Fleur de Force The Glam Guide Review and Photos

Fleur de Force The Glam Guide

Out of all the You Tuber book releases, Fleur's was defiantly the one I was most excited about. Having followed her channel for years, I have to say she is one of my favourite people on YouTube. Why? She's down to earth, relatable, honest, natural and beautiful. If you don't know already Fleur is a British Blogger and YouTuber with an audience of over a million, that are captivated by her respected advice on Fashion and Beauty products.

Released in February The Glam Guide is a round up of everything from Beauty to Fashion, Healthy Eating and Life Advice. With a great mix of content, this beautiful book has something for everyone.
Here's my thoughts.

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Price
The book retails for £14.99 and can be found in most good book stores, including Tesco, Amazon and WHSmith.

Packaging and about the book
This book certainly caught my eye when I saw it. The cover is beautifully adorned in Rose Gold writing, on trend watercolour accents and personal pictures that represent everything in Fleur's life.

Inside the book you'll find tips and tricks, life hacks and everything in between, to help you lead a glam life. Fleur also shares her secrets and experience on make-up advice, how to look good in photos, as well as relationships, dreams and of course YouTube and Blogging tips.

My Top 5 Favourite Pages from the book

1. The Illustrations - Throughout the book
Not only is this book the ultimate life guide, it's also visually appealing too. You can tell so much effort and thought has been put into every page, with so many beautiful photos and illustrations to capture each chapter.

 

2. Hair - P60 - 81

I love Fleur's guide to everything hair, she had some really great tips that I had never even heard of before including, hair colour, DIY masks and quick and easy hairstyle ideas.

 

3. Travel - P132 - 149

Being an avid traveller myself I love anything to do with travel and enjoy watching Fleur's vlog channel to see where in the world she has been recently. This section again gives some great tips for any amateur packer on what to pack in your carry on, how to overcome jetlag and beauty essentials.

4. Juicing and Smoothies - P158 - 163
I have a thing about making juices and smoothies for breakfast and so it's great to see people feel as passionate as me about this subject. Fleur covers a whole topic on Health and Fitness as well as sharing three of her favourite Juicing and smoothie recipes too.

5. Life, Love Dreams and Everything in Between - P180 - 209
Confidence is something I think most of us struggle with these days. With so much pressure to look good because of influences like social media and magazines, it's great to see real women speak out about how they deal with self-confidence issues and exactly how to lead an overall positive, happy life.

Overall Thoughts
The Glam Guide is a truly beautiful book inside and out. It really is your essential glam bible that every girl should own! You can tell that so much thought has been put into every single page to make this relatable to girls young and old. Whether your looking for beauty or fashion, healthy recipes or blogging advice it can be found in this essential glam bible. It's great to see Fleur finally combine all her knowledge, secrets and experience into one solid book that genuinely reflects her as a person. It really is inspiring to witness another YouTuber doing so well through sheer hard work and determination in something she sincerely is passionate about. I'm excited to see what's next for Fleur.

I award The Glam Guide 4.9 out of 5

Tanya Burr - Love, Tanya Book Review and Photos

Tanya Burr Love, Tanya

I usually don't do book reviews on here as this is a beauty and nail based blog, but I feel this is an appropriate review as the book is about beauty, make-up, lifestyle and much more.

If you haven't heard of Tanya Burr by now then where have you been! Over the past few years Tanya has become a household name influencing a young audience with her beauty tips, make-up tutorials and baking videos on YouTube. As well as sharing snippets of her life she has been seen on the front rows at fashion week and has her own nail, lip and lash line, named appropriately Tanya Burr. Here's my thoughts on the next chapter, her long awaited book release, Love, Tanya.
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Price
This retails for £12.99 and can be purchased from Waterstones and Amazon. It is available as a hardback, eBook, kindle or audio version. If you shop around you can more than likely find this on offer instead of paying full price. This is a great price anyway for such a lovely quality, decent sized book.

Packaging and About the Book
I love everything about the design of this book, the cover is eye catching and beautifully adorned with metallic gold hearts and stars on the spine. I like the fact it also has a ribbon bookmark incorporated in so you will never loose the page your on. This is a very easy read as the book is laid out in sections, which include plenty of pictures to inspire you if your not a serious reader.

The book starts off with a mini biography on Tanya's personal life growing up. It then progresses onto the remaining chapters which consist of the parts we know and love her for, including skincare, romance, baking, YouTube, make-up tips and much more.

My top 5 favourite parts of the book

1. Tools - P78 - 81
We all want to know what's in Tanya's make-up bag and what tools she uses to create her effortless make-up looks. I love this page as it goes into detail about her essential make-up brushes she swears by and also pictures and the names of each brush.

2. Top 10 Skincare Products - P66 & 67
I love seeing other peoples skincare recommendations whether drugstore or high end, it's great to see favourites that I may not have tried yet and in turn these usually end up on my Pinterest wish list!

3. Photos & Make-Up Essentials - P76 - 97
I love all the photography in this book, the pictures are so crisp and show off Tanya's personality well. This is one of my favourite photos from the book as this for me, represents Tanya the best and is where she first started, as a Make-Up Artist.

4. Amazing Chocolate Brownies - P208
I remember watching this recipe on Tanya's Channel and being a chocolate lover myself I thought they looked so yummy. The best bit overall is she uses mostly healthy ingredients to make such an indulgent recipe.

 

5. Notes - At the end of each chapter
One of my favourite parts of this book is the notes sections at the end of each chapter. I love writing notes and I am a big dreamer like Tanya. These sections really inspire me to write down my dreams, aspirations and reflect, as I think sometimes we can get carried away with life and not sit down and think about what we're thankful for. It's great to have life goals and dreams and this is such a lovely touch to the book.

Overall Thoughts
I really did enjoy reading this book as you can tell so much thought and planning has been put into every page. Love, Tanya has such a great mix of content and is perfect if your not a keen book worm as each chapter is filled with pictures, inspiration and tips. Ultimately this book reflects Tanya as a whole and everything she loves and is successful for, it's amazing to see how far just a normal girl from Norwich has come and she proves dreams can come true if you put your heart and soul into everything your passionate about.

I award Love, Tanya 4.8 out of 5

My Top 3 Beauty Books - Bobbi Brown, Scott Barnes, Beauty Bible

I love collecting beauty & makeup books; they are so colourful and full of tips & tricks that inspire me for a lifetime, so I thought I would share with you my top 3 makeup & beauty books that I cannot live without.

1. Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual

This book is perfect for anyone who has a passion for makeup or who is just starting out. It gives you so many tips and tricks, what colours to use on different lip shades, eye colours & skin tones. There is just so much in this book that I refer to time and time again and I always learn something new from it every time I pick it up.

Bobbi also recommends suggestions for starting your basic and more colourful makeup kits, as well as how to apply the makeup basics.

2. The 21st Century Beauty Bible

This is my Holy Grail book as it is filled with beauty products 'tried & tested' by real women. It lists a description on the highest rating products and is divided into sub categories including everything from mascara to cleansers & perfume to shampoo. I just love referring to this book if I need a new beauty product that I need to know works well and I can get results from.

 It's also filled with tips and tricks to inspire you from head to toe.

3. About Face Celebrity Makeup Techniques by Scott Barnes

Now this book is defiantly a little bit special, Scott can transform any women into the most beautiful goddess ever! He looks at a face differently to any other makeup artist; he can see a women's best features and then takes to work like a magician buy sculpting & contouring the face with different powders, creams & liquids to accentuate your features to the maximum. The transformations are amazing, for me he is more than a makeup artist, he is a magician and a illusionist.

This book includes transformations, step by step instructions and his magic tips & tricks to achieve on any colour, face shape and age.

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