I was recentley contacted by Nickelodeon about the upcoming premier of their new show The Other Kingdom, which premiers on the 8th August at 6:30pm on Nick! I personally love all things supernatural, be it fairies, vampires or ghouls - so this is a show I can get behind! (I will also probably use the excuse of my little brother to watch it, sue me.) So without further ado, let's start this unboxing!

Finally I received this BEAUTIFUL moonstone choker, which I am in love with - you'll be able to see me pairing this with a plain outfit to jazz it up.... just not too jazzy, though.

*Products in this post have been sent to me for an honest review, you can see my full disclaimer here.

Hi guys! I don't know if you can tell from the title, or the photo of me in a stupid hat - but I graduated this week! And I thought what better time for a life update post than this? I graduated from Manchester Met with a first class honours in English literature and I am so proud of myself!! I was also given the subject award for graduating at the top of my class. I'm just so overwhelmed and shocked by the whole thing. If you were to ask me 5 years ago if I would ever have thought that this was possible I'd have laughed in your face. 

I finally know what it is I want to do with my life, I have a part time job and a place on a masters degree from a university that initially rejected me because my grades in sixth form were too low. That alone just shows how happy and content I am in my subject. It's this drive that is going to propel me forward in both my career and academically. If you were to ask me now what I want to be doing in five years time, I'll tell you that I want to be will be a lecturer of English literature, with a PhD and still blogging alongside this.

I originally planned for this post to be a post about my past and some of the stupid decisions I made, but I'm looking forward today. I cannot wait to see what academia and the blogging world have to offer me in future! I'm excited, and I'm ready.

Have you got a five year plan? Have you recently graduated? How did it go? Let me know in the comments!

Hi everyone! The past few weeks have been a hectic mess for me so I just wanted to sit down and write. Normal service will resume shortly, this is just a quick little life update,

First up I want to apologise for the lack of posts recently, as some of you will know from twitter I have recently gained, quit and then gained another job - a whole other post in itself right there! I have been working full time and that has definitely taken its toll on my blog, so as a result I have dropped down to part time work in order to keep my blog updated alongside making them dolla, dolla billz yo.

I am also graduating on Wednesday, so there will definitely be a post up with my outfit and makeup in the coming weeks - which I am super excited about. I will be graduating with a first class degree as well as getting the Award for English. Safe to say I cannot WAIT! I  hope that you've all been good, and normal posting will resume with a box opening post tomorrow! Yay!

*Products in this post have been sent to me for an honest review, you can see my full disclaimer here.

Seeing as though my post on why I think we should stay in the EU went so well, I thought I'd throw caution to the wind today and react to the outcome of this referendum. I am still adamant that we should have chosen as a country to remain, and the fact that we are going to be leaving is really disheartening to me. As many of you know, I am from Liverpool. A city, which before the EU was placed into a "managed decline" by the government, essentially left to rot. As a scouser, then, I have seen MANY of the benefits that the EU had to offer, and for that to be taken away - I just cannot get my head around it. 

I'm about to graduate university, on the 20th July actually. I find out what my degree classification will be on Monday, I should be worrying about that. I shouldn't be worry about what is going to happen to my future now, whether or not I will be able to pursue the career that I've set my heart on -or whether I'm going to be able to afford a mortgage. But here I am, worrying about all of that - because politics is unjust. I feel cheated by the older generations selfishly casting leave votes because "oh we won't be around for much longer, so it doesn't matter" (actual thing I overheard on a bus). I feel cheated by David Cameron, for resigning (never thought I'd say that) and leaving us in the middle of all this - with the thoughts of an unelected PM. And finally I feel cheated by the fact that this generation, now, thanks to those older than us are graduating university with £30k+ fees, we have no pensions, we can't afford to own homes and we've now lost the right to live and work in 27 countries. Please note I'm not trying to start a debate here, I'm just gobsmacked by this outcome especially when 75% of my generation voted to remain - the generation who have to live with this decision for the longest.

We have had our futures decided by those who won't be around to see the majority of the fallout, and that is what saddens me the most. 

*Normal posting will resume tomorrow, promise!*

I know that a lot of people going into their final year at university are starting to think about their dissertations now. And as someone who has just finished uni, and got a first in her dissertation I felt like I could give some advice on this topic! So here are my tips for getting a good grade on your dissertation at least in English lit (though I'm sure some of this stuff is transferable), and how to deal with the work load that envelops it!

Ever since I can remember I have been in love obsessed with music, and I have wanted to bring this into my blog. I have wracked my head for ways I can do this, and thought up of a new series, 'Rachel Loves', once a month there will be a new post listing a few of my favourites of different things, be it music, movies, beauty products or books. Basically a monthly favourites, that isn't a monthly favourites because it spans the course of a few months... Hopefully that made sense. As some of you may know, I was a MASSIVE emo kid in school, and that taste in music has followed me to this very day. Though I am impartial to a bit of One Direction every now and again. Anyway, here goes, here are twenty of my favourite picks in music at the minute!