Zoella Outrage!

Hey there!

The days are drawing in, the evenings are becoming frighteningly cold and winter is slowly approaching us. During these chilly months, I like to spend my free time snuggled on the sofa with a cuppa, surfing the Internet - researching new content for my blog posts, responding to emails, catching up with my friends and watching back-to-back vlogs and sketches created by my favourite YouTubers, (which you can read all about here.) In-fact, the majority of my Internet history is filled with endless lists of vlogs, sketches, songs and much more... 

I can assure you that just by simply scrolling through the first pages of my Internet history, it's clearly evident that above everyone in the blogging and vlogging community, my most watched YouTuber is Zoe aka Zoella - the queen of all things beauty, hairstyles and life lessons!

Zoe is a fun-loving, bubbly, young woman and portrays this well to her subscribers through her well thought out YouTube videos and vlogs! She dedicates numerous hours in her days specifically for filming, editing and uploading her YouTube content. It's obvious that she puts an immense amount of effort into her channel - perfecting her videos simply to please her audience and to produce something she is proud of. 

Only recently a very poorly written article was published and spread viral to the Internet, attacking the poor YouTuber. Chloe Hamilton, (a 'journalist' for the Independant,) definitely went a step too far with her opinions and enraged bloggers everywhere in seconds! As mentioned above, Zoe has always been one of my biggest inspirations for many years now and she's impacted my life on so many levels. However, after finding this pasted all over the Internet, I was absolutely fuming and this was definitely something that could not be left unsaid, but I couldn't possibly fit all this into 140 characters on Twitter.

However, despite all of this, like most young women, she also suffers with insecurities of her own. As mentioned in previous videos she suffers with anxiety and panic attacks, but doesn't let that spoil her fun! In fact, she's even created inspiring videos, offering support and useful info about how to cope during this traumatic time. Being an anxiety sufferer, I can totally relate with her experiences and traumatic times that she shares, which only makes me admire her even more! It's extremely difficult to cope with certain situations when feeling anxious. However, I think Zoe handles them well and still manages to upload videos on schedule, which I highly respect. She knows the daily struggles that normal people have and isn't afraid to be open about them!

I was fuming that the main focus of the article was that Zoe portrays a bad image for young girls everywhere, due to the amount of make-up she wears! She never once stated that young girls have to wear make-up to look good. Her whole life she's had to deal with her own insecurities and found make-up to be her passion! Zoe simply explores different hairstyles and beauty techniques for fun, testing and reviewing different brands of make-up for anyone who shares the same hobby. If you're an avid Zoella subscriber like me, you'll realise that the past couple of months she's learnt to accept herself and be comfortable in her own skin, without having to disguise herself in make-up, which you can watch below!

From what started as a young teen speaking out to her camera in a corner of her bedroom led to an Internet sensation, reaching out to over 6.2 millions subscribers - what an achievement! Through her YouTube channel, she has become extremely successful - with her very own sweet smelling beauty products launched only last month and a new book, soon to be displayed on bookshelves everywhere - demonstrating you can become successful doing what you love. 

Zoe has impacted my life massively and I especially love how much I can relate to her. Simply watching her videos makes me realise that I'm not alone and if you put the effort in, you can achieve your dreams!

Bye for now! Xxx

#2 30 DAY CHALLENGE

Hey there!

Back again with yet another 30 Day Challenge post - hopefully this time my determination to upload will mean that I will NOT get behind! 

                                     

Day 02 - Where You'd Like to be in 10 years

For me this is a tough one - I'm not the kind of person who has a set career path or a plan for the future. Nor am I the person who has organised every tiny detail to get myself there. Making choices has always been difficult for me, so you can imagine how tough GCSE and A level options were! At the age of 14 I was still living my childhood: learning how to cope with puberty, exploring different friendship groups and generally trying to understand how life works when you grow up! I was nowhere near prepared for these life changing decisions. What I was unaware of back then was that: life is full of changes, no decision has a dead end. If you follow a route you're not happy with, take a different path and start a new adventure!

I'm constantly changing my mind and perception of life, so it's difficult to say exactly where I'd like to be in 10 years. I'd love to have worked my way into a high-end job, that pays huge sums of money for holidays abroad to fulfill my travelling dreams, living in a fancy house with a balcony, overlooking an exquisite view, married to my dream husband - the equivalent of Ryan Gosling and own a flashy, sports car - but that's all a bit cliche!

In a more realistic life, I feel I have the potential to find myself a decent job - where that is, I have yet to discover. I'd love to be able to blog for a living, but I think this is definitely more of a hobby. A job in finance sounds fancy, don't you think? Who knows, perhaps that's the route I'll take. As for my Ryan Gosling husband, maybe I've set my standards too high and I'm just being hopeful. I would like to think that by the age of 27, I'd have settled down with a lovely, looking man to spend the rest of my life with!

Bye for now! Xxx