Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paris. Show all posts
LIFE UPDATE & BACK TO BLOGGING
Moving back to Melbourne after eight months in Paris was an adjustment period I couldn't have prepared for. Being back here gave me a burning motivation to keep busy and get my life back on track after what felt like an eight month holiday. I got my studies in order, got a job and reconnected with everyone I had been missing while I was abroad. Now, two months later, I can safely say I have settled back into the rhythm of my Melbourne life, but in the best possible way.
WHY I STOPPED EATING MEAT
Regardless of whether you're for or against, the word vegetarian or vegan instantly brings up an opinion. I have been received with both praise and negativity, depending on who I tell, and just the journey of "coming out" as a vegetarian has been an experience in itself. I was reluctant to make this post as I am scared of slipping up, and there is a lot of hate thrown towards people who proclaim a "diet" and then go back on it.
A MINI FRENCH DRUGSTORE HAUL
Due to my long break from blogging while trekking Paris, I had a backlog of photographs that I had intended to turn into posts but I never got around to it. On my first day in Paris I uploaded a mini pharmacy haul, and this was the makeup counterpart! Arriving on European soil I found a plethora of new products that I had never seen before from brands I love. I tried to keep my composure and only pick up things I knew were going to be amazing so I didn't blow my budget in my first week, which would have been a tragedy.
WHAT'S IN MY BAG
'What's in my bag' posts and videos have a very special place in my heart as they were my first introduction to the online beauty community. I remember back in 2006 (for my sanity, let's not even reflect on how long ago that was) I would come home from school and spend my time watching these kinds of videos - namely rewatching as YouTube definitely didn't have the variety it does now back in the day. There is some addictive quality about them, and I'm sure everyone reading this has a similar story about their introduction to the beauty community, or simply an addiction to watching them!
My YouTube Debut
This is not a post I ever thought I'd be making. As much as I have wanted to dip my toes into the YouTube pool for years now, I've never mustered up the courage to do so until today. Something came over me this morning and I found myself out the door and soon stamping around the 7th arrondissement of Paris, collecting clips of beautiful places that mean a lot to me. At first, I just wanted to experiment with editing - to see what it was all about. I never really thought I would upload the finished product, but I was proud of it and though why not? It's hard to say what will come of this, as I still feel so much more comfortable behind the camera, but all I know for sure is that I found the experience of filming and editing so, so exciting. Regardless, I hope you enjoy Paris still managing to be breathtaking on even the cloudiest of days!
Life, Paris and The 20-Something Crisis
Sometimes I sit down to tap out a beauty post and partway through a half-hearted description of a lipstick I realise that there is something much bigger on my mind, and something I'd much rather be writing about. I love to think of this as a positive place, so I tend to feel guilty discussing those "negative" parts of life we all go through. However, there isn't really anything "positive" about hiding raw emotion and masking it with a fake-positive review of a beauty product. Today I am trying to abandon that guilt that seems to haunt me whenever I make a post that is possibly "too real". This is real life and there is a real person behind this blog, so what's wrong with writing a real post?
2015
2015 was simultaneously the best and the worst year of my life. It was full of such incredible highs, and such exquisitely painful lows but I would not change any part of it for a thing. This is a space I have been shallow with in the past, and while I have vowed to make it a better reflection of 'me' in the past - this post is the start of a much realer effort, and the end of a kind of "dormancy".
Where I've Been...
I can honestly not believe how long it has been since I've sat down to write a post. This has definitely been one of the longest breaks I've taken from blogging in almost two years, and while I have missed it at times, I'm glad to say that I have completely and utterly swept up in my life in Paris. I would go for days on end without even thinking of blogging and I think that goes to show what an amazing time I've been having. While blogging is a great love of mine, it's hard to have a spare minute to think about it (let alone do it) when you're forging new friendships, going on new adventures and all while university is running in the background.
I really just wanted to reach out and let you all know that I'm alive and have a little ramble about what's been going on for me! As for where my blog stands, I of course wish to post regularly again, but it's not a promise I can make as of yet even to myself. I have so many great skincare and beauty products lined up, however, and can't wait to share them all with you.
There have been so many points on this adventure where the internet and my phone are the last things on my mind, and it has been so refreshing to me as I'm someone who generally has my phone in my hands at all times. I have also learnt so much about relationships and people, and while I find the term "lifelong friends" so cheesy, I really have made some of the most important friendships of my life here.
This has been such a big, uncalculated ramble that I need to just end it here and come back later with a more structured recap of how things have been and a beauty review or two! I hope you are all doing wonderfully!
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