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impy*erases all bitchy comments* In the future, Universe, I would like to be aware of plans for things like cookouts before I get all crazy with the cleaning and the not sleeping, k? Thanks!
Anyway, after cleaning the living room, I went and played with my little beauty sponge thing. I didn't realize they doubled (tripled?) in size, so that was fun to watch happen. :D For a first try, I don't think I did too badly, though I desperately need to tweeze, I think. But it's so tedious and boring and painful. /whine
So, the sponge was fun. I think I somehow managed to go overboard and not use enough foundation and I don't know how that's possible. More experimentation will be necessary, I suppose.
Afterward, I used my little trial of Garnier's Makeup Removing Lotion Cleanser (that's a mouthful, eh?) and holycrap muffins, my face is super soft and I know I shouldn't, but I keep wanting to touch it because SO SOFT. Now to see if it breaks me out like crazy.
Garnier and I have a love/hate relationship that basically winds up with me loving to hate them. I can't use their hair color because all three times something most unfortunate has happened to my hair color, it's been at their hands, no matter the line of color. (The purple red? Them. The neon yellow? Yup. The carrot orange? Indeed.) Their hair care stuff is better, but I don't really care for the smell on a lot of the stuff. But they've got some putty or something that actually coaxes my hair into holding its curl when I bother to do it, so I put up with the smell.
Skincare wise, I think I've only tried one of their moisturizers and it broke my skin out. I was going to take it back and then I realized it was fantastic for using to soothe insect bites, so it gets to stay. But if this stuff works without the breakouts, I may have to fork over the cash for the real thing.
So... soft!
Book wise, I caved and bought the Kindle version of Isle of the Lost, the Disney Descendants prequel. It's... different? Somehow it manages to be darker AND fluffier than any incarnation of Ever After High so far.
I somehow forgot this was a prequel so when I got about halfway through I was wondering when the hell we were going to mingle with the royalty... duh, self. Duh. Sigh.
It's darker than EAH because all four of our characters (Mal, Carlos, Evie, and Jay) are the villains' kids and none of them are particularly loved by their infamous parent except for maybe Evie. I get the feeling that the Evil Queen actually does love Evie while the others... not so much. So that's definitely pretty dark, dealing with the knowledge that your only parent doesn't love you.
On the other hand, these kids are pretty awful at being villains. At least on an island populated by villains, that is. And our trips over to Auradon (fuck it, not looking it up to see how I butchered it) are timed at just the wrong moments. I get it, Ben's deep and his father isn't and holy crap was the chapter dealing with Aurora's daughter just painful. She's so fluffy and air headed and simple and I fear that we're going to get the villains fleshed out and the royals will be the worst of Apple White multiplied.
Short version: I like the foursome, I think they deserve better than I fear they're going to get, and I need the toys now.
Anyway, after cleaning the living room, I went and played with my little beauty sponge thing. I didn't realize they doubled (tripled?) in size, so that was fun to watch happen. :D For a first try, I don't think I did too badly, though I desperately need to tweeze, I think. But it's so tedious and boring and painful. /whine
So, the sponge was fun. I think I somehow managed to go overboard and not use enough foundation and I don't know how that's possible. More experimentation will be necessary, I suppose.
Afterward, I used my little trial of Garnier's Makeup Removing Lotion Cleanser (that's a mouthful, eh?) and holycrap muffins, my face is super soft and I know I shouldn't, but I keep wanting to touch it because SO SOFT. Now to see if it breaks me out like crazy.
Garnier and I have a love/hate relationship that basically winds up with me loving to hate them. I can't use their hair color because all three times something most unfortunate has happened to my hair color, it's been at their hands, no matter the line of color. (The purple red? Them. The neon yellow? Yup. The carrot orange? Indeed.) Their hair care stuff is better, but I don't really care for the smell on a lot of the stuff. But they've got some putty or something that actually coaxes my hair into holding its curl when I bother to do it, so I put up with the smell.
Skincare wise, I think I've only tried one of their moisturizers and it broke my skin out. I was going to take it back and then I realized it was fantastic for using to soothe insect bites, so it gets to stay. But if this stuff works without the breakouts, I may have to fork over the cash for the real thing.
So... soft!
Book wise, I caved and bought the Kindle version of Isle of the Lost, the Disney Descendants prequel. It's... different? Somehow it manages to be darker AND fluffier than any incarnation of Ever After High so far.
I somehow forgot this was a prequel so when I got about halfway through I was wondering when the hell we were going to mingle with the royalty... duh, self. Duh. Sigh.
It's darker than EAH because all four of our characters (Mal, Carlos, Evie, and Jay) are the villains' kids and none of them are particularly loved by their infamous parent except for maybe Evie. I get the feeling that the Evil Queen actually does love Evie while the others... not so much. So that's definitely pretty dark, dealing with the knowledge that your only parent doesn't love you.
On the other hand, these kids are pretty awful at being villains. At least on an island populated by villains, that is. And our trips over to Auradon (fuck it, not looking it up to see how I butchered it) are timed at just the wrong moments. I get it, Ben's deep and his father isn't and holy crap was the chapter dealing with Aurora's daughter just painful. She's so fluffy and air headed and simple and I fear that we're going to get the villains fleshed out and the royals will be the worst of Apple White multiplied.
Short version: I like the foursome, I think they deserve better than I fear they're going to get, and I need the toys now.