I have, returned!

Oh, my goodness.

My poor Blog, how long have I ignored you. 4 years. Holy macaroni! I feel so bad! But I have returned to it now, and plan on using you a whole lot more now that I have purpose!

So I'm still a make up addict, although my loss of job has cooled my heels when it comes to purchasing anything. For the past.... mmm I'd say two years now? I know, think of all the collections I've missed out on! Makes me wanna cry.

But I will be taking a new journey. One that I never thought I would. I am, once again, moving out of state. This September has marked 13 years of my living here in South Florida. While I've enjoyed the past 10 years, (the last two not so much) it's time for me to move on.

I will be moving myself, to the state of Oregon. Now that's a big move. A cross country one to boot. I have friends who live there and have generously decided to let me stay with them while I find a job and finally get back to moving forward with life.
I am sad that I'll be leaving all my friends here in Florida, but I feel it is time. It's been coming on for awhile.

Why am I saying all this? Because once the money starts coming in, this blog will be greatly used for more make up uploads, perhaps reviews should I get the courage to do so. I don't know anyone who would value my opinion over some of the make up guru's on youtube, but I can try.

OH! That's another thing, I plan on doing make up video's on youtube. I've only done 3 videos so far. The quality is rather craptastic because it was done with my netbook but I think that once I get a decently lit place to film, I'm going to purchase a camera. Again this is going to take a couple of months but it's in the works.

Outside of that... I can't really think of anything else.

I still have three people that follow me. You guys are saints for even bothering! haha. But yeah. Thanks so much for caring!

- Tami

Chapter Two...

Okay, so after so much frustration and drama, we're now back with Chapter Two of this blog! I haven't really bought much in the way of make up lately, but I will share with you all what I have gotten lately.

So first, drugstore stuff...
I have been doing prom make ups for my roommates' family members and friends. And so thats made me want to expand my kit. And since most of the girls I've been doing make up for have been jamaican, meaning they're black, diffrent colours show up on their skin tone which is medium dark.

>So I bought some prestige liquid eyeliners.
One in an amethyst shade of purple.
One in a sapphire shade of blue, which is really nice.
And a gold one. The gold one shows up really well on their skintone.

>Then I bought a glittery sky blue eyeliner pencil, which I haven't used on anyone yet, but it's really pretty cause the glitter does come across. It's silver glitter btw.

>I bought a new foundation from the Almay natural line. In neutral nu. It blends pretty well.

>The shimmery translucent powder that matches well doesn't really match cause it's translucent, duh, but yeah it leaves a nice shimmer. But it's more for going out or a special occasion, so I'm going to have to go back for the matte version.

>Two of the Revlon matte lipsticks, one in the nude colour, and one in the pinker shade, the names escape me at the moment, but I'll type them out later. The nude one, I'm not to sure about.

I soon get to the MAC stuff.
But I went to Sawgrass yesterday and bought myself some much needed stuff cause you know when you move, and you're going through your clothes, espically your underware and sock drawer, not to mention your bra's you're like, "I wore this" and "How long have I had this thing" and "OMG what the hell was I thinking, seriously?" So I replaced all the stuff I had to throw out.
I also got 3 new pairs of shoes.
One pair of all white Fila sneakers for work.
One pair of black and pink Zoo Yorks for gamer night or going out with the "fam".
And one pair of Betsey Johnson's high heels that look sorta like Gothic Lolita shoes. I had to get them, they were just to cute to pass up. xD
I'll try and take decent cell phone pics if nothing else and post them up later.

Now onto the mac stuff. The CCO near me, in Sawgrass recently got in a WHOLE buncha new stuff this past week, including some Heatherette and Dame Edna stuff, lots of pigments, lots of nail polish, eyeshadows two of which are discontinued and were on Macs goodbye list, i think I mentioned those two before. Pen n' Pink, and Poision Pen.

So I got the Heatherette Trio 1 I believe. The one that was originally suggested to be used with the Rollickin' paintpot which I'm going to have to find cause that look is too cute.

Then I got a Dame Edna trio, not sure which one it is, but it's the one that does look like the Heatherette one. Just substitute the pink in heather to a grey shade and they're basically the same.

Then I got two of the Suite eyeshadow duo's i guess? The brown one and the Pink one, again names escape me at the moment and there are screaming children running around if I go for my room they'll all try and follow me in and disrupt everything. SO.... yeah I'll post up the names later.

And two lipglasses. I was really hoping to find Morning Glory, which I've wanted for awhile and was considering ordering off of this discounted mac website, but... I couldn't find it. BUT I did find two other ones I've wanted. Spring Bean, the shimmery green one that gives a nice golden glow to whatever you're wearing, and WhiteLustre which I'm not sure if it's a lipglass or lustreglass since I don't have it in front of me at the moment.

So yeah that's pretty much it I think. I'm really happy with everything I got and hopefully the heatherette and fafi stuff holds out till this coming weekend, I wanna go back and get more stuff. ^^ Can't wait to see if they get any left over Hello Kitty stuff, cause really if there's still that much Heatherette floating around, and it's supposedly the best collection Mac ever had, as far as popularity wise, so I'm told on Youtube btw... then I have my fingers crossed. ^^

So that's my update, great to be back and doing this on the regular from now on.

>>Tami

New make up gig?

Hello all!
So my last make up gig fell through because the girl dropped out of my friend's class at college. But my new assignment is for a friend of mine that I work with. She's going on a photoshoot at the beach no less, and I have to come up with an "evening" look for her make up. This is gonna be AWESOME! One of the tech guys at my job does free lance photog so yeah. That'll be good.

I shall post pictures after the photoshoot. It's going to be next saturday, the 18th. Wish me luck!

Bit of an Update.....

Hello duckies, <3

So I haven't posted in a bit, and that's not because stuff hasn't been going on for me to update about, more so that TO MUCH is going on for me to update about. So I'm not really sure if I said before or not, but i'll just say it again, I have to move again.
The end of this month I have to have everything all packed up, and ready to go. I'm moving out of my one bedroom apartment I used to share with my mom's and moving into a 4 bedroom house with two of my friends. Now I've gotten mixed feelings from other friends about this. Some say that your friendship changes when you live with people. Naturally it does. They get to see that rare side of you that they wouldn't normally see, and it can either strengthen a relationship or break it. But I'm willing to take that chance. We all have more in common then not, so we shall see.

On the make up front. I finally purchased the last bits of Sugarsweet that I wanted. So now in total, I have three shade sticks, (Cakeshop, Lemon Chiffon, and Red Velvet), two of the eyeshadows (Aquavert and Sugarshot), and one of the triple lipglosses (triple yum i think).

But in addition, I've also bought some other stuff. Two things actually. I bought a perminant colour in eyeshadows which is Wedge, everyone already knows what it looks like cause I'm super late on it, but yah. And I also got a lipglass, which I don't know if it's been made perminant or not, but it was there and I liked it, which is odd cause I usually don't like really light pinks on my lips. But I got peroxide from the BBR collection. It's very sheer so it gives the sparkle and gloss that I like. ^^ So we're all good there.

I've made a vow that after I move and all the bills are in a safe mode rotation and everyone knows what they have to pay. Every paycheck, I'm getting 1 brush, 1 eyeshadow and or 1 lipglass that I want. I like getting mail. :D that'll slowly build up my collection while I wait for news about going to make up school. Sounds like a safe bet to me eh?

So yeah thats my update for now, I'll be back on a regular basis once everythings settled and calmed down some around here. I appreciate you 5 sticking with me through all this, I haven't been the best of bloggers and I hope to improve that soon. ^^ Luvs you all

bai!

>>Tami

MAC's Sugar Sweet Collection

Hello peoples.....

So Mac's sugarsweet collection came out this month, and I got my order today. Thankfully, I only used standard mail, and I didn't have to sign for it, so they just left it at my door. ^^

I got both nail polishes, Peppermint patti, and Seasonal Peach. Both are really really pretty. I would also like to mention that, the collection wasn't out for very long, and the peppermint patti nailpolish is already sold out. I'm glad that I ordered it when I did.

I got two eyeshadow's. Aquavert, the green one, and Sugarshot, the highlight coloured one. Both are really pretty, and I like 'em.

I got one of the shade sticks in lemon chiffon, it's really nice, very smooth and pearly, which I like. ^^

And I got one of the lipglasses, which was the only one I actually liked which is Triple-Yum. I'm not a really big fan of pale pink on my lips, my lips are a little to dark to actually pull it off, so it never looks right. I prefer brown tones to be honest. 

But yeah I'm very happy with the products I bought and I recommend it to anyone. You know it's very odd how quickly I became a mac addict. Now hardly a collection goes by that I dont want at least one thing from. It's horrible really.

BUT, the new collections are coming up. Style Warrior, in which I wanna get two of the lip glasses because one's golden yellow and one's pale peach, which I like, and the nail polishes of course, cause they're kinda my thing now. I blame Sarah (FoundOnFilm) she had to make that video with the purple nail polish from the Dame Edna collection. And then the Hello Kitty collection with the three nail polishes. Jeez! 

I'll be moving soon too, and so I'll be saving money to be spending even more on Mac. Sickening really LOL! 

So yeah, if you have gotten anything from the SugarSweet collection, lemme know what you got, what you like, and anything you think I shoulda got. ^^ 

Love you alls!! 

>>Tami 

New Products and update

Greetings peoples!

So I really haven't posted in a really long time, not for any real reason other than the fact that I haven't really been adding to my make up collection lately. After getting the stuff from the Hello Kitty collection, that's pretty much all the special collection mac stuff I want for awhile. I saw a video by SephoraJunkie on youtube, about the Kitty Koture collection. Two lip glosses, and three powders in a silver compact with crystals. The compacts are 90.00 a piece!! That is ridiculous! I'm so glad I decided not to get anything from that one. It's pretty, and maybe I'm not as big of a die hard Hello Kitty fan as perhaps some other people, and that's fine, I got what I wanted, and that's all that matters.

So new collections are the Sugar Sweet collection, the lipglasses look pretty, I saw pictures, I can't remember where, in a video on youtube I think from Cazy500. Not entirely sure that I want to go adding to my "special collection" stuff before I start getting the basics....

So I'm taking suggestions. Eyeshadows, and lipglasses as I'm not a real fan of lipsticks, to add to my collection. 

I know that I want Brule, Wedge, Carbon, Sushi Flower, Shroom, Slate, and Smut. LOL, just because of it's name..lol Smut... I know i'm a dork. But yah, if anyone wants to add their favorite to my list of needs, please do so. :)  

At any rate, in make up news, I've actually stopped wearing some for awhile. I know shocking right?!? However, I know for a fact that in order to look good, you have to start from the basics, and work from the ground up. 

Now as everyone knows, foundation can cover pigmentation, but not texture, and since the texture of my skin has been horrible lately, I thought that I'd let it breathe and just moisturize it until it clears up. 

Although I will say that lately, since I'm not using foundation, I have been working on my "Cutting the Crease" technique. And I've been using the Noire palette by Stila. It's the one I mentioned in my last post I think. The colours are really nice, and I've been using my vanilla pigment with it. Using vanilla as a highlight, the pink colour on my lids, and the sky / china blue as the "crease cutting" colour. I'm just working on my creative side right now. 

I need to get fix+ as well to use as a mixing medium to work with it in another way other than applying dry shadow yah know? 

I'm really getting into this whole pigment thing. I like them, and their texture, and I think that pigments and shadows and brushes are going to be my weaknesses when it comes to Mac. lol Horrible I know.

Anyways, that is all I think. I hope you all have enjoyed your past couple of weeks, meanwhile I am going to end this, go make my italian mac n cheese and chikken strips with honey for dinner. Then start my laundry. Enjoy what's left of your weekend, and I hope the coming week is nice to you all.

To all you UKers, enjoy the Hello Kitty collection, hopefully as much as I did. <3

>>Tami 

Haul..again...& 6 things Tag

Hello all, so my last box has finally come in, and tomorrow I get my mac box and that's IT! No more hauling for a good long while until I get some actual looks down with the make up I have. The only other thing I'd go and do as of right now is start adding to my brush collection, and get shade matched for Mac foundations and concealer. Since I just can't seem to find the right shade on my own.
I hope you're all having a nice week so far.. happy hump day to those of you who work like me and have weekends off. Friday is almost here, I promise, it's almost here! xD

So anyways, I ordered some things from Beautycrunch.com just because I wanna try out diffrent brands outside of Mac like I said before, with the random stuff I got like the Amuse palettes and the tea lip balm. Which I will be doing a review on, probably friday night when I get home from work, just to let you know!

So haul. First off I got an eyeshadow book thingie from Pop beauty. It's called "Lid Gold" and it comes in a small little package. It has 6 eyeshadow colours made for golden eyes.
The first colour is a black with glitter, kinda reminds me of Macs "Black Tide".
The second colour is a dark olivey green, which is really pretty.
The third colour is a medium brown / taupe colour.
The fourth colour is a golden colour. Really nice.
The fifth colour is a really odd minty green, which doesn't look like it'd go with the rest of the colours which, are pretty neutral on the whole, but yeah.
And finally the 6th colour is a white with a pink pearl reflect. Really nice highlight colour. *nods*

Then I got a stila palette in "noire". The box is so pretty! It's a quad btw, kinda like the look books stila makes. The front has this felty type material on it, and it reminds me of those fuzzy posters they sell at like walmart with the markers. Hope someone out there knows what im talking about. My grandma bought me a bunch of them over my childhood. But anyways, yeah you open it up, and there's three eyeshadows and a blush.
It has a pearly pinky peach colour, can't really tell with my lighting at the moment, but it's pretty. Very pigmented.
It has a sorta greyish china blue, which is also really nice.
And it has a black with glitter which is supposed to be the "liner" colour.
All three eyeshadows are really pigmented and I like them alot.
The blusher is a flushy pink colour, sorta a mid tone pink, not to barbie type bright, or to raspberry dark, it's sorta well, mid tone. lol it's pretty. ^^

Also i got three brushes from this set called Bella il Fiore. There's three of them, a face brush, a eyeliner brush, and a lip colour brush, and they're all pink handled with rhinestones in the bottom of the handle, and I thought they were really cute, and cheap so why not.

So that was my box, and then tonight, I just got some neutrogena face cleanser. I watched a few skin care videos, and have decided that the reason my face is so dry is because I'm scrubbing it to much. Instead of having a exfoliator and a cleanser, I was just using the stuff with the rough bits ALL the time as my cleanser and it was irritating my skin, stripping it of it's moisture, and my own moisterizer couldn't keep up. SO, I am going under the advice of the almighty Petrilude, who's a professional, and therefor, knows a hell of a lot more then I do.
Cleanse two times, first time to get off oil and dirt, second time you actually clean your skin. So to help with that process, I'm going to use my face wipes to take my make up off, use my new cleanser, which is from the same line as the exfoliator, and the toner I have, and start a skin care regime, that's totally not how you spell it but whatever.

So here goes, weekly face thing. Mon. Wed. and Fri. Use the exfoliator in the shower in the morning, use toner, and moisturizer. Tuesday, thursday, and saturday, use just cleanser, toner and moisturizer, Sunday, use cleanser, mint julip face mask, Biore nose strips, and moisturizer.

Sound like a plan? I may change the exfoliator usage depending on how big of an improvement my skin has after cutting down on using it so often. *nods*

So that's it for today.. I'll probably type up again friday with the review of the balm, and the gloss i got, aaaaand, the mac prep and prime, cause it comes tomorrow, along with my vanilla pigment so I'll be playing with those for friday.
Anywho, enjoy the rest of your week, and hope you all enjoy!

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6 Things that Make Me Happy

Even though she doesn't follow my blog anymore, I saw this on Hele's bloggy and thought I'd give it a shot. Mine isn't going to be as spiffy as hers as I have no pictures to put up, but yeah.

1.) Sneakers. I love sneakers, I'm not addicted enough really to be called a "Sneaker Head" I don't troll ebay looking for them, or stalk websites for new designs. But I do like the classics, original chuck t's, white on white reeboks or nike's, shell toes, yeah. I'm feeling that. You can tell alot about a persons personality on how they take care of their sneakers. Just an fyi

2.) Sleep. I never seem to get enough of it, so it's one of my favorite things in the world. I love curling up in my bed and sawing a log. It sounds stupid, but yeah.

3.) Nail Polish. I've always wanted really pretty nails but I've always had the bad habit of biting them, so I put acrylics on when I was 19 and pretty much kept 'em on for 6 months at a stretch, then gave my nails 6 months off to recoup before putting them back on. Now that I've taken them off til August, I love buying nail polish and how pretty my hands look after they're freshly painted. Just wish my job wasn't so rough on my hands that they didn't chip alla time. =(

4.) Smell Memories. I love smelling something, whether it's a food, or a perfume, or a outside smell, that reminds me of something from a long time ago. The scent of my grandfathers basement workshop, the smell of the hot asphalt just before it got hit with cold rain (that's a favorite of mine scent wise), the smell of a storm coming in from the ocean, the many food scents that remind me of my childhood. I always know when I've made food right because it'll remind me of my grandma and how I learned to cook by watching her and my grandpa in the kitchen.

5.) Shinys. Now, unlike most shallow women, my shiny's dont have to be expensive. You coulda bought it at walmart and I wouldn't care. As long as it's pretty and or cute, I'll take it and never say a word about the cost, unless it cost alot in which i'll whine at you that you shouldn't have bought it for me, but i'll treasure it all the more because of it. My dad and I have a similiar interest in alot of things and odd jewelry is one of them. Browsing those stores that sell dragon and wizard and faery motif type stuff, where the whole place smells like incense, and you see all the stones in the odd settings, and stuff, thats the kinda jewelry I like.
I don't like diamonds, or really expensive name brand shit. I think it's crap. I'd rather have sterling silver dream catcher earrings, then the biggest rock you could put in my ear. I know I'm a nut.

6.) My iPod. Anytime I feel like crap I reach for it. When I'm happy I reach for it. When I'm crying and upset, I reach for it. My ipod is my universal favorite thing, I really could not live without it now that I've had it. Thanks to my ex boyfriend who bought this one for me cause my other overheated. He never asked for it back either. Or asked for the money for it, although I thought plenty of times to send it to him anyways. But yeah my ipod keeps me sane, and reminds me that anytime I miss my kpop boys all i have to do is reach for my ipod and they're right there waiting to sing to me. :) apple = Love. <3>>Tami