Hey SHOW-OFF!

How do YOU bare?



A lil' shoulder here...

We The Free Sliced Raglan Tee; $98.00


Or giv'em the entire shoulder, what the hell, right?

OFF SHOULDER RUCHED MINI DRESS; $26.99




Something that's barely hanging on...

Oversized Split Sleeve Tee; $78.00


Or something that's about to fall off!

V NECK CHAIN HALTER MINI DRESS; $19.99




A memorable exit...

Street Slasher Tunic, $68.00


Or a show-stopping GRAND entrance!

LEOPARD HALTER PLUNGE MINI DRESS; $24.99




A dress that leaves the mind wondering...

Beaded Gallery Dress; $138.00


Or a dress that's got the hands wandering?

SHEER SATIN V-NECK SUN MINI DRESS; $29.99



Photo credits: 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th photos taken from FreePeople.com
2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th photos taken from AmiClubWear.com

Hey, Bag Lady!

Swim suits, sunscreen, shades and all that other stuff. Ahh, yes... SUMMER. And where there's summer and summer fans, there's a beach. Best beach accessory? Your bag, of course!


Here's 11 totes I found that I thought were beach worthy AND street worthy. After all, with the suffering economy, we need our investments to work for us double time!!!


(click this pic and it'll take you to my polyvore page, which lists down the info on each bag)

Please Take A Moment...

... to celebrate Memorial Day for what it truly stands for.

What with a 3 day weekend, the parties, the barbecues, the sales, it's easy to forget that those things are symbols of freedom that we have. Freedom that we often take for granted. And so on this day, please take a moment to be grateful for all the blessings that you benefit from because of the brave men & women who risked their lives to better yours.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

It Seems Like It Was Just Yesterday...

When I was cleaning up this little shit's shit.


But now, he's not so little anymore... quite the opposite. In fact, the little shit stretches 5'10" at only 14 years old. Oh but I love my [little] brother, and I am so proud of him.

He hasn't graduated yet, but last night was his school's "May Crowning". It's an event that comes complete with a mass when they honor The Virgin Mary (she's the one that gets crowned), the year's 8th grade graduating students are presented, AND the 1st Eucharist class is presented.

So anyway, the night was pretty entertaining. The choir director quit last year, so now the choir doesn't have a stable instructor. They sang the whole night anyway, nevermind that they weren't in sync, or that one of the little ones was clearly a mic-hog... it's all good. They were so cute though.



This is how I looked, very neutral. It's God's house after all, not mine =)



Here they all were, lined up outside. LOL, hardly a line... damn kids! Never pay attention!



I HAD to take this picture, I thought it was hilarious. My brother towers over his friends as it is, and then check out the little munchkin that decided he should stand next to my bro.



Here he is making his speech... well, not speech. But he spoke about something.



My stupid BF who totally ruined this otherwise really fuckin' awesome picture!!!



My sister and I... look at how pale she is y'all! She's obssessed with being whiter, and I'm obssessed with staying tan!



Me & my protege [my sister's baby], she's only 12!!! Back off pedophiles! I will kill you if you get anywhere near her!



And here we are... mi familia. We took many takes of this little trio-pose, and I decided to post this one up cuz it's the one where my sister & I looked good. Boys are goofy anyway, so we let him look the part.



The two little fuckers that mess with me all the damn time. But I love them both and deep, deep, deeeeep inside their oblivious little hearts, they're actually pretty sweet.



Oodles of Toodles!

WTH: Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?

That's Français for
"Would you like to sleep with me tonight?"


I bet if you saw me in one of the beds you'd jump my bonez while screaming, "yes! Yes! YES!!!"






























Photo Credits: ALL photos taken from Oddee.com

Wakey Wakey, It's Time For Brekky!

I'm so unmotivated to blog anything right now. I haven't hauled, haven't gone out to any place exciting, bleh. Nothing to talk about. So I leave you with this.

The Breakfast of Champions

It might look disgusting to some, but trust me, it wasn't =)

Friends?

Jesssicuhhh of JesMakeup.blogspot.com gave me this!



I'm supposed to give these to 7 other blogger friends, and I see everyone already has them... so whatevs... I'll still pass them to folks I've held a conversation with, you know, more than just comments =)

So here we go!
My sister @My Turn 2 Stand Out, who hasn't updated in foreverrrr...
My main ladies J.Rose Online and Christiana Divine
My girl whom I haven't heard from but miss dearly, Jane
My fellow Cali-lova-lova, Lady L
I'd toke w/her ANY day and ride that van-wagon, Van M.
She rocks my world, Roxy!

So yea that's it.

Oodles of toodles!

In Less Than FORTY DAYS...

The International Make-up Artist Trade Show comes to Pasadena, CA for two days ONLY!
Hurry and get your tickets now! Prices are subject to change as the date comes closer AND at the door.


[the pictures are clickable and will take you to the website]





Me and a number of other bloggers and enthusiasts will be there perusing the aisles and aisles of beauty heaven! Don't miss out!

The exhibitor list includes:

auralinebeauty.com

cinemasecrets.com

crownbrush.com

kryolan.com

lasplashcosmetics.com

macpro.com

makeupforever.com

modelinabottle.com

occmakeup.com

and MANY MORE!


SEE YA THERE!!!

Practice Makes Perfect!

So on this recent trip to Vegas, my boyfriend and I got a chance to play parents to a real baby (as opposed to parenting our 3 pups). But anyway, meet lil' miss Kaylani. She's 8 months old and such a little sweetheart.

Before anyone gets it twisted, our friends didn't just leave her with us so they can gamble, ok? They're great parents and my BF & I could tell they needed a break so we offered to watch her here & there.

Anyway, it was fun. It wasn't easy, but it helped that the little girl was so chill, and such a happy baby. Basically, we now know [FOR SURE] that there will be no kids for us in the near future =)











We stayed at The Rio, our room had a view of the mountains. Here's a pic with my BF posing...



Here's a little video we made, my BF had the privilege of eating the last nacho chip, so he did it with a bang.

I didn't take any pictures of the strip, cuz we didn't walk the strip LOL. For one, it was too hot and two, well, we've just been to Vegas so many times in the last couple of years that the whole strip thing is getting old. We just go there to get away from LA and all that shizzles.

Overall, I had fun as always. Any trip away from home is a good trip =)

Mother's Day... the Aftermath

* * * * *


I haven't abandoned anyone, just took a much needed break. Where to? Las Vegas! LOL, no exciting pictures, no exciting stories. I've been there so many times I don't care for kodak-moments anymore =) Be back in a jiffy! Toodles!!!

Help Ya Girl Out!

:::EDIT 5/08 1:15am:::


Ok, so she got her old blog back, worked it out with Google/Blogger. If u weren't a previous follower, then her link is:
LaaLaaOnline.blogspot.com

:::END EDIT:::

My girl Laalaa made a booboo... I can feel her pain, even though I don't nearly have as many followers as she did, I'd probly still go mad if I lost you dolls!


Click the pic to follow DolceVanity.blogspot.com



Let her explain it to you! You're gonna fall in love with her accent, I personally am in total LaaLaaLove with it =)




BTW, I wouldn't just promote someone's shit if I didn't believe they had talent. So trust me, she does amazing work with the makeup brush! You'll definitely learn a thing or two!

She CAUGHT ME!!!

Oh Christiana, you think you're slick! LOL I just noticed your little post on my Cbox a few minutes ago. Lucky for me, I'm about to head out with my moms in a bit, so I actually have coverup and my brows on!

Rules:
Take a picture of yourself RIGHT now. No primping or preparing. Just snap a picture. Load the picture onto your blog. Tag some people to play.


Ok, so since I wasn't totally caught off guard, I decided to snap 8 pictures instead LOL. Why? Cuz I'm conceited like that =)


As you can see, no amount of coverup could hide that little monstrosity of a zit on my face... but it's cool. LOL and yea, I don't brush my hair, it just kinda hangs there.


But, just to be fair, I know a lot of bloggers got caught HELLA OFF GUARD [I won't mention any names], here's something I did last month when I was testing out my webcam. No coverup, no brows. As you can see, my cheeks have redness to them, and my brows are only half full, LOL.




So now, for my victims...
Kendall [Just a girrrrl...]
L [made in TaiWeezy]
Van [ride that Van-wagon]
Katrina [chips Ahoy!]
Katrina [das just my baby-mama]

WTH: Oh Miss Hershey...

I just can't get enough...

If you recall from this post, Miss Sheyla Hershey was causing some commotion over her *ahem* hobby and the fact that she was pregnant. I present to you... an UPDATE. Not the latest news, but the latest that I could find.

Word To Your Mother...

MOTHER'S DAY IS THIS SUNDAY, MAY 10TH

While some people CAN afford to buy their moms the world, packaged in a little blue box or whatnot, the rest of us CAN'T. This doesn't mean we don't love our mamas, it just means that mom's just happy we remember her even after all those "missed" phone calls.

CutesyGirl




Intuition




Victoria's Secret





And this one... well, I don't know where they sell these, but it looks quite interesting... and useful LOL

Stay, ColorStay!

I was about to shell out $26 for a new bottle of MAC Studio Fix Fluid when I realized that CVS was having a BOGO Free on select Revlon cosmetic items. Soooo... since I've only read good things about the ColorStay liquid foundation from Christiana (who happens to have skin like mine, NOT shade, but concerns like oilies, occassional break outs, etc.) and knowing that Revlon's foundie cost only half as much as MAC's, I decided to have a look-see.


Using Christiana's experience as my personal reference [yea, I'm stalking u Tia!], it wasn't really hard for me to pick out a shade. I'm a couple shades darker than her, so it only made sense to pick out a bottle that was a couple shades darker than hers. So I ended up with 330 Natural Tan in the Combination/Oily Skin formula.

As soon as I got home, I had to test it out. And OMG, I love it. It reminds me of my Guerlain Parure Extreme... not in consistency (Guerlain is much, much more watery and easier to blend), but in result. I haven't been able to truly put it to a test yet, but so far, so good. It really left me super non-oily looking. Oilies are like my biggest problem with ANY foundation. I've tried L'oreal, Maybelline, Sephora, Benefit, Smashbox, Dior, Bare Escentuals, random mineral companies, name it! I've probably tried it. MAC does a decent job for a couple hours then it fails me and I have to touch-up, but so far, only Guerlain has really been able to tackle that. It's too bad that Guerlain costs too damn much, I don't like wearing it every day cuz it was so expensive, I just wear it on my "pretty" days LOL. So, I really hope this Revlon ColorStay is good to me, too.



Here are comparative swatches. The biggest no-no so far with the Revlon foundie is that damn white-cast (it happens in pictures w/flash). You can see that it's got this weird whitish-greyish glow to it, and that's only on my arm! Imagine it on my face! I'm gonna have to really play around with this product + bronzer to get a natural look in pictures. In person, this shade actually looks a lot more like the 2 middle swatches. The MAC Studio Stick has absolutely no white cast, and has a lot more yellow/golden and olive tones to it. The Guerlain, also doesn't have a white cast but has less yellow/golden (and virtually no olive) tones than the MAC, but more than the Revlon. I put the MAC Studio Fix Fluid swatch on there, just in case someone out there needs it. Right now, I am an NC40, but during the middle of winter, I was an NC37. So if anyone else out there are those shades, then this shade of ColorStay may work for you as well.


If you paid attention, I said I checked out CVS because of the BOGO Free... so what else did I get? Revlon ColorStay Mineral Foundation in 070 Medium Beige.

Originally, I got this as a possible bronzer or for contour. But when I actually tried it on, I was surprised to find out that it was REALLY sheer, and not as dark as it looked. I'm not gonna return it, I've decided to keep it around because it seems like it'll make a really nice setting powder.




These are comparative swatches, again. The reason I used eyeshadow applicators was because ALL of these products are incredibly sheer. I tried to swatch them on my arm, but they just didn't show up. So I figured, this is the best that I could do to give y'all an idea about this product. Notice, the top row, I compare it to MAC MSFN in Medium Plus and the bottom row is compared with MAC MSFN in Medium Dark. I use Medium Dark for a lightly bronzed effect, and sometimes for eyeshadow. I use Medium Plus for my setting powder, but I've always thought it to be a just a smidge too light on me. So looking at these 3 shades side by side, I can tell the Medium Deep from Revlon will probably end up being the perfect setting powder, because it appears to be the perfect "middle" shade of the two.
(PS. I'm FULLY aware MAC also offers a shade in the MSFN line named "Medium Deep", but that shade has a bit too much pink/peach undertones for me).


Overall, I'm happy with my purchases, and I want to thank Christiana with being so detailed in her post because it definitely helped A LOT with making my decision. Hope this helps some of you out there who are interested in saving a bit of money!

HAPPY MONDAY!

Everyday, Every Day

Got my mini haul from Everyday Minerals the other day. Here's what I got...




I originally just wanted the brush [Foptic Skunless Brush] for $10, but since I was already paying for shipping anyway, I decided to once again, buy some samples (can you blame me? They're FREE!). So I got 3 Golden Mediums in the Intensive Formula, Summer Stroll blush, and the Pearl Mint concealer.




Here's the brush in detail.




Here it is at a different angle.


Thoughts? Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this brush yet. It's nothing like the MAC 187 Duo Fibre or the Pink Duo Fiber Powder Stippler from Coastal Scents, because those kinda flare out/fluff out a little, and this one kinda just sticks straight up. But it IS very soft, it's not harsh on the skin at all. And I know it's gonna contradict what I said, but it's kinda stiff-ish... but SOFT. I don't know, maybe it's because it's made from all synthetic bristles? Oh yea, and the handle is made from "renewable bamboo". So any green-beauty lovin', tree-huggers out there, you can add this to your brush options. Or, if you like EcoTools, and wished they had a stippling brush, definitely look into this.