Bases loaded...

Thank God Wednesday is over!!!At least the work side of Wednesday which is the Ad prices changes at my job. It's the worst day for a Scan Analyst. But over last three days, I have discovered the goodness in the day before Wednesday in the perfect eyeshadow base in L'Oreal H.I.P. Cream Shadow Paint in Commanding.

I lightly pat the the color with my middle finger on my lid before I apply my eyeshadow for a long lasting, non-creasing color. I mean no creasing!! The color is pretty much blends into my natural color.And yesterday I did two MAC shadows and today a Revlon and Stila shadow with the same great results.

Plus the BOGO Free on HIP is on at CVS this week. Work it out...:)

Jamie

Dear Starbucks Hillcrest,

I deeply saddened by the news that your store is one the many Starbucks to be closing due to the fast and overwhelming expansion. I mean, seriously, you just opened like a year ago. I'll miss the spacious seating and quietness that the Pine Street store just can't offer. You just don't get a quaint and quiet Starbucks everyday you know....

Please don't leave me!!!

I thought with two Starbucks, The 'Burg was on the up and up... Ya'll can't have nothing in the 'Burg, man. Now where am I suppose to get my Tall Doubleshot on Ice with Soy Milk at before I hit the Goodwill with the hardness? Guess, I'm going to flip over to the Pine St. Store...they are cool, too but just not you...sigh.

Jamie

Beneath The Surface...

Well, I finally took that curly mop of a bonded weave out,washed my hair for about an hour, then used a deep conditioner.

Woke up the next morning and put a relaxer in and VOILA, my real hair is still intact!

I just decided that I as tired of the weave and wanted a new look for age 31. I will probably do some extensions in September. Even though I don't turn 31 for two more months, I 've ready planned my "Revamp", my yearly change in my look. I starting with my hair and diet and exercise plan...

The Back...

I know...some of natural friends( All who are online...I was the only natural in my whole group..) are going to mad at me. But my decision wasn't political it was just yearning for newness...

My whole life is going through a change. I read a post on The Bap Society's MySpace blog and this part spoke to my spirit loudly,

"We discussed the need for worldly separation and divine restoration-the need to sometimes walk alone to achieve a new closeness with God. God sometimes aligns our lives, so that there is a definitive pull to draw us away (from this life) and draw nearer to him.

My friend expressed that lately she'd felt a bit overwhelmed, drained from fulfilling the cares of others and not catering to her own spiritual needs. I could relate. I pointed her in the direction of Christ. For it is in my times of weakness I run to him and seek quiet moments to talk and commune with him.

I realize that most of my distressed moments stem from being drawn away from his spirit. That's when I step out on the balcony of life and look up. That's when I reassure myself with these words:

"I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more ABUNDANTLY." - John 10:10

I begin to focus on the life that I'm called to (rather than the current); for I know that I must first make spiritual preparation before I ever see a physical manifestation."

Jamie

Goings on...

I was going to post a great beauty review, but I've gotten hungry and angry sitting in front of the computer calling every bookstore in a 60 mile radius looking for that Vogue Italia July 2008"The Black Edition". Sold the F*ck out everywhere or because I'm in hillbilly hell...don't even carry it. I even called my Aunt Bonnie in NY and told her to search it...its life or death!!! Any way some quick thoughts on life goings on...







-Why is that own about four different kinds of blotter sheets packs but never have any my purse when I'm seriously greasy( which about noonday).








-Shut the f*ck every body about Michelle Obama and her accepting an invitation to membership into Alpha Kappa Alpha! I'm about to get real "Big Sister Cascade" A.K.A "Big Sister 'Bout it 'Bout it" on folks about it! I've been reading some message boards and Divine Nine peeps and G.D.I's just fighting over the "invitation" is getting insane. "She ain't on the line"( as my Blue People( that what I call Zetas and Sigmas) homie Shana would say)!!!! But when she DOES cross I'll send her a cake and some pink and green balloons to her dorm room. And please Michelle, no double paraphernalia.:)








-I'm about the revamp my WHOLE look. Tired of the big curly weave, the big ole' hips, too casual look etc. It about the be a new Jamie on the roll. My goal for the new look is September 23, 2008, my birthday.







-So, I cut some thangs out my life. Ya'll be alright. I doubt you miss me. I give and gave too much only to feel empty around you. As if I'm only good enough for fashionable capabilities .

Hell, I got grow now, I've been the same to long for you. We all know a certain person that switch up friends like they change shoes. Maybe we should take a cue from that. They happy and we still the same...







-I've learned so much from taking pics of outfits. That's the need for the revamp.







-Rihanna's pic on the cover of InStyle shows more personality than I even saw in her.








-In case yall were wondering...the black girl on the cover of the August 2008 Domino is Mara Brock Akil of the Girlfriends fame. Is she first minority to make the cover Domino?







I'm hungry...I'm out. Beauty and Goodwill Goodies next post...


Jamie

Jamie, Puleeze...

...Is what my co-worker said when I told her that I ran up on this brand new, still in its sanitary plastic wrap Revlon Creme de la Chrome in Berry Flashy at the Goodwill a few weeks ago. It was this bucket of makeup, some open, some not and was only 1.00.

Sometimes you can't tell folks nothing. You can't even clue them in on a deal...

Sorry, weird pic. I took it at work in the our restroom which is weirdly dark and mood light-y.
Next, I got these O.P.I Lip Sheers at the Green's for .25 a piece, still in their box.

The colors are: Sheer Romance, Sheer Heaven, and Sheer Charm.

Here's some swatches...

Jamie