CHRISTMAS PARTY | WITH IN THE FROW, AMELIA LIANA, I COVET THEE, & TAMARA | Hello October Vlogmas

Hi everyone and welcome to Vlogmas Day! I don't even know what day it is anymore. So today I'm in London. Look, scared! High difference is real. So today I'm starting my vlog a bit later because we have the Clarence Christmas party tonight. Today I had a meeting with YouTube, I'm like checking for traffic. Had a meeting with YouTube and then I had another meeting so I couldn't vlog in Google HQ which was where my meeting was. So I just haven't vlogged until now and it's 4 o'clock and it's dark so that's really depressing. So we're doing a little bit of Christmas shopping and some shopping maybe for me and you maybe. Maybe. Yeah so we're doing a little bit of Christmas shopping and then I'm gonna have to go change because Alex is like dressed for fantasy. I'm festive. I'm not dressed because I have meetings. So I need to go and change later and then we're going to the Christmas party. Wine tasting. Wine tasting? I don't even drink that much wine but it's Christmas. There's deers in the Selfridges window. Oh my god they're so cute. Guys look at the Louis Vuitton store. That is insane. I literally feel like I'm in an episode of Love Actually. So we've been shopping for an hour and I have had no luck but I do feel like I'm in an episode of Love Actually because there's the bit where they're shopping in Selfridges and all the Christmas music is on and I'm loving life. But wish me luck because I'm now on a hunt for a Chanel lipstick that I've been trying to find for weeks and weeks and weeks which is one of the Rouge Coco lipsticks in number 96. It's like a bright orange. I need it in my life. It's always sold out. Oh my god you guys I got the cutest little bag. This is so dinky. We are all changed and we're on our way to the Clarence Christmas party. I love my dress today. This is from Self Portrait and I feel like I'm just going to get so much wear out of it. It's so pretty. I'll try and do a full outfit of the day for you later because I really like my outfit today. So I'm with the girls. I saw you last weekend but I still missed you. I know I missed you too and we have something fun together next week. We're doing something really fun next Thursday so keep an eye out. We've got lights here. Hello. Victoria. Hi Vicky. Hi Nicole. Hello. So we have come for dinner at Very Unpretty. Which looks amazing. I'm so excited to eat. I actually haven't eaten since breakfast which is really bad. Really really bad. But it's just been a really busy day of eating so I'm so excited. And this Christmas tree behind me is insane. Absolutely insane. Love it. I think the camera is focusing more on that than it is on me. This is literally my favourite dinner of the year. Because all of my girls end up being here and I love it. I love that literally all of the girls end up being here. It just makes me so happy. Oh my god guys this dinner looks so good. So this is I think a mushroom risotto kind of thing. So so good. All the girls are tucking in. I can't do this. I can't do this. Good morning. Feeling pretty fresh today, which is really good. So today is like a little bit of a busy working day. I have Sunday's video to film and I also have this video to edit and upload. So it's going to be quite full on. I also have a blog post that I need to get done. Right now I'm taking my car to like the dealership that it came from. But I'm taking it to be fixed, picking up my curtsy car. I'm going to come home, have some breakfast because I'm so, so hungry. So that is what we are doing today. What is my emoji of the day? I need to give you an emoji of the day. Leave me some wine glasses. Is that inappropriate? I don't think it is. Yeah, leave me some wine glasses in the comments below or whatever drink of choice that you like to drink, leave them in the comments below. I'm going to get driving now because otherwise I'm going to be really late. And they were like, as early as you can, please drop your car in. Like they know, they know me. I don't know how they know me so well, but they were like, I'm the early-ish. music on. Do this without Christmas songs. I'm at the traffic lights that take ages. So I thought I'd have a little chat, like story time. I've never actually watched a story time like YouTube video. What do they entail? But yeah, I just wanted to kind of fill you guys in on last night because I didn't really get to vlog that much. Like I didn't get to show you guys my outfit, which was a real shame because I really liked my outfit. But yeah, it was like self-portrait and then like over the knee boots and it was so cute and I was really happy with it. And it was so nice. They saw all of the girls. There's Vic, Tamara, Amelia, me and Alex obviously and it was just so nice to see them. And I hadn't really seen them in ages because I've just kind of like been so busy and I haven't been going out to London. It was just so lovely to see them and spend some time with them and I felt like super festive and Christmassy because I just like seeing my favorite people when it's like Christmas time. Okay, so my temporary car is huge. It is a tank. Oh my God. Had to adjust all the seats. Well, not all the seats, just one. My God, it's so much bigger than my car. I'm having a little like internal freak out. I'm gonna try and drive home. Wish me luck. So I'm home after a bit of an interesting drive. I don't like my courtesy car. It feels like a little piece of tin and it scares me. But I've just given Nala a bath because I got home and she stank. She smelt, when I came home last night, I obviously got home at like one o'clock in the morning. She'd been on a walk and obviously rumbled in something. And I was just like, oh my God, you smell disgusting. And she wants to cuddle whenever I come in. And I went to hug her and I was like, no, no. So she is literally running around like crazy. I've blow dried her a bit. Quite a lot actually. She was really good, but she is just going mental. She looks so funny when she just had a bath. You've been such a good girl. So I'm just getting ready to film but before I do that I thought before I tidy these away I'd show you what I picked up on Cult Beauty and also what I got on Chanel yesterday. So I did quite a big Cult Beauty order. I'm not proud but I am very happy with my purchases. So the first thing I picked up and this is why I went on Cult Beauty was I needed my Oscura Renaissance Cleansing Gel. This is empty because it's already in my bathroom. And then I also got the Micro Exfoliating Balm which I'd run out of. Both Josh and I love this. It's amazing. And I wouldn't normally repurchase such an expensive scrub but it really does make my skin feel amazing, look amazing. It's just a really lovely, really gentle scrub. And then I also picked up the Esot Parsley Seed Cleansing Mask because I'd run out of mine and I was missing it a lot. So yeah that's it for skincare. Then I also picked up the Charlotte Tilbury Light Wonder Foundation. And this is in shade 4. I guessed what shade I would be and I was right. So hat on the back for me for that because usually I mess that up. Then I also picked up the Huda Beauty Liquid Matte Lipstick and this is in the shade Icon which I'm wearing today. And I had this originally I think when I first purchased a load of them and unfortunately I have lost it and I was really missing having it in my collection. So I picked it back up and I'm so glad I did because I really like the way this looks on my face. I also picked up a Charlotte Tilbury lipstick and this is in the shade Kate's Nude. And I really like this. It's a beautiful nudey colour. It definitely reminds me of the kind of shade I would have worn in like the early 2000s. But yeah I really like it. The only thing is it doesn't last very long. I wore this yesterday and it really didn't last very well and I kept having to reapply it and I'm just not used to that at the moment. I'm so used to matte lipsticks I'm just not used to that. Then I picked up a Zoeva palette. This is the Blanc Fusion. I went round my friend Alex's house and saw this and I was like yep I'm gonna need that because these kind of shades I love and then I really like these shades as well. And these and yeah just a good little palette and I love their palettes. And then I'd been hunting for something from Chanel for a while and it was never in stock in Brighton. So this is the Rouge Allure Lip Colour in the shade 96. It is the most gorgeous orange. I fell in love with it when I saw it on one of the sales assistants in the Brighton store and I had to have it and she'd sold like six of them that day because it looked so amazing on her and it was out of stock so really glad I finally have that. So I just finished filming and I didn't like the video. So I think what I'm gonna do instead is when I finish vlogging today I'll vlog again tomorrow and I'll put that up on Sunday and that will be really exciting because I'm going to the hairdressers. I think at the moment we're just doing a little bit of like root maintenance but I want some of these blonde bits toned down because these are a bit too much for me. And I think I'm gonna get quite a bit cut off as well and just have like a new cut done because this is getting a bit like out of control. Like look at this. This is ridiculous. So I'm gonna get that sorted. Also I just wanted to have a little chat with you quickly about these vlogs and what you see in them throughout this month. I had a few comments on my, I think it was my last vlog, they were basically saying I can't believe you think it's okay to eat the way you do, how are you not the side of the house blah blah blah, you eat so unhealthily. And I don't show everything I eat in a day in these vlogs. I don't do what I eat in a day videos very often either purely because I don't really like the judging and food shaming that comes with being on YouTube. But I just wanted to remind you guys that when you see me eating like, I don't know, ice cream or cookies or just a bit of chocolate from my advent calendar, that little bit of bad food is not the end of the world and I don't eat like that all day, every day, on repeat I don't eat that way. I have a healthy breakfast, I have porridge for breakfast every morning. I don't show you that all the time because that's really boring. But yeah, I don't want to actively hide what I'm eating on camera and not feel okay with showing you that for fear of people being like, the way you eat is disgusting. I think it's okay to have balance in your life and I definitely do, I have nice healthy dinners, sometimes on the weekend if I've been really busy then obviously we get a takeaway and that's okay, like no one is 100% healthy all the time. In my opinion, excessively worrying about what you're eating and depriving yourself of food is just not healthy at all and I've had it before where I was like, all my meals have to be healthy and I must eat healthy all of the time and it got to the point where if I couldn't have a healthy meal then I just wouldn't eat and that is worse, that is so much worse for you than just having something like a bit of toast, like that is so, so much worse and it's just generally not good for you and once you get into that it takes so long to get out of it. So I just wanted to have that chat with you and just like, let's just talk about this, like balance is okay, by the way I keep playing with my lip because there's a bit of hair like stuck in my liquid lipstick, I think I've got it. But yeah, balance is great, like that is what you need in life, balance is good. I don't really know where I'm going with this but I just kind of wanted to have this chat, like I don't know how everyone feels about this but I just feel like, you know, sometimes if I have a bit of advent calendar chocolate and a cookie whilst I'm walking around Waitrose doing my shopping it's not gonna, you know, make me the size of a house, especially not when I usually share my food with Josh and he eats half of everything. But yeah, I just wanted to have that chat with you guys and kind of make you aware that what you see isn't like everything, you know, I don't really show you, oh here's my salad, like fuck off, fuck off. Hello. So I've just finished editing this vlog, I was just watching my like food shaming rant back and I know people are gonna be like don't listen to the people in the comments but sometimes I just worry that there are lots of other people that are like thinking that and I just like to open up a discussion because I'm showing you guys more of my life now and it's something I really want to do and I just want there to be a little bit more like back and forth rather than me feeling like, oh should I not show that? Like I don't know, I've spent like the past, I can't remember how long I've been on YouTube but I've like been vlogging on and off for a couple of years and I've been so, so cautious over what I do and don't say, like I don't, I never used to voice my opinion at all and I would never really, like I'd be so scared to give an opinion in case someone didn't agree with me and I was really scared of just like upsetting anyone or offending people. More recently I realised that sometimes people that just don't like me are gonna get offended anyway. I don't want to not show you parts of my life because there were like a couple of comments that I like let through and I replied to but there's like a little box that I have on YouTube full of like banned words and there were some really nasty comments in there. So yeah, I just wanted to kind of have a little chat about it, I hope you don't mind. I don't know why I'm asking whether you mind or not because it's my channel, I need to remind myself of this. I've spent the past two years being like, I hope this is okay. This is like gonna be my New Year's resolution for 2017 that I stop, I stop doing that. I'm just gonna say whatever I want. I hope you guys have enjoyed this video. I'm sorry I didn't get to vlog more, like I just feel like vlogmas is such a weird time because we're all trying to get so much stuff done before Christmas. But yeah, I'm gonna go now. I hope you guys have all had the best day and I will see you guys in my next vlog on Sunday.