The Houston Museum of Natural Science *verypictureheavy*

Well, anybody who has known me for a while knows that if I get a hold of a camera and get in a place with shimmery, shiny things, I am most likely bound to snap away at every single thing I see. Here..I actually did. My mom took a small minority of the pictures at the museum, although I took a good bit. There are tons and tons and tons of pictures, and the only thing I wasn't able to take pictures of were the Indian and B.C./A.D. sort of things on the third floor.

A bit of the overall message, I think. I'm going to try to not comment on anything specific.

All of the rocks/gemstones are insanely gorgeous in the pictures, but the camera can't go anywhere near to the beauty they show. Full view EVERYTHING if you can, and pretend that each of those facets are lit up. The gemstones were INSANELY beautiful, but they didn't show up at all in the pictures! I loved all of the stones there, they blew me away like they do every time. There's a few dino pics.

And that's it =]
A side note--the plesiosaur, you kind of have to look for some random guy in the photograph, but that is one HUGE dinosaur, and /that/ is a 1/4 scale model!

That's all
Love and God Bless,
D.B.

Mini Walgreens Haul

Sew. I went to Walgreens today. I spent twenty five dollars, although it's normal that my dad buys my foundation, so cut off about eight of that. ^_^ My dad was going, so I seized the opportunity.

This is the CoverGirl TruBlend Whipped Foundation. I've heard various mixed comments about this, so I thought I'd give it a try.

CoverGirl's website: So silky, so light, you won't believe you're wearing makeup! The luxurious whipped formula of TRUblend Whipped Foundation glides on for silky-smooth coverage, a lightweight feel and a natural, fresh-looking complexion.

First Impressions: Now, this is the first non-liquid foundation I have tried. The issue is in reviews, is that about 80% love the heck out of this foundation, and the other 20% hate it. When I opened it it was indeed very smooth. While some had complaints of it not being smooth and silky appearing, well, mine was new and fresh, just fine. I tried on a little bit and I do completely agree with the claim on the website. It's a very smooth coverage. A little goes a long way, and it is very natural and fresh. It doesn't feel like you have anything on at all. The only thing I can say opposed against this is that the smell is indeed, incredibly strong. A side note is that this contains 28 mL where most foundations have 30 mL, which is very good, considering a large amount of liquid foundation needed for a similar coverage is hardly comparable to this.

I picked up Maybelline's Moisture Extreme Lipcolor in Nude Blush too. Sorry for the photo quality. It is very creamy, and has a buildable pigmentation.

I'm a sucker for cheap lipgloss. Really, who would pay thirty dollars for lipgloss? This is Jordana InColor Shine Luxury Gloss in Cute. Again, bad photo. I saw this by the checkout for a dollar or so. It is a pretty neutral, but very bronzey lipgloss. It's a little too shimmery for me to use, personally, and has a very high pigmentation. I think if I worked with the amount I use then I'll find a good medium.I picked up Maybelline's EXPERT WEAR Bronzer in Sun Light too. It's a very neutral, kind of light, peachy colour. I love the sun in it. The only thing that I can disagree on now is as most powder blushes, it's real powdery and tends to get all inside it. It's very shimmery.Jordana Cosmetics Nutmeg Lip Liner. 99c. It's creamy and nice. =]So yes, I did swatch. The blush is on the hand, lipliner, gloss, then lipstick.

The lighting's a bit off. =/ Eh.

We also went to Kohl's today. I picked this up. =] Rawr. This was like..ten dollars! It's amazing how cheap the clothes are getting. You go one week then the next and next, and they're getting progressively cheaper. Right on! Soon they'll be paying me to buy there! Bought with a Kohl's Certificate thing. You get $20 for every $50 you spend.

Also, a tad bit of a personal story.
I got these last Christmas as a gift. I'm a sucker for accessories, and hook earrings seem to be the most convenient for me. I don't have to open and close any tight clasps, I just put it in and poof. Well, about a week, seriously, after I got these I lost them.

Yeah.

Well, one appears in our yard. A neighbour kid found it. Which means..wow. So, I get it and don't know where the other one is.

Well, a few months ago I saw the other one. Then, forgot where it was.

The other night I remembered! And voila!

Love,

D.B.

Nubar Pastel Fever Lemon Sorbet and Oh Baby Pink

I feel absolutely terrible that every time I get on it's for an apology, but there is absolutely no way to keep up with things. I'm still trying to conserve my battery, snapping pictures as I can. I haven't even been able to get on the internet considering all of my afternoon time is consumed by homework and practice. Advanced courses do well providing you what you need for the college tests, sure, but there is hardly any time for anything and I'm also trying to maintain the highest average I can so that my regular (elective) classes (which are scaled to 4.0 instead of 5.3 like the advanced or GT (which is above that) don't pull down my GPA).

Rambling enough much. Well..I haven't actually been doing my nails lately. I've been too tired, and too busy. I went to the Muscular Dystrophy Association again for another appointment with a new doctor, discovered that I can't hardly feel any temperature in my hands and none past my knees. They put me on gabapentin, which I can say still isn't helping with my pain, but it's better than over the counter drugs. -shrug-

Anyways, this is Nubar Oh Baby Pink from the Nubar Pastel Fever collection released the past spring. This is one of my favourite collections of all time, and I'm not quite sure or not if I had posted this colour or not. The application is smooth and creamy, and very good, although you need about three-four coats of application. That's keeping in mind, I normally do very thin coats. I don't really like Nubar's brush size, although with precision and stabilizing my hand I am getting better at managing.

Nubar Lemon Sorbet is also very excellent. It is the most streak free yellow I've ever tried and definetely the lightest and palest. It is an absolutely gorgeous colour and doesn't make me look red although it does in the picture. >.> I used two coats, although a third is quite obviously necessary for opacity.

S'well, I went to the local museum and am dedicating an entire post to that in a few moments. ^^

That's all for now,

D.B.

Clothes and a Konadicure, Neon Removal

Alright. So I got "in the mood" to change my nails, considering they were lasting "forever" in my book. So, I got the nail polish remover out and attempted to remove it.

Harder than I thought.

All glittery things are hard to remove. It took twice as much cotton and about five times as much nail polish remover to get it off. The funny thing is, is that when Blue Sparrow was partially removed, it had this intense silver glitter, hiding underneath all that blue. That look alone I would've totally gone for.

ANYWAYS. So I pulled out from Nubar's Pastel Collection Green Tea, and Konad plate m55. I experimented, failed a little bit, and ended up just putting random designs. Sorry it looks so bad, I was kind of annoyed from the removal and didn't feel like spending forever on my nails. Besides, it's just practice. [=


This is the original sloppy pic with no Konad.

So it was my dad's birthday, and while we were at Bass Pro I did some back-to-school shopping.

These are all Natural Reflections, size small. Priced 30-45 dollars, and each was like..10-15, I think. I also got the best corduroy pants ever. Best pants EVER, and they were ten bucks.

Not cold enough yet, but it will be for CHICAGO.

I'm so afraid to stain this x.x

That's all.

Love and God Bless,

D.B.

China Glaze -- Neon Blue Sparrow

Aha! So, wel, indeed I did find batteries, and I stole an extra pair. I hope to keep pictures sparse and only when necessary--not fumbling around searching for the right position or for me to get the great face of the day shot--just simple, when I'm ready to go, snap and off camera. I'm hoping this with my new batteries stolen will last me a while. If not, hopefully there might be a few more to snag in the junk drawer downstairs. /Hopefully/.

Now NORMALLY I don't like to take pictures outside? You know why? Because I see wonderful glorious photographs of pictures in the perfect lighting that I LOVE, but when you try them on indoors, where you are most of the time, it's dull! Now this I happened to see the shocking beauty of when I did go outside, so I felt the need to take a picture.

Anyhow, this is neon neon. I wore another from the neon collection-- the In the Lime-light in the pictures where I was riding my friend's horses in Mississippi, and those stood out more than anything! You could see them a mile away. I'll try to make up for my nailish absence with a bit of a decent review.

Well, to start off. As I said, this is NEON NEON. It is so bright, especially when you're outside in the sun. The application was iffy. I had a hard time getting the right amount of polish on my nails, because it's very thick, but also watery. It ended up in huge glops, and when I did get the right amount it thinned out in random spots. This was two coats. I should've done three, maybe it would've made things a bit mor even. In true light you can see all the opaqueness issues. This took forever to drydry. I used a coat of Seche with this, and it seemed fairly dry, but after nearly forty-five minutes it insisted on smudging and tearing off and just being that semi-dry kind of jam-likeness. So, some parts would smudge off, literally, and then I'd smudge it back on and it'd dry that way. So far, since my application of it about six hours ago, has it chipped or shown any signs of wear. Even if it did, this nail polish is so amazing that I'd wear it anyways. You really need to FULL VIEW to see the intense sparkles and brightness of it. The colour is darker inside, but outside it really shows it's beauty. I can't even explain it--it's just GORGEOUS. It's like the intensity of the sparkles on a brand new BASS BOAT, yes, that's what it is. It's absolutely beautiful. I'm usually one for creamy, matte like things, but this absolutely took my attention away.

I decided to practice a little of Konad on this. From the basic plate #2 or..#3 -rubs head-. Flowers and hearts, index and ring. I'm getting slightly better at it, all for practice. I'm hoping eventually I'll reach the point when my mom can trust in me and not squander money with a pedicure.

This is the inside post w/flash.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b223/onono4542/006.jpg is the link to fullview. I can't get it to work. >.>
FULL VIEW.

Anyways, that's all for now.
Love and God bless,

D.B.

Vacationy

So, I'm sorry, but I've still been busy and gone and here and there, and the battery's still are all out of. So I'm going to post pictures (taken with my mommy's camera, not mine XD), of our trips and doings and such. First off, New Braunfels. Here's a "few" pictures, but it's hard to get them into any order--so they aren't.

Here's the entrance to it. All big and noticable like.

One of their reticulated pythons in a big cage.

Another.

The bigg cage with all em in it.

The alligator and crocodile feeding!

This guy was so cool. Knew lots of stuff--and I'm like his biggest #1 fan =]

Retic. This is a BEAUTIFUL SNAKE -faint-.

Anaconda

So I took pics with Apollo-the famous snake off Dirty Jobs. He took two professional pics--the one that's all grainy is that one cuz it was scanned. Other my mom took.

We went to Kirbyville and to my great aunt/uncle's ranch. My third cousin (my mom's cousin's son) hooked up a horse called Bud we all rode on a little--him mostly leading the kids. I went out a lot--they had four horses, and fed them and played with them. This one's called Crack. Apparently he's on it.

Anyways--hope to get back on topic soon.

Love,

D.B.