'Sup?

What have I been up to lately? Good question. A lot of the time, the answer is 'not much.' This is becoming an issue, since I am supposed to be 10x farther than I am on my directed study paper. Some of my favorite summer days (aka days off) have included:

• Any time with my friends in New York (for example Terrible Movie Nights with homemade ice cream and this gem of a film)
• Gorgeous weather, Wonder City donuts, New York Public Library tour, yoga, reading Boccaccio in Bryant Park
• Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnolia Bakery banana pudding
• American Museum of Natural History
• Strand books, Sephora, Pizza Bash $1 Mondays, Union Square, NYU, reading in Washington Square Park, rainy walks through Central Park 
• Copley farmers market, a sunset cruise on the Charles River and Crane Beach
• Salem, Exeter, Portsmouth, and Kittery
• Watching movie adaptations of every Jane Austen novel

The rest of my summer will include finishing that darn paper (gah!), working, and hopefully Chelsea Highline park, Kleinfeld's, Levaine, Atlantic City, and Hoboken.  Summer has a really really bad habit of always going by far too quickly. Enjoy the rest of yours, and meanwhile I will enjoy listening to the song that one of my old flames wrote for me and sent over last night haha. If I can figure out how to upload a music file into a blog post, I will share.

My Summer Essentials

Daytime

1. Garnier Moisture Rescue Lightweight UV Lotion ($7 - spf 15)
2. e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip in Toasted ($1 - in place of eye shadow)
3. N.Y.C. SkyRise Mascara ($1.82 - Target)
4. CoverGirl + Olay Simply Ageless Foundation ($12 - spf 22)
5. Maybelline Blush ($5)
6. N.Y.C. Lipstain in Never Ending Nude ($5)
7. Nivea Kiss of Moisture ($4 - spf 4)

Nighttime

1. Stila One Step Correct ($34 - moisturizes, color corrects, brightens, and primes)
2. CoverGirl +Olay Simply Ageless Under-eye Concealer ($12 - spf 22)
3. e.l.f. Mineral Eyeshadow Primer ($3)
4. Sephora Collection Colorful Mono Eyeshadow in Retrochic 83 ($12 - warm neutral gray shimmer)
5. Wet 'n Wild Liquid Eyeliner ($3)
6. Maybelline Falsies Mascara ($9)
7. The Body Shop Honey Bronze Bronzing Gel for Face ($14)
8. N.Y.C. Lipstain in Never Ending Nude ($5)
9. N.Y.C. Moisture Rich Lipstick in Cafe ($1)
10. Nivea Kiss of Moisture ($4 - spf 4)