Confessions of a clothing hoarder...

Hello Blogoverse! Today as I was hurled up in my room on the last of my Christmas period days off I was left thinking about a blog post I made recently about my Beautaloutions although I have made some very positive steps in this direction ( yes this means we have a haul post coming up) I found myself floating on the thoughts of one where I promised myself that I would purchase new articles of clothing every two weeks to a month. It then struck me that to actually be able to commit to this I would have to start getting rid of some clothing that I already had! Unfortunately I am an out and out clothes hoarder, I am a firm believer that the knit wear jumper I bought in Topman two years ago in an end of season sale is still going to serve me well, and it is reasons like this that I never have new clothes because I think "ah sure the old ones are grand" As i said in the title of the mentioned post this year was a case of "New Year, Old Me" yet I think the old me should starting dressing in some new clothes. So i am here today to give some ideas on how to lose some wardrobe weight.

1: "The Man Up and Throw Out"
   This concept is the most straight forward but in my opinion is the hardest one to do, it simply requires you to just take one for the team get a few black bags and your old tracksuit on and dive head first into that wardrobe of yours and start firing clothes into the bag. The most important rule is to be cut throat if you have second thoughts it means its time to dump it.

2: "The Hung Up on Hangers"
   I got this little gem from a blog post about how to declutter your life and basically you take all your clothes and hang all the hangers in the one direction and every time you wear something you change the direction the hanger was facing so you can keep track of what you did and didn't wear and you do this for a given period of time and at the end of it all throw out what you didn't wear. It sounds like some modern day genius however I personally thought it would leave me wanting to wear all the clothes and thus the hoarding continues.

3: "Ask your mum"
   This should only be used in cases of extreme hoardom as it suggests it requires getting your mum to go into your room and giving her the free reign to throw out any clothes she either doesn't like on you or knows that you don't wear. It will most likely leave you with a single pair of jeans and a jumper but it will leave you with some space to fill.

To any of you out there who do consider doing this this january I would ask that you take the time and find a charity shop / organisation to donate all these clothes to as I am sure there are people out there who would benefit greatly from them.

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Ethan
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Beauty Lovin Home Cookin...

Hello Blogoverse! Just thought I would share this nifty DIY lip balm recipe from the gang over at Beautylish. Wether it's a subtle shine or pearly pink balm this is bound to get lips tingling and I am definitely going to try it out so except a blog post all about my results in the coming week.

http://www.beautylish.com/a/vxviy/lip-balm-recipe

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Tweezing for Dummies (Men and Women)

Here in Dublin, the grand aul captial city of Ireland we are in the midst of an epidemic. Yes there is a stainless steal untensil that is tearing famlies apart, this creature is said to live in the depts of our beauty boxes and is known to come out late at night and attack unsuspecting eyebrows. Never fear ladies and gents I am here to save the day with my own take of "Tweezing for Dummies"

To do this all you will need is a tweezers, an orange wood stick (or a pen something long and straight) and some savlon.

Before we begin this I would like to remind people of the age old saying;
                                           
                                              "Eyebrows are sisters not twins"

Step 1: Meausring your eyebrows

 In my opinion the most important step to ensuring you leave yourself with a natural looking set of forehead warmers is to measure them, to do this you simply take your orange wood stick, pen or you can even use a nail file (we will refer to this as the stick from now on). Taking your stick place it vertically from the corner of your nose past the begining of your brow and you tweeze anything outside of this point but ensure you measure both brows at the same time to ensure you don't over pluck the space between your two brows. The next stage is to take the stick and from the corner of the nose once again bring the stick to where your eyebrow should end which is at the outer corner of your eye and tweeze anything outside this point, They finally to meausre your highest point (basically where your natural arch is) Whilst looking straight ahead, bring the stick from the corner of your nose diagonally over your pupil and this will give you your highest point. This is so you can pluck your eyebrows to their natural arch.

Step 2: Tweezing

I would reccomend doing this when you get out of the shower as your hair follicle (the bit the hair grows from) will be open and it wont be as painful when your tweezing the hairs. One of the key factors in painless tweezing is ensuring that the skin is pulled taut when tweezing, you can do this by taking your middle and index finger, select the area you want to tweeze keep the area small, and pull the skin up and keeping that tension tweeze inbetween the two fingers. Make sure that you tweeze in the direction of growth I cant tell you how important that is! If you don't you can completely destroy the shape of your eyebrows and cause your brow hair to change direction of growth. My tweezers is from the Boots range and it was €6


Step 3: Cleansing

Taking some savlon or any form of anti-septic cream rub it all over your eyebrows as this helps to reduce redness and basically just clean the eyebrows which is important especially if you have bloodspotting.


Ethan's Top Tweezing Tips

1) Don't over pluck, they are eyebrows not chickens

2) Tweeze after the shower to help make it less painful

3) Don't spend too much time on any one eyebrow make sure you alternate

4) Make sure you stop every now and then and look in the mirror to prevent yourself from overplucking

5) DON'T OVERPLUCK (Has it sunk in yet?)

Ethan
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