Fashion Trends I Will Never Understand!!

I want this blog to be positive and embrace everyone's personal style but I have to get this off my chest. There are just some fashion trends I will never understand...

Disclaimer** These are my personal opinions! Please dont get offended if you love these trends.

The Harem/Grandma Pants

 

This trend of wearing pants that look like they were designed to fit over adult nappies that had been well utilised just doesnt make sense to me. Women often ask themselves; does my bum look big in these pants...YES, YES IT DOES! and about a foot lower than it should be! 

At what point did a designer go...you know what I think I am going to design a pant that will create the illusion of a kankles, swolen knees, and a large amount of junk in the wearers trunk, put it on a catwalk and see if anyone falls for it.

 

The High Rise Denim Underwear

 

Shorts (definition): trousers that end above the knee or reach the knee, which are often worn in hot weather or when playing a sport.

Briefs (definition): a piece of underwear worn by men or women, covering the area between the waist and the tops of the legs.

 

 

At what point did shorts and underwear blurr lines? Maybe for the past 20 years of my life I've been restricting my clothing posibilities, all thoes gorgeous pairs of underwear I could have been showing off, if only I was aware that underwear were pants!!

Seriously girls, if you are struggling to conceal your g-string under your shorts or you come home with sun burn on ur arse from the shortness of your shorts you need to take a hard look in the mirror and admit that the slice of denim stitched between your legs is not pants! No matter how high it goes up your torso..!

 

The Bra Top

 

Again! At what point did womens underwear become outwear?? And at what point can we distinguish between what is a bra and what is a tee shirt?? Most shopping centers do not allow women to walk around in their bikini or bra or men without their shirt...where does the line get drawn here? Is it all dependant on the hight of the pant? Its almost like the shortness of ones top is inversely proportional to the hight of ones short shorts.  

 

 

 

I saw an article in my local newspaper, and the headline read "14 is the new 18 for girls" regarding their age. I see 14 year old girls and younger walking around in the last two fashions shown above,  exposing leg, stomach and chest all at once. We worry about girls being over exposed, paedophilles and adults looking at our children, but if parents and mothers are allowing their young girls to expose themselves this much, whether conciously or not, they are allowing their children to sexualise themselves. And dont think that children dont know about sex and being sexy, in this day and age where children have access to the internet and television is less and less censored girls as young as 12 and 14 are acting like 18 year olds. Protect and care for your daughter, she only has one childhood, teach her to respect her body, herself, dress age appropriate and stay a kid for as long as she can, because she has her whole life to be an adult.

 

Like I said at the begining, these opinions are my own, wear what you love, and love what you wear. 

 

Toodles!

Love Em xx  

 

Flawless Skin Without Foundation!!

I just wanted to share this video, I think its a great idea. I will deffs be giving this a shot!

I have recently been trying to wean myself off of my make-up addiction :p and this is a perfect way to do that. Its similar to BB cream in that he's making a tinted moisturiser, but its not as heavy as foundation and its going to be better for your skin.

Take a look and try it for yourself!

 

Em's Ten Day Beauty Challenge

I want to challenge anyone who is like me and feels a bit self concious to go out without make up on to do a one week challenge of minimising the amount of make up products you use each day! For ten days, I challenge you to use as little make up as possible! Give your skin a break and become confident with your naturally beautiful face and skin!
And if you think that you cant do it now because you're going through a crazy pimple phase...So am I, and what better way for your skin to kick those bad boys out than with make up rehab!! :D

I've listed some suggestions below of ways you can minimise your make up, help you ease into reducing your make up use, and begining your journey to loving your own skin naturally :D

Suggestions:

Try going for a BB cream or tinted moisturiser instead of foundation on days where you dont require a polished look, for example going out with friends or just running errands.

Skip the eye liner and shaddow and just go for a few coats of mascara, if you feel that you want some more definition, try applying some brown eye shaddow with a small angled brush along your upper lash line to give your lashes some more oomph and that added definition!

Use powder only in the places that you need it most, for example; under the eyes, nose and chin for me.

Define your brows, even if you arent going to wear a full face of make up, ensure you have tamed brows, as they will give your face an instant lift and finished look.

Go for a tinted or clear gloss or lip balm instead of a heavily pigmented or bright lipstick or lip gloss.

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I wish you all the best and hope you are having an AWSOME summer if you live down under and a wonderful winter every where else! :D

Good luck with my beauty challenge!! Please come back and let me know in the comments below how you go! I would LOOOVE to hear how you go!!

Love
Em xx

My Tropical Holiday Beauty Favorites and New Years Outfit

A belated HAPPY NEW YEARS to all!! I had the most amazing Christmas and New Years of my life. I was fortunate enough to spend it with family and friends at Club Med Phuket in Thailand!
If anyone wants the New Years Celebration of a life time, book yourself into ClubMed! hehe

Phuket is a beautiful tropical island but often the word 'tropical' makes my skin tremble in fear...humidity, constant applications of sun screen, sweat, heat...every girls nightmare when it comes to staying pimple free. I was unfortunately hit with an army of hormonal and stress pimples just before I left for my tropical paradise, and I have to admit I almost never have pimples! So yeah I was freaking out a bit thinking my face was going to be ruined forever!! But it was alllll good :D

My auntie had given me a Garnier skin pack for Christmas just before we left, it included their Miracle Skin Perfector BB Cream and a Clean Sensitive - Gentle Foaming Cleanser. I normally wear makeup every day, but I conquered my fears and challenged myself to step away from the powder for 10 days and go natural. Using only sunscreen and BB Cream with SPF24+ during the day, and cleaning my skin thoroughly with cleanser every morning and night, my skin became clearer, and my skin tone evened up. The BB Cream gave me the right amount of coverage so that it looked like I had a natural summer glow and slight tan, I did add a little liquid concealer under my eyes on occasion for those post late night reminders.
At night I of course went all out with the glamorous night looks, but made sure my face was clean of any make up before collapsing into bed.

Here is my New Years outfit, the dress I bought in Bebe on sale for about $160 AUD on sale, and the shoes were from a shop in Thailand, they cost me $10 and are gorgeous black velvet platforms with a peep toe and gold and diamante peacock like design on one side. Word for warning though, I wore these shoes for about 9 hours that night, and I still have no feeling in 3 toes... :S If anyone knows how to fix a damaged nerve please let me know!!

Sorry the quality is a bit dodgy but I somehow forgot to take photos! Silly me!!

I hope you have a wonderful 2013 and remember a smile is the most beautiful thing you can put on your face!

Lots of love

Em

My Favorites of the Year, What I've Been Loving!

Hi everyone!
Yes I'm still alive, I know I've been lazy/busy/any other lame excuse and have been neglecting this little bloggeroonie but I've kicked myself in the bum and getting back into the groove of blogging...Yaaaaayyy!! hahaha I honestly don't know if anyone reads my blogs but for the handful of people that my computer tells me do, thank you! It really does make me feel honoured that someone somewhere took the time to wander on to my little corner of the Internet. (Computer hugs from me to you! :D )
Okay onto business! I have comprised a list of all my top favourite makeup/perfumes and other random loves of mine that have blossomed this year and put them all in one place for you to have a peek! Enjoy!!
PS: These are listed in no particular order :P

#1: Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker

My beautiful cousin just bought this for me as an early Chrissy present last week, and I am looooving it! It is a very classic, sweet, musk, vanilla scent, and the strength and staying power is amazing! One or two sprays and you are good to go all day long! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS!!

 

#2 Rimmel: Colour Show Off Lipstick - 110 Gossip Pink

I am so in love with this Rimmel Lipstick I just bought, first of all I have to say it smells AMAZING! Like a whole watermelon is exploding out of the tube! hehe Second of all the consistency and pigmentation is so smooth and bright, what you see is definitely what you get here! It is so moist, smooth and creamy like a lip balm but not sticky or too wet that it would bleed. I am a huge fan! The only problem is I wish I had found this range sooner and bought them all, they are unfortunately discontinued. :( PS: Isn't the packaging sexy! :p

#3 Revlon Scented Nail Polish in Mon Cherry

When I first saw this range of scented nail polishes I was not convinced. But I was on Ozsale.com and they had a Revlon sale, I think it was like $3 a bottle so I figured hey why not give it a shot. It actually does smell like cherries :D but only once it has dried, it's fast drying and a gorgeous colour. The smell lasts for a few days even after showering etc. It is pretty chip resistant even after working all day using my hands. But like any polish wont last forever. I just ordered 4 new scents, so I will write up a review for those when they arrive. :D I recommend this polish for the novelty value, but try and get it on sale! I wouldn't pay full price.

 

#4 Rimmel Extra Super Lash Mascara

This mascara came in a freebie pack that I got with other Rimmel purchases I made recently. It is not water proof so I was not expecting it to be something I would use. But honestly, I wear it almost every day now! It is beautiful, it instantly doubles or triples your lashes as if you instantly just grew a tonne of lashes right out of your own lash line, it lengthens and separates each lash, there is no clumping. A truly beautiful mascara! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

#5 John Frieda: Sheer Blonde Go Blonder Lightening Spray

 I wrote a review on this product earlier, if you are naturally blonde and wanting to gradually lighten your colour for a very natural look, this is the product for you! I am so happy with the results of this product, after the 1st use I could see results. Big thumbs up for this product!! Check out this post for a more in depth review:

 

#6 Essence Mosaic Compact Powder

Clearly I love this product, and need to get a new one soon hehe. This is a beautiful bronzer, it has a yummy coconut scent that you just wanna eat, the colour is really nice on my skin, not too orange, it is very silky and looks beautiful on the skin, it is or almost matte. Best of all I think it only cost's about $5 to $10. If you want an affordable, bronzer that goes on perfectly not too dark or light, easy to blend and smells great this is the one for you!

Conclusion

I have many more loves from this year including my recycled milk bottle body sponge from the body shop to my Natio anti ageing skin care products, but so that this post doesn't go on forever I will spare you. :D I hope you will try some of these products, or if you have some already comment below and let me know what you think, maybe you want to share some of your beauty loves this year so I can give them a try! I would love to hear from you.

Have a fantastic day!!

Love Em xx

Website Review - Pinky Paradise (Contact Lenses)

Hey Guys!

Today I am reviewing the Pinky Paradise Webstore, they claim to be the largest online reatailer of coloured contact lenses, and I certainly don't doubt that!

Website: http://www.pinkyparadise.com/

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My Experience!

I have purchased from this site only once about 2 months ago, but I ordered 4 different pairs of lenses, in 4 different colours. I have been wearing contact lenses everyday for vision for about 5 years now, I have worn coloured lenses in the past from an optometrist, but stopped and have been wearing clear silicone lenses. I found that these lenses are perfectly fine for everyday wear, they are comfortable and true to colour, which is important for me because I have brown eyes and I have found that coloured lenses especially the lighter coloured ones tend not to show up on brown eyes.
They do become dry towards the end of the day but thats fine as thats when I would take them out anyway. I can't wear them at work because the airconditioning dries them out so I wear my silicone clear lenses for work.  I have found I need to wear sunglasses if I am wearing them on a sunny day as my eyes become extra sensitive to sunlight, but my optometrist said that I would need to do that for my other coloured lenses too.
Overall I am very happy with these lenses and this website! The shipping is very fast! HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!




Cute Complimentary Animal Cases

My Four Different Colours of Lenses

Pro's

• Lenses cost between $15 and $26 (Very cheap!)
• You can get them in PRESCRIPTION!! (Varies from lense to lense and brand)
• Lenses last up to one year, depending on which variety you purchase
• The Site has a HUGE range of lenses!
• Delivery costs ~ $9 and arrives within a week!!
• You get a free animal lense case with every pair of lenses you buy
• They come in individual vials of saline solution (you have to purchase your own solution to store them in)
• The website is easy to navigate
• They have pictures of real customers wearing the lenses so you can see what they will look like when you get them (not all lenses have pictures tho)
• They have a huge range of cartoon/anime/costume lenses

Con's

• Not all lenses are prescription (but that isn't such a huge deal)
• Not all prescriptions are available
• Not all lenses have photos, so its hard to tell what they will look like on your eyes
• None of the cartoon or costume lenses are prescription

Photos

Gold/Brown

Green

Blue

Forest Green

I hope you enjoyed this review, have a wonderful day!!

Love Em xx

Halloween 2012!!

Heyy Guys!

Thought I would share with you my costume for Halloween 2012.

I was..dundundada...A LEOPARD!

 

 



My best friend and I just chillin' before the party :D

My friends and I at the club!

I had an awesome night! I had loads of people staring at me and saying hi haha all good fun!
There were some amazing costumes including one guy dressed as Arnie Schwarzenegger with a suit and a full head mask!

For my first ever official halloween party I had such a great time and it was so much fun seeing all the other people dressed up. Even if we did have to run through the rain with new papers over our heads to get to the club hehee

My Costume:

• Dress and belt from Dotti
• Clutch and Shoes from Forever 21
• Hair extensions and ears from Red Dot
• Fangs from a gothic store in Perth
• Contacts from www.pinkyparadise.com/
• Make up tutorial Leopard Mask Makeup Tutorial - Petrilude

Have a great day!

Love Em xx

I'M BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER! Hehe

 

"Don't follow trends, follow your heart!"

 

Hey Guys!!
Sorry I've been gone for so long! I've been so busy with uni assignments these past weeks but I'm back! So lets get this ball rolling :D

I asked a friend what she wanted to see on this blog and she suggested tips on how to make your lipstick stay longer, so I will be bringing that to you soon! Maybe I will include it in a 'makeup tips and tricks" post...yay! I was also planning to write a review of online shopping sites that I use/reccomend and finally I might do a little bloggy blog on my fashion style, where I get my clothes, fashion on a budget and how to put an outfit together. SOOOO let me know what you think in the comments below if there is anything in particular that you want me to write about!!

And to everyone doing exams now, or heading to exams soon GOOD LUCK!!

Love, Em xx