Daisy's Winter Essentials

Hey Guys,

Apart from the obvious wear a big woolly jumper, over-sized lined coat and an extra snugly scarf in the Winter time, I've managed to reduce my Winter essentials into 4 things.

1. Cable knit socks

Everybody needs some warm, fuzzy socks to wear at night in front of the TV but what about during the day? I suggest cable knit socks, especially from the brand Pringles; Pringles are so amazing that I try and get as many of their socks and underwear and everybody should at least have one pair. These socks keep your feet warm, but not to hot or thick like bed socks. They can also be warn with anything without judgment unlike bright pink spotty bed socks, and look adorable poking out of shoes.

  

2. Boots (Doc Martens)

When the snow comes, you can't go walking outside in little ballet pumps so a good, solid pair of boots are needed. I would recommend Doc Martens because they're water proof and have a thick sole; meaning that they're long lasting (mine have lasted for 2 years I think) and they're extremely comfortable, for if like me you have to wait 10 minutes in the cold waiting for a bus. 

  

3. Hand/Body Cream

This may seem like a common one but most people, and I did once, forget to moisture more frequently during the Winter. My legs can get extremely chapped and dry, it isn't nice and I get embarrassed when waiting before PE and other people can see them. The same applies with my hands, thankfully I've gotten into the habit of moisturising them regularly, however they can become horrendously chapped and can bleed which can't be nice. The brand I will forever recommend is Soap and Glory, their Hand Food will always be the very best, and it also contains marshmallow! Their body butters and creams are also fantastic and I know they're widely recommended, my favorite is The Righteous Body Butter because it sinks into the skin fast and doesn't feel sticky but also has a nice day time smell.

4. Vaseline

Again another simple one but lips get very chapped during the Winter. Although lipsticks and other lip balms can moisturize your lips, Vaselines pure purpose is to moisturize lips and nothing else such as tinting them etc. Vaseline also lasts for a lot longer than other lip balms which say they can last for 8 hours or more. Overall when it comes to lips, I would always put on Vaseline at night so it can settle in.

Love Daisy x

Song Of The Week

Hey Guys,

I couldn't actually pick one particular song because I've just been listening to this one album while revising. 'Teenage Dirtbag' has so many cool songs from 'back in the day'; some of the songs aren't really to my taste but the majority are. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlo2q32Jhcs

Love Daisy x

The Clothes Show 2013

Hey Guys,
Last weekend we went to The Clothes Show at the NEC in Birmingham, this was our second year and we had been looking forward to it for a long time. Although we didn't feel that this year was as good as the last we still really enjoyed ourselves! The actual show was very good it featured clothes both from the high street and from top end designers, modelled by both models and dancers.

                        

Union J opened the clothes show with a new song, this was a great surprise. They performed well and got the crowd going ready for the catwalk show to begin.

After the show it was time to shop, we figured that the easiest way to show you what we bought was to do a haul, so here it is.
We both bought a Rimmel London retro goodie bag at £5 it was great value for money, this included mascara, nail varnish, foundation and tan (although neither of us will use this!)

We also both bought a Models Own Goodie Bag for £10. Daisy had bought one the previous year and was adamant that she bought another this year because it was so good! Walking round we also got given a free nail file from The London College of Beauty Therapy

Holly
I bought a blue & white check shirt dress from Harper & Lewis , is a bit short but so comfortable and warm for winter as it can be worn with the sleeves rolled up or down.
There were several universities represented at the Show and one of these was De Montford University who had a little shop. I bought a lovely navy blue InWear skirt for just £5, as you can imagine I was very happy!

Daisy
I didn't buy any clothing but I couldn't help but stare at the cut out shoes on all the little stalls. All the bags I bought included nail varnish because that's what I love so I bought a MINT London Goodie Bag for £10 which has become my new favourite brand of nail varnish. This included 4 nails varnishes (I picked myself) and a little sandwich bag full of other nail goodies; my new favourite thing is a colour wheel because it shows all my nail colours in a pretty little wheel. 

Finally I bought a Elegant Depilation bag which I was tricked into buying. I was not pleased with this purchase as I was told it would remove body hair without shaving/waxing and wouldn't come back as stubble, which it did! I do not recommend this, because now I have weird arms! 

Finally we leave you with a picture we had taken in a car photo-booth whilst at the show, Holly (far left) and Daisy (far right) with our lovely friends Tabitha (next to Holly) and Grace (next to Daisy).

(sorry about the flash on the photo!)

Love Holly and Daisy x

Review: Shakespeare In Love

Hey Guys,

I'll just put this out there, I hate Shakespeare! I hated studying him at school, learning about his techniques etc. the only good thing about him was the second film of Romeo and Juliet, when Leonardo Dicaprio played Romeo. Anyway when I saw the advert I was immediately drawn in, mainly because Joseph Fiennes looked good (28 when filmed) and he still looks fairly good for 43 ;). 

Spolier, I'm going to tell you what happens. It's very predictable from start to end but it so well written I really didn't care. 

There's this lovely young lady, Violia, played by Gwyneth Paltrow who loves William Shakespeare's plays and obviously when she hears that Will's auditioning for another play, she want's to go however she had to dress up as a man because obviously women weren't allowed on stage; she calls this boy Thomas Kennisk, who gets the roll of Romeo.

In the mean time Will visits Violia's house and actually meets her, as the girl, where it's love at first sight. Will writes letters to her, and her love grows for him through rehearsals but Will still thinks its Thomas. Eventually Will discovers that Thomas is actually Violia in disguise, they then have to hide their love in front of the other actors; but obviously then Violia's disguise is fully blown and everybody finds out about her.

Violia is made to marry a man she doesn't love instead of William but after her wedding discovers that 'Romeo and Juliet' is been preformed at one of the play houses.  

At the play house the man playing Juliet is unable to preform, so Violia sneaks back stage to take his place; to everybody's surprise that a woman comes on stage, the audience fall silent. When the play ends the audience is in an uproar because of the amazing performance and all seems well until the very end when William and Violia have to go their separate ways. It's all very emotional.

Overall it's a fantastic film, I would definitely recommend it to lovers of Shakespeare but I think anybody would enjoy it even if you don't like Shakespeare like myself. 

Love Daisy x 

The Fratellis

Hey Guys,
A few weeks ago my friend Eleanor and I went to see The Fratellis at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton. I last saw The Fratellis at The V Festival in the summer and was really excited to see them play indoors at a smaller venue because I knew I would be able to get much closer ( that is one advantage of being small)

The support band were called Cut Ribbons and although I wasn't expecting much from them they were actually quite good, we saw them in the foyer on the way out of the concert. I though the girl, who was one of the two lead singers in the band, was really good and had a really unique sense of style, also she had an amazing dove shaped tambourine, which I want really badly!

The Fratellis completely exceed my expectations, they were absolutely fabulous! I love their music because whenever it is playing you simply can't stand still, this obviously makes a great concert atmosphere! The lead singer, John Fratelli (who I like probably too much ... ;) ) was really good with the crowd and the music was great, for only three men they can make a lot of noise.

They are a Scottish band who have featured as one of my earlier Song Of The Week Posts, check it out here. Overall it was a really great night out an as soon as The Fratellis come near here again I will be booking tickets!

Love Holly x

Song Of The Week

Hey Guys,
This week I have chosen the orchestral version of 'Youth' by Foxes as the Song Of The Week. I like the original song as well but, although I don't like Christmas, the orchestral version of 'Youth' has a really magical almost Christmas like sound to it, which I really enjoy. It is also used on the Debenhams Christmas Advert.

'Youth' By Foxes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3pHO2yesN4

Love Holly x

November Nails

Hey Guys,
We want to start doing a monthly post on our favourite nail varnishes from the past month. If you go on YouTube a lot, you will know that this is a common video where people talk about what things they've been loving that month and it can be about anything but it's mainly to do with make-up; seeing that the only real 'make-up' we wear is nail varnish, we figured we could do a monthly post on what nail varnishes we like.

As we have only just gone into December we are going to post the November Nails now and you will get December Nails later this month.

Daisy
So if you didn't really know I've been posting quite a lot about Barry M's matte nail varnishes and that what I've been wearing this month; and the colour I've been wearing is 'Crush'.

Holly
I have been wearing the shade 'Leaf' from the Polish Limited Collection, I bought this nail varnish in a sale in Marks & Spencer, although that may not be a 'cool' place to buy nail varnish, it is the best nail varnish I have ever bought.

Watch out for December Nails in the next few weeks!

Love Holly and Daisy x

Meet Greg

Hey Guys,
Last Friday I went to my local village for the turning on of the Christmas lights and there was a carnival; I say 'carnival' but it was a few stalls and a not so fun Fun House.

While I was there my friend told me there was a fish stall last year so we went on a hunt for it. When we came across it we had to pay £2.50 and win a game of dart to get the fish but the man at the stall announced that we win every time! I've been wanting a fish since late last year and the fact my parents weren't around it was a given that I was going to win/buy one. I was with two of my friends and all three of us bought one;
I called my fish Greg, and my friends were called Jeff and Harri.

My parents weren't best pleased with my buying Greg so he lived in a big mixing bowl for a couple of days until they realised he needed a real home. Unfortunately Greg is an only fish but i'm hoping to buy another Goldfish soon because he looks so lonely in his big tank. At the moment I love Greg but I have a feeling that I'll soon forget about him and he'll have to go and live with my grandparents but I'm hoping that won't happen anytime soon.

Seeing that Greg is my first fish I'm trying really hard to look after him properly, even if he doesn't eat much food and hide at the back of the tank, but all is going well so far :D

Love Daisy x