Everything Eleanor

On Friday 20th September, I was a bridesmaid for my Uncle and Auntie. It was the most beautiful day: the weather was perfect, I was surrounded by family, and having my makeup done always brings me more joy than it probably should. It was the best way to conclude my summer. Fast forward to Monday 23rd September - I'm back in Southampton for uni, the torrential rain has made sure my makeup looks nowhere near as good as it did 2 days ago, and I'm stressed. As many of you may know, I'm a Multimedia Journalism student at Solent University. And for the most part, I love it. I've written blog posts rounding up my first  and second  years of uni, and from those posts, I think it's obvious I've made incredible friends, lifelong memories and had a blast doing a course that I genuinely have a huge passion for. But on a soggy walk home from Asda on Monday evening, ready to cook my classic dinner of veggie sausages, hash browns and beans (guaranteed to have that at ...

So if you're following my brand new blog Instagram (and if you're not, give it a gander: @everythingeleanorblog ), you'll know that a couple of products * accidentally* fell into my shopping basket at Selfridges. You know the drill - you go in there for one teensy-weensy browse and the next thing you know, you have a drained bank account but a full yellow carrier bag. One of these products was the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Powder Duo in Ash Brown - which I reviewed on my Insta stories, now in my highlights - while the other was the Huda Beauty Amethyst Obsessions Palette . The latter definitely wasn't a spontaneous purchase - I'd been eyeing up this palette for months. I've really wanted to start playing around with more purple eye shadows, and until recently they've been fairly hard to come by. That's why when I spotted a whole palette of luscious sparkles, bold mattes and chunky glitters all centred around purple, I knew it had to be mine.  ...

Friday was the day we've all been waiting for! And when I say "all", I mean the crazed and obsessive fans of pop music's resident sad girl, Lana del Rey - which includes me. Her new album,  Norman F---ing Rockwell (here on referred to as NFR ), has been in my life for about a day and a half as I write this, and I can already pretty much guarantee it'll be my favourite album of the year.  A few notes on the album before we get started on ranking the songs (which is probably the hardest thing I've had to do since quadratic equations in GCSE maths). While I absolutely love this album, I don't think it's my favourite Lana record to date. I think previous albums - especially her last one, Lust for Life - had more variety in terms of genre and sound. NFR, for the most part, follows a strategic formula, of songs driven by piano, letting Lana's elegant vocals take centre stage. On occasion this does mean the album can become a little repetitive, but u...