Me And My Baggy Eyes
The basic consensus from the time of the posts on this blog is that I need to sleep more. But on that subject, I bought some new concealer, because I was fed up of the dark circles around my eyes, and the concealer I've been using - MAC's Studiofinish (the one in the little pot) - has been drying my skin out around my eyes something shocking. I was in town with my friend, and decided that fuck it, I would just go ahead and buy a new one, even though I still have a little bit left in my Studiofinish. So I was wandering around House of Fraser, and I basically found that most of these concealers seemed.. horribly unhygienic. Like, I only really get spots or blemishes when I'm either very stressed, or it is around my time of the month, but I don't really like the idea of sponge tip applicators, or the little brushes. I took a picture of the two concealers I own, next to the new one, here;
In the left is Estee Lauder's Illuminating Concealer, in the middle is Studiofinish, and on the end is the new one, which I opted for, feeling it was the best. I feel like Studiofinish is fine if you use a brush, but I prefer to apply concealer with (clean) fingers, but now my nails have got long, i can't really get my fingers in there well and generally it just doesn't seem that nice? Maybe it's just me, but if there's a sponge tip or little brushes, and I'm putting it on a blemish or whatever, and then putting it back in the pot.. not really a fan.
Anyway, after wandering around for a while, I came to the Dior counter - I use Dior foundation, so thought this would be good move. I told the guy I wanted a good, strong coverage concealer, but a moisturising one, and he recommended the "Skin Perfecting Hydrating Concealer." And it comes in a little tube, you can see the applicator in the picture above, but it's basically just a little tube, and he threw in a free sample of their "Pro-Youth Sorbet Eye Creme":
I do love me some Dior boxes, ah.. It's not really worth showing you the tubes, as they're just.. tubes. So I thought I'd attempt to do a little comparison:
On the left is the MAC Studiofinish. It works fine, and over stronger blemishes, it's great, but I feel like it's way too drying in the sensitive eye area.. And on the right is the new Dior one. I think the difference is pretty noticable, don't you? I've used it for a little while now, and in conjunction with the eye cream, and I've noticed a definite improvement in the skin around my eyes, so I'm pretty pleased about that!
In the left is Estee Lauder's Illuminating Concealer, in the middle is Studiofinish, and on the end is the new one, which I opted for, feeling it was the best. I feel like Studiofinish is fine if you use a brush, but I prefer to apply concealer with (clean) fingers, but now my nails have got long, i can't really get my fingers in there well and generally it just doesn't seem that nice? Maybe it's just me, but if there's a sponge tip or little brushes, and I'm putting it on a blemish or whatever, and then putting it back in the pot.. not really a fan.
Anyway, after wandering around for a while, I came to the Dior counter - I use Dior foundation, so thought this would be good move. I told the guy I wanted a good, strong coverage concealer, but a moisturising one, and he recommended the "Skin Perfecting Hydrating Concealer." And it comes in a little tube, you can see the applicator in the picture above, but it's basically just a little tube, and he threw in a free sample of their "Pro-Youth Sorbet Eye Creme":
I do love me some Dior boxes, ah.. It's not really worth showing you the tubes, as they're just.. tubes. So I thought I'd attempt to do a little comparison:
On the left is the MAC Studiofinish. It works fine, and over stronger blemishes, it's great, but I feel like it's way too drying in the sensitive eye area.. And on the right is the new Dior one. I think the difference is pretty noticable, don't you? I've used it for a little while now, and in conjunction with the eye cream, and I've noticed a definite improvement in the skin around my eyes, so I'm pretty pleased about that!
I really like it because it doesn't feel thick and heavy on the under eye, and feels very similar to putting on an eyecream or something like that, it almost sinks in and isn't drying at all.
It is on the expensive side, however, around £19-20 which honestly, is a lot. I will say that a little bit goes a long, long way, and you don't really need to layer this product at all, so I'm hoping it will last me a little while, because it's a lovely product.
Price: 2/5
Packaging: 5/5
Product: 5/5
Overall: 4/5
Would I buy this product again?
I probably would by this again, but I do feel you pay an awful lot for such an awful little amount - 10ml! But I would try and buy it from a place where I can get a sneaky discount, haha.
Mademoiselle in Paris
Another sunny day in Paris! I went for a walk at the Avenue Montaigne and I had difficulties to choose someone to photograph! There have been so many stylish people!
The girl in my polaroid was using a lovely dress from Diane von Furstenberg.
Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupte Review
Now whenever I saw these, I wanted them all. Recently I was watching a video by lollipop26 who raves about them, and I couldn't help but go check them out when I was in town.
#13, Peach Passion
First off.. they look incredibly pretty. I'm immediately drawn in by the glossy gold packing, the stylish logo around the middle, and the little mirror on the end.. It's generally just a very pretty product. I'm a sucker for pretty packaging, and this definitely hits the mark. They feel expensive, too. It's a heavy product, physically, compared to other lipsticks, such as MAC, which makes it feel classy and more like a product to take care of, rather than throwing it in the bottom of my bag with all the dust and icky things that live in there.
It is an expensive product, also. One of these will set you back a full £21. I will pay a lot for lipsticks, but I think over £20 is starting to push it! But.. they are so very very pretty, haha. I work for a place where I can get a discount on it, so in the end it only cost me just under £16. Which mentally I, of course, round down to £15 and that doesn't seem so bad to me..
The colour is gorgeous. I don't really have anything like it. I have things that give a similar colour with sheer coverage, but this is something else. It looks very creamy in the tube, and I assumed this wouldn't be very pigmented. I was wrong. You put it on and it comes out highly pigmented, and super glossy. It slides on almost like lipgloss. I love the texture, however, I don't know if I'll be wearing it an awful lot in this thirty degree heat.. but still. The colour is very similar to that on the tube, a pinky-peachy coral, leaning possibly towards the 'salmon' end of the spectrum, but sort of milky. A bit like peaches and cream. Which I suppose is about right for the name.
Here's a side by side comparison of my lips bare, and then with Peach Passion. Please ignore my little freckle on my lip, haha. This picture doesn't really show the difference that well, now that I'm looking at it. In person, it adds a really pretty, bright, creamy looking finish. I've heard people complain about these being super-drying when on the lips, but I haven't really found that? I do tend to use a lip scrub most days, but I think if you already have dry lips in the slightest, it will cling in all the lines on your lips... which pretty much means bad times.
I could go on but I'll stop! Here's a little breakdown for you;
Price: 3/5
Packaging: 5/5
Colour: 4/5
Texture: 5/5
Would I buy this product again?
Probably! As long as I have my trusty John Lewis discount card by my side, I'm sure I'll be looking into some other colours in the future, because there is a deep purple (Forbidden Burgundy) with my name written all over it...
Vacations just began..Volume 1:Parga!
Hi again....Sorry for not posting things lately but just today I've finished my exams and I'm soooo happy....Finally I'm going on vacations...Next saturday I'm going to Athens and then to Zakunthos(an amazing greek island)...So till saturday I intend to post things almost every day....!!!!
Last saturday I Finally went to the sea..So my post is about Parga,a place near the city I study and I figured out that Parga is such a beautiful place that deserves to be uploaded...Enjoy...!!!
P.S:the girl with the scarf in her head is my little sister...I tried hard to persuade her to wear it the way she does...I don't know but it seems so stylish to my eyes even thought it's not that formal...:))
Beauty-related posts will return shortly..
I just read a blog by someone I went to college with moaning about summer. 690 words complaining about how they hated the summer. Hated children in summer. Hated adults in summer. Hated driving in summer. Hated shopping in summer. Hated leaving the house in summer.
God. Really? Be grateful you don't live with depression or seasonal-affective -disorder, why don't you.
I live for summer. Sunshine works absolute wonders. I didn't realise until recently how much something like the sunlight effects me, and how much of a different person I am in the winter. I love Autumn with a passion, honestly. There is nothing I like better than cold walks with my dad and coloured leaves and fires burning and rain. But by the time the days shorten, I feel like my personality leaks away.
I don't want to do anything, my mood drops considerably. There's the typical winter-blues, but when you physically cannot bring yourself to move, you know there's more to it than that. I dread winter, every year. January and February are my worst months and I don't have good memories about these times. I'm virtually bedridden, some days. The hardest thing is when you never really see the sunlight. You get up and it's dark, you do things all day and it's dark by the time you get home. It's a horrible thing.
Summer is a good thing. Do not underestimate how good the sun can be for you. Yes, it can be bad. But for people like me, it's literally a God send. I love everything about the summer.
So here is a blog to counteract those 690 words of misery, because I need this.
I love the heat. I love sitting outside and just being so overwhelmed by heat, heat, heat. I love the light. God, I adore the light. Getting light at 4AM? It's beautiful.
And the sunset's in summer are intense.
The light is one of the best things by a long shot. The sky seems to take on this amazing quality in the summer. I don't even know, but it makes me feel fantastic.
Clouds are gorgeous. I could write a whole blog about how I love clouds. I won't. But trust me when I tell you how pretty they are. Look up.
If we're talking nature, remember how green everything looks in the summer months. It's got to beat snow or bare trees, right?
The places you visit seem even better in the sunshine. It adds a great colour to all your memories.
Italy was one of the best places I've ever had the privilige of going to.
And whilst we're on the subject of traveling.. you don't even have to leave your own country, god. My dad has a phobia of flying, so my family holidays have always been British-affairs. And I'm okay with that, pretty much. The weather can be bad, but it can be excellent too. Just wake up to it. I love British beaches. They're a staple from my childhood, and it makes everything excellent. Take a trip to the Lake District and go on a boat. Walk up a hill. Go to Oxford or Bath and look at some excellent architecture.
In general, I love cities in the summer. Despite the heat. I like how the heat descends on a city and everything seems to slow down.
I love travelling in the summer. It makes me feel like something exciting is going to happen. One of the best things in life, I feel, is having music up loud, driving somewhere, a car full of your friends and the windows down and your hair being blown all over the place. Driving like this, it solves everything.
Here's a good time: get some food in, start your BBQ going, get some wine or fruity drinks and get your friends over. Continue until the sky goes black. Then light candles and carry on.
Cocktails and pub gardens are a must.
So yeah, maybe hot, stinking tube trains suck, maybe screaming children on a trampoline at 7AM next door when you're trying to have a lie-in in August get on my nerves, the 4PM customers on a sunday when we're clearly sold out of anything barbecue related are beyond irritating.. but get over it! There are far too many good things to waste your time complaining about the bad things.
Do not under value your summer, your seasons in general. My bad winters make me appreciate the summer a thousand times more.
Please tell me you like the summer too? (All pictures are my own.)
God. Really? Be grateful you don't live with depression or seasonal-affective -disorder, why don't you.
I live for summer. Sunshine works absolute wonders. I didn't realise until recently how much something like the sunlight effects me, and how much of a different person I am in the winter. I love Autumn with a passion, honestly. There is nothing I like better than cold walks with my dad and coloured leaves and fires burning and rain. But by the time the days shorten, I feel like my personality leaks away.
I don't want to do anything, my mood drops considerably. There's the typical winter-blues, but when you physically cannot bring yourself to move, you know there's more to it than that. I dread winter, every year. January and February are my worst months and I don't have good memories about these times. I'm virtually bedridden, some days. The hardest thing is when you never really see the sunlight. You get up and it's dark, you do things all day and it's dark by the time you get home. It's a horrible thing.
Summer is a good thing. Do not underestimate how good the sun can be for you. Yes, it can be bad. But for people like me, it's literally a God send. I love everything about the summer.
So here is a blog to counteract those 690 words of misery, because I need this.
And the sunset's in summer are intense.
The light is one of the best things by a long shot. The sky seems to take on this amazing quality in the summer. I don't even know, but it makes me feel fantastic.
Clouds are gorgeous. I could write a whole blog about how I love clouds. I won't. But trust me when I tell you how pretty they are. Look up.
If we're talking nature, remember how green everything looks in the summer months. It's got to beat snow or bare trees, right?
The places you visit seem even better in the sunshine. It adds a great colour to all your memories.
Italy was one of the best places I've ever had the privilige of going to.
And whilst we're on the subject of traveling.. you don't even have to leave your own country, god. My dad has a phobia of flying, so my family holidays have always been British-affairs. And I'm okay with that, pretty much. The weather can be bad, but it can be excellent too. Just wake up to it. I love British beaches. They're a staple from my childhood, and it makes everything excellent. Take a trip to the Lake District and go on a boat. Walk up a hill. Go to Oxford or Bath and look at some excellent architecture.
In general, I love cities in the summer. Despite the heat. I like how the heat descends on a city and everything seems to slow down.
I love travelling in the summer. It makes me feel like something exciting is going to happen. One of the best things in life, I feel, is having music up loud, driving somewhere, a car full of your friends and the windows down and your hair being blown all over the place. Driving like this, it solves everything.
Here's a good time: get some food in, start your BBQ going, get some wine or fruity drinks and get your friends over. Continue until the sky goes black. Then light candles and carry on.
Cocktails and pub gardens are a must.
So yeah, maybe hot, stinking tube trains suck, maybe screaming children on a trampoline at 7AM next door when you're trying to have a lie-in in August get on my nerves, the 4PM customers on a sunday when we're clearly sold out of anything barbecue related are beyond irritating.. but get over it! There are far too many good things to waste your time complaining about the bad things.
Do not under value your summer, your seasons in general. My bad winters make me appreciate the summer a thousand times more.
Please tell me you like the summer too?
Mademoiselle in Paris
Menswear will start tomorrow in Paris! Does someone have a special "polaroid" wish?!
Zsofia Pasztor
I had a photo shoot with Zsofia Pasztor (JustWM) this weekend. The pictures will be soon in my portfolio!
Alice In Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz
Tom Ford
Nicolas Ghesquiere
John Galliano
Marc Jacob
Karl Lagerfeld
Jean Paul Gautier
Viktor & Rolf
Christian Lacroix
Donatella Vercace
I just cannot believe I never posted this AMAZING ” Alice In Wonderland ” fashion editorial shot obviously by photographer superstar Annie Leibovitz with model Natalia Vodianova for Vogue US December 2003
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