No Regrets, Just Love: Dexter.

Anyone who knows me knows that if you show me a picture of Michael C. Hall, I will squeal and get excited. That's because he plays the main character on one of my favorite shows, Dexter.

The premise of the Dexter is a bit hard to take in: our "hero" here is Dexter Morgan - a blood splatter (make sure you remember the "l" that's in there) analyst for the Miami-Dade police department. That's his day job - by night (or whenever he feels like it, really) he's a serial killer. But wait wait before you get all =O, he only kills bad people. See, he's helping us out - getting rid of the bad guys that slip through the cracks of the justice system. 

I've been watching this show since it started, which would be about seven years ago. A few seasons in, I started to read the books (written by Jeff Lindsay) - which are absolutely wonderful as well. Although the books don't follow the same story lines as the television series, and there's multiple character changes and things of that nature.

One of the many gems this show has going for it is Debra Morgan - Dexter's sister, who's a lieutenant in the same police department Dex is. She's a foul mouthed, takes no shit, ball busting badass that has her own issues that make the show even more awesome. 

Isn't she just lovely?

Throughout all seven seasons of it, Dexter has always kept me on the edge of my seat. Very few shows have that affect on me. There are so many twists, turns, and just outright WTFs in every single season, and I love it. The world loves me, and decided to start the eighth season early this year, with it premiering on June 30th (it usually starts in late September). Sadly, though, the last time I checked, this upcoming season will be its last. I'm probably gonna end up crawling into the fetal position in a dark corner somewhere when that happens, I just know it. But what I can look forward to is the series going out with a bang - an even harder bang than all seven of it's season finales have been. And THAT'S a big bang to look forward to.

What television season premieres are you looking forward to?

No Regrets, Just Love: Maybelline Fit Me Foundation.

 

Maybelline is one of my favorite drugstore brands. Their mascaras are perfection, and their foundations actually have shades dark enough for me. 

They brought out their Fit Me line a few years ago, and I wanted to see if I'd love it as well. I am in love with this foundation. Main reason? The shade match is absolutely perfect for me. I wear 355 (sadly, this is their darkest shade), and I've never found a foundation that matches me this well. They're usually either too light, or too yellow. This hits my undertone and shade right on the head.

What I will say, and I'm sure you've already heard through the beauty blog grapevine, is: this foundation makes you look ridiculously oily. I love it to death, but sweet goodness I'm an oil slick at the end of the day. Keep in mind though, I'm starting off with really oily skin from the get go. But I've found that no matter what I set it with, I look like I can fry chicken on my face later on in the day.

For that reason, I don't usually wear this in the summer. I'll only break this out in the winter, where I won't have to worry about my skin heating up as I walk around and go about my day.

But since it's so hard to find a decent shade match in drugstore face products, Fit Me wins simply because it makes that much easier.

MAC 130 Duo Fiber Brush.

I've never been a fan of the whole due fiber brush craze. I know everyone loves MAC's 187 and its little sister, the 188, but it just never appealed to me. I never understood how a brush that's so...flimsy, and not dense at all would be ideal for liquid foundation. I have a LE version of the 187, and while I do know the giftset versions of brushes aren't nearly the same quality as their full-sized counterparts, it still wasn't doing it for me.

In comes the 130 addition to MAC's brushes. It interested me because it was smaller, and seemed like the bristles were much more densely packed than other duo fiber brushes. And they are - which is essential for me when I'm using liquid or cream products.

When I first got it, I did test it out with a few of my liquid foundations, and it worked alright, but not exactly how I had hoped. It's surface area is so small, that it takes extra time to blend, and still, the brushes weren't quite dense enough for me. But no fear, I found a different use for it - applying cream blush. THIS is where this brush shines, in my opinion. It holds onto the product, and let's me control how much product I pack on. And its small size works well here because it really only needs to work the area of my cheeks.

It didn't really work for what I bought it for, but luckily in the beauty world, our tools are versatile and may be awesome for a task we don't expect.

Sunday Sexy: Colin O'Donoghue.

I'm pretty sure this man is the only reason I'd ever think Captain Hook could be sexy. Colin plays the fairytale villian on ABC's Once Upon A Time, one of my new television loves. As Hook he wears guyliner, a sexy-sick trench coat type thingy, and, of course, a hook. He does bad so damn good and I love it.

But in regular, everyday, IRL he's just as attractive and his gorgeous eyes are a serious pantry dropper. Oh, and by the way, he's Irish. Somehow Ireland keeps pumping out beautiful men.