Happy Three Years...

My wonderful husband delivered these to me last night at 2am after a long night at his work. There are two white roses, lots of cranberry red roses, and one special purple rose spread out amongst a beautiful batch of holiday colored wildflowers. We are happily celebrating our third anniversary. Marriage is a lot of hard work and "not for sissies" as a very wise man once told me. In my opinion all the hard work pays off in the end. You grow together and learn to appreciate the other in ways you never thought you were capable of before.

  I have been very busy with life lately and therefore missed posting to my blog. I am still constantly trying all sorts of new beauty products and trying new looks on myself and others. Recently I did a zombie make-up run-through on one of my husbands friends. It turned out pretty well I will post photos of it soon I hope.

The holidays are around the corner, this year I am ditching all the stress of the hussle and bussle, shopping nightmares, and therefore piles of bills. I have with the help of my sister-n-laws been scheduling the beach trip of all beach trips. A Christmas extravaganza with tons of cooking, crafting, exercise, games and fun galore. We are even scheming a pie eating contest, mini health pies of course. This will be so fun and I am very excited. I am sure there will be more to come in posts as we get closer to this treasured time of season! How corny!!

Dolled up for Deputy

A concert in Clemson, SC. Sounds like a good time. My friends and I got all dolled up and headed to a local college town venue to see an amazing artist known as Zach Deputy, originally from Hilton Head, SC. He is a mix of beach music, reggae, funk and folk, definitely worth checking out: 

www.zachdeputy.com 

Once we got there though after a wonderful dinner at the Mellow Mushroom, we were be-bopping toward the concert singing one of his songs, and someone yelled from across the street "He's not there!". I gasped, "WHAT?". To our dismay his girlfriend was having their child on this night, so we will have to go to the rescheduled version. At least I got to get all dressed up and have a nice dinner. Congrats on the new baby girl Zach!  

Here are some photos I took on this night, first one with my friend Stevie, and then me close up and serious.

Green with Envy

Two words: Oooohh lala. Is that three?
This is a look I did last night for karaoke. 

Looks very festive though, maybe I was thinking about Christmas. It IS right around the corner.

Here's what I used:
Eyes: MAC Prep & Prime eyeshadow base (medium) - MAC BioGreen - MAC Warm Chill - MAC Gulf Stream - MAC Pencil in Forest Green - MAC kohl liner in Feline - Benefit BadGal Lash
Lips - MAC prolong in Red Flame/Orange Flicker

Skinny Bitch!

This is a bid kick in the rump for those of us who want to be healthy, happy, and beautiful! This is a MUST READ for everyone (yes, even men!)
It made me laugh, cry, and really changed my point of view on some things, so I encourange everyone to check it out. My only negitive review is that the profanity in the book is a bit overkill, also you need to take ALL the advice with a grain of salt! Don't go overboard with this, unless you live in LA or NYC. They go overboard with everything. (sorry)

Double Time - Flapper Look

I made a video! Well, sorta with help. Meeger at best, but I've already got a pile full of ideas on how to improve it. 

I was going for a theatrical nineteen twenties makeup look. Below is a list of what I used. 

Jane Iredale Disapear Concealer

Jane Iredale Circle Delete

MAC Prep and Prime Face and Eyelid Primer

Jane Liquid - Cheapy stuff

Jane Iredale PureMatte Finish Powder

Baby Powder

Jane Iredale Flushed blush (use as sculpter also inside of eyes near nasal bridge)

Jane Iredale Wine & Roses shadow (base all over lid)

Jane Iredale Smokey Grey  (outer edge)

MAC Post Haste (middle and inner lid)

MAC Black Tied (all around eyes)

Jane Iredale longest lash in Black Ice

Jane Iredale black eyeliner

Jane Iredale Spice lipliner

Jane Iredale Toffee gloss

Jane Iredale 14k silver dust (highlighter)

Warning: I got carried away with lipstick and brushes and filled in one side of my model's lips too much, hey you live you learn! It doesn't make it any less cool to me. Thanks to April for being my model extrodinare, and also to my wonderful husband who indulges me in all this silliness, and his musical wonderment (heard in video)!

Below are the photos from the end of the video - youtube has terrible resolution so I thought you might like to see them as they were orginally intended.