Sunday 27 December 2015

RE: Emma Blackery || Makeup Brands You THOUGHT Were Cruelty-Free

(none of this is my own research, this is notes taken from Emma Blackery's video to educate those who have not seen it and to look back on so I don't have to rewatch the ten minute video. If you want to see that video, click here)

China requires make-up to be tested on animals by law. If they sell in China, they have to conduct animal testing on their products meaning they care more about profit then they do about animal cruelty. 

TARTE - owned by a parent company that does animal testing, does no animal testing themselves. 

URBAN DECAY - bought my L'Oreal (who do conduct animal testing), who also sell in China. 

THE BODY SHOP - also bought by L'Oreal. 

BURT'S BEES - owned by a parent company that does animal testing. 

NARS - owned by a parent company that does animal testing. 

MAC - their parent company sell in China. 

BENEFIT - sell in China.

EOS - they sell in China. 

BATH AND BODY WORKS - cruelty free, but willing to test on animals if given the opportunity to sell in China.

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Hi :)

I just wanted to talk, I suppose, because I never really use this and I think people who actually read my blog will know why but some of you don't. I started Animal Care Engagement in September and it finishes this Friday (I got in to Level 1 so I'll be back in January!) and me and my boyfriend of two years broke up in September, too. My holidays are back on when I finish Friday (around 11am, it's a short day...) so I want to get back into making some posts over the Christmas period as it's probably the only time off I'll get from work for a while and I get tired easily lately so I won't want to post much.

So, on Tuesday next week (22nd), I'm going away to England again to see my grandparents and this time around my sister is joining us too to see my dad and his girlfriend (who I'm not too fond of so I won't actively try to spend time with them). I'm not sure how long we'll be staying, not much longer then a week most likely. Because I won't be home for Christmas day, we are having an early Christmas with my mother on Monday (21st) and I'm pretty exited about it. I want to take lots of pictures and post them on here like I did last year (or...thought about doing last year, I can't remember if I actually did...) because it's just fun to share the times when I'm happy, especially when it's getting few and far between. 

But yes, I was just...happy about how things are turning out. I'm still getting over the break-up with my ex, but I'm sure I'll eventually get there. Toodle do! 

Sunday 22 November 2015

Bookish Pet Peeves! Part Two.

(an old post, sorry! this was written before the chaotic mess that is my life came about and I'd like to say some of these points don't make me as angry anymore, but they're all still my opinion so I'd still like to share it. enjoy)

If you wanted to see part one of this post but you missed it, you can click here to take you there. It wasn't all that interesting, though, just a lot of anger. 

Like, a lot.

Number Eleven. 

Love triangles. Especially when it's an obvious choice.. Looking at you, Twilight. 

Number Twelve. 

Why is every book being compared to The Hunger Games?!?!?!

Number Thirteen. 

When authors develop a society by themselves and create conflicts and action and all this cool, cool stuff but will do one of the two things. 
They'll either give no explanation towards how the society even got that way, or any developed detail on that society.
Or, they'll wait to the next book to solve the conflicts of this book. Like, no, the point of series' is that it's a contiuation of the story but the first book should do okay as a standalone. In my humble opinion. 

Number Fourteen. 

When a really strong, badass female charecter is weakened because of love. Love is supposed to make you stronger, not make you dependent and less of a person then you were. 

Number Fifteen. 

When authors continue a series when it doesn't have much more meat to add to the story so everything from there on out is pointless and boring...don't drag on a series when there's nothing left, authors. Please. 

Number Sixteen. 

When authors write a perfect, well-rounded person that has no flaw. 
Likewise, when a reader complains about a charecter because they are flawed and they act like any human probably would in a chaotic situation at a young age (Tris, guys. Tris). 

Number Seventeen. 

The author pretty much telling us this person is so and so without actually giving us any backup or proof that this is in anyway correct. Like, for example, saying "This guy is desirable" when at no point in the entire book did I like him, or saying "This girl is strong!" and there has been no point in the book where she has been strong. 

Number Eighteen. 

When I read something that gave no warning that it had spoilers in it. I was doing research for this post, and BAM! Spoiler for Stephen King's ending of "IT". I was planning to read that, it's on my bookshelf. How in the hell do you expect me to read a 1000+ book with anticipation for the ending when I already know it?! Man, I am fuming. 

Number Nineteen. 

When the ending of a book doesn't make sense, or when everything is resolved and sugary-sweet. What?

Number Twenty. 

When the cover gives away wayyyy too much of the plot THANKS A LOT. 

Number Twenty-One. 

"Wow, are we in a lot of trouble. Oh, lookie here! A big ball of conicidentally placed helpful tools that are perfect for what I need to do right in this very moment! Oh, yes!"

 Number Twenty-Two. 

Despite "My Sister's Keeper" being one of my most re-read books, I can't stand metaphours. Over-used metaphours, that is. 

Number Twenty-Three. 

Terribly written dialogue. 
"Did you watch last nights' episode of Breaking Bad?"
"Yeah, pretty good"
"It was"
"Wasn't it?"

Blegh. 
I do hope you enjoyed that. 
You probably didn't, you probably left really annoyed by my terrible spelling and structures, and my invalid points. 
But, they do anger me...it's the truth, y'all! 

Yeah, bye.

Tuesday 17 November 2015

(A Late) Monday Missions #12


I'm slowly getting back into the blogging groove again and what better way to start then a talk about what I will be attempting to read throughout this month?

If you follow me on Goodreads, you'll know that for a good few days now I have been tackling through "Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld and I'm still not even 100 pages into it. It's not that it's a bad book, it's a wonderful book. The part about the fencing was pretty dull, but it's been pretty good so far. I'm just having difficulty reading (yay, depression!). I'll be reading this at my own pace so it'll probably be what I'm reading next week, too, although I really want to get into Star Wars!

I'm also getting through some National Geographic's but obviously that's more light reading then getting stuck into a book.

Thank you for reading, hope my old readers are still around.

- Loz x

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Personal || A Letter of Absence.

It's been a while, hasn't it? I feel like I owe you an update, so here that update is. As you know, I started community college but right now I'm just on an Engagement course. Level 1 doesn't start until January. It's called Animal Care. The reason why this impacted my ability to thing of ideas and to write them down was, well...I don't think there is much reason, but since starting college I haven't been reading either. My everyday sort of thing is that on Monday's, Tuesdays, and Fridays I walk two miles there and two miles back (and I usually don't eat till around 5pm, which I am changing because I need the energy). I'm in Wednesday too, except it's not 9am - 4pm, it's 9am - 12:15pm.

As you could probably tell from the last post, Austin and I broke up and he "ran" this with me. We had been together for two years, although it didn't come as a shock it was still a lot to take and still is. I'm coping fine, though. 

I was also having confidence problems in my writing skills (and again, I still am) so I'm probably going to turn this blog into more than what it is - much more than just books. I want to reach topics and talk about them (feminism, deforestation, that general road) to improve myself. It's going to be more like a blog of self-discovery, and I'll write on here when I want to more than scheduled. I think.

As you can probably tell, I'm still exhausted, I've been sick and feel pretty drained. Thank you for reading, I'll see you at...some point. 

- Loz.

Friday 25 September 2015

Farewell; from Austin

Hey, sorry to bring forth a somber post, as I was looking forward to finishing my MGSV post, but I won't be apart of the blog anymore for some personal reasons, I hope the blog really grows in size though! It's an amazing blog, I love you all, random readers. Loz is better at writing anyways. Goodbye.

Sunday 13 September 2015

Personal Life || The Day Before My New Chapter!

Oh yes, guys, oh yes. Tomorrow is what I consider to be a "big day" for me. I'm going to be joining community college. I don't like to say that, "joining", because other then an email of confirmation that we had to call to receive I am just really worried at this point that I'm going to turn up at 8:30am tomorrow morning like "Where do I go? Who are my teachers? Should I go to reception?" and then they'll say something along the lines of "Sorry but you're not in our records, you're in our reservation list for Level 2..."...I realize none of this is making sense without context, so let's start from there.

So, early last year (I want to say...December? Maybe November?), my careers adviser showed up during my free-time asking me what I would like to do when I left school and I said "Oh, I'd like to do Animal Care at college", the college about a mile and a half away from me and she was like "Oh, sure, let me just call them up and see what we can do and I'll get back to you". I'm not sure how long has passed, but I know it was a few months away at this point from leaving school and I had yet to hear back from her about the signing up. I took it in my own hands because someone...I don't know who, but someone came up to me and said "Have you heard back from her or do you have to do it online?" and I didn't even think about that. Of course, as soon as I got onto a laptop, I signed up for Animal Care. 

I received a call pretty quick afterwards asking about an interview, so I forwarded the number to my mum (if you haven't guessed at this point, I have social anxiety) who called them a few times and eventually an interview had been set up. Originally, we were going to go for Level 2 Animal Care which had no available spaces so I would be in the reservation list in case anyone dropped out or whatever (which never happened, as an FYI). Then they said there was still available spaces for Level 1 and it would be best if I joined that one instead, and it was unclear to me what was happening because they were talking amongst themselves and then afterwards one of the ladies who was there said "Yes, you're definitely in" which I'm still not taking to heart incase there was a lack of communication or something and I haven't actually been accepted.

A few weeks (maybe?) later, I got nervous because I hadn't heard a single thing from them since and I got my mother to call the college and they said "Oh, we had you on the reservation for Level 2" (which I think is weird because I don't think I even applied for Level 2, so maybe the forms got in wrong or something) but then she said something like how their files were mixed up and sent me a confirmation on how I had been accepted into Level 1. 

That's basically (believe it or not) the short version as to why I am so nervous about tomorrow mostly and I'll let you know how it goes. I still don't know what to wear or anything, I am so nervous. I'm going to fold up tomorrow's clothes, get my bag ready, have a nice bath so I smell great and try not to dwell too much. The walk is a mile and a half there, I have half an hour of time to think about everything. During my high school years, which I will talk about in more detail for a later post, I've always had a strong support system from the autism centre but now it's like I've lost my footing in the dark and if I fall, I can't be sure there's someone there to help me stay upright, this whole situation is putting me on edge.

Anyway, thank you for reading, I'm sorry I'm not spending much time on blogging or photos or anything like that, I will try harder I promise, just...my whole summer as been leading up to this, tomorrow is the day. THE. DAY.

*sighs* goodness.
See you tomorrow! 

Wednesday 9 September 2015

Top Five Wednesday: Female Inspirations || YouTube.

Since August (posting pretty much everyday), the writing drive has been a bit knocked out of me and I feel like now that I write fewer posts they should be much better quality because I have more time to think of ideas and work on them and the pressure has been off-putting, I'm sorry about that. I hope this blog is improving my writing skills, but...it takes time. 

Enough rambling, today I wanted to at least try to write a Top Five Wednesday (if it publishes, I succeeded!) on something I want to go in more detail about in future posts but I am going to briefly touch on it today and that is my female inspirations. I have a lot of female inspirations, I strongly believe in women-to-women love instead of being jealous of one another and bringing each other down. This is no particular order. 

One || Saphira Howell. 



Saphira is a 17-year-old female still in school I believe from LA. She was formerly SaphiraFashion, but as since changed her channel name because it doesn't represent who she is anymore.

Why do I like her so much, I consider her to be one of my inspirations? Because she's very young and has a supreme amount of confidence is one reason. She knows she's pretty, she'll say "Yeah, I look good in this" and she has the confidence to put herself out there - like in her TEDx talk. She's real with what she talks about and doesn't pretend to be someone she's not for views.

She was nominated for the Shorty Awards I think earlier this year or later last year. There's a lot more about her that I feel like she needs to be looked up to for, but for that, go and visit her channel or wait until a later day when I make a full post on her! She's already taking up a lot of space here, I need to move on to four other female inspirations! 

Two || Emma Blackery. 




Her Channel

I love her for multiple reasons - she's a sassy feminist who can be absolutely hilarious without insulting anyone! She's an inspiration to me because she is proof that you can be funny without putting other people down, she's very real to her viewers and doesn't bullshit anything. She's adorable and works hard for what she does, she doesn't make excuses for herself, she's just an awesome person...I look up to her for being awesome, and for being herself (a common theme in this blog post!). 


Three || Beckie0. 




Again, she is my inspiration because of her brutal honesty to not only us but to herself. I won't talk too much about this, though, as what truly makes me look up to her is her amazing creativity. Her videos - mostly her older ones from a year or two ago, my personal favourites - really stand out in your mind. They're different, and have her own personality shooting through them, they're amazing. She also suffers with depression, I believe, but her biggest struggle is her battle with Trich and as someone who suffers a disability and two mental illnesses, it's a great source of motivation seeing her really making something of her life despite what is holding her back and I one day want to do the same. 


Four || Allaray Roo 



A much less known channel, but growing pretty fast (as she so deserves) is Allaray Roo, who actually hasn't to my knowledge done any videos on body-loving or anything majorly important like that, but she does stand out in my mind and she has inspired me multiple times to talk about the kinds of things she talks about in her videos. She's basically a story-teller of her very eventful and traumatic life, and the way she tells them is so hilarious, that I can't help but want to try and write some of my own (which I always lose the guts to post in the end!). Again, though, she is an inspiration to me because she always remains true to herself - she's wacky and I love that, she's so nice and friendly, I recommend checking out her channel!


Five || StacyPlays. 



Okay, I know this wasn't meant to be in any order but I think this woman might be my favourite. I can't tell you how many times she has made me laugh hysterically on my darkest days! She is an inspiration to me because of how much she has achieved in her life, and how strongly she feels for saving dogs' lives! She's smart and witty and wonderful! She's a gamer, so slightly different from the women I have mentioned above, but nontheless she has inspired me to one day get a laptop or computer that will allow me to record and upload my own videos! 

There you have it, my top five female inspirations! Who are yours?! 

- Loz x 



Wednesday 2 September 2015

Romance-Comedy || "Hens Reunited" by Lucy Diamond.


Basically, about three different women who were together at each others' hen parties years ago. There's Georgia, a heartless journalist who has given up on romance and now lives her life ruining other peoples'. There's Katie, a woman who had a bad marriage and has now given up on marriage - which causes her problems with her current boyfriend, Steve. And then, my personal favourite, Alice. A woman who was treated harshly by a woman she called a best friend, and ditched publicly by her husband when she was pregnant with her daughter, Iris. They have since gone their separate ways, and it's a book about claiming back lost friendship and to bud new romance. 

I think reading a fluffy, loosely-plotted romance novel directly after reading a hardcore science-fiction space battle written from an anti-hero's point of view was a bad idea and negatively affected my experience of this book. Which is a huge shame, because the previous books I have read by Lucy Diamond - "Over You" and "Sweet Temptation" - were a relief after reading hefty, mentally-draining books. That was, really, the reason it was picked up in the first place. It was like getting a nice, long sleep after running a marathon so you have the energy to do it all again tomorrow. 

Well, it's what I wanted, but didn't get.

I want to at least say the premise was interesting, but it's not. There isn't anything on the back that grabbed me. I picked it up purely because it was written by Lucy Diamond, and she has surprised me in her talent to get me hooked twice before. Not here. It just all seemed like filler. Like that horrible tasting stuff in the middle of a Victoria sponge that just ends up ruining the whole thing in the end. I was expecting some nice sub-plots, but there wasn't. What you see is what you get. It was all just a little bit boring. 

It didn't help that I had a strong dislike for Georgia. Same with most horrible characters, she had an unpleasant back story, but this weak attempt to pull at my heartstrings failed. She was vain, superficial, annoying, everything in a person I would usually try to avoid. 

One of the most important things in a book, I personally think, is writing characters you love. Or, at the very least, relate to or care about. The only person I really wanted to hear about was Alice, and because it was split in to three different perspectives from third person (my least favourite narrative), she hardly turned up. I don't think Diamonds' strong point is splitting up the point of views. I think she should just stick to the one person.

Not that this book is all bad - if you can believe it after this ramble - I still came out with a somewhat feeling of enjoyment and satisfaction. I would still recommend people to read it, it just was not my thing on a whole.

But wait, there's more. 

I almost forgot! There was one more point I wanted to bring up about this novel that really irritated me. 

The terrible love you feel nothing for. *spoilers* Alice spoke to Dom from our POV probably three or four times, most of which was not in a good light, and then suddenly they were loved up and a team. Katie refused to get married because she wasn't okay with it, causing Steve to ditch her for a week because apparently not wanting to be married just is not okay and she ended up proposing to him and getting pregnant after spending years saying that's not what she wanted. Georgia and Owen spoke literally once and the second time they spoke ended in a kiss and sex, and then they were loved up in a click of your fingers. I don't think love works like that *end of spoilers*

Phew, glad I could get that off my chest! Despite dedicating an entire review on her book to ranting, don't let that put you off her! She writes very light-hearted, wonderful reads with a touch on serious topics in each one of her books - I urge you to give at least one of them a try, 

Good-bye for now

- Loz x

Monday 31 August 2015

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets #2 - Squibs and Ginny.

This book is the first time I have ever actually felt sorry for Filch. He has to deal with not being magic surrounded by people who are, including the greatest wizards and witches like Dumbledore and Hermione Granger. I don't know if it's possible for a squid to advance to basic magic, I'm a fan of Harry Potter but I'm not educated on all of it. Part of me hopes that he does find a way to become magic somehow. 

There's also writing on the wall in blood and in the movies, of course, it was easily wiped off but in the books it's half impossible to remove. Of course we know it was Ginny, but did she really do it without magic then if she can't remove it? I don't know, it always amazes me how much the movies left out.

How did you like these parts of the book?

See you next time

- Loz x

Monday Missions #12

I finally am getting kicked back into reading again, and I have recently finished "Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix, and I am now reading "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K.Rowling. I will follow this post with my reading update on that discussing what I have read so far and what I thought of it, though this is not the first time I have read it so it won't be first time thoughts or anything. 

I plan to follow this up with "Alice in Zombieland" by Gena Showalter. I haven't heard good things about it (even from the fan club of YA romance) so I'm not looking forward to it, although I really want to get through the trilogy because I have it on my shelf, I don't read many zombie books and Why on Earth not? so I'll let you know how I get on with it in mini updates but an actual review of the book/trilogy won't be up until October, the horror month. 

If I, by whatever miracle, manage to get these finished by the ends of the week then I will be moving on to a book by Rainbow Rowell. This will probably be the book I will be reading on my way home, as I'm due to leave England pretty soon (in about a week, this makes me pretty sad...). I'll let you know how I feel about that, too, it'll either be "Landline" or "Fangirl". 

Thank you ever so much for reading, and I will see you all soon, bye!

Sunday 30 August 2015

What I Read in August 2015!

I believe I missed doing this last month and I think it was because I didn't think I had enough books to tell you about? I'm not entirely sure, my memory doesn't stretch that far, I have a sneaky suspicion it was probably because I'm lazy.

"Alfie: The Doorstep Cat" by Rachel Wells. 

To cut to the chase, I DNF'd this book. It was a cute and interesting idea - an adorable Alfie becomes homeless after his owner dies from old age, he takes to the streets, and then finds a road that needs him maybe even more then he needs them. How it was delivered is what ruined it for me. I just didn't like the writing style, it was slow for me. Too much was given away too quickly, and at the same time, not enough was going on. There wasn't really any sub-plots going on, or character development. -I think this was her first book, so I can understand it probably wouldn't be a very well-rounded novel because of that. It was just disappointing, I wasn't fond of it.

"Eleanor and Park" by Rainbow Rowell. 

I had mixed thoughts on this book but I have a book talk on here for the novel, I will be brief. It made me feel good, I liked it a lot. The romance was kind of forced to me, they fit together but more in a friendly kind of way - when they started to do romantic things, any chances of having a discussion fell out the window and I think friendship in relationships is important, it was lost between the two. Otherwise, I really enjoyed it, I think it was a three or four star rating on Goodreads.

"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult.  

This book used to be a well-loved read of mine, but I think I grew out of it as the pace of the book is far too slow for my taste and Julia and Campbell ruined the story. I probably will re-read it again in the future, just because I want to keep my love for it. This month was probably just a bad time to get into it.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K.Rowling.

I needn't bother saying what I felt about this, you know I loved it! I read it for my Harry Potter Read-A-Thon (and didn't do so good on the updates...), it left me as satisfied as they usually leave me.

"Am I Normal Yet?" by Holly Bourne. 

A book on feminism, stereotypical OCD and how being yourself is better then trying to fit in. It's a wonderful story, Holly Bourne might be one of my new favourites, we'll see when I read her second two books. She's only been an author since 2013, so I guess that's why she isn't well known yet? I'm hoping more people notice her existence soon, she's a good writer and a good person.

"Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction" by Drew Karpyshyn. 

I really enjoyed this. It was like the starter book for the other two books in the trilogy, and it was the perfect example of character development. A flaw I can say about it, though, was that it was slow in parts and I wanted more people-presented women in there, I think there was only one. I have higher hopes for the next two books though, I won't give away any spoilers but that cliffhanger, that cliffhanger. 

"Hens Reunited" by Lucy Diamond.

I enjoyed this read, but I can't say it's something I actually wanted to spend so much time reading. It was okay and everything, but it had a lot of major flaws I mention in my review, like the terrible Instalove and how I jumped from the previous book to this one without much consideration of their differences. I just didn't want to jump onto another hefty book.

"Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix. 

Again, you can read my review on this book if you want to know my full thoughts but seeing as that post won't be up for another few days, I really enjoyed this. It was filled with the paranormal, torture devices, zombies, people going mad - it was dark, and I really enjoyed it, always with that subtle humour on working in retail. Highly recommended read for anyone into horror and parody, or anyone who has ever worked in retail, you will enjoy it!

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K.Rowling. 

Yes, for my Re-Read-A-"Thon" of the summer, I finally moved on to the second book and plan on doing regular updates throughout so you can read my thoughts on it and so you can give your input on what you thought about it. Personally, this one is my favourite tied with "Prisoner of Azkaban", so I'm even more exited to read this then I was about the first one.

Thank you ever so much for reading, let me know what you've been reading this month, and I'll see you all tomorrow, bye!

- Loz x

  

Saturday 29 August 2015

The Hype Train: MGS V: The Phantom Pain

Choooo chooooooooo, chugga chugga chugga chugga, wooooohooo... *ding* *ding* *ding*
Chugga.... chugga... chugga... ... chooo.... *screeeeeeeeessss* SHHHSHSSSSSS,

Whoa, what was that noise that just loudly blared in the start of this post? Oh...
It's a new segment called "The Hype Train"! That's right, readers of the blog that are mostly here for Loz and not me, I have created a new segment on the blog dedicated to, you guessed it, HYPE in it's purest form. What might that be, you may be asking yourself, well, UNSTOPPABLE, sorta like a train. And hence, here we are, the beginning of a hype that cannot be stopped until it's reached it's destination; release day! Today, for our first ever HYPE TRAIN, I am going to talk about something that has been awaiting for years to finally be played by the masses; Metal Gear Solid V.

It's a bit of an understatement to explain how purely excited I am, and I want to make this a bit more of a short post, as the BIG one will be hitting this page soon enough, I can assure you of that. I want to get my hands on the game first. I am, however, going to give you a rundown on how I feel and what I'm most excited for! First and foremost, I am PUMPED we are finally getting a finale to the series, the final big mystery in the series will be answered... which is why Big Boss is a fucking nutcase. Now, the gameplay itself is very similar to Peace Walker, which, unpopular opinion inbound, happens to be one of my favorites. I cannot WAIT for the ability to build my own Mother Base and watch it grow with new soldiers. A favorite of mine is the side-ops, and how I'll be able to do those ASIDE from the missions.

Metal Gear is a silly series of games that started out very humble. Kojima himself did almost all the coding of the original games, and to top that off, the very first Metal Gear (Titled just "Metal Gear", released in the late 80's) was supposed to be the only one. At the time, he worked for Konami, and they owned his series. They felt the first sold well, so they decided to make a second game, which was a huge failure and flop, and as such, Kojima felt challenged and angry over this failure of this game. This made him come back to create MG2, which, following the success of THIS game, caused him to create MGS1 (Metal Gear Solid 1), which was also supposed to be his final game. Kojima is a man who has always wanted to let his creation go. He felt as though the series was left good enough where it was, but Konami always convinced him in the long run to make another, and if it wasn't Konami, it was his massive fan following that was growing stronger by the day..

Following the many years of making these games, Kojima and Konami seemed to grow more hostile of each other. With each passing game, he seemed to get more aggressive on his stance on how he wished it was his final game, but I assume he kept making them out of fear that Konami would make the next game and ruin it, which he so very clearly hated. This all came to a crescendo, though, once the series reached it's final game, MGS V. Kojima made it clear this WOULD be his final game, and Konami was all the happy to make it so. It seemed Konami had grown sick of the massive support he had, the loyalty of his production crew "Kojima Productions", and his cult following of fans. They decided that this wouldn't just be his final MGS, but his final game at all for that company. He is to be let go this December, following the release of MGS V. As if that was bad enough, they also canceled his second project he was working on with renowned film director, Del Torro, titled "Silent Hills", a revival of the Silent Hill series.

All the drama aside, Kojima seems very confident in his final game, and I believe he did he best to make it his greatest game of all time, and from the looks of it, that holds very true. All the fans are very excited, I myself know many people who are eagerly waiting for it, co-workers of mine included. MGS started as a small game and grew to one of the biggest of all time. It's left the realm of being "just a game", and has, in my opinion, reached true art form. Sure, the game is silly as all hell, but do you think all artists and actors are all constantly serious? Is a comedy movie immediately not allowed to be a work of art? Can a funny painting not be a good one as well? Needless to say, games in general have come far, and this one in particular has surely helped pave the way. My hype is about as strong as it can get.

I've been replaying Ground Zeroes (the prequel) in order to shake off rust and get ready for the game. I'm going to name my base the "Leaping Lynx", name subject to change at any time. Please, give me your life force energy to keep myself from exploding for the next two days, I'll need it. Also, please send me knowledge, since I'm too dumb to remember how to double space, apparently. I'll be writing a much more comprehensive review/hype explosion as soon as the game is released, lemme know if you want more info on this subject, I might come back and write more on it as I think of what to add!


(Snake had a hard life)


So, follow me if you wish, into the wonderful world of tactical espionage! Don't forget your box!

-Austin

August Book Haul 2015!

This is not going to include very many books, and for that I apolagize, I just haven't had much money and haven't really been very "read-y" lately. But, I hope you enjoy what I did pick up! What did you buy this month? 

"The Alchemyst" by Michael Scott. 
"The Magician" by Michael Scott. 

Both books were gifts for my 19th birthday back on August 8th from my mother and my younger sister (she's seventeen). They follow twins, Josh and Sophie, who take up a summer job thinking they can do what they need to do and leave, but things take a turn as they're bundled into a world of adventure! I first heard this from my favourite YouTuber, Stacyplays, in her Attack of the B-Team Minecraft series and was intrigued from the get-go! They're books I brought with me to England to see my nan and granddad, I'm probably going to move on to read them shortly and I'll let you know what I thought about them.

"Am I Normal Yet?"by Holly Bourne. 

Amazingly, I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway and started to read shortly afterwards because of it's interesting premise. It follows a young sixteen-year-old girl who tries hard to be normal and fit in, despite that not being who she is, because she suffers from OCD and doesn't want people to know about it. It also follows some very feminist ideas that I really enjoyed reading about, and I can't wait to get my hands on more books written by Miss Holly Bourne.

"Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix. 

This was a gift from my boyfriend, co-owner of the blog (Austin), for my 19th birthday. I'm currently reading it but by the time this will be posted on Saturday, I would have already finished it. So far, I can say that I really enjoyed it. It's a great joke on how hard working in retail is, getting lost in Ikea and what would probably happen, but also a really horrifying story involving the 1800's and torture devices. I didn't think I would like it as this man has also written for Playboy, but I found myself pleasantly surprised.

"Darth Bane: Path of Destruction" by Drew Karpyshyn. 

Also a gift from Austin, I read this book and finished it shortly after my arrival here in England. It's a science fiction novel from the world of Star Wars following a Dark Lord of the Sith. It was dark and creepy towards the end, a great book for character development, and a fantastic introduction into the Star Wars world. Even if you don't like Star Wars, I think you'll really enjoy reading this book.

"The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Completely Fantastical Edition" by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black. 

My granddad kindly bought me this book as he had a WHSmith discount voucher, and it's all five books in one beautiful book (believe me, I will be making a post on that very soon) that I can't wait for. I don't know too much about it, I want to go into it blind, but I do know that it's a kids' book that has also been made into a movie and everyone else has read it or watched it but me! No worries, I'll be getting around to it soon.

"Landline" by Rainbow Rowell.

Again, another book bought for me by my granddad, I'm not entirely sure what it's about? Something to do with how a woman wants to get into contact with her ex-husband through the phone and sort things out and start on a clean slate. I really enjoyed reading "Eleanor and Park", it had some flaws but overall it left me with quite a gooey and happy feeling. I'm wondering if I will get the same, or similar, experience here or in "Fangirl". I will let you all know.

Okay, that's all the books I got for the month of August, thank you so much for reading and I'll see you all tomorrow, bye!

- Loz x

Friday 28 August 2015

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets #1 - Dobby the House-Elf.

Hi, I'm finally back with another Harry Potter book and update posts! This time, I will really need to update every few chapters to keep my thoughts on the book written down. I kept forgetting to do it what with all the other posts I was trying to get done, but what with my posting-everyday-in-August coming to an end really soon, I think I'll try to be posting one of these every few days! And it's not really much of a marathon, is it? 

Anyway, I'm up to chapter four, I believe, and we have just been introduced to Dobby. I want to say what my first impressions of him are, and I would love to know what you thought about him. I actually didn't really like him. I felt pity for him, what with the description of him being ugly and in dirty clothes and having a horrible family to keep him, but I mostly just felt mad at him for doing that to Harry. On the assumption that he is an eavesdropping type of Elf (otherwise how would he have known Harry would be in danger that year?), he must have known all about Harry's situation, too? At least once he did find out, he should have put a stop to it. I mean, he seems to really care about Harry's safety so what he did with the cake and the making noise seemed a dumb thing to do on his part in terms of keeping Harry safe. 

He also seemed very invasive of Harry's life, like he had a right to keep hold of Harry's letters and make him stay away from Hogwarts.

Of course, my fondness for him grew over time but I can't remember if that happened in this book or the later books. We'll soon find out!

What was your first impression of Dobby?

- Loz x

Science-Fiction || "Darth Bane: Path of Destruction" by Drew Karpyshyn.


Date Published: June 6th 2007.
Publishers: Del Rey Books.
Book #1 in the "Star Wars: Darth Bane" trilogy. 

"Path of Destruction" is the first novel in the Darth Bane trilogy, from the perspective of the Dark Side. It follows a man named Dessel ('Del') who brings trouble in the small mining planet he is stuck on, paying off the debt his father left him. One day, that trouble causes him to flee...and he joins the Sith. Although warned that the Dark Side will influence him, and he mustn't get caught up in it, the warning is somewhere lost in battle.

Please keep in mind that this is my very first introduction to Star Wars, I have not seen any of the Star Wars movies, so my review on this book will not have any background information and will just be based purely on how I enjoyed this book.

It was written, same as most trilogies, like the introduction to the upcoming two books. It was basically about Darth Bane's rise to power and an opening to the world of the Sith, their rules and their ways of life. Which, by the way, was pretty useful for someone like me who knows next to nothing about the Star Wars world. The most important about this was how it left me dying to read the next book. Seriously, I've been pestering my boyfriend to lend me the next two books for a while now!

The characters were amazing. Even the characters I didn't like, like Sex-Object-Githany, ended up being likeable (as she managed to manipulate and trick multiple Lord's minds), If you want a good example of what I mean when I say good character development, this book is right up there. It ended on a cliffhanger, which is so annoying if you know how much I don't like cliffhangers. But, I think this is a good thing, as I rarely leave the first book of a series on the cusp of my seat waiting until I can get my next fix. That cliffhanger introduced a new character, a female in a high-power position (for once!). I'm dying to read it.

It was really slow in parts, but the fast-paced parts and their brutality really made up for that. One of the reasons I love science-fiction so much is their ability to make brutal scenes really brutal. 

There isn't much I can say about it without giving too much away, so if you enjoyed these, I will see you next time!

- Loz x


Page 195 of "Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix || Rough Translation.

This is just a rough translation of page 195 of "Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix in the paperback US edition published by "Quirk". If I have got anything wrong here, feel free to comment and I will fix the mistakes.
(it's not a different language, it's just written in very hard to read handwriting, pictured below)

Penitents of the Cuyahoga Panopticon.
Under the care and treatment of: Warden Josiah Worth.
September
1831.

Number: 00314.
Name: Harold Ashes.
Offense: Vagabonding and barratry.
Sentence: 3 years  4 years.
Treatment: His degenerate aspect and sallow features caused me to assign to him seven hours on the Tread Wheel each day. His sickly aspect increases but I suspect him of malingering. Nothing is so certain as that the evils of illness can be shaken off by hard work.

Number: 00315.
Name: Leon Bultg (?).
Offense: Consorting with low women and public inebriation.
Sentence: 2 years  3 years 4 years.
Treatment: A daily dose of Mercury has calmed him greatly. Those who sow no seeds reap (possibly seek) no reward.

Number: 00316
Name: Osborne Goldberg.
Offense: Threatening behaviour.
Sentence: 3 years.
Treatment: This sallow fellow seems to be quite ill, suffering from the lunacy and bearing all the physical signs of degeneracy. We have prescribed to him the Iron Cap to be worn at all times, and when he becomes agitated, a few hours on the rotational board  encourages him to swoon and purge himself of vile fluids. Amid an eternal heritage of sorrow and suffering and work begins (?).

Number: 00317.
Name: Matthew Sweagen (?).
Offense: Petty larceny with partial verdict.
Sentence: 4 years  5 years.
Treatment: Sentenced to workhouse where his abusive temperament required (?) him to be remanded into my case. Prescribed ten thousand turns of the crank each day. Notice that flesh of his hands has begun to slough off and become full of pus. For his health, we have removed his thumbs. He has now returned to the crank.

I hope you find this helpful. The original copy of this page is pictured below: 


Wednesday 26 August 2015

Top Five Wednesday: Top Five Worlds!

Welcome to my second Top Five Wednesday post! Today, I thought an interesting topic would be to talk about what my top five favourite worlds to visit so far are. I think one of them is going to be yoghurt-thrown-in-your-face obvious, but the others might not be (I haven't even thought of them yet, it's as much a surprise to me as it will be to you!). Must stop rambling and actually get on with the post, shall we? Yes, we shall, let's get started: 

One.

World one is, you guessed it, the world in the Harry Potter series written by the Queen. The whole school in a castle thing is what really interests me, as I live in Wales and we have a lot of castle hot spots and even before Harry Potter, I would always wonder what it would be like to go to school in one of those castles. Especially an abandoned one. The fact that it includes so many more amazing things, like magic and dragons, is a huge added bonus to one of my childhood dreams. I don't understand why anyone would not want to be in the world of Harry Potter. 

Two. 

I wouldn't want to live in these worlds, but I want access to them as a vacation spot, and that is the worlds in the Dr. Seuss books. I really loved "Cat in the Hat", I thought it was colourful and wacky and unique and what they did with that in the Universal Studios from what I have seen online is what I want the worlds to look like if they came to live. Just a lot more lively and not looking like buildings, you know what I mean? 

Three. 

It has escaped my memory what this place is actually called, but I don't like the world in Lord of the Rings as a whole, I just like the place where the Hobbits lived. And the fact they smoke weed and eat all day is a pleasurable thought, they don't have to do anything, it seems a fun life. I would probably have miniature adventures in the surrounding area, but really small ones - I don't want to get caught up in any crap, especially far away from the Hobbit holes! I (shamefully) haven't yet read the books, so I'm just going from the movies. Sorry, okay, I will get to them! 

Four. 

I have only read one book from this world, but that one book was enough to get me interested, and that is the realm of Star Wars. This might change in the future, as one book doesn't even make a dent in all the information you can learn about it and especially now that Disney owns them, but from what I know about it so far, it can't not make my top five list - even if it is a super predictable option!

Five. 

This one not so much now, as I don't really like the last few books in the series - and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in that - but to make fifteen year old me happy, the House of Night series by P.C and Kristen Cast because I loved the idea of being a beautiful vampire with artwork on my face and wearing beautiful clothes and having a loyal cat. The whole world just appealed to me, and it still does in my memory. 

So, what are your favourite worlds, can you pick one that's not Harry Potter?!
See you tomorrow!

- Loz x

Tuesday 25 August 2015

Monday Missions #11

I'm on eleven already? Doesn't feel like it's been more then eleven weeks since I first found out about this , but there you go. Time does fly!

(I was meant to publish this yesterday and then publish my Alfie review today but typical me completely got the days of the week mixed up...)

Because I have more freetime during this week then I have been having in a while, I plan to get through a lot - which, knowing me, won't happen. 

I'm writing this at 11pm on Sunday evening, as I usually do, but right now I'm about a hundred and fifty pages away from the end of "Hens Reunited" by Lucy Diamond which I'm kind of enjoying, but not so much as I hoped I would. I already have a few notes planned for the review I'm going to be doing on this book (named Romantic-Comedy) if you're interested in a full play-by-play of what I thought about it, which is...kind of complicated right now. 

Next, my old (not literally, we just used to be friends and then we stopped and now we're friends again...it's not as high school drama as that sounds...) friend Sydnie Beaupre sent me and a few other people her book, "Dark One", in return of an honest review. Don't quote me on this, but I think it's about fallen angels, and it's kind of a YA fantasy novel? I hope she doesn't kill me if I have gotten that wrong. 

I also want to get "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" read for this week, too, because I have really fallen behind in blog posts for my Harry Potter re-read a thon and reading it in general. The next two books, this one and "Azkaban", are also my favourites in the entire series!

If I manage to get all that done, then I have "Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell that I want to read next because I kind of liked but kind of didn't like "Eleanor and Park" but it also gave me a really, really good feeling that I would not mind re-visiting and I hope "Fangirl" can give me that. 

Don't be shy to tell me what you're planning on reading this week!

See you tomorrow, Loz x 

Monday 24 August 2015

Review || "Alfie: The Doorstep Cat" by Rachel Wells.

(this one is kind of an old review, I'm currently in the process of writing and editing a Star Wars novel review but it's kind of hard to write about as it could offend a lot of people if I write it wrong and it also seems dumb that I, a person with no knowledge of Star Wars before that book or even science-fiction novels, would be writing a review/book talk on something like that...anyway, irrelevant, sorry if you hate the late upload posts but at least it's getting uploaded at all, right?!)


This book is basically about a little cat named Alfie who's owner dies from old age. Her daughter comes around and says that she wants to put Alfie in a shelter because they can't stay with her, and Alfie decides to take his life into his own hands and runs away. He lives in a harsh homeless cat world for a short while, before he comes across a street that needs him as much as he needs them. Alfie doesn't want to dedicate his time to one owner because that's going to be hard if he has to go through it all again, so he decides to have multiple owners. 

Lets just cut right to the chase. I DNF'd this book. It wasn't even bad, I actually found it very interesting from the start but Wells gives away so much information that the curiosity that kept me captivated throughout it was lost and I had no drive to finish it. I barely even passed halfway, and I wasn't going to write this review because I was still sure I was going to finish it...but I just can't. Sorry, Rachel, I think you can do better.

The writing was dull. It was dull from the very first page. Usually, this isn't a make-or-break for me. Sometimes, the plot line or the characters or something can be strong enough to keep me reading. After taking English Literature for three years, at this point, I'm just used to reading boring books that I ended up being pretty happy about reading. This book had an interesting premise, and that was enough for me to think this book would be worth it.

So, you get some interesting characters here. A girl who is heartbroken because of a divorce, a man who is lonely after moving away from his life in Singapore, a woman with a husband and a newborn with depression, and a small, sweet little family from Poland. Problem? Their stories were told practically instantly. This book should have been half the size it was. I'm kind of curious about the ending, but I can just look it up. The story had seemed to be told by halfway through the book. The characters also had no personality. I'm aware that this was written from the perspective of a cat, but it was written by a human - the development could have been better. They were also the kind of people I had seen before, I was expecting more of an in-depth explanation to them, but it just didn't happen. Characters really are a make or break for me.

There was also no plot line whatsoever! 
The plotline really was as simple as Alfie becoming homeless, finding a street, and they all warm up to him and that's that.

The premise of this book could have been something a lot better then what it was. Instead, you have something mediocre that I guess would be okay to read if you were into these types of things, but I'm not. I expected more.

Sorry this wasn't up to my usual standards, in the topic of cats I received a two month old kitten for my birthday as my aunts' cat, Sybil, has some kittens and they couldn't keep them. She needs a lot of attention, I barely had time to sleep and write this (is this like a taster of how parents' feel?!). But, thank you for reading, I'll see you all next time.

- Loz x


Sunday 23 August 2015

Books I Brought With Me To England!

Hey!

If you didn't know, I'm currently in England to visit my grandparents' and my father (hopefully not his girlfriend, too) and I packed very last minute so I'm sort of regretting the books I brought with me. Not too much, though, because they are books I really want to get read. I might only be here for a week, or a week and a half, I just wanted a wide variety of choice rather then being like "You're going to get all these read!". I'm rambling, let me just show you what books I got: 


"Horrorstor" by Grady Hendrix. 

A parody on the famous furniture store, Ikea, that is basically about strange happenings at night when the store has been shut down. Employees have been sent to stay overnight to investigate what has been going on, and they're met with a nasty surprise. 

One of my birthday presents from Austin that I once saw on a YouTube video and thought it looked kind of interesting, so I thought "hey, why not give it a shot!". I can't say I'm really that exited to read it, purely because I've heard a lot of things behind said on it that the writing just isn't that great, but still. I did bring it with me just because I wanted to get through it more then actual want to read it. It seems more like a decoration book then anything,  but it might pleasantly surprise me, who knows. 

"The Alchemyst" by Michael Scott. 

I think everyone and their dog knows what this is about, but I don't. I think it's about twins in a fantasy realm? I don't really know...I got this as a birthday present from my mother and sister, which is weird because they never get me books! Especially books that have been on my Amazon wishlist for quite some time. 

"Alice in Zombieland" by Gene Showalter. 

I've heard so many negatives thinks about this, so this on top of it being a YA dystopia romance makes me hesitant to read it, but the trilogy is based from one of my favourite books and even if it has little resemblance, I can at least try to like it because of that. This book is also a useful contribution towards something I am working on for later this year, stick around for that!

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K.Rowling. 
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K.Rowling. 

I should hope I don't need to say what these are, but these are for my Harry Potter Read-A-Thon books, that's more of a re-read at this point seeing as I finished the first one like a week ago and haven't even made a move yet on starting the second one. Oops?

"Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell. 

A twin called Cathy (have to say, not a fan of Rowell's choice of names) decides she doesn't want to be tied up to her sister anymore when she joins university and wants to be a free bird, and meets someone called Levi. Everyone else loves him, but they're also the same people who love Will Herondale, so we'll see if I like him too. 

"Hens Reunited" by Lucy Diamond. 

A book I am currently reading about three women whos lives have fallen apart, and they reunite in their unique 'failures' as they try to rebuild what they have left. It's quite different from Lucy's (AKA, Sue's) usually writing structure, as are all her books I'm noticing so far - I love this book more then the others, but at the same time I'm disappointed in it. Probably for a lot of reasons - it might not have been the right time to read a book like this, or it was something I have been anticipating for so long that I made it into something more then it would ever live up to, I don't know. I may have to re-read in the future to really make my mind up about it. 

So, I might be buying some more books in the future while I am here as I realize I did not bring the most varied of choices as I would like, but it'll do, thank you ever so much for reading and I'll see you all next time! 

- Loz x

Saturday 22 August 2015

Birthday Haul Part Two || Shopping Trip (LUSH and Tsum's!)

I think I mentioned this a couple times before, but on Tuesday 18th August, I went on a shopping trip to Carmarthen by train. We left kind of late, around 11pm, and it was boiling hot, it felt like the waiting room to Hell and I imagine we were also the laughing stock of everyone in America...yeah, yeah, I get it, you'd be wearing jackets in our summer times!

Anyway, I thought I would show you the things I bought while I was there - which really wasn't that much, but I tried okay, I tried. I'm not good at spending money because I'm such an indecisive person!

The first place I went to was kind of a weird place to go, but it's Clintons, a card store. Reason why? Because of these beauties: 



Yes, this is the ass of the Queen of Hearts with her fancy underpants. 
Disney's Tsum Tsum's! I already have a couple, Winnie the Pooh and Stitch, that Austin my boyfriend got me a little while ago because Winnie the Pooh was my favourite TV program has a kid (and one of the movies I am obsessed with, still), Stitch is just adorable. I think everyone loves Stitch, you're crazy if you don't! 

It was really hard to pick the ones I wanted, I eventually settled for a Mini Queen of Hearts (from Alice in Wonderland/Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and Mini Alien (from the Toy Story series). I wanted all of them! They had Minnie Mouse, a badger, Bambi, Dumbo, Jessie, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Peas in a Pod...I'm going to have to go back there! They were £3.50 each. 

I was running out of pens and I also have a fountain pen at home, so the next things I got were these from Ryman's


The ink cartridges were their own brand, I think, and cost £1.99. I already have blue cartridges, but...this may sound weird, I just hate writing in blue ink and much prefer blue. Where I live, black ones seem to be non-existent so I just had to get some. It's a nice big bag for cheap, too. The pens are one of my favourites because of how smooth and easy to write with, the Bic Biro Original Crystal pens in black.Hopefully, I don't lose these, why do pens love to go missing?




These gems were from Waterstones, a fairly expensive but popular bookstore in the UK (and if it's in anywhere else in the world, I don't know about it). I think it was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland's anniversary, as it has a whole two bookshelves dedicated to it. Different editions of the books and merchandise, mostly. I'm a huge Alice fan, and if I had the money, I would have bought it all. Instead, I got some small things that I knew I would use often and would mean more to me then adding yet another Alice book edition to my shelves for £25. I couldn't find any of these online, so sorry I cannot provide any links! The small Cheshire Cat badge was 99p, the bookmarks were £1.50 each. I think it's good that it has a little information of the artist on the back, it's pretty interesting if you ask me. They're also really hard, but still plastic/paper bookmarks, so I think that means they'll have a stronger durability (RIP past bookmarks, you're missed).



You can get your own VooDoo doll from the website, WatchoverVooDoo but I got her from TheCardFactory!

Anyway, these are cute little VooDoo dolls found at a card shop (which was also shared with a chocolate store, pretty cute?) and there was so many but this witch stood out to be the most. They're £3.99, she claims to give me confidence and etc, but I don't believe in magic like that even though I obviously really like Harry Potter. I just thought she would look cute hanging from my bag.


I then went to a charity store for a bit because my mother had wandered off somewhere and I couldn't find her. I had bought the movie editions of New Moon and Breaking Dawn (which I actually really like) and have been looking around for the other two for a while. The Twilight series is commonly found in charity stores, so it shouldn't be hard, it's just finding the first book that I'm having difficulty with. I can't remember if I liked the series or not, seeing as the first time I read it I was pretty young and under a stronger influence from a friend of mine who really loved Twilight. Actually, a couple of friends of mine. We'll see...when I find the first book! I don't think I ever finished Eclipse!

I also got some earphones with strawberries decorated on the earbud but they broke and I therefore don't have a photo of them - they were pretty cheap, I was expecting them to break, from a shop called Tiger in Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire. 

And (my personal favourite from this haul), my first experience with buying from LUSH (even if you have money, visit that website...the animation of different bath bombs being thrown into water is amazing). I've tried their Blackberry Bath Bomb before, and I liked it but I didn't love it. It smells more like blueberries, which is good, because I actually hate blackberries and till I looked it up just now I thought it was blueberries. It was slimy, and doesn't do anything to the bath, it's a pretty simple and boring bath bomb. But, the bath stuff I bought for myself for my first time buying experience was *drum roll please*:


If you can read the labels, you can see I got the Sex Bomb Bath Bomb (oh, the pun) and if you click on the link, it'll show you what happens to it when you put it into a bath - if you can't be bothered to click it, it basically just turns pink. And, for my vegan readers, it's 100% vegan! I had a bath with it tonight, it was so relaxing and I still smell so good. Usually, the scent wears out after I have a shower because well I guess shower gels weren't meant to be strong scented! The second one, I haven't used yet, but it's called a bubble bar, I think? It's Rose Jam I think, but it doesn't look like that, it's more like a rose shape...I think? Anyway, I'm heading to England tomorrow and I'm bringing it with me so I'll let you know how I like it! Probably a lot more because it creates bubbles!!

That's not all I got, though, worry not:





My mother bought me the shower jelly by them quite often when I was younger, I forgot to mention, it reminds me of the ocean even though it's lime-scented (and the label makes me chuckle!). It's called Woosh, another reason why it reminds of the ocean, and it smells so good even if it is a bit hard to use in the shower. It's just fun to use, I suppose!

The second is something new, not just for me but for LUSH itself. It's a Yuzu and Cocoa Shower Cream that smells just like chocolate oranges! (also, the women in the image is just WAY TOO MUCH...such a pet peeve of mine!). It's a small 100ml bottle, to test it out, but also it's because it's kind of expensive. The prices of which are listed below: 


Sex Bomb Bath Bomb - £3.35
Woosh Shower Jelly - 3.50
Rose Jam Bubbleroon - £3.75
Yuzu and Cocoa Shower Cream - £4.75


I really hoped you enjoyed reading, I'll see you in my next post - goodbye for now!