Bootsie

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.

 

Lately I’ve been debating the whole Tea Java situation. Yeah, it’s convenient and the drinks are yummy, but it makes a horrible first impression. It has so many ups and downs its like roller coaster. The coffee is great, it takes forever. The prices are bad, but they have yummy desserts. Is it processed, or is it fresh? I wonder all of this as I walk into the small but cozy cafe in Sherrill. It’s slower than Dunkin’ Donuts, but also better than it in my opinion. I guess on my way to school, I will have to stick with the Verona Dunkin’, because I’d miss the first bell if I went to Tea Java. What do you suggest I do?

Also, I have so many perfumes with almost empty bottles that it’s time for a change. I’m either switching to Gucci Guilty or Ange ou Demon by Givenchy, from my favorite Bulgari au the blanc. I think Gucci Guilty is more musky and fall, and it fits my tastes, but Ange ou Demon, is so sweet; yet it has that yummy side that draws you in closer. Which one do you think I’ll pick? 🙂

Pink the summer way. The fall way is coming soon!

Brics Milan leather and nylon carry-on

Swavorski crystal flower necklace

tiffany and co. pearl earrings

charlotte russe transparent flower top

american eagle pink cargo shorts

vintage rings!

nars, clinique, and maybelline makeup

second outfit-

Aerie white tube top

Aerie scarf (using as a wrap)

Abercrombie and Fitch pink khaki shorts

Vegans have become a very large part of my life lately, especially my family members who only eat organic foods, and I’d like to harp on it a little. I love my friend Elaine, but she’s a vegan. It’s a bitter struggle to pick a restaurant that suits both her needs and mine. I feel as though meat is very important, it brings us all together; especially during holidays. We’re carnivores on this planet, lets face it, and I’d like to thank the cavemen for slaying that first mammoth. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE animals, in fact I get called an animal freak often; but I eat so much meat that I’m almost a mutant composed of all the animals I eat. Many people would agree with this making a crude remark about my “chicken legs”. In all honesty, how far is too far when it comes to nutrition? I’ve noticed the color fading from my friends body, and her limbs are starting to look leaner, thinner. I’m wondering if giving up what the meatatarians crave is also like giving up your good health. But according to vegans, they live the healthier way.. so good for them. I haven’t read anything about that many casualties of people with vegan diets, so I’m guessing it’s relatively normal. Knowing this, one must also acknowledge the fact that it’s absolutely a lifestyle choice, and for me, I feel as though the T-Rex’s had the right idea. Are you on team Mcdonald’s, or team Peter’s Cornucopia?

I miss my doggy. Very much. But today was my last day here, and my boyfriend and I went out for dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. He looked very handsome in worn pumas, ae jeans, and grey henley with an abercrombie moose necklace. I wanted to go a little more cutsie.. tell me what you think of my new dress. 🙂

on me-

macy’s dress.

cubic crystal studs from Neimans.

J. Crew black head band.

vintage silver bangle.

aerie flip-flops.

“you don’t know what you got till it’s gone”.

Carmen Monroe Suttmeier. June 2004- August 6, 2010. RIP.

To my peppy pooch ❤ xo

TODAY I SAW THREE TREES WITH DYING LEAVES. That makes me so so so excited that FALL is coming. I love summer. I love the warm sun and the ocean breezes. But fall is when you get to drink hot cocoa, and hot lattes, outside! When you get to buy that beautiful new jacket, or those gorgeous knee high boots. When everyone gets back together to show everyone how they’ve changed. And don’t even get me started on halloween. Be ready for very expensive things.. (don’t worry, they’ll go on sale in october!) and for lots of chilly football games. These two pictures represent my favorite transition from summer clothes to fall clothes.. because they’re so cute.