Celebrity Traitors UK. Adolescence. The Studio. Lily Allen. A matte primer and a Japanese eye mask. 

What's worth your time, your attention and your money this year according to Mamamia Out Loud? 

These are just some of the recommendations Amelia Lester, Emily Vernem, Jessie Stephens and Holly Wainwright are pulling out from the very long list of recommendations they made in 2025 for the second half of their comprehensive list of how to spend your holiday. Feel free to add to it. 

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TV & Movie Recommendations

Holly recommends The Celebrity Traitors UK and The Four Seasons

Jessie recommends We Live In Time

Amelia recommends The Beast In Me

Em recommends The Studio and One Of Them Days

Book Recommendations

Holly recommends Lonely Mouth by Jacqueline Maley

Jessie recommends The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Amelia recommends Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

Em recommends A Court of Thorns and Roses and the ACOTAR series by Sarah J. Maas

Beauty Recommendations

Holly recommends La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5+

Jessie recommends the Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Primer Hydrating

Amelia recommends the Bobbi Brown Lip Liner in Rum Raisin

Em recommends the Shark FlexStyle Air Styling & Drying System

Best Random Reccos

Holly recommends Lily Allen's West End Girl and CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY Album

Jessie recommends giving blood and levelling up your smoothie. 

Amelia recommends using the MegRhythm Gentle Steam Eye Mask by Kao

Em recommends the analog bag.

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