The Balm Strawberry Fields Forevah

the Balm recently sent me a few new products to try out and the Aussie sales rep, Alarna, knew that a vintage loving gal would love a new red polish and included a bottle of Strawberry Fields Forevah.

Strawberry Fields Forevah is a unique color to my red collection as it has a pink shimmer.  In natural light, pics above, it is hard to coax out in photos.  But under artificial light, below, the pink shimmer pops a little more easily.  These swatches were 2 coats, no top coat, and the formula was excellent.

 

thebalm.com recently has the Australian shop section under construction. But the products are for sale in David Jones stores or you can find a stockist by calling 02 94776900. 

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Not All Sombre If You Throw On A Floral Hat

First of all I would like to say that I did not have a shiny face in real life.  A flash at 6pm in Winter results in funky lighting.  Trust me.

This outfit was for a funeral.  I still think that wearing a non black outfit is a little disrespectful but modern tradition doesn't really have people wearing all black clothing to funerals anymore.  So I threw on a Forest Green cardi over my 50's black dress and some Irregular Choice heels.  Some might remember that these heels made a Lust List post I did when the were first released.  I did hold off till they were out on IC's final clearance sale.  They also have 3 charms hanging off each shoe....but the little tinging coming from my shoes at every step was DEFINITELY disrespectful.

 

I have a few pairs in this style as I absolutely LOVE the carved Lucite heel.

 

50's Dress: eBay
Cardi: Retail
Petticoat: Hong Kong
Shoes: Irregular Choice
50's hat: Etsy
Stockings: Leg Avenue

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Hong Kong: Kowloon Park

 

Kowloon Park is very easy to get to, just come out of Tsim Tsa Shui station and it's about 1 minute walk up Nathan Rd. 

 

It's huge and a good way to spend a morning or afternoon entertaining children.  It's made up of sections: weekends you can watch Kung Fu and dragon puppetry demonstrations, a Sculpture section, Bird Aviary, Childrens playground, Swimming pool, fountains, Tea Museum and Mosque.  On Sunday, the walkways are paved with Muslim women picnic-ing and it's fun to walk past and peek at what culinary delights they are all eating!

 

 

As you walk in from Nathan Rd there is currently a Comic book character avenue with characters from the 70's to recent.  The Sexy Man was very happy to come across this as he was a Newspaper cartoonist at one stage.  This area also has market stalls on Saturday.

Yes, that is the kids eating McDonalds.  With 4 kids towing along, how could we NOT eat it the whole visit?  Maccas is at least a little different food wise in HK than in Australia.  Instead of chips (fries) you can get a sweet corn cup which is what I did.  The menu is also more Asian themed with a lot of rice based meals.  Price wise it is also a lot cheaper in HK.  A Happy Meal is $19 HKD or $2 AUD.  And they have Hello Kitty toys! Large sized meals are $3 AUD.  Sundaes are 60c AUD.
They have Pineapple pies, Black Forest Sundaes and drinks include punch which is *very* moreish.  OK, I admit it...we ate there MORE than once!!

The bird aviary contains all exotic birds like Macaws, parrots and these Horny Bills above.  The cages are kept scrupulously clean and are constantly being sprayed clean and poo scrubbed away by cleaners.

Actually,  the whole park is cleaned every 2 hours with all surfaces and bins disinfected every 2 hours.  The children playground is unbelievably clean and sometimes the cleaners follow the kids around and wipe down everything behind them!  Being 'proper' is also strictly adhered to.....the sexy man exhaustedly laid down at one stage on a bench seat and was instantly told off by an attendant!  After that our joking mantra was "Always maintain decorum!"

Large beautiful trees like this one are everywhere.

 

The Men also came back in the arvo and took the kids to the swimming pool.  It's open in 4 hour increments to make sure that everyone can gain access and have a turn.  They arrived for the 1-5pm shift and after that they had to leave for the next lot of people which started at 6pm.  In between every shift everything is cleaned.  It has several pools including 2 indoor ones, a diving pool and several level boards, a toddler area and a large outside pool that curves and swoops around and looks like a resort style.  The kids LOVED it.  Entry was 50c per child and $1 per adult.  You must shower before being allowed into the water and the attendants will not let you swim if you enter the pool area dry!

We didn't make it to Hong Kong Park with Zoo, but can anyone tell me if that one is better than Kowloon Park?

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Comic Con Melbourne

Last weekend saw Australia's second Comic Con and we attended the Melbourne one.  The Sexy Man was a newspaper cartoonist before we married so we were going by hook or by crook!

 

The camera died as soon as we arrived so all of these were taken on my phone.  They were also taken mid walk, but you can get the general gist of the Show and what we saw on the day.

Illustrators Alley where you could meet comic artists and buy their work.

Merchandise, merchandise, merchandise.

Dr Who took the kids photo and gave them jelly babies!

Cosplay contact lenses.

Vintage, new and rare comics by the thousands.

Miss 5 met the lovely guy who draws My Little Pony!

Benefit were there to give makeovers.

This little machine was 3D printing a rubber Tardis!

"Who is Hans Solo and why is he inside this and all dirty?"

 Dancing Ewoks.  I was jealous, I wanted to be an Ewok too.

We got some!

These 2 attacked The Sexy Man

*cough* Hubba hubba *cough*

 

 You could even get a tattoo done.

Steampunk

 

And here is a farting rainbow Unicorn for the Aussie Nails girls!

No comparison.  The Sexiest Man is the Sexiest.

Miss 5 was too shy and ran away!

A Star Wars erotica magazine booth.  Yes, seriously.

I told him Absolutely NO strangle hold on my children.

 

 I have no idea.

I really wanted a pair of animal ears with bows and bells on them. 

But I reminded myself that I would probably never wear them.

And I had my wallet out to instantly purchase this amazingly awesome Flash Gordon jumper......then I saw it was $50.  Crushed :(

Miss 12 in Minecraft heaven.

Yes Sexy Man, I have CAUGHT you perving on Vampirella!

Miss 5 was horrified to see these Princesses.

 

It was huge and packed busy, even for the Sunday.

 

As you can tell, a comic convention is worth going to just to see everyone's costume!  Some people went to amazing lengths to look truly authentic.  We also went upstairs and saw where all the celebrities were meeting people, taking photos and signing autographs.  Ron Perlman charged $90 for a photo and $50 for an autograph.  William Shatner was the same and the girls from Charmed were about half those prices.  I really didn't recognise the rest of the celeb's....I think they were in Sci-fi shows and I'm not a huge Sci-fi buff.

I also got my photo taken heaps, even tho I told as many as I could that I WASN'T  in costume.  Sigh.

Who else went?

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