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Call the etiquette police!

 

There are a few things I get passionate about…actually that's a lie there are a lot of things I get quite passionate about and I probably should arm myself with a list of said topics to hand out to people, so they know what to avoid if they don’t wish to experience me chewing their ears off. One of these topics is that of make-up, more precisely one putting on make-up (not in the privacy of their own home) in public in front of EVERYONE...

Now I am not talking about the sly lippy reapply, or a quick glance in the shop window to check that everything is in place and wiping that little smudge under your eye. I am talking about those girls who feel that it is appropriate, from start to finish, to do all their makeup in the company of a room, train, bus, or airport full of strangers. It wasn’t until I brought this topic up with a group of friends while watching some girl reapply her entire face on the New York subway that I began to notice the epidemic that is public make-up application. You spot one, you spot them all.

One does not clean their teeth on the train, nor should one apply her concealer, foundation, blush, eyeliner, eye shadow, eyebrows or mascara. I don’t know when it became socially acceptable to do so, it baffles me. It’s like the leggings as pants epidemic that has been sweeping our streets for the past five or so years. It is not ok, leggings are underwear not outer wear, and make-up is to be done in private so the world is fooled in to thinking we wake up in the morning looking this bright and sprightly naturally.

Something needs to be done, women need to unite and stop this from happening. At 8am on my morning commute to work I do not want to watch you with your manky foundation and eye shadow pallet doing your face. Someone call the etiquette police please!

Special thanks to Emma Bergamin Davys for keeping me up to date of these social faux-pas from her side of  the world.

No lonely hearts

 

This is an oldie but a goodie, a shoot I did aggges ago with a stupidly talented team.

 

Photographer: Viktor Nilsson

Make Up Artist: Blonde Gamon

Model: Christina Dietze

Stylist: Me

 

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Taurus

‘This is a big year for you, with emphasis on many fronts – money, travel, romance,commitment, health, career and communication. Let’s take each one at a time and see what is in store for you.’

January is my favourite month, the crazy rush of Christmas over, the weather is seriously heating up and its holiday time! Sun, sand, beach, beverages, long hot days and long hot nights throw in some cute summer dresses and sandals and you have it made. Unfortunately holidays are winding up, but luckily January also offers a few long weekends and with the added bonus of being at uni and being able to take the odd day or two off I get to stretch it out a little longer.  

As well as being time for holidays January is also exciting,as the end of a year roles on and the beginning of something exciting and new comes forward. It brings a time for making plans and setting goals, deciding what we want to do and where we want to be, I can’t wait for 2013, I think it is going to be a ripper. I am setting myself up to do more than ever and I can’twait to get started.

It’s also the time for the yearly horoscopes, my favourite being the ones offered by Russh and Susan Miller. I love reading what someone else thinks your year holds for you (Look I know they are a load of crap but I still enjoy them). This year as well as reading what others think my year holds,I am writing down some things that I hope my year will hold and some things that I would like to achieve. Little personal goals, actual achievable things unlike those bloody New Year’s resolutions. In with the new and out with the old, 2012 see you later. Hello 2013!