And just like that, March and half of April have past before my eyes taking Easter and mothers day along with them and I honestly don't know what I have done with my time. There are so many things I've been enjoying using but I've kept the list extremely short and only choosing the things I've truly loved these past couple of months and that I've looked forward to using every time.

SKINCARE

In a previous post, I mentioned how important it is to keep your lips moisturized and healthy, especially if you use a matte product on them as they dry out the lips a lot, especially in the colder weather. Recently, whether I wear a matte lippy or not I find myself constantly applying my Anatomicals Never Loose Your Cherry Lip Gloss which I purchased early last year. It seems as if I have re-found my love with it and it couldn't make me happier.


If you have been following my blog for a long time, you will know my struggle with my skin never really has an end to it, every time it picks up it just falls all the way back down again and it feels like a loosing battle. Again this is a product I've loved and missed seen as it was my lifesaver last year and has yet again, returned for a second round.
The E45 facewash is quite pricey (it cost me around 25), hints to why I use it as if it was fairy dust but I totally think it is worth it in the long run. As I said, my skin does fall back time after time but that seems to be most frequent when I lack in this step of my face wash routine at night.

MAKEUP



Bronzers have never been my forte, especially since my mum is my biggest critic (or the most honest person) and every time I apply a bronzer she tells me not to wear as much and comes up with a funny "sarcastic" remark. Well, may I say that all my wishes were granted when I came across this "retro" inspired bronzer by the brand IDC, which I have actually loved products from many times before.
This bronzer just works with my skin amazingly, it gives the perfect subtle bronze that I want, I can build it up as I desire and it wears really well throughout the day.


Recently I re-purchased the Rimmel Match Perfection foundation that I loved and that I wore religiously throughout the beginning of last year and I was so happy to have finally come across it at the Rimmel stand in Primor. BUT . (I know, as soon as there is a but there is something wrong). And you are right, it was wrong. As soon as I applied the foundation I knew there was something fishy, it just didn't look right and after playing around with different concealers, powders, etc I just gave it up as a bad job. I believe Rimmel may have changed the formula of the Match Perfection as I just look like a escapee Umpa Lumpa whenever I apply it seen as the oils just mix with the PH in my skin and yes... It just doesn't do the job.
ANYWAY, after going on an unsuccessful hunt for a water based foundation where I just got weird looks from all the shop assistants, I just decided to risk it and buy my trusty old Rimmel 25 Hour and for some miracle reason, IT FRICKIN WORKS!!! I don't know how, why or whatever, but it just does.
The Rimmel 25 hour foundation is a buildable full coverage foundation that works a dream, wears amazingly and is easily up there in my all time favorites. Definitely one of the best drugstore foundations, and that is a fact, even Zoella said so herself.


PERFUME


The perfume I have been wearing and loving on a daily this month has been the David Bustamante Muy Mia perfume that I got last Christmas as a present and never really used. I love the fresh scent it has and the fact that the smell lingers throughout the day and you can always smell it.

Although January 2016 feels a lifetime away, 2016 has flown by and I have learnt so many things.

I've started of this year with new resolutions and new perspectives of my 'goals' and new things I want to achieve.

For the first few months of last year I managed to keep up a diary which now looking back on makes me realize how much I have changed in these past twelve months, how much I have learnt and how I have different ambitions, interests and things I class as priorities.

Throughout 2016 I had so many regrets on opportunities I had knocked down in the past, the lack of studying I hadn't done when the chance was there and simply regrets on things that were out of my control and still are. This year, I only want to stress about the things that I actually can change and things that will matter in the current moment I am living on the near future.

2016 has been a roller coaster, I have grown closer to friends I thought I would never in a million years talk to after I left school, I have cut people out of my life who I have known longer than any other of my friends, I have got into fights with so many boys, I have cut people out of my life who simply don't make me happy and I have let people in and that is one of my most important achievements.

These past few years, I have gone through a lot of emotional 'teenager' crap and I have kept myself locked in my own body, I put on a front that I expected everyone to accept, I pretended to be the person I thought people wanted me to be and that got me nowhere. Now I have 'let myself out'. I have accepted myself and my imperfections, I speak what I want and sometimes I say too much. Way too much. I have learnt that being myself and being honest is what is going to make me happier and that is what matters the most (cringe).

2016 was a huge year and lots of things happened but this year it is just going to get better, because we are going to make it better.

Here's to making 2017 amazing *raises a mug of hot chocolate*.

Sometime last month I uploaded a blog post called Listen To This in which I listed a few songs that I'd been loving and listening to and I thought I'd make this a monthly series, so here is Listen To This Vol.2, enjoy.

TODAY I ANSWER 100 QUESTIONS FROM TUMBLR IN AN INTERVIEW MANNER, I HOPE YOU ENJOY AND I DARE YOU TO DO IT NEXT.

1. When you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?
         100% more milk than cereal, I just like to pour enough milk in to cover every single piece of cereal.

2. Do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day? 
         I do, I looove it!

3. What random objects do you use to bookmark your books? 
         Literally anything! I have used things such as labels, pieces of cereal boxes to pieces of material or hair clips lol

4. How do you take your coffee/tea?
         Well this may seem weird to some but all I drink is water... or hot chocolates. 

5. Are you self-conscious of your smile?
         This is such a weird question because I actually am, it is one of my least favorite things about myself  tbh

6. Do you keep plants? 
         Nope, they would die within probably a day, I have such bad luck with that kind of stuff :(

7. Do you name your plants?
         Maybe I would if I had any.

8. What artistic medium do you use to express your feelings?
         I like drawing or blogging or YouTube, do those count? *waits for a answer that is never going to come*

9. Do you like singing/humming to yourself?
         Only if I am singing with background music if not it has to be a special occasion for me to be singing alone hahaha 

10. Do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach?
         I mean... what position do I not sleep in? 

11. What's an inner joke you have with your friends?
         There are sooo so many, but one of them has to be saying "do you know what I mean?" after and in-between every sentence, don't even ask how it all started!  

12. What's your favorite planet? 
         Pluto Wait, am I supposed to have a favorite planet? I guess I'd have to go for the planet Earth...

13. What's something that made you smile today?
         My dogs. They can always make anyone smile ;)

14. If you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like? 
        Realistically, it would probably look like a bombsite and their would be laundry everywhere, but in a more unrealistic matter, I love the minimalist "clean" look, or an old cottage kind of building with a very old fashioned retro-style kitchen *insert heart eyed fangirl emoji*. 

15. Go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is! 
        My extremely weird space fact is that in space, the skin on you feet peels off! Crazy right?! I'll leave it to you to find out why.

16. What's your favorite pasta dish? 
        Macaroni all the way!

17. What colour do you really want to die your hair?
        Who says I want to die my hair? I genuinely don't, not unless I went a lighter blonde shade but my hairdresser won't let me, he says he 'loves my hair as it is and that it'd just ruin it'.

18. Tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up. 
        My friend Paqui likes to let EVERYONE know about all my arguments with my teachers back in high school as she thinks they are hilarious, and to be fair, they actually are! But I do not recommend arguing with teachers at all. 

19. Do you keep a journal? What do you write/draw in it? 
        I do! I just write random thoughts or things that are going on in my mind at the time and I also have a scrapbook type thing that is in need of an update! 

20. What's your favorite eye colour?
        In all honestly, I love all eye colours but there is something about tanned people with blue eyes that just looks amazing!

21. Talk about your favorite bag, the one that's been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces. 
        My brown Primark rucksack 100% it has been to hell and back at least ten times! It just looks so casual and cool and fits everything you could ever need in it. 

22. Are you a morning person? 
        Yes, 100%. There isn't a day I am not out of bed after nine.

23. What's your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?
        Either spend time with family and friends or lay in bed in my cozies with my dogs and just scroll through social media for hours. 

24. Is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets?
        No way Jose! Definitely not. Never in a million years.

25. What's the weirdest place you've ever broken into? 
        A garden. But a garden with no fence posts...

26. What are your shoes you've had since forever and wear with every single outfit?
        My Stradivarius white trainers. They just never let me down. 

27. What's your favorite bubblegum flavor? 
        I am quite fussy with chewing gums, my favorite ones are the soft mint ones from Mercadona FYI.

28. Sunrise or sunset? 
        Sunset.

29. What's something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing? 
        It is taking me way too long to think of this answer... I honestly don't know oops.

30. Think of it: have you ever been truly scared? 
        I have little scares and sh** myself moments but I definitely don't think I have been as petrified as I could be.

31. What is your opinion of socks? Do you like wearing weird socks? Do you sleep with socks? Do you confine yourself to white sock hell? Really, just talk about socks. 
        It has to be matching black socks 24/7. Whatever the shape but matching and black.

32. Tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3AM when you were with friends. 
        Once I got of my head on cocacola when I was about 14 and more recently, I got chatted up by a group of 24 year olds who said I appeared a lot older than my age. 

33. Whats your fave pastry?
        Yorkshire pudding or a croissant. They are pastry's aren't they?

34. Tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. What is it called? What does it look like? Do you still keep it?
        As sad as it may sound I have almost all of my stuffed animals and dolls still. The specific one that comes to mind though is a stuffed dog called Skip that my dad found brand new in a Skip(hence to his name) he was a really sturdy and realistic looking brown and white Airedale Terrier and I loved him to bits.

35. Do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? Do you use them often? 
        When I was at school I remember swapping my really cool, colourful pens with other peoples really colourful pens and it was the bees knees, but nowadays a standard BIC is my favourite.

36. Which band's sound would fit your mood right now?
        Something very much like all the orchestra playing at once in a very hyper manner.

37. Do you like keeping your room messy or clean? 
        I like keeping it clean, but it is just too much like hard work, so it is mostly always messy.

38. Tell us about your pet peeves or just things you hate that people do.
        I can't think of anything straight away that really annoys me because I think I am quite an easygoing person. In Spain I have experienced people blowing their nose without a tissue and that is vile, or people just spitting in public, or even on public transport!

39. What colour do you wear the most?
        Grey and black. Especially black.

40. Think of a piece of jewelry that you own: what's it's story? Does it have any meaning to you? 
        My favorite and most meaningful bracelet I actually lost about five years ago on a roller coaster  with my friends and I still haven't got over it.
        As long ago as I can actually remember, probably when I was five or six my dad bought me a chain link gold bracelet in Italy which you could adjust with extra links to fit your wrist. 
        Ten years down the line I was getting ready to go out to the fair here in Spain with my friends and it was the trend to wear as many bracelets that you could physically fit on your arm so I put on loads of scooby-hand made ones aswell as love beed ones and said gold bracelet. Little did I know that would be the last I ever saw of it.
        Since then dad has bought me a pink and gold indalo neckless charm but it will never make up for my little bracelet.
        TIP: NEVER WEAR ANYTHING OF ANY KIND OF VALUE (NOT EVEN SENTIMENTAL) TO A FAIR/ROLLER COASTER PARK.

41. What's the last book you remember really, really loving?
        Zoe Sugg - Girl Online On Tour

42. Do you have a favorite coffee shop? Describe it! 
        The Granier in my city centre is my faaaaaaave. It does the best tuna butties EVER! 

43. Who was the last person you gazed at the stars with? 
        TBH probably last year with my family in Portugal when we were scanning them and playing around with the iPhone app. Great times.

44. When was the last time you remember feeling completely serene and at peace with everything?
        Wow that's a deep question. It honestly varies so much throughout my day that I'm not actually sure.

45. Do you trust your instincts a lot?
        Most of the time I pretend I do and I play things down although inside I am crapping myself.

46. Tell us the worst pun you can think of.
        I was originally going to get a brain transplant, but then I changed my mind.

47. What food do you think should be banned from the universe?
        Chocolate. It is too good to be bad for us!

48. What was your biggest fear as a kid? Is it the same today? 
        Snakes and death/losing the people I love.
        And yes, I believe so. 

49. Do you like buying CDs and records? What was the last one you bought?
        I do but I haven't bought any for years TBH! JLS The Greatest Hits :(

50. What's an odd thing you collect?
        Pen Drives? I have tones and tones of Pen Drives and Memory Cards!

51. Think of a person. What song do you associate to them? 
        Secret Person. IDFC - Blackbear

52. What are your favorite memes of the year so far?
        OMG there are so many! Probably the Arthur's fist one or the Kermit the frog one with the "me/also me". Yes, probably the Kermit one.

53. Have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? Heathers? Beetlejuice? Pulp fiction? What do you think of them? 
        I have actually never watched any of them!!!

54. Who's the last person you saw with true look of sadness on their face? 
        Is it a good thing that I genially can't remember? It must've been someone on the TV but I can't think...

55. What's the most dramatic thing you've ever done to prove your point?
        Like I said earlier, I'm quite easygoing and I'd rather just let them figure it out for themselves. Apart from that, probably the time I through a football at my P.E teacher...

56. What are some things you find endearing in people?
        Just people who make me laugh and that allow me to be myself.  

57. Go listen to bohemian rhapsody. How did it make you feel? Did you dramatically reenact the lyrics? 
        I LOVE IT!!! And obvs, who doesn't??

58. Who's the wine mom and who's the vodka aunt in your group of friends? Why? 
        I'm the sassy, put together 'wine mom', Paqui is the 'vodka aunt' and everyone else is the mess in between. 

59. What's your favorite myth?
        I have actually no idea whatsoever, which are yours?

60. Do you like poetry? What are some of your faves?
        I can read poems and be like "oh, that's cute" but I'm not that into it...

61. What's the stupidest gift you've ever given? The stupidest one you've ever received?
        I gave my brother birthday cards with his own face on them... I guess that's stupid, and I don't think I've ever received anything stupid as such...

62. Do you drink juice in the morning? What kind? 
        Sometimes I have a warm blackcurrant. 

63. Are you fussy about your books and music? Do you keep them meticulously organized or kinda leave them be? 
        I just leave them to be what they want to be.

64. What colour is the sky where you are right now? 
        Black. Very black.

65. Is there anyone you haven't seen in a long time who you'd love to hang out with?
        Yes my fam and old friends :(

66. What would your ideal flower crown look like? 
        Just all white and pretty. 

67. How do gloomy days where the sky is dark and the world is misty make you feel? 
        Very depressed and unproductive.

68. What's the winter like where you live? 
        Not too bad TBH. I complain a lot but I do have it the easy way. Winter has only just started.

69. What are your favorite board games?
        There are these two Spanish games one called Parchis and one called Oca A Oca and I LOVE THEM (although they are boring) they bring back lots of childhood memories. Oh, I also love Jenga but is that classed as a board game?...

70. Have you ever used a ouija board? 
        Nope

71. What's your favorite kind of tea?
        Water.

72. Are you a person who needs to note everything down or else you'll forget?
        I am the person who writes things down and then forgets the list... Or looses it.

73. What are some of your worst habits?
        Just being one of the clumsiest people in the world. 

74. Describe a good friend of yours without using their name or gendered pronouns. 
        Okay...
        My friend has short dark hair. Three tattoos. One on their pelvis, one on their arm and one on their back. This person is older than me and taller. 
        Who is it?...

75. Tell us about your pets! 
        Oh well.., I have many pets my friend! 
        I have five dogs, all adopted, their names, "breeds" and ages are: Rex 13 (some kind of Pomeranian, Chihuahua mix), Dana 7 (a terrier cross), Laila 6 (bobtail and dalmatian cross), Jack 2 (french bulldog cross) and Pepe 1ish (french bulldog). 
        I also have five guinea pigs, Cat, Zoe, Alfie, Bert and Earnie. 
        And four birds (3 hand raised Agapornis and one Sparrow).

76. Is there anything you should be doing right now but you aren't? 
        Nope!

77. Pink or yellow lemonade?
        Yellow.

78. Are you in the minion hateclub or fanclub?
        Fanclub. For now.

79. What's one of the cutest things someone has done for you? 
        ... I have no idea. Whatsoever.

80. What colour are your bedroom walls? Did you choose that colour? If so, why?
        Off white with one lime green wall and it was a fase, I promise!!

81. Describe one of your friends eyes using the most abstract imagery you can think of.
        Oh, em... I'm a Celebrity bathroom. LOL's.

82. Are/were you good in school? 
        Not at all. 

83. What's some of your favorite album art?
        There are lots of amazing ones but for some reason the one that comes to mind is Green Day's and The Beetles. 

84. Are you planning on getting tattoos? Which ones?
        Nah, I don't think I'll be getting tattoos any time soon. 

85. Do you read comics? What are your faves? 
        I haven't read any for years but my faves used to be the Beano ones.

86. Do you like concept albums? Which ones? 
        I can't think of any off of the top of my head. Pass.

87. What are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives?
        A monster calls. You HAVE to watch it. 

88. Are there any artistic movements you particularly enjoy? 
        Nah. 

89. Are you close to your parents? 
        Yass.

90. Talk about one of your favorite cities. 
        Granada. Just Google it, it is amazing in every aspect.

91. Where do you plan on travelling this year? 
        Granada, without a doubt.

92. Are you a person who drowns their pasta in cheese or a person who barely sprinkles a pinch?
        I go to town with my cheese!

93. What's the hairstyle you wear the most? 
        Loose to go out and just a messy ponytail for round my house.

94. Who was the last person you know to have a birthday?
        A guy called Alex. It's actually today :)

95. What are your plans for this weekend?
        I was going to town but the forecast is lots and lots of rain so I don't know...

96. Do you install your computer updates really quickly or do you procrastinate on them a lot?
        I procrastinate for as long as possible.

97. Myer briggs type, zodiac sighn, and Hogwarts house?
        I have never heard of that, Cancer and Hufflepuff.

98. When's the last time you went hiking? Did you enjoy it? 
        The day before yesterday and I loved it.

99. List some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them.
        Any Sam Smith songs probably...

100. If you were presented with two buttons, one that allows you to go 5 years into the past, the other 5 years into the future, which one would you press? Why?
        Into the past, because if I knew what the future had in plan for me, then I'd be waiting and waiting for it to happen.