Makeup Blurbs: My favs

So this blog is a little different than previous posts. I wanted to blog about something that interests me and that I’m passionate about. I have been into high end makeup for many years now. Once I discovered Sephora it was all over. I started buying Sephora brand and some other random brands, not having done any research on the brands or the products before hand, which left me with some iffy products. One of the first brands I really fell in love with was Kat VonD. I loved her as a person and what she stood for and her makeup was pretty great itself. I mainly liked her eye shadow pallets. I eventually found Too Faced, Smashbox, Hourglass, Anastasia Beverly Hills and Urban Decay. Those are just a few of my fave brands at the moment. Once my obsession really took off I started following beauty bloggers for tips and tricks to applying makeup. After all I was spending tons of money on my makeup so I wanted to get the best use out of it. (I’ll share links to some of my favorite beauty bloggers that I’ve followed for awhile now.) After watching a lot of their videos I noticed most of them were vegan/cruelty free makeup supporters. Which got me digging into a whole new subject matter with makeup. I am an animal lover and now a vegetarian so it made sense to try and purchase makeup that didn’t test on animals or use any animal product in them. Logical Harmony is a great website that keeps up to date information on vegan/cruelty free makeup brands. I am currently in the process of eliminating any brands I use that aren’t vegan/cruelty free. I already use quite a few that are because in the past I did make a conscious decision to choose only those brands.

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Re-vamping the blog

So I’m in the process of re-vamping my blog.  I’m cultivating ideas for different kinds of blog ideas, adding more pictures and just making it a little more personal to my style and tastes.  I’ve been posting about twice a week for that last 4 months so I think it’s time for a little re-work. … Read more

Personalities

So I started listening to this podcast called Invisibilia. The most recent one I listened to was about whether or not we believe that our personalities are consistent or not. Do you believe that someone is born with a fixed personality or does their personality change as they age, the environment they are in, etc.? I personally believe that our personalities evolve. No one is born with a fixed personality. For example, I was a very shy child and continued to be shy up into my late teens and in my early 20’s that personality trait slowly disappeared. So sure, at one point in time people may have described me as shy but I don’t think anyone would describe me as that anymore. I think as we grow, evolve, our environments change, so do our personalities and this isn’t a bad thing.

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Rumors

So I’ve been trying and pretty much succeeded at not letting all the rumors about myself (when I was going through my divorce) bother me anymore. That is until recently. I found out my mother had heard rumors about me, that weren’t true, well except for one. That I had left my wedding photos behind, which why would I need those? Anyway, to me that reaches a whole new level of hurt. Mostly because someone felt the need to spread these false rumors. I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping my opinions about this whole ordeal to myself. I haven’t bad mouthed anyone other than some venting I’ve done to my closest friends and even that was minimal because I was trying to be polite to everyone involved. It’s hurtful that people feel the need to lie about others. Is this supposed to help make them look better than me? To make me look like an evil person? Maybe it makes them feel important to be able to spread gossip and seem interesting for 5 seconds because they have nothing going on in their own lives that is as interesting? I have no idea half of what was said about me, I’ve only heard bits and pieces that my friends and family have heard and told me. Most of which were not true, of course. So if you’ve heard anything about me I just ask that you contact me and ask me about it before you just go ahead and believe it, especially if you are my family or a close friend. It hurts me to think that the people I love the most are forming an opinion about me based on lies. Which in turn has made me distance myself because I honestly have no idea how people feel about me right now.

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LOVE

Today I was looking through the photos on my phone, seeing all the good times I’ve had over the last few months and realizing how lucky I am. After all the crap I’ve been through I’ve only come out stronger and some pretty amazing people have stayed by my side the whole time. I think sometimes it’s easy to think there isn’t much to the lives we live, that they are boring and we wish we did more. That’s why I love looking back at pictures I’ve taken. It reminds me that my life is pretty great, despite the hard times, and that I have an amazing group of friends and family that I’ve shared so many memories with.

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