My favorite beauty productz~!~

My favorite beauty products by gusta88 featuring a gold nailpolish

1. Bare Minerals Brush. I've used these brushes since my bare minerals phase freshman year of college. I grew out of their make up (Chrome doesn't sell it, AKA, I don't believe in it) but stayed faithful to the line's tools. Kind of like lose the boy keep the toy. Kind of.
2. Visible Lift by L'oreal. I am not a faithful "foundation/base make up" user. I switch literally every time I buy. I've tried the mouse versions, the Maybelline FIT line, Covergirl,  the translucent powder crap and so on. My favorite is actually the Cargo brand...
•  But it is a little bit out of my budg. My latest try-out foundation is Visible Lift by L'Oreal and I'm more impressed with it than any other Walgreens brand. I feel like I wear less make up when I put this on. Which is always good since the other day, wearing a different brand, my dad offered to hand me a knife to carve off my make up. Thanks, dad.
3. BB Cream Youth Code by L'oreal. Tried this for the first time today. You can't turn on the TV or open a magazine without being bombarded by BB cream ads. IT'S ALL THE RAGE. Needless to say, it really IS all it's cracked up to be. I put it on before the foundation and since it's tinted, you don't need as much make up. OH AND MY FACE IS AS SOFT AS A WIDDLE BAYBAY'S. 
4. Neutrogena SPF moisturizer. If you don't put on SPF everyday, WHAT THE EF ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE??????????? Everyone should. Except men, because they eat what they want and do what they want and get younger and fitter every day. I'm talking to you women-hags out there. Put on SPF. EVERY DAY. Technically we are supposed to reapply it throughout the day but ain't nobody got time for dat. 
5. St. Ives Timeless Skin. I'm that annoying 21 year old person who puts on anti-aging cream every night. START YOUNG, STAY YOUNG BITCHES. I bought this cream because I read on Pinterest #storyofmylife that it's just as good as the department store brands. While I'm sure that's absolutely not true, it gives me a false impression that I am doing something good for my face every night and for that I am forever thankful to Saint Ives, which by the way, when I was little (probably until age 16) I called it Stives. 
6. VASELINE, Y'ALL. I was cursed with dry skin that is faintly similar to the dry cracked desert ruins that which I live in. In the winter, I oft have to slather my chin in good ol' Vas because my skin just literally peels off of my face, it's cruel and unusual. One time a dear kappa friend asked me, "Did you make out with that sandpaper face guy again?" No. That, I did not. (refer to augusta goes on a date blog). 
7. My blush spiel. Okay, here we go. I'm about to talk about blush. I started wearing it, oh, I believe freshman year of college, and I do believe it changed my life. OMG MY FACE HAS DIMENSION, says I. And then I heard of the magic and wonder that is NARS blush in the "Orgasm" shade. This is the most popular blush in America. Women DIE FOR THIS SH*T. NARS even came out with a "Super Orgasm" shade. 
• Here we have, the Super Orgasm. IF YOU CAN'T ALREADY TELL, THERE IS GLITTER SPARKLE SHINE IN THIS. Or what the professionals call it, "ShImMeR" MY DEAR FRIENDS. SHIMMER IS CODE FOR TACKY MARIAH CAREY STYLE GLITTER. No self respecting woman purposely puts "SHIMMER" on her face before she goes out to take on the world. The ONLY reason women slap this on their face is because it is called "orgasm." If this was the Wet n' Wild brand, called, "grandma's favorite color" NO ONE WOULD BUY IT. It's actually really genius, NARS and their sneaky ways. Good product branding. They also have a blush shade called "Deep Throat" which I think is completely inappropriate, and that is coming from a inappropriate person. 
• ANYWAYS. I LIKE MAYBELLINE'S FIT LINE BLUSH. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ON THAT.
8. Bronzer. Not picky. Maybelline FIT brand is just fine. 
9. Too Faced Eye Shadow. OBSESSED with this. It's probably really high school of me, but just one little set of that crap will last me years. And it better, because it's like thirty something a pop. Each little set comes with little cards that explain how to put on eye shadow for all you idiots out there that don't know what to do with your hands. 
10. Voluminous mascara by L'Oreal. I take mascara seriously. My eyelashes are my only good feature. Some people have great boobs, or great legs, or great lips. AUGUSTA NEAL HAS GREAT INCOMPARABLE EYE LASHES. I have used this brand since high school. I do not stray from the Voluminous. I buy it two at a time because I go through that crap more than iTunes goes through updates. 
11. Eye Cream by Simple. I have puffy eyes. I just do. My mom tells me to just put cucumbers in my eyes but I don't have patience for that. EyE LyKe Dis StUfF. 
12. John Frieda for Blondes. It keeps your blonde hair.... . . .blonde. 
13. Sinful nail polish in black. BLACK NAIL POLISH IS HERE TO STAY. 
14. Essie "good as gold" LUV DIS COLOR Y'ALL. I've been sporting it since July and although Essie is one of the more expensive brands, it's been 5 months and it still hasn't gone bad. SO IT'S WORTH ALL EIGHT DOLL HAIRS.
15. Euphoria by Calvin Klein. I'd like to think this is my signature scent. However, I'm out of it :( So I either A) need mas or B) need to find another signature scent or C!!!!!) BOTH!!!!!!!
16. Wet n Wild in nouveau pink. I feel like a prostitute wearing lipstick that is less than a dollar, but I JUST SRSLY LYKE THIS COLOR OF PINK. It's bright and says "I'm young enough to be able to both pull this off and get away with it if I ever look back and regret it."
17. Nars lipstick in "gipsy" It's a subdued red that works for white girls, and most likely, you need it. 

AREN'T YOU DYING TO GO TO WALGREENS NOW??????? #CARLSBAD

Why Pinterest is actually really annoying

"WHAT???? BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!" you think. 

Well, it is. 

It's annoying. 

For 6 reasons that don't include the annoying fitness models 

and sinful recipes pinned adjacent to each other.

1. This girl.
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•   You really can't escape from her. There is not ONE fashion board on pinterest that doesn't include this child. I SAY CHILD BECAUSE SHE IS ONLY 15. SHE IS FIFTEEN. SHE IS PROBABLY PREPARING HER QUINCINERA WITH OTHER SCARF-CLAD FIFTEEN YR OLD BABIES. Also, she lives in Sweden, and her name is Petra, and she is a Pinterest celebrity because she first became a lookbook.nu celebrity. SO THERE. NOW YOU KNOW THE ORIGIN OF 75% OF YOUR PINTEREST FASHION BOARD. OH. ALSO. She is always wearing a scarf and skinny pants. always. always. a l w a y s. 
2. "How To Blow Dry Your Hair" video tutorials.
• REALLY, AMERICA????? DO WE NEED 8,249 VIDEO TUTORIALS ON THE PINTERESTSPHERE VISUALLY EXPLAINING HOW TO BLOW AIR ON YOUR HEAD??? I don't get it. What is easier than blow drying your hair. Accompanying that, are the "how to curl your hair" or "how to wear a bun" tutorials, ALL OF WHICH MADE BY AND FOR REALLY BORED PPL which brings me to my next point.
3. The concept of the "Top Knot"
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• I mean...... I'm glad a fashion blogger woke up one day and said, "I don't have time to do my hair I'll just throw it on top of my head, literally" and then coined it the term "top knot." What a *~*~catchy*~* lil sneaky ploy. Top Knot. Which is actually, in most cultures around the world, also known as "Sh!t hair" or "Homeless hair" and it has now turned into a worldwide epidemic of "fashionistas" PURPOSELY putting their hair in a bun mess atop their head. MOST PEOPLE CANNOT PULL THIS OFF. MOST PEOPLE THINK THEY CAN. I, HARD TO BELIEVE, I KNOW, CANNOT. 
• ANOTHER THING. Let's be honest, an american fashionista did NOT invent the ever-covetted "top knot"
• THESE BITCHES DID>> so let's all get real and give sumo wrestlers the credit they deserve. 
• SOMEONE'S GOTTA STAND UP FOR 'EM.
4. Half naked males
• Okay, one or two pics of a hot dude, I get it. Fine. I'm sure I've been guilty of a Ryan Lochte or Ryan Gosling pin here or there. BUT if you have an entire Pinterest board solely of half naked males in different outfits and sceneries, like a calendar, I hate you. 
• That's all I have to say on this subject.
5. But if you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve--OH SHUT THE HELL UP
• Cheesy overused quotes, in general, are rampant on this platform, but MARILYN MONROE QUOTES PARTICULARLY PUSH MY BUTTONS. How many times do we all have to hear/see this quote?????????????? WE GET IT. YOU'RE BIPOLAR.
6. Im-fcking-possible nails
• IS EVERYONE ON PINTEREST VIETNEMESE???? Because that's the only way I see everyone able to do the following IMPOSSIBLE nail art: 
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• Maybe I'm just bitter because my nails stopped growing when I was 5 and I don't have an adequate canvas for the world of "nail art"

What's sad is the amount of times I blog about Pinterest or the Kardashians #productofmygeneration #genY

I woke up this morning AND I'M STILL NOT BLAIR EADIE

She's my favorite person I've never met

LOOK AT ALL THAT MINT. 

I asked Santa to turn me into her on christmas morning. 

I didn't wake up as Blair Eadie but it's fine I'm just going to name all my children Blair Eadie even the boys. 

Merry christmas, everyone!! I think I need to get off the computer and go on a long christmas walk/jog/run/sprint/lunge/hike thing. #christmasmeals

HI

If you haven't noticed, I made a few ssshhhanges to the design of this blog.

HERE'S WHAT I LOOK LIKE TODAY. SEE THIS REALLY IS A FASHION BLOG. I'VE WORN THAT GRAY STRIPPED SHIRT AS A PAJAMA TOP THE LAST THREE NIGHTS. LOL. 

IT'S YOUR TURN KENDALL JENNER

Mid-article writing on a casual Friday night circa 12a.m., it suddenly occurred to me: 

KENDALL JENNER FAILED TO HAVE AN AWKWARD TEENAGE PHASE IN HER LIFE. 

awk·ward  

/ˈôkwərd/

Adjective Causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with Particularly pertaining to time in one's life in which one is fugly in both the face and body region This phase is certain to happen when one undergoes 6th-8th grade Kendall Jenner is excluded from this rule

WHAT IS IT LIKE LOOKING LIKE A FRESH FACED 22 YR OLD AT 17, KENDALL?????

WAIT, WHAT???????? WHY DIDN'T I LOOK LIKE THIS AT MY PROM?????

Kendall Jenner on family vacations in Mexico:

OH, JUST A CASUAL ROLL THROUGH THE SAND????? MY FAMILY VACATIONS TO MEXICO WERE A LITTLE LESS GLAMOROUS?????????? I HAD CORN ROWS?????????? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY WEARING A SMOKEY EYE???????????? COOL BEACH WAVES?????

Augusta Neal on family vacations in Mexico:

THIS ISN'T REALLY ME BUT YOU GET THE IDEA

Oh, wait, I'm not done, because when I typed in "corn rows" into Google images, YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO POPPED UP WELL YOU GUESSED IT, NONE OTHER THAN THE FAMOUS AWKWARD-PHASE-FREE KENDALL EFFING JENNER.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW. K-JENN SPORTING "CORN ROWS." AND WINGED EYE LINER. AND  TRENDY EARRINGS. AND AN ECLECTIC INSTAGRAM FILTER THAT SAYS "I'M RICH AND PRETTY BUT STILL USE PHONE APPS THAT THE PEASANTS USE."

AWKWARD PHASE: We all had to do it. ALL OF US had to get braces, get fat, get acne, get awkward, AND TAKE 238904 PICTURES OF THE PHASE WITH OUR DISPOSABLE KODAKS. It seems as though teenagers nowadays are not only hotter, BUT NOW THEY HAVE INSTAGRAM FILTERS TO EMPHASIZE IT. Well, Kendall, I'm pissed and not easily forgiving this.

In fact, I just typed in "Kendall Jenner awkward phase" into google, AND THIS GEM POPPED UP

WHICH IS WEIRD BECAUSE THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MY AWKWARD PHASE LOOKED LIKE.

Awkward phase, as I knew it, included but was not limited to (6th-8th grade):

• Avril Lavigne/punk rock/angsty teen themes. I think I shopped at Hot Topic for a phase in my life. Because I wanted to buy band shirts. So I could show my peers that I listened to COOL music. Like Simple Plan. sorry i can't be perfect....
• Don't worry, also wore the bracelet sweatbands. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT BUT I THINK THEY MAY HAVE HAD CAREBEARS ON THEM.
• This phase also entailed think rubber bracelets and A LOT of them. emphasis on A LOT. 
• Ripped jeans involved.
• Braces with BLACK RUBBER BANDS. BLACK. BLACK. BLACK. why???? did i do that to myself????????? b l a c k??????????????????
• Crimped hair. HAHA CRIMPED HAIR HAHA.
• Puffy vans.
• I literally wore vans.
• As if to say "I own a skateboard" or something. 
• When my shirts didn't scream "I'm emo and this shirt is a soft cry for help" I wore shirts that reeked of Hollister, A&F, and American Eagle. Surf board shirts in New Mexico because that makes complete sense. 

Problems future Kendall Jenn will struggle with in her lifetime because she never had an ugly phase:

• She'll have nothing to laugh at looking back at her yearbooks
• Her husband(s) won't trust her
• Multiple personality disorders:
• I have to be prettier than everyone syndrome
• I have to be skinner than everyone-itus
• I have to look effortlessly smoldering in this selfie or I'll retake it 82 times disease
• OMG MY NAIL POLISH IS CHIPPED DON'T LOOK AT ME I'M HEINOUS-itus
• I'm under the impression I'm hotter than Kate Upton-syndrome

K-Jenn, just because your dad was an Olympic athlete and your mom..... is whatever she is, doesn't mean you can just forego the dog/troll/woof phase of your life.

LOVE, 

13 yr old me

What I learned the first semester of my last year in college

Just this morning, my EMC (website design class) professor posted on our Facebook class wall announcing our grades have been submitted (BY THE WAY, DREW, I'D RLY LIKE DAT B+ TO GO AHEAD AND BE BUMPED TO A MODEST A-, I KNOW WHERE YOUR OFFICE IS) and that he hopes we at least learned 3 things in his class. Which got me to thinking.... what DID I learn in this class???? In this semester???? IN THIS LIFE??????????????

In class, I would say I learned how to pretty much whip up any code, as I be havin dat <HTML>  memorized like it's my name. 2) I learned that you have to ATTACH/CONNECT the external style sheet to your html doc #websitejargon AND THAT IT DOES NOT HAPPEN AUTOMATICALLY. Also learned that THERE ARE 2489389234 WEBSITES OUT THERE THAT WILL MAKE YOU A FREE WEBSITE AND DO ALL THE LAYOUT CRAP FOR YOU. TEXT WRANGLER AND DREAMWEAVER ARE HIGHLY UNNECESSARY AMMIRITE?????? whtvr. 

The third thing I learned is to always have a "LOL" worthy joke on hand. Because at the end of every really rude pop quiz there would be bonus questions something to the effect of "if i laugh at this joke you get two extra points" Needless to say, a lot of my quiz grades were just those two points because OBVZ I'm always having something extremely hilarious up my trendy sleeve and obvz I wasn't prepared for rude pop quizes because I'm too busy blogging and tweeting and else important activities than studying code on my free time but whtvr. He laughed at them all except that one time I threw in a joke about the Beibs (justin beiber duh) and Drew CLAIMS he didn't laugh.... plz....

WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY ORIGINAL POINT OF WRITING THIS BLOG WHEN I REALLY SHOULD BE INTERVIEWING PEOPLE FOR LA VENTANA BUT WE'LL GET TO THAT LATER...

Here is where Augusta (21 year-old sorority girl living in Lubbock, TX, obsessed with pugs, babies, and vodka cranberries coffee)  lists what she learned in the fall of 2012. 

1. AP Style writing is rude and I'm not good at it. Like #realtalk I wrote a story for the yearbook this year about first Friday art trail, and I do NOT think it is stretching it to say that I highly doubt they can even use the article. It is THAT bad. LOL. LOL. I learned that while I'm decent at writing, I am a huge personality that is hard to contain in the bland straight-forward style of AP. I BET CARRIE BRADSHAW ALSO HATED AP STYLE. But it's a learning experience and follow your dreams and skies the limit and live laugh love and all those other cliches so yolo. 
2. HOW THE HELL DOES ETHERNET WORK. I spend circa $11 at the local Wal-Mart buying an ethernet work, go home plug that sh*t in the wall and laptop, WAIT PATIENTLY FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN and nothing. Internet still sucks. RLY DOE SOME1 COME OVR AND HELP A GURL OUT
3. So that wasn't a learning experience I just really want someone to fix my ethernet
4. I'll probably call that really hot guy from ExpertTech over, does he offer that service???????
5. I am at least 2390238904 x hotter as a blonde. 

Like, I mean, not to sound conceited, BUT WHEN YOU SPEND TWENTY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE LOOKING LIKE THIS☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝
E YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GET A LITTLE COCKY  WHEN YOU TURN TWENTY ONE AND YOUR HAIR IS BLONDER AND YOU WAKE UP AND YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND YOU REALIZE, DAMN, I'M LIKE KIND OF A FOX.

I MEAN AMMIRITE???????? SOLID IMPROVEMENT??????  

Sorry about the horrid quality, dark, and blurriness of the above and might I add current picture of myself, but while I may look better with blonde hair, I also look a HELLUVA lot better in darker, fuzzier, blurrier, pictures, after a few drinks in your blood system okay okay. 

Which brings me to my next learning experience of the semester. 

6. Fake hair so awesome I really want to use expletives but I won't because I know this blog reaches the sensitive older and younger demographics. Really though I have a discount card to Sally's and that's only because it costs an arm and a leg to buy 18" human hair that clips ever so easily and naturally into your own. I def be having the extensions popped in there in the above picture. BUT YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT UNTIL I TOLD YOU, YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS ALL REAL. I. love. extensions. 

I mean, I washed them today, won't lie, I felt more ghetto than I've probably ever felt in my life "washin muh weave" and believe me, THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING AS I DID ONCE TAKE A STROLL/DRUNKEN PRANCE THROUGH KONGS IN THE DEPOT DISTRICT.

7. I probably have no shame and one day I am going to embarrass my poor future children. 

Indian swag inside of Cricket's thanks to SAE on the rocks, or #SAEOTR if you're a tweeter

Here we have the improvised Devil costume, also in Crickets, weekend before Halloween. I should mention NO ONE ELSE GOT THE MEMO THAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DRESS UP IN A COSTUME TO THE BARS so sometimes you just gotta sport a costume by yourself sometimes you gotta boogie, as a dear friend of mine would say.

Last but certainly not least, Elf costume inside of PM. I'm sorry, but  if you can't make a party out of an elf costume and a little yoga dance moves in a public setting, then hope for you, there is not.

8. Though I may have no shame, it will one day lead me to my 2nd dream job of being the "Jay walker" on a late night talk show, where I get followed by a camera on the streets and ask strangers obscene questions. 

"WILL YOU HAVE SEX WITH THIS WOMAN?????????"

A'La Julian McCullough on Whitney Cummings' talk show, Love You, Mean it. Julian literally walked around a busy street and asked strangers, or rather, HARASSED strangers holding a picture of Whitney, and yelled, "WILL YOU  HAVE SEX WITH HER???????" It was hysterical. It was his attempt at finding her a boyfriend. 

So, in conclusion of #8, I would like to be the sidekick of a talk show and verbally harass passerbys. "Street interviews" as the professionals call it. 

This video of Billy Eichner street interviewing is my inspiration in life. It. Is. Hilarious. Plz just watch it. I can barely breathe laughing so hard when I watch it. 

☞☞☞☞☞http://teamcoco.com/video/billy-eichner-israel☜☜☜☜☜

That's all I got for now I desperately need to be productive the rest of the day bye. 

Christmas wish list includes but is not limited to....

wish list by gusta88 featuring michael kors watches

I'm not too old for christmas lists, right????????? 

I refuse to buy into that theory. 

The spoiled brat side of me (this takes up a large portion of me) would like a David Yurman ring with a ruby stone. But I mean, I will settle slash and or am not opposed to a rose gold Kors watch, something I've wanted for **quite some time** anywho...

Music Neal REALLY wants a Rolling Stones poster to put in her bathroom. Not the one featured in the collage, that one is stupid. Music Neal prefers one of these posters of the stones.

movieposter.com

therollingstones.rockvalhalla.com

 But Music Neal isn't done yet. ELLIE GOULDING HALCYON TOUR STARTS JANUARY 2013 and this is one of my favorite albums in the world. MAMA WANTS 2 GO. Which brings me back to The Stones..... word on the street is they are doing a tour of just covered songs????>>>>>> SIGN ME UP


Fitness Neal really got into hot yoga as of late. Even though she more or less passed out in her first class, she feels that signing up for the 10 class deal is in her future. Need yoga mat.


Movie Buff Neal would like one of Nora Ephron's books. Doesn't matter which one. Lalalalalalalalalalala. Sometimes I read lalalalala. I say movie buff, because Nora Ephron was one of the most famous comedian female script writers ever and she died this year and if you didn't know that than you should really re-evaluate your life/priorities.


Cant-get-enough-of-Jim-Halpert Neal would be ever so grateful to receive any and all seasons of The Office. Watching it at 11 on weeknights cuts into my bonding time with The Golden Girls and also my grade point average. In other news, Augusta Halpert really wants to watch The Office pantsless drinking cheap wine throughout the spring semester.





mazzletov <3