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Makeup Brushes: Bdellium Tools Smokey Eye Set

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About a month ago I purchased the Bdellium Tools Smokey Eye 5 Eco Friendly Brush Set from Amazon.com. The set is currently available for $26.10 + 4.99 shipping a total of $31.09. I paid $1.09 because I had accumulated $30.00 in amazon gift cards thanks to SWAGBUCKS! I could have gotten the set completely free..but yeah I didn't want to wait for my other gift card to go through since it would take a few more days LOL -_-; ANYWAY. The set consisted of:
  • 5 Professional Eco-friendly makeup brushes
  • All sustainable bamboo handles and vegan soft synthetic bristles.
  • All recyclable aluminum ferrules. 100% cruelty free.
  • The collection of perfect blending & lining tools you need to create beautiful smoky eyes.
  • #781B Crease, #777B Shadow, #769B Angled Contour, #760B Liner/Brow, #716B Smoky Eyeliner
 I also wanted to go ahead and say that all of the brushes were incredibly soft. No scratching..as it should be lol. The brushes were also a bit shorter than I imagined and super lightweight which felt a little weird. Oh yeah..and I LOVE the color!


 The lovely #769B - ANGLED CONTOUR
"Sharp angled brush for contouring with intense color. Create color accents and highlights on the inner and outer corners of the eye area.
5.5 inch (14 cm)"

Glamour Doll Eyes Shadow Towers/Stacks

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I'm always on the lookout for well priced and good quality pigments and while on you tube I stumbled across a tutorial using Glamour Doll Eyes eye shadow pigments (http://glamourdolleyes.com/). I took a look around their website and decided I would try out a few of their pigments. While browsing I saw that they provide eyeshadow towers with various shadows in different number combinations. I decided to get the 4 shadow "Olivia" stack ($14.00) , and the 5 Shadow "Yuliya" Stack ($17.50). Regular pigment containers are $6.00 each so I figured this would be a cheaper way to try out more shadows and get more product seeing as the sample's of course don't contain as much.

NAILS: Nails for the week VIII

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My nails had been boring for the past two weeks so I decided to add some color via water marbling.


FOOD: Granola Yogurt

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As far as breakfast foods go I can't really say that I'm very innovative. This isn't very great seeing as some staple breakfast foods don't appeal to me very much (cereal, oatmeal, cream of wheat, boiled eggs/sunny side up gaggggg gaaggg gagggg and triple gagg lol).


In my quest for nice breakfast treats I have discovered......YOGURT lol. I can't say that I was previously a fan..Though I didn't find yogurt gagg worthy I sure wasn't going out of my way to eat it. I was having a discussion with my friend about her son. She mentioned that he didn't like to eat certain fruits and that he likes yogurt..We started thinking and I was like "Ahaa!!" lol Came up with the idea to add fresh or dried fruit to his yogurt with granola and maybe add sprinkles on top (yes..tis trickery) *giggles*

I decided to try out the idea for myself due to my lack of breakfast ideas..This is what I came up with!


All I used was vanilla flavored yogurt (Dannon Light), a crushed crunchy granola bar (nature valley), and added a cereal mix (Granola cranberry Orange) I purchased from New Leaf Market. (I put fresh strawberry in my mom's)

NAILS: Nails for the week VII

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For this week I did another take on icecream nails.. I used Sinful Colors "Nirvana" for the chocolate, and "Snow Me white" for the cream and index finger. As for the Lilac and aqua color...I mixed those from Beauty Supply Store $1.00 polishes (lol) I could never find some shades in the price ranges that were good for me so I just decided to mix my own.


On the thumb I added some "sprinkles" and a strawberry slice..The sprinkles are nail art metal balls I purchased on ebay (set of 16 or 18).

For the strawberry I thinly sliced a couple of pieces off of my fimo nail art fruit cane that I purchased also on ebay with a set of around 24 other canes.





I included a photo of my current nail set up..*kinda* My other polishes and nail accessories are inside of the plastic container. I'm currently looking into buying or making my own shelving to store/display my polishes.
My nail clippers, brushes, files, and dotting tools!

FITNESS:"Bang Bang Workout!"

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My current workout vid! I'm trying to do this work out at least 5 times per week and include hooping as a part of my warm up/cool down. When I'm done with this work out I'm literally covered in sweat. Though it doesn't look intense it sure feels that way! I wasn't able to complete the full workout today due to lack of energy..I'd had a headache last night which eventually led to me throwing up the contents of my stomach lol..ugh..I know


So...I've been attempting to get into shape seeing as I had gained over or around 15lbs back after switching to Lo/ovral from ortho-tricyclen. While on Ortho-tricyclen the lbs. just melted off and I actually had to eat more to keep from losing more weight. I'd lost around 25lbs with very little effort. ANYWAY those days are over. It's hard as hyale just to drop 5lbs. lol Not to mention I hold on to water weight like woah.

While I want to drop the gained lbs. (not only because of all the clothes in my closet that I can no longer fit but to be sessy lol) it's hard to stay motivated!!! I've never been thin in my life..well except when I was in what pre-k
I honestly have no intention to be thin..I prefer the curvy look on myself..and other women actually.. Now..when I say curvy I don't mean cottage cheese, muffin top, blouse poppin', thinking you're "thick" when you're really fat curvy. (lol) I mean a body type similar to these ladies below...