Wyrd Wesnesday - TAG

The delightfully crazy Miss Lavabo answered this tag on her page and I felt like doing the same. Next week will see the first chapter of my "Wyrd Wednesdays about Celtic Women" series, it's quite a lot of work to put everything in a palatable format!

Grab the closest book, go to page 18 and write down the fourth sentence.

"I have followed the evolution of some of the main threads in Tolkien's great tapestry in detail, and The History of Middle-earth allows any of Tolkien's readers who have the interest, patience, and time to do the same for many other threads". Christina SCULL, "The Development of Tolkien's Legendarium - Some threads in the Tapestry of Middle-earth", in Tolkien's Legendarium, Essays on The History of Middle-earth, Verlyn FLIEGER & Carl F. HOSTETTER ed.

Yep, I'm in my study, so the shelves are packed with my thesis books...

Without checking, guess the time.

10.37am

Check.

10.44am

What are you wearing?

Inside gear, so yoga pants, tank top and sleeves, before getting ready to go out in the pouring rain.

What were you doing before starting this tag? 
 

I was re-reading one of my articles on Celtic Women to prepare for the upcoming WW sections.

What are you hearing besides the noise of your computer? 

Spotify is on with the metal playlist, right now it's Tarot, aka the band of God Marco Hietala (special tribute to Miss Lavabo), with "Tides", one of the most beautiful songs ever.

When was the last time you went out and what did you do?

As a "real" outing, it was last Saturday with Minnie, Mat and Flo to celebrate some super news (symbolised by a ring :D)

Did you dream last night?

Probably, but I barely ever remember my dreams. And when I do, they make no sense whatsoever :p

When did you laugh for the last time?

I remember a good fit of laughter with Minnie on Monday night while watching tv, but I can't remember why.

What's on the walls of the room you're in?

A big picture of Stonehenge that I took back in 2000, my unicorn tapestry, a map of Finland drawn on parchment by a friend of mine as a thesis gift, a poster of "Celtic Myth" by John Howe (until I have the money to buy the real thing) and some family pics.

If you become a millionaire overnight, what's the first thing you buy?
 

A wooden house painted red on the shore of a Karelian lake.

What's the last movie you saw?

In theatres, Conan the Barbarian, drooling fest over Jason Momoa half naked. In DVD, The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicholas Cage, very nice and funny.

Have you seen something weird today?
 

Not yet, but it's early still.

What do you think of this tag?

Nice and unusual.

Tell us something we don't know. 
 

The book I've read most times in my life is FH Burnett's "A Little Princess", and even after 200 times or so, I still cry in the scene when she discovers "The Magic".

What would be your daughter's name?
 

Estel, and with that very spelling. But it's theoretical, I want it to be a common choice with the father. 

And for a boy? 
 

It's a crazy unrealistic idea but I've always said that if I were to have twins, they would be Gawain and Galahad.

Have you thought of living abroad? 

Thought, did and will do again. I spent some times in Scotland and plan to move in 2013 to a country where light is rare, reindeer numerous, weather cold and men hot :D

What would you like God to tell you when you cross the doors of Heaven?

"Hi". I like polite people.

If you could change something in the world besides guilt and politics, what would it be?

  

I'd like to eliminate stupidity, huge programm.

Do you like dancing?  
 

Love it. I'm a specialist of the hoover & duster dance, because I always have Disney Classics music blasting when I clean around.

What's the last thing you watched on TV? 


Desperate Housewives

Deadly Sins in your Bathroom

In spite of having a lot of things to show you that concerns nails and hands, I always had in mind to make this blog not only about nails but about beauty in general (and maybe I'll add things once in a while about "brain beauty" as well). At first, I thought I would just throw in some products review here and there, but it's very easy to fall into a habit of "apply polish, take pics, upload pics, write articles" and if I don't set up a regular pattern for beauty products, I'll never do it. Yes, there is Minnie's Beauty page on Sundays, but while we do use some products in common, it's her page, her impressions, and I don't want to intrude (just replace her when she doesn't have time - no MBM this coming Sunday either, things should go back to normal next week)

So after a month of blogging, I introduce the Magic Recipe section. This will probably end up on Wednesdays, but I had no time for it yesterday, so this week, it's on Thursday. I will also probably make it an "only post of the day" thing: so far I've tried to publish one polish post per day (try and say that 1000 times? ;) ), but while I can do that when it's someone else doing the section of the day (Minnie or the Friends' Fridays, which should soon serve its original purpose of publishing pics from non-blogging friends), it's a lot of work to do two posts in a day, so when I talk beauty, I won't talk nails!

Damn, that's quite an introduction! So, I will launch this section with a funny and original tag I've taken from Teddy on Planète Beauté. I shall have to tell you more about Teddy one day, but this post is already very long, so straight to the tag: Your 7 beauty deadly sins.

GREED: YOUR CHEAPEST BEAUTY PRODUCT

OMG, I feel so ashamed, I've had to think so hard to find it!! But in the end, I've settled for my organic shea butter. It cost me 8 euros, which is not cheap per se, but for a 500g pot, that's quite a bargain, and mostly, I use it for so many things... Hair mask, foot moisturizer, one tablespoon in the bath to give you silk skin, one teaspoon in warm water to sink your hands in for hydratation, etc, etc

WRATH: WHICH BEAUTY PRODUCT MADE YOU SEE RED?

LUSH Volcano Foot Mask. Yes, once you successfully put it on (and look like a complete dork because your feet are wrapped in plastic bags - and yes of course, the postman has just rung), it's great, you feel the hot and cold and your feet are rejuvenated, but then you look at the floor around you, and see that there's as much Volcano everywhere as there is on your feet. This stuff is just impossible to apply!!! I don't know, imagine crumble dough, only drier, that you would try to apply evenly all over your feet, and you'll get a good idea... even if it were cheap, it would make me mad to waste so much, and it's LUSH, so it's NOT cheap!

GLUTTONY: WHAT IS THE YUMMIEST PRODUCT YOU EVER TRIED?

No hesitation there: The alas discontinued Body Shop Raspberry Scrub. That thing looked like raspberry jam, smelled like raspberry jam, tasted... errr, no wait, I swear, I didn't taste it!! The raspberry line as a whole was just fantastic and I'm really bummed they stopped it!

SLOTH: WHICH BEAUTY ROUTINE DO YOU REGULARLY SKIP BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE BOTHERED?

Like many people I guess, face mask. It's not the problem of leaving it on, it's all you have to do before and after that's a bother. If it were just "apply and go for 10 or 20 min", it wouldn't be a problem. It bothers me less to walk around for 20 min with my freshly applied hairdye than to do a facemask...

PRIDE: WHICH BEAUTY PRODUCT MAKES YOU (OVERLY) SELF CONFIDENT?

My hairdye. Sounds silly right? I'm not really the kind of gal to say "oh, I love my eyes/nose/hands/which ever precise part of my body". Truth be told, taken separately, I often hate my body parts. My hands and feet and chubby and short, my nose is too big compared to everything else in my face that is small, small eyes, small lips, small ears, you get the idea... But I do like my hair (I won't say love, there are still things I don't like about it, but most of the time I don't care about the cons), and the day I adopted the blue black colour really made a change in my life. It started as a funny thing for Halloween and I've kept it for 7 years now. What's funny is that whenever I let too much time pass between two dyes, like 5 weeks instead of 4, I start finding myself ugly in the mirror, horrid skin, circles around the eyes and such. But as soon as the dye is done, I feel pretty (and that's a feeling I don't have often!!).

LUST: WHAT BEAUTY HABIT OR PRODUCT IS AN INSTANT SEX-APPEAL HIT FOR YOU?

Meet Marco Hietala, God of Metal... and hair!!

Haha, this is gonna be a strange one: "clean" shave and haircare. Let me explain. I do have a thing for long-haired bearded guys. Heck, I'm both a medieval freak AND a metalhead. But there's nothing that's more of a turn-off for me than a scraggy beard and long unkept hair. I like guys who assume their personality and say "if I have a beard, I take care of it, if I have long hair, I take care of it". Quite often (at least in this country), guys who go for long hair and beard want to show how anti-conformist they are and almost take pride in looking like cavemen. I really cannot stand that. On the other hand, in Metalhead Heaven (aka Finland), all the guys I know feel no shame in saying they take care of their hair and trim/shave their beard, and they don't look less manly for it (quite the contrary!!). So yes to long hair and beard, but give 'em some love!!

ENVY: WHAT IS THE BEAUTY PRODUCT YOU'D LIKE TO AFFORD ONE DAY?

Ha, tough one. While I had a hard time finding a real "cheap" product in my bathroom, I can't say I yearn for super expensive products. First because I've come to realise that my "expensive" label is quite low (I do think twice before putting more than 30 euros in one single product), and secondly because I'm not at all a client for "groundbreaking technology that costs an eye" products, like anti-ageing things and such. For me, the best anti-ageing product is taking care of your skin daily with cleaning and moisturizing, eating healthy and sleeping.

So after much thinking, the only product that comes to mind and makes me think "mmm, tempting, but way too expensive for what it is" is the body butter associated to my perfume, Annick Goutal's Mandragore. The 200ml pot is 74 euros (and after seeing Sephora's Body Butter at 16,5 euros for 470ml, it really seems crazily expensive), but knowing how much I love my perfume and how body lotions are usually too light for me...
Edited to add: I didn't do the "tagging other bloggers" part because I didn't think anyone would answer, but just in case, I tag every blogger reading this that dares reveal her list of sins!!