I love Gossip Girl. Can’t get enough of it. LOVE. In the books, I’m an avid Blair/Nate/Serena; Dan/Vanessa; Chuck/Some other guy/His monkey shipper. In the tv series, however, I ship Dan/Serena; Blair/Chuck; Rufus/Serena’s Mom; Serena’s Brother/Jenny and Nate/Some-hiding-place-where-we-don’t-have-to-see-him. And with yesterday’s episode, my wish came true!! I loved the old-film special effects, even if they did suck. They were perfect, especially with Blair’s Audrey obsession.
:D
$90 sweaters, bought just for the brand? Stupid.
$500 “affordable” boots? Even worse.
This post is pretty much a borrowed idea from Soi at Teen Haven’s “Affordable? I think not…“
I simply don’t see the point of wasting your money on clothes. My $10 American Apparel T-shirt is the same quality as it was when it was $25. My Moto jeans were a steal at $20, but weren’t any better at $80. So I figure, why do we pay so much, for so little?
These are my price caps:
Shoes: $70 for boots and running shoes, $40 for sneakers, flats, really nice sandals, etc, and $20 for flip flops and “trendy” sandals
Jeans/Pants: $60 – It used to be $40, but I can’t bloody find anything, so I’m raising it :P However, I am incredibly picky, so my expensive jeans are really worth all of their costs.
Long sleeve tees: $25
Short sleeve tees: $15
Hoodies, sweaters, and sweatshirts: $50 for really warm, good quality, $30 for either/or, $0 for neither :P
Tanks and spaghetti straps: $15
Bags: $50
Does anyone else have limits? Tell me in the comments!!
FB’s interview of me is finally out; read it here. She did a terrif job of coming up with just the right questions, and adding photos!
In the interview, I rave about two moisturisers: my Olay Quench and my Olay Complete, both for sensitive skin. So I figured now would be a good time to review them, lol!
Let’s start with the Olay Complete.
I searched for the right moisturiser for quite a while, and I’m glad to say I found it! It’s got just the right consistency, and absorbs nicely into my face. It isn’t as matte as I would like it to be, but that’s okay – I suppose I could get a mattifying lotion, if I really wanted to, but those always turn out rather badly for me. I use about four pea sizes of this – two when I get out of the shower, and two more once those have completely absorbed in. My dry patches are all gone, and my skin no longer feels tight – or heavy, like some other creams make it feel. In addition, this has SPF15, which is nice, and doesn’t have a smell. A ton of moisturisers have a scent, which a)drives me crazy, and b)irritates my skin.
Next: Olay Quench.
I love my Quench. LOVE it. FB is obsessed with it’s concentrate formula, but a daily application of this seems to be doing the trick for me. I don’t love the fact that it glitters, because it can get rather out of hand, lol! However, it absorbs into my skin like water, and is the only light, scent-free moisturiser than can keep my super-dry skin hydrated in the cold months (which is practically the whole year for me :P ). I’m thinking of trying their Moiturerinse as well, as I’m running out of my faithful Body Shop Plumb & Nectarine Shower Gel. -sigh-.
These two definitely both receive Holy Grail status – unless I find anything even more perfect, that is!
EDIT: Well, seeing as the Quench is no longer produced and the Complete is no longer hydrating enough for me… they’ve both been DEMOTED! Damn Olay. Discontinuing everything that works for sensitive, dry skin.
I just realized I totally forgot to post today, and that I don’t really have anything much to say. So thank you very much to Canadian Beauty for linking to me – if anyone hasn’t checked out Henna’s site yet, it’s definitely worth a click!
Off to go watch Season One of Grey’s Anatomy (*grin*). Ttfn.
These are the three main things that I’m looking for. Does anyone have suggestions (please, please, PLEASE do. I’m almost all out of options, lol!)
Any recs would be fantastic; if you have a list of twenty items that *might* work, I still want to hear about them, lol!
Have a fun weekend, everyone – I may not be posting tomorrow, so I apologize in advance if I never get around to it.
The first cure-all was on too-dark eye and lip liners, and too-light concealers. This time, it’s on brown eye shadows, and too dark concealers and foundations. We’ve all been in that position – the drug store foundation is dark, you bought brown eye shadow for the “natural look” and decided you hated it. One word: shadows.
What the hell am I on about? You know how make up artists claim they can make you “look ten pounds lighter”? All you need is to throw some darker shades into your make up repertoire. Mix a shade with the right foundation, or use more or less of it, to create the same colour as the shadows under your cheekbones (if you can’t find them, shine a light head-on, suck in your cheeks, and find the shadow your cheekbones create in a mirror).
So where do you apply this? Put your hands on either side of your cheeks and push – feel the cheekbones? Apply on the bottoms of the bones, (but on your skin, lol!) and blend, blend, blend. You should not be applying it like blush, though – it should already be fading out when you get to the apples of your cheeks.
Where else? On either side of your nose bridge and on the bottom side of your brow bone. A touch by your temples, along your jawline (just skim a LITTLE BIT right along your jaw, I like using a blush brush and simply following my jawline with the centre of the brush, allowing it to fan on just the right amount), and on the sides of your throat – you know that bit that juts out? A tiny bit on either side will actually make your neck look thinner and longer. You can also create darker shadows around your collar bone area.
What to remember? Apply it only to emphasize where you already have shadows on your face – never create cheekbones that aren’t there, for instance – you’ll only look like you’ve dipped wayyy too far into the bronzer. Just dust on a little bit, and BLEND IN WELL – the point is to look naturally skinnier, not overdone! This IS NOT a bronzer, and isn’t meant to make you look tan – though you could use a dark brown bronzer for this, if you wish – but don’t use a glittery one!
That’s all for now – have fun contouring!
I’ve got just enough time to tell you guys a few things: my grandmother’s home. Needless to day, I am not that excited. So, I’ve got about two minutes to post before I’m berated, lol!
Our neighbourhood got a lot of cute little tykes trick or treating, not much else. So each kiddie got about five chocolates – how could you not give a zillion of them to such adorable little people, all incognito?
This is the perfect wallet from Matt & Natt that I am completely in love with. I may have to splurge the $40 for it – I generally don’t get the point of expensive wallets and bags; why would you pay around $200 to carry around only $20 and some plastic? But it’s just so…
(Photo and such off the Matt & Natt website. Just so you know, it’s named “Natalie”. It’s so pretty…)
tna and the little one will be over later to hand out Halloween treats, so there won’t be a post. The don’t, um, know that this exists. And we’d like to keep it that way. Happy Halloween, everyone! (Hey, is anyone dressing up?)
Fabulously Broke in the City is doing an interview of me (yay!); and she said I could post it in my blog as well. However, I’m going to be posting it later – I think it should be up on her blog first. I’m not sure why, but it just feels right. ( I just got home, and have a ton of work to do. So there probably won’t be a real post today, sorry!)
Does anyone have a favourite magazine, or one that they subscribe to? My FLARE one will be over in Feb. and I want to find a new one before then. Leave a suggestion in comments if you do! :)
