August Burns Red // Islington Academy, London // 13.12.2018

What a perfect way to end the year; August Burns Red with support from Wage War and Betraying The Martyrs. This was up there with 'best gigs of the year', for me. 

Below is a video I put together of a couple of clips I got from the show. Just a couple, as there is nothing more annoying than that person who stand there with their camera phone! hahaha! :) 

The Body Shop // Tea Tree Range

BEHOLD! THE HOLY GRAIL OF NIGHT TIME SKIN CARE! Well, let's be real here; just like any products, each individual is going to find products that work better for their skin than others. Something that works for me, might not work for someone else. Where as what works for someone else, may not work for me! 

But for someone who has tried and tested 92827094 different face washes, face scrubs, face masks (you get my point), I have only really got along with the Body Shop.

I have combination skin. I was blessed with the power of my skin to be greasy along with dry, and add on to that blemishes, spots, you name it - this sisters got it! Tea Tree for me, has always got along with my skin well. I always seem to find if it has Tea Tree in it - it's going to work for at least a little while.

The Body Shop, however, has not let me down (yet). So I have been using both the Tea Tree Face Wash and Tea Tree Night Cream for a good few years now - and I have never switched to anything else. I use the face wash twice a day as it is kind and gentle and makes your face feel all tingly - in a good way! Like it's all fresh and pampered. The night cream i use before bed, applying a thin layer all over my face. If I have a particularly lovely spot, I add a blob of the cream onto the spot, and I have found it makes the spot disappear quicker. I am not sure if this is how you are to use it, but it works wonders for me! 

Last month I decided to dive deeper into the range and picked up this '3 in 1' Tea Tree product. It claims to be a face scrub, a face mask, and a wash - all in one! 

I can now confirm after a month of using this; this product is just as amazing. The face wash claim, I will kinda ignore (I already have face wash *flicks hair*), but as far as scrubs go - it is gentle and does the job. Using it as a face mask is SO easy too. You apply a thicker layer, and it really drys down to a mask! Afterwards, you wash away and it also scrubs too!

One of the best things about all this, is these all last for AGES! Not to mention all the deals Body Shop do. I would say, if any of this rings familiar with you; try these products! This is me, your friend, helping you out, as a friend. You're welcome. 

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Too Faced - The Sweet Smell of Christmas

I think we would be kidding ourselves if we didn't agree that it's a pretty exciting time of year! Christmas is just around the corner, and more importantly; all the limited edition Christmas makeup collections are being released!

As every year, the collection I anticipate most, is Too Faced. I have had a couple of lipsticks from the Melted Matte collection before, and I absolutely loved them. So there was no doubt about it; I had to have these!

In the set you get four lipsticks; Pumpkin Spice, Sugar Cookie, Cinnamon Bear, Hot Buttered Rum, ALL of which smell EXACTLY how they sound, and they smell so delicious! Each lipstick is a 'mini', and you get just under half the amount of product you would from a full size; each lipstick contains 3ml of product. Which for a retail price of £22 (plus discount if you get these from the right place), I would say that is well worth the price!

Top - Bottom; Hot Buttered Rum, Cinnamon Bear, Sugar Cookie & Pumpkin Spice

I have ranted about these before; but long story short, the product themselves for me, if were being honest, is not as good as the Jeffree Star Velour collection, but these definitely come close! They are comfortable to wear, long lasting, highly pigmented, have a beautiful smell, are easy to apply; but Jeffree just manages to outdo all of those factors. 

Scroll down for a closer look in my latest video! 

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Hawthorne Heights // The Flapper, Birmingham // 22.10.2018

What a treat of a gig this was. Hawthorne Heights with support from Mark Rose of Spitalfield - like being in a time capsule. 

For a brief moment (hour or two) I forgot I was 27 and all my worries and fears were left at the door. I felt 14 again. That kid that used to sit in ICT lessons, trying to find proxy sites on the sly, so she could log in to MySpace and stream Hawthorne Heights and Silverstein tracks from their pages. You know, because I didn't have Sky TV back then, and the only way to find music was either from MySpace, Kerrang or the free DVD and CDs you would get from Victory Records. This is how I remember it. 

There was always something special about finding music back then. I don't think it's really quite the same now. I mean it's great that we get to discover music much more easily now, but there was always something fun about discovering music back then.

Anyways, back to the gig. I finally got to see Hawthorne Heights,  one of few bands from my childhood I have never tired of, or grown out of, and guess what; It's been a week and I am still pumped! Those are the best gigs, right? Where you feel on a high afterwards. 

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