Sunday 28 August 2011

My First Tattoo

Around 5 years ago I went on holiday to Turkey with my then boyfriend, his mother and his friends who had just gotten married so this was their honeymoon. When we were there the female friend decided to go and get a tattoo, so we all went along with her.
When we were sitting in the tattoo shop and saw it happening, I was very tempted to get one done. I waited a day just to make sure I really did want one and in the end I got my first tattoo.
I don't regret getting this tattoo and I hope I never will, I had turned 18 that year and I felt it was some sort of independence status.

My Sleek MakeUp Collection - i-Divine Palettes

I thought it would be easier to split this up as there would have been a huge amount of photos for one blog and it may have made a few computers go nuts.
Again I have not been able to use these fully so I am not going to be doing a review of them just yet, so these are just the swatches.
Some of these palettes were limited edition so you may not be able to get them (unless you are lucky and can find them on eBay).

The ones marked with a * are the ones that are still being sold on their website.

Safari
Safari


Bohemian

Bohemian
Chaos

Chaos

Jewels

Jewels

Curious

Curious

Acid *

Acid *

Sunset *

Sunset *

Storm *

Storm *

The Original *

The Original *

Graphite

Graphite


You can buy Sleek MakeUp on their website - www.sleekmakeup.com or you can buy it at your local Superdrug store or buy it from their website - www.superdrug.com

My Sleek Makeup Collection - Pout Polishes

Sometime last year Sleek Makeup had two competitions going on, one to win the full I-divine eyeshadow palettes (what they had at the time) and the other one to win all the pout polishes (again, the ones they had at the time).
I was one of those lucky people to win both competitions.


This is not going to be a review of them, that will probably come later on. As I haven't really used them that much so I don't think it would be fair for me to do a review, but I thought I would do some swatches of them.

Perfect Plum

Chocolate Kiss

Pink Cadlilac

Electro Peach

(L-R)
Perfect Plum, Chocolate Kiss, Pink Cadlilac, Electro Peach


You can buy Sleek MakeUp on their website - www.sleekmakeup.com or you can buy it at your local Superdrug store or buy it from their website - www.superdrug.com

The Lowdown On My Health

 Since I was a toddler I have had pains in my wrists, elbows, shoulders, knees and ankles as well as lesser pains in other parts of my body which still hurt me but the main joints really did affect me more.
As I was getting older my family and I started to notice the change in my fingers, we thought this was because of someone jamming my fingers in the door but we have looked back in photos and noticed that my fingers were going like that before my fingers were jammed in the door.
My mum would take me to the doctors to see if they could with what was happening to me, so I would be getting blood tests done and they would come back all OK, so my doctor(s) would just tell me it was growing pains which is something my parents didn't believe was happening to me.
When I got into my teens the pains were still there and by this time I started to lose my balance and fall over more easily, so we went back to the doctors and they basically did the same thing again and again and told us it was growing pains which should have stopped by now since I was in my teens..
After we had moved house and I was turning 16 we decided to go to the new doctors as I was still having pain in all my joints, falling over/losing my balance and starting to seize up. Again I had blood tests done which (surprise, surprise) came back all OK, but my new doctor didn't just tell us what we heard before she told us that I had Hypermobility Syndrome; which we had never heard of and most doctors had not heard of it but it was starting to get more notice at that time.

So she booked me an appointment at the hospital to see the Rheumatoid specialist to get another opinion and to see if there was any signs of Arthritis as this is what Hypermobility syndrome (HMS) can do over time. The specialist said it was HMS and that there were a few signs of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) in my fingers.

It has taken 7(ish) years to find the right medication for me, one that did not make me feel sick as soon as it was near my mouth, made me really depressed or did nothing at all. I am still having a little trouble with the new medication as it makes me want to be sick but not as bad as the other ones.
It was around last year when I was to see the specialist just to have a catch up on things, when I was telling him a few of my problems he diagnosed me with another condition Fibromyalgia. Which is not good, but he did tell me that my RA is going into remission (starting to calm down and reduce) which is brilliant but I still have to be careful in case it decides to come back.

I do have other health problems - Polycystic ovaries which I have had since I was 16 and Irritable Bladder Syndrome which I had for 3 - 4 (ish) years.

Monday 22 August 2011

NOTD: Amelia Knight

More than a couple of years ago my mother had bought me a set of Amelia Knight nail polish. This is the first time in a long time since I have worn any of these and to be honest I am better throwing them away, they are not good at all.
Well ok that would be a lie, the colour of them are beautiful but they don't last very long, one nail was chipped so much you would have thought I had been wearing this for over a week and I hadn't, it was just a couple of ours ago that I had applied it.

Freebie: Burberry Body Perfume Sample

In September Burberry are realising a new perfume called Body. But before the realise they are giving away samples of this perfume.



All you got to do is "Like" their facebook page and click on the "request a sample"
The offer is open for those in UK and other countries, for the full list of countries please visit their facebook page.