stress, life & anxiety

Hello everyone, as you can see by the title of this post, it is most certain not beauty related. But nevertheless I wanted to share my thoughts with you, as you may go through the same thing and I find that sometimes it is easier to speak openly to strangers than to your own friends.

 

It seems that nowadays everyone is to busy to look around and see if close ones need help or are suffering. Sometimes it is easier for people just not to ask the question that listen to the answer, no one has time to hear other people suffering or problems. What happened with the true meaning of friendship?? It seems that people don't remember the values of friendship anymore, no one calls or texts anymore, instead a "like" on Facebook or a "poke" will do the same job.  

 

It is not easy to live in this world anymore, where people are always in a hurry to get somewhere, where people are fighting, and killing, there is no time to appreciate the real meaning of life.

 

I am not here to judge anyone, each lives as they please to, but I just had to put out there all my thoughts, even though they probably not make sense at all.

 

Another problem that people try to avoid is Anxiety, they are so many people that live out there with anxiety and no one dares to ask why or how to help. And yet again, it is easier to just not talk about it, that having to do something about it.

 

I know how it is because I suffer from the same problem. I tried to ignore the fact that I suffered from Anxiety but it didn't really solve any problem, it is better just to face the problem and deal with it.

 

The struggle that it is every day of going out, going to a shopping centre full of people, getting the bus, going somewhere unknown or just meeting new people.

 

Everyday is a battle against the world, I think that the biggest problem is that people don't try to understand why you act the way you do, or why you try to avoid certain places.

 

Some say that you can just take pills and that the anxiety will go away, or people think that it will go away at some point, they don't understand how much it can affect someone's life.

 

My biggest problem is to meet new people, it is a big struggle and it makes me very anxious, but it is difficult to explain to people around you, some people think you are rude, some people think that you can be boring, but no one stops to think that it may be another reason.

 

I just want people to ask about it and help instead of judge, it would make life so much easier.

 

Anyway, I manage every day, and even if I fall I will get up again and again, I am quite lucky that I have people around me that support me and that understand me, but what about the people that don't understand but that I still care about?? should I just do the easy thing and just ignore?? no , that is not the way it should be to anyone, no one should be able to judge or ignore. lets just face the facts and deal with it.

 

 

Well, that is all I wanted to say, tell me your story, do you suffer from the same ? do you struggle on a daily basis?

 

If so, I hope you find a way that will make you happier!!!

 

 

Take care

 

 

Marlene

 

xxx

 

 

 

 

 

haul !! :)

Hello lovely ladies, today I bring you a few things that I picked up when I went shopping the other day. Lately I have been avoiding buying more makeup, know sounds crazy!!! but I just thought I would start using a lot more products from my collection before going crazy and buying loads more like I usually do!!!.

 

So here in England cold arrived and one thing that I love using is robes and onesies!!! I know they are not very flattering but I don't really care, I hate being cold !! I picked up this one from New Look it cost £12.95.

 

 

I don't think I ever been to Claire's before. I just find it that it is more for teenagers than for adults, I know that is just me!! But the other day for some reason I went in and this necklace was the first thing that I saw and I had to pick it up!! I love these type of necklaces so I couldn't resist it. I think it cost me about £ 5.99, I am just not sure about the quality, it doesn't seem very good quality but I suppose you pay for what you get!!

I heard great things about Makeup Revolution but I am not sure about this brand yet!! I think that they just decided to create dupes of everything!! I do think that it works for them, but I prefer brands that has a little bit more originality, but I went to my local Superdrug and they had the Christmas Collections up and this one catched my eye. It is a brush collection and it contains a powder brush, a contour brush, a stippling brush, a small blending brush, a detail brush and an eyeliner brush. I tried them and I really like them!!! they are really soft, easy to use and easy to clean, I am just not sure about the stippling brush, I it a little hard to blend foundation and you can see the foundation lines which is something I don't appreciate at all, and it was £12.00.

Also from Superdrug I picked up this palette from MUA, which is a brand that I don't buy products from, but these eye shadows were just to good to refuse!! It cost me about £4.00 so I thought if I don't like it  didn't cost a lot!!

From left to right: Smoke, Midnight, Aqua, Azure and Caramel.

From left to right: Siate, Dove Grey, China, Truffle and Sand.

Next, from New Look they had these new perfumes and I thought I would give it a try, It is called Pure Dust and it actually smells lovely. It smells at roses, but the scent is not to sweet which I was quite pleased, I prefer strong perfumes, and this one is perfect just to put on your handbag. It costs £4.00.

They also had a new makeup stand so I thought I would give it a try to. This product is the highlighter, I am not a big fan of highlighters that are on a stick as I don't think it is very hygienic and it end up disturbing the makeup. but I quite liked the way it looked so I thought I would use it with a brush instead. I am not really sure of the price but I think it was £5.99.

 

And because I have an addiction with red lipsticks I had to pick up one!!! shame on me!!

 

I didn't really except much of it, but it is not bad at all, it slides when applying, I applied it over lip liner. it doesn't dry your lips, and it actually stays for a few hours, this product was actually on sale so I paid only £3.99.  

I heard quite good reviews from this product, so I decided to give it a try as I struggle to find a foundation that I actually like.

 

It is supposed to be really good for dry skin, the Skin Luminizer from Max Factor. But every time I go somewhere I always take a product from the back, and this time I actually got one from behind but I actually forgot to check if it was the same shade and I just realised that actually it is too light for me :/ bahhh so stupid of me, anyway I will probably just buy another shade and mix it together. I picked it up from Boots and it was £12.95.

 

 

Last product I picked it up from Just Fab, and when I spotted these Boots I fell I lone with them!! I had to get them, I struggle to find boots that I like that are comfortable and these ones even though are high heel they are just so comfortable!!

 

The first pair that you buy costs £12.95 and then you can choose to pay £35.00 per month to be member and you get items cheaper, but you don't have to pay if you don't want to, you can do something called "skip the month" and you won't be charged anything. I think it is really good, It doesn't really mean that I am going to be buying every month but it is nice to have the choice because the quality is really good.

 

So, that is all I bought for know, think next shopping day I will start with Christmas shopping, which I am not looking forward to!!

Take care


xxx

Marlene