"What's this?"
"Aaaagh...I accidentally put it in the dryer?"
"Your name should be Kata."
"Who's Kata?"
"Katangahan."

I received my Pink (LE) Clarisonic Skin Care System last Friday, didn't get around to playing with it until Saturday.  But before I go on, let me just say that this post is NOT an official review on the Clarisonic.  It's just me showing it off =)

So yes, I've been using it for a few days now.  And no, I don't see any major differences in my skin (yet?), other than the fact that it does look more even toned.  I don't know, maybe it's just me? However, since I JUST finished that time of the month, I normally would expect my skin to be splotchy,  oily, dry, spotty.  Basically, it should be a total mess right now.  So I guess it's safe to say that it has made some difference in my skin within a matter of...*counting fingers*...four days.  

I ordered mine at beautychoice.com.  The set includes a Clarisonic brush and charger, one sensitive brush head, a 1 oz Nourishing Care Cleanser (for normal/dry skin types), 1 oz Refreshing Gel Cleanser (for normal/oily skin types.  I use this one),  and a 1 oz Hydrogel Cleanser (for all/sensitive skin types).  Along with my order, I also decided to purchase an extra brush head, so I don't have worry about ordering it when the third month "expiry" date for the brush comes up.  It says in the manual you are to replace the brush head every three months or so.  You can also get the the Clarisonic system and the replacement brushes at Sephora.com.

You know, although I did spend less than I would normally at Sephora.com, I still spent quite a fortune on this thing.  Before I list the costs, I have to warn you guys that it looks like beautychoice.com has raised their prices on the Clarisonic system and the replacement brush heads.  So I can't be more thankful that I bought it when I did!

This is what I paid for everything (in US dollars):

  

This is not including the duty I paid when I picked it up at the post office, which came out to an extra $26.50 cdn.  Sooo, $196.40 converted to Canadian dollars was $214.77 + $26.50 duty = $241.27 cdn. Ugh.  Just repeating that in my head made me dizzy.

If you go over to beautychoice.com, you'll notice that the prices are higher now.  The Clarisonic system is now $199.95 and the brushes are $24.95 each.  So neener neener neener! Ok wait, I take my neener back.  I don't want to jinx myself and have this thing not work out for me and be a total waste of money.

Overall, so far I am really liking the Clarisonic.  It feels so good using this thing on my face.  The one thing I do not like about this is the one and only button that it has.  You use this button to turn it on, off, pause, and change the settings.  To change the setting, you have to listen for the corresponding beeps.  Like example, for a two minute session you have to press and hold the button and listen for one long beep followed by two short beeps.  Or was it one short beep followed by two long beeps? Something like that! Like what the heck? I find that rather annoying, don't you? I just want to press a button and give it a go, damn it.  The default is set for a one minute session and that just doesn't cut it for me.  So I have no choice BUT to listen for those gawdddamn beeps to get the two minute session.  *sigh* Oh well.  You can't win aaall the time.  But freak, for $241.77 I wish the inventors of this thing could have cut us some slack and at least added another button! Like, how much more could this second button cost? An extra .50 cents probably? Sheesh.  

So anyway, I will follow up with an update and an official review a few weeks from now.  I'd like to give it at least one month to see results because that's how long it normally takes my skin to adjust to new skin care regimens.

* sobs *
"...?"
* sobs *
"gee, I know I gained weight, but I didn't think I was THAT heavy."

Girls, my makeup addiction is back in full swing! So let's have some fun yo!





FACE

Coastal Scents Diva Defense Primer (love <3)
Everyday Minerals Concealer in Intensive Light (under eyes)
Everyday Minerals Concealer in Mint (redness around mouth and nose)
Everyday Minerals Pressed Mineral Powder in Fairly Light Golden (finally found a match that I don't have to mix!)

CHEEKS

Everyday Minerals Blush in Summer Stroll
MAC Mineralize Blush in Warm Soul

EYES

MAC Paint Pot in Bare Study
CS R8-08 (all over lid, up to crease)
CS R5-08 (above crease, blended upwards)
CS R8-06 (blended in crease)
CS R3-07 (highlight)
CS R5-01 (brow bone highlight)
MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack (eye liner)
Maybeline Define-a-Lash (mascara)

LIPS

MAC Lipliner in Sublime
MAC Lustreglass in Pink Clash (LE)



Love this palette to pieces...each and every piece! And it's only $19.95 usd + s&h from Coastal Scents! I also ordered its new baby sister, the Shimmer 88 Palette along with the new 56 Blush and Eye Shadow Palette AND the 28 Neutral Eye Shadow Palette.  I'm so freakin' excited for all those babies to get here.  I feel like a kid high on sugar.  *shriek* 

I'll do a real review once all of them are here.  For now, I'm going to force myself to sleep. 

"You still mad at me?"
"..." (silent treatment still in effect)
"Please stop being mad."
"..." (happily scrolling through livejournal)
" *sigh* Geeze woman. You spent $300.00 at Wal-mart! That's punishment enough. Stop it."
"..."
"Okay fine. I'll take you to the mall tomorrow and buy all the gawddamn blushes that MAC carries! Will that get you to start talking to me again?"
"...I only wanted FOUR and you had to be a dick about it!" (Yes, I am a greedy bitch for saying this.)
"I know, I'm sorry. Now will you stop being mean?"
"Yeah."
"You'll give me back my house keys?"
"Yah yah. Can I buy some eye shadows, too?"
" *sigh* Yes."

I've lost track of my days, I thought today was Saturday.  And last Monday I thought it was Friday.  Sheesh.  Jun said EVERYDAY is a weekend for me since I've quit my job...I guess he's right.  

I've been shopping waaaaay too much that it's disgusting.  I don't know, I may just have lost all control of my spending habits.  I just can't stop.  And what's stupid is I DON'T EVEN HAVE A FREAKIN' JOB! I will be in debt way beyond my death.

I start my new job very soon.  I kind of wish I didn't have to go back to work.  But this time around, it's mandatory.  I'm having nightmares about my credit card bills.  Whoever invented credit cards definitely had women in mind.  I don't know of any guys who have a shopping problem.

Jun and I are stable again.  He hasn't been getting on my nerves as much as before.  I guess also because he just keeps quiet whenever I whip out my credit cards for shopping.  I know it doesn't help that he no longer bickers at me for spending too much, but it really does show me that all he wants is for me to be happy and in turn, I can see just how much he cares regardless of all the stupid fights we've had.  But hey, it's not like I nag at him for his golfing expenses! If anything, that's more expensive than my shopping! This week alone he has spent roughly around $200.00 on golf.  Okay no wait, I just spent $200.00 at the mall yesterday, $80.00 the day before that, and another $100.00 online today, that's...umm...err...fine.  I lose.

But whatever.  I'm happy.  He's happy.  Although now we're broke.  Ah who cares, as long as we're happy.



Bat Foy (Jun) has gotten really dark.  That's what you get for spending six hours at the beach with zero sunblock. 

 

Taken literally 10 minutes ago.  It's so hot in this house.  I wanna walk around in my underwear, but the last time I did that Jun came home with one of his buddies who needed to use the washroom.  I screamed like a mother, not because his friend saw me in my bra and panties, but because Jun was so shocked to see me practically nekkid with his buddy standing there that he ended up tackling me to the ground to get me covered up.  Yeh, a 200 pound body slamming me to the ground...like that didn't hurt. 

1) How I lost four pounds I do not know, but I ain't complaining.  I mean, yeh, I've been hitting the gym, but I slacked this whole week because of all the family gatherings we've been having almost everyday because my cousin and her family from Chicago are in town.  So not only have I not been going to the gym this whole week, I've been eating like a pig, too! So like I said, how I lost four pounds...I will never know.

2) I recently noticed that Chei has been sticking her fingers in her ears a lot and whenever I'd ask her what's wrong, she'd just say "I hear cracking."  At first I thought maybe an ant got in her ear somehow (which of course freaked the shit outta me, but I'm just glad she didn't say, "I hear dead people...") Okay okay, I just scared myself there.  So I took a flash light and tried looking into her ears.  Damn! My daughter has ear  wax build up! So I ran straight to the pharmacy and got her some drops for her ears to soften the goo, and now she doesn't here "cracking" anymore. 

I have never tried any sort of fitness class in my life before and have always been curious about it.  But the one thing that always pushed me away was the whole "keeping up" with everyone routine.  I hate the thought of looking like an idiot in front of people, so I never did get involve.  But today, I braved it out and tried it.

I tried the Body Flow class in my gym for an added $3.00 a week on top of my membership, not bad.  Body Flow is basically yoga and pilates put together.  I was so nervous, but after a few minutes I started to relax and just went with it.  The class was 60 minutes long and half way through I was sweating.  And to my surprise, I really really enjoyed it! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.  I'm still rusty at some of the moves, but I know I'll master that thing soon enough.  It was actually fun! I mean, I didn't talk to anybody there, but listening to the calming music and doing the stretches with the inhaling/exhaling routine, I felt so relieved and relaxed.  I can't wait for my next class! I'm so happy I liked it because then I won't have to give up this whole going to the gym thing after all.  

I'm going to buy my own yoga mats next week.  Funny thing happened; before the class started everyone started laying out their mats on the floor.  I didn't know that you could bring your own mats (again, keep in mind that I've never done ANY fitness classes before) and so I thought I wouldn't be able to join because I didn't have my own.  But then I saw 2 girls go to the corner of the floor and grabbed some mats out of a box,  so I followed and grabbed some, too.  I'm a germaphobe so I whipped out my mini Lysol disinfecting spray out of my gym bag and started spraying the mats to no end.  Hey, I don't want another persons pit sweat all over my back when I'm doing my routine on that thing! That's gross! But apparently, they've never seen anyone spray the mats before so the whole class was just staring at me like I was some mad woman.  Geeze.

Anyway, I'm going to brave this one out again and post a picture of my chubby self (I'm not going to use the word fat anymore because some of you got mad at me!) Chei took the this photo before I left for the gym.  She has this thing with the word "sexy".  I'm not sure where she heard it (most likely tv), but she's been calling everything and EVERYONE sexy.  So when I changed into my gym attire she said, "Mommy sexy! You look so very smooth!" Hahah! I don't know what she meant by that last part, but I'm guessing she thought that the lycra fabric of my top and pants were smooth? Who knows. Yay, my daughter thinks I'm sexy! But then again, she thinks our house is sexy, too =/



So as you can see, I'm bottom-heavy.  I hate the pudge around my waist! My butt is huge and jiggly, need to get those two toned up a bit.  I'd like to look back at this photo a few months from now and see improvement.  I'm 5 ft. 1 inch tall and erm,  115 lbs.  I'd like to be 105 lbs.  Oh and, Dora the Explorer says Hello! Hahahaha!  



And the Indoor option on my Nikon P60 blurs out imperfections on the skin, but a little too much that is.  Ah well, at least my skin looks smooth =p

I was up until 6am this morning re-organizing my closet which was in dire need of a major make-over.  I started at 8pm yesterday with cleaning, laundry and all that jazz.  I still don't understand how we accumulate so much trash and mess in this small, small house! Everyday this place is a mess.  I just don't get it.

I wasn't planning on doing anything to my closet, but when my usual bedtime (3am) struck, I still had so much energy left that I decided to tackle this task I've been putting off for so long.  So let's do some show and tell, shall we? Now mind you, my closet is tiny.  It's the only closet in our so-called master bedroom and it's about 4 ft across x 7 ft in height x 2 ft deep.  Yeh, that's not much to work with.  Our house itself is not that big (less than 1500 sq. ft bungalow) so it only makes sense.  I removed all of Jun's clothes, we are going to re-organize the closet in the hall that we normally use for linens and things and make that his closet.  Hehe, of course I get the better the closet!  

Oh and, I'm using this post as an excuse to show off my new Nikon P60.  My Canon digi is still fairly new, but it just wasn't cutting it.  So I'm going to try and sell that one to pay for this one.  I'm so in love with this camera! I bought the Canon purely for it's looks because it had the massive 3 inch lcd screen and I realized, looks is definitely not everything! It was such a pain to use outside where the sun was bright! The Nikon P60 only has a 2.5 inch lcd screen, however, it does come with an electronic viewfinder...so much more practical I tell ya!





I was so in love with this camera when I first got it two years ago, especially with the huge lcd screen.  I thought the viewfinder was unnecessary, but I was wrong! When you're out at the beach or at the park where the sun is just glaring in your face, you wouldn't be able to see a thing on that screen! But I am sad, me and this digi had some really nice memories together.  I'm thinking of just keeping it...again, purely for the looks.



My new digi-friend.  Yeh he's a little bulkier, but he out-performs my Canon SD630! It has vibration reduction which the Canon doesn't have and it's something I absolutely need because I have shaky hands! And I love the 2000 ISO! Ok, enough about that. 

Friday -- I went out (yeah, can you believe that) with the fam.  We initially had TWO things to celebrate; 1) my 22 year old cousin, Johanna, is 8 weeks pregnant and 2) my cousin Angela who moved away to San Francisco over the Winter months came back for a visit.  Little did we know, we were really celebrating THREE things that night.  

We started off with dinner at Wasabi on Osborne.  It felt really nice to get out of the house without Jun and Chei for once.  Not that I hate going out with them, but as you all know, it's rare that I leave the house and when I do it's usually with those two.  I failed to take pics of the food (Japanese) because I was starving and practically inhaled the food when it got to our table.  Service sucked ass by the way.  It took them one freakin' hour to get our appetizers...yes! The appetizers! And yet I still tipped the server.  Lol, my sisters called me stupid for that.  But I felt bad! I don't think it was her fault that our food got to us so late.  So whatever.

Once we were all done eating, like 4 hours later, we just sat around and had a nice chat about babies and giving birth.  Johanna was asking a lot about what it was like (giving birth), how long my labour was, whether I ripped down there or not (Lol), and all that jazz.  And then my older sister, Aina, joked about how she's one month pregnant.  Of course we laughed it off because let's face it, she's nearing 30 and is STILL the party animal of the family! I wouldn't call her the black sheep of the family because I know I took the trophy for that one, but despite the fact that she's the more "responsible" one she was also the only smoker AND drinker in our family.  My older brother, my younger sister, and I all don't smoke or drink and we're still wondering how or where our dear sister Aina picked up the bad habit.  

Then next thing you know, Aina whips out her cell phone to show everyone a picture of what looked a calculator.  The photo was zoomed in to a + sign.  At first we were like, "Wtf is that? A calculator?" Then she goes, "Zoom out doofis." And when we started to zoom out, we realized the picture was of a pregnancy test! Hahaha, could not believe it! We even accused her of photoshopping the photo...lol, not like she'd be the type of idiot to do that.  Oh man, all of us just sat there in total shock.  I'm still shocked! My sister is totally not the maternal type.  I mean, she makes a wonderful aunt, but she's not motherly, if you guys know what I mean.  She's never been into kids, I don't know, it's hard to explain. 

All of this is really exciting.  Our mom still has no clue and we're not going to tell her until Richard's (my sister's fiance) birthday party next month.  I can't wait to see the look on her face!

So after all the excitement at Wasabi, we headed off to Bar Italia for drinks.  Of course the two preggos didn't drink, and I don't normally drink and even if I do, it's some dinky drink like Malibu Pineapple.  I tried to take as many pics as I could, but I was too lazy.  So do try to enjoy the ones that I actually did take.