tra la la poop splat

I couldn't think of a better title. 

So remember how I complained about my 88 Ultra Shimmer palette being broken and how they offered me $7 credit only for some future use as a solution and how I emailed them back basically saying that's dumb, let me just send it back? I noticed that those people who complained through the REVIEW/RATING system seemed to get treated a lot better, huh. Wonder why? Maybe because..... it makes coastal scents look bad if they just ignore them, I don't know. 

So. I went and rated everything I had ever boughten, well.. not the brushes. Just 3 palettes. I gave them all 5 stars as they do deserve them, and commentary for each, which was more or less excellent, making sure to mention how I blogged about it in my blog without actually releasing my blog name, then when I was writing the review for the Ultra Shimmer palette, I made sure to include that it was broken when I received it, how it's an issue I'm still trying to work out, blah blah blah, it's a pretty palette, blah blah blah. So then MAGICALLY I get an email saying that oh we're so sorry to hear that you were unhappy with your purchase, we are sending you a new one free of charge, basically. Would I say my secondary plan worked? Yes I would. Whoever answered my first message to them should get slapped in the face with a big fat stick of melting goat cheese on a super freaking hot summer day. Why goat cheese? I think it smells the nastiest, that's why.

So! Remember that day my mother went with me to the mall because of my laptop issues? Well she was shoe shopping for a concert she was going to (which was this past saturday) and we came across these gladiator-ish sandals that were REALLY cute but they only had a size 6 left. wayyy too big, so I ordered them online. I ordered a size 5.5 since it looked like it might run a little narrow but arghh I was wrong. It runs pretty true to size so it's actually a SMIDGE too big on me.. I'm really a size 5 here. It's not too bad though, I mean I could've returned it for the right size but it's just half a size and I don't feel like going through the hassle. Pics!

my feet look a little small here.. hmm..

OH so this whole week nothing but badddddddd things have been happening to me.. not horrible things but just physically.. painful things.. Remember how I slipped in chicken juice and bruised my knee, then that same day I was eating lunch with my legs crossed but when I got up to put the dishes away I hit my knee on the chair in the same spot? Well.. two days later I was doing my makeup in front of my vanity mirror with my legs crossed. I got up when I finished and hit my knee on the exact same spot at the bottom sharp edge of the drawer/table thing my vanity mirror is on so I ended up tearing my skin on the bruise. NIIIIIIIICE.

I got blisters on the sides of my feet where the side buckle thing from those cute sandals from above were rubbing against my feet that whole day that I wore them, so I popped them and they look all nasty now. 

If you girls don't follow me on twitter.. I accidently cut a huge chunk of my arm out a few days ago when I was cutting open my NYX package. The box was so ridiculously taped up that my scissors were having trouble going through it. I was wielding it pretty carelessly too.. and well.. you can guess what happened. Better yet, I'll be mean and nasty and show you the pic I posted on my twitter!!!!

Gross no?

OH since I'm moving apartments, me and my sister decided to sell my ugly brown couch so we could buy a day bed for our new one! Surprisingly somebody actually fell in love with it and came by to buy it!! It all went pretty smoothly, very nice guy, but remember that bad luck thing? Yea, the guy made sure I didn't have to do much since apparently I'm just a girl and he didn't want me to hurt myself, but his head was about to get hit by the metal leg of the sofa when he was loading it in and I grabbed it so it wouldn't, but then he was losing his grip on it and it was too heavy for me to hold and blah blah.. I have a half an inch cut running between my pinky and ring finger on my right hand, the opposite hand from the one that has the chunk missing. 

*breathes* I've lost so much blood this week. LOL. Forreal, when I lost that chunk from my arm, the rest of the day my lips had this weird blue-ish cast on them. It's ok, I'm ok now. 

I did a gunmetal/dark greenish look a few days ago too!! pics! Brows not filled, sorry! This was one of those night looks again so I didn't want to waste my brow crayon. I think I look alright without filling my brows.

Mwah!! You can see the makeup too.

Close up of zee eyeee.

I think I got a little darker and uhh.. fuller faced. BLECH.

A new laptop?!?!?!?

HEHEh! Nope! I just bought a new protection hard case for it! It's so cute!! It's perfectly see through so you can't really tell it's a cover! It looks like  a real blue laptop all around, top and bottom, side, everything! :) Pretty no????

My small NYX haul that came in a large ass box that caused my arm to suffer

With flash: Jumbo pencil in Purple, wild flower shadow, Luxor shadow, beige concealer

No Flash

I didn't.. I couldn't have.. OH YES I DID. You know those high end cosmetics dupe lists that have been floating around? As extensive as my collection of makeup is.. I wanted to see just how ACCURATE these dupes are. I do NOT agree completely with some items on those lists, sometimes I wonder if those people who suggested those items were drunk. Anyways, THESE TWO HOWEVER, I do applaud and agree with. 

NYX Wild Flower eyeshadow is supposed to be the dupe of MAC Paradisco eyeshadow. The finish is the exact same, the color and the specks of glitter are an incredible dupe.. HOWEVER. Wild Flower is a LOT MORE pigmented and a lot easier to apply than the normal Mac Paradisco, I find Paradisco hard to layer on, it's a PAIN to use sometimes but with Wild Flower, you can get it to show up VERY easily without trying too hard.

NYX Luxor eyeshadow is supposed to be a dupe of Mac Stars and Rockets eyeshadow. ONCE AGAIN, BRAVO. Almost the exact same!!!! It's closer than the other suggested dupe, Milani in Shock, and when placed side by side, you really can't tell the difference! 

If anyone's on a budget or doesn't yet own Paradisco and Stars and Rockets, go with the NYX dupes! You'll save money!! 

Went to Rite Aid with my little sister while waiting for our pizza to be made on Sunday and bought some things I've been wanting to try out.

Jane Be Pure Mineral Gel Liner and Prestige Wet/Dry mineral foundation in Soft Spice

I've been using the Prestige compact these past 2 days at school and the color is an excellent match. I'll review it soon enough, I doubt I'll ever use it wet though.  The gel liner is SUPPOSED to be better than the Mac fluidline, but I have yet to test it out. 

HMMM.. forgot to review the revlon pen.. I'll do it later. LOL!

Three days later and it's still bleeding through my bandaids. Getting better though, I think? HEHE?

Anywhos, time to spend time with the boyfriend! Night everyone!!

EWWWWWWWWWW finals are coming up. El screwed-o!!

Katie

uhh..

Just popping in here to say I finished my research paper and my boyfriend just dick-slapped my arm a few time because I was reading blogs and ignoring him. 

*sigh*

My defiled arm. 

-edit-

Ok, now he's dick slapping my head because I posted that. And now he just poked my eye like last time with his dick on accident. What a jerk.

purples!

I should be working on my research project but I wanted to share a look with you girls hehehe. Blogging is my excuse for procrastination. =p bad I know.  OH OH. STORY TIME. 

Two days ago me and bubby went to Ralphs after school to get some groceries. We had just walked out of the chips aisle and I was walking towards the frozen chicken section because I planned to make fried rice this week. So do do do do do I was walking and talking to the bubby at the same time when all of a sudden I just SLIPPED out of nowhere!!!! Lucky for me, I have DECENT reflexes.. so instead of falling and landing in whatever I slipped on, I ended up managing to stay upright but all my weight landed on my left knee. Hurt like a mother effer. I got up and looked down to see what I had slipped on. Guess what it was? 

Chicken juice. 

Nice, gooey, pinkish peachy chicken juice that seemed to have come from nowhere. No drip marks around it, just a nice puddle right there. Can you say... nasty????? There was no caution sign or anything nearby.. you'd THINK one of the workers would have seen that.. there was like.. 3-4 workers I passed by stocking stuff nearby, completely OBLIVIOUS to the puddle!!!! 

My slight bruise that started forming that day.

BTW, yesterday I was eating with my legs crossed at the table, when I got up after I finished, I accidently hit the same knee against the leg of the table. OUCH. 

So.. I tried doing a purple look with my coastal scents palette yesterday. It turned out ok, not what I had originally planned on going for but slightly close! My face color is a little off in the pics, I think the Revlon foundation might be a tad bit too light for me but the next color up is too pink!! So I'm sticking with this for now, in real life it look perfect with my neck but in pics.. not so much. 

warning: brows not filled in, didn't want to waste my brow crayon

my floofy oily hair after a day of schooling

ROAAAAAAAR

my hands are small yes. Plus they get a lot more sun than my face does. Stupid driving.. stupid burning arms.

I wasn't ready. LOL.

HEHEHEHEH you like my hair, admit it!!!! I told babe to look cool, so he's trying to seduce the camera there. OH yes, work it.

BTW! I wanted to show you guys how pretty UD SSMM is!! Here it is in Supernova! Sorry.. I dusted it on fast so my brows are kinda powdery. 

Face

Revlon Colorstay with Softflex for combo/oily skin in Sand Biege

Revlon Colorstay Blemish concealer in Medium

Maybelline Dream matte powder in medium 0-1

Nars blush in Angelika

Stila contouring trio (thanks sarah!) (covered over by ud ssmm in last pic)

Eyes

coastal scents palette

UD eyeshadow in Grifter

painterly paint pot

Revlon colorstay pen liner (getting used to it, found a way to make it work! ya!)

Lips

MAC ls in Sandy B.

MAC lg in Bonus Beat

Not a very out there look but work-a-ble to me. 

Reviews to come soon about my foaming cleanser, my moisturizer, the Revlon foundie and concealer. Did I mention I found a nice alternative to the mac brow crayon?

Time to do my paper.. that's due.. very soon. LOL!

Coastal Scent's customer service is a JOKE.

So. I'm sure many of you know that I purchased the 88 matte palette from Coastal Scents a while ago plus a few brushes. Well, I loved them so much that recently I purchased the neutral palette and the 88 Ultra Shimmer palette plus even more brushes from them. They're delivery speed is amazing but they're customer service.. is a JOKE. 

First off, when I got my 88 palette.. it came like THIS. Click to enlarge, you can see 4 broken colors, a nice powdery mess and a very unhappy Katie who's not pictured obviously.

So I went and tried to contact them because first off, WHAT THE HELL. As a company you are responsible for packing your package to ensure something like this WOULDN'T happen. God only knows that the damn price I paid for their overcharged shipping fee is about a little under half of what all this cost me.. which tells you I'm being ripped off since I sell things on ebay that weigh even MORE than this for only a fraction of the price while using the SAME shipping method that they do. 

So I contact them, telling them what happened, even complimenting them on their beautiful palettes and suggesting a title change that would increase sales since one of their brushes is a 239 Mac brush dupe.. and asking if they can do something about it or perhaps even provide a decent DISCOUNT for me if I really HAD to order this again. I thought they would at least offer an APOLOGY or tell me about their return policy even though I've already read it thank you very much, but sometimes I just like to test how companies and stores would handle someone who feigns ignorance about what they are entitled to get or do. 

You want to know what they replied back with?

"Dear Katie Tsai

We would be happy to give you a $7.00 store credit for future use. Please advise, if you are in agreement 

Best regards
Coastal Scents

www.coastalscents.com"

WHAT THE FUCK HELL NO I'M NOT IN AGREEMENT. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. 

If I were to order ONLY the 88 ultra shimmer palette, JUST THAT ALONE, the CHEAPEST shipping fee they DARE to charge me is almost $11. WHAT THE FUCK AM I GOING TO DO WITH THAT $7? It wouldn't even eliminate my SHIPPING COSTS. 

What a crock. Of course I messaged them back basically thanks but no thanks, your $7 wouldn't make much of a difference, it doesn't even cover shipping, can I just return that stupid palette because I already read your policy, which basically says I can. Of course.... I used much nicer words. If they refuse me, I will use harsher words. 

I've seen people rating these products.. ones that cost LESS and are like those 56 color palette ones or whatever.. and they also say that they received a broken palette with like.. 2-3 colors broken but HEY they'll live and keep their palette and pretend to be happy. Then they review back a day later saying OH THANK YOU COASTAL SCENTS FOR SENDING ME ANOTHER ONE! What the fuck? I pay more, I have to SHIP IN my palette to return it and force them to give me a new one but some random ass ditz gets to keep or original and you OFFER to send her a new one by CHOICE? OOOOOOOOOOOKAYYYYYYYYYYY. 

I'm obviously a very unhappy customer right now. Excuse me while I go do my research project and try not to think about this again. I'll update you guys if they decide to be assholes or decide to take responsibility for this. 

Katie

Shit happens when you least expect it

This will be a story about my laptop and how cruel life is.

So when I first purchased my Apple Macbook Pro 3 years ago.. I was THRILLED. I cherished it so much.. almost to the point of naming him, it's a him btw. I rarely ever took him out of my room for fear that I might drop him, misplace him, hurt him in any way possible. Then the unthinkable happened one day last summer when I was away at my internship with Boeing.. there was a huge earthquake, anyone remember that one? I came home to find glass shattered around my laptop. My jar of handmade lucky stars had fallen off my shelf on top of my laptop, leaving a slight yet noticeable dent on it near the apple icon.... the first and only injury that my laptop has ever sustained. 

I only recently this year started letting my bf play with my laptop.. and ughh.. what a mistake. He always touched it right after he ate or WHILE he was eating.. so there were these weird sticky stains on it and small splash stains on the screen which I always had to constantly wipe off.. THIS THING IS MY BABY MAN!! TREAT IT WITH RESPECT!! 

Anyway, I've only brought it to school TWICE.. and haven't ever since the last time just because I REALLY don't want to accidently bump it against a table or anything.. I'd never want my baby to be damaged!! 

However, recently, I've been having problems with my HP Laserjet printer.. I had to send it in because it was being all retarded and they sent me a new one to replace it... but the driver was installing all weird on my comp giving me weird error messages and it didn't even acknowledge the printer when it came to installing the device. So.. after emailing HP support back and forth and following their troubleshooting steps, they told me to make an appointment with Apple to check out my laptop because they believe the installer on my laptop might be damaged somehow. Soo.. on Sunday I went with my mom to Brea mall since she wanted to go shopping. We split up and I went to the Apple store.. now remember, I rarely bring my laptop out so I was being VERY careful with it. I had the guy check it out, he tapped away on it, re-installs the driver from HP's website.. claims there was no problem at all and I'm like.. WTH? Yes there was.. but he says there isn't and he managed to get the driver installed so I'm like, OK who cares, since it didn't cost me a dime. I put my laptop back in it's bag, got up to get my mom's other bag when my jacket falls onto the floor. 

I didn't want to pick it up while carrying two bags, so I set my laptop bag flat on the high stool (think tall bar stool) so I could bend down with a free hand and get my jacket.  I got my jacket and right when I was turning around I heard (and everyone else in the store) this HUGE.. THUNDEROUS CRASHING HEAVY METAL ON STONE TILE sound.. why? Because my laptop had SOMEHOW.. in some mysterious way that I still can't imagine.. slipped out of my laptop bag WHICH WAS LAYING FLAT ON THE STOOL WTF.. and had come crashing down onto the STONE FLOORING of the Apple store. 

O..M..F..G..... I WANTED TO CRY SO BAD!!!!!!! You guys have NO IDEA how much this laptop means to me.. I was literally starting to tear up when I bent to pick it up. Physically I didn't really see any damage at all.. just small greyish scuff marks where it landed and a little dent near two edges.. but nothing severe.. so I thought maybe it might be ok!! An apple worker nearby just looked with wide eyes and said "Wow.. hope THAT still works" all sarcastic like.. go suck a dick asshole.. it's obvious I didn't MEAN to drop it and would it hurt you to say "Are you ok?" when it's obvious I'm about to cry my eyes out. 

Tell me why a store that carries so many fragile and expensive electronics doesn't have carpet flooring? TELL ME! 

So I was pretty damn embarrassed already.. so I got all my stuff and just got out of there to meet back with my mom at Banana Republic.. the whole time mentally kicking myself in the ass for not setting the thing on the table.. but it still doesn't make sense.. my bag had not moved, not even an inch and it was lying FLAT on the stool top.. not angled, not at some weird level nothing! I don't know.. 

So I went to Banana Republic and waited for my mom while she was changing in the dressing room.. and I told her what happened.. obviously my voice was crackly because I was still upset. Then she asked the one thing I never considered..

"Does it still work? Is it really ok?" 

Fuck. I was so shocked and embarrassed that I hadn't stopped to turn it back on to see if it still WORKED. So I pulled it out, sat on the floor, and turned it on. The screen went white, started getting discolored, and the top left corner had the digital green/black/broken look.. you know when you crack the screen of your cell phone and it gets all funky? It looked like that. I was hoping after the initial loading page it would be ok.. nope. It was stuck. Frozen like that. I really started to tear up then and there. My mom said to hurry and go back to the store to see if they could fix it. We finished getting her purchases and ran back down.. and guess what. 

Yes they could fix it, no not that day. They had too many people in there so I'd have to make another appointment for them to even check if my hard drive had been damaged at all. They did a quick once-over and talked with each other for a little bit and told me that FOR SURE my screen was OBVIOUSLY fucked up and I'd have to get it replaced. How much I asked? OH.. it would take a FEW DAYS.. plus $1300. WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT??? THAT LAPTOP COST ME $2000.... GOD DAMN. That's just ASSUMING my hard drive isn't damaged.. if it is.. that's another few hundred... which in essence.. is another laptop. I almost started crying again.. I needed my laptop.. it's a MUST HAVE almost every other day for school for me.. 

So what now? 

I'm making an appointment to see them again next week to get a full check up to estimate how much it would take to fix it.. if the hard drive isn't damaged, we'll get a new screen, give it to my sister to replace her plain Macbook, and then my mom would take her Macbook since she's always traveling and sometimes it hurts her back to sit in the computer chair for so long. It's a very basic laptop so it'll be easy for her to use. So what about me you ask?

My mother told me to just pick out a new laptop. She says she knows how much I cared for my older one and she knows how much I use it on a daily basis. She said that it sucks that we went in to fix a small problem and came out with a bigger one and she said that's just how life is. Shit happens so stop beating myself up over it because no matter what I can't go back in time to fix what's already been done. I told her that it could be this year's Christmas present.. and my next birthday present... I felt REALLY REALLY REALLY bad for it.. but she said don't be stupid, this is for you, just pick one. I got the equivalent version of my old macbook pro.. the new 15 inch macbook pro.. with gloss black LED backlit screen. Sleeker.. faster.. lighter.. more compact.. equipped with a few additions that weren't on my old macbook pro... OMG I LOVE MY MOM!!!! I kept asking her if she was mad at me for being careless.. she said of course not... and said that she knew I'd never be careless with my electronics. :) ... mommy...... 

I made an account on it for my bf too.. he copied my picture that I took at the mac store.

Just to show you guys how clear the LED screen is......

I don't have to worry about people POINTING and TOUCHING my screen now.. it's not the old comp screen material that can get damaged if people keep touching it.. it's so sleek and clear!!!! 

I still have hopes for my old laptop.. I hope it's not completely useless.. and I hope it still lives.. we shall see soon enough. I love this new one.. but it hasn't completely replaced my old one.. that one has memories.. lots of memories. 

No matter how many times I show my mom that I appreciate her.. every day it just seems more and more impossible to match up to her gestures of love and affection.. I mean I know it's  parent's job to love their children and help them when they need it.. but things like THIS are the unnecessary parts.. the ones they don't HAVE to do.. the ones I feel bad for accepting.. 

I have an amazing mother.. I wish I could share half the things she does and goes through with you girls.. I think I will one day.. but uhh.. I'll try to chop out the illegal portions.. mother likes to dance between the fine lines of being a genius money maker and over-milking things for what they're worth. LOL.

That's it for today.. lots to do this week! TTYL! 

Hug

Kiss

BOOM BOOM

Katie

I'll Twit Your Tweet

I hope everyone had a great mother's day!!!!

My lil sister told me to write on the card she got for my mom's Mother's day.. so I wrote my little love note.. plus decided to do a family portrait of just us girls.


HEHEHEHE, my sis looked over my should and said "why the hell do I look like a giant?" I said because you are. My mom laughed her ass off when she saw this and asked why she was so short. I said because you are. My sister asked what was wrong with my eye, I said I was winking.

;( HMPH. Everyone's a critic. bastards!

My mom was a lucky little lao ji (hehehehe.. I call her that at home, she gets so flustered because she likes to think she's my "sister")!! Her birthday is a week before Mother's Day so she was appreciated for two whole weeks!! LMAO!! I drove to South Coast in 1.2 hour traffic just to find her a perfume from Jo Malone.. she recently bought one there since one of her friends had a fragrence from there that she fell in love with. Sooo.. I sniffed around and found the one that I had been eyeing on my PREVIOUS trip there.. I remember my mom asking what I was doing while she was picking out her perfume and I told her to smell my arm because I LOOOVED this one fragrence! Her eyes like.. popped out of her head and she said she really liked it too. She made her purchase and I made a mental note of this. Soo.. the day before mother's day, I went to South Coast to buy it for her.. I was originally only going to buy her the hand cream.. which was $65.. but I was pretty sure she'd use the perfume more, but the little bottle was $55.. I thought.. SCREW YOU JO MALONE, my mommy deserves the best as she does SOOOO much for me.. so I bought her the full sized bottle, which set me at a little over $100 bucks.

That night, I couldn't wait to give my mom her gift, so I asked her if she wanted to open her gift early or not. She said no, she wanted it on mother's day. So I asked her are you suuuuuuure? (being the annoying brat that I am).. and she was like.. ummm... I Don't know... ok give it to me now. But then I said "but then you won't have anything to open for tomorrowwww" then she said "ok nvm, give it to me tomorrow.." so I kept getting her to change her mind over and over again for 5 minutes until she couldn't take it anymore and HAD to know what I got her.

When she opened it, she was SOOO shocked that I had spent that much on her, especially on something that was DEAD ON her taste. She sprayed it and like.. squealed with joy because the perfume she had bought previously had been CLOSE to her friends' perfume but it wasn't the right one and she was kind of sad that she couldn't find it. It turns out that the one I had loved and boughten her WAS the one she had been looking for all this time!! It was SOOOO cute to see her so happy! Even though it was night time, she was spraying it on herself just so that she could smell it... hehehehe!!!!

This reminds me of story. Soo.. as much as my mom loved my gift, she was upset that I spent so much on her, especially since I had spent about that amount on her birthday, which had only been a week past. She told me that when my dad got home, I should secretly go up to him, tell him that mom was upset that he hadn't done anything special for her bday and she KNEW he had no idea what to get her on mother's day, so then he'd feel guilty, and then I could tell him that I knew what she secretly wanted, to ask for $100, and basically that would re-emburse me for what I spent while making dad happy to think I was doing a favor for him. I personally thought this was a stupid idea and honestly, I don't need to be re-embursed... but when my dad came in the door from work after a few minutes, she said very loudly "go tell him!!!!" and I said "... no! You're still here, how can it be a secret??" So she was all.. "oh...." and then he was suspicious and asked what we were talking about.. so I just VERY sarcastically played out mom's plan.. although I couldn't do it seriously enough and was laughing/joking about it too much, but dad took it the wrong way since he was tired from work.. and he actually got MAD.. thinking my mom was ACTUALLY mad at him and he started to have a little fit.. so I snuck away, thinking he'll get over it eventually.

The next morning, mom and dad were argueing about that night and she called him an idiot for not knowing that we had been joking around with him. He felt bad for thinking my mom was just after more presents or material things and he also felt bad for thinking that I would purposely say those things to hurt his feelings. He had assumed that I had said those things to imply that he was a bad husband/father!!!! OMG!!! I totally NEVER meant for that to happen. So he went to play at a golf tournament the rest of the day and went to an awards ceremony after, and when he came home, he brought my mom a HUUUUUUGE basket, not bouquet.. but a huge HAMPER SIZED BASKET filled with flowers in SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL arrangement as a way to say sorry!!! HEHEHEHE, he came in the door and said "Katie look! This for my honey! The Baby!" Dad has a huge fob accent so if you can imagine a fob accent with that.. then yes, that is my father talking.

Then he called me into the kitchen where he had this silver tray covered and told me he had something he knew I'd like... which was weird since I couldn't tell what it was by the smell. He opened the lid and there were 5 HUGE baseball sized cooked abalones!!!!! I LOVE abalone, it's something that I secretly ADORE but rarely eat as everyone knows that abalone is VERY pricey, especially from a restaurant. Usually it's sold based on how old it is and the cooking style that was used. In this case.. these huge ass abalones were 8 years old.. and I can't remember what the style is in english but it took 8 hours to cook these mother fuckers. My daddy gave me a hug and said he was sorry for overreacting. :) awwwwwwwwww!!!!

OH. FYI.. an abalone half the size of my fist is about $10.. and usually those are the young ones. I managed the wrestle the price out of my dad because I knew these had cost a pretty penny.............. and I was right. One honker = $150. Dad bought 5.. so that's $750 for the whole tray. I ate 2, so that's $300 in my stomach. Oh dad.. sometimes I think you over-do things. My stomach loves you for it but dear god...


I couldn't think of a better title for this entry. It's basically a mix of pictures that have been on my camera since last week and what not.



I was at a liquor store with my bubby when I saw these skittles!!!! They have different flavored cores compared to the flavoring of the coating!! MOST of them are good.. the peach-mango one in THEORY seems good.. but once in your mouth.. it tastes just.. wrong. The Cherry-Lemonade sounded gross in my mind and I was right, it is. LOL. The rest are goooood though.. like.. watermelon and strawberry, blue raspberry and lemon, plus melon and berry! Give them a try if you see them! Now.. speaking of candy.....


I've always thought that whomever came up with the idea of BUTTER POPCORN FLAVORED JELLYBEANS should BURN IN HELL for being the sadist that they are. Some people don't believe me when I say there are butter popcorn flavored jellybeans but trust me, they've been around since I was a kid, they ARE there. You know those nasty Harry Potter's Bertie Botts Every Flavor Jelly beans? I prefer THOSE over the butter popcorn flavored jellybean.

FYI.. the earwax isn't as bad as the Sardine flavored ones. LOL. But I digress.....

Remember that REALLY pretty purple FOTD that I tried to copy a few posts back? I've been trying over and over and I came somewhat close (in my opinion).... look!!




Excuse the un-filled brows, I don't usually go all out when I play with makeup at night. Pretty right?!?!?!? Close.. so close.. but still not quite it! I'm going to keep trying though!!

Ok. So I did some online shopping because I can't resist clicking "add to cart" whenever I'm browsing... heh? So guess what I bought!?!?! The 88 color Coastal Scents matte palette!! I wanted the shimmer palette too but too much shimmer might bore me.. and this Matte palette consists of a mix of matte and shimmer ones! I might get the shimmer someday in the future when I have money to spare.. but I've been eyeing the Neutral palette and the combo palette.. hmmmmm!!!! Must wait to splurge though.

With flash


Without flash


You know.. I thought that this would be huge due to all the colors.. but I was pretty surprised when I got it and it's just a little bigger than my MAC 15 color palette. When people say the pots are the size of dimes, they really are. But it's VERY worth the $21 I paid!! The color payoff is WONDERFUL and I have sooooo many colors to play with!!

I also decided to purchase some brushes, as they are soooo cheap right now!! I don't know why the prices were marked down but the are now and I'm taking advantage of that!! Shipping is kind of pricey for CS.. so I wouldn't order anything from them unless you're planning on making it a large order you know? They ship fast but obviously it comes at a rip-you-off-cost. LOL. I'm planning on purchasing more, as soon as the ones I've been eyeballing fill up again, they're out of stock!! Noooo!! I plan on getting the Black Deluxe Shadow, Black Sable Shadow, Kabuki On a Stick, maybe the Italian Badger Buffer Brush or the Italian Badger Chisel Powder Brush! Must... wait... LOL!!

Italian Badger Blender, Synthetic Round Crease brush x2, Sable Contour brush


A light purpley look I did with the palette.. I forgot which colors I used.. sorry! Lighting sucked anyway.


Messing around with the camera


My new face wash!! Ole Henricksen African Red team Foaming Cleanser! I only like cleansers that foam, I hate oils and gels. Sooo.. I've only been using this for a few days.. so far so good, I'll do a review on this eventually after I've made sure it has consistent results!


Welcome the new family member to my apartment!!!! I name him... Hoover!


Obviously I bought Hoover from Target.. and OBVIOUSLY I couldn't leave the cosmetics section alone!! Just some stuff I purchased.. Biore Ultra strength pore strips, Phys. Formula Soft Yellow concealer, Revlon Colorstay foundie for combo skin in Golden Biege (to test), Revlon Active light makeup in Sand Biege (to test), Revlon Colorstay liner pen, Revlon matte ls in Nude Attitude, more Maybelline Dream Matte powder, Cover Girl eyeshadow in French Vanilla and another Tapestry Taupe.


I had originally thought French Vanilla looked like Mac Blanc Type, so I bought it in order to compare them.. unfortunately, it's more yellow while Blanc Type is more pink, but it's still a gorgeous color, like Nylon but without the massive shimmer. I bought Tapestry Taupe because my old one had shattered in my traincase and I remember it was a beautiful taupe! Nude attitude I bought because I saw it on Specktra and it looked pretty.. umm.. I bought the revlon pen because I LOOOOVE Revlon's eyeliners and thought then pen was a GREAT idea!! Sadly.. the way it's built kinda sucks.. the product is hard to get out and it's kinda dry. I know.. I should stop trying drugstore foundations.. but I'm soooo sure there's got to be one out there that works for me.. so I'm going to keep trying! I'd love to find one that I can use during school so I don't have to waste my precious Dior Forever!!

Next day, returned revlon foundie for diff shade, from golden biege to sand biege, plus purchased Revlon concealer in Medium! My new Trilogy moisturizer came in!!


I've only been using the trilogy moisturizer since last night so I can't say much about it yet.. I'll do a thorough review eventually, probably around the same time as the one for my face wash! My Mary Kay moisturizer was great and all.. but I suspect that it might be the main source for the weird bumps that I kept getting on my forehead.. ho hum, who knows.

ANYWAYS!!!!!!!! I wanted to do a spring-ish look since I kept seeing spring look contests floating around and spring looks on ABB!! So.. here's one of my own! All the colors are from my CS palette!! Brows unfilled as this was at like.. 9 PM. Oh. No Foundation either, just concealer and my powder.

I'm totally getting a nose job when I'm older.


Got bored of taking pics of myself, so ran out of my bedroom to get the bubby!!
Youngin!!


LOL.. he's sticking out his tongue!!! FAG!


Look Angie.. he does what your ex does too. The nostral thing. LOL.


Then I wandered into the bathroom.

MUAHHHH!





Tired, contacts were buggin, so that ended my photo session.


Face:
Phys. Formula Concealer in Soft yellow (red areas)
Revlon Concealer in Medium (pimps)
Maybelline Dream Matte in 1-2 medium (hg bitches)
Paul and Joe Disney pink blush (thanks angie!!!)
Tarte bronzer in Hotel Heiress (contour)
(I switch between Mac Emote, Tarte Hotel Heiress, MUFE bronzer 2 to contour btw)

Eyes:
All from CS palette.
Circled colors in picture of palette below.
A shimmer white gold all over lid, a toned down kelly green on outer lid, black in outer V, greyish smokey green to soften edge of black into toned down kelly green, white with yellow undertone to highlight.

Lips:
Revlon Nude Attitude ls
Mac Bonus Beat lg
Mac Dazzleglass in baby sparks over bonus beat




Ahhh that concludes my post. BF thinks this took way too long. LOL! I agree. Ah but before I go let me tell you about my stalker story. During mother's day, we were running errands with my mom, going wherever she wanted to go. We ate dim sum with her in the morning, went grocery shopping with her at 99, then took her shopping at South Coast after that, then went to grocery shopping again at Mitsuwa. Jess forgot her purse in the car when we were almost done shopping so she went out to go get it. Meanwhile mom and I finished up our shopping and got in line. There was this guy who came up behind us but I didn't think much of it. Jess came back in and met us up again at the line. When we paid and were leaving, she told me that when she was coming up to us from behind, the guy behind us was looking me up and down with no shame. HAAAAAAA GROSS. So then we were about to exit when we noticed a little flower stand right before the sliding doors. We went to check it out and the lady had such amazingly cute creations made from flowers!! She had this two tiered bento box that when you open, had flowers arranged so that it looks like food but obviously .. made of flowers! Jess wanted to buy it for Ross's mom so we waited for the lady to finish helping the customer before us. I saw the guy from the line about to leave through the sliding doors in the corner of my eye but he turned around and looked around like he was lost. So I look back at the other flowers and when I looked up to talk to Jessica again, he was right next to her, asking her what was in the bento box. She showed him and he said "ohhh that's creative" then he took out a piece of paper and said "I think I know what this says but I just wanted to make sure of the directions.." and Jess looked at it and said "oh sorry, we're not japanese" and he asked what we were, and we both responded "we're taiwanese"... so then he said "ohhh! Are you guys from Taipei? I've always wanted to go to Taipei!" then we ignord him and he started leaving again, I could see him about to leave in the corner of my eye and went back to looking at the flowers. Then when I turned to my right to talk to my mom, he was RIGHT THERE. He's like.. "Taiwan is a beautiful place.. I really want to go there" And I asked "Do you like to travel?" He said "I'd like to, I'm from New York, but I'd really like to see places like taiwan, japan, thailand.. but Taiwan is like.. the number one on my list right now!" I was like... coooool... ok.... then went back to look at the flowers. My mom decided to talk to him and asked him if he was a student, he said yes but he was currently visiting a cousin or something. She asked what major, he said Film directing and something something. Then they talked about random stuff. LOL? Weird. So then he was trying to talk to me.. but it kind of creeped me out.. so I said "if you wanted to know what that paper says you should ask the flower lady" he's all "yea good idea.." and just kept LURKING there next to me.. so when the lady was done wrapping jessica's gift, I quickly said HEY he has something he wanted to ask you! That kind of threw him off and he was like " oh.. uh yea!" and pulled the paper out and started talking to her, so then we just left quickly.

Mom and Jessica were laughing because Jess noticed him looking at me and trying to talk to me and so did my mom. *shudders* I attract creepy men.

I got stopped 3 times that day just to be asked what my nationality was. Once I answered, 2 times the people admitted they thought I was Korean. Then the last time they thought I was japanese. LOL.

Well that ends my ridiculously long post. I'd post more but my boyfriend has been annoying me during this whole post and won't stop bugging me. You skank.

Till next time!!

Katie

HAAAAAA!! Spencer Pratt.

Ok, I hate Spencer Pratt as much as I hate Heidi from the Hills, I personally think they're both selfish idiots who deserve to be on their new upcoming show that sticks celebrities in the wild (i'm hoping a jungle) to fight for certain provisions that you need in order to survive.

Giving these two ANY sort of attention is bad.. because then it just keeps boosting their ego but you can't help spreading this sort of thing.. bad news is still news.. and if it's hilarious then it'll just spread faster.



Ok so if any of you guys don't know what I'm getting at, Spencer Pratt created a rap song titled "I'm a Celebrity" (no you're not) under his new rap name...... get this.... The Great White (salute!) for that new survival reality show.

Hear it here.. it's a clip from KIIS FM with Ryan Seacrest, in which he disses spencer and basically all the callers talk about how much they hate it too.

I read an article that broke down the lyrics into hilarious opinionated instults, which I decided to copy and paste onto here :)


" Otherwise, we've selected a few key lyrics, and broken down the many layered metaphors for you:

Baby, I get paid, I don't volunteer I'm a celebrity, get me out of here

First of all, nicely done with putting the title of your show in the song. Surely this is a less-than-subtle plea to make it the theme song. Second, Spencer, haven't you read the 'Acting Like a Celebrity Guide for Dummies'? Rule #7 clearly states that when you volunteer for something, you're at least supposed to pretend to like it.

I've been on TV, I'm on the Internet, I've been around the world, but still I'm not finished yet

You know who else is on TV and the Internet? Those pervs from "To Catch a Predator." I'm just sayin'.

First Tweet of the day, I put my swag on... Car with the new tags on

Spencer is so cutting edge and modern that he references Twitter in his rap song. In fact, it looks like he may have just amalgamated several of his inane Tweets, put them to a beat, and passed them off as rap lyrics.

America hates me 'cause the media loves me

As a card-carrying member of "the media", I'm pretty sure that I'm with America on this one, Spence.

Call me Senator Pratt, I'm only Twittin' the facts

Twittin' the facts like, "FAME is a DRUG and I am HOOKED! I NEED FAME REHAB! lol." And no, I won't call you Senator Pratt. But I'll happily call you Great White from now on. Royal D-Bag works, too.

Hear me in the club, this is ringtone rap ... I'm in the iPhones, taking over Blackberries

Ringtone rap. Like elevator music, but less inspired. And if you get anywhere near my iPhone, I will cut you.

Music is my world, television is my life ... I'm in the limelight and I love it like my wife.

The song is so bafflingly obnoxious and asinine that I can't help but wonder whether Spencer Pratt is in on the joke. Is he just a walking parody of himself? It sounds more like an SNL rap song a la "I'm on a Boat" than anything legitimate. But then again I'm the one writing a story about him, so maybe the joke's on me. "

To read the full article, click here!!

MMMM.. yea that's all I have to blog about today. Other than the fact I devoted my entire brain to the midterm I took today a little past noon.. cross your fingers, I'm feeling confident about this one! (... I studied more than 2 hours for this one, an improvement on how I usually spend my time. I think this one took me.... 7 hours total to study for) I felt like devoting myself to upping my grade so I can take it easier when finals roll around. Yes.. this is how my brain works. Sad isn't it? I put such minimal effort into everything I do, bf is amazed how I dance between the fine lines of almost failing a class half way through it and then suddenly manage to pull an A-B in the end. What can I say? I like sleep more than studying!

- Love my new facewash
- haven't gotten my new moisturizer yet
- gotta poop now!

Katie

ps- I'm a Mass Comm major, how can you not expect me NOT to have the views that I do about mass media?? ;)

mom's bday plus mine!

Helloooo!

My long overdue family bday dinner pics have finally been sent to me by my darling little sister, plus the pictures from my mom's bday lunch!

I was originally going to make it one big massive post along with the stuff I recently bought.. but seeing as how the stuff might not get here until next week.. and I'm bored out of my mind right now, I decided why not just post what I have. LOL. If you're looking for makeup related stuff that's not in this entry and you can just skip this. :) This is going to be a family post with whatever stories I can remember so that I can go back to this post one day in the future and go.. OH YEA!!! LOL.. lame I know. Onwards silver bullet!

My 21st bday family dinner at Gyu Kaku.

One of the appetizers.. and probably the only food picture you'll get. We all got too excited because we were hungry.. so uhh.. what WAS pictured wasn't pretty. LMAO.


My parents! And the grills we cooked on


First legal drink of the night.. lychee shoju


i look tired.. me and the bubby!


eddy, diana, debbie, sam (blocked by debbie)



OMG!!!! I don't know if I posted this story yet.. but if I did, skip this, if I didn't READ!! HEHEHEHE!! Ok so my cousins ordered a pitcher of beer.. because you know.. my alcoholic family can't resist ordering alcohol when it's time to celebrate.... ANYTHING.. but my cousin Eddy is allergic to alcohol and has ZERO tolerance for it. He drank like.... 1/4 of his mug before saying he had to go to the bathroom to pee. Ok, so he leaves, 15 minutes later.. he comes back, rubbing his eyes and looking very tired. We're all.. what happened did you take a crap or something? He said.. "no... I fell asleep on the toilet" HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! WOW....


bubby and I again!


let's skip to dessert.... complimentary smores! yess.. forrealllll. Jessica left hers on for too long so the marshmellow melted down onto the grill. You see the beer of the alcoholic family


My parents were FASCINATED by the smores.. they've seen them on tv and in movies but they didn't know how to actually make one or how they tasted. My mom was afraid to try it thinking it might be too sweet, but I taught them both how to make it and assembled it for them and forced my dad to take a bite. Guess what? He LOVED it and ate the whole thing. He made one for my mom and got her to eat it too! HAHAHAHHA!!!


jess and ross. L..M..A..O... matching marshmellow lipsticks.


my cake!! that I shared with my cousins.. booo.


Interesting bday cake flavor.. my sister was in charge of finding a cake and she picked a mocchi cake.. so it's basically white cake with a layer of mocchi in the middle.. I loved it because I love mocchi but my mom was all.. WHYYYY .. because she doesn't like sweets that much HAHHAHA!


Bday people. Me (real bday), debbie and eddy (in a few days), sam (passed a while ago) hmph!! I had to share my bday with other ppl.. boooo!!!!!


what's eddy doing?


I'll cut the cake while debbie stares at me, while eddy looks longingly at sam's breasts.


family plus bfs plus cousins plus friends... sigh... oh daddy (right) .... he can never take a normal pictures. LOL i guess I get it from him??


my sis got me a hamburger phone!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Cool you can see one of my boots that I rarely wear out.



mommy's 50th bday lunch!!

So for my mom's bday.. we were supposed to have brunch with my cousins and relatives at a dim sum place (yes.. we are very typical) but there was some last minute argueing so that was cancelled.. but then my sister called everyone and told them it was on again as a surprise for my mother.. only she FOUND OUT about it.. and didn't want it. Push came to shove and in the end, it was too late to make a reservation for a big room for us at the dim sum place so we decided to let mom decide where she wanted to eat. Her eyes like... LIT UP and she said Todai at Orange (although.. I have to say I prefer the brunch at Queen Mary more)

I know what you're thinking.. eww Todai.. I don't particularily like that buffet.. esp not the one in Puente, Newport, etc.. I've been to like 3 different branches and weren't very fond of them. The seafood had that strong taste to it and usually everything else was ok and not really worth all the money you pay for. But THIS branch.. I LOVED. It was very hygenic compared to the other ones I've been to and the seafood here did NOT have that nasty scent/taste. To my surprise they had Korean BBQ meat there as well, which was also delicious!

UMMM.. you know those families who are so embarassing when they go out together? The ones that carry a lot of cameras and have to take pictures of everything and are super loud and stuff? Yea that's my family :) As cousins, we know there's email, we use email, we know we can email each other pictures, but we all insist on using our own cameras for pictures.. so we end up staying in one pose for the duration of 4 cameras being used. LMAO!!!! Onto the pictures!


AWWWW!!! Isn't she cute?!?!! This is my fav picture of the birthday girl..... and my shoulder. lol!!



me, mommy, jessica


OH YEA!! I FORGOT TO MENTION!! My sister has virgin hair.. she's never dyed it in her whole LIFE. She finally decided to change it and got this bright auburn walnut color. I think her old dark her suits her more but hey that's just my opinion. My black hair has turned kind of brown.. as you can see.. blehhh.. I might go dye it even darker soon. Or not.. maybe lighter since summer is coming!

Ok so towards the end, we had the waiters do their embarassing song and jingle for my mom, revenge for previous bday embarassments I tell you!! So they came out with this plate that had a big glob of whipped cream in the middle with a candle sticking out. We were all trying to figure out if it was actually a CAKE or just... whipped cream.... lol!! So after the pic, I poked around it.. thought it was really whipped cream but finally in the dead center... lik the size of a block about one inch by one inch.. I found the white cake. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... cheapskates.

"is that... a CAKE?"


she blew out the candles!!


mom, jess, me


family (oh yes my sister is naturally THAT tall.. LMAO!!!!!!)


danny and his new gf



Umm.. I don't really have an opinion on her.. as she was VERY quiet during the lunch. Me and my cousins would try to get her involved in our conversations and joke around with her but she pretty much refused to be SOCIAL. If we asked her a question.. it would take like.. 5 minutes to get a response.. if at all. I know she's probably scared due to the circumstances through which she's meeting us.. but we're trying to make the best out of everything and make her feel welcome.. but she kinda seems like she doesn't want to have anything to do with us.. sooo.. I don't know. Me and my other cousins were talking about it and we just agreed to keep trying to get her to open up to us. We're not even against their decision! We're all pretty much for the baby, except my mom, which is why we were trying to make her feel comfortable.


me and jess


funny pose! ppl at the restaurant were probably like.. wtf..


me, jess, mimi and david


TEEHEEEEE.. in about a week.. Mimi will decide whether or not she will have "good" news to tell us!!!! I really hope it works.. these two are such a cute couple.. and his family loves her to DEATH! They both really want to have kids.. but sadly.. she's had problems with her period ever since she was a kid.. and well.. basically.. she's unable to have a baby. They've recently took the leap and invested in invetro.. so cross your fingers girls!!!! I want to be an auntie... part 2!!!

me and my sister!


.... jessica's so evil she breathes out FIRE!


me, mimi, jessica (jackie's wife)


jess, me, mimi, jessica LOL


david, jackie, me, danny (bro), eddy, ting ting, jessica


So after lunch me, my mom, my lil sis, and her bf Ross drove to Azusa so my mom could meet up with her old friend Vicky at a cafe.. I have pictures of the cakes (and the nibbles from me) on my BB but I haven't uploaded them from there yet lol. They were discussing confidential business that involved her husband.. who's position I can't say.. because I wasn't paying attention but he has money coming out of his ass basically.. and from what I gathered later, she was afraid and needed advice because a person who her husband considers to be a close friend might harm him financially. This "friend" is the type of person who would do ANYTHING for personal gain.. if he needs to stab you in the back to do it, he will, without blinking or shedding a tear. Mom was being secretive and hush hush about it when she was telling me some of this.. and I shocked her pants off when I guessed who it was and got it right on the first try. LOL! Anyways..

Me, Jess, Ross went to get boba and shop around for a little bit.. and in the hills that were a few miles away from where we were.. a random fire appeared and was burning like a mother fucker. It was getting to be a pretty good size but the fire dept finally got there after a while and put it out. Later when my mom was done talking to her friend, we went to South Coast to shop until the mall closed. Nothing too exciting, just some mother daughter bonding I suppose.

OH OH OH!! I forgot to mention. Eddy, my cousin no the far right.. works at East West Bank in Chino Hills here in So Cal. Well.. last week, his bank got robbed by 3 men WHILE he was working. The men came in and one went straight up to the manager, who's also Eddy's friend named Olympic, and basically slugged him and beat him up until he blacked out. Then he grabbed the guy and forced him back to the vault to get the cash. One of the guys jumped over the counter where Eddy was and tried to punch him but eddy just moved aside and dodged it. Eddy says he didn't actually see any guns physically.. but they had their pockets pointed as if they had guns in there, you know what I mean? So everything basically happened in 15 minutes.. and when the robbers weren't looking eddy stepped on the alarm.. but it was too late, they just left. However.. one of the robbers had left his wallet!!!! Bad thing was.. it was a stolen wallet with a different person's ID. Some of the bankers were excited because they had seen the vehicle's license plate number! But then.. they reviewed some security tapes and saw that the robbers had driven the vehicle around the corner, ditched it, and hopped into another vehicle that had come to pick them up. So basically ... they knew what they were doing, knew who the staff was (who was manager, who was assist manager.. etc).. so eddy thinks they're not amateurs at all. God I'd be scared out of my mind.. and this is the second time in a year that this bank has been robbed.

*shudders*

Ok.. time to sleep.. I have class tmrw!

Nothing exciting right? Told you, all family post. :) My family is so weird when we get together.. man I want to type out some pieces of the conversations we had on here.. but when translated into english from chinese.. they aren't as funny.. gahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

HMM.. the other day I was eatting gummy worms and decided.. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! My babe likes to whip out his penis sometimes and chase me around with it.. or if I'm laying on the couch.. he'll sneak up from behind my head.. whip out his penis really fast and slap my forehead with it.. then run away laughing before I can slap his dick.

Soooo.. he was sitting on the couch and I ran up to the couch, jumped up on it, held a gummy worm to my crouch and flicked it around in his face. He claims that's not how his penis looks when he's doing that but I swearrrrr, it is. :) He started chocking because he was laughing so hard.

I know, I'm immature sometimes.

Time to sleep!

Katie