I bought a few magazines today...

Here's some random things. Pretty much entirely unrelated except I'm thinking about em all.

Beauty products like woah

Today I bought 3x Glamour magazines. It's the Benefit gift issue, so I got one of each!

• Bad Gal kohl eyeliner pencil - lovely and smudgy and dark
• Eye Bright eye brightner pencil - not as shimmery as I'd thought, but will be fun to experiment with
• It Stick concealer pencil - soft and easily smoothed

Gave a couple of my workmates the spare magazines. Wahay for cheapo Benefit products -- only £6 to get all 3! -- with the added bonus of a trashy magazine to while away the evening on...

Listening to these a lot

Fall Out Boy - Sugar We're Going Down



Fall Out Boy - America's Suitehearts



Like like like this band, and sadly it looks like they are on 'indefinite hiatus' right now. Above average lyrics and the lead singer's voice rocks my socks off and honestly, I don't have a lot of bouncy peppy music in my collection so this stuff is sorely needed.

(It bugs me LIKE CRAZY that I can't reduce the size of those embedded videos to fit the width of my blog! Argh! Look at them hanging over the edge like that! Argh!)

Smashing Mazine tells it like it is

10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites by Paul Boag

Work on websites? Read this post, if you haven't seen it before. It's insightful.

I disagree with the first point though! Because marketing is not "a monologue". A website is a communication channel (on a technical platform) and belongs to marketing. Although of course you need a web marketer/manager to own it.

Think of a magazine -- it's run by an editorial team (who have the technical know-how to lay out a page) -- not the printing team.