My favorite makeup products

About six months ago, I switched my make-up to MAC Cosmetics. I told the lady that I wanted eye shadow that lasted a longer time because my was always gone halfway through the day.  She recommended using Paint Pot in Soft Ochre as a base to help prevent caking and to help my eye makeup last.  I'm sure various brands have their own version of this but you can click on the photo below to visit MAC's website.

 

 The  key with this product is to apply enough to cover your eyelid +/- upper eyelid (depending on how you wear your eye shadow), but not to glob it on.  You also want to give it just a few seconds to dry, because it does have a creamy feel to it.  I LOVE this product and my eye shadow really does stay a lot longer than before.

Recently I noticed that my foundation wasn't going on a smooth as I liked.  I remember that the MAC lady had told me about primer but I didn't buy it at the time.  Primer helps to even out the skin and improve the laydown and application of foundation/powder.  So I went back to the mall and bought this...

 

I can definitely tell that this helps my makeup go on a lot smoother and I would recommend primer for anyone that has the same problem that I did.  You do have to let this 'dry' for a few seconds because it is like a silicone lotion.

Last day of class!!!

So this past week was my last week of classes!! But leave it to Wingate to have two major quizzes, an assessment paper, and a SOAP note due on today, the last day of class. I think this goes to show how pharmacy life has been.  I've been in class for the past 18 years of my life and am so excited to be done with my so-called didactic (*fancy term*) schoolwork!  All that's left is a couple of finals (Neurology, Psychology, and Advanced Clinical Skills II) next week.  Then we get a week off for everyone to move to their rotation zones which involves such an unpleasant thing....packing and then unpacking :( I am so not looking forward to that!

Anyways..enough about school. It consumes way to much of my time.  I just wanted to say YAY!

Almost done!!! well kinda...

I am currently 2 weeks...wait, can I shout that from the rooftops?? 2 weeks!!!... away from being done with in-the-classroom schoolwork forever and I can not tell you how excited I am!!!! No quizzes, exams, or pre-lecture work :) I know to a lot of people it may not seem like that big of a deal.  But spend one semester...no, one week...no, one day in a pharmacy student's shoes and then you will see its a big deal.  I am so excited, you'd think I would be graduating...but that's not for one more year...I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Tonight, Wingate University School of Pharmacy, more commonly known to students/faculty as WUSOP, had a Pinning Ceremony for its third year students.  At any milestone, people like to have ceremonies/celebrations...so I guess this was it for us.  We all went on stage, got a pin on our white coat (which mine is partially green, and thus ruined BTW...but that's another story), and then recited a Rite of Passage speech to pledge to strive to improve our professional identity with honor and integrity, etc, etc, etc.

This is the pin...

My fiance, mom, dad, and sister all came down to see the ceremony and 

I was happy to see them...nothing like family to make your day better :)

I love this man!

My new favorite thing!

Over Spring Break, I went to the nail salon and got a mani/pedi.  My roommate Nicole has been raving about this gel nail polish by OPI called Axxium that lasts ~3 weeks and will not chip.  This sounded wonderful to me because it never fails that I go and spend the money to get a manicure and then two days later...the nail polish is chipping off.  When my mom told me that Sarah, the lady that does our nails, now has a similar version of this long lasting gel nail polish, called Shellac, I was super excited! So I definitely got the Shellac put on my nails and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It's gel nail polish so it dries and hardens with the UV lamps rather than with just a regular fan.  Right after you get done, you don't have to worry about accidentally bumping your fingers and messing up your nails because its hardened.  So anyways, I was really curious to see how long this lasted.  I was going to be happy with pretty much anything, seeing that mine never last long anyways.  

Well, its Day 20 and this is how they look....

I think they did pretty good!! You can see where my nails have grown out, so it's getting time to take the polish off.  But I am definitely in love with this product and will definitely be using this again!

Wedding Planning!

So yesterday we officially reserved our photographers for the wedding! They are Jere & Ashley Dotten from Charlotte, NC.  I'm super excited about having them as our photographers and their work is absolutely beautiful!! Be sure and check out the link above to their blog to see their work.  


Can't wait for our engagement session in May at the Biltmore House's Festival of Flowers!