Month: January 2011

Valentines day is coming up so soon! Are you excited or do you hate it? I personally love it, and I want to help clear up the gift giving craziness. If you do want to give a boyfriend a gift, here are some simple inexpensive ways to make his heart melt! Together, Urban Outfitters and I will show you the funniest and sweetest ways to make them happy.

• Write a love note, cute and effective. Buy one of those jumbo cards or just make your own and make it personal. Make sure to mention all of the stuff he does that makes you so happy, and that you appreciate it very much!
• Make him a cd, corny yes, but if he loves music then opening him up to the music you know you’ll both love is adorable and cheap.

– Get him a guitar pick of his favorite color!

• Go to your local Big-lots or Wal-Mart and get a few of his favorite movies that you don’t really like, or movies that you both love. Either way he will be so excited that you get to watch them together. Make sure you make it a package, with his favorite candy and maybe make him a blanket using the old tie-ing the sides together trick of a fabric patterned with his favorite sports teams fabric.

– Some quirky extras from one of my favorite websites!

The worlds largest Gummi Worm! YUM. http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=20365672&pushId=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&popId=A_ENT_GAMES&navCount=99&navAction=poppushpush&itemCount=80&itemdescription=true&parentid=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&startValue=1&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority

Bacon Popcorn! http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=19395664&itemdescription=true&navAction=jump&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=SEARCH+RESULTS

If your man likes to cook! Get him to make dinner with this Guitar Spatula! http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=17980806&pushId=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&popId=A_ENT_GAMES&navCount=2034&navAction=poppushpush&itemCount=80&itemdescription=true&parentid=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&startValue=81&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority

Make him laugh 🙂

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=16511289&pushId=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&popId=A_ENT_GAMES&navCount=2034&navAction=poppushpush&itemCount=80&itemdescription=true&parentid=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&startValue=81&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=19603141&pushId=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&popId=A_ENT_GAMES&navCount=783&navAction=poppushpush&itemCount=80&itemdescription=true&parentid=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&startValue=81&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority

For the little astronaut that couldn’t become an astronaut. http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=17550583&pushId=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&popId=A_ENT_GAMES&navCount=2034&navAction=poppushpush&itemCount=80&itemdescription=true&parentid=A_ENT_GAMES_CLASSICS&startValue=81&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority

Before you go to work or school tomorrow morning, choose carefully the mascara in which you apply to your dainty lashes! These are my favorites that get me through the day, of course as soon as one runs out, I get to experiment with another! These are the best for thin, puny lashes, and I seem to be able to apply them with ease. Have fun!

(P.S sorry for the poor picture quality! It’s from my palm pre camera!)

Top:

Loreal Paris Volumizing mascara (for the bigger lashes without using XXL)

Loreal Voluminous Lashes Original (simple, great)

Bobbi Brown Everything mascara (lasts the longest)

Clinique High Impact Mascara (good for a quick apply)

I’m going to skip apologizing to my small amount of readers at the moment for my lack of posting, I’m sure all of you are just as busy as I am fighting influenza, hanging out with friends and being with loved ones. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years! I have many things to blog about, but first: a post on my outlook of beauty.

— I was just sitting in my bathroom, looking at my pale ravaged skin on my face, and recognizing the tiny freckles on my even paler arms. As I was about to reach for my Clinique foundation I stopped, a pause if you will in thought but also in motion. I set down the ivory colored paste and reached for my camera. Something came over me, that I just had to show the world what I am. What I am in the sense is the beast that I feel I look like as I get out of the shower. I scramble to towel dry my hair and add oil before my day becomes ruined due to flat, scrawny blonde locks. I hate the process of applying acne medicine in three steps, three steps that when prolonged, bring my self- esteem to about a -.1 by the time I’m finished. I’ve never been one of those girls that could just wake up and be pretty. I decided now, as I slowly took off the lens cap, that I also really don’t like compliments. Years of putting myself down has lead to a depletion in all of my “thank you’s” and “awww you too’s!” Now, you’re not here to read a sob story. Once I took the pictures, and deleted almost all of them, I came to the conclusion that being not so attractive has given me many opportunities to feel beautiful, and those opportunities are amazing to feel because they are an occasion, they don’t occur as I am getting ready for school. It also made it clear why I was trying to get a ticket to another prom, even though I had already been to 3. So if you don’t feel beautiful like me, and I say FEEL because; sure, sometimes I may look pretty but I’m not thinking that, don’t put on pounds of makeup everyday, and enjoy those special moments that become highlights of your life, with beauty that you can literally, well, feel. Because in truth, everyone is beautiful, and I’m still trying really hard to see that.