Big life changes

It's been a while...


I just realized its been over a year since my last post. A ton of things have happened since that last post.
Firstly I haven't been feeling like myself for a while. I was super depressed, had a hard time focusing on anything, had absolutely no energy, was gaining weight like it was going out of style and then my hair started to grow in really weird, super brittle and wiry and then lots was falling out. I asked my dad, who is a doctor, what was wrong but he told me I was just getting older. HAHA! I wasn't even 30 yet and I think he just didn't want to think that his daughter could have something wrong with her. So I started doing research in scientific journals and found that I wasn't just "getting older" and my problems weren't imaginary. I got tested and was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis. It's been a year since I started being medicated and finally got a specialist to see me a couple months ago. I'm feeling much better but I know this will be an ongoing problem that I will have to monitor for the rest of my life. I'm just happy that I figured out what was wrong and am now working on being happy inside and out.

Second! Chris and I bought a house! We were getting in a super stressful situation renting as the amount of rent kept going up and up to an almost unaffordable amount. We realized that we would be paying much less in mortgage payments and so we took the plunge and found a house to call our own. We've got a bunch of little projects in the works. We want to build a deck in the back yard, do some painting in some of the rooms, update the lighting and bathrooms and reface the fireplace. We tackled the gross carpet in the living room in January and installed hardwood floors. This place is starting to feel more and more like home.

We also adopted two rescue puppies a few month ago so life has definitely started to revolve around taking care of them and planning activities with them.
 been to music festivals, installed hardwood in our new house, adopted two rescue puppies and now planning our activities for the summer (including a triathlon... so i need to get in shape!). I also bought some new makeup so I definitely have a bunch of picture to show everyone.

Sidenote, I thought I had posted this when I wrote it. Which was over a year ago.

Future hoop

OOOOOoooooooo......

I also have to share my newest toy. This thing is awesome. It has 4 different settings (rainbow, motif, isolation, and I cant remember the name of the last one but I'm going to call it atomic) and changes colour and pattern throughout. If you like to hula hoop and want something amazing pick one of these up at moodhoops.com!

#moodhoops

Summer shenanigans

Hey everyone!!

It's been forever since I made a post and I thought I'd do a little update to explain my absence. I'm currently in school attempting to get into veterinary medicine. I'm taking 5 classes right now as well as working so I've been a little MIA. It's been hard trying to balance things but I'm staying on top so that's positive. I've had some great adventures this summer. I made my yearly trip to BC and went to Shambhala music festival for my 10th year in a row. I was thinking of taking a break next year but after being there this year I think that I will most likely make it out again in 2014. Here are some picture from this years trip to BC

Me and my man Chris

A view of the ocean from my Dad's house on Salt Spring Island 

 Waiting to get into Sham. These girls had some great unicorn onesies!

 Awesome costumes!

 Me and Shy

 Some people make the best signs for their campsites!

 Chris and Luke

 Lightsaber battles at night!

 Us and our camp neighbours. They were awesome!

 My brother getting a bear hug

 We attempted the power rangers but had to abort mission, spandex suits can get weird.

 Cass and me

 Chris and the yip, yip, yip muppets

 Backstage fractal forest during Plump DJ's

 Me, Chris and Scott

 Mark, Zig, Chris and myself on the last night.

Hope you enjoy the pics, shambhala is one of my favourite places on earth! So much love, friendship, great music and fun!!! If you ever get a chance to go, DO IT!

A closer look at Lit Cosmetics with lots of swatches!

I have been getting requests and the biggest response from my post about Lit Cosmetics. I think the reason for this is more that to be able to make a decision of what color to buy and it's hard when the company offers so many different colors and they don't have any really good swatches to help decide....so, I'm going to have a better look at all the colors I have and LOTS of pictures. All of the colours I own are either solids, shimmers or electrics and they are mostly size two. If they are a different size I'll indicate what it is otherwise assume that it's size two.

Hope this helps others!! =)

This is all the colours I have. I got a few more on black friday.... I think I might have enough. LOL

Here are all the electrics. Top to bottom - Reboot, Ka-boom!, Ka-bang!, Beyond Pink, No Doubt and London Calling. All of these glow under black light.

These three are dark shimmers that really come out over a black liner. All are size 3. Top to bottom - 

Soul Sister - This one is really cool, it changes from brown, green and orange sparkles

Magic Dragon - This one shifts into many different colours of green

Seeing Stars - Purples, blues, greens - this one is beautiful!

 The next two pictures help capture the different colours these three produce.

Left to Right - Oceana, Miami Vice, Madonna, Elton John, Nirvana, Rock-It!, Lover Boy Size 2 and Love Boy Size 3 (this got thrown in as a bonus on my last order. SO nice of Jodie!)

A different angle! Top to bottom - Go Golf, Hawaii 5/0, Cayman, Oceana, Miami Vice, Madonna

Top to bottom - Army Brat, Hulk, Mary Jane, Plush, Farrah, Go Golf, Hawaii 5/0, Cayman, Oceana, Miami Vice. 

On the left side I swatched Green Machine and Lemon Tart below it. Both of these are size 3 and glow in black light.

Here's a closer look at those last few colours - Top to bottom - Army Brat, Hulk, Mary Jane, Plush, Farrah, Go Golf.

Green Machine and Lemon Tart on the side

Middle ROW!

 

The next row starts off with these three beauties - Top to bottom - Siberian, Mermaid, and Nightlife (this colour is one of my new favourites!- Red, Green, Blue, and Black sparkles).

I have to say I was a little disappointed with the first two. They are INCREDIBLY similar. Mermaid only has a little black glitter in it... which you can see a little more in the second picture below.

Left to Right - Night life, Mermaid, Siberian, Back In Black (Size 3), Gun Smoke, Marilin Monroe.

Left to Right - Champagne Wishes, Rich And Famous, Heavy Metal, Hoochie Mama, Hot Chocolate, Beach Baby, Tweety, Superstar

Left to Right - Tweety, Superstar, Vegas, Liberache, Sugar Free, Dreamsicle, Solar Blast (Shimmer Size 3 and glows under black light), California Soul (Shimmer Size 3 and also glows a bit under black light)

Left to Right - Purple Rain, Punk, Deja Vu, Boogie Wonderland.

Above - Priss (size 3)

Left to Right - Twisted Sister, Gal Friday, Material Girl, Roxy Rolla, I Feel Love (size 3), Pink Eye.

Above - Pretty in Pink (size 3)

Left to Right - Pink Flamingo, Strawberry Angel, Smooch, Vixen, and Fire Cracker

Left to Right - I feel Love (size 3), Pink Eye, Pink Flamingo, Strawberry Angel, Smooch, Vixen, Fire Cracker, Oprah, Cowgirl (size 3), and Carrot Head.

A little closer up of the last few 

 Hope this helps other decide on the colour they want!

                                                                                       

Green heartbreaker

Green Heartbreaker

For this look I used all Sugarpill shadows. Most of them from the heartbreaker palette.

Primer: Lime Crime eye shadow helper

Inner half of lid: Acidberry

Outer half of lid: Midori

Inner lower lid: Buttercupcake

Middle lower lid: Mochi

Outer lower lid: Velocity

Brow highlight: Lumi

Liner and waterline: Prestige eyeliner in black

Mascara: Rimmel London Glam eye's day 2 night in black

Love the bright colors!

A warning

I was debating making a post about this makeup company for a while just because it's kind of old news but changed my mind feeling that maybe it was just better to use what happened to warn people to check into makeup companies first before buying.

So.... here we go

This was a couple of years ago and I was looking for some bright and vibrant colors to play with (sugarpill was yet to be launched) and one of the girls I was working with told me about the great makeup company you could find through Etsy.com

Orglamix seemed great to me at the time. They were selling what they said to be organic makeup in an incredible array of colors at only $4.99 per loose shadows. I purchased 7 colors and they even sent me an extra one for free!

Left to right: Blue chakra, Green chakra, Absinthe, Yellow chakra, Orange chakra, Red chakra, Fuchsia, And the free color they threw in Pomegranate.  

I guess I was one of the lucky ones because the colors I purchased seemed great to me. Plus the Pomegranate color they gave me for free was definitely one of my favorites. I didn't have any adverse reactions to their products and I was happy with my purchase.

A while later I decided that I wanted to order more I tried to look for their store on Etsy and is was taken down. I guess they had so many complaints that caused Etsy to remove them as a seller. I looked further into what had happened and found that they were in the middle of a repackaging scandal. Many buyers reported finding Orglamix stickers covering stickers from other companies on their packaging. On further inspection of my own I found that I too had a double sticker....I can't get the top one off so I don't know what the one underneath says.

Some people also reported getting rashes and irritated eyes from using some of the colors. It's pretty shady business practice to lead people into believing that they are buying a certain product when they are actually getting another which may contain ingredients that are irritating or aren't even meant to be wore in a certain area. ie. the eyes

Anyway, I personally haven't had any problems and will continue to use the colors I purchased until they are empty but I know I will never buy from a company unless I've done my research again. Hope this pushes other to do their research too before buying cosmetics.

 

New Sugarpill!! WOOT!

Happy Dance!

So I went to the mailbox today and got a package from Sugarpill!!

 I've been eagerly awaiting this package. I ordered the remaining Chromalusts that I didn't yet have, some false eyelashes AND the Heartbreaker palette! Plus some stickers =)

I'm going to start with the Chromalusts that I purchased.

Left to right: Absinthe, Tipsy, Tiara, Stella, Magpie, Weekender, and Magentric.

All the colors are super vibrant. I did find that Absinthe and Tipsy are pretty close in color but they're both great greens. Stella is particularly pretty because it is filled with multicolored sparkles. The picture doesn't really do it justice... or for any of the colors for that matter. I really do like all the colors though. Can't wait to do some fun looks!

For eyelashes I purchased the Angel Baby, Toxic, Stormy and Shady Lane false eyelashes. I'm not going to include individual pictures of these because I believe the Sugarpill website has better pictures available. I'll show them off when I post some looks with them on.

On to the Heartbreaker Palette!

Top left to right: Acidberry and Velocity  Bottom left to right: 2AM  and Mochi

This palette is freaking awesome. I personally think that the colors in this palette are some of the best pressed shadows that Sugarpill has to offer.

Acidberry, Mochi, 2AM and Velocity is action! 

I'm going to post a look very soon using these colors. I just want to play around with them a bit first =)

Thanks for reading!