Monday Musings

- Ta-da!! I went blonde... just kidding. Now that the operas have officially opened I can share my looks! I also realized I rarely post pics of myself on this bugger so why not! I'm also gonna try and take more mani/pedi pics. I warn you, some of them may majorly blow- I mean close-up camera shots show all the mess-ups but whatever. Anyway, this is me for Lucia di Lammermoor where I play Alisa who is Lucia's maid, lady-in-waiting. I included this pic cause my teeth look crazy white! It's because my makeup is darker than my skin color... and I don't want to tan so yeah, this is the only way to see how much time I've actually invested into whitening my teeth.

- More Lucia selfies. These were actually for the benefit of my family but why not broadcast them on the internet.Yes, I do my own eye makeup and yes, my costume is rocking. It's bluer than this pic shows but it's awesome. My wig is pretty stellar too but the costumes are from previous Met Opera performances so that's awesome. I have no pics of my Pinafore costume so maybe next week.

- Wearing my fav blue audition dress and deep red lip tint (Fiery by tarte) for a concert on Lake George a few weeks back.

- A semi-wonky pic of me from the Opera Gala that was posted in the paper- I'm in the middle surrounded by my amazing colleagues and fellow apprentice artists. This was the day of the last review post... things got crazy from there. We look swanky but we had rehearsals all day that day then came home, hurriedly got ready, went to this event and grabbed wine glasses to sing a drinking song from La Traviata then went home to sleep!

- Alrighty, on to blog news!!! For those of you asking me for graze codes since I implemented my "graze chain," please know that even when I'm on hiatus from blogging, I check my e-mail (brokebeautyblogger@yahoo.com) every day and I reply and get things out all the time. So far, just from the chain, over 20 people have signed up for graze that were seeking codes BUT there are still around 10 people waiting and I get new people asking every few days. My plea is to PLEASE check your e-mail and reply quickly. Sometimes I've waited weeks between sending out codes and other times I get 3 people signed up in a day! All depends on you guys. Anyway, I'm super proud of this working but whenever it stalls I worry about complete stoppage!

- I have a couple of giveaways around the corner specifically with a couple of companies along with some coupon codes so be on the look out this month (and the next). The GLOSSYBOX one was pretty popular even while I couldn't promote or monitor it much so I'm thinking out doing another one soon too! 

- So, after a much stressful end of May and trying to get all my June posts done, it is now the first day of July and I have 20 something reviews just for June. I'm sorry, but I can't stress about blogging. Blogging needs to be fun! So yes, July will really be half June stuff, and half July stuff but starting tomorrow I'll have more time to write reviews and I go back to Dallas next week and am barely working outside of my home all of July so I can do loads of reviews. Sorry for those that hate multiple posts in a day but I have a feeling July 9th-15th will be something like 4-5 posts/day. Alright so what do I have in the works? Unmentionably Cheeky, NatureBox, Target Beauty Box, Little Passports, Love with Food, Bestowed Box, Pretty Power Box, Ophelia's Apothecary, Doteable, The Jungle Stand, Bulu Box, BarkBox, IndieSpensable, Loot Crate, Bespoke Post, TheFancy, Treatsie, and Volupties. And some more stuff too. You get the idea! Alrighty, see you all soon!