Interlude: What I get up to when I'm upset or bored...

There are hundreds of things I need to blog about. I am really behind with my blogging but tonight I am not in  the best of predispositions to blog. My day was ok, nothing bad happened bad at work. I went to my first class of  Zumba tonight, and let's just say that I was left pretty disappointed, with a deflated self confidence. Even  letting it all out on twitter didn't help.

When I feel a bit under the weather, it's actually doing a little  something for someone and hopefully making them smile which brightens my mood. I find that focusing on someone  else, instead of just myself, helps forget my own miseries, a little bit anyway…





So tonight, even if I have a backlog of emails and hundreds of things to do, I just wanted to play with my paint  shop pro (I can't work with Photoshop to save my life) and do something a little bit creative: a little banner  for my friend Catherine. Her blog is called Perfectly Polished. I think she likes as she has just adopted it :) 


This is the before:




and this is the after:


 


I am still a bit  mift about the whole zumba trauma and probably won't go to one of these zumba classes in  a hurry but I feel a little chirpier.


While I'm showing off, this a simple banner I did for  LouLou’s Blog. The brief was something simple, which goes with the existing background and with flowers and a bit of pink.



 





and this is a little banner/header I did for Miss Lori.
Again, this nothing special, very simple but different. It matches her love of pink, zebra and features one of my favourite pictures of her. I had so  much fun playing around with her banner.








I can't imagine why she didn't pick this one, can you? ;) Love you sweetie xx





Fancy a header for your blog?  I am not the best with taking photos but I can cook up something basic and simple  for you if you don't have a banner/header at all or if you fancy a change. Let me know.

Have you had a good day?

Liloo xx

Read more ...

The Photography Tag...

There are thousands of things I would like to learn, thousands of skills I'd like to acquire one day and if I had the money, I would be enrolling on (thousands) lots of courses. I can't swim to save my life, can just boil water to cook pasta and can't even sew a button which has fallen off.
Photography is another area where I don't have a clue about but which really interests me. You'll give me 2 equally good beauty blogs in terms with content and if I had to choose one, I'll go for the one with the best photography.

Anyway, all this long introduction to say that you might have noticed that I like dandelion clocks. When I saw that (free to use) wallpaper from internet, I just had to have it and incorporate it somehow in the layout of my blog. However, I feel that a more 'personal' picture would look better. Well.. this is where you come in.

How would you fancy a little photography challenge?

Fancy photographing a dandelion clock (or even the dandelion yellow flower) for me, please pretty please? There is nothing to win, but if you fancy the challenge, I'd love to 'tag' you and invite you to take part, and take 1 photo for me.


Basically we're aiming for something better than this, LOL and a bit arty farty, you know a bit like the picture on the banner ^_^



BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

Deadline: There is no strict deadline for this 'tag', but maybe a week's time would be enough? How about next Sunday, 1 May midnight? I hope you will take part. I leave you my email, shall i? :)  liloo@hotmail.com

I would love  to tag ALL of you my readers but also these very talented photo friends of mine:

Pete Favelle @ahnlak
Charlotte @lipglossiping 
Debbie @drew692
Fee  @makeup_savvy
Matt @gothick
Lizzums @talei
Bicky (Tastes Like Glitter)
Steph @Steph0188
Lily @beautysbadhabit
Peter @technex
H @25FLONDON 


Thank you so much xx

liloo/tsunimee
liloo@hotmail.com

Read more ...

The Spider on the Banner… Makeup Recreation

I wish I had been creative enough to come up with the concept of the  ‘purple spider’ makeup look on my new banner.  Sadly, it is just an old recreation  from an amazing makeup look from one of  my favourite makeup gurus on YouTube: Her name is sharkbiteoflife and I recreated this look from her a year ago, around her birthday, in a surprise tribute video where I actually attempted to recreate 3 looks in one go. She’s a massive inspiration me. So this is her tutorial.

Apologies for the extreme smoothness of the photo. I only recently purchased my ‘magic’ camera at the time and the smoothing settings are a bit ridiculous really.

Before the web:


 



And after, when I’ve messed it up.

Read more ...