Some Makeup Favorites

I figure since I'm pretty much unable to get any videos edited and posted at the moment, I can at least do a little blog about some of my favorite makeup products right now. These are just some of the products I have been using almost daily lately that I have come to really like! I know the pictures aren't "the best" but they will do for a blog post :P
On to the products!!

I have been on the major search lately for a good pallet of neutrals that would be good for travelling and just for everyday. I tend to bring my makeup to work with me lately to do my makeup there because I haven't been getting up early enough to do it at home. A bit lazy, yes, but hey, working two jobs and only getting 6-7 hours of sleep in between gets a bit rough sometimes.

This first palette is 8 shimmery brown tones by MAC. Now I have never purchased anything from MAC and doubt I ever will because I think its ridiculous to pay the prices they want for their makeup. Yes, it is better quality for the most part (or so I've heard) and if you are a makeup artist I fully support using MAC products, but I actually found this one on Ebay for about $6. It did come from China and I'm sure is some sort of knock-off, but I do really love this palette! The colors are beautiful and its so nice and easy to be able to just grab one palette and go. I also purchased one of these palettes that has 4  brown tones and 4 black tones.

This second palette of 3 is by Almay. Again, I have been on the hunt for neutral palettes! :P I LOVE the colors of this one! You can't really tell in the pictures, but the colors are all a really pretty iridescent-ish shade. They are perfect for a 3-tone smokey eye that isn't too overdone so it can be worn during the day. I just think these colors are gorgeous and has been my go to palette the past week or so. Purchased from ulta.com for around $5-$6.

This single eyeshadow is from Hot Topic. No, this hasn't been an everyday shadow, but I just loved the color and I like their packaging. I just think it's fun and something different! This color was just such a pretty iridescent blue/purple I had to get it! $2 from Hot Topic.

Every time I go to Wal-Mart I stand by the Hard Candy section and just look over it. I have wanted to get one of their baked blushes for so long. I haven't so far just because I'm a cheap ass and didn't want to spend $7 for a blush. But if you think about it, $7 for a blush with as much product as appears to be in this is not bad at all! I got #127 in Honeymoon. And I love the packaging on this as well. It's half of what attracted me to it I think, haha!

My next every day product is the ever popular Elf contouring blush & bronzer palette. This is such a great product! It is only $3 and the colors are great! I'm not 100% sure on how long lasting it is, but it's good enough for me! I use the bronzer every day to contour my cheeks and the blush (although not my every day blush) is a gorgeous pinky/peachy color! And! It has lasted me quite a long time!!! The mirror that was in the top of the compact did fall out of mine, but I never really used it anyway so that wasn't too big of a deal to me. and for $3...you can't go wrong!

Ever since I first started wearing cream/gel eyeliner, this has been my all time favorite!!! The little brush in the picture is the brush that comes with it and it is seriously the PERFECT brush for cream/gel eyeliner! It's a nice small brush that makes it easy to get close to the lash line and make a winged liner and I can even get my waterline with this brush! This is the Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama gel eyeliner in Blackest Black. I did accidentally leave mine out in my vehicle this summer when I bought it so the product did sort of melt towards the side and top of the container, but the product still works great and I am not even half through the product and it's lasted me at least 6 months now. It is $10 but you get your money's worth!

If you're looking for a cheap and easy eyeliner, this is the one to go with!!! I was looking for new eyeliners to try using that were quick and easy and didn't cost a fortune. I found this one on ulta.com. It's the black mania gloss eye pencil by Essence. It was about $2 and it is great!!!! I have never used a pencil eyeliner that was this soft before! Usually the pencil eyeliners just pull at my eyelids and don't actually leave any product on them, but this one just glides on! I love it! Especially for the price! I am afraid that when it comes time to sharpen it that it will just fall apart since it is so soft, but I believe putting it in the freezer for a few minutes and then sharpening it will solve that problem. Again...only about $2...you can't go wrong!!

As far as eye primers go, everyone raves about the Urban Decay primer potion. Now I'm sure it's amazing...but I am not just about to spend $18 on a little container of eye primer....so I heard that Victoria's Secret made an eye primer and one of my friends said it really worked for her. Low and behold, it does!!! This sucker only cost me about $8 and has lasted me at least a year!!! It hasn't gotten all gross or anything either! Definitely will buy this again!

Another Victoria's Secret find that I was surprised by was their Glossy Shinesticks. These are sort of a mix between a lipstick, chapstick and gloss. They are for the most part like a tinted lip balm. They don't really offer any moisterization for your lips...but they don't dry them out either...if that's makes sense...And the colors are really good for what a tinted lip balm would be! They do have some glitter like stuff in them but it's not over done where your lips are sparkling from miles away. It just adds a nice shimmer to them. They also smell nice instead of smelling like gross makeup! The two shades I got were Lemon Twist (the top one, it's name comes from the fact that it smells like lemons...not the color) and Colada Love (the bottom on, again named for it's smell). I did buy these during one of their semi-annual sales when some of their makeup products were 75% off so I got these for only a few dollars...I'm not sure if I would purchase them for the original price because I can't remember what it was...but I do really like these! The only one downfall...when you first purchase them the product comes up over the lip of the tube, so when you take the top off you have to be careful that you don't take half the product off with it! :P

And last but not least, my favorite mascara lately has been the Maybelline One by One Volume Express mascara in Very Black. It rarely clumps and covers my lashes evenly. All in all a very good mascara!! Already a re-buy! Usually around $7 from CVS or Wal-Mart but I found it on ulta.com on sale for $5 recently.

Well I hope this blog wasn't overly boring. Yes it was all about makeup, but hey, it's part of my life! :P Hopefully I can record the makeup I'm doing this weekend for the Zombie Pub Crawl and make that into a video. If not I will definitely be taking tons upon tons of pictures and posting them for sure!!! Halloween is such an exciting time!! I can't wait to try out my makeup looks for my costumes this year!!! Woo hoo!!!!

Hope all is well with everyone!

Much love!

Fair

Still No Computer

I feel so lost without my computer at home. I never realized how much I used it until I didn't have it any more. I am able to do a few things here and there from my computer at work, but if I have actual work to do there's no time for me to work on anything else of my own.

I haven't been able to edit the photos I need to edit or any videos at all. It's so frustrating!

I have however delved back into reading a lot more again, which is nice. I was in the middle of a series about two years ago and just tried to get into the next book but had forgotten almost everything from the previous books so I have gone back and restarted from the beginning...grr...

I have also decided that within the next...2-3 years or so, I would like to write a book. A fiction/science fiction book I believe. I have the kind of general idea in my head, but we will have to see how that actual comes out. Writing a book is a huge challenge and getting published will be even more difficult. Just because a story seems good in my head, does not mean anyone else will find it interesting.

On other notes. I am SOOOO excited for Halloween!!! The costumes I am for sure on are Medusa and Jekyll & Hyde (one side of me Jekyll, the other Hyde) and I'm really hoping to try out my makeup and film it and possibly get the videos edited to put on YouTube...we will see if that happens depending on if I get my computer fixed or if I get down time at work at all....both of which are extremely up in the air at the moment. I did get time to decorate my house for Halloween last Sunday so I'm super excited about that and hoping to possibly get some more decorations tonight! :P You cannot over decorate for Halloween!!! No clue yet what the actual plans for Halloween are, just know that this year my costumes are going to be epic!! Oh yes! Epic!

I have been absolutely craving and desiring to just sit in a coffee shop all day and work on writing and reading and such, but alas, my 8-5 during the week job does not really allow that to be fully possible. If places would stay open past 5 it wouldn't be bad at all, but most coffee/tea shops close by 5 ish. Argh! I'm also hoping that with winter making it's unfortunately fast approach I will get back into the knitting spirit and starting working on some things.

Hope all is well with everything in everyone's little worlds!!!
Much love,
Fair

Well...

It's amazing sometimes the crazy things that can happen in your life that make you realize not only who your true friends are but also who will really be there for you and who actually cares about you and your feelings. No, I'm not going to go into any kind of a rant or anything, just still really surprised at the turning events in my life this past weekend....

On a good note, I have a really fun DIY project that I actually have a full idea for and I am ready to execute! Just hoping it turns out how I have it planned in my head! :P Organization and decor has been one of the top things on my mind lately!!! I am slowly but surely getting to where I want to be with my decor ideas...very slowly...but it's getting there!!!

The other thing on my mind lately....moving.. To move or not to move, that is the question....

I want to write out a list of pros and cons to moving. I think the Denver,CO area would be great, especially since there are two people there that I already know, plus one of the people is my uncle who would let my boyfriend and I live with him. Which would be great especially since if I do move, I would preferably like to move for only a year or so. Just to get out of ND and get some different experiences and everything. But...do I want to go through the process of job hunting and storing my furniture and such for a year? It's such a tough decision for me right now....

So far my list of pros:
Great experience, fun times to be had, getting to live in (or a few miles from) a bigger city, the opportunities that could come with being close to a big city, better shopping (haha, of course I had to put that!), wouldn't be TOO far from home, I already know a couple people there

Cons so far:
Being away from our parents, giving up my steady job, having to store or move all our belongings, making sure to have a place where my two kitties can live as well, affording the move, finding a new job, dealing with living that close to the "friend" who caused me a great deal of pain/stress this last weekend, learning a new place

I'm just so unsure about it all....anyone have any helpful hints?! :)

Hope all is well with everyone!
Love love love,
Fair

Weekend Frivolities

So this weekend is going to be a busy but fun weekend starting right when the clock hits 1!! Ferlice and I are going to head to the humane society to walk a couple puppies (yes I call all dogs puppies no matter how old or big) and play with the kitties (same goes for cats :P)!! I'm so excited! I've wanted to get my butt out there and volunteer for the longest time and just haven't gotten around to doing it. After this it will be time to shower up and head on out in search of a new pair of glasses. The pair I have are great, I just want a new pair and since my insurance will cover a good chunk for a pair of glasses I figured its time for some fun new glasses! Picture to come once I pick them out! :D
After glasses picking it will be time for the races!!! My mom traveled to Fargo to pick up my two nephews and bring them here for the weekend! So tonight it's the races! Then tomorrow we are doing some school shopping and lunch, after which it will be "getting cute" time to head out on the town to celebrate Laura's bday, then head to the OK Corral (yup, you read correctly) to listen to a band that's playing there.
Sunday I will be finishing up some family photos and then heading to Sertoma park with my mom and the boys for mini golf and rides!

Phew, hopefully I make it through it all! Haha!!! I'm excited though! It will be a fun filled weekend for sure!!!

My computer is once again down so I am still working solely from my work computer whenever I have a chance so videos and photo editing has come to a slow crawl since I rarely get the chance to work on them, but hopefully my computer will be up and working again very soon!!!

Hope everyone has an amazing weekend!!!

Exes and Ohs to everyone! :P
The Ferninator

DIY decor!!!

Last night my friend, Kathie, and I trucked on over to good ol' Hobby Lobby. I have been wanting to do a DIY decor video for a long time since I found what I wanted to do, and I FINALLY got the supplies for it!!! I'm so happy with the material I found and decided to use! It's such an exciting project, I can't wait to do it!!! I'm hoping this Saturday or possibly Sunday will give me time to do the project and get it all filmed and such.

I've been way to busy to really do any more hair tutorials at the moment and I do have one makeup tutorial I want to try. I'm not really that good at makeup, but this is a take on one of the makeup tutorials that has been going around YouTube lately. It's really fun and pretty! :D

The rest of this week is going to consist of:
Wednesday (tonight): Gym, then gals night with Kathie and Adrienne
Thursday: Gym, then heading out to Bucks for the Break Bucks Bank night and/or heading to the Dove to listen to my parent's band play. (Yes, my parents are rockstars ;D) Then packing an overnight bag for Friday
Friday: Working til noon, then heading for Minot for a wedding, attending the wedding and dancing the night away
Saturday: Return from Minot and watch Drew play softball (if I get back in time) and hopefully doing my DIY project!!
Sunday: Taking pictures of a gal friend in her wedding dress since her wedding will be down in Vegas!!

It's going to be a busy but fun and exciting rest of the week!!
Hope everyone's week is going well so far!!
Much love,
Fair <3

I have a plan!

I have a couple hair tutorials in mind and hopefully this time I stick to them! :P

I want to do some back to school hair tutorials, even though I'm not going back to school, I know its definitely a big hit right now, and I want to do two separate videos for this. One on about 3 hair styles, and one on different ways to wear pigtails as an adult (or young adult :P) I do not care what anyone says or thinks, I absolutely love wearing pigtails! :P (A little girl at heart til the day I die!)

Also, I'm wanting to do a couple hairstyles for people with longer and thicker hair, meaning my best friend Kathie will be coming into the picture so I can  "borrow" her hair :P She's such a sport!

One other video I'm wanting to do since I'm at a resting point with my shoes, is my high heel collection....I recorded it once, but wasn't happy with the results of the way it got filmed and such, so I'm going to do a new one now that I have added and subtracted some heels so my collection is pretty "stable" right now.

Again....I'm hoping these are not empty promises I'm making! :P The only thing I'm worried about is having the time to do them! The heel collection one especially will take an hour or so just to film because I have so many pairs that I will need to put on, take off and put away. But I'm excited to do it still! :D

I've also been working lately on revamping the townhouse a bit. I've lived in this townhouse now for 4 years and am just now FINALLY starting to decorate it! Drew pretty much just let's me do what I want because its really not his thing! Haha! I should have all the pieces I want now to get my living room all decorated so that is one of my next tasks! Also, my bedroom is finally set up well and now I just need to add some decor, but that will have to wait for a little while until I decide exactly how I want our bedroom to look. I haven't decided on colors or any sort of a "theme" yet, so I'll wait and see. My kitchen is finally all ready to go though as well. Yay for making my house into a home finally! Haha!

I've finally also gotten back into the gym. Yay for working out! :P Other than that, life lately has consisted of softball on Monday nights, watching the Swimsuit International contest at Bucks on Thursday nights (Yes, I'm 25 and I go to the bars and watch girls strut their stuff on the stage on the dance floor and have done the contests myself, its just fun :P), watching our movies from #-Z (Drew and I got rid of DirecTV just to save on some money and instead have started watching our collection of DVDs from #-Z, so far, we are still in the As haha! But it's fun! :D), and hanging out with friends and family a lot! Drew has also been going down to his dad's house a lot to help him with the flooding that's been going on. I'm thankful that the flooding didn't get any worse than it did! Not that what occurred was good, but I'm glad he didn't lose the house and no one was hurt or anything of the like.  So life hasn't been overly crazy, just filled each day with different things going on.

One other thing I'm excited about is I did my first high heel shoot a couple weeks ago! I have yet to go through the pictures and pick out the ones I really like and edit them and such, but it makes me happy knowing I have at least gotten the ball rolling on my high heel series I've been wanting to do! Hopefully more to come soon! I'll post some of my fav pics on here once I do get them done!

I've also gotten a couple customers for my business, Forget Me Nots. It started as a scrapbooking business that my mom convinced me to do and it hasn't really taken off, but it's slowly working its way down the runway. I have done one scrapbook, one guestbook, and pictures for a friend of mine. The business mostly consists of scrapbooking and decorating the flower girl baskets and ring bearer pillows for weddings, but I also do some pictures on the side. Granted I'm no where near a professional photographer level and my camera isn't the best camera out there or anything, but I really enjoy photography and hope to continue with it and maybe get a better camera someday. I don't think I would ever want it to be my full time job, but I do thoroughly enjoy it as a side thing to do! :D

I hope everyone's day/week/month/year is going swimmingly! :)

Much love,
Fair <3

Being absent

Well...after being all sorts of MIA with my blog and YouTube for a while, I'm back!! I got a new background and a couple new videos in mind so hopefully I'll be able to get my home computer fixed fast so I can get to editing some videos and posting them!!

Summer has been so incredibly crazy busy for me I just haven't had time to do everything I've wanted to do, so I'm hoping that once winter rolls around again (I can wait though!! :P) I will have much more time to be at home and doing videos and more fun DIY crafts and such!!

I know I don't have many followers or readers on my blog (yet!), but if anyone that reads this has any ideas for videos or anything you would like me to do a video on specifically just let me know!!! The things I think I would be ok at are hair tutorials, maybe some makeup tutorials, DIY crafts and I'm hoping to do some healthy food videos!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day and here's to hoping I get time to get geared up on my videos again!!

Much love,
Fair <3