I was awarded the Naute Mess Award

Last week I was awarded the Naute Mess Award by Jordy's Beauty Spot. Go check out her blog when you get the chance.

So basically to accept this award I give 7 facts about myself and then go tag 7 other lovely makeup bloggers :-)

Here they are:

Fact 1. My favorite color by far is blue.

Fact 2. A few years ago I was involved in a car accident where a drunk driver hit me and 7 other people. The others who were involved in the accident suffered serious injuries such as whiplash, broken ribs, etc... The only injury I suffered however was a sprained wrist. Surprisingly, everyone was wearing their seat belts except me!

Fact 3. Techno is my favorite genre of music

Fact 4. My IQ is rated at around 138 even though I grew up with a severe learning disability.

Fact 5. I haven't consumed 1 ounce of alcohol in about 5 years.

Fact 6. Despite people knowing me here under my 'GeekyMacBoy' name. I actually go under an entirely different user name on youtube that has several thousand subscribers. What's the channel name you ask? Wouldn't you like to know!! LOL

Fact 7. At times I tend to have a very crude and twisted sense of humor.


I'm gonna tag:

Geli
Aleksis
Sarah X
sssdawna
Lorien
Janine
booboo


One last thing:

Last but not least be sure and check out MakeupByLaurenP's giveaway!!!

Haul - My new makeup brushes!!

Hello my lovely followers!!

Okay well maybe they're not exactly makeup brushes but they come as close as it gets. Technically speaking these brushes were originally meant for painting. Believe it or not there are some paint brushes that are EXACTLY like the high quality makeup brushes. Evidently, my blog about such brushes isn't a grand revelation because a number of prominent bloggers have written about these before.

The shape, size, and hair from the bristles are basically the same as some of the well known MAC brushes. The major benefit for using such brushes is they are WAY cheaper than the name brands. In fact, I spent a grand total of about $15 for these 4 brushes, where as their MAC counterparts are about $40 a piece!!

I wouldn't have mind spending extra money on a MAC 239 & MAC 228 but I had already spent a lot of money on other things from last December. Since I REALLY wanted to go ahead and start building my makeup collection I decided to go the cheaper route.

I'll be sure and make an update blog and let you all know how well they work out for me. Since these are some of my first makeup brushes I'm not sure how accurate my critique will be. I don't have much experience using other brushes!!



Here's a list of my brushes numbered from top to bottom (just like in my pic):


01. American Painter - 3/4 inch 4600 Oval Wash (similar to MAC 190)


02. Loew-Cornell - 1/4 inch AMM Mini Mop (similar to MAC 217)


03. Loew-Cornell - 3/8 inch Maxine's Mop 270 (similar to MAC 239)


04. Loew-Cornell - 1/4 inch Maxine's Mop 270 (similar to MAC 228)


Update!!

In case you're wondering where I got these. I bought them at www.rexart.com & another good site to get these brushes are at www.jerrysartarama.com



Some embeds of pictures and videos from other users comparing them with MAC brushes :-)


















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Haul: My new MAC-180 brush

First and foremost I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

I wanna share with all of you the new brush that I more or less gifted myself with. About a week ago I finally found and purchased a MAC 180 brush! It's the same brush Kim Kardashian uses and it's what gives her such a flawless look.

I can't wait to try it out and I'll be sure to give my review on it. In my opinion, I think it'll work out very well because the brush is very high quality. Plus, the overall design seems like something that should work well for me too. When I first laid eyes on it, I knew that it was a brush I wanted to get.

It has been discontinued for a while so finding somebody selling it wasn't easy. I finally found a seller on ebay who was selling this along with rare perfumes too. After hearing numerous stories of girls falling victim of buying fake brushes off ebay, I was skeptical at first. However, I decided to research the seller and was convinced she was selling real items.

In fact, I had my friend Aleksis take a look at pictures of the brush since I'm still learning a lot about makeup, brushes, etc. She's positive that it is indeed an authentic brush which is excellent!! Oh and go follow her blog if you haven't already!

Speaking of brushes, I just got several more come in today. Except they're not expensive name brand brushes, so they're REALLY cheap. Another great thing is other brushes are supposed to be really good quality too. Some say they're more or less clones of the MAC brushes BUT for a faction of the price. Can't wait to do my haul on those!! :-D

Merry Christmas!

Review - St. Ives Apricot Scrub

Figured I'd do a quick review of this before going out of town (again) for work. I've been trying out St. Ives Apricot Scrub - Blackhead and Blemish control for the past 4-5 days.

For a while I have had a couple of friends that has been using this stuff. They act like it is one of the best things on the face of the earth so I finally decided to try it for myself. So far I have to say that it is working out really well for me!! It has these tiny little grains inside the cream that is designed to exfoliate your skin. Plus, it helps scrub out the dirt/oil that's deep in the pores as well.

After I get done rinsing it out, my face feels very clean and I can clearly see that the blackheads are much less noticeable. In my opinion that says a lot especially since forehead/nose area tend to get fairly oily when waking up the next morning. In fact, I'm not for certain but I think this stuff even helps shrink the pores around my nose a bit.

I have used this stuff to wash all of my face except for my eyelid area. For no particular reason, I am still using my old face cleanser for that. I guess the reason might be because I'm afraid one of those grains will accidentally get in my eyes. Or perhaps I was afraid this wouldn't wash my face well before trying it out. It's important that my eye area is clean, especially while putting in contacts.

The only disadvantage I see so far is rinsing out all those little grains can be a bit of a pain. It takes a bit longer and sometimes it'll get in the hairline or eyebrows. For those who have little time to get ready in the morning, I recommended using this scrub RIGHT BEFORE taking a shower. So that way you just stand in front of the shower and let the water rinse it off for you. Trust me it's much faster that way!!

Overall it's a great product and I'll probably buy it again. I rate this an 8 out of 10!

disclaimer: The owner of this blog is not in any way affiliated with St. Ives.

$11,000 fine if you don't comply!!!??!!! :-O

Hello ladies!!

Starting December 1st (4 days ago), the government wants to you place disclaimers everytime you give a product review. Basically saying whether you're affiliated with the product company or not.


This probably only applies to Americans giving product reviews. However, the legal systems has so many elaborate twists, turns, and loopholes that this might possibly effect international gurus as well. For example, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is an American law, but it victimizes International Youtube video makers just as bad as it does with Americans. Better safe than sorry.....


Watch PrincessPinkcat's video embedded down below. She goes much more in detail about it all. But I'll conclude this post by saying I agree 100% when she says that there will be people reporting others for the wrong reasons...


On a sidenote that's completely off subject. I have plans to purchase some makeup products during Christmas time and finally do my own hauls / reviews soon afterwards. So please be patient ladies, I'd love to start blogging about certain things very shortly!!