July Favourites

Well well well, what have we here? It's a favourites video folks, and it's just for you... enjoy!

July Lifestyle Favourites

What a great time of the month this one is! I love me some favourites, I really freakin' do. Let us check out what I have been loving:

On TV: The Honourable Woman - Maggie Gyllenhaal is my new spirit animal.
On Youtube: The amazing Emily Diana Ruth has had me hooked on her Letters To July series; just beautiful.
On my iPod: I have listened to Kygo's remix of Brother by Matt Corby endlessly since hearing it in this lookbook by the fabulous Sarah Hawkinson.
On my bedside table: I have been reading Abhorsen by Garth Nix and I will be finished any minute now!
On Bloglovin': It's been all about A Girl And A Beauty Blog, That Grace Girl and Citron and Guavaberry this month and brilliant they each are!

And on my end, I loved filming and editing my 7 Days of Makeup and 3 Things To Do This Weekend, and my Trying Some Style Classics post was one of my faves I've done ever!

I hope you enjoyed guys, and that your July was as wonderful as mine. Take care and see you tomorrow for an exciting blog project!

My Favourite Daft Punk Songs

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I lurve Daft Punk... my adoration is a fairly recent one, as I bought their album Discovery on a whim in my first year of uni and I'm about to go into my forth, but the love is real guys, the love is real. I figured as I'd shared my love of some obscure acts and their songs in this post, it was about time I made some recommendations for bands you may have heard of!

We'll do this in reverse order, to keep things exciting!

Get Lucky
Oooh come on, you can't begrudge me this one?! I figured I'd pop this fella in first just to get it done. Overplayed, maybe... but does it deserve it? I'm gonna say yes - I've had a weird thing for proper 70's disco for a couple of years now (please don't tell my dad) and any songs that combine the old with the new are always my faves. This just gets me dancin'.

Rinzler
From the Tron Legacy Soundtrack, this song has some seriously bad ass vibes. Come my wedding I'll be walking down the aisle to this one for sure. Play it loud and feel the goosebumps.

Motherboard
This track is from their latest album Random Access Memories and is arguably my favourite. Probably nothing like you might expect from the album that gave us Get Lucky and Lose Yourself To Dance, it's a slightly wacky but seriously wonderful piece. BIG LOVE.

Da Funk
I mean, if you're not guessing the vibe of this one from the title, I just don't know where your mind's at... Fun and of course funky, this one makes me want to move. For hours on end.

Make Love
Nope, not an instruction from me there, that's actually my favourite Daft Punk song's title. This is a lush, subtle catchy number that I serious could listen to for hours on end (there's a link here if you share the urge!) I could listen to this all day and I am amazed I've not heard more people talking about it/bloody well playing it.

Man I love these songs - if you've not heard them already, feel free to listen and let me know what you thought!

This Month's Finest... June Lifestyle Favourites

GOOD GOD it is July already... I couldn't feel any less emotionally prepared.  As before, this post may be a longer one (aren't they always though?! AREN'T THEY ALWAYS??)... but without further ado, Imma break down what I've been loving in the month of June yo.

I promise there will be no further efforts to be G from here on out.

This Month's Finest... May Lifestyle Favourites

So I've been thinking - unusual stuff I know - and I reckon I may start posting my monthly lifestyle favourites on my blog instead of onto Youtube as I just feel it will work better format-wise. Plus it comes with the benefit of me being able to do bloggy/Youtube stuff when I'm feeling run down... why am I coming down with a cold yet again??? Not fair.

Anyway, on to brighter things. I hope you're sitting comfortably as this may be a long one!

Music Recommendations

I do feel rather like I'm hitting you hard and heavy with favourites at the moment (at the time of writing I haven't even got to beauty ones yet, strewth almighty) but as finding background music is one of the jobs that I enjoy most but mention least about Youtube, I thought I'd share the musicians I have found since I started my channel.

I haven't featured all of these in my channel, but if I had my way I would use all their tracks! I just prefer to ask for permission as much as I can.

(Also can we have a brief aside to moan about everyone using the same music on Youtube?! PLEASE STOP, I can't be the only person that is fed up with it!)

WMD was one of the first artists that I came across during my many hours spent on Bandcamp, and he remains one of my favourites. He uses electro elements to create chilled but quirky tunes - I had no idea till now how much I suck at describing music I swear - and I love putting on his album Sophrosyne and just letting it do its stuff while I get on with mine. My most played track is "You Love Someone Else". It just does things to me man. His latest release, Jenny Llewellyn, is just as brilliant.

I have talked about Tycho before but I have to recommend them to your ears again. I used the track "Coastal Brake" in my Year In France Montage, and I think it's fair to say this is definitely my favourite song. That said, the album Dive is just fantastic and one that I have forced others to listen to as I just think every song rocks. The latest album, Awake, also features some goodies and continues the chill, delicious sound of the previous album. You will be hooked.

I also love the generally short but oh so sweet melodies from Cloudkicker/Ben Sharp: the album Let Yourself Be Huge is gorgeous and feature almost entirely instrumentals that really are instrumentally good.
That pun was not my best.
My most played track of his is actually one from his Soundcloud: Manchester is a song that I seem to be able to listen to and love over and over.

Last of all is Tom Day, one the first Bandcamp artists I came across and definitely the first I downloaded. I love his music so much I even use his track Going Home as my intro on my Youtube videos. He uses orchestral elements to perfection, but also nails it with more electronic-based tracks too: his latest EP, Without Words, is very much proof of this. He was also the nicest artist to chat to when I asked permission to ask his music, which I still find cool now.

So, those are my musical loves, I hope you enjoyed and I encourage you to get listening and downloading!

Current Favourite Bloggers

To go with my current favourite Youtubers I have also been collating a list of my favourite bloggers of the moment. These guys are the ones I most look forward to reading and I am sure you will love them as much as I do.

A Little Opulent

A Little Opulent is an online magazine that covers just about everything you'd want a lifestyle blog to cover and with such a professional feel. The writing team features blogs I loved prior to finding ALO,  as well as a few faces that have now been added to my blog roll owing to their blogging talents. Well written, well researched and featuring some stunning illustrations, it is a complete joy to read. My favourite post recently was 5 Ways We're Wasting Money (a really refreshing, practical dose of beauty-based reality) and A Fool For Hand Cream (my latest beauty obsession).

Xen's Imagination

Xen's Imagination that made me feel I had to write this post - at the height of my blog crush, I was checking her page daily in the hope she'd update it again. Madness I know. If you're into fashion, you will probably drool as much over her OOTDs as much as I have - always minimally chic, always on point, and almost always featuring stripes (she's my kind of gal in that sense) I have bought more than a few items after being inspired by her lovely photos. I especially loved this outfit and this one. My favourite style blogger I've ever come across.

Man Repeller

Man Repeller is a blog that perfectly marries excellent content with brilliant and hilarious writing. There have been several posts that I have really enjoyed, including this one on appropriate outfits for dates (unexpectedly full of life advice to take or leave as you wish) and this one on Breton tops. Ooooosh. There was also a brilliant one about a man repelling pair of jeans that I cannot for the life of me find for you, but brownie points to you if you do manage to find it!

That Grace Girl

That Grace Girl is the next on my list of favourites, and she gets a special mention because I especially love her photos and layout of her blog. She is also a lipstick fan, and her recent post on My Lips But Better lipsticks was a particular fave: I have written the three products she recommended on my wishlist, as they really do sound wonderful. I also loved her April Style Favourites - hers is a wardrobe I wouldn't mind raiding, that's for sure.

The Private Life Of A Girl

The last of my favourites is The Private Life Of A Girl, whose blog is so minimalistically cool it's crazy (I am aware minimalistically is not a word). Her photos are always amazing to look at and she's actually one of the writers for ALO as well! I love her writing style and found her piece on developing personal style really interesting, and it's worth checking out the other posts in her minimal wardrobe series as well as they are very inspiring. I am also a fan of her post on streamlining your makeup stash. All in all, she's brilliant.

I hope you do check out any of the bloggers I've suggested if you haven't heard of them, and it would be great to hear who your favourites are too of course (and even link your own blog too of course!) I am always on the hunt for more and I am sure this is a series in the making...

March Favourites

In case you missed it you beauties, here are my Marchiest of favourites, I feel free to check 'em out!