A Book A Day for July!

The A Book a Day UK was brought to my attention on twitter today by musicandeverything.com aka @claireskane on twitter.
@DoubledayUK are inviting book lovers (of which I am one!) to tweet their #BookadayUK every day in July!
I'm gonna tag #BookadayIRL also :)
They also say there is a chance to win your favourite reads but I just love this as a book tag.

Here are the list of topics for your book a day for every day in July

Day 1 - A Book that made you laugh out loud

• Well-Remembered Days: Eoin O'Ceallaigh's Memoir of a Twentieth-century Catholic Life by Arthur Mathews.

If you want a good laugh read this! (but then get mad cos so much rings true...) Read it and weep in more ways than one!

Tell me what book make you lol?

You can check out my books a day on twitter or you can check out my weekly posts :)

The Get To Know Me A Little More Tag with Aishling & Steve!

I've been thinking of doing one of these get to know me tags for awhile now but never got around to it. I just recently started following Blue Hair in Belgium when I read this post by her! She got her boyfriend to join in with her when answering the questions! Fun! So I'm going to do the same haha! :D 

My answer will be in purple (cos I have too many favorite colours) and Steve's will be in green because he loves green. 

Tis me and Steve! Duh! :P

1. Do you have a middle name?

Yes

I also do :P

2. What was your favourite subject in school?

I enjoyed learning about history but I also quite liked the experimentation of chemistry.

Art and some history as long as it wasn't political. 

3. What's your favourite drink?

Milk

Water, I'm so boring.

4.What's your favourite song at the moment?

I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery by Woods of Ypres

Childish Gambino - Sweatpants but I love that Woods of Ypres song too. 

5.What would you name your children?

Alex for both.

I like Willow, Mia, Astrid. Can't think of one boys name but I do also like Alex.

6. Do you participate in any sports?

Not really anymore. I did play Gaelic football, real football, basketball and had a go at MMA

HAHAHAHA. 

7. What's your favourite book?

Most things by Chuck Palaniuk. Hellboy. Sandman.

I don't have one favorite. Harry Potter, Ghost World, Preacher, No Country for Old Men to name a few.

8. What's your favourite colour?

Green

I have many favorites! But at the moment I'm liking mint green.

9. What's your favourite animal?

Tiger or Rhino. And Merle.

Hedgehog and Merle.

10. What's your favourite perfume?

I don't know any of the names.

At the moment its a Nicki Minaj perfume I have by her. 

11. What's your favourite time of the year?

Christmas dinner time

Halloween! :D

12. Have you been out of the country?

Yes. Does Northern Ireland count? And Spain.

Yes, America, Rome and Cyprus!

13. Do you speak any other languages?

Nein.

Nope.

14. Do you have any siblings?

4

1!

15. What's your favourite shop?

Fright Rags.

Etsy.

16. What's your favourite food?

All the foods. Peanut Butter. Chocolate. Lasagne.

I agree with Steve, all the foods. 

17. What's your favourite movie?

Pacific Rim. The Thing. Many horrors. I have a movie blog for discussing everything right and wrong in movies.

Obviously I can't pick one so I'll just go with favorite movie right now, Whip It.

18. What are some of your favourite TV shows?

Breaking Bad. Game of Thrones. Arrested Development. Parks and Rec. And many more.

The Wire, The X Files, Breaking Bad, Hannibal, Agents of Shield, The Walking Dead, Modern Family, Steve and I watch A LOT of tv so we'll be here all day :P

19. What phone do you have?

A 10 year old Nokia something. The slidey one.

iPhone 4S, poor Steve. 

20. How tall are you?

6ft

5'7 or something like that.

21. Any pets?

Puppy Merle and Albi the not racist bearded dragon.

Puppy Merle and doggy Bailey.

22. Any kids?

No.

Does Steve count?! :P

23. If you weren't you, would you be your friend?

Only if they were as awesome as me.

Well we would have the same interests and everything so I would say yes. 

24. What's the first thing you notice about someone?

Their clothes.

What they're wearing I guess?!

25. What is your eye colour?

Green.

Hazel

26. Scary movies or happy endings?

Too many scary movies have happy endings.

Should it not be scary movies or happy ones? I don't think the opposite to scary movies is happy endings. Anyhow it's both for me. It all depends what mood I'm in. 

27. Favourite smells?

Chocolate. Spicy foods. Christmas pudding.

Lavender, Fresh bread, the Lush shop, honeysuckle. 

28. Do you have any special talents?

I can juggle.

I can touch my nose with my tongue.

29. Where were you born?

Mullingar hospital

Ireland :P

30. What are your hobbies?

Movies, music, gaming, giving out, guitar playing, reading.

Pretty much the same as Steve as well as blogging, reading blogs, watching YouTube videos and buy things on Etsy.

And that ended up looking quite boring but I'll post it anyhow :P

I tag anyone who wants to do it! :D

Be sure to check out Steve's awesome and hilarious movie, music & TV blog here at BurnedMyEyes.

I'll try and find a better one for next time and also find one Kerrie & I can complete or maybe even do a Get To Know Us video! If you'd like to see that, let us know! :) 

Thanks for reading! 

Kerrie & Aishling's Spring Time Tag

Kerry from Kerry's Nerdy Habitat tagged us in the Spring Time Tag! Thanks so much Kerry! We decided to both do the tag so Kerrie's answers will be in fuchsia and my answers will be in green! :D

1.  What’s your favourite nail colour for Spring?

I'm loving Barry M's Spring Green for around spring time and summer! 
I'm also going for Barry M in the shade guava it's my first BM polish and I really like it.

Barry M's Spring Green and Guava.

2.  Best drink for Spring?

I only drink two things which is water and diet coke! I need to start drinking more water so I think I'll go with that! :P

I'll go with West Coast Cooler Rose with ice - if we're talking alcoholic!

3.  What goes on your lips in Spring?

I haven't been wearing a lot of lipsticks or balms because my lips do be so dry but I would love to start wearing Rimmel's Mayfair Red Lady a bit more along with Revlon ColourBurst lip butter in Sweet Tart which is a lovely pink shade and super moisterising. 
Blistex! I have a few new lipsticks in Pink shades the one I'm most liking right now is the Modelco party proof in Peony and gloss in Rosie.

Left: Rimmel Mayfair Red Lady, Right: Blistex, Modelco Party Proof in Peony and Modelco Gloss in Rosie.

4.  What’s your favourite thing about Spring?

Kind of stealing Kerry's answer here but definitely the little baby animals! I saw some cute baby animals in a pet shop not long ago! Super cute! :D
The weather getting better, the longer days and all the new life be it spring flowers or baby lambs :)

Lambs & Goat taken by Aishling and lovely yellow flower taken by Kerrie :)

5.  Best perfume for Spring?

While I'm certainly not a fan of Nicki Minaj I do love her Minajesty perfume which I've been wearing a lot!

Can I just say - Ash I had no idea you have a Nicki Mingy perfume :O I wanna smell that.... Anyway I like Illamasqua Freak for all seasons! 

Nicki Minaj Minajesty & Illamasqua Freak

6.  What TV series are you watching the most at the moment?

Spring time means lots of tv shows are ending, returning and beginning! Back recently is Game of Thrones which straight away has lots going on. Me and Steve are moving on to the second season of Hannibal which is fastly becoming one of my all time favourites, we watched the first episode of the new Fargo tv series and started a comedy called Broad City! Both of which I'm loving! Community just ended but we're still loving, as always, Modern Family, Parks and Rec, Bob's Burgers and Agents of Shield! I've probably forgot about some but as you can tell we love our tv shows! :D
I started watching New Worlds on Channel 4 and it's actually quite good so I'll stick with that.  I also started watching Game of Thrones, I'm only 2 episodes in so far and I'm not crazy about it but interested enough to keep watching, but what is up with all the nudiness! My god :P

Fargo, Broad City & Hannibal

7.  Do you wear a different colour eye shadow in Spring?

I loooove my brightly coloured eye shadows but at the moment I'm stuck wearing a lot of neutrals which is odd for me so now in Spring and Summer I will be happy to move back to all the colours! Blues, greens, yellows, purples, you name it I want it on my eyes! I just recently bought Wet n' Wild's Poster Child Eyeshadow Palette which I can't wait to try! I'm also loving coloured mascara which I hope to get my hands on some soon!
Not as a rule - but I did buy two new eyeshadows and they are both pink which is quite Springy! so yes I think I do!  Like Ash says I wanna put all the colours on my eyes right now!

Wet N' Wild Poster Child Eyeshadow Palette & L'oreal Infalliable Eyeshadows in Sweet Strawberry & Forever Pink.

 

8.  Do you change your hair for the changing season?

My hair has changed several times over the last while. At the moment it is short (pixie short) and bleached blonde. I'm trying to get it as white as possible and then I'm dying it a light lavender before dying it green or blue! 
Again not consciously because of the changing season but I did get my hair cut recently! That was more to do with wanting a change and to get the dry ends off but it is now lighter and cooler for me in the warmer weather. I haven't changed the colour though.

Aishling & Kerrie! :D

9.  What kind of music do you listen to in Spring?

I listen to all types of music all the time! But I do have some songs I love to play when the weather is nice and sunny, like recently! I think we will do a blog post soon on spring/summer songs :)
I was thinking at the weekend of making a Summer playlist so I think the sunny weather influences what I choose to listen too, happy bright uplifting music is what I want.

10.  What kind of fashion items/accessories do you opt for in Spring?

I'm loving all the 90s fashion at the moment, especially the grunge side of things, chunky shoes, daisies, check shirt, denim jacket (with lots of pins and patches), leather jacket, docs, chokers, etc. But I also love some flowery dresses, pastel clothing and accessories, maybe mixed in with the grungy style. My style is very varied but at the moment it's the 90s fashion revival I'm loving! I just recently bought a denim shirt from Tescos for only €12.50 but then when it was scanned it went through for only €10! Woo! I've already bought some patches for it that I'm going to sew on! Can't wait and there will definitely be a separate blog post about it in future :)
I've broken out a couple of dresses! and I got some nice converse style shoes from penny's in a bright design.  I'm also wearing a lot of jewelry with flowers on :)

The denim jacket I got some Tescos that was reduced from €20 to €12.50 but scanned through for only €10,  Patches I've purchased so far: Lydia Deez Beetlejuice Patch, Ghost World Frilly Heart Patch, Ghost World "Everyone's Too Stupid" and Enid Coleslaw Patch all by AboveNostalgia, Bite Me Bat Patch.
Patches I will be purchasing: Lumpy Space Princess Patch Set, The X Files I Want To Believe Patch and an amazing Glenn Danzig Brooch.

Awesome flowery shoes from Penneys/Primark & assorted flowery jewelry.

We tag:
Polished&Primed
NerdBurger
Makeup Monster
EmilyNoel83 (She will never see it but maybe! :D)
and anyone who'd like to do this tag! :D


That was lots of fun! Thanks again to Kerry from Kerry's Nerdy Habitat for tagging us! :D

The Blindfold MakeUp Challenge!

Finally I got around to editing our Blindfold MakeUp Challenge! It is hilarious so be sure to watch! I was in stitches laughing when editing! :D

We have had a bit of a break there for awhile. I wasn't feeling up to blogging or doing videos (the video editor I have is a pain!) and things just got in the way. Kerrie has moved house so she is now a good bit away from me! So along with some videos we do together we will also be doing separate videos from time to time. It will be weird doing videos by ourselves but it will be an experience and hopefully fun :P

I will get back to blog now soon. I do have some reviews of products to come! So watch this space...


Enjoy the video and remember we love comments! :D

I ♥ Spring Tag

Hey guys! We're back with the I ♥  Spring tag!  We're having lots of fun making videos so please do be sure to let us know what you think, how we can improve and tell us what you want to see from us! It's hard to think of ideas but we do have more to come so watch this space...! :D

Here are the spring questions we had to answer! All answers are in our video so get watching! ;)

1. Favorite spring nail polish?
2. What is your must-have lip product this spring?
3. Show us your favorite spring dress!
4. What's your favorite flower?
5. Favorite spring scarf/accessory?
6. What spring trend(s) are you most excited about this year? (Makeup, fashion or both!)
7. Favorite spring candle OR Favorite seasonal food in spring?
8. Favorite perfume for spring?
9. What is spring like where you live?
10. What's your favorite thing about spring?
11. Are you a spring cleaner?
12. Any plans for spring break or an upcoming vacation?

We didn't have everything at hand to show off so I had to insert some photos of our dress picks, Kerrie's nail varnish pick, Kerrie's favourite candle and my perfume! For better look at them, here they are:

Kerrie's favourite Spring nail varnish:

Essence "Snow White 08 Dopey"

Left: My favourite spring dress from New Look

Right: Kerrie's favourite spring dress from Ebay

Kerrie's favourite Spring Candle:

The Natural Collection, Hops & Herbs

 My favourite spring perfume:

Harajuku Lovers "Wicked Style"