sweet...

My sweet friend Alice has been taking care of me and my sad self by giving me little gifts, and a very funny card that had a lot of swear words attached. (Well, they were the $%&#(@!! kind of swear words, but the meaning was clear.) One of the presents was some Bath & BodyWorks Sleep Pillow Mist. This was a very good gift, because I have had trouble sleeping.

A word on me and sleep: I love it, I am a sleep expert, I can do it pretty much any time, any place. I lie down and fall asleep in about two minutes, and sleep all the way through the night until that awful sound, the alarm, jolts me back. I get really pissed off at any poor unfortunate soul that might wake me up. I often fall asleep on airplanes before they leave the runway, and I missed a lot of Europe because I would fall asleep so much on the train. I don't have a problem sleeping...except, well, now I do.

I must be pretty %$&^% up, because I am tired but not sleepy really late at night, I lie there in bed being sad, and then I wake up really early and can't go back to sleep. So last night I sprayed the yummy lavender vanilla sleep spray on my pillows, then went and wandered around my flat for a while trying to get sleepy. When I went to bed I spent a little less time lying there feeling bad, and then I fell asleep and slept all the way to 6:15...then proceeded to hit the snooze for another 40-ish minutes. That snooze part is totally normal behavior for me, so I think I am on the right path. Hooray! I am going to credit Alice and the spray, and I am going to keep on spraying like my life depends on it.

Which it does, in a way. : )

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I hope everyone is enjoying warm weather...and wearing their sunscreen!!

The good bad stuff

Since I have been nursing my broken heart for the last two weeks, I have eaten lots of ice cream. Pints and pints of it, in fact, though I think since my body is on the break-up diet I haven't gained weight. Extreme sadness is a bit like breast-feeding--the pounds just come off.

So the stuff I like today is Ben and Jerry's ice cream. I have eaten pints of Half-Baked, Smores, Cake Batter, and One Cheesecake Brownie. They have all been so, so good. I am still feeling really awful, so it looks like more ice cream is in my future. Maybe I can work my way through the entire Ben and Jerry's line...we'll see.

All out...

I went to Walgreens yesterday to get mascara...and they were completely sold out of Lash Blast. Not one single tube was left. Do you think it is because of this blog?!?!

I'd like to think I had a teeny tiny part in that...

Deee-Lush-ious!

Do you ever feel like that gal over there when you're in the tub? Me neither...

I'm a smell snob. Lots of times I decide whether or not I am going to buy a shampoo, lip gloss, soap, or lotion based upon the smell. There have been products I'm interested in, or have been recommended to me, or that I have read about and am all ready to buy...and then when I get a whiff, it's a no go. I don't like the smell of green apple or watermelon in the stuff I use on my body, and I really hate it when whatever I have on my lips smells like strong vanilla, cinnamon, or candy. And those "sport" scents in deodorants and shower gels? Gross.

There is a store, Lush, that smells so, so good to me, and satisfies my smell-snob. I always know when I am approaching Lush because the yummy smells waft out of its door and down the street. It is full of bath and body items that make me so happy: bath bombs that fizz and make the bath water super creamy or bubbly, solid perfumes that last a long time and make me sniff my own wrists over and over, and lotions that are delicious and actually give you soft skin.

One of my all-time favorites in the store is the Butterball bath bomb. It smells like sweet, vanilla-laced cocoa butter, and after your bath you smell good and so does the bathroom. It has actual pieces of cocoa butter in it that melt in the warm bath water and then attach themselves to you as you bathe. (The tub can get a bit slippery--be careful.) I like to store the bath bombs in a drawer sometimes, because then my clothes can smell like them, too.

It's a bit of an addiction, Lush is, and I am a happy addict. And a happy snob. (Admit it--you're one, too!)

Look for a store or shop online at www.lushusa.com. There will be more posts about Lush stuff...I can't get enough! And sorry --I used the word "smell" ten times in this post!!

It's the little things...

I rarely polish my fingernails. The polish chips, or I get antsy waiting for the polish to dry, try and do some little innocent thing and smear three or four nails. I do toes, but I don't go to the nail salon to get my toes done, either, because for some reason I always get cut by those scary little clippers they insist on using...and when I ask them to do no cutting, just pushing back, they look at me like I am weird. And then there is the ticklish factor...it is very, very intense.

So. I do my own toes, and they usually come out great. One reason they look good is that I use this awesome base coat. It makes my nails really smooth and it gives a nice pale color all by itself--both good qualities, especially if you are going to use a pale polish over it because it won't look streaky. And, the polish will last a long time. I do not put on a new top coat every three days like the magazines tell you to do. I always figure that if toenail polish chips a bit, that is OK. Toes are far away from eyes most of the time, and you can't notice chips from a distance!

It's not the cheapest base coat in the world, but it is a little bottle that does what it is supposed to, and I like that.

Barielle Natural Nail Camouflage--Usually at nail salons and at drugstore.com.

I love this mascara...

I am totally into this mascara, and keep giving it as a gift to girlfriends. It is volumizing, which is what I want the most in a mascara, plus it stays on, doesn't flake or smudge, and it is easy to take off with soap and water. And, it is at drugstores, so it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

The tube is pretty fat, and the brush is nice and fat, too, with fun rubbery bristles. It may take a while to get used to using the big brush, but when you do, it will be worth it. Remember not to pump the brush in and out of the tube (the only thing this accomplishes is drying out your mascara); just push it in and pull it out once for each eye.

Get the brush right at the base of your lashes, wiggle it a little bit, and then pull it through. Yea! Pretty lashes!

Look for the big orange tube of Cover Girl Lash Blast Mascara--it rocks!

Hi everyone!

I am creating a blog to share some of the cosmetic and skin care products I use and love. I will try to add something every now and then, and I will spread the word to my friends (some who love make-up and products almost as much as I do...and some who just dabble) to check it out and add their ideas and tips, too.

Thanks for reading!

Christina