in the z formation.

i'm gonna start doing the "grand diva snap" (0:53)

goodlifemusicgroup.com

i had a good, productive day at the goodlife frat house yesterday. it was well worth not getting any sleep yesterday. we worked on the website -- while watching UP... cute movie but wtf was up with that depressing beginning?? i believe the simultaneous reaction to the funeral shot was AWWWHEYLLLLNAWCMON!!! so anyway, we finished it and released that motherfucker. i think i can speak for both j and i when i say i was relieved when i pushed that publish button. of course, it is a temp layout. i will be taking a quick. break from any major creating. i will be starting the big full blown site after new years so watch out.

i'm just sayin.

one of my friends posted one of his infamous question of the day's on this status and it was about girls going back to a shitty ex. one of his friends posted that girls lack common sense. i mean, no hate at all but c'mon? what about guys? that comment struck a nerve with me the first time and it did again with this question of the day. so my essay of a comment read as follows:

"it's not just girls who lack common sense you know... what about the guys that already have a good girl but play around on them anyway??? they're even more stupid for ruining a good thing. and when they ruin that good thing, guess what? they ruin the girl too. same thing vice versa. no one is actually crazy, stupid, a ho, a bitch, or an asshole bf to begin with... i think we all drive each other to those points with lack of communication, trust, and unconditional love in a relationship... it's a vicious cycle that must exist otherwise the game of life and love would be boring as fuck and no one would ever learn anything.

and as for the subject of exes running back to their shitty exes... sometimes when people break up with someone they go back because the good outweighs the bad and they have their own reasons for loving that person the way they do and going back. yeah, a girl's (or guy's) ex may be shitty in your eyes but that may be because when they vent to you that's what they're doing... they VENT... meaning they're only complaining about the bad stuff and you hardly hear about the good no matter how much good shit there is. only the two people in that particular relationship really know what's up in THEIR relationship and only they can judge whether or not it's worth saving or going back to. besides if they're happy going back to that ex and they're willing to live with it and endure it, so be it. live and let live. love and let love. ya digg? but wtf do i know? i'm just as fucked up as everyone else about this shit... we're just gonna have to accept that we're all trapped in a case of the blind leading the blind. lmao

sorry about the essay. but you know... i'm just sayin. lol"

who's coming with?

ok for real, who wants to go with me? the only downside is, i'd have to go back to the infamous congress theater where the experience was no bueno when we went to see the roots. of course, that's when sherwin fell in looooove with me. haha just kidding. he did pretend to be my boyfriend and apologize to everyone around us when my hot mess drunken ass spilled someone's beer and knocked over someone's popcorn. thanks, darling. also the the night of the confusing cigarette kiss... hahah oh shit, remember that?? ok this is getting a little soul-baring. the point is...

who's down to go??

blah.

i wanted to write this big update... then i wanted to write something personal... now i'm kind of just in one of my emo, sad holes and i don't feel like coming out. however, i really should do something therapeutic in order to be able to get myself out of this hole. so, i'm going to stare at some coding for hours. it's like meditating for me.

ps. thinking about doing some vlogs. i hate my voice though, so we'll see how it pans out.

"fuck you, fucka"

http://goodlifemusicgroup.com/

thanksgiving weekend

i hope everyone had an awesome thanksgiving! my weekend was pretty chill. sherwin and his family went up to michigan for the weekend so i was kinda bummed. but it turned out pretty ok.

i ended up spending thanksgiving with my friends from grammar school, pretty awesome. dinner was delicious, ladies, thank you so much.

friday and saturday, i just relaxed at home. did some laundry that was way overdue. it's kind of sad that i can go about a month and a half without doing laundry and i still had clean clothes. obviously, i didn't thin out my closet enough.

today of course, had work at 6am. it's almost half over cuz i spent the first half watching movies and the simpsons. i finally watched remember the titans. And now
i'm about to start the way we were. i'm so excited cuz after i get out of here, i get to see sherwin and winston. i missed them a lot this weekend. just wasn't the same.
i hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and I wish you an even moreamazing week ahead of you!

-marie

visualization is key.

the other night i was advising my homey jason to videotape a lot of the recording sessions with his artists. you know, for when he (or we lol) makes it big and they might need the footage for a documentary. what did i say? "never-before-seen footage of goodlife's early recordings"? and like I said to him, dream big, nigga. lol.


i really do believe that sometimes daydreaming and thinking big makes you see what you really want and makes you want it even more. run on? anyway, i think it pushes people to really work for it. why do u think i flip my magazine to a page with a 49 year old julia louise dreyfus who's got the rockin body when i'm on the treadmill? she's almost 50, son!


and so j, this is why i feel you're going to make it: when i'm working on the goodlife website/graphics, i picture myself being in a photography studio (with the disgustingly stylish outfit, the glasses and a bad ass pair of loubotin booties of course lol), sitting behind the photographer directing the shot. this photo is going on someone's album cover #3 (sam, bdb, or goonie... pick one lol). then my assistant comes up to me to ask me to approve the images for a slideshow for an album release party. that's right, i got an assistant, homey haha. then i get a bbm (cuz i know you're gonna force the entire goodlife camp to run on blackberry) from you that you just finised a hot track and i HAVE to hear it.

sick huh? you're gonna call me a nerd for that but whatever, it helps me squeeze out the creative juice. so that's where i am. can you see it? picture something like that on your side of this project and you'll want it even worse.

more vintage fun

sherwin at lori's wedding. the suit, the glasses, his personality... so fitting for that vintage feel.

taken during one of my cam whoring sessions. this was taken for what was supposed to be a makeup post, heh.

little italy in the rain

i took this in nyc when we went back in 2003. added a little photoshop for that vintage effect =)

miss amy

my co-worker was telling me about how her mom gave her two pounds of this salad she liked from jewel and it made me think of my mom. how she'd know what to get for me at the grocery store, at the drive-thru, or even at the randomest store (she'd buy me a little random knick knack she found amusing because she knew i would find it funny too). she used to separate my picadillo from the rest of the batch before she added raisins cuz she knew i hated them. she would set aside a portion of any dish that contained liver before she added it cuz she knew liver made me gag.

she knew what i liked to eat, how i liked to be treated when i was on my emo bullshit, who i didn't want to talk to (without even asking me), which jokes would make me laugh, what to say to make my worries go away, how to tell me i was being a crazy idiot without calling me a crazy idiot, how to hug me so that I wouldn't feel alone... she just knew me.

i miss amy.

ain't nothin' to fuck wit...

been stuck on wu-tang for the past week or so. i'm looking for instrumentals. help.

watch ya step, kid... watch ya step, kid...

bitch slap 3

aka... draft 3 of the logo. my face hurts.

updates & bullsh*t

before i get started, i'd just like to say that my weekend definitely made up for my crappy week of being sick. i got to spend time with some old friends and of course the VIP. i got to eat awesome food that i've been craving (i have to go back to san soo gab san for the bbq....mmmm). i would post the food pics on here but all of those are on facebook. but anyway... of course, let's not forget the pacquiao fight. that was a whole case of whoop ass right there.

so friday i had lunch with my bernz... always a fun time. we ate at tampopo because i was craving ramen (i'm always craving noodle soup) and we always eat japanese. for real, korean next time. after lunch we ended up shopping for "face crap" cuz for some reason both of our faces were working against us. fucking breakouts. ugh. anyway so we went to the face shop at hmart because i wanted to pick up some of those sheet masks that i keep reading about. i saw them at walgreens for 2 for $5 the night before but i knew they'd be cheaper and they would have a bigger selection at hmart. so we went and i picked up the pearl sheets for clearer skin. i'll talk about them towards the end of this entry. after that, we went to target to buy skin toner. we ended up just getting the oil of olay one for $3 cuz we were to lazy to stand there and pick. I also ended up getting yellow nail polish (i have like 3 of them and i hate the way the yellow comes out, i hope this one turns out good) and a couple of studio tools eyeshadow brushes. they're aight. i'm still mourning the loss of my precious posh dual ended crease/blender brush. so sad. seriously, that bitch disappeared into thin air. anyways, it was a fun day. the girl is a ball of energy. like her "normal" would be my "hyper. ridiculous.

friday night, sherwin and i stayed in cuz we were still sick. plus, modern warfare came out so he bought it and played while i worked on some graphics. i'm telling you, being able to be in the same room and not do the same thing is a sign of a good relationship. after his playing the game and my staring at the monitor made our headaches bigger, we caught up on our curb episodes. i can't wait for the reunion episode. saturday afternoon i finally got to go to san soo gab san for korean food. i was happy. we picked up winston from his brother's place. nice relaxing afternoon with my boys =)

last night of course was FIGHT NIGHT *does the tinikling*. rod and i ended up going to a bar called four shadows. we thought we'd be getting there early at 7:30 cuz it wasn't the main even yet. wrong. it was packed and we couldn't get a table. good thing i ended up spotting this corner by a ledge so we would at least have somewhere to rest our drinks. we also ended up getting food. we got tater tots at first which was ok cuz i mean, i didn't mind supporting the basket. later on we got the mini-burgers and shit got complicated. we had to borrow a tray and rest it on an empty trash can that was next to us. yes, it was that packed. anyway, great fight. i'm not going to write about it cuz you can youtube it, yahoo it, and espn it so... there. let's just say all the screaming i did scared the guy behind me who was rooting for cotto. also all that screaming was not good for my throat. after that, we went to sherwin's house where everyone was faded and happy. great night. stop hiding, mayweather.

ok so about this face thing... i've been breaking out on my cheeks it's really annoying. My skin looks like shit. It's my own fault though because I'llt ake care of my skin for like 2 weeks til it clears up and then I'll neglect it. The way I take care of my skin is just lots of water and avoiding bad food which i should be doing regardless but let's not discuss it. anyway, i don't even really have a skin regimen. i just take off my eyemakeup and the rest of my face just waits til the morning shower. LOL I KNOW, I KNOW!!! anyway so now i'm making an effort. i'm using the st. ives apricot scrub (which i used when i was younger), olay toner, and olay beauty fluid. AND i picked up those sheet masks from the face shop. i used on friday night and #1, it felt and smelled soooo good. i love cold things on my face so i relaxed with it on. i actually even dozed off for a few minutes. after taking it off, my skin was a little on the sticky side but after a few more minutes (i guess after all the product sunk into my pores) my skin was sooo soft. i didn't even use a moisturizer cuz i wasn't sure if i'm supposed to. anyway, i woke up the next morning and my breakout was half gone, the little bumps were flat, and even my pores seemed smaller. i'm gonna use it regularly.... probably like twice a week. i wish i took a before pic cuz after just 2 days of paying attention to my skin, it's already noticeably clearer. YAY.

anyways, that's all for now. holy shit, this became longer than i wanted. toodles.

i left my heart in...

i took this pic while we were in a cab with our awesome driver who took us on our last minute tour. he took us down to this area of the bridge where there were no tourists. he said this is his favorite view of the bridge.

while my guitar gently weeps.

i wish i didn't have to put the watermark. i also wish i had a million dollars, so whatever.

wikky wikky

take two... this one's my brain child. came up with it while listening to disc 2, track 1 (please hurry up with my track names already, j lol). thinkin about cleaning up the top, looks too messy. enjoy.

phi beta...

a crest looking logo thingy i made for goodlife. he wanted a shield.

hey mr. dj

just wanted to add the originals from that day. refer to previous post. take these and die, thanks.

just for the hell of it.

this is actually sherweezy's hand. i took the pic winter of '07 while he was fuckin around on he tables. for "fuckin' around" he sounded pretty damn good. anyways, sprinkled a little photoshop magic and a dash of illustrator and *BAM* a new graphic for the GoodLife collection.

gettin ill.

Fuck my immune system. Ever since I was a kid my immune system is my worst enemy. I used to have asthma attacks off of every little thing, getting tonsilitis and laryngitis all the damn time, and while I lived in the Philippines I was in and out of the hospital like every month. I was just a sickly kid.

I'm still sickly. I get sick everytime the weather changes. I get sick when I get allergies so crazy that the sneezing and runny noses turns into chest congestion and BOOM BOOM POW - fever town.I always feel it too. My throat gets a certain itch that's like a red flag--uh oh its coming. My waterline gets red and my eyelids feel hot. And when I get sick, boy, I GET SICK. Like bedridden, irritable, can't move, my joints hurt, and when I shower the water feels like needles pricking my skin. Last time I got sick it hurt so much that I was crying in the shower. It sucks so bad being me sometimes (I don't care if that's negative, you've never been in my slippers while I'm sick). Maybe I'm just being a big baby cuz I know for a fact people out there are suffering worse than me. But having the flu, sore throats, and fevers at least 4 times a year for 25 years has given me the right to complain don't you think?

Well I got sick last month and I just fully got over it a week ago. Guess fucking what? Your girl is sick again! I feel the lids getting hot. This time though its the sickness I HATE. It's the one I get every year where I cough and cough forever. I'm coughing up all kinds of fluids and it hurts. Plus, my chest feels like I am having an asthma attack. Oh and I'm walking around wheezing. Damn it.

Getting fucked up friday did it I think. We stood out in the cold for a long time too. We partied in Naperville with Sherwin's co-worker. They don't play around in Naperville. You think you're just gonna kick it with the one 40oz? No, bitch, you're gonna have TWO. We had loads of fun but didn't make it home and just ended up crashing at their place. Well in the middle of night I started getting real hot and having cold sweats. I woke up the next day and I was coughing and wheezing my ass off.

Fast forward to sunday, had an awful time at work so just went to Sherwin's to chill. He said he wasn't feeling well so we took a nap. I woke up thinking "why the hell is it so hot in this bed???" I reach over to wake him up and he was burning! He had a crazy fever going on and I could feel mine beginning. I was sweating in the bed and went out in the cold. DUMB ASS IDEA. I woke up today with my head feeling so heavy and with my body all hot with aching joints. I'm at work right now still coughing. My throat hurts so bad and I just want to lie down.

I guess my white cells followed suit with Sherwin's and were like fuck this, I'm tired of fighting.

Damn you, antibodies.

music makes me high.

Who needs bud when you got music?

So I'm sketching out some logos. I have a basic concept of what I want it to look like but the music I'm listening to while I work is taking over my ideas. I was listening to some Naughty By Nature and it came out all playful and feel good looking. Then on a different sketch, some Biggie and Snoop came on the ipod and it started to look a little more on the gangsta side. THEN Woo Ha! Got you all in check played on the third sketch and the logo was on some different shit, I can't even explain it.

Maybe I should listen to the music that guy who I'm making this for made. LOL. Duh.

updateroni.

Hi. So I'm updating because this homey of mine, Vee (wuttup, gangsta? prodigeez, holler. bdfu.), has inpired me to post more. I swear, I've been getting inspiration from every direction lately.

Anyway, I'm expecting to have a lot more content for you guys (all three of you readers) since I got a couple projects coming up. One of which I posted a preview of in my previous post. By the way, I might be scrapping that image just because I'm a perfectionist when I actually care about something. You know how I do. Back to the drawing boards.

Oh and yes, I'm always saying how I only have 3 readers and shit because it's true. I only have 3 readers that I know of. I mean I'm hoping I have more but that's highly unlikely. I guess even on the internet, I'm socially retarded. It's my fault I guess, since my blogging has become more restrictive than when I was younger. I used to write anything and everything and not care. I used to be so open. I guess now I think too much and actually take into consideration that there are just some things that you can't put on a blog. I don't know where I'm going with this. Just trying to fill this text area lol.

In other news, my co-worker is acting particularly bitchy today. He must be on his rag or something. That's right, I said HE. Okaaaaay *snaps*

I'm gonna do my awesome weekend recap later when I get home. Toodle. Oo.

Damn, I haven't heard this song in a minuto caliente. J-j-jigga.

sneak peek, sOn.

for real, it's been awhile since i sketched.

messin' me up, my whole head.

Ever since I started blogging (4 scores and a million years ago... Ok maybe not THAT long) my topics have been inspired by personal experiences and that of my friends. Then I'd sit and put on some good music and just type. I want to stress GOOD music. This was way back when I was inspired and actually wrote some pretty decent shit, by the way. Well lately it's just mediocre (if that) and day-to-day ramblings. And I write out the drafts at work cuz shit, there's nothing to do between 3am-6am. Well today I got inspired and so I'm trying to write it out but something's missing...

The music part.

I'm playing some old hip hop off my phone so I can write but someone is simultaneously playing off their phone and it's like... not...good... Music. It's fucking me up. I tried the headphones but I can still hear Lil Wayne's wretched voice.

I wanted to get it done cuz I know by the time I get home I'll be way too tired.

Bleh.

monday agenda

Today is the first day of the rest of your life:

1. Wake up early and work out.

2. Clean the entire apartment and get rid of a lot of clutter.

3. Send out a bunch of resumes.

4. Make calls to looks for job leads.

I'm excited. Off to bed, I go!

people in glass houses, i swear!

I have this co-worker, let's call him... J. This motherfucker is the first one to point out when other people aren't doing their work. He is the first one to go up in the supervisor's office talkin bout "she fell asleep during her shift". He is the trick ass bitch who is the first to complain when the orders aren't entered.

Yet, he has been watching RuPaul's Drag Race all fucking day while I'm sitting here entering ALL the orders, taking ALL the calls and running on virtually no sleep. Then when he sees me with the headphones (correction, ONE earphone in cuz the other ear is for the phone), he wants to give me the side eye like I'M slackin. Girlfriend, please.

The worst part is, everyone he's ever tricked on thinks it's ME goin up in the office to complain.


Damn it.

whu huh name is?

I have to --HAVE TO-- go to Mitsuwa to get this issue. I absolutely love this girl. I think she's so pretty and not stick skinny like most of the girls in the Japanese mags. I don't even know what her name is. I know, it sounds all teeny-bopper, fan, stalker-status but I'm girl crushin' real hard.

count wacktacula.

I was driving home today and realized his test in L.A. is this week and I got all sad. THEN I realized he's leaving me in January which gives me what? Like 8-9 weekends left with him to go out, drink 40s at the club, chikka chikka dinners, walks through Bucktown (the "should I return this, should I keep it" game), splitting noodles at Zen, breakfasts at midnight at White Pal... then I got even sadder. Fuck. I'm going to miss my Count Wacktacula.

ooples and boonoonoos!

Well, just ooples, really. I decided to try the apple cleanse. I wanted to do the master cleanse (you know the infamous, insane lemonade-cayenne-syrup drink), but I'm too chicken shit for that. I bet I'll pass out within the first 2 hours of that cleanse so no, thanks! The apple cleanse, I read it off of this girl's blog and researched it more. It doesn't sound too bad, I mean it's easy and it's got solids so I'm trying it. It says you can do it for however many days you want in a row. I'm doing 3. It also says if you want, you can do it like for X number of days in a row every week. I also need to go out and find unprocessed, unfiltered apple cider vinegar. Trader Joe's maybe? Whole Foods? I don't know... I also researched the apple vinegar cleanse after seeing it on this chica's blog. (I know, I tend to pick up things off people's blogs and research it. lol)

Okay, so here I go. Wish me luck.

Peace, bitches.

-Marie

a little bit of everything.

I don't really have a specific topic to blog about today so this is all over the place.

First of all, the Insanity work out program I blogged about down there... umm FAIL. Well not really... I mean I could do it, just not in my apartment I guess. I tried to do the Fit Test which is a bunch of exercise moves that you do for 1 minute and you do as many reps as you can. Well, I got through half of it but when I did the the first of the suicide jumps... holy mother of mercy! My feet slipped all the way back and this crazy pulling type of pain went all the way up my spine! So I let my self plop to the floor as opposed to trying to recover with my feet and fucking up my back. It's my floors, I guess. Too slippery. I guess I'll have to stick with the Turbo Jam until I get a rug or something.

Moving on...

I've been feeling kind of bipolar lately... I mean like mood swings up the ass for real. One minute I'm all happy, feeling good... then I'm all emo and sensitive (I mean, I actually fucking cried over something someone said on FACEBOOK. umm wtf, Marie? To be fair, what the douchebag said really wasn't cool. And we're supposed to be friends? well, "friends", I just thought that guy could never be, in a million years, that mean) ... then I'm all angry and just want to yell at everyone. I know, that's scary-sounding. I really don't know what the fuck is going on. I feel like I have some sort of hormonal imbalance thing going on. I just need to maybe find my center again and chill the fuck out cuz all this mood swinging is fucking exhausting. Perhaps it's because I've been laying off the bud lately. HAHA. That's a good thing though, isn't it?

There was more I wanted to say and pictures I wanted to share but I'm tired now and super-hungry. So, laters.

insane in the membrane.

I'm starting this program today. I'm a little worried because the instructor is the same guy from Hip Hop Abs that I borrowed from Leslie (remind me to return that) and he annoyed me a little. I can't stand annoying DVD instructors, that's why I couldn't do the Jillian Michaels bootcamp, she annoyed me... and creeped me out a little. LOL. Anyway, wish me luck because apparently it's crazy... insane, even. I kind of wish I started on a Monday so it'll be timed that my "day off" is on Sundays. But it's cool because on my "off" days I would have done Turbo Jam anyway (I know, I love the BeachBody.Com programs). Plus, there's no time like the present.

Ok, I'm off to get insane!

Toodle. Oo.

-Marie

ibetcha i can! err... maybe.

So my boyfriend and I bet that I would lose an X number of pounds by December. We made this bet like 2 months ago. TWO MONTHS AGO. I've already lost a good amount but I'm gonna need to step up my game if I'm gonna win. Problem is, I'm sorta lacking in the motivation department. It seems as if I'm really not motivated to do anything lately. I have a couple of goals that I need to meet by december:

1. Lose that weight and win the damn bet

2. Get a new job because this one pays so shitty AND they're making me work ALL the holidays. Yeah, apparently us night-shifters don't deserve a Christmas or NYE. Well, FUCK THAT.

Anyways, so I'm betting MYSELF that I could reach these goals. I need to motivate myself more. So I had this great idea of posting up little motivational quotes around my apartment. Anyone got any good ones?

And something totally off subject, I want a Long Champ bag =)

all marie, all the time.

Ok... So my personal blog is about to go offline in a few days so I'm going to have to just make this an all-in-one blog. It sucks because I really wanted this to be a beauty blog...but that wasn't really working out that well since I've been uninspired and too cranky to touch my makeup.

The good thing is, I can blog on here from my phone since I don't have internet at work. I couldn't do that on the other site.

Okay, well stay tuned (all 3 of you).

shopping for the recessionista.

I used to be the queen of thrifting. When I lived by Loyola University, I'd frequent the Salvation Army and various thrift shops nearby almost every week. I'd hit up 50% off Mondays at Unique Thrift and come home with great stuff. Over time, I've gotten rid of a lot of my finds (I mean, how many baseball ringer tees and bowling style bags does one person need anyway). I do wish that I had taken better care of the 80's earrings and necklaces I found because I lost a lot of them. The great thing about that is that I didn't spend much money at all on them so it wasn't as bad as losing my necklace from Tiffany & Co (what a fiasco). I am, however, still really heartbroken over the really gorgeous, white, oval earrings made of a marble-like material. Man, those went with everything!

I'd come home with t-shirts to cut up... Belts to make into cuffs... Jewelry to take apart and turn into new pieces... And 80's inspired clutches to tote around (I wish people who borrowed them would give them back already *ahem*). One of my favorite purses ever is a 35 CENT thrift store purchase.

Anyways, I can spend hours in a great thrift store... I just have to be in a certain kind of mood. Let me tell you there is a bit of a thrill when you find a great item for under 5 bucks (or under 50 cents even)! Well, now I'm in that type of mood. All this browsing through my fave fashion blogs and LookBook has gotten me in mood.

Here's what I'm looking for:
1. Accessories - of course, I'm a sucker for jewelry. Looking for necklaces and rings mainly. I got enough earrings (who am I kidding? You can never have enough earrings).

2. Slip dress - inspired by fashiontoast. She just looks s'damn hot in hers that I want one too.

3. Cardigans and vests.

4. Plaid schoolgirl skirt - it would be fucking awesome to infinity and beyond if I find one in MY grammar school's pattern.

5. Flats... There's a certain kind I'm looking for but I can't explain them, I'll find a pic and post it.


That's my list! I'm sure I'll find more stuff when I get there. I've been wanting to add some stuff to my wardrobe or just do an entire overhaul. It's a good thing that I'm in a thrifting mood cuz girl, money is tight these days!

See ya' next time!

-Marie

craterface!

My skin is on some motherfucking bullshit right now. I don't know what happened! I broke out on the lower half of my face. And I have this nasty pimple right where the skin of my lip and face skin meets and it is the most painful thing I've ever had on my face!
I got all paranoid about it too so I researched that motherfucker and it IS in fact (thank goodness) just a pimple. It just hurts and I want to cry so bad!

It started when I started using the Dove beauty bar to wash my face. Needless to say, I'm no longer using that. Also, my diet has been slipping. I need to get back on my salads and water all day, everyday... ASAP because this face thing is torture. Oh and stressing the fuck out isn't helping me.

If anyone out there has any suggestions, help me please! It hurts!!!

Bronze-A-Licious.

I'll come back and list what I used. I used the same makeup for both looks, the lighting is just different... the third pic kinda looks like a "morning after" pic lol.



Face:

• Bare Minerals in Medium Beige
• Ulta Bronzer (from a holiday set)
• Milani Blush in Mai Tai
• Benefit High Beam for face highlighting (?... I used it just above the blush to catch the light)

Eyes:

• UDPP
• Loreal HIP Paint in Commanding (allover lid as a base)
• Ulta e/s in Gold Leaf (above the crease)
• Ulta e/s in Brass (transition color in middle on the lid)
• Ulta e/s in Tiara (highlight)
• Avon gel liner in black (for the darkest part of lid)
• Maybelline liquid liner in black
• MAC powerpoint in Engraved (waterline)

Lips:

• Avon lipliner in Nude
• Kiehl's Lipgloss in New York Nude

Necklace:

The Mexican Shop - Evanston, IL
801 Dempster St
Evanston, IL 60201-4303

Great little store... the owners close down for 3-4 months out of the year to go down to Mexico for already made or supplies to handmake most of their jewelry. They also sell vintage sunglasses and other kitschy accessories.