Marb$ tries D.I.Y.

It's been a strange transition from busy student life .Getting a 4.0, starting campaigns for Chicana/Latino Studies with $Cruz, holding down a part-time job, attempting to salvage whatever semblance of a social life I had, trying to find time to blog...you get what I mean.  I went from being overworked to the point of exhaustion and vomiting from caffeine overload, to having a mental TV guide in my brain. I've been so bored that I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. But, out of sheer boredom comes the scheming and concoting of ideas. It's when I am most creative and attempt things like crafts and D.I.Y projects. I busted out my sewing machine that I always meant to use and became acquainted with it. Armed with my willingness and cheap fabric, I made this:

It's pretty much a glorified potato sack made with fun fabric and some mistakes. I pleated the neckline to give it some shape and used a yellow belt and a cardigan to try and make it pop. (Sorry $Cruz, I know you hate yellow and red together, my apologies if this is offensive to your eyes). I was going for Little House on the Prairie meets 1960's secretary. I apologize for the pockets, I had my hands in them before I took the picture.

Lime Crime Makeup

Lime Crime Makeup states:

So Bright It Should Be Illegal

$cruz states:
So Bright It Should Be Undocumented

I randomly came across this makeup line via blogs and constant clicking to new blogs and sites. This new makeup, Lime Crime, looks so ferosh! I don't know how I could wear this in my daily life (they have blue lipstick!), but it would still be fun to own and throw on for fun times (I'll have those again).

From the website:

"Hailing from New York City, Miss Deere (the creator) conceptualized her makeup line in response to not being able to find cosmetics bright enough for her tastes. Refusing to toe the minimalist line, Lime Crime is known for charging headlong into the rainbow with pure, high-impact, saturated colors."

The new collection is called "Candyfuture Collection;." How fun does that sound?!!? Her goal when creating the lipsticks were for them to be a one stroke application and have more of a cream base with more of a matte and opaque finish, as opposed to many other lipsticks that are more sheer/glossy. The colors are super bright but look really fun. The packaging is adorable. They are pink tubes with little unicorn holograms! How fun! The color below is in D'Lilac. Fierce!


Check out all the colors HERE!

Also, the eyeshadows look really amazing. They are a loose powder shadow called "Magic Dust." The descriptions are so fun for each color, they're quotes! For instance, the following photo is of Magic Dust in Circus Girl. The descriptions states:

"She's from a world of popcorn and candy
Only your eyes for a dime
I'm from a world of disappointments and confusions
But I want her to be mine
I lost my heart on a carousel to a circus girl"
(Michael Jackson, 'Carousel')
Check out all the colors HERE!

Petey Pablo = Sensitive Soul

I was listening to my Pitbull Pandora radio station when all of a sudden, "Freak-A-Leak" by Petey Pablo comes on. At first, I said to myself, "how dare they do this to me!" because this song is not bomb.com. Then I noticed Petey Pablo's album was called : Still Writing in my Diary: 2nd Entry. 

 Say what? For reals? That has got to be the most un-thug album name of all time. His street cred needs to be revoked immediately. Twelve year-old girls who read Sweet Valley High keep diaries, not rappers who talk about bitches, hoes, and ca$h. Adults keep journals or logs, Petey, not diaries. Shit, you could have even called it "Captain's Log" a lá Star Trek and it would have been ten times better.

I hope he wrote "Freak-A-Leak "and  "Raise Up" in his Lisa Frank diary. I'm sure he used all the awesome unicorn stickers in those pages.

For his sake, I hope the cover was at least the Lisa Frank's hip-hop bears (featured below). They were so ahead of their time, Kanye even bit their steez! I swear they were used as inspiration for his album cover for Graduation!                 

Here is Lisa Frank's Hip-Hop Bears:

Below is Kanye West's Graduation Cover Art:

Kitchen Confidential

I like to watch and talk about shows that are not relevant anymore, you know this. But I do like to share what I like and what I don't like. There are some underrated shows out there that only lasted for a nugget of time. For instance, Kitchen Confidential. First episode in I was already lol-ing.
The show is based on a book by Anthony Bourdain (yes the guy from the Travel Channel) and the lead character Jack Bourdain is an Anthony inspired character. Jack (Bradley Cooper) is a super great chef who has had problems with drugs, alcohol, and women. Even though he's reached low life status he gets another opportunity to showcase his awesome culinary efforts. The show is basically about a kitchen and wait staff at a fancy New York restaurant.

The show is hilarious, I don't know why people didn't catch on. Then again, I'm watching this show 4 years after it came out so I guess I shouldn't say anything. Bradley Cooper is really good in this show. It really highlights his comedic talents, way before The Hangover. Before this, he'd only really been known as the dork friend of Jennifer Garner who was so in love with her on Alias (ya I watched that show when it came out...tool I am fo sho). 13 episodes were produced, the entire series is on Hulu. Definitely check it out, super hilarious.

Youtube was lacking in clips. So here is just a taste of the show.

Boy Bands. The Comeback

I saw this and instantly loved everything about it. This video is by Derrick Comedy, which happens to include Donald Glover from Community (an IHST favorite show, if you're not watching this show you're ridiculous). Watch and enjoy.

Videophone- Beyonce feat Lady Gaga.

The video is out after much anticipation! The visuals that accompany the song make it so much better. You've redeemed yourself  B. I had read reports that Lady Gaga wanted the "Beyonce" treatment- meaning she wanted to channel Beyonce's style. I do like that Lady Gaga stepped out of her artistic boundaries and ventured into new territory, but Lady Gaga, you ain't no Beyonce. Eat a cheeseburger, or whatever Beyonce eats, because you need to fill that one-piece number you and B are both rockin'. Beyonce has some mad thighs, she made Lady Gaga look like an awkward little sister. Beyonce, you get an A + for doing the "Ghetto fabulous- Bettie Page" look. I fully approve of this, and I even approve of your chola lipliner in the beginning of the video. Unfortunately, I couldn't embed the video (although it said I could, but whatever)

Watch for yourselves to see what I mean! 

Princesses!

I saw this at Target the other day, and I thought it was the most gorgeous thing in the world. I know I'm 24 and I have no room for such a huge doll collection but I can admire it! I never got toys like this as a kid! Lucky girls (and hey even some boys) are going to be so happy with these dolls this Christmas. Tear*

Marb$ & $Cruz Analyze the Men of Sex and The City.

This is a real conversation that took place over the phone yesterday. $Cruz and I tried our hand at analyzing the main men in Carrie Bradshaw's life. Instead of learning about communication theories and research methods, this is where we really wracked our brains. Here is the transcript (based off of the bits I could recall):

Marb$: "My friends were all about Aiden, but I always rooted for Mr. Big."
$Cruz: "Oh I know! I even rooted for Berger because he was so weird."
Marb$: (pretending to be Mr. Big): "What's shakin' kid?"
$Cruz: "Oh my god! I love him!"
Marb$: "I think we loved him because we were conditioned to love men with Brown Man Disease. That's all we know."
$Cruz: "Even Berger had a little bit of that going on"
Marb$: "He was crazy"
$Cruz: "Even the Russian had Brown Man Disease, he slapped Carrie."
$Cruz: "Who rooted for the Russian?! He was fuggo and a hundred [years old]"


That last part got me. She said fuggo with such disgust in her voice, it was priceless. And so true! Whoever rooted for the Russian, identitify yourselves! Let's battle this out!