Seahawks Selfies

OK, today's post is kind of heavy on selfies. Sorry. My Dad got me a Seahawks shirt!! I wore is yesterday since they played, unfortunately they lost...to the freakin' Cowboys :( It's OK I'm still a fan!

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 I haven't really payed any attention to NFL for most of my life. I rooted for the Beavers and that was about it. Oregon doesn't have a professional football team, but if you asked me who I rooted for in the NFL I would say the Seahawks, since they reside with our neighbors in the North West. Then I met my husband who was an avid Bears fan. So I switched to the Bears for a while. But then a guy from my hometown who went to my high school started playing for the Seahawks, so I switched back, and then they went to the Superbowl and he got to play! It was really exciting for my hometown. Anyway, he left the Seahawks to play for the Browns, but I decided to stick with the Seahawks. I still root for the Bears, and now the Browns too, but none of them have a quarterback as attractive as Russel Wilson! ;) I have an aunt & uncle & cousins who all live up in the Seattle area as well, so it is fun to root for the same team as them.

My new favorite eyeshadow is by Wet & Wild. It's a trio of colors called "walking on eggshells". It's a great neutral palette and the color stays on all day. I haven't had any problems with creasing or fading. It has one color for the lid, one for the crease, and one for the brow. It comes with a a small brush which I use for the crease of my eye. A makeup expert probably wouldn't use the brush it comes with but I think it works just fine for my everyday look. I was trying to show off my hair in these pictures because I styled it differently than usual. Lately I've been wearing pigtails everyday, because my hair has grown out to a mullet, but I haven't had time to get it done! So I put it in pigtails, poofed the back & curled. It was fun to wear it a little different because I usually only have time to wear it straight.

I made these outfits on Polyvore right after it was determined that the Seahawks were going to the superbowl. Wouldn't it be fun to wear these?

 Happy Monday all!

Beauty Review

WARNING: today you are going to see some really unflattering pictures of me for the sake of beauty!

I recently purchased a face & body luminizer/bronzer from Hard Candy. I am going to be honest--I totally bought it because it was shiny and gold and the word Glow just drew me in.

I've used it a couple of times so I thought it would be fun to do a review on it.

I purchased mine at Wal Mart. Wal Mart is the only place I have seen Hard Candy products, they might be sold somewhere else but in my neck of the woods, that's where it's at.

So here is a "before" picture of me, with absolutely zero makeup on, my hair is not done, and I pretty much just woke up, and I was trying to get the lighting of the picture to be accurate so I took it without a flash into the mirror, resulting in a bad angle for my face...don't judge me. ;)

Here is the "after" picture. Not a huge difference, but I do look slightly more "bronze". You cannot tell in the picture, but the bronzer is very shimmery, so if you were to see me in person in natural sunlight I might look like Edward Cullen when he hits the light (yes I just compared myself to a vampire, no I have not read the books, but I live in Oregon and we are pretty much all vampires 9 months out of the year!)

To be honest, it's not a product I would wear all the time. If I feel like looking a little extra shimmery and bronze and I have a reason to make my self  up, I might use it.

Now, get ready for this next picture where I did my hair & the rest of my makeup, and used a flash & different camera angle--It looks like a fairy came and magically turned me into a different person!

 and Viola!

                          Pale                                                Less Pale                            Camera & Makeup Magic

Well that was fun, maybe I'll do another beauty post eventually!

My advice for today: Get some real sun! (of course if you're in my neck of the woods right now there is none, so maybe you should go on vacation!)

Happy Tuesday!