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How to Boss your Revision 10 Ways

This half of the uni/school/college year is always when people start thinking about starting revision and planning for those dreaded summer exams - this is actually the first year that my exams were done in January and after 10 years of taking exams every single year I have finally got a revision technique that works for me so I thought I'd share incase anyone is looking for tips and tricks. But please don't hate me if they don't work for you - it's just what works for me!

Confidence.

The other day I was in the gym and I just had this super random almost epiphany like thought, and it made me want to write a mini post on confidence. Anyone who knows me well will know that I am not the most confident person in the world when it comes to self-belief or anything really ahah.

Current Crime TV Shows.

Someone said to 'write the blog you'd love to read' and I thought to hell with it, I will write a post on crime television. I honestly I love my crime dramas, thrillers, documentaries you name it. Don't get me wrong I am not a criminal myself ( do not know why I felt the need to clarify this), although I think I did terrify the girl sat next to me in lectures today when I was discussing a creepy case with my friends. Seeing as January is the perfect time to binge watch series and there has been some super good tv on recently I thought I would share a brief round up of some of my favourite crime thrillers/documentaries that have been on recently.

Hi :) 

When I see other bloggers winning awards for the 'best blog' etc etc, it always makes me think that I could probably win the award for the worst blogger ever seriously I'm not joking. Over the summer I had soooo many posts written and ready to go, I was so proud of myself and then I completely forgot they existed and here I am a very long time later considering starting up my writing again *and breathe*. Not to post with an end goal but just as a therapeutic outlet to talk about the things I love and to share them with other people. 

In the last (oh man this is bad) YEAR AND A HALF since I have posted some things have changed but not significantly! I graduated with a First Class Honours in Biological Sciences at NTU and decided that instead of being a grown up and getting a job I would do my Masters in Molecular Cell Biology instead so I can become a Master of Sciences (because that sounds cool, does it not?!). I still have no plans for my adult life, no grad schemes, jobs nothing (cries internally). 

Another exciting update, I dyed my hair back to brown because past me realised that blonde was a) hard to up keep nicely b) very expensive (hello overdraft) and c) very hard to stop from going yellow. Basically it was fun being a blonde but brunettes definitely have more fun! 

I think this time around, I would like to put entries on my blog in a more chatty manner rather than worrying that they don't read 'professionally' because in reality I am completely ditsy and a bit of a nutcase which I have completely embraced and am proud of (and sometimes slightly mortified). Honestly pass me a G&T and the things that come out of my mouth are questionable! 

So yeah, I just thought I'd give the whole thing a go again and see whether I do fall back in love with it again or whether I really am the worlds crappest blogger ever (sorry for swearing mum) 

BYE 

x 

Why is 'Body Shaming' STILL a Thing?!

So, the other day a story did it's rounds on social media on unairbrushed photos of Kim K on holiday, and the internet went into a frenzy. It was apparent that Kim did have some cellulite and had just well,  a very normal looking body... refreshingly normal in fact. She seemed to receive so much hate and negativity from these photographs, it literally took me 5 seconds to find the above examples of people being so nasty about a woman they have never even met. A woman who has feelings just like any of us. I can't imagine how it must feel to turn on your phone for it to be filled with hate messages telling you how gross you look. The woman has given birth to two children and is a normal human just like all of us, she has feelings too, no one deserves this kind of treatment. 

Perhaps if it was bought a little closer to home people would understand more, how would you feel if someone was saying those comments about your mum or your sister? It would be awful, so just because its someone you don't know, it does not make it okay. 

Body shaming is never ever acceptable and something needs to change in this society because it happens way too much. You see articles daily about celebrities apparently looking bad or needing to lose weight or gain weight; what kind of example does this set to young people?! Nobody is perfect, but nobody needs to be perfect. We are human. We are all unique. Magazines and social media set these ridiculously high expectations for both women and men. What the perfect lips are, the perfect dress size, the perfect legs, the perfect biceps the list goes on. But many photos we see on campaigns and magazine interviews are airbrushed or edited or use a lot of makeup. They aren't a true representation of that person. 

 Whatever shape or size you are, you are beautiful, you are you. 

If we all looked exactly the same, the world would be a very boring place, almost everyone wants to change something about their appearance and its said a lot, but it's so hard not to compare yourself to photos on social media because, as I said earlier, comparing your everyday to someone else's highlight reel is silly. They probably also have days where they wake up feeling and looking so rough, but they just don't post those days on social media. No one puts up their 'just woken up, I have sleepy dust in my eyes and a puffy face' look to instagram, so don't compare yours to someones 'going out look'! Those photos of Kim K were a reminder that she is a normal woman just like all of us, she has her imperfections, she has cellulite just like everybody. It is a normal thing. It isn't something we should be scared or embarrassed by. 

But I also was recently thinking, that we are our own harshest critic. I get that we can all be judgemental but I always see good things about someone else's body or appearance that I would never pick up about myself. I tend to wish I had something that they do, that I looked like them or that I could have a talent like them. I see them for them, but I don't really see myself like that. I sit and judge, slate and moan about tiny parts of me all the time, but I would never even notice these things on someone else. So why should you say them about yourself?

There are so many examples of completely stupid things that I will pick up about myself when looking in a mirror, things that I doubt anyone else has ever picked up, but to me they could make me look gross, and I don't think constantly being exposed to body shaming of people looking 'normal' helps at all. 

How are women supposed to feel comfortable in their own skin when society seems to have all of these ridiculous expectations. Why can't we just celebrate each other for what we do have and for how beautiful we all are and how different we all are from each other. 

Celebrate our natural beauty, don't bring each other down all the time. 

My Thoughts/Experiences on a Placement Year.

Are you completely on the fence about doing a placement year?! Or having those last minute nerves?! I know this time last year I was exactly that and I wish I could have read someone's thoughts and experiences! So here are mine, hope this helps! 

It's Okay...

I feel like in the world we live in, we get judged for so many things; whether it's not wearing any makeup to wearing too much, eating too much or too little... You can't win so I've decided life is far more fun to just say "f**k it" and not care what other people think. 

Best ways to Wind Down After Work

I know my blogging has been some what sporadic recently, but I have been settling into both a new living environment and a new job so bear with! I would like to change my blogging up a little bit with more life/fitness posts and so to kick start this, I have a post in collaboration with Sanctuary* on my Top 5 Things to do to Wind Down!

My Top Breakout Hacks...

Not sure what's causing your breakouts? Carry on reading for some tips on preventing those annoying, but preventable breakouts... 

Summer Freebees!

 Anyone else that summer is always a great time for magazine freebees and sometimes only buys the magazine for the gifts?! ME TOO! 

My New Favourite Cafe?

 I'm sorry but how gorgeous is the front of this cafe?! Hidden away in the heart of Nottingham is one of the sweetest, more gorgeous little independent cafes I have come across yet! It's so cute!

Staying on the Grounds of Hogwarts?!

Regardless of how good the uni social life is, sometimes a much needed break is in order, so the other weekend I swapped the buzzing uni halls for a tranquil weekend away with my family. Obviously being a student, I don't see my parents all that much so they came up to visit and we all stayed on the grounds of Newstead Abbey. 

15 Things Girls with Curly/Thick Hair will Relate To

Over the last few years my hair has gotten super curly and so I thought I would compile a list of the problems encountered by girls with thick or curly hair on a daily basis!