Birthday

Birthday

Today has mainly been a pretty bad day. I was scammed and robbed of $160. It was my mistake though, i'm too trusting and didn't really even think twice when they claimed they were from Microsoft. To rub it in that they had robbed me blind they wished me a happy birthday. What a cruel bunch of fucks! I ended up having to report fraud on my debit card and get a new card issued out to me. I also had to reset my laptop since they had taken control of it and lost all my documents and programs. I saved my movies to my OneDrive but that didn't even stick so out those went. I also lost all my CC (Custom Content) and MODS for my favorite PC game of all time, The Sims.

At least today I looked pretty. I brought out all the older makeup my mom bought for me minus the lipstick i ended up using. It's all Lancome except for the eyeliner and Mascara. I attempted a cat-eye look today which at least came out a tad better than the last time i tried. I used a light shade of pink and a dark shade of purple for my eye shadow choices and outlined the edge with a little black. I lined my waterline with white again but the outer portion with my thick black eyeliner. My lip gloss that I used was also a Lancome product.

My mom bought me a new outfit to wear for my birthday which is, of course, the first present she wanted me to open this morning. Later on after my unfortunate happening, my mom let me open another which was a beautiful rose gold colored choker necklace. The problem with that was it didn't fit around my masculine sized neck in which case she went out and bought a chain extention. The last present is still wrapped but I knew right away it was a new purse in which case, I can't wait to see how it looks!

For breakfast my sister treated me with a huge Dutch Baby Pancake which I could only eat half of even though it wasn't as big as she normally makes them. My mother is making one of my favorite things of all time, Seafood Gumbo! Minus the fish of course. I hate regular fish but will eat the shit out of shrimp and crab as well as the vegan sausage she's gonna add. I love my mom! It's the perfect end to a rough day. As well as getting birthday wishes from 4 of my biological family members. An uncle from both sides, My birth father's sister, and my birth mother. It's nice to know she doesn't resent me enough to not at least say happy birthday to her eldest daughter.

Anyway, dinner will be ready soon and I can't wait to chow down and get stuffed off it's godly goodness. I wonder if anything will happen at work tomorrow. Alas today is today and tomorrow hasn't come into view as of yet. Have a good evening everyone! 

Organizing

Organizing

I finally found the third Makeup bag I had lost a while ago. I knew generally where it was but not where my mother hid it. It was in the 1st floor bathroom at the bottom of a bin where I also found the eye shadow palette she had bought me, thank heavens! I had decided to organize all my makeup into these three bags. The left bag is two tiered so in that one I put my foundation, contouring supplies, perfume, and dark circle correcting serum in the bottom tier. The top tier I had placed all my lipsticks and lip glosses along with the eye shadow palette I ended up finding since that was the only place it would fit.

The second bag is mainly everything I plan to wear on any specific day so I can keep it in my purse for touch-ups throughout the day. The jeweled Case is where i'm keeping all my eye products. Eye shadows, eye liners, mascara, brow pencils, and eyebrow stencils. I have so much of all that crap! As you can see, that appears the most full. It's pretty much full to the brim. I think i'll have to invest in more makeup bags. Perhaps a big organizing case even.

I bought the two tiered one on the Wish app, The second one was given to me for Christmas by my former boss (I miss you Terry!), and the 3rd was a freebie when my mother took me to Macy's to their Lancome kiosk for a little makeup shopping spree for my birthday one year. They had a couple extras from their last promotion so they threw it in for me as well as an extra makeup brush they had for foundation but eventually the head popped off. The jeweled one was the last one they had too which was cool that they'd part with it. They were very kind there.

Makeup has been extremely fun to play with. I even have a ton of nail polish that's idling in my drawer out of sight from my son. I'm kind of afraid to organize them and put them out on display because my 5 year old son has gotten into the habit of playing with them trying to paint his own nails therefore the nail polish gets everywhere! It's already stained my bed sheets and a little had gotten onto my phone screen but luckily it's on my case's screen protector, nothing a little nail polish remover wouldn't fix.

I'm not even gonna lie, I enjoy doing manicures and pedicures with my little boy. I feel like it's teaching him to be good to women and pamper them. A skill he could take with him when he's older and starts having girlfriends or even a daughter of his own one day. He won't be repulsed by her wanting to paint his nails. That's just my thinking though, I could be wrong.

Makeup OK?

Makeup OK?

7/4/17

A few years ago my mother bought me makeup at the Lancome kiosk at Macy's for my 26th birthday. It was complete with Foundation, Lipstick, Eyeliner, an Eye shadow Palette, and facial cleanser system. Shit you not I still have it all lightly used. Since it costed my mom serious cash I really only save it for special occasions so I don't have to replace it. the foundation costed around $45 all by itself and I don't even want to get into what the nice palette costed. I had later searched Lancome online and discovered how much their items cost. I told my mom I really appreciated them more now that I saw what they ran for. I had really taken a liking to the makeup and enjoyed playing with it the first week I had it. It was good for a darker rocker like look. Here's a picture from it below.

As you can see I was feeling a bit flirty and more confident. I love how I looked wearing makeup and soon I was out buying all kinds of new goodies from other brands whether it were online or at the local CVS. Not as highly respected as Lancome but stuff that worked. I began playing with makeup more and wearing it more frequently unless I was feeling too depressed to even bother with it. One Christmas, my boss had remembered my favorite color was purple so she bought me a mini eye shadow palette, Eyeliner, Mascara, and a little portable makeup bag to keep it in. I have since grown to a two layer big makeup bag that would be impossible to keep in your purse. As well as a little one they gave me with my Lancome purchases. I use the little one she gave me to keep the makeup I was wearing for that day in my purse. Wish I could find the one with jewels on it to be honest.

Makeup Case Collection

I have worn makeup three times within the last 2 weeks. Which, is actually a rare event for me. Playing with the new cosmetics I had bought online from ELF Cosmetics as well as a Cover Girl lipstick I had gotten from Amazon. I'm sure when I can afford it my makeup will continue to increase over time filling these 3 cases completely. Sure I probably don't have as much as other people but, it's a damn good start! I don't think I could have tons of makeup or else i'd never know what to use that day. Alas, I love to play with my makeup and take suggestions from members of beauty groups on Facebook. One such suggestion was to wear white liner on my waterline (bottom of your eye) since my eyes seem a bit smaller to really extenuate them and make them seem bigger in appearance. I tried that today but turned out the brand was pretty shitty so it didn't turn well. oh well, i'll try again because I couldn't resist the price of $2.64 for an eye shadow mini palette, 3 eyeliners (two of the same that I ordered by mistake but love anyway), and a lipstick. In the photo from 7/5/17 I tried the winged liner look, don't think I did too well but that's what they say, "Practice makes perfect!"

7/12/17

7/5/17