"These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things."

10 points for you if you identified the Sound Of Music title reference there, good job!

I felt that after my opening, Lionel Richie lyric-titled blogpost, the horrifically unfunny blogpost title's needed to make a reappearance. So TA DAH!

Anyway! Over the past few months, I have discovered a few new favourites! Hooray! Whether it be music, make-up, food or movies, I thought it would be nice to impart these new found gems onto you guys!?

Lets talk about the best one first shall we?

Favourite Food: DARK CHOCOLATE MCVITIES DIGESTIVES. 

Now if I'm being completely honest, dark chocolate is not my fav. It is a bit too bitter for my lil' tastebuds and I just generally prefer to gorge on the milk kind. HOWEVER. OH MY LORDY. If you like normal, milk chocolate digestives then I can virtually guarantee that you will thoroughly enjoy these. Because the digestive part of the biscuit is a little bit sweet, this contrasts the bitterness of dark chocolate, which results in a rather delicious sweet treat. (That was not meant to come out sounding like a review in a food magazine... Apologies.) Furthermore, I would like to put a disclaimer out there that I cannot be held responsible for those, who (like me) finish a whole packet of these in approximately 20 minutes..

(I wish I was lying.)

Favourite New Album: Disclosure- Caracal 

I know, I know, that this album has been out for a little while now and I'm a bit late on the bandwagon. But personally when a new album comes out, I like to listen to it on repeat for a week so that I can identify my favourites, then play those ones in particular on repeat for another couple of weeks until I get sick of them.. Obviously, everyone is familiar with Omen featuring the fabulous Sam Smith, Holding On featuring the powerhouse that is Gregory Porter and possibly, a long time favourite of mine, Bang That. However, I have identified a few new, current favourites! These are:

Superego (ft Nao)
Magnets (ft Lorde)
Jaded 
Nocturnal (ft The Weeknd)

And my absolute favourite

Moving Mountains (ft Brendan Reilly) 

I binge watched all of the videos that Disclosure posted on their Youtube channel of their 'AmexUnstaged' concert. So when I came across this live performance and this guy's voice, I had it on repeat for a solid hour. Alas, a new favourite was born!

Oh I nearly forgot to mention! As I'm sure many of my close friends will tell you, I have been DYING to see Disclosure live for SO long, not just because I may or may not have a crush on Howard (google him, if you're not sure which one he is.) But because after watching videos of their show at Alexandra Palace last year, I just knew I had to somehow get tickets for their next tour.
So when the gorgeous duo announced their latest tour to promote this new album, I scanned the dates in approximately 5 seconds, saw that they were doing 2 (now 3) dates at Ally Pally and I GOT ME SOME TICKETS! (dancing lady in red dress emoji)
So on the 2nd of December I will be seeing these boys live! EEEEK! Of course I will try and get as many pictures and videos as possible so that I can write a blogpost about it!

My New Favourite Lipstick (that I really did not need, but purchased anyway..):

Mac- Fast Play

Here are some shameful selfies just so you can see what the colour looks like on. (Yes I forgot to save the first picture without the snapchat banner on.. We've all been there lets be honest.)

As I mentioned in my Everyday Make-Up post, Mac's Soar lipliner with Mehr lipstick over the top, is one of my favourite lip combinations and probably the one that I have had the most compliments and questions on! I always get told that the shade that this combination ends up as on my lips, is one that compliments my skin tone! So with that in mind, I wanted to get a similar colour but with more of a berry undertone to it and a bit deeper in colour so that it was a bit more autumnal. With much deliberation, I decided to go with Youtuber, Lily Pebbles' recommendation of Fast Play! I definitely did not need this lipstick, as I have many similar colours and dupes in my make-up stash. However, that being said, I am so glad I bought it! Because it is an amplified finish, it is a lot creamier and therefore easier to apply (which is great news for a lipstick noob like myself..) I find that with Soar and Mehr, they leave my lips feeling very dry and looking a bit too matte for my liking, so this is a perfect alternative for when i can't be bothered to faff with both lipliner and lipstick! I would thoroughly recommend!

My New Favourite Film (and consequently) New Crush:

Film: The Longest Ride

Crush/ Future Husband (in my dreams): SCOTT EASTWOOD. (insert unlimited love heart eyes emoji.)

2 words, Google him. 

No descriptive paragraph needed..

Lets just say, I've already pre-ordered the film in preparation for it's DVD release on November 2nd.

New Favourite Youtuber: 

sunbeamsjess/ extrasunbeamsjess

I discovered her whilst I was in my gap year planning/excitement bubble.. She had uploaded this v.helpful gap year planning video and I've been hooked ever since!
I just love how natural she is! Her videos are so easy to watch, especially her vlogs, she just seems so genuine and natural on camera, not like she is putting on a front if you get what I mean? And she is  so so gorgeous and her sense of style is so refreshing, like I would DIE for her wardrobe! She has a very eclectic style which I love and I am so obsessed with her ear piercings and her rings/sunglasses collections, however I would never be able to pull most of these off, so I think I'll just admire through my screen..
As I say her vlogs have me hooked! Her current vlogtober series are the first videos I watch every morning whilst I'm getting ready for work and her travelling vlogs, seriously, just wow. Trust me once you've watched them you'll wanna hop on a plane and jet off around the globe! (Like I will hopefully be doing next year!)

I hope you have all enjoyed this post and are currently eating McVities Dark Chocolate Digestives, whilst googling Scott Eastwood and listening to Dsiclosure's new album!

Kez xxx

Oh Hi Stranger!

I'M SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY.

When I started my blog, I said to myself, "I will never become one of those people who starts a blog, and then a few posts in, just neglects it completely."

Yet here I am..

To cut a long story very short, in order for me to be able to fund my travelling ventures, (which I will update you on in a bit. VERY EXCITING.) I have had to go full time at my current job. This means that when I'm not working I am either catching up on sleep or eating... (What a life I lead eh.)

However, as I have obviously just passed my test I have been on the lookout for a car. (WHICH HAS BEEN VERY UNSUCCESSFUL AND FRUSTRATING) This meant that my days off were spent galavanting around our area, looking at cars in the hope of securing one of my own!

However, much to my disappointment and frustration, this didn't happen. Every car we looked at just wasn't right in some way or another, so here I am, over 3 weeks post-test, STILL without a car (*cries*).

So as I had spent my days off getting frustrated and upset about not securing a car, consequently this meant that;
1. I wasn't in the right frame of mind to write blogposts.
2. I hadn't spent my days off doing/buying anything interesting worth writing about..

Nevertheless, I thought that instead of forcing out a new make-up or clothing post, I would just give you a little update on what's going on in Kez's life!

So first and foremost. LAUREN AND I HAVE (pretty much) PLANNED OUT OUR TRAVELLING ROUTE!! We have yet to properly book anything yet, but after spending 5 hours in STA planning flights, accommodation, routes etc etc..
We have decided to do a two week tour in Australia, going from Cairns all the way to Sydney. I will go into a lot more detail about this tour when we have definitely booked it, but lets just say this is probably the part of the trip that I am most excited about! Because as you know from my Top 10 Places That I Want To Visit post, Aus is top of the list! We then decided that after a whirlwind 14 day tour in Aus, a week in Fiji would be rather delicious don't ya think!? We are looking to stay at the Blue Lagoon Resort which is on a secluded island in the middle of nowhere. Bliss. Now obviously we haven't booked it yet so I can't get too excited, but if you're a jealous person, don't type the resort name into Google images..

Lastly, we decided that if we were going to do Aus, it would only be right to do Thailand too, right? We are HOPEFULLY going to be visit an elephant sanctuary which looks after old and sick elephants (*heart melts*) for 4 days, before venturing onto do a 9 day tour of Thailand. This is the area that is a bit up in the air at the moment so I can't confirm anything for sure, as we don't know what tour we want to do yet. But nevertheless I am so bloody excited!!!!!

Obviously this sort of once in a lifetime trip comes at a cost.. And as I will be paying for it all myself this means that I will be work work workingggggggg. Unfortunately this means that I probably won't be able to update you guys on here as often as I would like :((( However! I will try my absolute hardest to write at least 1 blogpost a week!?
I apologise now, as I can see myself having to refrain from writing about travelling in every single blogpost, seeing as we are having to pay for the 6 week trip in bits. But I have a few outings planned that I may be able to blog about in the near future, so keep your eyes peeled!

Thank you for your patience, you lovely people! I promise I won't leave it so long until the next blog post!

Kez xxx