10 Things to love about October:

Hello guys! 

Would you look at that, I'm actually posting to my blog again!

Anyway, as I'm sure you are aware, it is now October! Which other than the obvious (Halloween etc) it means only one thing: CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

October is my favourite month of the year for many reasons, so I thought I'd share with you rabid readers my top 10:

1) It's my birthday!

Now this might not be relatable for all of you, as you're obviously not all born in October, but my birthday is October 20th and I'm super excited as this year it's my 16th! I'm having my sweet sixteenth! I don't know how I've got to be 16, the last two years have been a crazy blur, but yeah, that's coming up and I'm so excited!

2)Hull Fair.

 Just before that my local city have a fair. I'm sure a lot of you are aware by now that I live just outside of Hull (Kingston upon Hull) in the North East of England, and in the second or third week in October Hull fair comes to town! Basically it's full of rides and stalls and food and loud music and basically it's the place to be and it's the centre of attention for most of October, and once Hull fair is over you know Christmas is on the way! I'll be vlogging it this year if you're not getting what I mean, this is a photo taken there last year:

3) Autumn walks.

One of my favourite things to do in October is go for walks, because it's warm enough to be outside, as long as you're quite wrapped up, but it's cold enough for it to feel like Winter is on the way, and I love this especially because the colours are so vivid that I love taking photo's and now I have my Canon I'll be out there snapping away!

4) Youtube.

Autumn themed YouTube videos are one of my favourite things, I'm guilty of uploading them, yes they're everywhere, but I love it! They're so festive and Christmas is creeping into all of them! Recently I've been loving Eve Bennett's Autumn themed videos, as well as Zoe's - obviously.

5) Travelling.

During the month of October there is a half term (in England at least) meaning I get a week off school, which is always amazing, but I usually go away during this week, even if it's just for day trips or down to London, but this year I'm going to Nice, France, with school, and I'm flying for the first time on my own (Without my parents) which I'm so excited for! It's been years since I went to Monte Carlo, so I can't wait for that!! (And yes I will be vlogging it!)

6) Starbucks:

This might sound like an odd one, but in late September Starbucks bring their Autumn drinks out, and I love how 'instagramable' their cups are, the Spiced Latte is one of my favourites! If you happen to find yourself in a Starbucks, I'd definitely recommend it!

7) Halloween!

How did I get to 7 without mentioning Halloween? Halloween is one of the most exciting times of the year, and probably the most memorable October event, especially if you live out in the US, I was really kindly sent this Snow White Costume by a lovely company called Smiffys, and I'm super excited to get use out of it! 

Their link: https://www.smiffys.com/?gclid=CjwKEAjw1riwBRD61db6xtWTvTESJACoQ04QabCFA_NE9js4CuTHziHmWpEWTsriVDzO2avqxSdMkhoCzArw_wcB

8) Skincare:

I feel like Superdrug and The Body Shop and other skin care places really get into Autumn products throughout October, and MrBeanBody really kindly sent me their coffee body scrub which not only smells amazing but keeps your skin super soft and in good condition, as the colder weather hits it's important to keep hydrated! I'd really recommend it!

Their link: http://america.mrbeanbodycare.com/

9) Fairy Lights:

I'm a huge lover of lights, I don't know if you'd noticed, but I feel like coloured fairy lights are acceptable to be brought back around this time of year, even though I've been using them all year, October feels a good time to really start wopping the fairy lights out and snuggling up to YouTube in the dark

10) Dark nights:

That leads me to my last love of the month: Dark Nights. October is when the clocks go back, meaning cosy nights in officially begin. Don't get me wrong I love summer nights, being able to go out after school and having longer days, but there's something about shutting the curtains and closing the world out and snuggling down to Netflix and a cosy candle with the family, it's just something special about this time of year and I love it! Especially when Christmas films start creeping onto the television!

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I hope this has inspired you to consider reasons why you love October, I feel like that's when the drastic change to "winter happens".

If you, like me, have your birthday this month then Happy Birthday month! 

I shall see you all next Friday for another post!

Much Love!

M x

My Autumn Essentials...

Hey guys! 

Longggg time no blog (who noticed the Jim Chapman reference?)

As I'm sure you're all aware, whether it be from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter or wherever, Autumn is upon us again! This makes me so so crazy excited, because everything exciting happens in Autumn (including this year my 16th Birthday!) The nights get darker, there air gets colder, "sweater weather" becomes a thing and everything becomes a lot more photogenic! I'm so excited! 

I thought I'd share with you my Autumn essentials today, as it's been a while without a blog post and I promised myself I'd use it more so these are my Autumn essentials:

First up is a dark lipstick, I feel this is a pretty staple thing to have, everyone has personal favourites, mine is MAC in the shade - Media. I really love this as its a deep dark purple with an undertone of Red. It's a lustre finish and I really like this! 

The second photo is an Autumnal shade nailvarnish. For me I can't actually wear nail varnish all that often because I'm in school most of the time and my school are overly tight with rules on nail varnish so it's just not worth it. But these are the ones I'm wearing on the weekends. 

First on the left is Rimmel London in 320 Rapid Ruby, the next is one by Fearne Cotton, in the colour Heart Ache and the last one is a leather look from Claire's accessories, and this doesn't have a name (why would you do that Claires?!) I'm also really loving white nails at the moment too, as you'll see if you watched my last video!

My next Autumn and Winter must is a good pair of boots! I picked these ones up today and these are from New Look, I love the tarten turn ups on these, I don't know if you can see because of the way I've edited the photo but they have two layers of fabric and they lace up half way. Also skinny jeans tuck in really nicely. I'm super excited to wear these whilst walking over leaves and snow!

A defitinate favourite for the winter months is a warm drink in a cute mug. Yes you saw this right, this mug has Santa's on it. But heyyy, it's almost October, Santa's pretty much on his way... right?  

I love having hot chocolate on cold nights, and this is my favourite mug ever for the winter time as it says "dear Santa, define nice?" and I just think this is really cute and quite me. This is just from Primark. 

Another thing from this photo that I love is my new mustard jumper, I won't go into depths as it featured in my most recent video but it's from H&M

My last Autumn essential that I think is crucial is a good pair of Slippers and / or fluffy socks. These are my absolute favourites at the moment as they're so warm and snug and look cute with everything. These were £3 from Primark and I'll definitley be purchasing another pair before Winter is over!

That's everything I have to share with you today! I hope that you too are feeling the Autumn vibes, I know I really am! I love this time of year as everything exciting happens and while it might be quite early, there is a whisper of Christmas on the horizon, after all, it's three months today!

I hope this inspired some of you as these are all affordable Autumn items (nice illiteration there Molly) that are great for everyone!

From now on I'm going to be writing a blog post every Friday at 7pm!

See you then! It'd be nice to see any feedback!

See you soon!

M x

My Summer Favourites So Far...

Helloooo;)

I've decided to re-vamp my blog a little, as it's something I really want to get into more and after watching Alfie Deyes' 90 day challenge this was the first thing that sprung to mind!

After having a little think I chose to do a blog post on my Summer Favourites, I was going to make a video but I don't really have a spare week and I also think that this is a good post to start this back off!

So I'm going to start off with some beauty favourites, because they're my overall general life favourites!

So my ultimate makeup favourite this month has definitely been eyeshadow, as I haven't been at school recently, I've had a lot of time to experiment with different colours. I bought myself a sleek palette, something that I'd wanted for ages. This is the Au Natural palette, my favourite colours are Toast (Top Right) and Moss (Second on the Left on the bottom Row) This was only £8 and definitely worth the money! 

I've also really been loving not wearing foundation, but my skin isn't perfect so I've been using a higher coverage concealer, the Collection Lasting Perfection in the Shade 3, Medium, I love it! However it's a little too dark for me now as when I bought it I clearly had more of a tan!

Finally (in this picture) I re-discovered the Benefit They're real, and as I have an eye makeup remover that can bring it off properly now (as I had simple I struggled getting it all off) I really like it and it definitley is one of my favourite high end mascara's, I have three! Oops:) 

Starting with the picture on the Top Left, I've really been enjoying Lush this summer, as they've released a whole new range as they brought out their Oxford Street Range, originally exclusive to Oxford Street (which I was lucky enough to visit and I can say is HUGEE!) However now has been brought to all stores, The two in this picture are the Bath Bomb 'Intergalactic' and the Bubble Bar 'Big Bang' that make the best combination together to make the Bath the most vivid shade of Blue!

The Skirt in the next picture is my favourite item of clothing this month, it's nothing particularly exciting as it's only from Primark, but this looks so nice with a plain white top and as it's summer I'm slightly tanned it looks really nice with tanned legs. I think this would also look amazing on a beach somewhere, but if you dress it up with heels it's also quite going out-y

As for skincare, my favourites at the moment is the Clinique Take the Day off Eye Makeup remover, this literally takes off everything, literally any eye makeup, it's more of an oil then a liquid and I think that's why it works so well! I've also really been loving the Simple Clenser and Toner, they where actually the first two I've tried and I can't see myself ever changing it up! They're amazing:)

The last image are my lip favourites, I've been loving these two together! The lipstick is the YSL in Number 17, Rose Dahlia, and the lipgloss is Urban Decay Naked in the colour Sesso, these two together make such a gorgeous orange based pink colour which I think goes perfectly for summer and also matches the skirt really well! 

These are just my random favourites of the Summer, The Body Wash if by The Body Shop, in the Scent (is that what you'd call it) Satsuma, and I'm not always the biggest fan of Orange, but I love this! It's so summery and perfect, when I get in the shower it smells like Hawaii (not that I've ever been, but how I imagine it to smell) it's also really moisturising!

The necklace and sunglasses are just accessories, also from Primark, I spoke about them in a Haul Video of mine a while back so I won't go on, but I just think the necklace is so pretty and adds detail to any plain top, which I really like, I also love how it's not too over the top. The sunglasses where a brave buy for me, as I didn't know how well I could pull of circular sunglasses without just looking like either Harry Potter or John Lennon, but I actually really like how they look and Primark Sunglasses are soooo affordable!

Finally, the Nail Varnish is by BarryM in the Shade 'Mediterranean' which changes between Pink and Gold in different lights, this is just the final add to any outfit and I love how shiny and gliterry it looks yet still feeling smooth! BarryM is always a win for nail varnish 

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That's basically everything, I'm sorry if that feels sort of rushed but I didn't want to go on and on haha. Let me know in the comments or on my Instagram what you think of me restarting my blog up!

I'll be sure to see you all soon!

Much love, Molly x

The Stars

Hi Guys! 

Welcome to my blog!

If you're my friend or know me in real life, a few rules:

1) Please don't bring this up, it'll make me feel awkward

2) Please don't scream about it in school, it'll make me feel awkward

3) Please continue to read if you happen to know about it, your support means a lot!

If you don't know me in real life, hello, my name's Molly and this is my blog. I'm going to be sharing with you general stories from my life, pictures of what I've been doing (as an excuse to take yet more pictures then I already do) and other things that take my fancy really.

This post is going to be about a thought that occurred to me at 3AM the other night when I was dangling out of my best friends attic looking at the sky. As you do.

My friend has 4 floors in her house, and on the top there's just a tiny little attic room. The two of us where up there in the middle of the night just talking about life. It was in no way the best night for star gazing, as it was mainly cloudy and very cold. It's nearly the end of December after all. The two of us being the people that we are we where having a very in depth conversation about how we view the sky.

The sky, at first glance, appeared so dark that we were unable to see anything at all, not even the rooftops and chimneys straight opposite, but after a while, once our eyes had adjusted, everything was pretty much clear. At that moment, the two of us could not see a single other human being. For all we knew we could have been the last two on the planet. The very last. For there was nothing at all in our view that showed signs of human life.

It was this that lead us to our conversation on how we see the sky. We both agreed that you could look at it as an immense amount of freedom, a portal that held nothing but the unknown. It literally is a never ending blackness and it's up to you to imagine what's out there. When you look at it like this it seems positive. Scary, yes, but positive, in a "the world is my oyster" type of way. 

However the longer we stood there the more I couldn't help but think, well actually, no. The sky is a blanket which is smothering earth. We're all, every single one of us, trapped under it. Trapped with murders, terrorists, ghosts (if you believe in them) and we have no escape. I stood and thought about this for a while before voicing it to Erin. She agreed and we (or maybe just I, I don't know if she thought it too) realised that no matter what the situation, may it be the sky, or life in general. There is nearly always two ways of looking at it. An opptomistic way and a pesemistic way. Your life is going to be ruled by which ever way you look at things.

That's very deep and meaningful and meaningless all at the same time but I just wanted to write it down and share it with you guys on the internet, so that you too, next time you're watching the stars can think about how there are two sides to what you're looking at.

I hope you all have an amazing christmas, wherever under the stars you are!

Molly :)