Liebster Award

So, I was nominated for a Liebster by the wonderful Katie over at Lost and Found (do go check her blog out, she does great posts on mental health as well as some stellar nail art). Sorry it's taken me a while to get around to doing this.

How it works:

-11 random facts about yourself

-answer the nominators 11 questions

-write 11 questions of your own

-nominate 11 people under 250 followers and let them know

Eleven Facts:

- I'm going to two Supernatural Conventions this year (Asylum 12 & 13), after my first last year I'm hooked!

- I am partially composed of a mix of tea and Pepsi Max.

- I'm doing a PhD in phosphorus based flame retardants.

- Vanilla scents and flavours are my weakness.

- I need background noise whenever I am doing something. Quiet really gets to me!

- I fancy way too many fictional characters.

- I've had a grand total of three pets in my lifetime (two goldfish and a hamster)

- I went through a big goth/mosher phase in high school, I kind of miss it.

- I've been taking driving lessons for over a year, I'm such a nervous driver it's taking me twice as long.

- I read far more YA books than I should for someone my age.

- I'm bisexual, or queer. The labels confuse me and I'm not properly settled on one, either way I like male and female people (cis and trans).

Katie's Eleven questions:

1. How are you today? Hanging in there, hair dye is helping!
2. Do you eat breakfast? What? Sometimes I'll grab something as I head out the door, grapes or on bad days a sweet.
3. What's your top coat of choice? I'm terrible, I don't usually use one unless I'm doing matte or glitter. I did just buy a 45 Second topcoat from Save The Nail though.
4. What do you watch on tv? Way too much! Shows I keep up with religiously are Supernatural (you'd never guess eh?), American Horror Story, Hannibal, Almost Human, Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory, Lost Girl, The Musketeers, Holby City/Casualty, Bones, Castle... um, I'm sure there's more. I am a terrible tv slob.
5. Can you cook? What's your best dish? I can make salads and toasties and that is the sum of my skills. I really should learn.
6. Do you like to read? Love to! I will admit I read on my kindle more than real books nowadays though. There are lots of reasons for that, most of them involving saving space and fanfiction.
7. Do you have any special talents? Sadly not really.
8. Who's your favourite artist? I'm not sure, I used to love George Stubbs. Really I'm just impressed at anyone who can draw. I'm horribly uncultured.
9. Science museum, cool or boring? AWESOME! Though last time I went to the London one it was less awesome than I remember from my childhood, I still love Science museums though :)
10. How would you like to celebrate your birthday? A night out with friends. Last time that happened I was turning 18 I think.
11. How clumsy are you? Very! I am constantly falling over and walking into things.

Eleven questions from me:

1. If you could live in any fictional universe which would you choose and why?

2. What's one makeup item you can't leave the house without?

3. If you could have any colour hair which would you go for?

4. What's your favourite museum or art gallery?

5. Three books that really stuck with you?

6. What's one makeup or nail art technique you really want to try but haven't yet?

7. Do you read a newspaper? If so which one?

8. Three things on your 'if I was rich' wishlist?

9. Shoes or boots?

10. What's your favourite lipstick?

11. Five bands/artists for your dream festival lineup?

Eleven blogs under two hundred and fifty followers (I literally cannot find eleven of you, stop being so popular guys!)

http://littlemagpiemoments.blogspot.co.uk/

http://mishmreow.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.juyey.com/

http://www.ria-louise.com/

http://wickedlypleasant.wordpress.com/

http://scarabscreation.blogspot.co.uk/

http://confusionbay.blogspot.co.uk/

http://beeskneesofbeauty.blogspot.co.uk/

Versatile Blogger Award

The super lovely and super talented Heather at Makeup Mouse tagged me for a Versatile Blogger award. Do go check out her blog, she is awesome.

The Rules

1. Thank the person who nominated you.

2. Include a link to their blog.

3. Select 15 new blog/bloggers you've recently discovered or follow regularly.

4. Nominate those bloggers for a Versatile Blogger Award, leave a link to their page and a comment on their latest post to let them know they've been nominated.

5. Tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.

Seven Things About Me

1. I like the smell of hairdye, I think it's the ammonia. Actually I'm sure it is from the ammonia xD

2. I used to want to be a bartender, still would happily do it if I could. I like making cocktails.

3. I was knocked off my bike by a car once. I don't use my bike any more.

4. The most expensive item of clothing I ever bought is a leather jacket, £99 if I remember correctly. I bought it for myself as an “I passed my exams and got into 3^rd year at uni” present.

5. I have done something I will never ever forgive myself for.

6. I really like mythology, legend, demonology etc. I think that's why I enjoy shows like Lost Girl and Supernatural.

7. I love shoes, especially heels, but I have nowhere to wear them and I hate that my feet hurt so much after wearing them.

Nominated Blogs

Not all of these are blogs I'm new to, though many are, I wanted to nominate blogs I really enjoyed reading.

Beautiful With Brains

Bones and Lilies

Cinseven13

A Touch of Glamour

Divine Obscurity

Mad About Beauty

Makeup by Hanna M

Northern Nails

Personellietea

Simply Beauty

Confusion Bay

Nicole Top to Toe

Glitter is my Crack

Zombies Wear Bandshirts

A Bit Prissy

Apologies if you've been nominated before, consider it a compliment?

Liebster Award

I was nominated by the lovely Katie Nicholls (another Katie! :D) at When Life Gives You Lemons for the Liebster Award, which was an awesome surprise as I'm so new, I haven't even got ten followers yet! The Leibster Award is an award for new bloggers with less than 200 followers to help raise interest in their blogs and help them connect with other bloggers. 

How it works:

• Each person must post 11 things about themselves

• Answer the questions that the nominator set for you, plus create 11 questions for the people that you've nominated to answer

• Nominate other people and link them to your post

• Go to their page and tell them

• No tag backs!

11 Random Facts About Me...

1. I just did 50 of these here but I'm vain (and I want to do this properly) so I'm going to try and think of more!

1. I broke my wrist as a kid trying to catch a butterfly from the top of my slide.

1. I love snakes, I want to own one some day.

1. My Grandad was the one who first started calling me Katie (my name is Katherine) and my mum hated it, but it's stuck.

1. I'm an eyeshadow person more than anything else, I only just recently started wearing lip products.

1. I only just started using a proper skin care routine in the last month or so.

1. I have grey eyes which kind of change colour depending on lighting/makeup/unicorn magic etc. You might notice in some pictures they look green, other blue and in some brown (nope, I don't get it either!)

1. Food purchases aside I'm usually quite bad at allowing myself to spend money on nice things for myself. It tends to come out in massive spending binges.

1. If I don't know what word I want to use or I'm trying not to swear I tend to insert the word monkey or monkeys into sentences at random.

1. I had horse-riding lessons from the age of 5 until around 15/16. I still miss it and want to go back as soon as I can afford it.

1. The thing I miss most about Manchester is a gamer bar called Kyoto Lounge.

The questions Katie left for me to answer... 

• Marmite. Love or hate?
  Hate

• Sweet or savoury?
  Can I say both? I do have a massive sweet tooth though

• What would you buy first if you won the lottery?
  Depends how much I won, but assuming it was the jackpot – a small apartment.

• Are you the big spoon or little spoon?
  Little spoon. Though usually I sleep curled into boythings chest :)

• What are the 3 beauty items you couldn't live without?
  Concealer, Tweezers and Liner

• What is your dream job?
  Working with horses, or a chemical job in the beauty or food industries.

• Why did you start blogging?
  As a distraction and something to make me feel good. Probably the wrong reasons, but the community really does make me smile and I enjoy playing with makeup and sharing with others :)

•  What is your favourite childhood television program?
  Oh so many! The Silver Brumby, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman The Animated series... I was a nerdy tomboy

• What is your worst habit?
  Smoking probably :( and I have a few others that I don't really talk about,

• Beach, country or city?
  Country

• Pyjamas and slippers, or dress and high heels? Pyjamas and slippers, I'm super lazy and like my comfort.

The questions I want others to answer:

1. What's your biggest beauty sin?

1. If you had to eat at one restaurant/eatery once a week for the next year which would you pick?

1. Favourite movie you saw in 2012?

1. If you could look like any celebrity who would you pick?

1. Which beauty products are top five on your wish list?

1. What's your favourite place in the world?

1. If you could go on holiday to anywhere in the world where would you most like to go?

1. Favourite name for a boy?

1. Favourite name for a girl?

1. Do you own any complete boxsets of TV shows or movie series? Which ones?

1. Zombies, Werewolves, Vampires or Witches?

 And my nominations go to (in no particular order other than the order my tabs are open to copy links from *slaps wrist*):

• Elspeth Daisy @ Bees Knees of Beauty

• Christina @ Tales From The Kingdom

• Little Miss L @ Makes, Musings & Magpie Moments

• Ali @ Zombies Wear Eyeliner

• Polly @ Polly Polish

• Charlotte @ The Beauty Board

• Sami @ That Redhead Said

(apologies if any of you have already been tagged, I checked whether you'd been tagged in 2013 but I'm lazy and supposed to be learning driving Theory and applying for jobs! Feel free to ignore if you've done this already)