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Monday Amusements 28

February 17, 2014 By Julianne

There was finally enough sunshine for an EOTD last Thursday! This is mostly ‘Sea of Love’ by Aromaleigh. I applied it all over my lids, it looks like there is black in the crease but that’s just a shadow. I also used the white from the Sleek Circus palette under my brows and Bourjois’ discontinued ‘Illuminateur du regard’ inthe inner corners.  I really want to do more EOTDs but I’m not a brilliant photographer and don’t have much equipment so I can only get decent pictures on sunny days.

Tanya at Girlxoxo wrote about how much she likes the app Any.do, which I have been trialling recently. I have decided that although I like using Any.do for keeping a running total of things to do, and for setting reminders for tasks that need to be done on a specific date/timers, I like to write my actual daily to-do list down on paper, so that it’s in front of me on my desk at all times. You can’t have a digital to-do list open at all times, if your to-do list is as big as mine always is – unless you have a device just for your to-do list, which would be ridiculous!

Robyn reviewed the perfume Alien, by Thierry Mugler, which now I really want to try as I love jasmine. For years, although I’ve pretty much always been obsessed by makeup, I knew absolutely nothing about perfume at all. I’d never even liked a perfume until one day I tried a few in a shop and discovered Nina, by Nina Ricci. Finally finding a perfume I liked opened my mind and I started googling perfume reviews and trying more different scents in a bid to work out what I liked. I quickly worked out that I love jasmine, which is apparently the Marmite of the perfume world. It seems like you either love it and think it’s one of the sexiest smells on earth or you hate it and think it smells of cat pee, or maybe, as one of my friends says, bathroom cleaner.

DIY: Spacifying stuff. Yes, that is a tutorial for making things look like space. You’re welcome.

Another, simpler DIY – a lace trimmed skirt.

I haven’t been adding much to my wishlist lately, but the Revlon Highlighting Palette in ‘Rose Glow’ looks so lovely in Hannah at Midnight Violets‘ review, and the MUA Luxe Velvet Lip Lacquers, reviewed by Jane at Blush. Feathers. Lipstick. sounded so awesome. I just had to bookmark them.

Lauren Laverne explains why she cares about fashion.

This heart bun is really pretty, but my hair is probably still a bit too short for it at the moment, I’ll have to try it in the summer.

Finally, a dog, on the beach, in strong wind!

Filed Under: Monday Amusements Tagged With: Aromaleigh, cosmetics, fashion, links, make-up, Monday Amusements, perfume, style

Monday Amusements 26

January 20, 2014 By Julianne

A piece of art outside the British Library, with sheep. Apparently this is supposed to reference the British trend for landscaping during the Georgian era. I read the sign nearby a couple of times and I have no idea why the sheep are there.

I am obsessed with charity shopping. I have probably mentioned this before. I haven’t gone since before Christmas, and I’m starting to get withdrawal symptoms. These include: getting out old charity shop purchases to admire them, craning my neck to look at the Red Cross shop every time I go past (and usually making an ‘ooh’ noise at the window display) and trying to convince myself that if I do x, y, and z then I will reward myself with a charity shopping trip. I try to include at least one impossible task in x, y, and z, because I really have too much stuff and should not go charity shopping. Unless I manage to get rid of a lot of it. Then I can. Anyway, when I can’t charity shop I like to live vicariously through others, so I was delighted to discover that Dead People’s Clothes (a blog I probably discovered by typing ‘charity shopping blog’ into Google – another withdrawal/obsession symptom) has updated for the first time in a few months! Yay! I love this blog because Amy gives all of her clothing items names, like Really in Fabulous Nobodies.

Take Three: Primers is a comparison of three often-admired primers. I have three primers and none of them are perfect, but I have forbidden myself from buying any more. I really want to try Carly’s two favourites though!

Lipglosses and lipsticks are possibly even more tempting than charity shops. Both this review of two lovely shades of Revlon ColorBurst Lipglosses at Midnight Violets, and this review of Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick in Beso at The Beauty Milk was difficult to behold. I can almost feel my arm creeping towards my wallet now.

Scratch that, I can definitely feel my hand creeping towards my wallet! Sock Dreams wrote a blog post about the range of purple shades they have socks in!

Ahh! I must distract myself by looking at pretty things that I can have without spending money! Happily, I found 14 Not-Boring Beauty Trends I’d Like To See Take Off In 2014 at xoVain, and this Dark Aqua Eye Makeup Look at Glitter is my Crack. I can totally copy these ideas without spending 1p.

Finally, rats holding/cuddling tiny teddy bears! So cute!

Filed Under: Monday Amusements Tagged With: fashion, links, make-up, Monday Amusements, style

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