For those of you that follow me on Youtube as PinupCandy, you may know that I also am doing videos for a collaboration channel called “Fiverealwomen“.

I began doing the Friday video’s after Gloria aka Glowpinkstah from YT asked me to join her and three other fab ladies. I was happy to become the new lady of the bunch and named my Friday segments “WTFridays with Mari”. They are super fun to film, and we each have questions to answer and ask each week. Make sure to comment, and rate and always subscribe to the Fiverealwomen Channel. There is always something absolutely crazy going on.

And this week’s craziness had to be my absolutely HORRID video screen shot that Youtube found a necessity to make as the thumbnail to my uploaded video.
I mean, just look at this thing:

My friend Aprille said this via twitter: “HAHA your video still looks like you’re in a hysterical fit of misery! ;P”
Oh, how very right she was. I actually fell to the floor laughing in a hysterical fit of laughter after I saw that thing! When she told me I figured out why in the world people kept emailing me and commenting me with questions like “Why are you crying in your video?” … or…. “OMG are you ok? You’re video! You look so upset!”…When I saw the screen shot I literally fell out of my computer chair, onto the floor, and just laughed and laughed. Like- holding my gut and gasping for air laughing.

I then realized, that had this been a few years ago, I would have been crying and freaking out because “OH MAH GAWD! I LOOK HORRIBLE!”… Hey- youtube is good for self awareness and a good laugh when you look like a blubbering foo’.

So there’s this sale I am having. You should so buy some stuff
I have decided that all the items I listed at my Etsy shop for the month of February, should be put up for a major sale.
I took from $2-$5 off of a lot of merchandise. Check it out and don’t forget that I combine shipping if you want a bunch of cute hair goodies. Don’t have bland hair- make it cuter

My friend Madeline and I were giggling a few weeks back over this video. I can’t figure out if the actual video makes me laugh like a maniac, or the fact that the owner of this video felt so compelled to add porn-like music to a video of his cat rolling around on a rooftop.
All sorts of wrong. But it makes us laugh and it’s a must see.

I am a huge Oscars freak. Ever since I was a tiny gal growing up in the slums of Mumbai… I would hold a shampoo bottle in my delapitated bathroom mirror and pretend I was winning an Oscar while wearing my mother’s torn bed sheets and say an acceptance speech. Well it ain’t a shampoo bottle anymore, is it?

Ok, ok. You caught me. I took parts of Slumdog Millionaire’s synopsis and part of Kate Winslet’s acceptance speech and made them part of my own. But seriously, I have loved the Oscars since I was a tiny brat. I would watch it every year with my mom or dad and I would wear my mom’s satin red bedsheets, and a pair of her high heeled shoes. I would carry around a hair brush and interview my stuffed animals or my parents. The year that E.T. lost and Ghandi won,  was severely earth shattering for me. My dad told me that “diapers are in, aliens are out” for that particular year.

I love every part of the awards show. From the beginning, to even the horrible awful long drawn out acceptance speeches from some short film documentarian, to the outlandishly insane musical numbers, to the wonderful parts of the end- the best part- best actress, actor, and best picture.

I watch annually. It’s my super bowl. So my husband knew if he didn’t stop playing his Xbox on our flat screen that I would whine and throw a baby fit from our bedroom the entire night. So he was kind enough to put it on for me and even watched some of it with me! Thanks baby! What a nice husband you are.  It was also our 12th anniversary of meeting, so I think he was just being extra nice to me

Anyhow, from the red carpet “OMG what is she WEARING! EW!” to the ending night of best picture, I watched it in it’s entirity, this year. Here are my post Oscar 2009 raves, faves, utter disappointments, funny moments, WTF moments & so on.

Red Carpet, Gowns, Men’s Fashion:

Many of the gowns of the night consisted of strange origami-type folds. Me no likey. No likey at all. The dresses would have been fine and elegant with just one or two little folds here or there, but it looked like some of them had a hard time WALKING IE: Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood.  Amy Adam’s dress was a beautiful red, but those strange black lines at the bodice did not appeal to me.

If the gowns did not contain folds from space, they contained too much rufflage. Penelope Cruz for example. Or Miley Cyrus anyone? (WHY WAS SHE EVEN THERE???? The fact that my ten year old daughter adores her is enough for me to wince at, but she was at THE OSCARS. Ugh…) Too much ruffle, or even- too much sequins, lame or just plain fug. All in one in Sarah Jessica Parker’s dress. Sarah, please don’t bring Matthew with you anymore. The man looked like he was miserable and rather be bathing in acid. Yeesh.

Makeup? Oh god. Alot of it, was either too washed out, or too much. Reese Witherspoon looked like a skeleton. Gaunt, and in need of a porkchop. Someone told her she looked hawt, but she was nawt. Someone also paired her navy blue colored dress with her eyeshadow. No highlighted brow or anything. Just ALL NAVY BLUE. Again- she looked skeletal, in need of a hearty meal.

Did I like anything? Of course! I actually loved the elegance and dapperness (is that a word?) of THE GOLDEN COUPLE: Brangelina. He looked sophisticated. She looked elegant. All in black both of them, but with their own touches of color. Angelina had gorgeous emerald earring droplets that added great color against the black. Her hair was simple, wavy, flowing, beautiful. I also loved Josh Brolin and Diane Lane. Again, simple, elegant.
Oh and let us not forget Mr. Mickey Rourke. A lot of people said he looked like a pimp gone mad. I thought he brought his own style (an example was his locketed picture of his beloved Loki, his doggie that died this week) and how refreshing was it that he wore WHITE? I liked it. So sue me.

The Awards Show Itself in bullets

• Huge crystal droplet curtain things. Gorgeous. Me liked.
• Five of the past winning Best Actors, Actresses etc. coming out and paying the current nominees respect and words of praise. Me liked.
• Basically the entire stage settings with glamorous sparkles that reminded me of extravagant shows of yesteryear paired with cool visual effects on back dropped screens. Me liked a lot.
• Hugh Jackman. Me liked. Did a decent job hosting.
• Hugh Jackman singing a huge overdone musical number with Beyonce. ME LOATHED. WHY WAS SHE THERE? I wish she would stop trying to sing “At Last” as if it was HER own song and not Etta’s song. She reallllllly needs to stop that before Etta delivers a beat down on her.
• Heath Ledger winning Best Supporting Actor. Me cried. His family accepted the award for him. His sister saying “for his Matilda” made me tear up. You could tell there was not a single dry eye in the audience.
• Eddie Murphy looked high.
• LOVED the Pineapple Express bit. Oh how I love Seth Rogen’s comedic self and James Franco. The part where they are laughing at a clip of Kate Winslet while she was crying was hilarious!
• Sophia Loren was hot with her cleavage.
• Goldie Hawn needs to accept she is not 30 anymore and wear something age appropriate, do something with her hair and stop getting plastic surgery before her face splits in half.
• God, I do not like Nicole Kidman. Does she wear the same thing every year? She looks so BLONDE. And washed out. And PALE.
• Slumdog Millionare won so many times I lost count. But it seemingly deserved the award- marking that one on my “to see” list.  Those kids were adorable. I wanted to adopt them.
• Sean Penn won for Milk. Me liked. But I wanted Mickey to win. Sean’s a decent actor, but he forgot to thank his wife Robin. Who has dealt with a lot of his midlife crisis bullshit this past year. Come on Sean! WTF?
• Loved Alicia Keys dress and makeup. She presented with Zac Efron. I don’t like his hair and make up- he he.
• Kate Winslet won best actress and said some cute things about a shampoo bottle and being little pretending she had won. Her dad whistled. How adorable.
• Slumdog Millionare won best picture. Ok good. I can deal with that.

All in all it was a decent show this year. Despite some of the scary clothes, makeup and bad musical numbers.

Below are my faves and not so faves of the red carpet:

Thoughts?
Eyebrows?
Camel Toe?

If you’re subscribed to some beauty gurus on youtube, you will notice that lately- all the rage is the new Hello Kitty line by MAC.
Although I am personally not that impressed and actually am pretty tired of seeing “Lucky Tom Palette Look!” on everyone’s titles, a few of the items seem to be pretty colorful.

Well now is your chance to get in on the HK insanity. MAC is holding a huge contest for the Kitty Kotoure Collection. The Grand Prize Winner will recieve the following goodies: The entire line of HK Kitty Kouture. The Second Prize is a HK KK dress designed by Tibi. The dress is a size 4. There are also third and fourth prize winners that win a range of the collection. Large amounts of goodies. If you ask me, they needed to do that with the second prize as well. Not everyone is a size 4, damnit.
Well anyhow… click below to enter:

Good luck! I know I entered. All because I want to see what this huge deal about the $90 “Mystery Powder” is all about. I mean seriously… $90 MYSTERY POWDER??? What is it made out of?

Well… it’s me. That’s WHAT.
Not like anyone is reading. But I finally FINALLY am going to do this. I have things to write about. Life, Makeup, and Stuff!
I have videos to post, reviews to write, pictures and things to share!

So..

Get ready… get reaaaady!