When a lovely girl by the name of Magenta gave me 'The Secret Diary of a Call Girl' series, I went out and bought the book to see which I preferred - book or television series. This is a usual habit of mine. I am still reading the book (surprisingly; I usually finish books within a day but have little time for books these days sadly) and so far I feel perhaps the television adaptation is more fun whereas the novel (by Belle de Jour) is more "snippty-snip" and has too many shortened forms as characters that it is hard to follow. Perhaps that conveys the life of a call girl come to think about it but at the same time I have little patience for books that fail to captivate me. And this is about sex too, how shocking that it is dull! But enough about that, I will do a more detailed review later perhaps...
Ironically enough I happened to do a look that I later thought looked quite like 'The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl' book cover. Anyway I quite love this color combination but unfortunately I did this look using a Lancôme travel palette which makes me unhappy.
Lancôme used to be my favorite brand of all time but when I discovered they test on animals it killed all love I had for them. This turned out to be a conflict though as I have quite a few of their products - some I have given away to people who are not troubled by this sinister side of Lancôme and fair enough, if they can stomach it then I have no issues with them using Lancôme products. However in terms of other more used products I either threw them out (some people would kill me if they knew I threw out full Juicy Tubes) or left them to collect dust. However, with this travel palette I could not bring myself to do either as my father had bought it as a special present and so I brought it to Adelaide with me and have kept it in my make up collection fondly without throwing it aside.
I am a softie when it comes to my father, terrible I know.
Anyway I figured if I used this palette in a "I-could-not-care-less" attitude as I would with daily products then maybe it would be just in a way? Treating a high end brand as though it is merely a junk bin brand seems good enough punishment, no? Still, it disgusts me using Lancôme products now. Sigh. What a messy break up.
What I did for a day look was use a dark purple and a lighter gray-ish purple shade...
...and then for my night look - I was to go to the pub with some friends - I darkened the inner corners and left everything else the same.
I tossed on one of my favorite bracelets of all time: a friendship bracelet my best friend Kiwa and I made together. We bought the same bracelet and then bought numerous other bracelets, charms, etc. to add onto the bracelet making it a charm bracelet, just not really! You cannot see it in this photo but I have a lot of pendants on it too like one with a dolphin, etc.
Normally I go to the pub with Scott but seeing as he was not around I refused to wear my usual attire of a short dress and heels and went instead with a jean and tight top look. Plus heels, I can never not do heels for nights out, I say pfui to flats. If you are to go out at night then let the heels reign. That said, I am notorious for wearing heels during the day as well. Just not in Adelaide, you get into too much trouble for doing so.
And I finish with some gorgeous apricots the lovely girl by the name of Magenta gave me. So yummy and straight from her garden!
