MAC & Sephora Mini haul ;)

So I went to the mall today with Karen because We both had some B2M that we wanted to exchange..


Sephora Haul
I got: NARS Blush in Deep Throat, Clinique Even Better Liquid Foundation, MUFE Mat Velvet Sample, Laura Mercier Oil Free Sample, Cosmedicine Medi-Matte Sample, I wanted shi-seido duo-foundation sample but they only had their skincare line and not make-up..I also got Anti-Bacterial Daily Brush Cleaner spray (the small one lol) and my free gift


MAC Haul
had some B2M stuff and wanted a new eyeshadow lol..

and also wanted to try Dollymix and ended up getting Soft Ochre Paint Pot... ended up getting the eyeshadow Twinks :) I like it! lol..


My Free Gift I got to choose for being a Sephora Beauty Insider Member


It was the last one and it was calling my name! My FIRST Nars Make-up! the blush is called Deep Throat if anyone is wondering ;) It's beautiful! I wanted to get Orgasm, but i figured i'd get deep throat first lol! (cause it was the last one and there were like 5 of orgasm and super orgasm)..

I really wanted to get the MAC 187 brush.. but dang it's $45!! lol.. the MAC 130 brush is the exact same thing but a bit smaller (MA said better for blending, getting in hard to reach places like the corner of the nose and hairline) but it's $38!! shoot lol

I Think what i'm going to do is save up for the 130 brush and then get the sigma SS187 and then also get the Target 187 Dupe as a backup/extra (for in between washings)..

I put together a list of MAC eyeshadows I wanted, but when I was there it was just too hard to just choose 1 or 2 lol.. and just ended up getting the one the MA suggested (she was wearing it on her and i was in love with the color).. so i got it lol..

Also i told her my dilemma of Viva Glam Gaga looking totally nasty looking on me lol, and she paired it with Ample Pink Plushglass and it looked pretty nice actually lol.. unfortunately they sold out LOL.. so i'll have to go back! (or hopefully someone on MUA wants to swap with me haha)..

anyway - I have a LOT of packing items to do.. and go to the post office tomorrow.. :)

good night everyone!

Khristine

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Sunday 2/28/10 Gym session

Hey Everyone! Today we hit the gym hard! lol.. we ended up doing Chest/Back and a little bit of legs (lol just 1 exercise).. I had gotten a couple of questions as to what Bulgarian lunges are..

Sorry this video is rather fast LOL.. but we weren't supposed to be filming and the worker bee was walking around - so i was trying to do it fast, but at the same time didn't want to go too fast so yall couldn't see..




Basically they are like regular lunges, 'cept your other leg is on a bench (or you could use a chair if you're at home).

For recording purposes, I only was holding a 10lb weight across my chest. But after this I was holding the 25lb weight.

It's like a regular lunge, but since your leg is up on the bench, and when you go down (you want your other leg - the one that is down) you want to make sure your ankle is under the knee to protect your knee and not get injured.. I feel a great stretch in my thigh that is up on the bench, and it really works out the quads (for the leg that is holding the weight) if that makes sense LOL..

so i know i only recorded one side.. well i deleted the otherside so that the video wouldn't be too long.. but you get the idea!

Hope that explains it.. I did 3 sets of 8 repetitions holding that 25lb weight (not dumbell- but you could do that with a dumbbell in each hand - but i recommend if you're new to this exercise - no weights would be just fine)..

I will update this later! gotta change my daughters poopy diapers LOL

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Sleepy & Rainy Saturday..

So today we missed the gym because *ahem* someone overslept/alarm didn't go off.. lol.. anyway -we'll be going at it tomorrow hard since we've missed today..

and it was freakin pourin rain outside.. on the way to Tianna's ballet/tap class.. and right after i had to put the girls to nap and then get all the food for her Jasmyn's Mini Birthday party..

I was bummed out that MY parents.. didn't bother to call and say happy birthday to her on wednesday.. or on thursday when i had my mother baby sit them for a few hours while i was at work and my mother in law had a procedure she had to get done..

i reminded her that Jasmyn's birthday party was going to be small and there was going to be food.. but she said she was going to come.. but of course another disappointment.. i'm a little hurt.. and pissed at the same time.. but im not going to go into detail.. i've just taken an ambien cause i've got too much on my mind and don't want to be sleepy blogging non-sense LOL.. but yea that disapppointed me when i called my dad and he answered *cough* oh im not coming i'm still sick.. then right away - SO how are the girls? .. meh.. goodbye..  well whatever i'll leave that for another day...

but i don't have much to write here.. only that i've decided to finally take better care of my brushes and i've purchased a few brush guards

NOT my images

taken from the brush guard website

I figure, I spend and invest in so much money on my brushes that i use for my face/eyes etc, why not invest in their lifespan! lol.. so i think this is the next major step aside from washing them.. because these guards keep them dry free/dust free and great way to let them dry without harming your brush and keeping the form of the brush! in turn will make the brushes last longer!

so i barely just ordered i think the variety pack, the shadow/liner pack, the foundation pack and the kabuki pack..

i know it looks like i bought too much, but i'm actually still adding to my brush collection!

i'll let you all know how i like it when i do receive it and start using them! :)

the Ambien is kicking in now.. have a great night!

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FOTD: Black Friday

sorry i look funny LOL.. ;) i was getting ready for work and today the theme my co-workers decided to wear black scrubs.

sorry for the unflattering angles of my face :) and bad lighting! but thought i'd share.. and any CC is welcome!

FACE:
MAC Studio Fix Liquid in NC35
L'oreal Studio Secrets Primer
MAC prep + prime skin base visage
Blush - Coygirl

EYES:
Gentle Fume Eyes Quad (MAC)
Rondelle
Waft
Gentle Fume
Carbon
Avon Glimmersticks Eyeliner in black
Lash Stiletto voluptuous mascara

LIPS:
Chapstick (forget the name right now)
MAC Myself Lipstick


btw i hate my eyelashes! i had curled them and put mascara - but they fell straight down (as always!)

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Disneyland Wednesday (Jasmyn's 2nd Birthday)

Hey Everyone! I know I said I was going to have a tutorial recorded tonight.. but I've been extremely pooped with the events this week - that it'll probably have to wait until maybe possibly Sunday.. maybe even next week tues/wednesday.

Yesterday was my youngest daughter's 2nd Birthday! Jeebus do they grow fast!! Enjoy your little ones while you can! because before you know it they'll be all grown up talking back to you! LOL.. (that's how it sorta is with my soon to be 4 year old!)..

So in honor of my daughter's Birthday - we decided to go to Disneyland!..we go so often that when we were there.. we saw they had monthly payment plans for the Annual pass! we were Like WTF?!!! lol.. had we known that before - we would have gotten that A LONG time ago!.. so much money would have been saved (we buy our tickets from ebay lol).. so this made so much sense to just get the premium annual pass for Hubby and I.. (we are going to get Tianna's next time).. since we didn't get to buy our usual tix from Ebay - we we're like.. we'll just get them at Disneyland.. and the tickets there were for one day was $70+.. and the down payment for the annual pass was $72.. so we were like - it didn't make sense to just buy the one day ticket when we could get the annual pass and just pay $30 a month!

so now we didn't feel bad leaving early, since we could return anytime (NO blackout dates! aweeesome!).. 15% discount on food and other stuff.. FREE parking! jeeez come to think of it - we wasted SO much money!.. but can't cry over spilt milk.. so i'm SO happy we got an annual pass lol!

Overall it did rain a bit.. on and off.. but it wasn't bad at all! the girls had TONS of fun..  I'm going to upload pictures and video's from our adventure soon.. as i'm pooped and i'm going to bed early tonight..

Disneyland actually closed at 7PM yesterday.. but we wanted to beat the traffic (of everyone getting out at 7 and traffic to get home since we were an hour away).. we decided to leave at 5:30ish.. we didn't get home until a little bit after 7.. MAN was I tired..

I sorta skipped out on my workout (i'm SORRY Karen lol).. because when we got home, my in-laws were there waiting to blow out Jasmyn's Birthday candles on her ice cream cake (i was like omg sugar rush for them lol).. so the girls sure did have tons of fun at Disneyland (taking pictures with the princess').. and then all the cake and food they had waiting for them at home.

It was funny because My oldest daughter cried because Jasmyn blew out the candles - and we were trying to explain it was Jasmyn's birthday.. but we lit the birthday candles about 4 times so they could each blow out the candles.. :) it was rather cute! lol.. i love my girls..

and today was an awesome day at work! I'm actually training in pediatrics department (I normally work in family medicine).. and so i absolutely LOVE working with children.. it's been so much fun i love it.. even though it's real fast paced and real hectic.. just a break from the norm that i'm used to.. plus the kids don't complain nearly as much as the adult patients (you'd think it'd be backwards.. but not in my experience at least!!)..

So i'll be training in pediatrics for 2 more weeks.. but i'm hoping that I can find an opening in pediatrics because i really really really really REALLY love it! <3..

anyway.. i'm going to be adding items to my blog sale.. i really need to get rid of these things as they are just sitting collecting dust!! :)

so i didn't want to leave ya'll hanging with no post from me (for those that actually read my blogs lol).. but i'm going to update this post later with pictures for you all!

Good Night and Happy Friday! <3
Khristine

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Recap of Monday & Tuesday ...

Hey Everyone! SO Monday - I didn't go to the gym as planned only because I was freaking sore as HECK from the weekends workouts... so it's best i let my body heal up and not to overwork myself :)

I forgot exactly what I did after work Monday.. lol.. But I think I just sorta stayed home with my girls and Hubby.. and did some make-up swapping and sold some of my make-up and items from my blog sale (check it out if you haven't already here)

Today, I was training in pediatrics (which i absolutely love! it's very fast paced and i LOVE it so far lol).. But today is my half-day.. and also My youngest daughter's 2  year old well baby check up (she turns 2 tomorrow yay!)..

so I took her to her appt, she got her immunizations (she was very brave!).. and then went to the post office to ship out some items people had swapped/purchased from me.. and also stopped by Walgreens to return the Sand Beige Revlon Colorstay Liquid foundation as it was a bit too light for me.. gave me a whitecast kinda ghostly look lol..

I still have the Medium beige, but thinking about swapping it for Warm Golden (which was recommended to me by other NC35' MAC users ;D)... so i'll probably add that to my blog sale.

Anyway, while I had been waiting for nearly 20 minutes for someone in the cosmetic department to return my one item ughh (they had paged customer service to cosmetic aisle like 4 times before anyone came.. mind you I was carrying my 25lb sleeping beauty daughter while waiting the whole freakin' time)..

While I was waiting, I Stumbled upon this:

I had heard "amazing" reviews on this from other beauty bloggers and on MUA. and it is like SOLD out everywhere else i've been (even target.com says it'll be available or will ship in 2-4 weeks).. this was the last one! so I had to get it.. it's supposed to hide pores and imperfections etc.. people use it as a primer or a base.. so i'm going to use this under my prep + prime skin base visage and see how i like it..

So since Hubby did get tomorrow off (for Jasmyn's Birthday) we decided we are going to disneyland! yay! .. i'm very much excited.. and my awesome co-worker gave me her free 2fer ticket since no one in her fam-bam will use it! That was super sweet of her! I'm forever grateful!

So tonight we decided to go to Target to buy some diapers/wipes and also a food scale.. i had been wanting to try the freakin Revlon Colorstay eyeliner because other bloggers have tried this and says it stays put.. so i'm going to put it to the test tomorrow at Disneyland lol..

I do want to say that i've been using the Wet N Wild Creme/Gel Liner.. and i'm really really really LOVING it! i actually ended up putting it on my waterline and bottom lashline and it stayed put ALL day.. the brush that it does come with is real stiff and really tiny.. so like i mentioned in my posts before - i just use the Sonia Kashuk bent Eyeliner Brush and it's awesome!.. lasting power is amazing.. only problem is it is kinda hard to wash off for me.. I have to really scrub it off my upper lash line which i don't really like to do since that's a real sensitive place to be scrubbing.

Plus I really like pencils because i'm real fast at using it and it's easy and quick for me.. so hopefully the Revlon colorstay eyeliner will work for me on days i'm in a hurry to get ready for work and I just wanna put eyeliner on.

Well.. I'm going to get ready for the gym (going to be working out Shoulders & Biceps quickly before goin' home and getting things ready for tomorrow event's - YAY DISNEYLAND and Jasmyn's 2nd Birthday!)..

So Good night everyone!


P.S. FIT TIP FOR TODAY : Please do NOT forget to stretch before working out.. even if your just going out for a walk, or light weights :)

<3 Khristine

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Sarah xo's FIRST Giveaway!

just wanted to give you all a heads up and check out Sarah's first giveaway!

http://sarahxosoda.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-giveaway.html

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