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Cheapie Beauty Tips and Tricks 2

Beauty tips and tricks Part 2

Another thing I like to do to spread my makeup out, and recycle is to have creative uses of lipstick.  I love color stay styles of lipstick that stay on all day.  I just love them.  But they are a little pricey.  Most of them even at the convenience stores start at $10 and if it is a color that I will only wear out on the town, I cant justify the expense.

So I have a trick I like to do to make my lipstick last longer.  This is only good for mattes not glossy shines!!   I apply the lipstick, blot, then put some powder on top of it and reapply more lipstick.  This can be any kind of powder, but I typically use an older  pressed powder (the kind that  goes on top of foundation).    I have found this gets me through about 6 hours or more depending on what I am eating or drinking.

I also love to make my own lip gloss. 

 I have included two of my favorite recipes below from  http://www.idea-queen.com/.   You can add color to them by adding any old lipstick.   It is best if it is from a tube of some form, as opposed to the liquid kind you paint onto your lips.   You can add your last ¼ of a favorite tube, or if a color was too harsh or garish then try making it into gloss before trashing it.    Just add the lipstick to the recipe before heating.

Basic Beeswax Lip Gloss
1/2 ounce beeswax beads, refined
4 ounces sweet almond oil
2 teaspoons essential oil or food flavoring oil Put the 4 ounces of sweet almond oil in measuring cup, add beeswax beads and melt in microwave.
Stir with spoon, and when cooled a bit, add essential or flavoring oil. Pour into jars or containers

Chocolate Lip Gloss
1 1/2 tsp grated cocoa butter
1/2 tsp coconut oil
1/8 tsp vitamin E oil
1/4 tsp grated chocolate or 3 small chocolate chips
In a double boiler or microwave heat the cocoa butter, coconut oil, and vitamin E oiluntil melted. Stir in the chocolate chips and keep stirring until melted and well blended Pour into small container and allow to cool before using

 

Good luck and thanks for reading!

Berkeley

You Fix a Dog, not a person

I love VH1 Shows.  I cant help it.  I just like them a lot. 

My new favorite is the Tool Academy.  Though I am annoyed that they got rid of Mega, but he really wasn’t very tool-like. 

But anyway, Tool Academy says they will take your asshole boyfriend and ‘fix him’.  I know that this is a tagline, and it is designed to catch attention, but it mildly distresses me and I thought this is the perfect place to vent and opine!  :)

You cannot fix a person.  You can only fix a male pet.

If you want to fix a person, I would suggest you seriously consider why.  What is so untenable about them that they need fixing? 

Spellwork will not ‘fix’ a person.  Not ever.  It can help a person to become more introspective.  It can help a person learn some important lessons in life, and hopefully become the person they need to be.  But it will not ever change their character and it will not ever make them change from heterosexual into homosexual if they are not already.

If you are engaging in spellwork you need to know that it will not remove their small annoying habits.  It will not make them hotter, better in bed, or less of a tool if that is their set of values.   You need to really assess why they are the way they are, and why you want them to change.  Think about it and what you bring to the relationship.

Good luck and thanks for reading

Berkeley

Cheapie Beauty Tips and Tricks 1

If you have read this blog you know that I have a love-hate relationship with Glamour magazine.  I hate them because they call me fat in one way or another every time I open the magazine.  I love them because they do have some really great ideas.

This month they have beauty tricks to try on a budget.  I like the idea and thought that I would offer some of my own. 

The first tips are about skin, and I will post more later! J

The first is making your own exfoliating scrub.  I have a problem with normal exfoliators, because of the sand and grit in them.  I LOVE exfoliators that contain dissolving materials.  However, my favorite is $18 for a very TINY container.  I mean like 2 oz.  That plus shipping is not worth the expense to me now days.  That is a gas fill up.  Or 3 lattes.  I just cant afford it.  SOooo  I make my own!

I start with the Sheer Goddess Dew Fresh™ Facial Cleanser.  My favorite thing to add as an exfoliate is brown sugar.  You cannot do this before hand.  If you dump sugar into the bottle of cleanser it will dissolve.  Um…yes I did actually have to do this before I realized… J

So anyway, if you are using a teaspoon of cleanser add about  one half of a teaspoon of sugar.

You can use brown sugar, regular sugar or salt.  But I find salt to be VERY drying, so I don’t recommend it unless you are having a terrible breakout.

Also, for skin I like using Florida Water as a toner.   But I warn you, it is VERY HARSH as it has a high alcohol content.  Beyond that it is safe to use.  Put some on a cotton ball and you just wipe it over your face, like any toner.  It is also very drying, but I have had it clear up breakouts literally overnight.

So Good luck and thanks for reading

Berkeley

Sister Candelaria's Oceanside rituals and readings

 Sister Candelaria is now offering very bitchin Oceanside Rituals and readings!!

 These rituals begin at Sister Candelaria's altar and end with her actually going to the ocean on your behalf where she will make your offerings and petitions to LaSirene and Agwe!  She will then send you pictures, a ritual item, and a full report on your ritual.   This is not the type of ritual that you can get just anywhere and especially not in the detail that she will provide to you with the pictures, full report on the ritual, and guidance. 

Each ritual is customized to your requests to meet your goals.  While these rituals do not replace regular spell work, they certainly are an extraordinary form of adjunct work!  For love work, she will be calling upon the power of the love between Agwe and LaSiren to help your case.  For money work, she will be calling on them to share their riches  (and who couldnt use some money right now??).  For the Spiritual Power ritual, she will be calling on them to help you open up your spiritual centers, intuition, psychic centers and pathways, etc. 

You will discuss your needs with Sister Candelaria prior to the ritual.  When your ritual is performed, she will send you a digital picture of your ritual set up, a report, and she will be mailing you some of the materials used in the ritual with instructions for what you are to do with them.
The rituals are very cool!
Good luck and thanks for reading
Berkeley

Hatin on Taylor

I like Taylor Swift’s music in general. It is a little bee-boppy and fun. Nice to do some car-dancing to.

But I have a beef with her recent song, Love Story. It is a nice song, but in it lyric wise Taylor repeatedly compares her guy to Romeo, and begs to be saved. That kills me – and not in a good way. I totally get being lonely and not wanting to be, but this song just reinforces bad ideas to me.

 I was raised on Disney. I thought for a long time that a guy was going to take me away from my troubles. That if I was merely in a relationship with the “right” guy that my self esteem issues would melt away, that my self worth would somehow be bolstered, and that I would be able to achieve my other goals and dreams. Uh….Thanks Disney.

 Now several bad relationships, a divorce, and lots of growing up later, I realize that I have to save myself. My issues are my issues. I need to love myself first. And I do now. As a result I am able to engage in healthier relationships. In fact, one of the things I love about my fiancé (yes I said fiancé!!!!) will not rescue me. He is reliable, and wonderful, and really good to me. And when things come up I know he is there for me. But he doesn’t ever try to save me. If I have something that I have to go through, he doesn’t try to step in and prevent it. He lets me know he is there for me and stands back. I love that. He respects my strength.

So by all means enjoy the music, but don’t take that crap to heart. You are as strong as you want to be.
Thanks for reading
Berkeley