Recreating Bridal Look, RED Nail Polish & Mini Haul

Happy Monday everyone!

Over the weekend, I tried to recreate the bridal makeup look I learned from a fab YTuber/blogger (www.frmheadtotoe.com). I didn't have a lot of the products she used but I substituted with what I had :) I was really inspired by her look - not only did she actually wear this look for her wedding (street cred! :) but it looks so natural/good for Asian faces/skin tones (that plus she's absolutely gorgeous!). You can check out the tutorial here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNN8lcOZvwM I unabashedly watched this video a few times lol

This is my first attempt - I'm still trying to perfect it so bear with me. I definitely have a lot to work on so I'm excited to practice this again in the near future! I also don't have falsies so I couldn't complete the look either lol I

Anyway, this is the completed look: (and one of my eyes is a little wonk, one of the creases was acting up because of allergies :( I will have to try it again when one of my eyes isn't bigger than the other lol)

W/Flash

Without Flash - as you can sort of tell, the white shadow/browbone area needs a little more blending haha!
What I used / What she used:

• Cover Girl Lash Blast WP, CG Exact Lash WP & Falsies
  
• Revlon Vintage Lace & NYX Matte White, NYX Matte White
  
• BB cream (just as an undereye concealer because I don't have anything better), Graftobian Concealer
• MUFE HD Foundation, Graftobian Foundation
  
• Maybelline Brow, MUFE Brow (not pictured), Anastasia Brow Kit
  
• Lancome some copper shadow in GWP, Copper shadow
• Revlon Colorstay E/L in Brown-Black (I "lined" all over my lid hahaha, that was fun!), Clinique Brush on Cream Liner (both waterproof!)
  
• Wet N Wild Creme Liner Black, Mac Fluidline Blacktrack
• BareMinerals blush Dessert Rose, Everyday Minerals Apple (both matte blushes)
• TooFaced Shadow Insurance, UDPP
• Sephora Lip Liner in Cute Caramel, Lancome Lipstick Rose Defile, Clinique Lipstick Orchid Shimmer, MUFE Gloss Peachy Pink, Maybelline Gloss in Glass Rose
  

I'm pretty sure I used a bunch of other shadows too (from the NYX nuetral palettes) and I think she used some other items, but they weren't the big items so I didn't include them in the list. And I also don't have highlighting/contouring cheek stuff lol I'm a beginner here!


Her look is one version where the lid is darker than the crease - I have seen other bridal looks where it is lid lighter than crease, and I'll try to do those too in the near future to compare. So far, I'm really liking this one! Here is another vid that is really helpful too for bridal makeup - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB8MN9yWwxQ&feature=related The series is called "Makeup Gourmet" - so cute!! I don't know why it doesn't get that much viewership.
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So I've NEVER worn red nail polish before - I usually stick with french colors (light pink family or shimmery ivorys) but I decided that I should have at least a good red polish for fall. I've seen how tacky red could look if it's not in the right shade family. So I did some research before I went to Sally's hehe. I read that for light skin tones, reds that are cool toned look best.
I picked this shade - Long Kiss from China Glaze. I wanted to get an Orly equivalent/dupe but the one or two bottles they had left were tampered with booo. Sheridan picked out this shade, it looks awesome! Sometimes its best to have a fresh eye looking at colors. The pictures don't do the color justice, my hand looks so awkward! lol I could learn a thing or two from Tish about NOTDs she does them so nicely :)


Ooo also, I'm not sure if I really am warm undertoned, I did the blue/green vein test in daylight, and I can't tell if they're blue or green. Some parts look greenish blue, some parts look blue lol! So am I peach undertoned?!
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And look at the goodies I received from Michelle at MyMakeupReviews!!! She is so awesome and generous - this is HER HG! I've never seen this before even though it's made by Abbott, I can't wait to try it, it sounds really promising. Check out her fab blog, I love reading it for the pictures, so clear and her reviews are really thorough!
She also enclosed some extra things for me to try, coool!!!



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And here is my mini haul - it's very mini lol but it includes the nail polish.

Got a bigger bottle of my HG brand shampoo - Ion! Wish they sold pumps too, though I cleaned out my aveeno pump and I'm going to try to see if it fits lol

I couldn't resist buying this dish at Petco :) It's for Nala!!
Have a good week everyone!

CAS & Mitsuwa Food Haul!!!

I love Mitsuwa (the huge Japanese market), but I realized why we stopped going so often - everything costs so much ! lol It seems like we barely bought anything and ended up spending $100+ >.< But it was well worth it though :)

Our lunch - mm!!!!

Sheridan's Konbu (seaweed) Onigiri yum!!!
The Okinawa festival is going on right now so theres lots of Okinawa cultural food items for sale. I got Clam flavored chips (top left), shrimp chips, pizza chips, more shrimp chips, Cod Roe spaghetti sauce (I LOVE this stuff in the Yakitori places), and Okinawa pickles to eat with rice :)

Some special squid looked better than it tasted - they didn't clean this properly (>.<)
Had to make Sheridan pose with this - this bottle design was asking for it lol!! It says, "Gettin' Cool Melon Soda" in a cute aluminum container and a blingy star on the "Gettin' Cool" part hahaha oh those Japanese! This stuff was refreshing, very light and not too sweet, a nice change from the regular Cokes and Pepsi's.

My dinner - Tekka Don, tuna with rice yum!--------------
Update on our pet squirrel, CAS (pronounced Kaz) (who doesn't have rabies yet). He is almost ready to take food from our hands.

aww I wasn't fast enough to get a pic of him snatching it!

Interesting!

And so true!

"Approval by Blogger May Please a Sponsor"
(link is to a NYT article)

“Consumers have a right to know when they’re being pitched a product,” said Richard Cleland, an assistant director at the Federal Trade Commission.

Should consumers have a right to know when they're being pitched a particular vendor? What about kickbacks or quid pro quos via free samples, etc?

Sooo...

Stace sez I should put something here so um here! I've had this blog since 2005 and I use to actually have entries but I thought they were too emo so I deleted most of them hahaha...

So anyway I was wondering why people get foundations/powders in shades lighter than their true natural shade? I am considered light/pale (especially in the winter) and I got the shade 023 (Peach) in the Dior powder, my future mother in law who is as light as me has 022...which I tried and the pink undertone doesn't work for me but this other person I know (who shall remain nameless) who is darker than both of us uses 020 (Light Beige)!!! I can see that because the shade doesn't match, there is a grayish cast to her face (and her neck is a different color too), even though it's so smooth because of both the foundation and the powder. She's so weird. She's wants to pretend she is light but isn't.


So anyways, I just used this mask and I decide to "de-pot" the remaining product from its tube onto the tub container. It looks like green poo poo. I've been using this forever bc my mom said when she lived in HK, she went to get those facials and she remembered that they told her the product is from the US. When we immigrated here, she found this and said that was what they used in the spa's bc she recognized the smell. I dunno. I think the HK spa tried to rip people off by tossing out the US name to make people think its a superior product.
Oh dear, I left the mask on for too long and my face got all red. its been an hour or so and it's not so irritated anymore, whew.. i looked like a lobster for a bit. A smooth red lobster though. I just found this lying around so I just opened it to check it out. Any idea what it's really used for or how it's used? Does it expire? It was given to me a while ago. Anyway I left my usual scar serum from Palmer's at my fiance's parents house so I used this instead because my cat accidentally scratched me again. Gosh, he's so clumsy.

And I painted my nails too. (theres Nala sneaking into the pic)

And I ordered this, which looks like a good deal for $10 at sephora with free shipping, but its not as cute as hello kitty bandaids.


ok goodnight folks.

Soooo...

what's new?!

I think studying really sucks
I don't know what's worse, papers or tests.

I don't have any papers but when I use to have papers I wish that I'd get exams instead but now I have all exams, I wish they were papers.

Don't Eat In The Cafeteria

I hate the cafeteria at Pace. Their food is overpriced, unhealthy and most recently I discovered, expired and rotten. I went to the cafeteria to use all the money they forced me to pay in my meal plan, I wanted to get something that was not very heavy, not full of carbs, not full of sugar, not too much sodium...very very hard...unless I get water..which I did buy but anyway... I went to look at the boxes of sandwiches. I pulled out this one that was Ham and Cheese. It was already steamed up with water droplets- a sign that it's been sitting there for quite a while. Then I looked at it closely because something seemed to be sticking out between the bread. I couldn't believe what I saw, it was MOLD or something growing!! It wasn't just your typical green mold that's spotty, it was WHITE and FURRY!! It was tufts of fur that was about 1-2 inches long with black dots sticking out of it. NO KIDDING!! I am SURE that is NOT ham and that does not look like any type of vegetable or ANYTHING except ROTTEN stuff. I wish I took a picture!! I bet no one will believe me but I'm serious!!! I left the box there -.- Well, I didn't want to buy it and raising hell about it won't do anything since those minions could care less what kind of food they're serving. So to the unlucky one who picks up that box without looking..echhh... But I have a feeling no one will buy it, it makes me wonder how long it's been sitting there, most likely before the Easter Break. I makes me wonder how long everything else has been sitting there. I remember when I was at school during Easter Break and the Spotlight Cafe was closed, I saw through the door that there were still boxes of food there!!! They should really date their food especially if outflow is slow.
The salad bar is also horrible. I don't know what they put in their grilled chicken or marinated veggies or dressings but after eatting it, I get very very thirsty. Even if I only ate a little, I drink a whole bottle of water right afterwards. That makes me very uncomfortable.
One time, I was really hungry but I didn't want to spoil my lunch so I bought soup. THAT was disgusting also. It was 'Chicken Noodle'. It was really really really salty.
This makes me so mad, since starting next semester, they're going to mandatorily charge us $125 per semester for a meal plan, up from $35 I've already been forced to pay per semester this year. I might just end up buying 100 bottles of water at $1.25.


Well, back to studying ...sort of...@_@

Good luck on finals everyone!

A song is stuck in my head

I want to go home and listen to it.

Norah Jones- What Am I To You


Buggers. @_@

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Break out the green! It's St. Patrick's Day. I think....anyways...


I have some pictures. Enjoy!
















This is a breakfast we made. It's Sheridan's version of eggs Benedict and feta cheese stuffed shrimp in proscuitto. It's like pigs wrapped in a blanket or pigs wrapping blankets. whatever















Hey steak, shrimp, baked potato and biscuits isn't that yummy? It tasted really good and we had Sunkist in a wine glass. classy i know.















This was from our anniversary celebration dinner on Saturday night. There was spicy salmon and spicy tuna. I know how the restaurants make it!! Yup yup and I had squid mmm I lovvvve squid. We made lots and lots of sushi and it was all for us. We almost puked afterwards.

I think we gained about 5 pounds last weekend and I haven't been to the gym all week =*(
What do I do....


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