My Most Played Music

So I'm sitting on my couch with my music blasting out of iTunes on my laptop and it inspired me to do a blog post on some of my most played songs on my iTunes and the reasons behind them being played so much!


I wanted to do this to share my passion for music and also give a little insight into what songs mean a lot to me and also how music has shaped my life.


I will apologise now as I can foresee that this is going to be a very chatty post about how I interpret the songs but it will definitely show my passion for music!


So without further ado, here we go...




Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box (214 plays)


This is the only Nirvana song I actually enjoy listening too, this is a song that my Dad always listened to so therefore it holds a lot of fond memories for me.

My favourite line from this song is "Forever in debt to your priceless advice". 

I just feel like it is a line that anyone can relate to, whether its advice from family members or from friends and whether or not you decide to take their advise is besides the point. I feel that advice from someone you care about is definitely something that you cannot put a price against, and I think can sometimes be the best advice you are given in life.

The best piece of advice I have been given so far in life is "always live for yourself and not others", this piece of advice was given to me by a family member a few years ago during a time where I was young and was doing things to please my family because I thought it was what they wanted me to do, but now that I am slightly older I have realised that what I did was wrong and I should have followed my dreams for me and no one else, because at the end of the day its me that has to live my life and deal with the mistakes which I have made.

So to sum it up, this song means a lot to me advice wise and just general memories from my childhood, its not a song you can really sing along to or anything but it just makes me happy listening to it.

Train - Drops of Jupiter (186 plays)


The first time I heard this song it was actually a cover by someone on YouTube, I fell in love with it straight away with its quirky but some what random lyrics. 


It straight away took me back to a time during my teenage years when I heard the line "And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there" as I went through a tough time when I was about 15/16 and kind of took a step back in my life to try and find out who I was again. The line "are you lonely looking for yourself out there" also takes me back to this time, because yes it was a very lonely time for me, I was going through so much that I felt like I had no one that I could talk to about my problems. 


This is a song that I love blasting out when I'm in the car by myself and can have a good wee sing song, as it just cheers me up by reminding me how far I have come in life. 




I have decided to leave this post here as it was starting to get very long but I will include a list of some of my other most played songs.




Carrie Underwood - All-American Girl
Eminem & Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie
The Script - Breakeven
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Taylor Swift - Sparks Fly
Joshua Radin - I'd Rather Be With You
The Script - For The First Time


Let me know if you enjoy any of these songs as well :-)


Claire xxx

Discovering Lost Products

So earlier today I went on a HUGE tidying spree in my flat, not that is was messy and unclean in the first place, but I felt I needed to throw some old things out and generally just make the rather small bedsit/flat look a lot less cluttered.

So whilst doing this I came across a lot of stuff that I had completely forgotten I had. Now I have only been in this flat since October but a lot of my stuff has been in storage since last May when I moved out of my previous flat and moved in with one of my friends on a temporary basis, where I only had the bare minimum of my stuff with me.

So after finishing tidying I was sitting relaxing watching a little bit of boring day time television when I decided that I was going to have a look through all of my make-up collection, which I thought would be a good idea since I have not long ordered a few bits and bobs storage-wise so I can have a better organised dresser, and whilst doing this came across quite a few make-up and skincare products that I also had completely forgotten that I had.

I will apologise now for there being no photos in this post, but I'm having technical difficulties with my laptop and camera so hopefully I will be back to normal blogging and YouTubing soon!!

This inspired me to write a blog post on the products that I "rediscovered" or whatever you want to call it! So these are the products that I have found which I am definitely going to start using again! I am going to include little mini reviews in this post as well.

The Loréal Paris True Match Minerals claims to be 95% from minerals, have no perfume or preservatives and have a foundation-like coverage. I used to use this powder all the time to set my foundation, although I used to love this powder I hated the brush that it comes with and always used another large powder brush to apply it. The powder isn't as full coverage when you apply it with a large fluffy brush, but when applied with the brush that it comes with it does have a fuller coverage. If I was in a rush I used to use this powder all over my face without foundation and it gives a nice coverage which lasts all day. I am definitely going to start using this powder again but not to set my foundation, I will just use it if I need to quickly get out the door, as this is very quick to apply.

The Avon Shimmer Swirls is a face illuminator which can be used in many different ways. The most common way in which I use it is once I've put my moisturiser on if my face looks dull I just put this all over my face before I apply my foundation, this just give a glow to your face. Other ways in which I use it is mixed in with either my foundation or moisturiser or sometime I even use it as a highlighter on the tops of my cheek bones. All of these methods just give a natural glow to the face, I suppose it is kind of like a cheaper alternative to MAC's strobe cream, not that I have tried strobe cream but just from what I have heard about it. I have had really dull skin recently due to stress and also just the rubbish weather we have been having here in Scotland so this might bring a bit of radiance back to my face.

The Me Me Me Beat The Blues in 2 Moonbeam is described as an iridescent complexion illuminator and enhancer. This is a pink toned highlighter which is comparable to Benefits highlighter, which has completely evaded my mind, but is a fraction of the price. I used to use this highlighter all the time but I then bought MAC's Cream Colour Base in Pearl which I fell in love with, but sitting here comparing the two of them I think that this one might actually be more flattering on my skin tone since I have more pink undertones. Again this product is just going to brighten my skin up in this rubbish weather and give me more of a glow.

Next is a MAC Mineralize Blush in Fad-Dabulous, this is a berry-pink blush with gold veins through it, this blush has a lot of shimmer in it so again I have decided to start using this blush to achieve my glowy look. I think this might have been a limited edition blush in a collection a while ago but as this was given to me as a gift from a family friend who used to be a make-up artist so I can't be sure. The gold shimmer completely disappears when this is applied to the skin but it leaves a very glowy/shimmery sheen to the skin. This blush isn't one of my favourite blush's but it does look very pretty on the skin if you don't like a matte blush.

There was more products that I found including some lipsticks and lipglosses that had made their way to the back of my drawer so I'll maybe do this kind of thing every few months and maybe get more use out of my make-up collection.

Let me know if you like these types of posts, and I will apologise again for the lack of photgraphs.

Claire xx