You'd have to be living under a very large rock not to have seen the furore about this latest MAC collab this week. On Thursday at 11am RiRi Hearts Fall MAC collection launched online and hit MAC counters everywhere. That's when the madness began, sold out online within 30 minutes, there was a rush to get to MAC counters and get orders in for the high shine rose gold newest MAC limited edition edit.
Well yours truly just so happened to get her mitts on my favourite two pieces of the entire collection, Talk that Talk (dark matte plum) AND RiRiWoo (a rich matte Hollywood red) and being the kindly soul that I am, I'm giving 'em away to you lovely lot. As ever, entry is simple and this time we're open internationally. IWe're using Rafflecopter so in just a couple of clicks you can skip the crazy rush and win yourself one of these gorgeous limited edition lippies.
Absolutely loving Rihanna's newest tune, Diamonds. It's a departure from her recent dance tracks, stripped back and slowed down but I can't get it off loop in my noggin nor stop crowing it in the car. Have you a tune that's occupying your mindhole this week?
It's been a little while since I've done a nail art design so when I saw Rihanna pouring out her heart to Oprah in Marc Jacobs Resort mint halter neck this week, I wasn't thinking 'poor ol' RiRi', no, I was thinking 'Oooh that design sure would make some purrty nails. The colours are gorgeous together, very like the cherry blossom nails I had previously, just in a slightly different design. Fancy seeing how simple they are to recreate?
Colours used
A dotting tool and toothpick can be used for the florals (or of course a bobby pin)
Starting with a mint base, the flowers are done with two small dots of each colour. The small pink dots and green leaves are all done using the toothpick, it's much easier to do fine details with the sharper tip.
Accent Nail
Because the upper half of Rihanna's frock is a concentrated mix of all colours I wrapped the tip of the dotting tool in tissue paper, dipped it into the polish and placed it straight onto the accent nail.
Place your flowers randomly on the nail bed
The final look
I'm unsure as to whether the accent nail works without the context of the dress but I absolutely love these colours together. It can be recreated using similar colours should you not have the ones I used to hand. What do we think? Will you be wearing Marc Jacobs on your talons any time soon?
What happens when NASA attempt to make contact with alien life forms in Summer blockbusters? They pay us a visit and try to destroy us, of course. Based (extremely loosely) on the Hasbro game Battleship, the movie centres on the fleet of Naval ships in Hawaiian waters that are charged with stopping the alien invaders. Peter Berg of Hancock fame directs this monumental battle over land and sea.
Any Good?
The publicity for this movie has been enormous, understandably enough, it having cost an estimated $200 Million to make. If you haven't seen a trailer, poster, bus or tweet about it then you need to get to Specsavers, sharpish. I went along, with an open mind and I'm very glad I did. With a clunking start, Battleship is hugely overacted, Skarsgård and Kitch in the opening (seemingly neverending) scenes are cringeworthy, even Neeson's scowling begins to grate (unheard of) but once the action starts they can be forgiven, temporarily.
Epic alien ship is Epic
The plot is all over the place, the performances (of the human variety) putting me in mind of Fair City... Fair City in Hawaii. We didn't see nearly enough of the aliens, which looked pretty cool nor did we ever find out their intention, other than to destroy the most random of objects. There are too many characters of the wooden variety to actually engage but one stand out, for me, had to be Hamish Linklater, whom at one point asked what the entire audience were thinking, 'Who talks like that?'. By the time we were an hour in I decided that, in fact, it's meant to be a clichéd, laugh at themselves, Michael Bay parody and that allowed me to actually enjoy the movie.
Rihanna's actually rather pretty when she puts her chesticles away you know
The descent into farce on several occasions jarred a little though, for example, the old Navy vets on the museum ship. I think they were meant to evoke patriotism and a can do attitude, they put me in mind of Grandpa Simpson & the Flying Hellfish. I spent a good five minutes wondering if they used a stair lift to get them to the Bird's Nest and genuinely expected to hear the famous Battleship line at every turn.
If you're buying your cinema ticket expecting an award winning film or performances, you're going to have a bad time (its nowhere near poor enough for a Razzie either) but if you're looking for a loud, CGI heavy, shoot 'em up, blow 'em and kill the aliens with fire then you're prayers have been answered. I can see Battleship appealing hugely to Transformer loving teenagers but also envisage some demographics that will LOVE it i.e. fans of Taylor Kitch, Michael Bay, Fair City, tongue in cheek, clichéd hilarity, Age Action Ireland and/or Americans.
All of the above and you, if you're looking for a cheesy, laugh out loud blockbuster. Grab the popcorn, switch off the frontal lobe, sit back & enjoy.
Loving this track, Rihanna & Calvin Harris, serious choonage. It's a rare first listen stomper.
Yep, I'm admitting I didn't love her at first, furthermore I'm admitting I'm gutted not to have picked up tickets for her Dublin show this week that Calvin will be playing. Who knows, that may be rectified!
