Grad Dress

Hello,

The day started off slowly. My alarm rang, as usual, at 6:30. I rolled over, looked it, said "screw you" and went back to sleep for an hour. I then put zero effort into my appearance today and ended up going to school in cargo pants and a hoodie with zero makeup on. It was attractive.

The school part was slow... we went through the latest portion of reading for "Oryx and Crake" which was fun. I really enjoy this book. Other than that, did two French tests and studied the effects of recreational drugs on the brain in Biology via an application called "Mouse Party". If you're into Bio, want to know how drugs work, or just want to see animated stoned mice I suggest you Google it. It's the first thing that comes up.

My aunt came over for a while today and she ended up giving me the address and phone number of a dress maker in town that can make my grad dress for me! This is very exciting because the one I wanted can't be brought in for 3-4 months, which is way too late. I've already figured out my hair for it, I just need to figure out what I'm doing with my makeup... I'll be doing both my makeup and my best friend's makeup. We've got a really good idea of what we're doing for her's, and now I just need to figure mine out. I'm thinking some kind of purple smokey eye, or a silver/grey smokey eye. It all depends on how the embellishments turn out.

I entered a makeup contest today, for MakeupGeek's weekly challange with the theme of Arabic culture. I went for a toned down red, gold and brown eye.

I'm actually quite proud of this look, I've had it in mind for a few weeks. I've been dying to use as much of this red as I can, because I just love the colour so much! It's MAC's Spectacle of Yourself from the Peacocky collection. The gold is from Gosh cosmetics, and the brown and the black are from Kat Von D's Beethoven palette.

I'm a bit of a makeup nerd... I love it!! It is one of humankind's basic instincts to adorn the body and I love the artistic freedom that can be had with that. I love using makeup because you can take it off at night and make something completely new the next morning! It's a wonderful thing.

Anyway, that is all for tonight, I'm trying to work on the pre-writing for "The 24th" but it's not going anywhere fast... I'm still not sure how pre-writing works, so I'm just kind of winging it and seeing what I come up with that I actually like.

Tschüs!
~Alexandra