Professor Green Secret Gig

I was lucky enough to get a chance to go see Professor Green help Barclays and TFL celebrate them teaming up for Barclays contactless on TFL buses. I am going to submit my review tonight but I will absolutely link it here, as always, when it goes live! So until then, here, have my craptastic instagram shot of the gig featuring not just Professor Green on stage, but a very deer-in-the-headlights security guy.

Willy Moon Gig Review

Didn't realize this got posted, but my reiew of the excellent Willy Moon went up at Bring the Noise the other week! Click here or the photo to read!

Album Review: Lexie Roth "Stay Or Go"

My review I did for Bring the Noise on Lexie Roth's album Stay Or Go finally got posted. Click the photo or click here to check it out.

Birthday Shoes

Tomorrow is my 25th birthday, so via money my parents gave me for a gift I went to Kurt Geiger today and got these! I lusted after the black version of these shoes until I saw the tan ones. I've already worn them out to get something quickly from across the street, and they're fantastic. Happy birthday to me!

Frightened Rabbit Pop-Up Shop and Show in Soho

Tonight I headed with my husband down to Kingly Court in Soho to catch Frightened Rabbit's pop-up gallery, and show at 7pm. This was a nifty promotional move for their new album, Pedestrian Verse (which is now streaming for free on the guardian website, go listen!).
The pop-up gallery was such a great idea to promote the album. To name a few things they had there:  massive prints of album art, the props they used to make the album art, prints of areas of the Highlands where they toured previously, and the bands guitars they recorded the album with strew about. And more!  They also had a documentary on loop but I missed that as I arrived just as they were about to begin their set. There was an impressive turnout there, and a lot of people (like myself) waited outside the show by a door to watch the set. They played some new songs and some old songs and it was just a real treat to see. It definitely made up for the fact I can't make it to their London show as its sold out.

The Carrie Diaries

I just finished a massive re-watch of SATC. This was mostly because we didn't have cable nor the internet for two months so I've had it on the in the background as I got ready on a morning and watched  an episode or two before falling asleep. I admit that I am really late to the Sex and the City bandwagon. As in, just started watching it in the summer of 2012 after viewing a few episodes at a friends house. Although I wasn't so convinced in the beginning, the show really won me over by the middle of the first series. It gives every woman who watches it some small storyline or character trait to relate to. (The story that struck me as my relatable moment was when Carrie felt absolutely alone in Paris.)
I've read Candace Bushnell's The Carrie Diaries, and have just downloaded the first two episodes of The CW's show of the same name and I'm beyond excited to see how it measures up to the books and the show. It will be great to have Carrie Bradshaw on screen again and AnnaSophia Robb is absolutely adorable.

A love letter to....By Terry.

Dear By Terry,

I try not to get too terribly girly on this blog, but this is the most sincerest of love letters. Every morning your beautiful Cover Expert in 01 Fair Beige transforms my skin. Gone are pale, dull and discolored patches as it gently smooths away the flaws in my skin, leaving behind an even, all-around glow. On a serious level, this is the most must-have makeup I have ever used in the 10 years since I first purchased foundation. It leaves you with an radiant and natural skin tone that looks healthy and well moisturized (but never oily!). I really couldn't live without it.

I know this foundation really worked when I travelled by train from London to Leeds (a two hour and twenty minute draining journey) to see my now-husband on the first day I used the foundation. In his car in the dark of the train station car park he looked at my face and went "Wow, your face looks beautiful! What have you done differently?"  It's actually gag worthy, I couldn't even make this up. 

By Terry makes fantastic products. Every one I have tried I have been so supremely happy with I could burst, and I just want to spread the word. They are a bit more expensive than the average Clinique, running from £42 for the above mentioned foundation, but so well worth it and a bottle of foundation usually lasts me 5-8 months. 

Another By Terry product I covet is the Touch Expert Advanced. It was the first product I ever ventured trying from the company, and has had a permanent home in my bag ever since I first began using it in November of 2011. I've tried similar products before that woo you with promises of erasing under eye circles and vanishing shadows, and those simply don't come close to the results you get with the VIP Touch Expert Advanced. 

Thank you so much By Terry, for your fabulous products that make a girl look and feel wonderful.