Monday 25 August 2014

10 RANDOM FACTS - TEEN BLOG SERIES

Hey Everyone! 
so you may have noticed that this blog is 10 Random Facts. Some of you may also know that I have already done a 50 Random Facts blogpost already (which you can go back and read by all means) and there is a specific reason why I am doing this post for you this week. 

I am now part of a new project with many other teen bloggers like me and every Monday at 6:30pm we will all post on certain topic. I actually can't wait for the next 10 weeks (think it's 10) which this takes place in because it gives me something to blog each week and I can also find more blogs to read! if you are interested, go onto twitter and use the hashtag '#teenblogseries' and on there you can find Beth and Anouska who have started this and also all the others who are doing this with me!

Again, this weeks topic is 10 Random Facts so here goes...
1) My name is Megan and I am 15 year old and turning 16 in November!
2) I have a twin sister called Hannah. read about her on previous blogposts!
3) I used to be abit of a tomboy! Despite doing posts on beauty, I don't have much make up experience as I try to go for a natural but comfortable look. Blogging is helping me get into make up a lot more and I actually like using it.
4) I recently got some GCSE science exam results which I took this year even though I'm only just going into year 11 and I got 3 C's!
5) My current favourite song at the moment is Knee Socks by Arctic Monkeys and The Storm by Harry Seaton (search him on youtube and twitter at @harryseaton because his voice sounds like it was made my angels.)
6) The shampoo I am using at the moment is Lorèal Paris Elvive, Nutri-Gloss shine shampoo. (ITS PINK)
7) I am actually quite excited to go back to school because I've only seen a couple of people in the last 5 weeks :(
8) I could buy everything in New Look if I had the money.
9) I live in England and I only just went abroad for the first time this year. I travelled through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria in less than 24 hours on a coach. I WENT SKIING!
10) And finally you can find me on twitter (@MeganLucyBlogs) and Instagram at (@meganlucyblogs) 
Be sure to follow me there if you like what you read and also go back and read my other posts!
go and check out #teenblogseries to read everyone else's blogposts and stay tuned for more!

thanks for reading!
-megs x
Ps. Comment what you think of cartoon me. 

Sunday 24 August 2014

MY HOLIDAY!!!


Now I hope you haven't forgotten who I am! Sorry for not posting in AGES and that's only down to 1 thing - I went on holiday! 
After waiting 4 and a half weeks, I finally set off to Cornwall! if you're unsure where that is because I have quite a few international readers (hello by the way) it is in the South west of England. Now you'd think it being England that the weather would be rain, rain and more rain. But thankfully, for most of the 14 years of going to the exact same place every summer holiday, that's not the case! I've sort of made this blog into the tag so feel free to pinch my questions and do your own!
so...
When did you go?
I went on the 14th August and came back on the 23rd!
Where did you go? (give the exact name)
I stayed in a village called Mawgan Porth with all the shops you need (cafés, a pub, a restaurant, a shop and deli with local produce and everyday things and most importantly the beach and sea!)
Who did you go with?
I went with my mum, my dad and my sister.
How long was the journey?
The journey took around 6 and a half hours and that was the same there and back.
What type of accommodation did you stay in?
I stayed in a gorgeous apartment which is really close to the sea. I've stayed there for 4years in a row now!
What was the weather like?
It was fairly mixed, some days were dull but we still managed to enjoy ourselves and I did actually get a tan which shows we did get a few hot days!
What was your favourite part of the holiday? 
My favourite bit about the holiday was probably either going to crealy which I'll tell you more about down below OR when the meals out, especially because we went to other towns nearby and ate abit later so we got to capture places at night. (It was sort of night, doesn't look that dark but still!)

I set off on the Thursday at 4:30 in the morning which was tiring but when I woke up from sleeping, it was 9am and I was now close to my ex's/good friend now and took the opportunity to go see him and spend the day with him and my sister. Even though he is my ex, I have mentioned on previous posts that we are like best friends now so it was a really good day! 
...HES VERY TALL

we then drove on and stopped at a place called Exeter for the night before travelling to Mawgan Porth where our holiday began. 
I'm going to leave you with some pictures I took there! 
please feel free to use this as your own sort of 'holiday tag' I'm not sure if there already is one but my bad! 
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Crealy... The kids theme park which me and my sister spent the day at. You are never too old for THESE slides! (And there's me looking like something off of paranormal activity)


You gotta love those log flume poses.


Sunday 10 August 2014

THE EYEBROW STORY + GETTING THEM WAXED!!!

so the other day I FINALLY got my eyebrows done! and it's about time (queue the embarassing pictures...)

unfortunately my eyebrows are quite naturally bushy and as I've got older, my hair has lightened so I always felt quite self conscious because they were darker than my hair. last year (58 weeks ago to be exact) I took this selfie and it was when I think I had quite a decent attempt at having evenly plucked eyebrows. 
The thing about my eyebrows here is that I didn't realise how ridiculous I looked pencilling them in hahaha! I think I went through one eyebrow pencil and then couldn't be bothered anymore. 
however I just want to say before someone thinks 'god look how uneven they are' that I am THE worst plucker ever. I literally stand by the mirror saying ouch repeatedly with my eyes tearing up. 
after not being able to pull off drawn on eyebrows, I kept to doing my plucking but of course I had to slip up somewhere! I ended up plucking a big chunk out and it looked like I had made a slit in my eyebrow (oops) 

So as you can see I wasn't really getting off to the best eyebrow game. 

I then ended up in the situation where I decided to keep plucking the odd bits when they grow back but try not to edit the shape. I got into my head that I should grow them out to then get them waxed but I think I've been waiting for about a year to get them sorted and I finally did this week. 

I have to say considering how nervous I was that I actually really enjoyed it. My sister didn't help as she went first and I was obviously watching and the beautician ripped the paper from my sisters eyebrows and she went 'ow that hurt!' 
if anyone doesn't know what waxing is or is considering getting there's done I recommend it. It hurts the first time they wax but you get used to it. It isn't as painful as plucking but at the place I went, they did do a mixture of plucking and waxing (probably about 70% waxing then 30% plucking to neaten them up) and the plucking hurt more than the actual waxing. The room was really nice and peaceful with some relaxing music and I just laid on the bed and I'm pretty sure next time I'll end up falling asleep through it hahaha. I'd say that the pain of getting braces on/off is far worse than waxing. So here's the before and after...

BEFORE

AFTER


I'm sorry for the lack of posts! It would really help if you could follow my Instagram (@meganlucyblogs) and my twitter (@MeganLucyBlogs) if you read my blog and also comment down if you've ever had your eyebrows waxed or if you're considering! let me know what you want me to post! thanks for reading!
-megs x

Friday 8 August 2014

Day At The Beach


so yesterday I was meaning to upload this but I was waiting to see if anymore pictures would be sent to me from the day. 
my cousin was 13 when I was born and he's always taken me and hannah places on days out and we used to go on holiday to the same place with my whole family for like 11 years before they stopped cos my grandmas getting on abit so we're really close. A lot of people have cousins a similar age to them where as I don't but the good thing is that they have babies!!! so get lots of new little great cousins. So yesterday, I got to spend the day with my cousin and his lovely girlfriend and their 14 week old baby Taylor.

(Hoping if my cousin ever sees this that he doesn't mind me putting this on) 

the place we went is on the east coast of Yorkshire and it's called Hornsea. (comment below if you've ever been) now I've never been there before so I was quite excited to see what it was like. When we got there, the weather was a little breezy but it was sunny and gradually through the day it got hotter which was nice! 
Way to check if you have a tan, wear a bobble for the day! (oops!)

so we walked along the promenade to see what there was but there wasn't much really but there was a beach, some sea, a few arcades, a lot of fish and chips shops and a town centre which we didn't go into. my cousin expected abit more but we decided to make the most of the fish and chip shops and the arcades...and the ice cream. I just love the food at the seaside. 

we sat on the beach for a while and age our fish and chips before making the decision to take a plunge in the sea. just to Warn anyone who DOESN'T live in the UK, the sea is usually so cold, you stand in it shivering the whole time but this year, the temperatures have risen and it wasn't too bad at all and it was quite nice to cool down. baby Taylor had a little dip (she dipped her feet in before people get worried) but she burst into tears and we realised that it wasn't a good idea. 
We then spent abit of time wasting our money in the arcade and decided to set off home. Now this journey was going so well until Taylor started to get uncomfortable and me being next to her had no idea to stop her screaming, bless her. We did manage to get home though and even though she didnt enjoy the way home and didn't sleep which she did on the way there, it was still a great day which was a change to me sitting at home doing nothing.


make sure you follow me on all my accounts and read my previous posts because I have some coming up over the next few days, sorry I failed blogust but I might as well blog things that people enjoy to read rather than a pointless one so that it counts as a blog a day! 
thank you for all the lovely comments and 50+ followers on BlogLovin and over 100 on Instagram!
see you soon!
-Megs x

Monday 4 August 2014

THE LIEBSTER AWARDS

so yesterday I received a comment on my 'Mermaid Nails' blogpost (go check it out if you haven't already) from the lovely Tash (http://awinterdaze.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/liebster-awards.html?m=1) saying she had nominated me for a liebster award. Me being as dumb as I am, I thought it was an actual award and I was like 'what is this?' but then when I checked it out, I realised what it actually was! thank you for nominating me because it has given me today's blogpost! 

from what Tash has said, it's basically a way of showcasing new bloggers and letting them get involved and connected to other bloggers! the rules are simple. you thank the person for nominating and share their link. you are given some questions that you have to answer and then you nominate 10 people to do this. Then you ask questions for those people to answer. So here goes...


1. Where is your favourite place to sit and blog?
anywhere! I usually lie in bed at night and write blogposts as they enter my head on the blogger app.

2. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? 
This seems like a simple question but since I've only been to Austria skiing I have a lot to explore in the world. I probably would go and live for a month somewhere then move to somewhere else so like a trip around the world!

3. Favourite season? 
Probably winter because our summers you can't say 'I can't wait for summer for all the hot beach days' because you can't guess what the British weather will be like. I love the dark nights with the fire on.

4. Lipstick or nail polish? 
NAIL POLISH

5. High heels or flats? 
Flats because I'd probably fall in heels

6. If you have a million dollars, what would you spend it on?
 I'd go shopping and I'd just customize my own house just the way I want it! I'd also give abit to charity too :)

7. Favourite youtuber? 
zoella or thatcherjoe, gotta love the suggs.

8. Why did you start blogging? 
used to read quite a lot of blogs and I watch so many youtubers that I just used to sit there and think 'I wish I could be like that' another reason is that I got bored and had a little moment where I thought why not? I was going to start a blog anyway when I left school so I don't get made fun of but that's another year to wait!

9. Who's your number one inspiration? 
I actually have no idea. Anyone that's happy and gets on with all the things they want to do and tries to achieve it inspire me to do the same. My weight loss inspiration is my mum (and now dad) because my mum lost way over 3 stone and her and my dad are still at it so they just buy loads of healthy things that I can eat which keeps me going.

10. If you could only read one blog, who's would it be? 
zoella probably but there's loads! 

11. Your most embarrassing moment?
 in year 9, I was hit by a football in the face and I just heard all the boys go OOOOOOH and I cried for the next hour in English. There's way too many to name. 

I nominate...
1) http://lauraandamelia.wordpress.com
2) http://www.colxurful.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 
3) http://a-touch-of-sparklexo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/make-up-and-fashion-haul.html?m=1 
4) http://justsamia.blogspot.de/?m=1
5) http://bellabluelovesfashion.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
6) http://www.wonderfullittleworld.com/
7) http://beautyybychloe.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 
8) http://thisfashiongirl.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 
9) http://floralblush.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
10)http://afashionoddity.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 

I also nominate a new blogger who happens to be my twin sister! go and give her some views and support! 

Some may not be new bloggers but I love your blogs and you've given me nice comments about mine some of you so I wanted to return the favour! you by no means have to do this but if you do, link me the blogpost and I'll be sure to read it!

my questions for you are the ones that tash gave me because I can't think of any other good ones! 

1. Where is your favourite place to sit and blog?
2. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
3. Favourite season?
4. Lipstick or nail polish?
5. High heels or flats?
6. If you have a million dollars, what would you spend it on?
7. Favourite youtuber?
8. Why did you start blogging?
9. Who's your number one inspiration?
10. If you could only read one blog, who's would it be?
11. Your most embarrassing moment?

thank you for reading! go back and read my previous blogs if you like what you see! it means so much! x
-Megs x

Right because I edit the day before most of the time, I have since received another nomination from http://thegeekofbeauty.blogspot.com.au/?m=1 thankyou so much! sorry I haven't answered your questions but everyone please go check out her blog it's so good! 

Sunday 3 August 2014

50 RANDOM FACTS

so today I am doing a fun one and having a break from the make up tags! I think it also gives me a chance to tell you more about me! 

1) my birthday is on the 20th November and I will be 16 this year! 
2) I am the older twin by 2 minutes (my mum wasn't super fast in labour, she had a c-section) 
3) I used to be a brace face until this May
4) I have no clue what I want to do when I'm older but through my lifetime I have wanted to be a princess, an opera singer, a football manager and a bus driver. (three cheers for 5 year old Megan)
5) I love food. 
6) I love chicken.
7) I have NEVER been to nandos.
8) My favourite song at the moment is knee socks by arctic monkeys.
9) My favourite member of One Direction is Louis Tomlinson bc I think he is hilarious.
10) I have a birthmark on my head which is what you call a 'strawberry birthmark' and I have only seen it once on a baby video (it might be gone idek) 
11) I have no piercings because I'm too scared and I cried when my sister got her ears pierced.
12) I am currently on a diet right now and so far I have lost 18lbs (even though all I do is talk about food)
13) I went skiing in February and even though it was such a cool trip, I cried a lot because it was too warm in Austria and I didn't like being sweaty. 
14) I have never been on a plane :((
15) I want to marry Joe Sugg.
16) my favourite Starbucks drink is a chocolate cream - try it and thank me later. 
17) I have never smoked and I don't plan to because the smell gives me a headache (who knows why)
18) I have never been into London properly and only went there to Wembley stadium to watch my team win the play offs.
19) I have been going on holiday to exact same place every single year since I was 2.
20) My grandma used to babysit for Patrick Stewart which is my claim to fame ;) he's a guy in star trek or something.
21) I had an operation on my finger when I was 7 because I trapped it in a door and it broke that badly that i almost lost it (definately lost a few readers now:/)
22) my blog name basically is Megan (first name) Lucy (middle name) and b because it's what my last name starts with and I absolutely hate it.
23) I am not allergic to anything!
24) I once joined a football club when I was about 8/9 but stayed there for 2 weeks because they were a couple years older and I always fell over hahahaha
25) if I could change one thing about myself instantly it would be my figure because changing it myself is taking too long 
26) I cannot wait to drive so that I can go to McDonald's on little night drives.
27) the last movie I watched was Saw III and now I'm never living alone.
28) if I was a fruit I would be a strawberry because they just look pretty and they taste sooooo nice.
29) my favourite animal is a giraffe because I just think they look fascinating.
30) I take GCSE art as an option and I freakin love it. Maybe I could post some of my work, comment below if you want me too :-) 
31) I am addicted to yazoo milkshakes.
32) I absolutely love going on walks even though where I live there isn't fun. I just keep walking til I find a nice view :) 

33) type in the Yorkshire accent on YouTube and that is what my accent is - I HATE it.
34) my favourite accents (especially on boys) are southern ones like London and where joe sugg lives and I also could listen to an australian speak all day. 
35) one thing I cannot wait to do is buy my own place so that I can choose what each room looks like and make it all pretty 
36) my favourite movie at the moment is mrs doubtfire because every scene has me in tears (I don't even know why because not all the scenes are funny but most are)
37) one moment I wish I could relive is when my team won at wembley because it took a whole game plus extra time and then a penalty shoot out which we were almost losing to know who the winner was. It was so scary but such a good feeling.
38) my favourite place at the moment is flamingo land which is a theme park in North Yorkshire. ITS BRILL. 

39) my room is so tiny that I bet the inside of a 7 seater car is bigger than it.
40) I had never been on a looping roller coaster til about 4 weeks ago (and I screamed OMG THIS IS AMAZING all the way through)
41) I have a minion duvet cover. 
42) my favourite youtubers are as follows: thatcherjoe, zoella, pointlessblog, sprinkleofglitter, casparlee. 
43) even though I'm 15 and a virgin, I really want a baby and all my cousins are having them and I just want one :( (don't worry I'll wait)
44) I hadn't done anything productive all summer until I started this blog.
45) I am currently trying to save up for a MacBook because my laptop hates me.
46) the best books I've ever read is the missing collection my Sophie Mckenzie which I highly recommend. I have to say though that I could still read Jacqueline Wilson books and enjoy them (I might do now actually)
47) I'm running out of facts because I'm not an interesting person.
48) everytime I get a new follower or a comment, I smile for like an hour. So thank you guyssssssss x
49) I really want to do a blogger interview for someone.
50) I am about to take part in a project which you will find out about on my twitter (@MeganLucyBlogs) where we all blog about one topic for 10 weeks and I'm so excited! More on that soon!

If you've read this far down, wow I'm impressed. Thank you for reading! I hope you've found this entertaining or you've learnt something. Hopefully a shorter one tomorrow hahaha! Keep sharing, following my social media and leaving me your thoughts! love you all, bye for today! 
-megs x

Mermaid Nails!




Hey guys! so if you follow my twitter (@meganlucyblogs) you'll know that today i went out shopping for some new nail polish and the picture above shows the ones I actually bought. I just want to say that I'm not a nail artist and I have THE worst nails in the world. My school say no nail polish and that means that when i get bored in class (which we all do) I end up biting my nails and have done since i was like 6 so they're really short but thankfully because it's the summer holidays, i have time to let them grow!

The two I'm going to show today are the ones which have a gold lid. I spotted these and I was like 'oooooh mermaid' because I'm easily impressed by anything! Barry M do a 'Aquarium collection' and they are really really really nice. They cost £3.99 each but right now they're buy one get one half price so if i were you, I'd go stock up on Barry M now (you heard it here first)

            
The colour on the left is shade/colour 'Pacific' and the glittery one on the right is called 'Treasure Chest' and i can see why!

So what was the end result? (this is where you see how hard it is to paint short nails)

i originally thought about using make up sponges to do ombre on all the nails but instead i just painted one finger and I'm really happy with the result. I envy any of you who has long nails because it would look so much better than mine!
If anyone does decide to try this, please do tag me on instagram or send me a dm on twitter, I'll link all my accounts below as usual. make sure you follow because I put on sneak peeks of what my daily blogs are!
http://instagram.com/meganlucyblogs 
https://twitter.com/meganlucyblogs
http://www.bloglovin.com/meganlucyblogs 

thank you to all that have followed me on these accounts and thank you so much for the lovely comments! they really do make me smile and I love replying to them! if you want to see more nail ideas, let me know in the comments but i might wait til they've grown alot more! :-)

Thanks for reading! 
-megs x


Saturday 2 August 2014

My Daily Make-up Routine!

Hey guys! just letting you all know that I'm going to be doing 'blogust' and attempting to post a new blog everyday (exaggeration on the attempting because I may run out of blog post ideas haha)

today's blog is a simple and hopefully shorter one than my previous ones which would be fab if you could go read! I decided to share my daily make up routine. I have used these products for over a year and that maybe because I haven't tried any others so if you know any good foundations, comment them below please and I'll experiment! 

The foundation I use is this. it's from the 'Natural Collection' at Boots and I use the shade 'Biscuit' it is also really cheap at £1.99! The reason I use this cheap foundation brand is because my school started to ban make up and there was no way I was going into school bare-faced and I have to say that for a whole school year, no teacher questioned me because it's such a discrete foundation but it does cover up the eye bags and little faults in your skin! I also have noticed it doesn't irritate my skin at all! 

I also buy the pressed powder to go with it and that also only costs £1.99! 
If your school is as strict as mine on make up but you don't want to go into school without anything on your face, I definately recommend these two.


(Sorry for the chipped nail polish)
The mascara that I use everyday, even at school is the 'Rimmel London Scandal Eyes Volumizing Mascara' in Black. i absolutely love this mascara! It does make my lashes a lot longer and my eyelashes aren't naturally long so it does help! This costs £6.99 and is sold at most drugstores like superdrug and boots.

please comment below some reccomendations for me and remember to follow these...
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see you tomorrow! mwah!
-Megs x

Friday 1 August 2014

Life in a Snapshot || Part 1


does anyone else find it amazing how we have pictures that show a snapshot of a memory or something you once went through? the fact that that picture took a few seconds to take but you have a for a lifetime? I'm beginning to sound really deep but I promise I'm not! I was thinking of what I could post and because today was such a boring stay home kinda day, I ended up flicking through some old photo albums which gave me an idea.
I don't know if anyone's ever done this before but feel free to pinch this idea and do it for yourself and comment if you do and if you like my random idea!

the idea is to post 1 photo for every year of your life so for me that would be 15. Because I'm unsure on dates, I'm just going to do a mixture of my favourite pictures throughout my life, all at different ages. It can be an embarassing picture from the start of high school, a cute picture of you and your friends or family or it can be just one that makes you laugh, it's up to you (and believe me, I have way more than 15 cringeworthy pictures but I don't wanna scare people off just yet!) so yeah, ENJOY! I'm gonna do a part 1 & 2 or it'll be really long.


Snapshot 1 - 
here is a family holiday minus mum who's probably taking the picture (stating the obvious there Megan) this is one of my favourites because a) I'm splashing my sister and she's crying (sorry hannah) and b) because my dad is being so sympathetic! hahaha brilliant 😂

Snapshot 2! 
this photo is pretty recent and it's taken on my geography teachers last day (le cri :'( ) I'm still absolutely gutted he's left because he was my favourite teacher! if you ever see this mr sykes, hope Switzerland works out!

Snapshot 3
 This is the worst photo ever of me and I hadn't yet started to lose weight yet (hence the chipmunk cheeks) but it was when me and my friend met harry seaton! if you don't know who he is; search him on iTunes / youtube / Instagram / Facebook / twitter / soundcloud because his voice is so good I cannot describe it! unfortunately we couldn't go to his gig but he came out and saw us when we were shopping in Leeds during the day!

Snapshot 4

I like both of these photos but there's a reason why. this is one of my best friends and we met at playschool which for you Americans is like daycare but then she left to go to another one and a different primary school which my mum said I cried for ages when she did! but then when I started high school, we were in the same form and we were sort of reunited and it's weird that we have a picture from when we were younger to compare to loads since we re-met in 2010!

Snapshot 5!
This isn't an attractive photo at all. we are in an elevator. But these people are my world. they're there when I'm upset, when I need someone to talk to, when I need a hug or when I need a laugh. I've never seen a picture of me and my friends where our personalities show as much. this is us in a picture. 

Snapshot 6!


this isn't a photo where if it ended up lost somewhere when I move out I would cry over losing it but it's one that I found funny just because my parents clearly placed me on this for some cute pictures but 3/4 I'm not even looking at the camera! I'm sure someone else has similar pictures right?

Snapshot 7!
I hope you don't think I'm bad for putting a picture on with old women I couldn't even name but I know that this was my great grandma's carehome and it makes me happy to see them smiling. For all I know, they could have been in pain or lonely or fed up because they can't look after themselves anymore but they seem to look happy just because a set of twins has been brought in.

I'm gonna stop here because I need to find more haha! if you want a part 2, please comment or follow me on my Instagram and let me know! I'll link all my accounts here, please make sure you follow them if you like my blog! 
see you soon and have fun all! x
-Megs
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