Friday Favourite #15 : The Sims 2

Hey Guys! Today's Friday Favourite isn't a beauty product , it's The Sims 2. I have The Sims 3 and love playing it but I came across some of my old Sims 2 games a couple of weeks ago and remembered how fun they were, especially Open For Business and University. I wanted to play them again but realized that I didn't have the original Sims 2 any more and I couldn't install the expansion packs without it. I then proceeded to ask all of my friends if they had it for me to borrow, but nobody did so I ordered it on Amazon last week for €14.99. It took a few days to come and I was so excited when it did. 

Now I had read online that The Sims 2 wasn't compatible with Windows 7 and I wanted to install them on my laptop which has Windows 7 so I could bring them with me when I go to France for 5 months. I found out how to fix this online though and both The original Sims 2 and Sims 2 University installed perfectly. When I tried to install Open For Business though it wouldn't work. This was the game I most wanted to play so I was a bit annoyed, but then I decided try and install it on my computer at home so I could at least play it for a week or two before I have to leave for France. It worked and I spent the whole evening yesterday playing the Sims 2.

Although it isn't the same as The Sims 3 (you can't just walk freely around the neighbourhood or decide your objectives in work), It is still a really good game. The Sims 2 University is so much fun. You get to pick your subject major, live in a dorm with other students or start a band. This also gives a wider variety of job options to your sims once they graduate. Just like the real thing, the sim college experience can be really fun and I just really love it.

The Sims 2 Open For Business was the whole reason I wanted to play The Sims 2 again. It's so cool to build your own business and order your employees to help customers or be cashiers, trying to make a profit as you go. You can make any business that you want: a toy store, restaurant, flower shop, art gallery, car dealership, etc., that's why it's so much fun. You can sell whatever you want, you could make a whole shop selling gone off lasagna if you wanted to. (but nobody would probably buy anything :P) It's so much fun to see if your business is going to fail or became extremely successful. 

Whenever a new version of The Sims comes out, there is also one expansion pack that I can't wait for : Pets. I love animals so I always like this expansion pack. It's always fun to add a new puppy to your sims family and watch it grow up. This game is exactly what it sound like though, it just adds pets to your game so isn't as fun as University or Open For Business but I do like it a lot.

Hope you liked this post :) Which is your favourite Sims game and why? Leave a comment below.

Permanent Tan by Tattooing?

Hey Guys! So my friend Aimee came across something kind of weird today on the interweb and made sure to let me know about it.  It was an answer that was given on ask.com to the question "Permanent Tan?" Apparently, now people are getting an entire tan tattooed onto their body. Link to the web page here.

I don't know if this is really true or not but I can already think of a few reasons why this would be a bad idea. One, It would be really expensive, Two, It would take forever and three, what would happen if you gained a lot of weight or your skin swelled up and stretched so that this "perfect permanent tan" would be ruined.

If this really is a thing though, Do you think that you would ever consider it? Let's just forget everything I said a minute ago and pretend it would be a perfect tan that would last forever, would you choose that above fake tan or spray tanning? I'm not mad about tan myself, I mean I'd like to be tanned but I just can't be bothered with fake tan, buying it, putting it on every night and trying to make sure I don't get any streaks, it's just too much of a pain. A permanent tan tattooed on me though, I think I would just stay pale. I don't think I would want it enough to spend hours in pain getting it, probably spending a couple of thousand euros in the process.

What about you? If you had the choice to get a one-time painful and expensive permanent tan or to use fake tan for the rest of your life what would you do? Please leave a comment below :P

*Picture from www.absolutely-unbelievable.com.

Friday Fail: Soap & Glory's Smoothie Star Deep Moisture Body Milk

Hey Guys! Today I'm not going to do a Friday Favourite post, I'm going to do a Friday Fail, because this post is about a product that I just do not like no matter how much I try. It is a Soap and Glory product and as you may already know from reading my blog, I love Soap and Glory products. They are one of my favourite brands and this is probably the only product of theirs that I don't love. It's the Smoothie Star Deep Moisture Body Milk. 

I got this for Christmas in The Best of All set and as you can probably tell from the picture, I have barely used any of it. The main reason for this is that I absolutely hate the smell of it, it's so strong. The bottle describes the smell as an "irresistible almonds, oats and brown sugar scent" but I just think it's such a strong almond smell that I hate using it. My sister also got it in the Best of All set and doesn't use it either.

It is a shame though because it is a good moisturiser and leaves your skin feeling very soft but I just find it hard to put something that smells so bad all over my body, leaving me smelling of it for the rest of the day, after just having a shower. It kinda of feels like there's no point in having the shower if my skin is going to smell bad afterwards anyway because of my moisturiser. Every few months though I see it and feel bad for not using it because there is so much in it, so I put some on, trying and convince myself that i'm going to use it up but end up just hating how my skins smells for the rest of the day. 

If you happen to love the smell of almonds though, this could be the perfect moisturiser for you but I really recommend smelling it first before you buy it. (just in case) It is pretty expensive at about €11 but there is a lot in it so I think it would be worth it if you did really like the scent.

Hope you liked this post :) Do you have this product? What do you think of it? Please leave a comment below.

Film Review : This is the End

Hey Guys! Today's post is a little different from usual; a film review. I want to do a film or book review every so often on my blog but not every week or two because I still want my blog to be mainly beauty and fashion based, and don't know if all my readers will enjoy reading these type of  posts. Please leave a comment below after reading this post telling me if you would like me to do more or not :)

So I went to the cinema last week with my friends and we decided to go see This is the End. It wasn't any of our first choices but we had already seen a lot of the other movies between us already. We decided on This is the End mainly because we thought it would be funny to see a movie with lots of celebrities in it playing themselves and trying to survive the end of the world; and it was :)

The movie has many A-list celebrities featured in it including Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Michael Cera, Jason Segel, Emma Watson, Rihanna and Channing Tatum [But he is only in it for a minute at the end. Do not make the same mistake that I usually do and go to see a movie because he is in it, only to find that he has been killed off after the first five minutes :(  and I will warn you that the same thing happens for some of the celebrities in this movie]

The movie starts with Jay Baruchel arriving in L.A. to visit his childhood friend Seth Rogen and Seth decides to bring him to a party James Franco is throwing later that night. There are tons of celebrities at this party all acting crazy and it's really funny to see them acting as themselves, but some (if not all)clearly acting a very exaggerated version of themselves or of what others portray them to be to make the movie a lot more entertaining. After a while at the party, the start of the end of the world occurs when the ground violently shakes and the celebrities see that outside the Hollywood Hills are on fire, with people dying all around them. A few of the celebrities barricade themselves in James Franco's House and then the rest of the movie is them trying to survive together in the house, dividing rations, trying to get along with each other and defending the house and themselves from the demonic creatures outside, all with very humerus results.

Overall, It is a very funny action-packed movie, with some scary scenes even, that I found entertaining for the entire duration and didn't find myself bored at any scene. I would really recommend seeing this movie if you have ever wanted to know how a group of celebrities would react to the end of the world and what would happen to them, or if you just needed a good movie to go and see with your friends.

Hope you liked this post :) Have you seen this movie? What did you think of it? Did you agree with me or did you absolutely hate it? Leave a comment below.

Friday Favourite #14 Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Hey guys! This weeks Friday Favourite is Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion. This is my favourite all time primer for eyes. I have it in the colour Original which is just a nude-ish colour but you can also get it in Eden, Greed and Sin which are different shades (some of which are shimmery) that can also be used as an eye shadow base.

The reason that I really love this primer is that it make your eye shadow last all day (and all night) and it also not only keeps your eye shadow from creasing but it makes it more vibrant. One way that I know this primer works is that if I forget to take of my makeup after a night out (c'mon we've all done it at some stage) the next morning it looks like I've just done my eye makeup, It is still absolutely perfect.

It is fairly expensive at €20 but I would really recommend it if you are going to an event that lasts all day and most of the night like a wedding. This primer potion will keep your eye shadow on and crease-free for the whole thing. If you are interested in getting this primer, you can get it here on Amazon or here on the Urban Decay website.

Hope you liked this post :) What's your favourite primer? Do you have this one? Leave a comment below.