HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So according to the tracking number that I wasted a buck on, the birthday present was delivered at 7 AM TODAY. Which means that you should either be getting it today or tomorrow.

One day we are totally going to share a piece of cake. In Martha's Bakery on Austin.

     HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOANNA!!!!     

Wow, we've known each other for one full year now. You're the ~best~ best friend ever and I wish you the happiest birthday ever. So for one night, skip homework and spend the night eating chocolate and trying out new make-up! And then review it on your blog!

Have a magical, happy, carefree birthday!

Love you ~ Wendy

P.S. Did I use too many exclamation points?

Mailing Your Birthday Present

Ok, I finally, finally mailed your present. It was supposed to be mailed out on Saturday, but my post office closes at 1 PM and I got there just as they were closing, so I had to wait for Monday morning to mail it. I mailed it today at 10 AM, even got a delivery confirmation number because I was so worried that it would get lost in the mail... and because I thought it was free... Haha. I had to pay like a dollar, but I wanted to make sure it got to you! Because if it didn't, boy that would suck and I would have to go out and buy everything again and you would have to wait even longer to get it! :(

So anyway, the package is scheduled to arrive exactly on your birthday, only I'm afraid you might have to wait another day for it to actually be deposited in your PO box.

I'm so excited! Only two or three more days til you get your present <3 I must admit, as time went on, I just kept stuffing more and more things in there, determined to use up the space while still being able to close the flap and keep the envelope flat. Next time I am buying one of those bubble-wrap envelopes. Where do you get them? Staples?

Oh and one question: if I got you nail polish, would you use it? I didn't get you one this time because I'm afraid you won't use it. You don't seem like you like nail polish much.

Two days until your birthday...

Makeup Review: Flamingo Mascara and Revlon Matte Lipstick in Nude Attitude

You know how you give presents, and secretly you wonder whether the receiver actually liked it and is using it or if they threw it away? I'm going to give you a review on each thing you gave me, and do a semi-thorough review on each product, talking about what I hated or liked and if you have the time, you should do the same for me. Don't be shy, tell me if you hated it! Then I know what works for you, what doesn't and you'll get better presents in the future.

Flamingo Mascara:

OK I love asian mascaras. They just feel made for me, you know? This one gives me very good volume, but not much length. My eyes are kind of sensitive, so when I accidentally get the white fibers in my eye, it burns like hell. I love this mascara; it was the first one I tried that didn't give me panda eyes after 2 hours. Seriously. Most american mascaras last about two hours on me. I'm not sure why this stayed on so well, since the Benefit Bad Gal mascara lasted pretty long on me too. I think it's because the formula is quite dry; dry formulas have better lasting power. It makes it hard to pull the mascara through the lashes, but it's a fine sacrifice to make.

I tried to take pictures to show you how it changes my lashes, and it took me nearly 30 bad pictures to realize that my camera is shit at picking up detail. No matter what I do the picture is super fuzzy. Do you know how to fix this? I have no clue. That's why there's no pictures.

If you look closely at the picture, you can see the hot glue on the black mascara tube. I kind of dropped it, and the tube completely snapped off at the neck part. Yeah... I glued it back, but it doesn't work too good and I'm going to be careful now so I don't drop anything else.

Pros: Good staying power, good volumizing, decent at length and holding a curl
Cons: Takes quite a while to build up, time-consuming, starts to smear on me after 8 hours, takes a while to get off
Overall: I would buy this mascara again if I ran out, because it gives me way more dramatic lashes than my almost-HG mascara. (More about that later) I love it quite a lot, and want to try more asian mascaras


Revlon Matte Lipstick: Nude Attitude

Can you tell from the swatch that it's more orange than pink? I'm not a fan of nude lips so I am biased, but this just washed me out. Worse than that, it emphasizes every imperfection on my lips. Even if my lips are perfectly smooth and free of dead skin, this sinks into the lines of my lips. I do notice that if I put a lipgloss over it, the lines disappear, but I'm not big on lipgloss. I like my lipgloss to be pigmented, so it would just cancel out the color of the lipstick, making it useless. I will have to be very careful when I wear it, exfoliating my lips then applying clear-ish lipgloss (like the Neutrogena one you gave me) over it But every time I blot my lips after applying, the tissue looks so orange, like cooked salmon. I really like this as a blush, though. I swipe some on my fingers and blend it along my cheekbones.

Pros: It looks fine on my cheeks, and pretty good pigmentation
Cons: Emphasizes every line on my lips, hate the color, would have been so annoyed if I bought this
Overall: I would never buy this for myself; I'm only using it as a blush just to use it up.


More reviews coming later; my camera ran out of battery as I was taking pictures of the things you gave me. I wanted to give more true-to-life swatches and stuff.

The Wendy Show

It's time for...

The Wendy Show

This was an incredible amount of work, mostly because I look like a troll and had to take about 60 pictures to get a handful of ok pictures. I don't think I look that great in any of these, so why am I showing them to you? Because you're going to need a bunch of pictures so you can rotate them and I dunno, choose which one you like best?

So first thing I did was put on make-up, so you can see how good I'm getting. Oh and I timed myself! Just moisturizer, concealer, highlighter and powder took about seven minutes. Boo. I was trying to do all of that AND mascara in five minutes. But then I decided to do eyeshadow and eyeliner, which was a big mistake. I totally messed up the first time and had to take it all off and the second time, I screwed up my right eye. Can you tell in any of these pictures? Probably not, they're too far away.

My bathroom was a mess. At one point, I dropped all my brushes in the sink, so they all got wet. :(













But anyway, onwards! I sat at my desk, because it just felt normal? And by the second picture, I was already goofing off. Haha, imagine what I'm like when I'm working!

I am a huge, huge Glee fan. Can you tell? I do a perfect loser sign.

I then moved to the bathroom, where I have the best lighting. It's perfect; kinda dark and yellow. I'm sitting on the floor, in case you were wondering.

I'm trying to do the fobby asian pose, so why is my left hand holding up 3 fingers?

I don't know what I'm doing here, but I look totally funny.

And then I got super pissed, 'cause my pictures were so shitty, so I actually did the mirror pose. I'm kind of ashamed, since I usually make fun of people who do this.

Do I look good? I at least look like a tiny less fat, but otherwise I have this super dumb smile on my face.

At this point, I'm about 40 pictures in, hating myself and feeling hungry so I went out to the kitchen to eat something. What did I eat? You guessed it: crackers.

Oh god this is a bad picture; I'm pissed and hungry.

But then I got this really cool shot! Or at least I think I look cool, like a Hollywood version of a mob boss? C'mon, I've got the dark lighting, and the slightly pissed off scowl.

So finally, finally I went back to my desk, and took the only decent, realistic shot of me: I don't know how, only that I was really tired of it all and also, people were going to come home soon and see my craptastic photoshoot.

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So that is what I really look like now. I think it's pretty accurate. I'm not smiling, and my nose looks huge. That's totally realistic. I'm unfriendly and have unflattering shadows on my face. Woohoo. One thing I do notice is that my under eye circles are non-existent. Could it be that I'm actually getting good at concealer??? Haha. I messed up on concealer and had to do it again. I tried to blend it in with a fluffy brush like this one girl on youtube did (she made it look flawless) but on me the concealer just forms blobs.

This took about two hours, for makeup and photos, and I'm tired now. And I know these pictures are unflattering, but hey, at least you have some pictures of me, right?

The green shirt I'm wearing is one of my favorites. It's a boatneck that shows off my collarbones, which I love. Other than that, it looks ratty on me. I wear it as pajamas.

Now that I think about it, I cannot believe I didn't change my shirt.

I'm going to close this with a Sailor Moon picture. You probably didn't know, but I used to be a huge Sailor Moon fan. I watched it in Chinese. Anyway, in this picture the cat was making fun of Sailor Moon and called her Sailor Fatty. It's nice to see I'm not the only one who feels fat.

That's all for now!

I basically used up my whole day on this. Haha; hope you enjoyed. I'm going to take a break from posting. Oh and I'm curious. How long does it take you to take pictures?

HUGS

This is so cute and makes everyone melt into a puddle of goo:

Need a hug? Got your back.

My Wall

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I know it's been forever, but I got stuck in this vortex of school and procrastination. :( But so far everything's going OK. Not much is happening, just time slowly ticking by. I managed to make some new friends, haven't seen my old friends and totally repulsed this guy! Oh my god, it was both hilarious and crushing to see how much this guy DIDN'T want to talk to me, even though we were sitting next to each other in the lab. I offered him a pencil, (He was furiously scribbling with his pen, trying to get it to work, and I was like WHAT IS THAT HORRIBLE SOUND?) and he was the least grateful person I've ever met. Oh well. Hopefully we're not sitting next to each other next time. I was actually sad, because usually I sit next to this really funny girl, and this stupid guy took her seat instead. : (

Anyway, this post is titled "My Wall" and it's because... I want to show you my wall! You know how I have this blank wall by my desk? I put a poster of Taylor Lautner up on it for a while? Yeah, I took it down because it was getting boring. And then I put up a huge collage of... stuff. Haha. I cut out a bunch of stuff I like from magazines, put up some pictures:

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So that's the entire collage. You can see I have real photos surrounding it, some pictures by my little cousins, and even your halloween card! They surround the collage, which I made way before I decided to put other stuff around it.

Here's a closeup of the collage:



Here's a close-up of some really old pictures of me: In the left picture, I look super nerdy and like I haven't changed much. I'm in sixth grade there, I think. In the right picture, I'm like five or six. I know, I looked so cute when I was little. WHAT HAPPENED? Haha. And that's my sister next to me, holding the bear. (Sorry, there's a weird reflection on the picture. You can see my green cabinet on the left and me in a purple bathrobe on the right!)



OK, so another thing I did is get a glue gun. I feel like a real arts n crafts person now that I have a glue gun. So what did I do? I went crazy and glued a bunch of plastic stars to my desk. Haha. Here's two pictures. You can see that I try to use the stars to hang stuff, like my gorgeous new headband, only $2.50 at Club Monaco. Can you believe they charge $29 originally? For rhinestones and ribbon?




Before I go, just wanted to show you my brand new patent leather nude pumps. I know they're not tall enough for you, but I'm out of practice wearing heels,and I found even these really uncomfortable. Actually, I wore them out for about an hour, and it made two cuts in both my feet. Showering that night was like an acrobatic routine as I tried to keep the water away from my feet. Can you imagine? Even water made those cuts burn like hell. What do you do to prevent foot pain? Suck it up?




No, seriously. How do you hold up against the pain in your feet? My feet are dying here. Ignore me. I've been kind of whiny lately, because there's just so much schoolwork to do. All I want is to play around with makeup. By the way, how do you do your winged eyeliner? I must be doing it wrong, because it always comes out looking stupid on me.

So I'm doing fine. How are you doing? Your birthday's coming up! What do you want? Give me some hints, will you? I won't be mailing your present... Actually, that's cruel. I'll mail a small portion of it, but the entire thing is going to be really heavy because I'm stuffing it with chocolate. Literally. You know how you use bubble wrap? I'm using chocolate as bubble wrap. I'm not sending everything I haven't bought all of it yet. Haha. I don't know what to buy... You have way too much makeup, I don't want to give you more... unless I think it's amazing and you should try it.

God, I can't wait until we go to Sephora together! I'm trying to put together a list of everything I want... and I'm trying to apply for jobs so I won't be broke after it's over. I'm spending quite a lot on drugstore make-up, all to find my holy grails.

Love you, be happy, and be healthy! I hope you made lots of friends!

~Love, Wendy