Blogging From A to Z April - Day 7 - Gossip Girl

So we've been through a whole entire week! Only 19 days left, and today's letter is G which is for... 

Gossip Girl has been my obsession over the past few months and some how I've watched every season and episode in that time! So there are 6 seasons in total, each having around 22 to 25 episodes in. Apart from season 6 because its only half way through the season.   

So for those of you who don't know what Gossip Girl is well let me explain... Gossip girl is an American television show based on the novels. The series begins with the return of Upper East Side "it girl", Serena van der Woodsen, from a mysterious stay at a boarding school in Cornwall, Connecticut. Blair Waldorf, whom creators describe as the queen at the center of their chess game, is a longtime friend and occasional rival of Serena's, and the queen bee of Constance Billard School's social scene. The story also follows Chuck Bass, the bad boy of the Upper East Side; "golden boy" Nate Archibald, Chuck's best friend and Blair's boyfriend for many years. However, their relationship had been rocky ever since Serena left for boarding school. Other characters of the turbulent Manhattan scene, Dan Humphrey, Dan's best friend Vanessa Abrams, and Dan's sister, Jenny Humphrey. (From wiki ;D) 

So how did I get into Gossip Girl?? Well first of all I read one of their books called 'You Know You Love Me'. I got this book from my school library as I had the read a book for English and do a review on it. I loved loved loved this book, but unfortunately couldn't do a review on it because of the unnecessary 50 shades of grey type pages! Which was a shame. But none the less I was hooked, so I found a website on line where you can watch every season for free! It was a miracle :3 

My favourite character is Chuck Bass who is played by Ed Westwick :DD I'm not sure why he is my favourite character but he has a certain flair about him, which makes him extremely attractive! First of all he is the bad boy out of the group (which may be why I like him :P) He is described as -  Lazy and vain, Chuck's only interests are sex and money, and he is frequently chided by his father for lacking ambition and performing poorly in school. Following flings with numerous females, his only serious relationship comes near the end of the series, when he begins dating Blair Waldorf.

Throughout the seasons I began to feel sympathy for him. Chuck had a tough up bringing, not having a mother because she died while giving birth to him, and his dad always blamed him for his mothers death. But Chuck has such good friend who help him through it all :) 

Why love Chuck Bass?? Well my answer, just look at him :3 Chucks style is the best with his iconic scarf which he wears everywhere and that cheeky smile he only shows of once in a while ;) Ohhh and not to forget the best part his voice ahhhhh kasjdgfjhvejhcfq ehehe if you can't tell I love it :DDD

To round up this rather long post, if you have never seen Gossip Girl you defentaly should check it out here for free! This website is the best and you can watch a tone of other TV shows for free too, and now I've also gotten kinda hooked on Pretty Little Liars! Whooops :P 

Website link - http://www.cucirca.com/

I'll leave you guys with this ;D 

Blogging From A to Z April - Day 6 - France

So F is for France :D

France is my second favourite country in the entire world, and yet I've only been there once! I went on the 6th December 2011, it was a trip to Paris with my school for the people who chose French as an option and the food tech people. Not sure why they came with us?? But oh well :P

I went with my two best buddies Harry and Bobby. I had the best time everrrrr, we got to visit so many places in just three days. Some including the a factory where they make chocolate, and a trip to The Louvre Museum and saw the Mona Lisa. This picture was obviously taken in 2011 so we were 14 years old and I had a bob, oh those days ;) Yeh excuse the hair it was kinda windy, although Bobby's hair looks pretty epic (one on the left) These two peeps made the trip 10x better!!

Im kinda coming off the topic here ahah :P So France is a whole other world to what it's like at home, a place were French women have perfectly clear skin and the streets are clean :O 

 

      

The places in France make it what it is mainly the Eiffel Tower, its an iconic piece of iron which is found on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Which is named  after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. I managed, while on my school trip, to have the chance to go up the Eiffel Tower... and even got to go all the way up to the top too!!! Look at my amazing photography of the Eiffel Tower ;) and actually that day it was extremely sunny considering it was December!! 

Next is the River Seine. I hate boats!! and guess what we went on a boat trip :( But overall it was the most stunning river I had ever seen, it has so much history behind it. This fact isn't really the best but i thought that it was quite interesting... The river was a popular site for suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims. In the late 1700s and early 1800s over the space of six years 306 bodies were retrieved, the highest number in one day being 16. They were kept in the morgue for many years, and some were never identified. In 2007, 55 bodies were retrieved from its waters; in February 2008, the body of supermodel Katoucha Niane was found there. Ooooo errrrr creepy stuff :DDD

Not only is it a fantastic place but its one of the fashion capitals of the world. Many fashion designers have come from Paris and moved to Paris from all over the place. Many include Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Christian Louboutin, Paco Rabanne and lets not forget the best of them all Coco Chanel. 

So that was a kinda long blog post for today, and leaned more over to be about Paris rather than France ahah oh well what can you do :P 

One day I hope to go back to Paris with my friends and maybe even live there 

This is me and my school outside the Notre Dame Cathedral, im the small one in the red coat at the front on the right :D

Thank you for reading today's post, and feel free to comment your blog down below if your doing the A to Z challenge because i would to read yours :)

             

Blogging From A to Z April - Day 5 - Eyeshadow

So its day 5 which is the letter E which is for Eyeshadow! :3

So the reason I chose to talk about eyeshadow is because this is the product which made me get into makeup in the first place. As a fashion fanatic and wannabe fashion designer, I was always on youtube looking at styling videos and fashion DIY's. Then I checked out a makeup tutorial by MissChievous, which was her OMGWTF COLOR! Drugstore Makeup Tutorial I thought that it was so creative and unique, and 
wondered how you could do a look like that with just eyeshadow!

It inspired me to start being creative with my makeup and now i wear eyeshadow on a regular bases! I can't get enough of it. I like that fact the you can use eyeshadow more than one way, for example you can use shadow as blush, also you could contour your face with orange eyeshadow :D Which dose look pretty epic too!!

This then leads me to the next point on how versatile this product is, theatrical makeup has always been a great love of mine as well as fashion. Eyeshadow is the bases for most theatrical looks, its used in many different ways to ephasis and can even make you go from looking young to old. Eyeshadow can also make you look scary too!! Darker eyeshadows, like browns and blacks, are used to create lines on the face and create depth, which makes you look like you have wrinkles or bags under you eyes to appear dead and withdrawn.


Makeup dates back way 10,000 BC! and eyeshadow was first used in Egypt, they used a powder call Kohl. It was a dark-colored powder made of crushed antimony, burnt almonds, lead, oxidized copper, ochre, ash, malachite, and chrysocolla. This was then applied with stick, to the upper and lower lids.

It then moved from Egypt to Greece then on to Rome. They used kohl just like they did in Egypt. In Rome this was to protect them from the ‘evil eye.’ Soon later eyeshadow was used as fashion.

If your not too into wearing eyeshadow, or not sure how to apply it have ago you'll get better in time. Or you can do what I done and watch youtube videos there's lots out there are very helpful too :) It will open up a whole new world for you in makeup, and it certainly did for me :DD

Thanks for reading see you all tommorow with the letter F!

Blogging From A to Z April

So to let you know I am taking part in the blogging from a to z April  Im going to keep it mostly fashion, beauty, music and food related because these are things im most interested in :DD now let me explain...                                              (info from the website linked below) 

       In April you then have 26 days--one day for each letter of the alphabet.  When April 1st lands on a Sunday you begin on that day which will be the only Sunday you would post during that month's challenge. 

Using this premise, you would start beginning April First with a topic themed on something with the letter A, then on April second another topic with the letter B as the theme, and so on until you finish on April thirtieth with the theme based on the letter Z.  It doesn't even have to be a word--it can be a proper noun, the letter used as a symbol, or the letter itself. 

To find out more and to join me in this challenge as well as 1000's more sign up to this challenge click this link - http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/