Fun Facts Friday: Top Five Favorite Make up Products

So I am a make up junkie.  I use a mix of high end and low end brands because I have super sensitive skin and prefer the way my face looks when it isn't breaking out in huge zits or flaking off or covered in blotchy red patches.  So I'll link you to my favorites...

1.  Smashbox Photo Finish Face Primer Adjust

Available through ULTA

I have been using this for a week to help fight the great make-up migration and correct some of my redness.  Between this and my foundation, my skin looks GORGEOUS.  The green color is off-putting at first but it fades as soon as you apply it, it disappears along with redness and also helps fill in the gaping pores of my nose.

2.  Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow Foundation in I'm pure 4 sure

Available through ULTA

I try not to think about how much money I spend on this product but seriously it is the best thing ever.  I love the pump bottle.  My skin looks fantastic and one pump does my entire face.  It doesn't break me out and it includes sunscreen with UVA protection.  Awesome stuff.

3.  Bare Minerals Brush in Beauty

Available through ULTA

I am a fan of bright, pigmented blushes.  I've had this container FOREVER.  Sanitary issues from keeping it for so long aside, I love this stuff.  It has a lot of pigment so I only use a small amount on a big fluffy brush.  Blends super well.  Awesome.

4. E.L.F. Eyelid primer and eye liner sealer

Available through E.L.F. which is carried at walmart and kmart

This is the best $3 I have ever spent on a make up product.  Full stop.  the primer keeps my eye shadow from moving and the sealer takes my liquid eye liner from a source of frustration to something that won't budge at all.  I would not recommend letting the sealer drip in your eye though.  It burns line nobody's business.

5.  Maybelline Volume Express "The Falsies" Mascara- Black Drama

Available at most drugstores or at ULTA

I go through a tube of mascara in a month.  There are high end mascaras that I have LOVED but I just cannot justify spending $17 a month on mascara and this tube of $7 wonderful stuff that works just as well as most of the super expensive brands.

And there you have it.  My top five make up products.  I used black liquid eyeliner but I haven't been able to find one that I really and truly like since I stopped selling mark cosmetics so if you have a suggestion, let me know.  :)  my eye shadow changes on a daily basis, basically, in case you were thinking "that's weird.  she wears primer with no eye shadow."  I'm sure you desperately wanted to know all of this but whatevs.  Maybe you'e learned something about fun make up products.

Fun Facts Friday: Top Ten Favorite TV shows

I watch a very strange variety of TV shows.  Crime dramas, home improvement, cartoons, comedies... I watch an odd assortment of things.  So here are the rankings:

1.  Holmes on Homes/Holmes Inspection
I put them together because they are essentially the same show.  Mike Holmes helps out home owners who either had a bad renovation or a home inspection that didn't reveal major issues.  He rips out walls, gets rid of mold, and gets extremely indignant.  It's fantastic

2.  Doctor Who
A hot time travelling alien speeds through time and space in his blue box with a pretty woman as his companion.  He's saved the world about a million times.  I am waiting for the Doctor to come take me away in the Tardis, preferably David Tenant as the Doctor.  He's my favorite.

3.  Law and Order: SVU
SVU=Special Victims Unit.  Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson track down the criminals behind sex crimes and atrocities against children.  Always a lot of drama and sexual tension between the pair practically oozes out.  I'm still annoyed that Elliot left the show before the two of them got it together.

4.  My Little Pony:  Friendship is Magic
I know it's a kids show.  I don't care.  It's awesome and fulfills my childhood fantasies about horses and magic.  I am a brony for sure.

5.  Bones
A forensic anthropologist and her team of brainiacs fight crime by looking for evidence present on the bones.  Also, David Boreanez is a hot FBI agent who eventually gets together with Brennan, the forensic anthropologist.  It appeals to my brainy side with the science and also my romantic side with all of the little romantic sub plots.

6.  Gilmore Girls
I know it's a defunct show but Rory and Lorelei are my BFFs.  Mother and daughter live together, almost like sisters, as they struggle through all of life's challenges.  They go through their rough patches but at the end of the day, they will always support one another.

7.  Sabrina the Teenage Witch
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers that she is a witch.  She lives with her aunts and talking cat and learns about magic and all of life's lessons.  Melissa Joan Hart is wonderful.  I cannot believe she is married and has children now.  Crazy.

8.  ER
Doctors working in a Chicago emergency room.  The crazy medical stuff they encounter is nothing compared to the insane personal drama that the young hot doctors go through.  Includes Alex Kingston and her British fabulousness and also Noah Wyle who is one handsome, handsome man.

9.  Private Practice
More medical drama where the medical stuff pales in comparison to what goes on behind the scenes  Romance, drama, and plenty of laughs.

10.  Make it or Break it
This is my most shameful entry.  Truly.  It's about gymnastics and girls trying to make it onto the 2012 Olympic team.  It's an ABC original drama so the convoluted plot is, well, convoluted.  What can I say?  I enjoy watching the gymnastics and imagining that I would be able to things like that.

I thought it would be really really hard to come up with ten shoes... and then I realized just how much TV I watch.  I could list more which is kind of crazy.  Ah well.  I read a lot of books too so I'll just pretend that makes up for it. What are your favorite TV shows?

Fun Facts Friday: Top 10 Favorite Foods

So I am trying out this whole "regular posts thing."  I decided to try out my own 'Fun Facts Friday' where I will share top 10 lists of facts about me you may or may not have wanted to know.  So today I'm going to tell you all about the food that I love.  Let me preface that by saying that this girl LOVES food.  I mean, how else do I explain my ridiculous size 18 butt?  I have eaten every blessed pound and I will admit it.  Working on eating less.  That being said... my 10 favorite foods...

1.  Ice Cream
I have a huge sweet tooth and something about the sweet, cold, creamy meltiness of ice cream makes it my ultimate favorite food.

2.  Macaroni and Cheese
Specifically, the good stuff made with real cheese and baked in the oven, often with bacon or vegetables mixed in.  I could write a sonnet on cheese and how much I love it.  Mozzarella, brie, gorgonzola, provolone, amish butter cheese... oh my giddy goodness.  Home girl likes some cheese.

3.  Bread
When I was younger, I joined the Atkins craze and actually lost a lot of weight in the process.  I gained it all back very quickly because there was not a snowball's chance that I was going to do without bread for the rest of my life.  Me and bread are bffs.  I think that's probably why it hangs out right around my thighs whenever I consume it...

4.  Maryland Blue Crabs
I have lived in Southern Delaware for the entirety of my life.  For those of you who are not from the midatlantic, Delaware is part of the Delmarva penninsula with the Chesapeake Bay to the West and the Delaware Bay to the east.  Water=seafood.  I have fond memories of going crabbing as a child... and also fond memories of eating seamed crabs, covered in Old Bay and dipped into cider vinegar.  Mmmm... I like crabs in a multitude of ways:  cakes, balls, crab imperial, steamed, etc etc.  Maryland crab has now become a thing that gourmet restaurants are serving and charging an arm and a leg for but the hipster in me is screaming I LIKED MARYLAND CRAB BEFORE IT WAS COOL!!!!

5.  Scrapple
A number of people are probably confused by this.  "what is scrapple?" some of you are asking?  Well, I'll tell you.  It is the stuff the sausage factory rejected, mixed with cornmeal, and grilled up nice and crispy.  Yes.  Sounds awful, tastes delicious.  Just like hot dogs.

6.  Scallops
I know.  My second seafood entry but I can't help it.  Seafood, especially shellfish, are just so gosh darn delicious.

7.  Cheese cake
I love cheesecake.  It's also my signature creation.  I make a truly magnificent white chocolare raspberry cheesecake.  Truly.

8.  Lemon
This is kind of vague...  I don't eat raw lemons or anything like that but I love consuming lemon IN things.  Lemon squeezed on fish, lemon muffins, lemon curd, lemon bars, lemon lemon lemon lemon.

9.  Caramel
I enjoy chocolate like almost all women but what I really love is caramel.  Sweet, buttery, sometimes salty.  It's so deliciously wonderful.  The Ice Cream Store in Rehoboth has a "Buttery Salted Caramel" flavor that is my absolute favorite kind of ice cream ever.

10.  Butter
I love butter so much that I wrote an ode to it for a previous entry.  Yes.  Delicious, delicious butter...  preferable on a warm crusty slice of #3.

It was surprisingly hard to come up with this list for two reasons:  1.  I like a lot of foods but 2.  I'm not passionate about every single things that passes my lips.  Oh well.