Korres Wild Rose Lip Butter

Today's date 26/02/2013

I have been splurging a little lately on the Mecca Cosmetica Australian website and what I decided to splurge on may surprise you as not many people like to spend almost $20 Australian dollars on a lip butter.

 I just had to try this one as I had herd many good things about it from many beauty blogger.

The lip product I decided to try was by Korres. Its their Wild Rose lip butter and I fell in love with this product from the get go.

The first thing you notice is the packaging very cute and quirky.

Then as you open it up you eyes first meet with a deep rouge rose colour and then a beautiful wild rose perfume fills your senses.

I applied this product with my pinkie finger its texture is so creamy and it transfers to the lip rather lovely leaving a hint of a tint behind giving your lips a fullness and sheen.

The feeling of this lip butter is heaven on dry lips as it makes them feel moisturised.

The only thing I didn't like about this product was that its in a pot and not a tube but I can get over applying it with my pinkie.

The price $18.95 it is a little steep but the product in my own opinion is well worth the price tag as I find it to be my most luxurious lip butter that I own and makes my lips feel so moisturised and kissable.

XO Kitty

Let's Get Organized

Today's date 24/02/2013

I made excuses for why my savings account was always empty and why my bills where always paid late. Why sometimes I skipped meals or perhaps ate baked beans or pasta bake for a whole week straight.

I would say things like "I don't earn enough money" or "I really do need my gym membership" that I haven't once attended but pay for every month. Not to mention buying things on my credit card or just because they where on sale.


Then I decided to take a big step back. I looked at my pay slip and saw how much I was earning every month. Do you know what it wasn't that I needed to earn more money I just needed to get organized.

I started by writing down my monthly income then I wrote down all my expenses for the month and the dates that everything was due to be paid. Then I wrote all these down on my calender so I can visually see what expenses where due and how much it was each month.

The items like my rent, car loan and savings I had my employer pay a specific amount in to a separate account where these would be directly deducted from and the rest of my money went in to its usual account.

Doing this meant that I could then budget with the rest of the money I had left and I found that after I had paid all my expenses every month and put money away for savings I still had some cash left over which I would leave in my account for emergency cash.

Now before you can be successful doing this you first have to know where the heck your money is going. I did this by checking my every day account online and seeing every transaction I was making.

I would spend a lot of money on food. That's right food, I bought my coffee in the morning, fast food for lunch and sometimes even dinner. I skipped my payments to my credit card or bills that needed to be paid and so a lot of the time my account was in arrears so my bank would charge me fees every time and because I would pay my bills late I would then incur a late fee on those bills. It was a a bad cycle that had to be stopped.

My first step before organising my budget was stop purchasing things that I could bring from home like coffee, breakfast and lunch.

The next step was to speak with my bank and switch my credit card over to a low interest rate card that had a super low interest rate for the first six months and then a competitive low interest rate after that.

I then got all my bills out and called each bill provider and got a extension on each bill that was going to be paid late so that I would not incur a late fee or my service shut off.

I needed to go to my gym and cancel my membership as I could not find anyone else to take over my membership.

Then I made out my budget and set up a separate account for my rent, car loan and then a separate account for my savings and my everyday account had everything else in it. My calender showed the date that everything was due so I know exactly what gets debited from which account and on what day of that month that is.

It takes a few months for it to get going and for you to see and notice a difference but well worth it in the long run.

My Fall/Winter Lust Haves

Today's date 22/02/2013

Even though I am considered  "plus size" I adore beautiful cloths and fashion and I know what I like. Below are my lust haves for fall and winter 2013 from city chic a plus size clothing store in Australia.
www.citychic.com.au

Just a little disclaimer these images are directly from the City Chic website this is not me in any of the pictures its the model from the website.

My Fall/Winter Lust Haves

To My 20 yr old Self

Today's date 22/02/2013.

Dear 20yr old Self,

Child there are worlds you must hear me speak and you must change your actions immediately.

The sadness of your mum dying is going to hit you hard but you must feel it in the moment and then try your hardest to get past it and really LIVE your life.

Keep going to church and out with your friends. They all love you very much and you will find yourself incredibly lonely if you shut yourself off from your family, friends and god when you do.

Don't move out of home. Your dad is way to stubborn to admit this but he needs you. He is in way too much finanical hardship without you that he will have to sell up and down grade to a smaller house in the suburbs of Salisbury where he feels incredibly sad and lonely all the time.

In time your pain will pass and become less raw and open. You will wish that you never moved out. This will burden you for many years and will never fully go away.

I know you think that your ready for Sex but let me tell you something, your not a sex goddess. Your not doing it for the right reasons you will feel totatlly used and dirty and ashamed. Know that the only thing that will heal your heart is being with the people that love you the most your friends, family and god so pray, play with your dog take him for walks, keep going to church and say yes when your friends ask you out cause one day your will miss their friendship and be full of regrets.

Ok so hears where things get a little crazy. Your totally an akward person with other people and you espcially don't like conflict but your going to live a few places and your going to keep moving becuase your constantly be looking for a home to call yours and you will never find it. You don't realise that you need to change, that your actually the problem and you need time to grow up and sort yourself out to become a strong and confifent women. We are still working on this.

Step away from the computer and stay away from the internet. please stay active!

Lastly your not ready for a relationship so don't try and get in to one before your ready, trust me it ends in you feeling emotionaly dead from somone that only wants to control you and will do so by being a emotional bully.

Remember your stronger then you think you are!

Much love your 29yr old Self Xo

Suddenly 29!

Today's date 22/02/2013.

Its my birthday today. I'm suddenly 29. OMG! Its my last year of being in my 20's and let me tell you something I'm not really crazy about the idea. The next twelve months is just going to fly by so quickly, this time next year it will be OMG I'm 30. I feel like these past nine years since I turned 20 have just completely flown by. What do I have to show for it?

I own my home and I have a nice car but that's pretty much it. Its sad but true. I don't have a boyfriend. I don't have any children or any pets and I haven't lost any of the weight that I have gained in those years either. I'm not even where I want to be career wise.

I am hear at 29 years of age feeling like a complete and utter loser because I have not made enough of the past nine years since I turned 20. Why? cause she died. She was everything to me not only was she my mum. She was my best friend the person I told all my secrets to. The person that would stroke my back every time I was sick. It didn't matter how sick she was she always fought for me. Not hear she did it for me cause I was lucky enough to live when everyone thought I would die and for that I became her reason for living everyday. In my loneliest of moments she was always there to put a smile on my face and make me feel like the most important person in the world.

I can't blame her for dying. The past nine years was all me. Hoping and wishing things in my life would be different. As I chose to let it affect me, I chose the darkness because if was more familiar then the light. I chose to seek the things in life that was never good for me. To reminisce those feelings of comfort and love. My head was clouded by depression and sadness, I let it cripple my soul and stopped dreaming of things in life that I could achieve if only I set my mind to them and applied myself.

Hind sight is a very funny thing indeed, of all the things I wish I did differently. There is a lot of things I would say to my 20 year old self.

But that story is for another day. I'm suddenly 29 and going by all the wisdom I know now there is alot I'm going to do differently with the next nine years.

Its time to start dreaming big!