These boots are made for walkin'

This video is totally irrelevant except for the song at the beginning. I love Sienna's style as well as her brand Twenty 8 Twelve... However, she reminds me a little of the horrible girls that I went to boarding school with. I think she'd be nicer than those girls though. It's funny how school bullies AKA the "popular" crowd think they are SUPAH FLY but when it comes to school finishing and uni beginning, they're always the ones that end up with trashy facebook photos of them smoking and wearing "gap year clothing" (i.e. oversized rags) and tons of shoddily applied make up. I digress.

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My Dr Marten Darla boots arrived today and I ADORE them. (Incidentally, my Topshop daisy jeans arrived too but they are basically made out of cardboard and feel nothing like the supple denim shorts in the same pattern that I loved. Returning!).

They are so gawd dang comfortable because the heel isn't too high and the stretchy panels on the side keep the boot securely in place. I kinda get a vibe of those Topshop ankle booties that everyone and their momma had except that these are a little bit longer. They have a padded insole and a rubbery sole and they are just generally kick-ass.

Speaking of kick-ass,

Found in the men's section of a charity shop on Goodge Street.

Do men have size 4 feet? I guess men includes boys.

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Love,

Geisha

xoxo

Foundation, Bronzer, Blusher - E.L.F, MAC, The Body Shop, Korres, Rimmel...

FOUNDATION SWATCHES

L-R:

• Maybelline dream satin liquid in 021 Nude
• MAC Mineralized skinfinish in light-medium
• Collection 2000 Perfecting minerals in No 4 Biscuit (not honey as the picture says, sorry!)
• Benefit You Rebel lite
• Nivea Visage tinted moisturising day cream in Natural
• Rimmel Stay matte foundation in 200 Soft Beige
• Collection 2000 Naturally Radiant foundation in Natural Beige 4
• MAC Tinted Moisturizer in shade Medium
• MAC Face & Body in C3

BRONZING AND BLUSHER PRODUCTS

SWATCHES:

L-R: Bottom right colour (with e.l.f. imprint), bottom left, top right, top left

You can see the pinky tone of the 3rd colour along in this picture (even though it washes out the darkest colour, sorry!):

L-R: Bottom right colour (with e.l.f. imprint), bottom left, top right, top left

Swatches:

LEFT: Golden bronzer, swirled together

RIGHT: Warm bronzer, swirled together

KORRES MONOI OIL BRONZER IN 02 SUNGLOW WARM

BODY SHOP BRONZING POWDER IN 01

N.Y.C. COLOR WHEEL MOSAIC FACE POWDER IN ROSE GLOW

Hope those were useful! :)

If you would like any individual reviews on product then just leave a comment!

love,

Geisha

xoxo

GLOW (Tanya Burr does a gorgeous Jennifer Aniston look)

I am literally running out and buying:

+ NARS Turks & Caicos blush stick +

+ MAC Lipstick in Shy Girl +

+ NARS Sheer Glow* +

+ MAC Vanilla pigment +

+ Benefit Hoola +

+ Dior Amber Diamond powder +

Why? Because of this video :)

* I can NEVER find my shade in NARS Sheer Glow and it is so frustrating :( I want it so badly but everytime I go to get colour matched, I get matched with a different colour. I've been matched to all the following colours on different occasions: Mont blanc, Fiji, Ceylan, Santa Fe and most recently, Punjab (which looked really orange in the mirror but could be something to do with the fact that the lady slapped it on very heavily). Space NK do not have any testers of the foundation and when I've asked in department stores they just look at me in disgust and say that they're out of everything in "my" colour. Uh, thanks.

Can anyone help me out?

• I am around a NC20-25 in winter, NC30ish in summer BUT I've tried quite a few MAC foundations in these colours and none of them have quite matched me - they always end up looking pinkish or ashy on my skin. Even the "very sheer" MAC Face & Body goes ashy on me (I've tried C2 & C3)!
  
  
• The skin on my body has very yellow, almost brown undertones. Maybe that means I have olive skin? BUT my face has pinky undertones and is lighter than my body. I usually try to find foundations with a yellow undertone to balance out my face and bring it to the same shade as the rest of my body - foundations with a cooler/pinkier base or even just a HINT of a peachy/pinky-beige colour do NOT suit my skin as they just make my face look even pinkier and ashier than usual.
  
  
• In general, I have never found a correct colour match in any foundation as they just all turn odd colours on my skin. It's very frustrating for a make up addict like me that I can never seem to find the EXACT shade for my make up base!
  
  
• Saying that, the only foundation which has a shade that comes close to my colouring is Chanel Vitalumiere in 20 (for my wintertime skin), but the high price and shabby lasting power of this foundation put me off using it regularly - not to mention the TERRIBLE sales girls (I cannot call them make up artists) who usually have no idea of what is going on with their brand and just stand around looking snotty and giving you "are you sure you can afford that?" glances. In the Debenhams in Oxford, the girl at the counter told me that the Chanel teint innocence in the pot was the same as Chanel vitalumiere, just that they were in different containers........ I mean, seriously?!?
  

I have combination skin (very dry cheeks, very oily t-zone) and if you have any favourite products or foundations that you think would suit me, I would ADORE it if you left a comment :)

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Love,

Geisha

xoxo

INDOORSY

What to wear whilst:

1. sitting around by myself
2. air-drying my hair into a wavy mess, and
3. stressing about my dissertation?

Top - Cotton On, Skirt - River Island

I still look quite tanned! I doubt that it will last much longer but it's good to know that the 2 days of sunbathing on a sunny English (!) beach actually had some effect on my usually pallid self.

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My newest obsession: Swedish Krisprolls. They're like crispy bits of ready made toast that come in a bag. I'm about to have some for lunch with ham and philadelphia and a salad on the side. They're basically weirdly insanely moreishly good little wholegrain crispy things.

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I almost forgot about the stuff I'd ordered online yesterday until I saw my blog post below hahaha... At least I don't regret anything. Can't wait for it to come already, thats the problem with buying online, there isn't the instant gratification that you get from real life shopping. Sigh.

Grunge, nude and beaten silver by geisharock

The Alexander McQueen clutches are SUBLIME.. especially that studded nude piece.

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Love,

Geisha

xoxo

DAISY PRINT & DR MARTENS

Hello lovelies,

Exactly what it says on the tin/blog title.

A large percentage of my online shopping happens when I'm stressed, late at night. I'm not alone here, am I? It's so therapeutic! As summer is fast disappearing from London, I'm yearning for winter staples - skinny jeans and ankle boots... But I don't own any like this already, honest! (She says, thinking fondly of her extensive collection of skinny jeans and ankle boots)

I think I'll skip the whole "what will this go with?" dilemma and just wear these together.

Topshop & Amazon

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What will you be buying for your A/W 2010 wardrobe?

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Love,

Geisha

xoxo