Ipsy November Glam Bag - Sneak Peeks!

From what I hear, November and December are some of the best months for Ipsy subscribers.  We shall see!


Sneak peaks are a little late this month, aren't they?  We have only one so far, but usually we get one sneak peak each day of the last week of the month.



I will update this post as more information becomes available.




 Sneak Peak # 1:

Six items in the November bag!  That is awesome.  The bonus item will be from em. em is the new makeup line created by Michelle Phan who is also the creator of Ipsy. Her products are supposed to be really good, but I've heard both good and bad reviews of certain items.  It will be fun to get to try something for myself!

Sneak Peek #2:
 

It's basically the same thing as the previous sneak peek, but we also get the theme for the month: Glam it up.  Sounds really fun!  I am not a fan of the gold glitter. I would not like a gold bag. But, if it is gold then oh well!

Sneak Peek #3:

Looks like a Be a Bombshell Lip Crayon. That's fun!  To me they look like the colors Some Beach which is a coral color and Trophy Wife which is a light pink. I'd be happy to try either of these, even though coral generally doesn't look good on me.  I'll keep trying until I find a coral that does!

Sneak Peek #4:

I think these are Pixi bronzers. I can't take credit for knowing that, because I saw this on an Ipsy trading page:

Photo from Tia Maria Green

I'd be happy with the lightest shade or the darkest shade. I could use the lightest shade as a highlight, and the darkest as a contour.  The medium shade would probably look bad on my skin tone.

 Sneak Peek #5:

This clue took me a second to understand. For some reason I was thinking we'd be getting wine glass charms. What in the world would I do with those? I don't drink wine!  But after looking at the picture, I realize it's nail polish.  The shape of the bottle reminds me of the Nailtini I received a few months ago.  Sure enough, Nailtini has Silver Slipper and Cognac in their mini bar line. They also have Caviar Cocktail and Liquid Luau. I'd really prefer a silver color. I think a silver polish would look awesome! If I get the bronze one it would be added to my gift pile for someone with a lovely warm complexion. :) I really hope this is Nailtini because I love the formula of the one I already own.

Sneak Peek #6:

Looks like Kiss Ever EZ false lashes double pack, TRESemme Tres Two Hairspray, Cailyn Built-In Sponge Tip Mineral Eyeshadow in Orchid, GlamGlow Pro Sexy Youthmud Tinglexfoliate Treatment, BH Cosmetics Galaxy Chic Baked Eyeshadow Palette, and HSI Argan Oil.

I'd like any of these items, however the false lashes and hair spray would be used the least by me. I'm crossing my fingers for the mud mask, or the Argan oil.  I love getting new eyeshadows, but I have so many that I really don't need any more.

Sneak Peek #7:

 

This is a gorgeous Starlooks Gem eye liner. I have one in black, and I definitely see myself rocking this one!

Sneak Peek #8:

Annd the bag.  It's really, really cute. I'm sure I'll find a use for it. :)


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Drink Please?

Today was a difficult day.

Me and Lily are the only ones in the house, and I'm trying my best to gather all of our belongings that have made their way in here, and take them back out to the motor home or the trailer so that they will move with us on Friday.

I'm moving on Friday!  I'm so overwhelmed.

Lance left this morning, really early, with Bentley and Layla.

I have to say it's too quiet and lonely without my dogs here.  They usually keep me company while I'm working.

I wish I had gone with Lance.  I didn't go because we thought that since my parents are being nice and taking the RV down to Kissimmee and pulling the trailer that has all our stuff in it, I should go with them. And pay for the gasoline.

It's going to be a lonnnnng drive.

The drive is normally 8-9 hours.  But in the RV you can't really go faster than 60mph, so it will be more like 10-11 hours.

We're leaving Friday after my dad gets off work and driving for a few hours. We'll stop at a rest area to sleep, then drive the rest of the way on Saturday.

The motor home will be good for Lily so she doesn't have to be strapped down in a car seat the whole time.  But, I'm still worried.

At least there will be a nap!

Anyway, alone with Lily today while trying to clean and pack wasn't very fun, or easy.

I came into the kitchen to find several messes.

The last one was kind of funny though.

Lily was on the table, and had spilled my drink, which was a full can of soda.  I had opened it, taken a sip and moved along.

So there she was, swishing the liquid all around the table.  When I walked in she looked up at me and said, "Drink please?"

Big Mess

Yesterday while I was working, Lance came in here and was sitting next to me. Lily was in the other room making a lot of noise.

I looked at Lance and said, "Are you ready to clean up a big mess?"

He laughed and said, "Yes I am!"  Then he went over to see what she was up to.

When he saw her he laughed and told me to come see.

Lily was sitting in a box with all of her toys. She was just putting her toys in the box, then taking them out over and over again, babbling all the way.

Lily likes to play in boxes, so it wasn't anything new. But it was super cute.

Sweet Moments

Does this happen to you?
You go check on your child(ren) and they are doing something really super cute, so you hurry to try to film them. By the time you start filming them, they have stopped. Or they saw you and stopped.
This happens to me almost every day! You'd think it would be easy to catch anything on film because of cell phones, but the precious moments slip by too quickly to even take 10 seconds getting my phone to video recording mode.
Yesterday Lily had two super cute moments I wish we had caught on film. Lily has been a bit of a terror lately. Her favorite thing to do is scream at me and hit herself, especially when I won't let her have candy. This little girl has quite some sass for someone who can't put together sentences yet.
Anyway, moment number one happened after dinner. For dinner I fed her pork roast pieces and mashed potatoes on a plate, with her in her high chair. She also had a sippy cup of water.
She cried all the way through dinner and didn't eat a danged thing. When Lance and I were done eating, we let her down and she immediately went to where there was candy. "Numanum?" she asked.
Side note - There is always candy in this house. Why is there always candy in this house? Enough with the junk food! Don't even get me started on grandma's complete disregard for my request that Lily not get candy every day.
Anyway, I didn't give her candy when she asked. She had a meltdown, of course, but I ignored her and went to watch Dancing With the Stars.
Another side note - DWTS is an awesome show, but I never get to watch it live because I work at night. Sometimes I can't see the episode until the weekend, when it originally airs each Monday night. Can't have my cake and eat it too, I guess.
Lily came down and was sitting quietly in the fireplace with her water. Then she went back upstairs. What happened next made me giggle because it was so cute.
She got her plate of food off of her high chair and carefully held it as she went back down the stairs towards us. She walked across the room and sat back down on the brick in front of the fireplace. She put her food on her lap and ate it while she watched TV with me. She didn't say a word.
It was so adorable! I just giggle when I think about it.
I'm posting this from my pione and it takes forever, so I'm going to post the other cute moment later.

Wanna Be Cosmetologist

The past few months I've had a really big hair dilemma.

If you know me, you already know I like to change my hair.  I like to change its color and cut quite often.  Doing this requires having a hair stylist that I trust with my hair.

Moving to North Carolina has caused me to be over 2,000 miles away from the person who has been doing my hair for the past 6 years.  How do I go about finding a new person?  How do I find someone who will be patient with me when I say that I want to go back to being red after repeatedly bleaching my hair every 6 weeks?  And then again, have more patience when I tell them I want to go back blonde just after we finally get the red to stay in?

:-)

To be honest, I haven't tried to find someone. I've just been feeling sorry for myself.  Sure there are a couple people in my current ward who do hair.  However, they're both a little older, and while I realize that shouldn't matter to me, it does.  I want someone who's extremely current with the trends and new ways of doing things.  Someone who, even though they've graduated, still takes classes and goes to workshops.

Kellyanne taught at a hair school, so that right there is enough for me to know that she knows what's current.

So yeah, I haven't found someone new to do my hair.

Two months ago I went to the Paul Mitchell school they have out there.  They did an OK job, I thought.

Well, my roots were getting pretty nasty, so it was time to stress over where to go again.

I decided to do it myself.

Yeup.

Bleach my own hair.

Why not?

I figured, if I fried the crap out of  my hair... I always wanted a pixie cut anyway.

Well, I fried the crap out of my hair.

Before:

After:

Jokes! My hair turned out just fine.  In fact, I did a better bleach job than the student at Paul Mitchell.  I had a yellow "stripe" about halfway down each strand of hair, which basically means they didn't lift it enough.  So now my roots and ends are lighter than the middle of my hair.  I haven't fixed it yet.  I'm going to see if using violet shampoo helps, and if not Kellyanne told me a couple of things I can do to make it better.

These pictures are pretty yellow from the artificial light, and my hair isn't yellow, like these show.  I'll have to take a pic (with make up on) in the sunlight sometime.

So yeah, little miss wanna be cosmetologist successfully bleached her own hair.  Booyah!


Next dilemma - the hair cut.

I am NOT about to cut my own hair.

Also, I have no idea what cut to get.  I'm so bored with my hair.  I just feel like it doesn't fit me at all.

Should I just get a pixie?

Can I just take a poll? Anyone who reads, vote for A/B/C?

Option A

Option B

 

Option C