Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes.

I’m only a few pages into Karolina Dalca Dark Eyes by M. R Noble and I already know I’m not the target audience for this book. I am however someone who hates leaving books unread so I will continue reading and hope for the best! Who knows, I might re-live my Edward and Jacob fantasy… 

The story follows a half-vampire called Karolina Dalca. From the start of the book, Karolina’s life is fast-paced with all sorts going on. The first incident is losing her mother in a house fire, closely followed by fighting two vampires, then sleeping with her long term friend who is a werewolf to being captured by another vampire. 

I like reading fast-paced books. Books that are filled with events, but these events need to naturally flow into one another. Here, there is a sense of something tragic or unexpected happening but before the reader can digest this, something new happens. It feels like the reader is all over the place and the reading feels rushed. 

The concept of the book is interesting. What drew me to the book was the vampire vs werewolf storyline. Even though this isn’t a new take in this genre I like how the author added a cultural touch. From the start, we know that Karolina has a Romanian heritage from her mothers’ side and Russian from her fathers. It’s clear that Noble wants the readers to feel the presence of the two heritages as they are referenced often.

Like many storylines this too has a werewolf and vampire lover dilemma. Our girl Karolina has a love affair with both Ramon and Andre. Just like my Twilight days though I have sided with the vampire. There is just something hot and cold about vampires that keeps me engaged, whereas werewolves are hot and always available. Can you tell I have attachment issues with unavailable guys?! 

For all of her life Karolina’s mother kept her father’s side a secret. We learn that this was for good reason as when Karolina meets her uncle, Loukin, he sets her up with their life-long enemy Kazimir. Spoiler alert: in the end it is Karolina who defeats Kazimir. 

As you can tell I didn’t really enjoy this book. This is the first time I’ve written a negative review and I won’t lie it feels kind of weird. I once saw that authors like constructive criticism but I’ve checked Noble out online and she does not need my criticism ahah! The book has 4.28 stars on Goodreads so it’s my word against 3120 ratings :)))))

Favorite product of 2018- E45 and soothing dry skin

I’m about 20 days late, sorry xx

You may have already seen my blog on suffering with dry skin. My tweets talking about my misery which is exacerbated by the cold weather. Tis the season my friends in which we dry to death, our skin screams against the winds and we just suffer.

Unfortunately, as it gets colder the troubles of dry skin will get worse. It’s not all bad news though as there are things we can do to prevent dry skin, from getting dryer. I guess you could say that the storyline of this blog will be both informative and a little emotional as I’m pretty much in tears everytime I start to itch.

Things to do to keep your skin moist:

1)Moisturise your skin at least once a day. They advise moisturising just after a shower as our skin is still wet from the water. Legend has it that the cream absorbs better when the skin is still wet in comparison to when it is dry. I have personally tested this and can confirm that my skin feels more comfortable when I moisturise while I’m still wet- yeah I said that.

2) If like me you suffer from a dry skin condition like eczema I would suggest moisturising twice a day. Now, I obviously am not a doctor and only suggesting what has worked for me. I just find that moisturising twice a day makes me more comfortable. Otherwise, I’m sitting here with the feeling of my skin tightening and feeling very itchy. This more than often not only makes my skin feel irritated but my mood also.

3) Use baby oil in the shower. This is something I discovered after I saw someone on Twitter suggest using baby oil instead of shaving gel. After following this process for a few weeks I noticed my moisturiser applying better and my skin feeling better than usual. So as you can imagine I combined forces and now when I can be bothered I’ll baby oil my body during my shower. This does sound weird as fuck but it’s helped me so I thought I’d share the weird wisdom.

As you may have noticed moisturing seems to be the dominant theme with dry skin. However, I found out the hard way that not every cream or oil will cure your skin. A few months ago my skin randomly started getting patchy, some parts of my body got really dry and I didn’t really know what was causing it. Instead of going to the doctors I just purchased a load of creams I thought would work.

The creams I used did me good for about an hour, after that, I would go back to itching and reapplying to the body parts that were really annoying.

The need to reapply moisturiser is good in theory but a pain in practice. There is just nothing more annoying for me than to have to get up every few hours and apply moisturiser.

This was my misery before I started using E45. I don’t know why I didn’t try it out before but since I have tried, it I have been repurchasing as it does the job. You know when people say an item is their holy grail, E45 is that for me.

I use this cream once or twice a day depending on how irritated I feel. It’s nice to have a product that actually works. I don’t really enjoy skincare products which have a strong scent, you know when you feel unsure if you are doing long-term damage just for a short-term solution. E45 doesn’t smell of much so its great.

How Essex is winning Love Island

Now I don’t know how long you’ve been watching Love Island, you may have started this season or like myself be hooked for 3 seasons now. I’m not including the previous Celebrity Love Island with Callum Best, though I will say do check his Instagram out the guy is an animal. I did not watch LI (Love Island) back then hence do not have much to say…
But these fucking 3 seasons how entertaining have they been? They’ve been such a hit that the season aired in 2016 with Cara, Nathan and Sophie Gradon (RIP to this beautiful soul) is now on Netflix. You can thank me later if you didn’t know.
There is just something about LI that gets the nation hooked. It’s the fresh entertainment, the daily gossip we get that keeps our group chats live and our evenings full. We’re all fans of the couples we support and the individuals we do not particularly like. Your opinion can change OVERNIGHT.
For example just two days ago I was a Georgia fan, you know her cute little loyal heart didn’t deserve that heartache. Today, after that bloody kiss with Laura’s man I have changed my mind. I mean I’m not major hate because it is just a TV show, I sometimes worry that people are forgetting this. So as much as Megan is twisted and Georgia is delusional about her loyalties to Laura- they are only human.
The juice just keeps giving. How cute is Wes now? Even Josh, I felt like Josh could’ve gone things a little differently but if he had then this year’s show wouldn’t have been as good. It was just a bit of a plain Jane show before Wes and Josh rocked the boats, thanks lads.
Let me get back to the purpose of this blog because I honestly just got carried away- TOWIE. The Only Way is Essex, LI has really proven this. From Cara and Nathan to Kem and this year’s lovely couple Dani and Jack. The nation just loves Essex.
I can’t blame you though it’s just something about Essex that’s so easy. Like people from Essex aren’t difficult, their banter is on point and their lifestyle is just all fun. I mean sure not all of Essex blah blah blah, but having lived in Essex for 4 years I’m not just making this shit up.
You could say they aren’t the deepest thinkers and maybe that is why they are so jolly and entertaining. Whatever the reason may be Essex is winning Love Island.
Good on ya SXXXXXXXX.

 

P.S I love you

Do you ever get the feeling of wanting to cry?

Lately I’ve really been feeling like this. This isn’t necessarily because I’m stressed, upset or anything- or at least that I know of. The only thing I have really been feeling is the need to unload, like to cry for all the months I haven’t been crying (I think it has been at least 4 months).

So I did what any smart person would do. I began my search for a sad, cry your eyes out kind of movie. I’m lucky to be honest, I’m one of those people who can cry at almost anything. I happy cry, sad cry, proud cry and so on.

I found good reviews for P.S I love you, the one that got me said something along the lines of ‘If you want to cry your eyes out from the very beginning, this one is for you’. To be honest, before I started watching I did want to cry throughout the whole thing, but let me tell you one thing. I was 32 minutes in and my soul was crying with me.

YOU WILL CRY YOUR HEART OUT IN THIS MOVIE. There is literally no other way because this movie will get you crying. (LOL I just re-read this sentence, I’m just repeating things for the sake of it).

I’m not going to discuss the plot in detail because I feel like that is kind of long. All I will say is that the main character Holly’s husband Gerry dies from an illness. After he dies she receives a series of letters. Yes, you guessed it, I cried at every letter.

This movie is obviously upsetting because he dies, but my god as I was watching it I was just thinking about how hard it is to deal with death. The acceptance of death, dealing with it and eventually being okay with it? This is actually something I struggle with. I won’t go into detail now but I do believe that it is important to accept death as a part of life…

The second thing that got me going was his love for her. If you have been reading any of my previous blogs (lil promotion deya) you will know that I am newly out of a toxic relationship. I say newly but it has been about 6 months or something THANK FUCK.

As I was watching I was coming to both new and reinforced realisation. New because seeing that men can actually care about their women and do things to protect her and her feelings always shock me. Reinforced realisation, this one hurts me a little more to be honest. To remember how much I waited for him to love me, how lonely I was while I was with him. The movie just reminded me of the effects of my shit relationship on me, even still.

I won’t go into crazy detail but this movie is good. If you want a good cry then P.S I love you is the one.

xx