Watch Out for ....

MAC's Hey Sailor! Collection : particularly the Nautical eyeshadow.

Nars Summer collection : it's getting on the website, ordering possible from April 13th. I'm looking forward to the Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Never Say Never.

Guerlain with Emilio Pucci : looks very nice but I doubt I'll buy anything : I already have a Meteorites compact, a Terracotta, and if I remember correctly the previous editions of that brush were no successes.


Music-wise :
Smash OST due on May 1st. The little serie that boomed has a great timing : i
i can't get that cover i told you about out of my head.

Book-wise :
Looking forward to the new Janet Evanovich :)

Life-wise :
I'm making plan to spend my birthday alone and very far from my family. I need a vacation after the year we got. I'm looking forward to that, you have no idea.

Makeup Addict Problem to solve.

I think one of makeup addicts' first and foremost problems (once money's been figured out, I mean) is ... STORAGE.

You can do whatever you want, give away, re-sell, put in another room... you never have enough space for your make-up. And worse, there's always the next collections coming out.

Why do you think there's so many make-up storage videos on Youtube?
Because once we've found the solution, we're so proud we wanna share! 
Personnaly, I'm still trying.
I bought and put together the Ikea - MALM vanity a few months ago.

Ohhh yeah it's great. But even when I had just organized most of my make-up in it, I was still short on space. Aaaand I'm still looking. I think I'm going to cave and buy a 2 sets of MUJI drawers.
I also haven't found quite the right mirror yet. And the amount of daylight in my appartment sucks, so there's that...

Anyway, it's an ongoing battle we have with ourselves, our money, the space we live in, home decor and the cosmetics companies.

Listening To

New Kids On The Block - Summertime. My inner teenqger resurfaced this week, so... You can also add any corny romantic comedies to the list, with their soundtrack of course, lol.

NBC Smash - Katharine McPhee covering Brighter Than The Sun from Colbie Caillat. There's an OST due on May 1st with that song on it, I'm so purchasing that title on iTunes.

Kanye West & Jay-Z - Otis

Luce - Good Day

Long Beach Dub - Sunny Hours. With the Black Eyed Peas. That song's been on my iPod for years.

The Stereophonics - More Life in a Tramp's Vest

And we are HOME!

We got home safely on Tuesday, but I've been way too busy with getting her back in her stuff.

I'm staying with her for a few weeks, she wants the company, I'm free since I dropped out of college a few weeks back (yep, I ain't talking about that any further).

The Tres Cheek collection finally appeared onto the MAC website, I ordered myself Pink Tea and Lovecloud, a CCB in Pearl for highlights, the MSF in Lightscapade from the Reel Sexy collection and the Whisper of Gilt MSF from the In Extra Dimension collection.
I thought about getting one of the Extra Dimension eyeshadows but the swatches didn't convince me, and there's one that's got my name tattooed on it in the Hey, Sailor collection.


I also ordered the last clothes I need for the season and a few other thingies from a uk site : mixing palette, empty pans, magnetic dots....

Shoot me!

I bumped into a car on the hospital parking lot.
Well, I scratched it actually, though it was just paint.

I was driving my mom's car, which literally is a tank, and got NOTHING.

Left my phone number. Waiting now.

The stress level was incomfortably high. It brought me all back to my car accident a few years back, and it's horrifying, though the two events have nothing in common. I imagine I'm due for some nightmares again in the coming nights...

Hospital Break

Okay, my mum's getting out on tuesday and it's great, because :

- I'm tired of the time it's taking me to go see her since they cut off the tram. 1h30 instead of 20min is NOT making me happy. And that's only one way.

- She's being depressed, and I ain't happy either.

- I've been stress shopping, mainly cosmetics, it's killing my savings and I'm running out of space! Not to mention I already have enough for three lives in a family with five sisters.
Sephora and my Mac corner are starting to look waaay too familiar.
Maybe I'll do a little haul or a list of my buys. Lucky I'm not on Youtube, I'd have enough for a 2-hours-long video.

Crisis averted... For now!

I never understood my skin. Neither did my dermatologist.
So I'm doing what I can and usually, since she knows I try, she's good to me.

But these days.... I have breakouts, dry patches, she's not happy with any moisturizer I put on and damn her since she's only tolerating tap water.

But now.... My foundation is the MAC Pro Longwear in NC15. It has been for the past 9 months. And NOW, she decides to change undertones? Is it even possible?
It's got to be, because all of a sudden I look YELLOW with my NC15 on.
Since I don't have a MAC pro store near me to try the Face & Body, I literally went sprinting to Sephora, where for a change I got a good MUA to help me find a new foundation.

Bobbi Brown Moisture Rich SPF15 liquid foundation in 0-Porcelain.

It's relatively neutral with just a hint of pink. Pink?? Since when do I need pink in my fondation?!

Wardrobe crisis.

Okay so it's been 20°C for about a week now, and it's started to be a problem for me.

Last year I had a surgical procedure to remove some of my stomach to lose weight.
Some will say it was the easy route, and I totally agree. The problem was, I'd been having health problems for around ten years now and in 2010 my quality of life had been seriously downgraded due to ovaries problems. An exploratory surgery later, there was nothing to do. But my doctor, well aware that I was in the process of,getting that stomach surgery said that the loss of weight could be a great step in retrieving a normal life. So he pushed a bit with the surgeon, and tadaaa! In February 2011 I was on the slab.
I lost 20 kilos in the 6 following weeks, and then...my great-aunt died. To some we seemed a close-knit family because there's not many of us, but the relationships are not that good. Somedays they're even shitty. But anyway, my aunt died, of cancer, and I was there with my mum and my grandma, and I swear it was one of the worst moments of my life.
Consequently, my weightloss stopped dead in its track and my morale was not that great.

I then proceeded to explain to my psychiatrist (and probably anyone who'd listen, sorry people) every twist and turn we had to make to get everything in order.

I vaguely started losing weight once I was back to my flat in September!

Since last year I had been in packing tape and boxes, I did not go shopping for new clothes. I did not need them to roll around in the dust of a big house full of junk.

So. Last week, when it hit the 20s, I discovered I had literally NOTHING that fit.
So this week end I went on a shopping spree. I hate clothes shopping, but I had to.
I tried on clothes like a machine, I spent a fortune, and at the end of the weekend I was ready to cry, my bank account was looking sick, and my room was full of clothes that I had nowhere to put since I hadn't cleared out the old ones. Yay!!

That crisis is never-ending...

Hospital, how I missed thee...NOT!

Okay so my mum is going to the hospital for a few weeks from Sunday onwards, for a knee replacement.
I don't know how much I'll blog between the hospital stints to keep her company and the tidying of my flat.

My hairdresser is a miracle worker.

Like usual. It's all I'm going to say.

I came in without any clue about what i wanted except a lighter color and chopping off those horrifying edges, so damaged by the curls I had put in three months ago.

I got outta there 90 min later, lighter in color and in hair mass, not much poorer, and absolutelu loving it.

Like usual.
I'm telling you she's Mary Poppins with scissors asnd a hair. Rush!