Friday, July 3, 2015

Ulta Haul


These Urban Decay lip sets are amazing. I'm obsessed with them! The pencils go on so well and so do the lipsticks. I love how they feel and the colors are gorgeous. I wore the red for the entire weekend when I first got it and I got 4 compliments from strangers on it. Everyone seems to agree that it is like the perfect red.
  • Revolution Lipstick in "Naked" (nude pink)
  • 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil in "Naked" (nude pink)
  • Revolution Lipstick in "F-Bomb" (classic red)
  • 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil in "69" (classic red) 
Get the lipstick here and the lip liner here.
The Semi-Sweet palette from Too Faced is so pretty and of course it smells delicious! I wasn't too sure about it, because of the blue shadow. It just seems really random and I'm not a fan of bright blue eye shadows, but it goes on surprisingly pretty. It's also not as vibrant on as it is in the palette, but that will change depending on the amount you put on and if you use primer or not. The colors are:
  • Pink Sugar
  • Blueberry Swirl
  • Bon Bon
  • Butter Pecan
  • Caramel
  • Frosting
  • Rum Raisin
  • Hot Fudge
  • Cocoa Chili
  • Coconut Crème
  • Licorice
  • Mousse
  • Nougat
  • Peanut Butter
  • Puddin'
  • Truffled
Get it here.
Another item from Too Faced, the Selfie Powder. It's made to give you a photo finish look like the filters on Instagram. I like them a lot, but I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping for more of a dramatic effect, but there really isn't one. I like the sunrise (the yellow-ish one) because I feel like it evens your skin tone a little. However, they are just finishing powders so with that in mind, they do work pretty well. Just don't try to use them for more than that. 
  • Sunrise: Instantly brightens with diffused warmth
  • Totally Toasted: Bronzes with a smoothing glow
  • Moon River: Adds a cool ethereal light to the skin
Get it here.


I also got these Rimmel London Scandal Eyes eye shadow sticks in "Bulletproof Beige" and "Witness White" and they're great. I love just swiping the Beige one on in the morning for a gold shimmer on my eyes- it is just a natural pretty color and I don't have a problem with them creasing. I like to use the white one for my inner rim or the inner corners of my eyes. I want to go back and get a few more colors.

Get them here.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "She's No Angel" (S06E05)

 Spencer has a very very freaky nightmare about a girl who is like an exorcist ballerina in a creepy room. She wakes up trying to remember the room and asks Aria who refuses to think about their time in the dollhouse. Spencer continues eating her pot cookie, before heading to school.

Hanna finds Mona in her kitchen and is concerned about her fragile state. Mona is afraid that Ali is going to go after her and she's afraid of what is going to happen with the police as she committed a crime by faking her death. The girls stop at the New Brew where they run into Lesli, who completely freaks out on Mona and threatens her. Hanna meets up with Spencer at school and realizes she's high and calls her out on it.

Aria is at her dad' office at Hollis when Clark, the guy from the photo lab, came by and invited her to go to a junk yard and take pictures with him. After a little convincing, Aria agrees to go. At the junk yard she's arranging dolls for pictures and Clark comments on the creepiness of them. He takes her picture and she freaks out a little. He reveals that he knows who she is and what happened to her as he recognized her from the news, but he didn't want to say anything when they first met because he didn't want to freak her out. Aria keeps arranging dolls and he takes pictures somewhere else, and in a mirror Aria sees a hooded figure walking by. She freaks out and goes after it, but it disappears and knocks over a shelf. Clark comes running and Aria laughs it off saying it was her fault.

Ali won't leave her house. She steps outside and complains to her dad that one of the officers who is out there watching over the house was trash talking her. Her dad rebuffs her and says she should come to the office with him, she refuses and he says she needs to own up to what she's done and leaves. Lorenzo comes to talk to Ali about being a youth leader for the church and tells her he recommended her for the job and the other members didn't really fight him on it. They grow closer until her dad walks in, and accuses Ali of having him over because she thinks one of the other officers were talking bad about her. Lorenzo is confused and then her dad makes him leave. Ali is mortified.

Emily witnesses the end of a phone call between Sara and her mom where it's infered that her mom is drunk. She's trying to make Sara come back home and she doesn't want to. Emily suggests looking into being emancipated. Em takes her to see Caleb so they can find out more about the process and Caleb says Sara needs a job so she can prove to the courts that she can support herself. He then offers her a job working minimum wage for his web design company. The girls go out and see a Social Worker who tells Sara that they'll start the process and she can stay with the Fields'. Em goes with Sara to get a tattoo to celebrate her new found freedom.

Spencer ends up going to an addiction meeting high and her former sober coach Dean is there. He winds up bringing her home and reminding her to call him if she can't fall asleep or if she needs to talk. After their heart to heart, she gives him her pot cookie and she gets out of the car. She sees Mona and goes to talk to her, and asks if she remembers the room from her dream in the dollhouse. Mona has no idea or so she says.

Lorenzo returns and talks with Ali on the porch. He defends her dad and reminds her that he is just worried about her. He also tells her that he asked the officers to switch shifts and a woman is out there now who he insists is nice and Ali will like more. Ali is very touched and the two share their first kiss. Mr. D interupts and Lorenzo leaves. Ali is mad at her dad and leaves to see her friends.

Aria checks over the negatives of Clark's photos and sees he got a shot of A's figure walking by. She freaks out and calls Emily who says to get a copy. Aria lies a little and steals the negatives of his photos. At home she examines them further and realizes something shocking- A is a woman. She sends a copy of the pic of a hooded figure with a woman's figure to her friends. Sara convinces Emily to get a tattoo and sees the text from Aria while Em is under the needle.

Hanna meets Lesli at the Brew and she apologizes for her earlier outburst. She also suggests that Hanna and the girls let the police do their jobs and not get involved. 

Spencer and Hanna break into Radley to look for Charles' file. Spencer is annoyed that Mona bailed after promising to be their tour guide. She freezes when she sees the creepy ballerina's face on an old poster. As the girls walk down the hall, Spencer realizes they're walking into the room from her nightmare and she realizes she saw it at Radley and not in the dollhouse. They search and finally find Charles' file which confirms that he is actually dead and he was an organ donor. They find a creepy doll that looks like a person in the dirty bathtub which was really freaky and as they're leaving they hear something. They find Mona who is trying to sneak away with a file. They grab it and find out it's Lesli's file. She and Mona met in Radley! They find out that Lesli was also Bethany's roommate  and she was there long enough to know Charles.

Sara confronts Emily about hiding this from her and Emily comes clean that A is still out there and threatened to hurt Sara if the girls told anyone. She shared that they didn't tell Sara, because they didn't want to scare her. A hooded figure comes towards them in the alley and the girls run.

All of the Liars meet up and discuss that A is a woman and Lesli was in Radley. They know think that Lesli is A and they start devising a plan to catch her in the act.

Mona, meanwhile, calls Lesli and tells her that the girls know that she was in Radley and Lesli completely flips out on Mona. Uh-oh.








//Original air date 6/30/15

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Pretty Little Liars Recap - "Game On, Charles " (S06E01)

This episode was insane.

It begins by showing an unknown blonde girl drawing with chalk on the wall of what looks like a dungeon in the doll house wearing the infamous yellow tank top. She hears the Liars making their escape and we find them outside. A/Charles leaves them outside for days without food or water and even in the pouring rain. The girls are doing everything they can to stay positive and support one another, but it's clear they are afraid.

The girls are finally invited back inside. In the hallway they are all knocked out. Aria and the other girls awake on tables in what looks like a morgue. They are all naked and covered only by a sheet. They fear that Charles is making them appear dead to send a message to their families so they stop looking for them. Mona comes in dressed as a candy striper and acting like Ali again. She gives each of the girls something to take for their headaches. She shares that she is scared Charles will throw her in the hole for trying to escape. A message plays asking them to return to their rooms and Mona refuses. A bell dings 3 times and she folds saying they have to go "or else." They stand outside of their rooms and enter one by one- each one screaming when they enter. They don't come out for 3 weeks and when they do they are visibly shaken. Aria even has the pink stripes in her hair like she had when Ali went missing. They wonder where Mona is.  We find out she is in the hole and terrified.

Ali holds a press conference and we find out that all charges against her for Mona's murder have been dropped and Andrew is the prime suspect but he has vanished. Ali begs for Andrew to come forward and for her friends to be freed.When she returns to the house, we find out she is working with the police in hopes of drawing Andrew out of hiding.She gets a call from an unknown number and it's playing a song. They track the call and find out the caller is in the house so the police go to find them. They return and Ali is gone, and there is a broken wine bottle. We find out that Caleb and Ezra called, and she is working with them and Toby to find the girls. Toby distracts the police by leading them too the Campbell Apple Farm.

Ali is contacted by A so the guys let her go into the woods after Caleb gives her a pair of boots with a tracker in them. Ali is lead to a car, she gets in it and the GPS tells her where to go. The guys follow and aren't far behind. She is told to pull over on the side of the road and to check the trunk. She finds a card telling her to change clothes or the girls will die. When Caleb and Ezra arrive, they find the car and Ali's clothes along with her boots pointing them in the right direction. Ali wanders through the woods in the infamous yellow top.

The girls are finally out of their rooms and are clearly very shaken but they band together. They are taken to Ali's room and they realize that Ali A is probably bringing the real Alison. They are putting away things in Ali's room and see news articles in the box and wonder if they are even real. Hanna finds out her mom was hospitalized because she was so worried about Hanna. Aria is putting clothes away and at the back of the closet she sees a message from Mona carved into the wall saying A is going to kill her. Aria gets Spencer to help her and shows her the message. They start plotting to get out.

The night when the generator switches off the girls all run to Charles' secret room and Spencer shows them the video. The girls look around and end up setting the room on fire. Charles is watching and sees Ali in the woods and the fire in the room. He panics. They pull the curtains down and see A/Charles standing behind a plexi-glass wall watching (he's of course in a mask still). They run and find Mona in the hole and work together to get her out.

The boys find Ali in the woods and get ready to leave until Ali hears something. She turns around and they see smoke coming from the ground which leads them to the door. They call the police and break into the dollhouse as the girls are running out. Everyone embraces and it is a tearjerker. Haleb, Ezria, Spoby, and Emison are so sweet. The police explore the dollhouse and find the girl we see at the beginning of the episode and find out she is Sarah Harvey, the girl who went missing around the same time Ali did and Emily met with her friends. She had been there this entire time.

Monday, June 1, 2015

"Pitch Perfect 2" Movie Review

This movie was hilarious. I was laughing so hard (and so was my husband surprisingly).

We catch up with the Bellas in their senior year of college when they are performing for President Obama on his birthday. The set they put on is very theatrical and overdone, and Fat Amy accidentally flashes her vagina to the entire crowd. This causes the Bellas to be kicked out of Collegiate Acapella and they will have to give up their championship tour (FYI they've won the Nation Championships 3 years in a row) and they will not be allowed to defend their title. In an attempt to get them re-instated (if they aren't re-instated then the Barden Bellas will cease to exist for future generations) Beca makes a deal: if they win the World Championships then they get re-instated. Gail and John think it's hilarious and they are doomed to fail because "everyone hates America."

We meet a new freshman, Emily Junk, whose mother was a Bella back in the 80s. She is ecstatic to try out and she's so cute. Hailee Steinfeld did a great job. We find out that Chloe has intentionally failed Russian Literature 3 times so she can remain a Bella and as the girls try to figure out their next move, Beca gets a phone call offering her an internship at a record label. She accepts but declines to tell the Bellas. Jesse takes her to her first day of work and while she's gone, Emily shows up at the Bella house. She asks to join the Bellas' and after an awkward audition where she sings a song she is writing, they ultimately decide to let her join. They head over to the Treblemakers home for an acapella only party where Emily runs into Benji (again) and he is hilariously awkward (again). Beca sneaks in and joins the party where she meets Emily.

The girls work on their choreography and decide to check out the German group who got to take over their victory tour Das Sound Machine or DSM. They watch their performance and are blown away even though none of them want to admit it. The Germans see them there and talk to them after the show- thanking them for screwing up so they could have all of this practice before Worlds. The girls try to trash talk back, but Beca is hilariously pathetic at it with this woman.

They end up against DSM, the Treblemakers, the Tone Hangers (whom Bumper is now a member of), and the Green Bay Packers- yes the Green Bay Packers (a few of the football players sing Bootylicious and it is freaking hilarious) in an updated version of a riff-off where there is $42,000 giftcard for Dave & Busters on the line. The Bellas lose to DSM and are very very angry.

Beca continues at work where she impresses her boss by doing a mash-up while Snoop Dogg is in the recording booth singing one song, and she sings outside. He offers to listen to her demo. She asks him about them later and finds out he isn't a fan of mash-ups, he wants to know what she has to say. She's devastated and takes it like she failed.

Amy and Bumper have a date although Amy was unaware of what he was planning. He asks her to be his girlfriend and she freaks out and refuses and goes back home where she finds an upset Beca.

Chloe freaks out about them not being in synch so she says they're all going on a retreat. They go to a bootcamp where Aubrey is in charge and she attempts to whip the Bella's back into shape. It's hilarious. The girls finally come out with what is bothering them and they bond in typical Bella fashion. Beca takes Emily to the recording studio and produces a demo of her song "Flashlight" and her boss is very impressed with both of them.

The girls graduate and head to Copenhagen for the competition and everything about it is awesome. Everything everything is awesome. Their final song- was perfect. Even DSM's final song was great, but really the ending was flawless.

I loved this movie so much! I give it 5 stars.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

"Maleficent" Movie Review



Alright I know this movie is like a year old, but whatever. I'm still obsessed with it. I think this is my favorite movie Angelina Jolie has ever done.

I'll be honest- when I first heard they were making a movie from Maleficent's point of view, I was nervous. I love Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and I love her story. I always have and I always will (here's to hoping I get to name my daughter Aurora). I was afraid her story would be ruined by Maleficent, but I was pleasantly surprised. 

I fully understand know why Mal was pissed at the king. King Stefan stole her wings while claiming to love her. Mal was a kind fairy (something I didn't see coming) and she showed Stefan kindness when he was just a nobody. They fell in love but his greed came first. It's so sad. Mal took her frustrations out on his daughter, Aurora. 



She was always there watching over Aurora, waiting until her 16th birthday when she would fall into a sleep she would never wake from since there is no such thing as true loves first kiss. The three flood fairies: Flora, Fauna, and Merrywether, were idiots and basically Aurora would have died many times has Mal and her bird/human sidekick Diabold not been watching over her. I didn't like that part very much, but I get why they did it. 

It was kind of funny watching Mal toy with the fairies while Aurora showed no fear of her. King Stefan was losing his mind which was weird and the Queen dies. When Aurora is older, she believes Mal is her fairy godmother and isn't afraid of her. 


They grow closer, although Mal clearly tries to keep her feelings at a distance. Aurora meets Prince Phillip in the woods and its hits as sweet and awkward as in the cartoon. She finds out Mal cursed her and she is taken by the fairies to her father's castle. She is heartbroken about Mak and Diabold and she is upset she can't see Phillip ever again. Of course she pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and goes into her sleep. The fairies find Phillip and have him kiss her, but it doesn't work. Mal isn't surprised as she knows true loves first kiss is a lie. I didn't like that as it was one of the most iconic scenes in the cartoon, but the part that followed made up for it 

Mal tearfully apologized to Aurora as she realized that she couldn't save her "Beastie". She kisses Aurora's forehead and Lo and behold, the princess awakens! This was true loves first kiss. It was like the love of a mother for her child. 

The sweet moment doesn't last however when Mal is discovered by the kings men and captured. He knows (thanks to a young Mal) that iron burns fairies, so he has her chained with iron shackles. Aurora is locked in an attic like Rome where she finds Mal's wings. She grabs them and breaks out, getting them to Mal who takes over. She turns Diabold into a dragon and eventually they win. 

She crowns Aurora the queen of the Moors (the magical land where all the fairies and other creatures live). She, Diabold, and Phillip stand at Aurora's side and it's beautiful. 

I love that Aurora is just as kind and innocent as she is in the cartoon. I love the relationship between Mal and Aurora. They really are like mother and daughter by the end. Mal's emotional and mental journey throughout the movie is so intense and Jolie did a great job with her. Also. I totally ship Mal and Diabold! 

This was a great movie and will basically be the Sleeping Beauty live action movie, but it was so good that I might actually be ok with that. (Although I'm a little disappointed that thee was no iconic blue/pink dress).

I give this movie 5 stars.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Where's Natasha & Wanda? (and Clint & Pietro)

Dear Disney/Marvel/Whoever Is In Charge:

I'm writing this post in the futile hopes that someone- ANYONE from Disney or Marvel sees it. It is really depressing that there is no merchandise for the female characters. I don't understand why. Of course they want to go after the male audience, but what about the women? Yes we have a long line of Disney Princess and they're all great- I love them, but they aren't anything close to the Black Widow or the Scarlet Witch or even Princess Leia. Why can't there be Barbie dolls of the ladies? Why don't they get their own action figures. You want to go after the male demographic, but you could double your money by including the women. Little girls are just as persuasive, if not more persuasive, at getting their parents to buy them toys. Aside from the little kids, what about the grown women who would like some merchandise? A t-shirt, a collectable doll...whatever. Why don't we get any options. We have the Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Peggy Carter, Captain Marvel, Jane Foster (eventually), Maria Hill....and who else? There are a few others, but the pales in comparison to the list of male superheros.

Furthermore, why are Hawkeye and Quicksilver exiled from your merchandise along with the ladies? The biggest reason Hawkeye had such a large role in the latest Avengers is because of fan demand (unless that was another pretty lie from the studio). Think Quicksilver merch won't sell? Then I invite you to check your Twitter and Tumblr feeds. He is beloved. Hawkeye is beloved. Of course we love Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Hulk- but we love other characters too. There are more than 4 Avengers. Why not include the others? It can't be because they lack superpowers i.e. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. The Black Widow is a badass to the extreme and Hawkeye is really talented. Why can't we include all of them? I want to buy their merchandise items more than the main 4.

It's just not fair and it honestly breaks my heart.

Sidenote: please bring Quicksilver back. He is a valuable asset to the team and we love him/Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Seriously. Don't toy with us like this.


Sincerely,

Basically Every Woman on the Planet.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Book Review - "The Selection" by Kiera Cass


This book was so crazy. I mean nothing too crazy happens, but the love story is just-ah! It gave me so much anxiety and so many knots in my stomach (the good kind). I love America Singer and I would love to be her best friend. I also love her relationship with her younger sister May and how much she cares for her family (even when they're annoying).

I feel like America is kind of awkward. She's also blunt and wears her heart on her sleeve, but she's still a spitfire. She's so relatable. Another thing I love about her is how close she is with her maids. They are there to serve her but she is always looking out for them and when the palace is under attack, she is concerned for their safety. It's something both Maxon and I love about her.

I am team Maxon and not team Aspen. America deserves better. She deserves to be treated like a lady and taken care of. Plus, Maxon was willing to implement a system of getting food to the lower castes simply because America shared her opinion about their struggles. They are so cute together. The fact that he tells her he'd send everyone home if he knew she loved him, I just- I can't. I was squealing like a 13 year old girl. 

Overall, I love this book and can't wait to continue along with the series. I hope to see America's relationship with Prince Maxon grow and I want him to pick her. 

5 stars for America Singer!! (and May, Marlee, Prince Maxon, Lucy, Anne, and Mary)