BTW, new blog so please head over there!

Hi y'all, are you fed up of me yet? I know, I keep changing things around but if I'm not happy then the content I give you won't be 100% and unfortunately I'm a perfectionist so NEW BLOG AGAIN TIME! I decided to go with my name (as in, the name I was born with opposed to what people only ever call me) because I'm fed up with myself for never feeling right with the names I choose for blogs. Sure they are meaningful to me but they lack something and that something was they lacked Natsumi Factor. Yup. That.

So it would mean the world to me if you subscribed to my:
New blog: http://natsumisuzuki.blogspot.com
My twitter that I killed and brought back to life: @sumiNat
New YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/natsumisummerbeauty

And this time I will be deleting off both The Suki Chronicles (sob) and Suki's Tsunami instead of keeping them private as I thought I originally would do with the former. I will do this...eventually. Once I am free of university obligations. So if there are any posts/photos you particularly love then go screenshot the heck out of them.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!
♥ Natsumi.

One Last Post, Please Join Me On A New Journey

Maybe it was losing Aiko this week (I still don't want to talk about it, everything important was said on her Instagram @AikoBun), maybe it was the vague thought of doing it for months, maybe it was just time to man up...er, or woman up...or..down...? Anyway it was time and it feels right so this is the final post on my beloved [The] Suki Chronicles.

My reasoning is simple: the passion and dreams Suki Chronicles had are long gone and there are some things associated with this blog that I think I no longer want and have fulfilled. I have tried breaking away before with no luck but now I think I have found a new love with my new blog Suki's Tsunami that I hope you will follow and love too for it will hopefully be something more fantabulous than Suki Chronicles never was.

So what to expect from Suki's Tsunami (which, by the way, is a bit of a riddle and if you figure it out I will LOVE YOU LIKE WHOA)? I will be redoing some of the most loved posts from Suki Chronicles and "moving" them to my wave of destruction. More importantly, I hope with my new blog I will finally achieve the balance of being a general blogger instead of being mistaken for a beauty blogger (I don't fulfill the criteria - posting pictures and merely saying what I like/dislike about products does not qualify me as a beauty blogger in my opinion). Life, beauty, fashion and everything else in between is what you will hopefully get if you allow yourself to get drawn into my tsunami of a world.

Thank you for your support, patience and love - my Youtube channel will remain SukiChronicles as will my contact email (sukichronicles@gmail.com). This blog will be set to private in time but most posts will be redone and posted on my new blog. My Instagram is still @sumiNat as is my Twitter but now I have a blog Twitter which is @SukisTsunami

Eye of Horus Mascara Review

This is an overdue post - I wanted to have this up SO much sooner but thanks to our very lovely and helpful internet provider we haven't had internet until now and prior to that I was immersed in final assignments and an exam. Bad timing perhaps but it meant I got to give Eye of Horus Mascara a thorough test run. Who are Eye of Horus Mascara? You could go to their website to check them out for yourself or if you want to hear me ramble about them then keep reading!

NYX Nude on Nude palette - Night Look

 

I haven't really been doing many looks using eye shadow but I felt inspired today because I have been so exhausted and in a bit of a low mood so what better way than to play with makeup? This look sort of came out of nowhere: I literally wasn't thinking and just mixed colors from the NYX Nude on Nude palette as and when I felt like it and I freaking LOVE LOVE LOVE the end result because I never incorporate more colors when I do this sort of black lid-black liner-blackblackblack look. The more black the better (plus it's easier) but I think I will opt for this look more often.

For some reason I need to give this look a name. It shall be called my Phantom of the Opera look. Don't know why, was the first thing that popped into my head!

Noah ♥

After fighting it out for as long as he could, our beloved fighter fish Noah finally gave up this weekend. It was devastating and I spent the entire day yesterday alternating between crying hysterically and just floating around trying to do something but not really doing anything at all. This may seem strange to some people and if anyone tells me "he was just a fish" I will probably punch them. Not even kidding.

Noah was my little sweetheart: he built bubble nests all the time even though he should've technically only done so when he was in season. I would wake up some mornings to see him dancing for me, gesturing with his eyes to his overnight creation or the new additions he had made to an existing bubble nest. He would dance for me often, especially when I was happy or excited about something and would bounce off the walls, he would join me too. I had long conversations with him, he was the loving support especially on the days I had no one else to talk to. We were in sync with one another, he adopted a lot of my traits (his favorite thing to do would be to daydream while looking out his tank or sit on the floor of his tank and stare off into space for a while) and was the most beautiful fish in the world (which he knew damn well, the vain little thing). To say he was "just a fish" would be an insult.

Yes, he was a fish, but he was incredibly smart and kind in his own way. He always gave me time of day even during his final days. Three days before he passed he seemed to have recovered and was demanding for food and dancing with me, overjoyed that I was overjoyed that he was better. It broke my heart to see him struggling once more the next day only to lose him soon after. He lived in our kitchen which I realized was my "happy place" in the house because now I can't bear to be in there, the emptiness suffocating me and the knowledge that he's not there for me to talk to is crushing.

We've lost three pets now: Jackson and Trent our quirky little hermit crabs and now Noah. I pour my heart out to the animals that come into my life and I feel like each one takes a part of me with them when they go. We still have our amusing goldfish Tristan and Yvaine and our newest addition, our bunny Aiko and from now one they will be making more of an appearance on my blog so I hope you'll welcome them warmly because they're my life and I think it's time I shared more of them with you like I do my make up or other random thoughts.

I love you Noah, you were the best little friend a girl could have. ♥

Interracial Relationships: One or the Other?

Today Scott and I were in the city taking a much needed breather from the stress of university work and incompetent websites when I had a sudden realization upon seeing another couple: one partner will always be more swayed to adopt the other's culture. It isn't exactly the most astounding realization but it got me thinking about all the interracial couples I know with significantly different cultural backgrounds and I found that all of them had one person in the relationship adopting their partner's culture. Sometimes they would embrace it even more so than their partner themselves!

Scott is definitely the one who has adopted a lot of my cultural background - including Japanese, Sri Lankan, Singaporean and Hong Kong culture! - while I am honestly not that keen on adopting Australian cultural traits (although I probably have unconsciously even though I am convinced I haven't). Even though I'm not big on culture (being mixed I try not to care, it's not fair to focus on one or another and I can't mix both at once!) it's interesting to see how much of mine has influenced Scott.

If you're in an interracial relationship do you find this happening to you or your partner too?

Revlon Lip Butters

I originally didn't want to do a post on the Revlon Lip Butters but after seeing so many posts on them ranting and raving about how awesome they are I thought I'd add in my two cents because mine tend to always be on the rusty, dirty side. That is, I don't really think they deserve all the ranting and raving.