Beauty on a Budget!

Wow!! Had to make a quick blog about my recent discovery - the high street make-up brand MUA (Make Up Academy) available in Superdrug stores, and get this......................brace yourself............it only costs £1 per item!!!! 

MUA's range includes an eyeliner colour range from 1 to 20 different shades, nail varnish, lip gloss, bronzers, eyeshadow and lip stick, how can you go wrong?!

Beauty on a budget and without compromise. I'm already stocking up and testing it out for myself.

Get out there and try it for yourself.

MEN & INFIDELITY!

Ok! Before I begin I will forewarn you that I am in danger of going on a rant on this topic!!
Those in the UK will be aware that recently, one of our footballers (surprise, surprise) has been in the headlines for the past few weeks for trying to keep an extra-marital affair kept under wraps through a super-injunction.  Due the super-injunction being lifted (hurrah!! a foolish and clear misuse of such a law if you ask me) I am safe to mention the culprit - Ryan Giggs.

"Allegedly" he had an affair over a considerable number of months, even leading his mistress to believe that he would leave his wife for her (c'mon honey, seriously?!?!). Now (unfortunately), that story is nothing new within the football world (footballers cheating on their girlfriend's, wives, fiances is almost the norm), however this morning, Ryan Giggs took it one, no ten steps further, and was revealed to have also cheated with his brother's wife for 8 years!! Yes, you read right, his BROTHER'S wife, and yes, for EIGHT YEARS!!

Publicist Max Clifford, put it simply and perfectly "The biggest own goal in history!"

First and foremost, I feel incredibly sorry for his long suffering wife. Imagine the shame, public humiliation and embarrassment. You put your faith in a man, build a future with him, stand by his side, only for him to throw it all away because of weakness of the flesh, and with your brother's wife too!!! HAVE YOU NO SHAME MAN!! Is nothing sacred?!!! Evidently not the sanctity of marriage (yeah some of do still believe in it), evidently not the relationship with his brother, evidently not his wife, evidently not his family.

I believe infidelity stems from lack of self worth and self love. After all hasn't it been long said that you must love and respect yourself in order to love and respect others?!

I've also noticed that most people try and determine what the partner of the person who cheats looks like (maybe he / she cheated) because he was upgrading!! Sometimes though, going by most of the affairs revealed in the media, there is no understanding why, because the partner is a looker in the first place. Perhaps it's a case of being like a kid in a candy shop, not happy with just the one sweet treat, you have to have them all (rolls eyes). Whatever the reason, it's wholly selfish to to cheat, if it's not working let the other person know, either try and work on it or walk away. It takes a coward to string someone along. It's also not fair that you are preventing your partner from finding someone who can and will treat them better and they way they deserve because of your weak, selfish desires.

There had been times when, come the end of one of my long term relationships, I was faced with the dim prospect that "the majority of men" cheat, sorry to sound general, actually I'm not sorry, I speak from experience (direct and indirect). Yes it could be that I'm looking in the wrong places, picking the wrong men, but I also go by conversations from female friends and colleagues spanning across a myriad of backgrounds, age groups and personal taste in men.

Now in case you haven't guessed (I'm sure most of you have ;), I have been "cheated on", and it hit me like a ton of bricks, especially as I'd been very open and honest with this person and even made it clear I had my concerns that something was being held back (this was a new relationship). He had the option at this stage to be open and honest in return, and I trusted that he would respect me and what I'd been through in my past enough not put me through such pain. Aahh, perhaps because he thought I would never find out especially as we didn't have the same social circle. But find out I did! The way in which I found out, I can only say was through fate. I felt like I had been dropped kicked in my gut, and I literally crumbled.

I still have faith and hope in men, well the right man being out there. The man that is stronger than most in being able to hold one woman down. A man strong and confident enough in himself to know that once his picked his partner there is no desire to look elsewhere or even entertain the idea. A man that respects and loves himself enough to give the same love and respect to me.