A Random Wishlist ...!

So this is my random wishlist ... it's a bit of a mixture of bits as you can see. Once I started I could have just kept going and going (as you do!) ... it's the old snowball effect isn't it ...?

A Random Wishlist! by beautyandthebiryani featuring 80s t shirts

First up a couple of products for my poor old hair (I want them both!) ... the Aveda Thickening Tonic is expensive at around £19/100ml but is apparently meant to 'thicken hair instantly with just one use' ... need I say more?  By contrast the OGX Hydrating Macadamia Oil Intensive Moisture Mask is only £6.99 and I loved the shampoo and conditioner from this range, review here - so definitely want to try the mask.

I'll be after a new under-eye concealer quite soon and can't decide whether to spend up or save between Clarins Creamy Concealer or Rimmel Wake Me Up (can I just get them both?) and anyone who's into nude lippies wants to get their hands (or lips) on MAC Velvet Teddy .... right?

I need a Casio Retro Digital Watch ... don't ask me why I just do ... I've been dithering over the exact size and style but am swaying towards 'the bigger the better' vibe (not huge but big!) so may end up with a 'mansize' version (need to try a few on I think!).

Brown Leather Tote Bag ... it doesn't have to be/cannot be as expensive at this one, gorgeous though it is at £180 (if I win the lottery then yes!) but it has to be brown and leather - you know the sort that will go with everything?

Now for my 'randoms' Frankie Says Relax T-Shirt (apparently the original version said 'Frankie Say Relax') ...  my love for logo t-shirts is not diminishing with age (unlike my hair) and as a first time round Frankie Goes to Hollywood Fan (I have the 12" singles on vinyl) I'm amazed I haven't plumped for this one years ago - better late than never!  And last but not least ... whilst pinning to my Pinterest 'throwback' board (it gets so addictive once you start doesn't it?) I realised my need to revisit some of my old TV favourites - I was a little obsessed with Jaime Sommers so may start off with The Bionic Woman - although I've just realised I should begin with The Six Million Dollar Man after all he went through it all first right?  'Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man.' -  I reckon many young people have now no idea what I'm talking about here!

OMG (I never say OMG!) that has taken me all the way back, my brother wanted 'to be' The Six Million Dollar Man  pretty sure he had the doll and everything!

Fingers crossed I can tick some of these off soon! What's on your 'random wishlist'?


Jen x

Radiohead - Just ...

Friday at last...

I know I usually say 'it's been a long week' and all that jazz but it really has this week.  I think I've had a spot of low mood (low something anyway!) ... before I start let me just say that I'm not fishing for sympathy or anything - just discussing...

I can't be the only mum who races around like a complete idiot trying to accomplish far too many tasks and tires herself out to the point where she is mentally and physically exhausted.  I've not felt ill as such, just not myself? I don't know whether it's the physical that causes the mental downfall or the other way round - dodgy hormones maybe? Difficult to explain but the simplest of tasks become a huge ordeal, like wading through a sea of grey cotton wool and general equilibrium is at a minimum - don't even talk to me about concentration. I just have to tell myself that I'm having one of 'the episodes' and that things will return to normal once 'it' lifts.  I mentioned the following to another mum on Twitter this week - I think we take too much on and then beat ourselves up when we don't achieve everything we set out to. We need to cut ourselves some slack and just think sod it! So that's what I aim to do - if job number X, Y or Z gets left then so be it. There are only so many hours in the day and I am not The Bionic Woman (unfortunately!) ...

What's all this got to do with Radiohead? Well if I'd had chance to shut myself away from everything this week to blot our everything but the music then I'd have listened to Radiohead - 'The Bends' - from start to finish ... any one of the tracks would have cut it...


Radiohead - Just...

See what I mean - the whole album is filled with gritty, atmospheric tracks that you can just absorb or that absorb you - whichever way you look at it!


How have you been this week? What music would you want to lock yourself away with?

Jen x