Summer Love: No 7 Speed Dry Nail Polish in Fuschia Daze

Boots has a special 3-for-2 offer on selected No7 products going on right now.
I went straight for two of their Quick Thinking 4 in 1 Wipes (amazing makeup cleansers, will review them some other day) and didn't know what to choose for my third item - I didn't want their blush, didn't need their lipsticks, lipglosses, other skincare, or sunprotection - so I bought one of their 6 new nail polishes released for the Summer.

Readers, meet No7's, Fuschia Daze

Fuschia Daze - what a misleading name - I always associate fuschia with hot pinks with purple tones. This is downright coral.
I can begin by describing that this is a killer coral shade - it is coral, but has flashes of pink grapefruit due to the wonderful pink shimmery goodness,
I can't explain this colour very well, so I took 10 gazillion photos for you to see its beauty.. Remember to click on the picture to full-view!

It was painfully hard to capture the real-life colour of this shade when swatched. I tried my best - again, here's several pictures to give you an idea;

Two coats swatch on my thumb

I know my nals are horribly stubby due to the fact I've been biting them. I know there is a crease line in one of them because I accidentally touched the edge of a paper when the polish hadn't set yet, and I know I have nail polish on my flesh.
So sue me! D:

Quick notes: Contrary to name, the 'Speed Dry' nail polish line do not actually dry quick. I would say at least about a minute, or just under it - I don't really mind, either way I still wouldn't kick Fuschia Daze outta bed.

Petals, and Peacocks, and Pan

I bought MAC's Amplified Petals & Peacocks lipstick today from the Liberty London collection for the insane UK (plus tax) price of £12.50. That's nearly $20.

Anyway, you've probably already seen 5000x different pictures in other blogs and websites, but I'll just quickly skim through;

Outer Packaging

Go on, tell me more about what you're wearing...

Demon Woman paint

I haven't digitally painted in awhile... I couldn't be bothered drawing for the time being, so I painted another person's lineart (with permission of course)

 Please click to full-view

Original drawing and lineart belongs to Rhea Lewis
View the original lineart here.


 Painted in openCanvas 4, and spent approximately 3 hours on it.

Thanks.

I will Never Learn

I wonder why some humans never learn.

Never stop.

Never realise?

I realise that it hurts - so, so much - yet I will do the thing that hurts me because in those short, rough 5 seconds, I feel a sense of satisfaction.

Why is it, that in those few very short moments it takes for us to receive satisfaction or pleasure, we will regret it for the rest of our lives?

In this instance I am not talking about sex. I am not talking about eating sweet, or utterly disgusting, fattening foods, but I am talking about plucking and eating my eyelashes.

'What?' You ask in a tone of appallment? Disgust? Shock? Repulsion, perhaps?

I have suffered from this disorder since I were 11 years old, and still in eight years time when I am close to saying goodbye to the rest of my teenage years, it is still one of the least known disorders, and still it comes back to haunt me.

But what is this disorder?

The disorder is called 'Trichotillomania, and as for an introduction, these are pictures of my eyelashes from four months ago;

Disgusting, isn't it? Even looking at these pictures makes my obsessive compulsion want to tear the rest of those disgusting, frail, wispy lashes because having none looks better than having a few strands that makes me look like an ugly, un-groomed dog.

Of course I say that all with a hint of longing and deep-seated sorrow. I miss my eyelashes. I miss them so much.

Trichotillomania is an obsessive compulsion disorder, associated with pulling hair out from wherever they would grow. The most common types are pulling the hair from your scalp and the eyelashes, but like I said, others pull hair from other places.

Satisfaction?

Unfortunately. To me, plucking my eyelashes and eating them is no different than biting my nails - I've had it for so long it's become a bad habit of sorts - an extremely bad habit.

Actually, it hurts a bit to talk about it now. So watch my youtube video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKYpvMlzw3s

Please spread the word and tell the World about this so people may be less ignorant.

Brave to be Barefaced? And Yay/Nay Lippie?

I totally understand that makeup can be fun - I am only just realising this - though what I also realise is that some do it because they're insecure. Oh, and I also understand that makeup can be used to enhance ones features.

(I don't know what I'm getting at here anymore...) Why don't we have a day of 'letting our skin breathe' (which I know is preposterous because skin can't actually breathe but I'm just sayin'...) I had been completely bare-faced for about 17 years, before I got into makeup, and I'm still insecure as heck and completely self-concious. Oh, and I beat myself up a lot (verbally and mentally)

So I show the World a picture of myself that I took, right after I woke up - OK, right after I brushed my hair after taking two pictures before it but those pictures made me look like a caveman so I'm not showing them, but hey, I'm still barefaced!

Also, is it just me or does your skin look amazing when you've just woken? I think the natural oils give me a soft focus effect or something.

Click to full-view if you want. F.Y.I. my lips are stained from last night's coral lipstick.

Lippie in question with poor, overly yellow lighting.. And yeah, I was laughing HARD at a youtube video whilst taking this.

Better lighting to show true colour of lippie on me, but I look like a GANGSTA, YO.

I know it's not a nice sight! But I hope you enjoy regardless.

Let's see your morning faces, girlies!(Or I dunno, your 'I just had coffee' look?) I bet you all look beautiful

It's O.K. to look imperfect