Let's Talk Food: Izakaya Sozai (3.5/5)

Some people eat to live, and some live to eat. For me... well, I do a bit of both. On “my jeans don’t fit oh god why am I such a glutton?!” days, It wouldn’t be at all strange for me to eat just to live. Honestly, if food didn’t taste so good, I would eat only because I had to. Unfortunately, most of the time, I eat because food is tasty. It's all very unfortunate for my waistline and my wallet... mostly unfortunate for my wallet.

Today, I’m going to talk about an extremely tiny izakaya joint located in the Inner Sunset of San Francisco. The establishment is called Izakaya Souzai.

The restaurant is tiny and crowded. Extremely crowded. Some things to know:

1. They don’t take reservations after they open
2. If you want to eat there after they open, you have to go to the restaurant and tell the host your name, party, and telephone number
3. Don’t go if you have to spend your parents money or if you’re struggling to pay rent and/or your bills--that’s a bad idea all around.

That said, I’m also Chinese-American. I grew up eating homecooked Chinese food which means some things I eat are considered weird and gross by American standards. I will inevitably order “weird” meats when I’m at an izakaya joint.

Okay, Izakaya Souzai, food was good overall, as was the service. I can’t really complain about how expensive it is because you know that going into an izakaya. If I were to rate it on Yelp, I’m giving it somewhere between 3 and 4 stars and here’s why:

5 Minute Makeup - 04/07/13

A lot of women who really get into makeup wake up so they have something like 30 minutes to put on their face. It never really made sense to me... until I started getting into makeup as a hobby and realized that it took me at least five minutes every morning to do foundation and concealing. At least.

So I came across something online today; a 5 minute makeup challenge.

That sounded like fun. So despite the fact that I had nothing on my face today besides moisturizer and sunscreen, I gave it a whirl.

Urban Decay Glinda Palette Review

I'm writing this like there aren't already hundreds upon thousands of reviews on this product already. Don't care. This is my opinion and mine alone; it never hurts to have one more review.

Besides, I have been playing with this palette almost exclusively for the last month so I think I can do a proper review of it now.

The Profile

It has taken me 2 years to figure out my profiling. In fact, I'm still working on trying to figure out my skin tone since foundation hasn't ever really been my thing. I'm still a newbie and I will never stop feeling like a newbie but I'm going to talk about what works for me and what doesn't work for me and hope that someone will find my opinions useful.

Lids: Oily. Pencil eyeliner will smudge. Cream/gel eyeliner will smudge. I can only wear liquid eyeliner without it smudging
Eyes: Hooded-monolids. Eyeliner tends to disappear when I line the upper lash line. Eyeshadow disappears until I learned how to do it right.
Skin: Dry to normal/combination and (hormonal) acne-prone.
Coloring: East Asian (I think I’m warm toned??? I’m fairly certain I’m warm toned) I will let you know when I’ve found my OT Foundation color.

The above gives a good profile of my face and the issues I have to deal with when doing makeup (and skin care!). Let me know if you have any questions.