A link & some makeup reviews
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hillarygayleWarning: I'm about to brag about my husband! Arkansas students excell at AP courses. It's about how the AAIMS grant is benefitting students in several Arkansas high schools who have the grant. If you look into the article, it mentions a list of schools, and Bryan's is Newport. In fact, Bryan is what they call the "lead teacher" for the AAIMS funded math program at Newport. This grant is really cool. In Newport's case, it has allowed Bryan to be more creative in the ways he teaches things. This year, for example, the AP Statistics students are not using textbook examples for their projects, but Bryan is sending them out into the school to gather their own data. We got a census packet & he took it to school to show them, too. :D He's hoping this will not only motivate the students a little more, but that by making them more visible during class time, he'll be planting the idea in the head of the younger students: "Hey, look at what the stats class gets to do. I want to be in stats, too!"
Makeup review time!
I pay a lot of attention to my eyeshadow, in case you haven't noticed. :D I like it bright & fun & cheery, and I like it to be "just so". I feel really "off" all day if my eyeshadow isn't exactly the way I want it. With a lot of practice, I've gotten to the point where it really is always the way I like it.
However, that left me realizing I was just putting Burt's Bees lip balm on & going. No attention to my lips. I'm not saying Burt's Bees isn't awesome because it IS (it's great for my lips, it smells minty fresh, & it's great for in-a-hurry lipcolor), but even the tinted ones don't have the best color in the world. I have to mix colors to get the shades I want, it's hard to apply them precisely, they aren't highly pigmented so the color is pretty uneven depending on your lip condition, and they aren't exactly long-term wear. In fact, my Burt's Bees gloss is gone after one cup of coffee.
So when Q & I went on our pilgrimage to Sephora in Little Rock, I was on a mission: I was going to find the perfect lipstick. I wanted something bright that worked with my skin tone & added cheerfulness to my face, but it also had to be neutral enough not to clash with blue & yellow eyeshadow (or purple or orange or red or green or anything else I might wear). I love Sephora because you can test anything in the store. I tried on a million lipsticks, putting them on, wiping them off, thinking one was perfect & then realizing it was $26. I even tried out the "dark lips" look that's so in style this fall (I have a lipstick that works for that, but that'll be another review, with photos). In the end, I did find the perfect lipstick, and in doing so, have fallen irrevocably in love with Sephora.
My first Sephora lipstick, the one I bought that day, is from their "Maniac" line. Mine is #7 on that page, the "copper beige shimmer". The color goes on very true; as it states, this is a "highly pigmented" lipstick. That said, since this color is so well matched to my skin tone, it doesn't look like the eyeshadow. It's very close to my own lip color, just evened and slightly shimmery. Looks perfect with my hair. Anyway, the lipstick glides on smoothly and they aren't kidding: this stuff really does stay on for a very long time. It only takes freshening up a couple of times a day.
I wasn't planning on buying more lipstick. I mean, I really DID love that "dark lip" look they'd been touting in the store, but I was just going to ride the summer out with this nice, neutral, bright shade. But then Q, temptress that she is, pointed out that Sephora was having a sale with several lipsticks going for $5. DANG IT. So I went shopping online and I came out with these:
Round-a-pout in Beach Bronze. Still on sale for $5, I note. This has 4 lip glosses in it. All are shimmer, and the white one is actually just clear with a gold iridescent tiny glitter in it. WOW. These are amazing for layering over lipsticks; you put your lipstick on and then you dot the tiniest bit of this in the center of your bottom lip and it makes the lipstick just POP. SO FUN.
I also have Lip Attitude-Chic in Glamour Gold. This goes on almost like a gloss & stays semi glossy, as advertised. It has a little more orange and brown than the Maniac lipstick I bought, but because the pigmentation is not as heavy, the color is more sheer. This is for those of you who are into the "fresh" look.
The last piece I got is Sephora Glitter Lipstick. OMG GLITTER YAY. The only color they had left was "Chocolate with Gold" but that's okay, because I'd have gotten it anyway! This is much darker than any of the others I bought. It is a pronounced warm brown; I stop short of calling it chocolate because there's too much orange in it for that. It is definitely creamy & moist going on, but I don't know if it stays glossy because I always put a dab of my Beach Bronze gloss in the center. The website says it can be worn over your favorite lipstick and I can see that, but only in a much lighter color. This specific color is very dark & saturated, and I don't see what you could possibly wear under it that would show through.
Well, tomorrow is my first day of work! I'm doing laundry right now, & I'm planning on hitting the hay early so I can get to work in good time. I'M SO EXCITED! And then I have the boards on Friday and eeeeeeeeeee!
Makeup review time!
I pay a lot of attention to my eyeshadow, in case you haven't noticed. :D I like it bright & fun & cheery, and I like it to be "just so". I feel really "off" all day if my eyeshadow isn't exactly the way I want it. With a lot of practice, I've gotten to the point where it really is always the way I like it.
However, that left me realizing I was just putting Burt's Bees lip balm on & going. No attention to my lips. I'm not saying Burt's Bees isn't awesome because it IS (it's great for my lips, it smells minty fresh, & it's great for in-a-hurry lipcolor), but even the tinted ones don't have the best color in the world. I have to mix colors to get the shades I want, it's hard to apply them precisely, they aren't highly pigmented so the color is pretty uneven depending on your lip condition, and they aren't exactly long-term wear. In fact, my Burt's Bees gloss is gone after one cup of coffee.
So when Q & I went on our pilgrimage to Sephora in Little Rock, I was on a mission: I was going to find the perfect lipstick. I wanted something bright that worked with my skin tone & added cheerfulness to my face, but it also had to be neutral enough not to clash with blue & yellow eyeshadow (or purple or orange or red or green or anything else I might wear). I love Sephora because you can test anything in the store. I tried on a million lipsticks, putting them on, wiping them off, thinking one was perfect & then realizing it was $26. I even tried out the "dark lips" look that's so in style this fall (I have a lipstick that works for that, but that'll be another review, with photos). In the end, I did find the perfect lipstick, and in doing so, have fallen irrevocably in love with Sephora.
My first Sephora lipstick, the one I bought that day, is from their "Maniac" line. Mine is #7 on that page, the "copper beige shimmer". The color goes on very true; as it states, this is a "highly pigmented" lipstick. That said, since this color is so well matched to my skin tone, it doesn't look like the eyeshadow. It's very close to my own lip color, just evened and slightly shimmery. Looks perfect with my hair. Anyway, the lipstick glides on smoothly and they aren't kidding: this stuff really does stay on for a very long time. It only takes freshening up a couple of times a day.
I wasn't planning on buying more lipstick. I mean, I really DID love that "dark lip" look they'd been touting in the store, but I was just going to ride the summer out with this nice, neutral, bright shade. But then Q, temptress that she is, pointed out that Sephora was having a sale with several lipsticks going for $5. DANG IT. So I went shopping online and I came out with these:
Round-a-pout in Beach Bronze. Still on sale for $5, I note. This has 4 lip glosses in it. All are shimmer, and the white one is actually just clear with a gold iridescent tiny glitter in it. WOW. These are amazing for layering over lipsticks; you put your lipstick on and then you dot the tiniest bit of this in the center of your bottom lip and it makes the lipstick just POP. SO FUN.
I also have Lip Attitude-Chic in Glamour Gold. This goes on almost like a gloss & stays semi glossy, as advertised. It has a little more orange and brown than the Maniac lipstick I bought, but because the pigmentation is not as heavy, the color is more sheer. This is for those of you who are into the "fresh" look.
The last piece I got is Sephora Glitter Lipstick. OMG GLITTER YAY. The only color they had left was "Chocolate with Gold" but that's okay, because I'd have gotten it anyway! This is much darker than any of the others I bought. It is a pronounced warm brown; I stop short of calling it chocolate because there's too much orange in it for that. It is definitely creamy & moist going on, but I don't know if it stays glossy because I always put a dab of my Beach Bronze gloss in the center. The website says it can be worn over your favorite lipstick and I can see that, but only in a much lighter color. This specific color is very dark & saturated, and I don't see what you could possibly wear under it that would show through.
Well, tomorrow is my first day of work! I'm doing laundry right now, & I'm planning on hitting the hay early so I can get to work in good time. I'M SO EXCITED! And then I have the boards on Friday and eeeeeeeeeee!
