Opening of my home studio!!!

Hi everyone! Geeze it's been a very long time....I know, and I'm really sorry for that!! I had so much happening! First, we bought a house!! Zac and I are now homeowners!!! ^_^! But we closed on the house a week after I had surgery. GASP!!! What was that? Yes, I had surgery. I had a lemon sized tumor in my right hand palm. It took over my thumb tendons, and I had to have a tendon transplant. I am still recovering from this, but able to work on my photography. Yes....I am officially a pro-photographer!!! Mainly my expertise is in newborn and child portrait photography!! You can see all my work at http://www.facebook.com/marymphoto !!! But below is some of my work =)!

I just have been so busy...and my makeup has not been all that interesting seeing as I haven't really played with it other than some natural looks I wear with my NAKED2 palette. I'm sure I'll update more with photography sessions, and recent favs that I have. I will def do a review about my mimi lens that I got on sale! 11.95 at pinkyparadise when they had their 50% new year sale. But now I have to go, I have a passed out boyfriend at the couch who probably would like a nice warm bed instead.

Lauren Conrad outfit, healing garden and select lash, and hipstamatic!

Oh geeze. Everything you can do on this iphone is amazing! Seeing as I am all about photography (and do it as a part time living) I had heard soooo much about Hipstamatic, and decided to actually buy the app and a few other lens and film for it.

Oh I just love the way these photos feel. I also love how my mother has antique items to take pictures of =3.

After I took some pictures, I took my mom into town to get her groceries and other stuff, and low and behold I found some neat items!!!

The Healing Garden Romance Passionate Rose RainWater body mist!
I am always looking for some kind of rose scent, because I used to have a Disney Belle perfume that smelled of the most wonderful roses!! I still have the bottle so I can smell it. But I can't ever find anything close to it, so I get pretty excited and buy anything to do with roses. This is a nice light smell of roses, which I got the lotion too. It's still nothing compared to my Belle perfume, but it is something different while Summer is still going on.

OH my gosh, and for the best thing I got today!!!

This is the Lauren Conrad clothing line (Both top and shorts) and I had Kohl's $10 off. So I got the entire outfit for $52.14 !! I guess that's not too bad, seeing some outfits are really really expensive. I really wanted these shoes, they were on clearance, but I don't want to spend too much money before vacation T.T

I'm trying to convince Zac to buy them for me since they are only $14 hahahaha! We will see.....

I also bought some lashes made by Select Last, and cut them in half because I don't feel the need for a full set.

Along with the latte lens again! Hahaha. I just love them, so neat. I used my D-UP Eyelashes Fixer EX 552-Clear Type(Pink bottle-Limited), and it has a pretty neon blue look to it (weird description, I know, but when you look at the brush it does! Weird gel colors and their magic!! But anyways, this is by far the best glue I've used, because of the easy access shape brush. It is perfect for either eye or eyelash.

I love my nude lipstick. But I really want to try a coral soon.
And Hard candy blush is ok, I just want good makeup, but refuse to pay so much. I will break down soon.



Oh, by the way, I also got a L.A. Colors pink swatch set for like, $1.25 from DG also, just because I was curious at these vibrant colors, and the horrible cheap price of fear. Well they worked awesome! A lot shimmery than some of my other shades from CG or L'Oreal. I was really surprised! I may add those later if someone asks later. Well, I'm off to prepare for my friends wedding tomorrow. I'm going to try and shoot it both with my Canon, and the Hipstamatic. Just an experiment. =).

Geo Mimi Café Latte Brown 15mm and more!!

Geeze. I take forever to get back from stuff. That and I haven't really been "buying" a lot of stuff here lately. I've been on a big jewelry kick here lately. I found an ebay seller who sells fairly cheap jewelry. Cheap=price, NOT quality. Here are the pieces I bought!

The last bracelet didn't have the winged charm, so the  ebayer was so polite to mail me a new one! =) !!!


But now to the part you've been wanting to see, the Cafe Latte brown geo lens!

I went with Shoppingholics.com this time, and this is my first purchase from their store. I have to say, I WILL BE GOING HERE from now on. I just think they care a little more about their customers, and I got my lens in three days. THREE DAYS that is crazy! They sent a little thank you note, a free eye mask, free lens case, and a beautiful little version of the black Contact Lens Travel Kit Case with a rose on it. It's only big enough to hide a little tube of lipstick, but sooooo adorable! Shoppingholics I felt took the time to tell me how much they appreciated my business, by all the free gifts and thank you note! I forgot to mention the sticky Velcro hair thing that most sites give out and the D-UP Eyelashes Fixer EX 552-Clear Type(Pink bottle-Limited) that I bought for soon to come lashes. Here are some pictures from the package!!!

 Cuuuuuuute!!!! I was overjoyed by the wonderful surprise bag!!! Now on to the actual lens review!!!

Without flash

With flash

GEO MIMI CAFE LATTE BROWN 15MM LENS REVIEW

Comfort:9/10! MOST Comfortable Geo lens ever! So far anyways. I have a pair of Mimi Apple Greens, and they just HATE my eyes. Look awesome, can't wear for more than an hour. I wore these after soaking for 12 hours, and had them on for a whole 8 hour shift of work, and then some. They dry a little, but nothing that most contacts don't already do a little of.
Design:10/10 I wanted a brown lens, because I have blue eyes, and never tried them. Well, needless to say they don't look as well as they do probably on a brown eyed girl, but I still love the design! SO CRAFTY! And swirly. It still gives my eye a rather large doe eyed look when there is not a bunch of light though. My eyes practically look brown in low light as you can tell from the ones with no flash. I think the whole Cafe line looks just amazing! But I doubt I will be going for a dark color again in the future. While I love these, they just don't seem to be as cool looking as on dark eyes. 

Like I said, I have natural grey/blue eyes, so they look pretty swirly in colors when I wear them.

So there you go! Ever had doubts about going to shoppingholics? Well don't, because they are by far THE BEST that I've gone to get circle lens, and not only that they do carry a lot of cosmetics!

On my leaving note, I leave you with a picture of Tommy, a kitten that we've been bottle feeding, the mother won't let him feed all of a sudden. So we've been taking care of him (Grandma, mom and I) And he is coming along fine! He doesn't know how to feed though....

So we have to be really patient with him. But he is worth it =). If you have tumblr, visit my tumblr to see more pictures of cute kittens, and other random pretty stuff. =). I have a wedding to photograph this weekend, so it's gonna be a busy end of July from here on out!

hair cut!! And vacation!

Hello everyone! I am excited to let everyone know that I cut my hair really short....again! hahahaha.

so what do ya think? =D! I got the hair cut picture from Rasya.com!

Similiar, but my hair type is a little different, and my bangs are def a lot different lol. Oh well I still love what the result was!! Super cute!!

I really have no review here today, and I'm getting ready to go to Branson for the weekend! So I'm sure I'll have lots to post about!

Last weekend was Zac's birthday. We had a quiet night out at the bar with his dad and stepmom.

Yeah. I decided to pounce him for a random iphone snap!

And now I leave you with some of my iphone photography! =D

Oooh I love that kitten. I want to call him Spunky! Well on that note, it's almost time for me to take Zac to Kohl's. Oh, does anyone have any suggestions on what circle lens I should get next for my birthday? It's coming up, and I thought that would be a nice gift to myself. =).

I leave you with many pictures of me dressed as Marvel heroes. Enjoy!





Sally Hansen Crackle nail polish review! NEW LENS!

Hello everyone! Here I come back with my FIRST real review since taking that hiatus. The new crackle nail craze!!! My coworker had the black crackle nail polish from Sally Hansen, and I have the gold. Hers looked awesome against her red! Very bold colors. However I went a different route, and decided to get 06 Antiqued Gold in the Crackle nail polish and 440 Calypso Blue from Complete Salon Manicure line from Sally Hansen.

Ooooh such pretty beach colors. Well, that's what I had in mind for it anyways. Let me remind you that the night before I had tried the black base coat and gold crackle top. Needless to say, I didn't do it right somehow. I didn't understand! This is when my coworker told me that you have to let your base coat dry ALL THE WAY for like, 20 minutes. I retried this last night and had better luck!

Now that it's actually on, I don't know how I feel about it. It looks sort of different in person, a little more vibrant I think. But it looks more seafoam green and gold. Still, I wanted earthy tones since it's summer, so this is what I got.

Did I mention I dyed my hair??

(Please do not mind the no makeup!!! This is in the morning today!!) Wooo! Dark! Not too much ?? Compared to what I was before

NOT much of a difference. But I got bored and needed change hahaha.

I used L'Oreal Preference Color RR07. I already have natural red hair, so it just makes it a little more intense of red.

I loooooove this hair dye! It has a conditioner that reminds me of the rose perfume I got from a Disney magainze once. (Yes, I saved it from a little girl til I was an adult to use it, and now it is gone, and it had Belle on it!!)

My hair was very soft afterwards too, even Zac said so!!

So I got a new lens for my Canon camera. The 50mm 1.8 canon lens! I am getting a lot more jobs now taking photos, and finally got some new stuff for my camera!! Prepare for some massive cute kitty pictures and people I love! By the way, the pictures for the nail crackle part of the review is with the new lens! It is a very good macro!

One of the kittens at my Grandma's house!! He is the oldest, and he doesn't really have a name. But he is crazy and chases his tail for like, minutes at a time. He has no one to play with his age =(!!

HAHAHAHA! The best picture taken of a McDonald's cup ever!! The real photo you can zoom in and actually read the cup!! So crisp the focus is!

My papa! He just got his hair cut !!!! So funny =)!

And my favorite guy! He had just got off work and was not exactly thrilled about me using him to take people pictures first XD!!! Poor guy, what he puts up with.

So that's about it. I plan on buying the black crackle nail color, just because I think you can do more with bolder colors. Tonight we are going to St. Louis to see a comedian for Zac's birthday! It's not today, but is next week. And I'm waiting on his birthday gift =(. Come soon!
Also, tomorrow I am having lunch with an old friend I haven't seen in a while! I cannot wait!!

I leave you with a picture of my feet and dogs =)!

What a long hiatus! PHew I'm back!!

(Warning! Image heavy =S!)

Wow. I was gone for a really long time. Between working and just not having internet -.0'' it was a really long time!! But now I am back, and have so much to tell and share!
So we finally have internet, hahaha. I convince Zac it was indeed time for us to get it. He didn't argue back =D! Oh!! Did I also mention I have an Iphone now?!

Hahaha. Thanks Jenny for the wonderful case idea! I had to get it after all the ones I had seen. Almost everybody asks me why I'm carrying a cassette tape around =) lol.
So with this new iphone, I decided I should start a photo blog, or just a photo something. I take so many pictures with this, that it's more fun to update what is going on in random times. You can see what I have so far at my flickr account =) even though I will still mostly try and update here more often. 

Geeze! Work makes me write short entries. Perhaps soon I will give you a full blog report. Lots of makeup, hair products, and more princess mimi eyes!!! =)

rrrrr... busy week at work. photography post?

I have absolutley NO time to write all my reviews that I want, and boy do I have a lot of them. I have got a lot of the newer makeup that's been out for about a month now, but just haven't had time to do it, because CVS is keeping me busy 24/7. I feel like I have neglected this nice little side hobby blog of mine, and felt that I should at least post something. So I figured why not some self portraits I did in photography, pictures that I actually look good in hahahaha. I promised this weekend, I will have a real review up.


On to the pictures!!!!

This is about I'd say a summer or two ago. Yes, that is some straight hair!!! What the heck? I don't know, I have come to love my natural curly hair, plus it's so much easier to do than straighten my thick hair.
here is what it looked like in color:

Wow. Look at that blonde-orange fire going on there. I absolutely love it, but not the damage it takes to make it that color. I do it almost every summer, and everyone loves it, and I'm thinking about doing it again soon, but should I???

This was taken at my grandmother's house, and one of my dad's favorite pictures of myself. No tripod, all did by just holding the camera. Most of these are in black and white, because I think it looks better, a little more classier when you do a fashion self portrait shot.

Taken at my grandparents. This time it was a tripod. This is a fan favorite for some reason, though I don't think I look as pretty as I do in the other ones =S.

This is one of my favorites, and also what happens when I come home at night alone and drunk hahaha.

I'm surprised I didn't break my camera, nor have a horrible and ruined shot. I also like how my head for some reason looks a little bigger than my body. =S

This was before I quit smoking, and photoshopped the clock over the face. It was supposed to show a girl waiting as the time went by, but I dunno. Art can tell so many different stories. =).


and now for some photography not of myself!!! Hoorah!

Tiny Tim was a very small kitten that was born at my grandparent's house. He never grew very big, and is still quite small. I call him a dwarf cat, which I don't think he minds. This photo has gotten a lot of favorites at deviantart, and is one of the more popular photos of mine.

This is my favorite, the colors, the bokeh, everything.  These bluebirds are crazy though! When I was in the kitchen window trying to take their pictures, they would fly into the window for some reason. Crazy birds. But I got this wonderful shot of one, so that makes me happy!

Bees are one of my favorite insects. However, I do not like being stung by them. We have a bunch of flowers at my mother's house, seeing we lived in the country. There were lots of chances to take pictures of these little guys!

I...absolutely....hate spiders. Scared to death of them. But I had to get super close to this corn spider to get the shot. He never really got angry or moved unless I breathed on him, and everytime he did I ran away screaming like a fool.

These transformers are out on the old dirt road that goes to my grandfather's old oil wells, and I just thought they looked like a couple enjoying the day. the heart bokeh was added by photoshop, which helps entitle the photograph, "Sparks are Flying".

I think that is it for now. If you want to see more of my nature photography, you can go to My deviantart page  and check things out =). I guess photography is more of my good hobby, but I just like doing so many different things, and it's harder these days to take pictures in cold Illinois weather. I can't wait for spring!!!!!