Achalasia

For the past year or so, I've been misdiagnosed and mistreated by doctors. I knew I didn't have your normal textbook definition of acid reflux. I have lost close to 60lbs in less than a year, and right now my health is in very bad shape despite eating healthy and staying active. I was hospitalized recently because I was severely dehydrated and couldn't keep food or liquids in my body. When I decided to take a hiatus on my blog, I went to go seek doctors who could find out what I really had.

I was only formally diagnosed with Achalasia last week on 5/22/12. It is a rare condition that only affects 1 in 100,000 people with no known cause and no cure. The symptoms include difficulty in swallowing, regurgitation of undigested food, chest pains, and weight loss. I am peaking at my severity right now, and am on a self-imposed liquid diet because I can barely take that in as it is. So, what's my solution?

I'm scheduling to help alleviate the problem this week and will be undergoing surgery within the next few weeks. Luckily the surgery isn't too invasive and will have a quick recovery time, just in time for me to be able to work at OBEY's Sample Sale and go to summer school.

It's hard to be ambitious and do what I want to do with this holding me back. Before this disease took a strong hold of me, I signed up for summer school because I only had to take a few classes to graduate in December 2012. If you find the right people to treat you and let them know your schedule for the near-future, they'll support you and do what they can to help. I am so grateful for my new doctor in helping to accommodate my needs.

If I had to say one thing good about this disease, I would say is that it helped me get to my weight goal (unfortunately not in a very healthy way) and helped me be able to have more stamina to exercise and learn how to control portions of food and make healthy food.

Mini hiatus, giveaway winner

Hey everyone! Sorry for being an absent blogger. Since finishing up my internship and school I have been resting a lot. However, I have to declare a hiatus because I have some health issues I need to address within the next few weeks. Please feel free to follow me on Tumblr as I'll make some random updates here and there.

For the Jump into Spring! Giveaway, the winner was Jer.

Also here's a last FOTD I have done. This was done for a contest for Urban Decay, and I created a purple and grey smokey eye for it. I didn't win, but it was still fun to do!

Some general updates!

Hey everyone, finals is this upcoming week so soon I'll be free to post more! Just wanted to post about a few things going on in my blog.

The Jump into Spring! Giveaway is still going on until May 4th, so enter that if you still want to.

If you haven't seen, there's now 2 new tabs above for posts on buying items, Diamond Lash Custom Packs and Blog Sale! Definitely feel free to look around for items you want, I have a lot of new or gently used items available for cheap.

The last day of ElecTRONica at Disney California Adventure 4/15

I decided to venture to DCA for ElecTRONica's last night with some friends :) I made a post about ElecTRONica near the time I started blogging, which you can view if you want!

I didn't get too many pictures since it was super crowded, but I did get some.

Diamond Beauty Blush Swatches

I love Diamond Beauty's line of blushes, as Honey Orange is my HG blush! They recently released 3 new shades, and luckily I was able to buy them and swatch them for you all~

The new shades are No. 06 Rose Pink, No. 07 Sweet Peach, and No. 08 Juicy Orange. This post will also include swatches for No. 02 Apricot Pink and No. 03 Honey Orange.

Review: Candy Doll Makeup Base and KATE Mineral BB Gel Cream

It's been awhile since I've done a review on Japanese base makeup, since I've been experimenting a lot with more Western brands (mainly MAC and theBalm) most recently. In my first Tenso order I decided to order the Candy Doll Base from Candy Walker and KATE Mineral BB Gel Cream from Bi-sai.

Easter LOTD

Hope everyone had a nice Easter weekend! I was fortunate enough to have 5 days off of school for Easter vacation, so I have had some time to take pictures and blog a bit. I was testing new makeup products while doing my makeup today, so look for reviews on some of the items soon :D I also decided to change up my outfit and totally do something out of the ordinary for myself~

Circle lens review: G-201 Max Pure Brown from mukuCHU

I had been wanting these lenses since March of last year, but I decided not to get them until a few months ago since I still had plenty of lenses at the time. I fell in love with these when Sayaka Araki formerly of ageha wore them in Oneesan ni natta!!

Note: Review is required but I purchased these lenses.

Jump into Spring! Giveaway

Hey everyone, I'm sorry I haven't been posting so much but I would love to give you all a token of appreciation for sticking by me... a giveaway!

NYX Cosmetics Black Label Lipsticks Comparisons

I think most of my readers know I'm a *HUGE* fan of NYX Cosmetics, and I also have included their products in every single one of my giveaways, which won't change as I'm in the process of gathering items for the next 2 giveaways. Stay tuned for them!

NYX Black Label Lipsticks are almost double the price of their Round Lipsticks ($7.50 vs $4), but are supposed to be a more luxurious lipstick that is rich in pigment and moisturizing. I would definitely compare these lipsticks to MAC's regular line of lipsticks, as these come in a variety of finishes just like the MAC ones.

I wanted to provide swatches and how these lipsticks looked on me, especially Peachy and Chakra since there aren't really any online.

NYX Cosmetics Black Label Lipsticks in BLL 106 Peachy, BLL 118 Chakra, BLL 170 Sweet Prawn, BLL 191 Bling

Shall we continue?