the perfect lip color

I thought I had found the perfect lip color when I first applied Revlon's Lip Butter in Pink Truffle. I also thought I had found the perfect lip color when I first applied YSL's Volupté Sheer Candy in Sweet Fig. Both times I was mistaken.

I saw on a beauty guru's YouTube video that she loved Clinique's Almost Lipstick in Black Honey. She put it on her lips and I was in awe. How could something be so beautiful?? I did a little bit of research and saw that this was a highly praised item. On Sephora.com it got a 4.5 rating out of 5 and countless people raved about how it was the perfect color for them. I got a $20 giftcard to Nordstrom and it was $15 so I decided to try out this legendary product. I don't know how I lived my life without it. I love the color on me. Here is a before and after picture of it on my lips:

*Oh and fyi, it is really dark in the tube. The color does not apply that dark at all.*

Before (ugh, shoddy editing job):

After:

Love:

I think it is a gorgeous natural color. Well, I think it works well for me. Do you like my pictures? #nofilter

What lip products do you love?

Until next time,

Caroline

btw, the color on my nails is Revlon's Urban

Internships

I just sent off my resume as well as cover letters to two different organizations today. It marks the beginning of the long list of emails I will send over the course of the next month to galleries and museums for internships this summer. It is going to be so much work I makes me a little sick to my stomach but I know if I just sit down and concentrate I can get a lot accomplished.

I got pretty lucky with my internship I had last summer. I was the only one who applied! It was a great internship. I had to set up two summer art camps for children. The kids were hilarious, snobby, weird, and awesome all at the same time. We learned about 'outsider art' and did many activities that pertained to outsider art. I also learned what outsider art is. We all won.

One of the internships I sent my resume to is another summer art camp with kids, right down my alley! The other has to do more with putting together exhibits. Also, right down my alley. If there was some way to do both I absolutely would. I love kids and I love art galleries.

Over the next few months I am probably going to be facing a lot of rejection, which is going to hurt but if I start mentally preparing now it will soften the blows! I'll be ok.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline

NOW I'm back

Last night I didn't get back to school like I thought I was. Weather conditions were not ideal for driving down the highway so my roommate and I stayed at my house for the night. We watched the US women's figure skating championships and then a few episodes of Friends. The figure skating was amazing. I love figure skating so much. When my sisters and I were younger we used to figure skate in the unfinished part of my basement. We would wear rollerblades and skate around the ping pong table that was placed in the middle of the room. It was so much fun.

I was really sucked into the story of the top two favorite skaters' rival. The girl who was the favorite to win and then promptly head over to Sochi was Ashley Wagner. She is actually from my area and went to the same community college I took biology at one summer. Wagner's rival, Gracie Gold (ugh you would have that name), was a surprise front runner in this competition. The other day was the first part of the competition and while Wagner finished in 4th place Gold had a spectacular routine that catapulted her to the first place. NBC had a little piece about their rival and it was really interesting. I kind of hope they both go to the Olympics so we can all see how their rival evolves. Well, they both performed their longer program, or "free skate", last night and once again Gold skated with incredible grace (ha) with one little slip-up while Wagner fell twice and fell short of placing. I'm on point with the puns today. If only I were talking about ballet.

The costumes were beautiful and so was the music. I can't wait for the Olympics!

Until next time,

Caroline

the beginning of the end

I'm heading back to school later today. This is it. The beginning of the end. The last first day of classes. THE END'S NOT NEAR IT'S HERE. I'm struggling to get my packing done right now. My roommate is picking me up in a few hours and hopefully we'll miss some of the highway traffic. I have to remember to bring Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to school so I can prepare for my one woman show a week from today. It's a long story.

Tomorrow's post will be longer and more interesting.

Until then,

Caroline

my job

For the past 5 semesters I have been a gallery monitor at my school's on-campus gallery. I pretty much was a security guard for the gallery. I have told many people to not touch the art. So. Many. People. Lots of old people, which has always seemed weird to me...Anyway this past semester the student coordinator had to step down and she asked me to take over! I was so surprised I was chosen to take over. There is a lot that goes into this job and I am a little nervous I am going to screw this up but I am also excited. This will be good for my resume and my experience in galleries. I will probably post monthly updates on how the job is going.

This is going to now segue into my likes and dislikes because it is Friday and because I like traditions. Here we go:

Likes:
1. my new job
2. getting things in the mail
3. Teen Wolf, mostly just Stiles though. Dylan O'Brien. I love you.

I know if we ever met and decided to get married or something we'd both be like this the whole time

Dislikes:
1. accidentally getting cologne on me (I smelled like a man earlier. A good smelling man that is, which I don't have that big a deal with but I'd rather smell like a lady)
2. revising schedules
3. the movie Endless Love. Oh my gosh that movie looks horrible and I have now seen a million ads for it and it just looks awkward and not good and I know it is going to get under 15% on Rotten Tomatoes

I hope you had a good week!

Until next time,

Caroline

layer up

For today's outfit post I have this little beauty from earlier this week. It's been freezing here and I can't go anywhere without wearing at least 4 layers. The button up was a present from my grandparents for my birthday. It's from Land's End. The shirt over it is a thicker shirt from Old Navy. I found it the other day looking for a coat. It was $7! It looks cute paired over a button up shirt like how I wore it here or just by itself.

The crescent shaped beaded bib is like an added on necklace! It's two for the price of one! Big statement necklaces have been pretty trendy so I could not pass up getting this shirt. It's also very sparkly and I am very partial to anything very sparkly, I get it from my mom. I kind of want to wear this outfit everyday for the rest of my life. 

Happy Thursday!

Until next time,

Caroline

some mixed emotions

Winter break is ending this week :-( / :-(

School is starting next week :-( / :-)

I have some mixed emotions about going back to school and finishing my undergraduate career but I'm also excited to see how things play out. I recently got promoted (uh, I don't know if you could even call it that) at my job at school and that will be a lot more responsibility. I recently made a schedule! I color coated it too!* And I may have some exciting projects coming up that are also going to be a lot of responsibility! AND I may even go on my first big girl spring break trip in a few months. Wow, look at you Caroline. You might not be a failure after all! Ok, I don't actually think I'm a failure. 

It's always hard leaving home though. I love my family and I love spending time with them. I don't go to school very far from home but I don't really come home too often other than for long breaks. And, going away for spring break means I probably won't see my parents or siblings for a really long time. I guess that's ok because after this semester they'll be seeing a lot of me. Muahahaa. 

School will also be cool because my ex-roommate is coming back from Italy and I've missed her and I just like seeing my current roommates everyday and I like being on a schedule and other things too. This has kind of been a rambly post so I'm going to leave it here. 

I'm in a good mood today.

Until tomorrow,

Caroline 

*SOMEONE HIRE ME