Cherry Pick of the Week: Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful

This weeks Pick is one of the many crackers from The Great Gatsby soundtrack. 

There's almost an ethereal quality to this tune as it's woven through the story and describes the love story perfectly. 

I'd almost watch the film again just to take in the breathtaking fashion and cinematography as Lana sings hauntingly in the background. 

Beautiful.  

Things to Make you go LOL. Literally.

Just like jimmies being rustled there's been a huge amount of LOL worthy links, pics and posts this week so it's been a battle to cut them down to five but I've managed! 

This lot have had me in convulsions this week, they're mostly vids but ABSOLUTELY worth a watch, I'm hoping they work for you too!

As ever I'd love to hear what's making you literally LOL this week so do please share in the comments, ja? 

1. The Sad Cat Diary

2. Gas Pump Karaoke

3. Shake Dat Ass, Dawg!

4. True Facts About the Tapir

5. Forrest Gump's Password

G'wan, tell us what's making you guffaw...

Things that Rustle My Jimmies

Will there ever be another week that my jimmies remain unrustled? I'm thinking not, on the bright side, I laugh so much putting these together that that's probably a very good thing - hold onto your hosiery, here we go: 

1. You're top of the Boots queue, flying through your self scan when.. 
'UNIDENTIFIED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA', 
'UNIDENTIFIED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA', 

2. When sunshine turns into TORRENTIAL RAIN 

in the time it takes to put your runners on! 

3. When you get to the Essence make up stand 

right after a swarm of school girls have been there..

4. When someone tries to tell you how to do the job you've been doing for OVER TEN YEARS

5. When you find your invite to the premiere, 

the day after the premiere

IN YOUR SPAM FOLDER

So c'mom' I've shared, you need to share too - what's been rustling up your jimmie pile this week then? 

Brown Sugar are Chopping for Charity - Come Join the Fun - This Sunday May 19th!

It's not often that I'm compelled to share a press release 'just because' but the fact that the super stylish salon Brown Sugar are continuing on in their charity supporting ways with this Sunday's event is too worthy not to share.

They open their doors this Sunday 19th May, in aid of the Down Syndrome Dublin and The Mater Foundation Spinal Injuries Unit. Last year’s event managed to raise a much needed €20,000 in aid of St. Francis Hospice, Raheny, which was a huge achievement for all concerned including the beautifully coiffed customers.

“We were so overwhelmed with the generosity shown last year, and all the brands that were so happy to show support,” says Brown Sugar MD Mark O’Keeffe of last year’s event. This year’s event will again see the salon opening on a Sunday, and their talented staff will volunteer their time, with every cent being donated to the nominated charities.

The event will take place in the South William Street, and Blackrock salons between 12-6pm, so why not book a guilt free appointment as a good deed or as a thoughtful gift for a loved one, or simply pop along to support these worthwhile charities.

For more information or to book your appointment log onto www.brownsugar.ie. 

New Nail Polish Obsesh - Cheaper than Chips MUA

I have more nail polish than is humanly necessary, I know this. Let's just say if the nail techs backstage at Eurovision happened to lose ALL their polishes in one go I'd be able to replace them all - twelve times over. Does that stop me picking the polishy feckers up? Nope. 

Last weekend, having spotted an elusive Superdrug store in Wexford I was drawn to the new look MUA nail polish bottles - mainly because they are the actual hawk of a high end brand - can you tell what it is?

These dinky wonders are almost exact dupes for Essie bottles and at just €1.39 I had to pick a couple up. I've been fooled by cheap nail polish prices before though so stopped at the two that I fancied most. Bright Coral and Frozen Yoghurt. 

The amazing news? These polishes are absolutely beautiful on the nail. Frozen Yoghurt above is an exact dupe for OPI's Planks a Lot and a very close match to Essie's own Play Date. The creamy formulation applies like a dream and leaves a high shine finish in just two coats. 

AFTER two days wear!!

Bright Coral is just that, eye poppingly bright and almost identical to Essie's Geranium, again application is a cinch and here's the deal clincher (as if the price wasn't enough) These polishes laaaaaast on the nail. I managed to get 3 days from Frozen Yoghurt without so much as a scratch and 4 days from Bright Coral. Result. 

So what's the downside I hear you ask, MUA is exclusively available from Superdrug and as all of us Irish beauty lovers know, those stores are as rare as hen's teeth - because of this when you do get to a store the MUA stand is usually desecrated. Well here's the great news that I was completely unaware of... MUA ship worldwide! You knew, didn't you? 

I might just have ordered the rest of the collection from the site directly for £1 each! Delivery is a pretty reasonable £4.95, considering it's a butt load of polishes AND I got a discount of £3. My geansai load of polishes promise to be here in 4 days and I'll be sure to update you all when I try the rest. 

Tell me, are you a polish dupe lover? Have you tried any of these newly formulated polishes? 

 Psst: Be sure to check 
out this week's #CherryLinkLove
& add your dupe links!