2014 favorites!

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Hello my lovely readers, so I decided to make a 2014 favorites' blog post in where I will show you from makeup, movies, tv series, books to music that I enjoyed during the past year! I was inspired by some bloggers and youtubers to make this. Just keep reading ahead.

Let's start with beauty and makeup!

All the beauty products I use:

• Concealer from Benefit
• Foundation - Sephora
• Powder - Sephora
• Eyeliner (Black) - Maybelline's Master Precise 
• Mascara (both black) - Maybelline's The Falsies & The Colossal
• Lipsticks (favorites explained below) from MAC, Rimmel London's Kate Moss' collection
• BB Cream - Benefit
• Facial Radiance Polish - Benefit

Favorite lipsticks of the year!

First off, I bought it recently, that means last week, but it made it to the 2014 favorites, because I bought it and used it last year! It's MAC's Pink Nouveau. The shade is matte, and it's vibrant, but not too much. It's a very casual colour and it's definitely my top favorite right now. Also it's my first MAC lipstick! Here's for this year to many new ones!

Kate Moss' Collection from Rimmel London

I really love matte lipsticks, as you may notice, and these two are just gorgeous colours. The first below in the picture is #06. It's like a really colorful fuschia color. Really strong, but so bright and vibrant. I'm in love with it. The second one is the one I mostly used during fall, which is the #01, a dark red shade, not quite like a wine colour, but a dark red and it's lovely! It's my main lipstick everywhere I go.

Maybelline's 905 in the shade called Brazen Berry. My mom bought this for me early this year and I fell in love with the really vivid purple colour. I love it. Everytime I go out is really hard to choose between this one and every other lipstick I own, because it's an all time favorite also during the year. 

Favorite nail polish!

Every colour here are the ones I've been using the whole year for the majority of the time and I'm probably going to wear them for the rest of my life on my nails. My absolute favorites from all time.

1. Rimmel London's Red Award (wine colour, dark red)

2. Essie's Bahama Mama (a dark purple)

3. Essie's Strut Your Stuff (very vibrant royal blue)

4. Tuck it in my tux (not a matte white, really glossy creamy white)

Eye makeup!

I usually get compliments with how well my eyes are done so here are the eye liner and mascara I use:

Really easy to use eye liner! 100% perfection.

I also bought a new concealer from Benefit which definitely makes the job. It's fantastic, it's glimmery and it covers my dark circles perfectly. It's a flawless concealer seriously. 

 Random and fun things I love!

I've mentioned before that I started reading comics during the year and I bought this issue like three months ago. So I highly recommend Black Widow and the Hawkeye issues because they have such pretty artwork as really compelling stories. You can catch up with these superheroes and what they have been up to. Need to read more actually so I'll be up to date soon.

I read Divergent and finished it before the movie came out in March, right on time to watch the film in the cinema, so I basically had so much feels about FourTris and every horrible thing or sad, or just plain scarring. And that made me enjoy the film more, so I highly recommend Divergent. I started reading Insurgent, so I NEED to finish it soon also.

Oh Arrow, you literally own my soul. I bought the season like two weeks ago. But I'm updated with the series and 2014 was definitely the greatest for the show and it obviously needs some more love (maybe for forever) so if you haven't seen the show please do. You won't regret it. It's just insanely well written, entertaining superhero work.

I've always wanted a Nylon subscription, and I will finally have it soon this year, but in 2014 I bought my first two issues and I'm probably biased, but whatever I LOVE THIS MAGAZINE. It's the greatest ever. I love it.

Soon I'll post my favorite albums (music) in another blog post, so until the next post lovelies!

Becoming a vlogger as a hobby!

Hey guys! This is a special post, because I'm here to tell you that I'm making Youtube videos also! I may enjoy talking to a camera and posting those TV or movie reviews there for you to enjoy and to also comment about it in Youtube, Twitter or Facebook in the blog's page that you can like here!

I have reviewed Arrow up until now and I may do it for other series whenever I can, because uni isn't a place where time is easy to distribute, so Youtube is easier to record, talk, upload and voilà! If you want me to record anything in specific, leave comments below here and in the video on Youtube! Here are my vlogs, enjoy and happy weekend! Until the next post lovelies!~

 

and my first one!

Series I'm currently watching and excited to come back!

Hello guys!
I know I've let you down lately, because I haven't written in a month! *facepalm*
Even my little brother has given me some ideas for me to write and I found some motivation to let you know which shows I'm excited to return to my TV and also tell you which series I've been loving since forever that have kept coming back with amazing ideas and episodes!
First, Doctor Who Series 8.
GUYS.
Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are such a good team of protagonists and their dynamic in the show is incredibly entertaining. My favorite episodes up until now have been Into the Dalek + Listen. Jenna has been so amazing and her talent just becomes greater and greater by each episode. I like Danny Pink too, guys. He's just so adorably awkward and you just want to pet him. Being Clara Oswin's love interest has been a lovely dynamic to watch between the two! You can catch up with Doctor Who on Netflix, it has the seven series there! Watch the trailer for today's episode, which I'll be watching tonight, Time Heist.

 

Now, some of you might know that I adore the series Arrow. AND OCTOBER IS RIGH AROUND THE CORNER.

 

 

 

I'm really excited for season 3 to arrive so here's the trailer for the new season. The series is also in Netflix and I strongly recommend it (if you do not watch the show) TO WATCH IT. Also he's a DC comic superhero, it will be worth your while.

 



 

Other series I'm looking forward to their new seasons are Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and Once Upon A Time that return this upcoming week. I'm still holding on for me not to faint every five minutes. I'm kidding, (nope, not really).

 

Check them out!

 



 

Even though I adore OUAT, I'm a bit worried about how Frozen will be portrayed in the series. By the looks of the teaser, it looks promising. I shall wait with anticipation with the season 4 premiere. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Until the next post, lovelies! I shall come back with some movies I'm eager to watch and I shall write about them for you!

July's favorites! (TV, comic con & music).

Hello, darlings, so here's to things I've been loving this month, so it will be a long-ish post including different areas of entertainment, so prepare yourselves. Since this past weekend, I cannot take this specific song out of my head, so let's start with music, because I'm also anxious to let you know of different band/singers I've fallen in love and/or I can't stop listening to.
First of all, Sam Smith, but I truly fell in love with Latch, the song he's featured with the DJ's called Disclosure. I cannot take that song out my head, so I've been truly addicted to it, no joke. I had to buy the song and all.

 

I've also been listening to Bastille a lot, maybe because their new music video "Oblivion" starring Game of Thrones' Sophia Turner got out recently online and the song is one of my favorites of their recent album. All This Blood is a great album and Bastille is truly talented so check them out!

 



 

Vancouver Sleep Clinic is another band I haven't stopped listening to their album. (I get addicted to music guys, it's my weakness to be honest). Their album Winter EP is so great, that the band also knows how great I think they are. They tweeted me recently, because they favorited a tweet that mentioned them because I was listening to their album on Spotify, and I asked them if that was their twitter account so they replied with:

 

 

To hear more of them, since they practically are a new group whom I recognized from the TV show Teen Wolf, they need a huge fandom, because come on, they are amazing, so here is my favorite song.

 



 

NOW TO TELEVISION.... as you might know, this past weekend was the annual San Diego Comic Con, and that event, the panels, everything destroyed me (in a good way) and I didn't even attend. Many of my favorite shows had panels and celebrities who I love had their shining moments and I truly loved watching videos and pictures, etc. of everything. To not make this post longer that it should; here are my favorite panels, that you should truly watch, please do! & favorite tv trailers for upcoming tv seasons and/or new shows/movies + interviews. (click on the links to watch the videos).

 

 

that's Emily Bett Rickards & John Barrowman from Arrow dancing in SDCC 2014!

until the next post lovelies!

 

 







 

Movie and Series Line-up: The Croods + Arrow, plus new Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer.

Last Sunday, I opened up the Netflix app on my Surface and finally decided to sit down and watch The Croods. If you are a big cinephile or film junkie/fan or whatever you may call yourself, you know that this film is nominated for the Oscars for Best Animated Film of the Year along with Frozen, Despicable Me 2, The Wind Rises and Ernest & Celestine. To be quite honest, I was so excited to see this film, because of many reasons. 1) It is nominated for an Oscar 2) It's a DreamWorks film (How To Train Your Dragon, Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, etc.) 3) Many good reviews 4) Pretty good cast.

GUYS... This movie made me cry from the beginning to the end. I'm not the crier type, but this movie was so wonderful, from its scenarios, to its quotes, and the father-daughter relationship was so strong, I mean it is just so touching I couldn't handle it. The romance with Guy and Eep was so mature and so sweet even though they were Cavemen in the time where the Earth was still forming itself. There were so many scenes I could discuss and babble on about.

1) Loved the father-daughter relationship: Eep and Grugg were so alike, I totally identify myself with her and my dad, lol. I guess that is why I cried a lot.

2) Grugg vs. Guy: how he became jealous of this more developed human being and wanted to have ideas for survival aside from being afraid and living in the darkness.

3) The concepts of light and darkness: How Guy and Eep were obsessed of capturing the sun. How he brought his torch and Eep was fascinated by it. I loved how they always longed for tomorrow.

4) Family and love: these two important concepts in our lives were so nicely portrayed here, how family and love can actually strengthen your soul to keep motivating you, to survive this harsh world.

5) Comedy genius: There were so many moments were I literally cried of laughter, because the quotes guys, you can check some tweets here, where I totally quote the movie.

I totally recommend this movie for you to see whenever you need a good laugh, a good heartfelt movie, and yes, I totally think this one deserves an Oscar nomination (even the Oscar itself). You already know it's on Netflix, and if you don't have an account, you can just buy the DVD on a near film store or watch it online on another site, or order it online, right? Nothing wrong with that.

Here's the trailer:

Now, about Arrow

If you don't know what Arrow is... it is a CW series based on the DC comics superhero called Green Arrow and his story. Wow, great description, right? Lol.

 

Anyway, I totally enjoy this show, because 1) I love superheroes 2) My best friend got me into it AND 3) My best friend got me into it. HAHAHA. I totally blame him for this, but yes. If you love superheroes, then you should totally watch this show, it will tear you to pieces. I say it isn't a masterpiece, but it is really a good series, so if you're into action and explosions and shooting arrows then this is the show for you. I am updated with it and I truly thank my friend for hooking me up with it. I'm talking about it, because my closest friends were totally mad at me, because I didn't watch the  latest episode up until last night, but come on, college sucks up my life. It is on a mini hiatus right now until February 26, because of the Winter Olympics, but only one more week to suffer guys. It is currently on the half of the second season, so if you want to check it out, the complete first season is on Netflix, and some recent episodes are on CW.com.

I really want the 26th to be here already. They need to do some explaining of the last episode. So I won't spoil anything, but here is a general trailer about the series:

I'll do a more in-depth post of my feelings toward the series, because this was merely a presentation for those of you who didn't know about Arrow, so always check my blog for more awesome recommendations.

I'm also including in this post the new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, that Jimmy Kimmel presented last night in his tonight show and since I am a Marvel movies' fan, well I did have some expectations, but watch it and you can leave comments about what do you think of it. I still am going to see it when it comes to the movie theatres, but um, I don't know, I need another trailer to make up my mind. 

Xoxo, Rachel.