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Hi guys!

Along with hoping to see a lot more films in the next few weeks, I'm working on testing and getting to grips with a lot of products.  Here's a few that I'm working on to review:

Givenchy Poetique Blues:

Urban Decay Super Stash

Illamasqua Pure Pigment-Android

Nars Sheer Glow Foundation-Siberia

Maybelline Stilletto Mascara

Illamasqua Sheer Lipgloss-Soul

...and a ton of other products that are lying about!

Lots to look forward too

jo xoxo

2012-the film, not the year

2012:

I was badgered into seeing this film after I had rightly avoided it for a while. Whilst the effects cannot be faulted, the film vitally missed out on an opportunity to ask questions of mortality and lacked any real emotional tension. Some deaths were shocking, such as seeing the American President sacrifice himself due to his strong morals. The other main characters may have debated whether their actions were right or wrong but predictably most of the boring, two dimensional characters survived. This film would have tugged at the heart strings more if the characters had been more likeable.
Emmerich's return to an apocalyptic theme was enjoyable but lacked an emotional angle which would have at least made the viewer care if these people live or die. Whilst its faults were plenty, the effects and action made for gripping viewing.
Here's hoping that the Road tackles the human element of the world's end much more successfully than 2012!

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Second post!

Due to unforseen circumstanes (cough...men...cough) I was taken to the cinema for some good old comedy remedy. I was seriously excited about this film as it combined two of my favorite things: George Clooney and oddball comedy.  Although I have a mortal fear of goats, after a battle with one over jelly tots when I was young, I did somehow forget about this and enjoy the touching aspects the actual animals brought to the film.

Based on a book by a British journalist, Jon Ronson, the film follows Ewan McGregor's inteprid reporter who uses the Iraq war as a way to get over his marital problems and become more of a man's man.  I did not feel that the character of Bob was the strongest but that his commentary and normality in this absurd and wild tale was very much needed.  Bob discovers that the United State's military operated a covert training operation which aimed to create super soldiers who had psychic powers.  The sections of film where the philosophy of this group is dealt with are strong and indeed the best laughs come in the retrospective glance at the members of this operation.  This first part of the film is indeed the most enjoyable and really the thread binding the rest of the film together.  The coupling of Clooney and McGregor works and their relationship kept the sections in the desert intersting, even though somewhat incoherent.

Overall, this film really made me laugh at a time when I thought it was impossible to laugh.  It left me wanting to read the novel, willing to re-watch and overall a hope that one day I meet a psychic spy as hot and crazy as Mr Clooney.

jo xo

First Post

Hi blog world.

This is my first ever foray into blogs; blogs about make-up to be specific. My aims for this is to discuss and swatch make up I've recently bought.

Patience is much appreciated.

Love jojo xo