Eye Shadow Comparisons

There are still several brands I need to add but heres a start. 


Rating: 5/10 (5/5 color payoff, with a miserable fallout)
Brand: Urban Decay
Color: Protest
Size: 1.2 grams
Price: unk
Experience: Shimmery mineral makeup stored in a spill proof metal bottle with a brush cap. While i love this color and the payoff it gives, there is way to much fallout and I end up frustrated every time I use it. Regardless, UD is still my favorite brand.

Rating: 5/10 (5/5 color payoff, with a miserable fallout)
Brand: Urban Decay
Color: Smog
Size: 1.2 grams
Price: unk
Experience: Shimmery mineral makeup stored in a spill proof metal bottle with a brush cap. While i love this color and the payoff it gives, there is way to much fallout and I end up frustrated every time I use it. Regardless, UD is still my favorite brand.

Rating: 10/10
Brand: Urban Decay
Color: Mushroom
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Experience: Plastic potted metallic goodness. Steel grey and more shimmery on my skin than in the pot. Lovely color. UD is my favorite brand.

Rating: 10/10
Brand: Urban Decay
Color: ACDC
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Experience: Plastic potted metallic goodness. Shimmery bruise color in the pot but goes on like a navy. UD is my favorite brand.



Rating: 10/10
Brand: Medusa's Makeup
Color: Amulet
Size: 2 grams
Price: $13
Experience: Love this vegan and cruelty free company. Love that their monthly beauty box is only $16 with free shipping for 3-5 full size products. The shadow is full of knockout color thats easy to apply and hangs on for dear life. The only issue with Amulet is that it looks grey in the capsule and brown on skin.

Rating: 10/10
Brand: Medusa's Makeup
Color: Midnight Oil
Size: 2 grams
Price: $13
Experience:Love this vegan and cruelty free company. Love that their monthly beauty box is only $16 with free shipping for 3-5 full size products. The shadow is full of knockout color thats easy to apply and hangs on for dear life. This navy blue color looks very similar to the Sugarpill Velocity.



Rating: 10 (nuff said)
Brand: Sugarpill
Color: Velocity
Size: 4 grams
Price: $13.00
Experience: This navy shadow has a lite shimmer and a hell of a lot of color. Staying power is awesome and there is little to no fallout. High quality for the retail price. Lack of animal testing and $6.00 shipping make this a 10.

Rating: 10/10 (5/5 staying power, 5/5 pigment)
Brand: Mac
Color: Talent Pool
Size: 1.5 grams
Price: $16
Experience: A beautiful color and quickly becoming a top drawer shadow. This is a true mermaid color somewhere between aqua and teal.



Rating: 9/10 (5/5 staying power, 4/5 pigment)
Brand: E (eyes) L (lips) F (face)
Color: Teal Tease
Size: 47 grams
Price: $3.00
Experience: This is really a liner but its a very creamy, highly pigmented product and easy to apply as a shadow. It comes in small glass pot with a small brush and for the price, and even twice the price, no one has a better potted cream shadow than E.L.F.

Rating: 8/10 (5/5 staying power, 3/5 pigment)
Brand: E (eyes) L (lips) F (face)
Color: Toast
Size: Unk
Price: $3.00

Experience: Love, love, lovey dove dove this color. Super blend-able which means it rubs around pretty easily even after drying which it never really does. It doesn't really rub off either though which is good. It comes on a plastic pot instead of glass like my other ELF potted shadows but still, this is a top drawer shadow!

Rating: 8/10 (4/5 staying power, 4/5 pigment)
Brand: Too Faced-Matte Hazelnut from the matte Chocolate Chip palette
Color: Hazelnut (medium brown)
Size: unk
Price: $25/palette
Experience: This is a really nice brown with lots of pigment and staying power. A diaper wipe left some color behind and I had to use eye makeup removed to get it all off


Rating: 7/10 (5/5 staying power, 2/5 pigment)
Brand: Mac
Color: Bitter Velvet
Size: 1.5 grams
Price: $16
Experience: I want to like this. I like green eyeshadow, its blendable and a pretty color but its just not as vibrant as my other green shadows. I like that it sticks around all day.

Rating: 5/10 (5/5 color payoff, with a miserable fallout)
Brand: Urban Decay
Color: Protest
Size: 1.2 grams
Price: unk
Experience: Shimmery mineral makeup stored in a spill proof metal bottle with a brush cap. While i love this color and the payoff it gives, there is way to much fallout and I end up frustrated every time I use it. Regardless, UD is still my favorite brand.

Rating: 5/10 (5/5 color payoff, with a miserable fallout)
Brand: Urban Decay
Color: Smog
Size: 1.2 grams
Price: unk
Experience: Shimmery mineral makeup stored in a spill proof metal bottle with a brush cap. While i love this color and the payoff it gives, there is way to much fallout and I end up frustrated every time I use it. Regardless, UD is still my favorite brand.

Rating: 5/10 (3/5 staying power, 2/5 pigment)
Brand: E (eyes) L (lips) F (face)
Color: Aint That Sweet/Let It Go
Size: 5.5 grams
Price: $3.00
Experience: Notice there are 2 names for this pretty light pink icing colored shadow. They are exactly the same but ELF has branded Aint That Sweet as Let It Go as part of their Disney/Frozen product line. Ive had the Disney version for more than a year and havent noticed and product degradation. I do have to use my finger to apply as I dont get even application with a brush. The other issu I have is I haven't been able to pair this with anything else as I cant really blend it so I wear it on my lids.

Rating: 5/10 (4/5 staying power, 1/5 pigment)
Brand: Too Faced
Color: Unicorn Tears (holographic light blue/pink)
Size: 2.5 grams
Price: 1 of 4 items in the LE Unicorn Tears set; $26/set
Experience: Ugh, I realized after reviewing this product as a shadow that this is really a highlighter so while it sucks as shadow, it positively rocks as a highlighter. Note that Paris Hilton has a lipgloss and highlighter set called Astro Purple and the highlighter in that set is very close in color and experience as the much more expensive but a lot cuter Too Faced version.

Rating:  3/10 (1/5 staying power, 2/5 pigment)
Brand: Too Faced
Color: Firefly
Size: 1.7 grams
Price: $18
Experience: I had really high hopes for this as it is a perfectly lovely, shimmery gold but there is almost no staying power. It brushes right off but I gave it a 1 because the loose glitter lasted longer than any other shadow I tested.

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Creative Process & Goal Setting

Ryan Holidays workflow on how to write a book

Im fascinated by the creative process and how others document their work and flow. This pictorial article by Ryan Holliday has lots of tips for the creative process.

I've done the note card thing for awhile for studying and for organizing my day via the GTD method so I especially enjoyed the notecard filing box and found his exhaustive post on he uses it to organize his notes as a reminder that I need to keep up with it and also that it might help me with scrapbooking. More to come.....


Totally Tiffany's What Did Yo Do Today to Move Yourself Closer To Your Goals - WDYDT;

1. Goals and Rewards
2. Great pictures of her WDYDT notebook. She has a fantastic layered system with sections for each goal. see pic at the bottom

fig 1: Totally Tiffanys What Did You Do Today Goals Notebook

My Judgmental Self

I've been reading this Post Election Thoughts blog post from Lara Casey and I am floored by her truth, confessions, and humility.

Please go read Laras blog post before continuing


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Is calling Pres Trump a misogynistic, hate monger and then saying but 'i'm going to pray for him' hypocritical double speak? Maybe, I don't know but since November 2016, I've never felt such sadness as I do with the current state of the country. I've cried at things the POTUS has said and at the way I imagine he has made people feel. I've been frightened, and frustrated, and felt hatred towards him and then felt guilty at feeling those things when I should be praying for him and the rest of our worlds leaders.

Though I still have some general negativity, Laras blog has opened my eyes. These issues affect all of us. Despite my personal safety net of race and income level, I (we) are all impacted by the culture he is nurturing in the white house.

For example, those women DT feels the need to sexualize are someones daughters, sisters, friends, wives, and mothers. The Muslims he wants to ban from the county may be the scientists who cure cancer. Those living in poverty, who he doesn't want to associate himself with could be the POTUS when they grow up.

We dont have to support him  but we should pray for him and all of our leaders. Letters to our senators and congressman might help too.

Cat and Dog Football Players

Playing a little game with the kids. We've got a ton of sports cards and for some reason I thought it may be funny to glue dog and cat heads to the sports cards and give the players funny names. like Cat Newton. I mean c'mon a Cam Newton card with a cats face, that's funny right?

Here's my beloved MN Twins;

1. 'Cat' Belisle (Matt)
2. Jose 'Boneios' (Berrios)
3. Buddy Boshers
4. Tyler Duffey
5. 'Feral' Gibson (Kyle)
6. Trevor 'Hiss'enberger (Hildenberger)
7. 'Fish' Hughes (Phil)
8. 'Canine' 'Kibbler' (Brandon Kintzler)
9. Adelberto Mejia
10. 'Yarn' Pressly (Ryan)
11. 'Catnip' Santana (Ervin)
12. 'Caterwaul' Santiago (Hector)
13. 'Jaw'son Castro (Jason)
14. Chris Giminez
15. Brian Dozier
16. Ed'fang'o Escobar (Eduardo)
17. 'Gnaw' Mauer (Joe)
18. Jorge 'Feli'nco (Polanco)
19. Miguel Sano
20. Byron Buxton 'Barks'ton
21. 'Rattie' Grossman (Robbie)
22. Max 'Kibble' (Keppler)
23. Eddie Rosario
24. 'Kennel' 'Harness' (Kennys Vargas)
25. Craig Breslow
26. Justin 'Howley' (Haley)
27. 'Tabbie' May (Trevor)
28. Ryan 'O'Rabies' (O'Rourke)
29. Glen 'Purebred' (Perkins)

Hound, Chew, Howl, Bowl, Gnarl, Leash, Menace, Mongrel, Mutt, Neuter, Pant, Pedigree, Puppy, Rawhide, Pooch, Rump, Sport, Spot, Stray, Spay, Shelter, Snarl, Tick, Terror, Terrier, Lick, Tick, Treat, Vaccine, Vet, Vicious, Wag, Whisker, Whine, Audubon, Buzzard, Beak, Snout, Cheep, Chick, Claw, Eggs, Estuary, Feather, Flight, Fledgling, Flock, Formation, Flutter, Habitat, Hunter, Migrate, Ornithology, Nest, Peck, Perch, Raptor, Rodent, Roost, Rooster, Chicken, Songbird, Squirrel, Talon, Fowl, Waterfowl, Wing, Beehive, Beeswax, Creature, Catnip, Colony, Drone, Fertilize, Larvae, Nectar, Pest, Pollinate, Smell, Sting, Stink, Swarm,

Other famous players

1. Barkus Mariota
2. Ben Rothlesbarker
3. Cat Newton
4. Ryan Fitzcatrick
5. Cat Ryan
6. Aaron Scratchers
7. Catson Palmer
8. Carson Meowmer
9. Feline Hunter (Deneal)
10. Matt Barkley (real name)
11. Joe Catco
12. DeBarko Murrey
13. Dak Prescatt
14. Hairy Fitzcatrick
15. Cat Stafford
16. Cat Forte
17. Amoewy Cooper
18. Cordelle Catterson
19. Marshawn Loon
20. Marshawn Finch
21. Rob Gronmeowski
22. Julio Hounds
23. Jordy Meowson
24. Blake Barkles
25. Tomy Barky (Brady)
26. Odell Barkham Jr
27. Catson Wentz
28. Kitty Kaepernik
29. Kirk Catsins
30. Bark Favre
31. Eli Meowning
32. Bark Bortles
33. Stepehn Kitty kowski
34. Blake Turtles
35. Meow Evens (Mike)
36. Tiki Barker
37. Meowveon Bell
38. Ezebra Elliot