The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

So I finished this book a few weeks ago and I thought i'd just share what I thought of it. Without giving anything away, this book is about a 16 year old girl called Hazel with cancer who meets a teenage boy called Augustus at a cancer support group.
The book was beautifully written and very touching and the characters are very well formed. In a nutshell,  I liked this book a lot. 
I just want to read this again. I read this book quickly but if I could turn back time I would have read it slower, so I could think about the little details in more detail and so certain characters could be alive for longer in my mind. I have thoroughly enjoyed/cried while reading this book and in my opinion that is what makes books great. It must be challenging to write a book, but yet even more challenging to write a book which provokes emotion like the 'fault in our stars'. John green is truly a great writer and I am already reading another of his books.  I will definitely be re reading this book sometime in the future.


I hope you found this post useful,
Lots of love,

Jodie x

LUSH the immaculate EGGception

So a little while ago I mentioned that I got this bath bomb given to me for free, so last weekend I thought i'd try it out. The bath bomb was egg shaped and you were supposed to be able to crack it on the side of your bath and there would be another egg inside. After cracking that egg you were supposed to be left with a little chick or a rabbit. However, to my disappointment, when I went to crack the egg, a whole half of the egg fell into the bath ( including the inner egg). Unfortunately, I was unable to rescue the inner egg as It already had dissolved considerably. I tried for ages to smash what was left of the dissolved egg, but there was no chick inside :(

The bath bomb itself made the bath smell very nice. However, I found that  the coloring wasn't very well thought out.  If you haven't worked out by the picture, it looked like a whole bath of wee. So, I suggest that Lush rethink their coloring as it took me a lot of courage to get into this bath.






I hope you liked this post,
Jodie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Collective haul

I've been going shopping a lot lately over the Easter holidays so I thought I'd share with you what I've bought. So lets begin with the fashion items!

-black cropped lace tee- £13.99 New Look ( almost identical to one I saw in topshop, but cheaper :)
- Set of bracelets £2 primark
-Acid Wash Denim Shorts £30 Topshop
- Vintage Levi shorts £15 Ark Clothing















Black Rhine stoned Bikini top £17 River island
Floral Pajama shorts £3 primark 






Next for the non fashion/ beauty items:                             
                

-Yankee candle in red velvet £1.99 (tester size)                                  - The Fault in our stars and Will Grayson, Will Grayson. £12 when bought together in Waterstones.                                                             - Numerous makeup items all for £4.99 in House of Fraser (suprise bags of 20 items)

-LUSH The immaculate eggception- FREE. So, me and my friend were just paying at the counter in lush when the woman behind offered us both a bath bomb for free. I was so surprised when they gave us both one. I can't wait to try it out. So, thanks LUSH for making my day :)

I hope you enjoyed this post and hopefully I will be posting a little more often now because I've just banished one of my major school stresses.

Lots of Love

Jodie xxxxxxxxxx

Sorry :/

I just wanted to apologise for the lack of post recently. I've been really busy with school and I haven't found the time to post. I Will definitely post over this weekend.
Lots of Love
Jodie xxxxxxxxx

Happy Easter :)

Just a quick post to wish you all happy Easter. I hope you all have lots of fun and eat lots of chocolate. With this I post a picture of a little chick, just because I found it cute. Random I know.

Happy Easter :)
Jodie xxxxxxxxx

Just a few little purchases...

So today I went shopping and bought a few things.I know it's not much, but to be honest I'd rather share a few bits here and there, than bore you with a huge long haul every so often.

The first shop that I went to was lush. I am a big fan of lush and I nearly always end up buying at least something from there (it's my addiction :p). This time I saw their sugar scrub and I thought that it would be great to use on my legs before shaving as they do get quite dry, especially in this wintery weather! It cost me around £2, which I thought was a reasonable price.
The last shop that I went in was Superdrug where I picked up t an MUA mosaic bronzer and the 'undress me too' eye shadow palette. I will let you know how I get on with all the products that I bought at a later date.

As always lots of love,
Jodie xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mysterious make up look | colab with BeautyRoes

Me and my friend Rhiannon, decided to set a little make up challenge for each other and this time we chose the theme 'mysterious'. Rhiannon will be posting her version of this look, so click here to check it out. 
When thinking about the theme I began to think of mystical creatures such as vampires, to inspire this look. I thought a purple smoky eye *purple colour does not show up well in the photo* and a red lip would be perfect for a mystical vampiress look. This look was super fun to create and it would be perfect for Halloween and costume parties.

So here is a closeup of the eye make I created and now I will write a tutorial on how you can re create this mystical look:

1) Firstly, prep and prime your face with a primer; I used W7 'prime magic, camera ready' primer. You may also choose to use an eye primer, but if you don't have one just rub your face primer onto your eyelids.
2) Next, find the lightest foundation you have; I used 'Revlon nearly naked' foundation in 'shell' and apply it all over your face. Now apply concealer on all your blemishes, you want to create a flawless look, I used Maybelline 'Fit me' concealer. Next set your foundation with a translucent loose powder, I used Dermablends loose setting powder.

3) For the eye makeup, find a light shimmery eyeshadow and apply it from the inner corner of your eye. Sweep it across just above your crease. For this look I used the MUA 'glitterball' palette.

4) Next, find a shimmery purple eyeshadow and sweep it across your lid with a fluffy brush and blend it outwards.

5) Now, find the blackest black you can find and apply it to your outer crease, with a fluffy brush, in light circular motions. Make sure you blend it in really well.

 

6) To Finnish the eye makeup find a white colour to use as a highlight and apply it under your brow bone.

7) To Finnish the look off, take a red lipstick or gloss and apply it to your lips. The darker, the better.

So that is the finished look and don't forget to check out my friend Rhiannon's blog post here . I hope you enjoyed this post and please comment down below if you want to see more makeup challenges.

Jodie xxxxxxxx