East coast Pow Wow

I've been a super lazy blogger but I'm getting off my bum to post pics from the Pow Wow on Friday hosted by Pink. The theme was Lipstick Mafia so I tried my best to sport a "jersey poof" with the help of a bumpit since I could not tease my hair to save my life; I just created knots. I have to admit the thing was pretty comfortable (I even forgot I was wearing one) and it didn't budge all night. I don't know if I would go and play tennis with one on like the infomercial showed but I was pretty happy with it's staying power.

Here were my nails for the event, courtesy of some konad stamping. It took a few tries to get it all kind of straight:

Anyways, we met up for dinner at Pylos for some awesome Greek food. There were 13 of us: Pink, Lynn, Mel, Tammy, Helen, Patti, Desi, Vickie, Lily, Mayaari, Kendall, Prey and me. Here's the food (my bf commented that it seemed like I have more food pics than people, lol):

Pita and hummus. It was nice and toasty!

Moussaka and calamari


We also had fried eggplant and zucchini with tzatziki dip and meatballs


Now on some of the entrees:

I (and Lynn) had the shrimp and scallop with noodles in ouzo sauce


Lily and Prey the lamb shank


Vickie had the poached salmon


Some actual pics with people:

Me and Pink enjoying the pita and hummus


Super cute pic of Lynn and Mel

After paying the bill and getting our things together it was past closing. We decided to do a group shot outside the restaurant and asked a girl smoking outside of the bar/louge next door to take our pic. Next thing you know there's some guy wanting to take our pic too- he was super excited to see a bunch of gorge girls. There were also other folks coming out; we had attracted a good sized crowd. haha.

Before Lily left us for the night, we snapped a pic together.

We decided to walk up Ave A to a place called Beauty Bar and we continued to to attract attention. We had guys who wanted to hug us, who wanted to give us hi-fives, and one guy who told us to move away from the corner bc we were dressed like hookers so we needed to move to the center of the street-g*d bless us. haha.

Instead of the Beauty Bar, our next destination was a karaoke bar in ktown. It was pretty cheap in comparison to the one I've been to in Queens, although this place didn't have drinks included.

Mel was a very serious singer!


Pink channeling Britney!






Here's the end of the night group shot:

I got home after 3am, haha. Didn't sleep till the sun was rising and the next day my hair still had some poof to it. I had an awesome time meeting and eating with everyone! Can't wait to see the other pics/vids and to see you all again!

Mitsuwa and TheFaceShop

I managed to convince the bf to take a drive to Mitsuwa and stock up on some japanese goodies. I had lunch before I went but by the time we got to the market, I was getting hungry which resulted in snack overload. I got some fruit gummies, seaweed and salt chips (so addicting), chocolate and some non-giant pocky. Here's is the gummy I'm currently snacking on:

It's pretty good, I like that it's not overly sweet. They also don't have a fully smooth gummy texture, there is a bit of grit (?) to them that I haven't decided if I like or not.

Hee, I found a heart shaped gummy.

We did get some real groceries too and I got some lip balm and new shampoo. I've been using the Shiseido Tsubaki for awhile and I decided to try the Lux shampoo to change it up.

After Mitsuwa, we went to TheFaceShop. Correction, I went to TheFaceShop while my bf stayed in the car and played with his PSP or as he calls it "saving the world". It was awkward because I was the only person in the store. I always hate the part where they speak to me in Korean and I look at them confused or just start speaking english to them. They left me alone which is nice and I wandered quickly through the store since it was after 7 and I was worried they were closing. Here's what I grabbed:

Hoping this eye cream will help with the undereye circles, although it would also help if I went to bed earlier. =P

Some polish and rhinestones. I would have picked up some more polish (not that I need it)
but I didn't think I had time.


I have a few sheet mask so I decided to try some blemish patches and pore strips.


Inspired by Steph's shisem haul, I picked up a few myself.
I slooowly getting better at applying these and wearing them.


Samples that they gave me, I heart samples. Can't wait to test out their BB cream.

So it was a productive trip to NJ today. Afterwards we went to Tar-jay. Nothing exciting there. I got cheez-its and for once, I did not purchase any make-up.

I also want to share the cutest pillow cases that I found yesterday:

I adore tokidoki. I have multiple bags, a mouse pad, pins and now pillow cases. I don't like all the characters but I do like Adios, Ciao Ciao and their cats Skeletrino and Skeletrina. I first got the figurines of both cats and when my bf decided we should have Adios and Ciao Ciao, I found out Adios is discontinued so finding him will be tricky. Oh well. Hope everyone is having a good weekend. It's already after 2am and I have to get up early tomorrow. sigh.

I spy with my little eye, something...

Hi y'all. I just wanted to do a quicky post since I'm sitting here with my clay mask from beauty credit on and I can't do much for the next 20 mins. I've been breaking out like crazy, normally it happens once a month but this time it seems to be quite stubborn so I'm trying this mask to clear out my impurities. Anyhoo, here are some random tidbits:

The Lady Dior Charm (pics in previous post) has been discounted even more at sephora.com. It is now $49! Ok, still a crazy price, yes I know but the blow is being soften a bit more. I've seen it marked down in one sephora store but not in another so I don't know how universal this mark down is. If you've been lusting over this trinket, now maybe the time to get it.

I had gotten the mini set of eco tools 5 piece brush set, but there is a full sized version offered that comes with a powder blush, eye shadow brush, eyeliner brush, a concealer brush and a lash/brow groomer with a make up roll for storage.

Image from Ulta.com

I spied this set with, instead of a make up roll, a bamboo square container cup. It's a simple design made from the same material it seems as the handles with "eco tools" etched on one side. In terms of prices, it was about $2 more than the set with the make up roll.

Maybelline has a new collection of more summery shiny-licious lip glosses all with golden shimmer to them. Colors range from clear to pink/corals to bronze-y shades. I haven't tried shiny-licious lip glosses since they first came out but I did pick up one of these glosses in a coral color. Maybe it was because it freakin snowed, yes SNOWED in New York today and I wanted something summery. The gloss was very pretty and had a watermelon jolly rancher smell to it.

There was also another fuller collection from Maybelline with new eye shadows, shine seduction lip colors and nail polish. One polish called Pot of Gold is clear with a mix of fine glitter and chunky glitter. Very pretty in the bottle-it will probably drive me crazy trying to get an even coat of glitter in practice. Normally I've never been happy with Maybelline polishes but I figure I would give this one a try since it was so pretty and there was a dollar off coupon available at the display.

Speaking of nails, I was bummed to find out that the site I used for Konad supplies is closing so I'll have to find another site-bah. A plus though was that they are offering discount on the remainder of their stock so I ordered some more plates and polishes and extra stamper but last I checked, there wasn't much left.

On a random food note-I decided to try giant Pocky and I think I do like it more than regular pocky at the moment. I usually just saw it and thought it was funny but I've been munching on it for the past week and I wonder if they have other giant flavors other than chocolate.

Another becoming a fatty note, there is a place that makes mini bite size cupcakes and they are delish:

No I couldn't wait, I usually eat 2 on the way home. What's left in the box is smores (my favorite), cookies n'cream, PB &J and peanut butter cup. I try not to be too piggy and instead of making it one bite, I try to make 2. The bf doesn't really eat sweets so finishing them up was left to me; very hard task I know.