My Weekend, mini face, and SPRING HAUL!

DISCLAIMER: I know that some of you don't know that your pictures are going on here... if you mind, please email me or message me and I'll have it down asap. 

    Hahaha! I know most of you girls love seeing what I haul in. It's kind of embarrassing.
I actually buy a whole lot of other stuff in between the hauls as well... I might do some reviews if anyone is interested!

    You're welcome to skip this part by scrolling through the pictures and figuring out which are the haul pictures.


    SO this past Friday, I got to chill with 3 of my girls! It was really fun and exciting, because we haven't done this in a while. It really brought back memories of the past summers we've had together. I had to work from 8am to 4pm, so I was really exhausted. While I took a nap at home, Tiffany and Adelaide were shopping. They texted me to wake up at 7pm to go eat! First, we had to pick up Jessica from work though, so we headed there. It was funny, because Adelaide and Tiffany bought vitamins there. DID YOU KNOW they sell Rock and Republic jeans? I laughed really hard.


    We made our way to the South side Tropika. It's supposedly authentic Malaysian Cuisine. More like americanized. We ordered pineapple fried rice, Laksa, and pad thai that tasted like ketchup. I think the most enjoyable part of the meal was just being together. hehe.

Spring is almost here!

HELLO, HELLO!
I’m quite sorry that I have been away from the blogging world for far too long. Watch me say this for every post from now on.

Industrial design has been getting more and more intense. The want I have to succeed has become greater and greater. PLUS, my instructors know what I’m capable of now, and I have to keep that up. FML, I should have just bull shitted my first few projects. Oh well. I have fun doing the shit that I do, and that includes the all nighters I pull in the industrial design building.

This semester has been the most interesting one yet, although I am only taking 3 classes. The two introductory I.D. ones and an art history class have been consuming most of my time… plus work, of course. I apologize to all my friends who miss me and have wanted to meet up with me… but I couldn’t find time. Time management is a huge learning process, and it’s taking me a really long time to understand that I NEED to get shit done every second of the day, rather than blogging and doing shit all. /sigh I have met new people in my classes, and it’s a lot of fun talking to each one individually. I hope that my relationships with everyone in the class continue to grow. J It makes me happy. Hehe.

I have been doing some shopping here and there, but not so much as I did a couple months ago. LOL It was the holiday season then, and I could justify my purchases! HAHA I just paid for my flight ticket to Los Angeles in the summer. I can’t wait to go back there for the sun and the beaches. The shopping is pretty good too. I wonder if I will always be a city type of person. I’ve lived in Edmonton my entire life, and I don’t travel very much. I’ve never been camping, white water rafting, and mountain biking, or hiking… I hope that some of my friends will come with me on an adventure this summer as well. It could possibly our yearly trip we take together? We’ll see.

Damn, I miss high school so effing much. I had all the time in the world… I remember taking the bus to ikea right after school and getting home at 11pm. HAHA… or going to West Edmonton Mall for the arcade… and playing racing games all night. Fuck, those were good times. I don’t think I would take back those experiences for the world.

Okay, enough with the rambling. I’m sure a lot of people would rather look at pictures… Well, I know some people who don’t read the shit I say and just look at pictures. LOL

Holiday Hauling...

HELLO EVERYONE, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 

Hope that the break is doing you all some good. :) I know I've eaten too much turkey myself. lol 

Recapping what happened this holiday so far: Work, Dinner at the Melting pot, work, work, Family dinners, working some more, and shopping! LOL I might do more shopping tomorrow... scratch that, I WILL be doing more shopping tomorrow. I hope I don't get anything... 

I have been holding off this post for way too long. I'm sorry to you guys who's been patiently waiting (*cough*Amie, Teresa, Rachel, Somarly, IVANHO *cough*). HAHA. After much contemplation, I decided to cut out a lot of pictures that I didn't think were necessary for this post, so that it's... shorter.

BY THE WAY, I “lol” when people tell me that I should be the next make up guru on YT, because I’m NOT a guru. I just like playing with make up. I don’t have any tips or tricks that haven’t already been said by Michelle Phan. I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to make up. People ask me, “What colors should I be wearing? What make up is going to make my eyes pop?” AND I say… “I dunno. Whatever you like? LOL Colors that make your eyes pop would be the colors on the other side of the color spectrum.” *Shrugs*.

… AND that is why I am a BEAUTY EXPERT… *Points at name tag from work*. I’m not a beauty master, I have to work at Murale for that. Then theres the Gurus that live in YT. J

This is mostly a LUSH haul, because they had a buy one get one free sale ! (yay!)  It was a pretty good month for me to receive things, because I love getting things (especially when it’s free… everyone at work knows that. LOL!). It’s kind of bad… but I blame it on my asianess.

Friday night! Bronzey Look For Amie.

  School is ALMOST done ! ! ! I'm so excited. My last exam is on Tuesday morning, hehe.

I'm off to shower, so I'm not going to write a lot. I have a headache from too much caffeine.
Today, Cindy and I went to Phobulous, and I had a yummy bowl of Bun bo hue... NOM NOM. HAHA
I couldn't stop eating for some reason... oh well.

I will do another haul post soon, but most of the make up is going to be free, because my manager is getting rid of some testers. I'm so excited to try everything, because it's going to be mostly Benefit make up! :)

Amie asked me to do a post on a bronzey type look... and I'm not really sure how to besides using bronzer?
I'm going to add a couple pictures from my make up look yesterday, which i did a true smokey eye.. using two colors; black and a highlight color. LOL

I'm Procrastinating.

Most of us do this all the time... procrastinate. Uguh, I should get out of the habit of doing this, but I'm so lazy sometimes! lol

I'm going out tonight, for my staff christmas party... I'm half excited, half... nervous? I've never gone out with my coworkers before. Mostly because I'm shy... /sigh. Oh well. Most of the time I don't even want to go out... I've become a huge homebody. I'd rather stay at home all night cuddled with my blankets or on the phone, than going out to a club. I can't drink to save my life. You give me a shot and two sips of anything, and I'm done gone for the rest of the night. HAHA Low tolerance much? It used to be like that for caffeine too. It's getting better... but yesterday I had a cup of coffee at midnight, and I couldn't sleep until 5am. :( Haha..

Pictures after jump!

MINI Make Up Haul & FACE.

I know I said that I wouldn't be doing another haul for a while, but I couldn't help myself and go shopping. Sephora gave me a $20 GC.. and I had to make use of it!

I apologize for not updating as frequently as I have in November, but finals and final projects have been suffocating me... as I'm sure it is doing to most of you. Haha. I didn't sleep very much from Sunday night to Wednesday night. I had maybe about 6 hours in total... including my naps while I study. Oh caffeine, where would I be without you? Probably... a bum, because I'd fail school.
Thank god I'm done 3 out of 4 classes! I'm going to have to go hardcore for a longer period of time though... next exam is on the 21st!

I will post some pictures in a later blog about the project I did in school. :) Took up a lot of time... but it's fun to make things with your own hands.

Hmm... I didnt take that many photos, because I basically got home, changed, and went to work. haha. I'll post swatches tomorrow... when my lips aren't dead.

Edit: Yeah, it's now Dec. 12/10. I'm going to add more pictures! I couldn't wait to do this post, that why I posted it so early without much content. Tomorrow is my work's Christmas party. My friend/coworker is going to let me drive her car! MUAHAHA. :) I'm excited. Jojo made me coffee at work today.. so my brain is kind of scattered. I just took a shower, and did my make up for fun! I have pictures after my haul! I also have some swatches of the lippies I bought recently. I do my make up at night so that I get more practice, and I see what works for me. I have a lot of make up, so I'm not worried about "wasting" it, as my mom says. Hahaha. I'm going to add a bit more narrative to some of the pictures... :D

So I went shopping on Thurday, Dec. 9th, 2010...
Hehe, I met Jessica up on our usual bus to school.. and we took the bus to West  Edmonton mall from there.
We had a yummy lunch of Pho at Pho Hoa in T&T. 

 

Neutral Smokey Eye -- As Per Amie's Request

This week has gone by way faster then I had anticipated. All this (crappy) snow is making me go crazy! It takes me an hour and a half to get to school when it normally takes me 40 minutes. UGUH. I missed out on my group meeting on Wednesday because of this... but at least I was on time for class! My design 302 class (photoshopping and such) was very homework heavy... We had to draw Mechas... 11 of them to be exact. It drove me nuts... Oh well, thank god it's over! Haha! I should be doing some hardcore research for my group presentation on Monday, but I... can't being myself to do it on a Friday night.

I was lucky today, because I dont have class on Fridays. I worked last night until midnight. I know you all are really excited for my next haul post, but looking at the things I will be buying from work... they're not that interesting. It's basically all necessities. haha... I'll still post it anyways... I went to Princess Auto for the first time, and I laughed at some of the strange things they carry there. I still have no idea why my dad loves it there so much. I texted Angela while I was there, and she was like, WTF? haha Her dad apparently gets their flyers all the time as well. After that, my dad's front left tire was low on air so we went to costco! It's like.. the best place on earth... because of their $2 hot dogs. ROFL. Just kidding. It's fun to look at things there... like Jewellery... or really ugly designer bags they have for sale. :) My mom, dad, and I didn't really buy anything except a box of those christmas cookies in a tin. Oh well. I proceeded to pass out in the back seat of the car while my dad drove in rush hour traffic. haha. It reminds me of old times.

Pretty unproductive day, I must say... I can't wait for tomorrow, because I'll be running about town buying random shit I really don't need. :)

ONWARDS, to my brown smokey eye that I did that Amie wanted to see me execute. Too bad I don't have anywhere to go... BTW, my hair looks gross because it was still semi-damp. Yes, I packed on make up AFTER I took a nice hot shower. Screw you winter! Just saying...

START! First off... DO YOUR FACE. This be my war paint. :P I lent 3 of my foundations to a friend for the weekend, because she needed them for a photoshoot and I wasn't able to be there to do the make up for her, so she did it herself. I'm using Clarins Everlasting Foundation in 109 Wheat. There's a white cast to my face because it contains SPF 15. Good to protect against the sun, bad for flash photography. Here's a nice picture of me looking like a dead person. Muahaha.

I look so unhappy.

Next up, the NAKED PALETTE. Sex sex sex. haha. I would normally use a primer on my eyelids (UDPP), but I got lazy and I'm only doing this look for my bloggy. Amie, I have labeled and named the colors I have used!

... this reminds me of paint by numbers. I poorly mapped out where I used each color. I think the main difference between regular shadow and a "smokey eye" is using shadow on the bottom lash line and smoking it out.. that's the main difference I've noticed. You could also go more intense and add more black eyeshadow to deepen and add more drama.

I'm using Bobbi brown's gel liner in chocolate shimmer.

If you've noticed... both my lashes aren't the same! haha I wanted to show you guys the difference between false lashes (on my right eye) and mascara (on my left eye).

I personally love the look of falsies, because they're so neatly combed and curled.

A better look... at my work. LOL

Close up of my eyes open... Look at the difference in my lashes.

Im using Revlon's double twist mascara, btw. It's a piece of poopoo. haha

The shadows are deeper in real life. If i had put a base of gel liner/cream shadow,

it would be more intense.

Some Camera whoring pictures for you, la~! Im using MAC's creme de nude lipstick.

I also added a bronze glitter liner to the bottom lash line closer to the inner corner.

It adds "glam". LOL I like sparkley things, okay?

AND... A pretty bathroom picture for you all. Haha!!

Tell me if you like these types of posts or not... or tell me what you'd like to see me do for my posts! I'm a noob at blogging, so any help is appreciated!

Thanks for reading!

-- xLissa