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In where I talk about a lot of useless things including long lasting lip colour, Toast 7 for Mac, and Dr McDreamy... well, I talk a lot,
Let's start with the bad stuff that has gotten me so frustrated and angry the last hours: My burner! And Maxell DVD-R's. SERIOUSLY! Those should have a tag attached to them saying "DO NOT USE WITH ROXIO!"
I know I'm first to blame, for buying that media, since I should know better. But I was in a rush, and I paid some 15 bucks for those DVD's! They should burn!
Now, I'll mention this as a thank you note for Roxio people: The hot link on the disc info? THANK YOU! It helped! Seriously it did. What I find unacceptable, is that I've spent a good 2 hours being stupid all around, before I knew that although the label says 16x; that God Damned media won't burn at anything bu 4x!
Those bitches. Just fyi... don't buy maxell; it sucks, seriously.
Now I have that out of my chest, I have to talk about long lasting lip colour.
Why is it so hard for brands to actually come up with the right formula? They've been at it -for all I remember- for some good 15 years!! Is not the cure for cancer or aids! Is lipcolor!!!
I was starting to write this out while chatting with Gil and I decided to better paste that conversation here, cause I'm not getting any better at cropping what I'm saying:
gillianhalliwell: Let's start with colour: Colour, they started to actually do fine around the end of the 90's. By now, you should easily find a good colour with hardly any work other than debating which colour to choose out of a 1000
gillianhalliwell: *is so pasting this into her LJ*
galigad:
galigad: but the problem would be combining anti-chap with the *right* color?
galigad: or something like that...
gillianhalliwell: Well, not really. Because here's what; around the end of the 90's, when the colour issue was resolved, another thing came up: We as busy bussiness women that we became, we wanted to avoid 'retouching' the lipcolor
gillianhalliwell: Cause we're now too busy for that, as you may understand,
galigad: uh-huh... (Thinks he remembers seeing a series of ads for that)
gillianhalliwell: And so then came the never ending issue of the long lasting color.
gillianhalliwell: The first one I remember, is an ad that had Cindy Crawford. I think, if my memory doesn't play tricks on me, that it was for Max Factor.
galigad: I think you're correct on that one.
gillianhalliwell: I think I owned that lipcolor at least once. But the first I remember using was a long lasting one by Avon.
galigad: uh-huh... (Thinks he remembers seeing a series of ads for that)
gillianhalliwell: It was like this very rudimentary formula. It looked like a crayon and felt like a crayon. Sure enough, it lasted long (I think the goal was 4 hours back then). But it felt terrible on the lips.
gillianhalliwell: Which, needless to say, is one of the terrible cons of long lasting color.
galigad: ok. (this is interesting)
gillianhalliwell: Thank you. I think so too.
galigad: what i do remember is arlene buying some hypoallergenic lipstick last night... which cost *me* around 700 pesos!
gillianhalliwell: Tell me about that! *girl who spent $100 on make up last week*
galigad: =))
gillianhalliwell: Now, for a long time, I gave up on long lasting color for my lips, because I refused to endure that feeling of covering my lips in what felt like melted leftovers of Crayola.
galigad: well, arlene answered me by *reminding* me that *I* said, "You have to suffer if you want to be a fashion plate."
galigad: anyway, go on...
gillianhalliwell: Seriosuly, you do! But I decided that if I was going to suffer in the way of reapplying the color several times a day, not in covering my lips with that.
galigad: agreed.
gillianhalliwell: So, here I do go on... I stopped looking. For like years.
gillianhalliwell: A few years ago, I started on a new Avon lipgloss with color that worked wonders for me. It was good, it felt delicious on my lips, and it hardly went away after meals or kissing.
galigad: so what's the downside with Avon?
gillianhalliwell: They stopped making it.
gillianhalliwell: I guess it didn't go so well, so they changed the formula, and although it sells with the same name nowadays, is not the same it was.
gillianhalliwell: Since then (and that's been about 2 years), I went back to the hunt.
Having said that, I tried, last week, Revlon ColorStay (whatever new version they have now), and well... at first it was ok. I felt it was ok.
But it doesn't stay on as long as the 8 hours advertised in the product!
It's not that it sucks, but the colour is not the same as it looks outside the tube, the gloos, though beautiful doesn't last, and I get the feeling that it will dry up my lips. Not to mention that for it to "last" you have to apply it on clean lips aka no balm underneath the color...
Bad.
I'm just tired now... so tired. I wanted to talk some about Dr McDreamy... *sigh* if anything because he's so good looking. And because I rented Season 1 of Grey's to avoid my homework...
But.. save it for later...
Let's start with the bad stuff that has gotten me so frustrated and angry the last hours: My burner! And Maxell DVD-R's. SERIOUSLY! Those should have a tag attached to them saying "DO NOT USE WITH ROXIO!"
I know I'm first to blame, for buying that media, since I should know better. But I was in a rush, and I paid some 15 bucks for those DVD's! They should burn!
Now, I'll mention this as a thank you note for Roxio people: The hot link on the disc info? THANK YOU! It helped! Seriously it did. What I find unacceptable, is that I've spent a good 2 hours being stupid all around, before I knew that although the label says 16x; that God Damned media won't burn at anything bu 4x!
Those bitches. Just fyi... don't buy maxell; it sucks, seriously.
Now I have that out of my chest, I have to talk about long lasting lip colour.
Why is it so hard for brands to actually come up with the right formula? They've been at it -for all I remember- for some good 15 years!! Is not the cure for cancer or aids! Is lipcolor!!!
I was starting to write this out while chatting with Gil and I decided to better paste that conversation here, cause I'm not getting any better at cropping what I'm saying:
gillianhalliwell: Let's start with colour: Colour, they started to actually do fine around the end of the 90's. By now, you should easily find a good colour with hardly any work other than debating which colour to choose out of a 1000
gillianhalliwell: *is so pasting this into her LJ*
galigad:
galigad: but the problem would be combining anti-chap with the *right* color?
galigad: or something like that...
gillianhalliwell: Well, not really. Because here's what; around the end of the 90's, when the colour issue was resolved, another thing came up: We as busy bussiness women that we became, we wanted to avoid 'retouching' the lipcolor
gillianhalliwell: Cause we're now too busy for that, as you may understand,
galigad: uh-huh... (Thinks he remembers seeing a series of ads for that)
gillianhalliwell: And so then came the never ending issue of the long lasting color.
gillianhalliwell: The first one I remember, is an ad that had Cindy Crawford. I think, if my memory doesn't play tricks on me, that it was for Max Factor.
galigad: I think you're correct on that one.
gillianhalliwell: I think I owned that lipcolor at least once. But the first I remember using was a long lasting one by Avon.
galigad: uh-huh... (Thinks he remembers seeing a series of ads for that)
gillianhalliwell: It was like this very rudimentary formula. It looked like a crayon and felt like a crayon. Sure enough, it lasted long (I think the goal was 4 hours back then). But it felt terrible on the lips.
gillianhalliwell: Which, needless to say, is one of the terrible cons of long lasting color.
galigad: ok. (this is interesting)
gillianhalliwell: Thank you. I think so too.
galigad: what i do remember is arlene buying some hypoallergenic lipstick last night... which cost *me* around 700 pesos!
gillianhalliwell: Tell me about that! *girl who spent $100 on make up last week*
galigad: =))
gillianhalliwell: Now, for a long time, I gave up on long lasting color for my lips, because I refused to endure that feeling of covering my lips in what felt like melted leftovers of Crayola.
galigad: well, arlene answered me by *reminding* me that *I* said, "You have to suffer if you want to be a fashion plate."
galigad: anyway, go on...
gillianhalliwell: Seriosuly, you do! But I decided that if I was going to suffer in the way of reapplying the color several times a day, not in covering my lips with that.
galigad: agreed.
gillianhalliwell: So, here I do go on... I stopped looking. For like years.
gillianhalliwell: A few years ago, I started on a new Avon lipgloss with color that worked wonders for me. It was good, it felt delicious on my lips, and it hardly went away after meals or kissing.
galigad: so what's the downside with Avon?
gillianhalliwell: They stopped making it.
gillianhalliwell: I guess it didn't go so well, so they changed the formula, and although it sells with the same name nowadays, is not the same it was.
gillianhalliwell: Since then (and that's been about 2 years), I went back to the hunt.
Having said that, I tried, last week, Revlon ColorStay (whatever new version they have now), and well... at first it was ok. I felt it was ok.
But it doesn't stay on as long as the 8 hours advertised in the product!
It's not that it sucks, but the colour is not the same as it looks outside the tube, the gloos, though beautiful doesn't last, and I get the feeling that it will dry up my lips. Not to mention that for it to "last" you have to apply it on clean lips aka no balm underneath the color...
Bad.
I'm just tired now... so tired. I wanted to talk some about Dr McDreamy... *sigh* if anything because he's so good looking. And because I rented Season 1 of Grey's to avoid my homework...
But.. save it for later...