Sephora Wishlist April 2014

I'm probably the last on the bandwagon to talk about Sephora delivering to the U.K, and write up a wishlist. However, being fortunate enough to have a really good friend in the U.S willing to post any of my orders from Sephora to me, I wasn't exactly salivating to put in an order. I did receive a box full of goodies in February (which I will post next week) that I've really tested out in the last month. This wishlist is inspired by what I think would be repurchases or "holy-grail" items, having heard so much good things about them all. If I was to forget about eyeliner completely I could definitely see this wishlist as consisting of my entire makeup bag. Being a compulsive buyer with little to no buyers remorse I really have to limit myself to two items in this wishlist. What two items would you buy?

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WHY SHAYCARL MAKES ME WANT TO BE A MORMON.

"If life is worth living, it's worth recording"
Shaycarl Butler and his beautiful wife Colettte along with their five idyllic children have become one of the fundamental cornerstones within the Youtube community. Shaycarl started his youtube journey with the channel "the Shaytards" five years ago last wednesday; so I thought it was only appropriate to write a post on him this week in particular. Anybody who has watched more than a handful of their videos will be clued into the fact that they are an extremely successful and happy mormon family. Their religion and Shaycarl's spirituality is a topic that not only appears in their videos from time to time but it also discussed at great lengths especially on their "one-take" Sundays where they record a one take video when they return from their church service.
Being a member of the Catholic Church in Ireland, it has become very easy to question one's faith and commitment to the gospel and the "good news" as they say. I started watching the Shaytards channel during its first year but one thing that really struck home to me was Shay's inspirational monologues. Whether it be on financial responsibility or on spirituality in general, Shay has always "preached" from experience, and it is definitely clear to the viewer that what he says comes from the heart rather than coming off condescending or as a "know-it-all". The viewer can see that he genuinely doesn't want people to make the same mistakes he did. His talks on spirituality really made me look at my own faith. Throughout my teen years, the monotony of attending mass weekly really discouraged me from actually looking at my own faith. Now at the age of twenty two I find a sense of peace in my mind when I attend mass and I hope to have a much greater understanding of the facets of my faith in the years to come.
Getting back to the main objective of this post, Shaycarls family show the epitome of the perfect family. You have a man and wife who are completely committed to each other for the rest of eternity, who spend all their time on the welfare and success of their family as one unit. And the reason they give for their success in life? Their faith in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Their core belief system works on the family unit, on gratitude and good will. That the short physical life they have on earth determines the rest of their eternal spirits after death, and that the effort given in this life will reap an abundance of reward in the next.
It's hard to forget the shocking footage of fundamental mormonism with FLDS and the actual realities of being a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints, the commitment, and the scarifice. But with the Butlers as Poster Children for Mormonism, they paint a very enticing picture of what members of the faith enjoy. The happiness they radiate creates envy in spades amongst their viewers; which Shay tries to soothe with his personal philiosophies on happiness, for example; "Happiness is a Choice" and "You can't always be happy but, if you're always striving to choose happiness - everyday you wake up and say to yourself 'I am going to choose not to let the outside influences of the world affect my mood' - I promise you will live a happier life"
It's difficult for viewers not to buy into the perfect life or that perfection is attainable. That reason alone will be the reason why I will return to the Shaytards daily to watch their videos, and why to me, they are the best ambassadors the LDS church could have ever dreamed of.

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SUNDAY FUNDAY..... (05/01/2014)

Long time no see folks! Happy Belated Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely holiday! Whilst I took a rather undeserved break from writing this blog, I sat down and really considered what it was I wanted to focus on and what kind of a schedule I would adhere to. For a constant procrastinator like myself even holding myself down to a plan is difficult never mind for anyone else who has to put up with me! I've decided on four posts a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday/Sunday. The weekly posts will consist of anything of interest to me, and the weekend post(s) will consist of either a synopsis of the week or lifestyle posts. So, because I haven't posted since before Christmas; this first post for the new year will just be about yesterday. I do have a post about my New Years Eve and a Christmas post aswell to upload but I'll do that separately to the schedule I have promised. 

Yesterday was a pretty quiet day, funnily enough. The above photo basically sums up my day :). I got to spend the day at home relaxing. After a fairly long break from really doing anything with my horse Alfie (the owner of the ears on the top photo) I decided with the New Year should come a new exercise routine for him and a much needed cleaning. I don't know why but every time I take a long break from Alfie I'm always afraid he's going to be really fresh or somehow forget the whole concept of somebody actually being on his back and become some kind of bucking bronco. But; as always he was a sweetheart and it was as if I hadn't taken a break at all. For all of you whom have no idea about horses that is pretty rare! I always feel so ashamed for thinking the worst of him for absolutely no reason, I definitely don't deserve him. I also helped my brother Oliver, wash his horse Oscar and as he was standing like the gentleman he is; our two outside dogs were eating up all his nuts! The rest of the day was spent either watching old criminal minds episodes and working on accounts for a local charity I volunteer as a treasurer for. All in all, a pretty uninteresting day for a twenty something year old even more so for the poor souls reading this babble. :) Anyways, I hope you all had a lovely weekend and I shall see you Wednesday! 

Maisy x

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