My Obsession With Bandcamp.

Hello everyone! It's Zoe.

I was in the mood to write a post today and so I'm making a post! I thought today I would talk about my obsession with Bandcamp. If you don't know what Bandcamp it is a website where any type of musicians can upload music and people can buy it or listen to it for free. Basically, like itunes but without the mainstream artists. Don't get me wrong I love listening to all the mainstream music like Fall Out Boy, Panic!At The Disco, Muse, Bastille - the list goes on. But as of late I've realised that I've been downloading A LOT of bandcamp music. More specifically folk music. That sounds quite odd but bare with me! This has become more of a obsession because if I go onto bandcamp, I tend to get at least 3 different albums from 3 different artists EVERY SINGLE TIME. So I thought I would tell you out of all those albums i've been getting what I've been listening to the most! 

The Oh Hello's - 'Oh Hello' (Free) and 'Through The Deep, Dark Valley' (Free) Albums:

This band are AMAZING. They are really upbeat and happy which I always love about a band! When you listen to them, you might hear a similarity to 'Of Monsters and Men' which are also an incredible band. Some of there songs are a bit more chilled out than others I must admit. The artwork for 'Oh Hello' kinda remind me of KickThePJ's creatures from his short film 'Smokey Saloon'! I really urge you to go listen to this because at this moment in time, it's one of my most listened to artists from Bandcamp!

The Winter Suns - 'Fires of The North' Album (Free):

My favourite song out of this album would be the song 'Familiar'. It kind of sounds a bit like 'Dog Days Are Over' by Florence and the Machine but also has the vibe of 'Of Monsters and Men'. This is only a small album as there's only 5 songs to it but it's fab music! 

OH! Hello - 'RIP Tides' Album ($4): 

This is a different band to The Oh Hellos! I have quite a few of this band's albums. I love their music so much. Specifically this album because it sounds like beach sort of music because of the use of ukuleles etc. (Also because the clue is in the title...) The song 'Lava Pools' is probably my favourite out of this album. 

Backpack Party - 'Possibility' Album (Free): 

This is quite different from the other albums i've said about but I have been listening to these guys a lot recently! It's really cool upbeat music but it's not exactly screaming in your ears if you see what I mean...? Not to mention that they have a pretty rad band name. Also I believe that YouTuber Christian Novelli (TouchTheSkyFilms) is part of this little band so all the more reason you should listen to it! 

Atlas Hands 'Two Birds EP' (Free): 

Although this EP only has two songs to it, it is just so cute! I actually loved this song so much that I used both of them in my short film I made about the film 'Submarine'. I love the song 'Seeds' more than 'Moving On' but they are just so perfect and fit so well with my short film (Head over to my YouTube channel if you want to watch it!)

Fox Academy - 'um hi' Album ($2):

This again only has two songs to it but it's quite cute and slow sounding. It's just really nice and calm to listen to. Also again I think Christian Novelli is involved with this band! They have a few other singles on there too so you should check them out! 

WUSSYCAT - 'VVUSSY' Album ($5):

They only have one album and it's a bit of a weird one. It's nice to listen to and it's kind of relaxing. It might not be your cup of tea just to listen to it on it's own, but however it is quite good for backing music for videos. I think I've used it a couple of times. (I think Christian Novelli uses this a lot. Any fans of him might recognise the song 'Everything Is Awful' - Lot's of Christian Novelli in this mix of albums sorry i'm just a big fan of the music he produces/uses!)

Tom Rosenthal - All of his albums ('Who's That In The Fog?' - £5, 'B-Sides' - £4 and 'Keep A Private Room Behind The Shop' - £5): 

I LOVE THIS GUY'S MUSIC. IT IS INCREDIBLE AND NOBODY CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE. I think I found his music from YouTuber PleasantRyan's video 'Lonelier Than You' and have loved his music ever since. When I found his music and downloaded it, 'Who's That In The Fog?' and 'B-Sides' were free. But now as he's got a bit more popular, he is charging for both of those albums. But if you're like me and love his music, it's well worth every penny! His music is calming in some and manic in others. But each song tells a really nice story and always has a nice flow to the songs. Some of his songs have even featured in advertisements on TV ('Woes' from the 'B-Sides' album)! It's just too good to pick a favourite album!

Dog Ears 'So It Goes' Album (£2.50): 

This one is a bit of a cheat because i've had this for quite a while now. If you didn't know, the actor Mat Baynton from 'Horrible Histories', 'Spy', 'The Wrong Mans' and quite recently 'Yonderland' did a solo project. All I know is... MAN THAT GUY CAN SING. Some of it is quite dark sounding but mostly quiet music. Just a guy singing with a guitar mostly. I recommend 'Mrs Winchester'. It's haunting and chilling but at the same time relaxing and heartwarming. I could listen to him for hours. Also the artwork is just amazing! I'm really sad he didn't do anymore! 

Luce TG - 'Fait(s)' Album ($5): 

And finally, this is the most recent album I downloaded. I first heard her music when watching KickThePJ's video 'Valley of the Bats (Valebat)'. I totally fell in love with that sweet sounding song but alas, PJ didn't say where the music was from and so I was searching for it ever since! It's french music and I don't think I would ever listen to french music because I do not speak french so I wouldn't understand what they was singing about, but this had such a nice rhythm and sound that I couldn't help but love it. Later down the line PJ made a video called 'Home' and he used another song from the same artist as before and I fell in love with this song even more than the last! At the time of this video coming out I was still searching for it. I eventually found it about two weeks and haven't stopped listening to it since! Even if you don't want to go and buy it, just listen to it. It is just too nice. 

Sorry for the extra long post today but I felt like writing loads! I hope i'm not the only one with this obsession with Bandcamp. Do you have any music you're addicted to? Let me know! 

Hope you're having a nice day!

Until the next time, 

Zoe
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Review - Tanya Burr Lips and Nails

Hey guys, its Karina.

So most of you should know who Tanya Burr is by now, but if not she is a popular YouTuber/Blogger and she has recently launched her own collection of Lip Gloss and Nail Varnish. 

The collection went into many Superdrug stores around the UK the other week, so what did i do? Yes of course, I went shopping!! I went to my local Superdrug (which is actually the same as Tanya's because we both live in Norwich, but sadly i didn't bump into her!) and it had basically sold out, surprise surprise! But luckily the colour of nail varnish I wanted was one that was left. I bought 'Mischief Managed', which was £5.99, its coral type colour, a mixture of red and orange. You can get away with one layer (one layer in photo) but I think personally you many need more. I love the packaging for the product, it makes it look very cute and girly, especially with her name and a love heart across the middle, although I think the black lid is a little too big for the bottle and its a bit awkward to hold. The Tanya Burr nail varnish doesn't chip hardly at all, and most nail varnishes do on my nails, especially as i swim twice a week.

I love this product and think its great, im so glad i bought it and im so pleased and proud of Tanya for launching this collection, she has come so far. I will definatily be buying more of the nail varnishes and ill maybe even try out a lip gloss :)

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

Love

KARINA

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New Schedule?!

Hey everyone, its Zoe and Karina.

How is your day going? Firstly thank you to everyone who is reading and enjoying our blog. Its been up and running for a week now and as its a shared blog we've decided to have schedule. Hopefully we will stick to it and we will try not to miss days posting! So as from now we will be posting on the days below.

Schedule:

Mondays - No Posts

Tuesdays - Zoe

Wednesdays - No Posts

Thursday - Karina

Friday - No Posts

Saturday - Zoe

Sunday - Karina

Let us know what you think and if you agree.

Thank you

love

Zoe&Karina

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(*Edit* we are starting the schedule as of next week!)

Fujifilm Instax Mini 8

Hello everyone! It's Zoe.

In yesterday's post I said I would make a post about my beloved polaroid camera so that is exactly what I'm doing today! 

The camera I have is the Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 in baby blue. I bought it on Ebay with 100 shots and a free mini hanging album for over all £91.70. Might sound a bit steep to you but to be quite honest that isn't a bad deal considering what you get! 

As far as the mini album goes, it's not bad! I'm only worried that my polaroids will get stuck to the plastic and I won't be able to get them out again! I also wish there were more pockets to it but that's not the whole point of a mini album! I can't wait to take this to uni to hang in my room! 

Loading the film  

  

When the camera is empty, a little 'S' sign will appear at the back of the camera which is signal that you need to load another set of film in. 

Loading the film is really simple which I really love about this little camera. When you unbox the film, it basically says what you need to do on the silver packet.

Taking photographs

When the film is loaded up, you have to turn it on and just click the shutter button for the piece covering the light sensitive paper to come through.This confused me when I first used it but then I realised what it was and went on taking another photo!

One thing about this camera that is really handy is that it will tell you what lighting you have when pointing the camera at the subject. This is all done through the sensor at the front of the camera. It does this so that you don't end up with either really bright or really dark images and waste a piece of paper. However, saying that, it can be quite temperamental sometimes as it can switch quickly wherever you point it. 

Apart from this, it is just such a fantastic camera and I really like the colouring you get out of a polaroid. At the moment i'm OBSESSED with vintage colours and anything that makes a photo or video look old so having this is a good thing because I can instantly have those cool, worn colours there and then. And it feels so much more personal and each photograph you take means a lot because you only have one of that photo. If you're looking to get a polaroid camera but don't want to buy the actual brand Polaroid because lets face it, it is REALLY expensive, this is perfect! Granted the photos are smaller but it's still worth getting if you don't want to fork out loads of money for Polaroid!

Hope you're having a lovely day whatever you're doing! 

Until the next time, 

Zoe

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Easter 2014 - OOTD

Hello everyone, its Karina

So today is Easter Sunday, which here in the UK, is an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, so on Easter Sunday people give and receive chocolate Easter eggs to represent a new life.

As my brother is still quite young he wanted to do a Easter Egg Hunt! So we had to search for our Easter Eggs in the garden!!

I got different chocolate Easter Eggs from my friends and family.  And last week I also treated myself to 'The Vamps' new album and it is SO good, I love it.

 

I thought I'd do an OOTD.

What I'm wearing:

Top - New Look £9.99

Shorts - Primark £5 in sale. Tights, Shoes, Denim Jacket - Primark 

Camera Scarf - A stall in Cambridge £6

Earrings - Primark £2

Necklace (My name) 

Ring Pull Bracelet - Made by Zoe

Ring - New Look

Nail Varnish - Tanya Burr 'Mischief Managed' £5.99

Whats on my face:

No7 Beautiful Skim Day Cream 

No7 Stay Perfect Foundation - Calico £14.99

Collection Lasting Perfection Ultimate Wear Concealer - Fair £3.99

Rimmel London Saty Matte Powder - Transparent £3.99

No7 Limited Edition Eye Shadow

Avon in the inner corners

Primark, P.S.Love Felt Eye Liner - £1.50

Maybelline The Falsies Volum' Express Mascara 

No7 Limited Edition Bronzer

No7 High Shine Lip Crayon - Delicate Pink

Then in the evening we all ate a lovely roast dinner!

What did you do this Easter? 

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

Love

KARINA

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Easter Meet Up & Things I bought in Superdrug

Hello everyone It's Zoe!

The Easter Meet Up

Yesterday I went to an Easter meet up with the Norwich Phandom in Norwich! (Backing story to the Norwich Phandom: when YouTubers Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil came to Norwich last July, we formed a little friendship group with most of the people sat outside waiting where Dan and Phil were filming. Since then we've all become such good friends!) Unfortunately we were missing a lot of people yesterday but we still had fun. We took a few polaroids on my polaroid camera (I will probably do a post about it in the future!) and they are so cute.

In the morning I actually said to everyone "How weird would it be if we saw Jim and Tanya today as we are in the city?" Well unknown to me... This actually happened. 

WE MET JIM CHAPMAN! 

Once we had all had single photos with him, we asked whether we could get a group photo and so because most of us were too awkward to ask someone walking past to take the photo, he went and asked a man for us! What a gentleman! It was just so odd to see Jim after actually saying how weird it would be if we saw him! 

Things I bought in Superdrug
So before all of this madness happened, we went into A LOT of shops. I kind of had to keep my hands in my pockets for most of the shops we went into because my bank card was burning a hole in my purse and I wanted to buy EVERYTHING I saw! I did however buy a few things in Superdrug. (Whoops.)

The first thing I bought was the Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer. It's quite pricey for a concealer but I have had this one before so it's well worth the money! The one I had before was the 'True Ivory' one but this time I got 'Ivory' because I felt like the 'True Ivory' was a bit too light for my skin tone. I tried this one I bought yesterday and it's just right! I've had other concealers before but I didn't like the applicator for it, but I love this one as I prefer a wand to a brush pot. 

The next thing I bought was 'Penguin Chic' Nail Polish from Tanya Burr's Lips & Nails collection. I'm a big fan of Tanya so when I heard Tanya was bringing out lip gloss and nail polish collection, I was quite excited! I'm not a massive lip gloss person so I was more excited about the nail polishes than the lip glosses.
When they were first released, I looked at the collection and I loved the look of the 'Penguin Chic' nail polish and really wanted some! I waited till they were in stores rather than buy online because if I have the choice to, I would rather go to a store and get it there and then because I'm a rather impatient person! I went to the superdrug in Chapelfield Mall and they had every colour bar the one I wanted! 

That was a bit frustrating to say the least! Luckily there is another one in Norwich that wasn't that far away so I went to the one on St Stephen's Street. This time I managed to find the one I wanted! As far as nail polishes go, the colour is gorgeous! This colour is very different to the other nail polishes I own which is another reason why I wanted to get it. I'm quite lazy when it comes to doing my nails (as you can probably see by the state of them) so I prefer it when nail polishes are quick drying ones. This one isn't but I didn't really care because I like the colour too much to care whether it dried quickly! 

The last thing I bought was the MUA 'Undress Me Too' Eyeshadow Palette. I had seen this palette before and I had heard that the colours are really pigmented and that it's a good little palette to have. (Not to mention it's only £4!) I was standing with my friend Emily whilst in Superdrug and she was saying that it's quite similar to the 'Urban Decay Naked' Palettes. Now those palettes cost nearly £40 a piece so I was more than curious as to what Emily has said. So I went ahead and bought it!

I haven't tried out any of the 'Urban Decay Naked' palettes so I wouldn't be able to tell you whether there was a difference or not, but it WAS quite pigmented! I REALLY love this palette. I don't normally wear eyeshadow as I am in desperate need of some new brushes and it's quite a chore to put it on every single day, but I really enjoyed putting this on and it looks really pretty. I'm not too keen on really sparkly eyeshadows and instead go for more matte eyeshadows. But with this set, I really like it despite the majority of the palette being sparkly! On the back of the palette, it has a handy guide to tell you what each colour is called and it has a mini master class for you to try out. I didn't use that this time as I wanted to experiment. I am not an expert at applying eyeshadow. I'll just warn you now. 

I did this look (pictured above) using the colour 'Lavish' all over the lid using the provided eyeshadow applicator. I then took the colour 'Obsessed' on the outer corner going through the crease and blending it slightly with a fluffy brush. I then took an eyeliner brush and lined my eyes with the colour 'Corrupt' which is a really nice jet black shadow. I made a slight wing, took it under my eye and then there we have it! I love this look because when I looked at it properly after I had done it, It really made my eyes look even more gold which is great because I love the colour of my eyes!

So there we go that's a post about the crazy day I had yesterday and a mini haul! I hope you have a great Easter today and make sure you eat lots of chocolate! 

Until the next time,

Zoe

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Ombre Hair

Hey guys, its Karina.

So as you may know ombre hair is becoming very popular at the moment and it was something I wanted to do to my hair for a long time. Some of you may know the YouTuber/Blogger, Zoe Sugg mainly known as 'Zoella', she is a massive inspiration of mine, I think she beautiful and amazing, but she has ombre hair and this is where I got the idea from.

So I did some research and went out and bought a hair dye! I bought the  L'Oreal Paris, Wild Ombres. I bought shade No.1 which is for light brown to dark brown hair. I had been putting off dying my hair for such a while because I was scared it would go wrong, or id hate it and have to chop nearly all my hair off, so I waited for my hair to grow longer then just went for it! Because who cares I can just buy a brown hair dye and go over it!!

Applying the dye was very easy but very scary!! As Id never dyed my hair before I was a bit worried how it would turn out, as it could go orange! The kit I had bought came with a brush to apply the dye with, this helped a lot. It made it very easy and simple. Overall I was pleased with the outcome. But it took a while to get used to it. It didn't go as blonde as i wanted it went more browny/orange, but it looked like the box, so I suppose it worked!!. After about 11 weeks I decided to dye it again as it had faded and lost its brightness and healthy look. But this time i chose the next shade up. (No.2) as it was a little blonder. I dyed it yesterday and doing the exact same thing and it came out basically the same but slightly lighter, which is what i wanted. (The photo on the left above is after the 1st dye).

I would definitely recommend this product, its very good and basically does what the box says! Plus its easy to apply. The hardest part is trying not to get a line between the 2 colours of hair.

Overall at the moment I love my hair and I'm glad I did it.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this and it has helped you. If you are wanting to do this to your hair, I say go for it, you have nothing to lose!! :)

Thank you.

Love 

KARINA

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