Beauty by a Sparrow

Well hello there! This blog – Beauty by a Sparrow – has stalled over the last, say, eighteen months.  To be fair, I’ve also stalled over the last eighteen months. Health scares, dramas, university, life decisions, changes, relationships, laptop break downs (more stressful than the relationships tbh) and a few major game changes in the beauty industry sit between this post and my last.  So I figure, let’s start fresh!  We’re entering autumn,Read More0 Comments

Hello little birds! I don’t know about y’all but I blinked and February was GONE, plain GONE. We’re already in the last week. It’ll be March far sooner than I’d like it to be. I had so many plans for this blog for February but as we all know, life is what happens in the interim. So without further ado, here’s an update on the things making my life easier (and prettier) duringRead More0 Comments

I’ve started swimming! Oh, I already told you all that. Well, what I didn’t tell you was how I’m managing all that chlorine exposure, and what fills up my pool bag each time I head to my local swimming hole. Gotta tell ya though, it’s only been two weeks but swimming laps has already made such a difference – I’m sleeping better, I’m thinking more clearly, and I’m just feeling better in general.Read More0 Comments

Hello We’re eleven days into January and I’m pleased to report I’ve accomplished two of the things I really, really wanted to do in 2017. First; Zoe Foster Blake acknowledged my existence via emoji and it was glorious. I posted via @beautybyasparrow on Instagram about aiming to complete more Teeny Tiny Acts of Love (#ttal) this year and the ethereal @ZoTheySay seemed to like that sentiment quite a bit. As you can imagineRead More0 Comments

Y’know how you watch someone do something you can’t, and aside from your first thought being HOLY SHITSNACKS THAT’S COOL, your next thought is, “Oh I wish I could do that”. Well I get that every time I watch Natasha complete a make-up application. So at the end of this year, after watching her (not in a creepy way, like, in an admirable/we work in the same space way) talents she asked ifRead More0 Comments