NOTD: Catrice: 050 The Pinker The Better

So here's my first Nails Of The Day :D.

I'm not very good with nail polish, so it doesn't look all that perfect, but it's good enough for me!

The colour of the nail polish isn't exactly the way it is on the photo.

In real life it's a hot pink.

I painted my nails with 050 The Pinker The Better by Catrice.

My nails have no base coat, 2 layers of 050 The Pinker The Better and 1 layer of Nail Expert Up To 10 Days Ultra Long Lasting Top Coat by Catrice.

I really love the color of The Pinker The Better.

I'm not a pink kind of girl, but I DO like hot pink, and hot pink also looks good with my pale skin.

I like that this nail polish has a shimmer in it, since it tends to look a bit more glamorous on me than a nail polish without shimmer.

It is the first time I have used the top coat and I really love that as well.

The nail polish and top coat combo dried really fast and it made the nail polish very hard.

Usually a lot of nail polishes can stay a bit soft for an hour or so, and therefore I always end up with marks in my nail polish, like finger prints, fabric impressions or dents.

With this top coat I get no marks in my nail polish at all, so that's really nice!

I think Catrice is a good nail polish brand.

The nail polish is 2,50 euro a bottle and the top coat is approx 3 euro.

Not a bad price for good nail polish!

What do you think of The Pinker The Better?

And have you tried any Catrice nail polish yourself?

Make-up Shoppings

Today I went for some retail therapy.

I went to two drugstores to shop for some make-up (again).

I was specifically searching for 2 gorgeous nail polishes by make-up brand Catrice in the colours:

240 Sold Out For Ever

and 250 I Sea You!

Sadly they were sold out (no pun intended) at both drugstores :(.

So I got some other stuff instead.

This is what I bought:

A Catrice nail polish colour chart, which was free off course.

Perfect Adapt Concealer by Catrice in 010 Light Beige

Forget it! 3 in 1 concealer by Essence

And some nail polishes, from left to right:

320 Back To Black, 260 Blue's Brother, 150 Big Spender Wanted! and 050 The Pinker The Better. (all by Catrice)

320 Back To Black (Black with silver shimmer.)

260 Blue's Brother (A Petrol kind of colour with silver shimmer.)

150 Big Spender Wanted! (A rose pink colour with silver shimmer and possible gold shimmer.)

050 The Pinker The Better (A hot pink with silver shimmer.)

You can' actually see silver shimmer in the polishes.

The shimmer turns the colour of the nail polish itself.

Only the shimmer in 320 Back To Black stays silver.

And some cute earrings:

So what do you think of the things I bought?

Do you own nail polish by Catrice?

Lush NL Package

On april 20 I ordered 2 bottles of 250g Karma Shower Gel (especially made for us Dutchies for Queensday) and a Furoshiki (knot wrap).

I could barely wait to smell the Shower Gel, and yesterday my package finally arrived, yay!

My package contained:

-2X Karma Shower Gel 250g

-Furoshiki Purple Flowers

-Free Tin Celestial Moisturiser (I've been wanting to try it)

-Lush Times Extra (Dutch)

I'm really happy with what I ordered :D.

I haven't used the Karma SG yet, but I've smelled it in the bottle, and it smelled lovely!

I'll write a review soon.

Review: Lush: Slammer Shower Gel (Retro)

Slammer Shower Gel is a Retro product, which means you can only order it from the UK Lush website from the Retro section.

The Retro section contains a lot of products that used to be a hit in their day, were discontinued for some reason, and were brought back because of high demand.

Before, you were only able to buy 500g bottles of Retro Shower Gels, but now you can buy 100g bottles of Retro Shower Gels, Shampoo's and Conditioners!

Ingredients:

Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Fresh Lime Peel Decoction (Citrus aurantifolia), Fresh Scottish Sea Water (Aqua), Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Fresh Lime Juice (Citrus aurantifolia), Honey (Mel), Lime Oil (Citrus aurantifolia), Rock Salt (Sodium chloride), Litsea Cubeba Fruit Oil, Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum), Perfume, FD&C Red No.4, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

Lush UK website description:

An early-morning citrus slap in the face for days you'd rather stay asleep. The alarms are tingling, beeping and buzzing, your partner pours coffee down your throat through a funnel and plays The Jam very loudly, but nothing will stir you from your work-day slumbers. This is when you need a bottle of Slammer waved underneath your nostrils. Be invigorated by its sharp lemon and lime bubbles. Your brain will flicker and come to life with wafts of stimulating litsea cubeba oil. Your skin will tingle with refreshing sea salt and be soothed with honey; you will be wide awake and smelling fresh as a lime tree. Start the day with a Slammer (The virgin kind).

To me it smells like a whole basket of citrus fruits: limes, lemons and grapefruits in various shapes and sizes.

It doesn't actually have grapefruit in it, but that's not the point.

The point is that showering with Slammer is like taking a fruit basket and a juicer with you in your shower, like your are squeezing the fruits above your body and let the juice splash on your skin.

Slammer's extremely fruity and juicy and zesty.

You can smell the juice of the limes, lemons and litsea cubeba, but you can also smell their peels (luckily without the bitter smell, I really HATE bitter!!!).

Slammer just smells lovely!

Slammer is a really refreshing Shower Gel that gets me awake and happy.

Its scent energises me and I feel ready to take on the world.

The Shower gel is a bright orange (though mine has faded into a dark yellow/very light orange), and it makes your skin nice and smooth.

Slammer Shower Gel is much more hydrating and smoothing than say The Comforter Shower Gel.

This is probably because of the salt that's in the Shower Gel (the salt in Rub Rub Rub makes my skin feel soft and smooth as well).

Verdict: Extremely juicy, citrusy Shower Gel that makes me awake and happy and my skin smooth and soft.

I really recommend this!!!

Review: Lush: Artemis Cream

Artemis Cream is a Body Lotion that was only available at a Forum Party.

It was named after Forumite (user of the Lush UK forum) Artemis, who had been bugging Lush to make a Body Lotion scented with raspberry and lime.

So they did.

Ingredients:

Fresh Lime Infusion (Citrus aurantifolia), Almond Oil (Prunus dulcis), Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Organic Raspberry Seed Oil (Rubus idaeus), Glycerine, Staeric Acid, Triethanolamine, Fresh Raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Bergamot Oil (Citrus Aurantium bergamia), Myrrh Resinoid (Commiphora murrha), Lime Oil (Citrus aurantifolia), Cetearyl Alcohol, Isoeugenol, *Limonene, *Linalool, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Eugenol, Perfume, Merhylparaben, Propylparaben. *Occurs naturally in essential oils.

Artemis Cream is a Body Lotion with a very fruity smell.

It's a bit of a sweet and sour Raspberry and Lime scent.

It isn't exactly sour but not overly sweet either, more of a mix.

The Raspberry and Lime really complement each other and blend very well in to an enchanting scent.

This is once again a Lush scent that can't be described very well, you just have to smell it for yourself (Lush scents have a tendency to be that way).

Artemis Cream is one of the lighter Body Lotions, just like Vanilla Dee-lite.

It is nowhere near as hydrating as Dream Cream or oven Charity Pot.

It is a light Body Lotion that spreads very easily on your skin and is easily absorbed.

It doesn't make your skin greasy or extremely hydrated, but it does make your skin smooth and soft, like your skin is covered in an Artemis Cream layer that protects it.

Because of it's fresh scent and because it is one of the lighter Body Lotions, it's a perfect Body Lotion for spring and summer!

What I really like about Artemis Cream is that it is the Body Lotion with the longest lasting scent ever!!!

If you apply it on your skin on tuesday morning, you can still smell it very well (read: fairly strong) on wednesday morning.

Most of Lush's Body Lotion's have a scent that can still me smelled 24 hours later, but not as strong as this one.

Verdict: Amazing smell that lasts for ages (longest smelling Lush Body Lotion ever), light Body Lotion that is perfect for spring and summer.

I find the scent uplifting and energising and I ham really have 3 bottles of this!

Review: The Secret Garden: Sweetie Pie Whipped Body Butter

The Secret Garden is a Dutch webshop run by a woman named Serena Verbon and her mother Rita.

I think Rita makes the soaps and Serena makes everything else.

Sweetie Pie Whipped Body Butter

Ingredients: Shea Butter (Butyrospermum parkii), Coconut Oil (Cocos nucifera), Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis), Babassu Seed Oil (Orbignya oleifera), Ricinu Oil (Ricinus communis), Teunisbloem Oil (Oenothera Biennis), Grapeseed Oil (Vitis vinifera), honey (mel), silk protein, vitamin E, perfume oil

The website describes their Whipped Body Butter as pure luxury for every skintype.

Its made of whipped shea butter combined with six luxury skin-nurturing oils.

It also includes silk protein which makes the Body butter easier to apply, honey for softening the skin (it also has anti-bacterial properties) and vitamin E to protect and repair your skin (vitamin E is an anti-oxidant).

Sweetie Pie Whipped Body Butter has, according to the website, the structure of whipped cream.

I think it has more of a mousse (you know, the dessert) structure.

You're supposed to only need a little of it because it spreads out easily and is very hydrating.

However, it's even more hydrating if you use more than just a little bit.

I bought a 30g jar which held only 15g and costs 3,50 euro.

That's alot for a little bit of Body Butter.

It's a very hydrating Body Butter, but since I used more than just a little bit, the little jar is empty in no time (say 2 to 3 uses max) and that's just way to expensive for me.

I probably would buy it again if they sell it in bigger jars though, because then it's less expensive.

The Sweetie Pie scent is just yummie!

It's supposed to be almost sickly sweet, but it's not extremely sweet to me.

What I smell is a lot of musk and vanilla with sandelwood, a bit of cotton candy and berries.

You don't really smell the cotton candy, the berries or the sandelwood.

I smell mostly the musky-vanilla goodness, and the other scents are very well blended in that so you can't really identify the individual notes.

It's an amazing smell which I can't get enough of it.

I think it smells very feminine and sexy, and grown-up but also playfull.

I love this scent and would really like a lot of products in this scent (I prefer a Shower Gel or Soap, big pots of the Whipped Body Butter and a perfume!!!)

Sadly there are not products with the Sweetie Pie smell in The Secret Garden webshop at the moment.

Verdict: Really yummy smelling, very hydrating body butter, just too bad it's so expensive.

My skin really soaks up this stuff so I won't get far using only a little!

Reviews: Lush: The Comforter Products

Lush has a lot of products in the "The Comforter scent".

Some of the products are regular products, and others are Forum Party Products.

The Comforter has a berry/cassis and herbs scent.

It is very berry and sweet and a bit spicy.

Its not something you can accurately describe, its a must smell kind of scent.

The products available in the "The Comforter line":

*The Comforter Shower Gel

*Sweetie Pie Shower Jelly

*You Snap The Whip Scrub

*The Comforter Bubble Bar Slice

*The Comforter Body Lotion

*The Comforter Solid Perfume

*The Comforter Liquid Perfume

*The Comforter Shower Gel

Ingredients: Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Bergamot Ol (Citrus bergamia), Cypress Oil (Cupressus sempervirens)m Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Perfume, Cocoamphoacetate, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, *Limonenem *Linalool, Colour 45410, Colour 17200. *Occurs naturally in essential oils.

This is a Forum Party Product which you cannot buy anymore!

The scent is heavy, just like You Snap The Whip.

Much heavier than Sweetie Pie Jelly.

When you put it on your skin the scent is very strong.

Even when you use a small amount, you can smell it very well :D.

It doesn't foam very well, so you need more than a little to properly wash yourself.

You can also wash your hair with it, and that makes it smell really nice.

The Comforter isn't one of the best hydrating Lush Shower Gels.

It gives you more of a squeaky clean feeling than a thoroughly hydrated feeling (which you would have after showering with Shower Gels like Snowcake or Butterball).

The scent does linger quite well after showering and patting your skin dry.

You will smell like The Comforter for hours and if you washed your hair with it, your hair will smell like it too.

Verdict: Amazing smelling shower gel. Isn't very hydrating but makes you smell nice.

You can was you hair with it as well. Great to combine with other "The Comforter" products.

*Sweetie Pie Shower Jelly

Ingredients: Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cherry Infusion (Prunus cerasus), Glycerine, Propylene Glycol, Coconut Infusion (Cocos nucifera), Perfume, Carrageenan Extract, Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Cypress Oil (Cupressus sempervirens), *Limonene, *Linalool, Iridescent Glitter (Polyethylene terephtalate, and Acrylates copolymer), Snowflake Lustre Colour, Colour 61585, Colour 18050, Methylparaben.

Description on the Lush UK Website:

Sweet and sophisticated fruitiness. Lashings of blackcurrent and bergamot essential oils in a sour cherry and coconut jelly make this about as fruity as you can get. It is incredibly difficult to resist taking a spoonful. Instead, take a handful and smooth it over your hair and body. Passing strangers will smell you and find their minds wandering to fruit pastilles.

The scent of Sweetie Pie Shower Gel is not as strong or as spicy as the scent of The Comforter Shower Gel or You Snap The Whip Scrub.

Also, it's sweeter.

Apart from that it is the "The Comforter" scent, just a tad bit different.

It's harder to use than a Shower Gel, obviously.

You can take a piece of the Jelly and smooth it over you body (and hair if you wish) with a puff, a washcloth or your hand, or you can take the whole Jelly and wash yourself with it.

Some people also take a bit of Jelly, put it in a stocking and hang it under the faucet of the bath.

That creates loads of bubbles!

What I do however, is put a Jelly in the blender or a kitchen aid, and blend it very well.

Don't add anything (like water), because then it will expire much faster.

When you take it out of the blender (or kitchen aid), you will have a jelly cream that has a lot of air in it.

That's why it looks like you have a lot more than you started out with.

The air will mostly be gone within a day or so, so the amount of jelly cream will shrink.

Now you have a jelly cream, you can scoop up a bit and wash yourself with it.

It lathers and foams very well and it's really easy to use!

It's also amazing as a shaving cream!!!

Sweetie Pie Shower Jelly is much more hydrating than The Comforter Shower Gel.

That's because of the Carrageenan Extract!

It makes hair and skin very soft and smooth.

Sweetie Pie doesn't give you the squeaky clean feeling, though you'll definitely feel clean after using it.

After showering and patting your skin dry, your skin (and hair) will still feel soft, and you can still smell the scent very well (although maybe less strong as the scent after use of the "The Comforter Shower Gel).

Verdict: Smells less strong and spicy than The Comforter SG an YSTW.

Makes your skin and hair softer than The Comforter SG, but the smell that lasts on your skin is less strong than The Comforter SG.

*You Snap The Whip Scrub

Ingredients: Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Organic Macadamia Nut Oil (Macadamia ternifolia), Laureth 4, Powdered Charcoal, Pumice, Perfume, Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Cypress Oil (Cupressus sempervirens), *Limonene, *Linalool.

Description on the Lush UK website:

Hard core body scrub and butter bar to show skin how to behave. It's black, it's fruity and it scrubs your skin really, really hard. Get soaked in the shower and start your punishment. You Snap The Whip forces your skin to submit to its pumice and charcoal cleansing regime. Once the wickedly effective exfoliation is over, it comforts you with luxurious macadamia nut oil and scents you with fruity blackcurrant and bergamot essential oils. Your skin feels as if you've just peeled off the old one and revealed a sexy new one (which you have, in a manner of speaking).

The scent of You Snap The Whip Is strong, like in the The Comforter Shower Gel.

When using this scrub, you can either use the whole bar or cut the bar into pieces and use one or two pieces a shower.

It's better to cut it into pieces, because You Snap The Whip melts easily and if you use the whole bar you can only get one or two showers out of it, but if you cut the bar into, say 9 blocks, you can have a whole lot of showers with it :D.

I always cut the bar in blocks and use two blocks for a shower.

A few years back I used YSTW to scrub as hard as I could.

I don't do that anymore since the pieces of pumice in YSTW are too big these days, and it can scratch your skin and leave scars.

I had 2 large scars on my right leg, caused by You Snap The Whip!

One was approx 10 centimeters and the other one approx 15 cm.

That's why I haven't used YSTW for over a year.

The scars have mostly faded now and I am going to try it again.

I just bought 4 bars and I will use them more careful now.

As long as your careful, you will not scratch your skin, but you will scrub your skin very wel!

You Snap The Whip is a coarse scrub that will really get rid of dead skin cells and bumps on your skin and possibly ingrown hairs.

What I really like about this scrub, is that in turns your skin a purplish-grey in the shower :D.

It all washes off, but it's fun to be this dirty in the shower.

Also, I get almost intoxicated with the strong smell, it's just so lovely.

After showering, your skin feels really really smooth and soft.

You Snap The Whip has hydrating butters, but it doesn't give you the greasy feeling Buffy gives you.

YSTW gives you a smooth, soft and hydrating feeling without any greasiness at all!

Also the scent really lingers on your skin.

After using You Snap The Whip, you really want to slather your body in The Comforter Body Lotion, so you won't cover the great YSTW smell, but instead enhance it!

Sadly I have never combined the scrub and the Body Lotion.

That's because when I got the Body Lotion, I was too scared to used the scrub again.

I will try it soon, when I've used up my buffy.

Verdict: Nice strong smell, really great, coarse scrub, but you have to be careful when using it so you won't scratch your skin. The scent really lingers well on your skin and it's great to be combined with other "The Comforter" products.

*The Comforter Bubble Bar Slice

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar (Tartaric acid), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Titanium Dioxide, Cocamide DEA, Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Cypress Oil (Cupressus sempervirens), *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 45410, Colour 17200.

Description on the Lush UK website:

This fruity bubble bar gives the feeling of being hugged by a jolly blackcurrant. When life is getting you down, crumble The Comforter under hot, running water for purple water and creamy bubbles. The warm aroma of cassis absolute is so relaxing that you'll go to bed feeling happier and the world will feel brighter the next day.

The scent is just as strong as the Shower Gel and the scrub/body butter.

I have only used a sample of this Bubble Bar Slice in the bath but it still smelled really strong and gave more bubble than any of the other BBS's I have used whole.

What your supposed to do with a BBS, is crumble it under hot water in your bath.

I always did that but never got loads of bubbles.

I was already happy to have maybe 3cm of bubbles instead of mountains of at least 50cm you are supposed to have when only using a half or one third of a BBS.

In the newest Lush Times they finally wrote the key element for getting loads of bubbles when using a BBS.

The key turned out to be: after crumbling the BBS under hot water, swish, swish, swish etc.

I never thought of that...

Anyway, I will try swishing next time I use a BBS, and hopefully I will then have mounds of bubbles!!!

The Comforter BBS smells stronger than other Lush BBS's and also gives loads more bubbles.

It is also bigger and more expensive, but you can have more baths out of this one.

The Comforter BBS turns your bath into a very pretty purple-pinkish colour.

It isn't very hydrating, but none of the BBS's are.

Also, after bathing and patting your skin dry, you can still smell the scent but it isn't extremely strong (just a bit stronger than with other BBS's).

Verdict: Lovely, great smelling BBS, that smells stronger than other BBS's and gives more bubbles, gives more baths than other BBS's because it's bigger, but also costs more.

Isn't extremely hydrating, but neither are the other BBS's.

It's great to combine with other products from the "The Comforter" line.

*The Comforter Body Lotion

I haven't got a picture of this yet, but I'll make one soon.

For the time being we'll just have to go without.

Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Sweet Almond Oil (Prunus dulcis), Cocoa Butter (Theobroma Cacao), Glycerine, Stearic Acid, Treithanolamine, Bergamot Oil, Cassis Absolute (Rubes Nugrum), Cypress Oil (Cypressus sempervirens), Cetearyl alcohol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

This is a Forum Party Product which you cannot buy anymore!

The colour if this Body Lotion is light pink and it's stored in a big black Lush pot, in which it was sold.

It was also sold in a Lush bottle before that.

The scent is heavy like the Shower Gel and the scrub, not like the Jelly.

When you put it on your skin it smells really nice, like The Comforter.

However, for some silly reason it turns into a wine smell on the palms of my hands.

Luckily the rest of my body doesn't smell like wine, but like The Comforter.

The smell lingers on your skin a very long time.

You can still smell it a bit the next day :D.

The Comforter Body Lotion isn't Lush's most hydrating Body Lotion.

It's more hydrating than Artemis Cream an Vanilla Dee-lite (which are very licht), but not nearly as hydrating as Dream Cream, Creme Anglaise, Skinny Dip or Jungle Body Lotion.

There isn't a Lush Body Lotion that is the same in hydrating properties so I'd say it's more hydrating than Artemis Cream and Vanilla Dee-lite and less hydrating than Charity Pot and Sympathy for the Skin.

It hydrates, makes your skin soft and makes it smell nice, but it isn't nearly hydrating enoug for dry skin.

Verdict: Nice smelling Body Lotion, that is hydrating, but not hydrating enough for dry skin.

It has the "The Comforter" smell so it combines great with other products of the "The Comforter" line.

*The Comforter Solid Perfume

Ingredients: Japan Wax, Perfume, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Carnauba Wax (Copernicia cerifera), Bergamot Oil (Citrus Aurantium bergamia), *Limonene, *Linalool, Organic Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis), Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Cypress oil (Cypressus sempervirens), *Citral.

Description from the Lush UK website:

A warming blackcurrant blanket. The Comforter fragrance has quite a history. Back in the 20th century, it started out in the Cherie Ripe Massage Bar. Its distinctively comforting element is blackcurrant absolute. If you were brought up on blackcurrant drinks as a child, or always choose the black jelly babies, you will feel safe and secure with The Comforter. Fruity bergamot and reviving cypress oil will make the world seem much brighter.

The scent of the Solid Perfume is really strong, just as the Shower Gel and the scrub.

When using a Solid Perfume I usually scrape a bit off with my nail and apply it on my wrists, behind my ears, on my neckline and between my breasts.

This will ensure that I smell like The Comforter all day long.

The smell is strong and it lasts which is really nice.

You can go ages with one tin.

Verdict: cheap, one tin lasts a long time. It smells really strong and the scent lingers on your skin for a long time! Great to combine with other The Comforter products.

*The Comforter Liquid Perfume

I still have to make a pic of this.

I will do this later, and I'll ad the pic then!

Ingredients: DRF Alcohol, Perfume, Bergamot Oil (Citrus Aurantium bergamia), Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Cypress Oil (Cypressus sempervirens), *Limonene, *Linalool, *Citral. * Occurs naturalli in essential oils.

This is a Forum Party Product which you cannot buy anymore!

The scent is strong like the Shower Gel and the scrub.

The scent throw is stonger than that of the Solid Perfume.

Also it lasts longer.

This perfume stays strong and sweet throughout the day and I've gotten compliments about it.

Other people seem to really like it when I'm wearing this.

Verdict: Nice, strong perfume. Scent throw stays strong throughout the day. I really love The Comforter smell, so I love this perfume! Great to combine with other The Comforter products.

If you really want to smother yourself in the "The Comforter" smell, you have to use more products in this line!

Ideal would be to use:

(-The BBS)

-The Shower Gel or the Shower Jelly

-The scrub

-The Body Lotion

-The Solid or Liquid Perfume

I own all the products of The Comforter line, except for the Jelly.

I have used that one all up.

I will make some pics of some of these products that don't have a pic yet!

So, what do YOU think of The Comforter???

Twilight (The Movie)

About 6 months ago I decided to find out what the Twilight hype was about.

Everywere I read and heard about Twilight and the actors that played in it.

So I went to a local video rental and rented the DVD of Twilight.

Excited of what I was going to experience (I thought it must be good since it was such a big hype), I put the DVD in the DVD-player and pushed the PLAY button on the remote.

The movie started all mysterious with a deer being hunted and a girl saying: "I've never given much thought to how I would die, but dieing in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go."

I thought that was wisdom and I wondered what the movie was going to be about, where the story would lead me.

As it turnes out, the story is about a girl named Bella, Bella Swan.

She used to live with her mom, but she's going to live with her dad for a while, in a place called Forks.

Life in Forks is completely different from her life in Arizona, where she used to live with her mother, and she finds it difficult to fit in.

She hangs out with some guys and girls and they like her.

However she still feels like she's alone.

Then she meets a guy named Edward, who isn't average in any way.

Things with him are strange and soon she finds out what he really is.

After that things get really complicated but she know that she's not alone anymore.

Now she's got something to live for and she's not going to give up easily.

I'm not going to say much more about the plot or the characters, since I don't want to spoil it for everyone that hasn't seen this movie yet.

What I will say however, that it's a movie filled with emotions: insecurity, loneliness, fear and love, amongst others.

There's humour in it, drama and action, all crammed in one movie.

It's one of my favourites and I think I've seen it at least five times now, sadly never in the cinema.

A few of the most important characters in the movie:

Bella Swan (Played by Kristen Steward):

Edward Cullen (Played by Robert Pattinson):

Jacob (I don't recall his last name, played by Tailor Lautner):

Bella & Edward:

The Cullens:

The cast:

And the trailer:

It took me a while to find a good trailer, but I finally found one that's acceptable (you just need to stop the trailer at 2:25).

So enjoy!

So what do you think of this movie?

Have you already seen it?

Or do you still have to?

(If so, go see it, it's really worth it!)

The movie is not the same as the book.

The book is much better, and in the movie events are different.

If you want to have the best viewing experience, you have to read the book "Twilight" by author Stephenie Meyer first!

Mad Tea Party: Eat Me (Bpal perfume oil)

The second Bpal perfume I review today is Eat Me.

It's also a Mad Tea Party (Alice In Wonderland Collection) scent, just like Drink Me & Alice.

Eat Me does have a part of the Alice In Wonderland Story by it (Alice doesn't and Drink Me does).

Here's the part of the story:

Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words 'EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.

'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, 'Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

This is the scent description that is on the Bpal website:

Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants.

When I had just applied Eat Me, the cake notes were really strong and a bit buttery.

I probably smelled the vanilla as well, but it was mostly drowned by the three white cakes.

Fifteen minutes later the cake notes weren't as strong as before and I could actually smell the vanilla.

Slowly a tarty, sweet, fruitiness emerged, but it wasn't till fifteen minutes later the fruitiness was actually apparent.

The cakes had really backed down.

I could still smell them well, but they did not smack me in the face anymore.

The cakes were well blended with the vanilla.

Into the cake and vanilla blend i could smell a tarty, juicy fruitness that was really nice and blended very nice with the vanilla and cakes.

The scent developed into a sweet and nice scent of cake, vanilla and berries, but not really strong or sickly sweet.

It actually smell like maybe there's a bit of flowers i this perfume, but that probably isn't the case.

Since I only have an imp of this, and I really like this, Eat Me might make it on my "I want a bottle of this"-list.

Mad Tea Party: Alice (Bpal perfume oil)

Today I tested 2 other Alice In Wonderland Bpal oils.

I started with Alice on my left wrist and Eat Me on my right wrist.

Alice doesn't have a piece of story to go with it.

I does have a scent description however.

The scent description on the Bpal site:

curiouser and curiouser. Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot.

At first the carnation was pretty strong, which I loved since I'm a big fan of carnation.

Ten/fifteen minutes later when I tried to smell the different notes, I smelled carnation but also the rose, which was sweet and a bit soapy (but not actual soap, which I wouldn;t like).

I also smelled something citrusy (which must be the bergamot) and something sweet (which must be the milk and honey).

Ten minutes after that the scent was even more blended, so it was more difficult to identify the individual notes.

The rose was still rather strong and aided by carnation.

I also still smelled something sweet but I couldn't identify the milk and honey anymore.

The bergamot makes it a bit sharper though I don't smell the bergamot anymore, only the effect lingers.

I really like this perfume, though I love it the most at the beginning, when it was less blended and the carnation was still stronger than the rose.

I really like rose but I like carnation even more.

I only have an imp of this and I might put Alice on the list of scents I want a bottle of.

It is a sweet and flowery scent that is really lovely.

Mad Tea Party: Drink Me (Bpal perfume oil)

Today I tried out a perfume from Bpal's Alice in wonderland collection.

It's called "Drink Me".

On the Bpal website almost every perfume have text by it (usually from story's or books).

This is the one that's by Drink Me:

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, ('which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.

It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.

The scent notes that are in this perfume are: cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee and buttered toast.

When I first applied the perfume, I was overwhelmed by the scent of custard, toffe and buttered toast.

It was like it punched me in the nose, and that definitely isn't a good thing.

There was a massive buttery like note and it made me nauseous.

Nevertheless, I didn't wash it off immediately.

I waited to see if the scent would change, and it did!

After approximately 15 minutes the cherry tart note (and probably also some pineapple) came seeping through the buttery scent.

It made it smell sweeter, fruitier and a lot less heavy.

I almost liked it at this point.

However, 15 minutes later it didn't smell that great anymore :(.

I could really smell the roast turkey, all though it smelled more like roast beef to me.

The fruit scent and the buttery scent both had faded a bit , so I smelled most like roast beef with a sickly sweetness to it.

I guess this just isn't my scent.

I'm just really glad that I ordered an imp instead of a bottle ;).

I think I'll like Eat Me probably a whole lot better.

I'm trying all my Mad Tea Party (Alice in Wonderland) scents, to see which one I like enough to wear to the Alice in Wonderland 3D movie :D.

I don't have a pic of the imp and I can't find one of the label art (that the bottle has) either, so I guess this is a picless blog post (weird).

Heavenly Creatures (the movie)

A few months back I saw this movie on television.

I knew I had seen parts of it before, but now I got to see the whole movie.

This is a movie by New Zealand director Peter Jackson, and it's a true story.

It's based on the diary of Pauline Parker, who becomes best friends with Juliet Hulme.

These close friends have a great imagination.

They make-up a whole fantasy world and write books about it.

They quickly became obsessed with each other and their fantasy world.

When their parents decided to take the two girls away from each other, they make a plan to kill Pauline's mother, who they think is the one that stands in their way.

Heavenly creatures is a raw, but also dreamy, kind of movie.

It's real but also imaginary and it's a real drama.

You feel for Juliet and Pauline and want them to be able to be together, but you also realise that killing isn't going to help (but they don't).

Pictures of the real Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme:

*Pauline Parker on the left and Juliet Hulme on the right

*Mugshot of Pauline Parker

*Pauline Parker nowadays

*Newspaper article about the murder

*Close-up of Juliet Hulme

*Juliet Hulme

It is a pretty bizarre story and therefore also a pretty bizarre movie, but also really interesting!

I've always been interested in crime and murder.

Not in a way that I want to be a criminal and murder people, but in a way that I want to know what brings people to do this kind of things.

You know, the psychology behind it all.

That's why I'm so interested in things like psychology, criminology and forensic sciences.

If you are a movie enthusiastic, you should really see this movie since it's a classic.

It's pretty much a cult movie that you must see!

Pictures of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme in the movie:

Pauline and Parker in their imaginary fantasy world:

*Pauline on the left and Juliet on the right

*Only Pauline, but in human form

*The villain from the fantasy world, I want to call him Bruno but that's not his name, I think it's something with a B though

*Juliet Hulme

*Before they kill Pauline's mother

*After the killing (they are covered in blood)

And finally, the movie trailer :D :

I know this is a very long blog post, but it's worth the time (yours and mine).

It's a very interesting story and a great movie (that you definitely must see!).

If you want more information on the killing, you can visit:

* site 1

* site 2

* site 3

So what do you think of the story and the movie?

Do you think it's interesting?

Do you find it bone chilling?