Moving Up Downtown

Ever since we got a private tour of a really cool private loft apartment above the Untitled (ArtSpace) in downtown OKC, we've loved the idea of living in an urban loft. In recent years, more and more loft-style apartments have been, and are being, built in the areas immediately surrounding Downtown. Ashley has already announced that when she's an adult, she'll be living in a really cool modern-style loft apartment. I can actually believe that she will. We can't afford to live in one of these places right now, but it sure would be fun to tour them!

If, like us, you think lofts and urban "hip" apartments are really cool, and you live in the Oklahoma City area, you might like to take the Moving Up Downtown Living Tour this Saturday. The tour is from 11am to 5pm and features quite a few of the new apartment "complexes" or buildings around Downtown. There is even a free shuttle to take you from place to place. For more information, check out this website.

And who knows, maybe, just like The Jeffersons, you too will soon be movin' on up!

Beauty Find

For years now, I've read in beauty/fashion magazines and on beauty sites about the Nars makeup stick called "The Multiple". Everyone touts it as such a wonderful product and a "must try". Before now, I've only had online access to this product, so I've never tried it, but have wanted to. This past week, I took some time during my lunch break from work and went to the mall up the street. I needed to get a case for my iPhone so while I was there, I stopped into Sephora. I love that store! I tried the sample of this "wonder product" that can be applied to cheeks, eyes and lips. Everyone supposedly loves the color called orgasm but it seemed to pale for my pale skin. It would look beautiful on tanned skin, but there was not enough contrast, and too much shimmer for my 37-year-old pale skin. So I kept looking at the color selection and ended up trying "Maui". This is a perfectly neutral pink with just enough hint of warmth to be worn with either warm or cool colors. It is beautiful on my skin tone and is the perfect color for my lips, as well as doing a great job of bringing out the brown in my eyes without the color making me look tired. I decided to splurge and purchase a stick of this stuff.

So far I'm loving it. I love being able to just stick one tube in my makeup bag for the day and that's all I have to keep track of. I do keep a small lip brush with it, as I don't want to cross-contaminate from my cheeks to my eyes to my lips. I typically wipe it off with a tissue before each use and use my fingers to apply to my cheeks and eyes and the brush to apply to my lips. At $37, it's not cheap, but a little goes a long way and it's taking the place of 3 separate products. I will definitely purchase this again and might even try other colors in the collection. Hooray for a product that lives up to all of the hype it's been given!