Makeup in Film: American Hustle

The big film at the moment - in my world, anyway - has to be David O. Russell's seventies crime comedy American Hustle. It's funny, smart and the acting is absolutely spot-on from all five of the main cast. So, of course this weeks Makeup in Film is all about this film and it is such an easy film to focus on because practically everything about this film revolves around both the hair and the fashion - not only of the leading ladies, but also the...

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Makeup in Film: Katniss Everdeen

There's no denying that the series that I've missed writing the most, over the past few months, has been the Makeup in Film series, so I am over the moon to be writing this one which I've been meaning to put together since I first saw the film (yeah, I've seen it twice!), so without further ado, here we go:I've done a makeup in film post for Katniss before, back in March 2012, to coincide with the release of the first Hunger Games film, however,...

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Are You Okay?

The other day, Kellie at Big Fashionista wrote a blog post titled Are You Okay? (I strongly recommend going and checking it out!) and initially I didn't really think anything of it, but then it got me thinking...It's so easy to plod along telling ourselves, well not really telling ourselves anything, because we just don't question ourselves enough. We just walk on, completely convinced that we are fine and just ignoring the fact that we are not fine,...

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31 Before 31

This is something that I had intended to write months ago (like, when I turned 30!), but obviously I like a challenge and want to give myself less time to complete my missions! I did fairly okay with my 30 Before 30, noting that I gave myself two years to complete it! As expected, I didn't complete it, and a few things were changed a long the way because it wasn't realistic.Nevertheless, here are the 31 Things that I want to do before I turn the...

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