Why Orange is the new black is amazing

Hey guys, 

Wow it feels like it's been ages since I last posted and I've decided that I'm going to do a short post this week because I'm going to be working on a longer post. So I've recently got addicted to orange is the new black since I now have Netflix. I'm only on episode 11 of series 1,  Now I know this show has recently become very popular with its third series being released, but i think that this show has some real hidden meanings that I think need to be addressed.

So this show doesn't only cover and support gays and mainly lesbians seeing as many of the gays you see and hear about are men but they also make being gay seem completly normal which I think is amazing because it should be in our modern society.

 The show also shows how crimes and bad choses can end up landing you in prison. I think that this shows people how choices can be bad and also it makes the prisoners seem human and makes you more open to the idea of redemption and second chances. 

However I don't like the idea that all the guards at the prison are taking their job as a joke and don't treat the criminals fairly. On the show there is also mention to abuse both physical and drug abuse which gives people the opportunity to see what withdrawal is like and what drug use is like. 

There are also references to religion and I like how they have both ends of the scale- a completely sane Nun and a extremists. Not only all of this but they also show a transgender woman and how this's are being transgender can be, and how race still plays a huge part in our society. The show also shows relationships beside romantic ones and how friendships can be broken and made.  

Another thing this show does is look into the lives of not only the prisoners but their families and how being in prison can help or break you. And lastly all of these woman are stunning. 

 

This is all for this week 

Love Belle xx

Would you rather...? By Summer

Hi, it's me again~ Summer!

So this week is going to be based on another question post just to try and get myself back in the swing of the blog writing thing again. So here go's...

1) Would you rather go about your normal day naked or fall asleep for a year?

I would rather go about my normal day naked as once upon a time people did used to go around naked, it was not shamed upon and it was normal in that era. So why not again now!!

2) Would you rather be gossiped about or never talked about at all?

I would rather be gossiped about, at least someone is thinking about me~ I must be very important gossip.

3) Would you rather be hairy all over or completely bald?

Hairy all over, we were apes once, right??

4) Would you rather be happy and poor or sad and rich?

I would rather be happy and poor, money cannot buy you happiness.

5) Would you rather be invisible or be able to read minds?

I would rather be invisible, that way you can hear into other peoples conversations and know what they are going to do and what they have been thinking. It's the best of both worlds really, aha.

6) Would you rather be rich and ugly, or poor and good-looking?

I would rather be rich and ugly- looks arent everything, personality should count the most. Plus this way I could help the the people who chose poor and good-looking not to be poor anymore.

7) Would you rather be stranded on an island alone or with someone you hate?

I would rather be stranded with someone this way you can sort out the beef and not end up talking to a rock.

8) Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?
I would rather eat poison ivy, at least I'm not killing animals.


9) Would you rather end hunger or hatred?
I would rather end hatred, hopefully then this way people could have the decency to help the starving and homeless, instead of watching them suffer.


10) Would you rather find true love or 10 million dollars?
True love, but you can't find it, it comes to you. Plus I don't live in America, so dollars aren't really that useful to me.


Sorry this is a short post, I just felt like if I did anymore questions both mine and yours heads would explode. A new post will be up soon, bye guys.


Love Summer xxxx


P.S. I left the link below so you can have a go yourself if you want.
P.P.S. There are many more questions that I didn't even attempt on this webpage.


Bye!! <3

http://buzznigeria.com/funny-rather-question/

March favourites

Hey guys

Sorry I haven't posted in a while guys but I've decided to do a march favourites video to get back into this blogging world.

The first item on my list is the benefit hydrating lip balm

    This lip balm came in a pack of two lip balms and two cheek stains and me and my sister split them. I got this lip balm and I really like it because it feels lovely on my lips and isn't as sticky as other lip balms and leave a slight red tint on your lips. The second item is the cheek stain also from benefit.

This cheek stain works like a blusher but is a pure liquid and is painted on your cheeks before being rubbed in to your cheeks, I really like it and will buy it again . The third item is my Clinique mascara,

 I got this mascara for Christmas and I love it. I have had it before and really like it because it is high impact and doesn't clump my eyelashes. The fourth item is this body butter,

     This body butter was a Christmas present I got with a matching body wash in the same wild rose sent.Its a flower pharm product and I also got a matching make up bag which I'm I love with. 

The last item on my list is my night treatment gel and my day shine moisturiser 

These moisturiser where bought from boots and were individually bought and I don't know if I've reviewed them beiges but I love them. The night treatment gel is put on at night beiges you sleep and you wash it off when you wake up but it sinks into your skin while you sleep. I really like it and I don't get many spots when I use it. The shine control moisturiser is used before you do your makeup and makes a Matt make up base for your primer and is very efficient and I really would recommend it.

That's all for this week- have a lovely half term.

Belle

X

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Character reviews and Ian O'Shea

Hey guys,

So I've decided that I'm going to do a book review series but with a twist! I'm going to be reviewing characters from the book and telling you guys what I love about each character; I'm going to do a review five characters per book/book series/film,

Now I will be analysing the character from the beginning to the end- so there will be spoilers, 

The first character that I will be talking to you guys about is Ian O'Shea.

Ian O'Shea is one of the main characters from the Host, by Stephanie Meyers the author of the hit series Twilight, now if you haven't read the host because you don't like Twilight, please give this book a chance because it's my favourite! Another thing you should know is I haven't seen the film! So this is purely based on the book. 

The whole plot of the book is that aliens have invaded the earth in the form of small worm like creatures that take over the mind and erase the human host. Wanderer the invading soul is given Melanie Stryder body to be her own but when she wakes up in her new body she finds that she can hear Melanie in the back of her head, with Mel filling her head with vision of her baby brother Jamie and her true love Jared, Wanderer sets out to find them. Once Wanderer finds Melanie's love and family a new problem arises, living with a group of 30 odd humans and being the only soul in the body they love, Wanderer is faced with falling in love, having to fight for survival, facing the emotional battle with having Melanie trapped in her head and fighting with her own thoughts.

So Ian is one of the rebel humans living in Jebs caves with his brother Kyle. Ian and his brother apparently look the same and even sound the same when Kyle isn't shouting. 

In the beginning of the book Ian is the one that actually tries to strangle Wanderer when Kyle and Brandt are fighting Jared, later on in the next few chapters you see Ian open up to the idea of having a soul living with them. When Wanderer and Jeb start working in the filed Ian joins them despite being wary around souls, soon Ian and Wanderer have a close friendship that for Ian and later Wanderer turns to love.

I love Ian because of how he overlooks the fact that wanderer Is an alien, a soul but learns to love and protect her, one of my favourite scenes in the book (so hard to find just one!) involving Ian, wanderer and Jared. In the book after Jamie is ill from his knife wound wanderer realises that she had 'lost' Melanie. Despite Ian being in love with wanderer he still finds Jared to come and kiss wanderer to get Mel back; I think this really shows how amazing Ian is- he puts Jareds love for Melanie over his owns feelings. Another scene I love is when Ian, Wanda, Wes and Lucy are playing football and Ian knows when Melanie and Wanda are communicating- I love this just because Ian realises when Melanie is talking and still talks to her and Wanda as two different people. 

Another thing I love about Ian is how even though he is faced with the problem of falling in love with his sworn enemy; he still loves wanderer in her new body at the end of the book. At the end of the book Ian tells wanderer that he held her in his hands and she was beautiful; I find this alone represents how amazing Ian is. Earlier in the book wanda and Ian are talking about how he would squash her if he saw her out of a body, even though she didn't ask him too he still knows how to make her feel worthy.

In the end of the book there is a scene between wanderer and Ian that really strucks a cord within me- in this scene Ian cracks when he finds out that Wanda is planning on giving Melanie back her body and leaving; Ian completely breaks and turns to a sobbing mess- I think this shows actually how vulnerable he is.

I love Ian and I would recommend reading the book to get the really feel for Ian's character. 

Ian has to be one of my favourite characters due to the fact that he just so lovely to wanda and is so loyal to his family. 

"It's not the face , but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but what you say . It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful"- Ian to Wanderer 

" I held you in my hands Wanderer, and you were beautiful" 

"Ian stood above me, his chest heaving with exertion and fury.for a second he turned away and put the door back in place with one swift wrench. And then he was glowering again. I took a deep breath and rolled up into my knees, holding my hands out, palms up, and wishing that some magic would appear in them. Something I could give him, something I could say. But my hands were empty.

" You.Are.Not.Leaving .Me." 

His eyes blazing-burning brighter than I'd ever seen them, blue fires.

"Ian," I whispered. "You have to see that...that I can't stay. You must see that." 

"No" he shouted at me.

I cringed back, and, abruptly Ian crumpled forward, falling to his knees, falling into me.

He buried his head in my stomach, and his arms locked around my waist. He was shaking, shaking hard, and loud, desperate sobs were breaking out of his chest.

" No,Ian,no"  I begged. This was so much worst than his anger. "Don't,please.Please, don't"

"Wands" he moaned.

" Ian,please. Don't feel this way. Don't. I'm so sorry. Please." 

I was crying too, shaking too, though that  might have been him shaking me.

"You can't leave me." 

"I have to, I have to," I sobbed. And then we cried wordlessly for a long time"

Thank you for reading this week! Please comment or tweet me and tell me what you love about Ian or another character in your favourite book; I'll be doing four more characters from this book and then maybe another book!! 

See you next week 

Belle xx

The bad boys are always stealing my heart...

Hey guys, 

This week I've been struggling to think of anything to post about, with all of us doing a post each day I find it hard not to copy anyone else's work.

So today I wanted to talk to you guys about the bad guys.

I know! It's so cringy but I wanted to talk to you about how when you watch a television show or even movie, your automatically drawn to the bad guys. If your sitting there and thinking 'yeah right'

Here is a picture of the most gorgeous  villan ever (in my view).

Now I don't actually know what film this is from so if you know please comment or tweet it to me!, but this fine man is Mr Tom Hiddleston, aka Loki.  Now you may not know this but in my life I'm addicted to Tv series like once upon a time, lost, supernatural and marvel, and in all of these I seem to love the villain!

For example in once I fell in love with rumplestilskin, in lost I was in love with sawyer and jin ( in the first series I guess they could count as the baddies?!) and in marvel mr loki has stolen my heart, now I want to know which bad guy or even good guy has stolen your heart so tweet me  at @the7sweethearts.

I'm not sure what it is but sometime the bad guy just seems to be the better character, becuase they have a more richer background history and you just want to hug them and never let them go! 

Now miss lollie has this man in her heart at the moment- the master! 

While ash is in love with loki as well!! 

This is it for this week from me and hopefully next week I'll have a better entry!!! 

Love 

Belle x

2015...

Hey guys,

So it's 2015 and I'm back to school! I had an philosophy and ethics exam today and had to write three essays...not fun.

Wel I've decided to talk to you guys about what I hope to achevie this year. I've decided on ten simple rules to follow to make the next year great;

Rule number 1) lose weight! I've decided that I want to lose a lot of weight and I'm not sure how I'm going to do it but I will!

2) try to relax, I've found that last year I was extremely stressed and I don't want a repeat of last year, so I will be trying to relax more ( I need to invest in some more bath bombs from lush) 

3) finally sort out my room, I've recently had my room painted and my room has quickly become a mess again! I think I need to just designate an afternoon to tiding it. 

4) Smile, I've decided I want to smile more- if that's possible, 

5) drop the friends who pull me down, in the last few months I've really found out who I can rely on and who I shouldn't bother waste my time on- to make next year great I need to cut lose the strings that keep me locked.

6) be that shoulder, I think I need to be that shoulder people can turn to when they need a good cry and to just get something off their chest.

7) do something spontaneous, I'm not one to be daring or out side the box so this year I want to do something different ( I'm already going to my second ever concert and going to New York with Payton) 

8) talk about stuff that upsets me, most of the time I will swallow my tounge and not tell anyone what's really eatting me up, so I want to be able to talk to someone about my problems.

9) get organised, one thing I'm bad at is being organised and I want to be able to enjoy moments rather than panicking.

10) try to break bad habits, now I have quite a few bad habits that stop me ( biting my nails, beat freak on my computer, going to bed late, my strange time management and many more) and I want to break them.

So there they are; my simple but clear rules  and guidelines for this  year, I hope 2015 will be better than ever 

Bye 

Belle xx

The most amazing brownies ever!!

Hey guys,

So as promised here is my recipe I use when I make my amazing brownies that all of my friends adore!

So the ingredients you'll need are;

165g (5 1/2 oz) of butter- plus Extra for greasing,

200g (7oz) of dark chocolate, grated or chopped,

3 whole eggs,

2 egg yolks,

Seeds of a vanilla pod or 2 tsp of vanilla extract,

165g (5 1/2 oz) of soft light brown sugar, 

A pinch of salt,

2 tbsp of plain flour

1 tbsp of cocoa powder,

154g pack of Oreos- or any biscuits, nuts, honeycomb etc

Icing sugar for dusting 

So you'll need to start with preheating your oven at 180 degrees, and grease you tin- I would recommend using a 20cm/8in square tin and if you have tinfoil tins you could always bake your brownies in this if your taking them out.

Melt your butter in a bowl either in the microwave or over a medium heat, then add your chopped chocolate and melt this as well. 

In a separate bowl whisk the eggs, egg yolk and the vanilla, then add the sugar in two additions and whisk between each adding, when it's all added pour the chocolate/butter mix into the bowl and whisk again- try not to knock the air out of it.

Add the flour, cocoa powder, salt and a third of the biscuits and stir until fully combined. 

Pour this into your tin and scatter the remaining biscuits, or nuts on top and then bake for 25-30 minutes.

I hope you'll enjoy these brownies, after you get it out of the oven you can cut it into however many you want but I recommend around 16.

Enjoy!!

Belle x