20 Going on 30

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So I'm 30. Wtf I just graduated high school. I can't be 30.

These thoughts sent me into a major freak out the week before my birthday, and wanted to run out the door screaming and crying.


Well I'm glad I didn't run, because my actual birthday was pretty awesome.  I didn't quite have the clarity that I wanted, but amount of love and fun that I got for that whole week was enormous.

In approaching this new decade, I'm going to make some promises to myself that I wished I did when I was turning 20. I wanted to do one of those 30 things to have and know by the time your 30 list, but I don't really have that much wisdom right now. So I'll try with 5 things.

1. I'm going take it easy on myself, because a mistake is not the end of the world. I've learned that there is a second chance.... almost ALWAYS.

2. Love is a battlefield and not an Armageddon. There is life after a breakup.

3. Beauty is awesome, obsessing over it is ugly.

4. Quit with that half glass empty shit. Pom pom parties are better than pity parties.

5. Dude. Have fun. Really. Have as much fun as possible, you have nothing to prove to anyone.

Smokey Eye and Big Hair: Urban Decay Naked Palette

The Perfect Smokey Eye by boothebootch featuring urban decay eyeshadow

The Urban Decay eye shadow palette has been the bane of my existence.

I was really excited when I first bought it, but as time went on I found that the colors were not as awesome as I hoped they would be.

The palette has a bunch of colors that would look great on any skin tone, but it just didn't go well with mine. Or so I thought.

I decided to make a plan of attack, cuz god forbid I wasted $50 on an eye shadow palette,

So I bought better brushes and watched a couple of youtube tutorials, and I think I've found eye shadow success!

For years I've been working on my smokey eye, but there was really no technique to it. All I did was fill my lids with black shadow, without any sort of blending or layering. I looked like a raccoon by the end of the night. It wasn't until I found this video below that I finally had an "aha" moment with my makeup, and I achieved success!

Homegirl in the video is using the Naked 2 palette, which I heard is so much better. However, I used the colors on the Naked palette in the same order as she demonstrated, and my eyes were the best that they've ever looked. Be sure to have a lot of eye shadow primer. I used M.A.C prep and prime eye

The tools that I listed in my Polyvore collage are most of the tools that are in the video. Of course I did some contouring to my face to add to the effect of the look.


As for my hair, I cannot find the original video that I used to learn how to do "Kim Kardashian" hair. I remember I did the look for my homegirl for a wedding, but big hair cannot be achieved without velcro rollers. The video below is the closest to what I do for my hair, except I tease the crown a bit before I put the rollers in for that extra Jersey effect.

My hair is super long, so to get the sex bomb hair takes about an HOUR. However, I love sporting this style for special occasions. Once you get it right you feel instantly sexy, like Jessica Rabbit sexy :)  As they say, the bigger your hair... the closer you are to god.