Lipstick is Power

Being a girl kind of blows sometimes, but most of the time it's really awesome. One of those awesome perks is if we feel ugly, we have the power to put cream and powder on our face and feel pretty- as awful as that sounds it's true. Also, I have a love affair. I have a love affair with lipstick. Oh golly goodness me I HATE lipstick. I refused to put gloss or color on my lips until my junior year in highschool after many many days of me leaving the house and my mother saying "you should add some color to your face," I don't know why, but it was just a hassle to me. I remember the day I bought my first tube of lipstick, I took it to my student council class and proudly sing songed to anyone that would listen that I, McKenzie Taylor Yee, am now a woman because I own my very own stick of lipstick. I hardly wore it because the upkeep of lipstick is annoying and tiresome, but I felt awesome. Now today I am a much older and hardly wiser McKenzie Taylor Yee, and I love lipstick. I mean, I have every shade of bright pink and coral red imagineable and I love how I feel pretty by just applying a layer of "sweetheart valentine" onto my lips. Yes, lipstick is messy and a lot of work, but so are boys, and we still love them, right? 

So here's my point: lipstick is power. Now besides the physical effect that literally eyes are drawn to a woman's most powerful tool- her lips, her words, where her thoughts are drawn upon, but wearing lipstick gives me an extra umph of confidence. When I have successfully applied Maybelline's "fuschia flash" and I walk into a room, I feel as though I own it- although the only rooms I really walk into are the breakroom, my bedroom and that's about it, I feel powerful. What we as women have to say is powerful. Yes we can sway men with a toss of our shiny hair or a smile with a cute voice and a side of a pouty eyes, but our words, our brains, our thoughts are more than that. 

So before going out next time, stop by your local Walgreens and pick a color you love and apply it with care, because our words are our most powerful force. As my favorite human Coco Chanel states, "If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack."

xoxo

Ps, happy national lipstick day lovebugs

Stupid

People are stupid. 

People do not understand their worth, and that makes me more mad than when Michael left The Office. I do not understand why people let crappy people have a free pass in their life, like "yeah I know you were awful to me and caused me so much heartache but it's cool imma let you back in to hurt me again." Like to me, those people are a pair of Forever 21 jeans. Forever 21 jeans are good in the moment because they're like what $14.99 and you have a cute pair of jeans for a night, cool right? And then they're so cheap so you end up buying like 10 pairs over the next two months, and it just gets better because you have more jeans! But then you realize after you wash those bad boys, they loose their shape, the jeans start to fade, your butt looks saggy and you wasted that $14.99. What you did not realize why purchasing those multiple pair of Forever 21 jeans is that if you would have saved up your money to invest in a good pair from The Gap or Nordstrom or even American Eagle, you could have a nice and reliable pair of jeans that make your butt look FANTASTIC even after the 3 months you have had them, even after a year, and yeah maybe you do not have as many pairs, but the ones you do have contain great worth.

I think friends are like this. No one wants a Forever 21 jeans friend. No one wants the friend that is cool to you for the moment, but after a while fades away and does not hold up their end of the deal. We, as humans, are special. We feel emotion and we have compassion and we love and we lose sometimes, but sometimes we need to weed out the Forever 21 jeans people, I am not saying I think one should cut everyone out of their life to be happy, I am just saying we need to be careful who we put our trust in, whose hands we let our happiness fall in. It is important to be kind to everyone, even the Forever 21 jean kind of friends, but everyone needs a good pair of denim friends, a friend that is there for you even when you are not the greatest human or even the greatest friend- we are all worth that atleast.

Xoxo

Lipgloss

Mindy Kaling, I wish I was cool enough to have you as my spirit famous person. This is important!! This right here!! This quote!! It falls along the lines of "fake it 'til you make it," as much as I am a huge proponent for being genuine and real and acting according to your real feelings, sometimes in order to mend the inside we need to have a pretty and shiny outside. Kind of like how sometimes you have to let the hurt out before you can let the happy in. On days where literally the universe is barfing on me and I want to quit and hide underneath my covers and never see daylight again, this quote always pops up in my mind. When a girl says a nasty comment to me, when my car breaks down on the 101, when they boy who "loves" me kisses another girl, when I feel as though the whole world is waiting for me to mess up falling down the stairs with my skirt flying up style- I just gotta pull out good 'ol "sweetheart valentine" and apply it extra dark to leave my mark on the world. As if I am saying a big "SUCK IT" to the universe, that maybe I do not know what I am doing with my life, maybe I still feel gray, and maybe I find myself at the Krispey Kreme drive thru all too often, but I can make the outside look good. I can make the outside look hella good. So when your insides are mush and your heart is squashed, put on bright lipstick and do your hair how YOU like it and "pretend to be psyched," because one day the pain will numb. One day your heart will beat fast again for someone new, one day a best friend will surprise you with a diet coke, one day you will find a love that will be the perfect cliche kind of love- and one day you won't have to "pretend" to be psyched anymore, because you will be. Pinky promise.

xoxo

If You Were

-If you were a pair of pants you'd be capris

-If you were a pair of shoes you'd be fit flops
-If you were a friend you would be the 3rd person falling off of the sidewalk
-If you were a cupcake you would be the Walmart brand kind with the frosting that stains teeth
-If you were a candy you would be black licorice
-If you were a pair of shorts you would be a pair of knee length ones
-If you were a state you would be Nebraska
-If you were a singer you would be Rebecca Black
-If you were a store you would be Q
-If you were a font you'd be times new roman size 12
-If you were a TV show you would be CatDog
-If you were a nail polish color you would be the sheer blue that only women over the age of 80 wear
-If you were a tweet you would be a post break up subtweet
-If you were a hair color you would be a brassy blond
-If you were a drink you would be club soda
-If you were a fad you would be platform flip flops
-If you were a country you would be Finland (no one ever checks up on Finland)

xoxo

Want & Need

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Thoughts That Came Into My Head

-I always see the same homeless guy on my way to work and my heart breaks but I never have cash do you think he takes checks

-My feet hurt and my heart hurts and my wallet hurts
-I would like to thank the heavens above for somehow letting me get to work in 13 minutes today when I have to drive to Chandler mall
-I would not like to thank the drivers that think it is okay to drive 65 on the freeway
-I always respond to texts even when I do not want to, because people who don't text back are the most annoying kind
-I really just want to watch Grey's all day and eat cheetos like I am a simple girl really

-If someone showed up with donuts I would not refuse

-kissing someone you care about is so much better than someone you don't. I mean kissing in general is great, but it's kind of like why would you go for a bagel when you can have a dozen Krispey kremes?

-Something about McDonalds diet coke

-I love love love watching how couples interact in public

-trying to not let people walk all over me but also feel annoying while doing it???

-you're worse than a bubble necklace and a tube top combo

-girl code is important and if you're important to me you understand that importance 

-it's hard to trust someone when they've shown you 400 reasons not to

-"you're like lowkey high maintence and I'm just high maintence" -Carson. G'bless our future husbands

-are you ever just annoyed with yourself and your situation and everyone surrounding you

-if you have to ask what band is playing while "what makes you beautiful" is playing you are probably too old to be shopping in my department

-I just really am a 2 carat kind of girl

-I can knot a cherry in my mouth in 15 seconds flat

Xoxo

5 Signs You Are Single

1. Your legs are hardly shaved, you will be chilling with you gal pals and wearing shorts because shorts are the best thing to ever happen to you, and you realize that you have not shaved your legs in days, possibly over a week. And then you realize it really does not matter because you do not have anyone to grab your legs when they're tickling you or anyone you want to impress.

2. You spend a majority of your nights curled up watching Grey's Anatomy while the only sign of life is the light from your laptop shining in your dark room. You do not want to go out or need to go out because there probably is not anyone you want to see.

3. The last person you cuddled with is a girl who is your best friend. Hold up, can we just agree that cuddling up in the arms of a cute boy is the best thing to ever happen like I get butterflies just thinking about it, but when you're single it is hard to find a boy who just wants to cuddle only so it is a large possibility that you and a couple of your best friends have spent hours staring at a netflix screen all cuddled up next to each other while shedding some tears over the death of a character- it happens.

4. You always have perfectly applied lipstick. Now I am not saying that if you are dating someone you let yourself go and all that stuff, I am saying that after a while kissing with lipstick gets messy. And if you are kissing with lipstick, your lipstick is not always going to be perfect. And if you decide the mess is too annoying so you opt out of "fuchsia flash" so you can kiss without the mess, well you are not single. I am single so I wear lipstick everyday and I love it.

5. You notice things- how vague is that statement hahaha. When you are walking through the mall in your little skirt and heels for work, you notice the guy sitting at the kiosk eyeing your legs and you notice the boys in the car next to you at the stoplight and you notice a particular boy favoriting your tweets repeatedly. When you are not in la la love land, reality strikes hard and fast and it is inevitable.

xoxo