Lets Regroup...

Well, its been a pretty eventful couple of days in blogland hasn't it?

I have to be honest and say that after writing about the MAC-Rodarte issues, I was finding it difficult to contemplate going back to makeup reviews etc. So I took a break to "regroup" as they say.


I'm obviously going to pass on any further information I get about what happens with the MAC for Rodarte collection, as it something that evidently a lot of people, myself included, have strong and varied opinions on. 


I think on a personal level, I feel angry that the femicides and maquilladora issues were going on and so many people (and I include myself in that number) were unaware. And thats an issue that goes beyond any makeup or fashion collection really - Partly, I have to acknowledge my own failings to show awareness of the things going on in the world, and that is something I have always been aware of as a fault within myself. But I'm also saddened by the low media coverage of these issues - if the same thing had been going on in London, or New York, for example, the media would surely have been screaming from the rooftops. 

There is so much more I wish I could do - and I have a bit of a thinking cap on over that, as I know a couple of other people do.

So I suppose this is a bit of a personal post really to let you all know that although the reviews and face of the day and skincare posts will be back and "normal service" will be resumed now, that I have not forgotten, and probably never will forget how horrified I was when I was researching and writing about the issues in Juarez. So many opinions exist out there on the internet, the blogging community and the web at large about the makeup collection - is it right? Is it wrong? Did MAC really think it was OK? What really inpired Rodarte's collection? etc. At the end of the day though, all that seems to pale into insignificance when the human cost of the femicides is really thought about...

There is a segment in this video clip which has been haunting me since this whole thing started - watch the whole video of course, (or don't if that is your preference - I'm not here to dictate what people should or shouldn't be affected by) but the particular part I am referring to is about the children left behind - approx 1.30 in.


I hope you don't mind me sharing this - my intention is not to offend, or induce guilt. I suppose I just wanted to explain why I was bothered by this whole thing on a personal level... I think I also wanted to get this out of my head and onto my blog, so that I could move forward. I realise that might sound a little dramatic, and I apologise. Its just my feelings, and my way of dealing with them...


So there we go. 


As mentioned - "Normal Service will now Resume"