Beauty Tips for the Lazy

So, being female, I am into looking good.  But when I ask someone who always looks nice how this happens, the story usually starts with "well, I set my alarm for four AM..."

I don't know about you guys, but I have better things to do at four in the morning or even at (prepare to be shocked) six in the morning than spend half an hour making my lips look bigger with a three step lip gloss.  Like....SLEEP.  I have accordingly become an expert on how to roll out of bed and not look like I have done so.  Instructions follow.

Tips for disguising greasy hair:

(We've all done it.  For those of you who have not, I have some beans to spill.  Lots of people are not 100% hygienic.  Shh.)

1. Baby powder: This little wonder is a girl's best friend.  If properly used (apply sparingly, avoid part, don't forget the underneath layers), greasy hair becomes virtually undetectable.
2. Wide headbands/hats:  The most noticeable part of greasy hair is the front.  Just cover it up.
3. Up-does: Much of the ugliness of greasy hair is the flat stick-to-your-head part.  If you can get it to puff up, that is more likely to be missed.  Loose messy buns do fine.
4. Straighten Your Hair:  Okay, this might take as long as a shower, but when hair is straight, it is okay for it to not have as much volume.
5. Get your hair wet: Last (and least) of these options is for extreme cases only.  If all else fails, get your hair wet and pull it back into a bun.  People will think that you woke up late and showered but could not dry your hair (if you dry your hair anyway, unlike me).  This will almost be true.

General Tips and Tips for "Acne Days":

1. Go light on the cover up/base:  As much as we all want to disguise our acne by pouring liquid skin all over our faces, It just doesn't look good.  Natural is always better than flawless.  Use cover up, but sparingly.
2. Focus on eyes and lips:  Instead of obsessing and slaving over something that just isn't going to get better, why not draw attention to our finer features?  Focus on mascara and other eye makeup, although an excess of this will make it look like you are fighting your face instead of accentuating it.  Also, a little lip gloss will not go amiss when distracting from acne.
3. Focus on clothes and accessories: I often see people at school who look as though they have labored tirelessly over their makeup, but are in sweatpants and sweatshirts.  Unless you are going for the grunge look, this does not make much sense.  Nice clothing choices are a quick and easy way to look like you care, even if you don't.   Along the same lines of distraction, big earrings go a long way.
4. Smile: Enough of me sounding like J14 magazine.  (And by the way, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens might be engaged.)  You will never look good if you are not confidant, and you will never look bad if you are.  Smile and be confidant, and nobody will ever know that you were supposed to look bad that day.

                                                 Much love forever,
                                                            The Lazy Beauty Guru

First Poem

This is a poem I wrote.  I chose this one just because.  The middle stanza is my favorite.  Here goes.

Truth

O highest degree of all things Celestial!

To which man aspires, and God has attained.

That which is lost unto all things Bestial

That which is light, which is beauty unstained.

If understood space, time, and worlds in our hands

But better to realize the truth of a babe

If mastered, the key to an empire’s lands

But sweeter unriddle the flow’rs on a grave

But that which is sweetest and dearest to know

Is that love which is limitless, lovely and sure

Though mountains should crumble, should grass never grow

Stands the love of the Savior, the Only, the Pure

First Photographs

As my life is not particularly exciting right now, I think a catch up is in order.  I will start with my favorite photographs which I have taken in my time upon this earth.  So basically, the last three years.  Enjoy!

 This flower (the pink one) inspired me to take up poetry again, cheesy as that may sound.

 Brent the adorable.

 Fancy snack

 Other fancy snack.  (I'm into those.  I'll probably devote a whole post in the future.)

 Samwise the brute.  (We love him, but we don't  know why.)

 Probably my all time favorite picture.

 Brookie and Papa Joe.

That lucky Ashley got two (unrelated) pictures in a row!

So... tell me your favorite because I'm a narcissist like that.  Love you Sarah...or rather the thousands of people who read this blog.  Farewell until my next hour of boredom.

Hello, all of my imaginary followers. I, Christine Elizabeth Haynie, am now officially a blogger. This blog is to contain poetry, photography, and other general creative outbursts by myself. If you are not interested in such things, do not bother to read. If you are, by all means concern yourself. This may not be a weekly thing, because who is creative (and bored, soon afterwards) all of the time? Appreciative comments are appreciated, and "constructive criticism" is tolerated... I mean encouraged. In all seriousness though, criticism is accepted. Otherwise, I'm just commanding everyone I know to read, view, and adore my outbursts. That is all.

Love,

Christine the Crazy

P.S. I am not unaware of this fact