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!

My first attempt at a flat-lay, I don't think it came out too bad! Recently I've seen a surge in posts like this one and was interested in seeing just how much a full face of my own makeup has cost me! So without further ado, I'm going to scare myself into not buying any makeup again. My day to day makeup consists of everything from the picture above plus a Rimmel BB Cream, the Rimmel Wonder'Full mascara and the Soap and Glory Kick Ass concealer. 

This all comes to a whopping total of £58.10 - and this is just the makeup I reach for the most on a daily basis... It's scary, then, thinking about how much my whole makeup collection adds up to! Now, I'm going to spend my day thinking about what else I could have actually spent that money on! 

How much does your face add up to? Are you shocked or surprised at this total? Let me know in the comments below!

As you may know, I recently completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature and will be going on to my postgraduate degree in the same subject come August. I was thinking the other day about how I didn't really enjoy any of the texts on my course unless they were ones I had chosen to read myself anyway - Dracula and Edgar Allen Poe's stories come to mind. I thought it would be interesting then to revisit some of the texts that I really disliked and see if my attitudes towards the books changed now that I'll be reading for pleasure rather than work. 

I feel a good place to start with this series would be Wuthering goddamn Heights. There is no book on my entire course that I hate more than this - but I'm aiming to go into each post/reading with a fresh mindset and no bias. I'm going to forget that Heathcliff is a right weirdo and that there is about 7000 Catherine's within the book. A few other novels I want to look at are Northanger Abbey, Mrs. Dalloway, Jekyll & Hyde and The God of Small Things - and then I think I'll go from there! There wont be a regular posting schedule with this series, as I don't want to force myself to read when I'm not feeling it - as doing this will just make me look at the novel in a negative way. I'd expect my post on Wuthering Heights to be up in about a week or so, though. You can keep up with me on Twitter here where I'll probably post (moan) about my progress with each book!

Are there any books that you read in school/college/uni that you would like to revist? Let me know in the comments!

In my most recent post I told you of how I went to my boyfriends house for a week to take my mind off the impending doom that is adulthood (you can read about this here). I love going to my boyfriends house, he lives in Snowdonia and it's just so picturesque. Granted I got dragged up a mountain and actually fell in a river during my week there - but it was such a good week in which we just hung out, met some more of his family, barbecued drank and walked about a bit. Standard. 

I'm going to do something a little bit different on my blog today and talk to you about politics! I can feel the eye rolls already but just hear me out! The EU Referendum is happening this month and some of us will have by now received our postal voting forms (I have!) but are unsure as to how to vote. There seems to be a lot of information floating around from both sides of the argument and none of it is seeming to make any sense. That is why I'm making this post, to tell you why I am voting IN in this referendum. Don't forget, if you are eighteen or older and in the UK you can register to vote up until the 7th June in order to get your voice heard!

(Normal posting will resume tomorrow, also - beware the meme).

Hi guys! I felt like sitting down and writing a little life update today. As you may know I have recently left university and will be graduating in July! This period in-between has been full of uncertainty and confusion and I can only imagine any recent graduates will only be able to sympathize with these feelings of doubt. Will I ever get a job in a field I enjoy? How am I going to fund my MA? Will I ever move out of my parents house? I just feel the need to get all of this out now that my boyfriend and I are back from his house in North Wales. The trip was a way of taking both of our minds off of the looming future - and also included a wedding, lots of beer, a barbecue and me falling into a river. A post on that week away will be up shortly!

Leaving university has been both exciting, confusing and disheartening for me! Exciting in that I have had the time to recollect on my time at uni, start planning on my future and in turn start blogging again. However, I have been for a multitude of job interviews to no fruition, I can't get work in certain places because the interviewers think that I'll move on as soon as a better job comes along now that I have a degree - which granted they aren't wrong! I can't be a bartender my whole life, but it will sure as hell keep me content whilst I finish my studies!

Another thing that is is SO weird about finishing university, is going from living on my own and seeing my friends and boyfriend every day to living at home and over fifty miles away from my nearest friend. It's such a culture shock and one I'm going to have to get used to over the next few weeks - and hopefully by then I'll have a job to add some routine back into my life!

Have any of you guys recently finished university? How are you finding post-student life?

After finishing my undergraduate degree I have found that for me the best way to stay organised is through bullet journaling. This post is going to showcase how I set up my bullet journal for a new month and a general weekly spread layout I tend to use! I'll also include some shots of me actually using this journal so that you can see how it works for me. I first came across bullet journaling on tumblr, and it has honestly changed my life and made me a much,  much more organised person. If you're like me and like crossing things of to-do lists - then this method will definitely work for you!