March - June

Well, its summer. Even though the view from my window begs to differ. The greying sky really does over-cast my mood and makes me want to do nothing but lounge in my comfy New York hoodie and listen to my playlist, entitled with a very depressed looking emoji. The joy.

Lets say its a long time no post. Lets not say that, its very cringy and I do not blame you if you close this tab and run away from the cheesy line. Scratch that. But, its been almost 3 months since my last post on here! I've had a very eventful and interesting few months - a lot of good, maybe some meh. But you learn from the meh-ness don't you? Apparently, anyway. Maybe I'll talk about that another time.

So, I've also finished my GCSEs. Those god forsaken exams that we all are put through. Its such a liberating feeling, knowing that for almost 3 months - you don't have to write pages and pages about Shakespeare or have your nose pressed up against a science revision guide, isn't it?

I say it every summer, but this summer I mean it - I'm not spending the summer getting up at midday and doing nothing. I'm going to get healthy, see my friends, work and blog. Blogging is something different that I know I will really enjoy. I hope you enjoy it too.

This is just a very brief post to say I am back, and I can't wait to start blogging for real this time!

Wild About Beauty

If you just so happen to be like me, you will have never heard about the Wild About Beauty, make up range before. For you, it is until now, for me it wasn't until last Saturday, when I was in Debenhams and I was asked whether I would like to try out some of the range's products - you know what I mean, the people on the counters who are very persuasive when it comes to enticing you to take the plunge and buy the products they  are offering.

Wild About Beauty, was only released onto the market in October of last year, by Louise Redknapp and make up artist Kim Jacob. The products in the range are all natural colours and of natural ingredients, including botanical extracts - which will correct the balance; texture and appearance of the skin. TOWIE cast, stand aside.

Products I bought, were a beautiful toned cream blush/multipurpose tint and a pigmented lip balm, which I have been trying out for the past few days, and I must say, I am not disappointed.

Blush/Multi-Purpose Tint & Nutrilips Balm

Its long lasting and as it is the first cream-blush I've tried, I certainly think they are better than powder blush. As a lip tint, I don't like it - I much prefer it to be just for blush. I found that on the few occasions I've used it as a lip tint too, my lips were dry and felt kind of chalky. The colour range isn't amazing, you can either choose the one I went for (Maggie) or a two others, which you will find here. It was £16.50 which is justifiable, considering I've used it everyday for a month (I started this post last month but never finished it, what?) and it shows no means of hitting "pan" as it so were. I want to try a topshop cream blush and compare it to see whether this Wild About Beauty multi-purpose tint is any different to theirs - apart from the price. To be honest, I don't really know what to say about this lip balm, other than amazing. Its really nourishing and long-lasting. My lips feel really soft and this is a great product for everyday use, as the colour is vibrant, but not too over the top for an everyday subtle look. I will definitely be investing in more tinted lip balms! 

Have you tried, or even heard about the Wild About Beauty make up range? Am I just out of the loop?

block?

Another started post on the refused to be neglected blog. The twinkling sound of the main menu music on my 500 Days of Summer is getting a little overplayed, preppy and annoying for my liking, like most music in the charts now but, getting off topic.

Pacing my room, organizing where my mountain of coat hangers from my school uniform; my jeans and my comfy hoodies that I never wear out, but are just too soft to resist, when they are hanging up in American Apparel in the most inviting shades of red and blue. However £40 for one is a large enough repellent, don't you think? getting off topic, again. 

Yes, well, pacing my room, I know exactly what I want to say, I even think of attention grabbing verbs; adverbs and adjectives to use that would work well in a blog post about thoughts, which would balance the ambiance of a fashion; beauty and thoughts blog - even though there are no other posts to define said category for my blog. I switch on my computer screen and squint at the brightness, which is widening my pretty exhausted eyes (so this post should really be finished tomorrow), and my mind goes blank. Everything I want to say, erased. Quicker than pressing the backspace button. Great.

I have millions, slight exaggeration, but a fair few of thoughts racing through my mind, all the time. I can't ever put my undivided attention into just one thing, there always has to be oodles of brain work happening within me. Is this bad? Sometimes, I think it would be nice to just think of one thing at one time, or perhaps thinking of nothing important, with nothing you should be doing or shouldn't be doing. The sweet bliss of nothingness.

So, here I am, kicking myself like a ball to David Beckham's right foot, because I've forgotten all the right things to say in this somewhat pointless blog post. I've just realised, I don't want to be one of those blogs where I supply copious amounts of facts about the latest mousturiser or pair of Topshop jeans, but I want my blog to be kind of personal, aswell as a few facts I may/may not know about mousturisers. Or mascara. Or whatever.

~ basically, I have a writers/bloggers block - which means I'm having difficulty thinking of ideas for posts and what to write  getting my ideas from my head to the virtual page and thought I should express this in an arty-farty, literature-y way ~

goldengirlbroughtlow

who?

My name is Becky and I'm a teenager from Liverpool, which is in the north west of England. Golden Girl Brought Low, is actually a quote from the book One Day, which has stuck in my head ever since I read the book a year or two ago. I have set other blogs up in the past, with names like "beckybutblogging", but I felt a little weird using my name in the title, I don't know why, plus I got really bored of the blogs really easily. 

why?

I love writing, and for a long time, really wanted to be a journalist/writer. Lately, I've been opening my eyes to so many other career paths, like PR. The careers advisor in my school said that a blog would be a step in the right direction, if I still want to pursue a career in journalism. So, here I am. I also love reading blogs myself, so it made sense to get to involved in the creation process myself. 

what?

Basically, I love fashion, make up/beauty, photography and the written word. So, if you combine them all, you make this little crumb of the internet pie. Result.