Speak of the Devil

So today I checked the mail and got my nail polishes. I placed the order on the 30th of September and got them today, that is some epic fast shipping. As a bonus I also got some New York Times news paper from July LOL.

The colours I got are listed in the post above this one but for those who are lazy I purchased Pamplona Purple, No Spain No Gain and Do You Lilac It? All three are from OPI. The picture below is a comparison of MAC's Love & Friendship from A Rose Romance collection (left/index) and OPI's Do You Lilac It? (right/thumb) I would say that these two colours are quite similar however Love & Friendship is more on the pink side whereas Do You Lilac It? is more on the purple or lilac side. The picture is kinda' horrible so I will try to get a better picture on my camera when the sun is up again. Both of these colours are matte.

The picture below is a comparison of OPI's Pamplona Purple (bottom/thumb) and OPI's No Spain No Gain (top/index). These colours are also pretty similar... No Spain No Gain is more on the red side than Pamplona purple which is more on the purple side. I think that if you were to get these nail polishes, you'd be good getting either one of the two. Honestly, I am hoping it's just my lighting but at the moment I can not tell the difference at first unless I examine the colours closely. Again horrible swatches, but I will try to do a better one. Sorry. Perhaps I should swatch these on blank white paper?

Hope this helped,

-Joanne

Update

Yes those are my parents and I am mighty proud of them, aren't they lovely? :)

Hola people who are following me, so as you guys may know or rather will find out, I am going to try to lose weight, I've already calculated my daily calorie intake, a year ago I lost 10 lbs effortlessly by counting calories and some short yoga sessions. I am going to start as I find that works the best for me and was the most effective way. Today, I have to really start to try in Math. class, I can't fool around anymore it's been a month into school, I've had plenty of time to adapt to school. After I type this I am going to work on my English Semiotics Assignment. There's my goal for the school year, lose weight and do better in school. Actually there's another one, I want to grow my layers out, when I try to curl my hair it looks horrible and flat because my hair is so thinned out. I dislike it. I'd rather have thicker hair so that my hair doesn't get exposed to heat that much and so that it looks better when it's curl. I want to be able to braid my hair while it's damp, wake up the next day and be able to have nice waves in my hair not nasty pubic hair looking waves... for lack of better words. I supposed fried crimped hair would work but I like the first analogy more. :)

My mommy is finally back from visiting her ill mother out of the country. She was gone for a month and I find that her absence had made me realize many things and the fact that I love her and genuinely care about her. I am now trying to be a better daughter and appreciating her. I do believe I am doing a very good job at it :) EEEEEEE I'm just so happy she's back.

For those who don't know, here are some of the things that I have ordered online and will get soon:

144 Palette

Acrylic Nail Kit

White French Tip Nails

Fimo Canes

Mini Bows (for nails)

OPI Espana: Pamplona Purple

OPI Espana: No Spain No Gain

OPI _____: Do You Lilac It? (I fear that this will be too similar to my MAC Love & Friendship (Cream)Nail Lacquer from MAC's A Rose Romance collection)

Apple iPhone earphones with Mic (I ordered 3 at once since I know I will be losing them easily and because Apple earphones are such horrible quality they will break on me however I am left with very limited choices since I have an iPhone 2G)

Things I want:

OPI Lincoln Park After Dark

OPI Done Out In Deco

Over the Knee Boots

Lomography Diana Deluxe Package (If anyone has relatives in the states please tell me thank you)

Recently, I've really gotten into nail stuff. :| I think I kinda' made a bad choice when I ordered the Fimo Canes, I mean how often would I have the time to sit and do my nails especially since I am in my senior year of school. I am also thinking about getting the 28 neutral palette and the 88 shimmer, I am going to wait to see if the 120 palette in the 144 palette has a lot of shimmers in it, if there is then it'd clearly make no sense that I am going to order an 88 shimmer palette.

I will hopefully do a review on the stuff that I have ordered. I also need to do a haul entry or video from last month.... laziness :)

Well off to homework I go, toodles

-Joanne

Another MIA

Sorry for not updating again. I have been so caught up with... -insert something epic here-. I honestly wish I was caught up with something epic. I'm getting to my usual school "routines" again, no, not the good one but the bad one. You know, the sleep in, go to school, come home, do nothing productive, "Oh look it's past 12 maybe I should start doing my homework", homework, bed by 1-2am. This isn't healthy. It's just I can't seem to get away from this disgusting cycle.

I am looking at Watchmen at the moment and I can't decide whether or not I should continue reading it... it is the long weekend, and I am going to go on a subway ride tomorrow to Downtown to attend the University Fair. Sadly, all I can think about is shopping. I think I'm a shopaholic. This occurred to me as I cleaned my room (Which, I must add is STILL CLEAN! :D) I have a surplus of everything I need/want. Must not be weak and restrain myself from shopping. Tomorrow, I am only allowed to spend $50 food included. To be on the safe side, I am not going to take my debit card with me. That should do the trick.

I have an in-car lesson in less than half an hour. I hate driving it takes so much concentration and effort, after I finish my driving lesson I am going to go volunteer at MCBC, after that I am going to shower and head over to Melissa's house. Or perhaps I should do a haul from the MAC Warehouse sale I was at.. a while ago. Well I am going to go play with Priscilla's MAC Shadestick Sharkskin that she was kind enough to lend to me to experiment with.

Last Day of Summer Vacation

So today I was at Upper Canada Mall with Daphne and her Aunt (We didn't walk/shop with her) and I am quite happy to say that I only spent $42.48. I bought two nail polishes, an orange one and a teal one from Ardene (I wanted to test the quality). I bought the plaid tunic you see in the picture above and a black gel liner from CK:

Review: I'm not a fan of eyeliner but I fricken LOVE this gel liner. I think I am going to buy some from Coastal Scents to try out more gel liners (Actually I would but their shipping to Canada is so expensive it's not even worth it). The little brush that comes with it is pretty stupid and crappy. I applied this with an angled eyeliner brush from Sephora and wow it's fricken amazing. Tomorrow I will wear this to see how long it lasts and to see if it smudges. I hope the next time I go to Sephora, it's not sold out.

I think I really like Upper Canada Mall I mean I went to a MAC counter in Fairview Mall and apparently the Back To MAC program only offers the choice of Lipsticks. The one at Upper Canada? Nope. They offer: Lipglass, Lipstick and best of all EYESHADOW! I currently have 5 empty eyeshadow pots but Daphne is willing to give me her soon-to-be empty lipstick container so I can have 6. EEEEEE ~ I'm so excited I can't decide over which eyeshadow I should get though. Here are my choices:

• Amber Lights
• Rule
• Violet Trance
• Purple Shower
• Phloof!

Or I can get a nice nude lipstick... Myth would be a nice choice?

If you have any suggestions or recommendation please tell me. Thank you.

-Joanne

The Wrap-Up: Summer 2009

Honestly, I'm really disappointed of how unproductive my summer has been. I mean let's see what my usual days consisted of:

• Waking up at 3-4 pm
• Eating my breakfast at dinner time
• NOT GOING OUT
• NOT WORKING
• NOT TAKING ANY LESSONS
• YouTube
• Listening to music on iTunes
• TV
• Minimal communication with my family
• Getting angry <- really not a hard thing to do when you're at home with a younger brother Sleeping after the sun rises

I eat random means through out the day of course it's just so inconsistent that I couldn't really type down when I ate.

The only productive thing I did was cleaning and organizing my room (shown 2 posts before this)

Things/People I like during Summer 2009:

• Guava Nectar
• Mango Nectar
• Mango
• Papaya
• Melona
• MAC Cosmetic
• Glysomed Hand Cream
• Jean short shorts
• Coloured or black stockings
• Flats
• Late Night Alumni
• Jason Mraz

Of course my selective group of friends would be listed but they're not something I like seasonally. :)

Tip of the season: If you are running to a bus stop to board the bus and the bus leaves before you get there, pretend you're jogging, continue running.

Type a list of things/people that you liked Summer 2009. :)

Love,

Joanne

MIA

So I was away for a few days.. rather many days. I've been cleaning my room. What is better than a clean organized room to study in!? I cleaned and organized my closet and makeup :)Here are some photos:

My two most favourite perfumes.

Yeah so that's what most my makeup are in.

The first drawer has all my face stuff. I'm not even going to name what there are since th

ere's a picture.

The second drawer has my eyes stuff

The third drawer has all my lip stuff and some other things

This is a picture of what my closet doors look like.

This is what is inside my first closet

This is what is inside my second closet

These are on the top of the second closet which is different than my first closet which has more of my bags

So yeah that took me a while to clean and organize. I apologize that this is not really detailed. I really have a lot of catching up to do with blogging and uploading pictures. Tomorrow is the last day I spend with my mommy. I hope we're going out for dinner. :) I will see my friend tomorrow in Mississauga while my mom is at work. I need to get up early to get to her house so toodles

Love,

Joanne

Holla for a dolla

Yeah I couldn't think of a good title but whatever. I think today was a great day even though the rather better part of it was random, last minute and totally uncalled for. I love Priscilla's family. :) They're so cool. So let's see what did I do today?

2:?? pm I woke up and showered because I really needed to wash my hair

3:?? Ate cereal, checked for bus times

4:?? Did random crap on my computer (really by "random" I meant try to force someone to go to the mall with me to pick up (buy) Estee Lauder and MAC warehouse sale tickets). Obviously I failed at forcing people to come with me so I had to go alone

4:50 I left my house

5:08 I boarded the bus

6:00 I was still on the bus

6:01 I got off the bus

Yeah okay so I was supposed to meet the person who were selling the tickets to me at 6. Just for all those out there, the bus was supposed to be at the stop at 5:03. It was late, YRT (York Region Transit) is notorious for never being on time. It's late when you go to the stop early. It's early when you go to the stop late. Either way you're bound to wait.

So let's see where was I before the YRT rant...

Okay so 6:?? I went to the bank to get some money to pay for the tickets

6:15 mission accomplished then headed to Sephora to check the Daisy Perfume by Marc Jacobs for Daphne. Called Sang and Daphne. Talked to Sang because Daphne didn't pick up until later.

Anyways who cares what time I did what, let's skip to the exciting parts

Obtained MAC warehouse tickets

Today I finally found where the bus stop at Fairview Mall is.

Went to Priscilla's TKD class.

Had some old dimsum

Went to Boston Pizza

Someday, Monday, Slow Day.

Yum S'mores are delicious. So right now I am sitting in front of my computer listening to some more wonderful works of Mr. Mraz while sipping on some Arizona Green Tea. I really don't understand why anyone would need 695mL of this stuff, I guess it's nice for them to give you so much in a can but it is quite heavy to carry around, especially in a purse (I was at the Royal Ontario Museum a few days ago and decided to bring a can with me). I don't remember who it was but one of my friends told me that these drinks will give me cancer. I don't really worry too much about it since everything can give you cancer. It is 21 degrees celsius outside at the moment but I am shivering inside.

Earlier I was watching some good old cartoons on TV, I haven't really noticed how much time I spend in front of my computer, it's kinda' odd. I think this year I will spend more time cleaning, studying and reading. Of course that's what I say every year but a few of my really great friends read a lot, I don't think it'd be that bad I mean with the proper book selection. Does anyone know of any good books? Please do not suggest the Twilight series, thank you.

After watching TV I went on the computer (no surprise) and I was trying to see if the Estee Lauder and MAC warehouse sale tickets were out yet. I really hope I can get tickets for my friends and I. I am so excited to go to IMATS. The only reason why I really want to go there is to get the Ben Nye palette and look at the works of some other peoples. I wish I had that much interest for cleaning my room and for school. I'd be so smart, I will probably be gifted.

This [school] year I really want to cut down on the use of my computer, read more, keep my room clean, run/bike more often, do more chores (gotta' help out my parents), study more, work on projects a bit everyday and not procrastinate. I hope I can do that. I also have to work more often so I can buy my own stuff, summers been so odd for me. I don't have a normal sleep pattern so I don't even feel like working anymore, I haven't worked for over a month, it kinda' really sucks to know that I can't use my money lavishly. Definitely going to try to work this week. I wonder how I am going to keep a balanced life, my "New School Year Resolutions" seem really time consuming. I think it'd be worth it if I go shopping once every two weeks (as a reward for being able to do all the things listed). I'm not really in the mood to go out shopping a lot anymore, I guess this is a good thing, I hate getting ready to go out I hate bussing. Ugh. I wonder if there are anyway for me to get straight hair or at least hair that looks "good" without needing to use extreme heat. I want long, healthy hair for prom.

I think I am going to type more of my feelings and thoughts later. It is currently 4:08 pm. Toodles world (or just Priscilla)!

Love,

Joanne

Okay so to add on to the post, I have decided that I shouldn't add on more. Today was a pretty boring day. The highlight of the day would be that I got a really nice shade of red on my lips with the 88 Coastal Scents palette and just a regular lip balm. What do you guys think about the colour?

Tomorrow I am going to Fairview Mall to pick up 3 tickets to somewhere awesome for myself and 2 awesome girls. :) I am excited already. September 12, 2009 will be an epic day.

Until tomorrow,

Joanne