Wet'n'Wild "Gray's Anatomy"

Difficult polish to photograph. A duo-chrome that looks gray but flashes green, blue, and purple. It looks purple in most indoor lighting though. I like it. Three coats.

*EDIT*
This nail polish lasted without chipping for a whopping six days. It didn't peel at all either. I had MINOR chipping on the seventh day. I used my usual base coat (Orly Bonder) and top coat (Seche Vite). Great, great nail polish!

Wet'n'Wild Color Icon Palette in "Lust"

China Glaze "Secret Peri-winkle"

Gorgeous Combo

Shitty manicure atm, but the color combo is presh. Pure Ice " Kiss me Here" and China Glaze "Grape Juice". it's so much prettier in person. I can't capture it. There are blue, purple, and pink sparkles! GLITTER! so pretty.

I am the "who" when you call "who's there?"

OPI Pamplona Purple:

The color is very opaque, but I wanted two coats just to be sure of even coverage. Gorgeous color, obviously. Applies very well. I just did my nails, and I've already got tip wear. That's my fault, of course. This OPI España collection has a really nice formula. It seems better than most of the others somehow. Maybe it IS.

a better photo

same polish:

Charged Up

This is Orly's Charged Up on my nails:

Purple Panic

 Crappy photo. This goes on really well over my Orly Ridge Filling basecoat. 

Rubbish!

I cannot find the L'oreal Telescopic Explosion mascara anywhere, but there are so many new mascaras coming out that I'm super overwhelmed. I am such a ridiculous mascara junkie. That and foundation. I really want to try the regular Telescopic since I've never used it, but so many people seem to like it. I have low hopes of ever finding anything as wonderful as my Too Faced Lash Injection. It is quite a lot up to which to live, and no mascara I've tried has done it just yet. I still don't have a good brown or burgundy. Life will go on. 

I have been using my Revlon Matte Lipstick in Nude Attitude a lot lately. I really like the slightly subdued pinky tone it gives my lips. I do not find it to be drying at all. It may pass my MAC Fresh Brew (from Hello Kitty) as my favorite lipstick, though the Fresh Brew is really moisturizing. All of my other lip colors have been lonely since I've only been using the Revlon lately. Poor NYX lip glosses, Jane Lipkick, Maybelline something or other, etc. Oh, and my poor Rimmels. I love Rimmel lipsticks. They have such a nice texture, and color payoff is fantastic. The only problem is that the red I have is really messy. It's very difficult to get it on without making a huge mess! Maybe that's just me though. 

I am also really in love with my Maybelline Dream Matte Powder. I use it for touch ups during the day as I use a silica powder to set my makeup and MAC MSF natural/shimmer all over for a nice, dewy glow. It is more convenient to stick in my bag than the MSF. 

I think I should probably put some of my unloved perfumes and such on MUA. They are harder to ship since they are liquids, but since I do not like them and do not use them, it makes sense to send them off to someone who might like them. 

I am still sad that I am lacking purple in my life, and I am having a very difficult time finding a color shampoo that doesn't have a migraine inducing scent. Since I discovered that my Pureology was giving me migraines (oh woe!), I set out to find a new shampoo. They all seem to have similar scents that make my eyes explode and head pound, so I've been using my Organix Shea Butter shampoo. It's sulfate free, so I know it's not stripping color or anything out of my hair. So that's fine. I don't know that I have anything new to report on hair products. 

I haven't got any new nail polishes, but I NEED TO. I really need more purples. It's killing me. It's making me depressed. 

Lots of little, stupid things have been making me depressed lately, and I'm so tired of it. It's so stupid. I keep getting really angry at the boyfriend and angry about life and frustrated and hopeless and depressed and unhappy and just ... :o(. I have no appreciation for such mood fluctuations. My quality of life should be massively improved since I'm not in school at the moment (lots of rest), and I have all of my lovely medications. I fucking HATE people acting like my medicine makes me happy. It obviously does not. Seriously---fuck people who say shit like that. I think they need to be punched in the face by someone less pacifistic than I am. It is fucking infuriating. I believe I have lost all hope in humanity. I do not forgive people for treating their environment and fellow humans and animals the way they do. I do not know what else to feel toward them. 

I still feel really sad for the octopodes at the aquarium. They looked so sad. I do not think I have ever seen an animal looking so unhappy. I feel like one of those little octopodes, trapped and unhappy, unable to properly hide and unable to swim somewhere else.

Purple.

I am seriously lacking purple in my makeup collection and my nail polish collection. This has to change. I did a whole bunch of eyeshadow swatching the other night when I could not sleep, and I decided that there are not many colors I really need to add. I need a really good, bright orange, a good, bright yellow, and purple, preferably a darker purple. I have a light shimmery purple that I never use and don't particularly like, and that's it. THIS MUST CHANGE! 

I also want to try this new L'oréal Telescopic Explosion mascara. The wand is similar to that of Givenchy Phenomen'eyes, which I would never buy because it's overpriced crap, however, the want is very interesting. I don't think I've ever used a L'oréal mascara. I stick to Maybelline, Rimmel, and Too Faced! I think that's all I have. Oh, I do have that one CoverGirl mascara. This reminds me that I want blue mascara. I do not know why. I just want blue mascara, and I want a more reddish-brown brown mascara. I can only find ones that look black, and I don't want one that looks black; I want one that looks BROWN. I also want an auburn eyebrow pencil, so it will match my hair color better. 

Today, Pierre ate three roly polies. It was so sad to watch such a massacre of little isopods. I thought he just wanted to look at them and sniff them, but no! he wanted to nom them! Tsk tsk. I hope my cats do not eat them. They sometimes carry icky parasitoids, not that an icky parasitoid would hurt my dog, but still---gross. 

My sister is very interested in disgusting little bugs, like the roly poly. She keeps asking what they are. I told her they are related to lobsters and crabs and lice, as they are a type of woodlice. Eiw. I suppose I could go through the entire kingdom, phylum, subphylum, class, order, suborder, family, genus, species, subspecies (except they aren't a subspecies) thing with her, but WHY would I do that? 

I miss my gorilla studies. This is what makes me think sometimes that I should go into zoology or something similar. I liked being with them everyday. 

I just got an e-mail from MAC saying that they will have free shipping on ALL order placed between now and 6 June. This means that I can order the slimshine lipstick that is being discontinued by itself, free-shipping, and be happy. I am excited. Thank you, maccosmetics.com!

I am dousing my hands in keratin and vitamin E lotion to help my nails grow as quickly as possible. They were cut super short for those acrylics, which I forcibly removed because they were driving me crazy, and now my nails are super short, and I hate it! Maybe I should start eating lots and lots of gelatin, too! They need to grow out faster!!!

Now I must take my noon nap. Ugh. 

Industrial Woes.

My industrial in my ear was hurting really bad. When the jewelry is in, I can't see the holes to see if they are irritated, so I had to remove it, which I've never done. I have had this piercing for two years, and I have never removed the jewelry. Why would I? Well, for starters, when I removed it, it pulled gunk out. One problem with the industrial is that it makes it harder to clean that part of my ear because there is a bar in the way! So it gets gross. I realize now that I should remove it more often just to clean it. I mean I rinse it in the shower, but apparently that's not working so well. So I pulled it out, and the bar had gunk on it, and I was like "eiw." And then I poked around the holes to see what was going on, why they hurt, etc. The upper hole (the one closest to my head) is all crusty inside and out (in and out of my ear), and the lower hole is just really irritated and swollen. I assume it is from sleeping on it or something and putting a lot of pressure on the piercings. I am not sure what to do for the pain though other than take ibuprofen (which I probably shouldn't take).  This piercing doesn't respond well to ice or cold (it makes it hurt more), so I can't ice it. I have to put the jewelry back in eventually, obviously. I'm not even completely positive that I can get it back in. I know it is going to hurt. I should probably get some Provon for it. That might make it feel better. Provon makes everything feel better. Ouchies! :o/ 

In other news, I still need like a million more nail polishes. Love dove just doesn't understand this obsession. He doesn't see the lack of variety in my polishes. I don't really have that many. I will not count but eyeballing it I'd say twenty, maybe pushing thirty tops. NOT ENOUGH. Only TWO purples. Four blues. ONE red. four greens. idk. whatever. I need more. I mostly want more purples, more lilacs and lavenders and such. I only have glittery purples at the moment. I want creamy purple! And more yellow. I only have one yellow, and I'm not much of a fan of it. 

I have my first potential swap on MUA almost set up, and I am super excited. If all goes well, I will be receiving NYX Doll Eye mascara (which is on one of the lists below!) in exchange for my Boots No7 Mattifying Base, which doesn't work for my skin because it's just not oily enough. I am very excited to swap something. For one thing, it means I will not have wasted my money on something I don't use, but also, since I've never swapped before people don't want to swap with me because they don't know me. The more swaps I do, the more trusted I will be. So I want to swap! as much as possible. I suppose I should add all of those things on my lists below to my wish list on there, even though my list of items to swap is very small. I happen to like most of the makeup things I have purchased. 

It seems odd to wish for oily skin, but seriously ---oily skin looks younger longer, and I like younger skin. I always assume I will die before I can get wrinkles and such though. It just seems that it will happen. We'll see. 

I still can't decide where to stick my Arctic Ocean map! I am trying to get my room rearranged and remove shit I don't want/need in here and clean and organize and all that happy jazz. So I can't really make choices like that until it's all finishes. I just don't know what to do with all this Stuff. It is driving me crazy. I hate Stuff. And still I need more. Oy.