If you give a goofball an earflap hat…
She’ll thrash around in paroxysms of joy and goofiness.
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True story. More of what is most likely my last FO of the year under the cut.
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Dupe busted, or, Kathy, you in danger girl
Possibly in danger. Of pissing people off on the interwebs. But I’m going to do it anyway: Whoever entered Nyx Louisiana as a 100% dupe for MAC Petals & Peacocks is a crackhead. (Or is maybe a bit colorblind, in which case I’m an asshole for calling them a crackhead. Except I don’t think colorblindness works that way. But maybe they just have bad eyesight, and I’m still an asshole? But really, crackhead.) I personally wouldn’t even call it a 95% dupe, either, but that might just be me. But I feel pretty safe in saying it’s absolutely not a dead-on dupe. Ugh, I can’t help myself: it’s 100% not a 100% dupe. Bad wordplay is a sickness, y’all. (And I swatched Chloe because that lying, gross plasticky thing in the butt end of the lipstick case looked similar to P&P. But it was lying; not similar either.)
left to right: Nyx Chloe, MAC Petals & Peacocks, Nyx Louisiana (click for ridiculously large)
I’m just reusing the P&P pic from the other day; the Nyx ones I took with the macro lens and some manual focusing! Watch out, now, I’m getting tricksy! (But really, that macro lens is pretty incredible. Those swatches are about a quarter as big as the original pic. Kind of weird seeing my lips that HUGE.)
Nyx Chloe
MAC Petals & Peacocks
Nyx Louisiana
I apologize for being so behind in commenting on y’all’s blogs! I’m catching up, I promise. But it is getting real, real close to my bedtime, so TTFN.
FOTD: Gypsies and velvet (12/28/10)
I wanted to play with some of my new Nyx stuff, so I pulled out these two eyeshadows. (And damn, Cherry Culture shipped these fast, and in the middle of a snowstorm, too!) I wanted to get more Nyx shadows, but I actually ended up getting only three shadows (these two and Yellow), and a bunch of lippies. Oops. I was going to use a Jumbo Lip Pencil, but then I grabbed Chocolate Berries instead. And, holy shit, do I love it! It is gorgeous, and it reminds me of a MAC launch I vaguely remember from high school, which was my pre-MAC time so I didn’t pay too much attention to it. Only I remember burgundy and peach, and velvety textures, and the MUAs looked like they’d walked right out of a bordello. SWOON. Too bad I can’t figure out which launch it was. Oh well, I’ve got Chocolate Berries now, so that’s a partially sated desire. On another note, I got a sample of Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Cream SPF 15 from Sephora, and tried it today, and fuck me, it is AMAZING. It’s also hella expensive, so fuck you, Sephora, for introducing me to it. Ugh.
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(You may notice that my hair is 1-unkempt/unruly, and 2-kind of similar-looking to yesterday’s ‘do. That would be because, ahem, someone’s lazy ass just untucked the ends of her braids last night, slept with them in, and then rolled out the door like that this morning. I mean…in eight days, I’ll have a swathe razored out the side of my head. Time to start getting cozy with “messy” and “stomps all over my perfectionist tendencies” right? The eyebrows are more of that, no, really; not just laziness, I swear. 
Which is another reason I’m really into this razored-down thing: I feel like it’ll be a sink-or-swim situation with respect to being more comfortable with myself at all times.)
Details, close-ups, yada yada. You know the drill.
FOTD: Real, real simple (12/27/10)
I just wanted to wear the lipgloss, really, and slapped on some tinted moisturizer, eyeliner, and mascara so it’d look a bit neater. I know the eye shots of just eyeliner and mascara are enthralling, but my OCD tendencies make me include them for completeness. Also, I have no idea how to take pictures of myself *by* myself. I’ve been making Greg take them, but I don’t know what I’m going to do if he’s not around. Hm.
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Photobomb
We got a new camera – it was our birthday and Hogswatch presents to each other this year. It’s a Nikon D3100, and I’m still getting used to it. And Greg took some of these pics. And I’ve got tons more still to edit. And, naturally, most of them are of our captive subjects (the cats, or each other). Anyway, the first batch is below the cut.
Swatch Sunday, 12/26/10: MAC lippies
All taken indoors, no flash. I’m still getting used to this huge fucking camera, so…bear with me.
top row, left to right: Cultured lipglass; Wrong Spell lipglass; Courting Lilac (glaze); Diva (matte); Film Noir (satin); Lickable (cremesheen)
bottom row, left to right: London Life (lustre); Media (satin); Petals & Peacocks (amplified); Sweetie (lustre); Viva Glam Cyndi (lustre)
Where the fuck I have been, and an FOTD
Where the fuck have I been lately, right? Well, some of it was good: busy going out doing shit with friends, staying out too late, not really having time to blog. Some of it was not so good: being sleepy all the time because I’m trying to adjust to seroquel and going to bed super early so not having time to blog, or being more on the depressed side of things and not feeling like blogging at all. And then kind of indifferent things, like our laptop shit the bed, so I couldn’t blog while watching tv (do you know how difficult it is to walk all the way into the craft room and blog on Big Bertha and *not* simultaneously watch tv, y’all?) or we got a new camera (yay!) but were waiting for some of the lenses it should have come with to show up, so we weren’t unpacking the new camera, but I didn’t feel like using the old camera when the new camera was here. You know, real important lazy shit. Whatever. I’m feeling like barfing all over the interwebs again, so here I am. Rejoice, or something.
I’m going to start by posting the FOTD from last night, and then I’ll barf the other “test-pictures” in another post, so you can skip it if you don’t feel like being inundated by pictures of pets and random shit. Greg took the FOTD pictures, and while the quality is unarguably better (because the new camera RULES), um…we may need to talk about how I prefer my full face shots to be composed. Or posed. (Or I might need to figure out how to shoot those bad boys myself – but that camera is LARGE and in charge, y’all. I seriously don’t know if I have the arm strength to hold that sucker out the necessary distance, pointed at my face, and keep it steady enough for an unblurry pic. We’ll see.)
Anyway, the face. (And fyi, we’re still ignoring that eyebrow situation, thanks. I’ve decided to just give up and schedule a waxing appointment, since I like being pampered anyway. So, yeah, not even going to mess with them until then.)
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Soup Thursday, 12/23/10: Hot-and-Sour Oriental Vegetable Soup
From Nava Atlas’s Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons. Delicious! The only changes I made were to add two more cups water and leave the hot sauce out, so we could add it in our bowls. (Didn’t want to fuck up a whole pot of soup.)
Swatch Sunday, 12/19/10: e.l.f. cream & liquid eyeshadows
The top row is e.l.f. Duo Eye Shadow Cream in Sugar Cookie; the bottom row is the same in Black Licorice. The swipe on the right is e.l.f. Liquid Eyeshadow in Mocha Madness.
without flash:
with flash:
