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Hello You Lovely lot!

I have been AWOL recently and I do apologise for that. I am really determined to get back in to blogging over summer because it is something that I enjoy so much! I just lack with ideas and motivation at the moment. So, hopefully turning over a new leaf, here id my first blog post of many! Of course it had to be a favourites. Favourites blog posts are some of the best to write because I just get to talk to you all about things I love, what could be better?!

Beauty / Skincare :

I have had so many Beauty/Skincare items that I have been obsessed with this month so it took me a while to just narrow it down to one. However, when i really think about it, it's clear who the real winner is.

NYX Prismatic Eyeshadow - Liquid Gold







My friend Nathan actually gave me this shadow as a little gift and I am in love. Whenever I put it on I feel as if my eyeshadow looks one hundred times better. I normally wear it with orange shades in my crease and it creates such a lovely smokey eye! Super easy to blend out and highly pigmented, incredible!

Music : 

Between when I wrote my last favourites post and now there's been so many artists and albums that I've loved and I think it's impossible to narrow it down to one because it has been such a long time. So here's a quick little list to give you the rundown of what I've been listening to!

Albums :

Harry Styles - Harry Styles
midnight - Lewis Watson
Sleep Is For The Week - Frank Turner
Speak Now - Taylor Swift

Songs :

Hold Your Tongue - Frank Turner
Heartbeat - Wildfires
There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back - Shawn Mendes
Power (feat Stormzy) - Little Mix

TV / Film :

If you know me (or follow me on Twitter because it's all I ever tweet about every night at 9pm) then you may be able to guess what I have been obsessed with recently!

Love Island

This is the third series of Love Island that I have watched and although I feel that this series has taken a while to get really interesting I fall in love with it more every single time I watch it. So far my favourites are; Kem, Dom, Marcel, Montana, Camilla and Gabby.

Photo : 

Maybe a month or two ago I went to a four day Frank Turner festival. It was one of the best four days of my life. Throughout that weekend Frank played my favourite song of all time twice. I took this photo whilst he was playing it the second time. The song means the world to me and I even want a tattoo to remind me of it!

Hello You Lovely Lot!

This is just a short blog post to update you on how I'm feeling. As you may be able to tell by the title of this blog post, I'm not feeling too great. Recently, I've been asking myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do? Am I making the right decisions? Do I really want to be at University? Am I happy? Is what I'm feeling just stress? Am I just homesick? Should I have stayed at home? Is this something completely unrelated to University?

I have come to realise that the answer to all of these is a big fat 'I don't know' and that scares me more than anything else. This isn't the first time I have felt like this and I have no doubt that it won't be the last time I go through whatever this is with only just over a year left of University. I have gone from knowing exactly what I want to do to completely dropping the idea and had friends say to me 'Well what will you do then?!' and of course the answer to that is, I have no clue. I know that I am not the only one facing these issues and asking myself these questions.

One thing I do know is that this year I have really tried to prioritise myself. I have gained a few things and lost a few things but ultimately my happiness is so important. I need to think about the things that I want and right now I'm not sure what that is which makes this a lot harder. I do know that I don't want to be stuck doing something I hate and not able to get out of it.

Sometimes I feel that this is something more serious than just disliking University which in turn can make University much more difficult when you're also dealing with other things on top. Maybe I have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or maybe I need to do some serious thinking. Some people will tell you nobody knows what they're doing and that that's fine and normal! Maybe it is. However, I can tell you that I do not like it. A few months ago I was dead set on leaving University, I hated it. However, I managed to pull back through and everybody said to me 'But you haven't got long left! There's no point quitting now!'. I can see where these people are coming from but every day feels like a week when you're unhappy with what you're doing. As lovely as my friends are, I can't stay for their sake either. So what now? Where do I go? What do I do? I'm not sure. Maybe I stay here and let it all work itself out for another year. Maybe I go home and find something else to. Maybe I just have a bath and watch a sad film and feel a little better.

Anyway, sorry for that emotional rant, normal blog posts will resume soon. I don't tend to share things like this on my blog but I do think it's important.

Thanks For Reading.

Becky x

Hello You Lovely Lot!

It's that time again, time for you to all hear the music I've bee loving! For some reason I've been a bit funny with music this week. Normally I add songs to my monthly playlists every few days but for some reason for most of February I didn't add many and got really bored of the ones that were on there. I eventually added to it and fell in love with the last few songs and haven't listened to the first half of this playlist in a while. However, either way, they were songs I loved in February.

Here's the playlist from this time last year...

Geek in the Pink - Geek in the Pink (Single) - Jason Mraz
The Sound - The Sound (SIngle) - The 1975
PILLOWTALK - PILLOWTALK (Single) - ZAYN
No Words - #3 (Deluxe Version_ - The Script
Call Your Girlfriend - Body Talk - Robyn
Boy Without A Car - Wake Up (Deluxe) - The Vamps
Hymn For The Weekend - A Head Full Of Dreams - Coldplay
Somebody Else - Somebody Else (Single) - The 1975
Wrapped Around Your Finger - Don't Stop (EP)- 5 Seconds of Summer
Army - Delirium (Deluxe) - Ellie Goulding
Bitter Sweet Symphony - Urban Hymns - The Verve

and so, without further ado, let's move on to this year!

F.E.A.R. - Music Of The Spheres - Ian Brown

My Dad actually got me in to this. he showed me the music video and pointed out that the lyrics always spell 'FEAR'. For example, the first line is 'For Each A Road' and so on and so on, you get the idea. I just think it's super clever. It's also just a rally good song even if that wasn't a thing.

Favourite Lyric : 'Forget everything and remember, for everything a reason'

Feeling A Moment - The Singles - Feeder

I have liked this song for a few years and this is one of the only few songs I know. Dad got me in to them again and after discovering that I would actually be going to see them live at the end of March I decided to delve a bit deeper in to their music. I ended up just falling back in love with this song because I think it's incredible. I think I might even cry when i ehar it live, but I do that with most concerts.

Favourite Lyric : 'Don't ever feel that you're alone, I'd never let you down'

Misery Business - RIOT! - Paramore

I was never a huge Paramore fan when i was a kid, I only knew two songs which I did love but I don't know why i never fell head over heels for them. I reckon I was trying to be cool at that age and Paramore didn't seem cool? I don't know. Either way, Dodie (doddleoddle on YouTube) did an acoustic mashup with her friends quite a while ago and this was one of the songs that was included. I always forgot to look around for it but eventually I did and I loved this song so much!

Favourite Lyric : 'She's got it out for me but I wear the biggest smile'

Drink Up - a girl a bottle a boat - Train

I was listening to old Train songs a while ago and discovered they had new music. I was obsessed with this song but a few days but it still deserves it's place here. Train just write some of the catchiest songs I have to say. I have yet to really listen to the rest of the album so maybe a review is in order? I don't know. Either way, this is pretty good!

Favourite Lyric : 'I got memories on tap, drink up'

Must Get Out - Songs About Jane - Maroon 5

I really miss the old Maroon 5 I have to say. I found this on a playlist called 'Singing Loud in the Car' by Zoella. I hadn't heard this song but it is from the same album as the old classics like She Will Be Loved. I think this is just such a lovely song and it's probably the one I used to play most from this playlist.

Favourite Lyric : 'There's only so much I can do for you after all of the things you put me through'

People Keep Talking - People Keep Talking - Hoodie Allen

I think i said this in my last playlist post but I go through phases with Hoodie Allen. I'm currently not in a phase and haven't listened to him in a while but this was one of the songs I used to love when I went through my phase in February. I think I literally used to have this on repeat. It wasn't one that I had heard before because I hadn't listened to this album too much before February. However, I think it's become a staple in the list of Hoodie songs that I love

Favourite Lyric : 'I never may get that cover of the Rolling Stones, didn't fit the vibe they were going for'

F*** Apologies - Mad Love. - JoJo ft Wiz Khalifa

If I'm going to be honest, I really don't like this song anymore. It was one of those songs that I played again and again until I got sick to the back teeth of it. It came out a while ago and Natalie made me listen to it. I loved it but forgot all about it until February. I do however, still like the message that it gives off. It's not always necessary to say sorry if someone has done you wrong. Feel like I can relate to that quite a bit.

Favourite Lyric : 'Honestly, I was just about to pick up the phone...and then I realised that I didn't do nothing wrong'

Act My Age - People Keep Talking - Hoodie Allen

This is another one that I hadn't heard before February but after I fell in love with other songs on the album I decided I would listen to the whole thing. I think when it turns to March I forget all about the songs from the months previous playlist because I haven't listened to this in weeks! I think Hoodie just comes up with such catchy songs. He's not anything like the music I usually love but I love him all the same.

Favourite Lyric : 'I liked her pic on Instagram, one day she hit me back'

Who's Laughing Now - Who You Are - Jessie J

I think I will always love this song but in February I really rekindled my love for it. I feel like I can relate to it quite easily so maybe that's why I feel such a strong connection towards it. I haven't listened to any new Jessie J stuff (if there even is any new stuff?). I went through a phase a few years ago of loving her and I even went to see her perform live once! In my opinion this is one of her best songs and a song I loved it throughout February.

Favourite Lyric : 'Have you forgotten how you would make me feel when you dragged my spirits down?'

Car Radio - Vessel - Twenty One Pilots

I first heard this on a FineBros video, not that I remember which one. I really liked it but didn't bother to look for it on Spotify. I then heard it when I was waiting for Busted to come on stage and I knew I had to find it when I got home. So that's exactly what I did and throughout February I loved it. I don't know many TOP songs, only the ones that have been in the charts (also I know Goner thanks to Doddleoddle). However, songs like this make me think I should listen to them more because I love this!

Favourite Lyric : 'My lungs will fill and then deflate'

Little Lion Man - Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons

I had never really listened to much Mumford and Sons but I obviously knew of them (as I think most British people do). I'm not even sure what type of music you would class it as...country? Folk? Pop? Who knows?! However, I know that I love this song. It's so very sweet but also completely heartbreaking at the same time. I think this might just be one of my favourite songs ever, it's THAT good. Towards the end of February I remember getting slightly bored with the songs on my playlist but this was one that stood the test of time.

Favourite Lyric : 'It was your heart on the line, I really fucked it up this time...didn't I my dear?'

You Don't Know Me - You Don't Know Me (Single) - Jax Jones ft Raye

Me and Jack were obsessed with this song for a while and would sing it around the house all the time. I think my obsession with it first started when i was dancing to it with my friends from English Literature and we were meant to be doing work. After that we went mad for it. It's totally different from the music I normally go for but honestly I would listen to it on repeat again and again and I couldn't help myself.

Favourite Lyric : 'Do you want a drink? Nah, thanks for asking.'

Human - Human - Rag'n'Bone Man

I think that this man is incredible. I was listening to another one of his songs, skin, the other day and I was amazed. He is just something else. I think I was quite late with liking this song because he had already won a BRIT before I even knew it, does that mean I was late to the party? I need to give the other songs on this album a listen because if they're all similar to this then I'm sure I would enjoy them!

Favourite Lyric : 'I'm only human, I make mistakes'

ghost - the morning (all of the songs) - Lewis Watson

Now. I bloody love Lewis Watson. I think he might even be my favourite singer/songwriter. He writes the most beautiful songs and this is one I found recently. I can't remember if I knew this before. Basically he got rid of all of his old albums from Spotify to release this, hence why it's called 'all of the songs'. It contained all of the albums, including his newest one at the time 'the morning'. Ghost is from that album. I didn't really listen to that album when it came out for whatever reason so, with the release of his new album (review coming soon), I found it and this.

Favourite Lyric : 'I float by unnoticed by the one I loved most, the one I held closest'

So there you have it everyone! I know it's late but those are all the songs I really loved throughout February!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x

Hello You Lovely Lot!

When I first started my blog one of my favourite things to write were my favourites! I loved talking about what I'd been loving and telling everyone the things I'd found and the memories I'd shared. For some reason I really lost my way with it and so this year I am going to try and write a favourites post every month, even if I feel like I don't have many new things to write about. So, lets start as we mean to go on with my favourite things for January!


Beauty 

This month I have rediscovered my love for Nars Sheer Glow. I got given this for my birthday and I had forgotten just how much I loved it. It has amazing coverage, a lovely dewey finish and is just perfect for me. The first time I used it I was given the wrong shade and it put me off it for around a year. However, I have now discovered that I am Mont Blanc and I am obsessed with it. I have been trying to not use this every day but when I use my drugstore foundation now there's just no comparison. A holy grail for makeup in my eyes.




The past few weeks have brought with them an obsession with Fruit Infuser Bottles. Me and Jack bought one each from Home Bargains in the hope of being slightly more healthy. Ever since then we have filled the infuser with frozen fruit every day and drinking like 3 bottles full of water every day! it just makes the water have a little kick to it and makes me want to drink much more water! I've even been tracking my water intake on an app to check I've had enough, is that sad?




Music

I do a whole separate blog post every month on the music I've been listening to and it wont be long until that's out. However, this month I have re-discovered my love for Hoodie Allen. I go through stages with him and don't listen to him for ages and then all of a sudden I find him again and listen to his music all the time. The last time I went off him was because I didn't like the new album but I have learned to love it and so this month, he takes pride of place here.




Film

I'm really bad for films. I hate watching films that I haven't seen before (unless they're at the cinema) because I don't know if I'll like them but Jack usually persuades me to watch them. This month was the month that me and Jack watched Trainspotting for the first time. I then had to come home and me and Dad decided that we would go and watch T2 Trainspotting at the cinema. I cannot describe how good it was. I love Ewan McGregor so most things with him in will win me over! I felt like I'd also waited the 20 years that everyone else had waited even though I'd only seen the first one a few days prior...



TV

Me and Jack watch all sorts on TV and sometimes we just find ourselves watching the weirdest things. One evening Jack asked me if I wanted to watch Bob's Burgers and I agreed. Nicole had told me that she didn't like it so I just never bothered watching it. For whatever reason I just fell in love with it. It's a programme that's funny but not too tongue in cheek. Sometimes I find things like Family Guy a bit too risky and so I tend to stay away from them but this is all of the laughter in a nice way. We've even series recorded it because we love it so much.




Photo

I have two favourite photos from this month but they're both from the same day so that counts right? The first photo is this one..


Next Month?

Very early next month I am going to see La La Land with my friend Sandy and her flatmate (who I would also consider a friend to be honest) Lottie. I am so excited to see it because I've heard so many things about it!

I also have one of my best friends Chloe coming to visit me. She messaged me one day telling me she wanted to come up again and see me and that really warmed my heart. It's nice to know that you are appreciated and missed when you're apart from someone!

I'm seeing Jack Whitehall on the 10th which is super exciting. I love seeing comedians live and Jack Whitehall is one of my favourites. I'm driving down to Leeds with Natalie for it and spending the rest of that weekend at home which is always appreciated.

Then one week later I'm seeing Busted! They're playing Rock City which is a small venue and I'm really happy about it because it'll be a lot more intimate I guess? If 3AM is not on the playlist though I will flip my lid because some of you may know that 3AM is one of my favourite songs of all time.



There you go everyone! I loved writing this and I'm already excited to write next months post! I hope you've enjoyed this blog post.

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x

Hello You Lovely Lot!

Another year, another playlist. I am so glad I started doing these because it's just so easy to then find songs I want to listen to! A lot of these songs were added quite late because I haven't listened to too much music this month?! I don't know why! Some of these songs are old songs too, there isn't many new ones or new discoveries.

Here's what I was listening to last year...

The Girl is Mine - The Girl is Mine (Single) - 99 Souls
Stevie Knows - Never Been Better - Olly Murs
Army - Delirium - Ellie Goulding
Lovestruck - Meet The Vamps - The Vamps
Same Old Love - Revival - Selena Gomez
Hands To Myself - Revival - Selena Gomez
Youth - If You Leave - Daughter
Focus - Focus (Single) - Ariana Grande
Stitches - Handwritten - Shawn Mendes
WILD - Blue Neighbourhood - Troye Sivan
Never Forget You - Never Forget You (Single) - MNEK & Zara Larsson
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Get Born - Jet
Grown - Get Weird - Little Mix
Drops of Jupiter - Drops of Jupiter (Single) - Train
Fix You - X&Y - Coldplay
Heroes - Heroes - David Bowie
Under Pressure - Hot Space - Queen & David Bowie
Stop and Stare - Dreaming Out Loud - One Republic
Last Nite - Is This It - The Strokes
The Sound - The Sound (Single) - The 1975
All Star - All Star Smash Hits - Smash Mouth

I can promise that this months playlist is nowhere near as long as that! Either way, here it is...

Details in the Fabric - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. - Jason Mraz & James Morrison

I haven't listened to this song much this month but I found it right at the end of last month and so right at the start of the month I put it on the playlist. I found this song when I was in a really bad way and it got me through some tougher days. It's so simple and beautiful and makes me cry most of the  time. I haven't felt so sad that I've had to listen to it this month which i guess is a positive! However, I do love it and I'm glad I found it!

Favourite Lyric : 'If it's a broken part replace, if it's a broken arm then brace it, if it's a broken heart then face it'

Those Days Are Gone - Night Driver - Busted

I LOVE this song. When this album first came out I wasn't sure because obviously it's different to old Busted. Yet the more I listen to it the more I love it. When they first put up a link to this song I thought that it was going to be just like old Busted because it starts with just a piano and them. I got so excited and then half way through it turned in to something more electronic and to begin with I was a bit gutted because as we all know I love a sad song. The more I listened to it the more I fell in love. Putting these sad lyrics to a cheerful beat means I find myself dancing around to thought of letting people and memories go because those days are gone.

Favourite Lyric : 'It's a lonely place without you here. I wish that you would just reappear'

Castle on the Hill - Castle on the Hill (Single) - Ed Sheeran

I am a huge Ed Sheeran fan and so when he brought out not one but two singles I went wild. This is my favourite of the two because it's a bit more my style I guess? Ed Sheeran never fails to write good songs and this blew me away. I also love the video and I won't even lie, it made me cry the first time I watched it. Now the songs makes me cry if I'm in the right mood. It just makes me think about going home and seeing all my friends!

Favourite Lyric : 'Driving at 90 down those country roads, singing to 'Tiny Dancer''

Shape of You - Shape of You (Single) - Ed Sheeran 

This is the other single that he brought out and to begin with I wasn't sure about it. It's just not the music I would usually listen to but I gave it a go because it's Ed Sheeran. I slowly but surely came around and realised that it's a brilliant song. He announced a tour and I'm hoping to get tickets because I can just imagine how good this will be when it's played live!

Favourite Lyric : 'We talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour and how you family is doing ok'

Dumb - Straight Outta Oz - Todrick Hall

I used to love this album and this was one of my favourites. When I was driving back to Liverpool I was looking for albums that I had downloaded because I didn't have any data and this was one of them. If you know nothing about this album then basically it's songs written about Todricks life and they all have a Wizard of Oz theme which I think is SO clever. I rediscovered my love for this song this month and the lyrics are really clever too. If you haven't heard any of these songs then there's a visual album on YouTube which is amazing!

Favourite Lyric : 'Tweedledum is what they call it if you ask Alice'

If I Had A Heart - Straight Outta Oz - Todrick Hall 

It's not hard to see how this one links with The Wizard of Oz. This is such a beautiful song that I actually wasn't sure if I liked when I first listened to it. I'm not quite sure if its like a heartbreak song, a sassy song or a love song? Either way it's gorgeous.

Favourite Lyric : 'This heart was paper thin, but it will never break again'

Are U Having Any Fun? - Happy Camper - Hoodie Allen & Meghan Tonjes

I go through stages with Hoodie Allen and I speak all about him in my January favourites but basically this is one of the times where I can't get enough of him. I used to not like this album and so that was the reason I went off him the last time but I was just listening to 'James Franco' (which is also great but I can only find it on YouTube, what's that all about?). Then YouTube does that thing that it does and takes you on to other videos and this is one of the videos I ended up on. I think this video is so clever, it's like a game? I think it's based on GTA but I'm not 100% sure. Either way it got me hooked on the song!

Favourite Lyric : 'Might become a chef the way these motherfuckers grilling me, meanwhile I got every Will Smith CD'

So Close to Happiness - Happy Camper - Hoodie Allen

This is a new discovery for me because after I discovered that I liked 'Are U Having Any Fun?' and that it was from this album I thought I would give some more songs a go. I have yet to listen to the whole album but this is one song I found that I loved. I don't know what it is about Hoodie Allen that I love so much but I think this song is one of my favourite songs by him even though I've only just found it.

Favourite Lyric : I guess I'm scared if I accomplish all my dreams then the only thing left to do would be to talk about me and I don't wanna do that

All About It - People Keep Talking - Hoodie Allen & Ed Sheeran

Now I loved Hoodie Allen way before this song and so when i saw it I went crazy because obviously, I love Ed Sheeran. Hoodie's song are just so catchy and even though it's not the music I would usually listen to and is so far from everything else I love, there's just something about it!

Favourite Lyric : 'I just wanna leak shit...what?...not literally leak shit, wanna push the music through the speakers'

Movie - People Keep Talking - Hoodie Allen

I feel like there's not too much more I can say about how much I love Hoodie Allen because this is the fourth song of his that's on this playlist. This is one song that i never used to listen to but for some reason last year I started to love it more and more and recently it's come back! With Hoodie I tend to listen to the songs I know when I fall back in love with him again and after last year this was definitely on the list!

Favourite Lyric : 'These other rappers are like how come they can't get to where I did? Vring Vring, here come Johnny homie I'm shining


So there you have it everyone! Another monthly playlist done and dusted!

Thanks For Reading!

Becky x