Videos and Reviews Postponed

I was planning on having that hair tutorial up a while ago, but things have been really crazy lately. And right now, I'm not even home to be able to work on it. I'll be gone for the next two weeks, but I might be able to do a review or two. But don't count on it. I am really liking the Revlon Colorstay bronzer in the darkest shade (I think it's Sunkiss or something like that, but I'm not sure). There's your review! Ha!!! Jk. Although I do recommend that product highly. I use it every day.

I hope at the end of the two weeks I'll have stories to tell. I should, but who knows?

Til next time,

Stacie

PR: L'Oréal Paris Sublime Mousse Permanent Color

I'm sorry it's been a long time since my last post, but I've been sooooo busy with everything going on you would not even believe it! Anyway, it's good that I gave this product about a month before I reviewed it because I may have something to say right away, but my opinion may change after a while.

A lot of people said that this really dried out their hair. It did kind of dry it out at first, but after about a week your hair is pretty much back to normal. That's the thing about chemically treating your hair, though: you have to take special care of it! Once you color your hair, you need a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner and/or a shampoo and conditioner specifically formulated for colored hair.

As for the color itself, it's really nice I think. It said that it preserves the natural tones in your hair, and it does. Beware: this also means that it will preserve your highlights/low-lights if you have any. So it's not some magical eraser that will make all your hair look the same. This may be bad for some people, but it was good for me because I'm trying to work my hair back to it's natural color so by slowly letting the roots grow out but kind of keeping them colored, I'll eventually be able to stop coloring it. Also, a lot of people said that it turns out darker than the box says. It did that a little for me, but it probably depends on how light/dark your hair is. Since my hair was already pretty blonde, it didn't really have that much work to do, so... you know.

Overall, I really like it. I plan on using it again when the time comes.

I hope this review helped you at least a little. I might do a video review, I don't know. I don't exactly have a lot of down time lately. I've got a lot going on in preparation for this upcoming year in school. Gotta start thinking about college.... Life is tough.

I hope your life is filled with many blessings!!!

~Stacie

Gonna dye my hair!

I'm so excited! I've never actually dyed my hair before, I've only highlighted. But my hair has been highlighted so much that it pretty much looks like it's dyed so I figured I might as well. I have the kit sitting in front of me and I'm gonna use it when my mom decides to show up. I'm pretty sure I could do this on my own, but she wants to be here to "help". I guess it's just become a tradition that she colors my hair that she doesn't want to break.

The kit I will be using is the L'Oréal Sublime Mousse permanent conditioning haircolor. I wanted to use the créme gloss or something like that, but it washes out in 28 shampoos and there are some days that I take a shower more than once (and every time I take a shower, I shampoo). I'm a teenager, even though I'm in the late years of teenhood, but I still need to shampoo often. I can't wait for those future days of not having to shampoo every day. I've only heard of them, and I really hope it becomes a reality for me. I really, really do.

So the color I got was the lightest they had in the store: 90 Pure Light Blonde. I'm actually looking to make my hair darker, not lighter, but in my research, a lot of the complaints were that the kit made your hair a shade or two darker than the box promised, so I'd rather have lighter hair that everyone's used to than super dark hair than I'm not even used to. I'll just keep working my way down to the darkness I want.

The color on the computer screen here looks a little darker and more like the color I want than the color on the box. If I can't get the darkish color I want, I'd like my hair to look like a field of wheat, not a fakey, yellowy color. We'll just have to see. I'll probably do a review on it and maybe even a video. I've got a lot planned for tomorrow, what with it being the end of the world and everything. I wanna look my best when I die XP

I'll talk again soon. Bye for now.

~Stacie

Website is officially up and running!

Woohoo! I've put so many hours of blood, sweat, and toil into this project and it's finally DONE! You have no idea how happy I am. When I first published it, it didn't quite look right, but I figured out the problem and it's perfect. If it doesn't look right in your browser 1) try a different browser, and if that doesn't work, 2) let me know. I'll see what I can do. I think it should work fine, though. The link is in the sidebar to your right so please check it out! It will have all the powerpoints in one place for you to download. Keep in mind that these powerpoints are my work, are copyrighted by me, and you cannot use them anywhere except for your personal viewing.

Have a beautiful day and enjoy this weekend!

~Stacie

PS Congratulations to William and Kate for their marriage! I thought it was ridiculous when I saw a headline saying "William and Kate headed for their honeymoon at some mystery location" as if it's our right to know where they're going. NO. They deserve some privacy for this special time, otherwise they might be flooded with people and wouldn't be able to enjoy themselves completely. I swear....

First Video!

This is super exciting news! I finally have a video uploaded that I'm not completely mortified to keep up on YouTube. I also have a PowerPoint to display, but I don't know how to get it up for viewing. I'll just put the video here for now and figure out the PowerPoint business later.

Collective haul

Wow, okay so as stated in the last post, I have done a bit of spending lately on makeup. It's like a scary addiction. I'm kind of worried that when I'm older and on my own that I'll chose makeup over food and end up dying of starvation. Not good! But anyway, I just wanted to post a quick thing on what I got so you guys can know what reviews to expect coming up. There's also been a little other buying in the past that I may review too, but I don't know. This is haul though and I figured since all the other people on YouTube post their hauls, I might as well.

So last Saturday I wanted to go to Target because emilynoel83 said she got an ecotools brush on clearance for a great price. Well I love ecotools and this brush looked big enough and I had been looking for a bigger brush for blush. So we headed to Target. Well Target decided they were gonna have a mass clearance on a lot of their makeup. That's good news for me! So I talked my mom into getting the following things for me from Target: Physician's Formula Eye Enhancing Gel CreamLiner for Hazel eyes, Maybelline New York Dream Mousse Concealer in Fair Light 0-1, and Boots Expert Sensitive Light Moisturizing Lotion.

Then we headed on over to WalMart because I'd been wanting a face primer for a while and decided this was the weekend to get it. The Hard Candy Sheer Envy Face Primer had been compared to Smashbox's face primer in Light or something and said it was as good if not better. And seeing as $8 is a whole lot cheaper than $32, we got it. Wonderful.

Finally we headed to one more drugstore and they had Rimmel for sale, BOGO 50%. That's not my favorite kind of sale because it's basically like saying 25% off but you actually have to buy two to get them both 25% off. Cheap. But since I wanted these two lipsticks, I thought a cheap sale is better than no sale. So I got two Rimmel Moisture Renew lipsticks (the kind in purple tubes) in Coral Shimmer (120) and Dreamy (140).

Then on Sunday the drugstore had an awesome sale (as if to follow up on Target's awesomeness) and had a 25% sale on Revlon and Maybelline, and 50% off on Wet 'n Wild. Well I went crazy. I got the coloricon 6-color eyeshadow palette in Greed Gourmandise, coloricon blusher in Pearlescent Pink, and MegaEyes Crème Eyeliner in Black/Noir (all Wet 'n Wild) and then a Maybelline eye shadow single in Champagne Fizz (one from their Chic Naturals line).

Then yesterday I was given $20 to go shopping with my aunt while here on vacation and we of course went to my favorite drugstore. They still had 50% off Wet 'n Wild so I went ahead and got the MegaGlo Illuminating Powder in Catwalk Pink (345) and a coloricon eye shadow single in Brulee/Crème Brûlée. Pretty fun. I wasn't anywhere near spending all $20, but that was my intention since Mom had gotten so much for me last weekend.

So be expecting reviews on these soon. Ciao!

A bit of news

Well there's definitely a more in depth update coming. I have bought so much makeup in the past week that I'm going to report a collective haul. The stores were awesome and put a bunch of their makeup on sale because Valentine's Day is coming up on Monday (don't let your significant other forget!).

Plus, lately I've been working on a tutorial to submit in a contest being held by bebexo. I don't know how to pronounce the name (so I'm a little irritated in the video) but it's nice to type it and not worry. So when I finally finish the video, I'll post it here. If I ever finish it. It's being a pain. A huge pain. Does anyone know a good video editor online or a free downloadable one?

So if the video works out and I end up getting a decent resolution camera, I'll make more tutorials. That's a little easier than typing everything out. Except that there's no good lighting at my house. Oh well, we're gonna make things work!

Even if I don't get the video to my satisfaction in time to submit by Monday, I'll still try and finish it and post it here. It's a pretty spring look with a simple pink eye and fresh face. Nice and dewy.

I hope you all have a wonderful, beautiful day tomorrow (it's night right now where I am) and make the most of the weekend! I love weekends. Who doesn't? Post a comment on what you feel!!!

~Stacie