10 Day You Challenge - Last 6 in One!

Hello!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you are having a lovely day no matter if you celebrate it where you are or not. 

I started the 10 Day You Challenge in the beginning of October and obviously I didn't complete it in 10 days.  So I thought I'd link up with Blog Love Therapy today and finish it all up.





So I last posted about 7 Wants - and now I am on to :

6 Places
I could easily pick 6 places I want to visit, but I there are great places I have been that I would happily be.  So I am going to do 3 and 3.

The first 3 are places I have been to and LOVE:
#1 Yellowstone National Park - 

Yellowstone is just amazing to me - it has so many amazing geographical elements as you can see in the illustration above.  I love camping there, It just is like a wonderland to me.

#2 Ruby Beach, Washington State:

Another place that is just lovely and sooo peaceful to me.  It was sunny the day I was there and I found a huge tree that was laying on the beach and it was basically driftwood (so very soft) and I just rested on it and watched the waves and it was one of the most peaceful and relaxing hours of my life.

#3 Abu Simbel, Egypt

I was lucky enough to spend a week in Egypt and although the pyramids, and Luxor Temple are amazing - Abu Simbel is MAGICAL.  When you see it, it leaves you awestruck, and just blown away that this was created thousands of years ago, and the architectural intricacies are mind blowing.  I truly don't have the words to describe it.

And three places I want to see:

LONDON - I know I was British in another life!  I took my current job on the chance we may go public and I wouold get to possibly move to the UK to do start up training.

Hong Kong:

So little space so much Amazingness and technology and luxury!

Kyoto, Japan:

Beautiful Architecture and Natural Beauty and just history overflowing!

So that's my six places!  Onto 5 foods!

5 Foods:

The thing about food is I don't really LOVE anything... I just eat a lot of crap because it's easy.  Chips or carrots I don't care, whatever is lying about, but these things I will always say yes to:

#1) Diet Coke - indeed just for the taste of it!

#2) Candy - I have a terrible sweet tooth
#3) Croissants -

#4) Chips and Salsa (but the salsa needs to be Mild and not "saucy")
#5) Panera Cinnamon Crunch Bagels

Not very exciting - so onto 4 Books-

4 Books:

I love Books!  I have read over 500 in the past 10 years.  I keep a book diary and I am on book #519 since 2003.  It's actually not that hard for me to pick just 4 as there are very few books I have absolutely LOVED.  Here are four that I think are among the greatest I have ever read:

1) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2) Random Family - Adrain Nicole Leblanc
3) Snow Flower & the Secret Fan - Lisa See
4) The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

Let me know if you read any of these and what you thought :)  Now if you are still reading on to 3 films:

3 Films:

#1) The Sound of Music

I love the songs, the scenery and Captin VonTrapp

#2) Anchorman

Best one liners, Best fight scene and the CLOTHES! 

#3) Secretary

James Spader as I imagine him to be ... wonderful.

2 Songs:
 I am not hugely into music (GASP I know!)  So I'm just going to go with songs I have loved for a long time and don't tire of listening to.

#1) All I ask of you - Sarah Brightman
#2) Vogue - Madonna

AND FINALLY! 

1 Picture

Thanks for reading!

Jasmine

Influenster...Kinky Moves Hair Cream

Hello:
Tonight I gave my sample of Not Your Mothers "kinky moves" hair cream from the Influenster Beauty Blogger Vox Box a try.

I think it's rather humorous that it's called Not your Mother's Kinky Moves (I sure hope my mother doesn't have any kinky moves!)  Anywhoo, I have naturally curly hair but it's fairly thin so it frizzes rather easily.  The cream claims to "It eliminates frizz and fly aways to show your true locks."  It did not specify how much to use but to " Apply to hair and saturate locks. Distribute evenly form root to top. Scrunch curls and style as desired, then blow-dry upside down or air dry to reveal smooth, long lasting curls, all day long." 

So I used a quarter sized "dollop"

Although they suggest to scrunch your hair, because mine is so thin the more I scrunch the more the curls fall apart and just become frizz.  Although it is infused with grapeseed & Jasmine, it does not have a very strong smell.  I actually like my hair products to leave behind a bit of scent (as long as it's nice) :)

Here are the results - and no make up for me!

My hair is probably 90% dry here - the cream didn't reduce frizz and I don't think it boosted my curls.

Even less impressive from the back.  So no "Kinky Moves" for me. Just frizzy waves :(   I may actually use it when I straighten my hair and see what happens.

Jasmine

Day 7 0f the 10 Day You Challenge

Hello!

Today is seven wants.. oh man only 7??

1) In life I just want peace and happiness.
2) A Custom built house with a huge library and Dressing room
3) A BMW 700 series sedan in black

4) Hair like Blake Lively:

5) A trip around Europe for a year
6) To take classes at Cinema Makeup School in LA
7) ALL the MAKEUP

Jasmine

10 Day You Challenge.. day 8 fears

Hello:

Here is my continuation of the :

I am on Eight so here are some of my fears:
1) That I will never meet the right guy and get married
2) That I will get in car accident that is my fault and hurt someone
3) That I will get blamed for a crime I didn't commit (This one has been with me since I was young...it's just weird)
4) Also along the weird note Cockroaches...specifically that one could crawl into my ear or something....ick al yuck
5) When I am up somewhere high someone will push me over the edge.  I am not scared of heights when I am alone...but if there is another person I want them to stay AWAY from me!
6) I am a Coulrophobic. (fear of clowns!)
7) I don't if I just really don't like the dentist or I fear going, all I know is I hate going and always worry something is going to be wrong and I'll have to go more often!
8) That I'm doing permanent damage by lazy and not eating healthy these last few years.

In essence I think it boils down to me being a passive control freak :)

Jasmine

10 day you challenge continued...

I'm back again to continue my list




Now onto my nine loves...
1) I love croissants, love, love, love
2) I love rainy days in bed with a good book, hot apple cider and my precious kitty Tank


That's 16 pounds of love right there - he's so precious!
 

3) I love "crafts" almost as much as makeup, I make cards, and quilts and cross stitch and just DIY in general
4) I love books.  I can't go a day without reading.
5) I love Martha Stewart, I just think she is bad a$$

source: bing images

6) I love helping people with projects (like building IKEA furniture for them, or painting a room) whatever, just to make some one's day easier
7) I love baths (a good soak + super exfoliation + full body lotion = heaven
8) I love sitting in a shady but warm area by the sea and just watching the waves

Ruby Beach - WA state

9) I love Diet Coke...just for the taste of it!

Good thing there not a section about things that piss me off...we would be here all day.

Jasmine