City Geisha

I’m back! Sorry for my absence, I have been busy celebrating Xmas and the New Year…

Christmas  has been and gone and boy was it a flying visit or what??!!!! And along with it, New Year’s Eve celebrations. It seems like both were over in the blink of an eye and well before you could say “Give me another portion of fois gras!!”. That’s liverwurst for my American friends and sorry if that sounded patronising but I once said fois gras to an American buddy of mine and he didn’t understand what it was. Commoner =D

Hope you’ve all had a great Christmas celebration with your cherished families and friends and a good start to the New Year. I went back to Paris to be with the family and I truly enjoyed my four days there. Arrived there on Christmas Eve around noon and stayed until Sunday evening.  Nonstop eating, mouth stuffed full of delicious fois gras that just melts in your mouth, lots of dessert wine and the obligatory chocolate binge.  As my sister’s birthday is on Boxing day, our Christmas every year seems to be more debauched than most people’s.  So Xmas eve dinner with my sister’s inlaws followed by our traditional family gathering on Christmas day followed by a birthday celebration, oh dear angels around me, bless my poor little stomach and liver… But was every mouthful of fois gras worth it? F*ck yeah.

This is totally the one time of the year when I go all out and let my hair down. =D

Moving on the side of shopping in Gay Parrrris, I have come back with a small haul of goodies picked up from my favourite candy shop, Sephora.  If money was no object and I had stacks and stacks of shelves in my little flat, I would buy out the entire store. Freaking love Sephora.  Here’s what I picked up (from left to right in picture below)

Sephora big fat retractable powder brush (used for bronzer)

Sephora retractable foundation brush (used as a contour brush to create them cheekbones)

Sephora Waterproof Triple Action Mascara in black

Sephora Ultra-Shine Lip Gloss in 16

and lastly a lippy, which I am aware is not from the Sephora range but I did get it there, from Urban Decay in Lovechild.

Apologies for the fingerprints....=D

Also my younger sister has introduced me to Bourgeois’ new range called UNE NATURAL BEAUTY, released in September 2009, which is just packed full of natural hues, so if you are not a fan of bright colours and obvious streaks of shades painted on your lips, eyes and cheeks, then check out this label. In addition, 100% of the ingredients come from natural origins, are paraben and silicon-free and packaging is eco-friendly.  Brownie points earned! I was given the following:

UNE Sheer Lips balm in S03, which is a plum coloured lip balm that looks dark at first glance but goes on quite sheer. Beautiful stuff.

Here is their full range of products:

Unfortunately, UNE is only available in France.  Bummer, looks like I will have to ask my sis to stock up on stuff for me.

Hope eveyone has had a good start to the week, most of us are back at work this week and hope it’s not been too hard =D xoxo