Monday, March 30, 2015

Periods, Falling, and Bad Foundation Days

Hello Lovelies! Can we get serious for a moment? Saturday was not the best day ever. Do any of you get serious cramps? I'm talking, my-cramps-are-so-bad-im-going-to-throw-up-now! bad. I should be used to it by now, I've been going through this for years now, but I was always able to sit and relax or lay down or SOMETHING. But with my new job, its not the easiest, and I just happened to have to open the store that morning and deal with customers. Lets just say my co-workers asked me not to die on them, lol. Of course they aren't that serious, but as soon as another cast member came to work, I ran to the bathroom in hopes that I would either throw up or the feeling would magically disappear.

Needless to say, the cramps didn't go away, but like I said, I've been dealing with this for years now, so I knew that the worst was over and I could actually stand up straight and talk without fearing I'd puke on a client. Did i still hurt? Oh hell yes. But It was tolerable.


Finally I came home and wanted to soak in the bath. I just wanted to relax! So I drew the bath and hopped on in and realized there was no hot water. Ok, there was enough to make it warm, but the craziest part was that the bottom water was cole and the top was hot! It was definitely not relaxing, that's for sure.


But let's not stop there. I was feeling a lot better after relaxing and my boyfriend Travis and I wanted to go to the store, so we came down the stairs and about half way down, yup, you guessed it, I fell. No serious harm was done, just a bruised arm, a sore butt and maybe a tiny bit of ego damage. But I really wasn't in the mood to fall down some stairs.


That's enough heavy for now, on to something I find quite funny.





Go ahead, you can laugh. Everyone in my house did. Ok, its not TERRIBLE. I could probably go out with that foundation on and get a few odd looks, but otherwise, some blending on the neck, i could rock it... maybe...


We were training at work and this is what they matched me with. I kept saying it looked a tad yellow and dark, but they said it looked really good. I'm not blaming them, I just know my skin a bit better than others. First, foundations oxidize on me pretty bad, so I have to be careful with which ones I use. Second, I don't want to look tanner... more tan... you know what I mean. I like to embrace and even enhance my paleness.


When I got home Travis just looked at me like something was off. Even my stepdad noticed, and my mom told me I looked like I had jaundice. Needless to say, I'm NOT Cool Sand In Bobbi Brown Foundation lol! But I love my work family. They are seriously the best.


But I had a great weekend with Travis and got some cleaning done on my days off. We even almost adopted a puppy! She's a 5 month old mix but just look how huge she is already!



I named her Bella, but sadly my folks said no. They even went so far as to say I wouldn't be allowed to live at home if we brought her home! (Jokingly of course... I hope...)

But it's back to work tomorrow. Food and sleep sound great. Goodnight!

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Home Away From Home

So I spend a lot of time either getting ready to go to work or actually working. My second family is here I guess I could say. I love what I do and I wouldn't trade it for the world. My night ended like this


And this


These two are the best and make working till midnight so worth it! It was raining so hard I felt like I should swim home. I guess I'm thankful it wasn't storming though! 

But hey, my morning today started like this 


The orange juice froze over the berries... how funny is that?? It turned out amazing as always. I love to start my days with a smoothie of spinach and cucumbers mostly, and to add a bit of sweetness, a couple strawberries and blueberries, a splash of orange juice and the rest water. Don't knock it till you try it! I promise it's not bad.

Back to my home away from home! We are short handed today so I feel extra busy and may I just say thank you to this amazing woman and her daughter?! They were traveling and stopped in and were super patient with me. They made a large purchase, I mean like, over 2000$, and as I was ringing them up I screwed up the transaction! I had to void everything and RING IN EVERYTHING ONCE MORE!! But they were fantastic about it, we laughed and everything went great. Oh and I'm trying out a new foundation from LancĂ´me. Well new to me, it's certainly not new. I love it! But it's still too dark. Not so much so that it looks bad, I can pull it off, but I need to mix in some white foundation to get it perfect, I'll keep you guys updated and maybe give you the name once I've decided how I feel about it ;).


Back to work for now lovelies! 



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Thursday, March 26, 2015

First blog!? Huge Spring 2015 Haul!

Hey Lovelies! Welcome to my new blog! I just wanted to give you guys a quick intro into what you might find here. Well, to start, my name is Jenn. I enjoy a lot of the darker sides of life (but can I just say I hate horror movies?!? Oh my!) I just want to have fun and enjoy life. I love all things beauty and currently am redeveloping my beauty blogger ways. I'll include more detailed information about videos I post or just some day to day rants, maybe a quick Hi and some photo love for you all. So help me get the word out there and lest just have some fun! On to the actual post, shall we? Here's a list of what I accumulated during my Spring haul adventure. Now, not everything was bought at one time, I shopped in little bursts, that way I could try out most of what I was able to get my hands on. 



So this isn't everything, but its a lot. I'm super excited about these products. Here's the full list of what I found:
  • L'oreal True Match - N1
  • Hard Candy Fierce Effects Daring Lip Gloss - Adrenaline
  • Hard Candy Glow All the Way - Doll Face
  • ULTA Body Sponges
  • Simple Cleansing Face Wipes
  • Urban Decay Primer Potion - Original
  • Rimmel London Lasting Finish 25 Hr. - 091 Light Ivory
  • Urban Decay Eyeshadow - S&M
  • NYX Wonder Pencil - Light
  • NYX HD Concealer - Lavender
  • Juice Beauty Green Apple Peel Sensitive
  • Softlips CUBE - Pomegranate Blueberry
  • Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer - Champagne, Grapefruit, Guava
  • Lorac Pro Matte Lip Pencil - Nude
  • Urban Decay Sheer - Walk of Shame
  • Essence - Get the Look, Barely There!
  • Covergirl Lip Lava - Look It's Lava, Ooh La Lava, Lava-nder, Mango Lava, Mauva Lava, Live Love Lava
  • Beauty Blender Cleaner
  • Sephora Collection Paper Masks - Green Tea
  • Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush - Celebrated
  • Anastasia Dip Brow - Medium Brown
  • Urban Decay Moondust Eyeshadow - Cosmic
  • Urban Decay Naked Skin Concealer - Fair Neutral
  • First Aid Beauty - Facial Radiance Overnight Mask, Ultra Repair Liquid Recovery, Facial Radiance Serum, 5-in-1 Eye Cream


Out of breath? I know I was after all that! You can check out the badly filmed video too, here:



I seriously need to get some things done before work, enjoy Lovelies!

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