Hello everyone!

Posts have been slow as of late for a couple of reasons. One of them being that sometimes I don’t really know what to write about. I don’t know if you guys still enjoy product reviews, so let me know if you still do? Since I’m on a spending ban, I haven’t been the first to get anything~ in any collection so I live vicariously through other bloggers and vloggers and friends.

Anyway. Let me know! I will review the rest of the stuff I have stockpiled here, lol. I’m also waiting on a huge MAC purchase that my Canadian friend, Laura, helped me put together, but they’re all semi-basic so I don’t know if I will even review them, really. Also, I think I’ve spoken about that in a post a while ago… and now you know why I had to put myself on a ban.

Another reason is that I have been hard at work at… well, my work! If you don’t know (which I don’t expect you to), I am a visual artist and writer. I haven’t been “employed” at a company for over two years. I do design work and I exhibit here and there occasionally, and I try to write for publications as well.

In December, my portfolio site was hacked (!) and I’ve only gotten the time/energy/motivation to redo it recently. Here it is, ta-da!

If you are curious about my “real work,” you can visit it here: http://carina-santos.com/
A quick look would be much appreciated, of course. 🙂

Photo by David Yu

And yet another reason is that I am going to Japan! I’ll leave today, the 2nd of April, and we’ll go see the sakura or cherry blossoms be all pretty. It is also a makeup discovery trip for me, and I really hope I don’t go overboard. I’ve been very good with my spending lately, though, so I will be. Um, exploring. I already have a list of things I want to check out. #TreatYoSelf

Anyway, that’s it! I’ll be queueing posts here, but as I won’t be bringing a laptop with me (pack light!), the updates won’t really be real-time ones. Unless I do them on my phone or iPad.

In any case, if you’re interested in Japan updates, feel free to follow me on Twitter and Instagram. (Maybe Vine, as well?) I’ll be a social media h0 and it will be glorious!

Until I get back, I’ll see y’all beauties. 🙂