Designers, Makeup, Medicine, the usual
I still have not received my grade for my exam. *sigh* I really don't want it.
Yesterday, I went out shopping. Sadly, it is my only hobby now. I've become the most uninteresting person I know. I went to Costco to look at new eyeglasses. It's been two years and the stupid clear coat/anti-glare crap has become embarrassingly smudged. If I truly got what I paid for, I would have super thin lenses that are clear as the day I bought them. I loved Costco's selection and the prices. The prices! After much agonizing, photos being taken, consulting with my mim and David (David loves a girl with glasses--wee!), and the guy at the counter, I decided on a spunky pair of Kate Spade's. They're cute and funky. Shall I say it, intellisexy? Indeed. I went for a contact lens exam too, which I am told I will have to come back because of my champion astigmatism. I just want them for the wedding and I want to get used to them. I don't want to feel naked. I'm very much a glasses girl, but they're so damn expensive. *sigh* Well, not my fabu Costco glasses. $99.99 for the frames, plus $69.99 for my lenses (you know, the super expensive ones with all the bells and whistles for those that are self conscious about a necessary appliance--just give me a damn lens so I can see!) and then the grinding down of the sides or something, but my total for my glasses are $209 with tax. I haven't paid that much for a pair of glasses since Clinton's first term.
I also decided I wanted a new lipstick. I heard that Clinique at Younkers was having it's bonus buy sale AND the lipstick I wanted was in the free thingy. I had my plan, get the other lipstick I wanted as well (guava stain--I was running low--my lip brush is digging it out of the bottom of the tube) and get a new foundation. Alas, my flawless skin is no longer flawless. It is showing it's age at my youthful 27 years. All those years of meticulous perfection and self imposed exile from the sun, and I was accosted by bags and lines under my eyes the other day. I use moisturizer specifically designed for that area too! *weep* So, I thought, such a win-win-win situation: I buy the guava stain and the foundation AND I get the other lipstick I want plus all the other bells and whistles of a Clinique bonus buy. Alas, every suburban soccer mom with an escalade decided they wanted the bonus buy too. I stood around what seemed like forever, snubbed by Clinique consultants at every turn. *sigh* I decided to take my business elsewhere. Estee Lauder? Elizabeth Arden? For Lancome and Isabella Rosallini? (I love that MST3K reference) Alas, no. I went to the store that gives me a makeupgasm and I end up looking like Meg Ryan after I've tried every damn lip plumper in the store, Sephora.
Lipstick, lipgloss, lip plumper, eye shadow, perfume, the things I know. Foundation...I am an idiot. Thankfully, I had the lovely ladies help me. I did not want to spend $40 on a foundation (haha), and I ended up spending $28 on Cargo, which I really like. Alas, my purchases did not end there. I bought the Smashbox foundation primer, which is the most fantastical makeup invention since the eyelash curler. I even had my sad little lines ands bags addressed with a concealer...that has a built in sponge! So clever, I think as my hands are filled with tools for my increasing vanity. The last thing I bought was a roll on of Stella, Stella McCartney's perfume. When I love a fragrance, I will become obsessed with it. I blame you, Perfume Pretty Barbie and all your Perfume Pretty friends! (Strangely, I don't remember THAT perfume that came with her...I believe that was taken away...after the Barbie styling head makeup incident). Anyway, that Barbie's friend came with a locket of solid perfume (aha!) and it smelled so fabulous to me when I was little. I was in Sephora over the summer, and like a guinea pig to a carrot, I rushed toward the perfume section. I fell in love with Stella McCartney's Rose Absolute, but did not want to pay like $60 some dollars for a perfume. I saw the roll on and did not put it together that the roll on, once applied, could smell different than the spray perfume (I really did not like the spray Stella). Well, a few weeks ago, I decided to try the roll on and what did I smell? Perfume Pretty Barbie! :D Immediately, I was transported back to the days of the great Debbie Gibson and Tiffany debate. (Oh, and it was so totally Tiffany, bitches--seriously, who'd want to listen to stuff that sounds like your in Sears buying slacks with your mom? But then I found Madonna, and the debate ended) I bought the roll on and ended up spending $107 with tax. Yikes! Oh, but I am in their rewards program and I got a free eyeliner--wee! :D
Is there a moral to this story? No. I just like makeup. I hope the glasses make me studious/serious enough. I'll have to post a picture.
Love
Jennie
PS: I was obsessed with this Barbie. It was that gorgeous dress for her. It was the dress I bestowed upon my favorite Barbie.
Oh, and this Barbie so got me totally into Science.
I think I want to play Barbies now.