Coffee Cups With Chloe: Bath and Bristol

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HEY

I've had a crazy busy week and that means I haven't had time to write this weeks blog post. PLUS, I left my idea notebook at university so I don't have that to hand to look over all my ideas. And so what does that all add up to? A Coffee Cups with Chloe post (AKA, updates galore)!

BUSYNESS EXPLAINED
As I said, I was really busy this week. But luckily, it was the fun kind of busy, rather than the worky kind of busy. My sister came to spend a few days with me in Bath and we packed a lot into those three days. On the first day we went to Bristol to do some shopping and also to go to the aquarium. It was really wet and windy (shocking for England, I know) which meant we didn't actually do much shopping, but it's all good because the aquarium was awesome. They had jellyfish, stingrays and tiny frogs which were incredible colours. (And hella poisonous; the information about them said that just one tiny bit of their poison was enough to kill eight humans!)

On the second day I had lessons in the morning, but then we went shopping in Bath in the afternoon. It was still very wet and windy, so we had to dodge the rain by running from shop to shop and spending as little time as possible outside.

One of my purchases... the most beautiful brush ever. It's the tapered blush brush from the Bold Metals collection by Real Techniques <3

Jumping photos never really work out when you have long hair...

And on the third day, we went back to Bristol to go to Bristol Zoo, and it was actually sunny! I was really impressed with the zoo because they made the most of what they had. What I mean is that they didn't have many of the 'exciting' animals like giraffes, tigers, elephants, etcetera, but they made the animals they did have really interesting to look at. There were talks and feeds going on all day so you were guaranteed to catch at least one. We saw the otters and gorillas get fed, and it was so cool to watch this. Fun fact: gorillas are so like humans that they can have Calpol and paracetamol when they're ill! They also had a butterfly house which was rad, the butterflies are flying all around you and you can get some amazing close up photos of them.

The time spent not shopping or looking at animals and fish, we were in Walkabout, an Australian bar, eating Aussie food and drinking bundys. And when we weren't there we were in The Pig and Fiddle in Bath drinking bundys. Bundy is good, okay. (it's Bundaberg rum and coke, in case you didn't know.)

Sydney Burger and bundy in Walkabout, mmmmm.

And when we weren't shopping, looking at animals and fish, or being Australian, we were watching films at my home. We watched Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, which was really good. It was just easy-going and funny, and I think they ended the trilogy perfectly with that. The other film we watched was the modern version of Little Red Riding Hood with Amanda Seyfried in it. I'd never heard of this (I don't know how?) but I thought it was great. I liked the clever twist on the classic fairytale, and plus Gary Oldman was in it, so it was guaranteed to be good.

CALM
Life is going back to normal next week and I'll just be doing my usual uni thing, which means an few lessons, lots of reading and lots of TV watching, hahaha.

Make sure to follow me for weekly posts, with some extra posts thrown in here and there :)

Thanks for reading, I hope you're having a wonderful day and I'll talk to you soon.

Love Chloe x


HAVE SOME LINKS
Me on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGiddyElf
Bristol Aquarium: http://www.bristolaquarium.co.uk
Bristol Zoo: http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk
Makeup brush: http://www.boots.com/en/Bold-Metals-Collection-by-Real-Techniques-Tapered-Blush_1645015/

Showery Monday's - OOTD

Outfit of the Day

Today was sunny one minute and pouring rain the next, but one thing the weather could decide on was being freezing cold! So my outfit of choice needed to suit all three of these things. 

So here it is. I originally put this on during a lazy day and I didn't really care about what I looked like, but then I realised how cute it looked! So I decided to wear it again today. 

The jumper is from H&M and was donated to me by my mum because I kept stealing it from her wardrobe... It's so cosy and I'm loving the tobacco colour of it.

The leggings are from Urban Outfitters. I don't wear these very often for some reason, but I think this outfit might become my go-to, so hopefully I get a bit more wear out of them! 

And finally, my trusty (and slightly muddy, thanks to living on a wet farm) converse in black. I got these from Schuh. 

This outfit is so comfy and warm, but I felt so cute in it. I feel like it has a sort of street style vibe to it too! 

Thanks for reading, I hope you had a very cosy day too! 

Love Chloe xx

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell // BOOK REVIEW

So Rainbow Rowell is one of my favourite authors and Fangirl was just as amazing as I expected it to be! This book is about a girl called Cath, who is in her first year of university. And her love of the book series Simon Snow, makes it a little hard for her to fit in, as she prefers to write fanfiction than do the stereotypical university life.

First off, Fangirl made me laugh out loud and I was smiling whilst reading nearly every page. My particular favourite moments were the references to Gilmore Girls and Beverly Hills 90210, which are two of my all time favourite TV shows, so those parts really made me giggle! 

I liked how this book deals with more than just your average YA love triangle. I mean there's a tiny bit of that, but amongst mental illness, alcohol abuse, family separation and trying to fit in. Or in the case of Cath, not fitting in at all. I could really relate to Cath, who in her first year of university, prefers to spend her free time in her room, writing fanfiction. And whilst I don't write fanfiction, I do spend my free time doing equally nerdy things by myself. Plus we're both doing creative writing courses, so y'know we're pretty much the same person. 

But, as much as liked Cath, it was Levi who stole the show for me! He was ADORABLE. From the second he was introduced I was in love. He's so happy and it's contagious - when he was smiling, I was smiling. Ugh. In love <3

My only issue with Fangirl was that I wanted less of the fanfiction about Simon Snow that Cath was writing. For example, the book ended with a piece of fanfiction she'd written, and whilst I can see why, I wanted it to end with the characters from Fangirl! But I think this down to is personal taste, as I've heard other people say they really liked the fanfiction parts of the book, so don't let this put you off! 

Overall, I adored this book! I give it 5 stars. You need to read it right now! 

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Since we're on the subject of books, I thought I'd just let you know that I have a goodreads account, which I am constantly updating with all things bookish. I also have a youtube account, where I talk about books fairly often (amongst other things, like beauty and the weird things that happen to me). I actually did a review of Fangirl over on there too. Links to both of these are just below, so why not pop over and have a little look. 

I hope you're having an excellent day! 

Love Chloe x

Red and Pink Gradient Nails

I've been really loving gradient nails recently, and after seeing a photo on tumblr that used red and pink to create the gradient effect I had to recreate it. 

I used these three colours to create the look. They're from the brand Beauty UK which you can buy from Superdrug if you live in the UK. (Unfortunately they came from a set and don't have individual names on the bottles, sorry!) It's a pretty cheap brand - £2.99 for a larger bottle than I have here. They have a ton of colours to choose from and they go on really well, so I'd definitely recommend these to you if you're looking for something more affordable than some of the bigger brands. 

As you can see in the photo above, I used the red nail polish on my thumb nail, then moved on to the dusty pink shade on my index and middle fingers, and then the light pink shade on my ring and little finger. And then I did the same again on my other hand. 

I used two coats of each polish so that the colours were really bright! 

The best thing about gradient nails is that you can adapt it to make it look however you want. You can use so many colours to get the desired effect and so you can match it to your outfit, style or just whatever colours you're really digging right now. 

I hope you enjoyed this post and you should definitely try out the gradient effect yourself if you like it (black and grey looks super cool too, if you're interested)! 

Thanks for reading, have a lovely day. Byeeee! :) 

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PRODUCTS: 

Beauty UK polishes: http://www.superdrug.com/search?q=beauty%20uk:name-asc:category:nailpolish&page=2&pageSize=10&resultsForPage=20#.U8v5uom9Kc0