Product Review!

OMG, so if you don't follow my twitter, I'll repeat myself here. LOL! So I was working on my Japan post.. what with it's over 350 pictures and all.. and I was on that thing like butter on bread for 2 hours!! Since blogger only allows you to upload 5 pictures at a time.. and lists then in alphabetical and numerical order.... I had to pull up 3 diff folders I had set up on my desktop right next to the uploading screen to match up which pictures go in what order since it was a mix of pictures from my cam, my lil sis's cam, and my mom's cam! But.. when I finally finished it all blogger screwed it up some how!! there's random pics I didn't upload in random sequences and and.. ahhhh.. I was too tired to fix it.. and then the next day I had to pack up everything and move! I need to turn in the keys on Tues.. basically be all done on Monday.. and since I'm never at my apt on the weekends, I had to move everything.. well mostly everything.. on Friday! My lil sis and her bf came to help of course! Anyway.. I'll have the Japan post up soon but probably not until after I finish moving! HMM.. the cable guy is coming Tues morning.. and my new bed is being delivered anywhere from 5-9 PM on Tues.. but I'm in class until 6 PM.. so I dunno.. guess I have to leave class early or something.

ANYWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Onto the product review!!

Quick Blurb:

This was a blind purchase! I went to CVS to pick up some Cortizone cream because I got bit or stung by... SOMETHING.. not sure what.. but it itched like crazy and puffed up into a red spot the size of the white scrolling disc circle on an Ipod Classic!! HUGE! I took a picture but it's not uploaded yet so trust me, I'll gross you all out in time! hehehehe! Anyway.. I was down and sad about the big swollen yucky thing on my thigh.. so I went to the makeup section to cheer myself up! I got an Loreal Voluminous waterproof mascara refill, my FAV drugstore mascara of all time, the only one I use but hey I'm always open to trying new ones to replace it! The tube looked really cool so I bought it! LOL.. sucker for packaging I tell you.

COST:
$7-8, not bad for a mascara

ITEM:
L'Oreal Extra Volume Collagen waterproof Mascara

COLOR/Texture/Whatnots:
I got this in Black, and it's a nice creamy mascara, dries pretty fast as well. It's not too watery and it doesn't clump my lashes! This provides pretty good volume and lengthens pretty well!! This actually does hold a decent curl! I LOVVVVVVVVVE the brush!! This is the type of brush I like, brushes that are slighly curved in the middle, sort of an hour glass shape ish. The middle is slightly curved which allows helps me when I'm curling my lashes.

THOUGHTS/HOW?:
I have your stereotypical short asian straight lashes that point downwards and take a lot of effort to curl, which is why I USUALLY avoid or don't put on mascara. My lashes are so short that usually without a mascara primer, you can't tell I'm wearing mascara. I just recently started wearing mascara more often and WITHOUT a primer, Loreal Extra Volume collagen mascara makes my lashes a little longer but gives it quite a bit of volume! Which is perfect! My only other favs are Lancome Hypnose, Loreal Voluminous, and Kiss Me Heroine Mascara, just to give you a taste of the types of mascara that actually work with me.

PROS:
- packaging is niiiice
- LOVE the brush, my fav type of brush, not too big, not too small
- creamy consistancy.. not too watery, not too drying
- no weird smell
- doesn't irritate my eyes
- waterproof!
- cheap for mascara!

CONS:
- could provide MORE length ya know?

:) ok that is all, I just didn't want to seem like I was never gonna blog again. LOL! I updated my lemming list too!!!! YAY! I've been eyeballing the panasonic heated eyelash curler, some other mascaras, and ya know... just more stuff. HEHEHEHE!

I'M BACKKKKKK

Helloooooooo everyone!!

I'm back from my trip to Japan already! 7 cities, only 4.5 days, do the math and you'll probably start imagining the pain that I feel in my legs from all the walking!

I have TONS of pictures and lots of stories to tell but sadly, no USB cord here nor the patience right now to do it!

Did I haul? Hells yes, a lil cosmetics, a lil clothes, a lil something something as always!

I must say though, Japan is EXACTLY like Taiwan, except people are more obsessive compulsive about cleanliness, there's less mopeds and bikes there, and the roads are better maintained (not many cracks, unevenness etc) but other than that, it's pretty much almost identical in terms of the day and night life, the way the buildings are structured, the way the shops and malls are, the sweat your balls off sticky weather is the same, and the random showers as well!

OK, that's all for now! Just letting you girls know I'm alive! Toots!

Katie

a quickie.

OOOOOOMG girls/people STOP TWITTERING or blogging about DIETING. I'm sick of seeing you girls go thru all that. DON'T DEPRIVE YOURSELF from the foods you love, you only end up getting DEPRESSED! The key to speeding up your metabolism IS NOT EATING LESS, I've gone down that route before, I used to be a dieting FREAK. TRUST. I know what I'm talking about. I hate seeing you girls go OH YEA CHECK IT OUT I'M DIETING I CAN DO IT!! Then suddenly another tweet or blog about how you just ate like... cake or fried chicken or steak and you're all frustrated. Stop playing with your own emotions!!!!!! Don't go on salad binge, a 1-2 day meal binge, one beef jerky a day binge, one fruit meal binge, or no food binge. If you do you will see adverse effects.

I know I complain about gaining weight this year but hey, even with 10 more pounds on my body, I still don't look a pound over 114 (actually, lil sis and her bf say they think I weigh 108, mom thinks 110, bf doesn't want to guess, smart boy) ehh? Why? Because even though I eat SOME junk food, I keep all my food groups in check, on time in proportion (no big meals, all equal and spaced out) and make sure I do things that only increase my metabolism, not slow it down. 

That's all. I wasn't planning on blogging after I put up my entry but I just had to. 

va va voom!

I feel really bad. A lot of you girls comment on my entries, and I do read them, but only through email notifications, so then when I go to log into blogger to comment back to your sweet faces, I suddenly get really lazy! :( sowwie sowwie! 

Soo I just popped in here to show you girls what I made for dinner last night! You're not going to believe this.. but uhh.. I remembered this cooking manga that I used to read and it had obscurely described what is called a Neopolitan pasta. I vaguely remembered what was pictured and decided HEY!!! Sounds delish, let's do this! Of course.. I didn't remember much so when I was at Ralph's buying groceries.. I kinda just grabbed whatever I thought would taste good. I've never had a neopolitan spaghetti before so I wasn't even sure what it was supposed to look like or taste like. HEHEHEHEHHE???? Inspired by a manga.. I sound so nerdy. 

It turned out so well though!! I googled neoplitan spaghetti just now and it looks NOTHING like what I made.. and the recipe is completely off compared to what I used so I guess I can't really call it a neopolitan pasta.. let's call it.. the KASTA!! :) Give you a penny if you can tell why.

YUMMMM it turned out soooo good. BF says he actually HATES regular spaghetti so when I told him I was making  this he was like.. oh.. eww.. uhh.. sure. LOL! He ended up INHALING it before I was done with half my plate!!!! To ensure meat loving men will like this, I put in chopped up bacon, sliced mini hot sausages, and tuscan style shrimp. To make sure he gets his veggies too, I made sure there was the same amount of veggies as meat in there as well, just more thinly chopped and cooked so well that it's soft and the flavors aren't too strong. I find it's easier to get my bf to eat what he CLAIMS he doesn't like by making sure it's harder for him to notice it's in there. What is said veggies? Red bell peppers and yellow onions, tons and tons of them. PUWAHAHAHAHHAHA! 

Dunno if anyone's going to even try their luck making this (i was lucky it turned out good!) so if you want the recipe just comment or email me! Nothing's definite so feel free to substitute and change things around! This is definitely a successful concoction of mine! 

:) BF made me smile when he kept going "mmmm.. oh.. man.. mmm.. this taste a lot better than stuff from the restaurants.. like Olive Garden and shit.. mmmmm"

Just yesterday I ordered THIS online!

:) I can't wait to get it! I think it's been discontinued.. since I couldn't find it on the Nordstroms or Sephora websites.. how sad..

OH! My skin has NOT been behaving lately so I completely scrapped my old day time and nightly skin care routine. It wasn't really doing much for me anyway. I've only been on my new routine for 2 days but so far, no adverse reactions! If it all works out, I'll let you girls know how, what, etc. 

HMM.. I'm wondering what foundation to bring to Japan. I know it's going to be hot and humid.. any ideas girls? I'm thinking I'll just bring my Revlon Colorstay in combo/oily formula as it might hold up in that weather.... or my Silk Naturals mineral foundie as it'll allow my skin to feel less makeup-y. Then again, I think SN breaks me out a little.. I don't remember!! 

Ok, time to make lunch. BF is getting whiney. 

Any of you girls know where exactly in Shibuya I can purchase cosmetics from Kate and the like? :) It'd be very helpful! 

Katie

why... HELLO THERE!!

:) well well well.... in my usual weekly absence from blogging, I've managed to obtain a few new subscribers! I'm too lazy to comment on your blogs to bid you girls a how do you do so HELLOOOOOOOOOO OUT THERE!!!!

If you left me a comment with a question in it, I will answer in an upcoming blog! There was a question about NYX dupes and I have to fumble through traincase B to remember whatever mental notes I had previously made about dupes :)

Ok so what do start with.. OH! So I did finally get the replacement coastal scents palette (remember mine arrived here shattered)!! I present to you.. a picture of an unbroken palette! YES!!

Ahhh!! Pretty, very pretty.

To celebrate, I decided to do another look but I used the 88 Matte palette, not the shimmer since it's new and I don't want to use it yet!!

I call it.. uhh.. hmm.. *drooooooooooool**schlerp*... Cranberry! MEH. The camera washed the colors out a little so it looks a little more brown in these pictures but TRUST ME.. it's very cranberry-ish IRL. Very wearable for your typical everyday thing. Seriously, this sucks. I have the original picture right next to this uploaded one and the colors are SOOOOOO washed out here. *cries*

Brows not filled in as always, I've been really lazy about that lately, I thank the tweezer god that I don't have random ass bald spots.

zee eyesss

HELLO

le poofamaboof

muah

kisses for my bubby!!!! Our 3 year anni is coming up (we've officially known each other for 3 years)!!! Remember, sister was a brat about our anni being the same as hers.. so we moved our anni date back to when we first started actually talking, not dating.

grabbed him to take a pic after he played his vid games for over an hour, YOU DESERVE THEM NASTY DRY TIRED EYES BUTTHOLEE!

Hey there, you come here often?

Face

Urban Decay SSMM in Supernova

Maybelline Dream Matte compact in 0-1 Medium (T-zone)

Tarte Hotel Heiress (contour)

Mac MSF in Refined

Eyes

CS 88 matte palette

Row 1, 2 down (highlight)

Row 8, 3rd up from the bottom (lid)

Row 11, 2nd up from the bottom (crease, outer v)

Row 8, 3 down (crease)

Lips

Maybelline Pink Carats lipstick

Lorac Lotsalip Babie lipgloss

Let's see.. what else.. oH. MY PRINTER. THIS INFURIATES ME!!!!!

So I bought this HP laserjet printer back in September.. and after only 3 months it just STOPS WORKING. As in.. it won't print anything.. so I turned it off and turned it back on to see if it just needed to be reset.. and it just won't turn on anymore. Soooo.. since it has a 1 year warranty on it, I took it back to Best Buy and they sent it back to HP, who then after a month and some weeks.. decided it wasn't salvageable so they sent me a brand new one. My guess, since they stopped making this model, it must've been the last one in their damn warehouse because when I set it up to install it, guess whaaaaaat? It doesn't show up under "networks" in the set up assistant. After emailing HP Support back and forth for the past god.. umm.. 2 months???? They finally sent me an email basically saying OH SINCE WE'VE TRIED ALL THE STEPS TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND TO MAKE SURE IT'S NOT YOUR LAPTOP OR NETWORK SOURCE THAT'S DISFUNCTIONAL, it is the printer's hard drive that needs service, so you should go look for an HP service provider nearest to you to have it fixed, but you're going to have to PAY FOR IT since it's out of warranty OR you have the option of buying another printer from us (select models) for a discounted price.

.......... WHAT THE FUCK?!!?!?!?!?

WHY SHOULD I PAY TO FIX SOMETHING THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO WORK RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!?!?!

OBVIOUSLY I emailed them back and now I'm waiting for a response. They send me another defective item to replace a previously defected item?? FUCK YOU HP. I'VE ALWAYS HATED YOUR CRAP.

*breathes*

Ok, yay. Finals are coming up next week. Woo..hoo.. yea. But on the bright side.. I have news!

Mother goes back to Japan like.. every year just to shop, eat, relax, then come back and shove purchases in my face. She's always telling me to go back with her but EVERY TIME she schedules a trip, it just happens to be right when school starts for me, when I start an internship, or when I have this and that to do. So my trip back to Japan (went to Kyoto when I was a baby) was post-poned for a whillllllle. So guess what?

I'm going to Japan in 2 weeks!!

June 12th to be exact. I'm not staying long, I'll be back June 20th I believe. Mom was trying to get us 1st class seats but since me and my little sister told her what days we were free like.. WAYY too late.. all the first class tickets were sold and we were put on standby.. I told her going Coach was fine but mom being.... mom... was all blah blah blah. So then today she calls me and says (translating it into english from chinese) "eff it we're going business class again" By again.. it means my mom is a high maintenance person and I think our past few trips throughout the years (mix of business/1st class) on planes have been a waste of money but whatever floats her boat. We were going to stay at my Uncle's house in Shibuya but he has some friends currently borrowing the place so we're staying at a hotel.

:) If you haven't read my info, I'm 1/8 Japanese on my father's side. Apparently before I was born and probably when my dad was just born.. something went on between my Jap blood and my Taiwanese blood.. and since then both sides have kept their distance.

The only person who know anything about our Jap lineage is my grandmother.. and she is VERY tight lipped about it.... I wish I knew why.. even dad says he doesn't know anything. It kinda makes me sad knowing that I have family out there that I'll never get to meet.. ahh.. oh well..

Sadly.. I'll be missing me and bubby's 3 year anni.. but we're celebrating it for weekend after I'm come back! :( Sowwie hunny..

NOW...

I stole that off google, as I do with everything I post, but anyways! I believe that's 101 in Taipei if memory serves me right.. 101 floors of SHOPPINGGGGGGGGG!! I remember when I was a kid, my mom took us there and shopped her ass off for hours.. I hated it then, but now I'm excited to go back!

:) That's right, IF my plans don't change (they always do), I will be going back to Taiwan again this winter! It's been.. 5-6 years since I last visited. I'm bringing bug spray this time. The 64 massive bug bites I received last time... ahh I remember those well. I have pictures to prove it but I decided not to make you girls puke.

Why a random trip to Taiwan too you ask? Well, a few of my relatives.. one aunt, two uncles, both grandmas.. aren't as.. healthy.. as they used to be. It's been a long time since I've seen my cousins as well, and I JUST FOUND OUT that one of my cousins had gotten married a week before my 21st bday but my parents never told me!! WTH!!!!

I have a lot of pride in my nationality as I believe everyone should be, when I hear people say "i wish I was ______" it's like.. wth.. you should be proud of who you are you douche!!

AHHH.. I've gained a lot of weight this year.. plus these coming trips? Ahh.. crap. I want to teleport back through time to least year!! That was my happy weight time!! *cry*

Until next time!

Katie

ps- wish me luck on my finals!!