Sunday, 8 January 2012

Sleepless and Poetic nights

WARNING,THIS IS A RAMBLE




By the time i've finished rambling on, it'll probably be "Good morning!" as opposed to good evening, but hey ho.Laissez-faire, live and let die- c'est las vie!
So i'm having one of those nights where you're so tired, but sleep will genuinely not come to you! It's probably my own fault for racking up 13 hours of sleep last (Saturday) night, but now i'm not so much grumpy as..thoughtful. 
Just a couple of thought-a-roonies for you all to gander at, while also wondering what you are doing at this seemingly, but innocently obscene hour. 
-so on Saturday afternoon, i gallivanted into Bodycare, which is kind of a budget beauty-and-all-things-soapy shop. First of all i'd like to say, i truly do like it. I first received the Bodycare experience while holidaying in Devon over summer and thought that "if i'm going to go surfing tomorrow, but my hair is greasy today but theres no point washing it", the answer to my conundrum would be to dry shampoo my hair. So i ventured, all bright eyed and bushy tailed, and ended up spending around £20 on random little things. I can't remember exactly what i bought, but i definitely got the Batiste i was after (did it's job..smelled a bit too pineapple-y for me though), and some deodorant and some little bits and bobs. They do some mystifying things, like nose strips to minimise pores etc. But yes, so i remember my first Bodycare experience vividly, possibly because the woman at the checkout, had a rather fetching neon green streak through her dark hair. Wonderful. Anyway (i did mention this was a bit of a ramble right?) i ambled into Bodycare, because, being me, and rather scatterbrained, i'd forgotten my face wash / scrub. I'm a closet skin freak, and i typically get quite an oily nose, which i find extremely disgusting. So, forgetting my face scrub, i thought i'd pick up some cheaper ones, as a back-up alternative. So i got some Simple ones - the skin perfecting wash, and the skin refreshing wash, each at £1.99, RRP £3.99. I'd like to say i loved them, but to be quite honest, i think i would have got more results if i'd put water on my face and said "Abracadabra" (or "accio nice skin" if you're a little less old school, a little more Hogwarts). Now, i can't say i'm truly shock horror disappointed because, noone ever buys cheap anything and expects it to be fantastic quality. If we buy Mac, or NARS, or something high-end, we have high expectations etc because we're spending a fair bit of money. With cheaper things, you'd expect lower quaity. Indeed, t'is a nice surprise when you're proven wrong, but i for one, will never be outraged. 
Not to be all depressing or anything, but i thought i'd share that load of tosh with you lot, so hopefully when i read this in the morning, i'll feel a bit more constructive about my lack of sleep! 
Hmmmm, what else?
Ach, i may as well give you a bit of a spoiler of the up and coming week while i'm here! These are just some ideas, so please, if you'd like to see anything, let me know!
Monday- Urban Decay glide-on eye pencil (in Ransom) review
Tuesday- Deep Purple (i'm having a purple moment right now..) FOTD (que berry lips and gothic-ness)
Wednesday- Midweek Portrait (you guys seemed to like it, so i shall try to make it a weekly thing!:))
Thursday- MUA eyeshadow trio in Chocolate box (updated..my first review of this..well..it sucked) review
Friday- possible NOTD 


So my lovely readers, i do believe that is it for my tired and restless ramble! Do excuse anything that doesn't make sense..i probably shan't be able to decipher by 8am! 
Sleep tight!
scatterbrain X

Worst Purchases of 2011..

With the first week of the new year drawing to a close, i thought i'd give you a forewarning on the things i purchased in 2011 which...tbh, i really just wish i hadn't, and bought something else! 
I actually recorded this a few days ago, but there was a mix up with uploads (oopsss!)...i think i accidentally uploaded of a video of me doing something else entirely...like, i think i pressed the wrong button on photobooth..so it was a 7 second video of me smiling like a goon...luckily noone saw(right?)...but anyway,
these are my worst purchases of 2011!
It took aaaages to upload this video did! Does anyone else get super excited with every percentage increase? No? Just me? oh dear.
ANYWAY, i hope you all enjoy this video etc comment, subscribe / follow or juggle some light bulbs (obviously not while attached to light fittings or lamps..) 
Much love,
resident scatterbrain X


Click here for the video...:D

^^sorry about the bum having-to-click-a-link thing...bloggers being a bit odddddd!^^

Kreativ Blogger Award!





Hey there m'darls! Well, i've had zero interconnect connection this weekend, which has let me become one with nature and such things (not really, but i got tonnes of work done YAY!), and i come back to find the laaaaaaaarvely Lauren from Lau's Loft has awarded me the Kreativ Blogger Award, which is an interblogger thing! It's very flattering, and amazing to know people read and like my bloggywog! 
So, here be the detailssss:
You answer these questions/facts, then tag some more bloggers! Yay! 


1. Name your favourite song.
Errrr,my all-time favourite is from Pretty Little Liars (lovelovelovelarrrrve) and it's called All Those Pretty Lights by Andrew Belle

2. Name your favourite dessert.
Chocolate tarte (or tarte au chocolat! -it's the only tarte i prefer to amazonian clay blusher ones;)) 

3. What ticks you off?
people that take everything for granted..and queue jumpers

4. When I'm upset I...
listen to depressing songs and eat
 
5. Favourite Pet...
i had a cat, which died :/ but i now have a wonderful goldfish named Bruno (Mars)

6. Black or White?
"it don't matter bout black'n'white cause we're human..."2Pac Shakurrrr, but seriously though, idk. Probably black for makeup packaging. Because it looks more claaaarssy darling

7. Biggest fear...
Spiders (only the big ones) and heights 

8. Everyday attitude?
Quite relaxed, take it as it comes...but a total control freak when it comes to makeup. And tidiness.

9. What is perfection?
For me? Errr,  waking up in the early hours of the morning and being able to think "I've got hours of sleep left" - SO satisfying!!
 
10. Guilty pleasure.
Terry's Chocolate Orange, and buying makeup


7 Facts:
  1. I never throw away teddies, because i watched Toy Story too much as a child
  2. I love Disney films with every ounce / fibre of my being
  3. I am a Lush and Mac virgin (hopefully to be sorted in 2012!)
  4. I am very very very very very x10937085769876 indecisive
  5. My dad has an extra ear lobe? :s (thats something unusual...right?!)
  6. I have an extra dot in my right eye (i'll put a picture up in some future-y time)
  7. and finallyyyyyyy, when i was 3, i stood up on stage at the Birmingham Hippodrome in front of like 3000 people during Dick Whittington or something pantomime and sang Baa Baa Black sheep.  For a teddy bear. And a balloon which contained a tenner. Which i never actually got.


10 Bloggers:
Well, i don't exactly very well know that manyyyyyyy, buttttttttt heres 3!:
Becca at the fashion-train: http://fashion-train.blogspot.com/
Shabna at scheien: http://www.scheine.co.uk/
Marilou at my precious nail polish: http://mypreciousnailpolish.blogspot.com/

If i've tagged you, it's kinda a PIKACHU, I CHOSE YOU! deal, so copy and paste the 7 facts etc things and feel happy that you've got the Kreativ spirit about you!X

All my love, you wonderful, beautiful people!


Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Midweek Portrait

So today's post is a result of many things:
  • it is windy outside, so my chances of vlogging without whoooooooooshing in the background are abouuuuuut...0. 
  • I've just washed my hair, so vlogging, again, is not ideal. 
  • photobooth has decided to be a bit of a nincompoop on me, so the lighting is flicking from super orangey, to super grainy, to hyper(french for super) dark every so often,making taking product pictures for a review...well, impossible! 
So, i've taken the easy road. A picture i took this morning, when the world was brighter and photobooth was cooperative! Without further ado (drumroll puhh-leaaase!), my Midweek Portrait!!!

When i look at this, in my head i'm singing "her name was LOLA, she was a showgirl, she had a flower in her hairrrrrrr", but that's probably just me :) 

What do you think about the Midweek portrait? Yay or nay? How was your day? 
(that rhymed- wahey!;) ) 

love, 
Scatterbrain 
xo

Tuesday 3rd January (Yesterday's Post)


Hey m’lovlies! So I’ve just been into my local town, job hunting. And to be honest, It has just dawned upon me how truly good I am at deviating spectacularly from what I mean to be doing:L SO, the point of this is that I got some new makeup! YAY!
I’m putting up a video to go with this post, so please have a ganderJ
It’s a review of both products (Bourjouis Healthy Mix foundation and GOSH velvet touch lipstick in Darling). 

So yeah! My youtube channel is DCETSB (daisy chains et scatterbrains!) please check it out!:) X

Monday, 2 January 2012

TAG New Years Resolutions

Sooooooo, this is my NYRs tag. It's basically listing my aims for this year:) 

  • exams - DO WELL- A/A*s only, lazy bum
  • get a job, lazy bum
  • errrrm, own Mac
  • and Nars Laguna
  • and more Mac
  • have 16th b-day partayyyyy (or just time avec friends!) 
  • be nice to everyone
  • blog well [the force is STRRRRONG in this'un] 
urmmmmm, oh, and just the standard try hard, work on relationships with people etc E T C. 
i tag you all! :) >post links below, i'd love to read what you want to do in 2012 

Sunday, 1 January 2012

We're gonna party like,like it's 2012

Hey there my lovelies! 
I'm so sorry i've missed so much! 
I had an amazing christmas- i'm actually going to post a video of things i got (i'd rather not call it a haul because yknow, it's not, it's stuff i got:D) and i resolve that this year is going to be different! It really bugs me when my favourite blogs don't post for aaaaaaages, so i'm going to follow their lead and post as often as possible!:) 
I'm also getting into video blogging- vlogging - (i am so with it!) lol, so yeah- hopefully you guys'll love to watch me ramble on as well as read it! I type just like i speak, apparently, so it should all be pretty consistent.
I'm also going to redecorate my blog, because i'm just unhappy with it at the moment! :) i may change the name, so i'll keep you posted! (hehe, pun- geddit?!) 
Ive also started watching sunbeamsjess 's youtube channel, and i really actually enjoy it, because she reminds me of me , kind of, yknow, because my parents are apart as well, one in the countryside and one in london, and we're the same kind of age, so hopefully at some point i'll contact her and we can have a natter! 
ANYWAY, this has been quite a vague and rushed post- but it's also a promise of better things to come! 
Thanks for reading, i hope you've all had a fantastic christmas and new years eve, leave comments and let me know!
All my love 
xo