Stocking Stuffer Idea

I have a serious case of christmas fever that has dawned upon me in FULL SWING.
I love giving personalized stuff as gifts
As soon as my exams are done I will be making a lot of gifts (which i will only spend a day on before I move on to bigger things like studying for my DAT) and I will hopefully be posting them up here.
Also I will post a few ideas on what to give as christmas/birthday/engagement/kids ...the whole works

Here is something I made a while ago but its TOTALLY cute and super affordable and would make a great stocking stuffer. You make tons of these for all your friends

Door Hanger
Materials you will need
1. Wooden door hanger - you can find at AC Moore or Michaels for ~ $0.99- 1.99
2. Acrylic paint - Some bottles are on sale at your local crafts store $0.99-4.99.
    I used one with a metallic finish in Red.
3. Paintbrushes
4. All purpose glue
5. Ribbon
6. Glitter paint
7. Rhinestones of different sizes ~ $3.00-5.00 Depending how many are in the packet you buy
8. Finishing spray. I used a high gloss one.
Optional: Black paint pen

How to
1. Paint with two coats with base color. I used a metallic red. I used sponge brushes
2. Once dry, use a thin paintbrush to outline the door hanger with glitter paint
3. Using a paint pen (I did not), or a steady hand, write the person's name vertically along the door hanger. Feel free to use a stencil and pencil prior to the paint pen to avoid a big mess.
In essence of time I sort of just winged it and drew free hand. I used black acrylic paint and a thin paint brush
4. Place the rhinestone and use wood glue or an all purpose glue. Randomly lay the rhinestones in different sizes across the door hanger.
5. Using a thin paintbrush and white paint or a light colored pain, draw zebra print pattern alone the top of the door hanger.
6. Allow to dry over night
7. measure about 12cm of black ribbon and knot around the door hanger. use fabric glue/ a needle and thread to secure the ribbon.
8. Using fabric glue or all purpose glue, place a rhinestone on the ribbon
9. Use finishing spray (USE IT OUTSIDE)

TA-DA ALL DONE & you have a beautiful door hanger.

These babies are SO ADORABS

Funniest babies EVER

Cutest Ever

How to cure a burn

Hopefully you won't ever have to find yourself in this situation, however if you are in this unfortunate predicament here are some home-ish remedies to relieve your burn. Remember, these are simply for 1st degree burns and at-home-remedies. PLEASE go to the doc if your skin is falling off because you dont want secondary infections #OUCH, thankyou!

1. Egg whites

Crack open a couple eggs and remove the yolk saving only the egg whites. Slightly beat the egg white and apply to burn.

2. Calamine lotion
This is one of the essentials you should probably have handy in your medicine cabinet. Fortunately for you, if you do not, then it is available at any grocery/drug store. Other alternative of it work such as caladry and store-name brands

3. Milk.
Place milk in bowl and use cotton or washcloth to apply to burns. You may also soak burn in milk (depending on location of burn)

Don't judge a book by its cover. Fascinating

How to be happy of the day

This is so heartwarming ZOMG

Wow this totally crushes my heart! This compilation of the Indian National Anthem was performed by hundreds of special needs children in sign language. Heartwarming

Oh Wizzies

As soon as I tackle my DAT, I need to get those wizzies out. This pic is my pick-me-up of the day. HAHA

Fragrance Review

Favorite fragrance ATM
Just bought the set: D&G light blue set. This is seriously my new obsession. Its a really fresh smell with a sweet undertone. It is one of those fragrances that can travel wit you through the seasons.
There is currently a sale at Macys: Get the full size bottle + perfume stick+ body lotion for $95
The large bottle alone is $88. So....grab it while its gone.
IRRESISTABLE.

Product Review

So I just got both of these products from Clinique

1. The even better skin tone corrector (At Macy's for $49.95)

My first usage was yesterday, and it made my skin feel SUPER soft- like silky smooth. As per the directions on the bottle- please use an SPF. I will finish my 4 week regimen with this product and post a comparative before and after picture. So far I love it, it fully complements my hypoallergenic crazy-sensitive skin. For the price I pay, the clinique products are absolutely worth it.  Will check in again in 4 weeks. I had a bout of acne which gave me the heebie-jeebies so I am totally trying to stay on top of my skin care routine lest i'm embarking upon a delayed puberty- jeebuz wouldnt be good at all.

2. Clinique repairwear laser focus wrinkle and UV damage corrector (Macys $49.95)

It may seem slightly premature to be using anti-wrinkle and wrinkly/UV correcting products but I am such a strong believer in prevention rather than treatment in any given scenario. I'll be soon turning 23... which isn't at all about the age, but it just means for the last 23 years, I have hardly worn SPF (until fairly recently) and I am honestly deathly afraid of wrinkles. Id much rather keep them at bay for as long as humanly possible until the natural process of aging gradually descends upon me. My poor skin has had to endure years of exposure to pollution and all varying degrees of direct sun exposure. So I shall tackle it. Although I have no wrinkles as yet, I will still do a before and after for this product

This is freaking me out...

This is awesome

Timescapes 4x

TimeScapes 4K from Tom Lowe on Vimeo.

Awesome trailer

My Cosmetic Bag

Although I won't be listing EVERY SINGLE product I carry, I will show you what my favorites are, and what products are ESSENTIAL to all of my cosmetic bags

1. A great moisturizer.
Consult a dermatologist for the most appropriate kind to suit your skin type. I use Clinque Moisture Surge right before I apply foundation. I LOVE this product (and no, i'm a regular average jane and I am not being paid to endorse or promote any of these products in any way). Its a water-based formula so not greasy at all, and won't leave a gleam across your t-zone. Very versatile through all seasons- the muggy icky summer months and the dry-frigid-bonechilling winters.
All clinique products are hypo-allergenic so suitable for even the most sensitive skin types. You can find this at any department store. Approximately $33.00

2. Foundation
The multitude of products out on the market is absolutely mind-boggling especially with regards to foundation. It is imperative that you find a shade to suit your exact skin color.
Do NOT test foundation on your hand because more times than not, your face is a couple shades lighter than your sun-kissed arms. Also, don't go for something really light that will make you look like a ghost, that look ain't cute, its from like the 1800's not 2011 thankyouverymuch.
Based on your personal preference in terms of texture, find the consistency that meshes with your skin-type: you may opt for powder based foundations or cream based foundations, or any of the other janks that IDK about.
I use L'oreal true match liquid foundation. My skin color changes from summer to winter, so thats another word of advice. Switch your foundation as you become the pale-scarier-version of yourself in the winter.

3. Blush shades that transcend your look from day to night

My makeup bag consists of the following blushes

a) L'oreal true match n3 - Day time everyday look. $12-16 at your local drugstore

b) Nars Orgasm - the little sparkles give such a radiant glow. Super pigmented so a little goes a long way. Best for a night out. $25-28 at sephora or any department store

c) Clinique Fresh Bloom blush. I LOOOVE how its two shades in one. The blending effect offers great contrast and the lighter part of the blush helps highlight the apples of the cheek while the darker hue serves as a shading color to emphasize those fabulous cheek bones. The red and pink tones are both awesome- Pink for the day time and Red for the night

4. A bronzer

I use The Body Shop: Honey Bronze. Listen women, bronzers are essential. Its not cute to walk around with your face darker than your neck. Always choose a bronzer that has a little bit of shimmer in it.

5. Eyeshadow

If you are to own ONE eyeshadow palette, I highly recommend the clinique color surge eyeshadow duo. These neutrals can easily be worn for a day time look, and emphasized more for that sexy smoky eye night time look. The lighter color can be applied to the brow bone and inside of the eye. The darker color to the crease.

6. Eye liner.

I use REALLY DARK black eyeliners. Recently I switched over to using a gel-creme eyeliner from maybelline and I ABSOLUTELY am in love with it. Other's that I recommend are Mac pencil liner in engraved $16. The only problem I have with it is that it runs out really fast so i always felt like I was rushing to the Mac counter to stock up on that eyeliner. If you prefer to use Mac then remember you need a really good pencil sharpner because you will be doing a lot of eye pencil sharpening

The Maybelline eye studio lasting dramatic gel eyeliner in BLACKEST BLACK is FANTABULOUS!!!!!!!!! Lorvve it

7. Mascara.

My top two picks for mascara are:

a) Clinique High Impact mascara in black

b) L'oreal voluminous mascara in Carbon

Stay tuned for an upcoming makeup tutorial ;)

Now this is what I call talent

Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.


Wowser of the day. This is spectacular!. 3.2million dots spectacular
Http://miguelendara.com

Favorite commercial of the day

My two favorite things in the world are babies and puppies/kittens. AWW loveeee this, Super cute...especially the one at the end

OMG they are so adoooorabs. I wish I could sleep this peacefully EVERY night

Contemplative...

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Are you typical?

I love this video! Really places into perspective the dynamics of our planet. The world, as we don't know it but we should
So, Are you typical...

How to go shoe shopping

There are a plethora of things in this beautiful universe that you can skimp on in terms of comfort and budget, shoes however are not one of them. 

There is a reason that I am more than adequately capable of sprinting a marathon (need be, though i'd prefer not to) in a pair of 5-inch heels... 

I have yet to venture into the virtual world of cyber-shopping for footwear. That day does not seem to be in my near future (and I will gladly keep it like that). For all of y'all that have managed to find an awesome pair of shoes online, congratu-frikkin-lations, you no longer need to read the rest of this since you know some sort of shoe shopping secret that I don't. You are brave, or have some champion-feet that can snuggly fit into anything. 

The art of finding the perfect shoe all begins with your first step into the store. Do NOT buy a pair of shoes in a rush, remember you need plenty of time to sift through the countless number of aisles. Hasty decisions might result in aching metatarsal (its probs not really but it sure as hell feels like it), blistered pinky-toes and short term plantar fasciitis (pain in the heel and arch of your foot).

1. Before you take your first stride into shoe-land, you seriously NEED to say this to yourself COMFORT COMFORT COMFORT COMFORT COMFORT! you will totally look like an idiot but you won't be walking out of there like the rest of the idiots who were totally mesmerized by the glitz, glam, sparkles yada yada. Comfort is the cardinal rule in terms of shoe shopping. If you find it hard to remember this, set your alarm to buzz 7 minutes into your shoe-spree with a large header that looks something like this COMFORT. 


2. Remember to stay focused when embarking on this treacherous journey. It is really easy to be led astray. Keep in mind what type of shoe you are looking for and then head straight to that section. If you are there for rain boots, go right over there and do not wander and be distracted. This is the hardest part of the entire game! Once you have chosen your perfect shoe in the specific category you were initially looking for, then go for it doll, wander your life away since your primary mission is accomplished. We all turn slightly ADD in the shoe store.


3. Babe if you are going to be spending more than 1 hour trotting around in some snazzy-lookin footwear, make sure its comfortable. The test I personally use ALL THE TIME to get a real feel for the heel is to run around the shoe store in them. Seriously!!! Wear both the shoes and try running up and down the aisles in them. If you are comfortable then go right ahead and justify your $100+ expenditure. If it's loose, tight, gross, weird, slippery then look for something else. 

4. The next thing I always look for- considering I am a walking disaster (I am only second most clutzy compared to my best friend, she steals the award)- is the traction on the shoe. I don't really care if its a pair of sneakers, sperrys, loafers, moccasins, boots, sandals, heels... there needs to be some sort of traction on that bad-boy. By traction I mean, I much prefer a rubbered sole with some sort of fancy patterned crevices carved out. It should be somewhat textured, that smooth lookin sole ain't gonna be your companion for much longer. SO remember, flat-surfaced stuff no way JOSE, girl you are gonna break your ass in those at the club or the snow or somewhere. 


I will be blogging my favorite shoes in a future blog. However in light of the sad fact that im blogging from the cozy (totally sarc) retreat of the library i can't really take pics... but stay tuned for that.  

The moon

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.


You leave the same impression


Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”


~The Rival, Sylvia Plath

My escape

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~William Hazlitt

Author highlight

• Pablo Neruda
• Albert Camus
• Stieg Larsson
• Ernest Hemingway
• Louisa May Alcott
• J.K.Rowling
• Stephenie Meyer
• Enid Blyton

For you, my love...

“But I love your feet only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”


~Pablo Neruda

Quote of the day

“You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” ~Franz Kafka

Good morning Vancouver

Exquisite

“I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from skim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog.” ~The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” Khalil Gibran

I heart Fall

1. The sun in my eyes
2. The whispering winds
3. The chill in the air that makes me yearn for those seemingly never ending summer days, or better yet eagerly await the frosty winter months where I will be snuggling up with my hot chocolate
3. The crunch of the leaves below my feet
4. The leaves are so vivacious OH EM JEE

5. Halloween
6. Thanksgiving
7. Pumpkin muffins at starbucks - DIVINE
8. Pumpkin pie & pumpkin spice lattes
9. Frightfest everything
10. THESE GORGEOUS BOOTS

Jessica Simpson Beatricy $139

Michael Kors- Cyrah $395...LOVE it

Favorite: Ralph Lauren Laveda $249. These brown boots are soooo perfect for the fall

Madden Girl $79.95

Emmy fashion. The reddish hue's are a great complement to the season change- close out the summer and embark upon fall. So romantic and feminine and fiesty all at once. Nothing like the confidence a woman exudes in a red dress.

My favorite... Nina Dobrev in a Donna Karan gown

Kerry Washington in Zuhair Murad

Sofia Vergara in Vera Wang. And this woman is simply gorgeous

Lea Michele in Marchesa

Sofia Hyland in Christian Siriano

"If its important enough to you, you will find a way. If its not, you will find an excuse"

...and you are my greatest blessing.

Photography courtesy of: Danisch Malik

"A distinct schism.
The angst bubbles through perpetually widening crevices.
Desistance of torment
Emancipate my soul
Elated exuberance, bliss, its my prerogative.
Alas, a delirium of euphoria"

http://bettytox.deviantart.com

"With you, I am me.
And you are my greatest blessing."

Contemplative...

"One day you will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet." Rumi

FAIL...haha

I am <3'ing

1. NARS blush in orgasm - $25. This is more of a sweetheart pink shade so it complements most skin tones. Blending is really easy because of the consistency of the powder. That being said, it isnt a loose powder and doesn't mask the cheek with a superficial chalky appearance. The gold speckles are FABULOUS, and add an impeccable luminosity better than any other highlighter-only product I have tried. One sweep with a large kabuki brush or blush brush is just enough. It is quite pigemented, yet sheer enough not the stain the cheek with clown-like streaks.

2. Koi Koi Sushi
Firstly, the lunch prices are UNBEATABLE. For this platter of 6 maki rolls of salmon, california and spicy tuna, a total of $9.50!
Secondly, if you know remotely anything about me, I am hardly picky about anything especially concerning food. If it looks edible I will try it! My one exception is with sushi. I need it to taste fresh. My rare, and highly-out-of-the-ordinary sense of particularity sprints into full gear like Usain Bolt. I have had salmonella food poisoning from raw fish before, and I dont plan on ever spending another 24 hours cuddling with the porcelain bowl puking bile and carbonated gingerale.
That being said....this sushi is really palatable and almost sea-caught fresh :)

3. Viva La Juicy
Love love love

4. High waist, wide leg pants
Just bought a pair from H&M around the $50 range, what a steal for this classy style. These pants are romantic and such a fashion wonder. Loving this new trend.

The Limited: $75

The Limited: $98

Hugo Boss: $295

5. My dad :)
My dad is phenomenal despite all of his quirks, rather in spite of his quirks. My friends are a testament to how awkward he is!!! SERIOUSLY. I love him regardless. I feel treasured, he kept my art work from 6th grade and framed it!