Things males say...

I cannot stand it when guys say something along the lines of :

"Why do you wear makeup? You'd look so much better without it."

Excuse me, MATE. You are clearly misunderstood. I don't mean to sound superficial, but NO, I FRIGGIN' WOULD NOT LOOK BETTER WITHOUT MAKEUP ON.

And if you SAW me without makeup on? You would run crying to your mother like a little baby boy who is scared to go to sleep at night because of hideous monsters under his bed. 

I am that monster!!

Don't get me wrong - some (very lucky) girls can pull off wearing no makeup and looking decent. I am not one of those girls. I look completely different, and not in a good way. My skin lacks colour, my eyes look downright naked. It's not pretty. This is why I do not leave the house without *at least* some foundation on. Call me shallow, but it's for society's own good. I don't want anyone to think a zombie apocalypse has begun.

Male friend or admirer, please shut your mouth. Do not make statements you know nothing about. Why does the beauty industry rake in billions of dollars a year? Definitely not because women everywhere are going "natural". 

Next time you utter this ridiculous line to a girl, please alter your words a bit - suggest she wears less makeup, not NONE AT ALL. Or as I said - just don't open your mouth at all.

I leave you with a comparison:

The lovely Katy Perry as we know her, snapped by a professional photographer.

And Katy without makeup, snapped by her charming hubs Russell Brand.

...Know what I'm sayin?

Sah hipster..

I just downloaded another photo app, Hipstamatic. This one imitates different lenses, flashes, and camera types to make old-school looking pics (Similar to Instagram but with more mixing and matching of filters.) Here are some I've taken in the last half hour. I took them all on random settings - shaking the iPhone while on the main camera screen randomises the lens/flash/camera type, which is pretty cool.

I'll take some better ones using Hipstamatic when I actually have decent things to take pictures of. It's really cool for taking genuinely old-looking pics - the first one looks like I'm in the early 70s. I still think I prefer Instagram - a large set back of Hipstamatic is that you can't use the iPhone 4's front camera. This camera, which mirrors itself onto the screen, is very helpful in taking self-portraits, like these I took using Instagram earlier today.

More flattering than the awkward angles achieved when using the back camera!

Weekend ft. A Sibling & New Phone

I'm back! Tom returned to NZ yesterday, so I have regained access to my computer (he had supreme rule of it while he was here). This was fine, as I was preoccupied by my brand new iPhone 4! May its life be longer than its predecessor, the one that got stolen on the spiked-drink night (whole other story).

I'm not going to even start on how much of an asset this is to my life, cos I will never stop. So instead I will post some pics of the weekend, ft. my sibling.

Bless the fact that this device has a decent camera.. and bless its freakin' cool apps!

Here are a few pics taken with the Instagram app, where you can take pics and instantly apply cool vintage-looking filters and effects to them.

All these are just random shots I took for the sake of using the app, and they look awesome! The blur (like in the last picture) can be used in any of them, though I only just discovered this moments ago.

More cool shiz to come! Till then, I'm off to use the Sleep Cycle app in bed. You set a half-hour time frame in which you need to wake up, and the app uses motion sensors to record when you're in the lightest sleep and therefore the best time to wake you up. 

Here's the graph of how my sleep went on Sunday night (well, Monday morning). We'd been out on Sunday night and had been drinking, hence the almost-instant "deep sleep". This is a typical example of alcohol-induced sleep, with deep sleep in the first half and frequent waking in the second.

Pretty cool huh!?? I'll post one soon of a normal sleep night.

Anyway, it's time to go to bed for real now. Goodnight!

Pumpkin Soup Weather

It is officially cold in Melbourne.

Last night I went to bed in the most fetal position I have been in since probably my womb-days, with 2 blankets on, tights (!) and socks. Not fun. If it weren't for the rain on the roof which I found quite pleasant, many curses would have been uttered.

Currently it is a fresh 14 degrees outside (and probably 10 inside our house, which I actually think is a huge esky of sorts).

Here are some shots of our backyard today.

Pretty colours!

Anyway. I think most of our household at some point in the last week has proven that the winter months are indeed here by making pumpkin soup. The staple for cold weather. It is utterly brilliant, especially when made in the style of one Lee McKenna. Thanks Mum!