Ode to my Eyelash Curler

Why as women are we so outrageously obsessed with our eyelashes? Their length, their thickness, their curl-- everything!

Basically, it's because we are obsessed with almost everything that has to do with our appearance, of course!
Anyway, time and again I've read/heard about "the biggest difference you can make is to curl your eyelashes" and I just never believed it... for whatever reason, I would always try to get into the habit of using one everyday but I couldn't hang onto the habit.

Now I'm not saying that I will remember to do it everyday for the rest of my life, but I tell you what... I have gotten more compliments/comments the last couple days about how looooooong my lashes look.

Usually I would attribute this to a great new mascara, but unfortunately I've just been using whatever old mascara is laying around, so it's only my shu uemura!

That being said, I'm going to try to do it... for as many days as i can remember!

In other news, my skin is out of control still... i feel like I should be nicknamed "pizza face." The zits are starting to not be quite so noticeable but they hurt and there are like a thousand little ones littered across my chin.

What the hell do I do? Any suggestions? I have all but given up!

Thrift Story

So this afternoon after I took Jake to work I decided that I would spend a few minutes hunting around the local thrift stores... I found a very cute turquoise belt for 99 cents at goodwill and at volunteers of america I found...

A Chanel Purse.

Yes. That's right-- Chanel. As far as I can tell it's authentic, it has its original tag and such, and the logo is normal, not wonky like all the knock offs. It was marked at $80, but it was on sale 50% off... so I bought it for $40. I do love it, and I really should not have spent the money... I actually, feel awful about spending the money, but I HAD to. It would have been CRIMINAL not to, seriously. Maybe to absolve my guilt I'll sell it on ebay or something.

So anyway, it's a beautiful little off-white quilted bag with the classic chain strap. And on that note, I'm going to go cradle my baby.

Starting Over.

So here I am again, I failed at maintaining another blog, which BY THE WAY, has been my M-O since what was it... diary-x or live journal existed. Which was a long time ago. I actually used to do it with paper journals. The funny thing is that when I decide its time to pick it up again, I never allow myself to go back to the original, and instead, start another one... it's like, blog proliferation... and I've done my share. I have literally littered the internet with my thoughts, strewn the web with my musings and just left them there, unattended and unloved.

I am such a bastard.

So I'm not going to do it again! I happen to like this blog a lot (I know that because I went back and reread my posts from last spring and was like, "hey, not too bad!") and I think that I can breathe life back into it if I just give it a little love!

Bearing that in mind, rather than going through and recapping the whole year that I neglected this blog (because do you really care? I think not!), I'm just going to move forward. So assume that everything I've said before is pretty much still applicable, with the exception of a few things which I will mention now.

I'm getting married! Yay! Jake and I are tying the knot in Vegas on September 24th!

I got laid off at Lancome... yeah... economy, sweet. But don't worry, I'm employed, so it's all good. If you know me, you know all about that, and if you don't know me, that's good too, but you don't know all about that, so I suppose we'll keep it that way.

So how am I going to get this little baby rolling again? Well, I think i am going to have to update everyday, at least for now. Since we are all well aware of my cosmetic obsession, I will continue to focus on all things makeup (fragrance, skincare, etc. of course!) So everyday I will either update with a post about a beauty product, technique/revelation, or anything I might find particularly interesting in my day/life, etc...

That's the plan, kids! So start checking me out, I promise I'm not going to fail you now!