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Just got a new camera so it’s time to experiment! Still figuring out this whole manual focus thing, and I find I can’t get too close to tiny objects as much as I’d like (which I think means I need a different lens? working on that). 

Anyways enjoy some weird photos of my cats

bonus: drunk Fibi and shocked Oliver, before I figured out how to turn the flash off! 

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Ontario’s College Strike

Hey, folks. It’s been a while. 

There is something very big and very political that has affected me, and the 500,000 Ontario College students like me. On October 16, 2017, the college faculty across Ontario entered a strike. 

I wanted to write a post about the strike for a long time, but I didn’t quite know what I wanted to focus on. Today, I want to focus on how the strike has affected the students-- but I also want to make clear that none of this was the faculty’s fault. They are victims in this, just as the students are. If you like, I can make another post later dealing with the Union vs. the Council, which will put into perspective why the strike happened.  

From my point of view, the strike was initially a good thing. We all thought, great, a week or two to catch up on our work! By the time we hit week 3, though, we were frustrated, stressed, and ultimately very confused. 

The school kept sending us emails that told us nothing. We were told to not schedule any vacation time-- but for many of us, we had already done so before the strike fell into place, and there was no clarification as to what would happen for those students. 

Students were unable to tell their bosses to schedule them for more hours, as we never knew when the strike would end and it usually takes two weeks for schedule changes to take effect. On top of this, we couldn’t go and visit family for the same reason. Had I known the strike would be 5 weeks, I would have booked time off work and flown out to the states to see my mother. 

Nor could we work on anything from school-- professors were actively told to shut down their online learning, so we were unable to keep up with what we had already learned, and we weren’t able to contact teachers about projects that we were given before the strike hit. 

As a result of the strike being so long, the colleges decided that it would be a fine idea to just take away our vacation-- instead of the 3 weeks initially, we now have one single week that begins practically on Christmas Eve, and ends the day after New Years’. All those kids that had scheduled expensive flights to see their families? Good luck, you’re on your own!

For my program specifically, we lost about $1200 worth of class time-- there is a lawsuit in place right now to help students win a full reimbursement of time lost. We paid for an education that we didn’t get, and we deserve that money back. 

When we came back from the strike, teachers were given literally a single day to restructure the entire curriculum, reschedule tests, shuffle around project marks and percentages, and it was a mad scramble to get everything in order in time. The new schedule students were given has put us under tremendous stress, coming back from 5 weeks of not learning anything, to be suddenly thrust into three midterms and two exams approaching immediately. 

If you decided to drop out of your program because you missed too much and it wasn’t worth salvaging, you are also screwed. Residence students who dropped out had to pay an $1800 fee to give up their residence placement. The “full tuition refund” wasn’t a full refund at all, and if you were on OSAP, none of the money you paid with goes to you; it all goes back to OSAP, regardless of if you used a grant or loan to pay that off. By December 2nd, at Fanshawe college, 800 students had dropped out already. 

The colleges have also decided to push our 2nd semester over by one week, extending our school year into the summer. If you were scheduled to graduate at a certain time, and pick up a work placement immediately after, your work placement is forfeit because you won’t have graduated in time. 

Right now, paramedics and other students with very hands on in class learning are coming in on weekends and evenings in order to complete all the training they need. Students are sacrificing an immense amount of their time in order to pass this semester, and I don’t know about you, but I am so, so very stressed. 

I’d like to give a huge shout out to the college teachers that are there to support us; we are all having a rough go of it, and having teachers tell me that my anger is justified and knowing we have the faculty doing all they can to help us pass and still get quality learning is so, so important. 

For my fellow students still stuck in the rush of back-to-school, post-strike madness: this too shall pass. We can get through this, and show the CEC and the government who’s boss.  

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I am a full-time Business student with a year and a half left in my studies, and there’s something that I was told recently that I need to share.

A textbook for one of my classes recommends two hours of study for every hour spent in class. My program has six classes, all at varying lengths throughout the week, with the longest one being 3 hours in a row. Some of those classes have two time slots, at two hours each. In total, my classmates and I spend about 14 hours in class every week. So I would spend 28 hours each week studying outside of class-- that’s 42 hours a week for learning.

Like most human beings, I need to sleep, and the recommended hours of sleep for adults is 8 hours-- so there’s 56 hours of my week wasted on being unconscious.

Because I’m a broke college student who can’t spend more than 20 minutes making food, lest I run out of precious hours in the day, I might spend an hour each meal for the consumption of necessary foodstuffs. There’s 21 hours wasted on avocado toast, people.

If you’re keeping up so far, we have 49 hours left in our 168 hour week. We wasted 77 hours on basic human necessities, we’re clearly disasters!

Now I live an hour’s transit away from my school, so there-and-back transit each day is two hours-- another 14 hours. Four of my evenings are also spent working-- there’s another hour per shift for transit, plus the four-to-six hours spent trying to make minimum wage-- I’m going to use the 4 hour shift for my example. 14+4+16=34. (for 6 hour shifts that bumps it up to 42.)

I now have 15 hours left in my entire week for leeway. Less than three hours a day for me to go to the gym, meet up with a friend, read a book that has nothing to do with school, take my dog for a walk.

If I work 6 hour shifts instead of 4 hours, I only have an hour a day.

Thank god that “two hours for every class hour” is only recommended.

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Hey everyone! My local comic-con happened just this past weekend, and in the aftermath of it all I figured I’d do a follow-up to this convention etiquette post. From the perspective of a member of volunteer staff, here is convention etiquette 2.0! (as well as just some random stuff you might not know about the behind-the-scenes of conventions.)

This year I was stationed in three different areas-- photo-ops, autographs, and for a brief hour and a half, door check. Some notable experiences/tips for you guys: 

 - when a volunteer tells you that you can’t sit there, you can’t sit there. Flow of traffic is very important to a convention. Moving people are happy people-- when no one can get to where they’re going, crowds can get scary, even dangerous. If you’re sitting somewhere away from a crowd and a volunteer still tells you to move, you’re likely creating a fire hazard. No, standing instead of sitting doesn’t make it better. This year we kept having people sitting at the exit of the photo-ops area-- not only is there a constant flow of people leaving their photo op, but it is also a fire-hazard for people to linger too long.

 - this year we had a very large crowd of people waiting for their photos, and they just kind of stood in large clumps in the main hallway-- causing, yes, a fire hazard. Despite being told multiple times by both staff and volunteers that they can’t linger, they decided to ignore literally everyone and continued to block traffic. We had maybe 50 people just waiting for their photos at any given time. People. When we say to come back in ten minutes, we really do mean it. Photo ops with popular people like the Doctor Who cast are ALWAYS going to be delayed simply by the size of the crowd coming to see them. Your ticket has a group number on it for a reason. 

 - tbh if a volunteer tells you something, they’re literally just repeating what their boss told them. If you can’t go in that door, but you can in another, there is honestly no point in yelling at the volunteer. You’re just making someone’s day miserable. It doesn’t help. No, you still can’t go in that door. Try the other one. 

 - display your badges for goodness sakes. You have both a badge and a bracelet for the full weekend for a reason! If you keep your badge in your backpack, it’s only going to take you an extra five minutes to get into the convention hall. If you have one but not the other, we’re going to think that there’s someone else trying to get into the convention with the other piece, and you can get banned from the convention for this. (If you are a one-day pass, you only have a bracelet, so this doesn’t count for you one-day folks)

 - celebrities are super nice. Don’t be scared to get into an autograph line just to say hi! 

 - yes, they are now charging people to take selfies in the autographs area. It’s still super cheap in comparison to a photo op, and you get more time to speak to your celeb as well! 

 - please remember that celebrities are still people, and they still need to take breaks and eat food. I saw a lot of people waiting in line for autographs and getting impatient because the celeb wasn’t there, or was running a little late-- this is common, be patient. 

 - On sunday I was in charge of an autograph line-up, and the celeb actually went over her scheduled time to meet people-- this happens often-- so she took a half hour break to eat lunch. When her half hour was up, she came back to her table, even though her allotted autograph time was long past. Celebs are Boss at this stuff. She did autographs for way longer than she was required, jumped over to her photo op, and then came right back to her autograph table. 

 - If you have limited mobility/ physical disability that makes it difficult for you to stand in lines, let a volunteer know! You have a photo op with Peter Capaldi? We have chairs at the front of the line for literally this purpose. I feel it’s important to note to those without disability that we don’t give chairs to people in the middle of the line because chairs (even wheelchairs) take up a lot of space in the line that could be filled with others as well, and it’s a huge hassle to constantly move your folding chair when the line starts to move. Please trust that everything the volunteers do is to make your con experience as smooth as possible. 

 - My local convention organizers have introduced a new rule as well for photos-- if you are a vendor, staff, or volunteer, you are moved to the front of the line-up even before VIP. VIP folks, please don’t get angry! This is because these people have jobs they need to get back to. It’s easier to do this than to try and schedule volunteer shifts around the photo ops they have planned. 

 - No one actually got angry at me for moving employees to the front lines. I’m so grateful. Thank you to all VIP folks who never threw up a stink about anything I did that inconvenienced them, my faith in humanity has been restored! 

 - (you are now able to change the time of a photo op or upgrade your photo op to a different celebrity, etc, at the desks in the convention centre. You are never able to do refunds, keep this in mind! We do not refund tickets!)

As a final note, please for the love of god don’t schedule yourself two photo-ops at the same time. Worst case scenario is you miss one of them and end up wasting your money. Allow yourself a half hour between photos so you have the time in between to take a breather and line up for the next one. We had WAY too many people this year with photos at the exact same time or within 15 minutes of each other. Don’t do this. 

Alright folks, I’ll probably start making more convention posts around July, when the next closest convention is. I had a blast at this year’s convention and my supervisors are all asking me to volunteer for the other ones they run as well, which is a huge honor. See you all then!

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Alright folks, my local Comic-con is rapidly approaching, and this year marks about a decade that I’ve been attending conventions.

For those of you who are attending their first Con this year, or who haven’t been to one in a while, or who just need a checklist, here’s a few tips and tricks I wish I knew when I was 13 and painting my friend’s skin blue in a hotel bathroom.

- Bring your own food. I don’t care how many restaurants or food joints are in the area. Oh, they have a cafeteria space? No. Don’t bother. Look, you’re either gonna be stuck behind Sephiroth and the Sailor Scouts in a twenty-person line up at the local McDonalds, or you’re going to end up spending WAY too much money buying every single one of your meals that weekend. Bring your own food. On one memorable occasion, I had literally just brought a couple loafs of bread, peanut butter, and strawberry jam, and just made my group sandwiches every morning.

- Bring your own water bottle! There will absolutely be places to fill up your water containers, bottles, flasks, canteens. The #1 rule about this is no glass! I have absolutely made this mistake. My friend and I went to Comic-Con dressed as pirates, and thought it would be hilarious if our waterbottle was actually a glass bottle of Jack Daniels-- it had to be confiscated by weapons-check, however. On the other hand, I had a literal waterskin from my time in Scouts, which worked really well with my group’s Dragon Age costumes one year.

- You don’t have to wear a costume to your first convention. Some would say it’s the whole point that they would go, and I totally get that, because that’s how I felt-- that every day I needed a new costume, too. But it’s not necessary! You’re definitely allowed to come in casual clothing, or wearing your favourite graphic-tee. No one’s gonna laugh at you, you’re not going to be out of place. In fact, you’re going to be significantly more comfortable than people in costumes!

- PLease for the love of god, shower. Every. Day. Put deodorant on. Please. I’m begging you.

- Prioritize what you’re there for, and let everything else be flexible. If you want to see that one Firefly panel with Gina Torrez and Nathan Fillion, make that your Big Thing you can’t miss-- and don’t pick the event on the other side of the convention to be the next one you go to immediately. Especially for venues like Anime North’s and Toronto Fanexpo’s, where they take up multiple buildings, that is going to be very difficult to meet the timelines you’ve set out for yourself. Be reasonable!

- When you see someone dressed as a character you love, DO NOT run up and hug them. When I was first attending cons, the term was “glomp” -- basically a tackle-hug that was actually really dangerous, and it was still around the time when it was allowed at cons, but definitely not a good idea. Being charged at by a complete stranger in a weird getup is not something people find exciting tbh. “Glomping” also could break someone’s costume or props, and they could have makeup that might smudge onto you. Most importantly, you did not get the cosplayer’s consent for this.

- Consent is so so so so important! If you want to take a photo of someone, if you want to hug someone, if you want to touch someone’s warbla shoulderplate or whatever, ASK. please don’t take pictures of people eating. Please don’t ask for a photo when Link and Zelda are shovelling their cafeteria-bought pizza into their mouths. It’s so uncomfortable. Cosplayers feel they have to accomodate everyone who asks, but they have the right to say no, and cheeks full of pizza is really a terrible time to take a photo.

- Be polite. When my friends and I were dressed as Dragon Age characters, I heard a few dudebros passing by who assessed our costume-skills in a glance and quickly said, “not that great, i’ve seen better.” Okay, so have I, but can you keep it to yourselves? We aren’t exactly seasoned, celebrity cosplayers. We don’t have tons of free hours and extra cash to spend on costume-making, so naturally our costumes won’t have the same polished-worbla look to them as Yaya Han’s. Be polite, don’t say mean things about cosplayers, or vendors.

- I feel like I need to repeat this in terms of vendors. When looking at someone’s art, remember that they probably took hours upon hours to make that single print. Don’t badmouth an artist’s art right there at the booth. They can hear you, they will be insulted.

- Be nice to volunteers! It’s my fourth(?) year volunteering for Comic-Con, and it’s all so much fun, but remember that we’re still working customer service. We still have a job to do. If I see your prop cane doesn’t have a weapons-check tag on it, I HAVE to ask you to go to weapons-check as soon as you can. And if your prop cane is also your real cane, sorry but you STILL have to go to weapons-check, because no one can tell that at first glance, and they really do make cane-weapons that we need to check for.

- along that lines, volunteers are a captive audience-- meaning we can’t go anywhere if people start harassing us. Don’t harass volunteers, for the love of god. If you see harassment happening, step in, even if it’s just to ask the volunteer an inane question about how the bathrooms are. It reminds the harasser that there are other people around who will take notice and who won’t stand for that.

I’ll probably make another post some other time, but ho boy have I had some weird convention experiences that I feel the need to share at some point. Convention hype is real with me and I feel like making impossible costumes when I only have like a week and a half until the con.

!!! Happy convention season, folks!!

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Three more items added to the etsy shop for spring! Go check it out! 

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New listing on etsy! I found this great ribbon over Christmas while visiting my mother in Colorado.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/511324095/deer-antlers-black-and-gold-ribbon?ref=shop_home_active_1

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Alright friends, let’s talk about weird medical conditions. 

If you saw me on the street or sitting on the bus, you wouldn’t really think that I have a disability-- in fact, my disability is very much ‘invisible’, unless you have an x-ray machine. (and you’d probably be wondering why this young able-bodied kid is sitting in the handicapped seating on the bus, how dare they!)

Well anyways, here’s an x-ray of my back:

I have severe scoliosis. The top image is a picture of my spine as if you were standing behind me-- it curves sharply into my right shoulder blade, and then again into my side. The black lines just to the right are from the doctor determining just what angle my back is really sitting at.

50 degrees. 

Let me clarify this for you all. If you have scoliosis and you’re part of the common bunch, you’re probably around 10 to 20 degrees-- nothing to really be worried about. Maybe wear a brace? Do some exercises? No big!

However once you hit the 50 to 60 range, the doctors start talking about surgery and spinal fusion. 

We ARE monitoring my back to make sure it doesn’t get worse, because if it does that’s were the surgery comes into play. As it is now, I’ve been working 8 to 10 hour shifts on my feet, which as it turns out has been causing me massive amounts of pain. My paycheque was pretty much going straight to physiotherapy. To top all this off, I occasionally have difficulty breathing, and cannot walk and talk at the same time for very long, leading to a suspicion that the curvature of my spine is affecting my lungs and possibly organs.

I have now quit my job, because the physical strain was just ridiculous, and the mental stress was actually getting to disproportionate levels. As such, I am not able to afford physio anymore, and still need a source of income to be able to pay bills. Hence in the next few weeks I will be talking about new items I’m putting up on etsy, in the hopes that I make enough to maybe cover a bill or two while I search for a job that is willing to hire a disabled retail worker.

Thanks for reading everyone!

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Hey friends! I’m a little strapped for cash at the moment due to an invisible disability (severe scoliosis, which I will write a post about in a moment detailing why it’s so awful) causing me to lose my job. 

I will be selling my haute couture 2016 dresses from the Richard Robinson fashion show on etsy! The childrens’ dress, seen above with the gold neckline, fits a 9y/o. It is made of silk crinkled chiffon, polyester satin lining, and buttons up toe a V shaped back-- this dress is listed for $400.

The ombre panelled dress (known also as the Aphrodite dress, I had a bit of a greek theme going) is sewn by hand and so is listed a little higher. Made of thin white satin, it has a cowl neck, gold hoops on the shoulders for accent, transparent ombre chiffon panels that end on the upper thigh, and has an invisible zipper on the side. This dress fits (in inches):

Bust: 34.5" Waist: 28" Hips: 38"

This dress is listed at $800.

The prices of these dresses are a little cheaper than what my teachers would recommend, as they had each had several fittings, and the patterns were made completely from scratch. I hope someone finds a wonderful occasion to wear these dresses to!

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Hey guys, I finally got around to adding the lace chokers to my etsy! Took me long enough, I’ve been procrastinating for weeks.

Etsy listing: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/507933295/lace-choker-black-or-white?ref=shop_home_active_1

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Makeup for Emina Fae’s collection, part 2! 

Model is Victoria Houle, clothing by Emina Fae, Photography by Dajana, makeup by me. 

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Last week I did makeup for my friend Emina Fae as she built a look-book for her collection! Lots of beautiful pieces and an absolutely wonderful time helping out. 

Model is Brittany Knowles, collection piece by Emina Fae, photography by Dajana, makeup by yours truly.

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Slowly but surely adding more and more to etsy!

Zim’s Mathoms

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A new piece is up on etsy, and I finally have the supplies to finish the rest! 

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temporary hair color

90% of temporary hair color is going to be stiff and tacky, and mostly in a hair spray format. 

Ion just came out with a temp hair color spray line, matching the colors of their semi-permanent colors, and I was lucky enough to test one! 

Its kind of terrible

I couldn’t touch my hair because the color spray would come off on my hand

which is the worst because i have short hair and i run my hand through it a lot

i spent my whole friday with pink hands

It took two shampoos and a few lathers of conditioner before my hair felt normal again, but it was still tangly and gross the next day like it was awful 

Beyond The Zone also has hair spray hair colors, though they have more of a selection including gold and silver sparkles. They are the same texture as the ion stuff though, and come through heavy and tacky. 

Liquid hair chalk ALSO comes away stiff and tacky even though you apply it with a cotton ball like l’oreal get ur shit together

With any bold or dark hair color, if your hair is very light (i’m talking platinum blonde, natural blonde, etc.), the color does have a chance of staining your hair, so please be careful! 

if you’re looking for standard hair color though (brown, black, or varying shades thereof) fanci-full has a line of hair rinses and mousses which are meant to be root touch-ups. Directed towards an older crowd, they are gentler on your hair and work the way you all think a temporary hair color SHOULD. Best used by setting with a hair dryer.

If you’re looking for a gold shimmer spray though oh boy Mystic Divine JUST came out with a body/hair shimmer spray for the holidays and it is amazing.

the closer u hold it to your body/hair, the thicker the shimmer comes out, but it’s just a liquid, there’s no hair spray qualities to it at all!

(if you rub at it though it does come off a little bit so let me use my former-homestuck advice and seal ur bodypaint if you’re gonna like bathe in this stuff for a costume or something)

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With respect to a recent professional photo of a fashion design model that I just saw--

if your foundation doesn’t match your skin perfectly, blend it into your neck. If you end your foundation at your jawline, blend it into your neck. IF YOURE WALKING THE RUNWAY, IF YOU EXPECT YOUR PHOTO TO BE TAKEN

BLEND UR FOUNDATION INTO UR NECK PLEASE GIRLS 

don’t let me suffer like this again

(beauty blender sponges are v. nice, don’t get the ones at sephora tho they’re like a thousand dollars and your firstborn child. also dense makeup brushes are A+ for blending those are my favourite)

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more hair/makeup tips from work:

don’t use metal bowls/brushes/tools with any kind of hair color. Metals distort the chemicals in hair dye and can drastically change the dye color! 

along those lines, ion has a temporary hair color (”hair makeup”) line called “metallics”. I’m PRETTY SURE this shit actually does have metals in it, and would not recommend this product. On top of that these things wash out immediately.

With all temporary liquid hair dyes, you apply the color as you would a regular dye, but do not rinse it out. Blow dry your hair to seal the color and you’re good to go. Temp colors may stain fabrics, so be careful with white fabrics and try not to get caught in the rain!

I had a customer come in literally the day after I made that first bullet-point list and show me what she did to her hair with a box dye. First off, literally nothing changed about her actual hair color. There were slightly lighter patches of hair and slightly darker patches, but it was very obviously patchy and not nearly enough of a color change to be close to what she wanted. She also found the box dye made her hair very dry and brittle and she had to sit with a hair mask on for about a half hour to get it close to what her original hair texture has been. I will say it again in bold in case this bullet point was too long: do not use drug store box dyes!

Drug store box dyes use a higher level of peroxide/developer than what I would ever recommend for permanent hair color, which causes more damage than anything else. They’re meant to work on “all hair types”, but that is bullshit and you need to customize your hair color choices the same way you would need to color match a foundation.

You can use coconut oil on literally all of you. Use it as a hair mask. Use it as a moisturizer for your skin. Make sugar scrubs out of it. Massage it into your nails. Coconut oil is a gift from god and my eczema thanks its existence. 

for nails:

peel off base coats exist, and I know there is one by Sally Hansen (NOT SALLY’S) that is sold at wal-mart. Peel-offs are fantastic if you’re doing glittery nail polish, as not only is glitter super thick, but it’s really really difficult to remove it with regular nail polish.

(Sally’s does not carry peel-off base coat, but they do have this sort of sticker that works the exact same way that you stick on your nail before painting anything.)

when removing your nail polish, use a coarse-grit nail file to score/scratch the surface of your top coat. This helps the polish remover/acetone to sink into the polish itself, and the whole process will go a lot quicker.

Nail file grits are categorized by number. The higher the number, the softer the grit. Most nail files will have two sides, and will say on them what the grit is. (ie. a 100/180 file is coarse/medium. a 200/280 nail file is soft/more soft and better for polishing edges. A 100/100 file is the same coarse grit on both sides.)

Nails super thin? breaking really easily? Not growing as well as you’d like or as fast as you’d hoped? Use O.P.I.’s Nail Envy products. YES, they are expensive (about $12 a bottle), but they are damn worth it.

Do not ever ever ever remove your cuticles. There are products that will advertise cuticle removal, and make it look like a really appealing option opposed to pushing your cuticles back. But your cuticles are essential for proper nail growth and if you remove them you’re fucking everything up just don’t do it.

Put oil on your cuticles! Massage oil (mango oil, tea tree oil, coconut oil, doesn’t fucking matter) into your nails/cuticles to help promote nail growth and prevent dryness, hangnails, and all around misery.

Cut your nails less, start filing them more, and they will likely break and split less. Cutting your nails puts stress on the nail itself, causing it to become more fragile. But filing your nail is kind of like weight-training. The more you do in small amounts, the stronger your nail will become. 

small makeup aside:

The Body Shop actually has really nice soft pencil eyeliners. 10/10 would recommend.

A customer came into the store a while back who told me that the Body Shop mascaras were absolute shit. Considering that she actually works at the Body Shop, I trust her.

small color theory aside: 

Do you look better with gold or silver? Black or brown? White or cream? Test this out by holding each color/shade up to your face. If the colors under your eyes look more purple and your skin more washed out, you should avoid wearing those colors. (take into account your hair and eye colors too!)

FOR EXAMPLE: If you look really washed out next to silver/black/white, and better with gold/brown/cream, you are a warm-toned person and do well with warmer colors. Same with the opposite, where silver/black/white is best with cool toned skin. (Lupita Nyongo is a cool-toned person. William Shatner is a warm-toned person.)

That being said, there are those assholes out there who can wear both, with a few exceptions. I am one of those assholes. My exception is that I can’t seem to ever wear white?? it just doesn’t work. I’m okay with this.

“pastels don’t work with dark skin!” listen here u little shit. Pastels are fucking magical and anyone who wants to wear them can wear them. Pastels tend to work better with cool toned skin than warm toned skin, but that has shit all to do with your actual skin color. (see: Lupita Nyongo once again, because you can make a complete color wheel out of the dresses she has worn and this makes her a wonderful reference.)

ok fuck this i have two more ten hour shifts in a row. i haven’t had a day off since last wednesday. good night friends, go forth and beautify.