My favourite (Youtubers) Halloween-Tips

Hello Muggles,

so Halloween is coming nearer and nearer and although I'm a huuuuge scaredy-cat I quite enjoy it... mainly because of "The Nightmare Before Christmas"! :D

I have to admit that I'm not good at giving advices when it comes to Halloween dresses, makeup etc., so I thought I'd show you some of my favourite Youtubers and their Halloween-related clips. :)

1) MAKE UP

Urrrgh, horrible thumbnail, Tanya (pixi2woo)! But this is what a good Zombie makeup should look like. :)

If you want to look even more unattractive, try out Nicola Haste's (pixiwoo) very impressive but complex Frankenstein-look. :D

One of my absolute favourites is "Miss Argentina" from "Beetlejuice" by Samantha Chapman (pixiwoo) - this is my personal taste of a reeeeeally cool Halloween costume / makeup! :)

If you're looking for a last minute thing, you should definitely check out Sam's (beautycrush) interpretation of Batman's Poison Ivy.

And here we go with another pixiwoo video. I said this in my "Why I wear make up"-TAG but one reason why I "love" makeup is the fact that you can be an artist and turn it into something beautiful and exciting - just like Nic did it with the Emily-look of Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" (which is one of my favourite films by the way)! :)

If you don't like dressing up but still want to look a little bit more "special" on Halloween, have a look at the "Glamourous Party Make Up"... by pixiwoomadness (too much pixiwoo over here^^). 

2) COSTUME

No comment. xD

3) DECORATION ETC.

Although this is in German, I would like to show you because you can understand the very cute and creepy ideas of spooky food / snacks without knowing the language. There is some VERY cool stuff in it, so make sure you watch it! :)

Here you have hilarious Jim Chapman (yes, another Chapman^^) making the greatest pumpkin ever! Long live Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king! :D

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That's it from my Halloween-Tips... which weren't actually mine. :D

I will now go and make my own Jack Skellington pumpkin - see how it turned out here:
https://twitter.com/HermioneG7/status/263013891469090816

I hope you found that helpful and entertaining and I wish you a spectacular Halloween-feast!

Please let me know how you are celebrating Halloween and as what / whom you will dress up in the comment section! :)

Have a lovely day and see you next time,

Hermione

Tops & Flops (September)

Hello Muggles,

September has already come to an end and I thought of telling you what I liked and disliked. :)

TOP:

1) Danisnotonfire

If you could see me writing you would know how red my cheeks are right now. :') 

I'm turning into a creepy girly-girl when thinking about Dan from danisnotonfire 

I don't watch his videos because he's handsome as hell (oh yeah, we all know it's true - you know it's true, Dan) - although this probably is the reason why I watch so many of them - BUT he's just the funniest guy ever and he makes me laugh every single second - pure entertainment especially in the grey days of autumn that are to come! :)

Watch his videos, if you like a good laugh... and you can handle the handsomeness. ;D

(I also love AmazingPhil, of course! Rawr!)

2) Essiebutton

Let me just talk about Youtubers at once. You probably already know how much I adore Estée from essiebutton but I can't get enough of watching her videos. :) She is hilarious and entertaining like no other and you just have to watch the video I put up below - especially the end will demonstrate you why I'm so in love with her. :D

3) Books ("The Future of us")

As "books" is quite a lame headline for something I liked this month (because I didn't just like books in September...) I added one of the novels I read, which was "The Future of us" by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. I read within 24 hours because it's just very easy to read and to be honest I had a lot of time and fun reading it so it was ticked of very fast. I will do a more detailed review about it because it's one of the few books I read in the last couple of months that is actually written in English - so everyone of you should be able to read it, which makes the whole thing of writing / reading a review more interesting! ;)
Other books I read were "Log Out" by Sylvia Witt and Oliver Uschmann, "Das Portal" by Elke Pistor (which I didn't like), "Der Krähenturm" by Kerstin Pflieger and last but definitely not least: "Solange die Nachtigall singt" by Antonia Michaelis!
I also finished the "Jane Eyre" audiobook - which I loved! :)


 

4) Dark red / Plum lipstick

Picture by P2 - I bought the middle one (Rue de Rivoli)

 

This is probably mostly autumn inspired but I love darker lipsticks on other people and so I bought my first really dark one, which you will also see in an upcoming collective haul very soon. :)

My favourite look for autumn is wearing a dark lip and only mascara on your eyes - no eyeshadow or anything else that diverts from your lipstick.

There`s a quite interesting "Dos and Don'ts of Dark Lipsticks" on the Glamour page. Just click here to check it out. :)

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FLOP:

1) The Hunger Games (Film)

Picture by mmm-mag.com

Okay, I know that it's not nice to talk about anything in a bad way but I'm just being honest here and I don't want everything to be perfectly good every time because it just isn't. 

After this short disclaimer I would like to talk about how disappointed I am about "The Hunger Games". This film is SO hyped and everyone I know watched it in the cinema and liked it so I wanted to have a look myself. Here's the truth: I watched 30 minutes! That's it.

Firstly, the camera was driving me insane.

Secondly, I think the actors aren't good and convincing at all - worst of all: Liam Hemsworth! I just didn't believe him. He was like thrown in there like anyone told him: "Just be the "pretty" friend of Katniss, don't show any personality:" o.o

Thirdly, the animations. How can a film, which was this expensive have animations that look like in Blue's Clues? 

And in the end: I felt sooo bad watching! I literally felt like one of those crazy people in the Hunger Games world that watches the Hunger Games in TV or something. I couldn't deal with that and felt so bad after thirty minutes that I decided to end my Hunger Games experience there. 

Maybe I will read the books but probably the topic in general is not for me.

Don't be mean with me because I'm just talking about my opinion and if you liked the film than why shouldn't that be okay? Hurray for you. ;)

2) Learning Latin in 3 weeks

Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds. Because I'm about to do "English Studies" in university I have to learn Latin. It's not enough that I already did 4 years of French and 3 years of Italian - no, it has to be Latin, as well! -.-
The genious I am, I decided to do two crash courses for three weeks each. I finished the first one last week and should be able to know about 600 words and a million forms of grammar. Sad story is I am not. So the plan for the following 11 months is to do revision all the time. Hopefully that will work because there is an Latin exam to come next year... and I have to pass! 
Hurray to the future. ;D




 3) Bye, bye summer - hello autumn

Picture by wallpaperzzz.com

As romantic as this autumn picture might look like... I don't like it. I'm surprised how many Youtubers and Bloggers adore this time of a year - but they mostly said they like it because of the fashion... I also like autumn fashion but I fancy warm and sunny days anyway. :'D
I don't know how to survive winter yet... -.-
xD


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Okay, I think that's enough for now. I hope you enjoyed it.

Please let me know what your September top and flops are or link your own blog in the comment section down below! :)

See you next time,
Hermione 

"10 Day You Challenge" - Ten Secrets!

Hello Muggles, 

recently I saw this challenge on Haleys blog (Water Painted Dreams) and I thought it's veeery interesting, so of course I had to do it as well. :)

The title is a little bit odd I think. Is "10 day you challenge" proper English? I don't know.
The idea of posting 10 days in a row scares me a little because I really don't want you to be bored - but we'll see how it ends up.

I hope you like the general idea of it - feel free to join in and do the challenge as well! :)

As you can see on the picture, it all starts with 10 secrets and the majority of them is not a secret in general but it is for you because my time in blogging-world just started a few months ago. ;)

1) I'm addicted to Nutella. Not good at all, I know but I just have been loving it since I can remember!

2) Darkness and silence scare me to death - this is why I often sleep with a little light on listening to audiobooks... like a child. :'D

3) I've never ate an Avocado o.o

4) I always have to get rid of spiders because I'm the only person in my surroundings, who is not afraid of them. I actually wanted one as a pet... but I decided not to get one because I wouldn't be able to feed it cockroaches and things like that because I think cockroaches are the most disgusting things in the world. Sorry to say that because they are animals and general beings on our planet but I freak out thinking of them - urrrrgh! 

5) I'm still with my first boyfriend ever - and we're together for about six years now. :)

6) I can't drink tea without sugar. 

7) I'm not a religious person because I just can't fit into any religion I know. Maybe you can say that I'm spiritual but not religious. The actual thing I wanted to tell you is that I believe in reincarnation and karma. I for myself believe that you can choose your next life after dying.

8) Don't know if this really is a secret but I just started being interested in beauty and stuff in December 2011 - because of a German Youtuber called Reni (www.youtube.com/user/xKarenina).

9) In January 2012 I stopped eating meat after doing a project for my art classes in school where I had to find out things about  industrial livestock / factory farming - I'm still more than shocked about it. I never ate much meat and when I was about 15 I didn't eat any meat for a year but somehow I started it "a little" again and I honestly don't know why. :(

10) I was quite obsessed with Hilary Duff. I still "like" her because I think she is very sympathetic, lovely and just a nice girl. :) And she is BEAUTIFUL!! *.* (But yesterday I watched her film "Beauty and the Briefcase" and I think it was horrible! :D)

I hope you liked that. 

Please leave a comment - especially if you also do / did the challenge on your Blog and if you like Hilary Duff! :)

See you next time,

Hermione

I am a little shocked... (Guru Gossip)

Hello Muggles,

this post will be a little different from the rest. I am quite shocked right now and would really appreciate if you read what I'm writing right now and if you could leave a comment telling me your point of view in the comment section:

Today I found a website called Guru Gossip because I was "googling" Voussontbeauetbelle. Sounds quite strange, huh? I just wanted to find her Tumblr page because I loved to watch her videos on Youtube but because of her illness and the "hate towards her" she stopped doing them and paused Youtube for a while.

Nevertheless, the second website I found was called "Guru Gossip" and I thought: "What is it and why is it the second top website when looking for Becca?" (this is the Youtubers name I was looking for) Well, I clicked on it and read a little through it. 

The basic concept of "Guru Gossip" probably is just to offer a platform where you can talk about Beauty Gurus and Bloggers BUT there is something going very wrong on this page. Almost every famous Youtuber gets beat up to the worst! I never read more cruel things about people! From quite "harmless" accusations of Youtubers copiing each other to super mean things about not being hygenic but dirty and the biggest liar in the whole world.

Of course, you can't be sure that everything a Youtuber / Blogger tells you is true BUT you can just stop watching their videos / reading their Blogs. I think it's very cruel to be this mean and negative. There is so much hate going on that website - I still can't believe it! I am hurt how disrespectful and mad human beings can be! Those people, who write those things are probably just as horrible as the people who authorize all the comments. If I were one of the Youtubers they talk about I would probably break down, as well, and I can now understand how Becca must have felt because especially in her case those people crossed all lines possible. They taxed her with being fake and wearing extensions and literally spied on her dad's ebay account to prove what she was buying on ebay. Hello, how sick can you be? Looking all over the internet for an ebay account of a Youtubers father?? No, I can't deal with that!

This will probably be a bit harsh of me but I think that lying and gossip has become "cool" and harmless in our society. I, for example, never couldn't understand why people would watch Gossip Girl, Desperate Houswifes and Pretty Little Liars (just those three shows as an example). I looked at some episodes just to get a proper idea what the topic is and I was appaled of the "morals" those shows impart. 

I don't want to "attack" you if you like those shows but I just can't comprehend it and think the messages the shows spread are very wrong.

I don't want anyone to feel insulted (except for the really cruel people of Guru Gossip maybe - this is just wrong!) but just advance my view on my personal Blog.

Nevertheless, I hope you have a nice day!

Please leave comments telling me your opinion. Do you think the same about Guru Gossip or do you maybe think I'm the mental one? Be honest in the comment section down below! ;)

See you next time,

Hermione

The ultimate Harry Potter TAG! :)

Hey everyone,

today I watched the Harry Potter TAG by Joey Graceffa and Jim Chapman (click on their names to get to their Youtube-Channels) and I just had to do it of course! By the way: I did the full TAG - I think Joey and Jim left some questions out. ;)

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I hope you'll enjoy it and I would be sooo happy if you would do the TAG as well. You can either answer it in the comment section or link your channel, where you did the TAG. :)

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Let's get started...:

1) Favorite book

- My fav's are Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban (because you get to know more about Harrys father, Lupin and Sirius and it's just so interesting!) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (just because it's the ending of it all - not that this would be a good thing but I love how everything becomes clear and gets explained).

 2) Favorite movie

- It's part 3 again. I think there are still huge gaps in parts 4-7 and this is why I don't prefer the last movies.

 3) Least favorite book

- I don't have a real least favourite book but I don't like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as much as the other because Prof. Umbridge just drives me insane! She's even more horrible in the book than in the film! 

 4) Least favorite movie

- This is quite easy: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! I just don't like the whole atmosphere in the movie and I really don't like Beauxbaton and Durmstrang and their people in the movie. :/

  

 5) Parts of the books/movies that made you cry?

- There were so many but as an example I choose the death of Fred Weasly (I was sitting in an overcrowded bus full of pupils reading that scene for the first time and people were starring at me like I was crazy^^) and the scene when Bellatrix tortures Hermione and Dobby dies shortly after this (I cried my eyeballs out in the cinema!).

 6) Twilight vs. Harry Potter...

- Wtf? 

 7) If you could hook up with any HP character who would it be?

- Actually there is nobody I'm very attracted to... when I was younger I had a crush on Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) but not nowadays anymore. :D

 8) Favorite character?

- Easy-peasy: It's Hermione! She's just so intelligent and helpful and I just love her for doing "S.P.E.W." :')  I also like Sirius Black a lot. :)

 9) What would your Patronus be?

- It would probably be a Deer... or a Koala. :D

 10) If you could have the Resurrection Stone, Invisibility Cloak or the Elder Wand which one would you choose?

- None of them because they are the "Deathly Hollows" but if I really had to choose one I would go for the cloak.

 11) Are you upset with any parts left out in the films?

- Hell yeah! I think there's a scene in every book, which is not in the movies but right now I'm quite mad about the scene from Part 5 when Harry & co are in St. Mungos and they meet Nevilles parents. Especially because Nevilles part is quite big in the last movie I think it would have been important to show his parents and his situation. 

The second scene, which isn't in the movies is when Dudley says goodbye to Harry at the beginning of part 7. They filmed it but it git deleted in the end. :/

I could go on and on but I don't think that anyone's interested in reading it, right?^^

 12) What House would you be in?

- I'm sure that I would be in Hufflepuff. In Pottermore I'm a Hufflepuff as well... and I like it! I'm nobody, who laughs about them - I like being a Hufflepuff. :D

 13) Favorite subject at Hogwarts?

- There was a time when I did some "Hogwarts online" stuff and we had to take classes and do homework and so on (was quite fun actually - although it's nerdy as hell^^) and I enjoyed "History of Magic" the most. But because I didn't like history in my real school life I would go for "Charms" or "Defense Against the Dark Arts". :)

 14) Favorite professor?

- Professor Lupin! :)

 15) If you could meet any member of the cast who would it be?

- Maybe Emma Watson.

 16) If you could do one spell in real life what would it be?

- It would be "Lumos" because I'm afraid of the dark and that would help. :D

 17) Have you played any of the video games?

- I started several of them but didn't like them that much. I played the 1st one on PlayStation, the 3rd / 4th (I think) on NDS and the 7th on XBOX360.

 18) If you were on the Quiddich team which position would you play?

- I would suck at Quidditch! Seriously! But being a seeker sounds better than the rest. ;)

 
19) Were you happy with the ending?

- Yes, I was. I didn't like the "19 years later" thing but the ending before was totally fine.

 20) How much does Harry Potter mean to you?

- Oh, quite a lot to be honest. This is what I grew up with and I always saw Harry Potter as my hero (like Spiderman or whoever is for other people). I'm just in love with the whole magical world and the character and I'm really thankful that Joanne K. Rowling wrote the books and got the opportunity to publish them! :)

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Thanks for reading my TAG, I hope you enjoyed it and like I said: leave some replies! :)

See you next time,

Hermione 

Being shy!

Hey everyone,

today I logged in on Youtube and found this video by beautycrush, which I would like to show you.

It is about shyness and social anxiety, which are topics society likes to oversee.

I am unbelievably shy myself and I know that shy people have to struggle a lot in daily life. This sounds strange but many of them just don't get any attention because they have problems with being open and approaching others. Like Sam from beautycrush said: "It's part of your personality."

This is why I would like to say that being shy is not a bad thing and I hope that other people learn how to deal with shy people, so they can accept them as they are.

I read some comments under beautycrush's video, which said that people got beaten up just because they're shy and how horrible is that please?

The tips Sam gives are really helpful and I hope that many shy people watched the video and listened to what she said, so they can accept shyness theirselves and learn how to deal with it better. Being shy is totally okay but it shouldn't have negative effects on your life!

I hope you liked it and maybe some of you will find this helpfull. 

As always I would love to read what you think, so leave a comment down below! :)

See you next time,

Hermione