NEUTROGENA® Ultra Light Cleansing Oil!

My latest product added to my beauty arsenal is  NEUTROGENA® Ultra Light Cleansing Oil!

I absolutely fell in love with this product! I used it to hydrate my dry spots of my combo skin and I was very very pleased with how well it removed my stubborn eye makeup without leaving a harsh oily residue behind. Highly recommended!

XPoNential Fest 2015 LINE UP IS HERE!

Seriously guys, this festival is shaping up to be nearly on par with the awesome that was last year.

My MUST SEE acts are:

Grace Potter - OMG I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE HER!
My Morning Jacket
St Vincent
Indigo Girls (I have seen them twice before - once in '93 and once again on Lilith Fair)
Dawes (who we saw last year with Jenny Lewis and Ryan Adams)
Courtney Barnett
Lord Huron
The Lone Bellow
Delta Rae
First Aid Kit
Kopecky
Field Report
Son Little
Israel Nash

And those are just the ones on my list of can't miss acts! I am sure PLENTY of them will overlap like last year.

The weather better be awesome.

103 days to GO!! Get psyched right now by listening to my Get Ready for XPoNential Fest Spotify playlist:

Get Psyched for XPNFest Playlist on Spotify

Stuck In My Head - Rilo Kiley on a Monday Edition

Last night I had a dream that I was babysitting a piglet and a 2 tiny baby dancing elephants that I carried around with me in my pocketbook. It was awesome.

And then I woke up with these songs in my head which have absolutely nothing to do with that.

Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley 

Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley

I hate it when awesome bands breakup and don't make their music anymore. Jenny Lewis had better always keep making solo records, that is all I am saying!

#1's - 90's Style

20 years ago this was the #1 song is the USA for the first 3 weeks of 1995.
I loved this song.
Now just let it sink in that 20 year ago it was 1995.

Yeah.

1/8/15 - Songs I Forgot About - Jets to Brazil "All Things Good and Nice"

I have a very large digital music library.
I love it.
With my 160GB iPod I have been able to carry my music collection with over the years when I have lost countless other possessions and tokens from life. But my music is always with me. And when I listen to my music I tend to do a lot of shuffling so that I am able to get a sampling of all the kick ass music I have found over the years. In doing that I always find little gems that I forget exist. So now I am gonna start collecting them here. Because if I am gonna make my blog goal for the year I gotta post post post right?

Today's edition is this gritty ballad from the indie rock band Jets To Brazil - its got the flavor or a Beatles-esque melody being mixed up with an 80's power ballad.

Ant-Man Human Size trailer

I am not gonna pretend that I have ever cared about Ant-Man.
I like comics.
I like Paul Rudd. A LOT.
I will see this movie.

Getting ready for tomorrow!

Paul Rudd - I love you. Steelers Rule All.

My Moda Vox Box!

The latest tester box I received from Influenster was the Moda Vox Box. This may have been my favorite of all the tester boxes I have received from them. Below are list of the products I received from them, my quick thoughts on them and they're Tracy letter grade. Enjoy!

Rimmel London Scandaleyes Rockin' Curves Mascara - these new fancy lash brushes are my favorite. I am a big fan of this mascara! A+

Rimmel London Moisture Renew Lipstick - very nice, non drying lip color with good coverage. I already have bought a 2nd color from this line. A+

Rimmel London Moisture Renew Lip Liner - ladies if you are my age (late 30's) clear lip liner is your lip colors new best friend! trust me. Affordable and the best one I have found and I have tried a lot. A+++++++++++++

Puffs SoftPack - who knew this little innovation would change the tissue game forever. Good job Puffs! A++++++++

Jergens Ultra Healing Extra Dry Skin Moisturizer - I have been using this hand cream for years and I loved getting to try the new packaging it came in. Jergens, you have my undying consumer love. A++

resource Natural Spring Water - my new favorite electolyte water! excellent post workouts! A+

Hair Food Moisture Hair Mask - By Clairol, this product became my favorite find of their box. After a month it totally changed the texture of my poor over processed hair. Slowly changing all my hair products over to this! A+++++++

Swiss Miss Simply Cocoa - who doesn't love hot cocoa and Swiss Miss? Not this girl. Fantastic addition to the testing box! A+

Giving Love to my #FindItAtTarget VoxBox Goodies.

Time for more Influester!

This time I got myself the #FindItAtTarget VoxBox - a VoxBox with a surprise goodie inside - and I think most everyone got something different.

And this was what was in mine:

I received the Charles Worthington London Style Setter Long Lasting Max Hold Hairspray - say that seven times fast.

Now I am not usually one for hairspray having been a teenager in the late 80's and early 90's when we graduated to a Rave number pump hairspray from the AquaNet aerosol can hairspray of our youth. Because, ozane, man. But this hairspray was different - my hair didn't feel liek a helmet head. My style flowed naturally while always going back to where I put it - my hair never, ever does that - and it really helped to control the frizz was the icky weather. So this surprise product gets a surprise INTO IT rating from the girl who hates hairspray! Thanks Target and Influenster for letting me try it!

Slackin' is in style in 2014.

I have so much on my to do list!

Blogs I need to get up this week -
-FASHION: RED CARPET FASHION! Golden Globes and SAG awards! Maybe even a taste of tonights Grammy's red carpet!
- PASTIMES: I am reading A LOT more and soon I will post all the books I got through this month for my challenge of reading 60 books in 2014! Any guesses how many I have so far?
- REAL LIFE: Moving on from destructive friendships - after ending 2 different friendships in 2013 (a thing I haven't done since I was in college) I have learned a few thing about how to move when the people you spend most of your time with aren't there anymore.
- GAMING: I have all my 2013 gaming awards written up in my notebook and now I just have to post them for you to see!

But I am a slacker - so I bet this takes me AT LEAST two weeks.

That is all.

Makeup!

Hey there, dear reader o' mine! Remember a few weeks back when I got my Jolly Vox Box from Influenster? Yeah that one! Well I have finally had the time to get through using all the products and today I am sharing my love for the NYC HD Color Trio. 

The colors that I got were pretty neutral but this has quickly become my go to for a quick natural eye look and I am all about the highlighter in the trio! I even use that one when I am using other brands eye makeup. Well done NYC! Check out the only pic I took for my 38th birthday with my NYV HD Trio eyes! 

Getting Back Into The Swing Of Things

First there was the holidays, followed by my birthday trip to Richmond which was awesome enough to get me sick which I spent the last 10 days dealing with. Now that I am getting back to normal I will be devoting my time to pushing out lots more content for you dear reader!

First up - tomorrow I will be posting my final rundown of the fashion at this years Golden Globe Awards - Tracy Ramone style and this time I will be handing out a few awards of my  own!

Stay tuned!!

Crazy Tracy Twitter Day!!

Today might be the most @tracyramone ever tweeted
— Dan Rice (@DRdiabloTHW) January 13, 2014

He's right! Are you following me on twitter?? Lots of Golden Globes Red Carpet 2014 talk happening!! Follow me! https://twitter.com/tracyramone

Ooh Baby Got A Brand New Hairdo

I Am A Quitter

Just a little note to say - I have quit smoking...........AGAIN! But this time I am nearly 4 mos smoke free and I am not even using my e-cig anymore!

Tracy Ramone is a QUITTER!

And just in time for my 38th birthday! 3 years later than I wanted to but at least I quit!

I'm back, bitches

Gonna try to do this blogging thing one more time because even though I have/had multiple outlets to write about specific topics I feel like I always have something else that I wanna say and nowhere to put it. Because for as much as I post on Facebook I don't really enjoy airing out my feelings on my day to day bullshit on there because, well most of the people who add bullshit to my life are on my Facebook unless I have just removed them, which I do A LOT these days and for as much as people love to add drama to my life I hate it. And I don't need it.

And also I like and hate a lot of stuff and I gotta put that shit somewhere right?

Meh whatever. So if you happen to follow this blog - I'm back, bitches.


- T.R.

Mr Greengenes LIVE @ Infieldfest 2012

Mr Greengenes LIVE @ Infieldfest 2012, a set on Flickr.

Rock Band Hidden Gems - The Touch by Stan Bush

While hanging out one day browsing my RB friends online I saw my buddy Alfie online singing a song called "The Touch" - now as soon I read it I thought there's no way that its "You got the touch, you got the powwwwwwwwwer" but that was the first thing that jumped in my mind so I went off to the RB store and low and behold it was.

Best 160 pts I have ever spent on a song.

I mean seriously THE song from the 1986 Transformers movie!!!!!!

Or if you prefer the song that Dirk Diggler sang to try and be a rock star at the end of Boogie Nights!

Either way this is a must own track for any person who survived the 80's!

Direct link to purchase from the RBN:

Stan Bush - The Touch - 160 pts - Rock Band Network Store

til next time!

t.r.

Obsession: Rock Band

It all started last summer.

My buddy David had just returned from a year in Spain last July and was heading up to Montreal for a  music fest so he decided to stop in Philly to visit for a night on his way there. What made this visit different was David had brought his Playstation 3 and his Rock Band kit. I had heard of Rock Band and see photos of friend playing but had never played myself. I tried Guitar Hero once with my son and hit 24% of my notes on the one song I did. This was different though! You could sing? Oh this was something I was gonna love. Karaoke in my living room!!! David and I stayed up til the sun was coming up drinking and playing his library of tunes. When he was returning home from his trip he stopped over with the Rock Band again and this time I got to experience Beatles Rock Band for the first time. Hooked. 100%.

This was something I had to have.

Fast forward a few months to Xmas and my awesome boyfriend got me the Beatles Rock Band kit - which was awesome - black n white marble swirled drum kit, Paul McCartney's Hofner Bass guitar controller, a mic AND a mic stand, oh yeah I was getting my Rock Star on. In the beginning we didn't play it very much. I got to thinking it would really only be something that was done if we were drinkin' and such. Then we discovered online play and played with our friends Corey and Sam in Denver. That was fun. Playing as a full band with friends all the way across the country? I stuck to vocals mostly. And played on Hard. Expert scared me. Then I wanted to start playing around on the other instrument conrollers. I tried bass on Easy. That was ok. I wasn't very good but I always liked the bass. Then I tried guitar and decided chords were never gonna happen. The drums were fun but with my bad foot and able made the kick pedal impossible. Easy was as far as I was ever gonna get with that. So I kept at the bass using the John Lennon Rickenbacker as in about 2/3 months I was playing on expert. EXPERT! I was proud of myself. I moved up to expert on vocals which really isn't hard if you know the song and can stay in pitch. BOOM! I started playing guitar on Hard and sometimes even Expert? Crazyness.

BOOM! Game conquered.

Fast forward to now. I have been at it for about 7 mos. I have taken my peasley little  83 song library and turned it into a 579 song library of awesomeness. I play with people online that I have met through the Rock Band 30+ group on RockBand.com and Facebook all the time. I love knowing there are other thirty and forty-somethings as into this game as me. They are so much better than I am but they make it so fun. It sure makes playing this game more enjoyable when ya have others to play with. Crystal, Freddy, Rhonda, Chuck, Alex and all the rest - you rock!

So yeah expect to see occasional posts related to the game on my blog.

I am Tracy and I am Rock Band addicted.

So yes - this is my obsession.

Cheers,

T.R.

Oh, here it goes again.

I am so bad at following through on this damn blog. You have no idea how many things I start to write that I never finish and just end up deleting. Well I am gonna try and change that....again. Here goes it again!