Revlon Parfumerie Polish!

I don't know about you but I love winter. Layering jackets and scarfs, the crisp leaves on the ground and occasionally the sprinkling of snow which then means curling up in front of an open fire with a cup of chai tea! Or at least thats what my winters were like before I moved up to Sydney, my chances of snow have been squashed into a big fat zero but that doesn't mean I can't still indulge in my winter rituals. One of which includes investing in a couple of new winter-esque nail polishes, so when I saw that Revlon had launched a Parfumerie line of polishes I knew that I needed to try them out. 

 

I decided to go with Wintermint and Wild Violets, both beautiful shades. Wintermint is an almost mermaid like green with teal and gold specks floating through. Although it brings back those childhood memories of cheap glitzy polish that came for free with your coveted magazines, there is definitely an air of elegance about Watermint. I think it's because the glittery tones are perfectly matched with minty polish and the gold specks just add another layer of sophistication! The fact that it smells like peppermint chocolates is just an added bonus. I would often get a whiff of it throughout the day and wonder where that gorgeous smell was coming from! It is a truly delightful polish.

 On the other hand Wild Violets is a really gorgeous deep purple but the smell is just a little off. Almost like something my Nanna would wear on a special occasion that has the odour of musty cupboard mixed with potpourri. Having said that it's not to overpowering and is definitely bearable, just don't get your fingers to close to your nose! Smell aside it is a very wearable polish with just the right amount of sparkle! The durability of the Parfumerie range is around 5ish days with a good topcoat! I've got my eye on a few other shades from the collection which are more spring-ey so I'll let you know how they go once they find their way to my eagerly awaiting hands!

What is your favourite shade of nail polish? Or are you as indecisive as me and have different colours for different seasons?

Weekly Catchup // 20 April

Wohoo!! I've finally got my head on straight and managed to take a few snaps to share with you guys!!! I'm currently on holidays visiting my little old Tassie and as much as i've missed the amazing coffee and gorgeous scenery, I'm ready to go back to Sydney. The first few days after I arrived home the weather was miserable; cold, wet and awful, just as it always was! But with that came cosy nights lounging around with a good book,  endless arguments over monopoly and lots of chai tea, which really is my idea of a perfect holiday, I fell back in love with my old home town.

My one saturday night was spent with a trio of scrubs and the latest vogue, my skin was silky smooth afterwards and my mind full of best-of-the-best skincare, makeup and fashion! Also copious amounts of tea; I was silly enough to move away from tassie without stocking up on all my favourite locally made tea mixes. So my suitcase now contains a rather large bag of Indian Chai, Vanilla Chai, Lotus Chai {Can you tell I like chai?!?} an amazing english breakfast and a french earl grey! Seriously, I think I need to go to tea-aholics anonymous. 

We took a visit to the quaint little of Oatlands, a town full of heritage, sandstone buildings and gorgeous gardens! They are world know for milling their own flour and it's hard to miss the huge flour mill that you can see from every direction. I fell in love with one garden we visited, inspired by villages in France Le Jardin was created and is full of highly perfumed lavender, lush olive trees and cobbled paths, I swooned immediately and was reluctant to leave! 

My first stop after getting straight off that plane was a trip to one of my favourite little coffee shops, I had definitely been spoilt with the choice of coffee over the years and have been struggling to find a good cup of coffee around my new town so I was desperate for a familiar blend. It didn't disappoint and got me through the next few hours without the bleary post-flight eyes!

More Lavender gardens! I went into crazy tourist mode, the angles I was getting phew-you'd think I was a yoga master or something ha! 

Just a little reminder to myself- tassie is freezing! I'm a terrible packer and seriously under packed on the jumper/coat front. But on the plus side it was a good excuse to go shopping- I fell in love with this babushka doll jumper from asos, it's not to thick so perfect for lounging around the house in. But with the leaves falling around me {Literally- this stunning red leaf fell on me while I was having my morning coffee!) I figure a few new jumpers were mandatory; and by a few I mean i've had to purchase an additional 15 kilos baggage to get home! 

Alrighty- that was my week summed up! I hope yours was as lovely as mine, possibly not as cold but memorable none the less.

lots of love, 

A whirlwind trip to Port Stephens.

Last weekend my little sister came up to Sydney to visit for a few days. The trip coincided with her birthday so I had planned a fun filled and adventure packed weekend with her best friend and my best friend who happen to be sisters too! Well that was the plan anyway, the night before she was due to arrive we decided to ditch the city plans and book a cabin in Nelson Bay, Port Stephens but not tell either of the little sisters. So the next morning rolled around, we picked Claudia up from the airport {In typical us style, a chaffered lift for claudi courtesy of the abandoned wheelchair we found on the footpath, you needn't worry for its original owner not being able to make it to the terminal, after a few crashes into gutters it was returned to its original location} We then sung her happy birthday in the car with a match in a doughnut as the impromptu birthday cake and  off we went. I had made up an elaborate story about going to a farmers market twenty minutes away and they didn't even blink an eye, an hour later they started with the 'are we there yet' serenade so I convinced them all that we were not only going to visit a farmers market but we were also meeting my future husband there, whom I had met on tinder two weeks earlier. Now I should add that I have never been on tinder; nor do I ever intend on going on but the looks on their faces and the constant questions got them to forget that we were in the middle of nowhere and had no clue where we were going to end up.  By the time we had been driving for over two and a half hours they had run out of questions and had given up on trying to work out where we were going. So we sang at the tops of our voices, checked out every single hot tradie that drove past and enjoyed the scenery. 

By the time we finally arrived in Port Stephens it was pretty grey and gloomy, but that didn't deter us! We checked out a few beaches...and the hot surfers that came along with said beaches {Do you see a pattern forming here!}  the sand was the softest that I had ever felt in my life and the waters were crystal blue! 

The best part of the trip would have to have been the early sunday morning camel ride! Although I opted out of taking a ride, it was still an experience and I think it was far funnier watching from a distance. The girls screamed and squawked when the camels rose to their feet, the owner told us that he had never heard someone make so much noise! 

The rest of the morning we spent wandering though the local markets, eating fish and chips on the beach and stealing picking frangipanis to decorate the dash board! On the drive home we decided to make a pit stop in Newcastle. Somewhere that I hadn't been before but will definitely be back! The sun was shining and the beach was gorgeous; the perfect end to a trip away! 

p.s Sorry for so many photos! I tried to only pick the best ones but I went kinda tourist-crazy and took far to many!