Uni Lifestyle

Hi home birds so recently i flew the coop hence the minimal effort and time i have recently put into my blog but i promise promise promise it will be back to normal soon and all those asking when i will do a favourite blog, trust me it's coming! But, all my stuff is currently either in boxes or scattered around my room at the moment.

I have officially started moving into my uni house! I'm 3rd year now and feel more grown up than ever before and my room is starting to feel more and more homely and i will put pictures up of the most part of it when it's set up and ready to go but at the moment it looks like someone held a hoe down or some shit in here so i'd rather not show you any "before and After" pics and just stick to after.

MISS YOU

Josephine Jane <3

20 facts about myself.

Hello blogger sphere today i shall be writing 50 facts about myself that you may or may not already know. This has been floating around on blogs and youtube channels for a while now and i was 'tagged' in it a while back and i finally got round to sitting down and being productive about this. Prior warning, i'm not doing the usual 50 facts, i'm sticking to a more realistic goal of 20.

1. Winter is my favourite time of year, not just the cold/frosty morning type winter but i also really like rain too! I like being under and umbrella and having my hood up. 
2. I have dance from the age of 2. Ballet, Tap, Modern, Pointes and street however street dancing was not for me so after about a year i gave that up as a bad job. I was basically a ballerina in sweat pants and my teacher agreed. 
3. I can't keep plants alive! I over water, under water, too much light, not enough light, as hard as a try plant after plant, i kill them all. 
4. Green is my favourite colour. 
5. I'm not a vegetarian but i rarely eat meat simply because i prefer quorn
6. I once met Rio Ferdinand at an airport and he said he liked my hair, i was about 9 and i nearly shit my pants and i was that excited about this. I went on the tell all my friends and everyone i've ever met 
7. I get distracted very easily, i could be doing one thing and within a matter of seconds my brain has switched onto another. I started this about 60 minutes ago and whilst doing this i have also changed my bed, had some food, ordered some clothes online and played an eventful round of candy crush. Proof is in the pudding. 
8. I don't like spoons. I don't like touching them, eating with them or even being around them. It started when i was like 7 and i'm not 100% sure what brought it on but it's been a some what phobia of mine ever since. The usual question are 'how do you eat soup?' in a cup. 'how do you eat ice-cream?' on a cone. 'How do you stir your drinks' I bought a stirrer a while back. There you go for all you pondering persons out there. 
9. My favourite drink is diet coke. 
10. I have over 20 pairs of converse.
11.  I'm so impatient it bothers me. I can't wait for people to get ready or be a my house and if they are late, im in a strop until they say sorry for making me wait. 
12. Speaking of strops if i haven't had enough sleep or i'm just tired after work or something i am the moodiest person you will ever come across! If you think i'm joking i'm honestly not. I was once dating someone and i was so tired i made them sleep on the floor because they took up to much bed space, which they actually didn't. Safe to say i made him a full fry up in the morning to apologize
13. I hate people that use the word 'ignorance' wrong! 'oh he was ignoring me, he is so ignorant' no. That is incorrect. Ignorant is a lack of knowledge of something, not ignoring someone. Jeez
14. My favourite food is my dad's own taco's 
15. I loved school and college and i love uni. NERDY 
16. Football is something i couldn't live with out and it's the only channel on in my house ever.
17. I have never had chinese food 
18. I have known my best friend since we where babies and we have fallen out pretty much once a week since then, and it last around 1 hour and then we laugh about it and forget it happened and it is usually about stupid things like once we argued about what to put into a cake, instead of actually googling or looking up a recipe we just fought it out. 
19. I'm possibly the easy person to persuade to do anything in the world! I could literally be at home in my PJ's and my friend will be like 'few drinks' ill say no and then half an hour later i'm wacking on the lippy and a LBD. 
20. My life is pretty perfect to be honest and i wouldn't change anything about it. 

Thanks for ready monkeypups 

Josephine Jane <3

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Yes the title of this blog post does therefore mean the blog that followers is about football! So for all you hooligans out there sit back, get a brew and read away but if you're not a football fan then maybe this blog isn't for you! Sorry!

Ok i have had a season ticket for arguably the best football team in the world for the past 15 years and i have been there through up's and down's! A league down to be specific but 2 play-off finals, which we do lose yes but we got there! Preston North End born and bred.
This post isn't about them however, well in small part it is but it's about footballers now a days compared to football players 10 years ago or further. I can only comment on how far back i remember football but i'm sure this applies even more from when before i was born.
Footballers are vaginas today, they feel a tug of the shirt or a slight kick of the shin then fall to the ground and roll around like a bullet just penetrated their skin, like really, man the fuck up! What happened to a time when the only reason a player would hit the deck is when a bone was broken, real football! All 90% of footballers seem to care about today is swanky cars and comb over hair styles! They sit in VIP in nightclubs and just, excuse the use of this word, 'holla' at girls to come and sit with them, like it some sort of special privilege all girls are dying to get. PLEASE! This current generation of footballers make me pretty angry, they care more about making headlines for 'taboo' reason than actually training and doing what they are paid for! Don't get me wrong, some footballers don't fit into this category but some footballers need to be told to grow a fucking pair.

K bye.

Josephine Jane <3

New Purchases.

Hello monkey pups! 

Today i went shopping, for the first time since i left for America because whilst in America the places were SO large that 10% i was actually shopping and the other 90% i was wandering around looking for one specific item. It took me 25 minutes to find the toothpaste aisle and then there was so many choices i spent the next 15 minutes just staring blankly at all the available options. Needless to say it was even worse when i got to the shampoo and conditioner. 

The first place i took a trip into today was Superdrug where I spent around £32.00 and for what i actually got i personally think it was a bargain! A lot of these products I haven't actually used before so i can't really comment on how good they are yet but watch this space (never said that before, can I pull it off? I think so) 

1) Wake Me Up Concealer by Rimmel for £5.49 (half price as it was buy 1 get 1 1/2 off on everything)

I've heard a lot of positive things about this concealer of a lot of people online and a few of my friends so i decided it was time to jump aboard the bandwagon and try this product out for myself. 

2) Maybelline New York Fit Me Foundation for £7.99

I've never been recommended this by anyone and i didn't actually read any reviews prior to buying this however it's been on my radar for sometime and i'm not quite sure why! I think it might be that the package it comes in just looks very professional and simple and when i tried out the colour on my skin it did match it very well so i bit the bullet and just shoved it in my basket before i could actually give myself time to evaluate the pro's and con's. 

3) Bourjous Paris Colour Boost for £7.99 

Lip sticks, Lip pens and lip crayons, basically anything that i can put on my lips that adds colour is a plus for me! I recently bought a Clinique Chubby Stick which i love love love and someone, i can't remember who, attempted to try and persuade me that this does almost the exact same thing and although i'm not really having it because the Chubby Stick is like heaven for my lips, i'm willing to try it out! Mainly to prove myself right but i could also be eating my words after i try this out for the first time! Is it too soon to put "watch this space" again ?

4) Bourjous Paris Delice de Soleil Bronzing Powder for £8.99  

This is something i really really really wanted to try, i had previously had a bronzer from this company, i think everyone previously had a bronzer for this company "Delice de Poudre" or "the chocolate one" as some people may know it. This bronzer smells exactly the same except it comes in an amazing package, the mirror was a big part of this purchase and the packaging is great and so handy! You can shove this in your bag and it's perfect for on the go make-up. 

and finally........

5) LOOK Beauty Cheeky Trio for £6.00 

I think this make is new to Superdrug so i spent a lot of time browsing and looking at the different products and this is the one that really caught my eye and i thought it would be a "cheeky" ( get it cheeky, cheeky trio, LOL) purchase. It is a sculpture, blusher and highlighting kit and it just looks like it would be a good product. 

ok so superdrug, check! Next up i went to body shop to look for a specific item. I have been craving a good toner for a while and i've tried a few different ones from boots own to lush brands but for some reason i have found they have all been a problem with my skin. I have very sensitive skin which is a huge pain in my ass when in need of certain products because it means you have to keep searching till you find the perfect one! SO anyhow.. i decided body shop could be a good place to check with the whole, natural ingredients and animal care thing! and i stumbled across this.....

6) Aloe Calming Toner from Body Shop for £8.

The aloe vera in this calms your skin and doesn't cause irritation (hopefully) and it specifically states on the bottle that it is made for sensitive skin so if this doesn't work i think i'm at an end and i should just have to deal with my life without the use of toner on a daily basis, as hard as that may be! *sob* 

Then onto Boots, which i only bought two items in! A record for me? I think so! and the products i bought are practically essentials to any normal girls make up bag so really i didn't actually do any damage whatsoever in Boots! Well.....sort of. 

7) Soap and Glory Glow All Out for £11 

This is a "luminizing radiance face powder" and until now i have always used either a bronzer or blusher with a built in highlighter or the benefit highlighter which is more of a pastey liquidy thingy (possibly not the correct term for it) which i do love but i ran out of it recently and decided it was time for a change so i searched high and low and came across this. This is one of the first Soap and Glory make-up products i've ever bought so it should be interesting to see what it's like. The packaging of this is amazeballs and it does like the quote real deal unquote so ill let you know how it goes. 

8) Benefit Erase Paste for £19.50 

I have had this before and i'll have it 1000x again so i love this product with my whole entire face and i know my under eye dark circles really appreciate this product so i couldn't deprive them from this glorious product. 

THAT IS IT! 

All done. 

I'm going to try out these products and give reviews on some of the ones i love and the ones i didn't think exactly fit the bill. I'm super duper excited to try all these products that i'm most likely going to have a little make-up fashion show tonight for myself which isn't remotely uncool at all ok! Don't judge me! ta. 

Josephine Jane <3 

I'm Back!

Yes you read the title correctly, i made it home safe from my adventures! Rather depressed to be home but my bed never felt so sweet.

So...Where to start? From the beginning i guess.

I flew to America as you all know meeting a lovely scottish boy along the way who by chance was part of my camp's brother camp, if you understand that. Basically, a camp next door to my camp. We were an all girls camp and the other camp was all boys . We would meet up with these boys in the woods for drinking and general chit chat on our nights off. The woods may not sound appealing but when you're in Orford New Hampshire with the closest thing in a 45 minute radius being a petrol station, it was exactly what we needed.
Anyway, i loved camp and it would pointless to describe all my private jokes and amazing friends i made because 1 its pretty difficult to wrap it up in short blog and 2 think it's kind of a 'you had to be there' situation so i'll save you from that. However, i will say, it was THE best 7 weeks of my life and i would do it all over again and again and i wouldn't change a single thing about it.



After camp i was planning on going to miami for 2 weeks to soak up some sun with a girl i met at camp, who coincidentally was actually from the same city as me but in typical fashion we never actually got round to booking despite reminding each other every single day "we need to book something"! So, at the end of camp we took a bus to boston with 3 other girls who had already sorted out their trip! After finding flights to Miami for $500+ dollars we just decided to join them and take the cheap option of touring California in a hire car.

We went from San Francisco and on the way we went to Santa Cruz, Carmel, San Simeon, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Bel Air, Venice Beach, Hollywood, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, San Diego then back up to San Clementes And Ventura. Stopped off in places such as Phoenix, Los Angeles and Philadelphia along the way.We went to different beaches, different parties, different clubs and we did Hollywood stars and Hollywood house hunting along with Universal Studios and San Diego zoo and so much more. Some of the places we stopped off at where B-E-A-UTIFUL! like nothing i've ever seen before and like something i doubt i'll ever see again.

I can't explain how amazing this trip was to me but i can honestly say it was one of the best experiences of my entire life and if anyone is even remotely thinking about going to a camp or applying to one, then i say FUCK YES! do it!











Josephine Jane <3

Lord Of The Rings.

Hi.

I am confessing this to you and as a blogger and hopefully a fellow nerd but i LOVE Lord Of The Rings, so much so i watch the trilogy at least once a month and i can most likely recite the entire 'fellowship of the ring' line by line. I am currently reading through the books for the third time and each time it gets better.

The thing i LOVE about LOTR is that you feel so involved and you really root for frodo the entire way through and i find myself getting so involved each time. My heart bleeds every time Frodo says 'Go Home Sam' and chills pour down my spine everytime i hear Thoedon say 'So it begins.' (shivers).  To tell you the truth i feel as though every character can relate to everyone even Gollum, i mean he has a childlike entity inside him who is playful and fun and you cannot hate that side of him, you just can't! I hated voldemort because he was just evil through and through with the whole horcrux thing and dark magic but gollum was just at war with himself!

Blog Done. Just needed to inform you of my love for my favourite all time film

Josephine Jane <3

May Favourites

I'm aware we are well into June but i completely forgot about publishing this blog, sometimes i'm too blonde for my own sanity. This is just a few of my favourites from May some I have used frequently and some i only just tried out recently.


The first product i tried and loved was this face mask from Lush (www.lush.co.uk) and i found this product brilliant to use. It is just an average face mask in a little tub so unlike a lot of the ones you can purchase from boots etc in little packages this can see you through for a while. The one i chose to pick up was "brazened Honey" for no particular reason just that it has a more exfoliating texture than some of the others, some are designed for dry or oily skin but this one was just directed more towards what i needed. You leave it on for 10 minutes then wipe it off and i can 100% say my skin felt softer and more refreshed.
These are stored in the fridge as well so when you do apply it to your skin it has such a relaxing feel about it and the smell is incredible. I will be purchasing more of these without a doubt. The price at £5.95 is exceptional considering you get a good amount of usage from these, i have used mine about 6 times and i haven't hit the bottom of the tub yet.




The next product i am loving is a pretty old product. I wasn't actually aware this brand had made a product for females until i was on a night out and a girl recommended this to me in the middle of a club. It's 'Lynx For Her'. You can buy this product pretty much everywhere, i purchased mine from my local boots, but i believe they do them at any drugstore or superstore so they are pretty easy to get hold of.
At first i must admit i was a bit apprehensive of this product simply because it has been made by a well known male company for as long as i can remember so i guess i sort of assumed the smell would be less feminine because of this. I was wrong! The smell is lovely and as someone who always carries around a body spray and deodorant in my bag this 2 in 1 product fit the bill perfectly. The pink and white packaging is also very girly and cute too.
I bought a 150ml can at £2.99 about a month back and i'm coming to the last of it.I was very concerned about the fact it is a limited edition so i stocked up but i have been told it's been out since last summer so i'm not sure about that but it's worth buying a few cans in my opinion.




The third thing on my favourites list is 'MUA' Pallets. The white palette below is called 'undress me too' and the black palette called 'undressed'. MUA have amazing palette in amazing shades but i find these 2 palettes to be the most neutral and that's the kind of eye i prefer to go for. If you prefer an 'out there' eye shadow then they have palettes for that as well so don't think this is the only colourings they do.
These shadows go on like a dream and they all perfectly blend in together and i can guarantee you can create a new look every single time with these. Personally i prefer the 'undress me too' palette simply because some of the colours in there are more matte and the black matte in there is perfect for across the lash line as a substitute for eyeliner and a better look for a smoky eye rather than a block line.
I think you can only get these online at the MUA website or in Superdrug. The main problem i have with these palettes is the speed in which they get sold out at. They are £4 each for a 12 colour palette so basically a steal and because of this they go in real fast time, as i live near to town i tend to pop in every other day to check however if you live a distance away i would recommend checking the website frequently. I currently own 5 MUA 12 colour pallets and i do get my use out of each one. BRILLIANT!


Next thing is a lip balm. As most of my friends and family know i am a huge fan (like massive) of lip balms.I tend to never wear lip gloss and just stick to lip balm and in my bag at the moment i believe there is around about 12-15 lip balms just sailing around in there for as and when i need them. I cannot physically go 15 minutes without applying some form of balm or vaseline to my lips. In saying this it means i do try and try and try lip balms out until the death of them and i have never actually repurchased any balm simply because there are so so many out there for me to try. However, yesterday i made my first ever re-purchase of a lip balm! <3 This just shows how much i loved this. It is "sweet lemon lip butter" from body shop. It was £4 and a bargain if you ask me! There are other flavours (or scents?  You know what i mean) but i just love the smell of this one. Unlike some lip balms/butters this lasts a long enough time and i can always feel it on my lips, whereas some brands, like vaseline, tend to wear off within about 5 minutes. This is my favourite May Favourite and i would suggest everyone goes and buys one because you just will not regret it.



Hope you enjoyed this blog and some of the products i have sampled here.
See you soon

Josephine Jane <3