actually know how to work it now! XD I've also discovered how super lovely the blogging community is. I've found so many great blogs on there and I love sharing mine on there :)

• Teen wolf

At first I was mainly interested in the hot teenage werewolf  but then I got to season three and the plot went from pretty good to frickin' amazing! There's so many times where I'm wrapped in a blanket cocoon just screaming at the screen things like "TEAM EPIC BADASS WEREWOLF NINJAS UNITE!" "NO DON'T DO IT! *GASP* OMG NO!" and "KISS! KISS! OMG KISS ALREADY!!"  ..Some made say I'm a little obsessed.. I give no argument.

• Mini eggs

I've consumed so may bags that I may turn into an egg.. They're just so good! I'm going to put a stop to this madness next week when lent starts by giving up chocolate again.. but until then.. haha ;)

Okay so they're are my favourite things from January..

 Thanks for reading!

Hope you enjoyed ^.^

What's your favourite things?

Have a super fantastic day!

CYA!

-Alice :) xx

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January Favourites

Girl Online: Book Review

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I read Girl Online back in December after receiving form my lovely mother (thanks mum!). There has been a lot of attention on this book and not all of it good attention. I'm not sure exactly what happened but what I've gathered is that Zoe didn't write it all and some of it was ghost written. A lot of people seen to be upset or angry about this and I do understand why, I do. However personally it doesn't really bother me, I figured that she would have gotten help with writing it because people don't tend to randomly become a writer, not all on their own.

I'll admit this book only made it onto my Christmas list to Santa because I'm a big zoella fan, I watch her videos religiously and I love her blog. BUT this review is surprisingly not as bias as I thought it would be because just rating it on it's storyline and characters I genuinely loved it (okay it sounds really bias but its not, honest!)

Now bare with me as I'm not entirely sure how to write a book review haha /).(\ ....

The book is set in Brighten and follows the main character Penny, a 15 year old with a secret blog. Penny is dealing with anxiety and panic attacks which are new and scary to her and throughout the book it shows how they develop and how she deals with them. Penny lives next door to her very stylish gay best friend, Elliot who is dealing with his own problems. Penny goes through some embarrassing moments involving school as well as some friendship problems which make her anxiety worst. Then as if a fairy godmother granted her wish, she gets whisked away to New York where she soon meets the rock-godtastic Noah who sweeps her off her feet. The only thing is that Noah has his own secret that Penny is yet to find out about.

Okay so I suck at summing the story up without giving too much away but that ^^ is pretty much what the blurb says on the back of the book just reworded so yeah... Haha

I don't think I've ever read a book that I related to so much! Although I don't have panic attacks like Penny an I certainly have never met a Noah (although There's this guy at school who looks just like what I imagined Noah to look like ;)) there were so many times I laughed out loud purely because I related and knew exactly what she was talking about.

Penny is around my age so when she talks about school, especially since it's a British secondary school, it's easy to imagine and relate too (the struggles are real ;-;). Also she is quite an awkward and clumsy teenager and when she gets nervous she gets worse, just like me.

I could go on and on about all the mixed feels this book gave me, like all the LOL moments and the times I got butterflies (like when Noah showed up.. Ooh ) but I think you get the picture :)

I think the characters were we thought out well and were interesting and I fell in love with them but I felt like their speech didn't always flow very realistically, that didn't really affect my love for the book much. I also really enjoyed the plot but I guessed Noah's secret straight away which I honestly didn't see coming when he was first introduced but I felt like I could of been hidden better and would of been nice to find out when Penny did but at the same time it did create dramatic irony as we were just waiting for her to find out. So I admit this book wasn't by any means perfect but I still loved it.

This was a easy light read and a refreshing break from my usual fantasy and dystopian books that normally contain a kickass hero/heroine fighting against the forces of evil, I obviously love these books but it was lovely to just read about a regular teenager.

Being a Zoella fan, it's was great to see little snippets of her in this book like the blog posts weaved into the story, the fact it was set in Brighton where Zoe live and talks about all the places that Penny loves that Zoe also loves like The Lanes and the beach, also the little bits like where Penny wore a milkmaid braid which Zoe did a video of :)

I gave this book a 5 star rating, call me just a loyal fan joining the over-rated but I genuinely loved reading it. I think Zoe -or who ever wrote it- should be very proud and will probably reread this as I actually miss it and I can't wait the second one which I believe is coming out in November.

Have you read this book? I'd love to here your opinion on it in the comments!

Also do you have any books that you have read lately and recommend?

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed! ^.^ 

CYA!

-Alice :) xx

This is the picture I took on Christmas ft. Rainbow Dash (my build a bear )

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Girl Online: Book Review