Hi everyone, I want to enter this superdrug competition here: http://superdrugloves.com/ basically you just have to show your 'favourite party look' using products available at superdrug. I decided to do christmas-themed makeup instead of any sort of sparkly party look. Perhaps this isn't wise, because they don't ask for it to be christmassy, but hey it's more fun this way. Anyway i had loads of ideas but i'm only allowed to enter one look, so i thought i'd do them all and ask you lovely people which one you like best. Any input you guys can give me would be really really greatly appreciated! :)
Cherubim: gold glistening skin, gold eyeshadow with white/blue eyeliner and highlight, false lashes, rosy cheeks and coral cupids bow lips.
Holly punk: matte pale skin, matte red lips, dark green eyeshadow.
Glitter poinsettia: green glitter eyeliner, red lips with red glitter lipgloss
Misteltoe and wine: wine coloured lipstick, various green eyeshadows, white eyeliner.
So have a look and tell me which one is your favourite and i would be most greatful. If anyone else is entering let me see your looks please! :)
I'm enjoying watching all of the christmas specials on the food channels at the moment. I just like everything about christmas, even watching the same basic recipes being made again and again by different chefs (even though most of them are meat-based so i couldn't actually enjoy the food, it just feels christmassy). At the moment i'm watching a Nigella christmas special. The woman is just plain weird. First of all she was putting tea in mulled wine (which just seems weird to me anyway) and said 'usually i like earl grey, but today im going for what you could call the vegetarian option, ginger and apple tea'. What? In what way is Earl grey not vegetarian? It boggles my mind! Then later on she was making ginger bread christmas tree decorations. Along with the golden syrup, flour, sugar and ginger she ground in a whole load of black pepper! Saying it was so 'the kids don't eat them all'. Surely the entire point of making edible decorations is that you can EAT THEM! If not why not just make them from clay or something, that way you can reuse them year after year! I just don't understand at all.
We are looking after my sisters dog at the moment while they have some building work done. She is the sweetest thing ever, but so so nervous. It's very sad, she always seems worried. At the moment she's sleeping at my feet and i can tell she's dreaming because she's all trembly. Sometimes she barks in her sleep and it's just delightful. Good old pippa.
You may have noticed i've brought a load of posts over from my old blog. Originally that was going to be my personal blog and i'd keep this one just for beauty stuff, but then i decided against it. So now i will be posting entries like this, regular life posts, as well as beauty entries :)
Here is a pretty standard FOTD from a while ago: I am wearing Collection 2000 glam eye crystals eyeliner in spandex and Barry M Lip pink in no. 145 punky pink.
And behold my awesome guinea pig jumper (and see my hilarious dancing): jumper: topshop skirt: Primark tights: new look shoes: office (£5 in the sale :D)
This one smells of a sort of synthetic cherry candy. I like it but i can imagine other people might find it sickly or unpleasant. This one is quite sheer and i wouldn't recommend wearing it on it's own as it can go on a bit patchy. However i LOVE this over the top of a red lipstick or lipliner, the glitter is beautiful and not at all gritty or rough and the sheer red makes the red base look even more vibrant.
Here it is over the top of a red lipstick (have since forgotten which one)
Tropical Tango:
This one is less sheer and looks beautiful on it's own, but i imagine it would look even more vibrant and special over an orange liner. This smells absolutely delicious, it reminds me of fruit salad chews (these are an old-school british sweet, i don't know anything it might compare to outside the uk) i cant imagine anyone would dislike it because to me it's so irresistable, but it's quite strong so again check the smell before you buy.
Also i added some new lip swatches to my Barry M lipsticks post here: http://lillianfunnyface.blogspot.com/2009/11/barry-m-lip-swatches.html
The British Book-Store Chain Books Etc has gone bust, which is sad, but in a way i'm pleased because there is a small second-hand bookshop near me which is still going strong, and that makes me happy. Anyway i picked up some things from the local Books Etc's closing down sale:
So i got the best of Jackie, a book of prints from the Day of the dead (i love Day of the Dead stuff, my dad's been to mexico on the day and it sounds amazing, I am very envious) and a book that is basically 'the big book of serial killers'. Yes i am one of those people who really likes reading/watching/learning about serial killers. But then i like reading/watching/learning about most things.
I'm watching Jeepers Creepers 2, which is one of the gayest films i've seen in a long, long time. I don't mean gay in the new sense (as in a synonym for crap) i mean literally gay. It's incredibly homoerotic. The beginning 3/4 of an hour of the film basically involves a bus full of shirtless, oiled up high school boys running around a cornfield, peeing in large groups and alluding to one and others sexuality. There are only 4 female characters (in a cast of about 25) and they are basically given no character, only get tiny bits of dialogue and are so completely inconsequential i can only imagine they are there to stop the whole thing looking like a gay porn (which doesn't really work)
Aah i love trash.
My poor Guinea-pig Lettice has got a dodgy eye :( we took her to the vet and hopefully it's ust an infection, but she still might lose it. It only happened two days ago, one minute she was fine, the next her eye was red and cloudy and sad. Poor girl.
Update: poor Lettice died a few days after i wrote this. We don't know what happened, it was really sad. Lettice was such a lovely spirited piggy and now the other two are all sad and the cage seems so much more quiet :( RIP Lettice.
So i've seen a tag going around called something like 'men i fancy that i really shouldn't'. Well for me every man i like is like this! I fall deeply in lust, think they're the sexiest thing in the world, tell friends and then am confronted with 'WHAT?? He's HIDEOUS!! Ha ha ha ha!' I swear (with the exception of Johnny Depp and George Cloony, who i do think are attractive but don't really 'fancy') any man who is considered conventionally attractive seems ugly to me!
So here are the men that i lust after:
David Mitchell:
He is the king of the sexy men! I actually go all flirty when he comes on the tv or radio. I just think he is perfect.
Eddie Argos:
PHWOAR!!! He's friends with Mikey so sometimes i see im in the flesh and he's just gorgeous. I think his little paunch and huge eyebrows are a real turn on.
Charlie Brooker:
I've actually gone off him a bit recently because he's just getting a bit predictable. I do still think he's got a great face. Like a sexy toad.
Bill Nighy:
Ok, less weird of a crush i think, but still he's so so much older than me it seems a bit weird. Also he looks ever so slightly like my Dad which makes me worry about myself :P
Jarvis Cocker:
My second ever crush (first one was Damon Albarn, ick), i used to watch the Common People video and be a very happy 8 year old. And he's still just gorgeous. I like his weird little beard and straggly hair and particularly his bean-pole body.
Carl Hill:
The only person on the list who isn't a celebrity of some sort. He is my frenger (not quite friend and not quite stranger) and the only man i have ever asked out (he said yes but then it never happened because he is even more flaky and frustrating than Mikey). When i told my friends of my crush on him i was very much laughed at. I'm not enamoured with him anymore thank god, but i still think he's good looking.
So anyone else share my passion for the less conventionally beautiful of men? Or do you all agree with my friends and family that i am just a huge weirdo :P
A while back i went to see my friend Mikey play a gig at a pop-up gallery in Putney.
This is Mikey:
(i helped make the video :P i made the little forest set he's in and on the day of filming i had to keep running back and forth between two rooms putting the track on for him to lip-synch to. My arm can be seen for about a second XD don't ask me what's going on with the weird psychadelic editing bits)
He is the most pretentious person i've ever met, flaky and frustrating beyond measure, arty to the point of nonsense and i love him.
To me there are few things better than watching a 42 year old man doing scissor kicks in a black glittery (possibly womans) catsuit singing to a backing track infront of a baffled crowd.
He is funny, smart, kind and really wonderful to have a conversation with. I wish i could spend more time with him, he's a great person to have as a friend/aquaintance.
It was Guy Fawkes night and my journey there was lovely as i could see fireworks bursting in the sky through the tube window.
I got to the gallery and was insantly completed intimdated by the many many cool, arty looking people milling around. I seemed to be the only person who came on their own and weren't actually connected to the gallery somehow. It was quite horrible. Some of the art up was very nice (someone had made a bunch of 2-D birds from pipe cleaners that were absolutely beautiful) but there was also a lot of stuff of the sort that makes people say 'its crap this modern art stuff, a child could do it!'.
Anyway Mikey played and that was good, except people kept talking over him and i could see his face crumpling with impotent rage. Also people kept pushing in front of me or just standing far too close and i began to feel panicy. I'm not short by any means (im 5 foot 8) but for some reason whenever i am a crowd everyone seems to tower above me and i begin to feel very boxed in and feel invisible and yet at the same time i think everyone is looking at me in disdain.
After he finished playing i had planned to just leave without saying goodbye, because i feel like i am usually just bothering him. Unfortunately my plan went horribly wrong when i turned towards the door to discover a lot of the arty students (or indeed art students) were sitting on the floor right in front of the door. I began to feel trapped and panicked horribly. For about 20 minutes i stood staring at a painting desperately trying to fend off tears and work out what i could do. You see in my head i was now trapped with no escape. I couldn't just walk past them. I feared them staring at me if i tried to go around them, and then there was the possibility that i could tread on someone or something important. I didn't know them so i couldn't ask them to move or even say 'excuse me'.
Eventually i began to hyperventilate and then had to go and find Mikey and get him to help me get out. How incredibly pathetic, i need someone's help to leave a room now! Anyway he was incredibly sweet about it and led me out and didn't make fun or anything. Afterwards he sent me some messages checking that i was ok and apologising that he couldn't do more to help me. While the experience was horrible it's really reaffirmed my friendship with him and in a way made me less ashamed to have this phobia. I can't help it and just need to be able to ask for help sometimes. And it was also nice because i was starting to think he didn't like me anymore.
A few months ago i had a near disastrous exhibition at the Presence Art Space in Guildford. Firstly due to my social phobia and the slight flakiness of Suzie (the owner of the space) it took me about 2 months to actually sort ot when i would be exhibiting. Then less than a week after i had put my work up i recieved word from Suzie that the space was having to close down (due to something to do wth council taxes). It was really a shame because Suzie had paid the rent for the space, which was a disused shop, for a year, and it was a non-profit cultural busness she was running, but the council wanted to charge her the taxes for a shop just because that is what the building was made for. Anyway it was still worth it because Suzi was a wonderful person who said she'd like to do something with me in the future, and some Guildford Council people saw my work, so hopefully something good will come out of it. Anyway heres some pictures.
It's a real shame that the space is a bit derelict looking because the amount of space i had was amazing!
About 2 months ago my girlfriend and i made a huge order from TKB Trading. When it arrived we were so excited, the stuff is amazing!
Ok so we got: 1 pound of lipstick base. 17 1/2 fl. oz bottles of liquid lip colourants 40 10 gram jars 5 samples of glitter (these arrived in a brilliant set of stacker jars, which we were not billed for!) 22 samples of mica 3 samples of pigments and 1 planetary sampler, which contains 7 samples of colour-shifting mica.
A TKB Sample is huge. For $1.50 you get over a full tablespoon of mica or pigment. There are a few exceptions to this though, for instance in the planetary micas we got the sample is a full teaspoon because these colours cost more to produce. But
And all of this, including shipping to the UK came to less than $150, which is about £90. So seeing as we were sharing we paid less than £45 each. To me this is AMAZING value. We have been playing with the lipstick base (will post some pictures tomorrow, but at the moment we are having some problems getting them to be opaque) and using the jars to make our lipstcks in, at a guess i think the 1 pound of lipstick base we bought could fill about 50 of the 10 gram jars! The mica powders are beautiful and can be used as eyeshadow on their own or mixed with a base (which is going on my next order) to make them last better and adhere more. The glitter is stunning and will be a brilliant in lipsticks and eyeshadows and everything!
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