Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How to be a stepford wife

Well...not really haha.
I'm not an obsessive cleaner even though my ancestors are like known for it (we call it dutch cleaning, when it's so far beyond clean, it's like heaven and untouchable, it's a funny inside joke amongst us dutchies, especially the younger generation)
annd I'm far off track as usual
While I generally dislike the act of cleaning but yet like clean stuff, there's something awesome about knowing you conquered a cleaning thing that's generally known as difficult. And I've found lately cleaning to be almost therapeutic, maybe that's why they have ingrates and never do wells do it.
anywho
So I was in a cleaning frenzy and I decided to conquer the bathtub/shower (it's one of those combined ones, a shower within a bathtub) and I had given up hope on ever effectively really truly cleaning the walls of it (don't we all at some point? we just try to keep it manageable)
when behold, I recalled that I had bought some of the clorox spray cleaner with natural ingredients (Clorox has a line of "natural" cleaners that I quite like, with nice smells instead of the weird overly perfumed smells like the other products)
I grabbed it and sprayed it on all the walls and let it soak for a few minutes. Took a sponge and wiped it down and it was CLEEEAN! like beautiful shiny magazine clean! (which with my tub, is hard because the people who lived in the house before never EVER cleaned anything they owned ugh)
Effortless, easy, and beautiful. I was quite happy!

Monday, September 13, 2010

moisty shmoisty

Yeaaaah I bet that's not even a word!
I just didn't wanna use the zoolander line about how moisture is the essence of beauty.
Anyways
Now for a little makeup review, or rather moisturizer review.
Now whether it's because I don't care enough or what I'm generally not the best at makeup (although to say I'm slathering on blue eyeshadow and bright pink lipstick) it's just I have the very bare basics down but otherwise, I count on the knowledge of my friends or the beauty world.
Well apparently part of good skin care is using moisturizer. I always was like naaah, I got oily-ish skin, that's just gonna make it worse.
Well after reading a post over at http://www.bachmanssparrow.com/blog/ I was convinced I should look into moisturizer.
But oy! I don't wanna spend the money or the research about something I know nothing about!
Cut to a late night shopping trip at CVS pharmacy (I actually needed some toiletries) I randomly spotted Alba moisturizer. Something prompted me to buy it. It had natural ingredients, and was oil-free which I read s the key for oily skin types.
I have been using it for the past few days and I absolutely love it! It has a light "hawaiian" scent, and I do mean light; cuz if it was any stronger I'd chucked the stuff by now, I'm very picky about smells, especially if it's gooing to be on my skin all day.
It literally feels refreshing everytime I put it on! and it's not even advertised as refreshing! haha
And it has kept my face from getting oily and shiny and from those weird dry flakes on my face
So extremely highly recommended and love.
And it's only $12!
Most likely found at your average drugstrore

Friday, September 10, 2010

Melons, Friends, Jugs.

What do those have in common?
Names for boobs.
(here is where I do my apologizing for the last time for lack of updates)
Now normally I'd leave my reviewing for my friend emmaly over at danceinthebayarea.blogspot.com but she was a dancer in it and hey its my blog, and dance shows are a part of me (having been a former dancer)
I have watched this piece since it's inception piece and it's been a true journey. The amazing thing about the choreographer Malinda Lavalle is that theres an amazing sense of guts and intsinct in her pieces, very rarely is something overworked, it just seems to emanate from her.
I'll give my thoughts on her journey with this piece. (oh yes I will!)
The first time i saw it, it was like a little 5 minute piece but it totally grabbed my attention and honestly even shocked me a bit. It was girls manhandling their boobs to a soundtrack of machine guns. My first reaction was shock but as I dwelled on it afterwards my reaction was honestly glee. I loved the audacity and the originality! And a soundtrack of machine guns?? Brilliant beyond words!
Then she brought the piece over to the RAW (resident artist workshop) over at the Garage in San Francisco (small venue but great for exploring your dance options)
This showing was longer, more in the 15-20mins range. The piece was still delightful but honestly on reflection was overworked to a degree, but hey that's part of exploring choreography. Instead of just manhandling boobs to be like guns there was an element of the "whole woman" that act of "OMG do I look pretty?" and the dominance fight of who's boobs are better.
Malinda also has amazing talent of understanding rhythm. It's almost like a drummer in a sense because she can set perfect movements that go with the music so perfectly that it makes you smile in delight.
Then the culmination of the piece at the Garage was last night.
Let me tell you, it was brilliant!
My honest and visceral reaction was to respond verbally to everything I saw. Some people actually did. not just by laughing or gasping or what have you but to physically say a word or sentence in response, which was interesting, I've never had that reaction before.
The dancers subtleties are amazing and unique to each of them, there were some moment where Malinda tapped into that, such as Maggie's fierceness and audacity. She's the first one to turn around and say tits, right in your face, matter of factly. Joy's facial expressions that have an amazing range beyond even most actresses I would say. I could go on and on and I love it, Malinda truly tapped into their personalities so they really came across onstage, even though it probably helps I know most of them personally.
(side note, this is why I can't be a reviewer, I ramble waay too much)
But this piece was effortless, amazing, audacious, hysterical, and thought-provoking.
There was shouting of boob names, audacious dance moves, cat fights, pillow fights, girly girl squealing and conversation, show-girl style dancing, stars on bras, a random pillow posing moment and more.
I truly hope a video of this gets put up and should you ever hear Malinda Lavalle's name in anything, it is a must see