a Lush Christmas time

I'm not a professional Christmas present buy-er, by any means. This time of year, it's so hard for me to get lovely, thoughtful presents for everyone there is to gift so I decided to go with Lush for the majority of my small gifts this year. Can I say gift one more time?
Anyway, these little presents come adorably wrapped and have a tag listing the contents as well as a place to sign. There are quite the range of these gifts ranging from just under ten American dollars to sixty something, I believe. You can check out their site, Lush.com under christmas gifts to see for yourself. There are multiple gifts around the fifteen and twenty five dollar mark, which is where my price range was. Each has two or three little festive goodies ranging from just bath bombs to soaps and shower gels. A few don't have any bath bombs at all, which is great if you're not sure how much of a bath person you're buying for.
These are available online as well as in the Lush stores. To be safe about your presents coming on time, I would probably go to the store at this point in the season because mine took well over a week to ship.
Alright, enough talk. I'm now going to show you what I got as gifts... commence the pictures!

This is called Rosy Christmas. It contains their Rose Jam shower gel and Ro's Argan Body conditioner(incase you can't read their picture...). It's $15.95, obviously. I bought multiple of these because they look lovely and don't contain anything that someone might not want to use. Also, I can personally vouch for the Rose Jam shower gel, which, I'm pretty sure, only comes out in the festive season. If rose jam was a thing(if it is, tell me!), it would smell like this! I'd like to spread it on my toast, but I'm not sure that's acceptable...

This one's called Snowman Invasion. It has a Cinders bath bomb-another thing I can personally vouch for and say it's amazing, and a Snowman bath bomb, which I have never tired. Both of these are available this time of year only, I'm ninety percent sure. This one is $12.95.

This pretty little package called Festive Goodies and is the most expensive of the three kinds I got, running at $24.95. It contains Celebrate body lotion, Karma soap, and Sandy Santa body butter. Celebrate body lotion and Karma soap are available all year round and Sandy Santa body butter is strictly for the festive season. I've never used any of these things, but they all look great and I think anyone would enjoy these. And I'm adding Sandy Santa to my list for the next time I drop by Lush...

Alright. That's all I've got to say aside from I'm proud of the Christmas shopping I've done thus far. Also, just so you know, all three of these gifts are vegan, which is great. Lush is an awesome store that fights animal testing and promotes recycling and I'm a little obsessed. If you want a full scale review on anything from Lush, or have any questions, just tell me.

So that's it. Look at all the work I can do with a little bit of extra time! What's to come? I don't know(I have no ideas as of late). For now, my sweet readers, this is farewell.

Autumnal/Winter Nail Varnishes

I really like nail varnishes. I really do. Something you may want to know about me is that I'm ALWAYS wearing nail varnish. I feel so naked without it... and besides, it's amazing what the right color can do. I feel so much more elegant(at least my fingers do) when my nails are groomed to a nice shape and I'm rocking a beautiful color. And it just so happens that dark, moody colors are my favorites. So even though this is just a little post about a couple nail varnishes, I will have an endless amount of joy writing it.

Sally Hansen Insta-dri in 340, Cinna-snap

Sinful Colors in 2, Black on black

Sally Hansen hard as nails extreme wear in 420, Pacific Blue

(I know this isn't typically a fall color, but I get so many complements on it and I've been wearing it quite often... So I put it in this post anyway.)

Essie in Smokin' hot

Zoya in Vanessa

(what I'm wearing currently)

Zoya in Faye

Revlon colorstay in 260, Bold sangria

So yay for posting something with pictures, right? This post took me an obscene amount of time to do because I kept retaking the pictures throughout this week because lighting is hard to come by these days. Finally they look halfway decent! If you want a full scale review on any of the products here, just give me a holler. I'll be glad to do it.

Right. So this is goodbye. But not forever, I swear! I have exciting things a-brewing in my brain as the festive season arrives on our doorstep. Will I see you later?

Factoids about myself...

So I decided to whip up this little post because I realized that my first post really told you peoples nothing about myself. Of course you can look to your right and see that my name is Emily and I'm seventeen... but that's about it. SO I thought I would share with you some useless little bits about myself. I swear I'll try to keep the interesting.

1. I don't know how to cook anything. I repeat, anything. The extent of my knowledge is reheating and ramen noodles.

2. I like to cross my z's ad 7's. Yeah. They just look so naked without a little line running through their centers...

3. I wear a US size seven shoe. BAM.

4. My dogs are named after cheese. There's Brie(who's dead), Cheddar, and Pepper Jack. Cute, right?

5. I have something called a geographic tongue. Basically it's just... sort of... textured, I guess? I don't know, look it up. My aunt, who's Thai, told me it's good luck.

6. When I was little(like 3-5) I was convinced I was a boy. I used to get into arguments about wether or not I was a boy... yeah. I also used to run around flashing people my non existent boobies. There's picture evidence of that.

7. My ears are slightly different sizes. You would never notice unless you looked closely... I look closely.

8. My favorite song is I Can't Help Myself by the Four Tops. It's a classic. You might think you don't know it, but you do. Everyone does.

9. I've broken my right arm twice. I fractured my elbow when I was five falling off of a swing set and I dislocated my wrist when I was nine by flipping my bike.

10. 50% of my cousins are Asian... But I only have four cousins in total, so that's not saying much.

That's only ten, but you know... Short and sweet. I said I wasn't going to restrict myself from how much I'm going to write on here, and I'm not. It's just that I know how boring these things can be, especially when you don't know the person who they're about at all. Also it's a pain in the butt to come up with interesting things about myself. If you want to know some more, just drop me a comment down below and I'll see what I can do.

So... Thanks for reading. What should I do next? Probably something that involves pictures, yeah? I know how dry these picture less posts can be, trust me.

Well, hi there!

This is my first post... How scary! Well, actually, I must confess that this is not the first time I have posted something ever... you see, late last summer, I decided that I wanted to start a blog, but I don't think I had properly mentally prepared myself. I wanted a really committed beauty blog where I strictly talked about beauty and only beauty. BUT the thing is that I'm broke as a joke and it was just too much of a struggle to constantly have things to talk about.
So this time I'm not going to commit myself to any one thing; I'm going to do whatever the hell I want and no one can stop me. Maybe this time around it will be a bit more fun. I hope. Another thing that I'm going to do this time is not restrict my talking. I'm quite the blabber and I really enjoy just going on and on and on and on about things-things that, more often than not, do not pertain to the point. I'm a lot better prepared for this time around, really, I am. I have a properly functioning laptop and a shit ton of time on my hands-pardon my french.
Basically, this time around SHOULD be a lot smoother than the last. I say should because, let's face it-I'm a fickle thing. My desires come and go and in a few months, I may very well decide that I no longer want to write posts on the internet. I have no promises for the future.
Is it a good idea to now say why I have named my blog What a Yank? It's because I'm American. Woot woot! Incase you don't know what a yank is, here's what Urban Dictionary had to say;

1. A term used by the British to describe all Americans. 
2. A term used by American Southerners to a. describe Union Forces during the American Civil War; b. Post Civil War reference to Americans from non-Southern States. 
3. Slang for male masterbastion. 
4. A term to describe pulling something very hard and fast (see number 3)

I saw that and thought, Hm... Fitting. I am a northern American with an immature sense of humor. I'll use it! Truth be told, I don't know stereotypically American I really am (I'm not fat or entirely stupid), but that's not what matters, okay?

Alright, I think that's all I have to say for now. What's to come? I do not know. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Talk to you later?