Make up and Break ups... My First Post.

Welcome to my site. What has brought you here I don't know but I hope this is the start of something special for both of us. Now we've dispensed with the formalities... What is this blog all about? Well I started off wanting to write a beauty blog (Okay I hear you closing this tab as you read - yawn, another beauty blog - but stay with me), I've suffered with a debilitating skin condition all my life and really the magic of make up has brought me so much confidence and helped me cope on the days I felt like giving up on life and staying under my duvet until... well forever, or at least until my face stopped resembling a pizza or whatever food it has taken the form of on that particular day. So I wanted this to be a no BS kind of place where you could come after a long day and read some of my reviews on the products I'm trying on that day, week, month or whatever. If you've suffered from any form of bad skin condition; eczema, psoriasis, severe acne, scarring etc. you will know the pain of finding decent make up that can a) hide bad skin and b) god forbid, maybe even flatter it? Bad skin days are a complete write-off, you don't even want to look at yourself let alone put make up on and try to feel better about yourself. It's like a losing battle. There's a BELL X1 song aptly named 'Bad Skin Day' and the lyrics go a little something like...

When I wake in the morning
Of a bad skin day

And I can't face my lover
On a bad skin day

Am I this alone?

Volcano has erupted

And the ash sails down
And I'm a poor soul of Pompeii

Oh Christ, I'm such a drama queen
On a bad skin day

Yes a thousand times yes! I think I actually cried when I heard this for the first time. How melodramatic, I know! Honestly though if you've ever had such bad skin you resemble a burn victim you'll know what I mean and you my friends are my GURLS. When my skin was at it's worse there wasn't a patch on my face that wasn't raw. Straight up raw flesh! I don't care how many Jaclyn or Carli tutorials you watch, ain't no make up sitting on raw skin. It's painful for a start and it smells and honestly there is just zero dealing to be had. "Christ I'm such a drama queen, on a bad skin day.." Well, yeah, exactly.  For slightly better days makeup has been my saviour. I only wish I had of known the things I know now about make up back then. It would have made my teenage years so much less painful. Okay maybe a little less painful lets be honest. Boys may have played a slight part too..

Which brings me nicely to the second part of my blog. I hope this can be a place where I share some of the tragic stories of my love life and you maybe do too? You see love and heartbreak have been the other big part of my story. No one prepares you for the shit shack that is love. If you've never been in love you probably have some nice romantic lofty idea of love. Or perhaps you're one of those people who've only ever known blissfully happy Disney kind of love (these people are collectively known as jerks!)... If this is you, you will have no idea how much love can just plain suck. Sure it's great and I'm going to be honest I'm still pretty much a hopeless romantic but there are times when love has just straight up split my gut in two. Cause love is like that for me. Growing up there was this song... "Love hit me like a ten pound hammer" Little me thought this was kind of romantic. How sweet. Wrong little me!!! Getting hit with a TEN POUND HAMMER?!! Pretty much sucks. Enter love.

So that's the gist of it. I hope you will come along with me for some tales and hopefully some helpful tips. I will post new posts/reviews on makeup or breakup related things every Thursday purely due to the fact that's today's day. Look we've started a tradition already.