The Sunshine Award

Hello there! I was tagged in 'the sunshine award' by the lovely Chloe, thanks for tagging me because I haven't been tagged to do something in a while :)

The whole idea of the sunshine award is that you nominate 11 bloggers who put a little sunshine in your day, who are positive, creative and inspiring.

The Rules

You have to include a picture of the sunshine award.

Post 11 random facts about yourself.

Answer the 11 questions from the blogger who nominated you.

Nominate 11 wonderful bloggers.

Write 11 questions for them.

Also, let the bloggers know you nominated them.

Random Facts

1. I hate marshmallows, I think this stems from a fluffy bunny type competition my teacher in year 2 made us do but even then I don't remember being too fond of them.

2. I used to be scared of watching the snow queen because of the creepy BBC logo that came before the movie started which you can see here, I actually loved the movies but the BBC logo freaked me out so much that it put me off from watching it.

3. Cadbury's Marvellous Creations are like my favourite chocolate bar, but now they're no longer £1.50 my Mum never buys them and this makes me sad.

4. My 17th birthday is next Sunday (10th November)

5. I used to have an imaginary friend called Jiminy who my parents still tease me about to this day, I really liked Pinocchio  which had the character Jiminy Cricket except my imaginary friend was a blonde little girl with the name of a cricket.. I was weird I know.

6. I'm scared of going out of my comfort zone because I've had a few panic attacks this year and I don't want to have one in public.

7. I'd really like a job in the Disney Store.

8. I overthink everything, I'm not casual about anything, seriously I overthink what I'm going to eat for breakfast or what I'm gonna wear the next day

9. It took me about a month to realise that I don't like black coffee. I was drinking it everyday sort of kidding myself that I like it and then I just sort of thought 'I don't really like this' and so now I have to have it with a splash of milk.

10. I'd really like to see Arctic Monkeys live (you up for it Isabella?)

11. My favourite disney film is probably 'Emperor's New Groove'

Chloe's Questions

1. What are the top 3 things on your bucket list? To go to Vegas, to see/meet Paul McCartney, to try every flavour of pop tarts

2. What is your favourite TV show? Friends

3. Which song is your guilty pleasure? I don't really have guilty pleasure songs to be honest

4. If a movie about your life was being made, who would you want to play you? Ellen Page even though she looks nothing like me

5. What did you do for your last birthday? Nothing, I was going to go out with a few friends but they all cancelled last minute. I watched a movie with family - does that count?

6. Do you have a nickname? I have a few but my first nickname was Boo and I was called Bessie Boo Bam for a long time

7. What are you most scared of? Probably spiders

8. What is your favourite thing to blog about (beauty/fashion/lifestyle etc)? Fashion

9. What beauty product could you not live without? Eyeliner

10.What is your staple autumn/winter makeup look? Black eyeliner cat eye flicks, I don't really bother with anything else but maybe a nice dark red colour lipstick (which I have not yet acquired)

11. What is your favourite thing about blogging? The satisfaction of knowing that someone cares about what you have to say

I nominate:

Isabella

Lizzie

Antoinette

Megan

Adalia

Aida

Abigail-Alice

Amelie
Charlotte
Claire
Amie

My Questions:

1. What is your favourite genre of music?
2. What was the first CD you ever owned?
3. What's your favourite flower?
4. What is the purpose of life for you?
5. Why did you start blogging?
6. What is the meaning behind your URL?
7. What is your favourite time of year?
8. Do you wear glasses?
9. What is the best film you've seen this year?
10. What is the best book you've read this year?
11. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?

Thanks for reading and please post a link to your responses :)

*No tagbacks please*

Meet the Blogger Tag

Do you usually sleep with your closet door opened or closed? Closed

Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotels? Always, I'm not going to turn my nose up at free stuff

Where is your next vacation? No idea, probably somewhere in Europe

Who do you think reads these? My followers, my friends

So you have a calendar in your room? Yes I have a Beatles calender :)

What’s your plan for the day? I have one free period to get through then a lesson of biology, then that's the end of my day (half day) so I'm gonna go to tesco and buy some necessities for charity (WOHAA - donate here) and try to fundraise, then that's pretty much all I'm doing.

Are you reading any books right now?  Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Do you ever count your steps as you walk? I have an app that does it for me called 'striiv

Do you ever dance even if there’s no music playing? No no never, I don't dance (queue the high school musical song)

Do you chew your pens and pencils? Ew no

What is your “song of the week”? Erm I don't know, probably 'Do I Wanna Know' - Arctic Monkeys

Is it ok for guys to wear pink? Sure, why the hell not?

Do you still watch cartoons? Yes

What do you drink with dinner? Water, how plain..

What do you dip chicken nuggets in? Ketchup, too much ketchup to be quite honest I'm pretty obsessed with it considering it's a condiment

What is your favorite food/cuisine? Chinese food

What movies could you watch over and over and still love? Mean girls, all the Harry Potter films, School of Rock, Brat Pack films

What was the last thing you wrote on a letter to someone on paper? I don't really write letters because no one likes them as much as I do but probably 'love Bess'

Best thing to eat for breakfast? Pop tarts or porridge

What is your usual bedtime? On a school day probably 23:00 because I procrastinate sleep

Are you lazy? I think I am lazy but not so lazy that I don't have time to write 28272090892 tag posts

Afraid of heights? A bit, I get a bit of vertigo but I like rollercoasters and stuff so I'm not that bad

Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid? I wanted to be a pirate or Dotman from the tweenies

Hot tea or cold tea? Hot tea, what kind of satanic practice is drinking cold tea??

Tea or coffee? Tea

Favorite kind of cookie? Any kind, I don't discriminate

Can you swim well? I guess

Can you hold your breath w/o manually holding your nose? Yes I've been holding my breath for this whole blogpost

Who do you want to see right now? Paul McCartney because he's going to be in Oxford Street, London on Friday but I won't get there in time because of sixth form and this makes me sad

Sorry for another tag post, I have a fashion-related post coming up soon featuring Isabella so I'll keep you all posted. If you do this tag then please comment with a link to yours because I'd like to read your answers :)

The Books Q and A Tag

So I saw this tag on this blog and it looked pretty interesting so I decided I would do it as it's a bit more cultural I think.




Q. What are you reading right now?

A. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, if you haven't read it or watched a film adaption of it then I really recommend it. It's really interesting the way it's written because you're in the mind of a hebephile (basically a paedophile but a paedophile who lusts after adolescents), so you empathize with him and if you don't understand the book then you might conceive the book to be beautiful but it's  apathetic so you can't sympathize with any one character, I already know how it's going to end because I watched the 60s film but there's a lot they couldn't get away with filming then so I'm learning a lot more about the story from the book and it adds a whole new perspective which is really interesting.

Q. Do you have any idea what you'll read when you're done with that?

A. There are a few books that I want to read, I'd like to read the Great Gatsby because I started reading it but then my exams came along and I just didn't have the time to finish it, then I watched the movie when I was on the plane on my way back from America and it made me want to read it even more, I had watched a TV adaption a while ago but the Leonardo DiCaprio one is very very good. I'd also quite like to read Catcher in the Rye because I read somewhere that the man who killed John Lennon (Mark Chapman) was reading this before he shot him and I'd be interested to see whether there was anything in the book that might have triggered it, also my Dad has read it and suggested it but my Mum read it and didn't think much of it so I'd be interested to see how it is.

Q. What 5 books have you always wanted to read but haven't gotten round to yet?

A.  Frankly I'd like to read as many books as possible (with the exclusion of the twilight saga), but I suppose I'd like to read To Kill a Mockingbird because I've watched the movie and it is just one of those books that I feel I should read. Also Anne of Green Gables, Life isn't all ha ha hee hee, Pride and Predjudice (seen the Colin Firth Adaption and quite liked it), and The Fault in Our Stars which I feel I should've read ages ago and I want to read it before the movie comes out (with Nat Wolff in it eeeeep) 

Q. What magazines do you have in your bathroom/lounge right now? 

A.  I don't bring magazines into the bathroom, and my family don't really bother with magazines so we usually just have a TV guide in there..

Q. What's the worst book that you've ever read?

A. I think I've pretty much liked every book I've liked, if I've not liked it then it's because the story doesn't appeal to me but it's usually still written quite well. An example of this would be Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman, my friend bought it for my birthday telling me that I would like it a lot but it was the creepiest book I have ever read and when I finished it I felt pretty scarred so now I stick to books that aren't going to emotionally damage me.

Q. What book seems really popular but you actually hated?

THE TWILIGHT SAGA, as I mentioned before, I haven't read it actually so I guess I shouldn't judge it but from what I've read of it (short sections and the movies) I just cannot fathom why you'd want to waste your time with it - sorry not sorry.

Q. What's the one book that you recommend to just about everyone?

A. If you are interested in John Lennon then I would recommend John by Cynthia Lennon, it changed my opinions on John so much and I cried for about an hour after I finished it and for the rest of the week I couldn't think straight because I felt emotionally shattered but it was brilliant. The first book that comes to mind that isn't related to John Lennon is noughts and crosses, I've read the entire series but the original book really draws you in and I think the concept is quite interesting. 

Q. What are you favourite 3 poems?

A. I don't really have specific favourite poems to be quite honest, I love reading poetry but nothing has really stuck with me. That being said, I love the Roald Dahl poems but otherwise I don't really have favourites.

Q. Where do you usually get your books?

A. Usually amazon, the works, or waterstones

Q. Where do you usually read your books?

A. In bed

Q. When you were little did you have any particular reading habits?

A. Not really

Q. What's the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn't put it down? 

A. John - Cynthia Lennon

Q. Have you ever 'faked' reading a book?

A. Probably in school but otherwise no, I enjoy reading and I wouldn't want to fake it

Q. Have you ever bought a book just because you liked the cover?

A. I do like nice book covers but I judge a book on the content of its character.

Q. What was your favourite book when you were a child?

A. I absolutely loved the Horrid Henry books when I was younger but my favourite book when I was younger was probably Sleepovers - Jaqueline Wilson

Q. What book changed your life?

A.  I'd probably have to say Lucky Man - Michael. J. Fox, he's so optimistic and such a role model for me considering I tend to be more on the realist/pessimist side and I wish I could be more optimistic like him, and I genuinely hope there will be a cure for Parkinson's disease in his lifetime.

Q. What is your favourite passage from a book?

A. The only one that seems to come to mind is from The Twits - Roald Dahl

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bare to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” 

Q. Who are your top 5 favourite authors?

A. Louise Rennison, Roald Dahl, Malorie Blackman, Vladmir Nabokov, J.K Rowling

Q. What book has no one heard about but should read? 

A. I'm not really a book hipster so I don't  think I could say, however I used to love The Foot Book by Dr Seuss when I was younger but no one seems to have heard of that.

Q. What is your favourite book from a first time author? 

A. Most of the authors I have read books from write a few books so

Q. What is your favourite classic? 

A. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Thanks for reading, and I tag you all to do this and please comment and refer back to me please thanks :-)

The Autumn Tag

I was tagged by http://bellamomento.blogspot.co.uk/ so check out her blog!

For Autumn, what is your...

1.  Favourite thing about it? You can be tucked up in bed with your laptop without getting too hot :-)

2.  Favourite drink?  Cup of tea always (no sugar bleh!)

3.  Favourite scent/candle? I really like sweet scents, like in Primark they have pink candles that just smell really sweet, also lemon :-)

4.  Best lipstick?  I don't really wear lipstick so I don't own one... beauty noob 

5.  Go to moisturiser? I quite like the cucumber moisturiser you get from Boots

6.  Go to colours for the eyes? I usually just put on black eyeliner on my eyes, but if I wear eyeshadow then purple usually looks quite nice.

7.  Favourite music or band/singer to listen to? My favourite band is The Beatles, The Smiths coming close second. At the moment I'm really loving Lana Del Rey because she's perfect, I made a post about my favourite songs at the moment so if you're interested then click to my blog internet chums.

8.  Favourite outfit to wear (i.e. boots & a scarf combo)?  Baggy cardigan and Dr Martens, I don't mind what goes on between that combo.

9.  Autumn treat? I may be investing in another pair of Dr Martens hehe..

10.  Favourite place to be?  In my bed, with my laptop, in my pyjamas haha.

I'm tagging:

http://adaliascloset.blogspot.co.uk/
http://alovesvintage.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.pretty-in-pink-blog.com/

http://afhblogging.blogspot.co.uk/

http://bellasbeautyblogs.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanks for reading, please don't tag me back because I won't answer the same questions again sorry!

The Autumn Tag Creater = http://www.makeup-pixi3.com/

Liebster Awards (Again)

So I was tagged in another Liebster Awards by http://prettypeach95.blogspot.co.uk

It's a tag to answer 10 questions about yourself and then to tag another 10 blogs with 10 new questions. It's a great way for lesser known bloggers to support and discover each other.

The rules:

1. The tagged/nominated blogs must have under 200 followers
2. Tag the blog that nominated you

3. Let the people you tagged know so that they can respond

Questions she asked me:1. Whats your favourite song? At the moment, my favourite song is probably This Charming Man by The Smiths, which I mentioned in my blog post 'favourite songs of the moment'. I've liked it ever since I heard it but recently I've started listening to it religiously again.
2. Why did you start blogging? Because I've always wanted my own chunk of the internet, when I was younger I did youtube (and failed), then I did twitter, tumblr, returned to youtube (failed again), and after watching Zoella and Sprinkle of Glitter on youtube talk about what to do when starting a blog, I started to think that maybe I was capable of doing it, also I've always been interested in fashion, especially making cheaper clothes look nice so here I am now.
3. What's your favourite blog post that you've written? Probably my primark haul or my USA! post
4. Whats your favourite lipstick/lip product? Honestly lip products are not my forte, I quite like Clarins lip gloss but vaseline will do me any day, however on the wish list in my head I have Baby Lips, I'd quite like to try that.
5. Give three blog links that you're currently loving. http://abigailalicex.blogspot.co.uk/
http://daydreamsdaisychains.blogspot.co.uk/http://littlemissfashionx.blogspot.co.uk/

6. Whats the one product you couldn't live without? Eyeliner, whether it's pencil or liquid, I refuse to leave the house without it
7. Is your hair colour natural? If not what dye do you use? (weird question but I'm nosey like that!) My hair colour is natural, with the type of hair I have (afro/English mix) it can dry out quite easily and get damaged easily so I have avoided hair dye. Plus I don't think any colours would look nice with my hair except maybe black.
8. Who is your fashion icon? Twiggy
9. If you could be anyone for a day, who would you be and why? Last time I said Linda McCartney, this time I'm gonna say Ringo Starr because I could take pictures of fruit and post them on twitter and just say 'peace and love' and post dolphins and stuff, I'm aware I could do that now but meh
10. Who is your biggest inspiration? Last time, I think I said Michael. J. Fox, but another of my heroes is Ben Folds. Not necessarily for the person he is, but for the talent he has. I'm a grade 7 pianist but I think even at grade 8 I will never level up to him, plus I love his attitude because he reminds me not to take any claptrap from anyone, oh and the song '1 angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces' is helping me get through school, that and 'underground'.
The people I've tagged are:
http://littlemissfashionx.blogspot.co.uk/http://bellasbeautyblogs.blogspot.co.uk/
http://miaronnie0898.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.monstermisa.blogspot.co.uk/
http://afhblogging.blogspot.co.uk/

Sorry, I'm only doing 5 tags because I've done this before and I'd probably end up tagging the same people again. 

Thanks for reading!

As I've said, I've done this twice now so as much as I appreciate the tags, I won't be doing anymore but I appreciate the gesture :-)