...ramblings...

Hello Luvahs! I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday! Today is the day we celebrate the birth of my Lord and Savior-- Jesus Christ! Please let the light of the lord shine in You, be grateful for not only the presents a food and family, but also for the wonders the Lord has made... Merry Christmas, Baby!  Also... Here is a potential New Years Look... Maybe a New Years tut will be up this year... follow me on Twitter @VivaLaLuminary

This is a nice, neutral and well balanced look... for a holiday party or dinner... edited for your viewing pleasure... and tut!

I finally published the tut... after fighting for it since friday of last week

I did a holiday look a few days ago... Here it is... I'm having trouble editing.publishing the tut so that might be awhile... edited for you looking pleasure

So... I joined twitter... I said I wouldn't... And I don't know how to feel about it... Yet... Anywho... @VivaLaLuminary

In my new stuff... eyeliner was a little shaky.... meh...

I meant it! I played around in the things I got yesterday in the mail... Here are a couple of looks...  I do believe this coppery one will have a tut coming up soon... For the holidays? And just for fun...and cause I wanted to play around in my matte shadows...

I got a few things from Coastal Scents and Jesse's Girl... I must say I love, Love, LOVE... everything I got... Like LOVE! Here are a couple pics... I'll definitely be working these into my tuts... This is swatches from the Creative Me #1 palette... LOVE! What I got: Creative Me Palette #1 & #2 Jesse's Girl Eye Lites in Lavender, Sea Green, Salmon Pink, Glitzy and Starburst Coastal Scents 36 Smokey Palette Jesse's Girl Mini Cream Shadow Palettes 1 & 2 Jesse's Girl Cream Shadow in After Midnight Jesse's Girl Eye Dust in Rouge Flambe and Jesse's Girl sent me a butt load of samples... as they tend to do... as well as a free tube of shadow primer... well I guess it was free...

I know... I suck... I have done nothing with my life but work... Ugh... the life I live...

If you have heard of a wacky cake, then you know that it is traditionally chocolate... But one day not too long ago I had run out of cocoa abd still wanted to make the cake... So instead of the cocoa, I added lemon juice... And it was great... So here is the traditional "Wacky Cake" recipe... the red is what I do instead... WACKY CAKE     1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup cocoa (1/4 cup lemon juice) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tsp. baking soda 1 teaspoon vanilla & 1/4 tsp lemon extract & 1/4 tsp orange extract 1 tablespoon white vinegar 1/3 cup vegetable, peanut or light olive oil 1 cup cold water, milk or chocolate milk Preheat oven to 350°F. This cake is so easy and fun to make that you'll be tempted to save on dishes by preparing it in a disposable 8 or 9 inch square pan. There are no mixing bowls to worry about, since the cake is mixed directly in the pan so that you can make it more often. Grease the pan well with Crisco or vegeta...

ugh... yes I know it's been so long... I've been away for a while, mostly because I've been working a lot, and secondly my camera was on life support... But luckily, I was blessed enough to have a little bit of extra funds in my check to buy a new one... So yea, yesterday was Halloween... I went as a Rockstar/Rihanna (if you ask my father...) but mostly just a rockstar... Here are pics... I used my Mehron Pastel Palette for the pink section of my face, covered that with Ben Nye's Azalea, outlined it with my Milani Blackened Teal Double Ended liner. For the eyes I used Ben Nye's Ice (lid), Amethyst,(crease) Cosmic Blue (crease), Iced Gold (highlight) and Urban Decay's Perversion (cut crease). Cheeks are BN Azalea (right), and BN Cosmic Blue & Amethyst (left) My lips were outlined in black and then filled in with Maybelline's Wine and roses...  but then I ate... and the lips were gone... meh.. obligatory edited pic...