Mermaid Face

My recent hair color change has inspired my Halloween makeup look this year. (yes, the makeup was as far as I went with the costume) The burgundy I put into my hair in September has faded to this reddish orange shade, which isn't my favorite color, but reds are so hard to maintain!

Anyway, about the makeup. I knew I wanted to use my NYX Macaron lipstick in Earl Grey, so I based the look on blue and incorporated some purple on my lower lashline, and in the gems on my cheekbone. I attempted a scale effect using a cutout piece from a loofa, and a light blue eyeshadow. I didn't quite get the look I was going for, and you can't see it in the photos at all. I think using the shadows wet for that scale effect would have worked much better. You live and you learn right? Here's the list of the products used:

CG Ready set Gorgeous foundation
Rimmel Stay Matte Setting Powder
Too Faced Leopard Love cheek Palette
Revlon Single Eyeshadow- Sea foam
L'Oreal HIP E/S Duo- Showy
Maybelline Single eyeshadow- Amethyst
L'Oreal Lineur Intense liquid eyeliner
Tarte Lights Camera Lashes Mascara
Elf dramatic false lashes
NYX Macaron lipstick- Earl Grey
Gems from random halloween kit

Drugs and Society

Things in my life are going a lot like usual. There's large amounts of stress, uncertainty, and overall anxiety in just about every aspect. I recognize all of it, and feel it most of the time...but honestly I'm always able to find my happy place where I enjoy myself, and not let the stress get to me, no matter how huge it may be. All that it takes for me is a little time to myself to be alone (or with my cat ^-^) relaxing, decompressing, and just enjoying a little TV. I don't need drugs or any type of substance to alter my brain, just a little me time.

There are so many people out there who turn to drugs and alcohol to ease them through life, and I find myself completely understanding why. Life is hard. Every person on this planet struggles somehow everyday. I get it, and I really empathize with them. The reason this is on my mind is because there are many people in my life that are addicts. Some are on more intense and dangerous drugs than others. It truly makes me sad that they can't figure out a way to get through life's difficulties in a less destructive way. Drugs change you, that's a fact. The problem is, people using them cling to the idea that they are changed for the better by their drug of choice. This way of thinking leads to the user's life being overtaken by their habits. Everything that was once important becomes background noise to their love of getting high. 

I know that everything I'm saying isn't a shock to anyone, but I wish I could think of some way to change this giant problem. There's always people to blame, mostly I blame our entire way of life, for Americans at least. I feel like our economy and society as a whole is just broken. There are some fundamental things that need to be changed, in order to improve the quality of life for our citizens. The entire meaningless rat race we put ourselves through, aspiring to be middle class.

 Unless you are born privileged, we have to put ourselves through college in order to get some mediocre career. Then, IF we are lucky enough to find a career in our field, we will need to desperately cling to it and spend the next 10 or so years being a slave to that job in order to pay off our student loan debt. Middle class people are screwed over. They are the hardest working people, and are treated like slaves. Middle class, pays for the rich and the poor. It's completely unfair, and something needs to change. 

Okay, this blog was all over the place. I didn't intend to write about this at all when I started. These are the types of thing that are on my mind a lot though, so I guess it needed to come out.  Anyway, next time I will update with fun projects I'm working on because all we can do is make the most with what we have. As cheesy as that sounds it's what I truly believe.