Basic Amber

Friday, October 8, 2010

UPDATE!!! ELF Order...

Okay so I haven't been on in a while so i figured I should get on and update you on everything that's going on, both with my ELF order and not... I got my ELF order this last Tuesday, it wasn't supposed to be here until Thursday but their shipping is excellent, plus they are only in New Jersey. When I got it though some things were broken so I called up ELF and they sent out replacement items right away, and when I say right away i mean RIGHT AWAY!!!! The replacement items shipped out like 2 hours after I called!!! Now it said it wasn't supposed to be here until the 12th, which is Tuesday but I have been tracking it and its already at the post office which means ill get it tomorrow morning, which is the 9th... if I get broken stuff again I wont be too upset, their customer service is fantastic and I am now a loyal customer. Ill post pics up of everything I bought once I get in the new stuff tomorrow... now besides all that our whole family has been sick with a nasty head cold. My poor son is so stuffed up it makes me so sad to see and hear him struggling with a stuffed up little nose... Our computer decided to be dumb yesterday and I'm not sure if it had a virus or what but i had to use my back-up discs to just reboot the whole thing cause it was being so damn slow... Okay well Ive gotta go, hopefully ill be back soon to fill everyone in on my order and take some pics...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Order Has Already Shipped!!!

I just placed my order like an hour ago and its already shipped!!! Ive gotta admit the customer service at ELF is amazing... dont have time really to chat now, ill keep you updated on my purchase...

My Review


Price increase?!?!?!?!

By amber the stay at home mom from Endicott, ny on 10/1/2010

 

3out of 5

Skin Tone: Fair

Age: 16-24

I just placed an order but im not happy at all, i love these products but they went and increased the price out of nowhere. I had everything in my shopping bag for a while waiting for pay day to be able to order it, I had it in there when it was still $10, i go on last night and everything had been erased out of my shopping bag and when i went to add everything back in they had raised the price to $15, im sure thats still somewhat of a deal but why didnt they just start with it being 15 instead of raising it latter, and why not warn us, give us like 48 hrs notice before the price went up? i wasnt able to order as much stuff as i wanted because the price went up and im on a strict budget because i am a stay at home mom and we only have my husbands income coming in... in general im not too pleased...

(legalese)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

New ELF Order!!!

So as soon as my husband gets home I will be placing a order on ELF's website eyeslipsface.com, they just put out a bunch of new stuff and Ive gotta try it!!! That's it for now, ill post latter on and let you know what I ordered...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

ELF Cosmetics And Pictures!!!

Okay so I said I would post pics on here, so here we go, please forgive my camera, the color on it sucks... i was taking pictures on my camcorder that can take pics also because my other camera is out of betteries, once i get my other camera up and running ill post new pics that are more color appropriate and less fuzzy.

 These are glittery eye liners, they are so much fun and the colors are great, i really wish the picture below did it justice because they really are beautiful. Colors pictured - Plum Passion, Twinkle Teal, Grassy Green, Black Bandit, Gunmetal, and Iconic Ivory... These are each a dollar on the ELF website eyeslipsface.com.

 This is a brush that came with an eye shadow set, the set came with 4 round eye shadows that had two colors in each, pictures of them are at the bottom of this list. It was 5 dollars so you paid a buck for each item in the pack, a great deal I think!

 This is hypershine gloss, 1 dollar each on the website, they feel very nice when on...

 This is the super glossy lip shine, also just $1 on the website, they are really nice and have more color in them, or at least this one does than the hyper shine gloss.

 This is the Luscious Liquid Lipstick, i really love the light color it gives your lips, its not over powering like most lipsticks... i dont wear lipstick much so this is perfect for me!!!

 This is the Therapeutic Conditioning Lip Balm, it makes your lips feel really nice and soft but there isint any flavor to it which kinda sucks.





 this is an eye shadow pallet with 6 colors in it for $3 on the website, this one is the smoky eyes one.
 All of the following eye shadows in these rectangle containers are $1 each and are really nice, im really sorry about the color quality, its my camera and not the eye shadows themselves, i promise when i get batteries for my other camera ill take new pictures.






 These round ones are all $1 each or you can buy them in packs of four with a applicator brush for $5. they are all very nice to use.















Michael Franti - The Sound of Sunshine

Has anyone listened to the new Michael Franti album The Sound Of Sunshine yet??? The first track, title the same as the album is such a great song, but then the album goes down hill from there. As with Franti's other albums, there is one or two really good songs and then the rest are just not that good. If you took all the good songs off of all of his albums and put them together you would have an absolutely amazing album of some of the greatest summer time songs Ive ever heard. I also have to complain about the release date which was only a week and a half ago, this album should have been put out in July and it would have done much better, the song The Sound Of Sunshine would have blown up everywhere and been a huge hit, but who wants to listen to that in the fall when its cold and the leaves are falling??? This time of the year makes me want to listen to bands like Starflyer 59, Explosions In The Sky and Swath... And of course The Misfits with Halloween right around the corner. Anyways, I suggest that you at least listen to the hit of that record, the first track The sound Of Sunshine, its such a great song, even though the rest of the album was a let down.

New Balance

So I singed up to be a product tester for New Balance shoes, its quite easy and I got accepted and should be asked to be in my first wear-test sometime soon. I guess most tests last between 6 and 8 weeks or longer and you have to send the shoes back at the end of the test so they can examine the wear and tear... but who cares!!! Getting free shoes for a few weeks would be so cool!!! Im not allowed to blog about any products I test out because they are still in development but just the chance to be a tester for them is really cool. I talked my husband into signing up too and I signed my son up, so throughout the year we could possibly have new shoes for a few weeks or months!!! Just thought I should share this, if you want  to be a New Balance Wear-Tester go to their website and in the small print at the bottom of the screen there is a link to the Wear-Test sign up page.

Top Albums....

Okay so this is something that was started on Facebook and I decided to include on here, im just going to copy and paste what I already posted on Facebook so pay no attention to like half the directions, I would like you to reply to this though and let me know what your top albums are...

FIFTEEN ALBUMS


Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.Tag fifteen friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, click "Write a note", paste title and rules in......in no particular order...

1. Faith No More - King for a Day 
2. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
3. Mr.Bungle - California
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Where you been
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
6. Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
8. Agents of Oblivion - Agents of Oblivion
9. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
10. Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
11. Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
12. Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
13. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#
14. Starflyer 59 - Americana
15. Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrjun

extra...
16. Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
17. Sublime - Nublime
18. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
19. Sleep - Jerusalem 
20. Sleep - Holy Mountian
21. Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide
22. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
23. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
24. Electric Wizard - We Live
25. John Brown's Body - This Day
26. John Brown's Body - Spirits All Around Us
27. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace, Love, Death Metal


Im changing the rules a little bit, you dont have to think them all up in fifteen minutes cause if your like me you have wayyyy too many to think of and you wouldnt get the best ones, so take your time and think of your favorite all time records or records that mean a lot to you, if you want to share why they mean a lot to you than please include that... have fun!!!

ELF Cosmetics

Okay so like I wrote in my other post ive contacted ELF Cosmetics to try and get them to let me be a product tester or do some kind of work for them, im hoping to hear back from them because I tried to contact them a few weeks back and they sent me a e-mail asking me about myself and if I had a blog and so on... well I e-mailed them back and they never responded, so im hoping that this time I hear back from them... I even said id work for store credit if I could work for them doing a blog or whatever. Also like I said, once I get batteries for my digital camera ill post pictures of the products that i have purchased from them, they really have some cool stuff and im really hoping that I get do work with them.

ELF Cosmetics... And Our Little Girls Name Is...

So it looks like we have picked a name for our little girl finally.... and the winner is.... Kayleigh! My mom is the one who came up with it, and mike and I fell in love with it. Im so excited now to have a name for our little one, it makes it seem just so much realer now. Okay on to other news, I contacted ELF Cosmetics today in hopes of becoming a product tester or possibly scoring a job with them just blogging about their stuff... Im doubtful but I guess it never hurts to try right? Their makeup really is my favorite and the prices are amazing!!! I even told them that for a job id be willing to work just for store credit! All I know is that for the price its wonderful stuff for a mom who is on a strict budget, expecially now that we got a notice in the mail that we didnt re-qualify for food stamps because we were over the limit by $0.27 cents a month... A MONTH!!! Thats like 7 cents a week!!!! I just want to spread the word of ELF Cosmetics to everyone in the area that i can, they have such fun stuff too, and the colors are great!!! Once I get batteries for my camera ill post pics of some of the ELF stuff I have so you can see what the products look like. Okay time to go spent some time with my little boy-o before his afternoon nap. Hope everyone has a good day. Oh and if you have plants outside that needs to be brought inside, you better do it soon, they are calling for a frost saturday morning.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Sick

Alright, so I haven't posted in a while, I don't know I guess Ive been a little bummed out that I haven't heard back from really anyone about product tester opportunities.  The last two days Ive been sick, I think its a crappy head cold that's got my ears plugged up cause Ive been dizzy and just shitty feeling.  Okay so Ive got a short little story for you, I have a good friend who I grew up with and was best friends with, just by coincidence we had our sons 1 day apart and shared a recovery room, we both found out around the same time that again we both were pregnant and due right around the same time.  Well I just got word from her though my husband that her due date got moved to March 2nd or 3rd i cant remember (still very close to mine) and she just found out she was having another boy.  Now I was willing to bet that we both were going to be having girls just because of everything else surrounding our pregnancies, such as our previous pregnancies and both having boys and then again being pregnant at the same time.  I'm just waiting, we are gonna end up being room mates again, which would be pretty awesome and quite the story to tell our kids...   My husband and i were joking that now besides our sons probably being best friends growing up that our daughter will have a boyfriend right there at some point in time.  Also one of mikes old friends is pregnant with her 3rd child and is due February 28th (mine just to remind you is the 23rd) so we have been talking a lot about our pregnancies, she was planning on coming to the area sometime in October i do believe so I'm hoping to meet her.  Okay well I think that's enough for now, hope everyone has a good day, so far its a beautiful day out.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

ITS A GIRL!!!

So we went to the doctors yesterday for a ultrasound and a check-up, we had been told at the last appt. that it would be too early to tell the sex of the baby. I am exactly 17 weeks along now and i figured it was still too early too, but when we go into the room to have the ultrasound the lady doing it asks if we are finding out the sex of the baby today, I said " ummm yea if we are able to, i thought it was still too early?" and she said, "no this is when we start telling people, as long as the baby is cooperating with us." well she was def. cooperating with us, we saw her cute little butt and her legs and feet and i tell ya i didn't see anything else there, lol. With my son it was plain as day that he was a boy and with this little girl it was plain as day that its a girl. I'm just very excited!!! now I'm going to have a little boy and a little girl!!! Oh and I'm waiting to hear back from Manic Panic about being on their street team, i really hope that I'm accepted to it, its a bran new thing they are doing so I'm not sure if they have anyone else looking into being on it yet... i will definitely keep you updated!

Monday, September 13, 2010

My First Day

Okay so this whole blogging thing is pretty new to me, im guessing its pretty much like a diary of whatever you want to talk about so thats what this is going to be.  This is my day to day life and everything that happens around it.  Ive been calling company's to try and become a product tester and im really hoping to hear back from Manic Panic about their street team, its pretty much like a product tester kind of deal but you blog and stuff about it afterwards.  I guess ive got a pretty boring life, im a stay at home mother of a little boy who will be 2 in November and my husband and I are currently expecting our second child in February.  Im gonna have to write more tomorrow, ive got a little boy who wants me to go and watch dora the explorer with him, ive spent half the day on the computer today and now its time to go play with my little man.  I hope that this gives some people some sort of entertainment, probably not but we will see... good night everyone!