Relighting the fire

I've finally gotten around to writing blog post number two and it only took me two weeks, high fives all round I think. Anyone would think I actually had a life.

I digress. It has recently come to my attention that a redhead only dating agency has been created called Top Carrot. I had this very same idea when creating a mockumentary for my final uni project about a redhead only dating agency with the purpose of keeping the ginger gene alive called Igniting The Flame, which I think you'll agree is a far superior name, I mean the ambiguity alone...

So I decided after three years it was time to put the film on the tinterweb before someone goes and whips the idea from right under my feet. I don't know why it took me this long, probably the effort of converting and uploading and all those other technical hurdles combined with fear that I've broken all sorts of copyright laws. I probably have but I wasn't aware of what they are and therefore I am not accountable for them.

If any comedy bigwigs or the beeb want to give me some money (or even if anyone wants to buy the idea off me for a bottle of pinot grigio, has to be over the £5 mark though I do have some dignity) and make it into something spectacular, by all means throw me a line.

Bear in mind this was made by a penniless student with no production budget and limited time. Don't get me wrong we were allocated plenty of time to make it, too much even, I'm just very fond of leaving things to the last possible minute and driving off the adrenalin the panic induces. I'm just such a thrill seeker. Just imagine what it could be if any sort of investment was made, it could totally take over the world.

Here is the teaser trailer. Your film is nothing if it hasn't got a dramatic teaser trailer.



And here it is...

Beyond the brow

Hello beautiful people. I've been meaning to get this bad boy up and running for a good while now but thanks to a rather extended bout of procrastination I am only now, four months after it's conception, posting my first blog. At 9.30 on a Tuesday night. 

Anyhow, my initial motivation for starting this blog was my annoyance at the portrayal of a scouser's beauty regime/habits on Desperate Scousewives. I was living in London at the time and had spent four years attempting to persuade everyone down south that there is a contingent of fairly normal girls that inhabit Liverpool (and I actually think they were starting to believe me), but one episode of Desperate Scousewives in I found myself right back at square one trying to defend those of us who don't roll around in ronseal and attach dead moths to our eyes before a night out. Believe it or not most of us are aware that eyebrows that look like they've been drawn on by a child let loose with a sharpie pen are not so attractive.

When thinking of a title for the blog therefore, I came up with beyond the brow. Clever eh? Would have been better if beyondthebrow hadn't been taken forcing me to use text speak (I'm pretty sure my dislike of text speak will become apparent) and call it byondthebrow.

Now that I've finally bitten the bullet I intend to bring you various news from the world of beauty and share with you my knowledge and opinions (I fear it will be more of the latter) on various pretty things. There may also be the odd rant/musing/anecdote but I will endeavour to make sure they are vaguely relevant...