10 Things #3

I know it has been soooooo long that I have posted one of these, but I have been doing/using the same things so much that I didn't have anything new or interesting to show to you... until now!

1. I am booking myself a holiday (hopefully this week) with my Uni to go to Fuertaventura and I am so so so excited for the Summer! (Praying for a tan)!

2. Along with this holiday fun, I was thinking about bikinis all over again, and I LOVE Triangl bikinis so much! I have had one before, and the neoprene is just amazing! Worth investing - they are a tad expensive...

3. Following a theme of beaches and salt... Salt Spray from Toni & Guy is so good and it smells divine! I have used a number of different salt sprays but so far, this one has won me over! 

4. I had my nails done 2 weeks ago using O.P.I gel nails, and they are still in perfect condition after 2 weeks. So if anyone wants to know of a good gel nail polish that lasts, it's this one! 

5. The song that keeps me feeling happy and loving to dance is Lush Life, as it is so happy and bouncy, you can't not enjoy it. 

6. On nights out I struggle with the eyeliner job, and so found a really awesome product that makes it a lot easier for me as it is a thinner pen and goes on smoothly and not like a gush of liquid.

7. In this cold weather, my lips are dying for moisture, and I found Vaseline doesn't work as well as Nivea really, so you guys should honestly try this! (Plus it smells delicious).

8. Victoria Secret body mists always get me feeling like I'm on some beach out in the tropical areas and not actually stuck in a small room listening to a lecturer! My favourite one so far is this.

9. My room is so tiny, I needed some fragrance to make it feel fresh and open-aired, (if that is possible). So i purchased a diffuser that smells so clean and florally and just reminds me of memories. I don't know if it is available as a diffuser now, but every time it hits winter, this fragrance is brought out again!

10. I recently purchased a skirt that I normally wouldn't bother wearing, and I think I actually love it. I am a changed person! It is mainly going to be worn on nights out I think...

When Technology Takes Over...

Recently, I was clumsy and left my phone in a taxi and thought I would never see that phone again. (Thankfully, it was kept at the taxi base, so it was only 2 days without it)! Yet, it made me realise how much I rely on a phone in day-to-day life, which actually kinda worried me. In all honesty, it just made me have a really bad time out when I had just lost my phone. However, I coped quite well without it! Yes, I did miss the easy ability of checking on Instagram and just setting alarms for the mornings, and also the ability to just message someone asking where to meet etc, but I really wasn't desperate to go on a phone just to sit there scrolling through 'Facebook' watching pointless videos.

I sat at the dinner table with my flatmates, realising they were all just possessed by these phones, with no ability to socialise for about 5 minutes, without picking up their phone to just watch something pointless. I am personally a person who gets tired or agitated by technology. The way people will text, then send a message via 'Facebook' or 'WhatsApp' then also send a 'Snapchat' - because as if one message isn't enough to just contact someone eh?

When I meet an individual who feels the same, who tires of people messaging 24/7, it gives me hope that at least not all young people are obsessed with technology and phones. You start missing the bigger picture in life if all you do is dedicate your life and soul to a tiny bright screen. Yeah - I still have a phone, they are obviously very useful for communicating with people, but I know now that I really don't need to have a phone on me 24/7 to make it through a day.

Therefore, I challenge people reading this, to see if you can last a day without picking up that phone of yours, and just plan a day of doing something productive! See how many days you can last maybe? I lasted 2, and in all honesty, I won't be using my phone much at all from now on as you started missing out on real life!

New Year - New Inspiration

(Stolen from Tumblr again)

So it has come to that time of the year again where people start claiming to eat healthy and never pick up anything containing sugar again! - We all know your lying to yourselves. Yet I do feel like I could, at least, increase my intake of fruit and vegetables and eat less meat - (I think I ate meat at least twice a day). I purchased myself a NutriBullet, praying it will solve my dilemmas, but also exercise is a MUST in order to feel healthy. A YouTube video I recently watched by Kalel helped me get an insight on what you really need to do/eat in order to just be that little bit healthier, without going extreme and purchasing silly diet products.

Following from this, I am constantly seeing people advertising how amazing Juice Plus is. After researching more into it, it just appears to be the most unhealthy way of losing weight for the 'Summer Body'. It seems to just constantly tell you to drink a juice as a solid food replacement and then you will be thin. My friends have all gone through the phase of just drinking juiced vegetables and fruits and have dramatically lost weight within weeks/months. However, you eventually have to stop this liquid-only diet and it eventually leads to the person over-eating as much as they can as they haven't eaten solid foods in weeks. There is not great diet to follow, as no matter what, you'll get bored and go back to the usual ways. The perfect solution is just to do some exercise regularly, (preferably daily - even just for 3-5 mins), and to eat less sugar and fat and more vegetables. Don't cut out sugar and fat completely - treat yourself occasionally. It is your life and body, so don't feel the need to punish yourself by withdrawing all food that you enjoy just for you to fit into an outfit for a few weeks in the Summer.

The best video that has inspired me would honestly be the video by Kalel, which just let me realise that cutting down the meat amount will help a lot more, as I don't need to eat meat twice a day!

Learn to love yourself and just enjoy experimenting with different foods! :)

Daily Journal

I have decided to start off my year being slightly more organized and prepared! The Daily Journal I purchased from UO just looked like the perfect item to help me with this goal. I'm mainly using it to write down creative thoughts or ideas that I will probably, knowing me, forget within the next hour! Also, being a student, I seem to be running out of money quite rapidly, and so I am hoping I can write in what I've purchased - maybe then I can at least save? (Hopefully)!

I'm hoping this may inspire others to do the same, as I'm missing the simple things of writing and jotting down random ideas in colorful inks and doodling a silly picture in the corner! Don't you? 

If there any other really good notebooks/journals out there, let me know!! As this journal always becomes out of stock the minute they restock it!

Hope you have a good new year and dust away those cobwebs for a fresh start in 2016!