Luxury on a budget

One of the most exciting collaboration of the year has just launched, few days ago. Alex Steinherr, ex beauty editor at Glamour UK, beauty and skin care goddess, now one of the most important influencer in the field, has just launched her collaboration with the high street store Primark. We could have waited from such an important beauty figure a collaboration with a luxury beauty or skincare brand, but no, she has decided instead to bless us with her advices and amazing products for a very affordable price - the average is £5, absolutely crazy. The range counts 20 products, divided in 5 categories. It is hard to pick up a favorite, all I want to do is buy and try them all! 

It took Alex two years to develop this range, and she had the complete control over everything. Her goal? To create a range that would count in all of the essentials that a girl needs, at a price she can actually afford. To put it in her own words, she wanted to create products that would ensure "everyone can afford their most beautiful skin". 

This type of collaboration is exactly what we need today. We can get through magazines and websites, even YouTubers and bloggers, amazing skincare products recommendations, but how many times did you fall in love with one of them and, when tracking it down on the internet, realized that in order to afford it, you would need to quit eating for a week? It happens to me all the time, and as a blogger but also a girl lost with her future graduated student looking for internships, I find myself almost every time having to choose, buying one expensive product a month, sometimes regretting it, and feeling sorry for my stupid self who would buy everything that has been well sold by a YouTuber I admire. I trust people such as Alex Steinherr, who have worked their whole career in the beauty industry, but who are also down to earth and understand that the perfect skin sold by influencers is not something every body can afford. Instead of frustrating us by collaborating with a luxury skincare brand, she has put all of her experience in products that girls, from all over the world, could purchase and afford, without having to restrain themselves, or kill their weekly budget. Steinherr made our dreams come true, luxury is now available even for girls who you are on a budget.

xo

Amy

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A Day in Poetry XII

Doesn't it all end the same way? 

Aren't we all made to be consumed, 

To be possessed, 

And finally, to be left alone? 

Doesn't it all end the same way? 

Is it wrong when I say you don't know me yet? 

Is it wrong when I yell you still don't understand?

After all those years, 

You still get me wrong. 

And tears are still falling down on my red cheeks. 

Doesn't it all end the same way? 

The start is always glorious and wonderful. 

Laughters and smiles at every minute, 

Sex and kisses every time we meet. 

Then it ends.

Ends to leave an empty spot. 

No more kisses, no more laughters. 

Instead, a reversed smile and solely a natural will for sex.

The person that what sat across the table every morning is not anymore. 

The person who used to fall asleep spooning me is now sleeping alone. 

Or with another me. 

A better me. 

But I try to stop crying. 

She, one day or another, will end the same way. 

He will make her cry. 

Push her too far.

Then leave, pretending she was not good enough. 

That it wasn't the right moment, the right version of herself. 

Or who knows which stupid excuse he will find. 

Doesn't it all end the same way? 

Isn't it why every fairytale ends up at the same point, 

When the two lovers finally meet and get to live their love?

We never get to know how life unfolds after those few magic words, 

"And they lived happily ever after".

I cannot help but think, how long is ever? 

For us, ever was thousands of days. 

Millions of minutes. 

Many months.

Already too many years, maybe. 

But didn't it all start the same way?

Aren't we all built with the same clay? 

I don't know, yet I cannot help but think so,

When every morning, I wake up in the coldness of my lonely bed, 

Seat alone at the breakfast table, 

Close my eyes every night only cuddled by your memory;

Now that you left, now that it ended up the same way. 

As it always does.

October 1st 2018

Amy

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