Provocalips

Well hey there internet!

Now I don't know about you, but for me the time for wearing dark lipsticks and deep colours are coming to an end so here's one of the few deep lip colours I quite liked this winter.

So let’s just take a break from the world of whether or not the dress is black and blue or gold and white, instead I’m going to talk about the colour red!

Ok that was a poor transition but I really just wanted to include the whole dress phenomenon.

ANYWHO, I decided this winter was going to be a time for me to come out of my comfort zone a little bit as I had been doing that a lot at that time.

So I bought the Rimmel London Provocalips Lip Colour in the shade 550 called ‘play with fire’

I was quite apprehensive about the colour because I had never gone so dark or bold. It was one of those colours I would see in store and think ‘Oooh pretty! But it wouldn’t suit me’

But I was pleasantly surprised with the way I looked with it on.

 The product itself was a good quality product for a drugstore item, CRAZY PIGMENTATION! But that; seems to be common in a lot of the new lip products coming out.

And although I don’t wear it for long enough to see if it would last all day, I would say that the staying power is pretty good!

However, the problem with these long lasting lip stuff is that it dries out your lips, it may not smear, but it does dry out your lips. 

So you’d think that outing a little balm on them would help, but then once you put any moisturising product on your lips it will start to rub off on places and smear.

So it’s a choice between dry lips that don’t smear or moisturised lips that do.

Now, this product is double ended with a balm on the other side. But I don’t use that much because I’m not huge on glossy lips and it does get awfully messy.

I think what I'm trying to say that in conclusion, this is an overall great product and even though it’s only been worn a couple of times (usually in the evening) it’s gotten me quite a few compliments and I enjoyed experimenting with it but  the whole concept of these highly pigmented formulas needs to be improved.

Which I would gladly do as a dream job in the future. (It legit is my dream job to make new makeup formulas)

Question of the day:

What is your opinion on these sorts of products? Love them or hate them?

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My thoughts...

Well hey there internet!

How’ve you been, it’s been a while, and to be honest, I don’t know why. I’ve excluded myself from the online world and I really don’t know why.

So I’ve decided to type it out and hopefully get some kind of clue to why I feel like this.

So I like a lot of things, I like food, I like travelling and the thought of being able to travel the world, I love the thought of being a successful person, I like meeting new people, I like fashion and makeup, photography, music, expressing my feelings, I like things that are classy, simple, elegant and minimalistic, I love comedy, colours, being happy and creative and I love sunshine!

I also love the internet, or... at least I thought I did.

I’m not saying I don’t like the internet anymore. Because I do, I just don’t know whether the amount I loved it about a year ago is the same as the amount I love it now.

But that’s normal right? It’s normal to not love anything anymore. You just sort of grow out of it.

But I don’t want to because I really wanted this to go somewhere.

Here’s the truth: I wanted to be a part of the online world for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to become well known and get loads of opportunities to do cool things and meet people who I admire etc.

And that is not the way I should have thought. Because even after a short while, it became something that seemed like a chore now, something that didn’t make me happy.

And this isn’t my job, I don’t have a job, I’m supposed to be studying and making sure I get into a good university to get a good job whilst being happy etc.

And as someone who stresses out easily it would make sense to just stop all this, just focus on studies and other bits and bobs but again, I don’t want to.

So to wrap up so far I’ve concluded the following:

·         I don’t feel as passionate about the internet as I used to be but I still like it.

·          I don’t want to stop doing what I’m doing, even though it feels like a chore.

·         And I also don’t want to do it for the wrong reasons. Yes making money from blogging would be amazing! But I don’t want that the reason to be why I want to post blogs.

Ok, maybe, there’s a difference between not feeling up to the thing you love and not loving it anymore. I think that’s how I feel.

No one wakes up every single day feeling amazing and ready to take on the world. And not everyone looks forward to doing something all the time whether or not it’s something they love. Although we should, but  we can’t help when our bodies feel like laying around all day in bed because it’s the chemicals and hormones rushing around us making us feel that way. And it’s also the chemicals and hormones in our body that make feel pumped up for the day!

That’s crazy right?

PHEW! It feels pretty good to let that out.

I’ve been so focused recently trying to figure ‘life’ out when truth be told, I can’t and I never will. And that is because the entire world has done the same and failed because life doesn’t need to be ‘figured out.’ It just needs to be lived. Lived to the fullest potential, because you have no idea what will happen in next year, next month or the next day.

My head has been too stuck in the future rather than focusing on now and it’s been driving mu CUH-RAZY.

Question of the day:  Erm...how are you feeling?

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