Happy September!

It is officially September, woooo! This means sooo many things as a lot happens during this month, and of course it's my birthday!

One of the events happening is school starting :( Nobody likes school, at least I don't. But there are really good stuff like seeing your friends, joining sports teams and enjoying learning about your favourite subject again. There are lots of reasons I don't like coming to school - I live 20 minutes away (providing you chose to travel by bus); I wear a BRIGHT RED school uniform which is a little but of an embarrassment when going home as I live in an almost different county to my school, so I would only be the one in a red blazer. It would be so much cooler if we wear our own clothes to school everyday like American high schools, but I'm afraid that that happening is almost near to impossible.

The negatives out the way, after school starts, the next event is my birthday! I'm really excited but at the same time quiet scared and sad as both my older sisters are leaving for uni, so I'll be alone with my parents by the time I celebrate my birthday! 

That's all for September this year think, and as school is starting I may not even see my blog as much so til next summer :)

Collection Cosmetics - Lipsticks

As a girl who's really interested by makeup (haha) I decided to do a mini review of something in the beauty world that I quite enjoy: Lipsticks. When it comes to shopping for makeup, I normally just look around counter to counter until I see something I like, then later decide if I'll buy it. Of course I have no intention on buying makeup because I need it, it's just something nice to put on and flaunt my face in the mirror. 

Pretty Please (5) Mango Tango (14) Cherry Pop (8)

I decided to go shopping and buy makeup just for fun. I was in Superdrug (a pharmacy in the UK) and I was looking at the Collection counter and it was the first time I seen it, and I loved it straight away because the makeup is so cheap, but has amazing quality as well! I was specifically looking at the lipsticks as that was what caught my eye in their counter because they were only around £2.99 each! Have to say that the packaging is great too, but they seem to loose the cute foil decoration once to handle in too much though.

I first purchased Cherry Pop because the quality was brilliant. On my lips, they looked perfectly fine and was the right colour as shown on the label. The pigmentation was perfect and the result was a cherry red. I was so pleased and I bought straight away! I looked kind of odd at the till because I only had one thing to buy and I didn't use the self check out haha. 

The next Collection lipstick I bought was Mango Tango. The colour is so bright and orangey and it works well for summer or a summery look. It has amazing pigmentation too like Cherry Pop, but the colour can be too bright on a tanned skin like mine, so I would advice putting a little bit on your lips, and use a non-shiny lip balm like Burt's Bees to blend and mix the lipstick, then finish with another healthy, shiny lip balm like Carmex or gloss on top. It works great!

The final but not the last Collection lipstick I bought was Pretty Please. I really like saying the name of makeup rather than numbers, don't you? Anyway, I thought of buying this because I realised that I didn't have a pinkey kind of lipstick and I wanted one. So of course I went to the Collection counter again and looked for one and I got one! Pretty Please is a shimmery kind of lipstick and has good pigmentation although it does tend to appear darker on tanned skin, so I would advice just putting Carmex on top or gloss.

Overall I really enjoy Collection cosmetics and do look forward to building maybe most of my makeup stash from their products.

Getting ahead of yourself

Serious blogpost #3

Have you ever been asked to do something e.g a project? And did it turn out good?

How about when you got asked. Did you say 'okay.' or something like 'sure! I'll make sure we have boats and ducks and by the end of the script I'll sing a song'? 

If you're like me and you like to plan ahead, like going to a trip abroad and packing an extra three pairs of underwear, then that's great. Is it considered normal? Maybe, but then you'd be called efficient or a good scout. And that's okay! Packing extra underwear isn't getting ahead of yourself; it's just thinking or planning ahead, not getting ahead. And getting ahead is very different. 

Getting ahead of yourself means to over-think or over-plan or to over-say about something, and normally it's not good. It has bad connotations, but sometimes it actually works out for some people. I have loads of experiences about me getting ahead of myself. Once, I had to come up with a project for a science investigation and I chose to do something about volcanoes straight away; not because I knew everything about it, but I was just simply interested. I came up with loads of theories, and I even ended up making a model of a volcano out of flour, vinegar and all things you can't possibly imagine using to make a volcano model. I also made lots of mini posters made from paper that I thought I could hand out to people and stuff.. I wanted to do and make more things as well, but I didn't have the time and they were too imaginative and almost not possible to be made by myself alone.  I did these things all at once which tired me out so much that I just wanted to quit. Then when the time came to present, I planned way too much ahead that I didn't even know the first word I would say in front of everyone. So I ended up having to skip my presentation and getting a low mark. I really didn't have a good time after I got that bad mark as I didn't know where I went wrong and why I skipped my presentation.

Then I found out why: it was because I got ahead of myself. I got ahead of myself so much that it tired me out. I don't even think that it's the worse kind of getting ahead of yourself, there might even be much more worse cases.
I'm not saying this is scientifically proven or anything but this might happen to you if you are an imaginative, efficient, independent-thinking person as you have the power of your brain to think ahead about something that you haven't done, but are going to, and therefore you have ingenious, vivid thoughts about the planned things ahead.
In the simplest way that I could describe getting ahead of yourself is simply like planning things, but instead of taking the time to plan, you proceed to do the ideas that come to your head and do them anyway, causing you to be ahead of a certain stage that you should still only be at. It's probably like someone riding bike with no protection gear whatsoever, and the person riding the bike has never had lessons and it's their first time on one. This then causes them to fall and hurt themselves.

As I said before, getting ahead of yourself does have bad connotations, but you can help it by just going with the flow of things, and keeping thoughts that you know are near impossible (although nothing is impossible) in your head; most importantly if you think you have a great idea that you think you should absolutely do or make or whatever it is, write it down first before you actually practically do it.