Optimistique.

Hello,
I've yet again been neglecting my poor little blog ! I'm really going to have to try and keep posting regularly, but for now just bear with me please !

So my exam re-sit went well, i think, i don't have results yet; i should probably get them sometime nearer summer, but i felt much more at ease than the first time i took it, and i didnt feel like i was blabbering on as much in my answers. Fingers crossed. :)

I've also got a few little things prepared for my portfolio, just a few drawings and photographs, and i think i'm a little closer to finishing my current projects too. All is wellll !

Anyway, i wanted to post some Regina Spektor lyrics, because i've been listening to her alotttt lately and i can't help but demand everyone around me to listen to atleast one of her songs if they havent already. The song im going to post doesn't have any real significance to me, well not immediately anyway. I just love the words and the way she sings them. So much !

Braille

She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks,
she hadn't been a virgin and he hadn't been a god..
so she names the baby Elvis, to make up for the royalty he lacked.

And from then on it was turpentine and patches,
from then on it was cold Campbell's from the can.
They were just two jerks playing with matches,
Cause that's all they knew how to play..

And it was raining cats and dogs outside of her window,
And she knew they were destined to become
sacred road kill on the way...
And she was listening to the sound of heavens shaking,
thinking about puddles, puddles and mistakes.

'Cause it's been turpentine and patches,
it's been cold, cold Campbell's from the can.
They were just two jerks playing with matches,
Cause that's all they knew how to play...

Elvis never could carry a tune,
she thought about this irony as she stared back at the moon.
She was tracing the years with her fingers on her skin,
saying why don't I begin again...

With turpentine and patches,
with cold, cold Campbell's from the can..
After all I'm still a jerk playing with matches,
it's just that he's not around to play along.
Yeah i'm still an asshole playing with candles,
Blowing out my wishes, blowing out my dreams,
Just sitting here and trying to decipher...
what's written in Braille upon my skin.


Heres the youtube link to the song too, i reccomend you listen ! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgbRKa3-kk

Anyway i hope you like it, let me know !
Love
Jac
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Dog Days Are Over

I've been a bit of a no-show recently due to UCAS deadlines and excessive amounts of college work and other various things so i thought i'd do a little post tonight while i had some idle time...

So i finally completed my UCAS applications, i applied to 5 universities;
-Kingston
-Nottingham Trent
-Leeds
-Teeside
-Sunderland
The titles and content of the courses i have applied for vary obviously but they are all design based, as i would love to be involved in Art Direction in the future. If anybody who happens to read this post attends/has attended any of those uni's or has done a similar course anywhere else please let me know what you think !

I'm getting on with trying to round myself up a portfolio at the minute whilst revising for an exam i have coming up and also trying to keep on top of work that has to be handed in in the near future. Tiring business, as im sure most of you will know.

My retched flu is apparently making a return, however i'm trying to ignore it and pray the weather warms up sooner ! I feel much more together, and capable this past week even though techinally im probably at my most busiest and most unorganised. Bit of a juxtaposition. Juxtaposition, that reminds me, im doing a brilliant project in my film class at the minute and my group has thought of a really excellent idea and im excited to get started with that so i'll keep updating on that ! But for now i think i've ran out of crap to say and i'm pretty tired...
Jac
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Remember, remember...

Okay well last night i was supposed to be at work as i would be every weekend but my night got off to a pretty disasterous start when i realised i had totally and utterly forgot about an important staff meeting i was supposed to be at, and had to rush into work early. Anyway, i eventually got there, only to be told i could go straight back home as i wasnt needed because it was so quiet !
That part wasnt all that bad because my friend was given the night off too so we decided to stay and have a few drinks with people at work and go out afterwards... now THIS, was definately all bad. I wont go into exactly what happened but lets just say, it was one of those nights that makes you never want to drink again.
As i lay in bed today desperately trying to remember the extent of my awful drunken antics, i couldnt help but wonder, why is it that we can so easily forget the things we need to remember, yet the things we'd much rather forget, we always remember ?

A friend of mine has recently been going through an 'on again off again' phase with an ex boyfriend of hers and it seems that no matter how much she is strung along by him and tells herself she needs to forget the whole thing, she finds it all too easy to remember him. Yet magically, all the times she has been so upset and angry, because of something he has said, she conveniently forgets. As i pointed out in the last post i am definately not an expert at this type of thing and the 'love, magic and romance' malarky isn't really my thing at all.. but when it comes to matters of the heart it seems we conveniently keep a permanent hard-copy of all things bad for us. Maybe we need to set up a 'healthy, 5-a-day' system when it comes to forgetting a bad experience ? 5 times a day we remember to tell ourselves, to forget. Seems sweet enough to me.

Anyway, i dont really have much more drivel to update you with in this post... everything has been pretty quiet of late. On a good note, i think i'm finally over my flu/bout of aneamia so i should be up and about as normal from now.

I've got a re-sit exam coming up..sometime..this month (should really check up on that).. and i've got some other UCAS related things to sort out so better get myself off here for now..
Toodles !
Jac
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And then there was three...

Okay admittedly my last post was a bit negative about the shampoo and blah blah so this is just a run of the mill, spur of the moment cheery little (or long as i tend to get carried away) blog post :)

I noticed something yesterday which amused me quite a bit, and i'll be hung drawn and quartered if my brother happens to stumble upon this but he, yes, my 15 year old brother is, by all accounts, 'in love'. Now thinking back to when i was 15, this whole idea of 'being in love' was thrown around more than the football in the school yard. It seemed holding hands at dinner and worrying about what to buy your current love interest for valentines day were the only things that mattered. Without wanting to sound too patronising or cynical or whatever, i cant help but look at my brother and his girlfriend and feel slightly sorry for them, however cute it is to see them declare their love for each other over facebook. I wonder if either of them actually think, honestly, that they are literally 100% in love ? haha. Im no expert at being in love or relationships or anything, infact im quite the opposite, im only 19 and i can safely say pretty much every so called 'relationship' i have ever had has been an utter disaster.. and i to be honest think that is pretty normal for a girl of my age. I look at people who i have been to school or college with or who live near me or whatever who have had children or are 'engaged' and it really honestly baffles me ! I have another brother who is 2 years old and i can take care of him for a few hours every week without problem, and i miss him whenever i dont see him, but to have my own child who was 100% my responsibility would kill me. Atleast it would at this age. Even to be engaged to somebody at this age would kill me..
Anyway..maybe i've been watching too many episodes of SATC. I'll shut up about love and my theories on young romance now. 'Cheery' was the aim of this blog !

On a totally different note, I cant wait for summer ! I'm so excited for the light nights, sunny days at the beach and the many many hours to be wasted sitting in or just outside of pubs drinking gin and lemonades :) heaven !

And to change the subject yet again, i thought i would mention a couple of my favourite 'trends' that are hanging about at the minute. First and foremost i am absoloutly loving tights and socks ! Henry Holland released a fantastic range of tights in '09 and i believe he has not long signed off another new collection and i doubt they'll be anything other than fantastic too ! Topshop also have some lovely tights, as do River Island. I live in tights and leggings right now, layered with either knee high socks or ankle socks, such as these beauties i purchased from Topshop the other day...



Im a sucker for florals right now too so these socks are a sort of 'two birds with one stone' purchase ! I might post a few pictures in the future of favourite outfits of mine that involve tights and socks, or even other peoples outfits that i love too :)

Anyway i think thats enough of my ramblings for one day, I'd love to know what you thought of this post !
Toodles,
Jac
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Fat Faux Pas ?

Hi ! So, i was thinking today and i decided to do something productive with this blog, so that im not just blurting out a load of useless nonesense. From now on i will do the occasional review of a brand or product that i have used (à la Bubbles1101 and Dianne Day Dreams), and some other little similar bits and pieces...

I'm going to start by doing a review on some hair products i've been using as of late..

Lately i've been quite into 'big hair' and as somebody with quite fine and...well, not very 'big' hair, i decided to seek out some helpful products. After some hours spent perusing the many bottles in the haircare isle at superdrug, i came across this...

The Samy Fat Hair "0" Calories Range...

Available in various different bottle sizes and at bargain prices (most products are under £10) i decided to give it a go..

I purchased two products, the 300ml bottle of 'Thickening Shampoo', which came in at £5.49, and the 50ml bottle of 'Amplifying Hair Spray' which came in at £4.98. Note: to my knowledge the whole samy range is now on sale in superdrug for around half the price ! typical.

The product info on the shampoo is as follows;

"This revolutionary sulphate free, 100% vegan, thickening shampoo is the first step toward thicker, fuller, stronger hair. Samy’s exclusive FH4 Thickening Complex—a blend of natural extracts and proteins—penetrates each hair strand, increasing the strand’s diameter and expanding the hair from the inside out. The result—thicker, fuller, stronger, healthier looking hair."

The product info on the hair spray is as follows;

"This extra hold, shaping and amplifying mist is a versatile design tool that adds extra volume, fullness and shine to any style. This unique formula keeps your style all day long and brushes through for easy re-styling.Leaves hair looking and feeling soft and touchable. Adds strength, body and texture without residue, buildup, stickiness or flaking."

Now, i'll start with the shampoo.. I have been using the shampoo pretty much every day for around a month now, and to be totally honest it started out looking okay, and went totally downhill ! I was originally quite impressed with the packaging and also the value for money as it is quite a big bottle and i tend to find with 'designer' or 'professional' ranges that you only get a small amount of product for a large amount of money. So i guess that's what attracted me to it initially. As far as texture, fragrance and effectiveness etc goes..
I found the smell to be quite odd if im honest, it doesnt really smell of anything in particular, it just smells.. well, odd ! I overlooked this since it did say it was 100% vegan so i thought maybe they had purposely made it 'fragrance free', and it did make me feel like i was being that little bit kinder to the environment by using a vegan shampoo. It has a really rich creme/gel consistency, which i am fond of, and it does feel really thick and luxurious when first applied to your hair. I found aswell that you really only need a tiny amount of shampoo to work up quite a good lather. So yeah, when first applied your hair immediatly feels silkier and softer, even when still washing, but then..this to me is rather pointless when in search of thicker, more volumised hair. If i wanted softer hair i would have bought the conditioner.. ! Then to add insult to injury, when drying/styling i didnt see any noticable improvement in my hair at all, no extra volume, it didnt look particularly fuller or stronger or even healthier... even after using several times.
So overall, while this product might be a joy to apply, i wasn't looking for a herbal essences type experience, and thought the product to be quite decieving and a waste of money if i'm honest. I highly doubt i will purchase this again !

Moving onto the hairspray.. I have been using this for around a month too, maybe not everyday but probably every other day, and for nights out etc. In a similar fashion to the shampoo, this product at first started out looking like a lifesaver. The packaging was attractive and although it wasnt as big a tube or as good value for money as the shampoo, it is a perfect size to fit in a handbag on a night out, so this in my opinion was worth the few extra pennies.
The smell of the spray is very similar to the shampoo, quite odd, but to be quite honest i dont know of many hairsprays that smell nice, as opposed to shampoo, which normally is nice and fragrant ! So i could overlook that. In general i found the spray does give a very strong hold, infact i think i even used the phrase "this is like glue" when i first used it haha ! However i did find that it didnt last long and my hair would drop after a short while. I also didnt think it added any 'extra fullness or volume' other than what i'd already added by backcoming or plumping up my hair, and it definately didn't leave my hair feeling 'soft and touchable' as promised, it infact made my hair dry as sticks and solid as a rock. While this product didn't do as much of a nosedive as the shampoo in my estimations, i wouldn't reccomend it as a thickening spray or volume spray or whatever, but i do continue using it as a regular hairspray for during the day. For important times i have switched back to my old Tresemme hairspray !

So i guess all in all, the samy fat hair range turned out to be more of a big fat fail.

Well i hope you found this useful or atleast slightly entertaining and if anybody else has used these products i would love to know what you thought !
Bye for now !
Jac
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It's About Tiiiiime...

So apparently blogs are all the rage now and since i've been poorly for the last week or so and had nothing to do.. i decided to jump on the bandwagon ! Apologies if i natter on about nothing at first as i didn't really have a particular purpose in mind for the blog other than to amuse me when i get tired of watching Sex And The City ! So yeah.. I'm 19 years old and i study graphics, film and photography at a college in South Shields and am hoping to run off to London very soon for Uni. I also have very kindly devoted my weekends to serving the drunk and disorderly folk in Viva Bar/Lounge :) haha !

I'm very into anything creative such as painting, drawing, writing etc and i also enjoy experimenting with fashion although some may just think i like to look silly..! I enjoy watching films and decent tv (none of this big brother or x-factor malarky !) and obviously enjoy the odd night out/gig as any other student would ha !

Would love to know if anybody has any suggestions as to what i can write about on this thing haha..
Anyway i think thats about it for now.. I'm off to sing along to some Libertines :) toodles !
Jac
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