Face of the Day: Work Friendly Beauty!

Greetings from planet Earth! I am a Panda Kat who likes to play with makeup!

I know it can be tricky to figure out how to do your make-up for work depending on your job. I work at a pizzeria, so I'm near a hot oven, doing dishes, but I'm still taking orders and talking to customers, so I need to look not like a zombie! However, it is scary when a person on the job is wearing enough cosmetics to give everyone a full face worth of make-up to go around.

There is a tricky line to walk when working a job like my where you should not have the make-up caked on, but you need to look somewhat presentable.

I have managed to figure out a great, and easy, make-up look that one can use for almost any job! You look put together, but not like you're going out for a night on the town! This is a light look that you won't be sweating off during work!

Let's get is started in hereeeeeeeeeee:

 First, after getting out of the shower with a freshly washed face, I moisturize using Garnier Skin Renew BB Cream. I do my hair and let the moisturizer sink in to my skin and fully dry(?).

After I make my hair not a hot mess, I sweep a bit of a nice peachy shimmery eyeshadow on my lid. I put MAC's Naked Lunch in my photo, but I used a similar color from a discontinued brand that is an almost exact dupe for Naked Lunch.

Let's get on dem lashes~ I used Maybelline's The Rocket waterproof mascara in Brownish Black on my top and bottom lashes I use a waterproof mascara for work just to make sure it stays on regardless of how hot it gets or if I'm doing dishes and splash myself in the face(which happens a couple times a week). I used brownish black to make my lashes still look semi-natural, we want to accentuate that natural beauty.

Lastly, I sweep a powder over my nose and t-zone area to keep it shine free through my work shift. I used Neutrogena's Healthy Skin Pressed Powder in 30 Buff.

There you guys go! A lovely natural beauty look specifically for the workplace, if you work in a fine dining establishment such as myself! Now don't forget, no nail polish and keep that lion's mane of hair out of your face!

Recently Used Up Products: Impressions

Since about the last month or so of the semester rolled around, I had a mission: use up as many products as possible to avoid having to bring as much stuff back to South Carolina when I came back down.

While I didn't use up as much as I had wanted to, I used up quite a bit of shower products and a few make-up products.

So here lies my final thoughts on the products after I had been using them for a good length of time. Off we go!

1. Maybelline's The Mega Plush Volume Express Mascara: This product, unfortunately, is a love or hate mascara. I hate it. It took me a lot of effort to not throw it away and actually finish it. Mascara is my favorite kind of make-up, I can look at different kinds of mascara for hours on end. I'm usually quite impressed with the Maybelline mascaras though. This felt like(and looked) as though I wasn't wearing any mascara, but still managed to flake (first mascara to ever flake on me) while wearing it. I usually threw this on a day where it was the only make-up I had on and was spending my day or night in the library. I was able to use it with some success as a layering mascara, but I honestly didn't care for it and will not be repurchasing it.

2. Bath and Body Works, Aruba Coconut Shower Gel: I love fruity shower gels more that a normal person probably should. This electric blue soap made me excited the first time I saw it and did not disappoint me. I loved the coconut scent that, in my mind, had some sort of berry intermingling in the scent. I enjoyed every second that I used it. Being a typical Bath and Body Works Shower gel, I was not disappointed, or left with any nasty residue on my skin after using it, I felt fresh and clean.

3. Garnier Fructis Pure Clean Conditioner: Another let down. Another brand I usually really enjoy. I have extremely dry hair and damaged ends, so the more moisturizing a conditioner is, the better. After using this conditioner, not matter how long or little I left it in my hair, did nothing to make it feel moisturized or conditioned. I struggled to finish this product instead of just throwing it away.

4. Benefit's Boi-ing Concealer: This is definitely not my first finished Boi-ing and definitely not my last. Benefit was one of the first 'nice' make-up brands that I bought when I first started wearing make-up, which was about six or seven years ago. I have problems with getting enough sleep or falling asleep and have constant under-eye circles. My face also gets blemishes when I become stressed, so concealer is a must in my daily routine. Between this concealer and the Benefit Erase Paste, my skin looks like I sleep eight hours every night and never break out ever. Benefit has the best concealers that I have ever used, and a little goes a long way, so you definitely get your money's worth out of it! Boi-ing is on my shopping list to get more at the moment.


Welp! That's all I've used up at the moment, and once I start wearing make-up again, actually I already have, I can review more products for you guys! I just forgot what make-up was the entire last two months of this semester!

A New Glory (For Me): A Discovery and Review

Hey everyone, oh-kay, I know it's been awhile, a long while. I've just been having a hard time keeping myself in check when it comes to posting, obviously, my workload this semester hasn't helped either, but I plan on writing whenever I have a free night from now on! ONWARD!

I have NEVER been good about applying lotion, ever, it's been a 'meh' on my getting ready list to be honest. One of my resolutions this year has been to remember to apply body lotion, and I've actually mostly kept up with it.

Last time I went to Bath & Body works I decided to grab a body lotion to put my moisturizing remembering to the test. I grabbed a bottle of the Rio Rumberry Triple Moisture Body Cream, and wow.

This scent and lotion are my absolute favorites at the moment, I didn't realize that I could enjoy putting a lotion on enough to actually remember to do so!

This lotion goes right into my skin without leaving it greasy or that nasty lotion residue-y feeling that I hate in my lotions. I would definitely recommend the Triple Moisture Body Lotion to anyone who hates the feeling of lotion but needs it desperately such as myself!

Review: Fresh Soy Face Cleanser

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Happy Boxing Day! I hope you all have had a nice holiday, I know I'm spending today curled up in bed relishing my last day before work tomorrow. I thought I'd start off product reviews by going over one of my favorite face cleansers, my Holy Grail perhaps.

I have always had issues with different products irritating my skin ever since I started getting acne around age 13. The products I used either made my skin break out worse or my skin dependent upon them so if I skipped a day my skin would go haywire (It was bad enough to where I used to think my skin was oily, but it is actually dry).

This past summer I went into Sephora because drugstore products never seemed to work for me so I finally figured, go big or go home. I have these little bumps all over my skin that are not acne and just wanted those gone. The woman I talked to recommended the Fresh Soy Face Cleanser.

I was very skeptical when I first tried it, but I ended up loving this and have since then repurchased it. The cleanser is very gentle on the skin and does not strip moisture, which is very stellar cause I have dry skin! The cleanser is strong enough that is also acts as a makeup remover too though. If you want a deep scrubbing, this is not for you. I exfoliate my face once a week or so with a different cleanser.

The cleanser is for all skin types and has amino acids in it. The scent reminds me of cucumbers and is a bit stronger and may bother some if you are sensitive to scents. Overall, something I definitely love and will continue purchasing!

What are your Holy Grail face cleansers?!

Welcome To My Ramblings~

As every teenage girl like my sister, or college student like myself, or a grown woman like my mother, we all know being a female is freaking difficult. It becomes especially difficult when you start using beauty products because you have to be conscious of what does and does not mesh with your skin and hair type. I also know that beauty blogs are there to help you with these potential purchases.

I find that a lot of these beauty blogs are either focused almost completely on drugstore products or almost completely focused on high end. I don't know about y'all, but the products I use are about 50/50 on which route I got for my beauty products. So this is where I am coming in, I want to write about beauty products, I have a passion for looking nice. I also want to have an even number of high end vs. drugstore reviews, as well as reviewing products that the people who read this want to see!

But, this isn't just going to be beauty products. As a glasses-wearing nerdy sorority girl, I like things like food and clothing and Doctor Who as well. This blog is just going to be things I like, okay?

Here is my face, do you trust this face?!

Whelp. This is my starting line. And here I am. Ready. Set. Go.