July Favourites

July is coming to an end and so I figured I would share my July favourites with you. July has been great and I cant wait for august to bring more great things.

First is Halsey's song Bad at Love which is from her new album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom. Its one of my favourite songs from the album and I've been listening to it loads. 10/10 recommend.

Next is Liz Earle Intensive Nourishing Treatment Mask which is amazing! I love Liz Earle and this face mask is brilliant, my skin always looks and feels so much better after using this. It moisturises and nourishes my skin and I Have been using it loads this month, I highly recommend it.

I've been using John Frieda Frizz Ease Glossing Mist for ages and I've never said how brilliant it is. Whenever I was my hair it always dry's quite frizzy and this stuff makes it nice and smooth and silky. Its so easy to use, just spray it on dry hair and you have smooth hair. It's on offer a lot in Boots and Superdrug too.

This is a vibrating body massager that ben got me because I'm always complaining about back pain and asking for a massage and this means he gets to put in less effort. But its really nice and wasn't expensive either.

 Onto another item I've had for a while, this is Forgive Me My Salt by Brenna Twohy. It's wonderful poetry about modern problems that many people face. Brenna Twohy is so talented and I highly recommend this book and checking her slam poetry on youtube too.

Finally the Rimmel London Insta Conceal & Contour palette. I won this on Instagram from Rimmel and it is wonderful. I'm very pale so a lot of contour products are too dark for me but this is perfect. All three are the perfect colour and are so lightweight. I'm really glad I got this, I highly recommend it for anyone who wants a bit of contour but doesn't want it too heavy.

- Claire

Lord of Shadows

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!

I finished Lord of Shadows, book 2 of The Dark Artifices, by Cassandra Clare. I had to take some time to process what happened and to cry. I have so many feelings about this book and knowing me this post will be very messy. So I shall begin and try not to ramble too much.

First of all Julian and Emma. I love them both so much and it makes me so sad that they cant be together. I was mad that Mark and Emma had their fake relationship but I think it helped Emma a bit because she had someone to talk to. Plus Mark is a cutie. But obviously that didn't stop her from loving Julian and it all went tits up. So many heart breaking scenes between these two, why cant they just be happy? Why do they have to be cursed? And how will they be apart from each other? Its so unfair!

I want to take a moment to talk about Malec. Magnus and Alec were featured quite a bit in this book and it made me so happy! They had their kids and they were so cute and thank you Cassandra Clare! However, what is this with my Magnus being ill? After all that they've been through why are you doing this to them?! He'd better get better or I swear to god.

Kit and Ty have this weird and great friendship which I kind of think will turn into more than friendship. Just the way Kit thinks about him sounds like more than friendship to me. They're so cute though! I love Kit because he mostly has no idea whats going on or what hes doing. I want more of these two so much.

Mark and Kieran and Cristina? I am voting for Mark and Kieran. Sorry Cristina. I just really love how they both only had each other in the Wild Hunt and how Mark went to save Kieran without a second thought. I think Cristina will end up with perfect Diego after we found out that his engagement is fake.

At first I kind of felt sorry for Annabel because of all that she'd been through but now I hate her so much I hope she dies in a horrible way that bitc my opinion of her has changed. How DARE she kill my precious Livvy?! I am furious! Outraged! I cried lots when this happened. How could Cassandra Clare do this to me? I wasn't bothered much when Arthur died because he was not a main character that I had become attached to, although him sacrificing himself for his family made me tear up a bit. But Livvy! NO! Why?! Poor Ty! They've already lost their parents and their uncle, they barely ever get to see Helen and they've only just got Mark back! Why take Livvy too? My heart cant handle this!

If Cassandra Clare kills anyone else that I love I may die myself. Other than the obvious heart break from Livvy's death, I loved this book a lot and highly recommend it.

- Claire