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By the way, Govind Armstrong got ripped off. Bobby Flay can suck my balls.
It's been a quiet day. I plan to get dressed and check into pool liners for our stupid above-ground pool, since the one we had replaced maybe 2 years ago is leaky. I love having the pool, but hub doesn't care about it much and I wish we could just tear it down and put in an in-ground pool. But that would cost about as much as a new car, and would also probably require tearing down part of the new fence we just put up. Oh, the sad, sad life of a home owner.
I finally jumped on the Aromaleigh bandwagon. Well, I did it in a sort of half-assed way- I divided my order into 3 orders since you get 3 free eye shadow samples with each order. I also bought some brushes and little plastic jars to keep the samples in. The samples come in teeny little ziplock baggies, and I found a deal on a bunch of little plastic jars on eBay. As rarely as I use make-up, I can probably make the samples last forever. And if I don't like 'em, I have enough friends who are trying the stuff that I can probably swap with them. So, in addition to the little jars, one big fat brush, one little fat brush, and one lip brush, I got an eye liner in obsidian, a lip pencil in chrysolite (sometimes when I'm not feeling like globbing on the lipstick I'll use just the pencil), and the following samples, because I know you all need to know this:
Voile foundation: 2P/L, 2C, 2L, 2C/L (these are the second-lightest shades; someone sent me samples of 1C/L , 1 P/L, and 2P, and the closest to my skin tone is the 2- the 1 shades look way too light for my ruddy German peasant complexion)
lipstick: sassafras, cherry, garland, calendula
eye shadow, matte: celadon, copen, wisteria; frost: raisin, desire; Carolina summer: marina, pine, magnolia, and lagoon
I tried to go with a lot of neutrals, at least as far as how they were described. The eye shadows tended to be on the second half of the color spectrum (green, blue, purple), but were not always cool versions of them if that makes sense.
I can finally pitch all the stuff in my make-up drawer now, some of which I got back before children who can vote and drink today were actually born. I think the only thing I don't have that I might see getting is mascara; this company sticks with pretty much all-natural stuff and it seems that making all-natural mascara is challenging (if any of you have any suggestions of one all-purpose mascara to get, I'm all ears). Anyway, if I decide I love any of it then I can get full-sized portions of it. And if I don't, I'm not out much.
It's been a quiet day. I plan to get dressed and check into pool liners for our stupid above-ground pool, since the one we had replaced maybe 2 years ago is leaky. I love having the pool, but hub doesn't care about it much and I wish we could just tear it down and put in an in-ground pool. But that would cost about as much as a new car, and would also probably require tearing down part of the new fence we just put up. Oh, the sad, sad life of a home owner.
I finally jumped on the Aromaleigh bandwagon. Well, I did it in a sort of half-assed way- I divided my order into 3 orders since you get 3 free eye shadow samples with each order. I also bought some brushes and little plastic jars to keep the samples in. The samples come in teeny little ziplock baggies, and I found a deal on a bunch of little plastic jars on eBay. As rarely as I use make-up, I can probably make the samples last forever. And if I don't like 'em, I have enough friends who are trying the stuff that I can probably swap with them. So, in addition to the little jars, one big fat brush, one little fat brush, and one lip brush, I got an eye liner in obsidian, a lip pencil in chrysolite (sometimes when I'm not feeling like globbing on the lipstick I'll use just the pencil), and the following samples, because I know you all need to know this:
Voile foundation: 2P/L, 2C, 2L, 2C/L (these are the second-lightest shades; someone sent me samples of 1C/L , 1 P/L, and 2P, and the closest to my skin tone is the 2- the 1 shades look way too light for my ruddy German peasant complexion)
lipstick: sassafras, cherry, garland, calendula
eye shadow, matte: celadon, copen, wisteria; frost: raisin, desire; Carolina summer: marina, pine, magnolia, and lagoon
I tried to go with a lot of neutrals, at least as far as how they were described. The eye shadows tended to be on the second half of the color spectrum (green, blue, purple), but were not always cool versions of them if that makes sense.
I can finally pitch all the stuff in my make-up drawer now, some of which I got back before children who can vote and drink today were actually born. I think the only thing I don't have that I might see getting is mascara; this company sticks with pretty much all-natural stuff and it seems that making all-natural mascara is challenging (if any of you have any suggestions of one all-purpose mascara to get, I'm all ears). Anyway, if I decide I love any of it then I can get full-sized portions of it. And if I don't, I'm not out much.
