I've only written one blog post this month and it was a bit of a sErIoUs blog so I thought I'd switch it up with something a bit happier. Make-up! Make-up makes me very happy and I really like sharing with other people. I still feel so new to make-up and I'm trying to become more serious about it. I actually wear it on a daily basis and it's honestly magical. Make-up gives me a confidence boost that not many other things do. I feel like it's one of the only creative things that I've held onto in the last few years and I want to keep getting better at it. I feel naked without eyeliner. I've had a very taxing last couple of weeks which was a mix of work and not-work stress all bunched together in a giant life-sucks-punch-to-the-stomach. ON A POSITIVE NOTE, I finally had my first (and second!) psych appointment after waiting for what felt like an eternity. It was actually only a month, but a month is a long slippery slope when you are a quaking ball of depression. I've actually really enjoyed it so far (weirdly). My psych, Becca, said it was so unusual that I was excited for my first appointment. I guess seeing a psychologist is only exciting when you've spent seven years actively avoiding it. I promise to write a continuation of my seeing-a-psychologist-journey, but for now I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures of my face because it's excellent and I love it.

I've been a bit lazy with make-up this month. It's been SO SO SO HOT the last couple of weeks and I am really not enjoying it. It's nice being able to leave the house without a coat, but I also don't want it to be meltingly hot. My go to look is this, which is also coincidentally the featured image of this blog because it is my face almost every day:

It's simple and quick and it doesn't melt off my damn face when it's hot. This was from a reaaaally hot Sunday which we spent at World Vegan Day! It was so hot that I immediately removed my fluffy jumper when we went outside. It was a good day. We had some delicious fake meat and I hung out with a pal who I hadn't spent much quality time with recently so it was good good. I also bought vegan whipped cream and condensed milk!! I'm yet to try them because I never do desserty type things at home but ONE DAY. I want to bake more so we shall seeee.

I'm far too lazy to write make-up captions this time SO if you see a make up thing on my face and think wow how did you do that, what product is that, please ask me and I will very happily let you know. It is just very many of an effort to type. Ask and you shall receive. Most of the make-up I use is drug store except for my eyeshadow palettes. So v v cheap, gimme the interest and I'll give you the deet$$$$.

I've been really loving freckles since I did the yellow freckles last month. Actually I've just been really loving dots again. Dots and freckles r good. 2 out of the 3 remaining looks are frecky. Freckles are love, freckles are life.

This is a weird angle and blurry but whatever. I think I still had a small number of lash extensions at this stage so my lashes look SO SPARSE and non existent and I'm very squinty and it's an odd pic but the only pic I took of my cute ass frecks. I wore this to work and felt very self conscious but screw that noise, I'm cute and I'm going to live in my authentic cute self at work.

This is prrrrrooooobably my favourite make-up of the month. I really really loved the white freckles and the white on pink dots. I am very digging white and pink and white on pink. Pink is just a very good wholesome colour. I remember hating pink when I was growing up and I feel like it was me lashing out at feminine things because it was UNCOOL to be a girl (it's really not) I'm also digging pastel ribbons in my hair this month - it has been a tres cool month for good hair looks. My pal Anica even shaved my undercut and cut my hair for me!! I feel like an entirely new person with a fresh haircut. All my dead ends and my mulletty back are finally gone and I can breathe a sigh of relief because it is SO GOOD NOW. It's kinda a short bob and it's super cute and I love how it looks when I tie up the top layer of hair.

This look is a close second, I think that if I tried to do it again the execution could be better. My hair was also really weird that day because it was so hot and my fringe was too long and it was all big and bad bad bad. I also had a weird gap in one of my eyebrows which after I noticed, could not STOP noticing in all of my selfies and could not for the life of me fill it in in a way that made it less obvious.

ANYWAY I can't get over the freckles!!!! Freckles are so good. How do I become more freckled? I am very here for fake freckles and dots and I am probably going to experiment more with spots in the future. I would also really love to use more stickers again. I used to use sticker gems a lot and they were wonderful and I loved it, but I haven't been able to find any that I love as much as the ones that I bought in a craft store 5 years ago and then subsequently ran out of. Also HOW GOOD are my earrings?!

The last photo is just my face and some nice shadows. My eyeliner is really simple + some lines, I just wore different lipstick that day and thought it deserved a photo.

You can see the shadow outline of my kumamon phone case. What a good.

I'm very tired. I slept terribly last night and this blog has taken me three days to write in between being sad and sleeping for most of two days and baking two batches of muffins and a cake, and going to work, and interviewing for a new! job! I'll be really stoked if I get it. Please dog let me survive the anxiety week ahead.

It's time to go to bed. Goodnight pals. Thanks for looking at my face and reading my rambles about that face. Don't forget to appreciate your own face and your own self xoxo

make-up diary: november