Fancy seeing you here. Or me here, I suppose.

Apologies! So many apologies! Especially to myself. I always promise myself to blog more and whenever I have time, think about blogging, and then don't do it, I feel like a little part of me whines a little bit and then dies.

So in order to avoid a very gradual, bizarre death, I figured I should crack on and write something.

I've been inspired lately to start my own vlog on the tube of you, specifically a beauty related one. I know what you're thinking. Me and beauty couldn't possibly be at further ends of the spectrum.

How wrong you are, friend. With a face like mine, one needs as many beautifying products as one can attain. As a result/offshoot of this, I am somewhat addicted to beauty products, hair products, coveting clothing and, as I shall talk about more in a minute, beauty gurus.

Juicystar07, zoella280390, thepersianbabe, cosmeticscharlotte72 and daniellachristina1, to name just a few, have become serious instalments in my life. Basically, these 'beauty gurus' do a variety of videos on youtube such as haul videos (where they show you what they've bought on a shopping splurge recently), tutorials (teaching you how to perfect certain makeup looks) and OOTD/OOTN (outfit of the day/night). In a strange, very sad way, I consider them to be sort of my friends. They help me with my makeup, sometimes with what to wear as well, we share some of the same interests, and they make me laugh. So, thanks to these gorgeous (they all are actually gorgeous by the way) girls, who I look up to quite a lot, I want to start my own.

So thats a little something I'm considering doing, although part of me is so sure I won't be able to commit to it. Maybe I'll just make this blog a bit more fashion/beauty focused and update it more regularly? I do have a few ideas up my sleeve - a fitness diary sort of thing (I'm also addicted to these types of blogs), some products reviews, perhaps a haul when my nonpareilboutique package arrives, if it ever arrives.

Although I do like doing random ramble posts/music posts/movie posts. So maybe I won't change anything, and this whole blog post will be pointless! Terrific!

Please excuse the state of this post. Tis a little bit all over the shop, however it is 2.21 am right now and I am in the midst of a terrible cold so thinking straight is not exactly my forte at the moment.

Songs of the moment;

1. Walking Disasters - The Wombats

"If these words won't drop from your lips, I will be your freudian slip"

2. Hearts a Mess - Gotye

"Let me occupy your mind, as you do mine"

3. Fixed at Zero - Versaemerge

"There's a vulture on my shoulder, and he's telling me to give in"

4. Nasty Habits - You Me At Six

"You're the best kept secret, rolling off my tongue"

5. Euphoria, Take My Hand - Glasvegas

"Heartbreak, I'm not holding your hand anymore"

6. Techno Fan - The Wombats

"The lasers fill our minds with empty plans"

7. Mrs Actually - The Like

"We'll travel to the sky, but you leave me behind"

And my favourite lines from each one. I know these aren't actually songs of the moment, as in the general nowish moment, as they aren't all recent songs. But I'm having a phase for them all right now.

Anyone got any good music suggestions? Nothing shit please, although I do admit Versaemerge borders on being not exactly very quality - but I like them OKAY?

Also, can I just say, how fucking brilliant The Wombats are. God. Fuck. So good.

Anyway, time for study/vomit.

Me and friends being cows or bulls or something whack at Groovin the Moo 2011 in Canberra. What the fuck are we doing...

Must love dogs.

This is Lulu. She's the little doggie of some friends of ours who are letting us take care of her for the weekend.

She sleeps on my bed - it's like having a miniature hot water bottle that is kind of alive.

This picture doesn't do her justice. She is so gorgeous.

Anyway. This isn't very interesting. I just thought everyone could appreciate how darn adorable she is.

All dolled up.

While quite terribly sick over the past few days, I've been indulging in one of my most favourite guilty pleasures - period/costume dramas - specifically Downton Abbey (2010) (fabulous, marvellous, amazing and shocking) and Wives and Daughters (1999) (charming, sweet and romantic). What I have noticed quite a bit is the lack of makeup the women seem to be wearing, or not wearing as it were. So being a cosmetics fanatic, I googled makeup in the 19th century and stumbled across such interesting tidbits about what women and men used to do in terms of prettying themselves up.

"The Great Cover Up

In the 17th century, men and women used makeup to limited degree; ceruse was used as a base, and a cheek and lip reddeners were sometimes applied. From the late 1600s forward, makeup began to get heavier. First, white paint was applied, then white powder, then a brownish rouge, and red lip color.

“Beauty patches”—pieces of velvet or silk cut into the shape of stars, moons, hearts, and similar figures—were frequently applied to the face and body to cover smallpox scars, and similar marks. A “secret language” even developed through their use: A patch near the mouth meant you were flirtatious; one next to the right cheek signaled you were married; one on the left cheek announced you were engaged; one at the corner of the eye meant you were somebody’s mistress."

A secret code! I thought this was so unbelievably cool, and even though I think it might have looked rather strange I wish something like this occurred today.

More fun facts I discovered were:

• At some point, people used mouse fur to shape and fill in their eyebrows (YUCK)
• To make their eyes bright, women would wash them with arsenic or belladonna - which are both poisonous
• Some women ate chalk or drank iodine to achieve the coveted pale complexion
• Historians speculate that TB was so common in the 18th-19th century that the trend of a pale complexion arose from people wanting to look as if suffering from the disease!
• People would even paint themselves with white lead or bleed themselves
• Women only started shaving their underarm hair in 1915 when a model without any appeared on the cover of Harpers Bazaar

Jessica Brown-Findlay as Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey. She is so very pretty.

Adios amigos :)