Let's go see the stars

So, Ginger is giving us Internet ladies stuff to write about so we don't have to think so hard (Thanks, lady!), and Snoozy entitled her post "Let's go to the movies" which, yeah, obviously, but then I started singing the song, and the next line is "Let's go see the stars" only in this house, since Eleanor was born, it's been changed to "Let's go clean your booty," which makes things different, but while I've enjoyed reading the posts prompted by Ginger, I haven't participated yet, but a list I can totally handle. And it's movies, which I love.

So let's get started, shall we?

(Not in preferential order, but rather order that I thought of them)

Annie. Seriously, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett, Albert Finney! I think I watched this movie every day of my life as a small child. I still love it today. I still quote it. I got to play Miss Hannigan in high school, and it's still one of the highlights of my acting time. I'm making Eleanor watch it sometimes too. She likes the music.

The Princess Bride Again, one I watched quite a lot growing up. Maybe the most quotable movie of all time, and still fun to watch after all this time. I had a huge crush on Wesley and wanted all of Buttercup's dresses, even if she did have a stupid name.

Sleeping Beauty Yes, the Disney animated one. I wrote a whole post on why I love this movie, so this shouldn't be a shock to anyone. Still love it as much today as ever.

Memento Ok, this movie is weird and wonderful and someday I will figure out how to watch it in the correct order. My friend Paula introduced me to it, and it just made my brain spin in lots of good ways.

Love Actually The only Christmas movie I like. Bonus, it's got an amazing cast and I don't feel like I can only watch it at Christmas. For the record, Martin Freeman will always be "the naked guy from Love Actually."

Trainspotting This movie made me want to a) never, ever, ever do drugs EVER, and 2) wear a slinky silver dress to a dance club in the hopes of picking up Ewan McGregor. Still, it's the soundtrack that made me keep loving this movie. It's dark, it's gruesome, it gave me nightmares, and I still watch it because of the incredible music.

Velvet Goldmine So, occasionally, I go down some very strange paths watching all the movies a favorite actor has been in. Cillian Murphy has led me down some very scary paths. Ewan McGregor leads me to some gems, and also a lot of naked people. But the music. Again with the music. It should be the David Bowie story, but it's not (but just barely) and the soundtrack is one of my favorites of all time. Amazing.

The Hobbit  The animated version. Also a classic from my childhood. That Gollum (whose name I didn't ever know, just called him "the creepy 'my precious' guy") was the scariest thing in my whole wide world. I love the music. I love the story. I love the animation style. I just love all of it. Poor Bagels has had to watch it a lot since she's come to live with me.

Newsies/The Sandlot These go together (like ramarama...you know what I mean) because they were both my every day, after school (for all of middle school & most of high school), quoted every line, swooned over the boys, tried to learn the dances from Newsies, considered playing baseball before remembering that I'm hopelessly uncoordinated.

10 Things I Hate About You/Clueless These also go together in the "modern remakes of classic literature" and yes. Just yes. The "Taming of the Shrew" love story is one that I will watch/read/listen to/fall for EVERY TIME. EVERY TIME. Like in Emma, I mean Clueless, I love the "I hate you but now I love you" story. Love it. Fall for it every time.

Labyrinth/Dark Crystal  What, lots of movies come in pairs, ok? I can't explain these, but again, from my childhood. Incredibly quotable. Love them to this day. Make my friends watch them if they haven't seen them, because... Jim Henson! Babies in striped pajamas! Gelflings!

This really is just scratching the surface. There are so many good movies that I will watch again & again.

The last day of JULY!

So, I decided to go out with a bang. I saw this on Pinterest, and though the watermark leads to an unfindable blog (bowsandartsays.blogspot.com?), I still decided to brave it and attempt to recreate this. Yes, because I'm crazy, or bored, or just want to put to use all the colors I own at once.

Now, prepare yourself, because I took a lot of pictures. The basic process was: put on primer, then a little bit of each color, not trying to keep it in a tiny line. Once I had all the colors, I went back with makeup remover to clean up everything, trying to get the nice, neat, crisp little line pictured there. Then I messed it all up putting liquid/gel liner on my way-too-crinkly eyelids, used more makeup remover, then concealer and nude shadow with a contrast in the crease, mascara and forgot all about the white on the lower waterline and glitter. How could I forget glitter?!? 

My favorite primer in the whole wide world
that I found because of Brightest Bulb in the Box

ridiculously cheap Love My Lips red
 lipstick, to make the red redder

Sephora's Cherry on Top,
matte red

And so it begins

Milani blush/bronzer duo that
I use as eyeshadow,
because neither of those colors
belong anywhere
other than my eyeids

There really are 2 colors there

I really needed access to my friend
Kathleen's makeup for this.
My yellow isn't very yellowy
(top right). More gold-ish.

Getting the yellow to show up
was hard, so I used the NYX milk
pencil under it for added oomph. T
hat's oomph. Not very oomphy

I'm running out of eyelid. Also,
too much light. Sorry.

I've always been quite pleased with
this little duo, even if I don't wear
poison green eyeshadow often. 

Cream eyeliner 

Finally looks like a rainbow

For an inexpensive palette, I love
this thing. The colors are pretty rich
and with primer, they last all day

ROYGBP

Next step: makeup remover, applied very carefully with a q-tip and toilet paper (not pictured).

Not quite as thin or crisp
 as I'd hoped
Story of my life

Then I ruined everything with this eyeliner: 

I got it all over my lashes, which created quite a mess. There was more touch-ups and reapplying and touching up and then re-re-applying and then I put on Kat Von D's tattoo cover-up concealer, MAC's Yogurt eyeshadow (which is as close to my skin color as I've yet to find), some Clinique blush in Mocha Pink as a contour, Tarte mascara, my Urban Decay brow box powders and called it good.

Then I went to the grocery store. Because why the heck not?

Are you sick of my eyeballs yet?

Day 23: Naked & purple-ish, in The City

So, I did all the same stuff as the day before, but I added this fantastically sparkly purple shadow that was a sample called Cuddlefish from Fyrinnae.com. Super fun colors and a really easy way to try lots of colors for not a lot of money. Check it out. Buy stuff. Then tell me all about it. Anyway, I didn't do much blending, and it shows, so you know, there it is. Things look better when I take the time to do it right. Who knew?

Day 24: Actually naked, due to exhastion
So, we spent Tuesday running around San Francisco and the day was wonderful. Unfortunately, I wound up with an overstimulated, overtired baby at the end of it who woke up every hour-ish, as though she were a wee tiny infant again. No sleep for mama means I spent all my free time trying to nap with her, not putting on makeup. However, she was adorable in her bunny suit eating a Pop Tart.

Day 25: More Hello Kitty
This little shadow quad is wonderful and I finally decided to try the dark sparkly brown in there. It's got gold glitter. Looky.

It turned out ok, not as scary dark or sparkly as I thought. I added pink from my MAC Briar Rose blush because... I was bored. So in pictures it looks very... charcoaly on my face, but trust me, it was brown. Glasses on my head is the new look, as I couldn't be bothered to try to find them if I put them down. Also, dude, I have freckles.

Day Whatever Am I still doing this?:
MOAR PURPLE!! This purple is so sparkly, which just doesn't come through in pictures, but I love it. Now, to really get the full effect though, you have to use a primer/base of some sort. Like this (picture from Twitter a long time ago):

Also, I stopped after braiding half of my hair to do my makeup apparently. Good for me.

Day 27: Grey & Black, again
Same dress, same look, different stuff.

Day 28: Just mascara with smudgy liner
I couldn't be bothered this day. Just couldn't find the energy to do more than this. Then I cried a lot saying goodbyes to my family, so putting mascara on was a GREAT idea.

Day 29: HOME AGAIN!
So, good thing I'm home, because my luggage didn't make it on the same plane I did, and so all my makeup was being held hostage. Well, all the makeup from my trip. Which is fine, because I was getting bored of that stuff anyway. So I tried to use 2 shades of brown and wound up with a monochromatic mess. Blech. Maybe I should go back on vacation.

Day 30: Green on green, Avon failure
So, I have this neat eyeshadow/eyeliner combo thing in a pretty springish green that I like, and the shadow always looks really neat when I test it on my hand. And then I put it on my eyelids and guess what? It's not nearly so nice. This picture was taken AS SOON AS I finished putting everything on. The shadow (which is creamy in the tube, put on with a lip gloss style applicator) is already creased and fading and practically gone. Boo. Hiss.