Copycatting Kim Kardashian

I think Kim Kardashian is just about the most beautiful woman in the world right now. That's just my opinion but I know many will agree with me.

I also think she uses the best makeup artists EVER because her makeup always looks flawless.

I found a video of one of her makeup tutorials and decided to copy the look to see if it would look good on me.

Kim does a few things different from me. She doesn't use liquid eyeliner and that is a must in my makeup routine. She also uses a dark brown shadow in her brows instead of a black like I do.

I tried to thicken my eye brows a little bit to match Kim's but it looked really weird. Kinda looked like I never took a tweezer to them my whole life. I dunno how she pulls it off so well.

I also used my new ring light to mimick Kim's glowy skin.

The end result...

Here is the original shot. I actually used a plum eye shadow coz I didn't have the blue satin she used. Plus I think plum brings out my eyes more than a bluish color.

Looking back, I should've used more dramatic eye lashes. The ones I used look like I'm not wearing any!

P.S. I'm wearing the earrings E.W. got me for Xmas!


One more.....

And another...... this time with natural sunlight.


The video I used for the tutorial. This is actually part 1 and there are 3 more parts floating around on Youtube.

When trying to find a good makeup look, I find it best to pick a celebrity that somewhat resembles you. I'm not saying I look like Kim K. but we both have olive skin, dark eyes, long dark hair and exotic features.

If you resemble Paris Hilton, this makeup would prob look pretty stupid on you.

Tags: kim kardashian, makeup

A Look Back At 2010

I decided to make a list of my favorite moments from 2010.

--February 2010--

-Went to Puerto Rico and got caught in a rainstorm on the peak of a mountain while waiting to go hang gliding. Met some really cool locals on the mountain and had real Puerto Rican food from a stand in someones front yard.


-Went to Hollywood, CA and kissed the infamous Tiger Woods. (The wax one!) I wouldn't kiss the real one in fear of getting Herpes.


-Went to Scottsdale, AZ and climbed my first mountain. Not actual "rock climbing" but more like running up an extremely steep and rocky mountain.

--March 2010--

-Saw Phantom of The Opera on Broadway in Manhattan for my 23rd birthday. Also got the pink Dell laptop I wanted for oh so long!

--May 2010--

-Flew to the isolated island of Vieques off the coast of Puerto Rico for a relaxing getaway. Then flew to Scottsdale and Las Vegas for a few more days of excitement


-Started taking aerial classes at the local circus school and purchased my own aerial hammock for future performances.


-Rode horses and went boating in the Poconos mountains. Also soaked in a giant champagne glass jacuzzi.

--June 2010--

-Went to New Orleans for some good ol' Mardi Gras style partying. Got wasted off of 190 Octane's (drink of the devil if you ask me).


-Learned how to bling stuff and went bling crazy on everything I could get my hands on.


-Flew first class on an international flight for the first time. Slept on an airplane chair that laid completely flat.


-Went to Tel Aviv, Israel thanks to HP Printers. Visited my family roots in Jerusalem. Watched E.W. pray on the exact spot that Jesus was crucified.

--August 2010--

-Performed my very first aerial show. It was pretty damn frightening the first time but every show after that was nothing but fun.


-Bought my first semi-pro camera (Sony Nex-3) and developed a serious photography hobby. This is the month I started to take awesome blog photos and began obsessively taking pics of myself.

--September 2010--

-Saw my idol, Lady Gaga, live in concert. Her talent is like no other and her concert was more a life lesson than anything.


-Went to Chicago and ate my first deep dish pizza. It took two people eating the pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner to finish the damn thing.

--October 2010--

-Went to Amsterdam. Smoked marijuana in a coffee shop, ogled prostitutes at the red light district, toured the Heineken factory and visited Anne Frank's house.

--November 2010--

-Partied in Miami for Halloween. Dressed up as a tiger and ring leader. Met Brooke Hogan!


-Went to Athens, Greece (first vacation I paid for). Toured the Acropolis, partied at the most amazing club I've ever been to, and witnessed some heavenly panoramic views of Athens.


-Spent a night in Paris. Ate snails, kissed under the Eiffel Tower and ate banana and Nutella crepes at the Louvre.

--December 2010--

-Celebrated my 4th Xmas and New Years with my family. My mom met E.W.'s parents for the first time.

A quick video montage of memorable moments from 2010.

I can't wait to see what this new year holds in store for me. I definitely won't be traveling as much as last year but it's my goal to make every year better than the last.

Tags: 2010, new year, memories

My Xmas In A Nutshell

This is my first post in the new year!

It's a little bittersweet because I know this will be the most exciting yet challenging year of my life thus far. I am planning to relocate my entire life to a city I don't know much about and that scares the shit out of me. But I will never know success without sacrifice so this is the way it has to be!

Anywho.. I had one of the best Xmasessesssess ever! Instead of partying like I did every other year, I spent this year with my family and friends and that's the way I will have it from now on.

Xmas is about family peoples!!!

Fuck nightclubs, bars and drinking.....well maybe not drinking...but fuck all that other stuff!! It seems so insignificant when compared to a Xmas dinner with your family and your significant other's family.

In fact....last week, my mom met E.W.'s parents for the first time! One big step for us... one giant leap for....um... us too i guess.

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Every year we wait till morning to open our Xmas presents but impatience hit E.W. this year and we opened them at the stroke of midnight.

Our Xmas tree was magnificently lit. A perfect tree to put presents under.

London guarded our presents from potential thieves. Actually, he's just a big ol' cam whore like his mommy so he jumps into every picture I take. I have officially given up trying to shoo him away from my shots.

And yes!! That is the Keurig coffeemaker I have been dying to get. I use that thing every day now and don't know how I ever lived without it. It's kinda like GPS and Mapquest...how the hell did we survive without those 2 things for so long? Our generation would never survive with the old school map books my grandpa used to (and still does) use.

I also got some beautiful earrings from one of my favorite designers Adriana Orsini. If you are a bling lover you must check our her line at Saks!

I also got a Swarovski crystal iPhone case which I should finally get today!! I love my bling!

The best present of all had to have been the snow globe with my 2 kids. The other side had a photo of my other furball. Hah you can see my cam reflection in the bottom of the snow globe.

This is what was left of the gifts when I got done with them. London is probably somewhere underneath that pile gasping for air.

Giving my baby a BIG BEAR hug for all of the wonderful gifts he gave me. Who is taking this picture you may ask???

No one! That's right, E.W. also got me two different types of tripods for my cam so I can cam whore easier. Now I can do photo shoots with my self and not have to balance the camera on a shakey pile of books and pillows!!

I apologize for my scary no-makeup look. That's what I look like in the early morning so deal with it. :-P

Every year, I make a ginger bread house and always forget to bring it to a Xmas party and end up eating it myself over the course of a month.

This year I managed to remember to take it to Xmas dinner and it was the hit of the party! Just look at how the roof icing drips down oh so perfectly :) I'm an arteeest!

Seriously though, I ate one gumball while I was making the house and ended up being short one gumball WTF.

When not with family, we hung out with close friends. E.W. even convinced me to go to Lucky Strikes Bowling. Let me get one thing straight... I hate hate hate bowling. I suck at it. And anything I am not the best at...I won't do. So after getting a spare....knocking down 9 pins (all luck)....then getting 5 gutter balls in a row, I gave up playing and made E.W. play the rest of the game for me.

Thankfully we got some frozen margaritas at El Vez afterwords to lighten up my mood a bit.

During the first day of our mini blizzard, we ran over to Plough & The Stars for a hot alcoholic apple cider in front of their fire place. Kinda tradition with us to do so.

Got to wear my funky pink hat from Amsterdam for the first time!

Also wore my microwave jacket. it's pretty much impossible to be cold in it. I can't believe I will have to retire it when we move to Miami :(

Bananerssss...pancakes....maple syrup!!! Best food combo EVER. (better than peanut butter and jelly)

My future husband must know how to make a good banana pancake and E.W. makes me an excellent one every time.

Pic of London Boy...if you think the lighting looks interesting in this photo it's because I used my knew ring light (another Xmas present from E.W.).

I will do a future post with all my ring light photos. The purpose is to create a flat, no shadow image that is illuminated from all directions. Ring lights also help show great detail in photos.

E.W. also got me 3 different cam lenses for Xmas. A macro lens, a fish eye lens and a wide angle lens. I can't wait to tests these babies out!!

I leave you with our family Xmas card that we gave out to everyone coz we are cool like that :)

Oh and BTW ... E.W. didn't walk away empty handed either! He got some sleek white Ferragamo loafers for Miami, a leather iphone case and some XXX stuff :)




Tags: christmas, holiday, presents

Santa Baby - I've Been An Awful Good Girl

It's almost Xmas! It's almost Xmas! The most exciting time of year for many people.

Play the music below for some added Xmas spirit to my post :)

I find it ironic that my family is considered Jewish yet we celebrated Xmas every year. In fact I don't remember ever celebrating Hanukkah.

Many Russians had to repress their religion because Judiasm wasn't socially accepted in Russia so I grew up celebrating Xmas, Easter and even a few Jewsih holidays.

My family always made Xmas really special for me.. oh the good ol' days when I believed in Santa.

I remember one year, my cousin and I stayed up till midnight and hid in the stairwell waiting to catch a glimpse of Santa. We never saw him but we assured ourselves that he was probably so fast that we missed him in the blink of an eye.

Another year, my friend Stan and I hid all of our toys in a giant trash bag so that Santa would think that we were toyless thus giving us more toys.

And how can I forget the one Xmas night when I heard a loud thump on the roof and almost peed myself because I was already at the age when I stopped believing in Santa. It turned out to be a tree that fell on our roof but those few moments of "what if" will always be remembered.

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This year we decided to get a smaller tree. The big ones just take up too much room in my opinion. Here's E.W. watering the tree.


And here it is all decorated 100% by me of course. I added icicles since I took this pic so it looks even better now...if possible.

You can't tell in the pic but the angel on top has wings that move back and forth and change color.

Decorated our fireplace too. Ye our fireplace might be dirty but that's coz we actually use it! I can't stand when people have fireplaces just for decoration.

Unlike the fireplace, those stockings are there just for decor. If I got a present that was small enough to fit in those things it better be diamonds!

My awesome cousin brought me yummy snowflake sugar cookies. I think E.W. had 2 and I had the other 10. I know, I'm a pig.

Even London butt is getting into the Holiday spirits. Someone said that he looks like the Grinch's dog with the antlers hah.

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The other day, my girls got booked to represent LondonBury Apartments on WMMR's Preston & Steve.

It was my first time in a radio station during a recording so it was pretty exciting for me. I was surprised at how everything was so fast paced and how chill everyone was. I always pictured a super secure, small room that people record in. But there must have been 20 people in the room with us.

Preston & Steve are two hilarious guys and it was a joy listening to them live. The best part was their office decor. It looks like Xmas had the stomach flu and threw up all over their cubicles. Is that ET in a Xmas web on the ceiling??

LOVE IT!!

My girls getting ready for the Preston & Steve hottie cam in their sexy Santa outfits.

A few minutes before they were on air. Ye, they don't look too excited...most likely coz they were freezing their butts off.

They had to be in the hottie cam for 2 hours straight with no break so props to them.

This is how the viewers saw the footage on their comps at home. Unfortunately I can't find the recorded version online so maybe I'll have to call in to the station to get it.

A pic with Preston, Steve and the rest of the staff at the end of the show!

Well that's all for now. I leave you with the following Xmas quote...

"Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space."

"Santa Clause has the right idea...visit people once a year."

Tags: christmas, radio show, wmmr