Lip Gloss

My Tanya Burr Lip Gloss Collection 

Hello Lovelies. I'm Jordan Nicole :) I am very into Youtube. I like Youtubers. I like the videos they make. I like the products they produce. I do not try and hide this fact. Now that I have disclosed that we can get on to the topic of the day: Tanya Burr Cosmetics. 

Tanya is a Youtuber/Blogger* who was at one time a professional makeup artist. If you are looking for wonderful makeup tutorials then I highly recommend her videos. On top of her expertise she also has the loveliest and most bubbly personality you will ever come across. Put simply, I love her.

Moving on to our actual topic, her cosmetic line. Specifically her lip glosses. Since I live in the U.S. I unfortunately can't get my hands on any of her nail polish but I have quite a large collection of her lip glosses. She has had two line releases and I have colors from both.

Ultimately the reason I love this range is not because Tanya made them (although I think it is amazing what she has accomplished!) but because they are phenomenal. The quality is ridiculous. The formula is everything you could want from a lip gloss. It feels amazing on your lips, they smell wonderful, they are long lasting and the pigmentation is on point. She also has produced every color you could need. I reach for a color from her line daily. 

I'm only missing four of the original line & six of the second release. I also didn't manage to get the limited edition Christmas one, which was tragic. She has overall released 21 shades and I am lucky enough to have ten of them. The top two on my wish list at the moment are Chic & I Found Nemo. Both of them are currently sold out which should give some indiction of how amazing they are!

In Order: Champagne Toast, First Date, Just Peachy, Afternoon Tea, Picnic In The Park, Aurora, Berry Picking, Lets Travel The World, Vampire Kiss, Enchanted Forest. 

I hope you enjoyed this post and got an idea of what color you'd like to try from Tanya's lip gloss line :) It is lovely and I'm sure you'd love it. You can click here to go check the entire line out. Also go take a look at her blog and youtube channel, both wonderful as well. If you have any questions or suggestions be sure to leave them in the comments below!

*Both Tanya's Youtube channel & blog are linked if you hover over them :)

All Of The Stars

Book Recommendation of the Month

Hello Lovelies :) I'm Jordan Nicole.

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

I am a big reader and I was a touch late on jumping on the bandwagon but when I read The Fault In Our Stars in February I realized what all of the hype had been about. I had been planning on reading it for a long while but had put it off because I tend to get a little skeptical when something is just doted on by a lot of people. I just think that there are some things that everyone will rave about and then I find that it really isn’t great at all. This was not one of those situations. I was pushed into reading it because I knew a film was coming out and I do not go see films that are originally a book without reading it, so I knew I was running out of time.             

I am not here to ruin this book for anyone so the following will include no more of the summary than this:

So basically it is just a realistic narrative commenting on what it is to be an adolescent in todays world, and the main character happens to have cancer. And at the core of it all there is love. There is loss. There is hope. There is heartbreak. There is humanity.

Read this. John Green is well worth your time, as is Hazel Grace. It is reasonably priced on amazon, the print and kindle versions. Even the audio one is fairly cheap, if you prefer that format (I personally have it on my kindle and have the audio book, I just re-listened to it recently). John Green makes you go to another place in your conscious mind that you didn’t even know was there. He takes you out of yourself and just makes you go a step further. He made me feel things I haven’t before and isn’t that what a great book is all about? And what a great author does? I was truly moved by this novel and the way that John Green can turn any sentence into an emotional masterpiece.

Not only are you getting a book recommendation this month but I obviously have to recommend the movie too! And while we are at it I am going to recommend the album as well. Goodness I just used the word recommend a lot! :)

The film was so well done. I really enjoyed the casting and was very pleased with how closely it followed the book. It is not a perfect, line for line adaption (no movie is), but it is one of the best I have seen in a long while!

The soundtrack is fantastic. Every track. If you don't want to buy the entire album then I will suggest Boom Clap & All Of The Stars!

I will leave you simply saying that I have enjoyed every aspect of my The Fault In Our Stars journey. You will cry, you will think and you will laugh. Basically the entire human experience in one lovely story. John Green is also a Youtuber (www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers) and the author of more wonderful novels! Look him up :)

And now my favorite quote from the book:

"'Sometimes people don't understand the promises they are making when they make them,' I said. Isaac shot me a look. 'Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyways. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyways.'"
-John Green, The Fault In Our Stars