june 2015 favorites

hi guys! i've got my june favorites for ya! i didn't have any regrets this month, but some food meh's. lol. and i shopped my stash and rediscovered a few things that i still love! ~Lin-chan ^.~

favorites:

1. colourpop cosmetics kathleenlights set -- these four go so freakin well together, it's gorgeous. yall know i'm a neutrals fan, and this is perfect!
2. lancome artliner liquid liner in noir -- this came in the sephora favorites glitz & glam set. this was actually one of the items i really wanted to try when i decided to order the set. if i remember right, my mom used to consistently use this a long time ago, and now i see why. it's really awesome. i love the elongated and flexible felt tip that it has. it also stays nice and black all day.
3. becca shimmering skin perfector pressed in opal -- i got this in the sephora bronzed something-or-rather set in may, and i've been practically using this non-stop. it's so gorgeous!
4. urban decay afterglow blush in rapture -- this is such a pretty blush! it's subtle yet a nice plummy shade.
5. anastasia beverly hills tamanna palette -- [see #6 below] i never actually used this palette until recently. i really love sangria and china rose. so pretty!
6. i shopped my stash this month and attempted to use each of my palettes (as demonstrated in my first week at work post), since i've been slacking lately. and i re-fell in love with (in no particular order):
1. urban decay naked2 basics palette
2. urban decay naked 3 palette
3. be a bombshell cosmetics quad in bora bora
4. too faced natural eyes palette
5. mac bao bao wan jewels veluxe pearlfusion shadow palette
6. maybelline master drama chromatics eye pencil in turn on the teal
7. kevyn aucoin shadow duo in sugared peach & rust brown
8. benefit rockateur blush

random favorites: there's a lot this time!

1. song: skrillex kill everybody -- this should have been included in my favorites a long time ago... paul burned this onto my "car cd" like a year ago, and it's one of my favorites on there (aside from ff5 chainsaw). you should go have a listen. not to sound like a completely terrible person, but it's like my anthem and "because dey got people in the world, [and i'm] glad i ain't one of 'em!" --- lol, that's a reference that only people i went to high school with would understand.
1. another song that's great is knife party internet friends. it's got some language, but it's so funny because of people and the social media age. i love it.
2. target: c9 champion concealer sports bras -- [buy all the colors!] they were having a sale on this brand earlier this month, so i picked up a few. these are super comfortable, no removable cups (which is awesome for washing them!) and they have built in petal-pasties..so maybe that's the "concealer" aspect of them? anyway, i really like these a lot.

1. snacks!! these are a few of my all time favorite snacks, plus a few new ones.. (all of these were purchased either at my local asian grocery or world market)
1. kasugai roasted green peas -- these are like popcorn..ya can't stop eating them. they also come in wasabi flavor, but i'm not for spicy.
2. licorice melon seeds -- these are like sunflower seeds..but not. the shells are a lot tougher than sunflowers, so you'd typically use your back teeth with these. they're pretty salty and by the time i realize it, i eat so many that my lips are burning from the saltiness. haha.
3. green tea pocky -- i've loved green tea pocky, and i recently discovered the midi variety, which is a shorter, thicker "pretzel" stick and they put a thick coating of the chocolate flavoring on the outside. super good!
4. white chocolate tolberone -- my family's a huge fan of these, and i was super excited when i found out they made a white chocolate version a few months ago, really yums.
5. perugina baci white -- these are white chocolate covered hazelnut ganache plus a whole hazelnut. so yums. i found these at world market a few months ago, on the same trip that i found the white tolberone. for quite some time now, i've been buying my dad perugina bars and baci and i always wanted to try it..well now i can! and yes, i'm completely ignoring the fact that the ingredients list says chocolate milk. i don't care, it's teh yums.
6. c howard's violet mints -- aka, soap candy. apparently out of my entire family (both sides), my paternal great grandmother and i are the only ones that like these things..because everyone else thinks these taste like soap. and rightfully so, but i always liked them. when i was little, my great grandmother would pick up a few extra packs for me whenever she went to the drugstore, and i would practically eat the entire pack as soon as she gave them to me.
1. i'm the same with wintergreen tic-tacs. idk, so good, must eat all.
7. not pictured because they were hiding in the grocery bag: haw flakes -- i've always loved haw flakes. throughout elementary and middle school, i would pack my lunch myself, and i'd throw in a couple packs. i would always share them with my adventurous friends, but most of them never liked them. i never understood why. they're flat disks of sweetness, maybe like a dried puree? ....apparently they're made with chinese hawthorn berries.
1. on a sidenote: all of my friends growing up became obsessed with white rabbit candy. those are super addictive too. and yes, you eat the paper--no, not the individual wrapper, but the sugar paper wrapped around the candy.

product updates:

1. i bought more furikake! i got ebi (shrimp) and shiso (beefsteak plant leaf) flavors. i think the ebi is good, but still has a slightly fishy taste to it. like, i still like the salmon one more. and the shiso is interesting..i'm not really sure how to describe it. it's a very earthy taste. for a little while, i was trying to grow a beefsteak (type of tomato) plant, and this smells similar to the plant. but this also has a slight tanginess to it, that's hard to describe. i feel like i've had the flavor somewhere else before, but i can't totally place it. it almost tastes like dim sum sticky rice? like the flavor that the lotus or banana leaves give the sticky rice?? ...does this make any sense whatsoever..? probably not. haha, but that's the best i think i can do.