Barbie Inspired FOTD - my barbie look based on the mac promo picture for those interested! such a cute look!
oh man. i know how it felt to have missed an entire year of school. i was in and out of school for my first year of 6th form (year 12) and it was horrible. i was in and out of hospital with issues with my throat which i won't go into. i too lost quite a bit of weight then because i couldn't actually eat anything solid. now i think i would kill to loose loads of weight like that! just not by being ill! and yeah it would actually be amazing to love next door to each other!! we could share all my pigments! you could share your nars blushers! it would be amazing! and of course we'd have to do an outing to a theme park of some sort! you are so right about people needing hobbies! many of my mums friends never know what to do now their kids have left home. my mum works full time but she also has taken to doing various zumba classes and reads so many books. and of course she likes to go for long walks with her dog. she is always busy!Thanks Lou! My stomach problems stretch back to most of my life, the worst being suddenly and out of the blue when I was 15 and an outpatient for 6 weeks, in pediatrics for 2 weeks, out of school for most of my Junior year and tutored, then again in 1986 which calmed down in a few months and again in 1991 which was horrible. Well, you get the picture. When it is anxiety most doctors immediately want to treat you for the anxiety, but in my case we have to catch the physical stuff first because I get very sick, very fast, and dropped to 63 pounds at age 15, 98 pounds at age 28, and so not too good!
I wish you lived next door, Lou! We would have such fun watching movies, playing games, romping with cats, going fun places, touring houses, museums, eating out, playing at Sephora. lol My neighbours are all so boring. All they do is revolve their lives around their kids and as the kids grow up and move away they don't know what to do with themselves! Get a hobby people, and immerse yourself in it at an early age so you have it waiting for you when life changes!
My Paradise just arrived. Pretty and I love the gold. More like an MSF in some ways. I hope the gold runs deep!!
Aw, Lou! ((()))) So sorry to hear you had such a rough time too. It is certainly hard and sets us back from our fellow students and friends who are healthy and going forward in life, not to mention trying to feel well, trying to understand what is happening to us and trying to keep up with studies. I have to admit that my High School and doctors did an amazing job working together to help me through it all and have me graduate with my class. Now you have to go to specialists and your regular physician doesn't want anything to do with it. No more team work.oh man. i know how it felt to have missed an entire year of school. i was in and out of school for my first year of 6th form (year 12) and it was horrible. i was in and out of hospital with issues with my throat which i won't go into. i too lost quite a bit of weight then because i couldn't actually eat anything solid. now i think i would kill to loose loads of weight like that! just not by being ill! and yeah it would actually be amazing to love next door to each other!! we could share all my pigments! you could share your nars blushers! it would be amazing! and of course we'd have to do an outing to a theme park of some sort! you are so right about people needing hobbies! many of my mums friends never know what to do now their kids have left home. my mum works full time but she also has taken to doing various zumba classes and reads so many books. and of course she likes to go for long walks with her dog. she is always busy!
Lou--I finally got caught up on your videos. You're doing a great job and they are very helpful.
Thank you for the one with doing liner with pigments. I need to get the mixing medium gel for that. My store was out of it last time I went. I bought Heritage Rouge when I was the Vegas CCO. When I go back in late July with my sister we will also drive down to Primm which is very close. I usually find more stuff there as Vegas CCO gets hit by everyone. So it helps that my sister always gets a rental car there.
Your Barbie look is really pretty, love the colors.
Debi--I don't know if you've tried it but I'm really liking the Zoya Armor. It is topcoat as well as a UV blocker. I didn't know that until I was reading a Shape magazine today and saw the pic on the page with sunscreens and read what it said about it.
I still haven't made it to Sephora to pick up one of their eye pencils. They look just like the UD shadow pencils and I really want to try one.
I've been trying to kick this allergy thing I have. I started feeling sick last Saturday and it just kept getting worse. I started running a fever with it so I knew it had turned into an infection likely sinus. I had four days worth of antibiotics here so I took them. That will usually work for me. It helped some but I was still coughing all night and my throat and chest still hurt. So Wednesday I went to have it checked out and they said it was allergy induced asthma. I had never heard of that but my daughter-in-law was telling me one of her friends was sick and that her doctor said that’s what she had. So I have four different prescriptions. I’m feeling much better so I guess finally on the mend. I normally just have a bit of bothersome allergies but nothing much. But apparently everyone around here is getting slammed.
I hope you guys are staying well and having a great weekend.
wow i can't believe they just removed your thread! i guess it backs up everything that i've said though. i know a coupe of popular nail polish bloggers who have been quite angered by them over the past year or so too. and it is silly because i feel that they are doing more harm than good. china glaze, zoya and nubar are my faves and i love your halloween alter! so cute and so much detail! you are right that nobody here in england really does anything for it. my neighbours go all out but they are the only people that i've ever seen that do!Shadowaddict~So sorry to hear you are feeling unwell and hope for a speedy recovery. I don't have Zoya Armour, but I do used Seche Vite, which I love. I also am curious about the UV protection and how that actually contributes to nail health, especially when we already have our nails painted! Is it so the colour won't fade as quickly if out in the sun?
Lou~Oh, that is super interesting about OPI. I had mentioned on their FB page that I felt they should sell from their website, how it is hard to find around here and how many of us choose to do our own nails rather than pay for a salon to do it. Places around here will use OPI to do your nails but they don't sell them. They want you to spend a fortune for something that chips two days later. And how no one can do as fine a job at home as the salons provide. They eventually removed the whole thread on their page (many people liked my suggestion) and so they have fallen even more from my grace. I got some polishes by them yesterday, but I will now be limiting how much I buy. They just ruined their reputation as far as I am concerned. I bet eventually we will see their brand in drugstores.
Miss QQ~I will be putting my haul up shortly in the haul section and my NOTD is already up in that section. I am trying to be good and post in the appropriate places! I love the holidays and have a friend in India who says the same as you.While they decorate a bit for their holidays (most of it is outside or in Mumbai Bay) they just have different traditions and ways of celebrating. She wanted to decorate for Halloween and Christmas, so I did send her a goody box of some fun things and now she lives in England and enjoying her first Christmas tree this past year. England doesn't have much for Halloween, either. I think it is predominantly an American tradition, like Thanksgiving, though Canada has a Harvest Day, just earlier! I will post pics when I decorate!! In the meantime, here is my Halloween altar that looks pretty much the same each year with maybe a few changes. It is fun! And come Halloween we put pictures of deceased relatives on it to honour them.
Isn't she cool? They only had two and I was trying so hard to figure out where to put her because under her clothes (ahem!) her bum is a round piece of wood so that she can sit evenly on something. Then I remembered the chair and snatched her up. Right now she is sitting on a box in our closet but I want to take her out!! lol I just love decorating with completely useless things! It makes our home very whimsical. The little table in our living room gets switched out to various things throughout the year, depending on the season or just my mood! I would love to see pictures of your fridge. Is it a Sub Zero????? Hehehehe...just kidding! lol I want to see your magnets and fun things! I love the birds, too, especially since we get all of those and much more at our feeders. The butterflies I bought last year so I wonder what I will get this year? Luckily my husband loves them just as much as I do! Right now the cornerof our living room is a little fairy village! loloh i love your witch Debi! she's so cute!! and yes i think that years ago opi was the top polish brand. but now there are so many good quality brands they are struggling to stay on top. and their crappy pr attitude seems to be hurting them more.
your fridge is like an art gallery!! jeez! how do you cook anything? i'd be too busy looking at your magnets! i shall take a photo of our fridge when i get home! why not eh? i love your bird magnets the most i think - so sweet!
see i would love to have little displays of things like that around my house! it would make it look more homey rather than minimalistic! but you know the reason why i can't? dylan!! he is an absolute bugger for wrecking things! i wanted to have a nice coffee table and then have photo albums and a couple of disney books on it for people to look through, but he eats books so i can't!! if i make nice displays he jumps on them and knocks and breaks things. i caught him trying to eat the window frame the other day! where we have double glazing there is some thin black material between windows (hard to explain but every window has them!) he decided he wanted to claw at it and eat it! so i cant him with black bits all over the window sill! seriously he is a devil kitty!!Isn't she cool? They only had two and I was trying so hard to figure out where to put her because under her clothes (ahem!) her bum is a round piece of wood so that she can sit evenly on something. Then I remembered the chair and snatched her up. Right now she is sitting on a box in our closet but I want to take her out!! lol I just love decorating with completely useless things! It makes our home very whimsical. The little table in our living room gets switched out to various things throughout the year, depending on the season or just my mood! I would love to see pictures of your fridge. Is it a Sub Zero????? Hehehehe...just kidding! lol I want to see your magnets and fun things! I love the birds, too, especially since we get all of those and much more at our feeders. The butterflies I bought last year so I wonder what I will get this year? Luckily my husband loves them just as much as I do! Right now the cornerof our living room is a little fairy village! lol