Huge Summer Book Haul

It may be October now but that's because I procrastinated writing this. In summer it was my 17th birthday (august 2nd) and I received quite a few books (thanks fam!) and because I was in a book reading phase I also bought a lot of books. So I thought I'd show and tell them ;)

 Here's the whole pile, I told you it was huge!

 

Here's the pile of books I purchase myself... oops haha

Hers's the pile I got for my birthday. (Minus the bottom 2, they just snuck in there)

Okay dokey, I split the pictures up into categories of where I got them from. The picture above being the books I got for my birthday (again minus the Saga books 1&2)

I'll go from left to right, Ah hem...

YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu

This is a fantasy novel where there has been some sort of disease thing which have left some with powers..? I'm not entirely sure but it does sound good, just go online and read the blurb!

RED QUEEN by Victoria Aveyard

This was a gift from my older sister Lucy. I'm not entirely sure what it's about but I think it's quite game of thrones-y and hunger games-y... I could being confusing this with something else. All I know of it is that the world is separated by blood, the red bloods -the common people- and silver bloods -the elites. It's all very fantasy and magic so I know we'll get along.

DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE by Laini Taylor

Fantasy romance? I have no idea what it's about but I've heard nothing but good reviews.

CINDER by Marissa Meyer

Fairy-tales in space? Or the future? I'm so bad at this aha but again I've heard nothing but raving about this.

THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS by Rick Riordan

This is a random book from the heroes of Olympus series which I don’t have the first one two, but thanks for trying mum ;) I'm sure I'll get to that series soon and then to that book haha.

I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN by Jandy Nelson

I've heard this is a good cometary novel and the pages are yellow so it's going to be awesome!

 These ones are books I bought myself from amazon

THE FINAL EMPIRE by Brandon Sanderson

I've wanted to read this for ages because I heard his work is fantasy gold and his plot twists are insane! All I know about this particularly book is that it's the first in the mistborn trilogy and that the magic system is something to do with metal...

THE ISLE OF THE LOST by Melissa De Cruz

I've already read this one so I could watch the movie. It's a prequel to the Disney channel original movie DISNEY DESENDANTS. This book is about a world after the fairy tales where all the villains have been trapped on an island, the isle of the lost, to be forgotten by the world. However four of the Disney villain’s children embark on an adventure to try and lift the seal of the island and return to the world.

THE WRATH AND THE DAWN by Renee Ahdieh

This is based on the story of 1001 and 1 nights which I also know nothing about but its fantasy and romantic and a dystopian and sometimes I'm in the mood for the three mixed in a story.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan

This is the first book of the Percy Jackson series I'm sure you've heard about and since my mum got me two random books from the series, I thought I'd pick up the first book.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen

EMMA by Jane Austen 

These two books I got for my English class. I started reading Emma but -and I don't want to offend you if it's the air your breath- it was quite boring. Pride and Prejudice on the other hand was a little more juicy and I'm sure you know the story (or maybe my family is just old aha)

 These books are books I bought at Tesco or a charity shop

PERCY JACKSON AND THE TITAN'S CURSE by Rick Riordan

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LAST OLYMPIAN by Rick Riordan

These are the books my mum got me from a charity shop and are part of the Percy Jackson series, so thanks mum! 

FINDING AUDERY by Sophie Kinsella

I've already finished reading this and I loved it. It's about a girl named Audrey who suffers with really bad anxiety where she can't even make eye contact with her own family and she meets a boy and stuff.. It’s a story of her finding herself basically. The plots not mind blowing or anything but I love the writing and all the characters, epically the relationship between her brother and their mum! He's so sarcastic and she's just mental, it's LOL worthy, trust me!

SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater 

I picked this up from a charity shop because it was like 50p and I've heard it's good. I think it's about werewolves... I could be wrong.

PAPER TOWNS by John Green

I'm half way done with this and it's quite good, good to read on a miserable day like today where you want a little excitement in your life and a little john green cosiness, if you know what I mean ;)

QUEEN OF THE TEARLING by Erika Johansen

This one I know is like Game of Thrones (which is my fave TV show of life, if you didn't know)

It's got a strong female protagonist -which sounds like Daenerys- and she’s on a mission to take back her throne, I think :)

These two I also got at a charity shop I just forgot about them

ERAGON by Christopher Paolini

ELDEST by Christopher Paolini

 These about a dragon. That's all I know. 

Number 1 I got for my birthday, 2, 3 and 4 I ordered from amazon

SAGA VOLUME 1-4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

I'm loving this series so far! I'm on number three and I believe volume 5 just came out so I'll have to pick that up in the future. This series is very Romeo and Juliet where they're star crossed lovers (literally in this I guess aha) on the run with a baby, trying not to die. Just a little warning, it's quite adult themed with swearing and naked people... which I discovered the hard way! But the storyline is great so just ignore that bit.

 TAD-AAAAH!

I think I'm set for reading all cosy in these colder months :)

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed ^.^

 Are you currently reading anything? (I'm reading a series of unfortunate events, the bad beginning)

Leave a comment!

 I hope you have a super fantastic day,

BYE!

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Huge Summer Book Haul

A Haul To Blush About

Excuse my terrible pun but this is indeed a blush haul :)

I've been meaning to post this for a while but you know school and stuff.. so you'll have to bare with me on the posting because I have a million and one things to do and like one free evening a week.. but I will do it!

Anywho, somewhere in the summer holidays I had a little blush splurge. Not that they were expensive, they were actually really cheap but I bought them all at the same time.. which is a little excessive but didn't own any before so it's cool.

From left to right:

MUA blusher in the shade Marshmallow

 £1(!)

This a bright pink colour that's is very girly and barbie-ish. I think this will be a great shade for spring (even though it's the first day of autumn.. woo hoo! by the way!) but it will also be good for when I'm feeling all girly and famine.

MUA blusher in the shade Bubblegum

£1

This is a lovely pinky coral colour which I think is very pretty and princessey, if you know what I mean ;) Since it's more coral then pink it's also great for Autumn, I'm gong to be an autumn princess and it's gonna be great!

MUA Blush Perfection Cream Blush in the shade Scrummy 

£2

This is a orangey coral shade and I got this purely for Autumn. I'm just really excited for autumn, I don't know what else to say aha.

Barry M 'Make Me Blush' Cream blush in the shade 2 Rhubarb Crumble

 £4.49

This again is a pinky coral colour, similar to bubblegum but in cream form and it's like a stick of blush so it's easy to draw where your blush goes and then blend it in. This was the first one I got because I think it's quite a classic blush shade.

MUA Luxe Whipped Velvet Blush in the shade Ritzy

£3

I think this one is my favourite. It's a dark pink colour and on it's very rosy and "ooh it's chilly outside" Perfect for winter and the colder months. It's also very creamy, kind of like a moose.

Well thanks for reading!

I hope you enjoyed ^.^

feel free to leave a comment below

and I hope you have a super fantastic day,

BYE!

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A Haul To Blush About

Fairytale Lookbook: Chapter 1~ Maleficent "Mistress of Darkness"

 

Apologises for the super long title and not gonna lie, it took me like ten minutes to find the "~" turns out it's next to the hashtag :)

Anywho, well this happened.. I got super bored on my day off and turned myself into a Maleficent. I think my mum worries about me now...

I'm going to make this into a series type thing so whenever boredom strikes I can look super fabulous and part of a fairytale, as you do aha. This series is inspired by quite a few things; "The Isle of The Lost" and "Disney Descendants" which is a book I just read and then the film is the follow on from it. They were quite too, they are about the descendants of Disney characters and the story is set in the modern day so it was cool to look at a modern take on the characters and hence one of the reasons I wanted to do this. You'll be able to find the book at most book shops (even the book section in tesco) or order it from amazon and the film is on Disney channel :) Another inspiration was once upon a time which is a series of fairytale characters being trapped in the modern world and it's just amazing. I'm rubbish at explaining things so just watch it and fall in love with captain hook yourself *swoons* also just my love for fairy tales alone was enough inspiration.

I was quite chuffed with my efforts with this, it turned out way better then I thought I was capable of- except for the eyeliner, that was a lost cause *sigh* but such is life.

Also when I was uploading these I accidentally deleted most the pictures from my camera before they had fully downloaded *cry and cry some more* so I only had three and then some I'd taken off my phone so sorry some of the good ones are lost *cry a little more* 

But here's what I turned out like..

Believe it or not, I genuinely have friends haha.

For her makeup I did a smokey eye with green on the lid and fade out into purple right up to my brow bone. I attempted to contour like her but it didn't quite work the way I imagined it. I also attempted to do winged eyeliner.. for the lips I used a red lipstick like she wears in the film and I also ran black eyeshadow through my eyebrows.

for the outfit it just wore black clothes like my kimono to try and mimic her cape and for the head I couldn't find any horns in my house so instead I used my black towel wrap and stuck a pick of felt up it to copy the shape of her hat :)

All in all it's not perfect but it sure was fun to do and next I think I'll do snow white (I may of ordered a black wig hehe)

Well that's all folks!

Thank you for reading, I hope you found it somewhat entertaining ^.^

Please leave suggestions in the comments

I hope you have a super fantastic day,

bye!

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A Rimmel London Review: New Kate Moss Nude Lipsticks

Well unless you live under a rock (or don't give a rat's arse about beauty.. in which case, unless you're beyond bored, I don't recommend you read this) you'll of probably heard that Rimmel London has launched new Kate Moss lipsticks in a nude collection. I think Kate Moss is a model or something but she could be an astronaut for all I know. What I do know is that Kate Moss' lipsticks are the bomb.com so when I heard about these it was inevitable that I was gonna pick one up, well two actually ;)

I'm pretty sure there are 5 shades in the collection and then one lip barm thing?

I picked up the two darker colours; 45 and 48 as the others looked a little too light for my liking as they looked like they would make me look like I have "concealer lips" which isn't very hot and "you look ill" as my old head of year would say, haha. But I haven't tried them so I can't judge.

So here number 45 and number 48 in my attempt to be photograpery ;)

 

That photograpy effort tho...

Oh boy, now to attempt to describe them..

 45, on the left, is very smiler to my beloved 03 only this is slightly more sheer and pink toned (I think haha) It's also quite similar to my natural lip colour so it just adds a little something without shout "I'M WEARING LIPSTICK", if you know what I mean.

48, on the right, is defiantly my favourite out of the two. It's kind of like a coffee toned nude and reminds me of on Rachel on friends has worn before. I love my statement red lips, as you will know if you read my blog but bold nude lip is very refreshing and I've been reaching for this one a lot!

Please excuse my peach fuzz aha

also please ignore how messy it it is, I did it very quick and rushed 

They don't last very long on the lips but they wear quite evenly so there is no weird lines on your lips after an hour or so. Over all, I'm quite chuffed with them, especially 48!

If you're interested you can find them here or in most drugstores :)

And can we give me points for effort for curling my hair? Like seriously it never happens and short hair is super hard to curl aha.

Whale that's all folks!

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed ^.^

Have you tried these out or want to? Leave me a comment!

Have a super fantastic day,

CYA!

-Alice :) xx

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Wonder Day: Saturday: A Bit Of A Catch Up

Long time no blog so I thought we'd have a caught up, so pop the kettle on and prepare yourself for a brain explosion ;) 

Uni Fair

• Year 12 (that would include yours truly) when on a trip to Hull university for an open day type of thing and a Uni fair. I'm not going to lie, it sounded pretty boring and I thought it was pretty useless to me as I'm not entirely sure I'm going to uni in favour of going to a police training school. Also finding a Uni that has a Policing course is like trying to find a black cat in a coal cellar. The struggles are real. Anywho, as I was walking around the fair I was pretty convinced that the Navy stand would be the only one to hold and interest or usefulness as that's plan B. oh I was wrong. I was the wonderful and best kind of wrong. After my friends had finished talking to this women at the Canterbury table the women asked me what I wanted to do, which first off made me jump because I'd been day dreaming and wasn't prepared for human interaction. I lazily told her I wanted to be a police officer and she just went "yes we do that" and pointed to the board behind her where it said "policing". My face light up to say the least. The more I found out about it, the happier got! It's a medieval city (I'm obsessed with knights and swords and stuff), It's a beautiful location, it's far away (adventure is out there!), it has a boxing gym, an of course it does my course!! woo hoo! When school starts again in September my big sister said she'd take me down to see it as she lives in London, it can't wait! :)

Tv, Books & Media

• Game of Thrones season 5 has been and gone and it was fabulous as always but the day after episode 10 I cried at school in my law lesson (you'll know why if you've seen it) and it was embarrassing and my bestfriend couldn't stop laughing at me haha.

• Teen wolf season five has started and I'm yet to catch up as there are 4 or 5 episodes out and I've only watched 2.. so yeah. It seems good so far although I'm struggling to remember some stuff from the previous seasons but boy I've missed it!

• I also recently got Netflix which I'm now obsessed with and I'm currently on season 3 of Orange is the new black which I'm also enjoying.

• Currently reading: Heir of Fire, Pawn of prophecy and Off to Neverland

• Instagram- I'm getting back into drawing more and instagram more, both my art account and personal.  One of my art goals this year was to be more creative and not just replicate a picture and I think I'm finally starting to do that and I have a lot of original ideas that I just need to find time to create :)

• I've also become a little obsessed with an app called depop which is like ebay in instagram form but I'll talk more about that in a later post.

School and work

• I've broken up from school now for 7 whole weeks but I still need to finish my law course work... oops. Also I'm most likely going to working just about everyday thought the holiday so it's not really going to be much of a holiday which sucks but at least I'll be rich.. until winter that is haha.

Clubs

• Boxing-  I've been enjoying boxing a lot more lately and finally decided that i do want to fight competitively but I have to wait to get my braces off :( I've bee putting thought and time into my fitness and I do believe I'm improving :) I also starting dating one of the boxers there which I never thought would happen but he;'s super great and I'm super happy :D Any who, I think I might do a "what's in my gym bag" and "workout inspiration/ tips and advice" kind of posts soon. 
•  Sea Cadets- Unfortunately the Navy section in CCF shut down at my school so I had to move into the army section which is all good and dandy but it isn't me. I'm Navy to the bones so when I was told that Ma'am was reopening the Navy section in town but as a sea cadets unit I was the first to sign up, literally! I really love it too, it's even better then the Navvy section used to be because we're not ran by school so we get to do a lot more like sailing an stuff. We are also joint to another cadet unit who we go sailing with an everyone there is so nice and involve us as if we'd known each other forever, it's great! 

 Room

• I finally painted my room with help from my mum and I'm starting to fix it you so stay tuned for Room posts!

 Fashion

• Last thing, at the beginning of the year I said I wanted to discover my fashion style and myself in general and I'm happy to say I've done that or at least more so. Again I'll probably do a separate post on this.  

 Okay well I started writing this donkeys years ago and just got around to finishing it! It wasn't as long as I thought It'd be either. I've really missed blogging but I'm getting back into it, I just need more hours in the day and less work!

Whale, that's all for now,

Thank for reading and I hope you enjoyed ^,^

Have a super fantastic day!

CYA!

- Alice :) xx

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