Study Tips: Learning Your Methods.

Studying may be very hard for some people, but all you have to do is find the method of study that fits you best to have effective study habits!

Every one is different, so it is most likely that everyone studies and learns differently.

Maybe you really like literature and reading, and you retain information easily, which means just reading the lesson or notes may help you study.

If you have trouble paying attention or staying awake in class, ask a classmate for the notes of the day  or the highlights of the lesson the teacher gave. 

You may want to try different methods first and try again until you find the one that fits you best.

Don't rely on highlighters or other things that may "help you remember" because they might not work for you.

For example, memorizing and learning things is very easy for me so i just walk around trying to learn or memorize whatever will be in the quiz.

Don't be afraid to ask people for help, because you may not be able or it may not be easy for you to study on your own!

**I WILL BE OUT OF TOWN THIS WEEKEND AND I AM NOT SURE THE PLACE I'M STAYING AT HAS WI-FI I WILL TRY TO POST, BUT I'M NOT VERY SURE I WILL BE ABLE TO, SO IF I DON'T THAT'S THE REASON**

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DIY: Valentines Day Popcorn!

Are you ready for a yummy and fun DIY? We're going to make Valentines Day Popcorn!

I just made it for teachers day and they're delicious!

What you'll need

1 Popcorn

2 Candy Melts 

3 M&M's

4 Mason Jars/Bags/Containers

First, pop the popcorn and spread it on a cookie tray (with paper underneath).

Next melt your candy melts, they will burn if you just leave them on the microwave. Microwave for 10 seconds stir, another ten seconds, stir, and repeat until it is melted.

With a spoon put melted candy on the popcorn.

After the melted candy is hard again, dry, "sprinkle" M&M's over the popcorn.

When it is done, you can just put it on a container or enjoy it yourself!

Voila!

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Fashion: Steal Her Style! Ariana Grande (Pt.2)

Here's Part 2! I will be posting Exact, similar, and inspired items or outfits!

***THE HAIR AND MAKEUP IS THE SAME AS PART ONE I WILL JUST BE POSTING CLOTHING ITEMS***

The First outfit is an exact, from the Baby I music video.

All of the clothing items in this outfit are from American Apparel and they are sold separately, except for the shoes which are just Nude DEJAVU Steve Madden Pumps. This outfit is a bit pricey.

Floral Printed Cotton Spandex Crop Tank $30

Sunflower Print Stretch Bull Denim Cicle Skirt $60

DEJAVU Platform Pumps Steve Madden $99.98

The Next outfit is another exact!

This was posted on IG and then deleted shortly after (sorry for the arrow. only version I could find.) and she is wearing a Houndstooth Two-Piece top & bottom set with white heels. The outfit is very economical for the value.

Top

Bottom

They are $24 each, sold separately.

If you want to style it like Ariana and not like the model (without showing tummy) make sure it is your right size, it doesn't shrink, and if you have a long torso maybe the cropped vest won't be able to cover you fully.

Ariana Grande Cosmopolitan Exacts!

Cropped Topshop Jumper By Unique Used to be $150 now $75 *About to be discontinued* You can get similar ones, a lot cheaper, in stores like Forever 21 and Target for as cheap as $15

Aerie Reindeer Knit Boxers AE (American Eagle) Used to be $29.95 now $13.99 *Winter Line, may be discontinued soon*

These are Ariana's Doc Martens, they are $130 Portland rose and Part of the Print Collection (Get the Exacts here) if you think they are too expensive you can find similar ones for a cheaper price

They are both $36.80 from Forever 21 Can be found here

Next are all similar and Inspired items

Ariana Inspired/similar: Steal Her Style! by mbfds featuring a maxi skirt

Tea dress
$46 - fashionunion.com

Topshop blue dress
topshop.com

Print tee
etsy.com

Black top
nastygal.com

RED Valentino mini skirt
stylebop.com

Forever New maxi skirt
$79 - forevernew.com.au

Navy shorts
kohls.com

Lipsy high heel pumps
$91 - lipsy.co.uk

Jigsaw black necklace
$28 - jigsaw-online.com

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Fashion: Steal Her Style! Ariana Grande Version! (Pt. 1)

Hiii, today I will be posting my first post from the Steal Her Style! series. It will begin with a look from Ariana Grande. Many people love the way Ariana dresses, does her makeup, hair etc. and today I will be showing you many looks and where to get them, or clothes that are inspired by her look so that you can mix and match your own outfits!

Part one of the Ariana Grande section will be Getting the look (or a similar one) from the outfits she wore in the video for The Way.

Makeup

• Foundation
• Concealer (optional: Ariana uses)
• Translucent powder (optional)
• Bronzer (preferably Matte)
• Blush (Preferably a rosy shade)
• Eye Brow filler (kit, or brow pencil)
• Champagne and Brown Eye shadow
• Brown Eyeliner
• Eye lash Curler and Mascara
• Optional: Individual Lashes (Walmart, Ulta, etc.)
• Pink lip liner

Steps for Makeup:

1. Apply foundation in your face, any kind of foundation can be used although Ariana uses liquid foundation, you can apply this with your fingers, a brush, a sponge, or a beauty blender.
2. Take your concealer and apply it under your eyes to prevent dark circles, then, blend it in with your fingers.
3. To set everything together lightly dust translucent powder on your face (optional; Ariana doesn't use a lot of powder)
4. To get her cheekbones contour your cheeks and cheekbones with a bronzer (Ariana uses the Hoola Bronzer from Benefit. I personally have used it, I recommend it.) You may also want to dust it over the bridge of your nose, temples, and jaw.
5. Next dust blush over the apples of your cheeks, use a rosy color (Ariana uses Pink Swoon by Mac) 
6. Comb out your brows and fill in your brows (optional if you want to shape them like Ariana) She doesn't really have an arch in her brows so prevent that.
7. Now shimmer some light eye shadow on your lid (preferably champagne. I recommend the simmer champagne in the NAKED2 Palette) and then buff a dark brown color into your eye crease, then blend it together slightly.
8. Line top and bottom water lines with brown eye liner.
9. Curl your eye lashes and apply the mascara of your choice.
10. You can apply individual lashes at the end of your real eyelashes. They look more natural and give a flittery effect.
11. Fill lips with a pink lip liner for the signature Ariana Lip, if you want it to look like a lipstick then you may want to apply a coat of chapstick over the liner, since liner stays longer.

Hair

There are many ways to get the signature Ariana Grande hair this is how I style it:

*optional: the twist. Part your hair a little but before your usual parting, take a section of hair and twist it, then secure it with a hair tie. Just add it to the ponytail later. Or explained in a simple way: If you have bangs take your bangs or just a piece of hair and section it off until the end, then add it to the ponytail.

1. Apply heat protectant
2. Section off the top part of your hair to create the pony tail, use a teasing comb to brush your hair back, it helps because of the small bristles. After sectioning your hair and combing it back with the teasing comb just tie the ponytail with a headband.
3. After you're done with the pony tail curl your hair, preferably with a wand, to get the usual Ariana Grande bouncy curls and not wild curls.
4. Not all your hair needs to be curled from the top, curl some sections from the top and others from the middle, also curl them in different directions so they don't join together in the same direction to form one big curl.
5. Finish by adding a Ribbon! It is optional, but Ariana wears them All the time!

Outfit one: Black "Dress"

Guess what? If you have seen the video you probably thought Ariana was wearing a dress, she's actually wearing a sheer black tank and breezy black shorts!

Now, the exacts from the outfit in the video haven't been found and Ariana's Glam Team hasn't spilled out the details! If you want to sport the look like Ariana just look for the shorts and a tank, if you want something easier just go for the dress, no one will notice, right?

Get Similar Looking Dress Here This dress is very similar, though not as poofy (it's the shorts) and it's $39

As for shoes she is wearing over the knee Christian Louboutin heeled boots, you can just sport black thigh highs with black shoes. 

Accessories: Love Necklace $12 Urban Outfitters, temporarily out of stock!

Outfit 2, shorts and tank!

Outfit two is very simple, a white tank (she wore a corset type of thing, a bustier) and shorts!

Here's the exact outfit:

Bustier: Talola NOHO BUSTIER $35 from Aritzia

Get Bustier Here!

Shorts: Navy Blue Soffe Shorts only $7.99

Get Shorts Here!

Accessories: Pink Bow!

I will be posting Part 2 later with many similar and exact outfits and inspired outfits as well, from her everyday life, Awards shows, and even other videos!

byebye!

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Fashion: Naked Flushed Palette Review

Hiii, I'm so excited for Fashion Wednesday today since I'll be reviewing one of my favorite items! I will be reviewing the Naked Flushed Palette by Urban Decay.

The Naked Flushed Palette is very helpful. Three Different, but great things, in one Palette. Naked Flushed can be found at Sephora, Macy's, or any other store that carries the Urban Decay brand. It is just $30 (for 0.49 oz.), which is a very great price for the things it offers you & the amount, some of the other NAKED palettes can go as high as $52. 

NAKED flushed gives you a bronzer, highlighter, and blush as well, which are all for your cheeks and very important attributes for makeup routines as it contours, highlights, gives your cheeks a rosy tint, and can give you a sun kissed look.

The Bronzer is very light and sheer, not to thick or pasty and it is not cakey or powdery either. It is a medium tan with orange undertones. 

The highlighter has a very champagne-y color to it, with a hint of shimmer. A small amount of it can go a very long way! If you ask me, the highlighter may also be used as an eyeshadow to use for your crease when it is combined with other colors. 

The blush is a medium kind of dark rosy pink, it also has a hint of coral and it is a matte color. It kind of has a spring, summer feel to it and it is very warm. If you are used to wearing warm colors and using gold accessories this will go great with your skin. 

NAKED flush is a very great makeup item for both natural looks and looks for a night out!

I hope you enjoyed the review and if you're into fashion or make-up, you have to check it out!

-xx

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Book Review: Let it Snow

Hiiii!!! Today I will be reviewing, Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances, by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle.

Let it Snow is a collaboration book with three different stories that revolve around one thing: A snow storm. The three different stories in Let it Snow consist of The Jubilee Express, A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle, and The Patron Saint of Pigs. All of the stories also have several things in common besides the storm, for example one main character in one story may go to the same school as the main character in the other one etc.

Personal Summary and Review of the book: 

• The Jubilee Express, the first story, is written by Maureen Johnson. I absolutely loved it, it was the first work by Maureen Johnson that I have ever read and I think that she is just amazing. She has a way of capturing how young people think and speak and just writes like, well, a grown-up, but when it gets to the part of Jubilee speaking or even Stuarts little sister Rachel speaking she writes as if they were talking. As if a teenager or a child was speaking, not a young adult. The Jubilee express is about Jubilee, a girl who was sent to Florida with her grandparents because her parents were arrested. There is a terrible snowstorm and the train she is on get's stuck. Jubilee isn't too fond of staying in a train with fourteen cheerleaders(with several Madison's and Ambers) and a guy, Jeb. She leaves to the Wafflehouse outside where she meets Stuart, who takes her to his house. 
• A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle, written by John Green, is about Tobin, The Duke (who is a girl, by the way), and JP. Tobin is home alone since his parents are stuck in Boston, when Keun invites the trio to the Wafflehouse since there are fourteen Cheerleaders stuck in there, because, I mean, what guy wouldn't be dying (Really?). They try to take the car, but going to the Wafflehouse is not that easy. What will happen when the car loses a tire and they can't drive it anymore? A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle is just CHEERTASTIC! It's funny and entertaining and if you like sarcasm you will certainly love the Duke. John Green is one of my favorite authors and I thought the story was great!
• The Patron Saint of Pigs, Written by Lauren Myracle, is about Addie. Addie just broke up with her boyfriend, Jeb, and she just can't get over him. After being stood up, she doesn't know what to do. She goes to her friends for help, but they accuse her of being too self concentrated. To prove her friends otherwise she offers her friend Teagan help to bring her loved pig, Gabriel home from the pet store (Teagan is weirdly obsessed with pigs). What will Addie, the Starbucks Barista do to get back her guy and take care of a Pig all the same? I think this story had a well thought out plot, it was very unusual, but believable at the same time. It was really well written and I can't wait to read more of Lauren Myracle's works.

I rate this book a 5 out of 5

Other Presentations of the Book:

Official Summary of Book (taken from book):

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.

Meet The Authors (B/N):

John Green is the author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan). He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Visit him online at johngreenbooks.com

Maureen Johnson is the author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Devilish, Girl at Sea, The Name of the Star and Suite Scarlett. Visit her online at maureenjohnsonbooks.com
Lauren Myracle is the author of many popular books for teens and tweens, including Shine, Kissing Kate, Peace,Love and Baby Ducks,  The Winne Years series and New York Timesbestsellers ttyl and ttfn (Abrams). She lives with her family in Fort Collins, Colorado. Visit her online at www.laurenmyracle.com

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Music Mondays: The Grammy's

Music Mondays: The Grammy's

The Grammy's one of the most important nights for Music! Many artists joined together in one big night!

Did you watch? If not, I will be talking about the event and providing the list of performers and some winners.

Performers: 

1. Beyoncé and Jay-Z

2. Billie Joe Armstrong (green day) and Miranda Lambert.

3. Bruno Mars

4. Daft Punk, Nile Rogers, Pharrell Williams, and Stevie Wonder.

5. Hunter Hayes.

6. Imagine Dragons

7. John Legend

8. Juicy J

9. Kacey Musgraves

10. Katy Perry

11. Keith Urban

12. Kendrick Lamar

13. Lorde

14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

15. Madonna

16. Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and Blake Shelton

17. Metallica and Lang Lang

18. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr

19. Pink and Nate Ruess

20. Robin Thicke and Chicago

21. Sara Bareilles and Carole King

22. Taylor Swift

23. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue.

Both the awards show and the red carpet were filled of wonderful surprises and amazing people. Artists like Lorde and Ed Sheeran were very happy to be nominated for the first time.

Everyone was looking fancy, all the women looked gorgeous and stunning while the gentlemen looked very handsome.

First Ten Awards and Winners:

1: Record of the year: Get Lucky. Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

2: Alum of the Year: Random Access Memories. Daft Punk.

3: Song of the Year: Royals. Lorde.

4: Best New Artist: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

5: Best Pop Solo Performance: Royals. Lorde.

6: Best Pop Duo Performance: Get Lucky. Daft Punk.

7: Best Pop Instrumental Album: Steppin’ Out. Herp Alpert.

8: Best Pop Vocal Album: Unorthodox Jukebox. Bruno Mars.

9: Best Dance Recording: Clarity. Zedd featuring foxes

10: Best Dance/Electronica Album: Random Access Memories. Daft Punk.

One of the biggest nights of Music!

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Surprise Weekend: Favorites Part II

Part two of my favorites!!

Who's watching the grammy's?

I am!

Hope you like these (:

TV Shows:

Teen Wolf! I love teen wolf it is definitely one of my Favorite T.V. shows of all time! Check it out! If you like suspense, fantasy, mystery, and romance you will love it! Watch it on MTV!

Gossip Girl:

It is amazing, so full of drama! If you love PLL you'll also like this show! Find it on Netflix.

Movies: Frozen (!!!)

Frozen is currently one of my favorite moments! It is so cute and funny and fit for all ages. Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven are such fun characters. It's still on theaters and you can find it on DVD in Spring 2014.

Youtubers:

Mandy Steele, aka Makeupbymandy24! Mandy is a fourteen year old beauty guru! She's so funny and just great, also if you want to find clothes that are suitable for your age you can definitely find them by looking at her channel!

Makeup Product:

Bad Gal mascara from benefit! It makes you eyelashes look full and long! Just apply a few coats on your top and bottom lashes, curl them and voila! It isn't lumpy and also doesn't stain the skin around your eyes. 

Hope you enjoy these! Check them out!

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Surpise Saturday: Favorites.

Hiiii!! I know it's late, I'm sorry, I had loads of things to do! Placement exams, dance practice for school, family dinners and whatnot.

Today I am going to recommend some things that I personally enjoy.

Music:

My recommendation is an album that I have just purchased recently (I've heard it before, but I just bought the hard copy) and I love it. I can listen to it all the time.

It is the album AM by Arctic Monkeys

A book recommendation is a book that I literally just finished reading: Let it Snow by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Miracle (It is a collaboration book) and I will be doing a full review of this book on Tuesday.

Another thing I have been loving is an app named The Hunt, it's free and if you love to shop you'll love it. You basically upload a picture of an item of clothing that you want to find and purchase and other people will let you know if they find them.

The next thing I am recommending is actually a candle from Bath & Body Works. It is kind of Christmassy, but I just love it. It is the fresh balsam candle and it comes in three presentation, small, in a jar, or three wicked. I have the one in a jar and the three wicked one and I am about to finish them! the smell is wonderful and very strong.

The next thing is a fragrance, it is Dot by Marc Jacobs. It is fresh and smells amazing, it is perfect for spring and summer, and usually used in the day. The scent isn't musky, it is actually very floral and fresh all the same.

Goodnight lovelies, sweet dreams & thank you for reading -xx

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