This year has been a whole dang decade.
Are you okay? I’m exhausted. But you know what was good this year?
My makeup.
I love having long nails. When I worked a desk job, I fluctuated between going to a salon and using press ons. But COVID made salons impossible, and a career change made long nails beyond difficult to keep up. So when I took a week for myself last month, I did my nails to celebrate!
As many of y’all know, I like to focus energy on panning products I already have instead of buying new ones.
But as I was refreshing ColourPop’s website for two days in a row trying to get products for my friend Ashley and I, I realized that I needed the Hocus Pocus Gather Round Sisters palette.
I’m a gal who likes to put a lot of things on my face. I like makeup, masks, exfoliators, hydrating packs, and a whole slew of moisturizers. But I had never tried a peel. Now, I’ve done peel off masks; those are old hat to me. But an actual peel sounds abrasive and excessive. But, I received one in a beauty box sometime last year, and finally got around to trying it this year.
Y’all, I love Halloween. I love the vibes, the lower temperatures, and dressing up. But also, I’m a big chicken. I don’t really love jump scares. I have coulrophobia (an irrational and debilitating fear of clowns), and as someone who walks to work at 3:30 am, I don’t need to be worrying about murderers.
I have the immense pleasure of receiving ARCs from Quirk Books now and then. Quirk has been one of my all time favorite publishers for the last 6 or so years. They put out some really rad and unique titles! This is Not the Jess Show (which I’ll be calling “The Jess Show” from here on out), is no exception.
As I’ve mentioned approximately 8 million times, I am a Project Panner. All that really means is that I like to focus on finishing products instead of buying new all the time. It means I haven’t bought soap in over a year because I have so much of it, and it’s rare that I buy most beauty products.
I am not a beauty guru, and regrettably, I do not have all the disposable income on the planet. Together, those pieces make it difficult for me to get every single makeup collection that I want. Sure, I’d love to get PR, but I’m far from being able to do that.
What I’m trying to say, is that I didn’t get ColourPop’s Sailor Moon Collection.
Have you ever read a book that both destroyed and created you in one fell swoop? That’s how I felt about John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down.
Quite some time ago, I had the immense pleasure of receiving a couple Pop Classics from Quirk Books. Quirk is one of my favorite publishers, but as my TBR is too big, and there are nowhere near enough hours in the day, these lovely books fell by the wayside.