What's Been Added to My Makeup Collection?

A few weeks ago I was talking makeup vlogs & products with my niece, Alura & my BFF, Love and it occurred to me that I had not updated you guys on some of my "needed" products. Somebody might want to know if my makeup items have changed. Yes, there have been some.

I was going to do this post last week, then Prince died and like many I was pretty bummed. Oh Prince with his perfect eyeliner. Whoever is getting his unused eyeliners will be blessed. Prince was never seen with running eyeliner, unlike my sinus attack having self. That another reason why I am a makeup free maven most days.

Well, my first makeup changes started about this time last year. ID was preparing us for her wedding. She mentioned that we will be doing our own face foundation for the wedding. Guess who didn't wear foundation? You guess it. The last time I wore foundation had to be my senior prom and I just borrowed my mother's Prescriptives because we are the same skin tone. At the same time, I was running out of face and eye primer and Avon, in its usual fashion had discontinued what I was using.

So, I researched on YouTube what drugstore products my favorite beauty vloggers were wearing (Because I don't wear foundation so, I wasn't going to pay $$$ for it) and I found some real nice gems. Avon's loss became gains for Covergirl, NYX and Rimmel London. I am in love with these products. Paired with my NYX Setting Spray, They are the base of my fabulous bridesmaid look for ID's wedding. Their staying power was great. Here is a little pictorial timeline on how well my makeup stayed on.

It's about 3pm, right before I got dressed.
Makeup was about 3-4 hours old and it still looked fresh. 

Still looks good at 8:30pm as I just danced into the
reception after the wedding ceremony and taking pictures outside.

At 10:30pm, I've had dinner . Now taking pictures with "Ridge" and others.
Oh, what do we see? A shiny forehead!

The only thing I ever touched up once was my lip before outside pictures. And after dinner, I didn't even touch that up any more. See, Avon that could have been you, but no you got rid of the stuff that once worked. Now my heart belongs to others. My next update is a indulgent one. I had been hearing about Beauty Blenders for a while. But the $20 price tag at Sephora was one I could not justify. Then while buying hair supplies on the Sally's website in September 2015, I came across a Beauty Blender dupe from Face Secrets.

Yeah, I just used it
But it is lilac

My Face on New Years Day

They had them 2 for 1 so, I added that to my order and checked out. I gave the other two to my niece & my Bestie, T.T. (Who is a great MUA, whose brain I pick for the makeup trends). I like this sponge. It blends my foundation (the bottom) & concealer (the tip) much better than brushes for me, It also feels better than brushes. I just wash it with hand soap and water after every use. It is a nice inexpensive investment. Now fast forward to this year, 2016.

I was purchasing Queasy Drops for my motion sickness in Target and I saw these eye makeup pencil brushes on clearance. The brand is a popular one called ELF (Eye, Face, Lips) that I hadn't tried yet. So, I indulged. LoL I sent a picture to T.T. and she gave me a thumbs up because of the brand. Then I hit pan on my Revlon blush. Blush is a product I own both an expensive one & an inexpensive one. Now, in a previous post I said I was protesting Revlon until the CEO leaves. And once my Revlon products run out I am buying another brand.

Well, I had to look up another brand of inexpensive blush to buy. Well, highlighting is the trend and I saw that Hard Candy had baked blushes with the highlighter in the same container. I got one in the color, Punch.

It has been a learning adventure with both. I was lining my eyes with what I was suppose to fill my brows with. My cheeks appeared sweaty because of too much highlight.

But, I finally got the hang of the products. I was on my way to a divorce party and I knew I looked extra cute. Well, I did before my sinuses were attacked and my eyeliner smudged. But like seen in that picture next to Prince, I was still cute. And yes, I will be discussing the hair in another post. I like the blush color on me. It give me the right touch of color on my cheeks. And the brushes are really a cool help with my cat eye.

So, that's an update on what new or new-to-me makeup products I have been using. Oh I have new lip & eye colors but I change those often. These products featured are not things I change up often. I might have to look for a new primer or start buying this one in bulk. My sister, A was trying to buy some and the shelves are sometimes empty. Rimmel, don't be like Avon. Do Not Discontinue the Stay Matte Primer, Please. Maybe if I beg for it to stay forever, it will. Keyword is Maybe!!!

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms

Jesus Reigns...Oh The Prince Influence

I have been fighting doing a Prince blog post, because I had a feeling of where it would lead to. I figured since I feature him in a post (Read it HERE), I didn't need. Prince Rogers Nelson has passed away. Like many I have cry and watched various specials in his memory. 

I can't put Purple Pain in the DVD yet, I am not ready. And I am kicking myself that I don't also own his other movies, Under the Cherry Moon & Graffiti Bridge. I don't believe he is gone to soon because God doesn't not make mistakes. But yeah I was not through listening to his works. I hope his unreleased vault is opened but if not we will jam all the music that was released.

I don't remember music without Prince. I was a little girl (under 10) when Purple Rain came to cable. It was the 1st grown up movie that I actually "understood". I even understood that The Kid was upset with Apollonia for being friends with Morris & Jerome. He was so upset that he wrote a mean song that made her cry & run out. Later, I understood that he called a whore (without profane language) with that song. That is one of my first memories of Prince & his music. But it is not my favorite. I can imagine a few churches incorporating his music in worship periods, this weekend. I saw one on a Facebook post (Praise His Name & He Made a Way) and it is the reason why I am blogging on this topic. Bishop Paul S. Morton had a Prince moment during his song, Let It Rain (Yes, I provided the LINK) in 2003. But none of it, ran through my head like this memory from 2001 when I was a student at Lamar University in Beaumont, Tx. I went to church with Football Nerd. I think the church was called Triumph. Fact about Me: If I don't know a worship song, the worship team has one verse to catch my attention. Well, somebody must have told this group. The chords played sound very familiar. The verse was very touching. Then they got to the chorus. 

♫Jesus Reigns, Jesus Reigns

Jesus Reigns, Jesus Reigns

I Want to Tell the Whole Wide World That Jesus Reigns♫

I was stunned. Folks was running and shouting to the Lord.

Football Nerd snarked "If you were worshiping, you would not have noticed the song" You know I gave him side eye. (Years later he said he didn't remember saying that) The Worship Team had rearranged Purple Rain for worship. Like the Youtube Video I found as an example above. It did it's intended job because the spirit was high all service long. When they say Prince's influence stretched to all genres of music, It really did. Hey it touched even a church in small town America. I wonder if Triumph sang Jesus Reign for worship this weekend. Hope they did. 

Prince will miss. But his music & his impact will live on. RIP Prince

Oh I'm Okay!!!

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms

Mixing New School Technology & Old School Dating Standards

I'll say this first, Experience & Observation are great teachers. There are times I feel like throwing in the towel and never picking it back up on dating. I know some of the rules have changed, but I am not convinced that the respect, honor, & common courtesy rules have. And I refuse to engage with any man that are not following them. And there are time that it seems like I seem to be the only one not willing to engage with the disrespectful. Now, days they call them F-word Boys. Oh but the past couple of weeks FBF subliminally came in  and said "You are Not Alone". It felt good to see in this "Snap Chat Me the Puh" dating culture, I am not the only one offended.

I saw this meme and almost screamed. I refuse to have a Text Only relationship. Words have intentions. I am a talker and a listener. I am very sensitive to voice inflections. You can hear emotions in the voice. You can't read emotions. You can't read all intentions. That's why I am not a big fan on dating & texting. In his book, "Act Like Lady, Think Like A Man", Steve Harvey confirmed something I already knew. Some people hide behind text messaging.

A guy text "Are you busy, tonight". Now if dude is a player, he sent that to you and few others and he is waiting on who is available first. Now if Mr Player had called and you weren't available, you can usually hear it in his voice. He pretty much going to say "Oh ok" or "A'ight then" and get off the phone so they can find someone else to hang with. A man who wanted to hang out with you and only you acts differently. Some may ask what are you doing. Some may even talk you out of what you had planned. Well, at least that is my experience. Texting also misses Emotions. "I love You" doesn't feel the same texted like it does when you hear it. Oooh, especially the 1st one. And what if he/she did mean to text you. Apologizing & Taking that back will be hard as heck. Oh and there's another set of people that hide behind text. Perverts & idiots love to text.

A guy can't flash his penis in public to some chick he thinks is hot without the major chance of going to jail. But for some odd reason text messaging made several feel like sending unsolicited picture of their genitals is cool. Also, some will ask numerous intimate question upon the first greeting. Before texting existed I only heard "When you going to let me F-word" from thugs/thug adjacent & a low key pimps over the phone. Now, I had some of the most intelligent men text that, also. People hide via text. Communicate me via the phone or video chat. I have Google+. We can Hangout. LoL

Speaking of Social Media. Get out of my DMs. DMs are getting out of hand. Oh DMs is Direct Message. On Facebook, I would say, "Get out my Inbox". I don't date via Social Media. Let, me rephrase that. I don't date via Social Media where my name is OUTSPOKEN_DIVA. So, that includes all of them I have an account with but Facebook. My FBF are people I have at least met face to face once. So, if an interested man who is a FBF contacted me via my inbox, maybe allowed. But if you only know me as OUTSPOKEN_DIVA, don't ask me for my number.

Can we meet at a public event first? Let's meet at a local Comic Con event. Let's meet at an Empire watch party at a local theater. More than likely, I will be with a group of people & you will too. We can just greet one another and chit chat for the moment. Offline land is where I prefer to meet men. Hiding decreases in Offline land. Trust me, I am not as cool as my live tweet make me. LoL But you know that. So, find out what else I am about publicly outside of the internet before I let you into my personal world. Social Media is for socializing. Dating is not the only way to be social in my world.

Yep, you guessed it. I was on my way to the world of dating sites & apps. If I could get the users of dating sites to just be honest. Which "dating sites" are actually "hook-up sites"? I am convinced that free sites are hook up sites & paid ones are true dating sites. matter of fact, you will be helping me a lot if you let me know in the comment below. Oh and Thank You in Advance.

I've dated online before. I met my worse & one of my best boyfriends ever online. I've also wasted a lot of my time with online dating because I didn't know that the culture of the site. I was on Zoosk years ago. It was free then. That site was eye opening. Then I found out it known to be a "hook up" site and I closed my account quickly. I think Tinder is leaning that way. I know a lady who shared screen shots of an experience with a vulgar creep. I was offended for her. Oh and did she she tell him off? My Gosh, Yes, she did. But I should've known with an app that lets people first determine compatibility with swiping left or right to show like or dislike. I guess tinder knows dating's top surface is shallow as heck.

So yeah, I am maneuvering with technology and my dating life.  Again I refuse to date the disrespectful. If that leaves me dateless, so be it. And my fellow ladies in the dating game, Stop indulging dudes' "Snap Chat Me the Puh" requests. If he wants to see it, he'll come over to see it. Stop letting folks take the easy way out. They get used to the standardless and don't know how to engage with us with standards of some kind.

As Always, Talking to You in Adult Terms