(I vant to suck yer blood a la Hannibal Lector style)
If you follow me on twitter then you will know I am very much alive and have been neglecting my blog since arriving in Adelaide a week ago. Sue me (get it? Get it? No? Oh well...), but I have been busy indulging in my oh so glamorous life of moving back into college, photo shoots and being homesick.
Leaving home was quite difficult (as I have repeated over and over) but I am glad I will at least get to see my family again at the end of the year. I quite miss my little terror of a Prince but at the same time I am quite glad my fingers and toes are spared from his incessant chewing and clawing...
A quick glance at the airport in Malaysia. It was my first time in it and I was quite impressed at how closely it resembled Singapore airport - not at all architecturally but efficiency and atmosphere wise.
I will go as far as so say that I find Malaysia airport's architecture more pleasing than Singapore airport. Is that a crime? I apologize but I was won over by the star-like lighting that looked magnificent as night settled in. The openness of it all with the glass cage effect was refreshing especially when one is in transit for so long.
I was fortunate enough to get free hotel accommodation for my eight-hour transit. While the room may not be up to par with some finicky individuals I found it pleasing that the bathroom was clean and there was a big bed waiting to be laid on. Needless to say, I loved being able to board my seven hour flight back to Adelaide all clean and somewhat rested.
Nothing like traveling but from now on I protest at the idea of not traveling with Scott, just because it is convenient having your boyfriend on a long flight to be a bodyguard and pillow. Being completely honest!
I had a photo shoot lined up for the week I arrived back to Adelaide with a lovely photographer from Sydney who flew here to do the shoot. We went with a demon-angel theme and shot at a cemetery and church.
I do not want to disclose much about the shoot until I get the photos but how strange is that plant or shrub or whatever it is growing in the middle of the cemetery?! I was so intrigued by it and it is unfortunate I had no chance to pose with it...albeit it would have terrified me to do so.
So now ensues the photo whoring. What? I got snap happy, you would too if you did your own makeup for a photo shoot and for the first time ever got to do something more than just neutral colors and you also got your hair done in a very Adam Lambert inspired style!
The makeup inspiration the photographer gave me used pink in the look instead of gold but L (the photographer) wanted to use gold instead so I used Darling Girl Cosmetics' Plunder which is the most beautiful gold in the world, it reminds me of the gold treasures you find in Ancient Egypt.
For lip color I used Revlon's Colorburst in Raspberry (my favorite wine red color) and slicked on some Fyrinnae Indies on top to dirty it up.
Also, I tested out Revlon's PhotoReady foundation in Natural Beige for my other photo shoot (I got a sample packet from a magazine and had no other foundation...criminal yes?) and found I liked it a lot so I went and purchased it for this shoot only to find that it contains...shimmer? What? That was not what the sample was like! So I am a little peeved because I had no intention of channeling - no matter how subtle - a disco ball but in the end I grumpily made do. Given the opportunity, I think I will go back to repurchasing my Dior foundation though.
Unfortunately, upon going to the hairdressers, I realized I had forgotten mascara and some eyeliner. D'oh! But this was quickly forgotten when I proceeded to slam my thumb in L's car door. Ouch. Mega ouch. I had to spend ten minutes outside the hairdressers with my head in my lap as I was on the verge of fainting.
You do not know pain until you either drop a suitcase on your toe (as I did a few years ago) or close a car door on your thumb (as I did a few days ago). If you do not believe me, try it for yourself but do not come running back to me with a lawsuit because I told you and it was your own idiocy that had to test it out.
After much labored breathing as though I needed to give birth and the amazing work of Cherrilee (who will become my future hairdresser in Adelaide due to being able to handle my temperamental hair with ease, hooray!) I ended up with a...very intricate hairdo? And, yes, the whole up-do uses my real hair. No extensions, no additions.
Just a whole lot of hairspray as the sunlight indicates. As well as bobby pins (which the sunlight fails to bring to light).
Upon returning back to college (what? Was not aware of this schedule change...) to wait for L to pick me up for the shoot I thought why not redo my makeup seeing as I originally did a rush job (refer back to schedule change I was unaware of) and mistakenly used She Space's Believe in the Good! which is more blue-black than black.
Plus I had to swipe on some mascara and get some eyeliner on. Still used Darling Girl Cosmetic's beautiful Plunder but used Emily the Strange black eyeshadow which is very pigmented in real life.
I quite liked the look with the hair although the makeup was not as dramatic as L's inspiration had been but I thought it worked better with the outfit in the end. Plus, L should have gotten a makeup artist if he really wanted professional makeup!
Also, just to brag a little...how spectacularly angled and not at all sparse and even do my eyebrows look? I tried. Using eyeshadow too. Leave me alone. I normally have a fringe to cover my eyebrows so. there.
So what did I look like when I returned back to college well after 9:30pm and wrestled all the bobby pins and hair ties out of my hair?
Why, like this of course!
How amazingly freaky do my eyebrows look after a days work? I quite dislike filling them in I think, although it suited the concept of the shoot rather well: demonic. They look like malformed triangular slopes...
Just to be creepy and over share, here is my very bare and temporary room at college which also happens to be Scott's former room. No, of course I did not request this room just to indulge in the memories of last year to sustain me for the next six weeks until I am reunited with him...and no, of course I did not sniff around the room trying to find a spot where his scent still lingers...
As you can see, I need to clean up and personalize this room a little more. Seeing as I will only be here for about two more weeks though, I think I will pass on the latter.
What was that in the corner you say?
Of course I got our boys back from my amazing friend who took care of them while I was gone and Scott is working! As you can see, they have developed some bad habits while I have been away. I disapprove highly of the state of their tank every morning...
Before I finish rambling, because this is becoming quite a phenomenally long post (if you are still reading, goodness you are patient!) this will be in a post coming up!
And finally, because the bookworm that I am cannot resist sharing a good morsel of reading, pick up Tobsha Learner's 'Sphinx' if you love a read with a mix of history and modern fixation. I borrowed the book off a friend of mine and could not put it down for even a second! Read more about it (if you are too lazy to hurry to a bookstore) from where I got the image from Paula's blog.
Hope all my lovely readers are having a great start to the year thus far! Toodles!
