Spring Forward

 I am so glad that it is finally looking like spring. So far March has been good! I'm super excited for the end of the month; my daughter and I are taking a vacation to see on of my besties in Oklahoma.  On Sunday my mom and I took my daughter to the park, then to the pool to swim, and we ended the day with dinner at a Chinese restaurant. We were planning on seeing The Woman in Black, but I was tired and had to get up at 4 am on Monday, so that ended up being a no-go. Since we've had such nice weather, I decided to go full on spring with my outfit.  The shoes  I'm wearing, I don't think I've worn since last summer. I've noticed that Payless is carrying them again though. These are seriously a fat footed girls friend. First they seem to have almost an unlimited amount of stretch, and they are comfortable.

Skirt and Shirt: Kmart. Shoes: Payless. Bracelet: Icing. Necklace: Target

Pompeii

I love ancient artifacts and archaeology. This year the Pompeii exhibition is on loan from Italy at the Pacific Science Center. I couldn't miss it. The tickets were a bit pricey, but overall it was extremely enjoyable. Moving through the exhibit it had Greek and Roman art, showed periods that were influenced by Ancient Egypt, and the general lifestyle of the people of Pompeii. As you moved through the exhibit it eventually talks about brothels and finally moves into discussing and showing Mount Vesuvius and the destruction that it bear with the 79 AD eruption. There were plaster casts of human bodies as well as photographs of where the remains had been. So much ash and volcanic matter had settled and hardened that it left hollow areas as the bodies decayed, which plaster was able to be inserted into the air pockets.  It was very enlightening. The exhibit ended with a display about volcanoes in Washington: Mount Saint Helens, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Mount Adams, among others, since Washington is a volcanic hots-spot and the volcanoes do present a real danger. 

 Plaster cast from the Garden of the Fugitives

Gladiator shin guards

Tropical butterfly exhibit (always on exhibit as PSC) 

The thinnest you'll ever see me, in a carnival mirror!

Shirt and Boots: Kmart. Leggings: Lane Bryant. 

Random Cell Selfies

So much for posting once a week. Oh well, I did pretty well in January at least. The pictures today are just cell phone selfies from the last couple of days. A new outfit, new hair, and some new makeup. AHHH, life is good.

This picture was a total blooper. Right in front of the mirror was a huge fan. I was attempting to do a face-shot with the rear facing camera (since the quality of that one is better), yeah well, I ended up apparently taking a picture of the mirror with the front facing camera. I was in a locker room and right after I took this one, some women walked in, so not only did I not get the picture I wanted, but I didn't even get a full body shot. LOL such is life. Dress is from Ross. Even though you can't see them in the picture, I was wearing gray knee high boots and the necklace is three super cute owls encrusted in crystals. 

Just because I felt cute. 

 

The obligatory bathroom pic. Dress and Boots: Torrid. Leggings, Coat, and Necklace: Walmart. Earrings (in face pic): Icing

I just bought this palette. I'm pretty pleased with it. I went to Ulta to actually purchase the Lorac Gold Unzipped palette, but kept wrestling with myself about how much use I will get with it, and ended up buying Two Faced Chocolate Bar. While I do really love this one, It still doesn't compare to my Urban Decay Naked 3. That being said I am especially fond of the colors Creme Brulee
(2nd from left bottom row), Black Forest Truffle (2nd from right top row), the Gilded Ganache (1st top row), and the Amaretto (last on  right, middle row). Actually all the colors in here are pretty great with the exception of the Strawberry Bon Bon (3rd from right, middle row). This looks like a nice pink in the palette, but really doesn't translate great on the skin. Sometimes I would sum it up to being that maybe it's my skin tone, but I also tried it out on my daughter who is darker complected than myself and it really just comes out looking like a chalky white on both of us rather than pink. 

Garnier Color Styler: Pink Pop Review

Two weeks ago I had dyed my hair. It was really not something that was planned, but as I mentioned before, I impulsively bought a bottle of Garnier Color Styler in Pop Pink. This normally retails for around $8, but I got mine for $3.50. It is supposed to be temporary and washes out in 2-3 washes. Unlike most dyes, this type coats your hair in a clay based pigment that you apply to dry hair and do not rinse afterwards. Once the dye dries, the color does not bleed or transfer onto anything. Even though it says it washes out after a few washes, mine has taken longer and that may be due to the ends of my hair being drier and damaged. While I do like the fact that it's easy to apply, very vibrant in color, and is only temporary with no transfer of product after the initial application, there are something that I do not like about it. One being that it is taking more that a few washes to come out of my hair, but more so than that is the fact that this stuff will temporarily change the texture of your hair. During the duration of having the product in, my hair gets tangled extremely easy. Really, it's more like matting than tangles and I have to constantly brush it in order for my hair to not look like a rat's nest. The areas with the pink seem to cling together and I can only figure that it is due to the clay base. I've also used a lot of oil based serums in my hair to try to prevent frizz, tangling, and to add some shine since this does dull the hair a bit.  Overall though, I would still recommend this as a quick, fun change with no commitment. Below I'm posting pictures from the last two weeks and how the color has faded. 

First night.

Day 3 (the color of course is a bit off in this picture)

About one week mark

Week 1 1/2

Taken last night (2 weeks)

Tough

Torrid was (may still be) having a buy one, get one on clearance. Yeah, I brought my happy ass shopping. I ended up getting 3 new shirts and one pair of boots for about $50 bucks. Not too bad I got  to say. The shirt and boots are part of that deal. I really like this shirt and it is definitely not see through, but seems to of gone a little see through in the pictures with the flash. I really felt like a total bad ass in this outfit, I don't know why, but hey, it works. 

I also recently colored my hair. I was buying some dye with the intentions of going dark, and noticed a bottle of pink hair dye on clearance for $3 (I really fricking love clearance), and decided for 3 bucks I don't have anything to lose. So my hair is now partially pink. I may do a review on the dye at a later time. While shopping I also decided to get some new makeup. At Sephora I bought the Nars Dual-Intensity eye shadow in Cassiopeia. This color is so amazing. It looks white, but is actually an iridescent purple, so amazing. I also got the Kat Von D Tattoo Liner, which is probably one of the best liquid eyeliners I've ever used. I bought some other basics such as primers etc, but the last thing I got was that I was super thrilled about was the Too Faced Le Creme Color Drenched Lip Cream in Lollipop. I am wearing all of the products in the pictures below.  

Pants and Necklace: Walmart. Shirt and Boots: Torrid. Bag: Imoshion.

Pink Diluge

 Last post was a hint of pink, this one is pink overload! I wore this to work a few days ago, and while I got many compliments, I also got a lot of "Whoa, that's a lot of pink!" lol, I don't care though, cause I love it. I don't think this is necessarily the most flattery outfit, and kind of wish that I had worn heels with it, but I was still comfortable and got to wear these oxfords again that I don't get a whole lot of use out of.  This isn't really the type of thing I would wear regularly, but I still enjoyed it for the day at least.

Dress and Blazer: Torrid. Sweater: Bongo via Kmart. Sparkly Oxfords: Wet Seal. Necklace, Earrings, Bracelet, and Tights: Kmart. 

A Hint of Pink

 These are some pictures I had taken quite a while ago with intentions of posting, but then wasn't quite happy with most of them and the one's I did like my daughter was in and had her school shirt on; I of course would prefer not to have what school she goes to on the world wide web for obvious reasons. This is just something comfy I threw on to go my daughter's swimming lessons and then a movie afterwards. We had seen No Good Deed. The movie was alright, could of been better, but it wasn't horrible either. These are some of my favorite leggings, they actually have pink running through, but you can barely tell in the pictures.

Legging: Kmart. Boots: Target. Tee, Cardigan, Necklace: Walmart.