All Things Bright and Beautiful

Time for my first ever makeup review! Coral Colours is an often overlooked Australian makeup brand. I don't hear much about them but I have tried a mascara, blush, lip gloss and powder from them and they are awesome products. This powder is my holy grail setting powders for my foundation and concealer. I really do not like using powders with colour in them because I find they make my face look cakey no matter how little amount of product I use. But I think I am going to start using colour powders because tragically, this powder and my ELF translucent powder are almost empty and both these brands are not available in Thailand :( This powder is an amazing powder. I can use as much or as little as I want and it does not make my makeup look cakey. Even on days when I don't use a primer, translucent powder, especially this one still makes my makeup last all day! And this is in hot, Thailand climate! Rating- 10/10 Love the stuff! And as soon as I could, I would...

I thought today I would share the story of my husband and how we came to get together <3 As should be clear from my wedding photos and posts, my husband Yo is Thai. Yo was born in Chiang Mai, Thailand was the youngest of 4 brothers and sisters. I am not sure what age, but when he was quite young, he witnessed his father die in a brutal attack and then his mother was in and out of jail for drug abuse and selling a daughter to prostitution twice. When he was about 3 or 4, he and his older siblings (Nit, Noy and Ja Fu) were taken from Chiang Mai to a children's home in Banklang, Phetchabun. The people that brought him to Banklang were Australians and the husband and son were two of Yo's best men in our wedding.  Yo lived at the children's home most of his life and went on to work at the childrens life until late 2014. As you know, Yo and I met when we went on a missions trip to his orphanage in 2013. We took him to Australia January-April of this year and...

So I went shopping this morning in a Thai market. I bought things. It was great :) Thought I'd share with you all and tell you prices just to prove how inexpensive Thailand really is. Light Blue Lacy dress- 199 baht ($8.29)- I bought this to wear to work especially on the 12th August which is Thai Mothers Day and all the teachers have to wear blue :) Blue and Pink wireless Bras- 100 baht each ($4.16) 2x Black tights/shorts for under skirts and dresses- 100 baht each ($4.16) High Class Hair Dryer- 250 baht ($10.41) Pink Purse- 100 baht ($4.16) 2 pairs of earrings, Strawberries and the Pepsi Logo- 10 baht each (4 cents each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 969 baht ($40) So Cheap!!!!!! Now get back to saving money :)

I found it necessary to write a post on suicide and how to speak to someone dealing with suicide loss. As I have previously mentioned in my blog, I recently lost my father to suicide and it has been a roller coaster ride the last 2 months.  I have been shocked by the people that don't know how to speak to someone who has lost a loved one to suicide so I felt the need to write a post on how to speak to someone dealing with loss to suicide.  1. Don't call a victim of suicide selfish- If you have ever lost a loved one to suicide, you would know that sometimes it is hard to feel compassionate toward people that have 'smaller issues' that to you, don't seem like something to worry about. I have been labelled as 'selfish' because I talk about my father's death and sometimes fail to show compassion to others. I am usually a compassionate person and if I act like I don't care, deep down I probably do, but unless you have lost a family member to suicide,...

I haven't uploaded beauty related post in a while, so today, I thought I would write a post about 5 products on my Makeup wishlist :) Enjoy! 1. Sleek Face Form Kit in Light 2. MUA Undress Me Palette 3. NYX Rouge Cream Blush 4. NYX Butter Lipstick in Razzle 5. Wet 'n' Wild Coverall Foundation

So I haven't posted for a while.  So much has been happening with starting a job as an English teacher in a Thai school and the shock passing off my Dad. My Dad died from a heart attack due to an overdose. He wasn't diagnosed with depression or anything like that but problems with work and finance just got too much for him. I'm not going to go too far into it because I want my blog to be as happy and upbeat as possible. It was hard for a while and it still is hard but I'm taking comfort in the fact that my much loved Dad is now in heaven with God.  Suicide is all to common and I plan to make people know that suicide does not make a person a coward or week. My Dad was strong until the very end.  On a brighter note, I'm an English teacher!  No joke!  A friend of mine that lives in Thailand is friends with the Head of English at a small school in the Hill tribe village of Khao Kho. Within a week of living in Thailand, my husband and I were in Khao Kho with a ...