Makeup inspiration for new year

This year I decided not to join in with the stressed hoard of girls seaching for the perfect dress for the new years eve party. I knew that if I didn't get around buying MILK's aurora print I would stick to my other blue and sparkley MILK dress. I'll lose the cardigan and wear it with tigh-highs if I dare in this cold, othervise just some nice stockings and simple heels.My challenge will lie in altering myself. I like this make up, it's super dark and dramatic with a nude lip, wonder if I could pull it off, I feel like usualy only one style of make up suits me.

What are you guys doing on new years eve and what are you wearing doing it?

Fairytale fashion

By Eugenio Recuenco.

Sweet sin

By Madame Dulcibelle.

Unexpected insight

Christmas day is alwaya spent in the weird haze overeating creates, I spent most of my day infront of the television half asleep. One of the many shows I snoozed through was a french documentary about samer, I guess you could call them the native Swedish? I found it alot more interesting then I thought I would at first, it focused alot on the breeding and keeping of reindeer and doing ones best to survive on what nature provides.

Besides eating the meat from the animals and making shoes and clothing from the skin and fur, they also often used the bones and horns in their handicraft. This is where I got the most intriguing revelation, you often find theese kind of handicraft items at markets or tourist trap kind of shops and even though they are advertised as handmade I guess I always thought there was some element of mass production behind it. The man who was the main subject for the documentary spoke about how empty he felt once a year, just after a very famous market where he sold all his handmade things. He said he had to do it to make sure he and his family had enough money to survive since just keeping reindeers is not a very lucrative business, but it made him really unhappy to give up something he put so much time and love into to total strangers.

Right then I knew just how he felt, I'm the same whenever I sell paintings. I feel a kinda bad for never recognizing that the same amount of effort and care go into something that I've just about always considered to be nothing more than tourist trinkets and souvenirs.

Working for the Grinch

I'm pretty exited about Christmas even though I have to work. Of course I wish I could be at home, with my parents and my brothers. My oldest brother just recently got engaged so it would have been lovley to see him and my future sister-in-law, but I'm okay with it. I don't have a tree or alot of presents but I have the christmas spirit. I'll gate crash with a dear friend of mine, his parents are great cooks and make the best potato gratin in the world so surley the food will make up for the loss of everything else.

How are all of you spending it? Home or alone? With a friend or partner? In the snow or on the beach?

I'm probably heading out straight from work tomorrow so if I don't find the time to make another post I would like to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas!

Mask of miracle

Under the UK influence

My anglomania always comes and goes but latley it's coming more then it's going! Since I pretty much got the chocoholic out of my shopping system I definetley think I need to feed it a little bit. I want to try and get the JSK union Jack onepiece and I'm thinking about making a skirt inspiered by Tsubasas dress. I remember making a similar, asymetrick skirt when I was younger out of two pirate flags and a bunch of tule. My sewing skills aren't the best but I'm thinking I might be able to pull off something similar, could be fun as a project if nothing else.

Bag is by Paul's Boutique and shoes are Irregular Choice.