♥I Found Out Why I'm Not Pretty♥

♡Technique!♡

Who would have thought it! (Well, probably a lot of people have thought it.) My technique of applying my foundation, my eyelashes, and my eyeliner has been off for the shape of my eyes.

I have been applying eyeliner to the area of the lower eyelid towards the outer corners. But after looking at the inspiration I posted last night, namely this one,

I realised that I should try this approach for giving that emphasis on the middle of the eye, which can make your eyes look more...erhm.. endearing? Is that what I want to say? Hahaha! I want to say "doll-like", but the whole eye is supposed to be "dolly". Oh well. Moving on!

The second thing I realised I needed to do was to sort of twist my eyelashes before I put them on. I realised this by accidentally squishing the end half of on of my eyelashes whilst putting on makeup and had a lightbulb-over-head moment. 

Ah-Ha!

It is exactly what I was trying to achieve. I don't even think I will need to double up my falsies. The effect here is that it makes my eyes look more rounded and my eyelashes more dynamic.

The lassst thing I discovered is that I desperately needed a good moisturizer (but was stubbornly waiting for money to be able to get my favourite), and really needed a new foundation. I really like Shiseido brand cosmetics but they are so expensive I just can't do it right now. I've had The Makeup Dual Balancing Foundation

 for a while and really liked it, but I thought I was just not applying it correctly. I think now it is just the makeup itself that doesn't work right for me. I use a primer, I exfoliate my skin, I was using  the Shiseido moisturizer. I finally started using a brush instead of fingers to apply it and that was when I realised the makeup just didn't work. It was always going to look chalky on my face.

Any tips you guys can give will be greatly appreciated!♡

Cheers,

Kat

♥What I Like♥

♡And What I Want To Look Like♡

Here are some of my inspirational girlie looks!

あん〜！どうしおね！こんな女の子のように可愛い子になりたいだけど、出来るかな．．．ヽ(;´д｀)ノ

今これはライフの中に一番問題わ。(～o～)

I'm going to sleep now.

Augh, なんかnow I'm depressed.

-Kat

That's Much Better! (And Some Makeup Photos!)

How do you like all the pink? 

(´･ω･｀)

I really like this template. I got it off of this website. Cute, でしょう！

I need some help from you guys out there. I have a conundrum figuring out where and what to buy for my eye makeup. I've been struggling to figure out what kind of makeup I should use for my eyes. There are SO many kinds to look at. Let me give you some examples:

Those are only a few different kinds. But of course the possibilities are almost endless.

You may notice that these eyes are gyaru style. I have been refraining from using that term because I don't consider myself gyaru-- rather, I just want to look as cute and pretty as I can. 

It is a problem that I have caucasian eyes for the use of this kind of eye makeup. I have a hard time following the tutorials because some aspects of it don't deliver the same effects that they do on an Asian-looking eye. 

What I want, people, is a clean and simple eye makeup that gives a pretty 《ＰＯＰ》. 

Here are some pictures of my makeup trials:

A little too much eyeliner, no real eye enlargement.

Okay, but really just elongating my eye, and not adding much in terms of height due to lack of attention to the lower lid.

Same complaint as above.

This is my favourite look yet (except for the fact that I managed to do something very weird while putting on my foundation that made me look chalky). A Little too much eyeliner on top, but the lower lashes were awesome. I lost one of them, though, so I currently don't have any lower falsies. This look gave my eyes that enlargement I want with minimal makeup. My only complaint is that this look was a little more spiky and less soft and dolly like I want.

I'm not sure exactly where to take this at this point. I'll do a post on the looks I find most ideal in a minute.

Any help??

Baibai Cuties,

Kat

Why Did I Start This Blog Anyway? ( Part 2: The Pretty Project)

♡The Pretty Project♡

The reason I started this blog was to document my research and trials and errors in becoming pretty.

The Pretty Project is for me to boost my confidence by investing time and energy into my looks and achieving good results.

As I said in Part 1, I am doing Intuitive Eating. I am hoping to lose weight in doing this, but in order to achieve any weight loss, I have to stop thinking about food. And by "food" I mean weight, clothing size, calories, meal planning, and foods. Because when I'm obsessed, I am stressed, and I am eating to cope with it.

So the Pretty Project is my way of focusing on something else.

I will be wearing these things most days:

• Hair Extensions
• False Eyelashes
• Full Foundation
• Eyeliner
• Eyeshadow

I will also be posting pictures of my progress and products I'm using and how, etcetera.

Ciao Fellow Bellas

-Kat

Why Did I Start This Blog Anyway? (Part 1)

Well, I'll Tell You!

I have made an early New Year's resolution to myself to get prettier.

Yeah, everyone is pretty. Yes, beauty is second to intelligence.

But! Beauty, or more specifically effort put forth towards achieving prettiness, can boost confidence!

The first thing on my list is to lose weight. And it is this exact goal which has prompted me to start this prettiness-escapade. I am a gal who has suffered from b.e.d. (binge eating disorder) and emotional eating for most of my life, intermittently with losing a whole bunch of weight by being on a diet.

I recently started vlogging with this brand new diet idea: I was going t count calories and plan my meals the day before and weigh myself everyday and be oh-so-good and become the skinniest damn girlie this world has seen!

Well, two weeks in and over four major binges later, I was disgusted with myself and downtrodden. What do you do when the thing that helps you is hurting you? You ask "why". And the answer is that I was dieting. Period. The answer is that I have been dieting and hating myself and making up rules around food and eating and weight to the point that I didn't even like eating anymore. I hated it.

Now I'm doing Intuitive Eating. I have been doing it for a little over a week now. I don't think I have lost any weight, but I do know that I have calmed down a lot! I am in a phase of disarming foods though exposure; a.k.a. eating foods I have told myself I wasn't allowed to because of different reasons ("eat something healthier", "If you start eating that you'll never stop, so don't start", etcetera). 

I like the calmness that has been coming on. I'm going to continue. I haven't lost any weight yet, as I said, but I haven't gained any either. In fact, I think my legs look pretty good recently. I'll maybe do a post on Intuitive Eating at some point when I have more experience under my belt.

Hold the banana phone! There was a tangent in there! I'm going to reign that in and explaaaaaiiiiin the original Pretty Project here. "Pretty Project". I rather like that. ( *o u o *)
Part Two coming up!