myhouse- purple smokey eye

I'm done with Asian brand lashes. I know lots of people love them, but personally, they're too stiff and the lashes are too short. I don't get the effect I want, so I'm back to American brands. I really like the Ardell demi-lashes right now. They are longer towards the outer edge so they don't overwhelm my eye and the hairs are super soft.











No flash:


myhouse was pretty cool. I was a little apprehensive about going to a club on Christmas but Santa was there!



Santa doesn't look so good. LOL.

gray outfit and smokey eyes

I love being able to dress up again! I'm still WAY behind on Xmas shopping but that's another story.

Outfit (sorry for the dirty mirror!!)





Smokey eye-- started out as purple and turned brown? I don't know what happened here.

I haven't done a face of the day in awhile, so here's two.









Red lips tip: My roommate told me that the trick to pulling off red lip is to have really clean outer edges. Since red lipsticks tend to bleed, it's essential to have a lipliner or a reverse lipliner to make sure you have crisp edges. I used NARS velvet matte lip pencil (it looks like a fat crayon) to get my red lips. I don't wear bold make up so often, so I can't justify buying a lipstick AND lip pencil. Definitely look into it if you girls are thinking about getting a starter red lipstick.

haulage

Smashbox sale.



The Smashbox Muse palette











This huge make up remover was only $5!! It smells good, gets all your make up off, but is slightly oily. I'd get it again though. You get 2 or 3 times as much as a drug store MU remover.

My friend and I noticed a Pan-Asia Expo right across from the sample sale in the LA Convention Center. It was a total bust. The "food court" had two vendors total. There was a bunch of random stuff and travel packages, but nothing that we wanted. I wish I had my camera with me. We did find a vendor with all this cute panda stuff. I got a tote.





Earrings from American Eagle. I love bows right now. So cute.

This Woman's Work

Maxwell has me mesmerized.



the original:

girl crush

silly youtubers, tricks are for lawyers

**not legal advice**

Since I'm studying and spending time on YouTube. I think it's funny how people will try to disclaim their copyrighted music and videos by writing I don't own this. This belongs to so and so. Dude, if you stole a computer and you still use it, saying "I don't own this computer," is NOT going to help your cause.

Things that I think sound better:
1) Stating that you have an authorized version of the song or video. An authorized version means you bought and paid for it, so you have a valid copy of it and therefore are not infringing someone's copyright.
2) Stating that you are doing this for fun and have not and will not make any profit off the video that you have uploaded.
3) If it's just music, then try to make a video that goes along with it so that you can say that you "transformed" the music and what you are displaying is YOUR own copyright(although that might be a derivative work--which will still get you in trouble).
4) Tell people to go buy the actual song or video. This will show that you are not trying to cut into the market and may just be putting up the song to help consumers listen to the whole song before they buy it.

**not legal advice**