cool? warm? skin? what? :/

if any of you have been to a MAC counter or store looking for foundation, one of the artists probably asked you if you were warm or cool toned. and u were just like uhhhh i dont know....

well im here to help :)

without any makeup on, look at your skin. your skin has either yellow or pink tones in it or u could be one of the few lucky enough to have completely neutral skin. for some its easy to tell. i am extremely pale and i blush easily so i have pink tones. my friend maria who is tan has yellow tones. if its still hard to tell, look at your veins. blue veins= pink tones. green veins= yellow tones.

now the definition between whether u are cool or warm in the MAC dictionary is a bit confusing. If your skin looks more Yellow/Olive, you are Neutral Cool or “NC”. If your skin looks more Pink, you are Neutral Warm or “NW”. It seems kinda backwards cus usually we think of pinkish skin tones as cool and yellowish skin tones as warm. The reason for this is that MAC uses the makeup artists color wheel which is pretty much the opposite of what we usually think of as cool vs. warm. An easy way to look at it is like this: Think of each MAC foundation shade as being named with either the cool or warm shade that would neutralize and balance out your skin tone. 

a more thorough explanation and the place where i paraphrased the paragraph above can be found here. and there are probably countless videos on youtube for those who want further explanation.

  

new phone!

hey everyone! i got a new phone today! i got the samsung infinity 2 in blue. it looks like the intensity if yall want a reference. i tried going online to find a pic for u guys but they dont even have the phone on the website. weird.

it has a slide out QWERTY keyboard and you dont have to get the data plan to get the phone which was why it was so cheap. every other phone i wanted, u had to pay the $30 for the data plan which wasnt in the budget.

i got it because it was a really good deal at best buy. we only paid $1.00 for it!!

right now its kinda hard to type on it and im not sure if its because the keyboard sucks or just cus im not used to it yet. im hoping its the second one cus im going to have this phone for the next 2 years. so my typing right now is a little slow but i think ill get up to speed in no time.

im a JAP.......(jewish-american princess)

im a jew. a reformed jew to be exact. i dont practice very much, as in going to services and lighting shabbat candles, but i respect my religion very, very much.

after watching movies like the devil's arithmetic, the pianist, and the boy in the striped pajamas i am so moved by my peoples struggles during the holocaust. my grandfather, who is now passed, and my uncle were survivors. its hard to believe that people so close to u, suffered so much.

some people out there still hate jews. some believe the holocaust never existed. dumb shits.

i am white. i am caucasian. i was born and raised in the USA. religion is a state of mind, a belief system. my CHOICE of religion has NO effect on if i am a bad person or not. if i am evil. i can renounce my religion and become buddhist, muslim, or fucking mormon and still be me. still caucasian. still a good person.

fuck anyone who is prejudice against jews. if u haven't noticed, jews rule hollywood, the medical industry, law firms, and broadway. stephen schwartz anyone?

but im not saying that all jews are good by any means. every religion and faction of life has their extremists. those who bomb places of worship, vandalize, and push their beliefs upon others through terror.

im just saying, like a broken record, dont judge a book by its cover. or its ideas or beliefs. :)

youtube beauty gurus

everyone asks me how i learned about makeup. i didnt go to school for it nor do i think i ever will. ive never taken a class on it besides one for special theater makeup. my honest answer is always: youtube.

for the past 4-ish years ive been learning about makeup mainly through videos on youtube. youtube calls them beauty gurus and since they gave me my inspiration, i wanted to introduce some of my favs to you all. just google their name for their youtube channel and most of them have blogs or websites.

Enkoremakeup

pursebuzz

xsparkage

petrilude

beautifulyoutv

danalajaunesse

dollface22772-nail art

julieg713

kandeejohnson

makeupbyrisa

makeupgeektv

michellephan

misschievous

monroemisfitmakeup-she hasnt posted in forever :(

pinkiecharm-reviews only

pixiwoo

queenbeeuty

temptalia-her website is beast!!!!

update

do u know what i have been doing the past 3 days???????

sleeping and watching movies in bed

i find myself staying up really late and sleeping in really late, i mean like 1 or 2 pm. its pretty bad. almost all of my friends are morning people meaning that they have to wake up by 9 or they feel like theyve wasted their day. i dont have a problem with wasting my day.

im just enjoying my summer while it lasts. soon im going to have to think about my summer reading.....yuck.

but thats pretty much all ive been doing.

today i have to clean my room because im having a friend sleep over tomorrow night. yay sarah frances!!!

until next post. :)

Quick Tip #4b lip scrub

all throughout the year my lips get chapped and flaky and gross. this is a really good trick to easily remove all that nasty flakiness.

get a little bowl/plate/cup/whatever and add a teaspoon of olive oil. (olive oil is a natural moisturizer and makeup remover that has really good ingredients for your skin). then add less than a teaspoon of sugar. eyeball it and mix it together until it creates a paste. use your finger or a toothbrush and rub this along your lips. this will exfoliate your lips and remove any dead skin cells. then wash off with water.

your lips should feel nice and smooth afterward. just apply a lip balm and go. i do this about once every 2 weeks.

gotta love natural and cheap beauty tricks!

Fairies

i've always had a fascination with fairies. i loved dressing up as one when i was little, and now i love doing fairy inspired makeup.

a few years ago, i went to dragoncon with my brother. dragoncon is a sort-of sci-fi convention held here in georgia. i loved looking at all of the art vendors and came across the work of Nene Thomas. she is my absolute favorite fairy artist out there! i bought one of her prints called frost moon and i now have it hung above my bed on the wall. the painting is absolutely beautiful!

another one of my favorite fairy artists is Jasmine Becket-Griffith. she creates "strangelings". they look cute and innocent, yet fierce and gothic. i love her style and she has many other prints besides fairies like ones based off of the wizard of oz and alice in wonderland. here is one of my favorites called Allura.