New Lipstick

QUICK DISCLAIMER; I don't review products, there are plenty of other blogs that do this kind of thing, and I'm not promoting or advertising any lipstick brands, I'm just commenting on what happened during my day today.

It's so hard to find this exact shade of lipstick that I'd like, the next person I see wearing it may well be questioned on the spot! Theana and I went lipstick shopping today, I bought two (will show you tomorrow, I have a large spot today :( ), but came out of the shop looking like some sort of pink leopard!

I got the shade just left of the arrow as it's trying to show, and I can't remember which mark the other one made to let you know, but you'll see tomorrow perhaps!

What's your favourite brand of lipstick? I'm a fan of coloursensational by maybelline.

Critical analysis

I'm back at uni and into serious work mode. Before I came down for Christmas I read over an essay of my sister's to give her some feedback, which had us discussing critical analysis. When you first get to uni you're taught about it and by third year, although you really do understand it, it's easy to get bogged down when you're writing 5,000 words. Thanks to this not-so-great occurrence, I put little motivators around my work space that really make you consider if what you're writing is critical enough and if there is any more you can do (see what I did, one little word link :p)

So just in case you're in the same situation, I thought I'd share them with you;

1. critical analysis is finding someone who has an opinion on the topic, but also finding someone who feels differently about the topic, but on top of that it'd also help if there was another person to summarise these contrasting feelings, because my lecturers don't want to hear what I have to say, they want to know what academics have said. You want to show the full critical picture.
   
2. critical analysis is questioning why one person thinks what they think, is that the only view around? why are there differences in views? what caused the differences? which has more agreement? why?
   
3. can you link it to something else you've been discussing? try and bring it all back in together rather than lots of separate points.
   
4. don't just take things on face value, delve deeper to find the reasoning behind the thought and see if you can find any contrasting discussions.
   
5. Yeah this person says that, but what does anyone else have to say? Does anyone else think anything about this?

Not my usual post I know, but I find things like this really helpful and just in case any of you guys are writing essay's too I thought I'd offer up my support.

again, just another writing post so here's a picture of my housemates and I on the day of our Christmas dinner.

Resolutions.

I've been seriously considering what I'd like for myself in 2012 and compiled a couple of new years resolutions. Here they go;

1. Routines. They aren't bad, they're actually pretty good. I'd like to establish and stick to; a beauty regime (I suck at taking my make up off/washing my face), an exercise regime (if the weather is bad, I won't go running) and healthy eating (as soon as I get in from placement I'm so starving hungry that I eat junk whilst my dinner's cooking and then don't want my dinner so much). This will make my body a lot happier with me.

2. Resolution number two is to quit moaning (I complain about loads of things and I really dislike that about myself so it's time to change), go with the flow of the situation and just see how it pans out, cause I might end up having a lot of fun.

3. This one kind of relates to two, but I'd like to say yes more and not just say no cause I've always said no cause again, I might end up having a lot of fun, and who doesn't like fun? My mum says 'well they always say you should do one thing a day that you're scared of' and I do agree.

So this year looks to be one where I will be organised, less grumpy and having lots of fun! If everything goes to plan that is... What are your resolutions? Do you have any?

p.s. I don't like posts with just tonnes of writing so here's my friend Rosie and I on NYE.