Let's Talk Blog Challenge | #4 Survival Guide | My Guide To A Great Night In :P

I'm so sorry this post is late, but my granny is in hospital ;(

Anyway, this challenge is hosted by Sarah Hamersley, from AtTheBeautyDesk You need to check out her blog :)

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1. A good film

As a teenage girl, I love most movies everyone else does... except The Hunger Games. Shocker, I know, but I just don't like them! The books were good, but I just don't get the movies. My favourite films of all time are The Kings Speech and About Time, though Harry Potter is my favourite series. For a night in I'd recommend About Time. It's amazing. Especially because the lead male actor is Irish. Domhnall Gleeson is just ❤️. The storyline is the perfect balance between sci-fi and rom-com, and the cast are brilliant

2. Tasty food :)

Where I live, nothing beats Dominos. McDonalds don't deliver and I'm not a huge fan of Apache. Supermacs is fine but I don't care for Papa Johns, and for a night in, I like pizza :) Dominos might not be the cheapest takeaway, but they have great coupon codes and meal-deals.

3. Blankets, Pjs and slippers!

Coziness is a must :) Grab as many blankets, duvets and pillows as you can find, and build a fort on your couch :P Throw on you favourite or most comfortable pajamas and put on your slippers. You are now dressed for a great night in :)

4. Mini-spa

Everyone loves to be treated to a mini-spa :) You'll most likely need nail polishes and face masks, but you could also try face-scrubs and night-creams. Recently I've been reading about pore-strips, and I think they'd be perfect for a pamper session during a night in :)

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Let's Talk Blog Challenge | #3 Birthday Box | Things I'd Like To Try

It's crazy that it's week three already! This challenge is hosted by Sarah Hamersley from AtTheBeautyDesk, and you should really check out her blog- I love it!

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1.  Nars Sheer Glow Foundation

This foundation appears in so many YouTube beauty tutorials, and I really want to try it out. It would take quite a but of effort for me to get it though, as I think that the only shops in Ireland that stocks Nars makeup are Brown Thomas and House Of Fraser, and the closest Brown Thomas is over an hour away from where I live, and the closest House Of Fraser is almost four hours away. In Brown Thomas this foundation is €40, and on the Nars website it's €41, so maybe I'll try it next time I'm in BT. I have no clue what shade to get, so ordering online is out of the question ;(

2. Benefit Boi-ing Concealer

I have incredibly bad dark under-eye circles, and I hve a feeling this concealer will do the job. It has gotten great reviews everywhere, and even though Benefit suggest their Erase Paste for under-eye circles, I really do need te industrial-strength coverage that Boi-ing gives. I also have a lot of redness and a very uneven skin tone, (don't I have skin from hell!) and Boi-ing looks as if it would cover up all my imperfections :) I'm so excited as Boi-ing concealer is 10% off in Debenhams. You only save €2.40- it's down from €24 to €21.60- but every euro saved is, well, you know... A euro saved :)

3. Nisim F.A.S.T Shampoo and Conditioner

I cut my hair to slightly below shoulder- length at the end of February, and I really miss my long locks :( My hair also grows really, really slowly. I don't think my hair has even grown an inch since the start of March. I've read about these products all over the internet, and the reviews are mostly good. I'm hoping to grow my hair seven inches. It's a very unrealistic target, but hopefully in a few years I'll be back to my long tresses. I really want to try the F.A.S.T shampoo and conditioner but they are extremely pricey. In Boots, a 300ml bottle of shampoo and conditioner set comes in at €32.99, so I don't think I'll be trying these products out for a while...

4. Blonde Dip-Dye

Okay, so I do have strawberry-blonde hair, but I think that a blonde dip-dye wouldn't look too bad. You might be gagging at the thought of ginger fading into blonde, but in my school picture way back in 2007, and the flash went a little bit wrong and it kind of made it look like my hair faded into blonde, and honestly I love it! I'll probably get it done eventually :) What do you think?

5. Rimmel 9-in-1 BB Cream

Some days I just can't be bothered going through my usual beauty regime, so I just apply BB cream. I have an old one from Penney's, but I think I'd like to try a better brand of BB cream now that I've become more committed to makeup :) This BB cream sounds amazing, as it claims to do 9 actions. Pretty great right? It retails at €8.95, so honestly the price isn't too bad for all that it promises to do. I think as this is quite reasonably priced I'll be purchasing this sometime :)

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Let's Talk Blog Challenge | #2 Summer Essentials | My Summer Playlist

I'm so sorry that this post was late, I had it scheduled to post yesterday at 8, but something went wrong :( Anyway, Its here now and I hope you enjoy it and have a listen to some of the songs I mentioned.

 I can't believe it's week two already! The Let's Talk Blog Challenge is hosted by Sarah Hamersley from At The Beauty Desk, so have a look around her blog (it's one of my favourites!). Anyway, I have put together a little music playlist perfect for summer day on the beach or wherever you find yourself this summer :)

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1. Summer Paradise - Simple Plan And Sean Paul

This song is by amazing. It has such a lovely Caribbean feel, and I can just imagine singing this song on a lovely warm day by the sea. Since the song came out in 2012, I have been welcoming summer with this song, and it just feels like the perfect song to celebrate summer when it finally arrives in Ireland after what feels like eternal winter.

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2. SING - Ed Sheeran

I think that this song is more suited to a party atmosphere somehow. It's quite different to what you'd usually expect from Ed Sheeran, but nevertheless I love it. I can't wait for 'X' to be released on the 23rd of June, and the song I'm most looking forward to is 'Nina', as I have a feeling it's about Nina Nesbitt ;)

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3. Way In The World - Nina Nesbitt

Even though it's not one of Nina Nesbitt's newer songs, it's still one of my favourites. The lyrics are just so true and the song is so catchy! The music video is set on a beach, and I would just love to have beaches like that in Ireland. We don't have much boardwalks or seaside arcades over here... Anyway, this song is just so beautiful and summer-y that I had to include it in my playlist.

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4. Riptide - Vance Joy

I have adored this song since last September, and I haven't stopped listening to it since. I have to say I'm not a very big fan of the music video though. I love the concept of having the whole song portrayed literally, but the theme gets a bit too dark for me. The song id quite abstract, and I guess without the music video it would be quite hard to imagine what "all my friends are turning green" actually means.

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5. Big Bad World - Kodaline

I really wanted to have a Kodaline song in my summer playlist, but I couldn't decide on one. I chose this song at random, and I've started to love it even more than High Hopes. I think that it's so true like all of Kodaline's songs. I have read through some of the comments on the video, and people are comparing them to U2, saying that 'They are probably the best musicians that ever came out of Ireland'. I 100% agree :)


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Let's Talk Blog Challenge | #1 Day In The Life | Harry Potter Studio Tour

I'm so excited to be participating in this blog challenge hosted by the lovely Sarah Hamersley from At The Beauty Desk Posts are up every Monday, so make sure to check back on my blog at 8 o'clock :)

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On the 23rd of April I went to the Harry Potter Studio Tour in Watford :) The tour was amazing! It's a kind of thing that you could go and see again and again without getting bored of it.

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It was absolutely amazing to see 'The Cupboard Under The Stairs'. I have actually spent a great deal of my life wanting to live in it. It may sound weird but I like small bedrooms with barely enough room for a bed, even though I'm sometimes claustrophobic. I think I'd get a panic attack if anyone else was in there with me though!

Olllivanders is one of my favourite shops on Diagon Alley. I just love the bay-ish windows and the piles of wand boxes on the windowsills. It felt amazing walking down Diagon Alley, knowing that many famous actors and actresses have walked here, and that parts of your favourite movie series were filmed right where you're standing.

Yes, that is one of the owls that played Hedwig, I'm afraid I can't remember what his name is though :P He's just sooo cute! The whole time I was outside at the backlot part of the tour, he stayed on the sign for Privet Drive, calm and silent.

This is the house Lily and James Potter were killed in. The house is so eerie and mysterious, and it's definitely desolate and decrepit looking too. The house is exactly how I always imagined it would  be when I read the books, and I commend the designers and builders  that made it look so perfect :)

The Knight Bus! I have always loved the Knight Bus, and The Prisoner Of Azkaban is one of my favourite movies. The Knight Bus is in really good condition and looks so cool from the outside. Sadly, you're not allowed to go into the bus, but anyways, it's really awesome to get your picture taken beside it :)

I don't honestly have a house that I should be sorted into if Hogwarts was real. I have traits from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and even Slytherin. I guess Gryffindor is my favourite though, as many of my x characters were sorted into it :P

A beautiful model of Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry is the very last thing you see on the tour. It's a great ending to a brilliant and the castle is just so spellbinding and breathtaking. When filming the Harry Potter movies, some of the scenes around Hogwarts were made using the model, and the actors and actresses acted on front of a green-screen and those scenes were edited together to make it look like they were outside the castle itself (What a long sentence :P).

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I hope you enjoyed reading about my day in absoulute PotterLand, and I can't wait to continue with this challenge :)

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