COLOUR PALETTES

As a person who was given, by God, hooded eyes, I have learnt how to finally adjust my eye shape to keep up with the latest eyeshadow trends.

From the classic  smokey eye, The “spotlight” / “Halo” look and so many others. But these can only be achieved with good products that range from "Drugstore" to "High End"- I’m talking I can’t eat for 2-week purchases. But it’s all for a good cause, looking good.

This week I'll be showing you the colour palettes I love-ish

Sleek - Sunset and Acid - Purchase here

A mixture of Shimmer and Matte they provide the most amazing colour payoff! My number one drugstore eyeshadow brand. At only £7.99

120 Palette from Ebay, £5

CHEAP AS CHIPS. The colour payoff I find not to be amazing, but some of my other makeup junkies swear by it. The best way to get full wear of this is to use a white base primer - I recommend the NYX primer in MILK.

MORPHE 35B - £19.95

Amazing pigment and finish. Some colours might feel chalky, but the majority are buttery and so easy to blend.The packaging needs a bit of TLC though

URBAN DECAY  - Electric palette 

The pigment is UNREAL. All the colours are perfect. It retails at a debit card crushing £38

I'm sending you all mental finances. 

Ranti

Degree Classification and dealing with it

When I first came to Uni, I said to myself for once Ranti let us prove that we can do this, excel and achieve skyrocketing results and find that 1st class, somehow and somewhere. Secretly I knew this was not in my ability. My academic life had been plagued with  B's and C's which did not reflect my Library shifts, (I didn't even get the required grades for University)and somehow my brain just couldn't comprehend how to write that A* paper.

So I humbled my aspirations and said at least a 2:1, happened in the first year, but things spiraled all the way down. Fast forward to today, 20th June 2016. 

I've really beaten myself up, I've  cried, cried and screamed. I'm ashamed and bitterly disappointed in myself. I graduate with a 2:2. 

The third year for me was like being dragged through the streets.

My dad was dying and I was dealing with it, my way, privately. 

I would go to my seminars, participate actively, and try so hard to write an award winning politics essay (that I still don't know how to write) and feedback would be mediocre. I would go to my tutor, my lecturers, everyone. 

I've never killed myself so much for an exam season, practically living in the library trying not to have a mental breakdown so I could prove to myself that right, I can do this and wave away the cloud of "she's just average".

But I have to get over it, deal with life and try not to dwell. I've never dealt with results day with my chin up and never taken the "you should be grateful" rhetoric easy. I said The university will be that last chance I have to excel academically and this fell through. 

I got what I deserved as so did everyone else. Everyone I know has done so well!

Ranti

*disclaimer, everyone has different aspirations, please please do not take this as a dig at anyone who has similar grades to me and this is an immediate reaction*