2010 Oscars- Least Wanted Fashions From a Few Most Wanted Ladies!

Was it just me or were the Oscars this year a little lackluster on the excitement scale?! I gotta say I was seriously bored to tears with most of the show. It wasn't as funny, it wasn't as exciting, and the fashion was less than inpiring! Topping my disappoitment meter were a few major celeb fashion blunders from some of my favorite celeb icons! Can someone please tell me what Charlize Theron was wearing?!? I love that woman. She is goooorgeous! But that Christian Dior dress? Wretched! It's like she was saying 'Hey everyone, since I don't really have any boobs, I'm just gonna wear this dress with little ribbon rosettes in their place! Whatd'ya think?!' Ick!


Sarah Jessica Parker was right on Charlize's heels with another red carpet bomb! So disppointing. I'm thinking she might have been having a little identity confusion with her fictional alter ego Carrie Bradshaw when this Chanel dress was selected!! I LOVE Carrie Bradshaw but I often have very little love for her outfits. Stacy and Clinton would have a field day ripping apart this shapeless sack of a gown! Just Awful! And I'm all for the messy glam look. Many celebrity woman can pull it off so well. However, last night the wispy hair on the crown of SJP's head was a little more mess than glam! She looked like she woke up with bed head, sprayed it with hair spray, then walked out the door. Soooo not cute!

Lastly, my girl Zoe! Now, it seems many have put her in the Best Dressed list for this year for her Givenchy gown, but I'm sorry...to me her dress was a purple plume of disaster! Starting from the top, you're thinking "Ooooh, nice! Loving the sparkles." Then you pan down only to hit the ground with the thud once you see the rest of that dress! The cream sparkles leading into the lilac totally clashed to me. Then the mini purple rainbow of pom pom color at the bottom just put the cherry on top of an extremely disappointing look! I love the girl though so I aint mad at her! Once you're a celeb with mucho dinero, a few fashion DON'Ts are inevitable!!!

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On another note, I wanna give a shout out to Kim Porter of makeupbykim-porter.com who gave me The Sunshine Blog Award because my blog inspires her. THANK YOU KIM! I truly do appreciate it as this is my first blog award!! It's nice to know that my followers/readers genuinely do value the information they find on my blog and consider it helpful to them because that's what it's all about!!

In the spirit of these blog awards, I'm going to go ahead and pass this onto some of the ladies who's blogs I find to be inspiring as well!

Rules
1. Post logo on your blog
2. Pass it to 12 bloggers who inspire you
3. Link the bloggers & let them know!

BLOGS I LOVE!

♥ Kate Gene ♥
TheMakeupSnob
Piinkcupcakez
Healthy Kisses
The Informed Makeup Maven
The Hollywood Heels
The Bliss List
Spoiled Pretty
Rock Me Beautiful
Milan Rouge
Makeup My Addiction
*The Makeup and Beauty Blog

*All time fave!!

Thank you to my followers, especially those that leave me such nice comments! I love you all!! ;)

Gojane.com Giveaway from PiinkCupcakez

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Random Review: Vicks VapoSteam Inhaler

Love it or Leave it??

So, I have been MIA for quite a while. Shameful, I know. BUT in my defense, the latter portion of my absence was due to a nasty flu I caught. I've never had such clogged sinuses in my life! and still do even now in fact! It's been 10 days! Ridiculous!!! The more clogged I got the more difficult it became to sleep and after several days of crappy sleep I was pretty frickin irritated! My face hurt, my ears hurt- I discovered sinus passageways in my head that I never even knew existed because they ached and throbbed like death!! Ugh!

Naturally, about halfway through that time I was desperate for some sort of remedy. So I went to the store looking for a humidifier and while I was standing there scanning over the limited options at Fred Meyer, I came across Vicks VapoSteam Inhaler. Everyone knows what Vicks VapoRub does so I thought to myself, Vicks vapors mixed in with steam sounded pretty awesome to me at the time. I was dying for anything that might offer an inkling of relief. It was only $10 so I snatched it up with a quickness!


Well, I have to say that in this instance, the makers of Vicks VapoRub totally let me down. You tell me. When you read the term "VapoSteam", does it not imply to you that there might be actual STEAM that comes out of it? Well, the product name is bit misleading because there is no steam at all and that was a disappointment to me.

This is how the VapoSteam Inhaler works:
You fill up the bottom chamber with hot, "not boiling" water then drop one of the VapoSteam pads into the water, which in turn is supposed to create vapors that you inhale through the funnel shaped top half.




To me, this product didn't do anything better or work anymore effectively than the Vicks VapoRub itself. I could have easily saved myself $6 by simply buying the VapoRub instead for the same overall results. I was highly unimpressed.

Love it or leave it?? Obsession Confessions vote: Definitely LEAVE IT!

A Unique Approach to Filling In Sparse Eye Brows

If you are like me then you may opt to save a few bucks and pluck your own brows. Lately though, I just can't seem to get them right so I've been going to get them waxed once a month and then I just maintain in between by tweezing them myself. However, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I'm so focused on shaping and making sure they match perfectly (which of course is impossible)that I tend to overpluck. However, Daneen over at Spoiled Pretty came across an awesome technique by makeup artist Pat McGrath on how to fill in sparse brows for a more natural look. Click Here to read her post.

LA Girl Perfecting Liquid Makeup Foundation

Hello all you lovely Glamaritas! (oh yeah, I went there!) I hope everyone is having a fabulous week so far. I’m not going to lie, I’ve had better days. Work is not so great lately. But whatever, gotta pay the bills right?!

So, this will be my first installment on a series I’m starting called Budget Glamour. I will be reviewing products from some of the most inexpensive makeup lines in hopes of finding comparable products to some of our more expensive favorites.

Nowadays, I think more than ever, it’s worth it to cut a buck or two whenever we can. I fully support low cost products if they can give me results that are similar to the higher dollar items.

The first line I’m reviewing in this series is LA Girl Cosmetics. You can buy this line at lagirlusa.com or cherryculture.com. The first product I tried was the Perfecting Liquid Makeup foundation in caramel. It’s an oil free liquid foundation with 18 different color options. For all you ladies with olive to darker skin tones like myself, there appears to be just enough options for us too. The caramel wasn’t a perfect match but it gave me a subtle tan that looked natural and not pasty like most low end foundations tend to do on my skin.

For the most part I don’t typically have high opinions about low-end foundations. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this foundation. It was just like any typical foundation as far as consistency with the exception of the fact that it was a little bit thicker and because of this thickness it doesn’t exactly layer well. Nevertheless, it has a medium to full coverage so there really isn’t any need to layer to build the coverage. I will say there is a slight scent that reminded me of a cosmetic kit I received as a little girl which has always made me think “that’s the cheap stuff”. However, the smell is not overpowering or even that noticeable beyond that little memory. I even asked the Hubs to sniff my face just to be sure! ;)

Before and After(notice the cirlces and little freckles are far less visible in the After shot)
Before and After
Heading out for work...
End of the day...(hat head! lol)
The Perfecting Liquid Makeup foundation held up fairly well throughout the day. I used a primer and a setting powder which seemed to do the trick for enhancing the staying power of the foundation. I will say that I’m not sure how well it would have held up without the primer and setting powder. But I’m ok with using both since the foundation is so inexpensive.

All in all, I’d say this foundation was a rather impressive Budget Glamour item. I bought the Perfecting Liquid Makeup foundation on sale at cherryculture.com for $4 regularly $7. I’d definitely say it was more than worth the already insanely low price tag.

I’d give it 4 out of 5 Budget Glamour Points.

Prescriptives is Closing Up Shop!!!

As of January 31st, Prescriptives will be closing all of their retail counter locations and products will then only be available online while supplies last!

Check out their current online offer and get used to seeing more like this, as you will no longer be able to head into Nordstrom looking for your favorite Prescriptives products as of Jan 31. :(

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Instead of a New Year’s Resolution, How About a New Love Resolution?

This year…. I will quit smoking…. I will go to the gym 4 times a week and I will pay off all my debt…. I will also lose 20lbs by summer. (The last one is my personal favorite since it is on the top of my list!) But seriously, let’s just cut the crap because we all know perfectly well that most people rarely fulfill any of their New Year’s Resolutions. I sincerely hope I can lose those 20 lbs by summer but let’s just say I won’t be kicking myself if it doesn’t happen because that’s life.

Despite the fact that New Year’s Resolutions are seldom kept, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t still make some goals at the beginning of a new year. It’s a great time to reevaluate your life and take time to analyze whatever parts of it that you may not be particularly pleased with.

This year, why not try adding something way more important to your goals for the year and then bump it up to number one on the list. Often we focus so hard on cutting back on those dirty cigarettes or shedding those few wretched pounds that we can easily forget about the goal of nurturing the things in life that truly make us happy.

This year, make it your goal to remind the man in your life how much you love him on a more regular basis. Normally I would recommend NOT making New Year’s resolutions that require daily commitment. However, in this case I’m throwing that idea out the window. Tell him every single day that you love him. Make sure he knows how much you enjoy spending time with him. Make it your goal to be more aware of the small things he puts an effort toward and be sure to praise him for it.

Nowadays with the stresses of life, especially during these difficult economic times, it is more important than ever to embrace all the ways in which our lives are blessed. This year, make yourself a love resolution. Be resolved to love and love well and to make that resolution stick!



“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
- Eden Ahbez

TGIF!!!!

Happy Friday everyone! I'm not sure why but today I am exceptionally excited that it's Friday! I didn't have a particularly hard week at work and I don't have any particularly exciting plans for the weekend but I am soo ready for it! Sometimes you just need a break, ya know!

I do, actually, have plans to try a few things on my wish list. One of which is the Too Faced Natural Eye Kit! So often I come across colors that are described as "natural" which tend to be more "natural" to those with naturally fairer skin tones. It's nice when natural colors come in more options for lighter and darker toned skin.

The shade option for the Natural Eye Kit is only in Neutrals. However, the colors in the neutral kit seem like they may have a universally neutral look to a wider range of skin colors.

Another cool thing I liked about this kit is that it comes with little tutorial cards on how to create a Day, Classic, or Fashion look.

I'm going to get the kit this weekend and try it out! Stay tuned!