FOTD: Happy Beaster! (and a haircut) (4/22/11)
I got a haircut Friday afternoon from the always fantastic Jess, so I didn’t want to put on alot of makeup, in case it got messed up during the haircut/shampooing/spritzing/whatever. But I was going to a uke jam afterwards, and then to celebrate Beaster with Greg, Stephen, and Erin after that, so I wanted to wear *some* makeup. So, that lead to this:
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-L’Oreal Carbon Black Lineur Intense Felt Tip Liquid Eyeliner
-Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara in Extreme Black
-Milani Lip Flash in Lip Flash (no, really, that’s the shade)
And! I actually curled my eyelashes this time, although I’m not sure I see much difference. Hmm. And the eyeliner’s uneven, but 1-I’m getting more practice, and 2-it wasn’t that noticeable in real life. (Oh, what the camera catches that the eye can’t, right?)
Beaster is like Easter, only you drink lots of Beast or Beast Lite (Milwaukee’s Best). A friend introduced Greg to the concept last week, and we ended up celebrating Beaster Friday night with Stephen and Erin. I don’t like beer at all, so we made “strip & go nakeds,” sometimes known as “pink panty droppers.” You take a can of pink lemonade concentrate, and make it using vodka in place of the water (although the can we used said 3 cans of water, Greg only used two, and it came out pretty strong, so you might want to scale back a bit). Then you toss in one or two cheap beers (Beast Lite), and mix it all up. You want to use good vodka, and *cheap* beer, so they’ll have less taste to them – then the final stuff tastes just like pink lemonade. But it will *fuck you up* with a surprising quickness, so be careful. It tastes like pink lemonade, and it’s delicious, and before you know it, it hits, and you’re like, “….DAMN.” So I got pretty drunk, which I do only in the rarest blue moon, and made tissue paper flowers with Erin and hung out and had a great time. We ended up crashing at Erin and Stephen’s – although “crashing” is a bit of a misnomer, since they have a proper guest room, and it is SWEET. I think Erin decorated it, and I swear to god, it’s like something out of Martha Stewart Living.
So now I’m itching to actually start working on decorating our house, since everything’s still in that kind of post-college, mishmosh of stuff, with no *deliberate* decorating scheme. On the other hand, that’s kind of totally our style, so I like it. Ideally, I’d like to keep a bit of the randomness and mishmosh, but find some way to subtly tie it together a bit, so it looked more like the inside of a Romani vardo, you know? A little bit magpie, but it somehow makes total sense together. Basically, what we have already, but a little more deliberately arranged. I don’t know. I think about it, but then I’m lazy, or have other, more pressing (or more interesting, or cheaper) to-dos, so I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I also haven’t figured out how to pull it off, so that’s alright – still in the thinking phase.
Erin and Stephen live in Morrisville, which is where my dance class is, so it made more sense to drive a couple minutes to the nearest Wal-Mart and get some shorts for class, then to drive 30 minutes home, get dressed, and then drive 30 minutes back, when the dance studio is about ten minutes from Erin and Stephen’s. I hadn’t packed any deodorant, and I sweated out Beaster in class, so…I’m pretty sure my fellow classmates couldn’t smell me, but *I* could. (I’m pretty sensitive to my own body odor, so most of the time when I think I’m stank, no one else knows what I’m on about.) But anyway, I smelled, to myself at least, atrocious, and I sincerely hope the smell didn’t get to any nose other than my own. It was GREAT to get home and take a shower – although I did it after using color stripper. I’m trying to go aqua for Spring/Summer/the foreseeable future. We’ll see if it works out. More on that later.
thecandiedmango said,
April 24, 2011 at 9:58 pm
That lipcolor is delicious, and ‘strip-and-go-nakeds’ sound VERY tasty. I know what I’m sneaking into the bridal shower this weekend!
kayeffjay said,
April 25, 2011 at 10:07 am
Thank you! And strip-and-go-nakeds ARE very tasty! And dangerously intoxicating. So prepare to have fun, and get shitty REAL fast. But perfect for a bridal shower, I would say.
TiLT: belated Friday edition (4/29/11) « spinster-in-training said,
April 29, 2011 at 1:37 pm
[...] -Beaster -strip-&-go-nakeds (aka, pink panty droppers) -”ain’t got no water, but I got a cold beer” (the Piedmont Boys) -Turbo Pro Project -Gangstagrass -Rench -realizing that there’s no musical genre I don’t like at least something from anymore; and that bellydance was the gateway drug for that -getting to hang out with MEL & JESS!!!! -getting my ass to a book club -”Once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson -Sutan Amrull/Raja -discovering the work of Michael Carson (here’s a sample) -discovering the work of Wendy Kowalski -a three-cupcake day (naughty of me, but made Wednesday so much better) -peanutella and madeleines and lots of warm fuzzies from friends (made yesterday so much better) LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]