oh the cleverness of you
I always used to think that the only way I would ever be able to speak more than one language was if I had learnt it from birth and was raised bilingual (which I wasn’t, so it felt impossible to me, really). The way languages were taught in school only reinforced the idea that I could never be bilingual, or trilingual, or a polyglot (not that I knew what a polyglot was during school). It seemed…
*The second to last instalment of my skincare record. If you think moisturiser is the last step you are sorely mistaken.*
MOISTURISERS
Current:
Pyunkang Yul Moisture Cream – you don’t actually need that much so I get the feeling this is about to last me a loooong time; my skin is combination and it seems to take care of both my oiliness and my dryness concerns; looks like it would be heavier…
*Skincare record part 3. Will also contain mentions of essences and ampoules because, at least to me, it’s all the same overall category*
SERUM
Current:
AXIS-Y Dark Spot Correcting Glow Serum – I’ve been using this for a while now and she has not let me down; finally any and all scars I had from spots on my skin cleared up; I didn’t realise how uneven my skin actually was until she came into…
*Part two of my skincare record. Once again I am no expert. Once again this is just where a big chunk of my money disappears to*
TONER
Current:
COSRX Propolis Synergy Toner – actually planning on switching this out extremely soon; didn’t buy this very long ago but I think it’s just too heavy for my skin, at least as far as toners go; originally bought this because, although I had a toner I…
*The beginnings of a record of the skincare that works (for me) and the skincare that doesn’t (for me), for no reason other than I want to. Very self-indulgent. I am no expert. I lived in Korea twice and, as it turns out, I am a skincare girlie*
CLEANSER
Current:
Dr Althea Amino Acid Gentle Bubble Cleanser – works with my combination skin; controls the oiliness I struggle with without making…
I haven’t really written anything in a very long time. I think by the end of university and the end of my dissertation I was pretty much burnt out. Which is an acceptable part of life now, but it took a long time to overcome it due to the fact that I had no idea how. I have no idea how to do anything really. I once heard someone say that, if you count turning eighteen as ‘becoming an adult’, then…
(lowercase intended, typos not intended but accepted as a part of life)
if being in the campus life bubble of uni that was about to burst wasn’t bad enough, i ended up in a bubble inside the bubble that stretched no further than the laptop on my desk either no one seems to be talking much about it or i’m the only one who feels like they were (or at least were supposed to be) on some kind of…
good things will happen 🧿
things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿
THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
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i finished my undergraduate degree on my own, in my room at home, on a random monday at around half 10 at night. together with the fact that we’re not having a graduation, it’s all feeling very weird and underwhelming so i feel like i need to reflect on the last 4 years of my life somehow. so here we are:
the hardest part about moving away from home and everything you know is just doing…
so in about 3 weeks time i will have handed in my final piece of university work and i will have completed everything needed for my degree. what i’ve been working on for the last 4 years of my life will finally reach its endpoint, but i’m not even sure i’ll get to have a graduation or truly mark this moment in any way. all i’ve heard since i was 18 is how university will be the ‘best years of my…
i’m in the second year of my twenties now and one of the things i wish i had picked up on a lot earlier is the power my own mind has on basically everything in my life. if i look at things in a negative light then of course i’m going to feel bad about them. and sometimes, bad things happen that are just bad. it doesn’t mean that i can’t feel sad or angry or hurt but it just means that i have…
There must be something about the time 22:47 because yet again I find the desire to write spinning around in my brain. This time though it’s less about what I wish I would do and more about what I have already done. I am often faced with pictures on Pinterest or videos on TikTok of friend groups seemingly having the time of their lives in random car parks late at night, or taking spontaneous…
I so often get inside my head when it comes to other people’s perceptions of me that I let myself be controlled by it whether I realise it or not. Over the last 3 years I have changed immeasurably and every day I feel closer to becoming someone who I could recognise as being real, as opposed to someone I have constructed for the benefit of others. I no longer suppress the fire-y energy I often…
(via verygothic)
I turned 21 at the end of 2019 and so I’m now slowly approaching my 22nd birthday, although given the current state of the world it feels like me turning 22 is hurtling towards me a lot quicker than I had originally anticipated. Somehow, in this weird paradoxical sense, these last few months have felt like the longest quickest months of my whole life. Each day feels like it drags on and on to the…