Monday 10 October 2011

Liverpool, UK: Chalk meets Peaches & Cream



It's time to take the chalkboard out for the day...



ummm...


'To Peaches & Cream!'

My friend Rose works at a local beauty salon in Liverpool called Peaches & Cream. On this particular day I scheduled my face in for her to practise her 'glitter smokes'.

Scared to chalk inside the building (because I was definitely taking some sticks with me), I took my own chalkboard. Aiming to please, I took in a small pink cupcake, too...

Oh, and I ordered a taxi.
It's on Dale Street...


Which is NOWHERE near my house...




The front of Peaches & Cream!


'Hello Helen :) Welcome to Peaches x x'

A nice welcome!


It's time for a '#Roseover'...

(Hashtags remind Rose and I of a gig we went to in the city a few months ago. It was too loud to talk so we, using our phones, adopted the hashtag method of communicating our thoughts. It made sense to carry on the tradition today to avoid moving my face to talk/to make use of my hands and my chalk.)


This is Rose.


This is her make-up collection....


This is uh...


...before the glitter stage



Yip, that one's nice.


Yep, I like it.


Yeah, that one as well...


Shortly after Rose mixed this, I flipped it onto the floor...


'Too much for work?'

'NO'

There was still the rest of my face to cover...

So I shut my eyes and we had a little chat.

Firstly, about The Maccabees...

(Rose is going to see them live)



Then about other people's weddings...

(She did the make-up for a whole host of them in the summer...)


And then about uh...morphine.



And by the time we stopped discussing bands, young love and aches, it was complete :)


Eyes shut!


Eyes open!


And not an ounce of powder out of place/all the way down my face...


Love the makeover. Love my new postcard.


Love that the photo of my rabbit from the chalkboard now lives in the salon...


But sad to go.


Bye fish in your great big tank!

#Iwanttoownyou


Bye welcoming lady with the neat handwriting!

'Byeeee'


It's time to face the music...(work)


Well, right after I've run around the city with my new look...


...and drunk tea in a place where I would usually only wear mascara.


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Making girls in Liverpool feel awesome est. 2003.


'I'm sat in the newsroom covered in glitter'
...

Wednesday 5 October 2011

Aberaeron, Wales, UK: Chalk and chips, please!

So for some strange reason, October is the new July and it's boiling outside. Well, at least it was when I took a trip home to South Wales to meet my family last weekend...

On Friday, mum drove us the long way from Brynna in South Wales to Aberaeron on the West Wales Coast. You been there?

We go every year...


'Day trip to Aberaeron'



Where every house and shop is painted a different colour...




'I love this chip shop'


'There's something about chips in a bag'


YUM.



'...and views like this'




Where there are bikes, there are people...


And where there are nice houses, there is jealousy...

'My future house'


Sitting on the road.


Sort of.
(not me)




'Grey'


'GREAT'

(Grey is great when you're looking at lots of grey pebbles on a nice beach.)


See...


'Yea!' it's great


'Neis iawn'

English: Very nice


The views at Aberaeron are super cool


There's SPACE to run about in, FRESH AIR from the sea...


And chips.


Bottom left hand corner.


This is how we feel when we visit the West Wales Coast...


...until we take a multitude of wrong turns on the way home and arrive in South Wales at midnight.

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