#08.06.17

I've actually decided that I can hairspray my fringe, which makes it crispy and less soft but it isn’t doing this *flips into his eyes* while I’m trying to talk. So there’s my little beauty tip. Second beauty tip I’ve learnt: If you’ve just had a hair cut or your hair is not working properly  put some dry hair shampoo in your hair before you go to sleep because then your hair releases oils in the night and that’s when the dry hair shampoo can be like “no, I am a barrier!”, so I’ve been doing that. And it’s made my hair look nicer the next day, if I’m having one of those days. “Oh my gosh, beauty tips with Phil #BeautyTips”. I know. Look at me knowing how to use dry hair shampoo. Phil, the hair specialist. Depends on what kind of hair you have. I’ve just got hair that turn into a bit of a greasy rat after about a day, so that helps. *chuckles* Yeah, so that’s my beauty tips. Any other beauty tips? We need some kind of beauty vlog music though for beauty tips. *finds generic royalty free background music* Is this beauty? It sounds like I’m going on a journey with my animals to get to a new circus. So your next beauty tip is, if you have a zit, try putting some toothpaste on it the night before you go to sleep because it dries you out. Also try not to pop the zit because that hurts and it can leave a scar. This should just be the theme tune to my life. I’m just going to play this. *continues to wiggle to the music* Other beauty tips with Phil… I don’t have any other ones… hmm… don’t drop things on your feet because it makes them bruise. It’s getting a bit DanAndPhilCRAFTS now. Protip! … What other beauty tips? Drink lots of water. Stay hydrated. ‘Cause then your skin will have a drink. Don’t be afraid to moisturise. I actually started moisturising quite a lot. Cleanse in the shower, then afterwards your face will be a bit dry so then you moisturise after you’ve done that. Protip! “What moisturiser do you use?” I don’t really have… oh, I got some Clinique for Men. I need to stop this now *turns off music* this is endless. I got some Clinique for Men. Why is it for “men”? I would just have the normal Clinique but I got for Christmas in like one of those Christmas things. Apparently it’s specifically designed for my roughed skin. But that is working quite well. Smells quite nice. … “Gendered skin care is ridiculous.” What I think is ridiculous is how the women’s deodorant is always more expensive than the men’s and it’s exactly the same product. It just smells a bit nicer. I can’t believe that. That's should be changed. If it’s the same product, why is it more expensive to be a girl and need deodorant? Who knows? Why does it even exist?

Out the window weather report for Athens, Georgia...

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Loads of people has got exams at the moment. Sorry about that. I hope it’s not too stressful. I would say just try not to think about it as one huge overwhelming thing, where everyone’s looking at you and the time is ticking down and break it down to what you actually got to do, which is answer a few questions. And if you’re prepared and relaxed and you’ve looked at the syllabus and the notes of what might appear - it’s always worth asking a teacher what might be on the exam because they know or they’re going to have an idea. So if you ask that and have a look at what the exam board has said “hey, this might be on the exam”, go for it. But I know how stressful it was. I had a horrible time in exams. I did GCSE graphics and in the mock I got an A Star, which is like the best mark and it’s amazing but then I got really stressed in the main exam and I did a lot worse. I think I got a D or an E, something was bad, something was wrong with it. Anyway, I got to do it again and I got a better mark. But still don’t stress out about it. I don’t know why I just told a story of an exam going bad. I don’t know. Sometimes, I would have looked at what was available on the mark scheme and I’d asked the teacher what is this exam going to be and they’d give you like vague points and more often than not they were on there. But I saw a lot of people tweeting about exams and saying like “what was going on the with CDs?” and stuff like that. Especially in maths exams you’d revise loads of stuff and none of it would be on the paper. Mine was just full of triangles, my GCSE maths was. Every single question was a giant triangle. Anyway, I hope that helped slightly. “What GCSEs did you do?” I did graphics, I did German, I did geography… religious education. We had to do religious education actually. That was one that they forced upon us but I was quite good at that. I was good at the ones, which involved essays and writing and I could just be a bit like “here’s a point, and here’s somebody else’s point.” I was a bit worse at maths. Maths was the hardest one. “I’m already out of school” … Congratulations, I love that feeling when you just finished and did the final day. Our last week was always just watching The Simpsons. I don't know like what educational value The Simpsons had but it was just a week watching Simpsons and then school would be over.