so you ask for my opinion, well what is there to say?

1. Tresemme Heat Protectant Spray - I wasn't really a fan of hair products before last year, I'll admit. But this entire is pretty useful, it does it says and the smell isn't overpowering or sickly.
2. Maybelline Quad Shadow - For the previously blending/ eye makeup incompetent such as myself, the good folks at Maybelline decided to create a bunch of eye shadows which are basically foolproof. It shows you which spot to put where.
3. Manicare Eyeshadow Brush - Arguably the best beauty tool I purchased last year. You should try not to use the little applicators that come with eyeshadows and blushes and buy proper brushes, it makes a real difference. If you're having trouble finding things to buy or how to use them, definitely hit up youtube.
4. Rimmel Colourlast Lipstick - It's a good lippie, not too drying or shiny. I'm yet to find the coral shade of my dreams though.
5. St Ives, Clay Firming Mask - Don't overuse masks or you may end up drying out your skin. This one's fun to use, the smell is only slightly offputting but otherwise perfect.
6. Clean and Clear Pimple Treatment - While I don't use the entire Clean and Clear range in my day to day routine, I've used this product ever since I learned how to moisturise and nothing beats it. In my opinion, it shits all over the Clearasil range.
7. Manicare Eyelash Curlers - Didn't actually believe in the whole eyelash curling shebang until I tried it for myself, what can I say? I'm a born sceptic. It can do what no mascara promises it can.
8. Anna Sui, Anna Sui Eau de Parfum - My sister gave to this to me for my birthday. At first I thought it was a little too strong, but it's definitely grown on me in a good way. I prefer a scent that lasts/ goes the distance.
9. Herbal Essences Shampoo/ Conditioner - I actually use the red one for long hair, but this leaves your hair smelling sooooo yummy and the packaging is cute
10. Maybelline Define -A-Lash Volume Mascara - very straight forward
11. Aveeno moisturiser - my friend Steph introduced me to this, it's very good because there's absolutely no smell, it's not too heavy and it's non-comedogenic.

hold me and love me, i just want to touch you for a minute

It's be an empty world if I got everything pictured here and felt happy. Materialism is so last century anyway. But that's one sweet little blazer.

pee esses: also wondering if anyone out there knows how to fix, improve, embellish a blogger layout? I've had a look around and even done some DIY attempts on another blog but to no avail

I don't know where it's goin but I like it like it is

Okay so no poster-rooni for a long time but I haven't forgotten about this endeavor just yet dear readers.

Summer school was a bore but by jimminy, I hope I've passed the final.

Now, lounging about at home I decided the time had come to once again, update update UPDATE!

I am chomping my way through a ton of Stephen King novels, but I really want to go to reading novels of the Palahaniuk ilk. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know! I just finished King's "Dolores Claiborne". He always manages to get into whatever head space of the characters he is trying to portray and gets these little tiny details that one would somehow overlook, even if they were writing from first person.

My mother spent the first three days of my return shopping with me and therefore paying for anything I wanted. I'm not, as the previous line would suggest, by any means spoilt (although I guess by some standards I am) but it's almost as though she is trying to make up for lost time or thinks that I don't actually do that much shopping while I'm back at uni. Which is mostly true, usually because there are better things to do most of the time.

I really want to find a decent black or beige colored high waisted skirt and a blazer (sans glitter, sequins, silk lapels).

It's quite funny, because the other day we were in Sussan's with my mum just suggesting random articles of clothing as usual. They do a good range of basics and nothing too tacky or overbearing. But my mum happened to remember something I'd said when I was young and naive and impressionable about how "I'm going to dress is Supre and Jay Jay's clothes forever. And I'm not going to wear Sussan's stuff even when I'm as old as you!" (Disclaimer: I was about 11 or 12 when this happened, so apart from today we will never speak of this incident again)

Facebook has it's ups and downs for sure but it's a good way to keep track of random people or things going on. And although I generally don't join "groups" or become fans of things, it's fun to see all the groups applicable to you. "No, I am definitely NOT going out.. Fuck it, I'll be ready in 20 minutes." You look at it and think "Ahhhhh! This group was made especially for me!" but then there are the creepier ones as well. "If you want to see nude pics of my ex-girlf click here I hate the slut's guts and want these to get around" or something like that.

But I recently found a page related to youth events happening in my town. The page is run by the younger siblings of a couple of kids who were my age, who happened to be movers and shakers, but these kids are seriously impressive. They have the musical, photographical, artistic and organisational skills to get things up and running, things that people actually go to. Events which promote positive messages, without the negative 'run the council to keep the deliquents occupied' vibe.

Now, a blast from the past. I know you all remember the Berenstain Bears??? Hahahahaha as if you didn't learn life lessons from these rednecked bear personas!

I have also been watching old 90210, which kicks the new one's (tauter and perkier, but who cares?) butt by sooooo much! And Shannon Dougherty is hottttt! So is Luke Perry (minus the thousands of wrinkles on that forehead)

I love this fancy dress twist!! I'm so suggesting this for the next college shindig.

I think we all already know how much I hate airbrushing. When it comes to faggy magazines like Maxim and Penthouse, I already detest the content. I stand sneakily in newagencies and turn all the covers around so it's shaving cream ads or designer watches facing the front and not airbrushed pieces of sterile meat. If porn in the form of magazines came in an unairbrushed form, I would have a slightly less MASSIVE problem with it. If the only exposure you've had to naked women is that shitty airbrushed rubbish where you are led to believe that women have a single line between their legs, no hair in sight, no dimpling not even goosepimples - we might as well be looking at Polaroids of what features between Barbie's legs, because hell, that's all we're getting at the moment.

And when these guys grow up a little and if they're lucky enough to land themselves with a girl or in a relationship, they'll tell their partners "You don't look normal down there" Which gets us nowhere. Girls set unrealistic expectations upon themselves and both parties find themselves highly unsatisfied with the pleasure they are supposedly enjoying even if they resemble the characters in those, quite frankly boring Jenna Jameson type productions. I don't really think the way she shoots off about how urgently she wants male genitalia in every open orifice in her body is that much of a turn on anyway, especially in her screechy voice.

I might rage lyrical about this more some other day, right now I'm frantically reading through the last two paragraphs and making sure I haven't written the word "pussy" or "cock" anywhere lest internet-porn-loving-fiends break their refresh buttons trying to access the content on this page hoping for a glimpse of anything. Because they sure as hell won't be able get off on anything here. You are a sick, sick individual if you do/ could.

Yours lovingly,

peaitlreiecnia

got gotti?

I have discovered a whole type of people while I was floating about on Facebook this morning.

There is an entire stereotype who's existence, before this morning, I was completely unaware of. I present to you.....the Gotti boy

Now I'd seen pictures of this guys around but had no idea what the collective name for them was. These guys actually think they look good.

Then there are the sub-strains and a whole new vocabulary accompanying this phenomenon. (Take for example the word channing, a mixture of charred and tanning. Applicable to the Gotti boy who achieves his 'healthy' complexion from too much time spent on a sunbed, NOT playing volleyball on an actual beach whilst holidaying Monterey). Then there are the guidos (I'm unsure as to whether or this is a derogatory term as of yet, although I'm sure it is used in that sense), douchebags and gemos.

The whole popped collar thing is apparently a big deal. Steer clear, lads and ladies.

The mind boggles when you think about the world around us.

"so what do we do now?"

Your life is not an episode of Skins. Too many kids in this wide, wide world think their lives are ideally messed up. Don't get me wrong, I fucking love the entire portrayal of these individually messed up British kids. But no matter how much you drink or continuously get off your face, life is too full of perfection or imperfections to be exact, to ever even remotely resemble this artwork of a series.

And Skins looks more beautiful to the outside, the person watching. The voyeur.

The quotes are just one facet of the excellence embodied in this series; Effy's burgeoning or fully flourishing sense of existentialism result in some deep thoughts delivered as roll off the tongue quips.

And who can forget Pandora interspersing every so often with her "Wizzer!"

every question you took the time to sit and look it up in the encyclopedia

HAPPY NY EVERYBODY!!!

I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas and New Years, no matter where you were or what you were doing.

Here are some of my favorite things at the moment:

Cute little outfit drawings. I wish I had the time to draw my outfits everyday. Especially if they looked half as cute as this.

Most people I know love Donnie Darko, even people who don't usually get even slightly disjointed films. S. Darko, the sequel, however was met with mixed reviews. I liked it. Each camera placement was like a editorial from an alternative street magazine. The boys in it aren't half bad either.

I'm over celebrity crushes I swear, but something about Jackson Rathborne just gets me. Everytime. I think they should make a film about Jeff Buckley with Rathborne playing the lead.

This band, Local Natives, are pretty awesome. Try their song "Airplanes", it got me almost as excited as when I first heard "Little Lion Man".

By the way, here is what I voted for in the triplej hottest 100 (and no i won't be self centred and explain my choices):

• Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
• Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
• Bloody Beetroots, The - Warp 1.9
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
• Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are
• Over Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
• La Roux - In For The Kill
• Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
• Silversun Pickups - It's Nice To Know You Work Alone
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

Some things I'm not liking so much:

The Time Traveler's Wife, which came out late last year didn't really evoke anymore emotion in me than the book. To be honest I enjoyed the book so much more. It just didn't really do anything new. I mean it would have been perfectly fine for those who hadn't read it but no, waste of 2 or so hours for me.

The platforms that internet affords for closet (or even blatant) racists. The amount of shit floating around is completely ridonk. I think if you click the picture, it will enlarge it. It's not like that shit is hard to find anyway.

there is so much bad but also good in the world. Don't ignore the bad, just don't always ignore the good either.

I often see me floatin, but my shadow it weighs a ton

Hello pretties! Finally a chance to sit down and write properly. Christmas this year, for me at least, was a bit strange. Mainly because I didn't ask for anything. I got presents and everything but even though I didn't ask for a ton of things I didn't really feel disappointed. I think I might be growing up. This sounds rather odd.

I won't lie. When I first started living in college, I had no idea how close we would all get. And especially how close the group of girls I'm 'with' would get. I want to say it's not clique-y because it's not and we aren't nasty or anything, but we are pretty tight. I mean, we have our own secret facebook page. I don't know whether I should have written that lol. But we unofficially decided to send each other cards. I think getting a card almost every day of the week is very exciting, which is what we did. There's nothing like receiving an envelope marked just for you, bearing written goodies and delights. It's cute too, each card is so like the person who sent it.

I got 'Inglourious Basterds' off my cousin and I watched it the other day with my sister. I really liked it, despite the fact that it's quite different to the things I usually choose to watch.

Question: I assume the word celebrities is derived from the word celebrate/ celebrated, so if we don't follow/ care about celebrities, what could potentially happen? Entire industries would collapse - a substantial portion of the fragrance world, the tabloid and magazines, shows like E-news and quite possibly Perez Hilton's blog (who would then subsequently be unable to afford his lascivious, greasy lifestyle and crawl away to die in a whole WITHOUT hair product in his hair or concealer pasted all over his face). Wow. What a loss.

Now I'm going to talk about a new film, called "The Runaways" which is a biopic on the teenage girl band of the 70's. It's got Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in it. And as long as I don't wax lyrical about the personal lives of the two, I'm not being a hypocrite. It looks really good and I'm so excited it's actually coming out.

Hope everyone had a lover-ly Christmas

i don't want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing i need

I will write again sooonish! But for now, I will post pictures instead.

My shopping haul!! Except the singlet I got was stripey not cream coloured. And I am proud to say it didn't feel like I was kicking my savings account. (It has taken a beating this year. If it were a child, I would be in jail for sure. I'm not really sure whether that was an appropriate metaphor.)

Christmas is almost here! So get cracking!

I'm gonna rain on your parade

Let's play a game. A simple, simple game. It's called, "Spot The Difference".

Here are some clues

1. The first item, for those unaware of the services provided by such a device, is a Hello Kitty toilet paper dispenser machine.

2. Both things pictured above basically enlist the help of paper to clean up shit. Supposedly anyway.

3. Both basically benefit the wealthy and already well to do. Let's face the facts, poor people do not need a toilet paper dispenser emblazoned with an iconic Japanese cat nor do they need a yearly convention orchestrated for the wealthy to go on another, unnecessary holiday where nothing is achieved.

ANSWER: The pink one actually does what it sets out to do and succeeds

i love you, even when i'm sleeping

I usually have something to say about everything. But this just scares me. Kate Moss actually said that somewhere online.