Blue Eyeshadow

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I’ve been trying to educate myself on how to apply make up nicely. And like the nerd that I am I started by googling it. And it hasn’t really been very successful.

I don’t know, I just really don’t care that much. And I always thought make up is a weird concept anyway. Oh hang on, I’m almost ready, I just need to finish painting my face. It’s a weird thing when you think about it. I’m not saying it’s a heinous crime to enjoy applying make-up, I can understand the attraction of it, it’s like art only for your face. I guess lots of things seem weird when you really think about it. Like sleep. Sleep is so weird. Every night we just lie down, lose consciousness for a couple of hours and see weird images inside our minds.

But back to make up, on my quest for knowledge on the topic I came across an article entitled “Is it wrong to use blue eyeshadow?” and I just wanted to shout sarcastic comments at the screen. Because wearing blue eyeshadow is obviously one of the great crimes of the modern era. No it isn’t bloody wrong to wear a shade of eyeshadow. Even if it makes you look hideous then it still isn’t wrong BECAUSE IT’S JUST EYESHADOW. No one should care about what you paint on your eyes. Or eyelids I guess. I don’t think painting your actual eyes would be all that comfortable.

Poppies

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It’s November again, which means it’s the time of year where everyone wears one of these.

It’s a simple sign of respect and remembrance for the soldiers who fought in World War One. Also in buying on you’re giving money to The Royal British Legion, who help members of the armed forces and their families. Now around this time of year everyone on TV is expected to wear a poppy, even characters in soaps wear them. But in the last couple of years there’s been this trend where people don’t just wear the simple paper poppy, but wear these.

To which my response is: NO.

This is from Strictly Come Dancing, but these sparkly poppies have been popping up everywhere. And I just find this really disrespectful. Poppies are turning into a fashion accessory. I even found this article here showing pictures of celebrities wearing sparkly poppies and saying to “Get the Look”, like it’s talking about clothes or jewellery or something tiresome like that.

Poppies should be plain and simple and really cheap to make so that as much money as possible goes to charity, not a bloody fashion accessory to be discussed in women’s magazines.