What the eff is BB cream? (AM)

On Saturday morning, I took myself off to get a pedicure. I was terribly hungover and needed to feel better - fast. Readers, if I am ever out drinking with you and I suggest we end the night with a whisky, know this: I am already drunk and absolutely do not need that whisky. That's not to say I won't enjoy it, but I definitely will not need it. Though, to be fair, what is 'needing' whiskey? I'm not sure I want that either. 

Anyway, there I was on Saturday morning: my feet in a warm bath, my person in a warm massage chair, my face in a magazine,  and friends, it was totally working. But then I turned the page and saw this:

Loreal Nude Magique.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I thought to myself. Nude Magique! What a stupid name!  I sat there chuckling away.  

But the I read the ad properly.  "BB Magic. The 1st self-adjusting  BB Cream" it said.  

Um, what the eff is BB cream?  

Since when did it become a thing? Do people wear it? What is it all about?

I turned to the internet for answers. According to Wikipedia "BB Cream stands for blemish balm, blemish base, or beblesh balm (apparently because of a copyright in Korea on the word "blemish")". 
HAHAHA. Beblesh Balm. 
Wikipedia goes on to say "BB cream is promoted as an all-in-one facial cosmetic product to replace serum, moisturizer, primer, foundation, and sunblock."
Well well well. Doesn't that sounds like a lazy girl's wet cream?
Sounds a little too good to be true if you ask me. What is it, a Thermomix?

I thought about nicking the sample from the magazine at the pedicure place so I could see for myself, but I felt guilty just thinking about it so I didn't. Instead I bought my own copy of that magazine last night so I could try this Nude Magique. Turns out I bought the wrong magazine and instead of a sample of Nude Magique, it just had this picture of Megan Gale trying to sell me a different BB cream from the Loreal stable.

Megan is quoted as saying "We all talk about it....skin that looks perfect today and younger tomorrow."
Clearly, we move in different circles, Megan.

Anyway, I guess my suspicion and my laziness means I still don't really know what the eff BB cream is.

Early update from Miss Soft Crab's visit to Hobart (PM)

That was a good question! Did we just wait for Baby to wake up then go and get a whiskey? No! In fact we worked on our video clip until the desire for whiskey was so strong we just put sleeping Baby in the pusher and went out for a whiskey. Or so we thought.

The walk was pretty. It looked like this :

And this:

Then we got to the whiskey joint. We went to the Lark Distillery where they make whiskey. From the outside it looks like this:

But on the inside it looks like a Gloria Jeans. It was so unpleasant we didn't even stick around for the whiskey.

Instead we just ate these fish and chips by the water.

Before we went home for a second dinner of roast vegetable, pea shoots, sunflower greens and $15 goats cheese. DELICIOUS!

Early update from Miss Soft Crab's visit to Hobart (AM)

Miss Soft Crab is in Hobart! Chickpea and Baby are here too. We invited LB, but he wanted to stay home and eat pizza in his underwear (not a euphemism). I'm sure J and Baby are missing him, but it must be said that we're having a bit of a laugh riot on our own.

We came to see some art and eat some food. So far, we have done heaps of the second activity - but today we're off to MONA to do the first.

We'll tell you all about it in a few days, but in the meantime check out some of what we've seen/done so far.

Yesterday, after a breakfast of leftover indian food, we went to a farmers market in the city.

We had some snacks and bought a whole bunch of stuff including these slippery jack mushrooms which we plan to cook with pasta tonight.

Actual mushrooms we bought. 

We then ate some more snacks:  sushi that this guy made to order for us...

...and on the way home, some delicious sundowner apples that had been picked the day before (so the guy selling them told us). When we arrived home, it was time for proper lunch, so we ate some toast with goats cheese, then tea and a delicious German cake called a Bienenstich.  All of this by about 1:00pm. 

Shortly after, J put Baby to bed for an afternoon nap, then Chickpea asked: "So how does this work? Do we just wait for Baby to wake up and then go and have a whisky?"

Good question, Chickpea. Good question.