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!

Divergent: Book vs. Movie! (Spoilers!)

After three weeks of its premiere in Puerto Rico, I finally watched the film version of Divergent. I finished the book the same week the movie premiered so I was happy I could watch the movie and compare it with the book. Before the comparison, (that obviously contains spoilers), I'll let you know, lovely reader, that if you are a The Hunger Games fan or The Mortal Instruments books' fan, you'll love the film! Shailene Woodley who played Tris Prior, our heroine, was excellent and she flawlessly acted out the most emotional scenes from the book. Don't get me started on Theo James' portrayal of Four, it was like if he was literally taken out of the book. 

 

 

There were some changes in the movie from the book, but they weren't drastic and it was understandable not to have them on the movie, because nothing changed. It is like if you just have seen the movie and not read the book, you didn't miss on the most important things, but like always the book will help you understand the movie so much better, because there were scenes like the tattoo that she wanted the birds on her collarbone, but those have a meaning behind it. Peter played by Miles Teller was incredibly good too! He was like I pictured him. In the book, he is a much more cruel guy, but in the movie we do see his bad intentions and how he obviously envies Tris for her abilities. The scene where Al, Peter and two more guys tried to kill Tris was how I imagined it, and Four rescuing her was perfect! Plus, the scene where Al asks for Tris' forgiveness and she screams at him that he is a coward, and tears up, Shai, two thumbs up! Don't get me started on her parents' death, in where I started crying like an idiot, because I also cried while reading the book, yes, Shai is the perfect Tris, end of discussion.

 

Referring to the movie's visuals.... they were absolutely stunning! After Four and Tris faced Four's fears, that morning after the kiss, where the sun hits her face and the room is illuminated with happiness, I loved how everything looked. The control rooms where the Erudite worked were also pretty cool, the train scenes where the Dauntless jumped out of were really badass, the fighting scene between the hypnotized Four and Tris was actually pretty awesome despite the fact I was so anxious that he had to realize he was killing her and when she pointed the gun to herself screaming that it was okay and that she loved him, (even though in the book she says she loves him in the ending) it was amazing how heartwrenching was to see that she would give her life even if her love was long gone, and it was the only way to make him realize. In the music area, I have listened to the soundtrack before watching the movie and I loved it, and in the movie, it was integrated so well, in particular the song called "Run Boy Run" during the train scene! Also the Ellie Goulding songs, like Hanging On and Dead in The Water... I was emotional, since she is one of my favorite singers, heck my favorite singer and for her songs to be featured in the movie, I was proud.

 

I rate the movie 9/10, because it did justice to the book and I'm literally anticipating the time when the DVD comes out, because I want to watch the movie so many times! Thanks Neil Burger! If you haven't seen the movie, please do before it's out of the movie theaters or when it comes in stores, please do!

 

Thank you lovelies! Here is the trailer:

 

 

Divergent, Ellie Goulding, The Flash, Paramore Concert and obviously, OUAT.

Hello, lovely readers, yes you are lovely!
I truly don't know what to start writing about, but I think I'll mix them up a bit. This week, British singer, Ellie Goulding released a single called "Beating Heart" which is part of the Divergent Original Soundtrack.

YES, I'M VERY HAPPY WITH THIS.

Not because I'm extremely obsessed with Veronica Roth's Divergent (yet), but I needed a push to motivate myself to keep reading the book since I stopped in chapter 8, not because it is a boring book, but because I'm extremely lazy sometimes. Along with the lyric video of the single that also has some Divergent footage and I cannot truly wait. Now, I'll probably be every free moment in my time reading and finishing the book. The movie comes out March 20th which is just around the corner! And if you have the book, but not finished reading, you can join me in Goodreads (an app you can find it on any App Store) and it keeps track of the pages I've read and more!

Now let's talk about Ellie Goulding's new single for Divergent's Original Soundtrack, which basically consists of her songs and I'm so happy they've recognized that the Brit singer is fantastic and that they should always choose her to make soundtrack songs! So, here's "Beating Heart":

 

Also I wanted to talk about The Flash, which is a new series spin-off from Grant Gustin's Flash in Arrow, a hero based on the DC comics, and I'm really excited to how this series will turn out to be!

This week, there have been photo releases of his suit and some stills from set which are in the link below the photo and HOPE THAT IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED ARROW, you can and you can also meet Barry Allen and how he does too deserve a show!

 

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/11/the-flash-full-costume-revealed-in-new-image?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

 

 

Plus, OUAT is back, and it is my ultimate favorite show, I'll probably post the trailer for next Sunday (every week) and I should also add Arrow's next week previews!

 

 

 

Sunday night, I'm making this trend of making Colin notice me in my birthday and reply to me, so just remember I'm @killianswans in Twitter and yay! Hope you can join me!

 

Also guys, my parents made me an amazing gift for my birthday and it is for a Paramore + Tegan and Sara concert tonight! I'm pretty much in a state of shock, haven't really gotten over the fact that my parents actually bought this for me and that I will cry again in the concert singing all the songs of these two amazing bands. Check out their new music video "Ain't it Fun"

 

 

 

This is it for today guys, and a new post will come out on my birthday and in that post, I'll do like a birthday edition of my music and movie favorites up until now and hope you'll like it! Byeee, until the next post!