The secret of popping your eye color...

The secret is in the color wheel



To make your eye color really pop, find the closest approximation to your eye color and use liners and shadows on the opposite side of the wheel.  For example green eyes really stand out with liners and shadows in the purple family.  See??



Blue eyes?  Brown eye liner and shadow.



Brown eyes?  Blue is the way to go.



Hazel eyes...  pinkish hues..



There's always talk of what colors are "in" for makeup for a particular season.

But just pop your eye color.  THAT is always in style.

10 Things I Love Today

1. This post by Allie at Hyperbole and a Half. Because I've read it half a dozen times and laughed just a much the 6th time as I did the first.

2. My cat, Henry, because he's a once in a lifetime cat.

3. This post by Aunt Becky at Mommy Wants Vodka, because while I do post anonymously pretty much, I'm coming "out of the closet" more and more all the time. Like I have no problem saying my name. It's Amy Silknitter, by the way. And most everyone who reads this... already knew that. :) (Note to self: Go through past posts and delete any potentially harmful ones... like right now.)

4. Anew Rejuvenate Skin Care Set for 30+. Prior to becoming an Avon rep, I used NO Avon products. So, I don't think I'm tooting my own horn or anything by saying that this set? Amazing. My skin has never felt so good or been so soft and just looked so healthy. The price tag right now is full price, but I'm thinking around May 29th, you're going to see it on sale. There's also a two-week trial size at a much smaller price.

5. Fashion Bug. Seriously, love this store. Used my $100 gift card today. Got a dress, 2 shrugs, a camisole, a skirt and a top for $115. Love. Pretty much my entire wardrobe is Fashion Bug.

6. Band Back Together this place is amazing. The people who run it are amazing and the people working behind the scenes are amazing. Myself excluded because I've been a bit of a slacker. But darnit, I wear my With The Band shirt every chance I get to advertise!!

7. This girl and her man, because they're taking strides to work together on their life and their relationship and not just throwing in the towels and calling it quits. I love her for her honesty and for putting it out there bare, for everyone to see. I got a good feeling about those two crazy kids.

8. I love my best friend, Jess, because she taught me how to properly code a button so I could put an ad on Aunt Becky's site to hopefully draw sales to my Avon page so I can ... oh wait... I put my real name out there, didn't I? Um... so I can, make just a little extra money... yeah.

9 Weekends. Enough said.

10. Prednisone and Amoxicillin, which brought you this post because I feel more back to normal than I have in two weeks. Or at least, my closest approximation of normal, which is really the best I can hope for. Even on my best day. And that's ok.

Have an awesome week everyone!!

The Hundred No Challenge

I've taken it on.  In order to grow my fledgling Avon business I've decided to start and complete the hundred no challenge.  The goal?  Get 100 "No's" in one month.  Starting tomorrow through 6/15 I will be striving to get 100 people to say no to me in some aspect of the business.  Either wanting a catalog, going on my customer list to receive email updates about specials and sales or becoming a recruit.  I could potentially get 3 "No"s from one attempt!  Obviously, the goal is that there will be a number of "Yes"s scattered amongst the  "No"s.

I'm so up for it and ready!!   

I might be asking for your "No" before you know it.

Oh and also?  The new campaign has started with a whole new set of items on sale and on special.   Check out the 24KT Gold eyeshadow  quad.  It doesn't come around often.  Most always sells out and is in HUGE demand.  Get yours before they're gone.  The entire 24kt gold collection is on sale now and can all be yours for just over $17!!  (left side of page)

Order online and orders arrive at your door.  Over $30 order?  No Shipping.

Check out everything the new Avon has to offer.

They say it's your birthday... it's my birthday, too, yeah!

I turned 33 today.  Thirty-three.  I can't say I'm happy about it.  But I can't say I'm all that upset, either.  I thought today was going to be a lot harder than it was.  Every year since 30 has been hard.  I guess I expected them to get progressively worse.   But, it wasn't terrible.

The only part of the day I loathed was cake time in the conference room.   I'm 33... now... the next oldest person I work with is 49.  So today, just like every year, when we were all there and someone said, how old are you?  And I replied with 33... just like every year, the whole room groaned.  "33?!?"  "Oh, I WISH I was 33"  "Oh, you're such a BABY!"   You know what?  Shut the hell up.  I'm sorry you're old.  Really.  But shut the everloving hell up.

Yes, I'm 33.  Yes you're ALL old enough to be my mom.  True, for some of you I'd be an unwanted, unexpected pregnancy at 16...  but you're still old enough to be my mom.  And the rest of you??? Legitimately old enough to be my mom.  Like without whispers and gossip behind your back.

It's as though somehow the things I feel that I have failed at, haven't accomplished or just flat out haven't even tried to do that I've wanted to do long before now don't matter because I still have PLENTY OF TIME.  How old do I have to be before someone is like, "You're right, you'd better get on the ball."  I guess I should feel good that all these people still think the world is my oyster, but you know, it doesn't feel like that.  It feels like the tide has gone out long ago and I'm late to the beachcombing party and all the oysters are gone.

Luckily, the talk of being SO YOUNG didn't last long.  After that it turned to the couple people who are turning 50 soon and have to schedule their first colonoscopies.  And I know that's spelled wrong and none of the suggestions are the right word...  and you know what?  I'm too young to care how to spell it so HA!!  Want to know something else??  I don't even have to schedule my first mammogram for another 7 years.  So SUCK IT!!

Hmmm...  I seem to be an angry 33 year old.   Maybe I'll get more done than I did as a complacent, don't ruffle any feathers 32 year old.  This could be fun.

Is This Art?

My parents and my in-laws live 10 minutes apart from each other and we live 10 minutes from both of them.  We know this is a blessing and we should enjoy it for as long as that remains the situation.  And we do.   But every holiday we spend time with both sets of parents and, you know, when we got married we decided that Easter would be our holiday.  We don't see either family.  We spend our time together.  When and if we have kids, we're going to pick something to do and it will be our Easter tradition.  For our family.

For now, we do whatever we feel like.  We always do SOMETHING.  Today we went here:

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I'd actually never been there.   Which is kind of shameful given I live, like, right here and all.  It was a 40 minute drive.  That's it.  anyway, never been there.

Now, I enjoy art.  I do.  Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Van Gogh...   Picasso... and my personal favorite, Dali.

Some art, though, I just don't get.

Like this:   (2 old rusty ale cans on an old piece of wood)


And this:  (which is actually an Andy Warhol)

So I decided to give it a shot:

I call it "Curled Museum Map on Floor".

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

I know I haven't been here and there have been a couple reasons for that, but the biggest reason and the cause of my announcement is....  I've launched a business!!!!!   I am SO EXCITED about it and I want to just tell everyone I come across about it.  After I say what it is....  keep reading.   I'm an AVON LADY!!  And I'm so excited about it.  This is NOT your mother's Avon. The stuff is SO nice and yet, priced so reasonably.  About a decade ago I was a rep for that "other" company that, although they have great products, you have to take out a loan to finance your purchases.  (Read:  Expensive).

The big announcement is that my website is OPEN FOR BUSINESS as of TODAY!!  You can order online and your items will be shipped direct to you.  Orders over $30 have FREE shipping.  It is worth your time to take a look.

There are reviews for the products written by both Avon reps and customers.  Mostly customers.  I've found them profoundly helpful, particularly on the fragrances.  Fergie's Outspoken is my scent of the moment.  I love it!!   I've heard wonderful things about Chic in Black as well.

There is pretty jewelry, cute shoes and even some clothing along with their award winning Anew skin care line from age 30+ to 60+ and their color cosmetics line - AVON Color.  The ever popular Skin So Soft line had been expanded as well.     Like I said...  worth a look.

So please head on over to my online store.  Visit once, visit often.   I loves you all and would really appreciate you all.  Whether you but or not.  My love is not conditional.  :)

Apparently I'm a fragile, fragile little girl...

So I took that personality test that many employers give now upon hiring someone... the DiSC.  It stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness.  My friend had taken it (not because she's a new hire but because she may be up for promotion) and I found the test online, but not the full results because companies pay big money for this so they don't really give it out for free.   It was 24 questions of 4 words and you had to pick the one that described you most and then described you least.

I came out with Ultra-low dominance, ultra high influence, slightly high steadiness and ultra-low conscientiousness.   Thanks to my friend having all the possible charts...  I fall into the counselor category.  Which, yeah, I totally get that.  But I found a whole thing about ways people should talk to me and deal with me.   Holy cow.   Um walking on eggshells much?   But as I read them?  They're dead on.  I'm hugely sensitive.

For instance, no one should talk to me when they're really angry.  Like about anything.  Not necessarily anything have to do with me specifically.   And yeah...  because when my husband is angry...  as he was last night because his pasta wasn't coming out right (too much flour) and he was getting frustrated and yelling back in the kitchen...  for the first time I noticed I had balled myself up on the couch with one of my dogs and was watching TV like a deer in headlights.

Oh and I take criticism personally.   Which I TOTALLY do.   It says that discussions with me should always be in dialog form rather than just being "talked to".   Oh and when I get stressed I get disorganized.  Disorganization in my job causes mistakes and mistakes cause MORE stress which causes more mistakes.   So my new focus at work is to stay collected and not to stress.   I don't handle mistakes well...  because I don't handle criticism well...   when I find a mistake I've made, I visibly start shaking.

So yeah.   What does this all boil down to?   I feel very sorry for anyone that has to deal with me.  I'm so sensitive.  I guess that makes me a "dish it out but can't take it" kind of person.  Which sucks.   Although...  in my rants on this blog, they're usually not directed at one single person.   So there's that.

I do feel slightly comforted that although I may be completely neurotic...  that there's actually a category for me that isn't just "crazy".   There's obviously other people like me.  It makes me feel a little less alone and actually, a little more in control.   And it's going to help me I think.  When my husband was angry last night about his pasta and I noticed my fetal position and death grip on my doggie...  I got the dogs together and we went outside for about 15 minutes.   By the time we came in, his friend had called and he was on the phone while making a 2nd batch of pasta and by the time he hung up he realized his flour mistake... and all was well.   I think it will help me to know this and remove myself from situations that will upset me and cause me stress.

Although, from everything I read??  That means I'll come out of hiding pretty much 5 days after never...