Today I got my hands on some old pictures and thought to share a few of them with the internet. I absolutely love pictures! Especially old ones. They can turn me into the happiest person that has ever walked the earth, while also making me very aware of my current surroundings, of time that's gone by. I really like this quote from Karl Lagerfeld: "What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce." It's becoming very clear to me now that indeed a moment can't be reproduced, but that the meaning of this captured moment can (still) become lost in time. The stories or moments surrounding these pictures will die piece for piece with the people who created them. Which is really sad. I think that it's important to capture moments that are dear to us and try to create an "endless" story to it. May this just be by marking the date on it, telling the story to those that are interested (making it something to pass on, I guess) or even just a silly blogpost like this one. The story can grow by making it part of a bigger memory surrounding the moment. Remembering the first time you got a glimpse of a certain picture and the story accompanying it. The way it's been told. The smile on a face. A memory made within the story attached to it. A moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Pictures are often able to talk for themselves, but sometimes a little push into the right direction can't hurt...

Love,
Dominique


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It's back! Last month I really didn't feel like showing my love to the outer world. This month however I'm rockin and rollin all over the place again and how. Well, that's what you're about to find out if you keep reading. If not, than you'll never know and it'll be a lost to the world... Don't believe me? Well it's up to you, honey. Just don't come crying to me, because I've warned ya! jk. You won't miss much. But still. Worth a try. Are you still reading this? If so, kudos on you! If not, well, not much ado about nothing (if ya get what I mean).


After not having used it this whole summer, I fall in love all over again with my YSL radiant blusher in #1. During the summer I've solidly relied on the power of the Chanel cream blush in #69 Intonation which is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. It's very pigmented and you just need a tiny amount and you're settled. However, the YSL blusher is also very nice and basically the exact opposite. It's a bit less pigmented in my opinion but the colour is more autumnal (I suspect the peach). Thus perfect for the current season!


Talking about YSL, I got a "new" perfume! I've typed new accompanied with quotation marks because the perfume I'm referring to used to be my mum's, but she didn't like the smell of it. And since we've got the opposite of skin smell, I'd happily freed her from this burden. Just to be clear, somehow my mum and I have this thing whereby anything that smells good on her, smells absolutely horrible on me and vice versa. Flower Bomb from Viktor&Rolf? Thumbs up for my mum. Chanel #5? Thumbs up for me. Sometimes it comes quite in handy. Sometimes it's a burden we have to live with.


The specific perfume (and bodylotion) is called Parisienne and I find it a very sweet smell, but not like in your face headachy as if you're a walking candyshop kind of sweet. Just a moderate sweetness, I guess. Bit rosy... Would've made a perfect summer smell next to my Mademoiselle one, but you can't always get what you want. And somehow I'm really digging the contrast of my smell and my surroundings. Besides, the bottle is proper pretty and looks quite vintage-y, which is way up my street. My mum's already sprayed the first half and a bit into thin air, but ya know, don't look a gift horse in the mouth...

In other news:
I've got some new sunglasses, because hey, it's not like it's autumn/winter and it's constantly raining and everything is dark and grey and... wait a minute! My mum saw them in a drugstore and I just could not not get them. There really was no option, trust me. So now I've been doomed to walk around with them inside the house (which is a danger in itself because inside it's even darker than outside. Which I love btw. I love this kind of weather. But I also love sunglasses. Dilemmas, dilemmas...).


I also got myself some new tweezers, which isn't that exciting... But look, There's a matryoshka (better known as a babushka) on top of it! I love myself some matryoshka and am on the look out for one to sit on my bookcase. The tweezers I got are btw from Max & More Makeup.

Little Wikipedia history lesson:
The first matryoshka doll aka the Russian nesting doll was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin. And that's sadly almost everything Wikipedia can tell me. However I'm not leaving you on that note yet: The word matryoshka comes from the Latin word mater meaning mother. Matryoshka also translates to little matron and "is a diminutive form of the Russian female first name 'Matryona'". As Russiapedia has just enlighten me (who knew such a thing as Russiapedia excisted...): "In old Russian, the name Matryona or Matriosha was very popular among peasants. Thus, the name is connected to the image of a mother of a big peasant family."

Now a matryoshka doll often gets (mistakenly, but I won't hold it against you, I've been there too) called babushka which in Russian means grandmother or elderly woman. Also a babushka is "an Anglicised term for a woman's headscarf tied below the chin, originally worn by Russian elderly women, but now Europe-wide." Just so you know.


This October was also my birthday (as is every October since my birth) and I got some nice presents from my peeps. Yo. (just felt that needed a yo). You've probably already met my newest members of my coat collection. Some nice coats indeed. I also got this cute tea cup by Bloomingville from my aunty, which I funnily enough also gave as a birthday present to a friend. As getting that present I was contemplating to get one myself but didn't and then regretted it. But now I've got one so everything turned out to be fine. Nay, wonderful. From this same friend -who's now my mug twin- I got a cute little notebook with pen for "blog ideas or random notes or, well, anything you want really". Isn't that sweet? Also, you wouldn't believe it, I initially wanted to give her exactly the same things (I even had the same colour notebook in my hands), but went for the mug instead. I mean, I'm just weirdly psychic I guess... Also if you want to check "this friend" out, you can do so by clicking here, which will direct you to her blog.

And that's it folks! Please let me know what y'all been loving this month! Or not. (looking at the silence down the comment section I'd suspect not. You don't have to feel guilty about it, though *she types with one single salty tear slowly sliding down her cheek like Johnny Depp in Cry-Baby. Gosh, I wish I had his cheekbones*)

Love,
Dominique


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WHAT??!! It's already November??? But... but... I'm not ready with October yet! I've got so many ideas (*ahum* quite some. So many is an exaggeration) and no time (that's true. Time has totally escaped me. The lack of it isn't only frustrating as it is worrisome). I... I... I don't want it to be November yet...

Unfortunately (or fortunately. I can't seem to figure out if it's a positive thing or a negative thing), a new month means -in some way- a new beginning. Atleast, I hope so. October hasn't been very gentle this year, but still I hoped I could turn it around before the end of it (spoiler: I couldn't). But ya know what? Lets embrace November with two spread arms with a big cookie in one hand, and a cup of tea in the other. Yes. That sounds like a solid plan. However, before this embrace, lets just take a tiny step back to this week, specifically to what I've worn (it's all about me...).


To my disgrace, I don't own a bordeaux lipstick (or anything brown or black). Now guess which colour I want to smear all over my face? (Clue: It starts with b and ends with ordeaux). Instead of going to the shops and buy myself such a desired lipstick, I thought to be creative (times are hard) and make one with the stuff I already own. How DIY.

So, inspired by Sprinkle of Glitter's video Red & Black Halloween Lips, I started my journey. Mrs Glitter restricted herself to only lining the outer edges of her lips with a black kohl pencil, while I wanted it all to be darker. And thus I smeared the black kohl pencil all over my lips. Now, this doesn't feel that amazing and I don't actually think it's something you should, like, ingest or something. But a gal in need is a gal who voluntarily smears poisonous things upon her lips, alrighty? 


There's a big chance the kohl pencil will feel very uncomfortable. Also, on its own it will look pretty weird. But nothing to worry! Firstly I smudged the kohl (so the "drawing on" wouldn't look as obvious). And secondly I put some red lipgloss in the middle of it to make it feel a bit more bearable and naturally making it a bit more bordeaux. Side note: chances are that some of the kohl will be on your lipgloss wand, so be aware of this when for instance putting it back into the product.

Now you've got to remember that an eye product isn't meant for the lips and the staying power isn't that fantastic. Although, it also isn't a tragedy (I've had actual lip products that did worse). In my experience the really dark pigmentation will leave within about 5 minutes. The rest will stay put and look quite alright for about one and a half hour (this is including eating a sandwich and two cups of tea). After that... well... gone with the wind.

In other news:







Love,
Dominique


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