So today is my birthday. I always loved my birthday and couldn’t wait for it for all the wrong reasons – couldn’t wait to see if anything fell out of my birthday cards to spend it on shite clothes I don’t need. Couldn’t wait to rip through presents to see what was inside. All of a sudden, this year I don’t care. I’m sorry but what the fuck? Why am I not an immature, selfish girl anymore? Is this adulting?
Before I write anymore there is a 83% chance I am about to have a mini breakdown writing this, so just bare with me. The very fact I have to now say mid to late twenties instead of early twenties knocks me over completely. I definitely have to tick a new age box when filling out forms now…
What happens when you turn 27? When I was younger the age 27 was the age I associated with girls who had purses full of credit cards, engagement rings, perfect jobs and big beautiful houses. Now that I am at that ‘scary’ age, what the hell was I thinking? There is something about the age 27 that makes me feel like I am being forced into being a grown up. Like, don’t get me wrong, I have my shit together enough – I live with my wonderful boyfriend (puke, sorry), I love my job and I love all my little hobbies and I am by all means happy, but what is it about being 27 that makes me feel inferior? Like, I still don’t feel like an adult but I guess I technically am.
Being 18 was amazing what with the whole I can drink legally thing. Being 21 was amazing as I was living away from home in Scotland, living my best life and again, can drink legally everywhere. If anything I felt more like an adult at 21 than I do now at 27. Maybe because I was single at 21 I felt a little more independent as opposed to now where I need to split that rent or else I would be eating ramen noodles all month.
There are certain things that I feel I just can’t get away with now that I am 27. I really can’t forget to make a payment on a card, I can’t go into my overdraft because that’s completely ‘irresponsible.’ Also, it’s not okay for me to not watch the news anymore. I don’t like watching it because it is just full of terrible news, but at a certain point it just isn’t funny that I don’t know what’s going on in the world.
I was in Tesco buying drink for my birthday, you know… my 27th. I wasn’t ID’d. I don’t look old, I don’t look young but I was still very offended when I didn’t get carded. Then I thought, I would have been over the moon when I wasn’t carded when I was younger, how can it irritate me now?
I think I am just pissed off that I can’t blame being young if something goes wrong. At a certain point, I need to take responsibility and unfortunately I think that’s now. I have been known to have a slightly self destructive pattern in the past however, instead of ruining lives I am now adulting hard and the only thing I really ruin are my plants. Seriously, I can’t keep those things alive and if anyone has any tips – other than simply watering them – please let me know.
I mean, I have learned a lot in the last 27 years most of which I documented in another post 26 things. 26 years. and I am so thankful for that as it has made me who I am today bla bla bla but unfortunately, I think that that has made me an adult.
Also, what’s with having more money when you’re still in school than now?
This one is just a serious NOPE for me and my skin which is a shame because I see SO many beauty bloggers and You Tubers rave about this product but for me, it dries me the hell out. When I put my foundation over it, the primer lifts off and then sits patchy over it. My skin is dryer so really I shouldn’t use this for my skin type anyway but whatever, it didn’t work for me and I will not be repurchasing!
Okay, I guarantee this foundation will be someone’s number one go to and it is so hard to get the perfect foundation but this one is so far away from perfect I could feel my skin cry. It gave me pores and lines I didn’t even know I had. I really tried with this one, I actually used the whole bottle trying to make it work but it just wasn’t happening. Every time I wore it, it ended up seriously chalky. Coverage wise it ended up blotchy too, but it was deceiving because it looked great for the first half hour and then turned to shit.
I KNOW. I only bought this because every beauty blogger I watch uses it. This powder I don’t mind as much but it doesn’t last long on me at all. I bought it originally to ‘bake’ with, which was fine but it sucks so much moisture out of my skin that it makes me look even dryer than I already am. I would repurchase if there weren’t so many other great powders out there that I already have.
. Sorry to come for Benefit again, this one is just purely personal preference because I prefer a warm toned bronzer and this is probably the most cool toned bronzer I have ever used. In saying that, I don’t mind it as a contour shade but for the amount of times I actually contour it wouldn’t be worth repurchasing. I actually don’t like the packaging either, I always find that when I get to the end of my Benefit blushers I dig around the outside and lift too much product and it doesn’t go on nicely, you know?
Not specifically this one, but all cream blush sticks ever. I hate them. All of them. I can’t get to grips with these products to be used over foundation, etc. Also, I myself am pretty familiar with how make up works but to a regular person this is definitely a ‘lie in drawer and never wear’ kind of product. I have tried blush sticks over and under powder, on their own with and without foundation and I just hate them. Sorry. Although ‘Beach Stick’… I like the name.
loved this product when it first came out, it was revolutionary and while I was on the thick instagram brow trend this product was brilliant. Since ABH came out with this, there have been so many dupes released and it just so happens that they are better. The ABH pomade goes dry after it’s been open awhile and can be hard to spread out so because there are so many other affordable products that are in my opinion better, that’s why it’s on this list. For those interested, my favourite dupes of this are Make Up Revolution Eye Brow Pomade and the NYX Tame and Frame Tinted Brow Pomade.
Sooo, I will not be buying the other palettes (1,2 and 3) as well but not because I regret buying them. They were absolutely amazing at the time, amazing for when I was just starting out doing make up. As I have progressed in make up and learned more things and tried more brands I have just found that for the money I can get a lot more. The Smoky Palette however, I just couldn’t do anything with it. At the time that it came out I think that those who were interested in the Naked palettes could have done a smoky eye with the palettes they already had. To me, this is a waste of money because you don’t need a whole palette just to do a smoky eye. Not only that but the actual pigment in this palette wasn’t very strong and the colours were very hard to blend out and looked like a hot mess rather than a smoky eye.
Kylie Jenner Lip Kits. Oh my God. Oh my God. I just hate these. I am not a huge liquid lipstick fan on the best of days but these ones in my opinion really suck. All liquid lips are drying so aside from that they are always blotchy on my lips, so to get a decent colour I either have to put down a lipstick first in the same colour which – what’s the point? Or I have to put on about 4 layers of the liquid lipstick and that dry AF. On the other hand – colours are lushhh.
In the 1980’s there were very few products available for the working professional and those that were actually available only came in certain shades. Dany took it upon herself to create her own products that she could use – and MAN did that take off! Dany got so many requests from fellow makeup artists and students that she opened up a boutique in Paris. MAKE UP FOR EVER was born.
Amy Savage 