Autumn Eyes Tutorial Photos

Hey everyone. I recently did a video on an autumn eye look for my channel and thought I would post some of the pictures from that look on here. I put them in the video, but I wanted them posted on here also so that all my subbies could get a closer look at them if you guys want. All you have to do is click on the picture to view it full size. So here they are..enjoy!

Matte Blue+Blue Glitter= ShaBANG!

I recently went to Walmart to pick up some random things for the kids..diapers, etc. I didn't have much cash on me but after I picked up the things I needed to get, I had a little left over so I decided to make a trip to the makeup isle. I was in desperate need for some more Lash Blast mascara (that stuff is truely amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone looking for an awesome mascara!). Anyway, moving on.......after I picked up my mascara I went down to the nailpolishes...the cheap ones...lol...the Love My Nails, NYC, PURE Ice, etc brands. Well needless to say I came away with 4 new bottles of nailpolish that night and it only cost me $6.00!

After I got home, I decided to do my nails, they were in major need of it. So, I picked out one of my LA Colors polishes that I had bought but never tried yet and was aching to see what it looked like on my nails. It is a polish from their Color Craze collection. The name of it is "Static Electricity". It is a beautiful matte blue color. I also decided to use one of my new polishes that I just bought. It is the PURE Ice brand and it is in the color "Strapless". It is a gorgeous blue glitter. I put two coats of the Static Electricity on and then topped it off with two coats of the Strapless and let me tell you guys I AM IN LOVE!!!! This is by far my favorite nails that I have had in a very long time. The blue is so vibrant and just pops! The blue glitter on top just makes the nails shimmer extremely well and just makes the whole blue color that much more beautiful!! If you can find these two polishes I highly recommend you get them quick because you certainly won't be sorry if your a fan of blue nails like me. You can find the LA Colors polish at some of the local dollar stores for about $1.00 or if you can't find them there, look on cherryculture.com. I know for sure they have them there and they also carry this particular collection, the Color Craze collection. However, you will spend a bit more for it there, I think they are $3.00 on that site, but totally worth it!

Below are some pictures of my nails and the nailpolishes. The very bottom picture is of all four of the polishes I bought that night as well.

This is the LA Colors polish.

Here is the PURE Ice polish...love it!

Here is a picture of all four polishes I bought at Walmart that night.

Left to Right: Love My Nails in "Glory" $1.00 (this polish is clear with red & blue flecks of glitter and silver stars in it) next is the PURE Ice in "Strapless" $2.00 (blue glitter) then we have another PURE Ice in "Cheatin" $2.00 (this polish is a beautifl purple glitter with tiny flecks of blue and pink glitter in it, but the blue and pink is really suddle and gives the polish an overall beautiful color to it) and then last we have another Love my Nails brand in "Star Bright" $1.00 (this polish is a clear polish with tiny flecks of holographic glitter in it and baby pink and purple stars! Very cute!)

Well hello there...

Yes I am still around. =)

I have fell behind at updating my blog for a few weeks so I thought I would pop in to let everyone know what has been going on. Well, first let me start out by saying that I am getting old..or have gotten old....I hit the BIG 3-0 on September 15th...thats right...I am not 30 years old. Wow....I still can't believe it. Time sure does fly, I should have listened better when they told me that in my teens...lol Oh well, I just feel very blessed to still be here and have such a wonderful family and friends, you couldn't ask for more. Plus, my hubby and my sister made sure I got exactly what I asked for on my birthday....margaritas and guacamole dip!!!! Pictures will be below...it was one great birthday.

Aside from that, I somehow hurt my shoulder. It started hurting a little the night before my birthday. The next morning when I got up, it was hurting me so bad that I thought I had slept the wrong way and it would go away within a few hours to a day at the most...it is now four days later and it hurts so bad that sometimes all I can do is cry. I have had to take some pain pills for the pain sometimes and I have had to sleep sitting up for the past two nights because it is to painful to lay down. I can barely turn my head to the side. Sharp pains shoot up into my head, it has my ear hurting and it even hurts my jaw if I open my mouth to wide. I don't know whether I pulled a muscle or if I have something out of place or what, but I am hoping that it heals soon because I am in misery. When I got up this morning it felt alot better, but I helped my sister move today and it is killing me agian tonight. I bet I don't sleep agian tonight for nothing. I am so exhausted too. Oh well, enough bitching....gotta suck it up. Thats pretty much all that has been going on here. I haven't had time to do any youtube videos recently because I just have felt like shit for the past couple weeks....not sure what is going on with me. Hopefully with the beginning of October things will start to feel better for me and I will be in a better mood. Fall time always makes me smile!! =) Thats about it folks....have a great night and I will blog atcha agian soon.

Pics from my birthday!

(Presents from my sister)


(We're Friends!)

(Me....I feel so good!)

(My sister trying to drink out of a kids straw)

(Oh this looks so good!)

(Mine all MINE!)

(Me and sis)

The Perfect Nude Nailpolish

If your like me and you love the effect of "Nude" looking nails, (I just think it looks so classy on women) then I have found the PERFECT color nailpolish to create that look! There might be a better one out there, but this is the one I have found and I am totally madly inlove with it! I think it deffo makes the perfect nude nail with a shine. The best part? It's CHEAP!!! Only $1.00 at your Dollar Tree, King Dollar, or any 99 Cent stores! You can also buy this at cherryculture.com amoung other places on the internet I am sure. Just GOOGLE or BING it. The brand is LA Colors. This color is called "Mega Watt" and it is from their Color Craze Collection.

Here are some pictures.

As always, you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Review: China Glaze Nailpolish "For Audrey"

I don't think I am going to be doing a video on this review, so you will see this only here on my blog. =)

I wanted to let everyone know how I felt about China Glaze nailpolish overall, because this is my first bottle (I wanted this color really bad..love the Tiffany's color...so classy) and before I bought this bottle, I watched some reviews on this particular brand of nailpolish and even though alot of the beauty gurus on youtube did have quite a few China Glaze polishes, they weren't really talking very highly about them in regards to staying power. They were basically just buying them for the color selections they had, which by the way are really amazing and make the price worth it all on it's own. However, I did want the "For Audrey" color really bad and so I went to my Sally Beauty Supply store and bought it even though it was $5.00 which is normally a HUGE no no for me..I just don't think you need to spend that much on a nailpolish, but whatever, I did. I have had it on now for about 2 1/2 weeks..you will see the picture below of what it looks like after me having it on this long. I personally found that the staying power is awesome. 2 1/2 weeks later, as you can see in the photo, I have no chipping at all and never had to touch up one single nail the whole time. It really suprised me because I was ready to be like..yeah they were right..it doesn't really stay that long...but I found quite the contrary. I found the formula to be very creamy and go on almost flawlessly and so smooth and the best thing for me was the fact that you didn't need a billion coats of the stuff to make it the exact color in the bottle..I only used one coat. Plus, it seemed to dry pretty quick. I don't know why others have had a problem with staying power. Possibly, it could be the type of top coat they are using. I find that a little hard to believe though because alot of the gurus I am sure spend alot more on their top coat than what I did. I just used my Nailene brand Acrylic strong top coat that I found at my King Dollar store for..you guessed it...$1.00. So overall, I give China Glaze polish a 10 out of 10 hearts because I love it in every aspect. Not only are the colors sooo amazing to choose from, but it did have great staying power for me, loved the formula of the polish and even though the price is a bit high for me, it is well worth it and then some! So go get some China Glaze! My next color I buy is going to be Frostbite I think. =)

Weightloss: Day #3

Hey everyone.
The rest of yesterday went ok. I did manage to drink 4 9ounce bottles of water yesterday, and being that I personally don't drink water at all...I think that was really good for me. Last night for dinner I did splurge more than I should have, but I guess I could have eaten alot worse than I did. I actually ate a bowl and a half of chilli. BUT...I am not going to be to hard on myself because so far this week I have had NO CHOCOLATE...now that is a HUGE thing for me! I am very proud of myself on that one. That in itself I am sure will make a big difference. Today my goal is to drink at least 5 bottles of water and gradually go up a bottle each day until I am drinking at least 7-8 bottles of water a day. I am also still ONLY drinking Diet Mountain Dew when I do drink pop...which has 0 calories..0 carbs and 0 sugars. I can tell a difference so far not so much with my weight but in certain small things like how I am sleeing at night. I think for the past two nights, especially last night...I have been sleeping more soundly I find. I don't find myself tossing and turning nearly as much as before and I am guessing that the water is the cause for that because like I said, I don't normally drink water..I just drink the Diet Mountain Dew and the caffeine I am sure doesn't help with my sleeping, so I am really pleased with that change I have saw so far. So overall, I think I am still doing really good, the only thing that I am not happy with is the fact that I haven't managed to get any exercises done this week yet, and I have deffinately had ample time to do them every day so far, but just haven't. So that is my fault and hopefully I can kick myself in the ass before to long and get those going also. Anyway, here is what I have eaten so far today....

Breakfast:
2 sandwiches of toasted wheat bread with a little butter & tomato (no meat..no nothing)

Lunch:
2 sandwiches of toasted wheat bread w/a little butter & tomato

Dinner:
For dinner tonight I am going to be eating a taco salad..there will be sour cream and cheese on it as well as hamburger...but after eating virtually NO calories in my food for breakfast or lunch, I think eating taco salad for dinner will be ok.

Weightloss: Day #2

Ok there is one thing I learned from yesterday....
And there is one thing I have learned so far today.....

Yesterday, it became very apparent to me at the end of the day (before dinner) that this whole calorie counting thing was not going to work for me. You guys saw what I ate yesterday and how many calories that it was, well there is no way I could have eaten a decent dinner last night without going over on my calories for the day. OMG, by last night I was starving. I think I could have eaten the side out of a water buffalo if I had one infront of me. I know me..and I know my body, there is no way that I am going to stick with this if I make every single day like yesterday. I know that my body has to adjust to a new eating schedule and habit, but my goodness that was a little extreme for me yesterday. So, I have decided since I don't want to give up once agian that I am not longer going to calorie count. That method just isn't for me. However, I have came up with a new way to monitor how much I am eating through the day and to control my portion sizes but still be able to eat whatever I want.....here is what I plan on doing...

1.Eat my food on smaller plates..like the small dinner plates, the step up from saucers.

2. Do not eat anything past 8pm every night...and drink only water past that time.

3. Chocolate is a BIG downfall for me...so I am going to try my hardest to not eat any chocolate during the week, and then on the weekends I will allow myself to have some chocolate kindof like a treat for myself. It will be hard and if I see that I find myself getting discouraged because I feel deprived (it is very important that you don't feel deprived because then you are not going to stick with it) that I am going to go out and buy some of those 100 calorie packs of snacks and just eat one of those.

4. I also plan on trying my best not to fry anything! Now some of you probubly think that it wouldn't be a big deal for you, but for someone like me who was raised around nothing but that type of food, trust me....it is a HUGE deal!

5. I am going to try to drink at least 5-7 9ounce bottles of water a day. Drinking water helps so much and I am not big on it, but I think that this particular rule could possibly be the one that benefits me the most in the beginning.

6. I will exercise at least three times a week..hopefully more, but three times is my minimum goal...UNLESS I already have a activity planned for the day to where I will be up moving around alot, like today I have to clean house all day so that will be my exercise for today. It is a proven fact that you can burn alot of calories by just doing simple housework, making your bed, vaccuuming, dishes, mopping, dusting, etc.

So that is how I stand today. I will blog more tomorrow, or maybe today if anything new comes up.