- “Love Is An Open Door” Kristen Bell, Santino Fontana
- “The Letter” Vanessa Hudgens
- “Pet Sematary” Ramones
- “Animal Friends/With a Smile and a Song” Adriana Caselotti
- “Streets Of Gold” Ruth Pointer
- “Stand Out” Tevin Campbell
- “Hey Hey” Joshua & The Holy Rollers
- “Can’t Get Enough” Bad Company
- “Rock Steady” Bad Company
- “Ready For Love” Bad Company
- “Don’t Let Me Down” Bad Company
- “Bad Company” Bad Company
- “The Way I Choose” Bad Company
- “Movin’ On” Bad Company
- “Seagull” Bad Company
- “Before You Called Me Baby” Caitlyn Smith
- “Made Of Gold” Craig Wedren & Matt Novack with Jasmine Cephas Jones
- “Lost Stars” Adam Levine
- “Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home” Keira Knightley
- “Nunca” David Hidalgo & Los Refugio Tiernos
- “Honor to Us All” Lea Salonga, Marni Nixon, Beth Fowler, Chorus
- “I See the Light” Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi
- “What A Dog!/He’s A Tramp” Peggy Lee
- “Following The Leader” Bobby Driscoll, Paul Collins
- “Pay Attention/In A World Of My Own” Kathryn Beaumont
- “Dig A Little Deeper” Jenifer Lewis Feat. The Pinnacle Gospel Choir
- “Lay With Me” Phantoms feat. Vanessa Hudgens
- “We’ve Got Tonight” Chord Overstreet
- “Zero To Hero” Lillias White, LaChanze, Roz Ryan, Cheryl Freeman, Vaneese Thomas, Tawatha Agee, Chorus – Hercules
- “No Longer An Elephant/Dumbo’s Sadness/A Visit in the Night/Baby Mine”
Month: September 2018
Mwah! My Lippie Collection
I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup until I was eighteen.
My parents were overprotective when I was growing up, especially when I became a teenager and they regret a lot of the rules they enforced. I’m not sure if not letting me wear makeup was one of them, but it should be. I think teenagers need to experiment with makeup if they want to, with the understanding that it’s not something they need to be beautiful. They need to wear too much and get those crappy lines on their lids and get out all those mistakes early so they’re not the floundering adult that I was without any idea what I was doing. For a long time, I actually insisted that I didn’t like makeup, but I think that was more to make myself feel better that I wasn’t wearing it.
When I started, it was strictly eyeliner on my waterline. Then I added in eyeshadow and mascara. Lips, though, that was the last thing I got into. With my eyes, I was willing to go any color, any liner. But I thought any bold lip color made me look like some sort of weird doll and I stuck with chapsticks. Slowly, slowly, I started getting a little more courageous, trying out darker berry shades and reds. Now I’m up for anything.
Which is how this mess happened. I’m actually very diligent about throwing out old makeup. I keep a log book when I buy makeup and write down the month I’m supposed to toss it. The first of every month, I go through the notebook and throw out everything that’s gone bad. But even after a clean out, I still have this sort of pile on my hands. How do I acquire so much? That’s for another blog post in the works on how to build your makeup collection without breaking the bank.
But for now, we’re here for the lips.
Urban Decay
gloss – “Goldmine” “SPL” “Naked” Yes, that first one is a gold lip gloss that comes out just as sparkly as it looks. The other two are a little tamer. I generally like the UD packaging and like the unique shape of the first gloss.
L’Oreal Paris
lipsticks – “Blake’s Pink” “Blake’s Red” I love Blake Lively so when L’Oreal did a line with all their brand ambassadors coming out with their own shades of pink and red, I snatched these right up.
Illuminate by Ashley Tisdale
gloss “Aloha” “Tan Lines” “Hibiscus” “Coral Reef” “Bonfire” I actually did a blog post on these before which you can check out here.
NYX
gloss “Crushing It” “Eclair” Oh, yes, that first one is a holographic lipgloss! This reminds me of junior high, which should make me cringe, but I can’t help but love it.
lipstick “Shocking Pink”
Too Faced
liquid “Queen B“
plumping gloss HOLY STINGING HORNETS, BATMAN. This one is actually going in the trash because, one, it hurt like a mutherf*cker and, two, the area around my lips started to turn red.
lipstick “Teddy Berry” I think this is old and I don’t think they make it anymore, which is a shame because it’s a great color, way more subtle than it looks
Rimmel London
lipsticks “Pink Blush” “107”
Zoella Beauty
balm “Kissy Missy”
oil “So Soft”
As much as I love Zoella and swear by her bath and body products, her lip products just aren’t that great. The colored lip balm came out in the Tutti Frutti collection, so it’s not out anymore, but it was a garish pink you had to rub on with your finger and tasted like wax. I talked about her lip oil in a past post so I won’t repeat myself. To her credit, the clear or shimmer balms she’s come out with in her Christmas collections have been fine.
MAC
pencil “High Energy” I love using lip pencils on my whole lip. The pigment is just really strong and sometimes they last longer than other products.
gloss “Lipglass“ When you want the shine but not the color or want to put it over your favorite matte.
Bite
lipstick “Chai” “Cashew”
crayon “Glace”
Make Up For Ever
lipsticks “Hot Red” “Rose Wood”
Revlon
lipsticks – “Pink Pout” “Nude Attitude” “Tutti Frutti”
lipgloss – “Sizzle”
Sephora
liquid “Always Red”
lipsticks “Love Spell” “The Red” “M11”
gloss “Pin-Up Pink”
NARS
pencil “Let’s Go Crazy”
Tarte
crayons “Latergram” “Mood Ring” “Wonder”
Randoms
Lorac – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales lipstick and lipgloss duo “Ahoy Matey” This was a bargain buy because I’m sure not many people want a blue-gray lipstick or lipgloss but I went for it. Plus this has a little mirror on it, which is cool. And yes, I love POTC
Tanya Burr Cosmetics lipgloss “Daydream” My number one favorite lip gloss AND THEY DON’T MAKE IT ANYMORE D: Every time I’ve worn this, someone asks what I’m wearing and where they can get it. I know I’ve said I’m diligent about tossing my makeup, but this one I can’t part with.
Grande Lips lip plumper Admittedly, I have pretty full lips. But this was a sample sent to me and I tried it once. Yeah, I can’t handle the stinging.
Ulta Beauty lip oil “Cranberry + Pomegranate” This one is a little more tolerable than the Zoella one, but I just don’t think lip oils work.
By Poppy Lipstick Queen “Jungle Queen”
Black Moon Cosmetics liquid lip “Mourning” This company has my favorite packaging and this is my current favorite liquid lip.
Buxom lip gloss “Dolly”
Maybelline New York Baby Lips “Peach Kiss”
Sleek Lip Star lipstick “Flaunt it”
Almay lipstick “Berry-Light”
Fresh Sugar Dream lip treatment
Clinique lipstick “Black Honey”
Kat Von D liquid lip “K-Dub” This line has my second favorite packaging. Her liquid lips are AMAZING do not come off. This one is a sample I got, but I’ve bought her full sized ones in the past in darker shades and they come out so amazing: bold and smudge proof.
Hanson chapstick I don’t use this one anymore because it’s old, but I’ll never toss it. This was an exclusive item for people that went on Hanson’s Walk Bus back in 2008, a tour bus that followed Hanson around for a week. It was one of my favorite experiences I’ve ever had.
Estee Lauder lipstick “Rich Red” This is another one that is old and should be tossed, but it was the first high-end lipstick I bought and my first red. I love how old school the case looks.
Hard Candy lipstick “Black Diamond” My only black lipstick. It’s pretty cheap and when it’s time to toss it, I think I’m going to replace it with Kat Von D’s “Slayer” (highly recommended by the gorgeous Thunderella)
Smashbox liquid lip “Driver’s Seat”
Wander Beauty lipstick “Wanderberry”
August 2018 Playlist
There’s not much to say about August. I just wanted it to be a month of healing, to breathe and regroup. That doesn’t mean I was lazy or stayed in bed every day (though that did happen at least once). In some ways, it meant finally sorting some things out in my life that needed to be sorted. I went on Weight Watchers, which has been really helping me (down four pounds the first week thankyouverymuch). I worked on a financial plan with my dad that would both help me get out of the debt I got stuck in when I moved a year ago, but would also let me have a life again. I got my car inspected and the oil changed and all the fluids topped off so it runs like new now. I submitted a story for a contest, which is the first writing I’ve submitted to anything in about a year. And I worked, of course. But throughout, made sure to do things I enjoyed. I checked out books from the library. I binge watched a TV series. I watched a werewolf movie on the full moon. I stayed up too late writing fiction with friends. I voted for dancers in So You Think You Can Dance. I lit candles and put on my bat shaped fairy lights and ignored the voice in my head that said I was wasting the batteries. I even drove down to the Cape and ate at a cafe I never had been to before while I edited my story, and then took myself to the movies where I was literally the only person in the theater.
And during this healing and breathing and sorting, I wanted comfort music, which meant three things: Worship, Disney, and Hanson. For worship music, I went with the new Hillsong Worship album, which is excellent. For Disney, I had a random selection, mostly some of the more obscure tracks, but most of which made me smile or laugh outright. (“Oh, my dear Bartholomew. I’m afraid you’ve gone and upset me . . .”) And I actually got a new Hanson tune! Well, sort of. It’s really Mike Love’s new song (from the Beach Boys for all you kids that need to be educated), but it features Hanson. Also, had to throw a little Aretha in there because rest in peace
Huh. So maybe I did have something to say about August.
- “Who You Say I Am” Hillsong Worship
- “I Never Want To Go Home Again” Vanessa Hudgens
- “You Are Life” Hillsong Worship
- “In Summer” Josh Gad
- “The Passion” Hillsong Worship
- “I’m Wishing/One Song” Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell
- “The Music Lesson/Oh, Sing Sweet Nightengale/Bad Boy Lucifer/A Message From His Majesty” Ilene Woods, Rhoda Williams
- “Be Still” Hillsong Worship
- “Give a Little Whistle” Cliff Edwards
- “Remembrance” Hillsong Worship
- “On The Open Road” Aaron Lohr, Bill Farmer
- “Valentine” Hillsong Worship
- “A Guy Like You” Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, Mary Wickes, Mary Stout
- “Perfect Isn’t Easy” Bette Midler
- “Touch of Heaven” Hillsong Worship
- “Think” Aretha Franklin
- “Lettered Love” Hillsong Worship
- “Mother Knows Best” Donna Murphy
- “The Lord’s Prayer” Hillsong Worship
- “A Girl Worth Fighting For” Lea Salonga, Matthew Wilder, Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Tondo, James Hong
- “New Wine” Hillsong Worship
- “Whistle Stop” Roger Miller
- “It’s OK” Mike Love feat. Hanson
- “So Will I” Hillsong Worship
- “Ev’rybody Wants To Be A Cat” Phil Harris, Scatman Crothers, Thurl Ravenscroft, Al Rinker, Liz English
- “Do You Hear That/I Wonder” Mary Costa, George Bruns
- “If I Never Knew You” Mel Gibson & Judy Kuhn
- “Friends On The Other Side” Keith David
- “World’s Greatest Criminal Mind” Vincent Price
- “A Pirate’s Life”