bigfoodiemama

OK, so now that I am 46 years old I have been experimenting. It wasn't really necessary when I was younger, as I just stuck to what I knew and it seemed to work fine. I was always happy anyway and had no complaints from the opposite sex. Getting older has it's drawbacks though as the same old techniques fail to deliver and I have found myself lacking in satisfaction. Some time ago I went out and bought a few items to add to my old bits and pieces and up until about a week ago, it seemed to be doing the trick, except for a few people advising me that I looked a bit pale. You will remember that, a week ago, I bought a wand, but according to The Mad One, it looks like I am going to need a the Fairy Godmother, pumpkin, mice and a large sprinkling of magic to conceal my under eye wrinkles. I arrived at her immaculate ( ha ha ! ) house this morning for a cuppa, having spent some time in my en suite applying make up and liberally waving my wand around. All week long, I have used an e...

So, having foregone giving each other Christmas gifts this year, the F.A., the Blonde and I headed off yesterday afternoon to enjoy some quality girlie time together. Off to the big smoke we headed and spent a fabulous hour at the Charlotte Tilbury counter in BT's. A small purchase ( €35) secured not only bringing a lovely product home but the pleasure of having my dry old wrinkled face cleansed, moisturised, "dewified", illuminated, concealed, brushed, painted, touched up and basically made unrecognisable. I brought home an "eye wand" , which I can tell you will need to be magic to make my tired bags resemble a small clutch more than the full set of luggage they currently resemble ! The Blonde was very interested in my wand, as her girl " only used her fingers". I happily boasted that my make up artist had both used a wand and her fingers on me ! Now that we looked so "dewy" ( It's all about the skin apparently.....who knew !) we needed ...