Vietnamese New Year Celebrations

This is a relatively text free post because I wanted to share some pictures I took today at the pre-Vietnamese New Year celebration at a local Vietnamese mall.

There is so much red and gold around and I'm sharing just a little bit about my Vietnamese culture.

This is made out of li xi envelopes, which are little envelopes of money that parents give to their children for the year.


I waited in line for 20ish minutes for this waffle. This bright neon green waffle is pandan flavor (slightly coconut and vanilla tasting) and so very good. Not meant to be eaten with maple syrup!

I hope you enjoyed this, I'll be going to Tet Festival this weekend hopefully!

Bright Teal-y Blues

I feel like this isn't as color accurate as it should be but I thought I would post it anyway.

When I have time to be in the sun I'll do a better swatch of Marina! My undereye is looking a bit odd so ignore that.

Urban Decay Primer Potion
BFTE Marina in the inner lid and inner lower lashline over NYX Teal eyeliner
MAC Teal in the outer lid and corner and outer lower lashline over NYX Black eyeliner
NYX Sahara as a highlight

NYX Black eyeliner on the waterline
Wet n Wild Eyeliner in Taupe for brow
Wet n Wild Mega Liner in Black
Wet n Wild Megalength in Black (I don't like this but I feel the need to use it up)

BFTE Cosmetics Praise

This isn't a full review but just an exuberant fawning over their customer service.

I recently purchased one of their "Try Me BFTE" sets where you would get one full size eyeshadow and four various kinds of sample products for ten dollars flat when it's normally worth eighteen dollars.

I got a full size of Caribbean and sample sizes of Marina, Walking on Water, Charm, and Spoiled. I really liked Marina however I noticed that there were some small chunks of unblended base within the shadow. I emailed them about it including some closeups and three hours later I got an email saying "we'll sending you a new one and we're definitely going to check out the rest of the batch". Very excellent thus far.

I got the package on today and instead of a sample size jar of Marina like I expected, I actually got a full size jar!

I'll get a swatch of it soon but I was just excited to get a not blurry picture of it.

So yeah if you haven't tried BFTE Cosmetics yet, you might as well just check out some of their samples and search around for some swatches!

Back To School Time...

So I start school Monday which means my time will be spent in class attempting to learn. I am rather excited about some of my classes since they're in the major (Intro to Language Acquision!) that I want to get into after the semester is done; the rest are boring like Statistics and Advanced Composition.

This will undoubtedly affect my blogging for a little while until I get into a good rhythm so here's just a warning post :)

To prevent this from being a pictureless post, here are my Babar dolls with my Inglot palette (I found my stash of children's toys and am having lots of fun using them as props)

*High Five to anyone that knows of Babar, it's just the French in me that has to bring them out*