It's about time to bring some bright summery colors into my look. I found some cheap bottom lashes at a beauty supply store nearby my local grocery store to try out until I can afford some lovely dollywink lashes. These seem to work just fine and I might buy more. Also bought a bunch of eyelashes on ebay too, 40 pairs for $4, just to try out. I'll post it here with pictures and examples when I receive it. ^^ The picture above was taken with my cell phone, and the pictures below was taken with my digital camera, with flash. I found it interesting when I compared the two pictures, how different my skintone varied. I guess my true to color would be more from the digital camera even though I did use flash~ my friend Juvy said my skintone is a nice tan look. I'm learning to embrace it (the yellowness), but at times I envy the lighter skin filipinas (like the ones I see on Wowwowwee, a tv show showed on TFC - The Filipino Channel) or the gal models that I look up to in Jelly and other gyaru magazines. There's nothing much that can be done, yes - I tried the everfamous Likas papaya soap that claims to lighten your skin (or at least your armpits) and also used Lemon Eskinol on my face when I was younger. (The smell brings back memories.. LOL) But yes, I'm learning to embrace it like I said. Sometimes I really love my skintone, and other times, well... Although I'm a little afraid when I go back home to Hawaii for vacation that I'll tan even more than my already normal tan colored skin, and get as dark how I was when I used to live there. (I used to go to the beach every weekend with my boyfriend and brother). But anyway, enough of those trivial things.
I wasn't sure if anyone was curious but I decided to take pictures of the products I used for my summer look. I don't really use anything expensive. Just regular cheap drug store products (well, except my Mac studiofix foundation). I do use Mac brushes, and I really like name brand products - just can't afford it at the moment.
Products Used:
1) Makeup case - (ok that doesn't really count)
2) N.Y.C. Cheek Glow Powder Blush 651A Riverside Rose
3. Ring (not a product - but accessory from pinkyanela)
4. NYX Eye pencil to line my upper waterline
5. Revlon Color Stay Liquid Eye Pen (not really my favorite but I was running out of my Wet & Wild eyeliner)
6. Wet n Wild h20 Proof Eyeliner 881 - my favorite eyeliner ever. It stays put even when I line my waterline and it doesn't sting either.
7. NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk (I use this for my eyeshadow base because I ran out of UDPP - Urban Decay Primer Potion)
8. Ardell LashGrip Eyelash ADHESIVE (not my favorite, I used to buy this other brand when I was in Hawaii but I can't remember the name of it)
9. H&M nail polish - Enchantress Emma - I was looking for this shade for forever!! I love this color, going to deco some fake nails with this color soon
10. Eyelash curler - used before I put my fake eyelashes on - got this at Daiso for only $1.50
11. The Maximum Max Clear Lip gloss
12. Revlon 002 Pink Pout Lipstick - my favorite color lipstick - I really love it
13. Covergirl eyebrow pencil in brown (I can't even read what color is on the pencil anymore - it's so faded)
14. Mac Studio Fix Foundation NC40 (my favorite foundation - I tried to go back to Drugstore brands, but I hated them - I want to branch out but so far, I didn't have any problems with this foundation)
15. The cheap lashes I got from the beauty supply store. NOt sure of the brand name, Sassi? Sossi? Ok, never mind it's Sassi. There was this other pair of lashes that I really loved that I actually bought from the dollar store called Paji but I couldn't find it after that) So I found one that ressembled to it.
16. Bottom lashes - the first time I've seen one in the store so I couldn't pass it up. I really like how it looks when I tried it (Although I'm really loving the new Fairylash brand by Sakurina - putting that on my wishlist)
17. 88 Eyeshadow Palette from Coastal Scents (yeah i know ~ it's messy)
Now that summer is here and I'm not taking summer school, I have a lot of free time to catch up on my reading. I stumbled upon this wonderful book while browsing the travel journals at Barnes and Noble at the mall by Powell Bart Station. I've had an increasing interest in reading travel memoirs or anything that has to do with Europe particularly Paris, France mainly influenced by all the old hollywood movies I been watching, as well as the Coco Chanel biography I just finished reading. But anyway, I wanted to buy it that time at Barnes and Noble, but didn't - but while browsing the books at Goodwill, I found the book again - it was calling out to me, wanting to be read! So at $2, of course I had to pick it up. Basically it's about this Australian lady journalist who suddenly decides to make the move to Paris, with a french man she hardly knows and decides to live her life there. The book talks about her experiences and the Parisian & French way of life and the obstacles and experiences she goes through - just wow, oh wow. It's a foreigner's insight of living in Paris, France. There was one chapter that totally intrigued and inspired me, where this Australian lady wants to go out in her jogging pants (warm up pants) to the bakery, and her boyfriend says that her attire is not nice for the baker! She can't believe that he is serious...She doesn't understand why. So to quote what I read on...
"...Frederic's reaction to warmup pants is a concept that to me is totally foreign: looking scruffy is selfish. Not only do you look like a slob but you let down the whole city. "
"In France, vanity is not a vice. Rigorous self-maintenance is imbued from birth-it's a mark of self-pride."
"The loaded pharse 'se mettre en valeur' is used all the time. It means to 'make the most of yourself.' This is not something the French do when they fell like it: they do it every day. Sloppiness in appearance is considered a fatal disease. Once it takes hold, you're on an irreversible downhill slide. You've committed the unforgiveable. You've let yourself go."
"He can't help it, you see. the thing is, the french are highly sensitive to aesthetics."
Reflecting on this chapter that I read, I immediately felt intrigued and inspired. The french's way of thinking on appearance is not selfish or false conceit, it's a sense of pride in one's self. I felt that I could use that phrase, "Se mettre en valeur" and apply it to my life. I have to admit, I have been a little "lazy" as of late, and this certainly opened up my eyes. It made me realize, to put it bluntly, take damn better care of myself. Stop just lazing about in my boyfriend's clothes (haha), and be girly ! Damnit, get my gyaru groove back into full swing! LOL It's also funny as I read this book, I noticed that the previous owner before me, underlined a lot of lines in the book including the ones I've just quoted. It was funny to see someone you don't know think similarly as you. But this phrase, "se mettre en valeur" could not only apply to the physical appearance, but of course everything else in your life - I have a lot of new goals now. Fresh goals - try to make most of my free time reading books, drawing and sketching in my sketchbook everyday, brainstorming and writing down new design ideas, get back into photography & crafting more. Overall, just taking advantage of all the creativity I have flowing abundantly in me.
Anyway, I'll finally be going home in a little more than 2 weeks! I'm so excited!! Excited to see my BFF, my poo (Yeah, we call each other "poo", it's our nickname for each other)and have lots of creative photoshoots and adventures with her. I'm a little sad that my other BFF, Lani, will already have left Hawaii to move to another state (sadly, not California). She will be leaving 3 days before I arrive. :( So sad...
But oh well, "se mettre en valeur.."
P.S. Check out the new gal issue Eleanorzine!! This issue is smokin' hot, with an interview of Mistu (universal-doll.com) inside and other great gals and lots of other cool stuff. Don't miss it!
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