Shit I Love: MAC Mineralize

Mineralize Foundation

So on account of el crazypants diet I just finished up, I have discovered a few awesome things as of late.  First and foremost: MAC Mineralize line.  Because of the way the HCG diet works, you aren't allowed to use any beauty products or cosmetics that have oils or fats in them (except mineral oil).  At this stage in life (mostly because I get to work at 6AM), I don't wear a ton of makeup.  But (also mostly because I get to work at 6AM) I do rely on concealer.  Usually, I just swipe on a little concealer, bronzer and mascara and I am good (enough) to go.  So since most concealers and foundations are made with fats and oils, I was gonna have to do without.  

Luckily, one of my ladyfriends is way more into makeup than I am and alerted me to the fact that MAC now has a mineral line.  Sweet! Time for a trip to the mall.  So after trying basically all of the items in the mineralize line, and scrutinizing the ingredients lists to the best of my ability, I settle on a foundation, a dark shadow to use as an eyeliner, a shadow duo, and a bronzer.  Whoops I guess I went a little overboard.  So I used to use MAC's foundation  and pressed powder all the time back in the day because I loved the coverage and whatnot.  But as of late, I just phased foundation and powder out of my life.  The mineralize foundation is nice for gals who aren't really "foundation" gals because its a little lighter than MAC's other foundations.  It has SPF 15 and goes on really smooth and light.  The coverage is pretty without looking too made up.  Nice.

Smoked Ruby

So I also got the Smoked Ruby shadow to use as an eyeliner.  It's a mish mosh of metallic dark red and black, but mostly black.  It makes a gorgeous almost black liner when applied wet, and also makes a pretty awesome smokey shade when applied dry if you're into that thing.  The other stuff I got was great, but these two were my favorites of all of my mineralize booty.

Diet Tales: Day 22. The Final Stretch!

Day: 22, Wednesday August 10, 2011; 20th VLC Day

Daily Weight Change: -1 lb

Total Weight Change: -14 lbs

I am almost done with the minimum number of VLC days! And still losing!  Per the protocol, you have to commit at least 21 days without cheating in order to fully "reset" your hypothalamus.  Then you have 3 days of VLC while not taking the drops in order to get the HCG out of your system.  I am so pumped up by the fact that I am still losing, that I think I just might have it in me to push it a few days further to try to get a little closer to my goal of 19 lbs.  

I am so motivated that I stopped by Sprouts (double ad Wednesday!! woohoo!) and picked up some (gasp!) grapefruit.  I really want to stay on a roll with these losses, and yourhcg.com suggests that having grapefruit as your fruit is a good way to pump up the losses.  Until now, I have avoided that shit like the plague.  My general stance on grapefruit is that whoever decided that it was edible was smoking some sort of crack or something.  But, like I said, I am motivated.  I want to get to that damn goal, and I don't want to stay on VLC forever.  To my surprise, the grapefruit was actually not too bad.  I didn't put stevia or any type of sweetener on it.  Just ate it plain.  I think this diet is screwing with my taste buds.  But it was totally fine.  Not super awesome or delicious, but fine.  I also had a nice piece of cod.  I had been on a chicken and shrimp kick lately and it's been a while since I did up some cod, so that was a nice change.  I had a pretty serious water day of 153 ounces.  Sheesh.