The List

I debated actually doing this post but then thought to myself "this is my blog, I can do whatever I want!" so there you have it! This is a post about makeup so Mark, feel free to stop reading right about here. I recently compiled a list of all the name brand makeup I'd like to accumulate eventually. Obviously I'd like it sooner then later but I'm not rich aight?! So slowly but surely I will come to collect, I will collect you aaaallll!!!!!!!! Wanna see a list of all the awesome stuff I want? You do?! Great cause I just so happen to make lists, and I also happen to like posting lists for all to see :) I also had wanted to make a list of all the drugstore brand stuff that I want but I was also including prices and I just wasn't finding those as easily as I had hoped for those brands so I left that out. The grand total for all this makeup was roughly around $900 (pick up jaw off of floor now), and I divided that into 12 months equalling roughly $75/month but is still a bit excessive but I do plan to take some stuff from that list and ask for it on Christmas lists and stuff like that. I am also planning on keeping an eye out for deals on websites to get this stuff cheaper. Since I'm talking about websites how about I compile a list of sites I like to frequent?!

hautelook.com

benefitcosmetics.com

toofaced.com

sephora.com

ulta.com

coastalscents.com

houseoflashes.com

mac.com

overstock.com

ebay.ca <---- I always compare everything

 to ebay. After shipping it could be cheaper 

then after shipping on                                        

   the brand name website. 

So here is the list and I'll break it down into brands. 

Benefit Cosmetics

Blush- Coralista $28

 Fakeup Concealer $24





 Porefessional Primer $30 (on order! woop!)

Too Faced Cosmetics

 Milk Chocolate Soleil Bronzer$30

Shadow Insurance Primer $20

Boudoir Eyes Palette $36 (would ask for as a gift)

  Naked Eye Palette $35 (would ask for as a gift)

  Natural Eye Palette $36 (would ask for as a gift)

MAC Cosmetics

Betty- Cream Soda Blush $26

  RiRi Woo Lipstick $18

Viva Glam Nicki Lipstick $18

Hey Sailor- Fleet Fast Blush $38

 Lady Danger Lipstick $18

Kat Von D Cosmetics

Hellbent Lipstick $23 

Lock It Tattoo Foundation $41

Tattoo Eye Liner $22

Lock It Tattoo Concealer $30

Lime Crime Cosmetics

I actually only want Unicorn, Countessa, Cosmopop,

and Geradium- $16/each

The Balm Cosmetics

Betty-Lou Manizer Bronzer $24

Bahama Mama Bronzer $20

FratBoy Blush $21

Put A Lid On It Primer $18

Argyle Petal Blush $22

                Toile Blush $22

Nude'Tude Palette $36 (also as a gift)

Urban Decay Cosmetics

Chill Finishing Spray $29

Deslick Matte Powder $32

Mushroom Eyeshadow $18

     Sin Eyeshadow $18

And there you have it! These are all the things I've been pining over for a while now. I don't normally buy name brand products because they are so expensive, I usually stick to drugstore, but I really do find that the higher end makeup is a bit better quality. So this is my wish list/slowly build up myself list. 

In other, related news- tomorrow I'm going to Ikea to pick up a new makeup vanity!! Woop Woop!! SO excited you have no idea! And I will also hopefully be starting on a few projects in my makeup room to make it more of a room I like to be in. Updates on that will be sure to come!

Hope everyone has a good long weekend! 

And This Too Shall Come To An End

My time working at Berg's is quickly coming to an end, and as a bit of a farewell I wanted to write a little sum'pn sum'pn to ma bestie! Are you ready to get deep?! (wow, that came off way dirtier then I intended...).

Dear Nellitello,

      It feels like ages ago we were sitting at a booth in Smitty's and me talking about hating my job, and then you telling me about an opening at your office. I remember the excitement I felt to have the opportunity to possibly work with my friend again! Soon to follow was my interview and soon after that I was offered the job. I feel so blessed to have been able to work side by side for 3 years, they have been some of the best work years of my life. Sadly I know that no job in my future will compare, I'm sure there are jobs that I will like but there's nothing like coming to work and feeling like you're just hanging out all day. I'm hoping the results of us both moving on will open doors for us to connect on a different level. We'll have to be sure to carve out some NelliDezzo time (Yes, I just made that up and yes, I'm pretty proud of myself).
     Somehow I know that in my future life, any time I'll see a water cooler I'll think of our water cooler discussion times... times? Maybe it was just time (singular) but regardless, I'll think of it. Any time I have some down time I know I'll miss slowly walking over to your desk just to talk away my boredom. If my future job holds an office for me I'm sure I'll miss having you walk in to just chat even though you're super busy and swamped. I'm gonna miss making fun of the guys in the shop behind their backs and imitating them. I'm going to miss those breaks in my work day where I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe. I'm going to miss making fun of you to your face after you've said something dumb and/or said a word wrong (I know I can still do this when we  hang out but its so much more fun at work). I'm NOT going to miss seeing you come in every morning an hour later then me and leaving work an hour earlier then me though that's for sure! I will miss going into the bathroom at work and taking videos of ourselves to send to each other.... while both at work lol. I'm gonna miss telling you what to do ;) . I'm going to miss the friendships that we've built with these people at work, I know it wouldn't have been the same had we not been side by side. I'm reeeaaaaally going to miss being able to vent to each other every time someone annoys us, it was a great way to not just explode. I'm going to miss being able to spend our breaks together and getting each other subway. I'm also going to miss our mom's stopping in to bring us both coffee's and then staying to visit, I really liked those times. I'm going to miss waking up in the morning and looking forward to coming to work, I know it wouldn't have been the same had we not worked together. Monday mornings are probably just going to be crappy 'ol Monday mornings now. I'm so going to miss when either of us would do something embarrassing not realizing there's a window into the shop and other people can see us. I'm going to miss being able to be weird and not feel weird about it. I'm going to miss having you text me in the morning asking me if I want breakfast. I'm gonna miss how you don't judge me when I hit my limbs on immobile objects and make pterodactyl noises, can you imagine the looks I'll get when doing that in front of new people lol ??!!??



    Aside from all the fun times and good work memories we've made I just wanted you to know that I really love working with you Nellie. Coming to work has always been a highlight for me and I owe it to you for that. I truly have been blessed and it makes me sad to know this will soon come to an end but like me, you and Matt said, maybe one day we will all reunite. Until then I'll cherish the next week we have together and pray that we both move on to bigger and better. To us!

This And That

Hello Lovelies!

Today will be just a bit of this and that post. That makes sense right? A little bit of this, and a little bit of that lol. I've done a few things around the house lately, and hopefully today I get more done, we'll see how that pans out though. Anyway, I just wanted to share a few things that I've done with all of you!

If you follow me on IG (instagram) you would have seen a picture I posted of all my shoes needing a home. I knew I wanted a concealed storage unit to put in my makeup room so I could put a little decore on the top of it. I've been wanting to add more personal touches to that room so that seemed like a good way to be able to do it. While in the Grand Forks this past weekend we picked up a cabinet thingy to make a home for my shoesies. I built it almost completely by myself and only made one minor mistake. Unfortunately it looks a bit cheaper then I thought it would but oh well, it will do for now. 

 View from the outside.

 View from the inside. I don't think you can notice from

this photo but I put the backing on the

wrong way so its a light grey instead of white but

it will be closed all the time anyway.

 

And view from the inside which as you can

see houses my boots. 

The frames on the top of that aren't staying, in fact they are already gone, I was just trying different things out. This is the room I wanted to work on today so maybe I'll have pics up soon of how I rearrange everything. I just don't really know what I want to do with it yet so we'll see how far I get. I spend a lot of time in there so I want to be happy when I walk into that room :) 

We finally found a frame for a picture I bought in New York. I'm not sure if I shared this story already but I'll do a re-cap. I bought a 10X20 picture off of little cart on the corner near Times Square and it was framed and everything. After carefully packing it away it proved to not be good enough and the glass on the frame shattered while in bag check. After searching high and low for the size frame (which is IMPOSSIBLE), we found a frame that was verrrry close to that size while in Grand Forks. It actually had a different picture in it (also of a building in New York lol) which I wanted to keep and use it for something else but it ended up being attached to the backing of the frame so I ended up having to tape my picture onto the existing picture. It was kind of unfortunate but I'll live. This is the finished product:

That's the placement of it anyway, hard to tell exactly where it is since its a close up of the wall but whatever. It's kind of blurry, maybe this close up shot will look better.... no never mind it looked just as bad so I deleted it. 

Moving on... I went to Shoppers Drugmart a few days ago and picked up a few things, my friend had told me about this end bunk they have thats filled with perfume/cologne for $20. It's decent sized bottles and good ones too so I picked myself up a bottle of Lovely by Sara Jessica Parker. Now that my perfume collection is growing I'd like to get a cute tray to put them on to sort of better display them. I love perfume bottles, they look so pretty :) Shoppers also has these brown bags full of makeup products for only $5!!! Its a donation for... I forget what for but what better excuse to buy makeup then for it being a donation?! So naturally, I grabbed a bag for myself. It's such a cool deal because practically each item in the bag is over $5 in value so you are sssooo getting your moneys worth out of it. And there is like 5ish items in each bag I think. That would be like a $50 value. Granted you wont like everything in the bag but you can always give it away as a gift or something. This is the stuff that I got: 

This is the lot of it it, 3 lipsticks, 1 mascara, 1 nail polish

1 concealer, 1 foundation. 

The mascara is actually brown, which I never get, but I tried it out on my bottom lashes and found out I actually like using that on the bottom for a softer affect. The Maybelline Age Rewind concealer I have really wanted in a larger bottle but its a really dark color, I'll have to see if I can use it when I'm more tan. The maybelline foam foundation is super dark too, I don't even know anybody I could give that to so I'm not sure what I'll do with it. The Sally Hansen nail polish is a really pretty nude color and the lipsticks are Maybelline, Revlon and the other one I forget and it wasn't familiar to me too. I tested them out and really like 2 out of the 3. Here's some swatches for ya: 

 

It's probaby really hard to tell the color from these pictures but the 

Maybelline is really pretty light pink, it goes on really smooth, I liked it. The cool

thing is is that I wouldn't normally have bought this, and ended up liking it. 

 

The Revlon was a really nice red color, not too

in your face red, more of a softer red. I forget which one this was but

its the lipsticks with the lip balm in the middle. I've been wanting to try

this out actually and I really like it. It goes on so smooth and 

really helps for not looking too chappy. I'd definitely get more of these. 

 

This one was more of a brown color and I was going to give it to 

my mom before I even tried it on but after trying it on I noticed

it's complete crap. I did tell my mom about it and she said

she'd still try it out anyway. It was really hard to get on my 

lips and after I finally got enough coverage I noticed it had a

very sticky consistency. Not a fan at all. 

This was the $20 perfume I got as well as a Benefit

They're Real mascara <- big fan!

That same day I also went to Dollarama and picked up a few things. Just some random things, I went specifically for a picture frame but ended up grabbing some other stuff as well. 

 

I picked up a bag thingy to put on your heard when you have a headache. I thought this would come in handy when Mark and I get migraines, I think you can put hot or cold water in it. Then I got a cute makeup bag, I wanted something small enough to go in my purse but big enough to at least be able to hold brushes. I got double sided foam tape and 2 picture frames as well as a canvas thingy, its not actually a canvas it's wood but I don't know what you would call it. I thought it would be a cute addition for my makeup room since I want it to be travel themed. Now I just got to figure out where to put it. 

Well thats all for today, hope you enjoyed everything. I've actually got 2 blog posts brewing up in my head so those should be up next week. I really want to be more regular with this whole posting thing. Hope everyone has a happy weekend!!!! 

 

 

New Beginnings

That title reminds me of Glee for some reason.... anyway, new beginnings A.K.A. me getting pushed out of my job and having to start over. What a scary thought, working somewhere for 3 years and being told it isn't going to work out any more. I mean granted, other people have gone through much worse and I don't want to seem ungrateful but it still hurts none the less. I went from having a routine that I had down pat to having it completely upside down in the matter of days. It all happened so fast, I still can't really believe it. And the thing is, is that I didn't even do anything wrong, it's due to "cut backs" *eye roll*, I wasn't aware that your first thought of letting someone go is to target the person who does your books... maybe its just me but that sounds like an important position to me. Not to mention the owners wife will be coming in to take over my responsibilities "for free" *second eye roll*. I may not be smart in all things but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that this wife of his will not work for free. So here I am looking for a new job when of course there is nothing out there that interests me.

It's really scary to have to start over again, you know? I have to go through interviews and the training process, ugh I loathe the training process- being the trainer and the trainee. I actually had an interview already and I didn't really want the job, but I knew that if I got offered the job then I'd have to either take it, or not take it and get comments from family members about not taking it. At this point in my life I'm at the age and the stage in my relationship that I don't just want a job to tie me over. I'm fortunate enough to be able to go on unemployment through all of this so if I can go on that while searching for a really good job then I feel that is the best route to take. I don't want to go through a training process for something that is only temporary. And yes I'm fully aware that I could grow to like a job, or be surprised and actually really like it even though I thought I wouldn't but its just not a chance I want to take. I know myself well enough to know what I like and don't like so I'll just hold out for something I really want. In the meantime I'll just be sleeping in and reading books and going for walks and morning coffee while all of you working folk will be... well working :p Oh! I almost forgot, the best part of all of this is that I asked God to tell me if that job I interviewed for should be the job I'm supposed to take. I asked Him to not let me get an interview (well second interview) if I wasn't meant to be there and sure enough I didn't get a second interview. At first it stung a little, not getting a call back for something I was perfectly qualified for but then I had to remind myself that I asked for that. And also, it really shows me that God has something else for me waiting so I will wait for that to come my way :).

In other news, while I'm on unemployment I think I really want to work on putting my book together. Over the years I've been interested in writing a book but never quite knew how I wanted to put it together and how exactly I wanted to write it. I've recently had an idea how I want it to look so I think I'm really going to buckle down and see how far I get. And I also really want to work on blogging more often. My ideal outline of my blogging life would be to post twice a week, obviously I haven't been doing that and I wont make any promises going forward but maybe with some more time to myself I can actually do that! We'll see how things go!

                                                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This past weekend I went to Fargo with my husband and our two friends. It was really nice to just get away for a weekend and just kind of mellow out. It was much needed. I always like venturing out to the States, even though it wasn't very far away, theres just something about being in a different country :). We did a bit of clothes shopping (ok... maybe more then 'a bit') and we also picked up a picture frame... that doesn't sound very blog worthy to type out but I plan on showing you what I did with that frame. I just have to take some pictures at home and then I can make another post about that. We got a few other items that I'll post in that upcoming blog post as well. Also I bought a shirt that is sleeveless and usually with those shirts I'll wear a cardigan over it for work... well turns out cardigans don't look good with it. Ugh! So now I gotta figure out a way how I can wear it to the office but... I guess I only have two weeks left till I'm jobless so I guess it doesn't really matter at this point lol. 

On another note- I find it so fascinating to watch how people interact with people. I tend to watch facial expressions and body language a lot. I don't always understand it and sometimes misunderstand it but I like doing it none the less. I find it helps you to notice the little things. Such as, if person A says something to person B and person B doesn't like it, it might show on their face. But person A isn't looking at person B because its weird to make eye contact when you're the one talking so person A doesn't notice they don't like it, but I do because I'm looking at person B. I see their eyebrows pull in slightly, the twitch of the corner of their mouth, maybe the flush in their cheeks or the shift of weight from one leg to the other. And person A is oblivious. Totally random but I just noticed some things this weekend and it was interesting to come to some realizations! 

This blog post has proven to be completely useless, I guess it's more of an update but I just wanted to get a post out there, tomorrow (hopefully) will be much better though! And since this is sort of an update post I'll bombard you with photo's of my happenings lately (woo lucky you!)!! (If you follow me on Instagram a lot of these will be repeats but some of you don't so I'm gonna post them here as well). 

Pool dates with friends. 

The cuteness that is me and Nellitello (see pic lower down)

Capturing the wave at the Jets game!! 

Learning a lot about forgiveness lately. 

Dance parties- always a good time

Coffee dates with friends

New York state of mind

A little rearranging in the living room,

still a few adjustments to make but I'm 

liking the progress. 

Colored my hair, supposed to be black

but looks brown. Going to re-do it soon. 

Newest art addition from Ikea, I am in like with it ;) 

Trying different styles out with my bangs

Some things to keep in mind when living

your day to day! 

My new lipstick! Love! 

Bike rides with the little-always an adventure, complete

with wedgie picking and spitting (her newest habit)

I had to (sowwie Mark) 

In Fargo

The Gang 

Little Monkeys

A bit of an inside joke but long story short

Nellie is mutating into a ninja turtle and her new

name is Nellitello.