- Tuesday, May 06, 2014
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A sad story last week, Peaches Geldof's sudden death is still a mystery. Admittedly, I didn't know much about the young mother and wife until last week, but after reading more about her and her sudden passing, I felt compelled to illustrate her portrait. Rest in peace, Peaches.
- Monday, April 14, 2014
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I'm absolutely in love with the work of Stanislava Pinchuk, aka, Miso. This series of handmade tattoos is
"An ongoing & loose project -
Home-made tattoos for friends & friends of friends, playing with memory,
space & geography turned back on the body, all completed as trades."
Beautiful.
- Wednesday, April 09, 2014
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This is a little list of some of my favourite products in the make-up & skincare department right now. I always enjoy seeing posts like this on other blogs, so I thought, why not!
Before I continue, let me just say that apart from being a girl, who uses make-up on a daily basis, I'm no expert when it comes to beauty, but I'm always keen to try something new and love finding new favourites to add to my daily routine.
Back to this list! These are products that I use every day or at least very regularly - needless to say, I'm very happy with them all - they wouldn't be on this list if that wasn't the case. These are also all quite budget-friendly - another feature that I look for in a product.
From left to right, top row first...
1. I love... mango & papaya super soft hand lotion - my great friend, Linda, gave this to me for Christmas, along some other wonderful products. Linda is like a walking encyclopedia on all things beauty - she's the best with this kind of thing! I'm trying to convince her to start up a beauty blog... watch this space.... like all the products Linda has recommended to me, this is amazing. It smells delicious, seriously, and does a great job of moisturising my often-dry and tired fingers. I keep in my handbag and often slap some on while working away.
2. Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Pink Frosting - I bought this a couple of months ago and have been using it just about every day since! It feels like a marshmallow and adds a lovely shade of pink to the cheeks.
3. Nivea Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Eye Cream - I started noticing fine lines around my eyes late last year - I think they're a due to a combination of allergies (too much eye-rubbing) and stress / late nights. So I looked for a solution and found this... I've been using it morning & evening and although I still have dark circles, the fine lines seem much better. But let's face it, I think I'm probably destined to permanent dark circles, but I can live with that!
4. Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm in Elusive - I bought this one last week and am so glad I did - long lasting, pretty colour - the only thing that bothers me is that it can dry out your lips a bit, but nothing major. I'm not a big fan of lipgloss, so this is a great alternative - I feel very "grown-up" when wearing it - definitely will be buying some other colours in the range.
5. Maybelline Great Lash Lots of Lashes Mascara - another Maybelline product! I'm really impressed with this one. Use it every day - no flaking or clumping and the "heart-shaped" brush is easy to use - even for a clumsy hand like mine!
6. Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E - a firm favourite with beauty editors everywhere - and I can totally see why! Another recent purchase, I bought the travel size just to test it out and needless to say, I'll be buying the full size soon. Smells like chocolate!
7. Garnier Minerals BB Cream Miracle Skin Perfector for Combination to Oily Skin - this was another one of Linda's recommendations - and a winner in my book! I'd tried the original Garnier BB Cream previously and wasn't too thrilled - it made my skin way too oily and I didn't feel that it provided enough coverage - so I went back to using a normal foundation - until I tried this. I now use this every day and my skin has never felt better!
Phew! That was a long post! But I'm definitely going to so another soon - this is definitely not the full list of my favourite beauty items... watch this space!
- Saturday, March 08, 2014
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Another little series that I'm starting today - turns out you can get a decent amount of work done on a saturday afternoon!
The Daily Face Project is something I've been planning on doing for a long time now and finally, after way too much procrastination, I'm finally getting the ball rolling. In a nutshell, I'm going to illustrate one face every day... ongoing until... I don't know, hopefully for a long time/ indefinitely! I can't really see myself getting sick of this (I've been illustrating GQ's faces for almost a year now and enjoy it more every month!)
There will be a real mix and variety of faces - from my friends and family, to celebrities and people of interest ... some will have meaning behind them and others will be completely random. I'm also definitely open to suggestions, so if you would like to see your face or your mom's face or even your dog's face (yes, I'm going to include animals too!) then drop me a line and I'll see what I can do!
I'm going to post them all up here until I get another account sorted - I'll most probably set up a tumblr, but maybe I'll stick with blogspot.. watch this space.
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The first face in this series is someone incredibly special to me - my boyfriend, Steve. For this portrait, I took reference from a photo from 8 months ago (thanks, instagram! your dates on photos are so useful!) - we had just moved in together and were trying out the curry place around the corner - a sweet memory. Fun fact: Steve has the best hair ever - the perfect italian-style comb-back! (Hope I captured it ok in this pic). He's going overseas for work tomorrow and he'll be gone for a whole month... definitely going to miss him way too much. I won't go into too many more mushy details, but this guy has really been there for me and it will be so weird to come home to an empty flat after work each day. Really hoping that march will fly by.
- Sunday, February 23, 2014
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I think this is a good first post for this blog - or maybe it's terrible and way too "hectic".. Oh well! There will be some much lighter content on here too, I promise!
This is something I sketched a few nights ago, in-between rushing to meet a freelance deadline and designing a blog header for this little corner of the internet. As usual, I was struggling to decide which of the 5000 or so options I had done (all slight variations of each other, really) and then I looked at the time (it was way after any sane-person's bed time, maybe around 2am?) and thought to myself, "stop it, just pick one!" And so I did.
This is something that I've been struggling with ever since I can remember - or maybe it's just been since going to college and having to draft a million different scamps before actually designing anything, but basically, I often have a really tough time deciding on anything when it comes to my design work (or lunch, but that's another story!).
Bottom line, I think this is something that many creative people go through.
I think the internet also has a lot to do with it - seeing amazing work by extremely talented people on such a regular basis can really put a lot of self-doubt into your head.
So here's to trusting ourselves and just doing it! (And using as many cliche's as possible in one sentence of course!)
If you're going through something similar, or have some good advice on this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Go on, pop a comment in that box.
- Saturday, February 22, 2014
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