[ ♡ ] Daily CC - 10/24/10

• Conquer – babysat Edward for a few hours without going crazy • Covet – thick beautiful hair • Conquer – signed up for blogspot and made the move • Conquer – made a baby bottle! • Covet - hot hair rollers

[ ♡ ] Magazines - Nov: Women's Health, InStyle, Vogue

I got new magazines in this week. I haven't been able to look at them but I'm excited! I love getting mail in general but when I get a shiny new magazine I always get a little flutter in my stomach! First is Women's Health. The November issue features LC (whom I love!) Second is Instyle. The November issue features Rachel McAdams who I love even more! and Last is my November Vogue featuring Anne Hathaway whom I do not love all that much. I just feel like she's a bit one-dimensional. That's all! Just a little Sharing!

[ ♡ ] Artwork - Aff2 & Aom1

♡ PaNhia

[ ♡ ] Recent Purchases – ELF & MAC

I’ve bought a few things in the last week that I just wanted to share. First off are two holiday palletes from ELF that I got from Target for $5 a piece. I got the Neutral pallete And the smokey pallete (the one that Choua went to 3 Targets to find) This is how they look inside: The colors come on pretty well for a cheap drugstore pallete and they’re very pretty especially the neutral one. I’ve used them twice now and I’d say their pigmentation is in between covergirl and Maybellene, Maybellene being the less pigmented of the two. For five bucks they were a deal! I also got some things from MAC on my trip to Uptown yesterday. I got a blotting powder in Medium dark and a blush in coygirl. The blotting powder is mostly translucent and I just got it to set my makeup and blot during the day because I was getting tired of setting with my loose mineral veil which looks nice but is a pain to deal with. If this one doesn’t work out for me, I’ll go to Sephora to look for another one, my only requirement is that it’s pressed and not loose. This one was $22. The blush is this cute sheer muavey one called Coygirl and it’s pretty cute so far. I just needed a purplish sheer blush and the ones I was looking at was already in the $13 range so I figure jumping to $18 is no big deal for the MAC one. I know I know, I’m buying more MAC lately but I promise, Sephora products are still my preferred buy. When I was at the MAC store the SA also gave me a glimpse of the new brush sets being released this week! I originally thought I wanted the eye set but I only really want two brushes from there so I might get a face set instead next week! It was really cool, she led me behind their counters to a secret stash behind the walls, I felt like I was on a mission! Of course I know that its there to show customers who want to pre-order but it still felt like a special treat to go check it out before it’s release! Anyways she told me something that made me cringe when she rung me up. She said she could tell we were coming in the store as we crossed the street because you can tell a MAC girl apart and in my head I was like, “oh no…I can’t be one of those…” lol! So I promise myself now that I will focus my buying and trying energies on Sephora and other brands and not MAC lol! Anyways I also bought two pairs of Red Cherry lashes from Heartbreaker. Well that’s all for now but you know I’m only a few days away from my next makeup purchase! ♡ PaNhia

[ ♡ ] Daily Outing – 10/23/10 Heartbreaker, MAC, Chaingmai Thai, & Kacen’s Rockin party

Today was nearly as busy as yesterday! We were supposed to have the LPT fall photoshoot at the U today but due to two main reasons we didn’t. First, it was supposed to be like %60 chance of rain and second, Obama was coming to make a speech so it was guaranteed packed. We succumbed to the weather foreast and postponed the photoshoot. Instead, we were going to hang out and walk around uptown and guess what? No rain. There was even some sun! As we walked we kept saying how we still could do it because we originally had it scheduled for 2 and it was still early enough in the day to make it but then we would all have to go back and change. So we decided not to and to just walk around instead. We parked at Calhoun square, took some pictures then shopped around. Later we ate lunch at ChiangMai Thai and it was really good! Here are some pictures from Uptown! After Uptown with the girls I headed over to my baby cousin Kacen's 2nd birthday party. His parents rented their apartment community room to throw him the party. The theme was Rock because he loves music like his dad. I almost got him a guitar but decided against it because I figured he already had a few. I'm glad I got him the tamborine set instead though because two other people got him guitars but I'm afraid his neighbors wont like it because the set jingles even when you're just moving the box. Here are some pictures from his party. His guitar shaped pinata! Cherish looking like a rock star! Chong's girlfriend brought her dog and it was the cutest thing ever! Her name is Mimi and she's grey and had on a pink bow and I almost stole her! She was so adorable and well behaved! Cherish was so funny, she really wanted to touch Mimi but was scared so she pet the dog from afar and call to it lol! They had kow poon and lots of treats! Here is my aunt's signature fruit cake! It's full of layers and has real fruit and was super delicious! Here is the birthday boy ready to blow his cake! And this is the modern day Pinata game! ♡ PaNhia

[ ♡ ] Daily Outing – 10/22/10 Costumes, Hmong Village & Movie night

Friday was a jam packed day! Choua came by earlier in the day because Halloween is next week so we had to make her costume. It took longer than I thought it would because her fabrics were stretch so sewing them without the serger was a pain the butt. I had to sew super slow while feeding the fabric along so that it wouldn’t pull. After some adjusting on my part, it went more smoothly and turned out very cute. We did a black tube as a liner and then a strapless silver sequined dress with a sweetheart neckline on top as her main outfit. Picks of my look of the day! Christi was going to meet us up so we headed to Target to look for an E.L.F. encyclopedia smokey pallete for Choua because she liked mine (review coming!) But they didn’t have it. As soon as we got there Xti called and said she was here so we picked her up from my house and drove to Hmong Village because this Friday was my movie night and the movie I had in mind was an old old movie that I didn’t have. We went in and as soon as we got there, not even on the sidewalk to go into the door, these guys hollered at us and it was the funniest thing ever! They kept trying to talk even after we continued to ignore them lol! I mean, do people usually try to pick up girls at the flea market? Anyways the new flea market called Hmong Village is huge and extremely complicated. I wish they had maps because not only are the vendors selling a lot of the same things but the layout is just confusing and they have a lot of entrances so I always get a little disoriented but I went in with a plan and a movie in mind so it made life a little easier. We picked a movie vender near the exit and looked around and I couldn’t find it but as soon as I was going to leave, I saw it, sitting there being all sneaky, right by christi’s head! It was one of those, OMG-I’m-so-lucky-I-found-it-right-before-I-left moments! So I got it for a mere $5 because it’s one of those old Hong Kong movies dubbed in Hmong that they recently started reproducing into dvds with shitty cover art quality. It’s called “sifu tub hluas” and it translates basically to “Young Master.” It’s an old movie I saw long ago and for some reason no one has seen it but me! It’s about a father and son duo that travel to Hong Kong from the mainland to rescue their master but they got separated due to an incident involving a hired assassin. The son meets an odd family and lots of laughs ensue! It’s a really funny movie but its also kind of sad. Its on youtube, I’ll find the link if anyone wants to see it. After I got the movie, we went to Choua’s to pick up Lomien noodles because she wanted to make them for movie night and I wanted to see her sister’s kitten but turns out the kitten is a scary cat with sharp claws so I didn’t love it. So we left to midway Target to buy ingredients and again, they didn’t have the pallete Choua wanted ( two targets so far.) Then we went to Mai’s and watched the movie. Here are some pics! Choua found eyeball gumballs! After the movie, we had a long girl talk and I knocked out before 12 lol. I was so disoriented walking out of Mai's apartment because my contacts were dry from sleeping so I was stumbling like a blind zombie. I knocked out as soon as I got home! ♡ PaNhia

[ ♡ ] Daily Outing - Akita ( Sushi & Icecream)

So this is a late post but this is what I did Thursday with my sisters and cousin. Akita is a sushi buffet in Minnesota. Basically, you pay $30 a person and you can get all you can eat sushi. The sushi is pretty good, not spectacular but good. My favorite rolls are Akita (now number 9 roll,) and shrimp tempura roll. Their shrimp tempuras and dumplings are pretty good also! Here are some pictures from our sushi eating fun night! ♡ PaNhia