My Year in Photos and TAG Top 11 for 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So, we arrived at the end of another year. WHAT A BLOODY YEAR IT'S BEEN! For me atleast, it has been SUCH a crazy, crazy, craaaaazy rollercoaster of a year. Some very important things have happened in my life this year, for example, graduating from university! Some very important milestones happened in my personal life too - I've lost friends this year and I've made new ones, I've learnt things from different people and in turn have learnt a lot about myself. I learnt some very hard but helpful lessons. My year started off truly horribly, and has been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster ever since - there have been some great highs and also some horrible, horrible lows. I've probably cried more this year than I ever have in my whole life ha but I've also made some incredible memories this year that I know will always remain with me.
All in all, crazy, pretty much sums it up. I am extremely scared about what 2012 will bring for me, but I'm also excited and feeling quite ready to enter it. I wish you all the best of luck in the coming year and I wish you all love.

I thought it might be interesting for you (or not) and fun for me to map my year out in photos. Whilst looking through facebook and other albums I have to admit I got rather emotional - especially looking at the university photos!

(Please click on the photos to see them bigger and clearer)

Second term of final year had begun! Celebrated lots of 21st birthdays, went out as much as possible before exam period!

WOO EXAMS ARE OVER! This collage sums up my last few weeks over university ever! LOTS of going out, my friends' joint occupation themed birthday - I was an F1 racer, my university's Summer Party which was SUCH a good day, my graduation ball which which was a fun night despite having to pull my dress up every 2minutes, and just generally going out every night to make the most of our last days! Made some incredible memories from the last few weeks alone!  

This one makes me SO nostalgic - this was straight after uni was officially over - girls holiday in Barcelona!! I want to go back SO BAD! Was one of the best holidays of my life with my best friends! Some of the boys from our uni also ended up coming which was interesting to say the least haha! We stayed in a beautiful hotel, ate lots of tapas, lay on the beach and burnt, swam in a dirty sea, attempted a bit of hungover sight-seeing and got absolutely lashed (for free!) every night! Magical.

I graduated in July from the University of Warwick with a 2:1 in History yaay! I then jetted off to America and spent some amazing quality time with my cousins and went to 5 different states over 2months! Highlights were going to the Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando and Vegas! Incredible, incredible summer.

After my amazing summer of fun I have done nothing exciting sadly! Celebrated Diwali, lost my baking virginity, had a pyjama party and played pictionary for my 22nd birthday to truly celebrate how old and boring I now am, went up to visit my uni because I just can't stay away and had a very fun family Christmas! 

The pictures are only small snippets of my year..obviously a lot more happened in between these time collages but these are some of the highlights of my year. I hope you enjoyed seeing them!

TAG - TOP 11 FOR 2011

I was tagged by the beautiful Tali from The Gloss Goss to do this who I'm sure you all already know - if you don't then make sure you click the link and check her amazing blog out! So let's begin...

TOP 11 PRODUCTS FOR 2011

* Chanel Vitalumiere Foundation

* Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish 

* Lush Glogg shower gel 

* Cover Girl Lashblast Mascara 

* Lady Million perfume

* Rimmel lipstick in Just So 

* Benefit Boi-ing concealer

* Origins Never a Dull Moment Face Polish

* Sleek Storm Palette

* Real Techniques by Samantha Chapman brushes 

* Nars Laguna bronzer

TOP 11 BEAUTY/FASHION BLOGS *links*

* The Gloss Goss

* Little Miss Rosh

* 15 Steps and a Beauty Blog

* Sincerely Jules

* Huda Beauty

* Vivianna Does Makeup 

* Zoella

* See Jane

* Dulce Candy

* Lovely Pepa

* Cupcakes and Cashmere

TOP 11 YOUTUBE SONGS/VIDEOS *links*

* Criminal Penguins - BBC Wildlife - so funny how animals have such personalities too! 

* Pitbull - Give Me Everything ft. Ne-Yo - whenever me and my friends here this it immediately takes us back to our last weeks of uni and Barcelona

* Drake - Marvin's Room - reminds of summer and an unfortunate series of events 

* Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai (Female) - one of my many 'revision songs'

* Champion - Chipmunk ft. Chris Brown - song that got me through researching my dissertation!  

* Gone - Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland - reminds me of personal things from the year

* Five Year Old Makeup Guru - my friends said my kid would be like this!

* Polite Bear Waves Hello - LOVE this! So cute I want one!

* Lioness flirting with Lion - the commentary is so funny/animal personalities continue to amuse me!

* JoJo - Marvin's Room - usually hate covers but her's really did something whenever I heard it

* Enrique Ft. Ludacris - Tonight I'm F*cking You - listened to this on repeat for months!

I hope you all had a fantastic New Years Eve, I definitely did! Happy New Year to you all!!!

Love, Emma xo
Currently Listening To: Marvin's Room - Drake