New from Bourjois

At the recent makeup event at Bourjois, I was glad to see the additional products to compliment their Healthy Mix Serum Foundation (Boots RRP £10.99). In case you hadn't read my previous blog on this great product (and why not??) I shall recap.  It is a medium coverage foundation, that glides on the skin giving a smooth, even surface with a radiant sheen to the skin, without looking oily.  Not only does it smell delicious but it lasts for 16 hours too.  Great for all those die hard party animals!

Now there is the addition of  a compact powder called Healthy Balance Unifying Powder (RRP £8.49).  This can be used on its own, to temper your own natural glow or over the foundation to create a more matt yet none cakey finish.  Like the foundation, its gives an even tone and luminosity to the skin. Available February 2012 it comes in 4 shades for pale to olive toned skins. Great for those metrosexual guys out there who want a little blemish control too! ( I know you read my blog, you aint fooling me!)

For those who loved their Volumizer mascara, there is the Volume Glamour Max (RRP £9.49). Volumizer came with two wands, a large round one that applied lashings of mascara and a much thinner wand for the lower lashes or to remove some of the excess from the upper lashes.  The wand in Glamour Max is the size of a tiny toilet brush! For all those Essex girls who like to have half a tarantula hanging from their apertures, this is the ideal mascara, it comes in waterproof  and non waterproof.

Also out in February are the Khol and Contour Ranges.  A selection of duo coloured pencils. I tried out the Black and light look pencil, which is black on one end and white on the other. It is not as soft as their waterproof pencil and the white has a pearlised finish.  Great for all over the eye under their pearlised eyeshadows or on its own as an eyeliner.  Can be applied wet or dry.  I look forward to trying out the other colours and will report my findings as I do.

The "Tram" Woman

Unless you have been down a coal pit for the past week, you will of course have seen the YouTube footage of the woman pointing out the non English/British people travelling with her on a Croydon Tram.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8IlOBKaeTI&noredirect=1

At present, we do not know if she was drunk, high or just plain disgruntled. But let's play devils advocate and assume she was disgruntled, lets imagine she grew up with white being the predominate colour in her neighbourhood.  20 years later, she realises there are a sea of foreign speakers and black and brown skins around her. Now she could move to the furtherst corners of Britain, where there are still pockets of the community where you never see a face browner than a St Tropez fake tan will allow. But, if economics does not allow for that contingency, then what are your other options?

At one point, England (I will not say Britain as that includes Scotland, Wales etc all conquered countries) governed one quarter of the globe.  That meant that England exported  millions of men, woman and children to those continents.  These same people would then tell the indigenous folk, that were still alive after being raped, beaten and degenerated. That they were now part of the British Empire and was therefore obliged to follow the law that governed them. They were taught to respect the King/Queen to study English history and to generally see  themselves as British.

Spring forward to the present day. Those children of the Empire have come home to roost and we now have a multicultural and multiracial society.  With London being the most diverse city in the world.

After viewing this video several times, I did not feel she was racist as she did not use the usual derogatory words to describe other races but I do see that she is seriously xenophobic and extremely ignorant (at one point she told a  Nigerian woman to go back to Nicaragua!!) and of course that great line from the imbasillic minority "you can't be British if your'e black"

The truly sad thing was during her rantings, her two year old son had to listen to words of hate through a tirade of four letters words. A child's mind is like a sponge and until he can think for himself, he will believe what ever he is told.  The result is more killings like that of Stephen Lawrence.

Britain is an Island that is inhabited by people of every race, creed and colour.  It is not unique, every country on the planet is populated by other cultures.   It will never be reversed, because unless you are very stupid, you will find that all the worlds great resources like diamonds, gold, oil etc all reside in countries where the indigenous people were brown or black.  Instead of seething with hate, why don't you knock on your neighbours door and ask them for a recipe for kapuśniak , you can get all the ingredients in Tesco I hear!!

Catch up!

Oh wow! Just realised how long it has been since my last post!.....just where is the time going??? So let's recap the past few weeks.:

Amanda Knox was let out of prison. I myself think she is guilty of something and the fact that she named someone totally innocent for the crime will always erk me!


Micheal Jackson's Doctor has been found guilty.  Well, I think the doctor was more influenced by greed than his Hippocratic oath.  We all long for a personal client. There is a form of security in knowing that you only have to think about one person and that you will be paid handsomely for some period of  time.  But when you start loosing yourself and don't even bother to question something that is morally or ethically wrong, it's time to find a new client!

Gavin Henson took part in the Batchelor and I am sad to say, I got sucked into this particular reality show. Millions of us waited with baited breath for a love story to unfold and for Gavin Henson and Leyla to walk off into the sunset.......but hold on, just a minute! He did not go for the nice girl next door, with the nice welcoming family, instead he went for porn star Barbie, who within days of "getting her man" was getting her baps out to prove what a "winner" she is.  It is a shame that although coming on the show claiming to be looking for love, he instead went for the pulling of his loins, which, quite frankly, being Gavin Henson, he could get a girl like that every day of the week and twice on Sundays! Nice girls are like gold dust and yet he let it slip away so easily.  Now we will all  have to be content with Carriane and most likely her mother too (who is quite proud of her daughter flaunting her assets at the  drop of a fiver), selling every sordid tittle tattle they can.....well, he brought it on himself!

As for work, met some great people and some not so great.  Met a nightmare of a stylist, who like me was booked as a freelancer for a magazine.  We were all given a brief of what the client wanted, but this particular stylist wanted to change everything to suit herself.  Kept reiterating her credentials as if that was to sway the whole team.Well it's a name we won't forget alright, but for all the wrong reasons. Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, also known as Mrs Clegg who is such a warm,down to earth  Spanish 'lady' , who exudes charm and grace, I also got to taste Nigella's Cappuccino Maringue (receipe soon to be published) that tasted sooo good and light, that it hardly touched the sides, even after 4 slices, if I'd had space in my Zuca bag, I would have taken the whole lot home!

Speaking of Zuca's I have recently purchased the Zuca pro backpack.  Yes, I could have waited till IMATs next year, but patience not being my strong suit, I decided to order from the US via Ebay.  At a saving of £20 I thought I was quids in.  That was until it arrived in the country and I was told I had to pay an additional £30 import VAT (not such a bargain as I'd hoped).

So, what do I think of the backpack?.  Whilst, like the Zuca case, there are lots of compartments and I was able to fit almost everything in it. I unfortunately travel with large cans of hairspray L'oreal Elnett satin and Infinium to be precise and until I finish those and can purchase the smaller cans, it is quite a tight squeeze.  As for the wearing of the backpack,   it is quite wide when you have it on your back and I sort of feel like Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, but when attached to the Zuca case it stays in place and saves my back and the dreaded widows stoop.  Not sure if its worth £140 though but hey ho, at least I have the matching set!