Adios

Off to Mexico I go! When I come back, I will speak Spanish fluently, I'll have a nice golden tan, and a wonderful, perfect maid-of-honor dress will have magically appeared in my closet. And I will have toned my upper arms, thighs, and tummy while enjoying lots of delicious Mexican foods.

Really, I hope I learn some conversational Spanish, don't get sunburned, and that my famously sensitive tummy handles all the newness coming at it. An OK dress is coming in the mail from Nordstrom, ordered in two sizes so I can do that trying on here when I get back.

Time to pack!

Have a happy two weeks!

Love,
Christina

Messy

This is what the top of my little cabinet in the bathroom looks like. It is a small example of what the rest of the house looks like. I am out of control, people!


I just really, really don't want to clean. Today I had some sort of flu-y stomach thing, so I sat around all day, sleeping or reading or eating broth. Yes, I ate broth and thought it was so yummy. No ice cream for me right now.

Anyway, that stuff up there...it's good. The little blue pot is the nighttime lip balm I'm into. It is nice and creamy and soothing. Not sure what makes it nighttime specifically, except that it doesn't have sunscreen. And the white jar is my Eucerin Redness Relief night cream. I do think it actually works and reduced the redness that I tend to get on my cheeks and nose. There's the nail polish base coat I wrote about, and a nice smelling Lush powder. See, I use what I recommend!

That cracked, skanky looking powder container is my bare minerals foundation. I love this stuff. It is good for dry skin and oily skin and normal skin. It is easy to apply. It makes your skin look very nice and even. And a container lasts a long time. The one problem I have is that I drop the lid a lot and it always cracks. Anyhoo, you can get this stuff from an infomercial on tv...you've probably seen them...or at Sephora or a bare minerals store (Stonestown has one). I really do recommend this foundation to a lot of people; it is gentle and natural looking and does what is says it is going to do. (Are you reading, my friends getting married? It looks good in pictures...)


And here is a picture of Scout...my first child...just for Michaela.
Happy day!

Before being boobed...

Here is the Outlast before the stripper had at me. Isn't Leah the cutest?!

And to address the dryness questions about these all day dealies: I think that you really need to have some moisture underneath when you put them on, or else they feel awful. BUT, it can't be too much or else the color just slides off. So, a little experimentation is called for. Be sure to use the top coat frequently, too, because that makes your lips feel nice and smooth.

An oily make-up remover (baby oil is fine) is needed to get it off if you don't have a stripper handy.

It lasted ALL night...

Last night was Lizzy's bachelorette party. It was lots of fun; it started at a great restaurant, went into some so-so bars, and ended at a strip club. Not a Chippendale's strip club, but a ladies getting half-nekkid strip club. Good times. There were a few stops for things like cupcakes eaten on 16th Street and hailing a cab from the middle of Valencia Street...so we were a bit all over the place, with lots of cosmos and mojitos and beer to keep us going.

I tried out the Cover Girl Outlast All-day Lipcolor last night. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the "all-day" lip thingies, because they are often a pain to put on, if you use liner it can get cruddy looking at some point in the wearing, and lots of times the stuff doesn't actually stay on. This stuff did...until it got taken off in a most dramatic and unusual way...see below.Here is my advice for getting this stuff on the right way:
1. Start with--you guessed it--lightly moisturized lips. Put your balm on when you start getting ready, then when it is time for lips blot them until almost all the balm is gone. This lip stuff doesn't stick to really lubed up lips.

2. Use the wand almost like a liner, and outline your lips carefully first with the lipcolor, then fill in the rest. You have to move kind of quickly at this point, because the stuff dries and then it is unmoveable.

3. While the lipcolor is still moist, add some liner on top of the part you already did so it makes a nice even outline...blend it in with the lipcolor as much as you can (the color will be pretty dry now, so it will be hard).

4. Wait a minute or two, and then put on the glossy top coat. Yippee! You won't have to put on color for a long time...you'll use the topcoat every now and then to keep your lips from cracking from dryness and looking super gross.

So, the color stayed on all night. I used a regular gloss on top to keep it moist. And then, when we were in Hustler Club, I was sitting at the stage giving away my dollar bills. One of the girls came up to get a dollar, took it with her mouth from my cleavage, and then gave me a full-on body rub with her boobies...and ended up with a nice pink lip mark on her bra. Which was white. Ha ha! I guess that was the moment the "all-day" part of my Outlast All-day Lipcolor ended.

GOOD TIMES!!