Benefit 'They're Real!'

Peoples!

I come to you bearing a review of a mascara everybody already loves and raves about.

Never one to follow a trend i am seemingly late to this pants party.

But wait, am i late? 

Or did i just intentionally wait until all the hype was over, 

then present my two cents when you would actually care to read it??

The truth is i'm a procrastination queen and just kept saying, 

"tomorrow tomorrow, i'll do it then"

*whispering* i didn't though...

The other side of the truth is i didn't want to, 

nay, couldn't afford to, 

spend £20 on a mascara before trying it out first.

Luckily for me Elle had it as a freebie some weeks ago and my parents picked me up a few copies.

Thank you parents!

I now have four of these mini tubes and i am super chuffed because, 

yep, you guessed it, 

i effing love this mascara!!!

I am not usually a fan of mascaras with plastic brushes but i'll make an exception here.

The brush gives the lashes an all over, even coating, 

and the mascara, however it's made, is wonderful. 

It left my lashes thick and lengthened, but not clumpy or spidery, which i hate!

Also it dried really fast, 

which i really like, because i'm not one to spend forever on my make up.

Plus, i often sneeze right after doing my mascara,

[i get weirder, i know]

so having it dry quickly was brilliant, no sneezy mess to clean up!

The only thing that irked me about this was that ball on the end of the brush.

It seemed to grab a bunch of lashes and stick them all together if i wasn't careful.

I wondered if this was just because the wand is smaller, 

as it's just a sample size.

I brought this up with a friend of mine and she assured me it's not clumpy or overly large on the normal sized product. 

Well then, i'm sold!

Please enjoy some pictures where my large pores and smaller eye are excruciatingly obvious... 

No mascara...

With Benefit They're Real.

Woah look out, try not to poke your eyes out with those bad boys!

[how?]

This is just one coat.

I'm not one for multiple layers of mascara so getting this result with one coat, 

happy shell!

So there you have it.

 I, as well as many others, love this mascara.

The hype is not just hype, 

it really is as good as 'they' all say it is. 

As soon as my 4 samples run out i'll have probably saved enough money to treat myself to the actual real life full sized version,

and let me tell you, 

i am excited!

I read somewhere that asking questions at the end of a post connects you to your readers so...

did everyone watch Game of Thrones this week?

;-)

My hair. A journey in pictures.

While i was home last week we looked through a lot, A LOT, of old photos.

One thing that struck me was that i can never just stick with a hair style.

If i have it long, i want to cut it.

If it's short, i want to grow it.

If it's pink, i want green.

There are just so many options!

Luckily i have been pretty blessed in that my hair has only once given up on me. 

An unfortunate bleaching was the catalyst for the ultimate pixie cut.

More stories below :)

Ah. Starting my hair history as any good German girl would. 

With hair that inspired the 'boy in a dress' nickname from my class in kindergarten. 

Followed by a mullet. I think my face says it all.

Thanks parents.

I'll repay the favour when you're old and can't stop me >.<

Now we have a big jump to late teens/early 20's.

All my primary school and high school era photos are back in England.

Oh no. How awful. Now you'll never see them. Darn it.

So as i got older, and got a boyfriend, i was introduced to a lot of music i'd never heard before.

When you spend the first 8 years of your life in Germany, and your parents aren't big music listeners anyway, this is not something i'm really ashamed of.

I got into punk pretty heavily. 

Rancid. Bad Religion. The Distillers. The Clash.

To name but a few early favourites.

My boyfriend was in a band also, which opened my eyes to a whole new lifestyle.

After first experimenting with pink streaks, and bleached hair, i branched out and cut me a mohawk.

I just did it one day. It was awesome.

The only annoying thing was styling it up. It always flopped.

So i tied it back, then when it got long i had dreads put in.

After punk i developed a rockabilly style. 

Bright red, longer hair with quiffs and cutesy hair clips.

Occasionally i'd chop it all off after deciding to grow it, get bored, then bleach and colour it. 

I'm an introvert, but i love nothing more than people noticing my hair. 

Weird. 

This followed the rockabilly, i'd curl it like Marilyn or any other pin up.

I never tried the victory rolls, just went for a curly sue kinda look.

I love my make up on here, i just can't recreate it.

It looks so easy aswel! I think it's the eyeliner i keep messing up...

So one day a couple of years ago i went home to go to Rebellion in Blackpool.

It's a punk festival, some of my favourite bands were playing, why not.

While there i was struck by how many of the girls had white blonde hair. 

It made me remember mine and i got a bit nostalgic, decided i wanted to go white again.

Bleached it. 

No problem. Gave it a week or so, bleached it again.

Now...i've done this before and never had any problems. Maybe my diet had messed me up?

Either way, i screwed up.

When i woke up the next day, the ends of my hair were still wet.

Whaaaat? 

I went to the hairdresser, she basically said all the minerals had been stripped and my hair was clinging onto any moisture it could. 

I had a trim, went back to Berlin, and looked after my hair.

It grew, and, inevitably, i got bored, decided to get a shorter style cut in.

Nothing drastic, just a style that would replenish my hair, didn't need much fuss etc.....

This is how long it got, the longest it's been for years. 

Then this happened. 

I'll just let it sink in.

...

I said i'd like a short rockabilly style fringe, just a few inches off etc etc. 

She seemingly interpreted that as 'please give me a barely there fringe, and leave only a couple of inches all over, thanks'.

Can you tell i'd been crying in the photo above?! 

Then i realised i was being silly and acting like the girl who says she's ok with getting her hair cut on ANTM, then cries the whole time she is getting a tiny trim or fringe cut in. 

It eventually grew out.

It actually really helped my hair, and, after the initial shock, i started to like it.

After this photo i found a guy from south america [i think] who did house calls and who had trained at Vidal Sassoon. 

I told him i needed a style cut in, but that i wanted to grow it. 

He gave me a really subtle long bob, a tiny bit shorter at the back, and i love it. 

 So there you have it.

A tiny snippet of my hair history. 

Hope you enjoyed the embarrassing myspace-esque early photos ha :D

Sunday Summary...with a twist...

The twist being that it's actually Monday, not Sunday!

This is pretty picture heavy i must warn you.

I've been away for over a week and blogging has been difficult. 

Finding time to load and edit photos, even finding time to just sit down and compose a decent paragraph, has been tough. 

So to thank you for your patience i am going to load this post with a great many photos.

Hope you enjoy!

1. Makeshift bedroom  2. Washi tape cups d.i.y  3. Decorating the garden

4. Birthday kitchen  5. Cake!  6. Happy Birthday Motherhen!

7. Being a rightful and true princess  8. Orange & mint water  9. Trip into town

10. How you doin'  11. Camera kit  12. Looking suspish  13. Lymm Dam  14. Pretty Lymm

15. Coffee trip  16. Snickers bites in the making  17. PigtailsCameraFace 

18.  Sneaky McDonalds trip  19. McDonalds guilt  20. Sister bond!

I have so much to show and tell you about my trip home, as you can probs tell it's been a bit of a hectic week back!

Got lots of bargains, met up with a lot of family, and celebrated a milestone birthday. 

Hope everyone has had an excellent week, i certainly have!

Back in Berlin now, after a drama with the train from the airport, we came home to mouldy bread [so gross] and a bust boiler. 

Oh also, today is a bank holiday, so we are going the be like the stink monster in Spirited Away by the time the hot water comes back on!

We're going to have an olden day shower later, bucket of boiled water in the bath ha!

On that note....bis später!