10 Things You Guys Don't Know About Me!

An updated selfie I took a few weeks ago

Hello everyone, I hope you're all well and are enjoying all of the sunshine recently as spring is definitely springing it's way through the UK (see what I did there?) anyway... I really wanted to do a post today because I just really wanted to post something. But I wanted to do something different to what I normally do as all of the ones I've planned for the next few weeks I haven't prepared anything for yet. So I've decided to do this kind of post because I read it on a list of blog post ideas and I thought to myself, yeah why not! 

So obviously you guys know a lot about what I like makeup wise, fashion wise, nail wise, and any other kind of beauty related things. But you don't know what I like doing as a performer or something I've always wanted to do or say a battle I've had to over come etc. So this post is for you guys to get to know me, Katie, at the core of who I am. 

1. Ballroom Dancing 

This is something I haven't told a lot of people just because it's something I want to do for me. I love to dance but contemporary I'm not very good at because my balance and body movement is a bit static and not at it's best. Also, I'm really used to musical dancing now because of doing musicals every year with YOBOS and it's getting a lot easier to learn how to do dancing at YOBOS because my body gets used to doing it every year now. 

Ballroom dancing has been something I've wanted to do for about three/four years now and I've never done it because I've not found the right place to go and learn it. A lot of places just do it for fun - an evening out to go and enjoy themselves, but I really want to learn intensely how to do ballroom and do competitions etc. My favourite ballroom styles I am desperate to learn ASAP are the Waltz, the Viennese Waltz, the Jive, the Quickstep, the American Smooth, and the Charleston. 

This is one thing I really want to accomplish whilst I am at University because I am in control of what I want to do and what skills I want to learn, improve, and develop. Not to mention it will definitely come in handy for my future performance career and my fitness. 

 I feel ballroom dancing is right up my street because it is classy, fun, and entertaining -  definitely something I want to do during my next three years at University and throughout the rest of my life. 

2. Northern Lights 

This next thing is something most people would probably never think of going to as it seems like an impossible goal to achieve. But ever since I was little I've wanted to go on holiday to see The Northern Lights. The image above here is the ones in Iceland which look absolutely incredible, but they also happen in Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and along the northern coast of Siberia. 

One of the reasons I've always wanted to go is because it'd be a once in a life time opportunity and I've always wanted to go on a winter holiday. I am a preferred fan of cold weather which is why going to somewhere like Iceland or Canada to see this amazing astronomical phenomena. I want to go with someone who would appreciate it as much as I do and would love to go on a winter holiday as much as I do. 

3. Write a Book 

One thing I am dying to do in the future guys is write a book. Now I know this may be a bit cliché as many bloggers and youtuber's are writing books. However, I want to write an advice book which would link into analysing (aka psychology). I want to write a life advice book because emotionally and physically I have been through a lot that I feel would be awesome to write about in a book to help anyone else going through similar things and wants real advice on how to deal with it and what to do to move forward. 

I would lay it out starting at secondary school, going through college, then going through university, and finally going through life. Maybe I'd do more than one - so the first one could be through the teenage and student years. Then another one could be about working life and growing into an adult etc. 

The main reason I want to do this is because I am constantly analysing people's choices and why people do certain things they do (and yes, I do this to myself also) and I feel like it helps me discover who I am. When I know why I do something the way I do it helps me to find out a way to change that or improve it etc. I feel this is something not a lot of teenagers realise as they are growing up because they don't truly know who they are; real life advice from someone who's been through it, I feel, would be really beneficial to people my age now when they are realising who they are and what they want in life. 

4. Psychology

Now this next goal in life leads on from my advice book idea; I want to take either a full degree course or short course in psychology after my three year BA in Acting at University. Not only to gain a skill and learn even more, but to actually know why the brain does what it does. I am constantly analysing why people do things they do and breaking it down to the point of why they actually choose to do the actions they do. It will also help me in the long run for my acting career because of character intentions, characteristics, and different character personalities. It'll help me analyse my characters more in depth and it will help me think through every part of their life experiences that could affect who they are today etc. 

I want to know why each side of the brain is different to each individual, and why people's brain's feel something more than other's do, and how someone's brain makes them think the way they do etc. Then, link this to every day life - e.g. why someone has a specific body language they do, why people dress a certain way they do, why they act differently towards certain people, and overall just what makes them want to do what ever decision they choose to do in their life. 

I just find psychology fascinating. 

There's so much more about the brain and why it tells us to do the things I don't know and I really want to know even more and that is why I wanna do psychology. 

5. Watching ''Let's Plays''

Now obviously I watch a lot of beauty and fashion related YouTuber's on YouTube, but sometimes I do just like to relax. I go away from all of the beauty related channel's and watch a load of Let's Plays - mainy Little Big Planet 1, 2, and 3 and The Sims 4 or The Sims 3. I really want to play the Little Big Planet's for myself because it looks like so much fun and entertaining, the only trouble is I don't have a Play Station 2/3. And, The Sims has always been one of my favourite games to play and watch people play. To this day I still don't really know why I love it so much, but I know when I get it I am going to be on it for hours. 

6. Performance Company 

This is something you guys definitely do not know and not many people know to be honest. As you know I am a performing arts student and I love entertaining people more than anything. However, I also want to work in a creator, writer, and director mode. My girl Heather and I have been planning to do this for ages now, we don't know when it will be an official thing but we want to become a professional performance company at some point in our life. We have a lot of cool ideas we feel that haven't been done or been made popular; we didn't want to be called a theatre company because we don't just want to do things for theatre. We want to write musicals, TV series, films, write books, straight acting shows, dance shows, variety shows etc - the list is endless. 

We are already working on things right now as we like the idea of doing our own ideas as well as doing our own versions of acting pieces and musicals already written etc. We still do not have a name for our company but we've got our whole young life to figure that out. But this is something I am really excited for as I'm an extremely creative person more than people realise. I'm so passionate about what I do and I just love doing every aspect of the performing arts world and I really do hope I get to do every little bit of it in my career. 

7. Makeup 

As we all know from being on blogger for the last year, makeup is a huge hobby of mine that I love doing. But recently I've been thinking about getting my own makeup line at some point. I'm in no rush to do this because I don't know how on earth I am going to go about it creating this. But if I did have a makeup shop it could be linked through my blog; the main reason why I want to do one is because there's so many colours of products that I want to find and sometimes they don't even exist. I'd like to make good quality products with a good affordable price to go along with them. Linking with colour problems, there's always a colour problem with drug store foundation. The problem is even when they say 'Ivory' they have orange tones in. Um, excuse me? Why would pale people want a super warm tone colour like orange? I think most pale people have cool toned skin which is what I have. 

As well as creating a makeup line, I'd also like to take a course at some point linking to theatrical makeup as it would really benefit me as a performer. Most likely, I will be doing backstage work at some point in my performing career. Therefore to have something extra for potential jobs would be fantastic and also I love doing dramatic makeup anyway as you guys have seen from some of my past looks which would be beneficial for different types of stage shows. 

But yes, I just really want to make my own good quality affordable makeup line at some point in my life. 

8. Ombre Hair 

Recently I've started using this Casting Sunkiss Jelly by L'Oreal which is white jelly you run through your hair to gradually make it lighter. It is a permanent effect that lasts all through summer because the product counteracts with the sunlight to keep your hair lighter. The more you use it the lighter your hair becomes. So I decided I wanted a change with my hair but I didn't want to dye it with proper hair dye and damage my hair, so I found this at the right time. I'm gonna do a proper review etc on this product so I'm not going into too much detail, but, after the first time I used my hair already looked lighter. So I'm gonna continue you using this and showing you guys progress; but this was worth £6.99. 

So yeah, guys I just wanted a change and as my hair is growing out now it could do with something different and lighter for summer - new start next year so fancied a change.  

9. Tattoos 

A few of you may know, but I'm guessing most of you don't. I am a big sucker for tattoos, I just love them. I think they are a freedom of speech about yourself to tell to the world that you might find hard to talk about, such as a family member passing away. I know many parents aren't really into tattoos but I feel they are becoming really popular in our society also to show to parents that young people want to make their own decisions about their life. I feel like getting a tattoo is something many young people do when they turn 18 years old (which I'm turning 18 in 7 days time! EEEKK!) because it's finally something you can do yourself and it's something small in your now big world of decisions. 

Personally, my parents aren't really into them. My mum thinks they're really unattractive (mainly sleeve tattoos though) and she just doesn't like them. However, I am going to be getting a few myself as I grow up. I definitely have 2 planned for definite; I know what they're going to be and where they're going to go etc. I'm not going to tell you guys what the actual tattoos are as I'm designing one of them because it's for Jeffrey (my cat) who passed away as he meant loads to me and I always said I want something to represent him. It isn't one of those clique dates when he passed away or a paw print etc. It's something that is definitely what I would have and memorable for me. When I get it done in the next few years I will obviously show you all and take you a long on the journey as it's going to take a few times to get it all just how I want it to be. 

The second one is a quote I found on a horoscope I took as the way they used language to make it your clique quote but made it sound better was really clever. Again, I'm not gonna tell you because no one has this quote I don't think and I want it to be just for me until after I get it done. I can't wait to get both done!!! The quote will most likely be done before the one for Jeffrey as it will take less time and cost less money. 

As I'm 18 in seven days time, I don't know whether to get a tattoo soon or not because I know most people do the minute they turn 18. I do kind of want to but if I got anything it would have to be on my foot. I just want to experience what it's like before I get my main ones done. I might start browsing for some foot or ankle tattoos. If you guys have any suggestions, leave me a comment below! 

10. Singing, Acting, and Dancing 

As you guys know, I am a performing arts student but none of you actually know why I do performing arts - why I love it so much, what makes me want to put all my time and energy into it, and why it means so much to me. Well to start, being a performer maybe the hardest job to get into (work wise) but is one of the most fun jobs you could ever have. I love performing, I've loved it ever since I started singing in primary school. It started out as choir which then lead me into wanting to explore acting and dancing during secondary school. I did this through taking the subject from year seven through till year eleven. Along the way I also did a few years doing the dance extravaganza - anyone could sign up to do this show and create whatever dance they wanted. The extravaganza was just a show case of dancing talents which back in school I didn't have many. 

After exploring all three disciplines I love everything which is why joining YOBOS which is a theatre company. Which many of you know is one of my favourite places ever because of how good the shows always are and how you get to perform and it feels so professional. Doing musicals is probably one of the best parts about being a performer as you're having fun whilst doing what you do best. Even though musicals is probably what I am best at, it is not the main area of performance I want to go into. 

When I joined college (Extended Diploma in Performing Arts at Level 3) I knew I made the best choice instead of staying at Sixth Form because I got more out of what I really wanted to do. I've really learned how to make theatre which is becoming evident in my years final major project, which is going to be amazing for your information because we're such amazing actors now. Just bringing a story to life and a character is the best part about being a performer - putting your own twist on things because not one person acts the same as one another even if you're playing the same part or emotion etc. I've learned so much from college and still learning how to be a good actress as the big aim is to be an amazing performer at the end of it all. I cannot wait to go to university (which is also something else you don't know but you'll find out more of this later on) and carry on my favourite thing in the world to do - sing, act, and dance. 

As a little extra, I will share with you some dream shows I want to be in, (with some potential roles if I know them) in both theatre and maybe films (if there is anything) 

Theatre:

Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd 

Little Red Riding Hood - Into The Woods

Mamma Mia 

Made in Dagenham 

Hairspray 

High School Musical

 (#childhood) 

Teen Beach Movie 

(but obviously the on-stage version of the musical)

West Side Story 

The Commitments 

Anna - Frozen 

(when it is a musical)

Cats

Grease 

(even though I'm doing that this year with YOBOS) 

Stags and Hens

 (this one is not a musical for a change) 

There are probably loads of other theatre shows that are just acting but I cannot think of any others. 

Film & TV: 

(not these specific shows though as by the time I'll be old enough to do them they probably wont exist anymore - just something similar) 

The Vampire Diaries 

The Tomorrow People

Glee

Murder Mysteries 

Disney Princesses 

There is probably so many more than this but these are all I can think of at this point in time. 

So that's it for this post you guys, I hope you enjoyed it and I've been working on this for about a week and half which is why there hasn't been a post since the Tangerine Dreams tutorial. I hope now you feel you know me a little better as I'm not all about beauty blogging even though I do love it very much. 

Talk to you all soon,

Bye for now, 

Katie 

xoxoxoxo

Get Ready With Me: Tangerine Dreams - Spring Makeup Tutorial!

Hello you beautiful people! I hope you're all well and are enjoying half term. Well, I know most schools went back today, but I do not go back till next Monday because we broke up a week later *INSERTS HAPPY DANCE HERE*, 

But anyway, I have a busy week coming up this week, I am doing something every single day apart from Saturday and Sunday. So today I sorted out all of my wardrobe and put in my clothes for spring and summer and it took about two and a half hours... not fun. Tomorrow I am going to town with Chloe to just have a nice day with my girl and who knows, you'll get to read another haul in a few days. 

Wednesday I am super excited as I'm going to the VUE Cinema to see The DUFF with my girls Heather and Amie and it's gonna be such a fun day and I love them to pieces - probably do a follow us around post. Then Thursday, Heather and I are off to Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for our auditions but we know we're not gonna get in and we both wanna go to Arts University Bournemouth anyway (fingers crossed we get in). 

Then finally Friday, I have a potential work trial day and fingers crossed I get the job so I can earn money at long last. For those of you who don't know, for the past two years maybe, I've been trying to get a job and no where has taken me on, so I sent this place my CV not expecting to even get an interview and they offered for me to go to a work trail day so if I get the job it'll be the best feeling! 

Anyway, on with the reason why everyone is reading this post... 

Step 1: 

I applied some Urban Decay eyeshadow primer potion in Eden and then ran a brown colour through my crease and a white on my lid. To make the colour I used pop a bit more. (my skins redness is looking pretty good right now, normally it looks really bad as we've witnessed in some previous post) 

Step 2:

I then took my new Maybelline Diamond Glow quad in Coral Drama. I used the light tangerine orange colour over the top of the white and brown. I used a flat eyeshadow brush that was damp to make the colour pop even more and then took the tangerine shade on a fluffy blending brush - applied it over the brown that was in the crease. This created a really nice toned muted orange brown and it was a nice contrast shade to the bright tangerine on my lid. 

Step 3: 

Then I just did my normal face makeup and sorry for one of my eyebrows, this was just not a good eyebrow day for me (I fixed it after the tutorial). 

As you can see the tangerine looks nice and pastel like on my lid and muted as a blend in the crease. Not to mention it's a beautiful shade to make blue eyes pop (Tip: If you've got blue eyes, go for warm toned colours to make your eyes pop if you prefer making your eyes look bigger and brighter. E.g. tangerine, copper, gold, browns, light pinks, medium pink) 

I also spent just a little bit of time shaping the outside V to get it lined up with my lower lashline. 

Step 4: 

For this step I decided to go with two lip options, one Mango Tango from Collection which is this one above. I really like this with this look because it's all warm tones and gives a nice flattering look for spring time. The Mango Tango shade is a rose red coral - one of my favourite kind of colours and works beautifully with this kind of look if you prefer all interlinking colours. 

Or ...

Purple. Now, I've never had a purple lipstick in my life that has been bright purple and I got this one from Makeup Revolution in Enchant and just thought I'd try it and see what I can match it with. You wouldnt think purple and tangerine would go together so well hence because their completely opposite tones. But they actual go so perfectly together. I think the reason it looks so lovely is because it's flattering my eyes and making them stand out but also keeping my cool toned skin flattered because of the purple lipstick. I really love both of these lipsticks with this eye look (I'm gonna wear it with the rose coral tomorrow). 

But you can all decide for yourself! Which colour do you like it better with, Coral or Purple? Let me know in the comments! 

However, in the end I went for the purple because this was my original plan to pair it with this anyway and I thought it would be something different for spring. I just took my plaits out and tide the front part of my hair back in a little hair band - I've been loving wearing my hair like this recently (half up half down). 

But guys that is it for this tutorial. I hope you enjoyed this Get Ready With Me - I did a spring makeup tutorial last year and I remember after I did it I never wore that makeup look again, I don't know why, but I think this one will be sticking around for a while. 

So yeah, I don't know what I'll post next, maybe it'll be another haul or something on my blog post to do list! 

Anyway, thank you guys for reading and I hope this inspires you to do something a little more different but subtle with your spring and summer looks this year! 

Bye for now, 

Katie 

xoxo

Primark Haul!

Hello my lovelies, I hope you're all doing well. Today I am very excited for this post as I haven't done one of these in a very long time and I haven't been to Primark in a very long time. As you can guess by the title, yes, it's a Primark Haul. Right now there are some really lovely pieces in Primark for spring and summer for a really good price. So if you're in need of some spring and summer fashion that's good quality and price go to Primark. Honestly Chloe and I wanted to buy the whole shop - that's how good it is in there right now. Unfortunately we couldn't buy everything because we didn't have enough money (le cry). Anyway, let's get on with the haul... 

Price: £4.00 

The first thing is this gorgeous white floaty cami top. Chloe and I both got this because we both really liked it. It's really loose and floaty when you actually wear it and I just love the back floral lace part. I feel it makes it a staple piece of clothing but has that little bit extra to catch someone's eye with the back detailing. Also, it will go with absolutely everything - jeans, leggings, shorts, skirts etc. 

Price: £4.00 

This next top I put in my basket because I just really liked the pattern. I've had loads of tops in the past in this style from Primark and they are always easy to wear as a casual item for spring and summer. The only thing; I wish I got it in the size up only because it is fitted at the bottom and clings a bit, but apart from that it's a lovely top. It's just got a nice range of coloured flowers on and again it will go with everything. 

Price: £13.00 

This next item was a big need for me personally. A: I don't have any swimming costumes that are nice or fit anymore, and B: I'm having a spa day for my 18th birthday this year, so I needed a new one. I'm sorry that it looks blue in the photo on the left, it is black and white as you can see on the photo on the right. 

Now, I really like this swimming costume - mainly for the frill part layer on the boob part, it has a bra type thing in it to support my boobs, and the little silver balls on the straps. However, it doesn't really have any shape wear around my stomach area which it did claim to have. But also, Primark don't actually have that much nice swimwear right now. They have a lot of nice bikini's but not tankini's or swimming costumes for girls like me who do not have the body to pull off a bikini. Also, I wasn't overly happy that it was £13.00 because I thought that was pretty expensive for Primark even though I've never bought a swimming costume from there.

 However, I needed to get a new one now because I'm not gonna have time to get another one before my birthday. But I do really like it because it's black and white and I love the pattern of leaves on it. (Tip: patterned swimming costumes distract from the weight you are)

Price: £8.00 

This next item is probably the thing I am most excited to wear and my favourite thing I bought. So this is a kaftan and if you guys don't know what a kaftan is, it's basically an over throw for bikini's and swimming costumes etc. But because this one is quite long I could easily wear it with a black dress underneath or something. 

As you can see it is just black and blue with a bar-code kind of pattern. I love how it fades to black at the bottom and gets lighter in shades as we go up. And, I absolutely love the neck part with all the gems placed around it. They had so many different ones of these - one particular was an orange and pink one. I was going to get that one but I felt it was too contrasting to wear with a black swimming costume. So I went for one that still had a base colour of the swimming costume but had some other colour in it that would look nice with the swimming costume colours. 

Price: £5.00 

This accessory wasn't really needed but I saw it and I just really wanted it. So it's this dark royal blue purse with two different circle patterns on the front of it (you can see in the photo on the left) and has this gorgeous lace type silver embellishments on each side (which I'm in love with fyi). It's a popper open part and has lots of card slots on one side and 3 on the other side. In the side with 3 you could put more important things in like your driving license or your health cards or something. It also has two zip compartments. One in the middle of the card slots which I've put my change in there, and another on the back which is where I'm going to put all my notes in - that way my receipts and money is in separate compartments and wont get mixed together. 

I also fancied a change in colour as I pretty much always buy nude, brown, or beige purses just because they go with everything - any kind of coloured bag they will go with to be honest. But I fancied a change so I got blue. You can also get this in light and dark brown. 

Price: £4.00 

These shoes are a bit of a random purchase because in a normal every day fashion world, I wouldn't have bought these. But as for my spa day we all need swimming costumes, these are some shoes to go with that. I figured it would be easier just to take some slip on shoes than having to put on sandals as all my flip flops are types of sandals - they're not just the plastic ones. But they have a nice fit and this type of rounded cross over pattern on. also they have a really thick sole which I really like because a lot of sandal type shoes don't have (you can normally feel everything under your feet, e.g. stones because sandals have a thinner sole to make them lighter) 

However, I will still be able to wear these after in the summer because they are white - go with everything, they are comfy and easy to wear, and will go with literally every outfit I have and not to mention with every nail polish colour I wear on my toes. 

Price: £1.50 

Now, this again is a random accessory that Chloe and I decided to pick up. We've been best friends since we were about 5 or 6 - aka 13 years. We've never had a friendship bracelet or necklace and we decided we might as well just have one. So, we found this one which is absolutely adorable - just a really small dainty half a heart shape in gold and it actually fits together really well. It fits our friendship really well as well because we don't say 'best friend' we normally always say 'bestie' or 'besties' and it has that on it so we thought we'd get it just to share. Next year we're not gonna see one another as much as we do now because of uni and everything, and it will just be a nice reminder to one another when we haven't seen each other or talked for a while that we actually will always be best friends. 

Price: £4.00 

Here again we have another floaty and loose cami top that has a very interesting pattern on it. It has a two toned blue striped pattern as the base and then white and black roses on top. If you know me, you know how much I love roses and floral things so obviously I had to buy it. It's slightly a bit big at the front because it's a V neck style, so my mum is gonna have to sew the straps a little bit so it doesn't completely fall down. Again, it is gonna go really nicely with white shorts and perhaps culottes (really want some culottes btw). I think it will go with denim jeans and stuff but because it's blue I wont wear it with denim as denim is a shade of blue so I probably won't wear blue on blue but we'll see. 

Price: £4.00

Here we have another top, I didn't realise how many tops I'd got in this haul, but it's just a nice plain white cami material - it's light and thin and because it's white it's gonna go with everything yet again. There's not much to say about it really, it's just a white top and you can never have enough white tops. 

Price: £2.65 

This final item is a big bonus because this is not from Primark, but I thought I would throw it in otherwise you guys are never gonna see it. So I made a cheeky trip to lush and for only £2.65 you cannot complain too much. So they had a few left over Easter items but I didn't have enough money to get any of them so I decided to buy a bathbomb that I've never tried before. This one above is the Butterball and I've never ever used it before but it's vanilla has small yellow parts in for the butter. Vanilla and butter sounded like a nice combo to make you smell nice and make your skin nice and soft which is what attracted me to buy it. Recently my skin has been a bit dry and I thought it would be nice to relax and restore my skins softness and healthiness. It doesn't really smell very vanillary but maybe it will when it's particles are broke down - can't wait to try it. 

Well my lovelies that is the end of this Primark Haul! I hope I go back soon so I can buy even more lovely clothes but when I go to Primark, I go in not needing anything and just come out with all these things that I realise I need whilst I'm in there. Either way, Primark is the best. I hope this haul has given you an insight into what is in Primark right now and makes you want to go as there are hundreds more incredible things in there than just these few things I bought which is why I need to go back. 

The next few posts are gonna be up soon, I don't know exactly when, but soon - there's gonna be my favourite spring nail polish colours, a tangerine spring makeup tutorial, a Lush bathbomb review, and a specific clothing item style post. So keep an eye out for those in the next few weeks. 

Thank you for reading guys and I'll talk to you soon. 

Bye for now, 

Katie 

xoxoxoxo