| Saltwater sandals are they worth it? |
[Apr. 26th, 2019|02:30 pm]
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Saltwater sandals are a bit of a cult hit on the gram, etc. They are now also available in Europe. Because a lot of people online seemed very pleased with them (incidentally I’m pretty sure most of these people got theirs for free) and most importantly: I liked the look of them, I figured I’d invest in a pair.
Now are they worth it?
If you don’t feel like reading an entire post, let me get straight to it: very much NO.
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| Catch-up post: the Friday of Made in Asia |
[Mar. 27th, 2019|12:43 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | convention, events, fail, friends | ] |
| [ | feeling |
| |  bored | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Nathaniel Johnstone "Frog and Toad" | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Brussels Expo, Laeken, Brussels | ] |
The Friday of Made in Asia is notoriously the quietest day. We had kinda expected to be busier than it was, on account of it being a school holiday, but nope, still blissfully not overrun with people :).
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| France trip day 1 - Paris |
[Jun. 26th, 2018|02:28 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | disney, disney store, fail, fashion, food, france, haul, paris, photography, public transport, rant, rude people, shopping, steampunk, travel, trip report | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Paris, France | ] |
| [ | feeling |
| |  busy | ] |
Earlier this month, Bert and I went off to France for three days. Doing a different thing each of those three days.
On the first day we visited the capital.
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| A day out in Lille |
[Apr. 11th, 2018|10:05 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | art, day trip, epic fail, exhibit, exhibition, fail, france, history, lille, museum, natural history, nmbs, street art, travel | ] |
| [ | feeling |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Lille, France | ] |
Of burgers, shopping, exploring town and all things Bleu (not a typo by the way, as will become clear from the post ;)).
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| A note on M.A.C pigments |
[Jan. 11th, 2018|03:52 pm]
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Before I bought a full sized pigment from M.A.C, I had already purchased two sized to go pigments in store. Chartreuse and Tan. They were in the standard sized to go packaging (mostly clear plastic). Now, with my full sized pigment (Pure White) there was a little note in the packaging, listing all pigments that are in fact NOT safe to use near the eyes and/or mouth and which are flammable.
So for those that only own sized to go pigments, or are thinking about buying a M.A.C pigment full stop, I'm sharing that information here.
Not to be used in the lip AND eye area:
Basic Red
Genuine Orange
Grape
Green Space
Process Magenta
Not to be used in the lip area:
Antique Green
Black Black
Chartreuse (would have loved to know that when I bought it LAST YEAR)
Deep Brown
Emerald Green
Hi-def Cyan
Landscape Green
Marine Ultra
Naval Blue
Platinum
Primary Yellow
Pure White (good to know!)
Rich Purple
Silver
Steel Blue
True Chartreuse
White Gold
Not to be used in the eye area:
Acid Orange
Bright Fushsia
Electric Coral
Full Force Violet
Magenta Madness
Neo-Orange
Red Electric
Rock-it Yellow
Ruby Red
And the flammable caution goes to:
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| Why I won't online order from an Estée Lauder company again. |
[Jan. 10th, 2018|09:48 pm]
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And why I'll avoid anything shipped with UPS, also, but at least they came through in the end, whilst M.A.C has been disappointing AF.
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| Worst in beauty of 2017 |
[Dec. 27th, 2017|12:07 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | beauty, cosmetics, epic fail, fail, glamglow, makeup, nyx, review, reviews, skincare, urban decay, yves rocher | ] |
| [ | feeling |
| | busy | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Belgium | ] |
DISCLAIMER before I get into this.
This is just my personal opinion, by no means do I mean to diss an entire brand or people that love these products.
Beauty products are very much a personal thing, what doesn't work for me may be a holy grail for someone else.
This is just my personal opinion based on personal experiences that made these items end up on the worst of the year list.
There's no main shot of these, because I have gotten rid of most of these so it seemed a little useless.
Here's the reasoning behind my dislike though!
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| Tokyo, day 7: traveling home :( |
[Dec. 14th, 2017|01:14 pm]
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Travel (mis)adventures and the flight from hell
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| How Gravitymud ruined my skin |
[Oct. 25th, 2017|01:21 pm]
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| [ | Tags | | | beauty, epic fail, facemask, fail, glamglow, health, health risk, mask, rant, skincare, warning | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Belgium | ] |
| [ | feeling |
| |  aggravated | ] |
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| B-post strikes again |
[Oct. 16th, 2017|09:33 pm]
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First let me start off by saying that this is not our regular postie's doing, because he's actually nice and rings the doorbell when something doesn't fit the mailbox. So I really hope no one is going to give him grief, because that would be massively undeserved.
I don't know what whomever delivering the mail was thinking today, but clearly he wasn't having very competent thoughts, because that is NOT an acceptable way to put a BOOK in a mailbox. Or deliver any mail for that matter!
I've had it up to the next universe with this sort of postal delivery antics.
Today the mail delivered though it was ok to do this.
The next time this happens, I will think it is ok to take photos as proof and call the police.
Because this kind of thing is beyond not ok. |
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