All Things Anisha

Mascara, Eyeliner, Brow Pencil, Brow Gel… We put our eyes & face through a lot to get gorgeous looking makeup. Whilst some makeup is still prone to smudging and moving about all over the place, nowadays technology has meant that makeup is both incredibly long-wearing and difficult to remove and that’s not even necessarily waterproof products…

Lazy mornings with a view.

“For as long as women have been bleeding, there has been a man standing somewhere nearby, primitively grunting to signal his disgust. In ancient Rome, women were believed to acquire the magical ability to stop hailstorms or halt lightning during their monthly periods. Menses could render crops ‘barren’ and drive dogs ‘mad,’ the Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his 1st-century encyclopedia, Natural History. The Victorians viewed menstruation as an illness, and women were confined to private quarters during their periods. Victorian etiquette, in fact, prohibited any discussion or mention of the fact that women bled at all. Even today, representations of menstruating women in popular Western culture frequently trade in stereotypes that depict them as mercurial or volatile.”