Motivation

Today's post is going to have a slightly more serious and hopefully thought-provoking slant.

 Most of you are probably blissfully unaware that this year has been the year of UCAS applications and serious decision making about my future and essentially the direction of my life. A lot to ask of a seventeen year old. With the sudden realisation that next year I will be at university with nobody else to rely on but myself, I have caught myself thinking about why it is that I have put myself through the hours and stress of writing personal statements, choosing universities and courses and general worry about the ever decreasing time left I have in my little school life bubble. Essentially, what it is that motivates me.

Now however cheesy and soppy it sounds, I will fess up to my main striving force stemming from a general love of learning and desire to explore new ideas and expand my knowledge and experiences. As a future history and language student, I Iove nothing more than a stirring documentary and a hearty translation about anything from European politics to the development of renewable energies. To most of you that could be your idea of hell, but to me, it's exciting, thrilling, intense and fulfilling. Now the italics aren't there for nothing. I truly honestly believe that you have to do what  makes you happy in life. Because then, and only then will you have no need for self-motivation because the genuine joy felt when doing something you love is enough to warm right down to the cockles of you heart, but also stir something inside of you, giving you a thirst to continue and better yourself.

With this rambly post I will summarise for those of you who have not a clue what I am jabbering on about. What I am trying to say is, love what you do, and do what you love. 

PS. I felt like the old blog font was slightly too hard to read so let me know in the comments if you find this one much better!

Z xx

A Little Update & Writers block

Hello lovelies,
So we are creeping further and further into the month of March (I cannot believe it's March already - seriously where has the time gone?!) and things are getting busier than ever. I thought I would write a little life update as I feel I haven't really focused as much time on blogging recently as I did at the start. Typical me. I always start a project with so much gusto and enthusiasm and never quite make it through to the finish line. I am determined however that this will not happen with my blog.
I'm going to put it down to simply needing time to find my feet. One month in and I still suck at HTML, still haven't worked out how to put a banner on my blog without it looking overwhelming girly and ridiculous, still am no better at taking photographs and I feel like I have hit some form of stumbling block. When I wrote my introduction to my blog I stated that I did not want to simply fit into one category - I wanted to write about life, beauty, fashion and generally anything else that has taken my fancy. However recently I have been struggling to decide on what to write about. I love reading beauty reviews and hauls etc but is that really me? I will always give my most honest of opinions when writing them, but yes, the pictures will still always be a horrendous quality and I'll never be able to afford enough products to do that type of post on a regular basis. Therefore where do I move now? I love writing about fashion and it's perhaps something I'd like to do a bit more of. Lifestyle posts are all well and good when I have exciting things to write about. Nobody wants to read about the mundane life at an all girls catholic boarding school? Or do they?
I think what this spiel is trying to say, is that I am so thrilled that I have even the few followers that I do, I love writing my blog, all be it severely lacking in quality posts right now - that I am well aware - but it is something that I am going to carry on doing. There might be a few changes going on here over the next few days as I try to sort the page out and make some improvements, but please do stick with and bear with me.
Love Z xx

What I'm Loving Pt 2

Hello lovelies,
So a few weeks ago I did a blog post called What I'm Loving and today's post is going to be a follow up to that with some new products and other things that have taken my fancy recently.
I haven't posted in a week or so because I have been so super busy with my school ball (I wish I had taken some photos so that I could have done a post about it but the night passed too quickly!) and exams and whatnot so I haven't really had the time to sit at my laptop and have a proper splurge until now.

Television - Those of you who have sky will probably have seen the adverts for the series "Flemming" which follows the life of James Bond creator Ian Flemming. I have only seen a couple of episodes of this but I am hooked! It's over dramatised view on life in this period of time fascinates me and with Dominic Cooper playing the role of Flemming himself what could be better. He is gorgeous.

Another television program which I will admit I have been quoting for weeks is Ja'mie Private School Girl. I can't decide if I love this so much because it is a completely over exaggerated version of what me and my friends do (going to an all girls private school I feel like I have a lot in common) or whether or not it's actually funny but all the same, I will find myself on a daily basis calling things quiche and will automatically put on the Australian drawl when speaking with my friends.

Beauty - In my recent Superdrug Haul I mentioned that I had purchased a pair of Eyelure eyelashes in preparation for my ball and I am pleased to say that they lasted all night and were still super easy to peel off before I went to bed. Perfect! As this was the first time I had worn them to a party/event I was so conscious of them to start with but after not too long I had completely forgotten I had them on! I would definitely buy some of these again and would highly recommend.

Finally I have one disappointing product and that's the Leightdon Denny Nail Varnish in Embellish Me. It's a gorgeous deep shade of purple which I think is surprisingly vversatile for such a dark colour. However, NEVER wear this without a base coat. I made that mistake and still have a purpley blue tinge to my nails to prove it. Not attractive in the slightest. It does however, have great longevity and didn't really chip for four days until I took it off.

A nice short post for today to get back into the blogging swing after a weeks break. Hope you are all having a lovely week so far - it's nearly Friday (Yay!) and please do let me know in the comments any products that you have been loving recently! Enjoy today's quote - it's a good un!

Z xx