Liebster Award!

So today I received a message from my friend Abi saying she has tagged me in her latest blog post to be a part the Liebster awards (woooo!!)

Honestly, my first reaction was "wat is dis" but after having a read through her post (which you should go check out as she's great! - Meet me in Mayfair) I discovered it's a tag for newbie bloggers with under 200 followers to help get them and others recognition! Looks like fun so why not!?

Abigail's Questions!

1. WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE MOMENT OF 2014 SO FAR?

My first festival - Global Gathering! Made so many memories whilst I was there that I will never forget!

2. WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL?

See when I read this question I honestly don't know who I would say, then I tried thinking of people but then I would only be saying it for this post... I have celebrities who inspire me with clothing and make up such as Millie Mackintosh, Alexa Chung and Lauren Conrad. Then people like Zoella who inspired me to write a blog as a hobby and so on!

3. IF YOU FROM 5 YEARS AGO WERE TO MEET YOU NOW, WHAT WOULD THEY THINK?

Me and Abi were literally talking on the phone about this a few days before she posted this, so I know, know she chucked this one in there for me, I feel honoured! *hair flick*
We have known each other for years... When we were around 14 we were in "the phase" yup, looking at us both now that is a REALLY weird thought... But me 5 years ago, really liked rock music - not just good rock that I would still listen to occasionally now like Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana or Guns n' Roses (still fancy Slash quite a bit even if he is in the next Spongebob movie...) but stuff like Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine and so on...shudder. To sum it up, 5 years is a long time and I'm pretty positive 14 year old me wouldn't have liked current me and vice versa...

4. WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 3 BEAUTY PRODUCTS?

I'll do one for each factor...

Hair - Coconut oil! This product saved my blonde locks after a bad experience with bleach!

Make Up - Liquid eyeliner! Couldn't live without it!

Body - L'Oreal Sublime Self Tanner - it has shimmer, shimmer!

5. WHAT MADE YOU START BLOGGING?

In all honestly, it was realising how much I enjoyed writing essays at college. That sounds so odd as everyone else in my class really dreaded essays but I put so much effort into them and they always ended up being waaaaaaaaay too long, being full of my opinions and rants where I had gotten carried away, there were a few times where I had been asked by my teachers sometimes to try and shorten future essays... One essay that comes to mind is one where we were analysing music videos and I'd gotten soooooo carried away... I had used so many music videos for examples and think it was between 5,000-6,000 words!!

6. WHAT TV SHOW ARE YOU LOVING AT THE MOMENT?

I'm putting two (sorry Abs) it would have to be Made in Chelsea and 2 Broke Girls! Love them both so incredibly much! Love a bit of Kat Dennings.

7. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR STATEMENT LOOK? (BEAUTY & FASHION)

Well make-up I always have always rocked the winged liquid eyeliner look, probably always will... (if only I looked as good as Alex Vause, ugh #womancrush)

As for fashion, I'm normally a very casual person day to day - more often than not I will be rocking leggings or jeggings with something else.. but I adore my leather jacket so much, it could make any outfit look that tiny bit more fabulous.

8. WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 10 YEARS TIME?

Hopefully working as a journalist somewhere London based, living outside of London and tubing it in and maybe having started my own little family - I would want to be a working mum or even maybe working at home and multi-task... Possibilities are endless it's scary to think!

9. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM JOB?

I have always liked to read a good magazine, from a very young age - working for a magazine was always my dream job. However in year 7 or 8 I remember vividly telling a girl who was meant to be my friend with that I'd like to maybe write for a magazine one day and she pretty much laughed in my face and said it was never going to happen so that dampened my spirits a bit. She probably can't even remember it as it would be about 7 or 8 years ago now... But hey, I ended up going down the film root till this time last week I had a quarter life crisis (that's definitely a thing btw) I realised I was dreading doing film at uni and having my grades I can see I did best at written than the actual creating of the films and I enjoyed written more so I called up my place where I'd accepted an unconditional offer and declined it putting myself into clearing... I am now on a Journalism and Media course and I feel so much better for it. Moral of the story is f*ck what people think, I'd much rather do what I love and be happy than be unhappy trying to impress people who feel the need to judge anyway.

10. THREE THINGS YOU'VE RECENTLY BOUGHT THAT JUST WEREN'T WORTH THE MONEY?

Don't think these are too recent but they come to mind...

Colour B4 - I got this so I could get dye out of my hair extensions, it worked but at a cost! It smelt horrific, my extensions STUNK. I only wore my extensions once more before chucking them as the quality had just gone bad too.. so much regret.

I bought these brown heel boots from the New Look sale, they're gorgeous but they have these woollen bits on meaning I'm going to have to wait till winter to be able to wear them!

I also have a habit of buying more make up or beauty products when I don't really need it, in desperate need of a shelf to put all my products on as they're all hidden away in my wardrobe currently too! Other than that I honestly can't think of anything else that I have regretted buying recently!

11. THIS IS YOUR SPOTLIGHT TO GIVE YOUR OPINION ON ANY CURRENT CULTURAL/SOCIAL/FEMINIST TOPIC, GO!

Free the nipple counts right? I love Cara Delevingne, who is the reason I have any idea what this is, but I'm not 100% sure I agree with the campaign. Women's boobs are considered sexual objects, they are used to cause sexual arousal... However they are also there to breast feed children which is natural and shouldn't be frowned down upon at all. I think the nipple when it comes to feeding your baby should be free without people batting an eyelid, however just walking around with them out just seems odd to me. I know the campaign isn't so women can do that, it's for equal rights to men but their nipples are useless... Ours aren't. I don't know, very controversial topic that I'm very split on..