I'm seriously so sad

His downward spiral was long and harsh and I only wish that he had the strength and support network to have been able to pull himself out of the hole before it was too late. Hollywood chewed him up and spat him out, as it has many other young "teen idols". Brad Renfro, Jonathon Brandis...

RIP Corey. Your films will always be treasured by me and you will be missed.

As in oozing with germs, not as in totally awesome. Well I am totally awesome too, just a little less so from this bug I have that started as a sore throat and is now morphing into something that is sucking my will to live.

So yeah, if I'm quiet on twitter and here for the next few days, I'm not dead (or maybe I am?), just recovering. I feel rather whiny actually. I think that's because I don't really get sick often. It's been a fair few months since I actually had anything even slightly resembling a cold - I take enough vitamins and supplements each day for a small military force. But something has somehow cracked my defences. I used to get sick all the time, but now I'm just really bummed that something has broken my healthy streak.

In short, I feel like doodie.

My second favourite episode. Only trumped ever so slightly by Bambi.

Apologies in advance if I post some really weird entries in the next couple of days. It will probably be through a haze of some really good shit pretty strong cold & flu drugs and I really can't guarantee my total lucidity. But who knows, this may be fun.

Because we're now in the realm of all things gross, I'm going to post some really ugly swatches for you. Bad colours, bad formula, shoddy nails. I've got some shockers. I'll keep the pics small to keep you from clawing your eyeballs out.

Ruby Kisses Yellow & Maybelline Ocean Blue

Well the first one looks like pee. There's no skirting that issue. The second one, if I remember correctly, that was like FOUR coats. It was still a streaky, horrible mess. Gross.

L'Oreal 834 & Sally Hansen Gilty Frost

I don't think I have ever been as underwhelmed by a colour as I was by L'Oreal 834. It doesn't even have a name and that somehow seems fitting. It's the colour representation of an indifferent shrug. I have a name for it. Meh. L'Oreal Meh. The second one was an impulse market purchase that puzzles me to this very day. The formula is frosty and think, the colour stinks. Why did I buy it? There's actually a comment on my flickr for this photo with a girl saying she really likes the colour and wants to know where she can get it. I can't decide whether she's being sarcastic with me or not.

Sally Hansen Cherry Creme & Zoya Mia

Yeah I have no idea. It's not a Cherry colour. Heck, it's not even a creme. Sally's on drugs. I wonder if she'll spare some. Also note that this photo was taken before I had the slightest clue about nail care, lighting or photography. Nail fail. Zoya Mia is an alright colour I guess, but seriously my nails were crappy as back then. It also pains me that my version of the "mannequin hands" phenomenon is fucking salmon. Why am I so pink?

I still have four and a half hours left of work. I think I'll go breathe on everyone to amuse myself.

PS. Hope you're all enjoying my St Patricks Day blog theme.

I hate to tie myself into standard blogging traditions because I don't ever stick to them. I'm really as random as my blog title suggests.

But I watched a few clips on the weekend that I wanted to share with you all.

I love Weird Al, and White & Nerdy has been my fave for a LONG time. I think you have to click and view on youtube because embedding is disabled but it's so worth it. Even if you have heard the song already, the clip gives it so much more! Gotta admit I had quite a few "Hey, that sounds like me..." moments during that song. A friend of ours swears it was written about him haha!

I saw this clip and heard this song for the first time on my weekend and I couldn't stop laughing. The video is a parody of Chris Isaac's Wicked Game clip, and Jimmy has some of the funniest facial expressions I have ever seen. I have no idea how that chick is keeping a straight face.

I need to work out how to incorporate "I know my haiku's are freaking intense, but even the words I made up to sound French, don't express my feelings for your toilet parts..." into my wedding vows somehow. Romantical, yes? Or how about "I would show up for our pottery class, dressed like a pirate with John Water's mustache, On a unicorn that shits your name in stars..."

Needless to say, It's Bloodhound Gang so probably NSFW.

I really liked Korn's first few albums, but not really anything recent. This song really stood out to me though. I have serious issues with the monopolies that various corporations hold in both the music and movie industry. I gotta give them cred for making this clip. I really wish that things would change and artists would get more of their profit without being forever indentured to a label. It's improving slowly with the growth of the internet, and the ability for artists to self publish, but it's still in a really bad way.

WHOA. Serious much? Sorry bout that!

This is the song I am listening to right this second. Pat Benatar Rocks. Although she will forever remind me of Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

Actually, there are three girls at Ridgemont who have cultivated the Pat Benatar look.

Night peeps, I'm old now so I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams!

Hey dudes. Wow, only two entries last week! Slack much? *kicks own ass* I'll try and be a little more productive this week, although I do have a lot on so we will see how that works out!

Zoya Reverie Collection

Today I have for you some of the Zoya Reverie collection, I didn't get all of them and I'll be honest straight off the bat - they didn't exactly rock my socks off. However, I don't not like them. They are just "good".

Zoya Gwin

Gwin is probably my favourite of the bunch. The gold flash is what sucked me in, I will admit it. I don't know what it is about orange shades, but I just really like them. Even when they don't like me quite as much. I'm like that sad kid in high school following around that popular kid, hoping that one day, one day they will like me. But alas, Zoya Gwin looks in my direction in disdain and only talks to me when she wants to copy my math homework. *sigh*

Zoya Reece

Reece is SO pretty in the bottle but boy howdy does it NOT work on me. I couldn't quite get the green flash to show up on the nail, sadly. Perhaps if I could have this would be a little more wearable for me. I wanted to like it so much, but I think even that midtone shade of pink is totally wrong for me. Honestly, it's not a very me colour to begin with. Maybe I need to give it another shot. Maybe top it with some glitter. I'm hoping we can be friends, Reece. I really am.

Zoya Adina

Everyone's fave from this collection is Adina. Well except for me that is. I like it a lot though. It just wasn't what I was expecting. Unlike Reece, the green in Adina is REALLY strong. I blurred the photo a little to get it to show up a little more. The downside - I'm not sure if the lilac base is dark enough for me and its pretty sheer. I can't remember whether this is three or four coats - and there is still a lil VNL. All the other Reverie's only took your standard two coats. When I was a kid, I had a BFF named Jenna. She lived on Adina St. I don't know why I never forgot that. I wonder if she's on facebook...

Zoya Lana

For some reason my Zoya Lana has no label. And I'm not talking bottom sticker with the name. Zoya isn't printed on this bottle at all. Pretty weird. Let's hear it for quality control!! Well I like Lana a lot but I was thinking it was going to look way more different to Gwin. I'm not even sure that sentence is gramatically correct, but lets continue. The base colour is just way too similar, even though Lana is darker. They really should have thrown a green with purple flash or green with blue flash into this collection. Dark plum with fuschia flash? How do you spell Fuschia? I think I'm getting it wrong here.

So I find out at 6pm on Saturday night that there was a Stargate Convention in Sydney that day. I was definitely bummed as not only did I deny the BF his chance of meeting MacGyver, but I also missed out on meeting Connor Trinneer. Yes yes, closet trekkie. The Flan wasn't in attendance, otherwise I would have been going straight to the airport and hopping the first flight to Melbourne to attend the Sunday one south of the border. Nixxy would have had to put me up for the night. I'm sure we would have had cake. Damn, that would have been fun if the weather down in Vic wouldn't have killed me. So instead, I drank heavily and ended up going to bed at 5am after a marathon game of "Shoot, Shag or Marry" with some friends. I tell you, NO ONE should have to choose between Slimer, The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man or Michaelangelo (yes, the turtle). I have sick friends.

Speaking of which, shout out to Nixx and Jacie who I know were hit by the freak Melbourne storms. I also hope that EveryShadeofPINK is okay too along with all my other Victorian blogging buddies. Stay safe and dry, peeps!

In other news, I'm pretty sure I have finally worked out what I want to do with my life. Not giving anything away, but I'll be posting more as I gather more info and find out how viable this choice is. I'm also planning an overseas trip, and contemplating another one in 2011 as well as going back to study when I get back. It's Monday, which blows by definition, but I sit here at my desk feeling pretty good. I feel like I have stuff to look forward to, changes to be made and a light at the end of the tunnel. The shackles around my ankle chaining me to this desk grow weaker by the second.

Good, because I am looking at my one lone bottle and beginning to fear that my life just might be over when I use it all up. I can only sit on my hands for so long. I will have... to order... from somewhere....

China Glaze Atlantis over NARS Purple Rain

I randomly picked out this combo and slapped it on before my date with Emma last weekend (more on my date later. She brought me Illamasquas!) and even though I had planned on fishing Atlantis (lol pun) out of my untrieds for a while due to the fact that I have been perving on Joe Flanigan watching an episode of Stargate Atlantis each night with dinner, but I had NO idea I would love it that much.

The polish, not Joe. Okay well maybe Joe too.

China Glaze Atlantis over NARS Purple Rain
Alternate Lighting

Seriously. Wow. I'm wearing this over NARS Purple Rain - which is beautiful in its own right but I discovered that it is a bang on dupe for China Glaze Let's Groove. Slightly disappointing since I dropped so much bank on the NARS, but who knew? Now I have a backup. Two coats of Atlantis with a coat of Orly In A Snap over the top dried it quickly and it was only slightly bumpy. Definitely not bumpy enough for me to pick it off. Love love looooooove. I need like a thousand of these. An army of Atlantis backups.

I'm wearing BB Couture Night Ops at the mo. Seriously fighting the urge to slap a coat of Atlantis over it when I get home.

So in other news, I stumbled on to these new Jordana polishes on the eeeeebeh.

No idea if they are new or not, I just assume they are. The Jordana website is way out of date and these are not on there.

Admittedly, they may or may not have some sort of Twilight theme and I did buy them from a seller names "Bedazzled By Twilight" or something to that effect.

Don't judge me.

OH and while I remember, WTF is up with shipping costs from Nordstroms to Australia?
They wanted to charge me $81.00 to ship ONE LIPSTICK. (If you're wondering it was Guerlain Kiss Kiss Strass in Rouge Broderie. HOT.) Now I can handle the $31 price tag on the lippie, but that shipping is ridonkulous! Shame Nordies! I'm gonna have to find myself a mule!

That's all for now. Hopefully back later with more swatches.

I haven't laughed this much since French Toast!!