Don't Buy Into The Hype Moonies!

So my New Mooners, the time is close at hand and my midnight showing ticket is zipped safely in my wallet. There has been alot of promotion poopping up, and this includes new lines of merchandise, one being a line of Volturi cosmetics...My interest was immediately piqued.

If it's not my money being spent, I'll take the opportunity to drop the odd eyeshadow or two in the basket. I had such an opportunity this past saturday and decided to pick up the Volturi Enrapture Arsenic Sheer Lip Gloss. As you can see it comes in a charming little flip case with a gothic grate design on the front. The description boasts that this gloss is Vitamin E enriched...yeah we'll get to that later. Don't be intimidated by it's black colour, it doesn't go on like that. For $12 (I KNOW?! that's why I'm glad it wasn't my cash!) you get a sweet smelling sheer gloss that has a hint of gold in it.

POSITIVES
1.It goes on very smooth, I reccommend using a brush and not your fingertips, it doesn't go on your lips well when you use your fingers and you might end up using it all way too fast.

2.The scent is so lovely. I don't eat licorice but this product smells like licorice wrapped in sugar. I wish there was a candle out there that smelled like this!

NEGATIVES
1.For something that is 12 bucks, it doesn't last long! (that's what she said!) You seriously have to reapply this maybe 15 minutes after you put it on. I'm all about moisture and I have a cheap $5 tub of gloss that keeps my lips soft and moist for a good hour. If you like long term coverage, this is so not the business

2. If you have darker lips like mine then stay away because there is a light black tint to it and it makes my lips look...for lack of a better word, wierd.

3.Gold shimmer my butt. Even if you put this on top of a coloured gloss, you see no shimmer.

So the negatives outweigh the positives, and when you like the case more than the gloss, you know there's a problem. Seriously don't buy into this hype. Stick with the t-shirts, jewlery and stuffed jacob dolls. This gloss = MAJOR FAIL...can you tell by the unhappy face!?

However be excited for tomorrow, the claws will come out MIDNIGHT!

If I Have A Daughter....

Thou shalt NOT read Cosmo, InStyle, or any other self-esteem killing magazines

-I saw a young girl today reading a Cosmo in line. I asked her mother how old she was. Her mother said she was 10 years old. She obviously saw the look of disdain on my face because she immediately ripped the magazine out of her daughter's hands and told her she shouldn't be reading it. I'll admit it, I buy Cosmo...now that I'm 21!

These young things read these magazines, and their self-esteem plummets, we all know this. I never EVER, even glanced at those mags when I younger, not even in high school. I stuck to my Novels, and my Archie and Garfield comics...and no I have a sense of humor and high image self esteem ( or as my mother says an "ego that will drive me insane").

If I have a daughter, she will not be allowed to go near these magazines because I don't want her image of herself to be destroyed at such a young age. The world is cruel, but being able to grow up in it, knowing that no matter what, you are beautiful is an amazing feat. Now I'm not saying that my daughter can become obese and I would let her think it ok! No way! That's another issue.

The point is that the world is becoming more stupid everyday, and the media is telling us, thin is forever in, a little meat on your bones and you are considered MORBIDLY OBESE and being curvy equals a size 6.
If a tiny fraction of our future can come away with confidence and a positive idea about why people are beautiful no matter what they look like, then I think, emotionally, we might just save the world...just a little bit.

Why do I read them?
Make up tips.
Clothing ideas.
And because I'm old enough to know that I don't need to be a size 0 with long hair, to be happy.
She can read them when she learns that lesson too.