I don’t need any of this. This post is just simply for fun. Most of these “want items” are really expensive. This is a window shopping post again.

01. A car. I don’t care what model it is. As long as it’s not a van, it has great mileage, and the price is very affordable.

02. Not exactly this color…just a pair of Black EasyTone Reeboks. [I'm a size 6.5, if you were wondering]. In class we’re on our feet alot and we’re only suppose to wear black shoes. The only ones that I have are ballet flats, we’re are horrible for your feet if you’re standing up for a long time. So all black or black with a little color EasyTone Reeboks would be great, Santa. =P

03. Sephora Makeup Artist Brush Belt Set. I want to start developing my portfolio for makeup. So I want a separate brush set than my personal use set. You know what would be even more great? Having two sets of these! One for myself, and one for my clients. *Big smile* One of these babies cost $275.

04. Sephora: Kat Von D Deluxe Uber Set. I love her. And I like her color palettes. This set is $425!

05. Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes Collector Set. $249. I love their eyeliners. MAC and MakeUpForEver have my favorite eyeliners.

06. Make Up For Ever 12 Flash Color Case. $95.

07. Clarisonic Mia™ Skin Cleansing System – Pink. $145. *sigh….=)

07. MAC Carry All Case. $225. Very pro. :]

08. UGG Australia Knightsbridge Boots in Shadow Gray. I don’t care what people think. I love UGGs. They’re very comfy. $220.

09. UGG Australia Classic Tall Boots in Black or Chocolate. $180.

10. Ninja Gaiden Simga 2 for PS3. I want kill people with a sword. Muahaha..

11. Wii Active. Bf saw something that said that the Wii Fit isn’t tough enough for ya to lose weight. I didn’t think it would be either. I much rather get the Wii Fit. I’ve heard from other people they break a sweat very easily playing this.

I can defnitely go on and on with what I want. But I’ll just stop here. :]

I used to not where lipstick at all. I always thought it was for older women. I thought lipgloss was for girls and lipstick was for women. In my opinion, I do think young teens should only wear lipglosses and tinted lip balms. And I believe as you get older from late teens to womanhood…lipsticks, lip liners and lip stains can/should be added in to your collection.
Right now, I have so many lipglosses, I don’t even want to count. My favorite brands for lipglosses are Stila cosmetics, Cargo, NYX, NARS, Sephora, and tarte.
As for lipsticks, I only have 8 right now. I’ll have more once I’m working again. All, but one are from the drugstore/Target. I don’t wear lipstick a lot, so I don’t want to spend so much for ‘em. Also, I’m very anal about keeping my lips moisturized, so I try to buy lipsticks that won’t dry out my lips.

Here are the ones that I have. A few are not so great. Most are great. Click picture to enlarge.

Revlon Moisture Extreme Lipstick in Roseberry. I really love the color of this one. =) It’s a little more pink in the picture than in person. I feel very feminine when wearing this one.

Surprisingly, this one is from Walmart. Hard Candy Lipstick in Knock-Out. This is a very pretty pink. Totally a barbie/mod type pink, too. Colors like this aren’t my favorite because if you’re teeth aren’t perfect white, the color makes them look yellow. I haven’t worn it out in public yet, because of that reason. I got it for the fun of it. This color makes me feel stupid and ditzy. Lol. Just kidding.

Maybelline ColorSensational in Mauve-lous. This color is one of my favorites. It’s very smooth and shiny finish. Just the right about of moisture too. This color makes me feel sure and beautiful.

Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Blackcherry. One of my favorites. The lipstick itself looks almost black. It’s somewhat moisturizing. This color makes me feel seductive and daring. Somewhat evil too. Muahaha..

Maybelline Moisture Extreme in Nude Blush. The one is my favorite lipstick out of the ones that I have. Can be worn with any eye look. I feel like a sweet and innocent girl carrying a basket of flowers in this color. Lol.

Maybelline ColorSensational in Madison Mauve. This color looks great in picture, but in person, it’s okay. It has a little bit of iridescence to it. I’m not a huge fan of iridescent lipcolor because it can be very tacky. The color is close to the other Maybelline lipstick I have shown.

Revlon Matte Lipstick in Nude Attraction. This was my least favorite lipstick. It wasn’t the color, but the formula. Because it’s a very matte color, the formula was on the dry side. You can kinda see the cracks on my lips in this picture. This is another color that makes teeth look yellow. I only like wearing this underneath a lipgloss.

MAC Viva Glam Lipstick in Viva Glam I [matte, A16]. As you can see, this color is very rich. It’s on the dry side, so I like wearing this with lipgloss too. Also…with this color and my Revlon Blackcherry, I wear a lipstain and lipliner underneath for insurance. This color screams glam, so that’s how I feel when I wear this color. Glamorous. =)

In all these pictures, [besides the lipstick] I’m wearing, MAC Select Cover-up [I didn't put enough], NARS Powder Foundation, Ardell Lashes, and Coastal Scents black eyeshadow. Only lipcolor I have on are just the lipsticks alone. No added liners, stains, or glosses.
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I always buy makeup with a smart attitude. Yes, I am a makeup junkie, but I’m not going to impulse buy [and possibly go broke until my next pay check] just to get the satisfaction of adding more to my makeup collection. It’s kinda stupid to do that if you’re not made of money. When it comes to shopping for makeup, I’m always looking for sets or palettes. I think they’re absolutely great for the girl who wants quality makeup, but wants to spend as little as she can. That would be me. When I did work, I would bust my ass off making that money. I don’t want to spend it all away by buying like four shadows and a lipgloss. So sets and palettes. I am all about them!
Also, a lot of people buy certain makeup just for the brand. I don’t care if it’s MAC, Shiseido, L’Oreal, or Chanel. It’s how you apply it that counts. Did you know that L’Oreal owns Lancome? The major difference between the two? Yup, you got it. Price tag.

Here are the shadow palettes that I have. Pretty much all the looks you’ve seen on me are from using these shadows. I have very few single single compacts. The shadows I first started with were from MAC, but I dropped them and everything fell apart. Where I lived, the MAC Store was on the other side of the mall, which was on the other side of the street, so Sephora was the store I would go to all the time. Even when I just wore MAC, I would only buy the eye shadow quads/palettes. Since I like experimenting with makeup..wearing different looks, it would take me forever to use up a single eyeshadow compact. That’s why I get palettes. I get to use more colors and get more use out of my money.

The palettes I have here are:
Coastal Scents: Ultra 88 shimmer, Ultra 88 Piece Makeup [matte], and 10 piece pro blush. [each are less than 20 bucks!!]
Relvon Illuminance Creme Shadow in Twilight. Four colors.
MAC holiday shadow compact. I got it like two years ago..forget the collection name. Six colors.
NYX Trio Shadows. TS34 [team spirit], TS6 [purple, deep purple, prune], TS10 [tropical, yellow, lime green], and TS13 [cherry, cool blue, hot pink]. Three colors each.
Too Faced Liquif-Eye Shadow Collection. 12 colors.
Urban Decay Sustainable Shadow Box. 10 colors.
Too Faced Glamour To-go II. 8 shadows, four lipglosses, and a blush.
Sephora Colorful Eyeshadow Palette in Chromosome X 10. Four colors.
Cargo Wet/Dry Eyelining Palette [I got as a gift] 8 colors.
Anastasia Brow Ex-press in Brunette Two brow shadows, brow wax and brow bone highlighter
Sephora Kat Von D True Romance Eye Palette in Beethoven. 8 colors.
Two off brand five color shadow palettes. Blues and Greens. [got these from a client of mine that went to a beauty convention/show, she works for OPI]
For each palette I spend about $7-50.

The brushes I use are all from brush sets. Brushes can be very expensive, especially when you buy them separately. Brush sets are awesome because they usually include all the brushes you would need. I like Sephora, MAC, and Sonia Kashuk [Target] brushes. All the sets I got ranged from $15-$50.
Bottom right set I got from an outlet mall. MAC Brushes. I got lucky with that set. =)
The rest are from Sephora. The bottom left is a travel set.
The three brushes on the top are from previous sets I used to own. Dumb move, Vana. :P
The only drugstores/Target/Walmart brushes I like are from Essences of Beauty, Revlon, and EcoTools.
The brushes I use for foundation/powders are from foundation sets. I use Bare Minerals and Pur minerals. To start with, I bought the starter kits because they came with brushes. Most mineral foundation kits come with a few powder brushes. The Bare Minerals starter kit came with three brushes. The Pur Minerals starter kit came with one. Each kit came with a foundation, some sort of finishing powder/blush, and a bronzer.

Most of the lipglosses I buy are separate, but when I see sets, they’re hard to resist.
Left: Tarte Crown Jewels Lipgloss Multi-Gift Set. 15 colors. $39 Right: Stila Cosmetics Lip Glaze Collection. 8 colors. $25
Both from Sephora. Great as gift ideas, but I kept most for myself and gave a few to my friends. Lol. Pictures from Sephora.

Pretty much all cosmetic brands offer palettes.
Check out Sephora. They have a of palettes. On their website, they have a section for palettes and a section for value sets.

MAC usually has already made shadow palettes for holidays and collections. You can also customize your own shadow palettes. They have a 4 [$47.50] and 15 [$177] color eyeshadow palette. And a 6 [$105]color blush palette.
Note: I love makeup and I love MAC, but I love getting the most out of my money more. I can get a 8-10 color palette from a different brand at Sephora [Tarte, Urban Decay, Kat Von D] for the same price as a 4 color palette from MAC.

Also check out NYX Cosmetics and Coastal Scents. They have a lot of already made & custom palettes too. Very affordable.

EDIT: The bracelets were made! Not from Urban Outfitters. Wow, makes me love them even more!!!!!
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Don’t worry…I’m not going to blog about every single day of beauty school. School is never boring, but I don’t want to bore you so much with just beauty talk. Lol.

Today in school, we continued on doing manicures and pedicures to each other. I received a pedicure. Did two manicures and 6 people’s nail designs. I love nail art. I got credit for the nail designs as manicures. =) Really happy about that. I brought all my nail goods to class; it was cute seeing everyone doing designs on each other. I got to know more about everyone. All the girls are really cool.

Tomorrow, working with hair. Yess. I wanna learn some more!

After school, came to some packages my BF and I received from a very special person. ^-^

I love them! I love these colors. I’m guessing these are from Urban Outfitters? Came in those boxes. My favorite store!
I also received a book, “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be,” by Paul Arden.  It’s funny because I already had this book. But I lost it a year ago. Lol.
Thank you Beckie!!!!!!!!!
Muah!

I just watched the movie, Hangover. Yeah, I know. I’m a little late on watching it. Another movie I haven’t seen yet…Slumdog Millionaire. I’m stubborn sometimes when it comes to movies. Usually when a movie comes out, and people tell you it’s a great movie, you’ll go see…even if didn’t look like a great movie in your perspective. Me, when I see a trailer, and it doesn’t catch me, I simple don’t watch it. And the fact people say, “OMG, you just have to go watch _____!” I still don’t. I’ll wait until it’s on video at Blockbuster. I still don’t watch it until there’s nothing else to watch over “that” movie. I know. I’m weird, stubborn, blah blah. The movie, The Hangover, wasn’t a movie I just had to watch at the theatre. It was a real funny though. Lol. The cast was hilarious! Especially Zach Galifianakis, who played Alan in the movie.

Nom nom nom nom nom. Eating Sour Patch Kids right now. >.<

Today was a slow day. All day we did manicures and pedicures for each other. I only did two manicures today because I was used as a hand model for three other girls. Since I did nails, they wanted me to be the model so I can correct them.
I did some sweet abstract nail designs on a few girls.
I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be a little crazy. I’m bringing my nail polishes (48 colors) and striping paints (25) to class. I have like five people that called dibs on me to do their nails. I might as well do a quick manicure for them to get credit for it. We have to do 20 services of either manicures, pedicures, or nail extensions. That will be real easy since we don’t have to nip cuticles. Maybe I can do my 18 manicure/pedicures credits all by tomorrow. Lol. I wanna get it over with.
I really want to get into the fun stuff…hair coloring, makeup, facials…anything but nails. Lol.
I don’t mind doing nail art though. Love it.

Our instructor has his computer hooked up to a projector screen. I got to show the class and other students on the floor this blog. In my gallery I have some nail designs I’ve done on clients and for myself. Everyone was amazed and told me I should go to nail shows. I’m not good enough yet to go there. Maybe one day. I want to learn 3D nail art and Japanese style nail art. That would be hot. :]

I’ll have more tutorials on nail designs soon. In the meantime, check out this site: Nail Art Vending Machine. The BF showed it to me from CrunchGear. Pretty neat.

I start beauty school on Monday. I’m so excited. I’m looking forward to learning how to do hair and skin treatments properly. The nail part of the program should be a breeze for me since I’ve been doing nails. The program will be for 10 months. I get a winter & summer break [feels like grade school again..lol] and of course, national holidays off. I’m also looking forward to meeting new people. That’s always fun.
The Director of Admissions for the school told me that if I write a small essay about how I feel about cosmetology and how it benefits me, then she will knock off a thousand dollars of my tuition. That’s frickin’ great! :] The essay doesn’t have to be like four pages or anything ridiculous like that. Real happy about that since I’m not that great of a writer. I thought I share what I wrote since I do talk about nail polish and other things related to beauty on here a lot.

My Love for Lipstick

At five years old, I clearly remember watching my mother getting herself dolled up for the day. She wore a floral dress with high heels. Her hair was shiny and wavy. Her lips were a true red to match her nails. I was in complete awe. With a splash of color here and a swift of her hand there, she transformed into the most beautiful woman I’ve ever saw. I wanted to be just like her. This is when my love for cosmetics began.

I did a favor for a friend by doing her makeup for a party. It was a bit of a challenge because she has port-wine stains on her temples and cheeks. I manage to cover them up and was shocked with the results. I told her to take a look at herself in the mirror after I finished her look with a soft pink lipstick. She hesitated to say anything. Holding her tears back, she said, “Thank you so much. I look so beautiful.” I said back to her, “You are beautiful.” Moments like this is the reason why I chose the path of cosmetology. Her reaction made me realize that lipstick wasn’t just lipstick; it was so much more deeper than that.

To me, things like hair-cutting shears, nail polish, and face scrubs represent women (and men) wanting to feel like a better version of themselves. If I can help people feel better, that would be a benefit for not only them, but also for myself. They would leave feeling refreshed and gorgeous. I would leave with my head held high, thinking to myself, “I can take on the world!”

Cosmetology means everything to me. It’s not just about the need for another lipgloss to add to my collection or curling my hair to impress my boyfriend. It’s about how it all makes me feel about myself. It’s about adding confidence to my inner beauty. And if using that true red lipstick can make me feel so good like my mother did, why not help others feel the same way? In my heart, that is want I want to do. Getting into the world of cosmetology feels right to me.

Not bad, huh? I exaggerated with the story a little bit [the tears] to add more depth. Lol. As long as I get my thousand dollars. :] This is truly how I feel though, with cosmetology.
Here are pictures of my friend I did makeup for. I didn’t take any pictures of her without the makeup. Because of her port-wine stains, I felt like that would be rude of me to do so. [Click to enlarge]

This look was for a night at Mon Jin Lau. Smokey eyes: browns and grays.

I forget what this look was for. Purples.

This look was for a Halloween party. She was going as a flapper. Shadows: black, grays and silvers.

Another Halloween look. She was a Chola/Gangsta. Shadows: browns, grays, and champagne.

This was the favorite out of all. Mainly because the foundation looks better than the others. Instead of using her Sheer Cover foundation [she picked too light of a shade], I put on my Pur Minerals. I believe she was going to a club this time.

Base/Foundation: Facial cream, Skyn Iceland eye cream, Sheer Cover foundation/powder/concealer, Pur Minerals powder, MAC Select Cover-Up, Benefit Erase Paste [really great], Amazing Cosmetics Concealer [the best], Makeup Forever HD MicroFinish Powder, and Urban Decay Primer Potion.
Eyebrows: brow kit from Anastasia.
Liners: MAC, Makeup Forever, and Lancome.
Shadows: Urban Decay, Kat Von D, Sephora, Too Faced, and off brand from a beauty convention, Bare Minerals, MAC, and Cargo.
Blush: Jemma Kid, tarte, Lorac, Rimmel London, and MAC
Lips: Rimmel London, MAC, Maybelline, NYX, tarte, and Lancome. [some not shown]
Brushes: Sephora and MAC.