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February Favourites | 2018

I love the alliteration of the title of this post. I have not done a favourites video in a long time, usually because I'm that person who uses the same products all the time. Yet, over Christmas I've gathered a lot of new products to try out so I thought I'd share the things that I've been loving for the past while. 


I'm going to start with beauty favourites, so during Christmas I had the NYX lipstick calendar, which contained 24 NYX mini lipsticks, which I love, there's only about two or three that I would never wear. I decided to pick my three favourites from them to share with you. The first one is a butter lipstick in the shade Root Beer Float, which is a purple toned pink, but it's a dark nude colour when  on the lips. This is like a regular lipstick with a soft finish. The next lipstick is the NYX lip lingerie in the shade Exotic, which I have had a full version before and loved, this is a dark pink/red liquid lipstick, and these are my favourite liquid lipsticks I own. And the last NYX lipstick is the soft matte lip cream in the shade Copenhagen, which is a deep purple red, matte lip colour. I love that they are all minis too, so easy for travel.

The next beauty products are from Tanya Burr, I'm not too sure if they're only from her Christmas range or not. The first is a lip gloss in the shade Cranberry Melt, I'm not massively into lip glosses, but recently I've been into more subtle shades, of which this is although it looks a deep red colour. Also her nail varnish in the shade festive red, which I think the two are a good combination.


The next few things are perfume and scent related. The first one is from Zoella's Christmas range, it's a body mist aptly called Snow'ella. This body mist is very calming and smells fresh, floral and minty. I like it because it's a little subtle. The other perfume I've chosen for my favourites is Lady Million, this is the female branded version of One Million, which I love. I'm very bad at describing scents but you can click on the link if you're interested in a proper description. It's always one of my favourites and a staple scent.

   

On to other non-beauty related favourites over the past month. If I did a favourites in January my top favourite would be the Greatest Showman film and soundtrack. If you haven't seen or listened to anything from this yet, what are you doing with your life? I know there's a handful of people that dislike it, but they're wrong. The only thing I disliked was a few of the plot structure and flow, but overall, the experience, atmosphere and the production of the film was amazing. Also I absolutely love all the cast, Hugh Jackman being my favourite. The composers and lyricists who made La La Land and Dear Evan Hansen created the music for this film so you'll know straight away it's amazing. If you want to check out my cover of This Is Me, you can watch it here.

Another favourite is watching films and TV shows from DisneyLife rather than Netflix recently. If you don't know what DisneyLife is, it's a Netflix purely for Disney productions, and who doesn't love a good Disney film? It's also safe to say over the past few months that I've more than likely watched them all.

My last favourites are the Malteasers mini Teasers, which I didn't have any left for the photos, ooops. These are small versions of the Teasers bar, I think they originally come from the Christmas celebration tins. You could get these in little chocolate boxes for Valentines for which I happily received, and they are amazing and so cute.

What's everyone else's favourites been over the past month? Let me know!

Tanya Bakes | Dublin Book Signing

I'm so late with posts again I got really ill in the past week and haven't felt up to anything, it really sucks. I have a lot of posts to write and thought I'd share this one first. I'm a huge fan of Youtubers and I haven't met any of my favourite ones on any of their book signings until now. I've always tried to get tickets for book signings but I've always been too late or I didn't know it was on until the day. So when I heard Tanya Burr was coming to do a book signing of her first cook book Tanya Bakes, you can imagine my excitement that I was in time to buy tickets. My boyfriend actually surprised me with a ticket which I thought was super cute and I went along to the signing last weekend.


The signing started at half twelve and I wasn't sure what to expect. I had been in the queue since twelve and didn't think I was late queuing but it turns out I was one of the last people to turn up and didn't actually get my book signed until three o' clock. You can imagine my boredom of being in a queue for four hours for the majority by myself. I read the book in the line by myself, it's a baking book though so you can imagine that was a short read. 


The whole signing only lasted a few seconds. She signed my book, said hello and we got a selfie and I was swiftly moved along. I always find that the whole signing experience can be a very impersonal experience and it makes me feel very disconnected to someone who I've admired and wanted to meet for a long time. You get no time for any conversation which is disappointing even though you know you won't get to have a fully blown conversation. I was very happy to meet her as it's something I've been looking forward to and she was such a lovely person but I'm not sure if I'd go to another signing. It doesn't feel very worth it for the amount of time you wait for the amount of time you wait. I think it's great that so many people get to meet her and it makes a lot of people happy, but it felt organised and rushed and not that pleasant. Even though I left in a good mood after meeting her, and it's great meeting people you admire but sometimes it's not as great as you want it to be.

Has anyone ever been to a book signing like this? What's your experience with them?