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

I want to have a little rant...

Bonsoir chumps,

I wasn't planning on writing a blog post today, but something that was said to me earlier in school has really stuck in my mind and really annoyed / upset me so I thought I'd inform you on it.

I was speaking to my maths teacher - (always a mistake) about GCSE's and life after them etc and I said that, although it is very important that I pass my maths exam, I said it wouldn't be the be all and end all of my life if I didn't.

Said teacher then went on and told me about how "you can't get a good job without it" and "you wouldn't get into any university" and "you will never earn enough money to live off without it"

While this did annoy me, this isn't the point I'm making. He then went on to ask me to name a job where you don't need a maths GCSE, to which I replied "A youtuber?"

This I knew immidietly was a mistake because teachers / the older generation don't understand what this is, though surprisingly he had actually heard of Zoella. This is still not what annoyed me, what really upet me and made me really re-consider my opinion on teachers was the comment that came next he said, and I quote this:

"like you could ever earn enough money to live off youtube"

I know full well that he most likely didn't intend to mean it in the way that he did, but that fact that he also went on to say how "it's not a proper job" "you can't make money from that" "you'd only do that if you where a bit thick" just made me wonder, at what point did the whole 'teacher's supporting their students' thing end.

I also realise how he wouldn't understand what youtube is properly, but the fact that he continued to slate it after I'd explained what it is upset me a little.

I don't really know what the point I'm trying to make here is, but I just really don't think that it is okay for a teacher to tell a student that they're not going to become what they want when they leave school, is that not the complete wrong message that adults are putting across to students?

I do understand that it is ridiculously unlikely that I could ever become a youtuber - but the fact that he said I couldn't makes me want to prove a point that I could..

I don't really know what I'm trying to say other then you go after whatever you want.

Do not let anybody tell you that you can't because you can.

It doesn't matter what you're maths teacher thinks ;)

See y'all soon!! Mx

It depends which way you look

Bonjour (That's hello for all you none French folk;)

 I was walking with my brother the other day, and it was very sunny and spring like and I looked around for a while, and where I live (though I'm lucky to live in a nice area) in general gets a very bad reputation, and I was in the centre of a very busy park (imagine it as the central park of Hull, though not quite as big. Or nice. So not really like that at all) and I was watching the world go by. Everyone was so busy and people weren't really appriciated that it was a nice day with actual warmth in the sun for the first time in about nine months.

I took this opportunity to (again) take several pictures, I've chosen a few that I think show it off best:)

These where taken at Beverley Westwood, and East Park in Hull, the majority of you won't know where they are, but that's okay, just know that when people say that all of Hull (and the surrounding area) is run down and grotty, they don't know where to look. My brother said something to me as we crossed the bridge over the water, because as you look out one way, it's muddy grass and wasteland, but when you look across the other way there's tree's just coming into blossom and the water that looks like it glitters in the sun, and Harry said "look at that, it's like life, there's good and bad, it just depends which way you turn your head." I though that was a pretty deep analysis for a twelve year old.

Also bare in mind that I'd just got back from New York City when I took these pictures, so the contrast was astounding, but although I miss it like crazy, and I'd give anything to go back, this is my home town, and it always will be ;)

See you all soon chums ;)

M x

It's been a while

Hi Guys! 

It's been a while, as I'm sure you're all aware, but I wanted to start this blog up again and actually keep on top of it because blogging is something I love doing, it's just finding the time.

So as I'm sure many of you guys are aware last week I went to New York City and it was honestly one of the best weeks of my life! I had such a good time, I saw so many amazing and moving things and I'd do it all again without thinking about it.

This post isn't going to have a deep and thoughtful meaning, I just wanted to share my experience with you guys on the internet in a way that wasn't a video or an instagram post, so I thought back to my blog and well that's what I'm doing!

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So I was out and about on the streets of Manhattan for six days, and in those six days I took a considerable amount of photos, I'm not going to share them all with you, or I'd probably double the capacity of the internet, I'll just show you my favourites:

 These are just a couple of my favourites!
Whilst I was there I learned a lot, and not specifically educational, it's a different lifestyle completely over there, especially compared to me who lives in a tiny town in suburban England, it was a really different way of life and I loved it! So to anyone reading out there in the US, believe me when I say you do it different over there (you definitely do pancakes better!!) But I had such an amazing week and I really want to share that with the internet, whether you care or not, because I think blogging and youtube is an amazing way to look back on the best memories, because often the best memories are the ones you don't know you're making!

So I'll see you around very soon chums!

M 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 :)