Hey everyone!

While this may seem like a serious post, it's really not! I've always wanted to do a serious "what's in my bag" "here's what I carry around with me" "here are my essentials" and so on and so forth kind of post, I've never done it because if I'm honest, the contents of my bag change. They change every. single. bloody. day.

I think that's what you get being a Year 13 student with literally six weeks of school left though, so here you go - a little peek into the chaos that is my school bag. As is said in cult film Clueless, it is a "full-on Monet". (For those of you not cultured enough - I kid by the way - that's something that "is like a painting. From far away, it's okay, but up close, it's a big old mess". In other words, my life)

So obviously we start with the boring stuff - my textbooks. Love a bit of witchcraft and two sociology ones because Lord knows what my teachers plan for each lesson. I do also have another history textbook for US and UK and my English textbook but who carries textbooks they don't need?! I also threw my coursework folder into the mix here, which is stuffed to the brim of my history and English coursework notes. It's organised chaos, I promise. And a trusty pad of paper because I don't have a laptop and anyway, sort of prefer taking all my class notes by hand. I like to think it helps me remember them more...

And some more boring stuff. My huge pile of history coursework books. These can probably come out now and be shoved back on my shelf because finally my coursework is finished, two days before the deadline may I just add?! Love me a bit of light Hitler reading. Who doesn't? Possibly the most cheerful subject to sit down with a cup of tea at 9 o'clock. Plus my lovely pink "Red Flag Book" which is my school's latest idea to help us ace our A-Levels. This has been in the bottom of my bag for a long time and comes out once a week for the one teacher who actually cares about them. You don't want to know, trust me.

This is the last bunch of boring stuff, I promise! Pencil cases! My brown Jack Wills one was given to me yonks ago by my friend Izzy and it's still going strong and I love it very much. In there is about sixty Bic biros, five highlighters and that's about it. Then my slightly messy one with my coloured pens and gel pens in...which promptly exploded. Hence why the clear plastic now is not so clear, but rather a fetching iridescent purple.

Oh man, finally some more personal stuff! So in this set of stuff we have my essentials that are just always in my bag, even if I take it out on a weekend without the school bits. Firstly, the notebook at the back with some sort of pretentious arty trash stuff in is my art journal/diary/planner which I try and write in every day but also fail horribly a lot of the time :P I'm considering doing a post soon detailing some of my favourite pages I've done in it, so look out for that. I also have my Kindle Fire which I read on/watch Netflix on/play games on...it's basically a glorified iPad and it comes everywhere with me. 

My purse is a no-brainer, as are my glasses. When you're blind in one eye it's always helpful to have some extra help for the other one! Then I'll have whatever book I'm reading at the moment, if it's not on my Kindle, which at the moment is the Perks of Being A Wallflower, which, if you're an OG fan, you'll know is my favourite book.  Portable charger, phone, headphones, again no brainers. I also would shove my camera in this, even though I don't take it to school I do often take it out with me at the weekends.

And then we have the nitty gritty, weird things that everyone needs in their bag but doesn't really know why. For me, this includes five lipsticks, a lip balm, drugs, a bag of brace bands, six bajillion old bus tickets, used tissues (gross), a packet of unused tissues. some Olbas oil (from when I had a cold about a four weeks ago), some old lunch receipts (that I must keep so my mum can reimburse me hehehe) and some spare change. Oh, and some sanitary towels and gold eyeliner (don't ask because I don't know).

 Wow. You can tell I never clean this bag out can't you?!

So there we go! That's the chaotic contents of my school bag. The actual bag is one I've had for ages, it's from Accessorize and I got it about three years ago and it's still going strong. Very proud of it. 

I hope you enjoyed this fun little post about the contents of my bag, and I sincerely hope that yours isn't as much of a mess as mine is!! But in all honesty, I've got about 34 days of school left, there's no point clearing it out now...;)

Emilia xx

Colourpop Super Shock Eyeshadow Review!

Hey everyone!

Today's post is about the Colourpop Super Shock eyeshadows, as promised in my January beauty favourites post! I now have six of these, which I've collected in two batches. Me and my friends actually do group orders of Colourpop products to avoid the huge shipping and customs charge so it's a great way of doing it, but I'll talk a little more about how you can get round those costs later.

Top L-R Tassel, Sequin, Weenie

Bottom L-R Wattles, KathleenLights, Central Perk

L-R Central Perk, KathleenLights, Wattles, Weenie, Sequin, Tassel


Where to even start with these eyeshadows?! First off, the pigmentation (bar one but I'll talk about that later) is insane. You literally need one swipe of this stuff and it is so super pigmented that you just don't need anymore. Even Wattles, which is a matte shade, is super pigmented.

The only one that was a bit of a disappointment to me was Central Perk. I bought it because I didn't have any other colours like it, and such a deep burgundy really appealed to me for the autumn time, and I thought it would look insane with the gold shade as a halo eye. But then it arrived and it just seemed really dry and I could hardly pick up any product at all on my brush or my finger. Did anyone else have this problem with this shade or is it just me? I feel like it's just me because I looked at swtahces etc on Pinterest and elsewhere and it seemed to be exactly like the others. Slightly disappointed with it but it's no biggie because the other five blew my mind,



The consistency of these is weird - it's like a mix between a powder and a gel. Swatching them on your finger feels like you're dipping your finger into butter or something super soft but they're definitely a powder formula. One thing I would say is that you have to treat them more lke cream eyeshadows - if you leave the lid off for a long time they do dry out which is what's happened to my Tassel colour, and I did think that was what had happened to Central Perk but that arrived really weird so I don't know about that. Anyway.



These are much better applied with your fingers, however I find Wattles blends really well into my crease with the NYX 17 crease brush which is my favourite favourite crease brush ever. They are just so hugely metallic and shimmery and just add something so special to a look. I'm just quickly going to go into each shade (apart from Central Perk soz) into detail and give you some ideas for how to wear them etc.



Tassel a bright white with silver and hints of gold glitter - I love to use this in my inner corner and even as a highlight when I'm feeling super sparkly. You can see me wearing it in this post



Sequin a metallic pinky copper shade with blue and silver duochrome - I like to wear this all over my lid with Wattles in the crease for a super lowkey look, as you can see in this post again!



Weenie I don't have any pictures of this but it's a metallic rose gold, and part of the KathleenLights Where The Night Is collection. I like this in the centre of the lid with some darker pinks in the outer and inner corner for a bit of a more interesting and sparkly halo eye.



Wattles a beige peachy pink colour, with more of a matte/satin finish. This is such a perfect crease shade and also I love wearing this all over the lid with some glitter eyeliner, as you can see here and here



KathleenLights again, part of a KathleenLights collection, as the name suggests, but this time the Where The Light Is collection. This is the most beautiful bright bright golden copper colour and I love wearing this with orangey browns from the Morphe 35O palette (here), or with Red Ochre from the ABH MR palette for a halo eye.




So there we go - a review of some of the most beautiful eyeshadows I own. They only cost $5 each which works out at about £4, which is an absolute steal. However, the only snag is the $25 shipping charge and the customs charge you get hit with can bring the price of an order up massively. I bought Wattles, Sequin, Weenie and Tassel in a 24 hour free international shipping offer they did in November, which do pop up occasionally but I only caught it in the last 25 minutes, and KathleenLights and Central Perk I bought in a $5 shipping offer they did! These offers do pop up every now and then so it's a good idea to follow them on social media because that's where they tend to advertise them, especially Twitter I find! Like I said, me and my friends also do big group orders, there's about 11 of us who chip in so we get off the customs and shipping, our last order was $381 but we only got a £66 customs charge which was great, so we didn't have to pay that much. I'm pretty certain there are also those companies that order for you to an address in the USA and then they send it to you here for lower rates, which is how a lot of people got hold of Colourpop before they shipped to the UK, and also how people get Kylie Cosmetics for cheaper shipping too, so those might be worth looking into if the bank will be broken by the extortionate extra costs!


Hope you enjoyed this blog post, and I have more reviews coming soon! Have a lovely day my loves


Emilia xx