The Usual Offenders

It’s the start of another week, another day another dollar!

I had a pretty good weekend, fair to say that my highlight was that The Husband came home! After an 8 hour delay, I was at the airport with my palms sweating, butterflies in my stomach, full of excitement and nerves! 
It was like our first date all over again (which I was two hours late for…). 
Who would have thought that a month without seeing him could leave me feeling like that!

I was so excited to see him when he walked out of the international gates, and did a double take as he looked younger. His hair was due for a cut, he had lost weight and bulked up from daily gym sessions (who goes to America and actually comes back fitter?!) and believe me, I ran to him for that hug and kiss.

This was my airport outfit, consisting solely of Zara pieces, except my handbag and shoes.

These classic fit jeans were a fantastic find, they fit perfectly and don’t need to be taken up, which is a miracle for us short legged beings.

Don’t mind my awkward stance.

In order to get ready for his arrival I had the usual wax and threading, I even shaved my legs and slapped on some fake tan. The things we do.

I have never been able to have my 'lady waxing' and my other waxing done by the same people. I just cannot bear the thought of it. 

I had my brows threaded at Miss Fox as usual and as usual they are awesome. Even if threading is a bitch. 

I went to Zara with the girl known as cotton socks and we wound up in the children’s section and I walked out with a jacket for myself, who would have thought. 

I got this chanel-esque tweed jacket for about $45. I need to shop in the children’s section more often! 

Kids must be big these days. 

Essie - Lovey Dovey

This one belongs to Kitty, but I feel the urge to buy it. 

This was my Peacock outfit last week.

Luxx Dress

Alannah Hill Belt

OPI DS Temptation over China Glaze Senorita Bonita 

I got totally sucked in by one of those skincare booths in the middle of Melbourne Central.

I usually try and ignore them as I know that if I get sucked in to stopping, I’ll leave with a product.

The girl roped me in, and was so sweet and convincing that I couldn’t resist. Grrrr.

How do people resist them!?

I used to do promo stuff back in the day and every now and then would have the terrible job of handing out pamphlets or samples to people, so I feel guilty now if I don’t stop or grab whatever someone is offering.

This product (honey facial peel) felt pretty nice on my hand and actually exfoliated some skin that I didn’t know was on my supposedly moisturized hands, so I bought it.

I’ll report back on if it is any good.

I’m all for supporting Australian businesses too… but still!

It was $140 but I told her it was too expensive and she gave it to me for $100 plus a free lip balm which has actually been really good. $100 is still expensive so bloody hell it better be worth it. Sigh. 

I popped into a health store last week and said to the staff “I need either chlorophyll or chloroform but whichever is not the date rape drug” and it took a minute for the girls to stop laughing and point me in the right direction.

I had asked if it was okay to take as am hoping to conceive in the future, and then 5 minutes later she looked pointedly at my belly and asked how far along I was.

Hopefully she just heard me wrong and I didn’t look like I was pregnant. I had my peacock outfit on so perhaps need to suck it in or wear spanx.  

I have it in my water at work and it is pretty much tasteless, but it looks disgusting. Perhaps I’ll just suck it down straight next time.

Our apartment is still smelling amazing thanks to this little bad boy.

The Husband was so impressed with how clean and organized it is and then was even more impressed when I cooked him a roast dinner, all whilst wearing a cute frilly white apron. 

Such simple things yet they get me so far haha.

Considering the name of this blog, you would expect me to not be so domestically challenged but hey, what can you do. 

Amongst the presents that The Husband brought be back from America were 16 nail polishes that he picked out himself and then had to cart around the states, and this was one of them.

Sephora by OPI – Mermaid to Order.

He picked out colors that I normally would not look twice at, and he did such a great job! I love them all.

I didn’t sleep through a full night once in the past month but having The Husband back has changed that, thankfully.

Apparently my comment form thing wasn’t working well over the weekend, so hopefully we are back in business now.

Brow Theory & Shu Uemura

Hello. I am here to preach about the awesomeness of having good eyebrows. It's taken me awhile to figure it out, but I am here now. Are you? Stand up and be accounted for. 

I have been going to the same eyebrow lady for ages (and if you are reading this, I'm so sorry!!!) but she is just too far away. It takes me 55 minutes by tram to get to her and then I usually have to wait ages for my appointment.  

I used to love the work she did, but I think that since she is so much more popular now, she just kind of rushes you through and pumps you out. 

That's when I decided to go to my One Stop Shop, Miss Fox (where else?) and try out this threading business that people keep talking about. If only they had a dentist and GP on site, I could have all my business attended to at once. 

I let my brows grow out for over a month (my mustache too) and visited Indo at the Brow Theory section.

Before:

I look so eager. Like a Beaver.

Ragh. 

Indo asked me what sort of eyebrow shape I wanted and we went for a natural shape and thickness incase I hated it. 

I sat back in the reclining chair thing, and she started her magic.

Wow, Threading hurts!!!

I actually think that it hurts more than waxing but it is done so quickly that I can't really complain! 

I thought that I would be bald when she was done as you can feel every single teeny tiny hair being pulled out, but the shape was perfection. 

I had a mascara coated stream running down my cheek from my eyes watering, and then we did my mo' and it was an all new kind of pain. 

Indo started to panic about how sensitive my skin was because it was peeling like a bitch, but that was due to my Jungle Brew Peel, not the threading!

It took about 15 minutes for brow and mustache. Speedy Gonzales!!!!! Used to take 45 for just brows!!!

Before and After!

(You can also see how the pimples on my forehead are vanishing. I am putting it down to the peel but the before photo is after my peel, hence the insane inflammation and angry pimples.)

When I told The Husband that I was getting my eyebrows done he look at me very seriously, and told me to make sure I had my mustache done first as it was out of control. This is what happens when you get married, you let your self go. 

The noise that the cotton makes kind of made me laugh out loud. Twang, Twang, Twang.

It was like a mini ukulele was being played on my face. 

Indo finished it off with some Aloe Vera gel and the offer of make up to cover the slight redness but I was all good as was going home anyway. 

I am a total threading convert. Why sit on a tram for 55 minutes, wait around and then not have awesome brows when I can walk to Miss Fox in 10 minutes?! Hell yes. One Stop Shop I tell you!!!

You can read more about Brow Theory @ Miss Fox by clicking here

Pricing starts at $35 for a full shape (your first appointment), with a touch up treatments at $25 when performed within 4 weeks of your last service. Other facial areas like upper lips, cheeks and chin are perfect candidates for threading. Appointments usually run for 15-30 minutes depending on the number of areas to be treated.

I put the call out on Twitter and Facebook for the best eye lash curler that I could buy from either Myer or David Jones and the clear winner was the shu eumura curler, closely followed by some ModelCo Wand thing. 

I hightailed it to David Jones after my disastrous boxing session (the one that I passed out during) and nabbed a curler. 

The top left shot is lashes with no mascara and only one clamp of the curler, bam!! 

Obviously the right is no curler, natural lashes. 

How creepy is this photo?!

Bottom is Mascara with no other make up on, there is not a huge difference but I put that down to me just swiping on some mascara quickly for the photo. 

I'm happy with the curler!! 

I don't know about you but I have kinda patchy eyebrows. I wish they were thicker and fuller, but it is nothing that brow powder can't fix. 

I use the Tweezerman set that I got in Sephora yonks back.

Top is natural and bottom is lightly filled in. 

I don't fill them in too much for every day life as I don't want it to be obvious but there is a slight noticeable difference and that is enough for me. Night time, totally different story. 

I found this photo taken 2 years back. My eyebrows were pretty good. A tad thinner. Maybe i'll go thinner next time. Time will tell. 

Anyway, I have scared you guys enough with all of the close ups of my make up free face and for this I apologize. 

P.S - Pinch and a Punch for the first day of the month!!

P.P.S - I have an amazing date night planned for Saturday but have no idea what to wear. Argh.