Hello everybody! Today I am going to be doing a Q&A
because you guys love them
I love filming them, and I think
that makes for a great all round video.
Words. Use them.
I went to Twitter
and I asked you guys to ask me
lots of questions using the hashtag ask Zoella,
as I always do,
and you gave me some lovely questions
so I'm gonna go through and answer them for you.
I have a twitchy eye.
Apologies
for the twitchy eye.
'Will you ever grow your hair long again?
Love you!' Love you, too!
I don't know your name.
Every time I watch back old vlogs
I'm like, uhh, I hate my long hair
Like, I haven't really seen many pictures of me with long hair
where I've actually thought it looked nice.
Isn't that weird?
Because I've had it for so long
and really liked it.
Yeah, when I look back at it now
I'm like, uhh, I just don't, it doesn't look good,
you know.
So no, I'm not planning on growing it.
I think if I ever want a day with long hair
or I fancy having long hair for a bit
I think extensions work wonders because
they're so thick and lovely.
It doesn't have that same effect as actual natural hair
that gets a bit thin and struggly at the bottom
which is for sure what mine looked like.
So I think if I ever got bored of short hair
I can just put extensions in
and I think that would probably look better than my hair ever did.
But no, I don't miss my long hair
so I'm not planning on growing it anytime soon.
'Scroll down your camera roll 3 times
and click on a random picture, then explain the picture.'
Okay, scroll down 3 times.
Do you mean scroll up?
Oh, scroll down but the pictures go up, got it.
1, 2, 3...
picture!
I'm tapping and nothing's happening.
Oh, it's just a selfie, that's boring.
I'll do another one.
Okay, this is a photo, I will insert it here.
This photo is from the other night
when I was at Poppy and Sean's house
with Alfie and we were having like a film night
and we got a take-away.
And Alfie and Poppy fell asleep on me.
And Sean took this photo of me underneath them
loving life,
not being able to move.
'Do you have any tips on how to
get more confident in situations where you have to be social with strangers?'
See, sometimes I'm good at this and sometimes I'm bad at this.
It completely depends on how I feel confidence-wise.
If I'm feeling particularly confident that day
I don't find it as difficult.
If I have a low self-esteem
or I'm feeling quite insecure that day
I shrivel up inside myself,
keep my head down
and I don't want to speak to anyone
and I find everything awkward and uncomfortable.
So I think my first point would be:
if it's at a party or is at a meeting or is at an interview,
or it's a place that you haven't been before
or it's like, you know, an event situation,
I would say, like really pumping yourself,
take a bit longer picking out your outfit, like,
feel good in yourself.
I'm a well-put-together person,
I can do this.
I always say, like, makeup is amazing
because it just gives people that little bit more confidence
that they may not have had before.
And I feel like this kind of works in the same way.
It just boosts your confidence a little bit.
So I think: spend a little bit longer on you
and do the things that you know will make you feel better by yourself
and make you feel more confident.
I think that will make everything just a little bit easier
because, *phone notification sound* oops, because you will
kind of own a room a little bit more.
Another thing that I can sometimes find quite difficult
when meeting new people or being in a room with lots of new people in it
and a lot of the time when I'm in that situation
a lot of people want to actually speak to me,
that sounds really big headed but I just mean it in a way that, like,
if it's at an event or something
people that I work with or they want to introduce me to people
a lot of the time I know people are gonna want to speak to me.
So I have had to kind of put these things into practise.
And I think I have this thing where I start to feel uncomfortable
when I start to, like, picture me having the conversation with somebody
from like an outsider, it's like I'm not really there, it's like I'm watching it happen
and it just feels awkward.
So I think being engaged in a conversation.
Don't necessarily worry about the fact that this is a new person.
Don't worry about the judgement or what would they think of me
or if I'm sure I said the right things.
I think it's good to maybe have a couple of questions that you'd like to ask people
or find out their interests.
Just be a bit more involved in the conversation
because a lot of the time if you're kind of holding back
and it's very '- how are you? - oh, great, yeah!'
and you're kind of already thinking about how to find your friend
because it's more comfortable.
You're never gonna enjoy that conversation.
You really need to think of a couple of questions
that you would find really interesting to find out about a new person.
Getting to know new people is a lovely thing to do
and I think the more you worry about it,
the more like a bad connotation it has
and I think trying to make the positive out of meeting new people
is always the best way.
Another thing I also think is quite good
is: if you take somebody that you feel comfortable with with you
and talk as a three to start with.
As long as you challenge yourself a little bit
and make sure you're asking questions too and you're not leaving it up to your friend.
And I think that way is kind of a win-win for everyone
because the new person is also meeting your friend, your friend is also meeting a new person
and three of you are getting involved in a coversation and when you feel more comfortable with that
you can then do that on your own.
'Will you ever do a video on why you don't drink alcohol and has it ever caused you a problem?
Or could you say now?' crying laughing face.
I'll say now, I don't really mind.
I don't really have a reason why I don't drink alcohol. I just don't.
I've never really been into it, I don't really like the taste of any.
It kind of weirds me out that something you drink can change your behaviour and
a lot of the control you have over yourself
and I think somewhere inside of me that's a really terrifying thing.
And it also is quite terrifying for me to watch that happen to other people.
I'm normally the sober one who makes sure everyone gets home okay and
I don't know, I think for a while it was kind of intertwined with my anxiety so
I kind of just haven't really ever done it.
I'm not opposed to a cocktail, I'm not like super anti-alcohol.
I just don't really drink.
I much prefer a mocktail, to be honest.
'Who's the last person you texted and what does the text say?'
The last text I send was to my friend J
and I said 'yes, of course' and then a little this face and a heart
and I put 'sorry, I thought I'd replied to you, haha, can't wait to see you'
I'm so bad at replying to people, literally.
He sent me a text today and I was like, oh my god I thought I'd replied to his previous text.
Turns out - I hadn't.
I'm terrible with communication, I just can't do it.
Call me up, actually no, I'm really bad at answering my phone.
I also pretty much at the same time as that texted Mark a picture of my legs
which I had fake tanned and I put 'oops' crying laughing face because they looked really orange.
It's a good job you can't see my legs right now!
'If you could speak any other language what would it be?'
I feel like I may have answered this already.
Or maybe not. I can't remember but I think it would either be French,
because I just feel like it's such a beautiful language and it sounds really beautiful
and I've also got a little bit of knowledge of French because I've done it in school and stuff,
or Italian because, again, it just sounds amazing.
When people speak Italian, or any language, to be honest, it just sounds so good
and I actually really hate myself a little bit for stopping my French lessons
because I really enjoyed them and now if I went to France
I feel like I would be able to understand a small fraction of what someone was saying to me
I'd probably be able to communicate back
and I for sure would be able to fully reply which is so frustrating and sad
because I did it from like the age of 9 to the age of 16
and I don't know where any of that knowledge is gone, it's just gone.
Although it is never too late to learn a language.
I like this one: 'what is your least favourite thing in your house?'
In terms of rooms, the kitchen is probably my least favourite room
because I feel like it has so many design floors.
I'm getting way too into this, I don't know.
Hmm, the least favourite thing in my house...
I don't know, I kind of love most of my house.
I guess...
The fact that it has no storage and that every single small storage room was turned into a toilet before we moved in
Possibly, I don't really know.
There's no items in the house that I don't particularly like because I picked them all.
'Do you ever think that Youtube was a bad idea?'
No, I never think it was a bad idea.
It's enabled me to do so much, it's given me so many amazing opportunities,
it's led me to have an amazing audience, amazing viewers and supporters and readers
and I've never thought it was a bad idea at all. Never.
Even though there have for sure been some things that I found pretty difficult
and I've never thought I would get to this point in a million years.
I've never considered the fact that I probably shouldn't have done it ever.
'Zombies have barged into your room, the thing on your left is your weapon. What is it?'
*dog barking*
Wow . A plant.
Do you think that would go down well?
Excuse me, Nala. Stop barking.
Yeah, make eye contact - no!
She doesn't listen to me. She only listens to Alfie.
When I tell her off, she's like, pff okay.
'Can you call Mark and pretend that you accidentally lost Nala and you're afraid to tell Alfie?'
He's not, I mean I can try but he's for sure not gonna believe me at all.
Mark: Hello.
Zoe: Hello!
Uhm, slight issue.
Can you talk or are you busy?
Uhmmm, not really.
Nala's like gone.
She ran out the door.
I know, I don't know what to do, like, I don't know.
We've been looking for her, we waited for her to come back, like... what am I gonna tell him?
JOKING! That's just a prank! *laughs*
Do you not think I would be like crying my eyes out if I lost Nala?
Oh, bless you, love.
Okay, alright!
Love you, bye!
But no, seriously, if Nala actually did do that I would be sobbing,
I would be an absolute mess if she ran out the door because that is my biggest fear
having a dog is that she is gonna run out into the route.
Right. That is enough of that.
I hope you guys have enjoyed this Q&A, give it a thumbs up if you did
and if you enjoyed it and if you're having a great week or great weekend.
I love you very much and I will​ see you again very soon, bye!