Glorious Soap & Glory.

Glorious Soap & Glory.

I have been so in love with Soap & Glory recently that I thought I would share with you my top picks from their brand. I have not tried many of their other products so I may have more favourites yet, that I don't even know about!

First up we have the body buttercreams. They are exactly how you would think, similar to a body butter but more like a thick, luxurious cream to put all over your body. If you haven't smelt the Sugar Crush range before, I highly suggest you give it an intense sniff when you next go into Boots. It smells so gorgeous. It smells like lime and has a hint of sweetness to it like vanilla. The buttercream feels super nice on your skin and leaves you feeling so relaxed. The next product I am loving is the Supercat eyeliner pen. It is so easy to achieve the perfect winged eyeliner look. I have had it for about three months now and it has not dried up either! I often find that with pen eyeliners they dry up so quickly but not this one. The last product I would definitely recommend you purchasing is the Sexy Mother Pucker (hehe!) gloss stick in the shade Nudist. It is like wearing a great lipgloss but it isn't as sticky and the gloss is highly pigmented. I am definitely going to try the darkest one of these sticks. I wear nudist all of the time it is such a great go to colour for the lips. 

Which Soap & Glory product is your favourite? And which scent is your favourite?

- Kat Melladay x

What's in my evening bag?

What's in my evening bag?

I love reading blog posts and watching YouTube videos of girls showing off their bag and the contents inside of it. I have really wanted to do one for a while, therefore I thought I would but I wanted to show you what I pack in my evening/clubbing bag. Just because I have fallen in love with my new evening bag from Primark. They have some truly, gorgeous evening bags in Primark at the moment. I prefer to have plain ish evening bags so that I don't have to struggle trying to match my outfit to my bag. This black, croc detail faux leather bag was perfect for what I wanted with the tiny detail of the gold and tassels on the front. Believe it or not, it was only £5! Fabulous!

Now I haven't put everything in the photograph of what I would take out as I thought they were the obvious ones; money/purse, phone and keys! Other than those obvious essentials, these are the other things I like to take with me in my evening bag..

The first thing, which again is probably obvious, is your ID. Yes embarrassingly mine is my Passport. If you forget your ID your night is basically ruined from your first steps out of your door. Next I make sure that my iPhone portable charger is fully charged to put in my bag. When you are trying to find your lost drunken friends, taking hundreds of selfies and then ringing for your taxi back home the last thing you need is your phone dying on you! Another item I always pack is the lipstick I am wearing. Unfortunately when drinking, unless your lipstick is magical, it doesnt seem to stay perfect all night. Which means that you need to take it with you so that you can quickly just put some more on. I always take my favourite lip balm out with me as well just in case I don't have the time to redo my lipstick. Other items I would advise packing, if you have room in your bag, is a packet of chewing gum and a small hairbrush.. or my beloved Tangle Teezer in my case. You might want to take other makeup with you, but you don't want to be spending all of your time when you are out in the ladies! 

- Kat Melladay x

Book review: PAPER TOWNS by John Green

Book review: PAPER TOWNS by John Green

Blurb: "Quentin has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow.

But the next day Margo doesn't come to school and a week later she is still missing. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance . . . and they are for him. But as he gets deeper into the mystery - culminating in another awesome road trip across America - he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for."

The first thing I realised about this book, which makes it different to any other book I have read, was that the first person is actually a boy/young man. Meaning that you are reading the story all from his perspective. Which was so unusual to me because I always seem to read books which have a lady as the first person. It was actually a nice change. The book is about a young man called Quentin who has always had a childhood crush on his neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. They went through a creepy situation together when they were children and ever since, Quentin has been mesmerized by every part of Margo. You soon discover that Margo isn't your average, gossiping high school girl. She appears to be in with the popular crowd, gets attention from the boys and is very socially active with going to all the best parties etc. However the truth is, Margo is really the most mysterious girl you could ever imagine. There are so many different parts to her personality and she has so many broad interests, hobbies and opinions that nobody would ever expect of her. Of "their Margo". 

I won't ruin the whole story for you, but throughout the book, Margo manages to really test Quentin without really meaning to. He begins to do things that usually he would never dream of doing, but he would do them for her. He breaks laws and goes on crazy adventures all over America all behind his parents back, which he usually would never dream of doing, but he would do them for her..

I really enjoyed this book. John Green is the author of the massive success which is "The fault in our stars". Please don't hate me.. but unlike most other young woman I know, I haven't actually read that book. I watched the movie at the cinema and thought that it was ok, and I thought I might give the book a go as it would probably be better than the movie. However whilst in Waterstones, I spotted Paper Towns and thought I would much rather read it instead. I would definitely read another book by John Green, the story was really easy to follow but not too simply written, and had me not being able to contain myself for the answers! The ending can be a bit disappointing depending on how you take to the story. I found myself  a little disappointed, however at the same time not so disappointed that it made me hate the story overall as it certainly didn't. 

Buy your own copy here: click here to buy!

- Kat Melladay x