Sutra: Glossy Box Feb

After the phenomenal disappointment that was the Jan Glossy Box (temporary tattoos, blue eyeliner, lipgloss that smelt like plastic), the Feb one is almost as bad... But not quite.

A lipstick from Face of Australia that is not a good colour for me.

Proactive, the worst thing for my skin possible.

Mini nail files... Handy, will keep in my bag

Nail polish in a dark pinky red. Will use this.

and an olive lip balm. smells pretty but have not used yet so can't give you an accurate review.

I cancelled my subscription but I might try another brand of box and see if thats better... I hear Bella Box has been pretty good?

Sutra: Shopping I Can't Afford

I am 100% in love w this gorgeous bag, which I can't afford.

BTW Mary-Kate (guess) Those sunnies are not great w your skin tone...

So I am looking to buy a similar style off ebay for (less than) a fraction of the price. I know, I know, plagiarism and whatever and stealing of creative property or something and moral codes and all that. But really if you were on my wage you would do the same. Also, as if this style is not going to be out of fashion in about 3 months or less! It's probably already soooooo passe, but I live in Tassie, so its OK cos no one down here has any idea (wrong and blatant generalisation) about whats supposed to be the IT thing.

Also very much like these flats. But will wait until Shopbop has a sale I think before I contemplate taking my lemming any further!

Okies well I had better go pretend to be doing some more work while I actually catch up on some blogs :)

ttfn

Sutra: The Economy

Today I am working. I am not an economist and I know nothing really about economics, aside from the little I learn't by attending the subject in University (I didn't like it).

But today I would like to take a few seconds to speak about the subject.

Right now the economy is going through this kinda sucky time warp period where no one really knows whats happening and things are trying to be sold for too much and people want to pay too little.

For instance, the property market where I live is all crazy, wherein people are trying to sell their houses for much more than they are worth because they paid so much more for them a few years back.

Also tourism (my industry), is having a very slow start to the season and visitor numbers are down slightly. Spend p/individual is down a tonne, which doesn't affect me directly but affects the business I work for and means that we have to talk about it heaps.

On to the AUD which was for a long time above parity with the USD (hello online shopping) But is not back at parity. :( *sad face*

Luckily prior to the USD gaining some ground, I managed to put in a VS order which has just arrived!

Yippee for my awesome new bathers and makeup! Will have to post some pics because the website I don't think... I LIED well not exactly cos its these bathers but in the black w gold spots which there is not a pic of. Also got THIS in Star. Which is great cos I love some shimmer in my life and this stuff is v shimmery!

Ok well I hope that post didn't make me sound too much like I have not idea what I am talking about (which I don't). But I felt the need to ramble somewhere and this stuff has been on my mind lately.

Well that, and a whole bunch of other stuff which may well be even less interesting!

Sutra: Shopping...

Sooooo, I decided to do some online shopping....

Belt Jacket and Flats are all from asos.com and the rest are from topshop.com

usually I am an all black kinda girl but I am attempting to mix it up and I figured the best way to celebrate asos now having an Australian website was to buy stuff from it :-)

So I did.

Now I hope that everything fits me and that it looks ok on me! (which it might not and probably wont)

we shall see!

Have a good day

p.s. dont worry I am not planning on wearing all that stuff together, that could be a weird mix

Fattyboombah

I am fat

I am past internally convincing myself that it is only my winter weight. I need to now convince myself that I should eat healthier and exercise more in order to be fab and skinny like Candice Swanepoel.

Image screen shot off VS Access website

Is she freaking kidding me with that body? This is not even a good image! damn!

Ok whatevs, so I will never look like CS due to the fact that I bad genes when it comes to distribution of musculature etc (large stupid calf muscles and huge arm and neck muscles).

So today in honour of deciding that I actually am fat, I did some reps using my Val Slides and like the usual fun stuff (sit ups and those upside down bikey legs and stuff)

Val Slides

Ok so no one would pay me to train them cos I have no idea what I am talking about... But thats ok because I only have to train my self!

Then in other news which does not make me fat, I have run out of patience for paying $25-35 for my shampoo and conditioner off Strawberrynet and so lately when I ran out of my Aveda shampoo I went to the super market and grabbed a bottle of Organic Care shampoo from Woolies. It smells like coconuts which is fabulous and really I kinda think that a shampoo is a shampoo, unless its blue (which mine was not)

Coconut smelling shampoo and conditioner

Cos I was so entranced by the coconut smell of the shampoo I was like "Ok well really for $3something you can also try the conditioner" So I went ahead and brought it! And do you know I think my hair felt softer from using it than it does with Aveda (N.B. Quantities used may vary LOTS due to price differentiation) I will keep using Aveda treatments tho cos they r lovely and make my hair less knotty and cos it gets blonded some and also straightened daily it NEEDS help!

How come some people can straighten their hair and the straightness lasts like 2 days, where mine goes all crumply at night?

Thats all. I am going to brush my teeth now :)

Sutra: My Latest Melb Trip!!!

I have one word for you, and that is Sodashi.
This is an Australian made skin care and it is beautiful! I brought this only as it is pretty expensive to purchase... I brought this because the therapist told me that I have advanced signs of aging around my eye area and this is probably due to the fact that I use drying eye makeup remover. (bum)

We had our facials at the Lyall hotel and the facialists were all wonderful! All my friends who came along for facials were v impressed!

Happily my trip was not all bad news! We ate a lot of good food and drank a lot of good wine!

Delicious savoury crepes from a small French cafe in Hardware Lane. (didnt get a pic of breakfast.. to hungry)

Beautiful fountain on the way to the Melbourne Museum! It looked to me like a brides veil was falling over the fountain.

Amazing Lebanese Tapas at Byblos. (Try the Koosa and the mussels!)

3 dip plate from Byblos (we ate much dip this weekend)

Macarons from La Belle Miette in Hardware Lane, we just chanced upon this little macaron specialty store, but so glad that we did! The Salted Caramel was amazing!

So that was my weekend! Cant wait to go do it all again!!!

Sutra: Hot as Outfit!

Image stolen from Atlantic-Pacific and I am re-posting cos I adore this outfit, and I would wear it! That is IF, I could bring myself to wear jeans that skinny!