I think it’s because getting your hair and nails done is relaxing, wouldn’t you say? That’s always what I chocked it up to be. ❤

Yes the series is good! I literally sobbed multiple times throughout reading them. It takes a bit of time though but once you get to THAT part you will be hooked. And then the ending of the second book will make you feel the feels and scream

It made me so happy to see Meryl in this video -- I lost my sweet kitty pretty suddenly Monday night, so I needed this content to get me through!

Same with the nail and hair salon!! It’s the relaxation!! You’re just sitting, watching, maybe checking social but, the activity of it just seems to calm and relax you - same here 👍🏻

Exactly the same thing happens to me, it makes me sleepy after going to the hair salon or doing my nails and I think it's more because it relaxes us!!

Currently experiencing a court of thorns and roses hangover after binge reading the series, so I FEEL YOU girl!

LAN, I imagine you’re exactly as we see you in these video personality-wise. If I’m having a bad day, watching your video cheers me up. 😊. Also I always go to sleep when I’m getting my hair and nails done can’t be helped. Finally, love The Empress

Oh yes books! Some faves in no particular order… The House In the Cerulean Sea Song of Achilles Name of the Wind A Psalm for the Wild-Built (and the sequel - it’s a novella duology) The Brown Sisters Trilogy Seven Days In June In The Dream House - it’s a heavy topic memoir, but damn so good! Green Bone Saga A Season for Second Chances-cozy, wintery British romcom with older main characters. So funny The Black Flamingo The Dresden Files is an urban fantasy noir series. The first few can be a little rough as they’re 20 years old but almost every one is better than the last and they can be nice to read between other books too. This is my fave on going series. The audiobooks are fantastic too!!

You definitely need to read the crescent city first book! I finished it yesterday and started the second today. I found that there was a lot of new ‘lingo’ at the beginning, but you get used to it. So good ❤

Regarding Crescent City: yes the first two-ish chapters are rough with world building. It gets really good after that and is a necessary read in the SJM verse. Throne of Glass is still my fave though

I’m with you on feeling tired after going to any salon/nail/spa. I love coming home and just nap if I can. I need to look up the Empress. Can’t wait for your Sephora vid. Loved seeing your pics of your trip. ❤️❤️

Some books to check out :) Fantasy/Scifi: - Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss - Lies of Locke Lamora series by Scott Lynch - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig - Tolkien! - Lathe of Heaven by Ursula le Guin - The Passage by Justin Cronin Literature: -1Q84 or Wild Sheep Chase or Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shrivel - Klara and the Sun or anything by Kazuo Ishiguro - Million Little Pieces by James Frey And some Classics - Brave New World or 1984 Bit of a mixed bag but all worth giving a shot for something new/different ❤

Your delirious book update is hilarious!

i’m a big fan of the crescent city books. it’s super different than any fantasy i’ve read and i am way too excited to see where it goes

I REALLY enjoyed Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (both by the same author). Fantastic writing. And couldn’t put them down.

Also here’s some of my favorite books of all time :) -the seven husbands or Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid -the push by Ashley audrain -they never learn by layne Fargo -the perfect child by lucinda berry -it ends with us, verity, and ugly love by Colleen Hoover -jar of hearts by Jennifer hillier -a dowry of blood by s.t. Gibson -the indivisible life of addie larue -no exit by Taylor Adams -brother by Ania ahlborn (VERY strong on the horror so look up trigger warnings for sure!) -beach read by Emily Henry -the love hypothesis by Ali hazelwood -there are no saints and there is no dinner by Sophie lark (it’s a duology and two of my favorite books of all time - it is a dark romance so it’s like a mix of a thriller and romance and so good!!!) -the dream daughter by diane chamberlain -sometimes I lie by Alice feeney

Top Books :) I've read this year. 1. Verity, By, Colleen Hoover 2. Rock Paper Scissors By, Alice Feeney 3. One of Us Is Dead By, Jeneva Rose Happy Reading!

I absolute relate to having a book hangover! I usually change around genres constantly to avoid it. Here are my (recently read) top 5 books: - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - Catherine House - The Warmth of Other Suns - Beautiful World, Where Are You? - The Good Left Undone

I am in love with the ACOTAR series right now. Just finished ACOWAR and it was my fav!!!

Throne of glass hangover is a thing, it happened to me when I finished the series, 10/10!!

Throne of glass completely passed me by and I couldn’t be happier that I skipped to The Crescent city series! I hope you have the time to sit and read it (then order the next book!), as I literally couldn’t put it down/ need the next in the series like now!

The Night Circus, a really lovely audiobook because of Jim Dale’s narration. It’s such a sweet unique story

A thousand Splendid Suns is my fave book of all time. I think you will love it because I read everything that you read 😅 Love you BYEEEEEEEEE

Need to get back to my reading game 😅 it's been so long, thanks for the reminder 👍🏼

Okay but this is my favorite thing to talk about. My top three books are 1. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo 2. The Power by Naomi Alderman 3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Allana for the benefit spray you could use your full size to refill the travel size 💙

The girlies LOVE a running around vlog!! I will be getting that little value gift set to try that mask!👏🏽

Recently read The Grapes of Wrath and loved it. No idea why it took me so long to get my hands on that classic.

Definitely read the Crescent City series! It's a struggle in the beginning, especially with a book hang-over (I started it after reading the ACOTAR series) but trust me, it is so worth it! Once you get past the first 200ish pages, it really picks up. The second one is amazing too and the ending will make it all worth it

Love a Meowryl cameo! 😸

The crescent city series is great. I couldn’t put both books down. I recommend 100%

some books I loved: Shatter me series by Tahereh Mafi (dystopian) , The Dark Verse series (Mafia Romance - Mostly the first 2 books are my fave The Predator and The Reaper) by Runyx, The unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin, Burned by Ellen Hopkins and Identical also by Ellen Hopkins (this one messed with your mind and had a really great plot twist and was soo good!!)

My favorite book of all time is The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. You can’t go wrong with any of his work. If you like mysteries, Dennis Lebanese especially Gone baby Gone. East of Eden by John Steinbeck is also a great read. Early Patricia Cromwell and the Sue Grafton Alphabet series is a fun easy read.

I love Caudalie's products! 🥰 Book reqs: Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb Outlander Series

Crescent city is 10000% worth it. TOG is also amazing but crescent city just hits different.

we need a meet & greet event with Meryl!!

THE EMPRESS was phenomenal, thank you for recommending!! I love, love LOOOVED it.

It's the ASMR-ness of the hair and nail salons! Like paying attention to all the details and the little noises! Lan, I know you're an ASMR girl like mee 😉

your hair looks AMAZING!!!!!

Fantasy wise the fury born series ist soooo good!!! The world building is immaculate and the characters are so interesting, especially the narrow path between what is viewed a good and evil! Highly highly recommend!!!!

Scruples, Scruples 2 and Lovers are fantastic. They are old and there is some questionable phrasing used but I loved them. I read them years ago. Judit Krantz books are great.

Books: the nightingale by Kristin Hannah, Into the woods by Tana French, gone girl by Gillian Flynn, secret history by Donna Tartt, the fry by Jane Harper

Right there with ya on all of it......that said, I do have a weakness for face palettes 😂

The outlander series!! A must read 😊

Yes yes yea I also get the after nails or hair tiredness, likely the slight boredom/relaxing/doing nothing vibes. But nothing like fresh nails babes xx

To avoid crying while cutting onions, put them in the fridge about 30 mins before cutting them up.

I’m not the biggest fantasy girly ever I more prefer horror/thrillers/romance! But a fantasy I did love was the invisible life of addie larue and also a dowry of blood! (It’s like a mix of horror/fantasy/romance - it’s a retelling of Dracula and his wife(s) and the writing is absolutely stunning! 😍

Always enjoy your videos! So fun yo watch ☺️ Can’t wait for the sephora sale video!

Yes you need to read it! You will not be disappointed but make sure you read till the end of the second book in the series it's all worth it in the end :)

My favorite series of all time begins with a book called 'Dies The Fire', and there are like 13 books in the series, haha, so it'll keep you busy for a while. I've been obsessed with it my entire adult life, but no one's ever heard of it :D

If you haven’t picked it up, you 100% need to first read/finish A Court of Thorns and Roses series first. Then dive back into Crescent City. Promise you, it’s completely worth it! ❤

Started The Empress yesterday and I'm already halfway through, absolutely love it! As for a book rec I recently read The Secret History and it is so worth the hype, definitely in my top 5 all-time books and can't stop thinking about it

The help is soooooo good even if you’ve seen the movie! Also everyone recommended It ends with us … so I started reading that and it’s sooo good! Love you Allana ❤ your so lovely ❤️🥰🙏

Crescent city books were great! And you will appreciate them, especially if you read and loved ACOTAR. I recently read Verity by Coleen Hoover and it was a good read.

Favorite books ever, in no particular order: The Book Thief, The Poisonwood Bible, The Prince of Tides, The Nightingale, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.

I rarely comment (though I love your videos and watch them all) but just dropping in to give a book recommendation: The Language of Flowers is one of my favorite books of all time. A lovely story and really unique - it’s not fantasy but it was surprisingly a favorite, just because I’m not sure how well known it is.

Read the Crescent City series - it’s amazing and the ending of the second book will make you cry!

Have you read A Court of Thrones and roses - series by Sarah J Maas? You should read this before Cresent City I think 😙 Other books i love it everything Coleen Hoover: «it starts with us» 😍

Top 5 Books: Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leyslye Walton, I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, Looking For Alaska by John Green and of course the Harry Potter series for comfort :)

I recommend the book seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. It's an easy read and I couldn't put it down :)

Yes after the air salon i just want to nap !

book recommendation - 1. midnight library 2. anxious people 3. many lives many masters 4. the humans 5. these silent woods

I love reading books after the movie, it’s like the extended version!

I bought the full size mask because of this video. My skin is the worst it’s ever been due to a new job, so I’m excited to try it! Thank you!

Girl I feel you. When I read Throne of Glass, it left a void that no other fantasy series could fill. One series come very close and I recommend it to everyone that asks, The Daevabad trilogy. It's so good, it has just as much lore and world building behind it as TOG.

I’m not ready for lanmas to end 😞 I’ll watch everything a million times until January ✨🤍

Top book recs: The Dutch House, All The Light We Cannot See, This Time Tomorrow, and everything from Alice Oseman. 😊

READ CRESCENT CITY! I know what you mean, I loved TOG & ACOTAR and thought no way, nothing comes close. Once you get into the fact that it’s modern times and get past the first like 10 chapters, it’s actually SO good. And it ties into ACOTAR which I loved. Truthfully nothing beats TOG, but I surprisingly really loved it

I’m pretty basic. Every Hemingway especially moveable feast and every FS Fitzgerald. Beautiful. Perfect. Outstanding.

Joe Abercrombie first law triology... by far one of the best fantasy books ever!

There’s quite a few Allana videos I need to catch up with 😊😁🤗🥰

Same here I have to read the book before watching the movie.

I like having the travel size porfessional in my travel makeup bag but hated having to re-purchase so often. So I finally remembered to save my empty travel size and just re-fill it from my large bottle of porfessional.

Love the nails! Sephora sale here I come 🏎

None are fantasy but these are five of my faves: The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller, The Sisters Mortland by Sally Beauman, The Minotaur by Barbara Vine, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Secretary by Renee Knight 😊

Allana, I don't know if you like romance-y books, but I've been obsessed with Elin Hilderbrand lately. I read her new book "The Hotel Nantucket" and was obsessed. If you love beachy vibes and hearing about people's problems with a dash of magical realism (ghosts lol), then you'll love it! I'm now reading Golden Girl which is the same premise but with heaven/after life themes.

Pleeease read the book. It’s very different from the other books SJM has done, BUT you will be hooked! It will fill the gap 👀

I loved The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (the book is much better than the movie).

The Mercy Thompson series from Patricia Briggs is a favorite of mine.

Omg I have the same issue after Throne of Glass!! I just can't read right now lol

You definitely need to read it ! Xx

Top 10 favorite books: The Boys in the Boat (all time fav) Peace Like A River The Stormlight Archives (!!!) Red Rising I Am the Messenger A Long Way from Chicago Unbroken Jane Eyre They Loved to Laugh Seabiscuit

Just watched the Empress. Loveeeed it. Fave Books: Circe (lol, your recommendation. Thank you for a life changing book) The Name of the Wind The Wise Man’s Fear Six of Crows The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive) The Winter Garden The Nightingale

Daughter of the empire series by Raymond E Feist. You WILL llike it 😂

Okay, ANYTHING NK Jemisin writes is amazing but her Broken Earth Trilogy is the best thing I’ve ever read. I’m also crazy about Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicles series I’m just impatiently waiting for the third one to come out

I legit fall asleep while getting my hair done!!! Fave is when I go get eyelash extensions and I just nap for the ENTIRE time! And since I like getting the full dramatic set it sometimes takes 3 hours! That’s a 3 hour nap right there! 😂💜

Some books I read recently that I loved are Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman), A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles), We Begin at the End (Chris Whittaker) and Still Life (Sarah Winman). 😊

I get very sleepy and tired too because it’s so relaxing!! 🤣

Glass castle jeanette walls true story of the authors life. Pretty small book but so good. Also Memoirs of a Geisha was amazing I saw someone else recommended and forgot it existed but it was really good.

The Paper Palace by Miranda Crowley Heller The Power by Naomi Alderman Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Vinyl trilogy by Sophia Elaine Hanson! Those are some of my favs from the last couple years! 💜💜

Crescent city is the absolute best ❤😊❤ it takes at least 200 pages to get into it and for the plot to get exciting but omg it’s so well written! Read it!

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I went from ACOTAR to crescent city and yes I was the same!! I couldn’t get into it so I stopped and will go back to it. I’m trying ToG now and I’m on book 4, loving it but still not as amazing as ACOTAR. 😊

Hi! A but late with the book suggestion but I recently read Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and it’s fantastic! Smart, funny, well written, just so so good.

I’ve actually fallen asleep while getting my hair done in the salon, especially when getting my hair washed lol. I’m the same books, if it’s been a large series I need time to get over the universe ending. One book I would recommend I read a couple weeks ago is ‘A Serial Killers Wife’ It’s fiction, authors first book and it was brilliant. The ending was incredible - an easy read but so good!!

Highly recommend the Invisible life of Addie Larue. You’ve probably heard about it I think it was a popular on TikTok for a second. It’s a longer book and take the one to finish my opinion but it was great and I wish I could read it again for the first time.

Merylllll ❤️ I love love love the Caudale spray! It is Hg status for me.

A few books I really enjoyed: 1. Plain Truth 2. I Know How the Caged Bird Sings 3. Small Great Things 4. One Foot in Eden 5. Crying in H Mart 6. Bastard Out of Carolina 7. The Round House 8. Speak 9. Ashes in the Snow 10. The Devil in the White City

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is one of my number ones. The Help is SO good!! These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan is a fantasy type that’s good too, not as spectacular as throne of glass but still very enjoyable.

If you’re looking for great fantasy, I HIGHLY recommend The Broken Earth Trilogy! I have yet to hear of a person that did not absolutely love it