Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 13, 2010

I see a light at the end of the tunnel!

I'm sure many of you share this feeling with me right now:


It's that glorious time of year!  Finals week! Yay sleep deprivation.
And with sleep deprivation comes the dreaded under eye circles (dun dun dun).  

So here's the thing.  They make great concealor for that!  When I was in Sephora the other day I was playing around with Makeup Forever (which is a cosmetic line that was originally designed for performers, so it's made to withstand heat, sweat, etc) and came across their Full Cover Concealor.



This stuff is awesome. 

I had a scratch on my hand.  Covered that.  I had a third eye on my face. Covered that. Not to mention my under eye circles. In the product description, it even says you can use it to cover up hyperpigmentation, burns, or tattoos. 
 It's a bit pricey, ($30) but from what I experienced, a little bit goes a looong way. Definitely buying it next time I'm in Sephora.

Good luck on finals everyone, may you make it out alive (just picture yourself mowing down on Christmas cookies in a week, that's my motivator at least)!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Christmas Activities: The best form of procrastination

Caitlin's attempted schedule for today:
Draw in Sketch book
Go to Class
Work on Spanish
Read for Philosophy
Work on Speech
Go to class
Go to Gym
Work on Speech (which I give tomorrow and is on embarrassing moments and is going to be so much fun)

What has happened/will happen today:
Sleep in
Go to Class
Listen to Christmas Music
Work on speech for 5 minutes
Make hot chocolate
Look up the schedule for 25 days of Christmas and write all of the programs I want to watch in my planner (if you would like to do this as well, the schedule is here)
Listen to More Christmas Music
Write a blog entry about what I should be doing right now
Go to class
Go to dance performance in the performing arts center
Work on Speech



Interesting how they don't coincide too well...

Yesterday, my RA kind of guilted me and a few of my suite mates into going to this Christmas carol church gathering at the chapel.  I wasn't too interested, since I had just gotten out of my 3 hour night class and had loads of homework to do, but I went anyway.

And I'm so glad I did!

We all walked into the chapel holding candles, and set them down near the front.  Then, we were all given little candles to hold onto while we listened to the various carols. It was so nice, because I feel like with all this hecticness, no one has really had a chance to just sit down, listen to some good music, and remember what Christmas really about.

As I looked around the chapel, I noticed that everyone looked so wonderful with the gleam of the candle near their face.  
And it made me wish that we could always have that type of lighting around.  It makes everyone's skin look like a dream and casts such a warm glow that even those with alabaster skin (ahem, me) have a little color to them.

Then, I realized the closest we can really get to that warmish glow is to use a highlighter!

Highlighters help you bring attention to certain areas, and when used strategically, can make your face look wonderful and glowy.

I really like Benefit's Moonbeam.

It casts a wonderful golden sheen onto your skin.
The product description even says
"It's like holding a 40 watt light bulb up to your face!"

A goldish-bone colored eyeshadow with a little shimmer will work just fine too.
My three favorite places to put highlighter are:

(you can apply highlighter to all of these places without a brush and just use your fingers in my opinion)

The top of your cheekbones. 


The inner corner of your eyelid.




Your brow bone (which is right underneath your eyebrow).






I hope you'll find that highlighting these places with luminescence brings a wonderful difference to your face.  And it only takes about a minute to do! 

A thing that brings a little glow to our room happens to be this wonderful Abercrombie poster that has been passed down from my roommate's oldest sister, her two older sisters, and then to her.

 We are thinking about taping little felt santa hats onto their heads.


And yes, sometimes I do like to wear feather quill pen pj pants while blogging.  

Monday, November 22, 2010

My Christmas Wishlist...

I'm really really really procrastinating.
I know that I'm going to hate myself this break when I have to work on my long presentation and two papers, but for now I am blissfully happy online shopping.

Here's a few things that I would quite delight me this Christmas: