Blog #6: Consumer Report March 2024
This consumer report has something just a little bit different about it.
Beauty
March is a solid winter month in Salt Lake. We see some spring days but I don’t trust that the snow is behind us until June. Because of this, I haven’t switched up my routine and I don’t have a ton of new stuff. I’m not yet beginning my fake tan cycles, but I am doing some spring preparations.
OPI Infinite Shine in It’s A Girl - I get my nails done once a month year round (and they are natural and there will be a whole post if not many dedicated to the fact) and maybe because of that I dont’t feel right getting too spendy on feet. These dogs aren’t being seen anywhere besides my house anyway. I buy a light pink color probably every year. I saw this while aimlessly roaming in ULTA.
Baby Foot Exfoliation Mask - I got this on the same go around as my nail polish. It’s kind of gross but important especially if you are kind of gross most of the year, like me. You put your feet in the booties, put socks over it, and let it sit for about an hour before washing it off. After a week or so your feet start peeling. I wear socks 24/7 for two weeks following, and if you soak your feet a few times, it makes it go quicker. Like I said, March is still a winter month. This is the time to be doing this.
Milk’s Cooling Water Jelly Tint Lip + Cheek Blush Stain - My targeted ads won this round. I’ve been seeing this all over my instagram. Lucky for them, I love a stain and anything you can apply with your hands. I got this in the shade Burst, a true poppy pink. This color looks really good on platinum blondes and pale skin. I think it will also look good in the summertime with a little lighter coverage. I’ve been using on my lips and cheeks. It applies nice and is reasonably blend-able.
Glossier Stretch Fluid Foundation - I am more of a skin tint girl to be honest (that’s a brag) but I have been wanting something a little longer lasting. I work long hours and with a lighter product, it’s usually off my face by lunch time. Bonnie recommended this to me, it’s not her top pick, but it’s pretty cheap and I figured it was worth a try. I got it in shade Very Light 1, which I think is just a bit too light on me. Next time I’ll try Very Light 4, for a peachier undertone. This foundation has a mixed review from me. When it first goes on, it definitely sits on the skin a little. Give it about a half hour or so and it ends up with a really gorgeous finish. It’s long lasting as well. I will work through this bottle and for the summer, I’ll switch back to a tint, and hopefully this time around it will match my self-tanned neck.
About Tone Makeup Foundation Spatula - Another Bonnie recommend, this is only $9! It helps you apply foundation without blotting a ton on your hands. I use it to kind of lay out on my skin and then I blend with my hands.
From Sephora’s website for Milk Makeup
Perfume
I am a total perfume amateur. I am heavily influenced by about four people when it comes to fragrance and although he’s a total prince, Jeremy Fragrance is not one of them. Sara Blanco (IG linked here) is my #1 personal influencer. When that woman starts posting on her instagram story, I wait with baited breath to screenshot and file away. She’s the coolest person I’ve met IRL. We were actually internet friends first. I love Latina baddies and she loves fake blondes. I went out to visit her in LA in the summer of 2021, when I was high-rolling at my disreputable sales job and flights were at an all time low. She works in beauty, specifically fragrance, and she has excellent taste. She puts me on all the time, and not just with perfume. My very first perfume I bought was at her recommendation: Curious by Britney Spears. It’s one of the better formulated celebrity perfumes and it was the perfume of my 2021. Most everything I’ve bought since has been at her suggestion or with her stamp of approval. More recently she prescribed Natural Talent by Snif, something she described as girly and fun, but not saccharine. What I like most about this is the powdery note. It is also a great price! I’m on to grown woman things as well and after being chastised at work for wearing non-office friendly perfume (Mad About You by Pierre Guillaume totally my bad) and I will be updating about what comes my way this summer. I’m looking for something kind of spicy, something lawyer-ish.
Music
I wrote about some of what I’ve been listening to lately in my last post, so I’m going to link my full March playlist here. The star of my month was Babymorocco. He’s definitely an internet baby and he makes club music, check out this write-up in The Face magazine. I have his most recent release linked below. I’m definitely late to the party but his 2023 project The Sound is insanely fresh. It fueled every workout I completed in the month of March. I’m going to also link a playlist he has on Spotify, babymorocco hothits. I have to listen to high octane music nonstop in order to effectively complete my email job, so I wear my playlists out pretty fast. Other honorable mentions include Slolove by Janet Jackson (early sound of the summer anyone?), BOY by Owen Jackson (he DJed on Slayyyter’s Starfucker Tour this past fall and is hot btw), and SMSOU by Frost Children.
from his instagram, @owenjacksonforever
Clothes
All I’m thinking about these days is getting on a beach. I don’t usually splurge on swimwear because it’s all plastic any way, but I guess on the other hand you’re two steps away from naked so it’s important for everything to fit right. I bought some swimsuits from SKIMS and I’m going to lay it out a little for any interested parties thinking of doing the same. First thing: The swimsuit bottoms are better than the tops. You can tell by the way they are cut they’re not really for women of juggulent experience, which is weird because the Kardashians are. I did buy the Cami Top, which I know is very Christian of me, but it’s actually super flattering and I think it will look cute on a paddle board. For the bottoms, what I like is that they do a thinner lining. Too often swim buttoms either cut in too much, or they sort of compress your butt. These are very flattering. I am kind of thick and I like more coverage so I went for the Hipster bottoms. The other issue with SKIMS is they are obsessed with having the most drab colorways of all time available. Four variations of dull grey and light olive. For swimwear by the way. Right now they have white, black, and pink up, so take heed! It shan’t last.
Here on the top row from left to right we have green-brown, off-grey, dishwater grey, Gunmetal, a regular swimsuit color, a regular swimsuit color, khaki, a regular swimsuit color, and a wearable basic
Movies
Showgirls (1995) - Of course I love this movie. Gina Gershon is so beautiful. The film has long been blog fodder, but I have to say I have a legitimate gripe that there aren’t more looks from the movie making the meme rounds. I want to see Nomi’s Leopard Look in 4k, and at my leisure too!
Wonka (2023) - This sucked shit. I thought it would at least be colorful. Giraffe-milking scene was two thirds of the whole movie. Sadly it did amazing. This should have been a stark lesson that we need to start paying our writers.
Dune: Part Two (2024) - Calling it early as the movie event of the year. This was just excellent! I think Austin Butler should be in more freak-alien looks. This is the type of movie that makes me feel so lucky to have an INTJ boyfriend. He explained everything. I will definitely be rewatching. Dare I say this is the franchise of our generation?
Lost Highway (1997) - My first time watching. I think this is my favorite David Lynch film. I love Patricia Arquette’s teeth. I love Lynch’s LA. Also, how lucky am I that I’m should happen upon an Instagram Reel that Patricia herself commented on to advance what she understood the movie to be portraying? I will be acting as if I came to this same understanding completely on my own moving forward. Fred’s character says at the beginning of the movie, “I like to remember things my own way…How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.”
The Holdovers (2023) - I thought this was really well-casted, and they all had a great chemistry. I love Paul Giamatti. That being said, I had heard the end was super sad. It actually ended on a hopeful note. It was a good movie, not great.
Problemista (2023) - I love Julio Torres, I’m so happy he got to make a movie! His point of view is so special to me. I thought it was very funny. I also gotta shout out Los Espookys, a two-season HBO run that ended way too early.
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) - This got spoiled for me before watching. I expected that it would be a more serious movie, and I think if they had gone in that direction, it would have been amazing. I think once you realize it’s not that serious, you can free yourself up to really enjoy it for what it is. I loved it, it had a great soundtrack, great looks, the two leads are super hot. I was laughin’ y’all! Not to mention cracking up.
Patricia Arquette (blonde version) in Lost Highway
Books
I did not read even a book this month. I’m posting this to hold myself accountable as this is totally for shame. I read some stuff on the net, I really enjoyed this article with Mel Ottenberg. I am currently subscribed to Interview Magazine and I like his picks!
