Peeling Eyelids?!? Say What???

So funny story...
My husband and I bought our first house last October. (Woop Woop!!) It's quite the little fixer upper but with a lot of potential. One of the things that definitely needs to be fixed- or changed I should say- are the aluminum windows. We have some large windows and all of them are old and horrible for insulating warmth. Another thing on the "fix-it" list is our OIL HEATING. Oil heating is pretty pricey and we had just about used up the oil in our tank by about February. Needless to say it was a cooold end of the winter season in our house. We didn't want to pay to refill the heat because winter would be over soon and let's be real... we were broke from buying the house and didn't have the money to pay to have it refilled. So we lived on a couple of space heaters, a heating blanket, and a fireplace that seemed to only warm the area about 2 feet in front of it!

Everyone knows that cold weather can wreak havoc on your skin leaving it dry and scaly. During the winter months, hand lotions fly off the shelves along with chapstick and hair conditioner.

Well, with the combination of the cold from outside and the cool, dry air we had going on inside our house I experienced some dryness in the oddest place... MY EYELIDS! Has this ever happened to you???


(You are obviously supposed to disregard the terribly mismanaged brows going on. I'm working on growing them out to re-shape! :))



I inevitably remedied this obnoxious peely eyelids problem by lightly exfoliating my whole eye area with a warm damp wash cloth. Then I rubbled extra virgin olive oil on them before I went to bed each night for a couple days. They were better by the morning of day 3. Crazy though, huh?! That had never happened to me before!!!

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Drugstore Brands: Why Are There Fewer Color Options for Powder???

So, I ran out of my Mac Mineralize Skinfinish Powder! Tragedy, I know! I love that stuff! However, I decided that I would try to find a drugstore brand pressed powder that I could love even half as much, simply for the sake of saving a couple bucks! Well, I have to say that not only did I not find anything comparable, I couldn't find anything to try at all because NONE of the colors were even close to right! For drugstore brand makeup I always go with the main four brands: Revlon, Maybelline, L'oreal, and CoverGirl. Out of all 4, not ONE had a color in their powder options that would match my skin tone. What gives?!

L'oreal came the closest and by far had more options than the rest with their True Match line. But even those options didn't cut it. The color options basically go from tan to dark with nothing really in between or they simply don't have anything darker at all. Then out of the colors they actually do have, they all have pinky undertones instead of yellow or olive, and seem to be colors that are more suited towards a white girl with a really nice tan, as opposed to someone who is actually a darker skinned person. Revlon's new Photo Ready Powder Foundation? Medium deep... That's how dark it goes... MEDIUM DEEP! And I even looked online for that one just to see if maybe the darker colors are only available on their website. NOPE! I know this problem comes up time and time again for us ladies with darker skin tones, but for goodness sakes I thought by now these companies would have learned a thing or two!!

The intriguing part about this though, is that it was just the powder that I was having this problem with. Liquid foundations have several more options available for a broader range of skin tones. Could it be that women with darker toned skin tend to be less likely to wear powder? What do you think???

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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!! ;)

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Gojane.com Giveaway from PiinkCupcakez

Enter the Gojane.com Giveaway hosted by Piinkcupcakez and sponsored by GoJane.com. Win a $25 certificate to GoJane.com. If you're not that familiar with the site, click here and check out their clothing selection and awesome sales! The Giveaway Ends: Wednesday, March 10th 11:59pm EST.


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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!

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