my lab practical and trip to san jose.

so,

i totally got the 2nd highest score on our lab practical yesterday, PLUS i've got the second overall highest grade in the class.

yes, i'm stoked.

my spring break kicked off to a wonderful start.

i'm in san jose right now. the weather is freaking lame. it's gray and gloomy. the trip here wasn't so bad. gordo didn't have an accident, not one. he hated his seat belt harness though so we ended up taking it off, but it was better that way. he stopped barking and just slept practically the whole way. so, aside from the random dog farts, the trip up here was a lot better than i expected.

i had pho last night, you know, vietnamese soup. OH GOD, it was sooo good. i haven't had pho in FOREVS. i should've taken a picture, but it didn't cross my mind. it was perfect.

so on to the rest of my vacation. will be back in desert land monday night.

maybe it isn't so bad after all..

the picture quality is bad. i took it with my laptop's web cam. busko took the digital camera dirtbiking this morning.

anywho, i was surprised after trying the more shimmery shades of the wales palette. the applied smoothly, evenly, and the blending was surprisingly passable.

in this picture i used a shimmery mute beige all over the lid, a shimmery dark brown on the outer half, and a gold on top, plus a shimmery vanilla kind of color to highlight my brown bone.

i had fun with this look. it's neutral.

so i guess i will get some use out of my wales eyeshadows. yayyy.

i forgot to mention the wearability of these shadows.

they last. they really do. take it from me, after a few short hours my face usually becomes an oil slick. i had no problems with these shadows creasing. they last as long as when i wear mac.

anyways, let's stray away from makeup talk for a bit.

i have my lab practical for biology tomorrow! YIKES. i've been studying, but i feel like i need to study some more, but i just don't know what to study. hahaha.

so after my lab class i am off to san jose for spring break! CHYEAH. yes, i know i have psychology tomorrow too, but that class doesn't end until 7pm, so i think i'm going to skip it. it's a 5 hour drive to san jose after all, plus we're taking gordo!

wish us a smooth trip and no dog poops in the car!

so i'm going to get that

my wales eyeshadow palette review.

so i was over joyed to find my little package in the mail yesterday.

the palette shipped in perfect condition, none of the shadows were broken or even cracked.

bravo to the seller and the careful packaging, 2 layers of bubble wrap.

the package of the shadow palette itself is functional. just a huge square that flips open. now where the eyeshadows rest is another story, it's just a soft plastic plate kind of thing with pots to hold the shadows. yes, the shadows are at least in their own metal tin.

i purchased the 72 shade palette. the size of the shadows is kind of a let down. they look huge on camera, but in reality, they are about the size of a penny. the pigmentation is, to say the least, just okay. when applied to the brush, it looks so vibrant, but as soon it is applied to your actual lid the color is just..again..okay, kind of powdery in fact. note that this is when i applied it with a primer and foundation. i'm going to experiment and see how these shades stick and show on a white shadow stick base.

blendability was HORRIBLE. i couldn't get them to blend very well at all! i even went as far as rubbing the shadows with my finger!

the palette cost me about 3 dollars, and for that price, it's pretty good actually. unfortunately i ordered from over seas so shipping was about 15 dollars.

i'm going to reccomend this palette for the makeup novice, just gaining their ground in the art. it's also perfect for the person just beginning their makeup collection or wanting to experiment with different colors, but not wanting to waste their high end products.

also, this is for the person who doesn't want to use more than 2 shades at a time. as mentioned earlier, blending these shadows is almost impossible without losing integrity of the pigments on the lid.

all in all, 2 and a half stars out of 5 for the wales palette.

i ended up calling this my hooker look. it consisted of a hot pink all over the lid, and a bright purple on the other half of the lid. you can't really see the difference between them though. on top of that i had a darker purple kind of blue that really brought my hooker look together, and to be a classy hooker, i highlighted my brow bone in vanilla mac pigment.

oh, and don't mind my skin. i think i mentioned in previous posts that it's going crazy.

and here's a picture of the actual palette.

buggers look huge, don't they!?

my next review? those revlon 12 hour color stay shadow quads.

omg.

i'm so tired.

my face is clearing up, but since i mentioned that, it's probably going to freak out again.

i painted my nails yesterday. this isn't the norm for me since usually only my toe nails are painted, but i used some brand of white i don't know, but it painted easily and even. i decided to use some nyc brand clear top coat, but learn from mistake, kiddos.

stay away from nyc nail polishes. the shit cracked all crazy, and this is the top coat. so you could see these freaking lines across my nails over the white. how gay. oh, plus it's kind of thick so it bubbles up all crazy.

..still waiting on my wales palatte.

how ironic.

i've been watching nacho libre for the past few days and kept repeating the one line from the movie:

"don't you know i've been having diarrhea since easters!?"

low and behold, i had the runs this morning! easter morning. guurrreat.

i'm so tired.

did laundry today. went out to eat. came home. hid eggs for achilles. barbecued.

too bad achilles lost interest in finding eggs as soon as he realized there were candy in them. so i wasn't even able to get any pictures becaues as soon i got the camera, he was off doing something else.

i've got class tomorrow in the morning. boooo. at least it'll be my last week of school and them i'm off for a week for spring break! yesssss. i'll be leaving to san jose this friday. the plan was to stay for the week, but crap, i've got lots of homeworks. we'll see how much i can get done this week and if i can possible lighten the burden before san jose.

tired. tired tired. yawn.

jfdkajfdkjklkjla!!

and that is exactly how i feel right now.

motherfucker.

i'm about to pepper spray a ho, forrealz.

let me just listen to this new urrsher jam, calming. hahaha.

it doesn't help that i have 9 essays to do, and my math midterm is on monday. UGH.

let's be emotionally there again.

baby, i am fucking starving.

i'm starving for you. i'm starving for that feeling you use to give me, that feeling of living, that feeling of love.

just reach out a little bit more. meet me half ways. i'm waiting for you. it's not right the direction this relationship is going. let's keep the fire hot. let's keep the passion we know is still deep down in our guts.

let's hold hands. let's kiss. let's do all this without a single care in the world. you remember that? you remember that feeling? you miss it, don't you?

the weather is warming. our love blossomed during the summer time. our son was born in the summer time. this is our time to get things going again, baby. let's get it going.

i'm waiting for it. i'm waiting for you. i love you.

kiss me like there's guarantee of tomorrow. touch me like it's the first time.

acknowledge me, goddamnit.

my face is expensive.

from acne treatments to moisturizes, what really breaks the bank is MAKEUP.

and it's so sad that the only makeup that i'm happy with is that highend crap. i'm sure it made sense to my pre-motherhood mind to pay 15 dollars an eyeshadow single, but now, post-motherhood mind, that is way too freaking much.

i'm addicted. i'll admit it. i love makeup, especially eyeshadows. i've got big filipino eyes that love to be played with!

lately i have been on the hunt to find a cheap, highly pigmented, long lasting eyeshadow. i have found mediocore quality drug store brands, but have yet to find that perfect cheapie eyeshadow. i may just be in luck. i recently purchased a pallete of 72 shades of wales brand eyeshadow. apparently it's a quality brand for dirt cheap. i've been watching tutorials of girls using the palette on youtube and it seems promising. very promising.

now to play the waiting on shipping game. sigh.

i ordered it from a seller in hong kong through ebay, so it's obviously going to take a bit of time. i think the pallette itself cost like 4 dollars, but shipping was like 10+ dollars.

i will link you all to the seller's ebay store if i think the pallette is reccomendation worthy.

p.s
this time change threw me off crazy.

lurking leads to heart break.

i found myself on the page of an old friend. she was more than an old friend. she was family. she was what little i had to lean on. she was everything i was missing.

i don't know why it had to end the way it did. it was immature. we were always so on and off, but god, we both knew after that fight that the lights would forever be dimmed.

as far as myspace goes i'm glad to see you're okay. it seems as if you've finally embraced your appearance. i remember the talks we use to have of our insecurities and i remember just how sullen your tone of voice when get when you'd talk about your imperfections. i'd tell you, i'd tell you that you were crazy! that you were an attractive girl. it would just take some time for you to really see that.

we knew eachother in and out. your secrets, my secrets, our families secrets, our secrets that came naturally with being girls.

it was only a matter of time until we would grow apart. i wish i could just spill to you all of my new secrets being the woman i now am. i'd spill them into the tightly sealed vessel you've always been. i'd spill them and feel secure in knowing that you wouldn't repeat another word of it.

if time travel were possible, i'd fix everything. i'd fix it all.

i'm exhausted.

and i'm pretty pissed off that we lose an hour in a couple of days.

god.

that sucks.

my weekend has been devoured with homework and chores. i wish you could see my desk. it's a landfill.

ughhh. i cannot wait until spring break!

how's school?

still fun. time and energy consuming, but fun.

how's achilles?

we've recently started to reinforce time-outs. it works since he will stop dead in his tracks as soon as i say, "DO YOU WANT A TIME OUT??" hahahahaha.

how's gordo?

he is now officially a house dog. accidents are a thing of the past. i hope i just did not jinx it, but he's been perfect with going bathroom outside.

how is jenn?

i'm good. just tired and easily irked these days. especially these days, so close to midterms. actually, i was cut a break for 2 classes already. my bio midterm was suppose to be next tuesday, but my professor decided to move it to the following week. and today i just recieved all the topics i need to write an essay about from psychology, it's a take home mid term. it was suppose to be due next friday, but she decided to give us an extra week.

whew. relief. more time to study and more time to work.

wish me luck, everyone.