Hi everyone!

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend since the weather is starting to pick up a bit, its finally starting to feel like Spring!

Finally, I've actually had a day out after a few months - I think the last post about a day out was around January when me and my family went on the cable cars at the O2. Anyways, recently it was my dads birthday and I had little to none clue on what to get him that was in budget and enjoyable for him to do! Anyways, I stumbled upon FromtheBoxOffice.com and found tickets to go see The Commitments live in London. They were at such a good price and it seemed stupid not to go!

(if you want to know what The Commitments is about - then I've summed it up a bit, but if you're yet to see it - skip this paragraph!)
The Commitments is an Irish film that was released in 1991 about a band put together by a mediocre manager (Jimmy Rabbite) who lives and breathes soul music. He puts together the best people he knows but they all have VERY different personalities against one another. The band becomes a success after their first rehearsal and they come up with the name: The Commitments. After touring around Ireland for a bit, the band finally falls apart due to all the different personalities clashing and causing many members to leave. (Spoilers, sorry!)

So after the film was a huge success, the original band from the film began to tour together and their most recent tour was in 2011. Anyways, the film got put on stage and this year they've put the show back on in London (with different actors obviously!) And honestly, it was more amazing than the film in my opinion! All the performers fitted the characters perfectly and after the show, they did a little concert at the end of all the hits too! It was a very fun filled night and I recommend anyone to see it, even if they've never seen the film! I'll leave you with some links of the videos from the film (courtesy of YouTube) and some pictures from Saturday :) 

See you in the next blog post,

Hi everyone!!!!

TODAY, THIS SITE HAS OFFICIALLY TURNED ONE YEARS OLD!!!!! I cannot believe that we actually did it! I have been blogging for one year and it has been the weirdest and most eye opening year ever. I looked at my timehop this morning and I shared my first ever blog post. I read it today and looking back at that and where we are now...lets just say a lot has changed! 

This blog was made to give me another area of media to explore and I wanted to do it because it looked fun to create something of your own and write all your own little diary entry posts to look back on a few years later! When I started out, all I saw it as was to put little posts up whenever I wanted and share a few beauty things that I liked with everyone who read etc. I didn't know how much time it would take to put in so much detail to make a post look good!

Only for a few months now I have followed a schedule of having two posts a week (give or take sometimes) and following one blog post and one beauty post. At first it was fine and I could come up with different weekly beauty ideas to share and I was really busy generally and I had a lot to blog about. 

However, it hasn't always been easy to do these different posts. I don't know how I managed to cope with weekly posts during GCSEs but I think around September when everything began to change, everything else became a lot more harder to keep on top of!! There has been many low points over the past year, when I was back at school quite a few people did take the mick out of me doing this, I would get sarcastic comments and I would always have people talking about it behind my back. But looking back now, it really shouldn't of bothered me that much. They were giving me page views and more people were hearing about it so it wasn't all bad in the end really! But to anyone who starts out, you are going to get comments and people are going to take the mick because its something that not really anyone does - but in the end that all wears off. Now that I'm at college, not everyone will read it but the people that do know are all doing the same course as me and enjoy the same type of thing! 

One thing I will always remember now and a tip to someone who wants to begin a blog is that views are not everything. If you enjoy something, keep doing it. They haven't been amazing as they were at the start granted - but that hasn't stopped me. I did get to a point that where I was going to stop completely as I wasn't getting the results I wanted but I'm so glad I didn't! Another thing is that not everyone will keep up to date with it or be as supportive as you'd hoped, but thats all okay. I don't expect anyone to have read this religiously or at all really and I knew this wouldn't be an overnight sensation!

So now, I'd like to thank all of you who have read a fair good posts of mine over the year and even if you've only read one or two - thanks as well! It has had a small part of keeping me going on the blog. I'd also like to thank Jasmine over at A Cupcake For My Thoughts. She has helped me so much over the year with what to do if I wanted to make something more exciting or how to use this site when I started and she has been the biggest inspiration for this blog and I really cannot thank her enough!

So yeah... Happy one year to this!

As always, I will see you in the next blog post! Thanks all again

Hi everyone!

For this weeks post, I thought I would go through my "journey" (?) of my braces and what I had to go through to get where they are now and how I felt when I went through these different stages. I thought I would write this as a guide for people who are getting braces and don't know what to expect and if it really is all that bad! WARNING: there will be multiple images of my teeth - so if you're squeamish or don't like pictures in that context, then skip this post and I will see you on Friday ;). But lets get into it!!

Okay, so the whole problem started due to me sucking my thumb since I was a baby! Honestly, I would much rather suck my thumb than have a dummy/pacifier to keep me from crying and getting me to sleep. I think that's why my thumbs are fairly long - must've pulled them further along than they should be... Anyways I'm getting off track (ha get it - like train tracks, braces... no?) so because of my obsession with sucking my thumb, the dentsit told me that I needed to stop. This was heartbreaking for me! I went 12 years (yes I was 12..) knowing nothing different! So I got a tip from my friends mum to use this nail varnish that stops you biting your nails (the grossest thing ever by the way) and have a plaster on the thumbs as well. Within a week I was done sucking my thumb, and even now its not the same as it used to be!

I was relieved to get this horrible brace off - but the results from it weren't that noticeable really! Throughout this time - I was incredibly self conscious of my smile and my teeth, hence why all my old pictures I'm either pouting or pulling my awkward no teeth smile. It wasn't a fun time, and I did used to get names or feel like I wasn't pretty, it seemed like it went on forever! And if things couldn't get any worse, my train tracks got fitted...

I had these train tracks on for over a year maybe two I can't remember how long and then I finally got them off! They were taken off in November 2013 and I've been braceless for over a year! So after having your braces off you have to have a retainer to wear regularly! I recently have just been told that I don't need to ever visit the orthodontist ever again!! It was a long 4 years of treatment but it was definitely worth it. If you're going through a similar story - it will be over before you know it - heres an example of the change! (Look how young I was!!!)

But now, I've never been happier with my smile and will flash my teeth in every photo oppourtunity;) and I know I'm going to regret sharing these images with you - they'll be back to haunt me I'm sure;) I'd like to thank Inline Orthodontics for helping me recreate my smile and making me feel more confident with myself!!

See you in the next blog post,