Hello m'dears!

Ever since moving out of my 1 bedroom flat and into a two-slash-three bedroom house back in October, I've been getting so much more into homeware. In fact, it's reaching critical levels now! Over the past few weeks, I finally finished off the bedroom, which has become my haven. It's clean, it's crisp and it looks so dreamy now that I've fitted a canopy over the bed with added fairy lights for ambience.

 

Holograms and Iridescent are both in vogue right now, and it's difficult to imagine them falling out of favour anytime soon. I remember spotting the first few little bits of holographic goodness creeping on to the high street via jewellery and accessories mostly, they'd almost always sell out instantly, so if you didn't move fast, you lost out.

This post feels a little nostalgic for me! Do you remember all those years ago when TOPSHOP were about to release their hotly anticipated makeup collection? It feels like only yesterday I was in TOPSHOP snapping some photos of the first range, before hurtling home to type up a blog post - ah, the dedication!

Ever since that fateful first range, their collection has expanded at a vast rate of knots, and the quality hasn't waned either, reeling out a whole succession of great products. I was in there again recently, and came across these weird looking domes - their shininess reeled me in. The woman at the counter informed me that her expression was pretty much the same as mine when they first arrived instore.

If you're not Asian, you may not know what it's like being like me.

I'm writing this blog post as a bit of an educational piece, to give some insight as to what it's like to be a Desi woman living in the UK with a non-conventional view on life. I'm by all means not the only one, that's for certain, and our numbers are ever-increasing, but we all face a whole series of challenges in our lives just so that we can exist in a way that we enjoy.

I'm certainly not on a rant here, and this will not be your typical 'Woe is Me' style post where I tell you all how hard my life has been with some kind of X-Factor style backing music and spontaneous bouts of tears. It really is meant just to enlighten, and remind people that everyone faces their own unique struggles, no matter how they look.

I'm really digging all of these new Indie makeup brands that have been popping up all over Instagram of late. I think it's good for the consumer when you've got a whole raft of disruptive, inventive companies challenging the usual suspects to up their game, otherwise the big brands get sucked into complacency, and we all suffer the consequences.

Currently, those Liquid Lipsticks are all the rage, the ones that the ever-controversial Lime Crime are so famous for. The problem is, I don't feel that I can trust ordering from Lime Crime directly again, after the whole 'hacking' saga. The owner just doesn't inspire any confidence in me, so until they start wholesaling to the UK again, I'm out.