Life Update | Megan

Hello everyone! So these last few months have been kind of crazy for me and I thought it was about time that I sat down to share with you all what's been happening and let you know about the exciting new chapter that I am about to begin. Here in New Zealand it is the beginning of another school year and as most of my friends are starting their last year of school, I am lucky enough to say I am not one of them. The last few years of school for me haven't been the best. When I was younger I absolutely loved going to school, I loved learning new things and being with all my friends. But as the years went on I found myself becoming extremely bored and unhappy with school and I realized that the school environment just wasn't for me. As much as I disliked school, I wasn't prepared to ruin my future by dropping out of school so instead I started looking at other options. University for me has always been something I knew I was going to do. When I started looking at other options I found out that it was possible for me to go to Uni a year early and begin my degree instead of doing my last year of school (if I got the right grades). Naturally I did everything I could to make sure I had the best chance of getting in, I worked hard and figured out my goals for my future. I applied knowing that my chances were slim and there was a very high chance I was going back to school. About a month ago I got an e-mail from the university congratulating me on my acceptance. I couldn't have been happier! Going to Uni is a a huge thing but I know it's what I want to do! This also means that I will be moving out of home (what???). Moving into the university halls will be a huge challenge for me that I am super excited and nervous about! I've never really been away from home for that long and moving out at such a young age absolutely terrifies me! But in a weird way, I can't wait. I think the craziness of it all makes me even more excited. A few years ago I would never have even thought I would be able to do this, but luckily I've grown up a lot in the past few years and this is definitely a challenge that will be good for me. Although, I am not near enough ready to be a grown up and having to do everything independently and acting like an adult has already been a major struggle for me. These next few weeks are going to be super busy with the move in day fast approaching (Sunday!) and getting everything organised for my first week at Uni, but I honestly couldn't be happier. I finally feel like I can start living my own life and figure out who I want to be. I can't wait to start living the Uni life and figuring out who I really am. I really feel like this is my year!

The University campus is right in the heart of the city. I've always wanted to experience the city life and so it couldn't be a better location. However I recently discovered a Starbucks cafe right across the road from where my apartment is which means I'm going to be losing a lot of money and Starbucks is going to be making a lot of money. It also means I will need to join a gym. It's also about a two minute walk from the main street of the city where all the main shops are which again means my bank account is going to suffer a lot. With all the excitement of moving out and beginning a new chapter also means a lot of stress and a lot of things to do! I now have to 'act like an adult' and do 'adult things' which is highly unlikely as my maturity level is probably about the same as a two year-old. It also means I won't be seeing Gabby everyday at school anymore which is terrifying considering we spend literally everyday together and have been together for the majority of the last few months. Luckily the city is only a short bus ride from the shore and she'll definitely be visiting me pretty much every weekend! And my phone bill is going to be ridiculous with the amount of times I will be calling her. But besides that everything is going great in my life and I've never been more excited about the future! I'll be keeping you updated with future posts to let you know how I'm doing and if I'm surviving being independent! Oh, and I'll still be uploading posts all the time! Focusing on our blog is still very important to me and writing is one of my favourite things to do. Sorry for all the rambling but when I get excited I can't stop talking and then this happens! I hope your're all having a lovely day and have many exciting things planned for they year ahead as well!

Love,

Megan xx

January Favourites

How crazy is it to think that we've already finished the first month of 2014! We can't believe how fast it went, it feels like yesterday that we were standing on the beach watching the fireworks for the new year! But despite the fact it went so fast, with the end of the month comes our list of things that we just couldn't get enough of this month.

In terms of beauty products, this month hasn't been too big, we haven't really got around to trying a lot of new products but of course we do have a few. With it being summer we try to keep what we are putting on our skin as light as possible and we really try to keep it healthy so we have been loving using BB creams instead of foundations, we've been using the maybeline BB cream for oily skin as we both have slightly oilier skin and it has been great for us, it doesn't give a lot of coverage but it does what we need it too! Keeping with skincare two things we relied on heavily this month was our cetaphil daily moisturizer and natio mud mask, these really helped to keep our skin feel healthy after being out in the sun all day. Another thing that could be classed as skincare (we think!) is the cocoa butter hand sanitizer that we picked up from a local drugstore and it is amazing, when you are out on the beach all day or around town you're going to want a snack and we don't know about you but we hate the thought of all the things we might have touched throughout the day, so a handbag sized sanitizer is perfect and the cocoa butter scent is definitely a bonus! In our summer essentials post we mentioned our love for pastel nail polishes and one in particular has been a must have for us this month, that is a Revlon nail polish in the colour 85 Minted, it is a beautiful mint green that is everything we want in a summer polish. We like to keep things bright when it comes to lips in summer and this month we have found our favourite shade yet, the Topshop lipstick in Ohh La La is the perfect mix of amazing colour and creamy texture that is all we could ask for in a lipstick! Our last beauty favourite of this month is our perfumes that we were both extremely lucky to get for Christmas and they are Dot and Daisy by Marc Jacobs, after wanting them for so long we cannot stop using them although we are trying to because we want to make them last!

Now onto our non-beauty favourites and we'll start with our favourite movie of this month which is Frozen! We're sure most of you will have heard about this movie, it has been talked about a lot since it came out and quite rightly, we absolutely loved it! It is a classic Disney movie with characters you fall in love with, the cheesy happily ever-after story and the songs that get stuck in your head for days, it's everything you could want from Disney and it really is good! But moving on to something slightly more grown up we have been really loving taking photos of anything and everything we see and after Megan bought a Samsung front facing smart camera in the boxing day sales this love has grown so much and we now have way too many photos clogging up our hard drives but oh well, we'll look back on them all one day and be glad we took them! It's not every month that there will be a handbag in our favourites because sadly our collection isn't quite big enough for that yet but this month we do have one, Gabby recently got a Kardashian Kollection bag in a bright blue that we both are loving and can't get enough of, it's big enough to fit everything she needs and adds a perfect pop of colour to her usually monochromatic outfits! Finally we have to mention our favourite foods of this month and a big one recently has been watermelon, after being out in the sun watermelon is the best way to get refreshed as well as being super healthy so that's a bonus! But our second food (well actually drink) favourite is definitely on the more unhealthy side but it's too good to turn down, the Starbucks coffee frappacino with a pump of hazelnut is our go too summer drink whenever there's a Starbucks near by, which unfortunately for our bank accounts, is way too often! We seriously recommend this drink to any of you coffee lovers especially if, like us, you love everything hazelnut!

That's it for this month! We hope you enjoyed reading this post and hopefully got some ideas of things to try out, talk soon lovelies!

xox

Valentines Day

We don't know about you but to us the thought of valentines day makes us want to stay in our rooms and watch cheesy romance movies that make you cry every time (titanic anyone?) but even though we're single we want to make it as good a holiday as any. Ideally we would gather up all our girlfriends and have a girls night in or go out and party but if, like us, your friends all have boyfriends and plans for the night you're going to need an alternative, preferably one that doesn't involve tears! When we sat down to think of tips and tricks to survive valentines day we started thinking about what valentines day actually is, and really all it is is a chance to show someone that you love them but it doesn't have to be your partner, we should use it as an excuse to tell our family and friends how much we love them too because the truth is none of us do it enough. So, that's our tip for this valentines day, take the chance to tell the people you love that you love them! Bake them cupcakes, make them a card, cook them dinner, buy them a present, it can be anything, even the simplest things can make their day so much better, just let them know that you really appreciate them and everything they do for you. It's such an easy thing to do and you'll find that it will make your day better too (and distract you from feeling sad about all the happy couples around you.) So instead of spending valentines crying alone in your room eating that second tub of ice-cream (because we all know one isn't enough when it comes to the valentine day feels), spread the love and be around the people you care about and you'll have a much better day. Don't get us wrong, we love the traditional valentines day dinners and having pink and red hearts around the city so if you can have that for valentines go for it! Have that special day with your partner and enjoy every second of it but remember to show love to the people close to you too. <3

Happy Valentines,

Megan and Gabby

xox

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