Geek Chic Cosmetics... Part 1.

I have to say part on because these are so amazing, that I feel mere swatching can't do them appropriate justice. I was pretty excited to find Geek Chic Cosmetics, likewise I was ecstatic to find they offered samples of their wonderful pigments, and I was utterly enthralled once I placed my order.

Well today in my mail box was a glimmering (ok not really, it was more like manilla bubble mailer) little package of insane awesome.

9 samples, al of which were very generous in size, just waiting to be swatched and swooned over.

Consider me swoony, because these pigments are like butter. They glide on, even on unprimed arm skin and look glorious! I can't wait to see them on some eyelids (that seems sort of ominous, no eyelids will be harmed in the application of these products.) 

Here is a little bit of background on Geek Chic Cosmetics for all those not in the know. They are "SRS BSNS" (according to them and I am apt to believe that indeed they are!) and they make radical cosmetics based on geeky/ nerdy awesome-sauce. From what I can glean from their about me page "they" refers to 4 humans and possibly a 5th who may or may not be a chipmunk with a flower, and they make all cruelty free, mostly vegan (a couple products have beeswax), filler free, FDA approved custom pigments/ shadows/ lipsticks & scents. Yum with a capital U... er um Y. Blah, blah, enough with my yammering, on the the delicious swatches and a-dorable containers!

Oh. So pretty!

Adorable little sample containers.

A bit more random, still awesome though.

We are coming. From the Timey Wimey series.

We are coming swatch. Chocolate-y. Mmm.

Incendiary. Part of the Glitter Grenade series, and OH BOY IS IT!

Glitter Bomb HO! TONS of many red and gold glitter!

Mind Meld. Truely my very favorite. From the "Go Boldly" series.

Mountain Dew, electric limey, amaze-o green with a bit of gold sparkle.

Sexy in Suspenders another great one from the "Timey Wimey" series.

Sexy in Suspenders, nice soft neutral with a bit of sheen.

Universal Destiny from the "Last Best Hope" series.

Universal  Destiny, warmer neutral with gold shimmer.

Blood Wine from the "Go Boldly" series.

Blood Wine, fantastic maroon with pinkish purpleish shimer. (How is it "pinkish" is a word in spell check but "purpleish" isn't?)

Booze- R-Us from the "8- bit Survival Kit" Series.

Booze- R- Us. warm medium brown with a green shimmer (WHICH I LOVE! I have a thing for green, if ya can't tell)

Untimely Love from the "Timey Wimey" series.

LOVE LOVE LOVE! Reddish with green and blue glimmer.

All Love is Unrequited from the "Last Best Hope" series.

Light plum with silver and pinkish glitter.

More to come in part two. SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS! AHHHHH!

Coming soon (like tomorrow)...

a lime crime review of poisonberry and serpentina. For now here is a picture to tide you over :)

I think I am in love ;)

Hey there everybody!

Happy Saturday! (Yeah, I am aware that I am running a bit late) I am going to break todays blog entry into a couple separate blogs, since as I said in a previous post I am going to try to start separating things better here, since I think it will be easier for people to find what they want. So this post is going to be about a fantastic beauty company I am currently in love/ lust with.

Have you heard of Sigma Beauty? I hadn't until a few days ago. I was cruising around on the usual beauty blogs I frequent and stumbled onto their new limited Paris Palette and that was about it, I was totally smitten right then and there. Of course then I stumbled on to their Mrs. Bunny Travel brush set (aqua and magenta color scheme and totally vegan/ cruelty free?!) Yep. I'm in love.

See?! How wondrous is this?

I know right?! *swoon* 200% perfection. 

So after wandering around on their site all day and finding out that I want just about one of everything, I decided I should probably share them with everybody else who may not know about them. They do ship internationally, so even if you are not in the US, you can still partake of in the awesomeness!  They also make a brush drying roll/ storage apparatus that is pretty darn neat too. Yeah toatlly can add them to my roster of favorite cosmetic brands. Seriously go check them out. Sigmabeauty.com!

My fantastic little Dinair Airbrush also showed up too this week, boy howdy, every single person who wears face make up needs one of these little beauties. EVERY ONE.  I have used it for 3 days and it is simply amazing. I am still learning, but I think I am getting better and figuring more out every day. I also love that I can custom blend the foundation, my skin is a very weird color, so I can't ever find a good match... that is until now! 1 drops of Alabaster, 2 drops of Vanilla, and 1 drop of Olive Beige, it is perfect! Oh and did I mention I only need to use 4 drops of make up to do my entire face and neck?!

Dinair has been around for 30 years, they have awesome water based formulas, as well as alcohol based ones if you need them. I stick to the water based ones, which seem to be fairly water resistant/ sweat resistant as I have been outdoors a lot working on the fish tubs and my face looks just as decent as when I went outside. I'm very pleased with it, and although pricey it saves me a lot of time and it is not clogging up my pores like a normal foundation would.

That is it for this little beauty post. Hope you enjoyed my raving. Fish post on the way ASAP!

HAPPY MAY!

Happy May Lovelies!

I am sick today for some reason (I slept until 5 pm) but I am feeling a bit better now so I thought I would blog since I can remain sitting and it's fairly non-strenuous.  Tomorrow I will start my new work out regimen I am hoping; it is all based on body resistance which is something I am a firm believer in, especially since I can't run or basically do anything else with much impact because of my wonky joints and now my stupid metataraliga in my foot reappearing. I think it should be fairly easy to stick to as most of it can be done laying down, and what isn't is still very yoga based so I will won't be doing anything too strenuous.  My plan is to combine the 3 workouts below in some form:

Prevention's "Love your Lower Body Workout"

Whole Living's "6 Core Truths" Workout

Blogilate's "R.I.P. for Arms and Abs" Workout

I am not sure how I am going to rotate them or work them together, but I'll get it all straightened out. I look forward to having my old body back with in a month or two.

What else is going on? I ordered a new airbrush to do my face make-up with from Dinair. I am extremely excited for it to show up. It will be great if it makes my skin look as flawless as it says it should. Although to be completely honest I will just be happy if it can cover my under eye circles. I'll probably do a review once I get it. I really like the idea of only putting 4 or 5 drops of water based foundation one my face rather then glopping a ton of foundation on with a sponge that feels like a mask and makes me itchy.

Dinair Airbrush

In fish related news, still no sign of Manny but these seems to be a few teensy tiny baby plecos skittering about, so maybe he is just guarding a new nest some place. I am really looking forward to getting my tubs set up and it being warm enough outside to get them up and going. I think all the fish will enjoy being all spread out a bunch more, also I will enjoy being able to finally paint my bedroom and get everything all rearranged. I am hoping to be able to put up my ebay auctions up by the end of the week, although free comic book day is saturday so we will have to see.

I suppose that is all for today. Hopefully the auctions will be able to get me enough for a new camera. Then at least I will have some photos on each blog to oggle.

UPDATE!

There was a Manny sighting tonight, I am so ecstatic h is ok, although a bit on the skinny side. I think I need to find him a vacation home, so he can get a little break from being a daddy.  Anyone have an albino male short fin bristle nose pleco of breeding age for sale?

Vacation wishes and Carol's Daughter macadamia intrigue.

Last year the Mister was kind enough to take me with him on a tour of some of Europe (bless his heart for being patient enough to be stuck in a foreign country and a ship with my horrible, completely social awkward, stubborn, panic prone butt for 2 weeks) and because I am stuck in the hole I am stuck in right now I have been craving any type of vacation, and of course the internet is rubbing salt in my wounds by showing me all sorts of stuff spain related. Example: Beers and Beans review of Casa Gracia in Barcelona. How in gods name did the Mr. and I not know about this when we were in spain? Ug. It's perfect. Of course we did spend out time on land in some amazing hotels, although one had a bed that was less comfortable then the floor. Or how about this example of a Low Carb Tortilla (Traditional Spanish Potato and Egg ommeltte)? I just want to escape. Vacation where are you? Oh that's right you are hiding in some mythical reality where I actually have a bank account with money in it. Gotcha.

Anyhow in other news, while I was bounding around the internet today, realizing how hopeless my fashion sense or lack of one is, I found out that Carol's Daughter has a new Macadamia heat protection line out. How did I not know about this? My hair loves all thing macadamia related, I used up every last drop of my macadamia oil and if it weren't so insanely costly I would still be using it, once I have normal income again I am pretty sure I will be using it again.  I am really anxious to try it out. Any one have any reviews up? Is this stuff any good?

I had better get going off to work, late because I was blogging doesn't seem like a very good excuse!

Revamp and obsession.

Morning all!

What do you think of the blog overhaul? I am liking it so far, I am still by no means done with it, but it is getting closer to what I see in my minds eye.  I am still pretty new to the whole blogging experience, but I am learning new tip and tricks every day and I feel like I am making progress. I meant to post a "health & wellness wednesday" post yesterday but I got caught up doing a couple signs for Record Store Day for work (one of my jobs is at a record store, and record store day is this saturday 4-21) so by the time I could have posted it was 3 AM and I can't ever write anything that makes sense that late, so I decided to wait until today. (Here are the signs if you are curious:)

Speaking of health and wellness, I am eating breakfast while I type which is weird but I am making it work. I am eating my normal "girl in a hurry" breakfast today which consists of 2 blueberry multigrain waffles topped with natural peanut butter and sliced bananas, a container of Stoneyfield's O' Soy strawberry yogurt (they have been out of the yummy SO Delicious strawberry coconut yogurt since the first time I found it *frown*) and a cup of coffee with 8th continent complete vanilla soy milk. It's high in protein and fiber and easy to eat while doing other things (ie blogging *laugh*) any way, back to my original point, I was planning of talking about something yesterday health and wellness related and I kind of came up short. I thought, "think of all the awesome new recipes you have found... oh, but haven't had time to try to cook them yet.. drat." So, in leu of that I am going to talk about my current obsession with the smell of my Shea Moisture conditioner and my never ending quest for the perfect perfume.

It, for me any way is pretty much the quintessential perfect fragrance for me any how. It is vaguely floral and somewhat sweet but with the perfect amount of spice and musk to balance it out. Well, thats all well and good, unfortunately the ingredient panel has been less then helpful, it says it is scented with honeysuckle. Then a little led came on in the back of my mind, "Oh! They make lotions!" so zoom, off I speed to Walgreens and stake out the lotion aisle, and... nothing. What? Where is it? So then I wander around and finally find some in the baby aisle, which is fine my skin hates everything. I crack open a bottle that is labeled chamomile, frankincense and myrrh, inhale excitedly, blink a couple times and then disappointedly put the bottle back on the shelf. It smelled like skittles, definitely not what I am looking for. Much like beauty products I battle with my body about perfumes pretty often. My body is not a fan of fake fragrances, I can't even use most fabric softeners unless they are unscented. Not to mention I will not dish out hundreds of dollars for perfume, I just won't. So here is the list of perfumes I have used over the years.

ages 14 to 18: Custom Vanilla, cinnamon, tea oil blend my mom and I would make together, it was delicious but the cinnamon really irritated my skin and people were always asking what I had baked.

Ages 18 to 23ish: Patchouli, orange and clove oil. It gave me the musky, earthy notes I constantly crave and didn't make my skin hate me too much, but I just sort of out grew it.

24 was when I started really experimenting with store made perfumes, what can I say I am a late bloomer and I can't stand cloying or sweet smells. Tried several, all kind of just fizzled. I settled on Bath and Bodyworks Breathe Comfort 'warm vanilla milk' scent and I still have that bottle. It is good and is sprayable.  I also used their cherry blossom scent, but it dries down to a horrible cat pee-esque smell on me for some reason on certain days, so that is long gone.

26 to nowish- My arsenal is comprised of Victoria Secret's 'amber romance' spray and Woodsmoke & Vanilla Perfume oil from Firebird Bath and Body on Etsy. I like both but I am not a fan of the dry down on the amber romance and I really love the smell of the WS and vanilla, but its a roller ball and I am not a fan of that sort of applicator, so that brings us up to date. I do have a tiny bottle of Flowerbomb for when I need to smell lady like, but I am not a big fan it was a gift.

So all that brings me back to where I started and what I plan to do. I am going to attempt to make my own custom body sprays. One that is honeysuckle, agran oil, frankincense and myrrh and one that is vanilla, blackberry/ black cherry, caramel, sandalwood, musk and amber. I'll document the process and let you all know how it works out. If it does; it will be fantastic, if not, well I'll have to start making soaps or something to use up all the oils I'll be buying *laugh*

 I had better get moving though, I need to get those posters for record store day printed out and actually make my self look like a member of the human race. Oh and put on some purfume!

See you later Lovelies!