Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Transformation Tuesday



The other day I was looking through old photos and realised how much I've changed over the years so I thought I would get out my hard drive and show you my terrible photos and how I've changed over time so enjoy!
Back in 2004.... I'm not sure why I wanted that stone over the others...

2005.... attractive times


Still 2005....

I look so happy to have a younger cousin

Next top model

2005 selfie game strong...

Bit happier to see my cousin a year later

2007

2007 family wedding

2007 holiday

2009..... I look overly happy about shuffle board

2010 when I lived in jumpers....

Very happy about the Caribbean heat but my legs look good aha

2011.... 

Went crabbing and managed to catch a fish, standard Lauren.


2012... 16th birthday

I don't even know


2012... didn't expect that




Prom

Looking very lanky

2013 cruise


Ugly selfies are my number 1 talent


Halloween being a conventional cat

Raining at lands end


Hair game so strong






2014 .... spent my birthday doing this

Before 2014 holiday

2014 cruise

Another cruise photo

Cruising...

Stalking bands 


Concert times

Saturday, 2 August 2014

July favourites


Well July has just ended so I thought whats better than a new favourites post.

Tv, films , books & music

So I shall start with tv shows. Well at the end of July I became completely obsessed with American horror story. I have just started season 3 and I am obsessed with it already but I did miss season 2 because it just didn't appeal to me because of the plot and it doesn't have Taissa Farmiga in and she is my favourite character, well along with Evan Peters.



When it comes to films I can think of 2, I did go see TFIOS which was great but I don't know I wasn't completely blown away, I did cry multiple times but I expected it to be different. Another good film was 22 jump street which is bloody hilarious to say the least, I had to wipe tears away half way through the film but you can definitely tell its a sequel its just not as good as 21 jump street but it has a hell of a lot of intertextual references to the first film.


At the end of july i managed to finish the book chain reaction which is the final book in the perfect chemistry series. I know the collection is pretty old and I have had the books for a year but I have only just read the last one and for the last half of the book I just couldn't put it down it was incredible. I would 100% recommend the trilogy to anyone.


Music wise I have been enjoying more clubby songs since I went to Kavos end of June and when I was on my cruise we went to the club every night so yeah my music taste is changing every day. I know they both came out late June but I only got my hands on them in July since I was away but 5 Seconds of Summer's album and Ed Sheeran's album are both incredible and if you haven't given them a listen I would totally recommend them. With 5sos my absolute favourite is end up here and with Ed Sheeran my favourites are afire love and thinking out loud.



Cosmetics 

There are a couple of products I can mention here, first I shall talk about lip products. 2 main products have stood out and been very helpful since I have been in the sun. First the watermelon flavoured malibu lip care which tastes divine to start with and it really moisturises your lips and protects them from the sun. The second product is Cliniques chubby stick in the shade 07 super strawberry, I actually got this for free when I picked up the July addition of glamour magazine and I have fallen in love with it ! Its quite a subtle colour but its still very cute. I will be picking up a full size one when I have finished with the small version.


I would also recommend 2 spot products these are all by neutrogena I have the tangerine and lime daily wash and scrub which work really well for your face and smell divine. I also have the body wash and scrub in pink grapefruit which works really well. I've had small spots on my back for as long as I can remember and this product has definitely helped in reducing them so I would recommend them to anyone having back acne problem.





Shops

When I was on my cruise I discovered a shop called Pull and Bear and absolutely fell in love. I think its a European shop based in Spain but it has a lot of cute stuff at reasonable prices so its basically a Spanish H&M and since I have a huge love for H&M its not a surprise I fell in love with Pull and Bear.

I have also found that this month Primark has been great, I have been wearing a lot of clothes from there when I went away, mainly skirts and shorts but they definitely serve a purpose and its so cheap that if they do get ruined its not the end of the world. I got a pair of sandals for my holiday and wore them every day and completely distorted them but its fine because they only cost about £8 I think.

My final shop is B&M, I've always been a fan on the shop since it has a huge variety of stuff for a decent price but at the moment I'm looking for uni stuff and they have great stuff. Soon I'm doing a uni stuff haul where I shall show the stuff I have got (will link here when it has gone live) .

Others

In June I got my mac but I still haven't really put it down its basically my baby so its definitely still a favourite.

I also ordered cards against humanity at the end of July since I've only heard good reviews, I haven't had chance to play it yet but I can tell its going to be brilliant because of the nature of the crude cards.

Also since I have been travelling a lot I have discovered a love for Barcelona. Since I only spent one day there I didn't see too much but what I did see was absolutely beautiful and I'm pretty excited to go back soon.

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Holiday - Kavos



So last month I went on a girls trip to Kavos. If you're unsure whether to book a girls holiday to Kavos all I'm going to say is do it ! It was such an experience.

I stayed at a place called Olympian Village which was a short walk from the strip, personally I really liked the hotel because we had our own little apartment. In general the staff were really nice but they had so many rules and fines (I'm still shocked we didn't get fined for the shower curtain!) a couple of people we met got fined so if you're thinking about staying there watch out. When it comes to staff there is only one person you actually need and thats Sydney who's the rep who works for Cosmos ,he is one of the funniest guys you will meet and will give you the best deals on trips and just full of banter.
From what I did I would 100% recommend doing the super paint party because it was such an experience, its only 25 euros and you get a top as well as entry. I would recommend wearing old short because mine got absolutely wrecked as well as my flip flops. We also did the full moon party which was good but probably not worth the 35 euros we payed so just go out on the strip.

Club wise i would recommend Buzz, Rockys (it doesn't get overly busy but the music is great and the djs are from my home town so its a great way to get shout outs haha), the rolling stones was good if you like old classics that you can dance and sing to and Maddisons is pretty good as well.

Well now its time to talk about my personal experience. So I don't even know where to start....
Its pretty easy to talk to people and make friends especially if you are in a small group, we basically went out with different people each night. On the second to last night we went out with a group of 10 guys and they all got so pissed, we had to take on to the clinic because he drank the equivalent of 45 shots.... Theres so much that happened but I couldn't write it all down as others may see and honestly it would be the longest blog post in creation, I could probably write a book about the week we had.

So my top tips are don't drink loads of head fuckers because they will get to your head and do you over, I saw this happen to multiple people. Also take a small bag or a bum bag because the amount of times I didn't have any pockets and needed a bag was actually ridiculous. 

My main tip would be to put yourself out your comfort zone, talk to people, dance on the tables and just have a good time because you never know what could happen and if its bad you will never see the people again so what have you got to loose ?

What happens in Kavos stays in kavos...... I guess !


 With the girls and the some of the Manchester lads. (professional photo but rubbish quality)
 I really can't remember where the girls were from but they were absolutely hilarious.
 With some of the Manchester guys again.
The girls.

 The paint party before the paint, you can see me just of centre, basically my long arm in the air aha.
 Plane there.
 Pre paint party selfies.
Our room on the last day.

Lauren x

Sunday, 22 June 2014

Playlist


Summer Playlist


Freak-steve Aoki,Diplo & Deorro(feat.steve Bays)// Really dont care-Demi Lovato // Disconnected-5 Seconds Of Summer // Wasted-Tiesto // Jubel-Klingande // Summer-Calvin Harris // Thinking out loud-Ed Sheeran // Fat lip-Sum 41 // Best day of my life-American Authors // Happily-One Direction // Robbers-1975 // On the floor-The Vamps // For Baltimore-All Time Low

Listen to it here >> http://8tracks.com/bell-lauren96-250/summer-mix <<

So I am going away now for a week so I thought I would do a quick summer playlist if you like it let me know and i'll do more in the future !
Lauren x 

Friday, 20 June 2014

Update



So I know its been a very long time since my last post and I'm sure I said I was going to get into a routine but looks like I didn't because of exams!(I've been revising since mid March so yeah)

Hopefully ill be back onto it after holidays so probably end of July, but I really want to get back into this again so I'm going to actually make a list of what I'm going to be doing 


  • Revision tips
  • Future/longer update with pictures and stuff
  • Girls holiday post
  • Family holiday post
  • Hauls 
  • Uni stuff haul
  • Hopefully some media so film/tv based posts
  • More monthly favourites 
  • 100 things that make me happy
  • Transformation tuesday post
And I'm going to catch up on Gaby aka anothergirlyblg's post challenge/ideas and these will include:


  • Summer bucket list/to-do list
  • Meal plan/recipie/food related post
  • Hair (very broad but exciting)
  • Music/ playlist
  • Some OOTD posts
  • Week/day in pictures
  • High end/ high street
  • Book review


Ill hopefully slowly get through these by the end of summer and as I go through I will cross them off and add new ones so people can actually keep up to date with what I'm doing for a change !

Thanks for reading 
Lauren :) x

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Wish list

So I always like seeing these posts from other people so I thought id make a quick wish list as I'm off to a shopping event with student discount so yeah here's my list.
Shoes- all black converse -office £45
Skirts - h&m £3.99 each 
Jeans- topshop -£38 however I want the primark ones but there are no pictures.
Green top- topshop £18 but I want the primark similar 
Crop top- h&m £3.99
Pinafore - h&m £9.99
Bikini tops - all new look £14.99 for bralets , £7.99 for strappy one

Lauren x

Thursday, 17 April 2014

50 facts about me

 Can't believe how long it took me to do this but here 50 facts about me
  1. I'm almost 6ft
  2. I can eat a whole ball of mozerella as a snack, I don't like it with other food
  3. Teen wolf is probably my favourite show
  4. I've reasently really started to like salad
  5. I study 4 subjects at college, media,photography,law & sociology
  6. I have met 5sos and Louis 
  7. I'm obsessed with Polaroids 
  8. Pizza is my weakness 
  9. I'm really close to my dads side of the family 
  10. I'm always on my phone , normally tumblr 
  11. I have never broke a bone
  12. I love rom coms, could probably watch them all day
  13. I normally revise a lot for exams (my family say I revise too much)
  14. I want to go to York uni to study film and television production 
  15. My cat is the friendliest cat in the world (no joke)
  16. I care too much about what people think about me
  17. I am so awkward the first time I talk to someone but after 5 minutes I'm normally fine 
  18. My favourite place in the world is Barbados 
  19. I have been on like 7 cruises 
  20. Traveling is my favourite thing to do 
  21. I use to collect me to you bears (oh good god I have loads)
  22. I'm more of a saver than a spender 
  23. I day dream way too much 
  24. I love nicknames , like if someone calls people by their last name
  25. I procrastinate way too much 
  26. I do bad puns all the time 
  27. My friends take the piss by saying I look like I could be Ashton Irwin's sister
  28. This is a lot harder than I originally thought 
  29.  I have never been to America 
  30. I have suddenly become obsessed with 5sos 
  31. I can't have the tv or radio volume on a odd number but I don't mind if it's a 5
  32. I'm quite good at remembering what happens in my dreams but I can never control them
  33. Recently my music taste has changed a lot and I think it's down to Dan and Phil on radio one.....
  34. Negative people really get on my nerves
  35. My first celebrity crush was Ray Quinn and I met him the other day
  36. Internet friends are probably the coolest people in the works
  37. I collect lollipops from special occasions (I have one from Disney land and others from family events)
  38. I really like my part time job because a lot happens within the day
  39. I have to be in the mood to blog and always want to do hauls but never get round to it 
  40. I have to colour coordinate my wardrobe because I find it easier to find my clothes that way
  41. I will over play songs if I like them to a stage where I can't listen to it anymore
  42. Going to concerts are probably one of my Favourite things to do
  43. It literally took me a month to complete this because I couldn't think of 50 facts
  44. I passed my driving test with 14 minors (yes if I got one more I would have failed) 
  45. I talk a bit too fast sometimes and people have to ask me to slow down 
  46. I am always listening to music 
  47. I like bands too much and I really wish I didn't like them at all
  48. I always have really cold feet so I live in bed socks
  49. I have a fear of people chasing me up the stair , I don't know why. The fear is called LUIPISLIPOPHOBIA
  50. When someone changes the volume it HAS to be an even number or a 5 or it really annoys me 
So I think I'm going to do a haul soon or a post with techniques on how to revise , but whatever I do it'll be more interesting haha 

Lauren x