It's Been WAY Too Long!!

  The life of a makeup and nail  junkie is not an easy one, especially when you've been either working at home or just kind of retired for 3 years. I have tons of makeup and I never wear it any more. Yet, I have to buy any new, cool things that I see. I lost my MakeupDiva411.com address due to lack of funds, so the site is gone but I may start something new again. You Tube is the thing now, who knows, I may start up there. Not your usual makeup guru kind of thing since I'm Goth, but we'll see where that goes.
  Frankly, I'm much more into nails now. I always have been but since the need for wearing makeup when you have no place to go every day has shifted me to my other true love, nails. After 30 years of wearing acrylic, I made the change to gel (just as the poly gel wave hit) and I LOVE gel, not gel polish, gel as an enhancement for my nails. In 7 months, my nails grew to the length that I always wore them, long, and they have a great claw like curve to them that I never knew I had.

  Yes, those are my very own nails, grown out with builder gel to protect them. So cool!! Since I have, like, 200+ bottles of polish which really needs to be thinned out, I'll stick with regular nail polish. But more on the nails later, I'm going back to makeup here for a few.
  I love a good bargain when it comes to makeup. Palettes from places like BH Cosmetics.com, are a great way to save money because they always have sales going on, you can fin d just about any palette for any need.
  I watch one of the You Tube beauty gurus, she had a video last week about a GREAT DEAL from Physician's Formula, a Butter Bronzer palete with 4 colors (two new ones) and a bottle of their new Butter Summer perfum. See, the Butter Bronzer series all smell like a day at the beach, which I love. Walmart had the palette online for $11.99, an outstanding deal!! That sold out immediately and the only place you can find them now is on E-bay for around $30.00. I'm thinking "What, did they make 50 palettes and the only place to fin d them was at Walmart.com?? They had to know this would sell out, so why not make more of them, give us little people a chance to live like the "Beauty Influencers" but no, I'll never get one now, I am not paying that much for something that came out at twelve bucks.
  Second rants, Sally Beauty. I have a Pro card, I shop at our local Sally's often. Yesterday I stopped by because I had a gift card to use up. A nail polish sale, Buy 1, Get 1 at 1/2 off. Sounds great but yet they always screw it up somehow. I bought 4 bottles at 4.99 each, 2 bottles at $3.00 each. They always take the half off the cheapest things you bought, so the $3.00 ones were a buck fifty, but one of the $4.99 ones should have been half off as well. It wasn't. This happens so often, I don't bother going back, the poor manager must hate me for all the bitching I do but a sale is a sale, right? From now on, I'm going to check out everything individually. Two at a time. That way I will be assured that I"m getting the sale price and that one doesn't get left off "because the computer is never wrong".
  That's it for today. I'll be back soon with more rants, new product reviews and the like. This blog is my new makeup/nail baby and I'm going to use it!!
 

It's Been Too Long!!

I know, I've been a bad Blogger. I haven't posted in many, many months but a LOT of crap has been going on in my life and I haven't even been working on makeupdiva411.com  and I started a sister site for nail art and that's just going to get blended into Makeupdiva411.com anyway.

Some new articles that I've started working on are "It Ain't Nothing but a Goth Thing" for those of us who still love and live the Goth look. There's another one on applying a light summer makeup mostly just liner, mascara, bronzer and lip gloss. And adding a whole huge section on easy, do it at home nail art.

So , if you stay with me, that'll be coming up soon and I'll post some of it on here. Please bare with me. Family drama is driving me crazy and I haven't been spending time on the things that I love doing when I need to relax, I've just been sleeping.