Just a quickie

Ladies! If you claimed any stuff from my RAOK thingie, PM me your mailing address and name through MUA (username: Kenoki). I'm going to try and get'm out this weekend.

OK back to the subject of e/s and mu LOL

A wonderful girl from MUA RAOK'd me some NYX e/s because she cant make them 'work'. I keep telling her to reach outside her comfort zone but its not working.

Anyways here are the two colors and now I cannot remember their names. :D


And this is my FOTD for today!! Now I am forcing myself to figure out how to do a 'winged liner'. I am assuming I will NEVER learn if I never try right. So last 3 days I have flicked my liner and tried to make sure it look right and even. Today was a failure on the even part. :(



FACE
Revlon CS fndt
NYC loose powder
MAC Blushbaby
Rev MSF dupe in Sunkissed (iirc)
NYC Browser in brunette

EYES
MAC Rubenesque paint pot
2 NYX e/s posted above
MAC Carbon in the outer v (but not blended that well)
WnW gel liner in blk
ELF wp mascara in blk

LIPS
nothing cause this is after I ran all my errands today

Gingitsune's rec: Book on finances by Suze Orman

Another book? Yes! After reading some of the posts & emails I decided to plug this book. A few of you might have seen her show or read her books before. Suze Orman is a interesting personality. She definitely advocates tough love & can be seen as a bish at times (I personally ♥ her!).

The book I am recommending is "Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control your Destiny" by Suze Orman. Many women, myself included, can be utterly successful women in our chosen field yet suck at finances for ourselves. While we might have a DBF, DH to do it for us, we really NEED to know how to do this for yourselves! You never know what might happen in the future where you might be in a position that you would have to be the one doing the finances.

This book has a to do format. Suze advocates you doing the list at the end of each chapter before moving on to read the next chapter.

You can get this at Amazon for $9.98 right now. Another alternative is to check out this place. www.paperbackswap.com. It's a website for swapping books. I currently added this book to my WL so I can get extras to send to some of you who can't afford this but would want to read this.

I urge you please to perhaps go to your local library to borrow this book. I hope it'll help you as much as it did for me.

Much love,
Joy (aka Gingitsune)

Balancing Act

Hi all!

I'm Rivoli and I'm looking for some balance.  I've found that it's easy for me to justify a relatively "small" purchase but that, over time, I've accumulated way more than I really need.  Also, I feel like if I put that money aside, I could be saving for something that I'd really use.  

I occasionally purge my stash and give some to my daughter, who's makeup-wearing age.  I feel so good every time I do this, I realize it's like a burden being lifted.  It makes me feel good to know that someone's going to give this some love and use it to pan.  That's why I starting to think that my spending is really out of balance.  I don't need to spend $10 or more on a new palette when I have plenty of other eyeshadows already.  Plus, if I go several months I'll be able to accumulate enough for new clothes, shoes and accessories.   It seems totally worth the effort!

My biggest temptation is going into stores, MUA and like others have mentioned those "LE's" that I'm afraid to miss out on.  How do you deal with letting the "LE fever" go?

Thanks to all! I'm loving all your posts!

Money Issues

Time to get all venty and whiny on you guys...but I feel like you'll understand me.

When I am depressed, I shop. And I've been depressed a lot lately! And I've racked up credit card debt. Oy. Not just on buying makeup, also on important things like, oh food and fuel for my car, but the Visa bill doesn't care what you spent the money on now does it? I feel comfortable sharing that with you guys since a lot of us are in the same boat.

My superboring job cut my salary by 20% and has made it clear no new hires for a looooooooooong time so my chances of getting promoted are virtually nil. On top of that I don't really want to be here in the first place so I'm looking for a new job that I don't hate in an industry that isn't superboring (I work in real estate. ew.) I'm invisible here. No one really acknowledges the work I do or my talents/skills, and I'm not challenged. My financial situation is now about where it was when I was 19 and living alone in a studio apartment, except now I'm about to be 23 and I am supporting my boyfriend and I. He got laid off from his job and we live together. He recently got a new job but so far they are only able to give him about 4 hours a week.

I'm just so tired of stressing about money and work and want to move on with my life. I have bigger goals than scrounging my spare change for milk, you know? I'm so frustrated with the job search, too. Unemployment is still staggering out here in CA, about 12% in my area, but I've never had such a lack of response to job applications. I haven't even gotten very many phonecalls. Talk about discouraging.

And then there's makeup. Oh, makeup. It makes me so happy. It gives me something to look forward to and be creative with. And obtaining the latest LE whatever gives me such a high.

My boyfriend and I have casually discussed getting married. But we know we can't/shouldn't until our financial situation is more stable and his work situation pans out. I just want this terrible time to be over with so we can get on with our lives and live happily ever after. :P

OH NO!

I hauled. I was in that silly place where they are clearing up chantecaille and lola stuff, so I bought 2 lola brushes reduced from 25 to 5 euro! and I also got a chantecialle palette, which was reduced over 50% it was 35 euro only, I couldn't resist :(.
May be I should set up more realistic goal of 100 a month.

My dd is sick today

My littlest is sooo sick today BLAH!!! She has a stomach bug and I feel so bad for her.

Well I had to go to the store and get her some ginger ale and figured it was a good excuse to put on some MU?? LMAO ~ Like anyone at walmart really cared.

so here is my FOTD for the day and a link to my swatches of said palette.

Swatches of the NYX Smoky Palette






FACE
Rev CS Fndt
NYC Loose powder
NYX Dusty Rose blush
NYC Browser in brunette

EYES
MAC Soft Ochre paint pot
3 e/s from the NYX Smoky palette
WnW Blk gel liner
E.L.F. wp mascara in blk

LIPS
MAC l/g but I forget the name