Box of OMG Review

Hello everyone! Today I'm going to do a review of the Box of OMG that I recently received in the post. So off we go!:D

So the Box of OMG is a box that you can potentially receive for free in the mail if you sign up to the website here: http://www.boxofomg.tv/ Alternatively you can purchase a mega box for £4.99. The box contains loads of cool stuff including books,toys, wristbands and sweets. Their aim is to help brands connect with children in order to improve their products.

Rocking the Henna^_^

I love the Ruby Redford wristband, definitely my favourite item from the box because of how much I adore wearing them.

The sample books

Oops I ate them...

The box arrived really quickly and I was amazed to see how much stuff you get! I do think some of the stuff in the box is a bit young for me for instance the Moshi Monsters merch, but knowing me, I'll still stick them to my walls in my bedroom...

 The free sample of Skwooshi it comes with is amazing, I didn't even know this toy existed! It turns from a solid playground consistency to a liquid consistency right in front of you!? Magic, that's what that is. http://skwooshi.com/

I'm looking forward to reading the book it came with: Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Counting-7s-Holly-Goldberg-Sloan/dp/0803738552

All in all I love this box and I'm definitely going to recommend it to others. I think it's a great way to get kids interested in reading and to get them testing brands they may never have heard of! However, I don't think it appeals as much to teenagers. Because of this I think it would be a fantastic to create a box specifically designed for teens. Things inside could include make-up and accessories etc. 

My favourite items from the OMG box were the wristband and the Counting by 7s book.

Thanks to Sophie for kindly sending me one of the boxes for free.

So I hope you all enjoyed that! Let me know in the comments if you're subscribed to any mail boxes eg. Birchbox:)

Cheerio! Milly x

P.S. Thanks to Sophie from the company who kindly sent me this box for free:)

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Book Review

The most striking thing about this book at first is the extreeeemely long title^

Hello everyone! I think it's time for another book review the last one I did was back in September when I reviewed "The Fault In Our Stars". Man that seems like a longggg time ago! You can view that post HERE. The book I'm going to review for you today is: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, so off we go...

15 year old wannabe astronaut Christopher Boone lives in Swindon with his father and pet rat Toby. Christopher has "a memory of a film, a maths genius (knowing all the prime numbers up to 7,507) and is studying for his A-level maths during the book. However, he doesn't understand human emotions and finds it hard to communicate, sometimes "not talking to people for a long time".

“I would make a good astronaut. To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent. I am intelligent”

This book immediately draws you in, Christopher has already found the corpse of his neighbours dog impaled by a pitchfork in the first chapter. This discovery leads him on a mission to find the culprit of the murder, using inspiration from his favourite writer Sherlock Holmes.

Christopher has severe autism which ultimately affects how he goes about solving the case. Confronting his neighbours and the public in order to ask questions regarding the case is frustrating for Christopher, resulting in him groaning and covering his ears in order to retreat from the situation.

 "I put my hands over my ears and closed my eyes and rolled forward till I was hunched up with my forehead pressed onto the grass. The grass was wet and cold. It was nice."

Writing a detective novel from the perspective of an autistic teenager is a very difficult task Mark Haddon has taking on. The ingenious idea of creating Christopher to love Sherlock Holmes has kept the novel flowing  as he has the much needed motivation to try and be like his icon and break his strict social boundaries. Because if this, Christopher quickly progresses in solving the case and uncovers many more intense mysteries.

Because Christopher is such a visual thinker, Diagrams are frequently used in this book as this is what he understands. In order for something to make sense to Christopher, there must be science and logic behind it. In order for the book to make sense to the reader, you must un-train your mind of the conventional way we are taught to read. 

This book isn't just a child detective novel nor a book about disability, but an insight to readers into how people with autism see the world and undertake tasks. This is why I love The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a very touching and intelligent  novel that I feel everyone should read.

Hope you all enjoyed that!

Have any of you read the book? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below and if you enjoyed my review:)

Cheerio! Milly x

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Soap and Glory Sugar Crush Body Butter Review

Hey everyone! Another beauty review type thingy today and it's all about the Soap and Glory Sugarcrush Body Butter!

This Milly loves herself some Soap and Glory loveliness. Whether it's their GORGEOUS eyeshadow quads, lusciouss hair products, super amazeballs mascara or brilliant face wash (I nearly ran out of adjectives then...), this girl's gonna love it.

My favourite scent has to be the Sugar Crush range. I wish you had smella-screen (is that even a thing?) so you could understand my feels over this stuff. The sugar crush range consists of a body butter, body scrub and body wash. I have them all. Don't judge me. 

I'm going to tryyy and explain how they smell but sorry if I do a really terrible job. It's limey but doesn't smell zingy ( wow.) instead it's a sweet lime, hence why it's called sugar crush; it almost smells like lime yoghurt (oh dear). If you don't like lime scents, don't you be judging this beauty because oh my goodness it smells delicious. Let's roll with that description.

So today I'm just going to review the body cream because if I was to review all of the range you would be still reading this in the year 3000. (Where we live under water. Comment if you know what song that's from)

The effect this stuff has on your skin is insane, leaving it feeling silkily smooth and smelling of the cream all day. Very nice if you want to smell like lime yoghurt, am I selling it to you?... No, really, it's fantastic and I'm sure you'll receive plenty of limishious scentish compliments.

The Body Butter costs around £10.50. You definitely get your money's worth from the product as you only need to apply a small amount because of how beautifully it spreads, especially when you've just got out of the bath/shower and your skin's nice and moisturised. It also seeps into the skin fairly quickly so you don't feel like a slug for too long:)

Although the packaging doesn't look expensive, I love the simplistic design with all the Soap and Glory comments we all know and love. Plus it's pink and green, my two favourite colours so that sold me straight away.

My only problem with this product is that it's a screw on lid! When my hands are all buttered up (going a bit in depth here but carry on) it's extremely hard to screw on a lid! I would much prefer like a pop off one so my life would be that tad bit easier. But other than that slight moan, everything else is top job fantastic!

So that review went quite well I feel... I need to go and revise French now as I have a speaking exam tomorrow at 12:45 (during RE, YESSS) and I'm slightly stressing out over that so I must dash.

Cheerio! Milly x

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My Go Too Handreams of 2013/14!

Hey everyone! Two posts in a week, hope you all feel very special indeed. I have a free half an hour so here you go, my go too hand-creams hope you enjoy:))

I get really chapped, dry and sensitive hands in the autumn and winter months so it takes me a while to find the perfect hand-cream that moisturises yet doesn't cause my hands to feel on fire when I put it on.

 First up is this super handy Neutrogena hand-cream that is my go to handbag cream as you only have to apply a really tiny blob on your hand. This is great as it means you don't feel like you've got handcream on so you can carry on with everything without leaving a slimy residue behind:)) It amazes me how even though you only put a tiny bit on, it still moisturises your hands so much and doesn't cause them to sting at all. It's also in an incredibly tiny bottle as it's so concentrated which means it fits in your bag wonderfully.

As for smell, this product doesn't really have any. I personally like this for when I'm out and about:)

The price of this product is between £3 and £4 which is quite good considering the number of uses you get from it.

Excuse the drawing on my hand:))

My other go to hand-cream is this Hemp Hand Protector from Body Shop which I absolutely ADORE! It's very thick, very moisturising but slightly more expensive compared with the Neutrogena one costing £10 for this size bottle. This is the hand-cream I use on a night as it's thicker and does leave your hands feeling very handcreamy (if that's a word?!) and when I get up on a morning it leaves my hands feeling so unbelievably soft. If you have really dry, chapped hands then this is the hand-cream for you.

You do have to use quite a lot of the cream when applying to completely moisturise your hand which means the larger bottle is recommended as it can run out quite quickly, especially if you apply it everyday like I do.

I quite like the smell of this hand-cream. It's not a sweet. That's all I got. I recommend having a smell when you next go past Bodyshop but that isn't what makes this product good, it's the brill effect it has on your hands that caused me to buy the big bottle.

So there we go! Hope you enjoyed that Monday blogpost. I want to start blogging more regularly this year but please don't hold it against me, school is taking up a LOT of time recently *cry*

Anyway got to go now! Let me know in the comments below what hand-creams you've been loving at the moment, I'll look forward to replying to them:)

Cheerio! Milly x

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