Volunteered at the Everett Animal Shelter today. They actually had kittens, and several puppies. There was a ram brought in, too!

School Stuff:
I'm scared about how Al's death is going to affect my journey to earning a 2 year degree.

Darn, some of the stuff I just bought at Macy's at the Benefit counter are now on sale.

Girly Stuff:
For today's makeup look I used my Clinique powder, Urban Decay Primer Potion, and Benefit's 'Get Bent Lash' mascara. On my eyes I used the Stila 'Smoky Eye The Talking Palette' which is more of a warm/neutral smoky eye. So that is what I did, used the light base color as a base all over my eyelid, the tan lid color on my lid, the crease color on the outer third of my eyelid, and the liner color as eyeliner and in my crease. On my cheeks I used Clinique... On my lips I used my Clinique Moisture Surge Lipstick in SPF 15 in 'Sweetness' and Clinique lipgloss in 'Sweet Dream'

I think I kind of forgot how hard it can be trying to pick out an outfit when you've just purchased a bunch of new clothes.

Girly things:
Yay, I discovered that my MAC eyeshadow duo and beauty powder are both eligible for Back 2 MAC!
Okay, for my makeup for today I started with my Clinique face powder, then used the Urban Decay Primer Potion on my eyes. For eyeshadow I used my MAC Eye Shadow Suite in 'Shallow V. Deep' and put the lighter color on my lid and the darker color in my crease. I also used the darker color to line my eyes. I lined my lower water line with my new Stila Kajal Eye Liner in 'Emerald'. For my mascara I used Benefit's 'Get Bent Lash'. On my cheeks I used MAC's Beauty Powder in 'Summer Rose' from the 'A Rose Romance' collection. Finally, on my lips I used CoverGirl 'Outlast All-day Lipcolor' in Always Rosy.

I wore my new black slacks and black & white plaid wool coat, both from Banana Republic. I also wore a new teal short-sleeved sweater that I got at JCPenney's. I earned some compliments, so I think it turned out well.

1st Day of the Quarter

Today's the first day of winter quarter. Monday's and Wednesday's are my short days. I'm only in class from 4pm-6:30pm. Sadly, I was late to class today. Oh well, I'll do better next time.

I was thinking of little topics or subtopics that I'd do on my blog. Thinking that I'll do girly stuff/makeup/fashion, dance, puppy antics, school, and I'm sure I'll come up with more as I go along.

Ruby's Antics:
We found one of the cookies that she'd gotten into yesterday. Apparently it was under our smaller fridge. I guess while I was in Bellevue Ruby managed to get into a box of chocolate cake mix. It appears that she threw it up by the time I got home, though.

New Wardrobe for a New Year/Decade!

This morning, after getting up, I cleaned out a sample pot of lotion, and went to work 'depotting' my Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion. The hardest part was cutting through the plastic of the bottle, took a while to cut through. I was amazed at how much was still left in the bottle! The bottle had to be no more than one quarter empty. I used the wand that came with the Primer Potion to scoop the primer out of the bottle and put it in my clear little pot. Then I cleaned the empty pieces of bottle and put them in the recycle bin.

This morning I didn't put any makeup on before going to church. I didn't have time, and I figured I'd give my face a sabbath from makeup. When we stopped off at home we discovered that my puppy, Ruby, had gotten onto the kitchen table and had finished off about half a dozen frosted sugar cookies. She was caught 'green-nosed' with the green frosting still on the top of her nose. It was quite cute and funny. I really wanted to go shopping, because I hadn't been shopping shopping in over a year.

My mom and I went to Alderwood Mall, and spent the whole afternoon there. First we hit up the sale at Victoria's Secret. I got 6 new bras on sale and 5 pairs of underwear. We then hit up Bath & Body Works and picked up a bunch of new hand soaps, a bottle of lotion, and a new loofah. We did our big purchases at Macy's and Banana Republic. And stopped at Sephora to pick up a Stila Kajal Eye Liner in Emerald.

The only thing that I really wanted at Macy's was a Clinique face mask. I ended up wandering over to the Benefit counter and the lady working the counter started talking to me. She ended up doing my makeup. So I ended up wearing makeup for half of the day. She used 'You're Bluffing!' on my blemishes, 'Play Sticks in Tea Party' for my foundation, 'The Big Beautiful Eyes' palette for my eye shadow and liner, 'BADgal Plum Mascara' for my lashes, 'Speed Brow' for my eyebrows, 'High Brow' for my brow highlight, 'Coralista' for my blush, and a lip gloss (forgot what color). I ended up getting 'powderflage', 'you're bluffing!', and 'play sticks in tea party', while my mom got 'Benetint', 'Benetint Pocket Pal', and 'Full-Finish Lipstick in Flirt Alert'. I did eventually get a Clinique face mask before leaving Macy's.

We stopped at Gap, but we just got confused by the weird jean sizing, and put off by the lack of customer service. We then went over to Banana Republic. We got a lot of awesome customer service there. Along with a lot of new clothes! We've never spent that much in one shopping trip before! It was insane, but fun.

Looking forward to starting this new year with a new outlook, wardrobe, and look.

Sad News

I was flipping through yesterday's newspaper and came upon some horrible news. Al Moser, my Computer Information Systems Advisor and teacher died on Thursday! I started crying like I haven't cried in the longest of time. This would have to be some of the worst news I've heard in a long time. He was so helpful. Who's going to advise us now? What are we going to do now. I guess I'll find out on Tuesday who will be substituting for his CS 122/222 classes.

Girly Stuff:
Makeup wise, I just redid what I did yesterday. But instead of using lipstick, I used Victoria's Secret 'sweet talk' Strawberry Shimmer lip gloss.

Welcome to 2010!

Well, 2009 is over and done with. Yay for that. I got my AmStaff puppy and a part-time job in 2009, so that was good. I think I'm going to start posting some of my girly stuff, like makeup and other things of that nature.

I wore makeup for this first day of 2010. Nothing too crazy. I also went to a model train show with my dad in Tacoma at the Washington State History Museum. We were going to go to Sakura's for lunch afterwards, but they were closed today. Sad Amanda.

So, some of my plans/goals for 2010:
Wear makeup more often.
Wear contacts more often.
Spend at least 20 minutes a day reading school stuff.
Spend at least 20 minutes a day working on cleaning my room and/or bathroom.
Start taking ballet on Friday's.

Girly Stuff for 1/1/10:
After washing up and putting on my moisturizer I used Clinique 'stay-matte sheer pressed powder oil-free' in 01 Stay Buff for my powder. Then I used Urban Decay Primer Potion on my eyes. For eye shadow I used a Clinique Eye Quad containing 'Beige Shimmer' (Beige/tan soft shimmer), 'Buttermilk' (Off white velvet), 'Bewitched' (Deep brown velvet), and 'Frosted Blossom' (light pink soft shimmer). I used Frosted Blossom as the base, Beige Shimmer on the outer third of my eye lid, Bewitched in my crease and along my bottom lash line, and I used Buttermilk as the brow highlighter. For my mascara I used Benefit's 'Get Bent Lash'. On my cheeks I used Clinique's 'sheer powder blusher' in 05 Plum Fabulous. Finally, on my lips I used CoverGirl 'Outlast All-day Lipcolor' in Always Rosy.

I shall try and take a picture this evening and post it tomorrow. (Warning, this is after wearing the look all day long, and I have oily skin, so it won't look 100% like it did at the beginning of the day.)

Well, I think that's all for this evening. I'll be posting more tomorrow.