YSL Black Opium from Influenster Review!

It's been a while and I apologize.
I wanted to come on here and talk about this new fragrance that the peeps over at Influenster sent out to me to give a try! It's the new YSL Black Opium. Sounds a little scary, right? Bare with me, it's not as weird as it sounds. This fragrance is really nice and I will tell you why in a minute.

I have tried so many different types of perfumes that are by all means weird. Therry Mugler is one prime example of weird. Therry's fragrances: Alien and Angel are two of my favorites that give off the weirdest smells that seem off putting but actually work! I will state that the notes in Angel being Licorice for one, is something that doesn't exactly scream pleasant and in fact I've turned heads wearing it; some good and some bad. But it's what I like.

With Black Opium from YSL, there's a slew of fragrances to this one. It has: Coffee beans, Orange Blossom, Patchouli, and cedarwood. Weird combo if you ask me, but when it's all spritzed together...Oh, it's nice! To describe this, I would have to say it's very warm and daring. It's definitely a scent to wear in the evening while out or perhaps a fragrance that would be better put on during special occasions because it's so sophisticated. It's not a scent for everyone, but it gives off one of the most beautiful and head-turning scents I have personally ever worn. My boyfriend really loves this as well as always keeps smelling me. It's a sexy and provocative fragrance that could possibly work in the bedroom too!

Now on to the aesthetics! I am a person; sucker really for the eye catching details of perfume bottles. Honestly, I believe that's what really sells a fragrance if you ask me. I also LOVE when the scent matches the bottle's aesthetics! This bottle is black AND it GLITTERS! Yes, it glitters. It's beautiful and I hate to say the negative on this one because it hurts for such a lovely fragrance, but it's really expensive. YSL is no stranger to expense. It's not a cheap bottle. It comes in various forms, but for a good spritz size, it runs (for 1oz) around $67! Now, if you were to buy the whole enchilada, it would cost you around $115 according to Sephora pricing.
When I got this little bottle (thanks to Influenster for free and promise of reviewing) I had no idea what I was getting into and I wanted a larger size, but OH MY, it's expensive, but is it worth it? YES.
Yes, this fragrance is worth it.

As mentioned above, this is not for everyone. If you are a floral type of gal, you might not be too thrilled, but for people with a taste for warmth, then it's yours. I find this a very fall/Winter scent. It's sexy and sophisticated as well as something I would consider worth owning, if you are looking for something luxurious! So what are you waiting for? Hit up your local sephora and see if you can handle its spellbinding scent!

What fragrances are you wearing?

Sincerely,
Josie

Earn some extra money from MonthlyYouth! (NOT a scam!)

Hey everyone! Sorry it has been a while! I have been away to just do some mental health clearing and I have been doing better.

I wanted to get on here to share the money making opportunity-THAT IS NOT A SCAM! It's called MonthlyYouth and you earn money from people clicking your link!

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If this works out the way it is right at this moment, then trust me, I might quit my job and dedicate myself to this full time!

Hope this works out for you too!

Sincerely, 
Josie

News that really shouldn't be news.

I really don't like talking about things like these but does anyone else in this world notice how unhappy Kim Kardashian looks lately or shall I say since she married Kanye West? Yeah, I sincerely don't care about her, him, or that whole trash family since that's all the world talks about. How irrelevant they are to society.

Can someone please alert the media that every time a celebrity takes a shit that it doesn't have to be on the news!? I mean come on! I take shits all the time and no one cares about that, but yet if Kim Kardashian does, it's a fuckin phenomenon and suddenly shitting is no longer taboo. And I digress.

I'm certain what I have to say in the world isn't relevant either, but I still voice my opinion because I'm sure someone out there finds it better than what the news puts out. It's like a shit factory on tv and yet no one seems to care.

I'm pretty sure someone fighting for our freedom just died today and yet everyone is making a huge fuss over Kim and Kanyes's wedding photo that apparently took four days to edit themselves on their honeymoon....their fucking HONEYMOON!!! Really!? A stupid fucking photo of your wedding wasn't perfect enough that you had to spend four days to make it "perfect"!? You obviously have more problems than just that.

I hate celebrities, well some... I used to admire them for inspiration until it beve a thing to put them all over the damn media in place of more important issues in this world! When I'm watching the news, I don't fucking care how awful Lindsay Lohan or some other useless piece of trash looked, I want to know if te weather is going to be nice or not! I just want to know!!

This world is too obsessed and it needs to stop! This world is obsessed with celebrities and social media! And I thought it was getting bad when everyone was hooked to MySpace like it was goddamn lifesupport! I'm guilty of falling into that...

People need to step outside of the god damn internet and interact with people like we used to. When I'm with a person and they are on their fucking phone the whole time, it drives me crazy! How disrespectful for one, but secondly, when I'm hangin out with someone, I didn't come to hang out with them just so we can play with our phones. But that's technology for ya. I loved it more when having a flip phone was good enough. A flip phone was purposefully for texting and phone calls...some you could download stuff and surf the net, but no one really did that...the only time a person looked at their phone was when they had a text and answering a text was usually no longer than 10-15 seconds... Maybe a minute if it was super detailed, but that's it!

My point I'm trying to reach in this is that there are more important things in life other than the media, kimye, Facebook, an technology altogether. We should be worried about our jobs, families, anything...but instead we cower behind the damn computer or phone because it's all we know.

I'm still team flip phone.

Sincerely,

Josie

My night summed up.

I love my boyfriend.

I love the world we've created with each other.

I love this universe that attaches us.

I love his love. 

I am complete. 

Progress.

I had every intention of coming on here today and sharing a DIY that I've been planning all week and then I realized something else...I have been stuck in my own world on all these positive things I've been encountering and it's been making me super happy so I decided to put it off for another day.

Consider this as a positive negative...lol.

Anyway, as you all have been following, I've been yearning for a way to make my life better and mostly in an emotional sense. I've dealt with anxiety so long that I've been so unraveled. It's hard getting yourself out of a hole that is essentially becoming a grave.

Today, I've made some positive changes starting with the way I look at things and it feel so wonderful! Normally I get anxious in public places, no matter te circumstance. I instantly become shaky and then I mentally put myself down. Today as I was browsing through a store, I began to think about things differently. I focused on the things I was after and how happy of an impact it's going to make later on. I looked at a shirt and complimented myself for the first in a long time. I was genuinely happy! I wasn't shaking out of nervousness and I talked backed to myself civilly. This was the most life changing experience to date and began to see how easy it will be to continue.

Another progress I've been making is my credit card debt that I've been struggling with for a while. I don't openly speak about this because really, who would? No one should be proud of their debt...at least not until you get out of it. I never thought about how hard it would be to get out of credit card debt until I got myself into it and now little by little, I'm starting to get out. It's a liberating feeling amongst many.

So you see, I have legit reasons why I put off something I said I would do and I hope it doesn't sound like another excuse, but truly, this is why I spaced out on it. I am naturally a space cadet either way, but today was something really positive that deserved to take the spotlight.

What is something positive that you encountered lately?

Sincerely, 

Josie 

We are who we are.

Has anyone else binged on season 2 of Orange is the New Black? I have and I'm now dealing with the agony of wondering about season 3. I really am going to be lost until then...

This past week I went to see Wayne Static perform all of "Wisconsin Death Trip" and it was amazing just as the first time I heard it many years back. This week endured many ups and downs but I still remain on top and in control of my feelings and finding better ways to control my anxiety or hopefully it works.

You all may or may not know that I've been dealing with anxiety and that I've been taking prescription Prozac to help with it, but recently I've decided to not take it any longer and it's been a motherfuckin nightmare since and I sincerely feel awful for the way I've been feeling and acting out on it. I had a bad attack while I was at the Wayne static show and my boyfriend got the blunt end of it and it pains me because it wasn't his fault. I've turned around since then and he's been such a wonderful soul for helping me deal with this. We are getting somewhere.

I just want everyone to know that I'll be okay and that I've tried the best I could to try out medication, but it just wasn't wooing me the way I wanted to and the feeling I had really fucked with me so I had to stop. Anyone who's been through this will understand. It's hard and fucked up, but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel somewhere. Maybe I'll make it out of the tunnel one day, but for now I'm just working out the navigation. 

Hopefully everyone has a good rest of the  week because I'll have more to come and a small DIY to share. Weds will be the day for that! Until then, hold on.

Sincerely,

Josie

Life and Death.

Life is a really complicated place. I don't know how else to stress it. These past couple days have really brought out a lot of emotion inside of me to really dwell on all the things in life that make it wonderful and the things in life that make it what it is. One of the greatest things about life that I completely enjoy is the people that are placed in it and how they have shaped some part of it. And this is where it begins...

On Tuesday a very special woman to me passed away. My dear aunt Shirley whom I have grown to love with so much in me left myself and many others with a great deal of sadness in our hearts. Along with the sadness, words cannot even convey how much joy Shirley has placed in our hearts as well and in which is mainly why many of us are deeply saddened.

Life is a piece of work, but death is a motherfucker. I wish just as much as others that death did not exist and that we could live forever...but it simply cannot be done and we find ways in life to cope with our losses and find ways and signs of life to continue on. This is probably the hardest realization and also the only thing that helps us in the end.

I never thought I could ever hurt so much in my entire life. That feeling of something missing weighing our hearts is so intense that you feel as if yourself is the one dying. Instead, we live.

I used to be terrified of death. I would lie awake in the night and fear of where I would end up if somehow I died. I would (back when I had belief) pray to god and ask for safety and I would clutch onto my chest and cry because I could not fathom not being able to breathe. As you grow older you become less fearful and your question of the unknown lessens. Today I still wonder, but not until I run out of breath.

We've all been to that place in life where we would like to disappear and never be in existence. This is the most selfish feeling in the world, but you're a fucking liar if you've claimed to never felt this way. I've contemplated this many times and still do from time to time because once upon a time we've all been told that there's a "better place" amongst us and we eventually go there when time ends. Sounds almost like a dream, right? 

I don't want you all to read this and think I'm being a downer because that's not at all what this is about, in fact, there's a silver lining. Life is too short and many take for granted what others lived and breathed appreciatively. People get shunned for beaming positivity. Others get treated like shit for being true to who they are and mostly for the way they respresent it. I fucking hate how people can be so cruel and make others feel so inferior. It's like what I've stated in my last post and if you refer that to this, you'll realize exactly how important life is and how it matters to be a better you each and every day.

I don't preach "stop giving a shit" for nothing...and this is exactly why it should be applied now. Do you want to live lfe with regrets just because someone was insecure that you could change the world? I didn't think so. Be kind and love more. Stop pushing people away, especially those that matter the most! What are your last thoughts and feelings going to be of this person once they pass  or rather how would they feel about you?

If I could create a foundation for a better tomorrow, my platform would be appreciation. People expect so much in a world where only little can be given. Appreciate the damn little things in life because sometimes that's all that can be given and at most becomes the biggest impact in your life and in others. When you only have so much to give, don't advertise it as just something small, make it become like an investment where it can become huge over time. 

In conclusion, I've learned through aunt Shirley's passing that the most important things in life are usually the smallest gifts. I grew up with loving parents that may not had the world to give me, but they gave me a small portion of what they could that trend into bigger and better things in life. Those gifts were: loyalty, appreciation, honesty, and kindness. To this day I've learned to utilize this so that others can learn by example just how big of an impact it can make.

Life is wonderful if you utilize your experience correctly and there's never a late start in shaping it better. Go ahead and make your mistakes, but learn from it. Treat others how you'd want to be treated. Someone out there is fighting a battle as well. Make their fight less extreme. Pay it forward.

Sincerely,

Josie