40 Beauty Questions

Skincare:

How many times do you wash your face daily? Once during my shower. 

What skin type do you have? (dry,oily,combo) Oily

What is your current facial wash? Garnier Gel Brusher cleanser

Do you exfoliate? No. 

What brand do you use? --

What moisturiser do you use? Benefit's Total Moisture 

Do you have freckles? Yes I sure do. 

Do you use eye cream? Benefit's It's Potent eye cream. 

Do you or did you have acne prone skin? I do, mostly when my brushes need to be cleaned or I don't wash my face good enough after I workout. 

Did you ever have to use Pro-activ? No

Makeup:

What foundation do you use? I don't use foundation. :( 

How about concealer? Rimmel's Match Perfection, and Neutrogena Healthy Skin

Do you know your undertone colour? No

What do you think of fake eyelashes? Requires too much time in the morning. 

Did you know that you are suppose to change your mascara every 3 months? I sure did

What brand of mascara do you use? I'm not brand specific. I use every brand as long as It appeals to me. 

Sephora or MAC? Sephora has a lot of brands. Or are you talking about the brand Sephora? If you're talking about the brand Sephora, I'd go with MAC. If not, then the store Sephora. 

Do you have a MAC Pro-card? Nope

What makeup tools do you use in make up application? I don't like this question. Not specific enough. 

Do you use make-up base/primer for the eyes? E.l.f Eyelid Primer. All day. 

For the face? Porefessional by Benefit. 

What is your favourite eyeshadow (color or shade)? Toasted in the Original Naked Palette 

Do you use pencil or liquid eyeliner? Pen. Revlon Colorstay. 

How often do you poke your eyes with an eyeliner pencil? I haven't yet. But I'm sure I will tomorrow. 

What do you think of pigment eyeshadows? Cool Man. 

Do you use mineral makeup? Nope. 

What is your favourite lipstick? Plumful by MAC

How about lipgloss? Coralista by Benefit 

What is your favorite blush to use? Melba by MAC

Do you buy your makeup on eBay? No. I think there are way too many fakes for me to try to decipher the real ones. 

Do you like drugstore makeup? Yes

Do you go to CCO's? (cosmetic company outlets) No

Did you ever consider taking make-up classes? No 

Are you clumsy in putting on makeup? I wouldn't say clumsy, I'd say more lazy. 

Name a makeup crime that you hate? Way too much blush. Yo--TONE IT DOWN 

Do you like colourful shades of makeup (lipstick,eyeshadow) or neutral ones? Neutral

Which celebrity always has great make up? I have no idea. 

If you could leave the house using just ONE make up item,what would you use? Concealer. 

Could you ever leave the house without any makeup on? Yes, everyday. 

Do you think you look good even without any makeup on? Yes. 

In your opinion, what is the BEST makeup line? Benefit

What do you think of Makeup? Makeup is meant to enhance your beauty. It won't create it. You need to believe that you are beautiful without it to fully get it. 

Fun fact. This post has been in my drafts since the beginning of 2012. Yay me for finally getting around to filling it out! :) 

Also, I have not figured out how to reply to comments in the comments below. If you comment, I will comment back. You'll just have to check back because it won't allow me to reply directly. 

Puzzling

Today I want to talk about puzzles. That's right puzzles. First lets talk about how when the word is italicized it looks like the word shouldn't exist. Second, how come people don't do these more often? I saw a post on Facebook this morning, about a brand that makes puzzles with no edges and 5 extra pieces--it had a caption of "Satan, is that you?"or something along those lines-- and that made me want to get a puzzle. So I headed on down to my local Kmart this morning--it's like 3 minutes from my house-- and it took me 10 minutes to decide on a puzzle, there was a lot of choices. It was 8.99, and I feel like I got my 8.99 out of it just today. At the point in the picture I had worked on it about 4 hours. Not very much work done is there? That's because you gotta separate all the edge pieces from the non-edge pieces, then I separated by color scheme and that takes a long time. It's a 1000 piece puzzle, but it takes a long time to get through all those pieces, plus I missed some of the edge pieces during the first sort and so I had to sort through them again gosh darnit. All in all I spent about 6 hours on the puzzle today, and it only looks a tad bit different than in the picture above.

I'm not going to lie, trying to find the pieces that go together gets overwhelming after a while; but it's a little exciting each time I find one that matches. I was listening to music, the whole time so I wasn't just sitting there in silence--that would be boring. The main goal of it was to get off the couch and away from the TV. I haven't started work yet and each day besides my daily workout, cleaning the house, and going outside to play with the dogs, I basically just sit on the couch and watch TV. It's annoying, really. I wish that my neighborhood would be more walk friendly. There is basically no sidewalks, and a million cars parked on both sides of the road. So your basically walking in the road if a car were to choose to be going down the road and I don't like the idea of driving somewhere to take a walk.

I got off on a little tangent there. Back to the puzzle. It was really entertaining, I feel like it could be something I could do with my husband if he wanted. I'm exited to finish it--pray there are no missing pieces-- glue it together and then hang it on the wall. The image is just beautiful and I love when I've seen puzzles as art in other places it's nifty. Besides, I get art for 8.99. Who can beat that? I guess I could if I got a cheaper puzzle--were you thinking that too? 

So anyway, puzzles. Do them. :D


When was the last time you did a puzzle? Do you enjoy them? or think they're boring?

A look back on 2013; blogging, moving, and deployment

Okay, so 2013 has come and gone in a blur. Over the course of these 365 days a lot has gone on in my life, I've moved 3 times, driven across the country twice, gone through a deployment and much more. I figure what's a better place to look back on my year than here? I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did living it. 

Blogging: 

2013 was an extremely horrible year for me with my blog. It got a new name from 'The Journey of my Adventure' to 'Alaina Kayy', which is almost the only positive thing that has happened. I gained about 10 followers this entire year which is just terrible. But I had to discover the time and the passion for it again and moving around and dealing with everything just came first. This blog also started as a makeup only blog when it started and it has since moved to a fitness and lifestyle blog as well because Makeup isn't my only passion. 2014 is going to be a better year for this blog, it can't get any worse than this year with all the broken promises and false come backs. 

Motivational Wednesday #4

Lucky you! TWO posts in ONE day?! I know it may not be that exciting but I'm excited about it.

Today's Motivational Wednesday, I think, could be used for anything and everything. I love the little character getting happier as it climbs each step. Plus I like the fact that it is steps, because that's what it feels like. I think this portrays a very good image of how it is to want to reach a goal. You start at the bottom and work your way to the top. It also has each step to getting there.

I all around just love this image.


Do you have any motivational photos that I need to see?

I'm moving!

Hey guys!! I'm moving! Right now as you read this, I'm somewhere in the country without any internet access. We're going to be tackling about 3000 miles in just a few days. Then we'll be settled in a hotel and I'll start posting again from there! Exciting part is new home interior posts. I'm a huge interior design buff. Are you excited? I'm excited.

Follow my instagram--linked on top. For pictures of my journey. Also they will be uploaded to my Twitter as well-- also linked on top. 

See you soon guys!! 

Picture used in this post is the view from my apartment. Lovely fall view. 

December Wishlist!

Links for all items pictured will be at the bottom of this post. 

I've been drooling over a nice pair of boots, all these people I see have these great boots. My big thing is I'm 5'10" and I don't feel the need to be any taller. Most boots on say JustFab, they all have a pretty big heel on them, the ones that I would like anyway. I'm not that much into heels I want a nice pair of flat boots. I found three that I really like two at h&m and one at Guess. The ones from Guess are a nice pair of combat boots, and what girl doesn't need a good pair of combat boots? Listed on Guess.com they are $129, but I also found them at Macy's for $99. The other two pair of boots are from h&m and they're the same boot, just different colors. These are a more casual pair of boots. Listed for $69.50 These are also knee high, and the combat boots are a little above the ankle.

The next item is a scarf, it's a tube scarf. But I honestly just really like the print it's a nice delicate little floral. Really feminine scarf and I love it and it's only $2.95.

OCC lip tar value set from Sephora. It contains 5 different colors of lip tars. Colors are as listed from Sephora: Vintage (deep burgundy), Stalker (true blue based red), Melange (terracotta neutral), Grandma (classic coral), Ophelia (basic ladylike pink). Of course I've heard all the hype on the lip tars and I have one in my collection, but I'm not a fan of the color. This would be a good variety to start out with. $49

Airplane Headaches;

Some back story first; my husband is in the military and with that means moving a lot. The past few weeks have been very stressful because of moving: making sure that the dogs are well enough to fly, making sure someone is there to pick them up, shipping both cars, getting all of our stuff packed. After everything was packed then I had to clean the house and make sure it passed inspection. SO we finally get to the airport and get on the plane. I had my CSI: NY on watched about 6 episodes--side note, the battery life on this MacBook is just amazing. It had 42% left after watching 6 episodes!-- I started getting this dull headache, thought nothing of it--headaches happen I actually thought that it was my headphones because I had never worn them that long before. Well when we started to descend it felt like my head was about to explode, so much pressure had built up all I could do was just cry. Couldn't stop myself, the tears were just rolling down my face, my head was piercing pain with random shots of more pain. The pain was almost unbearable and it's not like you can just ask the pilot to slow down with the descent--ha...

Just a heads up!

I'm going to be moving! Yes, MOVING away from Hawaii. My husband is in the Navy so it requires us to move around a lot. I'm going to be bringing makeup with me--of course-- but I won't have my entire collection--well maybe, I haven't completely decided yet- I'm moving into a little apartment, won't have any of my pets or any of our furniture for a few months and that puts me in this position. I haven't exactly been that regular with this blog, but I don't want to give it up. I really like blogging and everything. Life just gets in the way sometimes. I feel like I'm letting myself down. I'm not working right now because we're transitioning so I'll have time on my hands to put this together. But it's a lifestyle blog, not just a makeup blog. I'm going to add some photos of our little apartment that we get and such like that. I don't know if it'll be interesting but this is also a place to document things for me.

Hopefully you will like joining me on this adventure.

:)


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FOTD: 6/30

Today's a new day!  Even though we have had the worst experience moving,  lots of stress and one bad thing after another. I still am thinking positive! That hasn't been the easiest thing to do, BUT I'm trying and that's all that is important.  I am posting this on my phone because I have no internet access so I hope this comes out okay! Anyways! Here's my face of this lovely Sunday!

Eyes:
ELF eyelid primer
Urban Decay naked pallette: Smog on the lid and hustle in the crease
Revlon Colorstay liquid eyeliner in 02 black
They're real! Mascara
Maybelline Define-a-line in brownish black on the waterline.

Face:
Rimmels stay matte powder in 005 silky beige
Lorac blush in plum

Lips:
ELF conditioning lip balm in nicely nude I believe. The label is worn off on it. Its the nude shade lip conditioner.
Revlon Just bitten kissable lip stain in Rendezvous