Just a few funny faces

Hullo everyone. Things are a bit hectic with me at the moment so as usual I am being rubbish with blogging. What a surprise! Lillian being a bit rubbish? Never! :P

Anyway I've just popped on to drop off a few faces, hope you like!

I wore my hair in a pony-tail for the first time in many years:

 

Behold my incredible lack of jawline!:

I  know I was wearing Sleek Candy Cane on my lips, have forgotten everything else though because I am rubbish.

Here is a photo of the one time I wore makeup on my trip to the arctic circle. There was absolutely no point in me glamming up as I was wearing ridiculous amounts of layers that covered most of my face. My hair looks awesome here though! All I'd done was blowdry it and it turned into a brilliant big mane.

   

Squinting. The sun was bright on the snow!

  

Wearing:

Face: Homemade Conjurers Cosmetics powder foundation, Sleek Pumpkin blush by 3 in Squash

Eyes: a few colours from the Sleek Storm palette, black mascara

Lips: Revlon lip butter in Candy Apple (applied very sheerly)

 And finally some absolutely terrible photos of a really fun glam look! I was drunk and used my phone as a camera hence the terrible terrible shots:

I'm going to redo this look as a tutorial soon because I like it.

How's everyone doing?

A trip to Brighton

Back in summer (ish...maybe even earlier) Claire and I took a day trip to Brighton which we like to do from time to time.

  

I know I'm wearing a homemade (conjurers cosmetics) lipstick and my eyebrows are a dark blue from the Sleek mattes V2 pallette.

holiday nature

Helloooo! Sorry I've been away, I was on holiday (California!) until last week and since then I've either still jet lagged somehow or I'm poorly. Someone needs to kick my arse into shape!

Here is my last set of photos from my short holiday in somerset, showing some scenes from a beautiful work I took. And first my final holiday face:

 

Wearing:

Face: some nameless pressed powder, Illamasqua Sophie blusher

Eyes: Mac eyebrow pencil in Fling on brows, various colours from MUA Heaven and Earth palette, Illamasqua Abyss and Alchemy liquid ink eyeliners.

Lips: Illamasqua Opulent lip gloss

  

Tonnes of photos of waterfalls and greenery below the cut.

Holiday house and Weston-Super-Mare

 Hey everyone, it's time for part two of my Somerset holiday adventure! But first a face:

 

Wearing:

Face: Avon Magix face perfector, Sleek blush in Squash (from Pumpkin Blush by 3)

Eyes: Illamasqua Illuminator in Fondle, Illamasqua Precision Ink in Abyss, black mascara, Mac Fling on my eyebrows

Lips: Mac Pink Nouveau

Beneath the cut are some photos from Weston-Super-Mare and from our amazing holiday house.

Wookey Hole Witch

 Here's a look I made on my holiday, not the most exciting but I thought it was quite pretty and my Mum said I looked a bit like Kate Bush in the photos so I thought I'd share :)

 

Wearing:

Face: Illamasqua Skin Base foundation in 02, some unnamed No 7 pressed powder, Darling Girl Sweet Cheeks cream blush in Just Bitten

Eyes: I made the eyeshadows, Illamasqua Precision Ink eyeliner in Abyss, Collection 2000 glitter eyeliner in Rock Chick

Lips: Mac Kanga-Rouge, Illamasqua Opulent

I thought I'd share some photos from my family holiday to Somerset, first up is our trip to Wookey Hole, home of the famous caves and witch. There's tonnes of pics so I've put them under the cut :)

Happy Jubilee!

Hullo, hope everyone's having a nice jubilee day (if you're in the Commonwealth and care about it anyway). I ain't no royalist and have spent the majority if the day doing this:

In other news I have just about the worst spot ever. Possibly too much information coming up, stop reading if you are squeamish!

It's one of those evil ones that never comes to a head and feels like there's a lump under the skin. I tried squeezing it (I am a notorious spot squeezer) and it justcaused m get a huge scab. I thought that when the scab had healed the spot would be gone, or at least smaller. I was wrong! It fell off today and the evil spot is bigger than ever DX! It feels like a pea on my chin! Anyone got any idea of how to get rid of it?

This is from my phone again, this tine I'm attempting to navigate the Blogger app. Will it work? Let us see...

Post from the future!

Hi everyone!

You know how I said on the last post that I'd have something more interesting than pictures of me next time? Well that was a complete lie!

My computer is being really slow (well the internet is due to my ludicrous number of tabs) so writing posts is a bit arduous at the moment... But! I have finally got my first smart phone! I'm writing this on the train to Waterloo...No wait now I'm on a bus!...Now I'm lying in bed! Woo it's the future!

Anyway I'm having fun playing with it and thought I'd share some photos I'd taken with its (rather good) camera. If you're interested my phone is a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, it's got 2 cameras a proper one with 5 megapixels and a front facing one which has 3 (I think).

 

Perry (we did his haircut ourselves!)

 

Perry's Mummy

 

Digby

 

Digbys Mummy!

(I got a fringe again, it looks super weird in the photo as it's all curled and flipped up. I could not be bothered to straighten it)

This was using the fronmt facing camera. It's not terrible as you can see but the colours are very inaccurate. My eyeshadow looks peachy but it was actually a baby pink.

Also wearing:

Face: Illamasqua Skin Base Foundation in 02 (It almost covered up my horrible scab on my chin!), Illamasqua powder  blusher in

Eyes: Illamasqua medium pencil in Cane (on waterline), Sleek Ultra Mattes brights palette (Floss and Pucker), black mascara, Sleek Ulta Mattes darks palette (Ink on eyebrows)

Lips: Topshop Lipstick pencil in Rosa

 

My dress is much brighter in real life, it's absolutely eye-searingly neon. It's from Topshop Tall.

 

I can also doodle on my face, which is fun! 

Woot! Tell me exciting apps and things Android phones can do! :P

I'm a bad beauty blogger

 I photograph my makeup but then put it up months later and as a result completely forget what I've got on! As is the case here. I do know I'm wearing ELF Studio bottom lash mascara (which is fantastic! Full review to come), Illamasqua Medium pencil in Vow on my water line and Mac Superglass in Totally Bang (over a lip liner that I can't remember).

Sorry for being so crap! I wanted to post anyway because I thought It was a pretty look. 

 

 

And just to keep myself from getting too vain, here's a picture of Sir Digby attacking me with licks.

 

That's my true face everyone!

Old Photo of the day and Christmas for Callooh and Callay

So back when I was about 18 (I think, I can never remember so I guess by what my hair was like) through a bizarre series of events I ended up at the Mighty Boosh Live Tour's after party. It was absolutely terrifying annd very surreal. I was with my sister (who is also shy) so we ended up just standing in a corner gawping and wondering how on earth we got into that situation. However we ended up chatting with Noel Fielding for a little while!

  

He was absolutely lovely. A complete sweetheart! My sister stupidly decided to tell him that I fancied his brother and I was mortified, but he was really nice and went and got Mike (the brother) to come talk to me. Julian was also there and we tried to talk to him but he was having none of it. We stole a drink he left unattended as revenge (actually not really, we were just dying of thirst and had no money with us -___- we are tramps).

In other news our Callooh and Callay Christmas Collection is being released tomorrow!  

 

Please take a look tomorrow at 7 PM (GMT) for lovely sparkly, wintery goodies!

It was Halloween innit?

 

Hi everyone! I hope everyone had a very happy Halloween. Halloween is one of my favourite holidays, we have a party every year and have 3 whole suitcases/trunks of decorations and usually I cook up a ridiculous amount of themed goodies and we play games and go really over the top. This year everyone's been very busy though and as I was the only one around I just couldn't deal with the stress, so we had a much calmer party with only 1 trunks worth of decorations :P

We decided to do the unthinkable and buy our costumes instead of making them. I know, terrible behaviour! 

I was a clown. Here is my makeup.

 

I know, it's not very well done, but I sweated it all off in about 10 minutes anyway :P

CP request

Hullo everyone.

I've fallen in love with a lot of polishes from the Wet n Wild On the Prowl collection and would love it if someone could do a CP for me. However I've heard Wet n Wild collections are sort of tricky and don't appear that many places. If anyone has seen them or has some sort of access to them could you please email me at: lillianfunnyface@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks a lot!

And now just so this post isn't totally lame and boring have a photo of me from around 2003 (I think) during my 'faerie phase' -__-

 

Oh God...

If anyone used to play 'Creatures' I think I look a bit like a Norn. Or something from the Dreamstone.

Photoshop me out of your life!

Claire is currently working on some product photos for our store using photoshop (I'm a model! *preen preen*), just brightening them up and correcting any colour shifts and things. I started wondering about what could be done to my appearance using retouching.

Just in case you were wondering, I never use any sort of photo editing on my blog (well other than cropping and correcting the colour when the stupid camera decides to put a blue filter on everything) I don't even know how to use photoshop for those things. 

I am not completely adverse to using photoshop, I understand why it's used on adverts and for artistic reasons. I would do it myself to get rid of small things like pimples if I could be bothered but I am far too lazy for any of that. What I don't like is when photoshop is used as a lie. By which I mean when it is used so excessively that you can't tell what is what anymore. Take the recent ban on those 2 foundation adverts in the UK, while I'm not going to underestimate the general public like the Advertising standards comittee and say that they might believe the foundation being sold could give them the flawless mannequin skin of Julia Roberts airbrushed face, but I do agree it is decieving because they are selling a product and basically faking the results. While people may not fall for it (hopefully) it's still not good business. And the same goes for Beauty blogs in my opinion. I have no problem whatsoever with people using photoshop to iron out minor flaws, or if you're trying to show off an eye or lip colour I don't see a problem working on your face. But if you're trying to review a foundation it's just not fair to airbrush your face, or to brighten a colour or anything that significantly changes the results of a product.

So I decided to get Claire to go to work on me. She probably could have changed me more but we wanted it to look realistic. Like me but better. Have a look!

 I'm not sure about how I feel about them, I find it very odd!  It's fun to see the 'perfected' me but I certainly wouldn't want all my photos to have this treatment done to them. I think I'd find it very depressing. I don't have very much confidence in how I look but I certainly don't think I need to change myself before sharing pictures. I'm much happier showing the real me. And at least that way I know compliments aren't stemming from a false image of me.

Mr Darcy

I just thought I'd share some photos of our new pet, Mr Darcy :)

He was a stray up until last week when we rescued him :) He's a complete sweetheart already, he loves being stroked and ticked and has a lovely loud purr. Also he learned to use a litter tray in about a day! The poor lad has to stay in our bathroom for a couple of weeks (which is why he's in the bath) because we got him castrated straight away and he had some fight wounds that needed patching up, so he can't meet the other animals until he's fully healed up.

So he gets to join the rest of the family including:

Weevil

Minnie

Digby

And Feargal

(also the 2 other ferrets, Rikku and Yetta and our Guinea Pig Portia, I don't have any photos of them on this computer :( Sorry guys)

Also I wondered if I could pick your brains for a moment. It's for the secret project I mentioned yesterday. Claire and I are trying to think of a tagline for it. Our favourite of the ones we've come up with so far is 'All the fun of the fair for you to wear' (yes what we're making is wearable :P ) but we worry that it might seem too fairground-centric. Hearing that would you assume the brand only sold fairground related things? Or just whimsical fun stuff (which is what we hope)

Thanks for any feedback you can give!

..Whoa

Ok. Really sorry, I never meant to go this long without posting! Not going to go into the whys and wherefores, so instead I'm going to post some amusing pictures (well they're amusing to me anyway!)

Sometime before Christmas I bought a size playsuit on ebay, when it arrived it didn't fit. I could have sent it back as the auction had called it a 16 and it was actually a 14 but I liked it so much I decided to keep it and try and slim into it. And somehow miraculously I now fit it! Do I look good in it? Well... see for yourself:

...So that's a no :P Ok I look like a black glittery bean desperately trying to burst from it's skin. But it fits! And I can pretend I'm now a size 14 (I know I'm not really, the playsuit is either mislabelled or just runs really large but I can still wear it and claim I'm a 14!). And yes it's in the beautiful setting of right next to the bin.

Here's Claire and I on the tube a while later. We went to see my friend Mikey playing at a Glam Rock club, which was fun but I ended up having some panic attacks which sucked. We looked good though! You can't see my makeup properly though, I had a red lightning bolt on my cheek. I stole the look shamelessly from my mate Liselotte (only I couldn't do it as well).

Claire decided I needed a pompadour to tr and make me look like La Roux. Unfortunately I look a lot more like a fat, ugly boy :P

And finally here I am making the most beautiful face in the world:

I have a cold and am grumpy! But at least I've dragged my lazy bum back to my blog! Sorry for the disappearance everyone! What's been going on?