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impyHad a whole 'nother post about an article I read in today's paper and decided nope, not going to fall down that well of nyargh right now. So instead I will do a mini-round up of things going on in the AG world.
1) There's a sale going on, and if you wanted the holiday magenta dress it's on sale. Not sure if it's sold out because I'm too lazy to look, but as far as I can tell, all the BeForever books are also on sale because they're revamping them... again.
2) Gabby's second book cover leaked:
Gabby is canon, btw. Gabi is not.
3) Tenney's second book cover also leaked:
Sidenote: I hate it when someone who didn't take the picture in question slaps their name on the image. Wtf, it isn't yours and it wasn't taken for your site/account.
4) People are losing their shit over the idea of Logan (the boy) using the Kaya mold. I... can't say I blame them considering his illustration has him the whitest of white boys. I suppose that doesn't mean much as Sonali looks pretty white in some of the illustrations from Chrissa's book but still. I'm torn on being upset about the Kaya mold being used again in general because I think it's a really pretty mold and I was hoping they'd do something with it, but maybe not... this. Maybe a modern Native girl, but then you run into the whole "all Native Americans don't look the same!" thing. But that'd be preferable to saying, indirectly any way, that Kaya's mold looks masculine. Which, btw, it does not.
Book!Logan, ladies and germs.
In fandom-y related news, there's some backlash against someone who has been bothering me lately and I must admit I'm enjoying it just a tad. Playthings has always had a pretty strict stance on leaked information as in they would not allow anything that wasn't either on the actual website proper or in a book/catalog and reserved the right to yank anything AG told them to ASAP. One of their mini- mods runs a blog and links to it. Constantly. I don't get why no one's told her that encouraging people to go to the blog and take the conversation with them is kind of detrimental to the boards which aren't exactly flourishing with new content now that they're on lockdown but hey, what do I know. Anyway, someone finally called her out (without using her name or linking to the blog) and I have been cackling over it. Also, I damn near choked when another mod said that the accusation that half the leaks posted on the board came from mods was untrue. Um, honey, my love, my dear heart... that chick has posted about every single damn leak (even though she's frequently days later than others) with a link to her blog post about said leak. So no, it's not the mod team in general, it's one person, but it's not the exaggeration that some might think.
In the world of shiny things that aren't AG, work completed the Cos wall reset this week so certain questions have been answered. The Wet n Wild Catsuits are basic items and are now on the wall. Alas, we are not getting the gel lip things :( and I hear the liners are awesome. The cushion highlighter/contour/lip things are allegedly Wags exclusive. Maybelline added more colors to their Liquid Matte lipstick range which is nice since I was a fan of the formula but not so much the color selection. The Jordana lip creams are now basic at my store (huzzah!) and they finally moved the Sinful Colors display to the other side of the cos register so that you can see both the SC display and the Jordana stuff without having to lie down on the floor.
Did I mention I caved and bought the new blue L'Oreal Voluminous mascara? If not, I did. It was buy one get one halfsies and I had a coupon off two L'Oreal products and then the coupon book at work had coupons for foundation and eye products so I also snagged the new foundation because it actually seemed to be a color match and do you know how often that happens for me? Let me tell you, never. NEVER. Now to hope it's not cakey or awful. I've heard mixed reviews, honestly and they all contradict one another so I decided that this is probably one of those that you have to try for yourself. I will say that as a body makeup to cover scars and possibly tattoos, I would not hold my breath. I tried it on one of the scars on my arm and it made it less noticeable but I wouldn't call it total coverage by any stretch of the imagination. But I still have high hopes for it on mah face. :p
Other than that, I've been trying to be good and not buy anything extra. Bills, man. Bills. Also, just trying to be better about stuff in general. I did cave and buy a Golden Girls magazine which has been pretty interesting so far. After dinner, I might take it upstairs and read the rest while I prop my up my ankle.
Work last night was annoying. Again it was just me and I very much like the new girl but she's still figuring out what kind of lists she can leave and how to tweak them for general use. Last night was tag-a-palooza which is when all the monthly/weekly tags switch over. It is a very labor intensive night because our store ain't tiny and a crapton of stuff goes on sale. Instead of scaling back on the 'usual' things that work for the rest of the week, she just kind of added the tags on top of the list. And work was busy. By 2am I hadn't finished anything on my list and I get a little panicky when that happens even though my sane side knows that a) you will get the important stuff done and b) to chill out, it's not that big a deal. Panicky me, however, is busy freaking out every time the damn door opens. I didn't finish everything (I definitely didn't finish the tags) but eventually I just stopped caring whether I did. If they can't be bothered to hire someone else or schedule two of us for the busiest night of the month then they can deal with the fallout. Again. That's right, I said again. Because this is the second (or third, or fourth, I've lost count) month in a row they've done this. This Wednesday, I just threw out the monthly tags cos couldn't be bothered to put up for January. I don't get why they didn't throw them out, honestly. If you're not going to do them, get rid of the evidence.
1) There's a sale going on, and if you wanted the holiday magenta dress it's on sale. Not sure if it's sold out because I'm too lazy to look, but as far as I can tell, all the BeForever books are also on sale because they're revamping them... again.
2) Gabby's second book cover leaked:
Gabby is canon, btw. Gabi is not.
3) Tenney's second book cover also leaked:
Sidenote: I hate it when someone who didn't take the picture in question slaps their name on the image. Wtf, it isn't yours and it wasn't taken for your site/account.
4) People are losing their shit over the idea of Logan (the boy) using the Kaya mold. I... can't say I blame them considering his illustration has him the whitest of white boys. I suppose that doesn't mean much as Sonali looks pretty white in some of the illustrations from Chrissa's book but still. I'm torn on being upset about the Kaya mold being used again in general because I think it's a really pretty mold and I was hoping they'd do something with it, but maybe not... this. Maybe a modern Native girl, but then you run into the whole "all Native Americans don't look the same!" thing. But that'd be preferable to saying, indirectly any way, that Kaya's mold looks masculine. Which, btw, it does not.
Book!Logan, ladies and germs.
In fandom-y related news, there's some backlash against someone who has been bothering me lately and I must admit I'm enjoying it just a tad. Playthings has always had a pretty strict stance on leaked information as in they would not allow anything that wasn't either on the actual website proper or in a book/catalog and reserved the right to yank anything AG told them to ASAP. One of their mini- mods runs a blog and links to it. Constantly. I don't get why no one's told her that encouraging people to go to the blog and take the conversation with them is kind of detrimental to the boards which aren't exactly flourishing with new content now that they're on lockdown but hey, what do I know. Anyway, someone finally called her out (without using her name or linking to the blog) and I have been cackling over it. Also, I damn near choked when another mod said that the accusation that half the leaks posted on the board came from mods was untrue. Um, honey, my love, my dear heart... that chick has posted about every single damn leak (even though she's frequently days later than others) with a link to her blog post about said leak. So no, it's not the mod team in general, it's one person, but it's not the exaggeration that some might think.
In the world of shiny things that aren't AG, work completed the Cos wall reset this week so certain questions have been answered. The Wet n Wild Catsuits are basic items and are now on the wall. Alas, we are not getting the gel lip things :( and I hear the liners are awesome. The cushion highlighter/contour/lip things are allegedly Wags exclusive. Maybelline added more colors to their Liquid Matte lipstick range which is nice since I was a fan of the formula but not so much the color selection. The Jordana lip creams are now basic at my store (huzzah!) and they finally moved the Sinful Colors display to the other side of the cos register so that you can see both the SC display and the Jordana stuff without having to lie down on the floor.
Did I mention I caved and bought the new blue L'Oreal Voluminous mascara? If not, I did. It was buy one get one halfsies and I had a coupon off two L'Oreal products and then the coupon book at work had coupons for foundation and eye products so I also snagged the new foundation because it actually seemed to be a color match and do you know how often that happens for me? Let me tell you, never. NEVER. Now to hope it's not cakey or awful. I've heard mixed reviews, honestly and they all contradict one another so I decided that this is probably one of those that you have to try for yourself. I will say that as a body makeup to cover scars and possibly tattoos, I would not hold my breath. I tried it on one of the scars on my arm and it made it less noticeable but I wouldn't call it total coverage by any stretch of the imagination. But I still have high hopes for it on mah face. :p
Other than that, I've been trying to be good and not buy anything extra. Bills, man. Bills. Also, just trying to be better about stuff in general. I did cave and buy a Golden Girls magazine which has been pretty interesting so far. After dinner, I might take it upstairs and read the rest while I prop my up my ankle.
Work last night was annoying. Again it was just me and I very much like the new girl but she's still figuring out what kind of lists she can leave and how to tweak them for general use. Last night was tag-a-palooza which is when all the monthly/weekly tags switch over. It is a very labor intensive night because our store ain't tiny and a crapton of stuff goes on sale. Instead of scaling back on the 'usual' things that work for the rest of the week, she just kind of added the tags on top of the list. And work was busy. By 2am I hadn't finished anything on my list and I get a little panicky when that happens even though my sane side knows that a) you will get the important stuff done and b) to chill out, it's not that big a deal. Panicky me, however, is busy freaking out every time the damn door opens. I didn't finish everything (I definitely didn't finish the tags) but eventually I just stopped caring whether I did. If they can't be bothered to hire someone else or schedule two of us for the busiest night of the month then they can deal with the fallout. Again. That's right, I said again. Because this is the second (or third, or fourth, I've lost count) month in a row they've done this. This Wednesday, I just threw out the monthly tags cos couldn't be bothered to put up for January. I don't get why they didn't throw them out, honestly. If you're not going to do them, get rid of the evidence.
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Date: 2017-01-31 08:02 am (UTC)Sadness on the gel balms not being as interesting as they sounded. Have you tried the liners yet? Normally I pay no attention to lip liners but I've heard so many people get tongue tied over how much they like them that I was hoping work would get them. Maybe I'll cave and order one online since I don't think I venture into non-Wags drugstores much. *muse*
Huzzah for the bonus! Boo for the bras eating all the money but woo to getting 14 at a time. I feel like I would be the person throwing them up in the air and dancing and then rushing to grab them before they hit the floor. :p
Normally the madness does make time go by faster but it was that weird alternate universe where you feel like you've gotten nothing done but time is moving backwards and still you can't get ahead. Clearly a wormhole was opened near work Saturday and things just got weird. Luckily it's over!
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Date: 2017-01-31 01:45 pm (UTC)The only good thing about ordering bras online is that you can order them straight from the manufacturer and cut out the ridiculous markup at the store. It's still an eye-watering amount of money to part with all at once, mind, but it's not as bad as it could be.
Glad you survived the crazy wormhole! o.O
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Date: 2017-02-01 03:09 pm (UTC)I should probably go bra hunting after tax time. I just haaaaaaaate it because when I have no money, there are a zillion that I think I'd like. When I do have money they're all sold out or I suddenly get pickier. I'm not quite sure which it is.