Blogmas, Day 5 (2016) | Christmas Playlist

That's right, it's time for an actual Christmas related blogmas post from me! And what better way to talk about Christmas, than to mention all the top festive tunes?

I don't know about you but I'm obsessed with making spotify playlists. I have a playlist for absolutely every mood and playlists of every genre. You name it, I've made a playlist for it! That's why, around October time, I started to put together my very own lists of songs that I need to listen to throughout the holidays.

So I've made a list of every song that's a top tune for this time of year. You're welcome fellow Christmas lovers ;)

• Santa Tell Me (Ariana Grande)
• All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
• Last Christmas (Wham!)
• It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams)
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Frank Sinatra)
• Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens)
• 8 Days Of Christmas (Destiny's Child)
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Christina Aguilera) 
• Shake Up Christmas (Train)
• Baby Please Come Home (Darlene Love)
• Fairytale of New York (The Pogues ft Kirsty Macoll)
• Driving Home For Christmas (Chris Rea)
• I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Wizzard)
• Lonley This Christmas (Mud)
• The Power Of Love (Gabrielle Aplin)
• Santa Baby (Kylie Minogue) 
• Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee)
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons)
•  Do They Know It's Christmas (Band Aid)
• Mistletoe & Wine (Cliff Richard)
• Stop the Cavalry (Jona Lewie)
• Step Into Christmas (Elton John)
• Wonderful Christmas (Paul McCartney)
• Mistletoe (Justin Bieber)

So there we are, every song that I'll be playing non-stop throughout December. The song of the day will actually be everysong from this list, because how can I even pick one? Please let me know if you think I've missed an absolute classic from the list. Thanks for reading and what are your favourite Christmas songs? Let me know in the comments,

Izzy K xxx

Blogmas, Day 4 (2016) | Weekly Summary Post: 1st Week of December

Phewwww that was a long title!

Sorry today isn't really a Christmas themed post (again!) I do promise they're on their way shortly. But you guys know I like to update my blog with what I've been posting on my channel throughout the week. So here we go:

Izzynterview With: CHRISSY and TriTri

This will be my last Izzynterview for a little while, because I've come up with another sort of series which I think will work a bit better. But in case you didn't know, Izzynterviews are where I interview my youtube friends in a little collab. This month the absolutely wonderful and gorgeous CHRISSY and TriTri took part and I seriously love these girlies so much!

Reverse Contouring and Highlighting

And next up I have this video which I originally saw on Katie Barnett's channel. She had me in absolute stitches and I just knew I wanted to give this fun challenge a go myself lol!

So there you are, my little catch up post is complete. I haven't really mentioned Christmas yet in this blogmas post so the song of the day is Rocking Around The Christmas Tree. I hope you're all enjoying blogmas :)

Izzy K xxx

Blogmas, Day 3 (2016) | Top 5 Winter Makeup Items

Hey guys,

Today I've posted about all my favourite Winter makeup items. However, this suits the theme of my other blog much better so I posted it over on Izzy K: Reviews & Chats and you can check out that post here.

The song of the day is Jingle Bell Rock (The Mean Girl's version of course!) Sorry this post was short and sweet, but I just wanted to share my post on here to keep my blogmas going on this blog if that makes sense lol! What are your favourite makeup items for this time of year?

Izzy K xxx

Blogmas, Day 2 (2016) | Life Ups & Downs

Hi guys,

Today's post won't actually be "Christmassy" as such, it will be more of a life update. I know, I know, day 2 of blogmas and I've already gone off topic, but I just had a few things I wanted to share.

I don't know what it is about this time of year, but for some reason life's ups and downs seem to exaggerated and turned more dramatic. I mean, you have the obvious ups from the holidays and the Christmas spirit, the festive music and obviously the food (lots and lots of food). But then you also have the holiday stress, such as sorting out presents, finding time to see everyone, and having to stay on top of life in general.

I'm the sort of person who is genuinely really overdramatic for no reason. I seriously need to find ways to cope with stress because, in general I have a hard time with it anyway. So any type of pressure turns "normal-stressed-out-Izzy" into "Super-stressed-out-Izzy", so basically I need to find a way to chill. 

One thing that's been causing a bit of the ol' stress is the fact that yesterday I sat my driving test... again... and still managed to fail it. For some reason, I can never cope well in an exam environment. Under normal conditions, sure I can do it. But as soon as you say the words "test" my body turns to jelly and my mind to mush, so good luck getting me to do anything. I just find it particularly annoying because the waiting list for taking the test is so long, and I really want to just tick off having passed my driving test. 

On top of that I've just been generally stressed about life admin. I'm supposed to be applying for uni, yet I have no idea what uni to go to, or how to write my personal statement. As you may have gathered from my blog already, writing is not my strong point. On top of that I really really really want to spend more time with my friends and family this holiday. Apart from that all takes time and often money that I don't have. Especially when I want to treat my friends with presents anyway because they really deserve it for being the best people alive. It just seems like when you manage to squeeze in time to meet up with people during the holidays, you don't have the money. And when you do have the money, you can't find the time urrghh!

But I refuse to simply look at the negative sides of things. It's blogmas, and there's no need for constant pessimism. You gotta take into account the little things in life and really appreciate them. For example, I'm always under the impression that everyone can do everything so much better than I can. But I get little reassurements here and there that I actually do know some things. Like, for example, one of the managers at my work asked me a question because she needed my help. And I could actually answer it... correctly!

And apart from that, the ups are surrounding us all this time of year, it's just a matter of spotting all the small things in life. I'm learning to really appreciate things and not take them for granted. The sorts of things that really make my day now are the following:

• When my mum has my tea cooked for me ready for when I get back from work
• Admiring the Christmas lights on the streets
• The dark evenings which make you feel really cosy when you're wrapped up in bed
• Scented candles
• Hanging out with friends
• Watching  and quoating all your favourite Christmas movies
• All the Christmas tuuuunes!

So in general I do have to say my life really isn't worth complaining about that much and I do have things to be extremely grateful for. Wow writing this post actually was kinda like therapy. I think it's just a matter of me not being melodramatic and overact when I start to feel like I'm losing control of things.

The moral of this post is don't worry be happy now. And with that said the song of the day is Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. I hope you're all having a lovely December,

Izzy K xxx

Blogmas, Day 1 (2016) | Another Year!

Yes that's right, it's time for that time of year again...BLOGMAS!

I'm very excited to announce that it's officiallly my 3rd year taking part in Blogmas (where you write everyday in December until the 25th in case you're wondering) and I honestly couldn't imagine December without this little tradition anymore. Ever since the 26th of December 2015 I've been excited to write this very post, announcing that I'll be doing it again #notevenjoking

So I'm gonna do my absolute best to post every single day. Because who even needs to finish their uni application before the deadline when you can update a few people who are interested to read about your life, right?! And every Saturday I'll be doing my proper post on my other blog, Izzy K: Reviews & Chats just to keep that going through December too. 

Initially I was hoping to do Vlogmas this year. The last 2 years that I took part in Blogmas I was still in 6th form and sitting my A Levels, so I had no time to vlog every single day and get it up. And I convinced myself I'd be able to do vlogmas in my gap year, but alas it hasn't quite turned out that way. Unfortunately, I'm pretty busy with work, uni applications and just life in general. So I'm not even joking when I say there's no way anyone would want me to daily vlog because all it would be is me announcing that I've come home from work and that I'm watching youtube.

And I just thought I'd update you on what will be different about this year's Blogmas. Instead of posting about Christmas every single day, I'll through the odd life update in there too. So in a way I'll be doing daily blogging, instead of daily vlogging. It's not that I don't love Christmas, because anyone that knows me, knows that's not the case at all! It's simply just that I've covered most of the typical Christmas topics in previous years and I don't want to cheat blogmas by repeating blog posts. So I'm gonna be switching it up between Christmas themed posts, or random posts.

There we are, Blogmas 2016 has officially begun and I can't wait to read everyone else's posts! The song of the day is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues because that's my all time favourite Christmas song. Are you taking part in Blogmas this year? 

Izzy K xxx

Weekly Summary: 4th Week Of November

Hi guys, it's a very sleep deprived Izzy typing this now and I just wanted to get this post up to share what I've uploaded on my channel this week, in case you missed it!

Transforming My Mum Into Me

Me and my mum had a huge laugh filming this video. I basically "turned my mum into me" by putting my makeup on her. The result was definitely interesting to say the least lmao!

November favourites

And today I uploaded my November Favourites where I talk about everything that I've been loving this month. And I decided to rock the purple makeup because, well, why not?!

Thank you very much for reading and watching. The song of the day is Drown Me Out by Ed Sheeran. I hope you're all having a lovely weekend,

Izzy K xxx

The Sunshine Blog Award

Hey everyone,

Today I decided to do the Sunshine Blog Award because I was so kindly nominated to do it by my wonderful blogging buddy Lou, who's post you can check out here! Honestly every single post she writes is perfection, so you'd be missing out by not reading her blog :)

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog in your blog post
2. Answer the 11 questions that your nominator has asked you
3. Nominate 11 blogs to receive the award
4. Come up with 11 questions to ask the bloggers you have nominated
5. List the rules and include the sunshine blogger award logo in your post:

Lou's questions:

1. Where do you want to be this time next year?

I literally couldn't even tell you. I can't tell you what I want to be doing this time next year, nor what my plans are. Right now I'm looking at going to uni to study media, but who knows what life has in store for me!

2. Who is the most important person in your life right now?

I honestly think it would be unfair to pick just one person. I'm truly blessed that 99.9% of the people in my life right now are absolute saints and they honestly keep me (somewhat) sane. So the most important people in my life at the moment are all my friends and family, and I'm truly so thankful to have them in my life #cheesealert

3. Who is your favourite blogger/vlogger right now?

Oooooooh that's a tough one! I have so many wonderful blogger and youtube friends that it's so difficult to pick just the one. I'd say my fave bloggers are everyone in Beau Bloggers, they always manage to put a smile on my face. And I'll be adding a feature on my channel where I link all my youtube friends in soon if you're interested in seeing who my faves are ;)

4. If you could create a superhero, what would you name them and what would their powers be?

I honestly think about what sort of superhero I would be a lot, so I'm guessing the superhero I'd create would be like that. My dream superpower would be to never feel tired, so I can be 110% productive at all times during the day. I'm a bit of a workaholic and I can never just have a chill moment because it honestly drives me crazy, and sleeping just seems like a chore to me. So if there was a way to never sleep again, I'd take that chance in a heartbeat. 

5. What video always makes you smile? Link it to make someone else smile?

I dare you to watch this without cracking a smile! :)

6. What was the last movie you watched? What did you think of it?

I watched Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them last night in the cinema and I loooooooveeeed it! I'm probably the biggest Harry Potter fan going so I just wanted to relive that experience of watching a Harry Potter (kinda) film again for the first time. And I really liked the fact you got to see a completely different part of the wizarding world, since it was set in a different country and time era. Arrghhhh I could just watch anything to do with Harry Potter 24/7

7. What cancelled TV show would you bring back for one more season?

I've been binge watching Gavin and Stacey over and over so definitely that. I don't think it was ever cancelled, I believe it just finished. Although, I personally think it had another good few seasons left in it!

8. If you could be in a movie or TV show (as yourself), which would you most fit into?

Harry Potter (I think my obsession is too real). My entire childhood was filled with waiting for my Hogwarts letter, so I think the passion would definitely be there if I was cast to be a part of that franchise. 

9. What's your favourite song of all time?

Photograph by Ed Sheeran. I don't think I need to even explain why this beautiful song is my fave to anyone that's ever heard it, and if you haven't heard it yet please do:

10. If you had everything you've ever wanted, what would you be doing right now?

Hmmm this is tricky because I genuinely don't know what I want from life. All I do know is my makeup collection would be hella big omfg!

11. If you had married your first celebrity crush, who would you be married to right now?

I can't quite remember my first ever celebrity crush for certain, but I'm pretty sure it must have been Tom Felton who played Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series (omg I swear I didn't even want to mention HP that much in this post!)

My questions:

1. How long did you think about starting a blog, before you actually started blogging?
2. Are you more of a Winter or Summer fan?
3. What are three things that you look forward to every year, and why?
4. Do you still remember the first blog post you ever read? If so, what was it?
5. What is one TV show you can't help but binge watch?
6. X-factor or Strictly? (or neither!)
7. If you had to delete one of your social media accounts forever, what would you choose?
8. What was the name of your first ever pet, if you had one?
9. Do you have a bad habit that you'd like to cut down on?
10. If you could watch any film/ read any book again for the first time, what would you pick?
11. What does blogging mean to you?

So thank you very much Lou for tagging me in this post, I had so much fun writing it. I won't be tagging 11 specific people for this post, simply because I know that a lot of people that I would tag have already been nominated. So if you'd like to do this post yourself please let me know and feel free to answer the questions that I asked above. Thank you for reading, the song of the day is Oops by Little Mix,

Izzy K xxx