Dark cloud. A short story.

Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a beautiful forest. She spent her days dancing and singing with her animal friends. The forest was bright and beautiful and the girl would happily go about her day humming and smiling. 

One day a dark cloud came over the forest and all her animal friends ran away in fear. The girl was all alone. Suddenly her beautiful forest wasn't so warm and bright. The girl stumbled through the darkness whispering in the hopes of being found. She walked blindly for what felt like days in search of her home that she swore only days earlier she could have found with her eyes closed. She grew so tired and sad that when she felt moss beneath her feet she sunk to the ground and silently cried. Soon she fell asleep,sleeping soundly. It felt as if sleeping was all she could do right in that moment. So she slept until she was not tired and then she slept until her body ached. The next time she opened her eyes she noticed the moss was growing on her. She was becoming part of the dark forest floor. She dragged her sore body to a moonlit tree and cried desperately to the wind. She was lost. She was alone. And now that she was awake the hunger soon became so strong the girl gripped her stomach in pain. She grasped at her normality- she thought of what her life use to be,bitterly. The harder she held on the more her hands ached and when she opened them it was nothing but sand that slipped through her fingers and blew away. She felt a deep bubble of despair well up inside her that she needed to let out. The girl raised her tear streaked face and let out a note -- a long haunting note that turned into another and another until she was singing again. She was still alone and still scared, but slowly it felt as if her forest was listening to her. The trees swayed and the deafening silence that was, was no more. Crickets chirped and the birds sang and the girl laughed with the thrill of it all. The shadows she feared so deeply, she realized housed all her animal friends. Their heads peaking out, they joined in her song of mourning, and slowly the cloud lifted and floated away. The forest was beautiful again. She had her friends and she was filled with love and light. The girl knew the cloud could come back at any time but she felt safer knowing her friends were in the shadows with her. That she had something,her voice, that made her strong.

The end.

By Mackenzie Alexander,2014.

Spur of the moment drugstore haul!

Hello everybody!

As today was my day off I decided to treat myself to a sushi lunch and then walk over to the (shoppers) drugstore that's near my house. I didn't go in with anything particular to buy but I ended up picking up a few things I thought I would share. 

They had a bunch of those gift packages with different things in them. They're always cheaper to buy the whole package than the individual products on their own... I'm a bit of a sucker when it comes to these things! Inside is a skintimate shaving cream, schick extreme 3 razors and a soft lips cube. 

I noticed there were some new lip products that I was interested in as well! First up on the left is a new baby lips product. They're now doing "moisturizing lipgloss" with different formulations. They had jelly,cream and shimmer. I bought one of the shimmer lipglosses in '05 just a glimmer'. It's a clear gloss with a purple pearlescent glitter. 

Here's a swatch:

Next up is a new lip product that boasts you can wear it 2 ways. The Maybelline colorblur. I bought the color 45 'I'm blushing'. It's advertised as a cream matte lip pencil with smudger. If you wear it full on it's a strong matte color, or you can use the other end of the pencil which has a rubber smudger on it to blur it out and make it more soft/natural. This is what the cream pencil looks like. You actually turn the bottom and the product comes out the top. 

Here Is the other end of the product where the rubber smudger is. 

And last but not least, here are the swatches!

My thoughts so far: I think it's interesting as a new product but also you can smudge ANY lip product. Granted all lip products don't come with a 'smudger' but you can just use your finger,a Kleenex, a Qtip or your lip brush to get the desired smudge look. Next time you're round at the drugstore pop over and have a look. What do you think? Will you give the new 'color blur' lipsticks a try?

Until next time,

Luna

Current nail polish storage

Hello all!
As some of you may know, I have an obsession with nail polish. I use to buy a new bottle almost every week at one point! I haven't bought anything new in a while but I have updated the way I store my nail polish. I have them on a book shelf in my room. I used boxes to elevate the back row of bowls so you can see them easier ( I spy a glossybox.. box!). I put all the polish in bowls and put like colors in each bowl. It just makes it easier when you're trying to track down a specific color. On top of that I have a 'nail polish swatch book'. Every time I get a new color I do a small swatch in the book, put the color name and the brand and then I feel super organized! Also when I have friends over who want to do their nails (this happens often) I have them look through the swatch book instead of digging through the bowls.
In the photo's you will see what I have on that shelf. I keep my nail top/bottom coats as well as nail stickers,gems and treatments in a drawer near my desk, so no photo's of that but I hope you enjoy my nail polish storage and a quick look at my collection so far!

On the bottom shelf I have my nail art pens and stripers. ( next to a cute photo of me and my brothers girlfriend at an elle magazine event a few years back)

Until next time,
Luna