Archive for 2010

I wrote about how I got into makeup, now I’m going to share with you guys how the whole online thing started. It all started with myspace, back when I was 16 when everyone had one and still used it. I was snooping around one of my friend’s groups and noticed some makeup group so I checked it out which led me to discover more makeup groups on myspace. I thought, “wow, people who love makeup just like me!” so I started to become involved with the groups. People would post their FOTDs and participate in challenges; monroemisfitmakeup was really involved with those and her looks always won through voting.

Around that time I was also using Bare Minerals and I also found a Bare Minerals group. I noticed that my face would feel like it’s burning or itchy by the afternoon and I first I thought it was because I wasn’t washing my face enough or something. I ended up asking the members on the myspace Bare Minerals group about it and they said that it was probably because I was allergic to the bismuth oxychloride in Bare Minerals, which I later found out to be pretty common. Then I expressed how bummed out I was because I had just bought a Bare Minerals set and barely used it. Someone then offered to buy it off me, I remember her name was pugmommy. She was older than me and I think she was pretty brave to send the money first and wait for a 16 year old stranger to send their end lol. I mean, there are people much older on makeupalley who are known for swaplifting. Anyway, she told me to make an account on makeupalley.com and specktra.com so she could give me feedback for her purchase. That was when I learned about the two sites and I started to become really involved on Specktra.

Specktra had a tutorial section where people would take step by step pictures of them applying their makeup and explaining out the details. I loved looking at them so I wanted to make one of my own because it seemed fun to do. As I was trying to do it though, I found it to be so time consuming and inconvenient to have to stop after each step and take pictures. I gave up on that. Then someone posted a youtube video on Specktra with a link to pursebuzz’s Barbie Loves MAC video. It was a totally new thing to see a makeup tutorial on video so everyone on Specktra was pretty amused by it. That’s when I looked up more videos on youtube and only found one monolidded girl through the search and I remember she was applying makeup with some Pussycat Dolls song playing. I don’t think she does videos currently and I don’t think her old videos are even still up.

I really wanted to try making my own video after that but the camera I had at the time would only film 5 minutes at a time so I couldn’t really do anything with it. I waited until I got a macbook with a built in webcam to record my first makeup video and post it on youtube. Those first videos are long gone, and it’s better that way since I was 17 at the time and just… bleh! After that, you can pretty much see what’s gone on since then.

I love buying frozen dumplings because they are easy to use and super delicious. These are my favorite dumplings:


You can use them in soups

Steam or microwave them

I like to get Subway when I’m in need of a quick and cheap meal! The person who prepared my sandwich this time was a bit messy with it but whatever, it all goes down the same pipe 6″ veggie delight, 9 grain wheat, light on mayo and mustard, Swiss cheese, lettuce, olives, tomatoes, cucumber, pickles, spinach, salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar. Thanks!

I’ve been feeling under the weather so I made myself some soup with whatever I had available. This is why I call it the “whatever” soup. It consists of stuff that I like that so I figured I can throw them in together with a vegetable broth. I used green onions, potatoes, enoki mushrooms, and prefried tofu puffs.

Here are some pictures of the airplane food on my flight to and back from Taiwan to the US.

So basically my role was just to bring my things and show up. It was my first time flying as a vegetarian so I had no idea how the food thing worked with airlines. I’m just used to flying domestic and getting peanuts or pretzels lol. The tickets were also booked by the company so I didn’t know that I was supposed to request special meals.

I dropped the bomb onto the flight attendant while up in the sky flying over the Pacific Ocean that I was a vegetarian lol. They weren’t prepared for that so I ended up getting cold nasty leftovers. Blech! Totally my fault though. I’m lucky I even had anything to eat.

This is my first meal. So soggy, bland, and cold It’s not congee, but it’s not steamed rice either. The only think edible was the bread… I was supposed to get a second meal during that flight but I was asleep. You sleep, you don’t eat

Here is the food at had in the VIP lounge at the Taiwan airport. Ahhh finally nice hot normal food! I think I had a redbean bun and a custard bun.

The food on the flight back was MUCH better. I notified the people at the desk this time about my dietary needs. You don’t have to notify the airline too far in advance about special meals; you just have to tell them before the plane takes off lol.

First meal on the flight back. Noodles, bak choy, some patty. Not bad! A lot of the frozen Asian vegetarian food sold here in the US like the fish I like to use or ham is imported from Taiwan so Eva being a Taiwanese airline, had pretty decent vegetarian food.

And some more noodles with fake meat stuff.

It was also my first time flying international as an adult so this may have existed but I wasn’t addicted to shopping then to care But I thought it was cool that you can go shopping while on the plane. Look through the catalog, pick what you want.

And the flight attendant rings you up. Sweet!

I’ll be flying United Airlines from the US to Australia this year so I’ll do an airplane food post on that trip too. This time I indicated my food restrictions while booking the ticket

I’m so proud of myself. I could not figure out how to make chow mein noodles not stick for the longest time. Buy chow mein noodles, put in boiling water just to separate the noodles, drain and rinse with cold water, then add to oiled pan to fry. Viola! Nice separated chow mein noodles.

I would have added bean sprouts, but I didn’t have any and didn’t feel like going to the store.

Unfortunately, my favorite veggie corn dogs by Morningstar Farms has been discontinued for some time now along with their hot dogs but I never really cared too much for those. An alternative, besides making your own from veggie dogs, is Trader Joe’s. I actually don’t think they’re bad at all, contrary to what others have said on the internet, but my only complaint is that these corn dogs are smaller compared to the average corn dog and the Morningstar Farm one. I finished the whole thing in three bites

Instead of ketchup, I’m using orange sauce.

Shitake mushrooms, carrots, radish, bamboo, soy sprouts, cucumber, chives, and an egg of course.

These are from MorningStar Farms. I used sweet and sour sauce for dipping.

Mushrooms, napa cabbage, fried tofu, white radish, and mung bean thread noodles. Vegetable stock made to taste by mixing mushroom powder and sugar with water.