hey, it's your girl Carmen!

I spent years of lining only my lower rims with black Bonne Bell pencil eyeliner, thinking that my tiny asian eyes had become visibly larger and more defined. Strangely, I had used the same "technique" on Halloween when I trick-or-treated as Wednesday from the Addams family.

Anyway, noticing other girls, I envied their perfect skin and fancy sparkley eyes. How did they look so damn good .....? Online and in search for makeup application specific to asian features/skintones, I found a lot of misleading crap from the shoulder pad era (presumably, written by non-asian people). Just fabulous, I then relied on my own judgement and bought whatever was pretty/advertised on TV- I'm a sucker for packaging. Much later, I came across pursebuzz.com and was impressed with her how-to videos. I watched her clips straight into the morning hours. Catching on to the idea of blending and sculpting, I started my brush collection (non MAC) that day.

I've been experimenting since annnnd ...it's about fucking time for a blog. OK, my Xanga does not count; I wrote that garbage for me and my all of two Xanga veterans. And so, my written world as of yet consists of two styles: APA and MSN, so please chill as I try to find balance. I only want to help, entertain and get your addicted =) As I slowly build confidence, expect to see some close up shots of my makeup face (not saying this is particularly a good thing).

Later to be discussed in no particular order: makeup brushes, mineral makeup, eyebrows, glosss, hair, eye shadow, fake lashes <3,>