A New Me

Ok, i know, I know....I should be happy with what i've got :)

I feel like I have been on a lifetime mission for continual 'Fiffi' improvement. I wish I was thinner, I wish my face was less oval, I wish my forehead was smaller, I wish I had a better nose profile, and so on,....the list is endless. Maybe it comes from being bullied a lot at school - who knows?

The most dramatic change in appearance required major OMF surgery called BSO or bilateral sagittal osteotomy for lower jaw protrusion. I fully admit this was a complicated and painful procedure (attached with procedural/anaesthetic risk) and was performed for purely cosmetic reasons. I really didn't look that bad pre-operatively, but my god - the 'before and after' was quite a transformation (even my mother didn't recognise me). One day, when I am a little less vulnerable about the experience, i will post you pictures of my healing journey in all its gory detail. But right now, I am not quite ready yet. And although my 'after' pictures are AMAZING, the 'before' pictures of me (without makeup, in all my swelling and glory) are not so lovely. One day i'll show you and perhaps it might help someone else who might have to go

through what i went through, see the 'potential light at the end of the tunnel'!

Despite all this negative drama-of the school playground variety- it is all well and truly behind me. I am much happier with who i am and what i look like than I have ever been before. But- I guess, one can always benefit with some minor tweaks of improvement here and there.

I am totally in love with Miss Natty and Holly Annaeree (links below- pls check them out because they are both beautiful and amazing). I feel a funny affinity with Miss Natty- as we both totally love makeup and both have wonderful greek men in our lives.

So, because I am completely in love with their innate sense of style, I have booked an appointment with my hairdresser tomorrow to dye my hair Miss Natty's colour and have also just ordered Holly's gorgeous contact lenses from Lenscircle.com in blue, grey, brown and green. I wonder what the transformation is going to be like? I'll post the 'after' pics as soon as i can.....

The beautiful Miss Natty, visit her blog on..http://nattyngeorge.blogspot.com/

And the similarly gorgeous Holly (YTer and blog), http://hollyannaeree.blogspot.com/

:) Signing out.... with a mixture of trepidation and excitement.

Product Rave: Lancome Artliner

Image courtesy of talkingmakeup.com

After many years of struggling with all types of brushes - the slim-kind, the angled eyebrow-kind and the famous Sonia Kashuk and Sephora angled eyeliner kind- I have found one that doesn't need a separate brush at all. This is a great, real blacky-black liquid eyeliner that has an amazing brush and is absolutely fool-proof. Unfortunately, Australia discontinued the cheaper alternative :( L'Oreal lineur, but this is a great substitute (albeit much, much more expensive at AUD 41). *Sigh* our tax is ridiculous, but that's a whole story - i mean, post - in itself.

MAC To The Beach Collection

Release date in Australia: 21st June 2010

Marine Life took less than an hour to be sold out on-line today in the US. It's already on e-bay going for prices of up to USD 60!

I only want the hipness blush (which i have already pre-ordered). What are you guys going to get?

My Little Baby Quint

DIOR Earth Reflections Quint No. 609

I missed out.... :( because I heart taupes. I want, wish and dream about the famous limited edition Dior quint Iridescent Leather.

However.

Dior Earth Reflections No. 609 (AUD 98) is the closest I have found to it. It is a bit on the cooler side- unlike IL- but it's the best I could find in good ol' Australia.

Dior quints are a bit of a hit or miss. But when they are a hit... they are of the red target kind. So finely milled and soft like BUTTAAAHHH.

Left (dupe): MAC Shroom for the first three shades in the middle row

Middle: white, pink, gold frosts, lighter taupe and darker taupe eyeshadows of Dior ER quint

Right (dupe): MAC Satin taupe

I think MAC Satin taupe is quite a good dupe for the lightest taupe in the Dior quint. But, the darker taupe is unique to me and I like-y!!!! :)

My Vanity Chair

Ooooh I am so excited :P. My lovely husband has bought me my dream vanity chair. I knew as soon as I saw the display samples i just had to have it - and he of course, obliged. Anything to make me happy.... I am one lucky gal.

I love Louis XIV french furniture and I wanted something really striking! The chair is being imported from abroad with the upholstery in the black and white damask pattern shown below. I can't wait......

Nailpolish Heaven!

*cough, splutter-splutter, cough cough*

My husband felt sorry for me as I have been stuck at home with laryngopharyngitis.

So...he took me to our second home- the local National Salon Supply store. It is a a store not open to the public- and only those who are linked to the beauty industry are allowed to buy beauty supplies at wholesale prices. The nailpolish selection is I.N.S.A.N.E. It 'cheered me right-up' as per Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood. To share with you the amazing rows and rows of beautiful nailpolishes, i sneakily videoed a clip of this wonderful nailpolish-land. Enjoy!

My Mantra

Me, Myself and I

Welcome to my little corner of the world wide web - this blog features the musings of a girly-girl who loves all things pink and shallow ( - and is not afraid to admit it!) . We live in a world that admires beauty, yet belittle those who have it - with assumptions that they must be intellectually-challenged. I stand up- right here and right now- to heartily disagree, you CAN be clever AND beautiful. There is power with intelligence but there is also power in beauty.

Combined- it is a weapon.

Embrace it.

Hence, my mantra....

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

-Nelson Mandela