Restaurant review: FRANKIE AND BENNY'S (Strand)

I love breakfast. It's my favourite meal of the day, so I've decided to conflate my love of breakfast, eating out and taking photos by trialing the full English breakfasts at various restaurants/diners across London before finding my dream one.

Restaurant review: HONG KONG BISTRO (Bath)

I'd heard lots of positive things from my peers about Hong King Bistro, but didn't visit until after my exams in late May. And the experience was so brilliant that I took my mother back!

The plate that was recommended to me was the Pad Thai (pictured above), which was a mixture of everything I love about oriental food, which was dosed out in generous portions. The Pad Thai is Hong Kong Bistro's most famous dish, and for good reason; it's a combination of all the flavours I love. I love dim sum as much as the next person, but at times when you want a plate just to yourself, no sharing, I'd definitely recommend Hong Kong Bistro, which definitely doesn't skimp on size.

Fragrance review: CK IN2U HER (Calvin Klein)

Eau de toilette is, by definition, a diluted form of perfume. Considering I live my life very much by the mantra “go hard or go home”, then, it would appear that the very essence of Eau de Toilette would imply it wasn’t for me.

Product review: EYELASH CURLERS (Models Own)

To this items credit, despite it looking like a  medieval torture device, it didn’t gouge my eyes out, which is why I’d been evading them for many a year. After watching a few YouTube tutorials I immediately picked up how they worked. 

Furthermore, the hot pink handles of the product are what set it apart for me from the cheaper but dull-looking Boots own-brand, and the more expensive and sophisticated looking No.7 version of the item.

 

 

 

Graduation nails.

Our graduation robes are the standard black, but the sashes/ribbons down them are yellow and green, so I thought I'd paint my nails accordingly.

Thankfully, as I have quite the arsenal of nail polish colours, I didn't need to buy any new colours to fulfil this, instead drawing on supplies from existing reserves:

 

Colours: Rimmel London in Green Grass, Missguided Mislead (free with magazine years ago) and The Works topcoat

 

I painted four nails yellow, with the ring finger green:

 

I'm undecided about this. As you can see, the Missguided nail polish has sparkles in it, where the green is just a solid block of colour. I actually have Rimmel London in a similar shade to the yellow, but just without sparkles, and I figure I probably should have gone for continuity.

 

Oh well, what's done is done, I ain't removing it! :p

 

Make-up review: THICK & FAST MASCARA (Soap and Glory)

 

Relatively inexperienced with mascara I may be, but even I knew enough about them to realise that this was a complete dud of a product. As aforementioned, my eyelashes are already woefully short, so you could argue that this product doesn't have a whole lot to work with.