Things

Needing a serious pick me up this week; 

new vans, birchbox shipped, best friend catchups, support from my mom, jeans and a tanktop for twenty dollars, mint shorts, cool beautiful weather, possibly swimming with manatees, almost done with the semester,  iced coffee, baby carrots, ulta sales, actually enjoying bio class, pintrest, making new girlfriends, ice cream, having someone who loves both my good and bad sides, home cooked meals, drinking more water, food network, fresh veggies, etc.

I apologize for the lack of posts, the end of this semester has been swamping me, can't wait for it to be over, along with other things.

A sugary review

So, when I found out about Duncan Hines new Frosting Creations Flavor Mixes I had to check them out. When I discovered they had a Cotton Candy flavor I just about lost it and drooled all over my keyboard. Cotton Candy could be one of my main food groups. No exaggerations. I eat it all the time, every time I go somewhere that has it, have a Cotton Candy maker and even buy ten bags of the store bought kind every time I catch it included in Kroger's ten for ten sale.

It's safe to say I'm obsessed.

Duncan Hines even provides two recipes on their website. A Cotton Candy Cake Pop and Cotton Candy Cupcakes. Both of which look absolutely delicious.

Click here to view the recipes 

I decided that I would try out making a Cotton Candy cupcake. I didn't get fancy at all with my cupcakes, just wanted to try out this new icing for taste.

I used a plain white cake mix, the Cotton Candy flavor pack and the starter icing. Overall, I am happy with them. The taste is really sweet and the Cotton Candy flavor does come through. I am thinking I am going to try using two flavor packages next time around to add more Cotton Candy flavor. I wish I hadn't eaten all my Cotton Candy so I could have added a little decoration but oh well.

I recommend you try out these new flavor packets and see what you can come up with!

Impulse Internet

I always seem to get sucked into impulse shopping, especially on the internet. Today I got sucked into buying two items off the internet but both of which are things I really enjoy and I don't see myself regretting my decision to purchase.

I've had the same old, now a little dingy black purse for so long and have been on the market for a new one for quite some time. I came across a cute colorful bag on FredFlare (bag on the left) and was about to add it to my "shopping cart" when I thought, hmm it's not exactly what I want. 

So I searched a little bit around all while keeping that bag in mind since I did really like it, just wanted a little more. I thought to myself, I love the pattern and the style just see myself with a little different color scheme. Low and behold, I searched the internet and found what appears to be the same exact bag, in a different color scheme! (bag on the right) And ten dollars cheaper. The bag is from Zuimiez, a place I never thought I'd find a bag that I liked but I am not one to care where things come from. If I like it, then I like it. Although, I do feel myself getting a little greedy and I now want both bags as I do love the other one as well, but I do not need two bags so similar.

My second impulsive purchase today was something I didn't see myself buying anytime soon. I got a phone call from my mom and she started telling me all about a company that she thought was really cool. The company she was talking about is called "The Invisible Project" A company that sells Polaroid cameras and Polaroid film. Even though I have heard of this company I let my sweet mom describe it to me and decided to check it out again. 

I came across this awesome film where the traditional white frame comes in various colors, it was new to me but my mom assured me they had film like it when Polaroid was first around. 

My mom convinced me I'd be sad if it sold out and I didn't end up getting some so I just ended up buying a pack. I am really excited but plan on making like eight photos last and thinking about a picture before I take it. This film is limited edition and ended up costing thirty dollars. I hope I end up with some great pictures.

1. Urban Decay Naked Pallet 

2. Urban Decay Eyelid Primer

3. Maybelline Great Lash Clear Mascara

4. Urban Decay 24/7 Eyeliner

5. e.l.f. Eyelid Primer

6. L'oreal True Match Naturale Mineral Foundation

7. e.l.f. Color Correcting Powder

8. Covergirl Line Exact Eyeliner

9. Babylips lip balm

10. Covergirl Lash Perfection Mascara

11. e.l.f. Makeup setting spray

Just a small peek into my makeup bag. I picked out the products I use on a daily basis, some of these are switched up depending on the day. These products are what I've found to work best for me, so far at least. I love trying new makeup and if I included all the makeup I own the post would extend for days.

What I'm loving - Nail polish edition

Today, I'm starting out a new feature I'll hopefully keep up with every Wednesday - What I'm Loving. The direction I am going to go with this is just pick a theme for each post, something I'm loving this week obviously and create a collection of pictures of items. Pretty self explanatory!

I'm starting out with nail polish - I was shopping around Target yesterday and kept seeing all these wonderful colors that I would love to pick up and wear this summer.

And as you'll probably notice my favorite brand is Essie.

1. Essie Mamba 2. Essie Tart Deco 3. Essie Glamour Purse 4. Essie Mint Candy Apple 5. Julep Alicia 6. Essie Power Clutch

Appreciate - Succulents

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LUSH Haul

Today my best friend and I took a trip to our LUSH Store and picked up a few things. I cannot express my love for their products and I am wearing a face mask I purchased today as I type this. Every time I visit I try and pick up products I haven't tried before and some new ones of my old favorites of course.

To start with - I am wearing one of the two Fresh Face Masks I picked up today; Catastrophe Cosmetic with calming blueberries and soothing calamine. I just washed this off after it sat for about ten minutes, moisturized and my skin feels absolutely wonderfully smooth.

The second mask I picked up to try is Brazened Honey for a deep clean; it is the most powerful of their masks'.

The next item I picked up was a Tea Tree Toner Tab. I haven't tried one of these toner tabs yet but you drop them in a bowl of water, let me fizz away and do their wonderful thing for your face. And they only cost $1.95 each.

Having occasional trouble skin I purchased Grease Lightening to use as a spot treatment on my skin.

As for a moisturizer, I picked out a sample of Cosmetic Lad to try from a blind test one of the sales associates gave to me. I couldn't choose which moisturizer to get. This ended up feeling the best to me along with Gorgeous but I chose this one considering the $90 Gorgeous price tag. I can't allow myself like a product with a price like that.

Finally, I picked up another bar of my go to cleanser, Coalface!

Appreciate - Lush

LUSH creates handmade, high quality cosmetics and I appreciate their products!

Some of my current favorite products include

Coalface cleanser

Pow Wow lip scrub

& Toothy Tabs

They also make awesome bath bombs in creative colors and scents with awesome benefits for your skin. I have let to try any of their bath bombs unfortunately though, I am sticking to the facial care for now.

Goodies!

My Adam jk planner has arrived! Along with two other goodies he added in there; a pencil and a postcard. I am so excited to start using it, I have already started filling in some of the fun pages.

A review

I recently purchased Shine of the Times by Essie from their Luxeffects collection and all I have to say is that I am in love!

I used it over black polish as it looks best with dark colors underneath. I am excited to play around with other base colors!

Appreciate - Adam jk

Adam J. Kurtz is a graphic artist and media designer. This week for my Appreciate post, I appreciate his work. I have been following his work for quite some time now and I just recently purchased his 2012 planner (pictured below) to keep track of my daily activities.

One of his designs has even been featured on a shirt for Urban Outfitters

He is currently working on many projects but my favorite would have to be his Week In Scraps. "Ongoing documentation of found and curated objects and artifacts"

Visit Adam and see more of his work at www.adamjustkidding.com

All images belong to Adam.

Sharing

Today I found this quick little blog post idea that I'd thought I'd post to share a little more about myself with you.

Favorite hobby?

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Favorite TV Show?

Favorite restaurant food?

Favorite thing to shop for?

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& clothes!

Favorite animal?

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Favorite song?

Too difficult to choose!

Favorite word?

Recent favorite youtube video?

A friend of mine recently showed me this and I was blown away

Favorite movie?

Favorite childhood memory?

Wanna play along?

Copy & paste the prompts below, answer each with a photo and description if you like and leave a comment here with a link to your post so I can read your favorites!

Favorite hobby?

Favorite tv show?

Favorite restaurant food?

Favorite thing to shop for?

Favorite animal?

Favorite song?

Favorite word?

Recent favorite youtube video?

Favorite movie?

Favorite childhood memory? 

Appreciate - Poppies

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Continuing with the jan photo a day

14. Something you're reading

As girly as it is... Cosmo