Joey Graceffa In Real Life Book Review

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I have many YouTubers books but have not read any of them, I recently met Joey at a signing so got his book, one of his videos recently was him saying about heartbreak in his life at the moment and it was about his mum being an alcoholic. He thought she was stable and everything was good but in fact it wasn't and it all began again he said he had shared his experience with his mum in past videos and his book, the video touched my heart and I was a casual viewer of Joey and have been for years and was very intrigued and upset for him so I began to read his book...

This book is one of the best books I've read in a long time, I've never really been interested in somebody's life so the genre autobiography never really caught my eye but this book was phenomenal.

Joey talks about his mother and the beginning and his experience with living with a alcoholic and how it is a permanent disease and how his mother will never be without the disease she will always have ups and downs. 

The second big part was about him finding his sexuality and coming to terms that he is gay and finally admitted it to himself in his early 20's and started to experiment with dating and it was just an amazing feeling to read as a viewer, you can tell whether someone is feminine and you automatically think he may be gay, but the one thing I hate about having this automatic feeling which everybody does is that some people think its okay to ask are you gay? This is not cool, just because someone is feminine does not mean they are gay and I hate how I have that automatic response although Joey was and I was suspicious but I kept it to myself. I enjoyed his content so much and still do but for somebody over years of hiding finally telling the world makes me a happy person as that suspicion was correct and he was hiding for some reason and I felt so happy for him to be able to confront what he was hiding from and tell people who really care about him.

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The book itself I'd say out of a rating 12/10!! Even if you don't know who Joey Graceffa is pick up the book it is a great read and get to learn how lucky your life really is and how unlucky some other peoples are, even when I've been at my worst moments it's nothing compared to what he had been through. 

People and books like this put a perspective on how I see things and how I should see things, I have my own mind and I like the thought of that, Joey is a huge inspiration to me after reading about his life story and his book is a memoir of his life so far which isn't much as he's only 24 but the experience he has had within them years is just upsetting and crazy, I love this guy to pieces and I'm so glad he is finally happy and content with himself.






I really enjoyed writing this blog post and I didn't plan on writing one but i randomly found myself writing my thoughts on this book on a blog post, I had been thinking about it days after reading it and i am still currently it was so strange as I was a casual viewer I just watched videos every so often I didn't know about his problems which he previously shared, it was lovely to just to know a little bit more about him!

Hope to see you next time I write a blog post :) 

Danielle x

My First Holiday Without Parents - Italy Milan

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In May I travelled to Milan, Italy with my cousin, this was our first holiday away without our parents and it was amazing!

We flew through the airports so easily going Magaluf the week before defiantly topped our brains up with what we had to do when we travelled to Milan, it was so smooth the whole journey everything went to plan, our transfer car waiting for us which was a rip off, was actually very nice we had a Mercedes which we kind of felt like royalty as going away with family we go in the cheapest car/bus that moves as there’s so many of us.

Milan was a great place to visit for my first holiday, it was quite a sophisticated city apart from a few pervy men. Our hotel was good we paid a lot of money for it and it was worrying when we got to check in, as I wasn't 18 they wouldn't allow me access to stay in the hotel only if my parents could print of a form sign it and then scan it back into a computer and email it to them this was a lot of stress onto my dad, but we finally got let in and enjoyed the view of the main shopping street we only had 4 days there which doesn't sound much but we tried to do as much as we could.

I like exploring and looking at museums and old historic buildings, I find it quite interesting where my cousin was looking more for an activity week haha, where Milan wasn't the place maybe Magaluf but not Milan, the first day she was convinced at looking at waterparks, theme parks you name it and we didn't have that much money in all honesty so I wasn't that bothered I would rather enjoy the city for itself, everything she wanted to do wasn't open as it wasn't season, we did try and find things to do but there was nothing major we actually did, we really wanted to go on a Segway tour, like it would of been so funny but guess what... I HAD TO BE 18 which is such a bore considering my cousin was 19 I thought she could of given consent but no. 

The best thing about the city itself was the food like Italian food is literally my weakness I tried to go along the traditional side of it and everyday I wanted to try a traditional dish so the first night we had a take away pizza as why the hell not!

Then we went to a very expensive restaurant which we didn’t know at the time, it actually lured is in with the price the lasagna was under 10€ which was great then we had two huge cokes which were 20€ each which we did not know, then we were requesting other things, the bill in total came up to 72€ for 2 people, to say our jaws dropped was an understatement, haha they came out with a tiny little shot dessert and I think they felt sorry for us but just oh my god, to be honest I don't regret it now it was the best meal out of the whole holiday and I’m forever fantasizing to eat it again. The following day we had pasta Bolognese and the day after I don't think we ate anything apart from a burger king when we flew back to the UK. 

On the Saturday night we ventured into Milan’s town and tried to go into a nightclub we was looking at going to, as I was only 17 we didn’t know what the rules would be like in Milan but it was very easy, we had our makeup done and looked fabulous and it was a great night.

It was very claustrophobic compared to Magaluf as that was the main nightclub you could hardly move, so we found a small area to dance in and danced the night away, the only problem was with after that, it was 2/3am in the morning it was so busy we couldn't get hold of any taxi company and was stranded, the tube stopped running and we started to get abit worried but after compromising we had to do what we had to do haha,3 so we just jumped in a random taxi and pretended to be the person they thought they were picking up and just changed the destination to our hotel, it was quite a funny experience but that was my only down side to partying in Milan.

The main reason the whole idea of Italy came about was because of a YouTube convention called ITAtube which started out last year, all of my favourite youtubers went there and I was super excited to meet them and travel to a different country for them, but unfortunately they didn’t come which overall I didn’t mind, as instead of making the holiday all about them we made it about our time in Italy and cherished it more, we went to the event on Sunday and I met an internet friend called Camilla and she was lovely, it still blows my mind how you can become friends with people over the internet and actually pursue it to real life, we chilled for abit, before that we were both queuing to meet some low key YouTuber who I absolutely adore, the line got cut off as we were at the front on the que but we were at the front of the barricade and the came down to say bye and we got pictures and hugs it was so cool the fact I was English I may have gotten some attention ahaha they was like huh you sound English and I was like yeah I am I flew over here!

Overall I so want to visit Italy again and hopefully Milan in the future but would like to explore Italy itself bit more, it was a lovely holiday and was very relaxing compared to Magaluf, its pricey but a lovely place to just chill and shop for a couple of days. I would go back there and I would recommend visiting.

Hope you enjoyed my experience in Milan :) 

p.s. I've been telling myself for the past couple of months to not upload any blog post's till I have done my college assignments which I still have not finished, I keep staring at them and wasting my days doing nothing, so today I gave in to do this! 

Danielle x

Magaluf Holiday!

This week I went on holiday to Magaluf!

It was amazing and I thought I'd tell you what I thought of the overall experience at Magaluf and what I did throughout my 5 days there.

On the first day the sun was shining and we arrived early in the morning we just relaxed all day and ate food. Turning round to the night time it was great! We spent hours getting ready, I am one of those girls which take about 30 minutes to get ready for a night out but this holiday my cousin Elisha showed me the ropes on how to look really good on a night out, I didn't feel like myself some nights but then I've grown on it and I absolutely love it and I feel much better about my appearance now and can experiment with my hair and makeup instead of being simple all the time. It's kind of opened my eyes to lots of new things this holiday and put my life into a good perspective. 
The night out was brilliant we didn't go down the strip into the nightclubs, this night we just chilled in a bar down the road it was great it has podiums and poles and it was so much fun, it had good music on and we just had a few drinks and was dancing on the bar, I've never done anything like that before so it was pretty crazy I soon got use to it though! After the first bar we went to another bar round the corner and it was more of a nightclub kinda bar, it was soo goooood! The same thing happened dancing on the bars and just listening to great music, we ended up paying for a plastic willy, which was hilarious they were illuminous willys which you could drink any drink out off the night was overall a smash! We always finish it off with food and my food is always chips and kebab which is too die for!

The next day we took a walk down to Magaluf as we were staying in Palma, & had a little look round there we were stopped by two young men asking if we want to attend a bcm opening party it LOOKED AMAZING, it was one of the top 5 nightclubs in the world and we really wanted to go but as it was a proper nightclub they would of id us, which I was the only one who was 17 so I wouldn't of been allowed in so we soon forgot about that then chilled at the pool all day.
The night we got ready again for hours! This time we headed down the strip now this was mental nothing like Benidorm strip it was crazy, there was so many people even though it wasn't the season yet, it was dirty at times like constant girls looking like tramps and lads trying to get girls, the people we went with was just our mums and aunties we are all single and are we hell looking for a man so any man that tried anything that got moved on! I fell in love with a club which was called Alex's bar or something like that and it had like all black music playing, recently I've been loving a bit of Chris Brown, Kid Ink etc you name it, I'm in love with it and this music was on repeat I was in my element we partied the whole night away and ended up with kebab and chips again!!

The morning after was rough, like I just felt like crap aha, that day we just flopped on the sunbed and chilled all day and it was a good recovery day I just chilled in bed watching youtube videos at night time.


After a lovely recovery day we decided to head down to a beach and hire out a pedalo, this was amazing I've been on a pedalo before but not in the sea and this wasn't any ordinary pedalo it was a cute little car with a slide attached to it, now I got a little bit scared when we went near the darker sea, basically there was clear sea then dark sea which you couldn't see anything and it scared me as you don't know whats in there! We had our dock blasting the music while on the pedalo it was an amazing experience we jumped in and went down the slide several times it was brilliant and would recommend anyone to do it! Later on we then gone and treated ourselves to an ice cream which we seen the other day on the way to Magaluf now this ice cream stand was luscious it has every flavour you could think of, i had ferrero rocher, oreo & kinder and i died in ice cream heaven it was delightful.

There wasn't much to do after that so we chilled till we got ready to go out again! We went to the strip again and it was the same as last time really but this time we stayed out till 5/6am all of magaluf strip closes at 4am it goes dead apart from 1 night-club which was great we met quite a few lads in there which were just there to dance and were great overall amazing ending to a holiday.


This holiday was so cheap we went all inclusive for 5 days including flights which cost £175 with transfers it'll be about £200 all together of course we took spending money but overall didn't cost much at all for me about £250/260, you can't knock a holiday at this price with everything included it was amazing and I'm looking forward to going on more holidays like this in the future as it's lovely to have a break from everything and clear your mind.

I worked my ass off to go on this holiday and Milan on Friday and that's why the blog has been quite inactive the last month, I'm going back to college on Tuesday and got a busy schedule coming up but overall the blog should be back up and being active!

I hope you enjoyed this blog post :) see you soon 

Danielle x

The Pointless Book 2 Review

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As you may all know if you've been reading my blog for a while you would know, I LOVE Alfie Deyes aka PointlessBlog. I've been watching him for 5 years and I just love him! He released his first ever book in September last year and has now released the sequel The Pointless Book 2.

I'm so excited to write a review on this as I enjoyed the first book so much and this book is just so much better and I didn't even think it would come close to beating the first book but it has! It is incredible!

I'm gonna split this review into sections as I've never done one before so I thought I'd do it by the following titles:

• Information
• My 5 Favourite Pages 
• My Favourite Digital Page
• My Favourite Video
• The App
• PB Golden Ticket
• My Overall Opinion

Information

So let me give you some information about the book if you've never heard of it before, basically the book is a fun little diary I would say, it has lots of fun activities in and exclusive videos of Alfie which are nowhere on the Internet apart from inside the book. It's a spontaneous little journal to have fun with when your travelling or even when your chilling with your friends! The book costs £3.89 on amazon!? HOW CHEAP?!

My 5 Favourite Pages

Signing Page - Alfie added a page which it says who the book belongs to and then has a box for him to sign I just found this cool!


Muffin In A Mug - in Alfie's last book he did cake in a mug and I attempted it and I loved it! I just love little activities like this which take less than 5 minutes I need to attempt this asap!!!

Alfie's Juice Recipe - I said in a previous blog post I recently bought a blender so this will be so cool to follow as I don't follow any recipes, I just throw in fruit I like and hope it comes out well which it does! I'm so excited to try this out need to get some fruit!

Mystery Competition- There's a mystery competiton which is the last page of the book which you have to tear out and put a postage label on it and send it off with your details on and you could win the competition, the competition is a mystery so I have no idea what it is but I found this super cool and need to send it off soon!

10 Thing To Do In The Summer- I found this page cool as I was setting myself goals and things to do within summer and I'm gonna try my hardest to complete all of them!

My Favourite Digital Page

7 ways to improve your life page made me very happy as the things he includes are the things I live by every single day!



My Favourite Video

My favourite video within the book is the blindfold makeup challenge, this video is nowhere on the internet apart from in the book it was hilarious, you are suppose to do it with a friend but Alfie did it on his own and I found it hilarious!




The App

The app is called 'The Pointless Book 2' , it is sooooooo incredible, the app on the last book was so cool but this is just next step mind blown, it's so incredible what the app enables you to do, you can see things Alfie has wrote within the book or activity pages he has filled out, there are some cool animation pages which make me speechless, their's this shoe page which you can design what you want on the shoe and when you point your camera at the page it will create it into a 3D shape and have your design on the shoe! I just find it fascinating how this is even available to do within the book itself! It's crazy and I am super excited for the PB Golden ticket day which is being held on the 8th May.

PB Golden Ticket

Alfie released the other day an announcement called the PointlessBook Golden Ticket, now I am super freaking excited for this! Basically on Friday 8th May you have to go on the app and search your book for a digital golden ticket, there are 10 tickets available within the whole of the books being sold and this can only be used in the UK and the ticket entitles you to spend a whole day chilling with Alfie and just doing cool things and I'M GONNA DIE, I'm currently working in a facotry for a month and when I have these terrible 8 hour shifts I just fantasise about spending a day with Alfie and how amazing it would be, I think I would physically pass out though if it actually happened to me... I just cant't imagine the experience the people who win that are the most luckiest people in the whole world!
I'm travelling to @itatube on the day of this PB golden ticket day which is kinda annoying but hopefully I'll be all good! I'm just super excited about this! 

My Overall Opinion

My opinion of this book is that I love it so much and it's incredible and very cheap! It's full of fun activities and goals to set yourself this year, I just love it I will be taking it everywhere I travel and I will it out as its such a fun thing to do! 
I would highly recommend buying this book it's for all age range's in my opinion, I am 17 years old and I absolutely love it, it just makes me feel like I'm filling out a journal without writing endlessly it's just documenting certain things within these awesome pages and activities!
I'm gonna try and complete everything within the book this year! Some how I think this is going to be a challenge!

 So there is my first review! I hope I did okay! I tried my best with it! If you enjoyed it be sure to buy the book and click here ! 

Thanks for reading!

Danielle x

March Favourites

Hey! 

I've been really busy this last month with college and work & been finding it quite hard to fit in a blog post! I've got a day of today so thought I'd write one up!

Enjoy!

Gadgets

iPhone 6 Plus

I have recently bought a iPhone 6 plus well I haven't paid for it yet... Basically my dad got it and gave it me but wanted money of course but I'm struggling to pay for it due with all these holidays but it will be paid! 
Anyway, The iPhone 6 Plus is AMAZING! I love it, people say it's huge and I seriously don't think it is.

I had a iPhone 5c before it and wouldn't see the point if I was just going to get 6 as it wouldn't be any different really, but the 6 Plus is just great I feel like I've bought it for a reason and it's great! It is big but it's beautiful! 
It's easier to read stuff and play games! It's hard to fit it in your pocket though but it does! 

The battery life is like god it lasts more or less all day which I just love, my 5c would last about 3 hours before it reached 20% with me being on it the whole time where the 6 plus would probably only go to about 80%. Which is just beautiful I would highly recommend buying it if your considering it, the size is not an issue you may think it's a bit big at the start but honestly I got use to it in less than a day whenever I go on my 5c now I see it as tiny! 

Also I didn't state it is 128gb so this is the biggest capacity apple offers so I am in iPhone heaven, my 5c is only 16gb so you can imagine the power I feel when I hold this phone, my iPad mini is only 16gb so you can hardly have any games on it but now with this beauty I will never have to delete my photos or games ever again!!! Buy it if you can!

SkinCare

Bio-Oil

Recently I've started to fill out a little bit, I was a stick this time last year and now I'm starting to get curvy, this is not good though as my skin is stretching so I am beginning to get stretch marks on my legs which is not nice! So I've been looking at skin treatment products to try and get rid of them or disguise them for when I go on my holidays.
I recently bought Bio-Oil I've been using it whenever I remember to and I can't say any improvements yet but a few people I know said if you use it religiously they would go or fade. I found it off a TV advert so from now on I'm gonna tell myself to use it twice daily as that's what it recommend on the bottle! Hopefully it's worth buying!

Exercise

Gym

This past month I've been going gym, I haven't taken out a gym membership purely because I can't afford it but I've been going pay as you go and it is great I've been going gym classes and just ordinary gym, it's just nice to get out the house and improve your body.

Like I said I've been filling out but I've been trying to tone up what I've been filling or at least losing a little bit of weight. 

My goal this year is to get a nice summer body whether that will happen is a mystery as I don't really see any improvement to be honest, but I eat crap and I eat general unhealthy food so this last week I've been trying to get a little bit healthier as I'm working in the factory this whole month (which is dreadful by the way) and trying to get a healthier lunch because when I'm at college i just see crisp,chocolate and coke and just buy all of it everyday which is terrible! 

SO I'm trying to cut down on unhealthy foods and get healthy from now on!

Gym Classes

I've been trying out a few gym classes so thought I'd share which ones I do!

Legs, Bums and Tums

This class is fun, I enjoy it but it is very stressful at times as I'm not a very co-ordinated person I find it hard to balance or just follow anything to do with my feet, this class involves toning up the main three, I actually really enjoy it but sometimes I just don't get it, the teacher must be looking round like everyone is doing great there all in time... then she sees me attempting to do it, completely out of time and cannot do it for anything so she helps me every now and again but overall it's my favourite class.

Spinning

I've gave up on this class, this class involves you being on a bike for 45 minutes to an hour while listening to music and your teacher telling you what to do, it's fun and great but it keels you over I'm dead. I'm the most youngest person in the room and I'm the most unfit haha, I just can't do it, I've been sticking to it for this whole month but the last session I said I'm never going again due to the teacher just making me feel nervous aha, I basically die while doing it as they try and push you to the limit and you can put the intensity up and I'm already dying on the speed it is going anyway then she shouts at you to put it up more and more and more. The worst thing is she knows if you haven't done it so it's just scary, I'm just not going back there but it's actually a fun class as long as the teacher is alright.

Fitness Pilates

This class I went to once, it's nice and it's calm but it require you to be able to be calm and relax and just balance, WHICH IS ONE THING I CAN NOT DO! I'm around 5ft 11 so my legs are super long so I try and balance and I can't, I literally look like a giraffe on stilts the worse thing is, is that you have to stand facing a mirror with everyone else too and everyone is standing there all still doing there pose and theirs me moving all over the place! The most embarrassing class ever! If you can balance it is great!

Food

Easter Chocolate

It is now the Easter holidays! And you know what that means EASTER EGGS, I've got a little bit of a collection going on downstairs but the thing I love most about Easter is Creme Eggs or Mini Eggs, they are literally heaven I want to eat them every single day the are just to die for! I'm pretty sure everyone has tried these but just in case you haven't please do NOW!!!

Green Powder Ultimate Blend 

This powder you mix in with your smoothie it's just got loads of healthy ingredients in to help boost your immune and just general healthy stuff, I've been using this and it's just something different instead of having a normal smoothie. My opinion is that it just makes you feel a little healthier knowing your putting a healthy supplement in with your smoothie I really like it, I bought it because Alfie Deyes had it in his vlog and was told it was just really good nutrition wise so I bought it too.

Maxitone Definity Protein Plus Shake ( Womens )

Like I said I've been going gym to tone up and I'm not seeing any improvement so I resulted to this! I've been drinking it nearly everyday since having it and it tastes alright to be honest, I realised it has 111 calories for every portion so I kinda stopped drinking it whenever and only drink it after or before gym now, so I am burning it off as I don't think putting extra calories in my diet is going to help me tone up if I'm just lounging around basically, I can't really say anything at the moment about it apart from it takes good but I'll keep you updated if I see any improvements!

Well this is the end of the blog post, I haven't bought that much stuff this month due to me paying for holidays and not being aloud to spend money due to me not being able to afford that let alone anything else, I'm working on paying for the phone as my iPhone 5c will be sold for a good price and then it's not that much I need to pay off so it's all working out!

Anyway hope you enjoyed this blog post! Thanks for reading!

Danielle x

Upcoming Books Which I Am Excited For !

Hey! There are a few books which are being released in the next few months which I am super excited for so thought I'd share them! So lets begin!

The Pointless Book 2 - By Alfie Deyes ( Price £4.99 ) Release Date April 2nd

I am super excited about this book, I love Alfie so much and loved his first book it's so crazy to see him publish not only one book but this sequel to it. The last book was amazing it's a similar version to the wreck this journal book but his own twist with his personal touch to it! He has a app to go along with the book and it's amazing as it has secret videos within the book which have never been uploaded elsewhere only on his app which is very cool! I am super excited for the book signing to go along with this book, it's felt ages since I last seen Alfie, it will be nice to see him again :) I am super proud of Alfie and his two books so excited to get the second book in my hand! I preordered it months ago!

A Work In Progress - Connor Franta ( Price £8.99 ) Release Date April 21st

This book seems really interesting! From what I've heard him say, it's basically a autobiography but he's put a bit of a spin on it, as he gives advice on stuff that he has experienced in his life so far! I love Connor and I'm so proud of him and the book itself, it looks beautiful I just want to buy it right now! Which I will soon! So proud of Connor for this book can't wait to get my hands on it!

Life With A Sprinkle Of Glitter - Louise Pentland ( Price 12.99 ) Release Date July 2nd

This book isn't due to come out till July so I don't know much about the book in all fairness as Louise hasn't released the book yet I just found the preorder link on amazon a few months back! From what I can read from the information of the book is that, it's going to be a autobiography with her own fabulous twist on it and has lots of tips and trick and creative ideas and just her journey in life! I am super excited for this book and I am sorry if I've ruined the surprise for you! I'm just super happy for Louise and very excited for her to release this book a day before my birthday ( *cough* *perfect birthday present* *cough* ).

Untitled - Graphic Novel By Joseph Sugg ( Price £12.99 ) Release Date September 10th

This book is due out in September which is soooo long away but I am still excited! Joe released he was writing a book a couple of months ago! I'm excited for this one as no one YouTuber wise has done a graphic novel so I'm pretty excited to see what he has in a stock for the book! Don't really know what to expect of the book but I know it will be great!

Girl Online 2 By Zoe Sugg ( Price £12.99 ) Release Date November 19th


Well I am super excited to Zoe's sequel to Girl Online but I do need to finish the first one, I am so terrible I had it on preorder it came to my house the day it arrived the only problem is, is that I don't have enough time to read it or I find other things to do like watch youtube itself! I work and go college 7 days a week and there all early start so I'm shattered when I get home! I will read it before this book comes out! I don't know much about the books as I haven't really read it but all I know is that it is a novel about a girl who has anxiety and it's a bit of a teenage romance I think I may be wrong don't judge me! I love Zoe I just find it hard to find the time I will read it before this one comes out though! I have plenty of time!

Well there's all the upcoming book I am very excited about! I'm sorry if i ruined any surprises that you didnt want to know about! 

Thanks for reading 

Danielle x