4 things that made me smile this week

I'm so sorry about my uploading schedule; I've been very busy doing schoolwork recently. Throughout revising for my upcoming exams, I like to think of the end result as an incentive to work really hard and stop procrastinating. However, I do tend to forget about the good times in the present by always looking ahead! Today, I'm going to share 4 things that made me smile this week so I can look back and realise that, although revising sucks, it's not all bad!

Having a night off revision with my mum. 

This may seem really counter-productive but if you're not in the right frame of mind for work, you will tend bore easily and not be very efficient. One night after school, mum just suggested that I had a night off; we spend a lovely evening together: walking the dog (I find this therapeutic because of the fresh air), chilling and watching some Home and Away together - our favourite TV programme.

Watching a football game

I'm awful at playing football myself but I love to watch it on the TV. I find it so interesting how the players interact and it's always so exciting when the team you are routing for score! 

Sunny lunchtimes 

Last week, when it was sunnier than it is now, my friends and I enjoyed several lunchtimes on the field at school. I love spending time just chatting and forgetting about work for about an hour. Even though I'm not very good, I get involved in any sport we play and I think my friends enjoy watching me make a fool of myself!!

Spotify playlists 

My music taste is very varied: ranging from Twenty One Pilots to Drake. This week I have made multiple uplifting playlists that I have enjoyed dancing around my room to! I learnt the fast part of Rap God and I now think that I'm a gangster rapper! I can nearly do it to speed but, gosh, it's quick!

What has made you smile this week? 

xox

Revlon Ultra HD Matte Lip Colour

I purchased this lipstick in Monoprix in France last week and this shade has fast become one of my favourites in my collection. It's such a beautiful pink, perfect for an everyday makeup look or an evening out! I tend to be such a creature of habit with my lipstick shades, always sticking with nudes so I'm glad that I stepped out of my comfort zone. What I find most impressive with this product is how long lasting it is! With my MAC lipsticks, the colour fades away after eating or drinking but I don't even have to reapply this one afterward - Revlon is also a much more affordable brand! The shade I have is 600 however, come summer, I will probably be popping into Superdrug for some more! The applicator makes the product very easy to apply without a lip liner. It goes on your lips as quite glossy but drys to a matte formulation which isn't patchy! Also, on a side note, the lipstick smells amazing - if that is a considerable factor when you purchase a beauty product?!

Have you ever tried out this lip colour collection?

xox

(Due to exams, the quality of my posts will be affected as I will have little time for blogging! However, in the summer, I have many exciting posts so I hope you stick with me for those)

An eventful journey to France

Hello again! It's certainly been a while since I have posted and if you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me apologise for this. Over Easter, I went on a holiday and 2 short breaks so I didn't have a chance to upload - sorry again! Now I'm back, my uploading schedule will hopefully go back to normal! I do have upcoming exams, therefore I may have to miss a couple of entries but I'll do my best!!


Last week, I went on a holiday to France and I had a great time - more on this to come soon! However, getting to France was certainly not easy! I have to say that this journey was my most eventful yet and arriving at my final destination was such a relief!

To set the scene, it was 5:45am on a Sunday morning and I was awake - something extremely rare! We had booked a taxi from our house to drive us to Gatwick at 6:30am. Come 6:30am no taxi had arrived. At this point, we just assumed that the driver was late and waited until 6:45am to see if he would come; there was still no sign then. Knowing that allowing him anymore time to pick us up would impact on our time at the airport, we took a risk and drove ourselves to Gatwick. This seems like a good solution and some of you may be wondering why we didn't just drive in the first place but our flight back was to Luton. So our car would be stuck in Gatwick on our arrival home. Rightfully, we didn't want to miss out on our holiday therefore we decided that we had a week to come up with a way home. Originally, we were just going to have a taxi home from Luton. In the end, my dad came up with a plan to hire a car from Luton, drive to Gatwick, pick up our car and drive home! A solution was found but it came with so much inconvenience. Our taxi driver not picking us up caused so much added travel time and stress.

Back to the journey to France, upon arrival at Gatwick there were self-service bag drop machines - technology that I hadn't heard of before! I decided that I'd have a go at doing my own bag first and all was good until I put the baggage label on it! The label was not stuck on properly and before I had a chance to rectify this, my suitcase had been taken off on a conveyer belt! Me being me, I spent the whole journey worrying whether my bag would reach our arrival airport - luckily it did but the label had been wrecked in the process!

So we had just gone through security, spent some time in duty free, walked over to our gate and got onto the transfer bus before we were told that we would have a 2 hour delay! I had never been on a flight that had got delayed so I was preparing myself for a very boring 2 hours. After watching Nancy Drew on my iPad for that duration of time (amazing film), we were called back over to the gate to be told about a further 2 hour delay! In total, our flight was delayed for 4 hours!!

Eventually, the plane took off and thereafter all was good but the journey was awful! In a sense, it was all worth it because spending time in France was lovely!

Have you been on any eventful journeys before? If so, I'd love to hear your experience!!

xox