The Reason Why People Spend $18 On Bronzers.

Let me tell you, there are reasons why people spend eighteen dollars on bronzers and fifteen dollars on single eye shadows! I promise you, there is a reason!!!

I just started wearing makeup about two years ago when I decided to retire my bottle caps and buy some contacts. So naturally, when I looked in the mirror and saw dark circles under my eyes and an uneven skin tone, makeup became my best friend. I started off with Covergirl powder that was way too dark but I didn’t care. I had some L’Oreal eyeliner that I stole from my mom’s vanity and some old Mary-Kate and Ashley cream eye shadow from 2001 when my sister started wearing makeup. I thought I was good to go. I’m telling you I thought I was fly. Fast forward two years and hundreds of YouTube make up guru videos later, and Mary-Kate and Ashley were sold for twenty five cents at a garage sale.

I get lots of compliments on my makeup now, especially with my eye shadow. According to my sister, I spend 30 minutes putting on makeup but that’s a lie. I take like ten minutes, fifteen if I’m experimenting. I think that’s pretty normal. So anyway, I’m not rich and I know that. I still use L’Oreal liners and Revlon foundations but I'm beginning to rack up some sweet Sephora and MAC products that are stealing my heart away (even though the Asian sales associate at the MAC store has a stick up his a**)! Moving on, two years ago I would have been shocked with the prices… shoot, six months ago I would have been shocked with the prices, but now I completely understand. Here somes the story:

I was watching a video by DulceCandy and I love her because she’s short and brown like me and all the makeup gurus on YouTube are Asian. I also love her because she has a black Pomeranian that looks just like Milo J So I was watching her and she was using bronzer and I was like “WHAT?! Brown girls can use bronzer!!! I'm getting some!!” So before I went and spent twenty dollars on a bronzer I went over to good ol’ Wal-Mart and got a four dollar Maybelline one. That shit is CRAP!!! I'm sitting in front of the mirror all excited and packing this worthless crap on my face and it freaking sheer! I was thinking it was just the color of my skin tone but NO people it was sheer! As in no color whatsoever! I should have just dusted off my old Covergirl powder from two years ago and used THAT as a bronzer. That would have out this new one to shame! And the brush that came with it was more like sandpaper. This just pisses me off really. What a waste of my four dollars!

Moral of the story, don’t buy Maybelline Bronzers. If you are shopping on a budget by all means go to the drugstore but do NOT buy bronzers because they will either rub off within an hour or not appear at all! And if you are looking for a matte black eye shadow, just invest in MAC or Sephora because drugstore black eye shadows come out really chalky. Stick with drugstore mascaras and liners like L’Oreal’s Lineur Intense Liquid Liner with the felt tip (that one is AWESOME!). Or L’Oreal’s liquid pencils, it’s an oxymoron but no joke it’s great for the water line. Oh, and foundation wise, Revlon ColorStay and L’Oreal True Match products are the bomb. Okay I'm gonna stop because I'm starting to sound like a makeup guru which by all means I am not because no guru would waste four dollars on packaged shit and get excited about it. ;(

"Do you live in a house or a trailer?"

Wassup blog world. Okay so this is my first blog ever and I have no clue why I have decided to make one. If it were a year ago I’d be blogging because I had a project due in a week and it was mandatory to do something creative. Now, I sit here in utter boredom as it thunders in the small town of Polk City using my wonderful “writing skills” to tell you all about a bunch of nothing.

My name is Stephanie and usually the next thing I tell people is that I am Puerto Rican. I don’t know why, it just comes out that way. When I was younger the next question would have been “Do you live in a house or trailer?”. Now, for those who feel offended at this point, don’t. I simply asked because before I moved to Florida, I considered a trailer to be a movie promotion or what semi’s carry. Culture shock, that’s what I would call it now, culture shock. I moved to Polk City when I was eight years old. Before then, I lived in New York. Sounds drastic I know, and that’s because it is. Skyscrapers to cows on the side of the road, cracked cement to picturesque meadows, Tony’s Pizza on Myrtle Avenue to Hungry Howie’s. Now don’t let the fact that I lived in New York allow you to think that I was living in “TriBeca right next to Deniro” because the next line to that song is “I be hood forever.” I lived in good ol’ Brooklyn on Sunnyside Avenue (bit of an oxymoron now but whatever). But, when I was younger, I thought I had life down pact. I had my family, a best friend (who doesn’t remember me now), and all the “street meat”, pizza, and Italian ices I could ask for. But, things change and people change and THAT’S another blog entry for another time!

So yea, I am Puerto Rican and I’m a student at the University of South Florida majoring in Mass Communications. This is so cool I feel like I’m sixteen again writing in the About Me section on MySpace for the first time. Except now, I can write about more than just the basics and not have to sound cool about it. Oh, MySpace how I don’t miss you anymoreJ.