The City Girl's Guide to Life.
How to have your cake, eat it, and still have room for sundae. Men, beauty, advice, musings and more from a real-life City Girl in London.
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…all of your friends have lovely, doting boyfriends and are incredibly happy and good for them. Brilliant. Only you are a lonely singleton and love being bought flowers.
DON’T BE DEPRESSED! There are lots of us around and chances are, it will happen to you one day. As long as you want to be in a long relationship and wave goodbye to the ones who are dicks then you will find someone.
Don’t get hung up on valentines’ day! When it does happen it will be all the sweeter.
I just bought my flatmates flowers and chocolate and I believe they’re buying me some too tomorrow. Find your single friends and make a pact! It’s always funny.
Besides, there will be many other times of the year you will be extremely happy. SO don’t fret.
M x
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Need a new one. That was my favourite bra. Pissed.
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How Much is Too Much
For its upcoming issue, Glamour surveyed readers on their thoughts about the digital manipulation of models (and celebrities) that appear in fashion magazine.
Cindi Leive, Glamour Editor-in-Chief, notes that with 70 iPhone apps on the market that let us “retouch” ourselves, more and more of us are more and more comfortable with a bit of digital nip and tuck.
But, she writes, there are limits and Glamour plans “to take a stronger role in setting ours.”
We’ll see.
Via Salon:
Retouching is like tequila. Sure, a little makes everybody look better. But go too far and you feel like puking. For years now, the media has struggled with how best to strike that pleasantly Cuervo-goggled balance, swinging wildly between science fiction-level Photoshopping and the self-congratulatorily unaltered. But as excessively sweetened-up images have come under increasing scrutiny – and been flat-out banned in extreme cases — the industry is beginning to take its cue from the unlikeliest of sources: its audience. This week, Glamour magazine revealed what happened when it asked its readers “How much is too much?” retouching. And the over 1,000 reader responses paint an intriguing picture of how deep we’re willing to go into the land of altered images.
Glamour’s take on its survey is here.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
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Photo reblogged from Makeup Beauty Fashion
I have these. Nice colours although the powder is really packed hard so it difficult to get a decent amount of product onto your brush.
(Source: beautyhairfashion)
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I was at work in East London until half-midnight this morning and because my train had stopped running (why does the London Underground close? It would make more sense if it was open 24 hours) I decided that finding the correct Night Bus back to my house was just effort and decided to get a cab ride home. £50 later and I’m tucked up in my bed exhausted. Journey was cool though, we went past the Natural History Museum, Buckingham Palace, Marble Arch… I’d actually forgotten how wonderful it is to live in London. Going past these places at night you got to see another side to these big important buildings. No tourists to distract you, it was a bit like seeing them how they really are without the crowds of people from across the globe. Buckingham Palace when it’s not all lit up is actually stunning.
Anyway, chilling out today and thinking about my next hair tutorial. :)
M x
