Happy Pancake Day!

I'm going to be eating a tonne of these :P

Also i don't want to reply to comments on my giveaway because it will make picking the winner randomly more difficult, so i thought i would reply here :)

Y:
I'll put up as many swatches as i can :)


Heather:
I've just started my Week of indie makeup posts :D Also when i have more money i'm going to be trying a lot more indie brands, so will of course review those when the time comes :)

Kerry:
Thank you :) I'll try and do some experimental looks for you soon.

Simone:
those are all great ideas, i'll get on them ASAP!

London's-beauty:
Thank you, i'll try and get some more EOTDs done, but i'm not particularly good at eyemakeup i must say.

Emma:
Sure, i'd love to do a post on my silly zombie hair :D

Porcelaine:
That's a good idea, i really need to go through my stash for dupes actually, then i could maybe get rid of some!

JANE.:
I'm obsessed with nails at the moment too! I'm not particularly skilled at manicures though, only basic colours and things for me but i'll try my best :) Glad you liked my Mac rant :P

Bicky:
I do have many other Illamasqua lip glosses, and i've got a post coming up with lip swatches of them all :) I started it ages ago but need to re-do 2 colours as they're both pink and i've forgotten which is which XD

Simone:
i love reviewing products, i've got a few half written at the moment so hopefully you'll enjoy reading some of those.

And to the overwhelming number of people who asked for more outfit posts i say tnak you and i shall try my best to get more than one a month up :P
The problem is that as i do my painting at home, only go out to work once a week and don't have school or anything anymore, i tend to just stay in all day apart from walking the dogs, which i do either in a really dull thrown-together outfit or, im a bit ashamed to say, in my pyjamas :P
I'm going to take to just playing dress up in the house to show you some of my favourite outfits and accessories, and also in the meanwhile i'll put up some more photos from the last year or so of clothes i love :)

Tomorrow it is my birthday! Hooray, people bring me gifts simply to celebrate the fact that 22 years ago i was born!
Tonight we went out to celebrate by eating at my favourite restaurant, Marine Ices, who do the worlds greatest tomato pasta and ice cream. I ate a hideous amount of food. Mmm food.
Today i've been taking a load of photos for upcoming posts, but the camera battery completely died before i managed to get them onto my computer. I'm hoping to get a new video up sometime this week (as well as quite a few written posts), i really enjoy making them but they somehow seem to take more effort than blog posts, even though they mean i don't have to take loads of photos of loads of products.
So next time i write i will be a whole year older! :D

Speaking of, i used to be very depressed around my birthdays because i had a Peter-Pan-like aversion to aging, wanting to be forever young and childlike. Now i am a lot better, looking forward to my new year of opportunities and so on that come with getting older. I think a big part of this has come from me having a lot of friends considerably older than myself nowadays. Not because of the obvious reason (compared to them i am young) but because i think 'wow, if i can accomplish half as much as ____ by his/her age i will be so happy' and i see how cool and fun and spontaneous and amazing people like my friends Foz and Mikey and Chris are and it just seems like age is completely irrelevant. I'm 22 and i can be friends with people who are 50 and that's wonderful and helps my self esteem by thinking that these wonderful people think i'm interesting and mature enough to be worth spending time with.

Also you get cake on your birthday *thumbs up*