BELATED 2012 Recap!

Hey-o! I'm back! After having been neglectful for almost a year (in true Te$$ Money form, naturally!) here I am, back at it again. I really want to try and get better at this "being consistent" thing - it is forever a foreign idea that seems so good but is so hard in practice for an ultra impatient spass like me. But I've got so many things coming my way (ie. emergence of my superhero league of beauty makers, projects for big time production companies, the never ending stream of knock-your-socks-off editorials, and collaborations with foxy darlings galore - like, what?!) that I really want to have this in place so that I can have a vessel in which to gibber gabber at my heart's content! So okay, attempt number six hundred and forty two at TE$$ MONEY BLOGS DOT COM, alright?! Lets do this! Huzzah!

It has been eight months. Eight months is a long time; in New York, it's like half a lifetime! There is no good way to share with you ALL of the inspiring, tear jerking, frustrating, beautiful and for a lack of a better word, crazy things that happened in 2012. So I'm gonna let a series of instagrabs from my instastash do the instatelling (wanna instafriend me? tessxmoney!) for me! Enjoy the mini recap and do something spectacular today!

Twiggy Inspired Makeup

I love Twiggy. Wait, let me correct myself. I love the idea of Twiggy. I honestly don't know much about her, besides the fact that she was an iconic english model from the 60's with memorable makeup. Do I need to know more about her? Oh, I should know that she hosts some sort of reality show nowadays, you say. I should also know she has a singing career, you say. 

Cool. Awesome. Either way, I think she was fucking adorable in her prime, and that's about all  I know. And since I've kind of been on a "I love 60's & 70's fashion" kick, I wanted to do a Twiggy inspired look for a day. I tweaked it a bit to work for me, since I have Asian, flat, almost monolid-ed eyes, and I think it turned out a-okay! I normally don't wear pastels on my eyes, especially in the cold hued family because they can tend to look grey and muddy with my yellow toned skin, but I actually love the way the color came out this time around!

The trick is to cover your entire eye area with a white base. I used NYX white eyeshadow base, and it did the trick perfectly. I kept my eyebrows consistent with the color of my hair, because that's what I like. 

I went in and added black eyeshadow above my fake crease line because I wanted to fake the depth she has on my own flat eyelids. The illusion is pretty believable when my eyes are open!

Makeup role call time!

Face: MUFE HD Foundation // MUFE Full Cover Concealer // Clinique Bashful Blush // Urban Decay Toasted Bronzer

Eyes: Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion // NYX Eyeshadow Base in White // MUFE Star Powder in White Gold // Bobbi Brown Gel Liner in Black // Sugarpill Eyeshadow in Paperdoll, Bulletproof, Tako // Combination of Red Cherry/Daiso/Chinatown lashes (4 pairs in total) applied with DUO Lash Glue

Eyebrows: Sugarpill Eyeshadow in Poison Plum, Dollipop and Bulletproof

Lips: Cargo Lip gloss

An outtake for you because I look super dopey! And me wearing the best Twiggy-ish dress I could find in 3 minutes from French Connection. 

Okay, later dudes!

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TE$$MONEY

Retrospective: SF in April 2012

I woke up feeling rather pensive and melancholy. Maybe it's the sound of money draining out of my bank account, or maybe it's the very humbling dinner I had last night with Debbi, Io Waters and Dylan Monroe. I'm in my dream city, the weather's beautiful and all I can think about is how much I miss my friends back home. Not to say that I want to move back to California. I'd just like to put all my friends in a cardboard box, tape it up tightly and ship them all here so I can be in the city of my dreams AND have all the love, too! 

But, short of having that, I guess a reflective photo blog post will have to be good enough. April was a month filled with lots of farewell dinners, lots and lots of farewell parties, a hundred thousand hugs and a million kisses. My friends are so great and no matter where they are, I'm lucky to have them! 

I love that I've accepted Matt as being Matt but Twinkie is still Twinkie!

Amy ordered food that is bigger *gasp* than her SAS (Standard Asian Size) head.

No one was ready. Except me, because I'm always photo-ready! *~DIVA~*

At least I have this guy with me in New York. <3

I hear boob punching is the new planking.

Still working on building a family out here. You know what they say: you can't build entire families in a month and a half at a new city. What, you've never heard that one before? 

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TE$$MONEY

Back to life, 2012 style!

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Hello, friends! Hello!

I must start off by apologizing for my absence. I have completely neglected this blog for a good year and a half. Oh my! Where did the time go?! So much has transpired in the time I was gone and there is no good way to recap my time away, so let's just say... I've been busy. The last time I wrote in here, I was back at my parents'. Since then, I've moved to San Francisco, become homeless, found a home, became a barista, got lots of new tattoos, got an amazing boyfriend, quit my job, moved to New York... et cetera et cetera.

The point is, I'm back! And here for good (I hope), with a new purpose. I'll be focusing a lot more on what's going on in my life, what new things I'll be freaking out over (mostly shoes probably), and most importantly, showing you guys the work I'm doing in New York as a makeup artist.

Before I delve into my new life though, I feel that I owe you a photographic recap of the past year. So here I present to you, my poor excuse of a flashback: A look at 2011 through a series of some Grade-A iPhone photos.

Here's to looking back and starting anew! See you again soon!

Ciao!
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te$$

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Photo dump time! Woo woo!

Ugh, I adore these shoes, but I feet want to commit suicide every time I wear them.

The ground. It looks neat when there's water on it.

Om nom nom.

I got a bunch of these awesome huge gems at a dollar store in Japan. Score!

Hanging out at the cemetary.

Look at this juicy fellow I met in Oakland. Isn't he handsome?

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I am trying out to be a go-go dancer tomorrow, and I really want to know why it is still, in the year two thousand and ten going on two thousand and eleven, fashionable for dancers to wear monster fur leg warmers. Isn't that a bit late 90s? Why are these still the preferred legwear for hot sexy dancers to be wearing? What is it about the calves and ankles that need so much coverage and protection, and do men really look at legs clad in neon pink fur and think "Damn, her legs are SO HOT when they're furry!" I, for the record, do not own any and will not be wearing them to the audition. I'm just gonna wear highlighter yellow over the knee socks and hope they don't knock off points for having legwear that actually take the form of my legs.

Wish me luck!

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Make-Up Party chez Miss Kika!

Artwork of my friend MissKika!

Does her style look familiar? That's because she's responsible for the artwork that's on the Sugarpill packaging! We love her. :]

Let me tell you how much I enjoy putting make up on my friends. A whole lot. Yeah. This is because I have the cutest friends in the whole world. That, and they let me do whatever I want! Being a make-up artist isn't much fun for me and I mostly just do it for the $$$ cash monies. The exception is if I get to make over my friends or do fun make-up events such as the JapanLA x Sugarpill make-over party earlier this year.

Yeah, that was fun. (Picture stolen from Amy!)

So yesterday Liz, better known as the artist behind Miss Kika invited me over to her place for play time with make-up. Fun! Lucky for you, I have pictures to share.

Surprise surprise, Sugarpill in the house!

Everyone say hi to the before shot of Liz! Liz has the cutest apartment ever but they're packing up to leave for Korea, so there's boxes everywhere. I mean, they like to decorate their house with brown cardboard boxes because they're artists and it's artistic.

And after! I also used her new fancy ghd straightener to curl her hair. I sort of really want one now.

You so pretty, Liz!

Make-up shot. I use this color combo way too much. Way. Too. Much.

Haha, kept catching her mid sentence.

Her fancy ball chair! I'm going to steal it when they move and put it in my tiny room. Do you think i'll be able to sleep comfortably in this? I'm going to say yes.

What I Used:

Sugarpill -

Tako

Buttercupcake

Darling

Afterparty

Poison Plum

Lumi

Other -

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Mac Studio Fix Fluid

The Balm Time Balm Concealer

Unknown Japanese brand eyeliner

MAC Technakohl in Graphblack

NYX Eyeshadow in Dark Brown

NARS Blush in Orgasm

DIOR Lip Glow Color Reviver Balm

CoverGirl LashBlast Volume Mascara

And that's a wrap. Toodaloo folks!

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