my recent favourites | jan - apr

Since going back to University in January I have found a lot of new favourites, and I thought now would be the perfect time to share them with you all.

SKINCARE & MAKE-UP

For the first time in forever, I have tried out new beauty products. This is mainly because I want to start making a conscious effort to use cruelty-free products and if possible, vegan ones. I had never realised how many brands don't test on animals themselves but the larger company they are owned by are doing this or test on them in China. furthermore, I am trying to move away to other products. Glossier, my all-time favourite skincare, is cruelty-free and so are all of my new favourite skincare & make-up items. If you didn't already know, the majority of Superdrug's own products are cruelty-free so I decided to try out one of their face scrubs. NYX is now vegan-friendly as well as being a cruelty-free brand!! So I jumped on the bandwagon and tried out the 'Can't stop won't stop concealer' and wow it is amazing, my new favourite - sorry collection lasting perfection.

Glossier - Balm Dotcom in Birthday & Rose
Superdrug - Vitamin E Facial Scrub
NYX - Can't Stop Won't Stop Concealer
NYX - Tame & Frame Tinted brow pomade

FASHION

Gymshark - Everyday Jogger
Nike - Air Force 1

FILMS

Christopher Robin
Venom
The Highwaymen
Captain Marvel
Fiver Feet Apart
The Book Club

TV SHOWS

The Good Place
Chicago PD
Chicago Med
Jane the Virgin

YOUTUBE

Since going to University I have tried to watch more and more people who are also doing the same thing, and I came across Charlotte Emily. A 2nd-year Forensic Science student at the University of Lincoln. Charlotte vlogs her uni life as well as uploading to her 'main channel' which I love because you get to see both sides of her, however, I have to say my favourite thing is her vlogs - mainly because I prefer to watch them.

I also LOVE watching American youtubers who are at College, and I came across Abbey Asselin in the gals on the go facebook page and have been obsessed ever since. I came across Maggie MacDonald when another Kenzie mentioned her in a video and again, I have been obsessed ever since. It is so interesting to see the difference between a university in the UK and college in the US.

MUSIC

As you all (probably) know, I LOVE music but then again who doesn't? Since January I have already been to 3 concerts and fallen in love with some new music and some of my all time favourites also released new music! Don't forget to check out my April playlist which is linked in the sidebar, and each month that is where you will find the new playlist.

LANY - Malibu Nights
Busted - Half Way There
Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
Bea Miller & 6LACK - it's not u it's me
Lennon Stella - BITCH (takes one to know one)
Jonas Brothers
Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
The Vamps - Missing You

I have actually been home from University for 2 weeks now and have one more week left of the Easter holidays, which will consist of working Tues-Fri, watching ENDGAME (I am freaking out about it, not sure I am emotionally ready) and attempting to start my revision for my exams in May. Anyway, enough about my boring life at the moment, I hope you have enjoyed this post and thank you so much for actually reading!!

Meg x 

my autumn watch list 2018

It has been a bloody long time since I have done a 'watch list' on my blog, the last one was actually back December 2017. I thought as it is now officially my favourite season it would be the perfect time to share the things I love watching around this time of year.

TV SHOWS

Gilmore Girls
Scream Queens
Stranger Things
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
A Series of Unfortunate Events

FILMS

The Harry Potter Movie Collection

Hotel Transylvania 1-3

The Addams Family & The Addams Family Values
Twitches & Twitches Too
The Witches
Hocus Pocus
Lemony's Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Goonies

what is your favourite film or tv show to watch during this time of year?
Meg x 

My Movie Watch List | Summer 2017

I get so excited when I can share things like this, movies are my favourite things so I LOVE writing these posts. There isn't really a theme for this one, like the last 2 which were Christmas and Halloween. These are just my favourite movies at the moment, on DVD but also in the Cinema as there are some brilliant films out now or are in the process of moving from cinema to dvd.

• Edge of Seventeen
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
• Fast and Furious 8
• The Outsiders
• Descendants 2 
• Before I Fall
• Stand By Me
• Grown Ups
• Grown Ups 2
• War Dogs

When I finally got round to watching this movie I cried so much (if you know me, then you know thats normal for me), but it honestly such an amazing movie. We hadn't had a chick flick like this in so long and I needed one! The last good one I think was the Duff or LOL - which are also both brilliant movies. 

This summer Showcase Cinema is showing Stand By Me again, as in March it was 30 years since it was released in the UK. It has to be one of my favourite movies, especially for this time of year because it is all about friendship. Yes the boys go looking for a dead body, but it shows all the different aspects of friendship and general makes me happy. After I watched it for the first time last year I then understood all the Stand By Me references in Big Bang Theory that Sheldon made to Will Wheaton, as he is one of the boys in the movie along with River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell.

After 6 years my favourite movie series (apart from Marvel) finally brought out a new movie - Dead Man Tell No Tales. After the last one in 2011 I was always hoping there would be another one just so they could redeem themselves as it was honestly awful. Thank goodness but the movie was amazing and made me very happy!!

Grown Ups 1 & 2 are just movies that I can watch whenever, they will always cheer me up if needed and just generally make me smile too. I adore all of the characters and the actors they picked to play them, such as Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade. The 4 of them together just work and they make the movies so entertaining.

I hope you enjoyed this post and its great to be back at this after not having a computer for so long! Thank you for reading and I will see you very soon!
Love Megan x 

My Movie Watchlist | Christmas 2016

It is that time again, for yet another Movie watchlist but this time In the spirit of Christmas of course!

• Nativity 1
• Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger 
• Arthur Christmas
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Carol
• Elf 
• Mean Girls
• The Santa Clause
• The Santa Clause 2
• The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
• Home Alone
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Polar Express
• The Snowman

I watched my first Christmas Movie of the year last weekend when Mum and I were in the mood to watch Nativity, we started watching the 3rd one and couldn't watch anymore as it was bad (hence why I haven't listed it above) however the other 2 are the best and the 1st makes me cry. Arthur Christmas has to be one of my favourite Christmas movies along with The Santa Clause movies! If you have any recommendation leave me a comment and I'll give them a watch as I love new movies! 

Hope you enjoyed this and will hopefully see you tomorrow, or the day after 

My Movie Watch List | Halloween 2016

Happy Halloween guys! I love Halloween along with all the movies, so I thought I'd share my favourite one with you or some people have recommended to me. I haven't managed to watch all of them yet but I am in the process of doing so.

• The Addams Family
• Addams Family Values
• Hotel Transylvania 1 & 2
• Hocus Pocus
• Casper
• Nightmare before Christmas
• The Witches

The Addams Family movies are honestly my favourite Halloween movies and Wednesday Addams is such an iconic Halloween outfit, I dressed up as her one year and it honestly didn't turn out too great but oh well. For my 17th birthday my friend bought me both the Hotel Transylvania movies and they are also brilliant, even to watch all year round! Well most of them are however they are obviously best fitted to watch around this time of year. 

Ah well, I hope you enjoyed this lil blog post! If you guys have any more Halloween movies I'd love to know them and give them a watch before its time to watch Christmas movies. Which is so soon as I may have already changed my background on my phone from Autumn to Winter! 

My Movie Watch List, Autumn 2016

I have done a reading list and a music playlist so I thought lets do a movie watch list as I am so obsessed with movies and finding new one to watch. I tend to find lists on IMBD and stalk them, add them to my notes and gradually watch them. It's honestly great finding new movies, I have found so many great new ones from this and I want to share them with you.

• Stand by me
• The Last Song
• Sydney White
• The First Time
• Its a Kind of Funny Story 
• She's the Man
• Clueless
• Its a Boy Girl thing
• The DUFF
• Cinderella Story
• The Outsiders
• Geek Charming

This is honestly such a weird list of movies but they are so damn good, I think when it comes to Halloween I might do another post like this about my favourite movies for that time! Because honestly I just love movies, they make me laugh and smile and even cry (a lot sometimes. 

A few of these films are on Netflix and Amazon Prime, if you have them if not you will be able to find them online or super cheap from somewhere like CEX (if your from the uk), HMV or even Amazon. I am constantly shopping for DVD's, if I go out shopping I tend to buy make-up or dvd's instead of clothes which I actually need. 

I have linked the each of the movie's IMBD pages so you can watch the trailers for each of them. Right well that is it for this week's post, I hope you enjoyed this! 

June Favourites

Hey guys, its June favourites time!!! I'm quite excited about this because well its a bit of a weird one because its mainly make up, tv, films and youtube.

Make up:

MAC: Studio Fix Fluid

MAC: Velvet Teddy

Avon: Adoring Love

First of all is a foundation, it is MAC Studio Fix Fluid in the shade NW10. Yes yes that is the lightest shade, but it is like the first foundation that matches my face perfectly. It has great coverage and is more of a matte foundation which I defiantly prefer. I always see the coverage difference when I change my foundation for some reason, but its not heavy at all it feels the normal.

The next 2 beauty favourites are both lipsticks and in a way quite similar. As one of them is my MAC lipstick in the shade Velvet Teddy and the other is an Avon matte lipstick in the shade Adoring Love. The reason they are similar as well they are both matte but the Avon Lipstick is in fact the MAC lipstick dupe. I adore them both as they are such different colours, I have been wearing the avon lipstick more as I can't wear red lipstick due to my hair being purple. Which is sad but I have made up for that by wearing the pink.

I literally have like no velvet teddy left so my Kylie Jenner lip kit needs to hurry up along with a needed shopping trip to Derby so I can raid NYX. When it does arrive I will of course be doing a review and swatches for you!!

TV & Film:

Orange is the New Black

H2O: Just add water

Stand by me

The Duff

As most of you will know, season 4 of OITNB came out in June so I decided to re-watch 3 of the previous season and then watched season 4 once I was finished which was around 4 days after it came out. It was such an emotional season and if you are a fellow lover of the show then you will know, I cried so much which is what usually do at most tv shows wow. I highly recommend it, it is such a good tv shows!!

H2O: Just add water is so different but I decided to continue re-watching H20 from about episode 5 I think and became hooked on it again. I'm still watching season 3 however its different to the first as some of the characters change however I still love it all, it was one of my favourite shows that I watched when I was a kid.

Next is the movies, first is Stand by me. Ages ago I created a movie watch list on my phone and eventually made it to Stand by me. I loved it so much, it's weird how much I love old movies. It's also different to other movies because it's not all about relationships and friendships its just about friendships and how one things changes things. How different the 4 boys were but that's what made them such good friends. I also laugh at how they think Will Weaton would have ended up looking like as he looks nothing like that now, as I watch him in Big Bang theory Sheldon constantly makes jokes about the movie which I finally understand!  

Finally movie is The Duff, which I am forever re-watching. I watched it originally on prime but then bought it the other week along with Stand by Me when I went to Reading on a Uni open day. I tend to watch the movie when I am sad as it generally cheers me up so much as the story line is so cute and the end credits song is The Vamps which is amazing. I got my bestfriend to watch it too and she's hooked on it also so its amazing as we can watch it together and cry, oops. 

Youtube: 

Kenzie Elizabeth is one my one and only youtube favourite this month! I have been watching her for a few months and im just so obsessed with all of her videos and he dog is the cutest thing ever. I watch both her main channel videos and vlog channel. I love her vlog channel so much as I love the area she lives in, it's where I would want to go if I moved to America. Check out both of her channels if you want! 

Kenzie Elizabeth

Keeping Up With Kenzie

Thank you for reading and I shall see you Wednesday for another post as I my new makeup organiser has arrived so I thought I'd show you it and my make-up collection in one as for me I have kind of a lot but for other people I don't. Considering I only started wearing foundation in year 11 which I am so thankful I started watching youtube as I would maybe still have awful skin.