What Sheep Do: March 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Monday, March 30, 2015

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Revlon Lucky Bag

Oh boy, oh boy. Lucky bags are perhaps my favourite thing about Japanese shopping.

Usually they only come out at New Years where every single store presents their own 'Lucky' bags at various prices with an assortment of old and new products.

I thought I had missed this years lucky bags until I passed by Plaza (makeup and food import store) on Thursday afternoon and saw this beauty sitting out the front.

The price for the lucky bag is always significantly less than what it holds. In this case 1600yen for 5000yen worth of items ($16 for $50 worth of items).

Sure, it's all old products that aren't selling too well but that won't stop me!

Standard for all of these lucky bags is the Revlon ColorBurst Lip Crayon, Bold Laquer Mascara and 24 hour ColorStay Whipped foundation, and a revlon nail polish.

Unfortunately (or not?) everything but the nail polish is the same in each lucky bag. The foundation is 180 Natural Ochre (too dark for me, any takers?). The mascara is water proof is Blackest Black. And, the Lip Lacquer is 30 Flirtatious.

The nail polishes are different however... how do I know this? Because I bought two.

My first nail polish above is ColorStay Gel Envy in 013 Sky's the Limit. The second, below, is Revlon Parfumerie in 17 Sunlit Grass. I tried out the second and found myself oddly in love with the yellow. I think it would look even better with Essie's matte finish top coat.

Fairly basic mascara but definitely worth it for the cheap price tag.

Swatches - sadly the foundation is too dark but I'd be more than willing to give it away. I might try using it for contouring first.

So, yes, I have a problem. But the makeup fiend in me just goes crazy at the sight of more products for less moolah.

Can you blame me?

March 27th, 28th & 29th - Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Okuyama Tunnel ~ 奥山トンネル: My Journey Around the Neighbourhood

Around 18months ago I saw a tunnel in a tourist brochure for Hamamatsu. I had just arrived in the city and had no sense of direction in the area yet but I thought, one day, I would go see it.

Today, after such a long time, I finally made it up there.

Walking past the City Hall I saw flowers in full bloom. In particular the tulips were gorgeous.

Love this old sign post I always walk past when visiting the City Hall. It's so perfectly rusted next to the bright green of the bushes.

Hamamatsu Castle seemed to be the most popular destination today despite the grim clouds and heavy rain thanks to it being surrounded by cherry blossoms (sakura).

You can see some people enjoying their picnic; as I look out the window now at the downpour of heavy rain I can't help but laugh at their now, no doubt, soggy rice balls and beer.

So many of these vine covered buildings in Japan and I love them.

This looks to me like an owl logo? It's cute whatever it is.

A little bit of nature amongst the bricks.

I love that fence - it's almost like a Menorah.

Sneaky picture of myself in the mirror.

You can't see it in the picture but this bench was placed on a slope and the only thing keeping it semi-upright is a couple of coasters shoved underneath each front leg.

This is the police box at the castle park. It's so Japanese it hurts.

I love how they write "KOBAN" in English lettering despite the fact that if you didn't know Japanese you wouldn't know what it meant.

I wanted so much to go in this shop. I think it's a framing store but it's so gorgeously decorated.

Our first glimpse of the tunnel.

And there it is with the commemorative train wheels out the front.

Explaining where the old train tracks went and the steam trains that used to run through it. It would be really handy to have this line nowadays actually.