Recently, I found a new love, Doug. He was shiny and glossy, hip and hot. Still, Doug held my interest, but I wanted something…more. That’s when I met David. More down to earth, than Doug, he didn’t have as much glitter to his personality, but the colors he brought out in me, WOW!
Still married. I’m talking about Urbn Decay’s Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss. In cute names with men who undress to their underwear, when held in the hand and moved, it’ a gimmick, but a sweet one. Inside is a sticky gloss that stays put, never runs and does not need liner underneath. It comes in several colors, not an over-the-top amount of color, but something that works with many skin tones and looks. Of course you can change the look of the color by using a different color underneath. I’ve used both with Urban Decay’s, Hot Pants and Naked lipstick and they are very different animals. Hot Pants is a super hot pink, while Naked is a soft beige-pink tone that I love
The best part of the deal is the amount of lip gloss for the money. It’s over half an ounce and for $18.00 you get your monies’s worth. Some people have complained that the smell is off putting, but I have not noticed that. Others say it can be too sticky. It’s a ponytail, hair-up kind of gloss, but sticky means staying power. It’s a trade that you have to make the end call about.
These products are available from Urban Decay online and Sephora stores, as well as online.
Love this cleanser
Last summer, I’d say August, I was given a sample of, “Baby Face Cleanse.” I’d expressed frustration with every other makeup remover I’d tried. My eyelids are very sensitive and always red. If I drag most makeup removers over them, including ones for sensitive eyes, they actually peel. That makes it hard for me to wear eye makeup and I’m a makeup artist. Sheesh.
So the woman at Lush handed me a sliver of, “Baby Face.” Which seemed impossibly small. I got on the Internet and researched the product. Armed with my information and my sliver of Baby Face, a face full of waterproof makeup, I hit the bathroom. My makeup came off. I mean right away, even the waterproof stuff. ALL OF IT! Okay, great, but my face is so dang oily, I feel like I can power every car in Michigan. This was BOUND to lead to breakouts.
Next morning, no flaking skin (I took it off with a damp facial sponge and washed with my normal cleanser) and NO NEW ZITS! IK am forty six and break out like a teen. No zits means the world to me. I used my sliver, and used it, and used it and used it. That stupid sliver of, “Baby Face,” lasted months. I mean of everyday use. I finally got it small enough to justify buying it for myself. Forget it. I cut it up and put it in small bags for my clients. I’ll buy another one for me. Okay, maybe more than one. I want to pass this around. On days I plan a deep clean, complete with careful and taught, blackhead extraction (almost all gone now), I use, “Baby Face,” first, then wash with my regular stuff after and my face does not get red, or inflamed. I recently had three moles removed and am using an anti-bacterial product during the day and, Baby Face, at night. My scars are healing nicely. I also used it on a recent tattoo (family names on it and a special something for my son who passed) and the healing is great. Only one small area that is stubborn and that’s because I scratched at it, before I started in on the, Baby Face.”
This is a product I would give a ten out of ten for. Does what it says, does not break out the break out Queen and has wonderful abilities to get stubborn eye makeup off. Go Lush!
Note, “Baby Face,” is a solid cleanser, meant for dry skin. Its oil based and probably comedigenic. If I were a Teen, I would not think of using it. As an older woman, even with breakouts, it’s a Godsend, but I never leave it on for long, except were I am healing something. It’s a great product.
Today I used a coupon and a discount a Ulta (amaz-a-balls, they let me use both) on two packages of Maybelline’s new Eye Studio Shadow Palettes. I picked up Sapphire Siren and Give Me Gold (yes please). Both have itty bitty pics on the back to show you how to use all four colors together. Okay, I think that dark line near the lashes is the darkest color. I can’t find my reading glasses.
Both have a HUGE light color, which indicates, to me, that you’re supposed to use that all over your lid, up to your brow-bone, where it becomes your brow highlight. It’s also shown clearly on the inner corner of the eyes.
Although the pictures are clear, again, small. I’m going by what I can see on the package. I like the idea on the package and am impressed with the simplicity of the use of the colors. You’re using four, but you’ve got one under all and the rest are not mixed. Seems like anyone, even me, should be able to master this one the first time out.
Okay, time to open and look at piggie samples. I’m prying the cover off the Gold one. The dark colors can look incredibly pigmented on the hand, but not the eye. It’s the light colors you want to really give a good going over to.
I immediately stuck my thumbnail into the damn color. Lovely. In the case of this palette, not the other one, the first two colors are virtually identical. Rendering no need for one, or the other. Yes, the second color is a tad deeper, but deep enough to justify it? Maybe not.
All colors are quite shimmery, with not a matte in site. Obvious when I purchased them, but in case your store is super lighted, you might miss that. Shimmer shows up best in slightly darker light.
Both palette’s are usable, day or night, even with the shimmer. These colors were one each of the brightest and the most neutral and I’m not sure they could intermix. One is very cool and the other almost neutral, with a tad of warmth in there.
The, “applicators,” are useless to me. That’s normal. I use brushes and that, is that. I also use a good shadow primer with all of my powders and often a paint pot beneath.
I’m looking forward to playing and taking some eye pics. Probably a You Tube Review soon.
Nancy
Warning, this is a rant. I will have my soap time, then move on quietly into my day. Thank you.
Recently, “Snookie,” from, “Jersey Shore,” said she fought an eating disorder in high school. She was dismissed in a rag because the doctor said a, “a real eating disorder requires years of therapy to overcome. It never gets better without it.” BULL! I was an overweight bulimic for YEARS! I stopped after lifestyle changes and things that boosted my self confidence (climbing a rock wall, for example).
Yes, an eating disorder is serious business. Many young people do need medical intervention, but some people can help themselves and some people do. While therapists can help you see your life with clarity, and should be seen for severe eating disorders, depression, and suicidal tendencies, dismissing a human’s ability to self adapt without the … See More aide of someone from the outside, is as irresponsible as telling someone to not get help, if they are suicidal. Actually, get in your car, a plane, a bus and get to that person. They mean it, if they say it. It’s not a game. While therapy has helped me, it’s also not a be all and end all. Some people can learn to find their own inner peace through church, yoga, self love rituals (you fake it, you will make it) and family. I don’t want to knock therapy. I wish my dad would stop drinking, but he needs to want to and he needs to get help. My push for my weight loss and keeping it off was my surgery and my kids. No therapy to take it off at all. Again, I’m not knocking it. I’m just saying it’s cruel to point out that someone ate one salad a day for two years and didn’t really have an eating disorder because they didn’t get therapy. Some things do change, as we grow. Now, I see a therapist and I am learning to deal with my issues, but I have friends and loved ones who want to help, too. It’s all a puzzle and *you* own the pieces to put it together. No therapist can cure you. You cure yourself with the help of a therapist. Rant off. Please feel free to tell me I’m wrong, in a civil manner. Because I’d love to debate this one
Feel free to ignore this. I’m tradmarking some stuff. This will prove the date it was Trademarked.
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Herne’s Folly
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Lazy Husky Productions
Photos to follow 
Branding bay-bay. It’s all about the glam
Desperate times and all…the new stuff my doc gave me has alcohol in it. I hate that, but it’s the way it comes. I’ve been using it and no matter how much I wash, I’m still getting makeup off onto the pad. No wonder I’m breaking out. Especially on the days I play with pigments. They really sink into your pores.
I finally decided to purchase a Clarisonic Mia to clean my skin OUT. I’m not keen on investing in a facialist, but this is cheaper in the long run. I’ll let you know.
The more frustrated I become with my skin. For a long time, in y teens, I fought it. Anti-biotics, creams, potions, lotions, treatments. Gack, it didn’t work. I’d spend tons of time trying to cover the goobers with my Cover Girl. One of the reasons I refuse to use it now. I don’t care what they come out with.
I’ve recently started fighting again. The weapons are better, the results…I don’t know. My skin seems more clear, but I get strange patches where the skin is peeling. I think that’s what it’s supposed to do. At least I vaguely remember my doctor mubling something about it as he handed me the scrip. All I really know is that I had a new weapon in my arsenal and I was going to try it. So far, knock wood so good. The combonation of the topical an-biotic and the Differin seem to be doing good things. No new zits in five days. A record for me. Now, what to do about my pores?
I cut mine and now I’m lost. I don’t know if I should go shorter, wait it out, do some sort of hair ritual naked in the rain? Again, lost. It’s silly, really. It’s JUST HAIR! But it’s so much a part of my identity. I have to teach a class tonight. Makeup I’m 100% okay on. Clothes? Easy. Hair??? HELP!
That’s a question that’s starting to be asked more and more as time goes on. You have fluffs of powder in the air, molecules so small they sink into your skin deeply, and is it, could it, be doing anything bad to you? Is there a danger down the road?
The answer? We just don’t know. Right now some scientists are speculating there may be a problem based on past small-particle inhalation, butl, to date, no double blind studies have been done, or if they have, are inconclusive, at best.
The answer? Safety is always a good idea. Don’t stick your nose in your mineral makeup (why?). When opening jars, turn your head to the side. Use a mask when working with mineral makeup and making your own. I’m not talking application. This is when you press pigments, create your own colors, etc. Just use common sense. My Makeup Forever HD Powder makes a huge puff. Good for HD, bad for lungs. If you don’t need HD powder, don’t use it. Makeup Forever makes other powders and those are wonderful. MAC makes nice high-end powders that are larger, as well as some that can work with HD.
Think about the size of the particles and press some of your own makeup, so the particles don’t waft into the air. Besides, you won’t use nearly as much product, with the waste. Every puff of mineral makeup in the air, is less for your loveliness.
Beauty with a lower cost of future problems is always a good thing.
I need to re-vamped and to put up some reviews and tutorials here that are not on my Youtube site. There’s a lot I want to share outside of YouTube and I’m not using this forum like I should.
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