The Fault In Our Stars Early Screening : Get Ready With Me & Review

Last Thursday night I got the chance to go the an early screening of The Fault In Our Stars thanks to Spin 1038 (and a very good friend Amy who won the tickets). We had only been discussing how much we had loved reading the book growing up so it was fitting that we got to see it together, especially in advance since it's not out in Ireland till June 19^th! Can you tell that I'm typing this with a smug smirk on my face? Anyway back to make up, I swear there was a make up topic in this! I decided to show you guys the make up that I wore! I think that in summer its very hard to have a dressy, polished make up look but I some how managed to keep it even through the hours of crying – but I'll get back to that later!

I took pictures through the whole process, from rollers in my hair right up to a few sneaky pictures with friends before going into the screening! So here is what it's like to get ready with me!

My Natural hair, Sculpting, Rollers & Fake Tan done!

Night before prep : My favourite thing to do before a day when I'm going out early in the day is have a long hot soak in the bath, put on a face mask to take anything nasty out of my skin, wash my hair and let it dry naturally. From there I prep my skin and tan if I need to! Now the next morning you are technically supposed to wash off your Coco Brown town but I never do, if anything I put more on! When I got up the next morning I put a few rollers into my hair and put on one of many layers of moisturising cream. From there I painted my nails and tried to pick out an outfit!

I had the night previous picked out (the most perfect) outfit for the day but sadly (well not sadly but-) it was 24 degrees when I was getting ready so I had to edit the outfit to make it more summer ready. I wore a colourful leotard, a pair of black trousers and a black kimono (Pictures below). I thanked my stars every minute I was out in the sun that I hadn't worn my first outfit! To make my outfit that little bit nicer I brought the love of my life aka my electric orange leather hand bag from Fran & Jane.

I'm one of those people that likes to take five hours to do one hours work when it comes to beauty. I love applying my base, having a cup of tea, going back to do my eyebrows, painting my toe nails, deciding on some eye shadow as I pick some under-wear etc, etc. So my day gets a bit messy and jumbled but I think it's the most therapeutic thing in the who;e world! I knew I was wearing majority black clothes (shock horror) so I decided to something a little bit more colourful than normal with my make up. The camera didn't pick it up great but I actually have a very pale pink eye shadow on the buds of my eyes. I sadly don't even have swatches or a shade number because it's actually from a pallet I got in H&M about two years ago.



To go with the pale pink I decided to team some silver, grey and of course then I used the black to tie everything together. After that I applied a thick line of gel eye liner and then I put on some Eyelure eye lashes to complete the eye look. I didn't want anything too dramatic as we were going out for an early pub dinner before the screening as well, so I didn't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb! With that in mind I sculpted as normal and added a deep pink lip!

As I mentioned already we went for some food before the screening, we wanted something simple, easy and outside! So we went down to the Martello on Bray Seafront and had the most amazing food! I had a char grilled Cajun chicken burger with chips the biggest pint glass of coke that I could order. That was a slightly un-bearable lunch with the heat but it was lovely all the same. If you sit outside you can actually see the beach from your table so it's the closest thing to amazing food while still getting a great view. They have a great variety of food, lovely staff and it's very reasonably priced.

Re-Reading TFIOS before the cinema, Quote from the book, Dinner.

Once that was done we decided the quickest way to get into Dublin city taking rush hour traffic into consideration was the train rather than driving. Normally we would of been right but this time we weren't. Although we ended up going for an early, express train we ended up being LATE for the screening. We got stuck on the train for over an hour, in un-bearable heat with NO windows and if we hadn't of had our iPhones to check twitter we would of never known what was wrong because we never once got an announcement. Long story short there was a fault at Lansdown Road but because we were in between stations it meant that we couldn't even get off the train and take another form of transport to get into the city! It was a really horrible experience and I was really disappointed by Irish Rail. If we hadn't of had our phones we would of been sitting like ducks not knowing what was going on. I know it didn't help us move any quicker but at least we knew WHY we were stuck. I understand that the whole thing was an un-avoidable experience but it could of been handled a lot better.

Selfies on the train with Amy the ticket winner herself! <3

In the end we managed to get to the screening and thankfully even though we were running late we were allowed in – Thank God we had all read the book so we missed nothing! For those of you that don't know anything about this story I would highly recommend you read The Fault In Our Stars by John Green before going to see the movie! Also please stop reading if you don't want any spoilers!! I warned y'all! I am a bit sceptic when it comes to the cinema, I would pick books a million times over. I sit in movies like TFIOS and all I do is critique it in my head. The monologue in my brain looks something like 'He wasn't supposed to say that yet, she was supposed to seem more venerable to his feelings before he said that, this is ruining the moment' and so on so forth. I love Shailene you may know her from her recent lead role in Divergent or previous work such as The Secret Life Of An American Teenager but as Hazel Grace? There was just something missing. I felt like although my heart should of ached for her, it simple didn't.

Shailene. 'Hazel' and 'Guss' screen cap from the movie!

I'm not going to get into detail about the movie because I would never ruin a story line for anybody. Overall it was very average. Average is a word I'm going to use because I felt it very hard to believe the characters, I felt like the people I feel so in love with in the book were not translated onto the screen. For me it was cold and I just – I guess it just didn't work for me! If I hadn't read the book? I probably would of loved it, but too much was missing for me. That didn't however stop me from hysterically crying through out the entire thing. Get ready guys this is going to get very personal here, which I promised myself I'd stop getting scared of doing.

After the movie the girls were teasing me for crying and I kept thinking to myself 'It wasn't the movie that made me sad, it was what the movie made me remember' and I know that sounds so ridiculous and it's sounding even worse in written (typed) words but I'm going to try and explain. For those of you that don't know I lost my Grandmother to the big bad C word and it was probably one of the most impacting experiences of my life. Only a few months previous I had lost my Grandfather and to say that I was still trying to heal from that is an understatement, so to loose someone else? It broke everything from the hairs on my head to the tips of my toes. They were practically a second set of parents to me and I loved them both beyond any words that I could ever use to describe it.

Watching my Grandmother fade from this vibrant, bold, exciting woman to a frail – sick woman was something that I was never ready for and it was something that really hit me hard watching TFIOS. It wasn't till I was watching flash backs of a 13 year old Hazel Grace struggling as they inserting needles and doses of Chemotherapy that I realised how much of peoples deaths we try and not deal with. We run away from it scared, un-willing to let it go. I guess it's part of being a human. I guess it's grief. Sometimes it takes a ridiculous movie like this to make you hurt. People must of thought I was a very big John Green fan. I guess any one who has ever had to deal with death, illness and grief in their family will understand what I'm saying if they see it. I mean even hearing Hazel's mother telling her daughter 'To let go, don't be scared' early on in the movie just set me up. When you've heard those words being said to someone you love, it's hard to not be effected by it when you hear it again no matter how 'stupid' the movie is.

I think one of the biggest messages in the movie which some how people can miss - I get so frustrated talking about this book with people, is that Hazels biggest struggle isn't cancer but how her death will effect people. What the aftermath will be. I think for people who have been there for the aftermath of their loved ones will really identify with this. Sometimes you look back on the deaths of people you love and you wonder why, how, if any of it is worth it. If the pain of loosing people is worth the memories that fade every day that they are gone.

In terms of actors/locations I don't have a lot to say, which is shocking for me. There were a few scenes where I sat there going 'this shouldn't be so modern, it should be dark and classic' etc but nothing offended me too much. A lot of people seem to be annoyed by the actor who played Guss. I personally didn't have an issue with him at all. I guess I also didn't really have any strong emotional connections towards him though. I saw a hilarious tweet earlier on my twitter (sorry for robbing this Conor) but someone had tweeted saying something like 'The couple in TFIOS look so alike the only way I can tell them apart is their height difference' AND it is worryingly true. We also need to briefly discuss the levels of awkwardness in the 'intimate' scenes. 

That's enough about me, enough about John Green. I don't know why I decided to pick this as my first ever 'lets talk about movie' moments but I don't feel like it's something any of us should be ashamed of. Sooner or later in our lives we are all going to have to give away a big chunk of our hearts to someone who has left us. Whether its an aunt, a sister, a mother or a friend. I guess the most important thing is how we learn to be without the piece, because it's not something that ever really heals or fades fully. With that in mind – I hope I didn't ruin the idea of going to see this movie for you and I really hope you liked this post as it was a little different!