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Event: Calgary Stampede
No, not the search engine. Let me hear your best “Yahoo!”, you know… outloud. It is Stampede here in Cowtown. So everyone has got their cowboy hats and boots on. I should even go as far to say eveyone has their drinking faces on too. Stampede time is one big excuse to round up your friends (or office and clients) and seriously get your drink on. Even taking a walk down Stephen Ave at lunchtime seems like mission immpossible – the crowds are insane!

So yes, I have gone to the grounds already! Sunday, Eva Avila and Divine Brown played the Coke Stage. Eva was alright, but Divine blew me away. She was excellent live. She even did a tribute to M.J. and did her version of a slower Billie Jean song (which is fyi, my favorite M.J. song). Music aside, I enjoyed lots and lots of food. The only thing I was not too thrilled about was the Deepfried Cheesecake. People… you can get these everywhere! I’ve been to a few bars that have had this on their menu. DON’T waste your $7! Spend that money on minidonuts! Trust me. Also went and saw the mini donkeys and walked around the round-up-centre. Lot’s of stuff to see, not a lot worth buying. No suprise there!

I’ve always liked the Stampede. I mean it really puts Calgary on the map for ten whole days. My parents weren’t huge on taking us a kids, but really I am not bothered by that. In fact the amount of unatended children running around the grounds is alarming! First of all it is quite annoying to have to dodge people every few seconds now add in small children in the mix. Oh it can be irritating. Second of all, they don’t screen people entering the park people! There could be creeps all around ready to snatch your child. Actually, I am suprised missing children reports don’t sky rocket in our city during Stampede.

Make-up: Bare Escentuals
Ok, so a few months ago… I think sometime near Christmas I blogged about a make-up line that I had just bought. Well after using it these last few months, here is my review. I think it went on well and looked really natural. It is quite pricey, but I didn’t expect anything less as it was sold at Sephora. The packaging was great, super trendy and compact (plastic too, so completely recyclable – for you earth lovers like me). The mineral powder itself, after application, feels like a liquid foudation. Most of all, I really liked how easy it was to apply. Applying it with the Kabuki brush made make-up application effortless!

Ok so there was the good stuff mainly, now for the bad. Their products may make your skin look great, but the make-up is not very natural. For instance, from just looking at a few of the products on their shelves, some of their products contain paraben. After I saw this I did a little reserach online and found that the ingredients in their make-up line is not that safe for your skin. In other words, other make-up lines offer safer cosmetics).

So I am now trying Phycisians Formula Organic Wear. I was so psyched to try this line. Not only does it claim to be organic, but most of their containers are fully recyclable! For instance the powder compact is made out of cardboard. After trying it for a few weeks now, I am sort of dissapointed. The liquid foundation went on too oily for my face and I felt really oily throughout the day. So I tried using powder over the foundation and found that I felt my face was too “cakey”. So now I am just using my Bare Escentuals kabuki brush with the pressed powder. I have found success in this – the only issue is that I have really dry skin, so I have to use moisturizer before applying my powder. DON’T get their concealer. I was very dissapointed when my stick snapped in half.

So overall I don’t think i will be buying this line again. The only product so far that I liked was the pressed powder (I bought the mascara but have not opened it yet). And for a drugstore brand it was quite expensive. I have no problem with paying more for organic, but not if the product does not work for me.

So once again I am on the never ending search for a healthy and usuable cosmetic line. After some preliminary research, I think I will be trying Gourmet Body Treats next. The only downside is that it is only sold online. But it seems that is the way a lot of people are going – as opposed to a shop, I guess an internet store really cuts down on costs.

Another Dissapointment:
I really wanted to like this line, but Burt’s Bees has disspointed me. They use fragrance in some of there products which is not good for sensitive skin. I’ve tried their shampoo and conditioner and felt it left my hair wirey (if that makes sense). I won’t be buying their shampoo and conditioner again. I bought their almond hand cream and was disapointed after rubbing it into my hands. Off the bat it smelled like Twizzler sticks (artificial fragrance of course) but after a few minutes it smelled really bad on my skin. I won’t be buying that again – in fact I will be throwing it out… half full. Oh and I am trying their Herbal Deodorant now… and o.m.gosh I smell like a natural food market. It’s herbal alright! It seems to do the trick for keeping your body smell away, but the spray itself is not that feminine, and well I had to face the truth, I am a princess, I can’t be smelling like that! (See below – Bubble and Bee) I now have to use this (as I don’t have any alternative right now) until my other deodorant arrives. I was using Miessence before, which worked well! It was a great deodorant. It was just that it also did not smell feminine, and it also was a bit pricey as it had to be shipped from Australia. I won’t be ordering that one again.

The two items I did like by this line was their facial scrub and rosewater toner. These two products worked well for my skin. The face wash smells medicinal (which I am fine with because the smell doesn’t linger). The toner… I loved! It smells great (natural rose smell ) I will definately buy the toner again but probably nothing else!

Other Organic Fun: Bubble and Bee
Back to the deodorant issue… I have recently come accross a line called Bubble and Bee. Now I have not tried their products (it’s actually in the mail – they only have an online store like GBT) but from reading what people have to say about their experiences, I am quite thrilled to try it out. I even convinced Michael to try their deodorant. So who knows, maybe I have found the solution to my everending search for healthy and good smelling deodorant and lotion.

Hello June!

I cannot believe it is June 1st already! Seriously one month of my summer is already gone! I have a feeling this summer is going to go by so fast.

We attended Beerfest this past weekend. It was a lot of fun. I drank probably a little too much, but I figured since I had had a long week it was totally needed. I think I am still recovering actually. I got the sniffles mid-week last week and managed to get rid of it in 2 days, and now it feels like it’s back. I guess that is what stress and too much partying does to a girl. Haha.

I don’t know if it’s because I am feeling under the weather, but I just don’t seem to have much motivation to do anything. I hate this feeling. I wish I felt normal.