Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Attention all self conscious girls (and boys)

Stop: Putting yourself down whenever you look in the mirror, it just brings your self esteem down more. Instead: Think positive things whenever you see your reflection, my personal favourites are "Damn you're fine!" It may sound stupid, but it works and it's quite fun.

Stop: Telling your friends about how fat and unattractive you are, it pisses them off when you say, "Ugh I'm so fat." and then they say, "Girl watchu talkin' 'bout, you is fabulous" and then you say, "No I'm not/shut up/moody glare". So stop it. Instead: Take a damn compliment and then think about it when you go to sleep at night and think "______ is such a lovely person, I love her" and then send her a lovely text for her to see in the morning. And then realise that people don't give other people compliments for nothing, no one's forcing them.

Stop: Thinking you're ugly and/or fat. Instead: Do the above and also stop comparing yourself with everyone else, I can assure you that there is at least one person you know that thinks you are damn fine, and I'm sure of this because I think all of my friends are damn fine and I have a fair few friends, so you can't beat those odds.

If the above doesn't work (and it may take a little while) and you're still woefully unhappy with something about yourself, do something about. Eg. Unhappy with your skin - change your skincare regime, wear makeup if you want. Unhappy with your weight - eat healthier, exercise, etc. I know that's harder said than done, but if you're really unhappy then it'll be worth it. Don't feel pretty when you go out with friends - change your clothing style, there are so many styles out there that one of them is sure to flatter you. Even just changing your hairstyle can change how your face looks.

Rant over.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

I just slept for thirteen hours

I'm pretty sure that's the second longest amount of time that I've ever slept, the longest is that time when I was really sick and I went to bed at 6pm and got up at like 10am.

But the ridiculous thing is that I'm still really freaking tired and I can't tell if that's because of illness or being a teenager...Also I have a bruise on my leg that I'm pretty sure wasn't there yesterday.

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

I'm dying

I'm sick again. It sucks bollocks.

I was just thinking about how it only seems like I get sick during time that I'm at school and it makes sense really, when I'm on holidays, I rarely leave the house and therefore am not exposed to my germy school chums. Or maybe I just notice it less because I don't have to worry about deciding whether I'm ill enough to miss school and then how I will make up for the lost time...who knows, quite a conundrum.

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Express Beauty with Honey from The Dispensary

Yo yo, guys, hittin' you up with a beauty review wut wut!

My brother's lovely girlfriend, Laura, bought me some face masks from The Dispensary while she was in Tasmania recently and I've been trying them out! I don't believe that they have a website...I've looked and have yet to find, so I'll get back to you on that.

I have so far tried the Express Beauty with Honey mask and I liked it very much, though it was a little bit odd. It has an unexpected texture and smell, it's whitish and kind of shampoo or conditioner consistency and also smells kind of like conditioner, so half way through putting it on my face I had to go back to the packet and check that it was indeed a face mask and not for hair.

It has a ton of natural ingredients and not too many chemically ones, so that's good. This one is supposed to be more moisturising and repairing than exfoliating or anything, so I tried it first, what with the whole sensitive skin issue. And alas it didn't irritate my skin!

So far so good, Laura also got me the pomegranate one, so I'm excited to try that too.


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Why do they keep doing this to me? Do they want me to never sleep again?

Just started school this week and I have not been sleeping very well at all, they keep springing things on me that freak me out, first day back, real first day back (first first day back was only year 12s and 8s), have to wear "full formal uniform" to assembly (it's so hot) and I have to go on assembly and get an oily cross on my forehead and a little badge thingy! Why do they torment me so?!

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Uses for empty black Lush pots

Storage related
- Travel
- Q-tips - also good for traveling as the larger size pots can close with the q-tips inside
- Raw materials/ingredients for skincare and cooking
- Pills/vitamin storage/travel
- Bobby pins, hair ties and other hair accessories
- Snacks - nuts, crackers, etc.
- Spare change jar (bigger pots)
- Crushed up packaging-less Lush products ready for use, eg. sugar scrubs, bubble bars
- Other package-less Lush products - melted down massage bars, lip balms, shampoo/conditioner bars, smaller amounts of larger sized products eg. Big shampoo, Fair-trade Foot Lotion

Non-storage related
- Pots for small/slow growing plants (cacti, etc.) or seedling containers
- Spider catcher (The bigger ones are very good spider catchers


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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

I hate you, new computer!

I got a new Macbook for Christmas as my old one was getting quite well...old, and this new one is ridiculous! I'm trying to set up drop box, so I'm trying to open the document that I keep my passwords in (safe, I know), but it doesn't recognise it as a word document, so it just tells me that and nothing else. You stupid thing!

Glah! I hate it.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Damnit iPhone!

Stop autocorrecting "Yo" to "To", it's so infuriating!

Also, there are plumbers in my bathroom right now and I'm depoting my mac shadows, so I'm holding them in a spoon over a candle and they keep on looking at me funny. Mac drugs.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Call back: Aesop Parsley Anti-oxidant Serum

You may remember that I bought an Aesop kit thingy a while back and have been using the products and such, so here's a call back on the serum because, to be honest, I haven't used the cleanser again, I kind of forgot I had it.

So anyway!
I haven't used it very much because I'm scared it'll irritate me as serums often do, but so far so good! It's super good for getting rid of a bunch of little pimples, not so much for bigger, badder ones, but I wasn't expecting it to.
It hasn't irritated my skin in any way, but I only use it once a week or so, I'll probably gradually build it up to more often slowly, get my skin used to it.
So totesmagoats recommend for sensitive types, dry types, people with an array of small acne or people wanting smoother, less red skin.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Oh my God, my page views says "boob"!

That's somewhat humorous and/or interesting

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Which one of you bastards went in my room?

So...my matches went missing a little while ago. How am I supposed to do my voodoo now?! What do you expect me to do, people sneaking around in my room? What am I supposed to do without matches?

My matches were by my bed and then they were gone! Now, I've found them above the fireplace, wut wut?!

I don't like people going in my room. It makes me uncomfortable. People should stay out of my room, unless I'm in there, but then I don't really like it anyway. I have a fear of people knocking on my door when I'm in the bathroom (on the toilet) and then I'll not know what to do, and they'll knock again and then they'll open the door to see if I'm even in their, and this freaks me out because I don't feel the need to close my bathroom door because I have my bedroom door closed, makes sense, yes? I don't know how to stop this anxiety...closing my bathroom door? It's my room! I should be able to have my bathroom door open!

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Friday, January 13, 2012

I've injured myself

Or really a damn twig has injured me. How dare it, attacking me out of no where, unprovoked! The bastard.

It's really annoying me. It's just a little scratch thingy on my foot, but it's surprisingly deep and it's taking ages to heel. Although it did happen yesterday, it's annoying and painful, I want it gone.

Whenever I injure myself in anyway like this I always have a flash of an image in my mind of that guy, whoever he was, I can't remember his name, he was a dick though, on Torchwood Miracle Day, sticking a pen in Rex's chest wound. *shiver* aafsljghskd so icky.

Yep, so now I've put that image in my eight reader's minds. You're welcome.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

So...I have a date to formal now

Guess there was no reason to be freaking out a little while ago. Guess I should probably stop overreacting about a lot of things, but that's not very interesting now, is it?

It was in a music store (music like sheet music and trumpets) because apparently all of my friends are all into music and playing instruments or whatever, pssha, music, whatevs. So yep, they had a theremin! It was fun.

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Werewolf! ZOMBIES!

So there we were, backing out of the driveway, when suddenly something thrashes against the side of the car repeatedly. I scream, my mum screams, it was all sorts of terrifying. Did I mention it's a full moon? And a harvest moon or whatever, so it's all yellow and scary and shit.

I thought a werewolf had attacked us and was trying to rip the car door off it's hinges, I thought my mother had run someone over and they were clawing at the side of the car and for some reason had super human strength.

Turns out we had just run over the recycling bin. How disappointing.


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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Someone used my toilet

I know how much toilet paper there was when I left a few days ago (don't judge me) and there is now significantly less! That freaks me out a bit, why would someone in my house use my bathroom? They all have their own bathrooms. So weird! Nyaah.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

I've been asleep for the past four hours

And now I feel pretty rough. I am definitely not super human. Devs.

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Nevermind, sadly, I'm not super human

I need a nap now and I very much so plan on napping now.

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I am super human

I went to a New Years Eve party last night and slept there, except we never ended up going to sleep, so I've been awake for 29.33 hours and I feel fine...as, if not more, energetic than usual. I doubt I'd be able to do this every day because I don't think I would continue to feel this way.

Possible factors that could come into play of feeling pretty good right now:
- I had a coffee this morning
- I mostly ate brownies and ice cream last night and have now eaten M&Ms
- I'm not actually alright, my body just thinks I need to be awake right now to complete some task that I'm not aware of at this moment

I'd say it's a combination of all of the above because I've now noticed that I feel pretty good, then I'm all "Sweet Jesus I'm tired" eyelid droopy-ness, then I'm alright again.

I saw the sunrise of the new year this morning! It was glorious.

The only downside of the night is that one of my friends got really trashed and made lude comments to the person I kind of like about me whilst I was there, so that was super awkward.

Anywho, happy new year!

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Best of 2011: Beauty

Skincare
- Lush Ultrabland cleanser
- Perfect Potion Moisture Base moisturiser
- Jojoba oil - as a moisturiser
- Perfect Potion Bare Faced exfoliant
- Manuka honey - for masks
- Lavender oil - for pimples
- Arthur Lawrence Cleanser III - as a mask

Makeup
- Urban Decay Naked palette
- Sigma brushes
- Sigmax brushes - F84 and P84 for foundation and concealer
- MAC eyeshadows
- NARS Sheer Glow foundation
- Hourglass Veil mineral primer
- MAC Blacktrack Fluidline eyeliner
- Benefit Get Bent liner brush

Hair
- Coconut oil
- Lush The Big Tease styling gel
- Lush Godiva solid shampoo
- Lush Jungle solid conditioner
- Perfect Potion Rosemary Conditioner
- Perfect Potion Chamomile Shampoo

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Best of 2011: Events

- Turning 16
- Year 11 was way better than 10
- Meeting Colin Morgan and getting his autograph
- Doctor Who season 6
- True Blood season 4
- Making an effort to make new friends and succeeding
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver
- Doing makeup for my school's musical
- Woodford 2011
- Dangerfield
- Lush

Music (Not necessarily albums that were released in 2011, but that I loved in 2011)
- Anya Marina - Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
- Charlie Mayfair - Watch My Hands
- Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
- Kate Miller-Heidke - all of it, everything ever that she's sung, but especially her cover of Slim Shady
- Passenger - Flight Of The Crow
- The Breaking Dawn soundtrack - specifically Turning Page by Sleeping At Last, A Thousand Years by Christina Perri and Flightless Bird, American Girl by Iron & Wine


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