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Louise Loves #8

A vegetarian cookbook & a soap I’ve been loving recently….

Louise Loves #6

Click to see why a glue stick is in this week’s favourites…

Louise Loves #3: This nail varnish and more!

I am going to tell you a wee story about my favourite perfume, enjoy!

I first bought this when I was on my way back from a skiing trip in Austria in 4th year and I had some euros left over.  I didn’t even like it that much at the time to be honest, I just bought it for the sake of it!  However after having smelled it a few times and now I love it!  It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, it smells kind of masculine strangely but it’s so yummy!

Unsurprisingly it ran out quite quickly and I had no idea where to get it again.  I’ve never seen it anywhere other than that airport in Austria!  I tried to find it on the internet but to no avail.  So I forgot about it for a few years until one day I got a whiff of it - no idea where it came from, probably just my brain making it up! - and it set me on a mission to find it!  I finally found it for a really quite good price, about £29 for 100ml so I bought it.

Then… oh god, what a nightmare, first they emailed me to say I hadn’t paid even though the payment had already come off, once I got that sorted it had been ages and still no sign of it so I went back onto the website and it WASN’T THERE!!!  I genuinely thought I’d been scammed!  However, apparently they are just very shit and after about 7 weeks my perfume finally arrived!  So I wouldn’t recommend that website, it’s called ‘Buy My Makeup’ I think.  But I will say that they were very good at emailing me back and seemed really friendly but it all just seemed so dodgy at the time!  One good thing was that  for whatever reason the £29 actually came off as $29 so I got it for nearer £20 :)

The bad news… Jil Sander is owned by Coty who are not cruelty free which I didn’t realise at the time so I won’t be able to repurchase this - assuming I ever managed to find a decent website to buy it that is! I am cherishing this bottle!!!

Has anyone else come across this perfume?

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PS it is exam time at the moment so I won’t be blogging as much as I’d like to, this is post I wrote up a few weeks ago but just hadn’t posted it yet ‘cos it’s not the most exciting one in the world!  I am still photographing my nails for NOTD but just not had to time to edit and make them into a post!  It will all be over at 11.30am on 22nd May…….

Books: The Tenth Circle

Sorry about the big flash… I was trying to be all arty taking a photo of my Kindle but it’s bloody hard!

Anyway, this is the second in a series I’ve started doing where I just discuss an interesting book I’ve read recently.  Click here to see my thoughts on To Kill a Mockingbird.

This book is called The Tenth Circle: A Novel by Jodi Picoult, who is my favourite author at the moment.  I can just pick up one of her books and start reading, knowing I’ll enjoy it without knowing anything about it.

The basic plot line to this one is about a 14 year old girl who is raped by her ex-boyfriend at a house party, however no one believes her and thinks she is just making it up to get revenge on him for breaking up with her.  She is driven to self-harming and evens attempts suicide.

In Picoult’s books there are always more than one protagonist so each chapter is from a different point of view, the girl, her mum, her dad, the detective, even the mother’s lover at one point too!  This way you get a lot of different perspectives, but it also keeps you thinking, trying to work out the truth for yourself.

Then of course there is the twist… I won’t give it away as it came as a huge shock to me!  Especially as Picoult’s twists always come in right at the end - if you have seen/read My Sister’s Keeper by her then you will understand! - whereas this one was a lot earlier, more in the middle.  There is another one at the end too but I had kind of seen it coming, and it was connected to the first twist; the first one was definitely the biggest surprise!

One thing I love about Picoult’s novels are that she often includes a minority community into them somehow, and I just love reading about their lifestyles and how they differ to our own.  The ones that come to mind are the Amish, Native Americans, and in this one Eskimos (don’t worry I have checked, that is completely politically correct!).  She brings it into this book as the girl’s father was brought up in a Yupik (an Eskimo tribe from Alaska) community and his childhood is often referred back to throughout the book.  How accurate these descriptions are I do not know, but I’m sure she does her research!

Overall, this wasn’t my favourite Picoult novel (I love the ones with lawyers for some reason!) but it wasn’t my least favourite either.  If you liked My Sister’s Keeper you will probably like this too, although I will warn you now, it is very creepy at the start with sexual references, especially when you remember they are only 14, ahhh!!

Please excuse my writing style, I feel it’s still a bit higglety pigglety but I do do maths at uni, we don’t write, pffft!!!!  Hopefully it will improve with time, thanks for reading :)

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