Holiday weekend & Haul/Review.

                         
 This weekend I went away to Bridlington to stay in my parents caravan, I was determined to finish Deathly Hallows and start Warm Bodies whilst I was there so I packed them for travelling in this cute travel-based bag that I use as a book protector. I use Paperchase book protector because I have a Vlogbrothers-signed  bookmark that id hate to get bent or damaged, also because my sister and I share books all the time and I don't want to ruin something that's hers. The Pattern is super-cute although I cant say the price because I had it gifted to me for Christmas.
                             

Even on the coldest days when it was around -3 degrees i still managed to wear a skirt and tights! I re absolutely love thrifting and I got this outfit for dirt cheap. The plain black skirt is from Primark (I don't remember how much it cost me but it was around £7), the Pink Floyd t-shirt was thrifted for £10, My brown satchel bag is from a leather market in Camden for £15, my coat is £95 from Next and the beanie was thrifted for £1! I love to wear high-waisted skirts because they hide my big hips and cinch my waist at its thinnest point.

                                    
Whilst i was there i accidentally made some make-up purchases from Boots: Soap and Glory's Arch De Triumph eyebrow pencil, No.17 Miracle Matte foundation in ivory, Maybelline's Master Precise eyeliner pen. Altogether it cost me around £13 because i had some discount cards and i was in desperate need of some new make-up.
                                    
I got this foundation in Ivory which is a little darker than my usual shade but it actually suits my skin tone perfectly, it comes out of a pump and you really only need one pump to cover the whole face. It has a very Matte finish which, although advertised I don't always expect because in the past i have bought specifically matte items which have been shiny as heck. The foundation is light-weight and covers all imperfections, my cheeks are naturally very red and always show through foundation toward the end of the say but even 16 hours later the make-up had stayed and no red cheeks! Its oil-free which is great if you have a naturally greasy complexion, it is also SPF 15 so its also sun-safe and protects your skin throughout the day, don't forget that even when its not sunny there are still harmful rays that penetrate through clouds .                                   
                                   
This eyebrow crayon is half eyebrow colour and half brow-bone. The colour I chose was Taupe/Buff which is a cold brown colour and a pink pigmented white highlighter. The eyebrow colour itself is rather light and doesn't draw out very thick or strong which is a benefit seeing as sometimes i can be heavy handed with eyebrow pencil and end up looking like a child coloured my face with a Sharpie. The highlighter provides an instant lift on the eyebrow and is perfect to create a subtle gradient at the brow, the slight pinkish tinge on it makes it subtle and closer to skin colour rather than having block white under your eyebrows. (My eyebrows are in dyer need of a shaping so please don't judge the pencil on the shape)          

This liner is a felt pen which I'm not used to using (I'm much more accustomed to fluid liners with thin brushes), but it glided on very easily and id highly reccomend this pen if you're an eye-liner newbie. If you're a newbie id also reccomend watching the video above by Michelle Phan, she makes it very easy to learn ways to get a cute eye-liner wing. The pen lasts a really long time and stayed on my eyes for at least 16 hours before it even showed signs of wear.

Have any of you used these or want to know more about any of it? just ask in comments!

Ciao,
FashionFox oxo

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Up until last year i never really cared about the Harry Potter series and i was always more of a Hunger Games fan overall anyway, but with the sudden anouncement of my family's trip to america and more importantly The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter. My sister Kariss and i never really bothered to watch or read or be interested in Harry Potter at all until we thought we should get into it at least a little bit to understand the whole Wizarding World for when we visited.

I can easily say we have never ever been more wrong, Harry Potter is one of my favourite things/books/movies EVER!!!  I still havent really completed the whole set (im halfway through Deathly Hallows and am bawling everytime i pick the book up...so much death!). Harry Potter is amazingly well written, plotted and just generally it deals with so many problems that teenagers or adults encounter every day and reaches a wide aswell as a niche audience.

By the time we got to wizarding world months later i was at about the Goblet Of Fire book, so of course i was ridiculously excited to see everything in hogsmeade and get sweets from Honeydukes and Butterbeer from the hogs head/Three Broomsticks and visit hogwarts. On the actual day my sister and i woke up ridiculously early (US: 6 UK:1 AM!) so that we could get to the very very front of the cue and from all of the press we had read about waiting hours and hours to get onto the main ride and such we (my sister and i that is, the rest of our family sort of trapsed wearily behind us as we ran full thrust towards the gates of universal) got there for around 8AM, a half hour before the park opens. Me being me as soon as i reached the gates i bawled my heart out at the fact we were so close and just how generally sentimental i got about finally being there and knowing what was about to happen and where i was going.

As we were let in my sister and i litterally ran through the Dr.Seuss section of Universal to get to Wizarding world purely because we couldnt wait to see everything. When we got there we were greeted by the finest and greatest iron gates above which was a hanging iron sign with a picture of a town welded into it. As we walked through the buildings were all tall thin pointed structures with snow on the top and they were exactly in the movies!.

As you get further into the town we saw Honeydukes (I got a chocolate frog and Exploding bonbons, which actually do explode by the way), we saw an Owl post office from which i got a hufflepuff badge and team flag (im hufflepuff), Ollivanders ( i really wanted a wand but i ran out of money by this point on butterbeers and pumpkin juices from the carts outside), A store full of dress robes, The Three Broomsticks (which was built so wonderfully) and the hogs head (where i drank my butterbeer).

When we got to the actual ride the que was super fast and putting our stuff into the lockers took two minutes, plus there was a guy dressed as draco malfoy there and it was brilliant. Walking through the que you go through every classroom: Herbology with the Mandrakes, Potions, Divination, Ancient Runes you get the idea and boarding the ride is as simple as being on a treadmill for a second then sitting in your seat. The actual ride is hella scary and i have no idea why theres no age limit, theres all dragons and dementors chasing you around hogwarts and oh god its just dreafully scary but overall is really good.

Wizarding world is Amazing. and i could live there. contently.