Twister

June is not working out for me blog wise.

I guess it's because I have got out of the rhythm of posting, and it's kind of hard to restart that. Especially mid way through a month, you know what I'm like having to start new things at the start of something.

Tomorrow is a Monday and the first of the month, so I'm going to start all sorts of new habits tomorrow. 

Yesterday was nice. Took the mothers out, and then had girly junk night with a DVD. It felt nostalgic, effortless. Just the bones of a plan and everything else sorts itself out on the way. I've missed that. Getting the group together is so much effort these days.

Today I learnt the tornados are super common in Bangladesh. I thought they were mainly an American thing. 

Done

Okay so my marathon didn't last very long.

Turns out review posts take ages to write and now I'm tired.

4 posts down isn't bad though. So 2 more review posts of my new mascaras, which means I actually have to try the Falsies, a catch up post on the shoot and my birthday, and a catch up post on the fitting and rehearsal, and that should be me up to date.

Don't worry, nothing interesting has happened that I could be talking about instead of these product posts. Today, my day consisted of making pancakes, going to see my nan on the way back from the NEC, watching Lost, looking at houses, and attempting to catch up on my blog.

Right now, I don't care what I said earlier, I have spent 2 hours blogging so it is time for another episode of Lost.

Etude House Precious Mineral BB Cream

Long story short, I have yet to try a western BB cream I do like, and an Asian BB cream I don't like. I tried both the Skin79 VIP Gold and the Missha Perfect cover and loved them both, and a brand endorsed by a lot of Korean celebrities, I had high hopes for the Etude House Precious Mineral BB cream.

So, firstly, a little about the product. I got the cotton fit, which I have only just found out is a relatively new addition to the Precious Mineral BB cream family. I think it is supposed to give a matte, powder finish as opposed to a dewy finish that I have heard associated with Etude House in the past. It has a pump applicator, which is always good and hygienic. I got No.2, light beige. It is SPF 30, and has anti whitening, anti wrinkle and anti darkening. The back of the packaging kindly informs me 'BRIGHTENING OK! DARKENING ZERO!' as the only English in a sea of Korean. There are no instructions telling me to apply in proper quantity to the area of my face.

First impressions, it has a hint of pink to it, and a powdery finish. It was a nice consistency, felt natural on my skin, and blended out well so that a little went a long way. It concealed my dark circles well without concealer, and the matte powder finish meant I didn't feel the need to set with powder afterwards. In general, it felt really comfortable and I was happy with the way it looked ... until I went too close to a mirror in unforgiving shop lighting.

On certain parts of my face, especially on my nose and around my eyebrows, there was a definite settling of product which made these areas look really powdery. I think I neglected to moisturize before I put the BB cream on, and so I suspect it was sticking to dry patches.

So, in response to this, I haven't used this cream again, and won't until I know my skin is in a more moisturised state. For what it's worth, I think it's a great idea, a liquid application to powder finish, but for me, I need to work on balancing my skin before I can use it without worry of a too powdery finish.

Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream

A few months ago, you may remember me posting about how I had run out of my Skin79 BB cream. I loved this stuff, but being an asian brand, it wasn't readily available in the UK. So, as a replacement, I settled for a western version, the Garnier Miracle BB cream. I was not impressed.

In response to this, my mother brought me the Missha Perfect Cover and the Etude House Precious Mineral BB creams for my birthday. They were due to arrive in July. They actually arrived on my birthday.

So the first one I tried was the Missha Perfect Cover.  I think it was the first BB cream I ever heard about, probably from Bubzbeauty, and has always been one of the main brands people talk about in BB terms, along with Skin79. I got No.21, which is light beige. It's SPF 42, which is pretty high for a make up product.

My first impression was that it was a lot thicker than the Garnier cream, as well as more of a neutral tone, both of which were huge plus points for me. It blended well, and had good coverage as it neutralised my dark circles enough without concealer, and I didn't feel the need to set with powder although it wasn't a matte finish.. It didn't feel too heavy, and I wasn't aware of the 'lots of product on my skin' sensation you can get with other products. It has a pump applicator as well, which is nice. No amusing english translations though, so that's a shame.

I'm really unsure about whether to include the photo I took, because I look so bog eyed in it. My face is wonky too, but that's just my face. Note to self, look past the camera when doing close up selfies. Maybe I'll take another photo next time I put it on and there is good lighting, and add it in with an edit.

In general, I was really pleased with it. I was concerned that it wouldn't be a good colour match after testing on my hand, but it blends out really well and seems to match my face tone really well. Since trying this out for the first time nearly 2 weeks ago, and with the options of this, the Etude House and Garnier to choose from, this BB cream has been the one I have used most frequently. It's just a shame it takes weeks to arrive, even if it is about the same price with shipping from Hong Kong included as many western brands.

CATCH UP MARATHON

YOSHI!

(That's Japanese. You don't say the 'i'. It basically means RIGHT!)

So, by my count, I'm 8 posts behind. Tonight, I am going to marathon through my catch up posts on the promise to myself that I can't watch another episode of lost until I have finished them all.

I have 5 posts planned out from last time, and this can be another one, so worst case scenario is only 2 posts of pictures of cats.

LETS DO THIS!

HWAITING!
(That's Korean. You say it like 'fighting' with a Korean accent. It's a cheer of support.)


... and that's one down.

Sunburn Sucks

I can't wait until I can have hot baths again.

I can't wait until I don't have to moisturize so often.

I can't wait until I can look down at my legs and not end up wondering why they are purple.

I shaved my legs for the first time since I got sunburned at the beach nearly 3 weeks ago. It was killing me not doing it for that long, but its taken that long for my skin not to hurt to the touch. I'm still wearing leggings under my jeans.

Sunburn sucks. For ages afterwards.

Home

To make up for all the missed posts this month, I have 6 post to do in addition to my daily blogs. I can do a catch up post of the shoot down in London, including my birthday, and 4 posts on recent new products, but that still leaves me 1 extra.

I really need good new kpop songs to come out. Preferably Super Junior or SHINee.

Or to finish Love Rain for a review post, but Lost has taken over a little.

By a little I mean I am now on season 5.

I might try and catch up tomorrow, but it also seems to make sense to space out the product posts. I could write them and schedule them I guess, worked well last time. They're nothing major, just my two new korean BB creams and two new Maybelline mascaras, although I haven't tried one yet.

I just spent a while looking at houses. This area is expensive. I wish I could live in this house forever.

Vacuum is a fun word

Can't believe I posted about pillows last night. I was very nearly asleep and I guess they were kind of important to me then.

It's so weird to think I won't be going to school tomorrow. It's only been a few months, with holidays inbetween, but I had gotten so used to it. To think that last year I used to freak out about working there one day a week. Now it doesn't seem enough.

So, instead, I have decided to do housework. My aim is the bathrooms, hall way and vacuuming. I'm going to offer my father one of the tasks in the hope that he'll actually do something. All he did today was go for a bike ride and have a bath. Literally. Then more costume shopping, dinner and cinema. 

I hate how my life is so expensive. So much for not spending.

My own fault for not putting as much importance on money as I should. 

Super soft

YouTube is coming up blank.

9gag won't open on my iPhone. 

At the risk of falling asleep, I have just one thing to share ... I got two new pillows. I might get two more.

Boom. You're welcome. 

Candy floss

Apparently I forgot to post last night. Oops. Summary of my day was costume shopping and drama. I was pretty physically and emotionally worn out by the end of the day. 

So today we went to Star City. There was talk about Alton Towers and at one point it seemed like it would all work out, but plans fell through. I wish I wasn't so easy to guilt. I wish I had the strength of character to stand up for what I want to do rather than just trying to keep everyone happy. But I'm not and I don't, so never mind. The highlight of the day was real candy floss, spun in front of me on a stick. Do you know how rare that is?? Noone seems to do real fresh spun candy floss anymore.

I might make up for the lack of a post with something random. To YouTube and 9gag. 

News, Other News, and Other Other News

Kind of obsessed with this song at the moment.

For those of you that can't see the video I have embedded for some reason, because I never can from my phone no matter what version I use, its 2PM's ADTOY. Check it out. It's so catchy.

In other news, I passed 25 000 views. With consistently more views from Russia and the US than my own county. I don't understand, but okay.

In other other news, I lost a student today and I tried out my new Missha BB cream.

Tall nut

So procrastinating from writing catch up blogs is far too easy. I think in the future I'm going to force myself to write them regardless of whether I'm at home or not.

I think I've been playing plants vs zombies too much. I can see suns when I close my eyes. Earlier, I was playing and putting the huge walnuts down. You know, the ones that can't be vaulted over and look kind of scary? Well, they were getting eaten, and I noticed a tear when they were nearly gone. They were getting eaten, and crying about it. Gosh darn near broke my heart, and now I don't think I can sacrifice them again. It's just too cruel when they start to have emotions.

Forever Alone

Once again ... Fail at catch up posts. 

I will do them ... Eventually.

It sounds really anti social, but I'm kind of enjoying my own company too much to be doing normal things yet. Being on set is really intense, a lot of people spending a lot of time together in a small space, so I think it takes a few days to recover. Especially when staying in someone else's home, so you dont even get night time to have some privacy. Couple that with how depressed I had been feeling, and I guess I'm still recovering. 

My legs started peeling today. I thought it would be nice new skin underneath, but it feels dryer and more damaged than the previous layer. Rubbish.

Tired

I have a lot of catch up posts to write. 

I did mean to do them today, but then I had a nap instead. So maybe that will tell you a little about how the past few days have been.

So I got home at 2am, and then had school this morning. I tried so hard not to fall asleep waiting for my students, but I might as well have as neither showed up. So I did a little sorting out to make up my time, came home, ate cake and fell asleep. Add in catching up on YouTube and you pretty much have my day. 

Tomorrow is mostly the monumental task of cleaning my room. And wedding dress stuff if I can pluck up the courage to cut lace again. 

Shopping

Oops, I forgot to post last night.

So shopping was good, if not very painful. My feet were so swollen by the end of it and I'm pretty sure I spent the whole time walking like an idiot. But I managed to get everything I needed ... eventually. 

Aprons were super hard to find. All I needed was a plain, cream canvas style apron. I had done my research before I went out and loads of shops had exactly what I wanted online. But did the real stores? No. They were all butcher aprons or flowery crap. Luckily Hobbycraft pulled out some from the stock room for me, so that was amazing. 

I also ended up doing a lot of procrastination shopping, spending £52 in Dorothy Perkins on new tops and some black jeggings, and £6.50 on mini Yankee candles and a tea light holder. I'm actually pretty impressed with my candles. They were the sampler size, and less than £2 each, as opposed to the small jar which was about £9 and probably didn't burn much longer. I got three scents, 2 fruity ones and a cotton one, as well as a £1 tea light holder. 

A few months ago, Eatyourkimchi did a video on bubble tea. Ever since then I wanted to try it, mostly because it's Asian and I like Asian things, but also because the idea intrigued me. So when I found a bubble tea stall, I dragged Elle over. We had to ask for help because it involves a lot of choices, but I got mango with black tea and passion fruit bubbles and Elle got peach with green tea and passion fruit bubbles. It was basically juice with juice filled blobs in. Elle thought it was like frogspawn and freaked out a little. I thought it was amazing. 

Then we got pretzels. 

Then we got our free pizza, and ate cake while watching memoirs of a geisha. 

It was a good day ... but now I have 7 hours until I go to London and a lot to do. 

Sexyhae

Want to see my sexy ankles?

Hot, right? Like an old woman.

So I managed school. My legs felt huge and sore, and I didn't want to move much, so I made my student do all the setting up and packing away. I wore leggings to try and disguise everything, and noone noticed so I think I got away with it. I did hide in my classroom all morning though, and pretty much legged it (or you know, hobbled it) as soon as my session had finished. I spent the rest of my day keeping my legs elevated to reduce the swelling and trying to ignore the pulse in my ankles. Fun times.

Tomorrow is my last chance to go costume shopping for the short film I'm shooting this week, so another morning of game face. I asked Miffy to come with, mostly so she can help me if my legs set on fire or splinter into a million pieces, but also because I hate shopping in the real world and if I fool myself into thinking its a  social activity, then hopefully it shouldn't be so soul destroying. 

Bored of hearing about my sunburn yet? Yeah well I'll shut up when it's not such a big deal. 

Invalid

IIf you don't want to read a whiny post about my sunburn, then stop reading here. 

Yeah, so I felt pretty shitty yesterday. But I thought it would wear off a little overnight and I would just be left with normal sunburn; a little hot and uncomfortable, but manageable.

I woke up, and decided to have a oat bath to cool and calm my skin. I got out of bed, and it was like knives shooting down my shins. I screamed, I cried, I came clean to my mum. She helped me back on to my bed, because I was sort of routed to the spot in pure agony, and we covered my legs in e45.

And that's pretty much been my day. Constantly top ups of e45, or another after sun or moisturiser product, a cool oat bath and a cool shower, and hobbling around. I did take advantage of being bed ridden to do some paperwork though ... And watch 3 episodes of Lost.

My legs have swelled something chronic, especially my knees and ankles. I've put up some photos somewhere, god knows where on this blogger app. One is yesterday, straight after we got home, and the other is today.  I don't think the photo really shows it, but they're about 50% bigger than before. 

I'm just praying that I can make it to work tomorrow. I think it will be a case of putting my game face on and smiling through the pain, maybe making up a little white lie about a pulled muscle to explain why I'm walking funny. 

I'm also praying that I don't have to go to hospital. 

Sigh. Still kicking myself.

I'm so stupid. 

Ouch

Oh the pain.

So it turns out the sun is hot. Super hot. It turned my legs into spent matches and burned through my sun cream to cook my chest and arms. It even caught one side of my face, which had a healthy amount of supposed SPF 15 bb cream.

My legs feel like they are on fire, and I can even feel my heartbeat, but the rest of me is freezing. I can't move my legs without wincing. I'm like an invalid.

Right now, I'm feeling very sorry for myself. 

Nonsense

What am I supposed to blog about when I'm in the spare room of my only known consistent reader? I'm being stared at by a load of potato heads, judging me because I should be asleep, butI'm pretty sure there is a lightsaber hiding behind the pretty light up twigs. 

None of those statements were in any way relate to each other. 

A lot has happened today. One issue was resolved that then caused another one. I did a lot of planning for the shoot next week, and sent a lot of emails, which alone took up easily 7 hours of my day. Then I hopped in my car and ended up here. 

Ok, in retrospect that doesn't seem like much. I guess it was just one of those days that a lot got ticked off a to do list and things don't seem quite as horrific any more. 

Trap

So I forgot to post last night. I think I fell asleep watching youtube.

Super Junior have a chinese sub unit, Super Junior M. In this unit, there are two members that aren't in the original  Super Junior. One of these members is Henry, and he is adorable.

He has a whole back story, being a chinese canadian in Korea, and a lot of stupid SuJu fans weren't very nice about him. But he is probably my favourite, and he has just released an album.

Other than looking like he is in Tony the Tiger cosplay, I like it, and I haven't really liked a kpop song for a while.

Fiction Should Be Real

I started reading manga again.

I haven't read manga for ages, and even stopped keeping an eye out for updates about a year ago. But for some reason, this afternoon, I felt the desire to read manga again.

Not just manga in general, but a specific manga that I think I must have read like 5 or 6 times before. I've probably even talked about it in this blog before. It's one of those that have a really embarrassing title in English. But the story is really addictive, and all men should be like the male main character.

To be honest, I'm probably just wistful and lonely.

Banocolypse

I had a dream last night.

The only way I can think to accurately describe it us 'Banana Apocolypse'.

It was a long time ago now, so most of the things that made this not feel like a dream have dissipated. But I remember that it was the end of the world, and I was mashing bananas, and the two were somehow linked.

I think I was Fai from Tsubasa, and Sakura and Syaoran were kids that I was sort of protecting, so I assume Kurogane must have been there too but I don't remember seeing him. 

I'd love to know what that all means.

Emotions suck

I feel sad. Probably cos I feel guilty. I have nothing to feel guilty about. That makes me sad. 

It's a vicious circle.

Today, a student crushed my thumb under my seeing machine. I also went on a cheer up mission. 

Wax Lyrical

I started a new candle this evening. I love new candles. 

They're just so new! It's a new smell, and it looks good because its brand new, and it makes everything just feel fresher. It makes me want to clean my room, just so that everything looks perfect.

I am on my last one now. I got three for Christmas, so I'm going through one every two months, although to be honest, I think the Yankee lasted longer than that. Hopefully I'll get some more in a couple of weeks, but if not, I'll probably get money from my grandparents and can buy my own. It's just that I've been spoiled by posh ones I wouldn't have brought myself, but they are so much better than cheaper supermarket ones. We'll see. 

I can't quite believe this whole post has been about candles. 

Didn't get up early, didn't hoop, didn't drink, didn't help around the house and didn't become a better person. 

Also didn't spend any money, so at least one negative makes a positive.

Fail

Today, I failed with pretty much every resolution I set myself yesterday. I missed my lunch time pint and didn't get up earlier even though I was awake. I didn't clean and I wasn't particularly nice to anyone. I did hoop though. 

I also need to stop spending money. Like, seriously this time. I have put 25 or so new items on eBay, with another 15 left to list another time. So hopefully that will bring some more pennies into my pocket. I'm fairly sure that a lack of meals out, with Zo being on holiday and all, will contribute significantly to my finances. 

But you know, I have MOT, tax and insurance coming up soon, and even though I'll probably put them on my credit card, the sooner I can pay them off the better. 

Living is expensive. 

Half Year Resolutions

Holy crap. It's June.

How did that happen? Where did the year go? It's crazy.

You know how people always make New Year's Resolutions on the 1st of January? Well, I am going to make Half Year Resolutions on the 1st of June.

My New Year Resolutions for the first half of the year were to "drink more water, get up earlier, exercise more, help around the house, and be a better person ...".

Shockingly enough, my Half Year resolutions are to drink more water, get up earlier, exercise more, help around the house, and be a better person. But this time I have a plan ... and motives!

Drink more water - starting with downing a bottle of water that I keep by the side of my bed first thing every morning. Then, a pint with each meal, so brunch and dinner. And that's not even counting tea.

Get up earlier - I have been waking up earlier for a while. Now to get up rather than staying stubbornly in bed because I don't need to be up.

Exercise more - I'm pretty much into my routine of doing the blogilates squat challenge every night now. But I need to start hooping in the morning to slim my waist to fit into my bridesmaid dress in September, and maybe a couple of other work out videos a week won't hurt.

Help around the house - Pretty self explanatory

Be a better person - I just need to be nicer.