Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Blushing Black Beauty: truBLEND Liquid Foundation Review

LET'S GET TO IT!


Pros

  1. This foundation is moisturizing. - I have dry skin and having a foundation that dries out leaves my skin with dry patches on it. 
  2. It doesn't oxidize after mixing with the oil from my morning skin routine - I don't end up with skin 2-3 shades darker than my face because I decided I wanted the dewy look. 
  3. The PRICE - It was cheap as hell. One of the cheapest drugstore foundations with my skin tone!
  4. The undertones - I was able to find a yellow undertoned one for winter and a more orangey undertone for the summer. 

Cons

  1. It only wears for a few hours - By the end of the day, I have less of it on than I put on my face in the morning.

Overall I really liked this foundation. It was easy to find my shade and the undertones didn't leave a greycast on my face. This was good because often my skin tone gets the pink undertone and that makes me look a little ghosty to be honest.

My shades are d2 (winter) and d4 (summer).

Thursday, January 8, 2015

BBG watches: Bones, Season 1

After 22 episodes in 36 hours, I'm gonna say overall I liked it, but there were a few major problems. These don't take away my overall interest in the show's basis.

Characters

The main character is interesting and at the same time dull. She's one of the many of this annoying breed of sociopath/detective/scientist type of character that is really pretty annoying to me. She contantly mentions IQ and expressly states she is better than others and that some deserve to die. This character is the meaning of the word trite. She has an offbeat name, a sad family history, a overindulgent knowledge of "exotic" cultures, and NO FUCKING EMOTIONS, except for when it comes to the people from these exotic cultures. [WHITE SAVIOR ALERT]

tl;dr Temperance Brennan is female sherlock.

The second main (and love interest you can see coming from seasons away) is a little more interesting, but by almost nothing. He's a bad cop with a hard past and a story you can literally see through. He's traumatized by his past in the war. He's got a kid from an unwed mother who he has hardly any custody over. He's brooding. 

tl;dr Seely Booth is far too silly to be watson and trusts his gut far too much. 

The side characters are however wayyyy more interesting, but as you will see will not get a subplot until the seond season...

They're interesting because of the consistency. They don't change for plot. 

Plot

The main is a forensic anthropologist (an anthropologist who works to solve murders)  and apparently because this is a rare field, she thinks herself better than others. She gets called in to work with the FBI more consistently than she used to and now she becomes a field agent... kind of.

Meh.

tl;dr A nerd lives the dream of solving crime.

Last Words: A nerd lives the dream of solving crime.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

BBG Says: EBAY IS THE RULER OF ALL SHOPPING

You know that feeling you get when you go into a store and that thing you went there for was a little or a lot more expensive than you hoped it would be? And the way you feel on your way out? Or how you feel if you did end up buying it and it hurt to pass your card over to the cashier?

Sign up for eBay and abandon these feelings for good. eBay is like a candy shop where all the candy is for super cheap and is still indeed the candy you were looking for and not a knockoff or even a "dupe". Basically what I'm trying to say is, eBay is where it's at. The place to be. You don't even understand. It's amazing.

eBay is the magical place where you can get high end products for half the retail price and maybe even less.

I mostly use eBay for buying make up and clothing, but every once in a while I buy some other essential or gift for someone else from that site.

I've gotten both discounted high end and drugstore items from this website as well as lots from some makeup brands like hard candy and revlon.I'm a bit of an over active buyer so if you're like me, this website is a great choice for not spending too much. Budgeting is something I have to work on personally, but this website makes it a whole lot easier.