Christmas...HELP

I'm one of those people who LOVE's Christmas shopping but refuses to do it really early. This year my group of friends have decided to do secret Santa as there's 7 of us (Plus I need a few little bits for my mum!)! But this does mean I'm limited on my spending...which for someone who loves Christmas present shopping and going overboard is very difficult. 

I have a few ideas but I'm struggling to make them happen because of prices and things(Everything seems SO expensive when you're on budgets!) So, if anyone knows of anywhere with little gift ideas, either blog posts about them or websites or shops etc. with them on PLEASE let me know!! I'd appreciate it a lot, I just need a little inspiration!

Hope everyone is well!

@HanMcFly

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Just a little life update

As far as life goes the past few weeks have been ridiculously busy! I've had so much going on, so much to do, a hell of a lot of stress and a lot of nerves. I've had a quite a bit of disappointment as well.

I started learning to drive in May and just under 4 weeks ago I took my driving test for the first time. I felt quite nervous going into it but soon relaxed. Then for my examiner to fail me on a roundabout for no apparent reason. So I was pretty gutted about that! However, I've re-booked and am retaking it next week, so fingers crossed! Especially now that I've finally bought a car!! YAAY! After my 18th birthday I had enough money to buy a car, I then came to an agreement about the insurance with my mum so I've been lucky enough to get a car, its the first big big purchase I've ever made and I'm so excited to start driving now!

If any of you have been through the university application you'll know how damn stressful it is! I sent of my UCAS application and received a couple of interviews. The first of which was my second choice university. Safe to say that was a nerve racking day and then a nerve racking wait until I heard back from them. To then find out that I hadn't got a place. Honestly nothing compares to how devastating that is, not a personal rejection from someone, not even being rejected from a job is that devastating. Unless you've been through it you honestly don't understand how bad it makes you feel. But picking yourself up from it, moving on and hoping for the best at another interview is the best thing to do!

If I got the chance to tell 12 year old me something without a doubt the first thing I would tell myself is to always be careful about who you get close to, who you trust and how attached you get to someone. I've recently come to learn that a lot of people just mess you around, drop you when they want and don't put the effort in that you do. Move on and be careful, people can be harsh.

I always feel a lot better after I've blogged.

@HanMcFly
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Name change

I just thought I'd write a little post to apologise for my recent lack of blogging and things. October was super super busy and I'm still low on ideas for posts. I also haven't sat down to do a 'my week in pictures post' for a few weeks which is rubbish of me.

Anyway, I've just changed the name of my blog, not my url or anything just the main name/title. I just fancied a change and though it fit my blog a bit better, seen as I don't really have a general direction or theme, like my last name sort of suggested; that it was all lifestyle and 'diary' type things. I don't know, I like it. It's a little less cheesy than my last one.

Hope everyone is well!

@HanMcFly
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Turning 18

Just over a week ago I turned 18. I spent the day with my family eating, visiting and being a little emotional. I'd spent the Friday night with my closest friends at lazer quest, and then pigging out and drinking a little too much, which was fab!  

I treated my self to a new camera so took a few shots on my birthday and I just wanted to share them with you(I'm still trying to work out how to use its settings and things).

Please excuse the cards...but that is my friends for you :-)

So's here to being another year older!

@HanMcFly

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Current favourites

I enjoyed doing my last favourites post (which is here; My Summer Favourites) so much that I thought HEY, lets do another! This time isn't quite as exciting really and a few of these things I've already spoken about in other posts (oops for always raving about the same things!) But...

My current clothing favourites include my sparkly new Converse All Stars, in Grey with baby pink trims (Which actually look neon in the picture!) from none other than Office (They're Office exclusives) for £40 with student discount. Although they were ridiculously painful the first few times I wore them, they're starting to get easier to wear and I LOVE them; They're so versatile and pretty!

My second clothing favourite is my autumn/winter coat from New Look, which was around £35...I think; I'm rubbish at remembering and finding it on the website! But yeah I really like the colour and the design, I don't think my poor photography really did it any justice. It's practical but is still a lovely coat; I did find that I had to get a size bigger than I normally wear because the sleeves are a little short, but other than that its my new favourite coat!

This past month or so I've actually spent money on make up and girly things like that, which is quite unlike me. I've also been wearing more make up to. I recently re-purchased the Rimmel London Stay Matte powder, which is my current favourite (I tend to alternate between that and my Clinique stay matte powder) as it gives a natural cover and stops me from being too shiny. I also bought MUA's pro-base fixing mist which has become my best friend! It's pretty good to say it was only a fiver! I've also tried the MUA lipsticks recently to, which are also quite good! The nail varnish is an Avon one and other than that I don't know anything else about it, other than its really girly and subtle which is brilliant when you can't really wear bright nail varnish(at least not whilst I'm trying to grow my nails!) like me! 

Finally my last favourite is rather random! I bought a Nintendo GameCube about a year ago and it came with a couple of games. As of a few weeks ago I started playing Finding Nemo and it's become my favourite game ever to play! I'm such a big kid, haha and I thought I'd share my love for this game with you just in case any one reading was a GameCube playing like myself! 

So there we go! My current favourites! I really enjoy doing these type of posts and doing mini reviews! I think I might start doing more reviews and things; what about I do not know! Anyway, thanks for reading!

@HanMcFly

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My week #6

As expected this last week was awful. Nothing seemed to want to go right, there was so much going on and a ridiculous amount of stress! I managed to go a full week without taking a picture of anything interesting (just of coursework and sheets for college, zzzz)

But this week honestly did make me think about who I can turn to and trust the most. For me I would always say family but this week has proved the power very close friends can have on my mood and how I feel about something. I know everyone thinks it but I'm pretty sure my close circle of friends, plus a few other friends are the absolute best in the world! I can genuinely say they always have my back, and I'd honestly always have theirs.

There's something special about the relationship you have with your friends and I don't even think the relationships you have with family even come close to those with friends. I don't know where I'm going with this but I suppose I'm trying to say we take our friends for granted and should just appreciate them a little more, especially during difficult times.

Well that got very sentimental all at once, didn't it? Anyway I hope everyone had a better week than I did and enjoy the fresh new week!

Thanks for reading!

@HanMcFly
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Birthday Celebrations 3

So a few months back, when I'd first started blogging really, I did a little 'Get ready with me' sort of post for a friends birthday(which is here; Birthday Celebrations 2). Since I enjoyed doing that one I thought I'd do another one, and after a close friends recent 18th birthday party I thought this would be the perfect event to blog about! So here goes!

The top picture is basically everything I used for the party! I wear very little make up really and don't tend to venture into the world of eye shadow unless its a special occasion. As it goes this was a pretty special occasion so I thought hey why not?! I didn't fancy using liquid foundation, as I often don't, I chose to where my recent re-discovered favourite Rimmel London, Stay Matte pressed powder, in 003 Peach Glow. I find it just gives the skin a natural look which I always find I prefer.

I used the H&M Kabuki brush, which is defiantly worth the £4.99 I payed for it! I also recently purchased the MUA Pro-base fixing mist, which is actually really good! and at £5, you can't really go wrong!

I used my favourite mascara as usual! I'm not keen on eye lash curlers but I find this mascara does the job pretty well without using them! I can't keep up with how much I've raved about the Maybelline New York mascaras! I love them!

Finally, I used this gold-ish type colour for my eyes. I'm not ever sure about eye shadow or how to wear them, like should I be mixing or wearing just the one colour or what?! But hey I though this colour was quite nice and matched the colour of my outfit quite well. I have no idea what shade this is, all I know is its off a little pallet from Boots sometime last year! I did forget to take pictures of the lipstick I wore, but as usual I wore my collection 2000 favourite! 

So yeah this is basically how I ended up looking. As normal, because I'm awful at hair styling, I straightened my hair but ended up just pushing my fringe back every few minutes. 

I wore a gold sequined tshirt from New look, which I bought last year but have only worn once before! Its got a sort of see through chiffon type back to. I wore it tucked into a long black skirt which is defiantly my best purchase for a long time; only costing me £5! Yay! I then just put my old favourite heels on, which I bought from Peacocks, when that was still a shop haha!

Thanks for reading, I enjoy these types of posts! Hope you enjoyed! Heres a few pictures from the night;

@HanMcFly

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