Face of the Day

This look uses the Cult of Cherry Tempting Quad.

Eyes: Apply a thin layer of UDPP all over the lid. Fill in eyebrows. Apply a thin layer of Painterly paint pot of the entire lid, blending out the edges. Using a MAC 239 brush, apply Next to Nothing eye shadow to the inner corner of the eye lid and under the brows to highlight. Apply Sharp eyeshadow to the middle and outer lid. Blend Sharp in towards Next to Nothing. Next apply Dark Edge to the outer third of the eyelid and sweep out and up toward the crease and the area above the crease. Place Tempting eyeshadow in the crease. Blend well. Apply Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes eyeliner in Pearly Brown to the upper lash line. Top the brown eyeliner with Her Glitz glitter liner. On the lower water line apply Make Up For Ever Aqua Eye eyeliner in Pistachio. Curl eyelashes and apply two coats of Plush Lash in Brownette.

Face: Prime face with MAC Prep+Prime. Apply Face and Body/moisturizer mix to face. Dust Mineralize Skinfinish over the top. Lightly apply Plum du Bois Beauty Powder Blush to cheeks. Set everything with MUFE HD Microfinish Powder.

Lips: Line lips with Burgundy lip pencil. Apply Chignon lipstick let set for 30 seconds, wipe off and apply again, repeat until you have the desired darkness. Apply Quick Tease Lipglass over the top.

Speed Run Through Naxx

Last night was not a good night. First we had enough interest and applicants to run both heroic and regular Naxx, unfortunately I think everyone was more interested in running the heroic and saving the regular for the weekends, so only the heroic went. Then to cause more confusion, besides the disconnecting and lag due to Wintergrasp, one officer started the invites and DH had to work with what we started with, almost 20 people at that point. It was very confusing and several officers and raiders dropped to allow trials with new applicants. Another issue also surfacing tonight was the volume of new applicants has increased significantly. I think its becoming unwieldly for the way the guild is run now, but that's just my opinion. Meanwhile, I was also getting dinner for the two of us. Then all of a sudden, the main tank (also an officer) running the raid and DH decided to go. No warning, just pulling trash mobs! Not everybody had zoned in or had buffs and as we moved we were told there would be time before the first boss to buff and do other things. I could have lived with that, as I had promised one of the other officers to make flasks for him, but that's not what happened! Instead we got to the first boss and then DH was saying we're going in ten seconds. I had just started to make the flasks. Both the officer and I protested, but to no avail. I had to wait to finish the flasks trade them back over and then we got into the fight. I hadn't taken my own flask, nor did I have a food buff. The officers decided to discuss this in the officer channel after we completed the wing. I had yet to decide how I was going to deal with DH and there were too many other things going on to talk to him about it at the time.

The next problem we encountered was when a purple bind on pickup dropped in the first mobs after the first boss. DH as master looter was still auctioning the items from the first boss and so wasn't there. When they finally did auction it off, the person who won it couldn't pick it up. Both DH and the player sent in help tickets. Both were then told later by GMs that the other would have to send in a ticket and they would fix it from their end. Needless to say, it was still not fixed by the end of the night.

My next issue, is my own, I haven't decided yet if this became an issue because of the other problems last night or if it has been stewing for a while now. Basically, DH is a priest, lately he has been going as DPS and not healer, but that's has nothing to do with the issue. I'm consistently the last to get healed and the last to get resurrected. Yes, there's an order for resurrecting and the healers do the best they can to heal everyone. But I think everyone is expecting a little nepotism and he would automatically heal or resurrect me next. That has not been the case and DH doesn't feel its appropriate to show me ANY favoritism. Its just a game and we're not supposed to be a hard core raiding guild. Show me some love!

The last issue is what I think created all these other little problems, or at least exasperated them. DH and the main tank saw a video on speed runs through Naxx and were determined to try some of the ideas it gave. It didn't speed anything up. In fact, we slowed down. We completed three Quarters last week, Spider, Plague and Military, on the first night. Yesterday, we didn't get to the last boss in the Military Quarter. Instructor Rasuvius held us up. We wiped a couple of times on him.

I think I've decided we need to discuss this, but I'm not sure I'm ready to do this in person. I'm considering emailing him, but I don't think that's appropriate either. I know he is still stewing on the officers discussion, and that may be what's making me hold up having this discussion with him. I don't want to make it too much for him. He's still a little sick from his cold last week and I made him stay home from work yesterday because he still didn't sound good.

Icecrown sucks!

After spending many hours doing quests in Icecrown, I've only completed 80 of the 140 needed to get the achievement. I couldn't figure out why some were counting and others were not, until I read the achievement, 'Icecrown Glacier' quests. Okaaaaay, so what is that supposed to mean? Obviously, not every quest in Icecrown counts but how can I tell if it will or not? Some of the smaller Icecrown quest hubs do not count for this achievement, unlike the other areas where you have to find every last quest hub to make the Achievment. Any of the small hubs that send you outside Icecrown itself and any going to Onslaught Harbor don't seem to count, but I have not found a pattern. Its all trial and error. :P

Right now I'm working all the quest lines that start with the airship. I only have three left in my log and none seem to send me anywhere that I haven't already been to.

Face of the Day

Eyes: Apply a thin layer of UDPP over the entire lid. While waiting for that to dry, fill in brows. Next apply Painterly Paint Pot over the entire lid, blending it out at the edges. Using a MAC 239 brush dab Next To Nothing eye shadow in the corners of the eye and underneath the eye brow to highlight. Next place Satin Taupe eye shadow on the rest of the lid blending up toward the crease. Next use Showstopper eye shadow on the outer third of the lid. Place Smoking eye shadow on the crease and along the lower lash line. Blend everything well. Line the upper lash line and the outer lower water line with Graphblack Technakohl liner. Set with another swipe of Smoking eye shadow over the liner and blend out the lower liner. Curl eye lashes and apply 2 coats of black mascara (my current favorite is Zoom Lash).

Face: Prime face with MAC Prep+Prime. Mix half and half MAC Face and Body Foundation and your favorite face moisturizer and apply to face. Using a large fluffy face brush, dust on MAC Mineralize Skinfinish. Apply MAC mineralize blush in gentle to cheeks. Then highlight cheeks, forehead nose and chin with Spectacle! Highlighter. Blend all over face with a kabuki brush and set everything with Make Up Forever HD Microfinish Powder.

Lips: Big Bow lipstick

Fishing, Farming and Fighting

Fishing....I got my fishing skill up to 450, now I just need to fulfill the rest of the achievements under that profession. There are many I have yet to complete. Although, I'm getting closer on the coins from the Dalaran Fountain. I need to start farming more fish. Those apparently sell really well on the Auction House. DH plays the markets, buys low and sells high. I'm so proud! We've even created our own banking guild. My bank alt is in it and I have plans to begin some buying and selling. I think I need to start her off with some seed items, so I'll farm for her next weekend. :)

Farming....Well, I managed to farm enough stuff to last a long while. I've got an extra stack of everything in the bank. There is almost a complete stack of Frost Lotuses just waiting to be made into flasks. I may even turn some in for extra dkp. I haven't decided yet. I'll probably still do a little farming here and there to keep up my stocks and add fish later as well.

I LOVE farming shoveltusk meat! The herds are easy to find and fun to AoE.

Fighting....I did a bunch of low level instances, all the ones in the southern part of the Eastern Kingdom and one up north. I made a good attempt at Scholomance, I even went to the trouble of getting the key! But as I'm a mage, those risen abberations caused too much trouble for me. They take no damage due to spells and my skill in Staves is no where near enough to take all of them down. I'll have to get DH to come with me and finish that one off. There are a couple of others, I'll need a group to do, but I'm sure I can find guildies willing to go.

I also helped out with a 10-man Naxx for Guildie Alts and Social Members. It went pretty well. We got through three wings on Saturday after getting really stuck on Four Horsemen. Sunday we did the Construct Quarter without too much trouble, even though we had some people who were new to the fights. Sapphiron went down in one try. Kel'thuzad took a little more work and alot more dying, but with the threat of the last try we finally got him down!

I finally convinced myself to work on the Icecrown quest achievement. I did pretty good, its just that I don't particularly care for the area. Plus, the quest line I just happen to be following took me all over the world! I had gone to Moonglade, Shattrath, Dragonblight and Crystal Song Forest completing parts of the quest line by the time I had finished. Next I'll be working on the ones from the airship. Its such a pain to find the airship. I was looking all over Icecrown before I finally found it.

Olive and Gold Eyes

Prime eyelids with Urban Decay's Primer Potion. With a stiff short haired brush, apply Painterly Paint Pot to the entire lid. Using a small fluffy eyeshadow brush, dust Gold Dust pigment on the inside corner of the eyelid and under the eyebrows for highlighting. With the same brush dust Gold Mode pigment on the middle and outside third of the eyelid. Place Retrospeck eyeshadow over the Gold Dust pigment using a short stiff pencil brush. Next using the same pencil brush, brush on Goldmine eyeshadow on the middle third of the eyelid. With a large fluffy blending brush, blend goldmine and Retrospeck at the edge where they meet. Using a pencil brush, apply Sumptuous Olive to the outer third of the eyelid and blend with the blending brush. Apply Mink and Sable eyeshadow to the crease, along the upper lash line and along the lower outer lash line. Blend well. Line the upper lash line with Molten Sol Liquidlast Liner. Once the liquid eye liner is dry go over the top of it with a gold glitter eye liner. Prime eyelashes, then curl them and apply two coats of Plush Lash Mascara in Brownette.

Plagued by the Construct Quarter

Patchwerk was a problem this week. We wiped twice on him because one tank would go down and then the rest would follow. We wiped a third time because someone didn't listen to the raid leaders and released instead of waiting to be resurrected. They were stuck on the the other side of the slime room, then other ranged dps got too close to the slimes and we all started to die when we couldn't down them before they got to the rest of us.

Grobbulus went well and we took him down in one shot. Gluth, however, took us forever. The raid leaders forgot that we seem to only be successful when a tank is in the back kiting the zombies along with a combination of death knights and hunters. We made several attempts at other combinations without a tank and weren't getting anywhere.

Hopefully tonight, we can finish Naxx and do Obsidian Sanctum and make an attempt at Malygos.

It would be nice if we can get into a good pattern of completing Naxx and Obsidian Sanctum in two nights. That would give us the time to work on The Eye of Eternity and do a quick run of The Vault first thing on the third night. The Vault and Obsidian Sanctum would be interchangeable as it would depend on when the Alliance had control of Wintergrasp.

The guild is getting everyone into a pattern for completing all the endgame content in three days. We want to start farming these instances. We're really close on Naxx. Just need to get Construct Quarter down. Sapphiron and Kel'thuzad haven't been much of an issue after we downed them the first time. We are working on doing one add with Sartharion in Obsidian Sanctum, but I think once we get the hang of things adding one more each week until we're doing them all at once will be easy. We have yet to down Malygos in The Eye of Eternity. I'm sure we're ready, we just haven't figured him out as a group yet.

Meanwhile, my plan to stockpile raid consumables is going well. I have a stack of Great Feasts in my bag I just need to farm more meat to make my stack for the bank. I'm in a similar place with the Tender Shoveltusk Steaks. I need to do some more fishing, I have yet to make my stack of Firecraker Salmon or any of the other fish food. I don't yet have the skill for the fish feast. I think once I have all the materials for the other raid food stacks that I want and make them all up at the same time, I should be ready for it. I have my stack of Spell Power Elixers for my bag and am working on getting enough materials for the bank stack. I have almost 20 Flasks of the Frost Wyrm in the bank, so I'm pretty happy with that. It'll just be a matter of keeping everything up.

Heroic Naxx: The Quarters

We're getting really fast, going through Naxx. We did three quarters in two hours last night. We probably could have done part of the last quarter, but we got hung up on the Four Horsemen. We had a couple of people who had never done them before and got confused and there was a missed pickup. Once we got that sorted out, killing them was pretty simple. We took down the front two, Thane and Baron, simultaneously and then everyone focused on the back two. I think next week we'll try in earnest to get the Spider Quarter Achievement, clear the quarter in less than 20 minutes.

I got my wand last night, the Gemmed Wand of the Nerubians. Yay! I only paid 20 dkp, I think. It was totally worth the price. I now have the best wand for spell casters and something to replace the blue wand I've had since I first started doing Heroics.

MAC Makeup Application

Friday, I went to MAC with an appointment for makeup application using their new products (Hello Kitty and Cream Team Collections). Anna, the makeup artist, was great, very friendly and listened to what I had to say. I got a look that I can wear to work everyday and change it up with a little color for weekends and evenings. I think I may need to pick up the 219 brush and the lip products. I'm dying to do the lips again. I bought Prep + Prime Skin, Her Glitz glitter liner and Tippy Beauty Powder, that day.

Eyes: Prep the eyelid with Bare Canvas Paint. Using the Lucky Tom Palette from the Hello Kitty Collection and a 219 Brush, place the lightest color, Creme Royal, on the inner corner of the eye lid and under the brow. Next, place Paradisco on the middle third of the lid and blend with Creme Royal. On the outer third of the eyelid and outer crease blend Lucky Tom. Here, you can push Lucky Tom in further for a smokier, heavier look (evening) or pull it out, for a fresher, look. Line the upper lash line with Graphblack Technakohl Liner, then go over it with Her Glitz Glitter Liner. Blend a little more Lucky Tom along the lower outer lash line and swipe on some black mascara, my current favorite is Zoomlash.

Face: Prep face with moisturizer mixed with Prep+Prime Skin. Smooth Face and Body into skin with fingers and dust with Mineralize Skinfinish to set. Lightly brush on Tippy Beauty Powder Blush.

Lips: Line lips with Creamstick Liner in Sublime Culture. Then put on Shy Girl Lipstick and top with Partial to Pink Creamsheen Glass.

Grrrr...People are Annoying!

I play to for stress relief from work and fun. I'm part of a guild that has both social and raider contingents. I'm a raider. I love that the officers take care of everything. I do not want the responsibility or extra stress involved with running a guild. My hubby is an officer within the guild, so we talk, but I leave everything up to him and the other officers. I make sure that I make as many raids as possible and that I am prepared. I always have food with appropriate buffs, flasks and elixers, and any extra gear. I realize not everyone is as organized as I am, or as anal about being prepared, but its extra annoying if people are consistently not prepared. The officers have even started charging dkp for items.

Another little annoyance is leaving early. We have regular nights and times, if you can't make it the whole time, tell an officer so they can address the situation appropriately before we get started. There are enough people that want to raid that we usually bench some and they are able and willing to be there the whole time. It slows everything down if we have to go find a replacement and summon them. Especially if we have to do it more than once. I understand emergencies happen and disconecting too much, those don't bother me. It's the other excuses and especially if they make the same ones.

Druids! Ugh, I just don't understand why Blizzard allows them to gather herbs while still in flight form. The rest of the classes have to dismount, gather the herb and then remount. Grrr! I've had more herbs stolen out from under me because they don't have to dismount (I suppose its actually changing forms, but same idea). I wish they would change that to give everyone a level playing field.

Malygos just won't die :(

So, we now have two 10-man Eye of Eternity keys and one 25-man Eye of Eternity key. Last night we tried the 25-man Eye of Eternity. There is only one 'boss' to kill there and he is a pain. Malygos, has three phases and enrages at 10 minutes. The first phase goes pretty well and we were really getting the hang of stacking the spark buffs. When he gets below 50% it goes to phase two. This is where we are having problems. Malygos goes away and he spawns adds on flying discs. We can't seem to get them down fast enough. The best we've done so far is to clear phase two with 1 minute 40 seconds left on his enrage timer. This doesn't leave enough time to take Malygos the rest of the way down.

I think another week of clearing Heroic Naxx will help gear us up for downing Malygos. It certainly can't hurt. I know I'd like to replace my leg and head gear this week, which should be doable. I can buy the Valorous legguards soon and I'll have to hope that a head piece drops. At this point the only other item I would bid on would be a good main hand weapon. Okay, maybe not the only one as I'd replace my cloak too if the right item drops.

Taking Care of Hubby

Yesterday I stayed home to take care of my husband. He wasn't feeling very good. So, I got some things done around the house. I did a little bit of laundry and made breakfast and tea for him. The dogs were thrilled we stayed home just to play with them. They wouldn't stop bouncing off the walls, until I took a nap with them around 4pm. Fortunately, DH is very low maintenance when he's sick. He'd just as soon prefer to be left alone.

I did get some time to work on my mage. She got an achievement yesterday for killing 15 turkeys in 3 minutes. I believe its called "Friend or Fowl?". I'm almost done with all the quests in Howling Fjord. I'm missing about 15 quests from somewhere. There must be a quest hub that I either haven't finished or reopened at some point. Once I've completed the Howling Fjord quest achievement I'll move on to Grizzly Hills and finish up Northrend with Ice Crown.

Last night I went to my first MAC unveiling party. It was for the Hello Kitty collection. It was a zoo! I think I'll either try to get an earlier slot or not go at all next time. I got almost everything I wanted, but they put the wrong nail polish in my bag. I wanted the gray color, On the Prowl and not the pink one. I need to call them up and see if they can hold a replacement for me. :P

I was not impressed with the Cream Team collection. I may pick up a creamsheen gloss, later, but that will probably be it.

MAC BBR & HK

I finally went in to pick up my BBR stuff. I ended up with Chignon and What A Do! lipsticks, Soft Wave and Quick Tease lipglasses, and Henna, Knight and 100 Strokes eyeshadows. Four of them were Back2MAC, so yay! I spent less than 50 dollars. I'm adoring 100 Strokes, in fact, that's the main shadow I'm wearing today.

Today's eye look is a heavy wide swatch of 100 Strokes just above the upper lash line. Then I did a thinner line of Trax above it and between the eyebrow highlighter (Solar White) and Trax I blended Lotusland. I then did a small cat eye liner with MUFE Aqua Eyes in Black Plum on top and brought it partially down to the lower lash line. I used Zoom Lash mascara in black.

While at the MAC store I was able to score myself a place at the Hello Kitty pre-sale unveiling party (February 3rd) and a make over with the products for the following week. Yay! Maybe they'll have a wearable look with the two eyeshadow quads. I'm a little nervous about getting them, as I wouldn't normally combine the colors they put together.

I'll be looking at some of the collection, but not buying a huge amount. I'll check out 5 of the 6 lipsticks, though I'll only pick up 1 or 2. Big bow is the only one that wasn't a color I would wear. Sweet Strawberry, Mimmy and Fast Friends lipglasses will be on the list for review. I doubt I'll get more than 1 or 2 as well. Possibly one of the quads, but like I said before the color combinations make me a little leary without swatches. I might check out the gold glitter liner, Her Glitz, but I don't know if I'll pick it up. There are two items I absolutely must have and they are the brush set and the gray nail polish, On The Prowl. Yum!

Television night

Once a week we have a 'tv night'. We watch all the shows we've been recording on the DVR. This little device, courtesy of AT&T, has been the perfect addition to my tech entertainment collection. We've been recording Battlestar Galactica, Boston Legal, and Doctor Who (BBC version). All of these shows have been great so far.

BSG is on its last season and what a season its been so far! I'm going to be sad when its all done. This is another series that I will eventually get and watch over and over again.

Boston Legal, I've been watching off and on for a while. I will probably just rent the seasons through Netflix as I doubt I'll watch them over and over. Its still very entertaining and intelligent. I hesitate to compare it to 'Friends', but it would end up in the same order of watchability for me. If there's nothing else on or its running at a syndicated time, I'll watch it otherwise its just a easily skipped.

Doctor Who has been a rare find, stumbled upon by a friend while flipping through stations. I would love to get the previous seasons and watch it from the beginning. It is very well thought out and not overly cheesy like the original version. I couldn't ever watch that. I think I'd watch this one over and over again.

There are several other shows that have yet to make the list for 'tv night'. Among them are Bones, House, Heroes, and Supernatural. House and Bones probably won't ever make it because the friend that comes over for 'tv night' doesn't particularly care for the shows. Heroes and Supernatural may make it yet, but we need to catch up on previous seasons before we start recording those.