Some of my Makeup Favs...

~Lotions, Victoria Secret and Bath and Body Works are my favorite, others I love too!!

~Cleansers, Some brands I like, I'm constantly changing my cleasners, LOL! Bliss, Murad, Peter Thomas Roth, MD Skincare, Cosmedience, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Sephora, Philosophy etc.

~Moisturizer, same thing with the moisturizers as with the cleansers, same brands, always needing more moisturizer!

~Mascara, Fav is Benefit BadGal Plum, but Love all different kinds, I like water proff ones well and also plumping or thickening ones, mostly color in black, except benefit, lol!!

~Eye Makeup Remover, different brands, right now I'm using L'oreal.

~Concealer, different brands, I use em all, light preferred, maybe medium, mostly light. Some I'm using now are Estee Lauder, Bed Head fix it stick, and MAC.

~Shampoo and Conditioner, Philosophy 3 in 1's love these!!! Tigi Bed Head Dumb Blond or Catwalk Oatmeal and Honey, love them. I also am a sucker for Herbal Essences, they just always smell soooo good!!!

~Masks, I use all different kinds and am always in need of backups!!!

~Hair treatments/styling products, any. My fav brands are Bed Head, Pantenee, Ojon, etc.

~Bath bombs or soaps, these are such fun and so cute!! Usually smell good too!

Now if your wondering how in the world does this girl go through so much stuff, LOL, the answer is I don't, I share with my mom! So when she runs out of stuff she comes to me as in her words "It looks like I have a department store in my bathroom" LOL!!! So I'm constanly looking for backups, or sometimes I even slip and run out before I even know about it, Yikes!!!

About Me and My Disease...

I have a Rare Genetic Blood Disease! It's called Porphyria, there are different types of Porphyria. I have CoProPorphyria. You can't catch it, unless your my child then you've got a 50% chance of getting it. I've been very sick my entire life. I used to be a lot sicker than what I am now, but by the Grace Of God I am alive and have made it this far. It's a long story about my sickness, so I won't bore you with details. But I'm only 26 and I've had this my entire life! I'm trying to cope with "growing" up and not being able to do normal things as other people my age. I don't have the energy I should to do the things I need. But with the help of God I make it through each day. At one point the disease was about to take my life, but God being merciful towards me saved me from death. Anyways, I am sick, and most of the time I'm in denial and don't like to admit it, but I am. I don't know what all there doing for cures, but I do know it is tough to find a cure or treatment for a blood disease. Because it's our blood, it's not like it's a virus you can kill, we need our blood to live and unless they can completely regenetize the blood, I'm not sure what can be done in way of a cure. There are treatments, but it for when it's beyond bad. I guess cause the treatment could be worse than the problems we have. Anyways, so aside from the fact I live with a smoker, (which doesn't help my porphyria out) and that I have a rare blood disease, the only other thing to know about me is I'd like to become a makeup artist and finish beauty school. I started, but all the chemicals (blood disease affected) made me sick and I had to take a break. If it's totally impossible for me to be around all the chemicals all day, I am going to get my journalism degree as I love to write and have all my life. Ok enough about me, just thank God that He still heals people today, I'm living proof of that, I have faith beyond reason, and I know that someday all these diseases everyone can get will all be ok.

Ramble on Rachel!!!

Don't you all just love my ramblings!!! Well here's some more delights of mine for your ears only!!

~A empty makeup bag is a sad sight to behold!

~Get up, look at makeup, eat, look at perfumes, brush teeth, look at clothes and shoes, fix hair, look at makeup, perfumes, clothes and shoes, look at makeup perfume, clothes and shoes, look at makeup, perfume ,clothes, and shoes, oh I could do this all day long!

~It's better to pray and humble yourself when your makeup clouds your mind.

~99 bottles of OPI on the wall, 99 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was OPI and Apple pie, 98 bottles of OPI on the wall, 98 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was Siberian Nights, 97 bottles of OPI on the wall, 97 bottles of OPI take one down pass it around it was Coney Island Cotten Candy, 96 bottles of OPI on the wall, 96 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was Mother Road Rose, 95 bottles of OPI on the wall, 95 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was Buy Buy Tokyo, 94 bottles of OPI on the wall, 94 bottles of OPI, take one day pass it around it was Catherine the Grape, 93 bottles of OPI on the wall, 93 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around, it was Can't Help Falling In Love, 92 bottles of OPI on the wall, 92 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was Nomad's Dream, 91 bottles of OPI on the wall, 91 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was Fit For A Queensland, 90 bottles of OPI on the wall, 90 bottles of OPI, take one down pass it around it was Suzi Loves Sydney, I could go on forever, I could go on forever, we've established that I love OPI and I have too much imagintion. Oh once more, 99 bottles of OPI........

Best Makeup Brands Ever!!!

The best possible makeup brands ever are: (In no particular order)

~Benefit Cosmetics
~Too Faced
~Chanel
~MAC
~Urban Decay
~Bliss
~Philosophy
~Peter Thomas Roth
~Murad
~Estee Lauder
~Dior
~Smashbox
~Calvin Klein
~DHC
~Laura Mercier
~Sephora
~Nars
~Stila
~Dr. Brandt
~Colorscience
~Hard Candy
~OPI
~TIGI-Bed Head
~Lancome
~Cosmedicine

The Right to Die?????

If you've been reading the newspapers or watching TV recently you will have found out that Obama has put into effect some kind of right to die program. Such as when "the doctors or whoever thinks there playing God, decides you won't have a quality life, they can assist you in killing yourself, legally." This is murder, suicide, and biblical and morally wrong! And frankly concerns me a little. Euthanasia is the worst possible invention man kind has created, legally assisting people to die because they are terminally ill. BUCKLE UP PEOPLE! Your in for a ride of your life!! I find this appalling for someone who has been greatly ill, but has chosen to believe in a power beyond myself to heal me and make me whole again. Quality of life, is when you realize that life is a gift from God and that no man or woman has the right to take it away, unless they will be held accountable for it as murder before God on judgement day! I can't believe that anyone would want to die, I have seen death, and people it ain't pretty!! Death is something you don't want to face unless it is your time to go, and no one, I repeat NO ONE has the right to decide when your time to go is BUT GOD HIMSELF!!! When the medical profession decides to stop looking for cures, to stop curing, to stop caring and just to place a stamp on someones records as time to die, that frightens me. I can not understand why on earth people have become so inhumane, cruel, cares more about PET RIGHTS, than HUMAN RIGHTS! WAKE UP AMERICA, DO YOU WANT TO GO DOWN THE S&*T HOLE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, YOU CAN'T HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR IN THEIR TIME OF NEED, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, WHEN YOU BECOME TERMINALLY ILL YOURSELF, WOULD YOU WANT US TO JUST PLACE A STAMP ON YOUR PROFILE AND SAY TIME TO DIE AND NOT CARE TO HELP YOU, YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is truly amazingly wrong and tells me that America has lost her heart, her soul, and worst of all her conscience. When killing people is legal, when suicide is the cure, when God is someone of the past, America has gone to the dogs, and frankly I miss the old days where people actually cared about people, that's what made us America, the right to a better life, the right to care about ourselves, our family, our neighbor's, our friends, the right to want to help total strangers in their time of need. But thanks to Obama we now can legally kill ourselves. What a sad, sad, sad waste of time, life, and energy. Obama your wrong, the quality of life is when God says LET THERE BE LIFE! And you don't have that power to take it away from us!!!

I Am Blessed!

I am blessed! I was thinking on my illness and reading stories of other people with the same condition as me, and I truly am blessed! Sometimes it's hard not to feel sad or frustrated about having a rare condition, because it casues so many problems. But, for me when I was sick the most I turned to God. And I always turned to God, I still turn to God to this day. Doesn't matter what you believe about God, the fact is He healed me and He continues to heal me each day, it is a miracle I have made it this far, it is a miracle He healed me when I was my sickest and about to die, it is a miracle just to have life. Anyone whoever experienced a death experience knows not to take life forgranted, your blessed to be alive and any moment could be your last, so don't waste your time here on earth, or you may end up to regret it. But, I've come so far in the last few years, and God has contiuned to heal me over and over again. I am so blessed that I do not have the horrific symptoms I did 10 years ago, I am blessed God took them away, I am blessed I'm in mimanl pain compared to what I was before, I am blessed!! Have faith and you shall receive!

My Porphyria Story, sort of, excluding the gross parts!!

OK, here's my story, if your interested. It all started when I was in junior high. I started having major stomach pains, sometimes it would just be dull pains, while others would feel more like stabbing knife pains or in extreme cases like a thousand knives carving out my insides. I was always really thin and could never gain any weight, 5' 7" 100 pounds, yeah looked sick. I always had yellowness to my skin on my face. I would have extremely awful periods. Where I've been admitted to the hospital because of my period alone, that bad! My period has been known to make my blood pressure fall really low, pass out, get white spots where I can only see white spots and everything else is blurry. Anyways, it was bad. But I always believed in God and I always believed that he could heal me. So I would pray all the time and ask God to heal me. I would also go down to the altar at church and be prayed for God to heal me. Anyways, so I would go to the doctor and they would do all kinds of tests, test after test after test. Finally in my senior year of high school they told me I had a rare blood disease called Porphyria. It wasn't until later that I found out I had CoProPorphyria. Anyways, there is no cure for Porphyria, so we just have to flow with it. NO FUN!! But anyways, one night I got really sick and I truly believe I was going to die, long story short God saved me that night and healed me and took away a lot of the pain. I quite having real bad periods (although sometimes I do get the not so fun ones, but nothing like what they use to be, I do get weak and dizzy though) But I no longer have the stabbing knife or thousand knives carving out my inside pain. Sometimes I get sharp pain, but again nothing like it was before. I quit having the yellowness about my skin and started gaining weight and feeling better. Although I am limited to my daily activities. I do get weak and dizzy, and I don't always have the energy I should have, and I do have weird pains all over my body, but God has truly healed me because from what I experience years ago, it was life or death, now it's so much better than it was I am thankful for his touch. Anyways, thought I'd share my story with you. I didn't go into all the details, you don't want to know the truly gross parts. LOL!

~Rachel ;)