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Makeup Update on Empties

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have stopped using makeup wipes all together. I’m now on makeup/ skin care routine that is using less environmental products like makeup wipes.

Plus also switched to using clothes that I can clean in my washer. There’s a ton of them on Amazon. I think I have also saved money by doing this too. Don’t get wrong I still have a pack but they are now for traveling.

Nugilla Makeup Remover Cloth 5 Pack,Reusable Microfiber Cleansing Towel-$11.96. Do the math on makeup wipes ($3-8) for a set of 25. Which end up in the landfill. You get five of these towels that you can easily clean with your clothes. It’s a no brainer for me.

Just wanted to get on here and explain why there hasn’t been any empties coming out from me lately.

Thanks, Laura

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Iced Apple Crisp Macchiato (Starbucks)

I went out and got this drink and my favorite Pink drink from Starbucks today. I have been wanting to try more of their seasonal drinks.

This drink is “a layered flavors of apple and brown sugar meld like the filling of a gooey apple pie in harmony with espresso, milk, ice, and a caramelized-spiced apple drizzle- a nostalgic autumn pick me up.”

I do have to say that if you stirred the drink well enough. You will get those flavors. But for the most part it sit on the bottom of your drink. And since Starbucks has gone straw less in most locations. At least the one’s in my area have. If you drink it without stirring the flavors you will get a bitter drink. Just be aware of that.

Would I buy this drink again? Probably not. It’s not because I didn’t enjoy it. I did. But I love the old macchiato drink so I will probably get that one.

I have been thinking of trying the Pumpkin cold crew cream drink. I will be doing a review of that drink too.

Thanks,

Laura

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Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee Girl Scout Cookies Drinks

Dunkin had come out with Girl Scout drinks at their locations last year. Now Iced Coffee is getting it’s turn for the famous cookies inspired drink.

Dunkin came out with Coconut Caramel, S’more, and Thin Mint. I have tried all three of the drinks. My favorite is Thin Mint. It taste like cookies. Like sugar cookies. Doesn’t taste anything like the famous cookie with the same name. Of course Thin Mint are my favorite.

I found both Coconut Caramel and S’more to be okay. Again, I’m not the biggest fan of caramel. But I still try things even if I don’t like it. I try to keep my opinions to myself. That way if my audience loves caramel I want them to enjoy it still.

The biggest disappointment in these is that they don’t taste like any of cookies. So if you are a big Girl Scout cookie fan and thinking that these drinks will taste like your favorite cookies. Sadly they don’t. Which is sad.

I did find out that they now have the k cup version of Girl Scout cookies. They are on Amazon.

Will I buy these drinks again? Maybe. I feel like the price is about the same price for Starbucks drinks now. Who knows right. Maybe.

Thanks for reading.

Bye!

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Selena the Series on Netflix

This is my review of the Netflix show of Selena. This is just my opinion.

For me, the first part was kinda annoying because they didn’t shot a lot of series here in Texas. It isn’t just the first part either. The second part is like that too.

Selena was a Texan. So why not shot a show that is about her and her family in Texas. That’s my only thing. I feel like the show did try to shot here but I don’t think Netflix allowed it. There were a few shots like when did Corpus Christi get mountains. Please I have been there a few times. It’s very flat.

Plus Second Part when they finished the last concert that she had ever. Which was in Bryan, Texas. (Shout out to my hometown). We don’t have a Corpus Christi like what was being shown. We might be a small town (AB complained about our small town being so small- that to me was kinda rude) but we have a very large college attached to our name. They didn’t even show any College Station or Texas A&M (which I think they probably had to get the approval of the college or both the cities to show which wouldn’t have that big of deal really). Or even showing the City of Bryan (the actual sign) not some highway sign wasn’t okay with me. Just seem off.

The acting was okay. I think it got better in the second part for sure. If you are looking for the wedding be to shown that the movie (Jennifer Lopez) didn’t show. We did get a court house wedding.

The little girl that stopped when seeing Selena and the girl’s mom asking who that was. Who knew that little girl was Beyoncé knew of Selena. But did that actually happen has me wondering. I feel like it could be real or made up. I don’t know. The only person that knows that fact is Beyoncé. Which is actually true. Beyoncé had a past interview talking about how she was in fact a fan of Selena even though she didn’t know what she was singing about (very much like myself- I was twelve when she was murdered but I remember loving her). Beyoncé had seen Selena in Houston before her concert.

Do I think the writing on the show improved. Yes, I think part two is my favorite for some of the scenes. You get to see the cracks of how far Yolanda Saldivar went too. Even the meeting of both Selena and Yolanda. Like I didn’t know she was apart of Selena and Chris’ second wedding. Like what the f is what I’m saying in my head.

Plus I just found out looking up Yolanda case. She has tried to ask the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to accept a petition that would challenge her conviction. That’s was received on March 31st, 2008 (which was the thirteen anniversary of Selena’s death). Just wow. It doesn’t shock me that she’s trying to get out. But to try on the anniversary of the day. She will become eligible for parole on March 30, 2025. That is almost the 30th anniversary of Selena’s death. I hope she never gets out.

But some of the scenes that make me stretch my head (what no way). Selena’s Boutique don’t exist now or after the star was murdered. The one in Corpus Christi is now Selena Museum has well has Q Productions. There’s a scene after Selena died that showed an interview she did. The girls were at Selena’s Boutique. Again in my head this scene doesn’t make sense to me. Why show girls watching this interview at that location because it doesn’t exist.

I didn’t know that Selena wrote one of my favorite songs that she did. Most of her songs were written by AB ( Selena’s brother/Producer). I’m so glad we got to see how some of Selena’s song were written. I feel like that’s important. I think seeing the lives of AB and Suzette (Selena’s sister) is also important. We didn’t get to see that in the movie. Like I didn’t know that Suzette was even married. I just didn’t know. I knew that she had kids because she has talked about them in a few interviews. Talking about them about their aunt. I felt we missed that connection in the movie. I understand they didn’t have even time to show everything. Hints why the series is a good place for it.

Selena’s death wasn’t really shown. Like we didn’t get to see the shooting or how Selena had run into the hotel office bleeding to death (there was a trail of blood from the room to the office). I’m not sure why they didn’t. I’m sure they didn’t want to show too much or have some of the same scenes like in the movie. What we did see is AB playing Dreaming of You (a song he didn’t like before but broke down listening to it). We saw the Suzette, Bill (her husband) , and her parents listening to the same song. We see the break down of Selena’s mom. Which I can understand. I do know that her mom doesn’t get out anymore like she used too. She doesn’t want to see people. Which is kinda sad. The next scene is Suzette asking about Chris (Selena’s husband). We see him laying in their bed listening to music (which could be Dreaming of You too).

I do feel like the series was done overall pretty good. I understand that towards the end of this series they couldn’t show a lot of what was shown in the movie because Netflix and the family already has a law suit against them from the producers of the movie company. Do I think a third part could be told. Yes, if it was good. Maybe show where AB, Suzette, and the rest of them are now. We sorta get it with AB and Suzette.

I know I’m late on this review. Since the show has been out for awhile. Been a little busy. I’m sorry about that. I have a lot of reviews that have been pushed back a little since school started back up.

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Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?

Recently I have purchased Discovery+. On it went into detail with the cop who was hired to prove that the Boulder Police Department. His name was Lou Smit. He had 20 plus years of being a police detective. He was asked by the district attorney’s office to come out of retirement to work the case.

From the start of this case, Boulder Police have always convicted the parents (Jon and Patsy). They just found it easier to blame the parents without any proof of the crime.

I’m here to tell you that I thought the parents or the brother (Burke). But DNA has excluded them. No one in the Ramsey family killed that little girl. I have seen even forensic shows to know that DNA on the rope and on the underwear shows that it was someone else’s DNA.

This case has been tainted by the Boulder Police. By allowing thirteen people at the house when JonBenet was “kidnapped”. They (Boulder Police) only had one detective at the crime scene. Who lets the parents, family, and other people that the Ramsey’s knew come to the crime scene. What moron let’s thirteen people contamination from the evidence at the crime scene. It’s a crime scene. Even I know not to let all of these people come in and taint the crime scene.

The “kidnapping letter” is also a clue as to the idiots that work for the Boulder police. I think in the documentary it says there’s a 4.5 to 5 proving that someone wrote this letter. The mom ,Patsy, had a 4.5. But that still doesn’t prove that she did it. That is also a clue as to the idiots that work for the Boulder police. The letter itself talks about death and the word die. It mentions a lot in the letter. That the kidnappers would have killed the little girl. If if one of the parents had written it wouldn’t of been kind of hard to write the word die in the letter itself. I know I would’ve found it really difficult to have written that word after committing such a horrible death to my own daughter.

The FBI told the police it’s a very unusual for such a note to be written at a crime scene. The police believe that the note was staged because it did not have any fingerprints except for patties and the authorities who had handled it because it included an usual use of exclamation marks and initialisms. The paper was the same paper from the kitchen. So of course it had Patsys fingerprints on it. This evidence fell short. That’s because it’s not evidence that the Patsy or Jon did the crime.

The documentary talks about an intruder theory. I believe that theory is true. I think someone broke into the basement window and there’s proof of that by photos that prove that someone had entered the house that way. I don’t believe that the parents did this. I think someone broke into that house. Maybe it was somebody who John Ramsey knew or was part of the circus of pageant that JonBenet was apart of. Regardless of that a little girl was murdered in that basement. There was a suitcase found. Obviously they were trying to stuff her body into the suitcase they couldn’t lift it into the window so they left her body in the basement.

Do I think Patsy and John knew who this person was I don’t know possibly. What I do know is that it’s not anybody in that family. People like to think it was the brother Bert and I was there. I thought it was the brother. But DNA doesn’t lie. The DNA is on the rope it’s on her pennies it’s is a huge part of this case. Boulder police have run the DNA and since it doesn’t match the parents they are not interested in finding the true murder of this case. Which is really sad.

The Boulder police are convinced that the parents have done this crime. The DNA says otherwise. The intruder theory says otherwise. I’m not sure why the Boulder police are convinced that the parents did it. But they need to find out who actually did this and can find the person who did it. Because it’s clearly not the parents.

It was 2003 when the parents were finally cleared by the new DAs investigation of this case. The DA sent a letter apologizing the Ramseys for this. That letter was in 2008, it also declares that the family has been completely cleared since 2008. But former bolder police chief Mark Beckner, disagrees with this finding. He also characterized the DNA as a small piece of evidence that has not proven to have any connection to the crime. Its always going to be a connection to any crime. I don’t know what law school or police training he knows or has but that is the connection to the crime. In February 2009, the Boulder police took the case back from the DA and reopened the investigation. They have not put forth any new leads or information about the reopening of this case. I do hope that they bring The DNA they get that re-tested and the intruder theory.

What I believed that night. I believe that JonBenet was strangled but at first tasered to get her downstairs to the basement. The Taser marks are on the body itself.After being strangled, she was hit causing the skull fracture which caused her death. There is no evidence of rape or sexual assault that could not be ruled out though there’s no semen that was found there’s evidence that there been a vaginal injury.

The parents did not hear the little girl screaming but but the neighbors did. Because of how huge that houses which was tested out. The master bedroom was on the third floor. And John B’nai was murdered in the basement so to be able to hear her scream was impossible specially in that house. But the neighbors could hear it because of the plumbing which acted like a microphone. Which is why they neighbors could hear her scream.

Suspects:

Not the parents or anyone in the family did this.

One of these individuals that Lou Smit believed to be a suspect is Gary Howard Oliva, who has been arrested for two counts of sexual exploitation or attempted sexual assault against a child. He has a past of it. He is a registered sex offender.

Another people that could have done it. Is anyone who wanted to hurt Jon Ramsey. His company was big.

A few others fit this intruder theory. The neighbor, Bill McReynolds who had played Santa Claus, former family housekeeper Linda Hoffmann-Pugh, and a man named Michael Helgoth who died in an suicide shortly after JonBenet’s death. Hundreds of DNA test were performed to find the match.

Let’s find her murder. She and her family need peace.

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Empties

Skincare:

Aveeno Foaming Cleanser- this is about the only products that doesn’t break me out. I love it.

Makeup:

IT Cosmetics- Your Skin but Better CC Cream in Fair- Yes, finally got through it. I do love this product. I will be buying it again. Right now I currently have four foundations , three stick foundations, and two CC cream/bb cream to use up before I buy anymore foundations.

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Community Coffee Iced Latte Coffee Drink Review

I got this drink from Kroger. I do believe that Kroger also has their own coffee drink.

The drink I tried was the vanilla and mocha flavors.

What the this bottle doesn’t tell me how much caffeine it actually does have. I have looked everywhere nothing.

What it does tell me that it has 230 calories in it. 42 grams of sugar. Which is what makes this drink taste good. It’s also not over powered with sugar like some coffee drinks out there. This actually taste very good. It might have something to do with using Pure Cane Sugar. That sugar is made differently then regular sugar.

For $2.99, it did cost a lot. But keep in mind Starbucks drink also cost a lot too.

I highly recommend this product. It taste great! Get it!

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Laura’s Beauty Bash

My hosting a Senegence party on Facebook if you are interested or would like to know more about Senegence. Hit me up on Facebook: Laura Beth Schlutt

This booklet will help you if you are Senegence.

https://seneweb.senegence.com/media/8585/usa-beautybook-april-2020.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2TpUwlQtzWrR0fBsGJyCIA-lZX7S2XVOSCfjjxF_

My favorite Senegence product is their CCTM (Tinted Moisturizer). It’s probably the best product I have ever tried. It’s beats my favorite IT Cosmetics Your Skin CC Cream. It’s stands up to it and beats it. Plus it works with other products. I haven’t tested out their powder yet. What I do know that my skin looks and feels amazing. Plus hello, it’s can hold up to Texas heat. I’m talking 100 degrees without breaking down. It Costmetics can’t stand up to the hotter temperatures like CCTM.

My whole face is almost covered by Senegence

Face: CCTM in Fair, Powder: LOreal True Match Concealer: Candlelight Shadow Sense

Eyes: Standstone Pearl Shimmer Shadow Sense is their liquid eyeshadow. No Mascara. They do have a mascara in waterproof and regular. I just love going au natural.

Lips: Aussie Rose LipSense and Red Delicious Lipgloss.

One product you don’t see that I don’t do all the time is their Lip Polish and Lip Conditioning Balm. Both are amazing products that make my lips feel ten times better. Also makes them fuller too. I do this every week. It’s not a product that I use all the time. It’s truly helps with my dry lips.

Thanks,

Laura

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Unsolved Mysteries (Netflix)

The original show aired 1987-2010. The show in its run had five host/narrators. The only one I remember is Robert Stack. Sadly he passed away in 2003. This show with its creepy music (which is also in the updated version that is now on Netflix).

The Netflix new show doesn’t have a narrator or a host. But boy the cinematography is amazing. Almost documentary filming type style. Netflix only produced six episodes for their first season on Netflix.

To me, I found the new show is far better. Because they now have a unsolved. Each episode expect for the fifth one (it’s a UFO based one) had a unsolved murder that is still unsolved.

First episode is called “Mystery on the Rooftop”. It’s about the Rey Rivera. Which to me is very strange in itself. The guy left rushing out of his home. Recalled by the female roommate that worked with his wife. He disappears after taking a phone call from unknown individual. He is later found in a famous Baltimore Hotel but nothing about his disappearance and death make sense. He left a very weird note behind his computer that his wife found. His “best friend” who at first put the reward money up for his disappearance is now being silenced. The company that Rey worked for is also being silent on his case. I think someone from that company killed him. Maybe his so called best friend. The FBI needs to comb through his computer because I don’t think they did. The hole on the roof and his death don’t make sense to me.

Rey Rivera with his family.

The second episode is called “13 Minutes”. Is about the beauty salon owner and mother Patrice Enders, who disappeared without a trace and is later found deep in the Georgia woods. I think the main thing about her case is the simple fact that the step father and Patrice’s son do not get alone. They still don’t. The stepfather wont even let him in the house that they were a family to collect a few items that were Patrice. The stepfather won’t even let him have any pictures of his own mother. To me, the stepfather is a very controlling guy. I believe he did it. He has proof that he was away that day of the murder but those things can be forged or he could have had someone kill her.

Patrice Enders

The third episode is called “The House of Terror”. Which is about the disappearance of the entire family expect the husband and father. In early of April 2011, the DuPont de Ligonnès family disappeared mysteriously from their home in Nantes, France. On April 21st, the bodies of the mother and her four children (plus the family dog) are discovered buried on their property. They were found under the pouch. The mother and three of her children were buried together and the fourth was believed to be killed later on with the family dog. Xavier (the father) is not to be found. He is considered the prime suspect in their murders and is currently on the run (for nearly a decade now). To me, I believe he did killed them. But didn’t want to kill the last one (I believe he was the oldest). We need to find this guy. He did some time in USA. So his English is very good and of course speaks French.

Xavier DuPont de Ligonnès
Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès

The fourth episode is called “No Ride Home”. This episode is about Alonzo Brooks who disappeared after a house party near La Cygne, Kansas on April 3rd, 2004. He was later found dead one month later but the case is of his death could not be determined. His family believes that Alonzo (who was half black and half Mexican) was the victim of a hate crime. I believe someone in that tiny minded town didn’t want Alonzo there at the party so they killed him. His friends didn’t do him any flavors at all. They left him there to die. They literally just left the party without him. Friends don’t leave friends. So many one of his friends knows something or not. But someone in that town killed him.

Alonzo Brooks

The fifth episode was a junk episode about UFO’s. If you into that great. I’m not. Residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts recall their baffling, terrifying experiences with a UFO on the night of September 1st, 1969. Unsolved mystery always has to have a few junk episodes.

The last episode is about the young mother (Lena Chapin), who disappears after revealing to members of her family what really happened to her long missing step father. That their mother (Sandy Klemp) and her boyfriend (Kris Klemp) at the time killed Gary McCullough. She was taped in a confession tape saying that she witnessed them killing her step father. Later on, Lena would disappear without her son. She would never leave Colter. Sandy told the police that she met some guy and went to Florida with him. Kris is a very dangerous person who wasn’t afraid to point a gun at one of Lena’s siblings (I believe she had five of them). So where is Lena Chapin? I would say she’s in a place where both Sandy and Kris know or used to be on the property. I believe she’s in the well that Sandy and Kris had. I still can’t believe that a mother would kill her own child just to get her grandchild. Gross. Sandy believes Colter to be hers. That’s just sick.

Lena And Colter
Gary McCollough
Lena Chapin/ Sandy Klemp
Sandy Klemp

If you know anything about these cases please come forward. Give these family some peace. I don’t have any ties with Unsolved Mystery. I love crime shows and murder cases. I want to find the people responsible and they need to pay for the crime they did. Let’s solved them. Please go to unsolved.com to give your tips for any of the cases that are unsolved.

Thank you!