Is this getting old and repetitive??

Man oh man, I know I said that I would be back in the last post (and every other past post lately)! Things got a little crazy again. And then I decided ehhh, I'm just gonna give up all together. But for some reason, I can't stay away from you guys!!!!

I know it's been forever and a day. I've been working non-stop (literally, day to night!). But I wanna get back into things. I miss blogging. I miss my ladies (who I haven't talked to in forever!). So let's see if I can get back into the swing of things. I have a post that I'm working on, just have to edit the pictures! So stay tune..I really want to make this work this time around..

And thank you so much to the ladies that have kept in contact with me! Much love to you ladies!!!

Just checking in!

Hello ladies and gents! Boy has it been a long time, seriously. I think this is the longest that I've been gone! Things have definitely been rough lately. I'm working on a post as of right now. So I'll have some of you updated soon! I really need to get back into doing things. Blogging seriously keeps my mind off of things.

But I just wanted to check in and let some people know that I still am alive! Thanks for my new followers, even though I don't ever update, thank you!

And a special thanks for a handful of special people that has been there for me through my toughest times! You know who you are!!!

Another thing, if you can't catch me here, you can definitely catch me on Twitter! It's so much easier there...hehe! So if you don't know by now, follow me on twitter, http://twitter.com/missxxmai.

I'll be back shortly, hopefully! *CROSSES FINGERS*

And the winner is.....*drum rolls*

TINA MARIE

She did a fabulous job! Girl, your blending skills are amazing! You definitely rocked the bright lips! I loved every little thing about it!!! This was definitely a decision that I could not just simply make!! I'm so glad that I had other judges to pick the winner! In my personal opinion, each and every one of the ladies that entered my contest was a winner. Like I've mention before, it takes creativity, talent, and patience to even think of entering this contest! So I thank each and everyone of you ladies. I have emailed you each personally about some things and I am waiting for everyone to email me back! I have about four girls that have not answered my emails! Please please please be kind and email me back. The faster, the better. Remember, I will not be shipping anything out until I get everyone's replies! I would really love to get everything shipped out by next week, the latest! Thank you once again for entering my contest and making it a successful one!!

I'm sorry for all of the postponing that I did with the contest deadline and announcing the winners! I have been going through a lot! This pastweek was definitely not the week for me! I found out in the middle of last week that a family friends dad has a 3 heart attacks in one day and ended up passing away that night. He had open heart surgery about ten years back and the doctors told him that he would only have nine to ten years to live and what do you know, ten years later... The following day I find that my boyfriend's friends got into a car accident the night prior. They are young twin brothers -- just turned nineteen years young! They were driving home and got cut off at a sharp curve. Well, the truck flipped five times and the guys were ejected out of the truck. One is okay, he came out with broken arms and ribs, but was released from the hospital this past weekend. His brother, on the other hand, was the unlucky one. He was in a coma for a few days, but now he is out of his coma. They sais that he would have a fifteen percent chance of living! How crazy is that? He is still on life support, so we still have hope! Their lives flashed before them within a blink of an eye. Life is too short ladies. Appreciate what and who you have in your life. Don't take them for granted because you never know what will happen..Also, later on that night, I get a call from my brother. He was admitted into the hospital. They don't know what was wrong with him, but he's feeling better now. He has not eaten since Friday. They had him on an IV and was able to receive nutritiousness fluids from there. He called me today to tell me that he was able to finally go home tonight!

So yeah ladies -- especially my twitter ladies -- thank you so much for all of your kind words! They meant a lot to me!! You gals and guys sure knows how to keep a girls spirit up! I really appreciate each and everyone of your thoughts and inspiring words!

So if you follow me on twitter [I'm definitely updating on there almost everyday! It's just so much easier then blogging.] you'll know that Tammy -- diva4less -- and I met up! If you don't already know, she's a gorgeous fellow blogger that is also from Florida! I was feeling lonely down here seeing all you ladies and your POW WOW, so i was super excited when she decided to come down to the Tampa area!

We, of course, made plans to hit up the MAC store! Before that we met up to have lunch at California Pizza. I always wonder what it taste like because every time I would walk by it in the mall, it smelled amazing! So I was really excited, but to my disappointed, the food was not really all that great. Maybe their pizzas are amazing, hunt California Pizza, but we both ordered chicken marsala. It definitely was not worth the money that we paid, especially for lunch!

CHICKEN MARSALA @ CALIFORNIA PIZZA

Honestly, the only thing I really enjoyed the most was the asparagus! Sad huh? It seriously tasted like they tossed the linguini in soy sauce or something [right Tammy?!]. I probably cook something way better, matter fact, I know I can [hehe].

Tammy and I. She is such a sweetheart! I'm so glad that we met up and hung out for a few hours. It was definitely a fun experience! Can't wait to hang out again!!

MY FACE FOR THE DAY!

The color got washed out by the flash from the camera, but I loved it! I was actually going to do a purpleish look, but the purple came out really dark. Even if you asked, I wouldn't remember what I used that day. Sorry ladies!

I really haven't had the time to do a thorough view of my makeup collection, but I have had a few people ask me about how much makeup I have and what not! I am not, in any way, trying to rub it in your face that I have this and that amount of makeup. Also, I have consumed this amount of makeup over a period of time. If you do not have anything nice to say, then shut it! What I do with my money is my business. I am not financially in debt because of my makeup, so anything bad you have to say, I really do not care to hear it. Just wanted to get that out before I have people asking me all these questions and giving me negative comments! So here goes...

This is mainly where I store my makeup. It was suppose to be a "bookcase", but I made it into my makeup organizer shelves! I love love love to be organized.


This is top shelf of my makeup "bookcase". I store all of my facial cleaners, facial sprays, makeup remover, eyeliners, mascaras, pigments, eyeshadows, paint pots, shadesticks, and accessories on this shelf!


On my second shelf, I have my face and eye brushes. I also store all of my foundations, blushes, concealers, beauty powders, contour color, highlight color, and my hair accessories.


My bottom drawer consists of some more loose pigments, all of my lipsticks, lipglosses, tendertones, chapsticks, lip conditioners, and some NYX jumbo pencils [that are no longer there! I gave them to a good home.].


I store my pigments and reflects on the other side of my makeup area on top of my shelf.


And this is where the magic happens! It's a computer desk, but it's for my makeup area! I store my dirty everyday brushes and my eyeshadow palettes here! ***I spelt palettes wrong in the picture! HAHA.

So there you have. I really don't feel like going into depth with everything, so it's just a brief look at my makeup collection!

With all the Hello Kitty madness going on, I don't really want to go into detail as to what I got and what not! But I did want to show L aka LadyLOnline what all our stuff looked like! Mind you that this is collection of four people total. Do NOT leave me nasty comments about how much this cost and everything else. But it is a lot of Hello Kitty stuff!

Alright ladies and gents! I don't really have much to say. I just wanted to update everyone on what's going on and of course an announcement of the winner of my contest! Enjoyyy. I wanna try to update more, but I'm just so lazy! Twitter is just so much faster and easier!!

Anywho, I always like to try and finish my posting with a picture of my son! He had just woken up and didn't feel so good, so that's why his cheeks are so rosey! My baby is turning two next Thursday, March 5th. I can't believe he's already two! They sure do grow up fast!!

Alright, until next time!!!! TOOTLES!

The moment that you all been waiting for...

Sorry ladies! [Man, I've been starting out a lot of post with "sorry ladies!"] I know I said that I was officially back, but again I got caught up. Wait no, I'm not going to lie. Editing and watermarking pictures are a pain the the butt! But here I am. I really am going to try...REALLY this time!

I may not update this often, but I always update my twitter. So if any of you follow me on twitter, you will know that I extended my contest until the end of tonight. So that's right, any of you ladies that have no entered has until 11PM tonight! Hurry up and enter if you can. Lots and lots of great prizes, trust me! I spent about one hundred dollars for my prizes. I have a little surprise that's a part of this contest, but I shall wait until it's officially over. You never know, we have many "late last minute" people, cause I know that I sure am one of them!

Anywho, first off, I would love to thank every single of the the ladies that entered my contest! This was my first contest and each of you ladies were wonderful! After I posted the details about this contest, I thought to myself, wow this is going to be difficult. I didn't think about it before, but this contest required some major thinking, patience, and creativity! Each and every one of you ladies are talented! After reviewing the contestant, I knew for sure that I, myself, would not be able to pick a winner! So instead, I'm going to have a poll so that way you [yes, you reading this!] can help me. And to further chose a winner, I will have a few friends pick which they think should win. In my personal opinion, I think that each and every one of these ladies should win! There was at least one thing that I absolutely loved about each contestant! So without further ado, I present you..the wonderful ladies of my mardi gras contest!!

CONTESTANT #1 -- AHLEESSA

CONTESTANT #2 -- LINEA

CONTESTANT #3 -- TAMMY W. AKA NOTARICHGIRL

CONTESTANT #4 -- TAMMY M. AKA DIVA4LESS

CONTESTANT #5 -- TINA MARIE

CONTESTANT #6 -- VANESSA AKA VANSMAKEUPRIDE

CONTESTANT #7 -- WUZ AKA WUZZYANGEL

CONTESTANT #8 -- TRINH AKA SPANKEDELIC

CONTESTANT #9 -- NINA

CONTESTANT #10 -- ARADANI

Alright, so there you have it! Those are the nine beautiful ladies that entered my contest [thus, far]! Don't forget to vote in my poll. It's set to allow you to vote only once! So, hopefully that works. Do not leave any negative comments behind what so ever. I do not care to hear them. Like I said, I admire these girls. They took the time out to think and be creative as to what they were going to do. Not only that, but think about how hard it must of been to take all the gunk off their faces!

I have a few more updates coming! I edited and watermarked all the pictures. They will be wayyy overdue post such as, free goodies!, blogger swap, and etc! So look out for that. But now, I gotta get off this and go get ready for a 1st birthday party for twins!

Also, if you haven't notice, I changed my layout. How is it?! Give me some feedback! I like it cause it's wider and all this stuff. So yeahh!!! Oh!! One more thing. I will be announcing the winners on Valentine's day, February 14th!



EDITTTT*******
I added one last contestant! =) Check it out. Will post another post tonight after work. Enjoy ladies! Don't forget to voteee!!


EDITTTT*****
Damnit, so I can't edit the poll because I already have voters, but if you think Aradani should win, then leave me a comment! =) Sorry girl..I didn't know that I would be able to change it!!!!! But greatttt jobbb!

I'M OFFICIALLY BACK!!!..Contest details!

So, I know I've said this before, but it's for real this time. I really miss the blogging world. I am officially back for good! Let's hope this last.So, what have I been up to you may ask? Well, obviously I've been extremely busy with LIFE! A lot has happen. I have tried to update so many times and each time I failed. I had some many pictures edited and watermarked to post up and everything! But no, I slacked off. It's been so long now, it's not even worth it to show the pictures, LOL. So this post will mostly be about be trying to catch up.

Let me give you a short story about what's happen since the last time I've been on here! Oh yeah, I've been trying to catch up on my Reader, and let me tell you, it's fcuking hard! Anywho, let me get straight to it...

So everything was swell up until Thanksgiving. I freaking burnt myself! BADLY!! It was a huge burn, 3rd degree burn to be exact. Shit was crazy. I have pictures, but I think I'll past so that I don't gross anyone out, LOL. My mother came down the day after Thanksgiving. We hadn't seen my mother for a few months and man was it hell! Mind you, she is very very very very hard to get along with! So yeah. Everyone butt heads with her. Then..my car broke down! Guess how much it cost?! $760 for just the fcuking part! It was the damn axle. Gayy! Luckily the boyfriend knows things about car, so we brought the part and then he put that baby in for me! Thanks boyfriend =) Next, I had the fcuking stomach flu for 3 fcuking days!! Let me tell you, it was NOT fun at all. So then, school ended and I got my monthly thing. I don't know what it was about last month, but I had the WORST cramps of my life!! So then, everything was fine for a week or so and then I freaking have allergies. I don't know where the hell it came from, but I got it! I never had allergies in my life!! So yeah. And now, I have a freaking cold. How much does my life suck? LOL.

Anywho, I was just thinking. Since it's been awhile since I've been on this damn thing, I wanna host a challenge!! Yes ladies, a freaking CONTEST. So get ready to fcuking bust out your makeup skills! The theme....MARDI GRAS!! I'm freaking excited. This will be my first contest. We'll see how this one turns out. If it turns out good, then I will be holding more in the future! So let me get down with the details...

CONTEST DETAILS

• Contest will start January 7, 2009 and will end at 11:59PM on January 31, 2009. That gives you a little over three weeks to enter!



• All entries needs to be emailed to me at missxxmai@gmail.com with the subject as contest entry.



• I will announce the winner February 4, 2009!



• You can do this to your desire. I would prefer a mask, using makeup products, but a really nice dramatic look will do just fine. I need to be WOWed!



• You must list all products used to accomplish this look.



• All work must be your own work! Do not take credit for others' hardwork!



• A full face shot and a close up eye shot must be included! I wanna see details!!



• NO PHOTOSHOP!!! I wanna see the real deal!
• OPEN TO ALL READERS, US AND INTERNATIONAL!



• Last, but not least, HAVE FUNNNN!!!

I don't really wanna discuss the prizes, but it will be beauty related! As of now, I have makeup brushes, blushes, lippies, pigment samples, nail polish, and some other misc things! Hopefully, there will be a lot of entries! I was born in New Orleans, so this will be something that will be meaningful to me! =)

So there you have it ladies and gents! I wanna change my layout. Also, I haven't been buying makeup because I have been BROKE, along with the rest of the world and so therefore, I haven't been buying makeup. But I started working more, so that means I will be hauling some more makeup! So there you have it! I'm getting tired. LOL.

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I almost forgot to post this for Roxy! Here you go lady! Here's the display for the Blonde, Brunette, and Redhead MAC collection that launches Thursday!