Disclaimer: I am about to throw shade.

My fascination with makeup has grown over the years and the entire art of application itself. With that, I’m doing my makeup now better than I ever used to do so and find myself stalking masters at it on Instagram when I should be asleep. Am I good enough? No, but at least I stopped applying foundation in streaks across my face so that is progress. With the explosion of imported makeup into SA in the past two years, Instagram boutiques sprouted like mushrooms during a storm.

Disclaimer: Please note I am not bashing anyone or any brand. I am purely venting out my frustrations at a stagnant blogging industry that seems to have a theme of constant arrogance and friend favours. Also, haven’t had Matcha in a while, I miss it and credit to the unknown photographer.

Working with creatives all day, seems to unlocked a new vibrancy for life. A thirst to get rid of the box and perhaps, create work that captures my vision and direction effortlessly. That in consideration added to an industry that seems to only really work for popular individuals is frustrating. There are a few revolving topics that I have touched on previously but are still relevant and so here I go…

I‘m not even sure if the past two weeks happened. I felt like, I was nowhere near ready for my exams and strangely enough, I’m okay with that because they seemed to pity me (I hope). Been sitting on this post since last Friday and I might as well post it today now that I have five minutes to breathe?

Privileged enough to get an invitation to this month’s OTB edition of “Rocktober”, they sure did deliver on the grunge. We had Puma, Digital Gadgets, Factorie and Rocomamma’s in the box this month. Free air guitar and a graffiti artist, spray painting away and tyres all around – I really loved the decor for this event.

The Great Google claims that a FOODIE is a person with an interest in food. I am yet to meet a person who has no interest in food because WHO IS NOT INTERESTED IN FOOD? Be honest, I need to understand before I fight you. Am I a Foodie? Not sure, really. I do have an interest in food; I like cooking different dishes, trying new cuisines and scouting out places to eat it.