WnW Dancing in the clouds

Another benefit of living stateside again is having access to drugstore brands that are affordable, one of them is Wet n Wild. I grew up with this brand, but didn't think much of them then. I would always shop the Wet n Wild area when I was looking for cheap cheap disposable makeup that I was likely only going to use once. Well times have changed and that once super cheap brand has improved its quality without having to increase their price. There are not too many brands out there that you can say that about.

I stopped into my local Rite Aid in search of a different WnW trio called The Guilded Age, but since that was nowhere to be found I noticed that they did have another more sought after trio called Dancing in the Clouds. This appears to be WnW's version of last years Urban Decay Summer of Love Palette, minus the shade to match Smog. I don't have that palette, but here is a link to Temptalia's review of it if you are curious.

Here are my swatches of Dancing in the Clouds, as you can see the purple is not very pigmented, which is a shame but for $2.99 you can't really complain too much. I have other shades of purple I could use to intensify this with if I wanted.




And here is a shot of me wearing the trio as the matching imprints in the shadows say to. I lined my eyes with Urban Decay 24/7 pencil in zero and topped them off with some fairy drops mascara. Excuse my oily face, I'm currently trying to figure out ways to combat that. If you have suggests, please comment me with them! It's like an oil slick these days!

Take me out to the ballgame!

One of the things I used to do a lot as a child and before I moved to Japan was go to baseball games. I think this had something to do with the fact that my grandmother was a HUGE fan of both baseball and football and my parents were both employed at the local baseball stadium in San Diego at one point while I was growing up. I remember fondly going to games with my grandmother and brother and then visiting my mother who was working at the game. As a adult baseball games became even more of a social thing when you introduced beer into the picture. During university I would go to Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants games then.

Fast-forward to now, this is honestly the first time I have ever lived in Los Angeles and so I had not much experience with the local ball teams here. The only thing I really know is that they have a national league team; the Dodgers and an american league team; the Angels. Though I never really considered the Angels to be an LA team, but more of one from Orange County as Anaheim is in that area. We got free tickets to go to a game and decided to make use of them recently.

Here are some pictures from our experience, sadly the Angels lost but it was a nice experience.



Shots of the field before the game started.

Can you find the Angels logo?

I'm not sure I if I have become an Angels fan, but at least I have a shirt to wear if I do, lol.
I do enjoy baseball, but I can't wait for ice hockey season to start. Do you have any sports you enjoy watching?

Love is in the air

I have come to notice that living in the USA again has its perks but also at times has some minuses. One of those perks is being able to stop into all of my favorite shops anytime I want and not paying a small fortune. This is of course dangerous as at the moment I am not as gainfully employed as I would like to be.

This being said Mr. S and I stopped into Bath and Body Works together last week as we were trying to kill time before seeing Rise of the Planet of the Apes. We hadn't planned on purchasing anything, but I noticed that they had their pocketback holders in stock again and at $0.50 you really can't go wrong. We use the pocket backs religiously here as most places don't give you oshiboris (hot/cold hand towels).

While paying for my purchase, I saw they had their newest scent mini lotion on sale for $1.00! At that price I couldn't help but pick one up.

The Bath and Body works website notes that the keynotes in this are french tulips, apple blossoms, and pink champagne.

I really like the scent, while it is one of the sweeter ones in their line its not so much that you are bowled over by it. Its a young, but not too young fresh scent. Its much more a summer and spring scent to me.

I would repurchase this again at some point, but I am more likely to try out something new beforehand as I like using different scents.

What are some of your favorite scents? I would love to check out some new ones.

The one where she went to work

When I was in high school and university, Friends was my favorite television shows and to this day I still watch it when I can.(Which is technically anytime I want as I own the whole series on DVD, lol) There was just something about the chemistry of all the actors and how they came together to create a very quirky and believe group of friends. I think we all hope to have a great group of friends like that in our lives. That being said you can now guess where I got my inspiration for the title of this post.

After having lived in Japan for so long, I have come to associate the color black with both business and death. I was once told that if you wear lots of black to work it means you are professional. So as it was one of my last regularly scheduled teaching days I figured to black-it-up! I was also anxious to wear my new black capris that I was able to pick up at sale price with an additional 30% off that price making them a steal! Excuse my face in the picture, it was EARLY (before work) and I had asked Mr. S to take the picture, can you tell I am not much of a morning person?


top:Lands End Canvas, capris: Target, shoes: Aerosoles ( I later changes into some pumps at work), bag: Faux Wang from ebay

What are some colors you associate with work attire?

On a side note sorry my posts have been more clothing and less beauty as of late, I have some beauty posts in the works.

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Hey baby its hot outside..

One of my favorite winter songs is Hey Baby It's Cold Outside, which lead me to think would it be possible to come up with a song about it being hot outside as well? I imagine it would have lyrics about air conditioners, swimming pools, and splashing about on the beach, those are all things one does when it is hot outside right?

It's moving in to the hotter part of summer here in Los Angeles and so I have been making the most of it by wearing my shorts and tanks as much as I can before fall comes rolling in. Although thats not a bad things to me as I love fall fashion and can't wait to try on boots and jumpers when its not around 90F (32C) outside!

Anyway here is my OOTD, for when its hot outside.



top and cardigan: target, shorts: gap (very old!), shoes: Dolce Vita

What do you wear when its hot outside?

Make it blue...no make it purple?

It is really already mid-August? Time is certainly flying by this summer! I apologize for my lack of blogging recently, a lot has been going on here and my motivation to write has been pretty low. But as you can see I am back in action which is a good sign, because yes things are looking up.

The other day I popped into Target after a job interview and found a top that I had been interested in was now on clearance, that plus the $3 off coupon I had for being a Target mobile member made the price much more affordable given my current income. The question after realizing that I could in fact buy the shirt was which color to choose, there were four total (purple, blue, grey, and green) but after narrowing it down I had two to chose between.


Purple


blue


So as an interesting little blog game I give you pictures of me in both colors, purple and blue. Which do you think I chose?
One of the people who guesses correctly will me drawn at random and be sent a nice little surprise from me.

When enuf is really enuf!

With the summer weather now in full swing here in Los Angeles, I have been trying out more vibrant colors for my toes. This week I am using Essie's Enuf is Enuf, which is a reddish coral color. I do like this color, but I think there are probably many dupes that are cheaper than the Essie price tag to be had.

You will have to excuse my shoddy job here, I took this picture just after I had painted them and hadn't cleaned them up yet.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

A nice day for a...white wedding!

Happy August everyone, time sure does fly by fast doesn't it?

Two weeks ago the last of the cousins who are of marriage age got married, so my husband and I drove up to San Luis Obispo for the event. It was held at the Flying Caballos Ranch. As expected it was a lovely wedding followed by a fabulous reception. I have to say my cousin and her new husband sure know how to throw a party!

For the wedding I wore the Horkelia Shift dress, that I previously mentioned in this post. I styled it with a gold necklace that I layered, some gold teardrop earrings that I made, and some gold heels that I have had for years.

I couldn't find anything that looked like these that either a)didn't cost a fortune or b) didn't look cheap...so as I am crafty I made my own! I have enough parts to make even more though lol. Here is a closeup of my work.



As for my makeup I went towards shades of gold, brown, bronze, and rust.
e/s yaby shadows I purchased at IMATS.
MAC antiqued
MAC satin taupe
top liner MAC teddy
bottom liner milani gold liner
lashes fairy drops lash film type

lips revlon lip stain
cheeks MAC otherworldly
NARS orgasm

Unfortunately not many nice pictures of me were taken (meaning without me pulling some kind of funny face), so I leave you with a nice shot of me and my husband partaking in some wine after the ceremony.