Since I’m broke, I cut my own hair. I’ve always cut my own bangs (I don’t trust anyone with my bangs), but never had I cut into the rest of my hair. My hair was a bit too much on the blunt side, so I wanted to add some layers. Plus, I had to get rid of some of the split ends from the highlights I got weeks ago. It looked so unhealthy. With my knowledge from beauty school and Youtube videos :P, I added some layers. Didn’t turn out so bad. Looks healthier.
I’ll do post on how I did it later.
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I’m a big sunglass wearer. Living in Florida, it’s a must to wear ‘em. Plus, I don’t want premature wrinkles from eye-squinting. Even when I lived in MI and there was snow on the ground, I still wore ‘em. It’s really important to protect your eyes.
I love sunglasses. But I don’t have any that are like 300 dollars. I rather buy 5 video games or makeup/skincare products. :P
If I made a shit load of money, than I would probably buy a pair. But the buy-things-on-sale is ingrained in me forever, I think. If I had an expensive pair, and lost them, I would feel like an idiot. Lol. I also like variety.

So I just felt like sharing the sunglasses I have. Click webcam photos to enlarge.

Aviators! My favorite shape of sunglasses. I think they compliment every face shape. Also, since I barely have a bridge (typical Asian nose), sunglasses with nose pads are the most comfortable for me.

Where I got them…L-R: ALDO Accessories, Urban Outfitters, Wet Seal.
I lost a screw that holds one of the ear stems on the beach in Venice, CA. They were only ten bucks, so I got another pair. ^^ The first and second ones are my favorite.

Traditional Round with Brow Bar.

L-R: Urban Outfitters and For Love 21. They’re both the exact same shape. The black ones are my new favorites. Love ‘em.

Thick framed. Squarish.

L-R: Banana Republic, ALDO Shoes, ALDO Shoes.
I rarely wear these anymore. The only ones I can bare with are the beige ones, which I pretty much only wear when my hair is up. I used to really like big, thick framed, soft-square sunglasses, but not so much anymore. Mainly because my cheeks hold them up rather than the bridge of my nose. Annoying. It’s rare to find these kinds of glasses with thick enough nose pads, which are almost always built-in with the frame.

I do have another pair, but it’s packed up somewhere. They’re actually a pair of thick framed aviators. They are the most I spend on a pair. 100 dollar white Fendi sunglasses from Saks Fifth Ave. Outlet. There were orginally 400 something. I loved them, but not when they were on. Again, thick frames have built-in nose pads so my cheeks were holding them up and the nose pads/the center of the glasses weren’t even touching my lack-of-a-nose-bridge. Looked good, but not comfortable.
I guess I’m a little picky. Lol.

Some failed pictures of the kids and I:

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I haven’t worn any makeup for almost two weeks. Just lip balm. My skin is better. :) I think alot of girls these days are wearing soo much makeup. If you’re young, you shouldn’t be wearing a lot all the time because now is the time to embrace your youthful skin. If you have acne, wearing makeup isn’t going to help. It’ll just make it worse unless you’re really great on keeping a skincare regime. Plus, guys don’t like when you wear a crap load of makeup. If you have major acne, try using a foundation that’s medicated like Neutrogena. But always, always cleanse your face…at least every night.
Man, I could go on and on…lol.

Some things I am (currently and forever) obsessed with/addicted to :

(No surprise.) Having my nails polished. I’ve said this once before. I always have nail polish on my fingernails and toenails. I either wear a color or a nail strengthener. Type of colors I mainly wear: blues, purples, nudes, sheer pinky whites, pinky-corals, greens, and grays.
I am also very picky with how my polish looks. When I do have another nail tech polish my nails, I point out spots they missed. I know it annoys them, but that just how I am. A pet peeve is when the second coat goes on and there’s like a dip (where you can see my natural nail) near the cuticle from the brush being brushed on too hard. That’s a reason why I like to wear three coats most of the time. I like my nails to be completely covered..cleanly, of course. >:)
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YouTube Videos. I’m pretty much on Youtube everyday. I mainly watch videos of people singing (people doing cover songs), dancing, artist’s live performance (to see how good they really are), video game gameplay (to cheat =X or to preview a game before I purchase), and makeup gurus. I love reading the comments too. Some people can be very ridiculous and some people are just right on.

My fav Youtubers with a video I like»

Music»
Erin Paula – Shontelle “Impossible” Cover

Erika David – Katy Perry “Thinkin’ Of You” Cover & Beyonce “EGO” Cover

Roxanne – Musiq Soulchild “Don’t Change” Cover

Jayne – Alicia Keys “Unthinkable” ft Summerbreeze Acoustic Cover. This is one of my favorite covers. I actually like this better than the original (and I hardly ever say that). Sorry Keys. :P

Marie Digby – “Feel” Live in Studio & Love with a Stranger. These songs are originals of hers. (I think mixed babies/people are so pretty. She’s half Japanese and Irish.)
All of her cover songs are great. She really makes them her own:
Britney Spears “Gimme More” Cover
Lady Gaga “Telephone” Cover

Esmee Denters – Showcase: “Admit it”, “Love Dealer”, Just Can’t Have It”, “Outta Here”. She’s a YouTube star, signed under Justin Timberlake. In this video, Jayne (mentioned above) is a back up singer. Her voice is so unique to me.

Beauty Gurus»

My favorite is Pixiwoo. Sisters, Samantha & Nicola. Both professional makeup artists with 15+ years of experience.
Pixiwoo has a personal Youtube channel as well: PixiwooMadness
Nicola:
Deep Purple New Years Party Look
Raquel Welsh makeup
Summer Evening Smokey Purple
Summer Pastel
Drag Queen Makeup

Samantha:
Dark Glossy Eyes
Modern Gothic
Beth Ditto ‘creative liner’
Ramble Ramble love this video. Watch it. I think every woman/lady/girl should watch this.
Simple Makeup really cool false lashes

Ma-chin/binosusume. Really great hair tutorials, mainly up-dos: Hair Bow

Queenie Chan. So pretty. I mainly watch her for her travelling, beauty treatments, eating, and shopping. She has some good makeup ones too. She’s just really entertaining to me, even though I don’t understand what she is saying. She has English text though. She has a lot going on: artist, beauty guru, flight attendant, model, tv presenter, beauty columnist, cookbook writer…I also like seeing her culture. I believe she lives in Hong Kong. I would love to go there…

AsianCookingMadeEasy. Learn to make Chinese & Chinese-American dishes. Fortune cookies, Har Gow (dim sum), Pork Buns, etc. I’ve tried the Honey Walnut Shrimp. I did a post about it before. Yummy!

TranCanCook. Learn to make Vietnamese dishes!! Yummy. I’m happy about this channel. I watched my dad cook all the time when I was young, but I never re-created the dishes myself. I hope they make alot of videos. Lol.
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Games. This makes me a real dork. I love playing the flash games on fb. Which ones are those? Playfish: Country Story, Hotel City, Restaurant City, and My Empire. And Zip Zap: Baking Life (a new one, which I’m loving). I can’t help it. I love the decorating/designing.

And I’m forever a gamer. Rented Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. I will have to purchase that one. I also want the Zelda: Spirit Tracks for DS. I saw on YouTube that the new Legend Zelda: Skyward Sword for Wii will be coming out in 2011. I think the graphics are phony for the Wii because Zelda: Twilight Princess were amazing for Zelda. TPrincess was more dark and mysterious. SSword will be more cartoony/colorful like how Spirit Tracks and Phantom of the Hourglass (DS). I still want it though. I love Zelda.

I’m always playing a game. (I have too much free time :X). I play my fb games everyday. And when I go to bed, I’m on my phone playing puzzles. Pathetic!!
I think I have a problem.
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My skin. I don’t miss a day and night without cleansing my face. I have to wash my face every morning and night or else I’ll just feel soo dirty. I carry oil-blotting papers with me all the time during the day if I go anywhere. I hate that my t-zone areas are so oily. My skin produces excessive sebum, causing mainly my nose to be covered in comedones (learned that in school :P). Comedones is the technical term for blackheads/whiteheads. I saw a video from BeautyQQ (Youtube) where she gets hers lasered off. Queenie has gorgeous skin! When I’m back on my feet again with work, I would consider getting that done. Whiteheads are a huge and forever struggle of mine. The only way I can get rid of them is by extracting them myself after a steamy shower. I believe I will always have this problem because my face produces too much sebum/oil. *sigh. If I get the surgery, I will be sure to let ya guys know.
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Well, that’s all for now.

I’ve been taking random pictures with my camera phone lately. These are pictures I usually Tweet out (Twitter). Some are posted, some I had too much to say for Twitter’s character limit.
Don’t expect great photos. All my pictures on here and my entire blog is from my Nokia N79 & Google Nexus One.
Thought I share with ya. ^^
All pictures clickable.

I am the perminator!! Did this a while ago. Spiral perms are soooo much fun! He he ugh…Took me forever! I didn’t even finish this one. If you didn’t already know, in beauty school, there are a certain amount of credits you need in each service (pretty much one credit per each service). Like mani & pedis, I need 20 (breeze). Hair coloring I need 20. Hair bleaching, 20. Perming & Relaxing…65. Ugh…
I thought to myself, maybe I should get one but with way bigger rods. My hair is so straight and bodyless. But I know if I were to get it, I would get sick of it after a week.

An updo I did yesterday. I think I’m okay at it…better than I thought I was. Wish I could do it to myself. I’m not good like that.

Color and partial foil application I did a week or two ago? Usually in school, we use deep conditioner to mimic bleach and gel to mimic color. It was fun using the real stuff. I did the color and highlights at the same time. The foils were alternated between bleach and color. I liked the technique my instructor, Brian showed. Applied color to a section of hair, put a foil on top of that with no folding of the sides, then weaved out a section of hair..applied bleach to that, slapped on foil..no folding of the sides, then applied color, foil, weave…apply bleach, foil, etc. I hate folding the sides in for highlighting, makes it a hassle to check if the lighting process if done.

Random pics of myself.
L-R:
Car ride to further south of Naples. =)
My favorite pair of sunglasses. Got them from Urban Outfitters. My second pair of them. First pair broke, lost a screw in the sand on the Venice Beach, CA last year. Had to get other one. Like 15 bucks. Aviators are my favorite shape sunglasses. I think they work well with my face shape and I like the cushioning when it rest on my nose. Since the bridge of my nose is barely existence, I need thick/high/adjustable cushions.
What I wore to school for St. Patty’s day. The bow is actually Kiwi’s bow (my yorkie). Lol. I teased the crap out of my hair. You can’t really tell because I didn’t leave it all crazy high. (Pet Peeve: seeing girls with teased hair so high and poufy that the actual teased parts show. No Bueno!) After I was done, I felt like a teenagers. Lol. Texted my sister a picture and she thought I looked cute. I had my nails done too. Deleted the picture. I just had different purples on, five colors from dark purple to light.

Commander in Chic! My new favorite color to be obsessed with. It’s from Sally Hansen, Salon Complete collection. Gray + Beige = Greige. It’s a trendy color. I love it!!!!
Similar colors (lighter & darker): Essie in Mink Muffs, Chinchilly, and Jazz. OPI in You Don’t Know Jacques & Over the Taupe

Kiwi not liking car rides.

Only recently did Kiwi start panting because it’s getting warmer. She’s soo fricking cute when she pants. Her tongue cups. ^^ When she’s not panting, she looks like a mean, stuck up bitch. Lol. When she does pant, she looks innocent, sweet, and playful.
Agh…she makes my heart melt.

I don’t see these flowers in MI too much at all. Just outside my apartment door.

Bad Kiwi. She had a little accident on a rug in the bathroom. I was pissed! And she knew it! So she tried to hide in the closet. Lol. I was soo angry, but smiled inside. Damn her and her cuteness!

Random nail designs I wore for like an hour and was tired of it. I was going to make a tutorial, but didn’t think it was worth it.

Kratos is badass! You may not hear from me for a while after this post. :P I am loving this game! Didn’t finish beating God of War 1 and 2 but after playing this…I don’t think I want to. the graphics are sweet and the fighting is awesome as always. The finishing moves are bloody and fun. Game is frustrating a lot of times, which makes is worth it. The weapons are great. The fighting sequences are better. The movie scene fighting is blended with the freestyle fighting more. There is alot more boobie action. I don’t mind it, but not a plus for me. Lol. I think the story line is good too. Kratos doesn’t show any mercy. If you betray him once, he’ll slice your throat if you ask for forgiveness. Lol.
After you beat the game, you can play it with armor collected from all the Gods you’ve beaten. There’s different levels of difficulty of course.
Definitely a game worth getting!

Got a new toy for Coop. He started playing with it for a few minutes and the back started to tear. Whoever sewed it, didn’t do so well. I never took any sewing classes (In junior high school, we had Tech Ed [learned about pulleys and levers type stuff] and Home Ec), but I can sew a button on or fix a tear. So I sewed the back up. Then I decided to sew a heart on it. :P Cute huh? I’m quite proud of it for not having any real sewing skills. Got the idea that maybe I could make dog toys. Maybe…

There’s so much I want to do…*sigh.

School work: clipper cut (which I really like), fingerwaves & pin curls (pain in the ass), and one of the many updos I did this week (fishtail braid, chignon, knot).

At the beginning of beauty school, I didn’t have any confidence on my skills of doing hair. Today I did a gradual cut with a razor (the bob that’s stacked in the back & longer in the front and sides). It came out really good. =] Who knows, maybe I’ll want to do hair after I’m done with school. I’ll be the go to girl! Lol. You could get your nails, hair, and makeup done by me. Chang-ching.

I have a lot of random thoughts running through my head that I want to share with everyone. Lol. Everyone has random thoughts. I like hearing about other people’s too. Keeps things interesting. So I’m going to start naming my random posts. :]
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I wanted to share my progress in beauty school. I did this yesterday. As you can see, I did a perm and blow dry style for the first time [first picture]. I didn’t know how I wanted to style the perm, so I just pin that ish up. Haha. It was a mess. The blowout, I just teased her a bit. The second picture is just me watching my girl. =P

There’s a hair show this weekend. I really want to go just to see the makeup & nail sections and what products that have there. Maybe I’ll go. Or I could take advantage of the time off of school to sleep. There will be another hair show in the summer.
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I just ate some garlic cheese pizza from a box. California Pizza Kitchen, frozen food section. It was okay. Fresh from the restaurant is way better. I’ve only lived in Michigan and now, Florida, so I haven’t been to the ultimate pizza place. I used to like Dominos, until they changed their recipe. Yuck. The sauce is all wrong now. I loved it before. Now, I hate it. Anywhoo…thought I share my favorite toppings.

01. I love margherrita pizza/flatbread. Mozzarella. Tomatoes. Basil Leaves. I like it from Crust & Brio.

02. BLT pizza. Bacon. Lettuce tossed in mayo. Tomatoes. Honey-wheat bread. I love this pizza. Obviously, this one is from CPK.

03. Cheese pizza. The more different kinds of cheeses, the better. :}

04. Pepperoni & Sausage pizza. I can’t eat this that much anymore because I get major heartburn now from eating so much spicy & acidic foods my whole life. I love when pepperoni is a little on the burnt side. Yummy.

05. Veggie pizza. Mushrooms. Tomatoes. Ripe black olives. Onion. Green peppers. Deep dish. I like this from Hungry Howies.

06. For frozen food pizza, I like Tombstone Deep Dish Individual Pizzas. Cheese Pizza. Pepperoni Pizza. Only one I like that is store bought.

Other favorite pizza places I like is Pizza Papalis & UNO’s. Those places are dangerous.
I don’t eat pizza a lot. It’s something I can get sick of really fast.
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I really really miss my long hair. I don’t think I will cut it drastically again. Lol. Boo-hoo. I wish I could tug on the shaft of my hair and pull the growth out. I want my hair to be really long again. Maybe a little past mid-back. Then I want a lot of layers in it. Maybe I’ll keep my bangs, but on the long side.
I always wanted to go blonde (a shade that isn’t bad again my tan-olive skin). Maybe even a light brown. But it’s hard to lift my hair. Especially when I’ve dyed it pitch black over and over again. Permanent hair color over permanent hair color. I never did root touch ups, just applying boxed hair color all-over each time, which I learned today in school is a big no, no. We should only permanent our hair on natural/virgin hair once, and semi-permanent on already dyed hair. So yeah, I think I’m going to do a light brown once my hair is grown out.
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I have so many things I want to blog about and so many makeup tutorial videos I want to do.

I want to make videos of myself singing too, but I really hate the way that my teeth look when my mouth is moving [that's why I'm not talking in any of my makeup videos]. I feel like I’m not that bad looking, but my teeth makes me ugly. I really have crooked teeth. If you haven’t notice, I think you will now. You can really see the crookedness from my side. I recorded myself singing a snippet of “Trouble Sleeping” by Corinne Bailey Rae. Haven’t uploaded it to YouTube. Too scared. I know how mean people can be when it comes to people’s teeth. No one is perfect! I’m broke and jobless, therefore, I have crooked teeth. And when I did have money, I chose instant gratification over getting braces [makeup, food, shoe shopping]. Stupid me. I could have had straight teeth by now!
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My heater is broken. Not sure what it is. It’s been really chilly here in Florida in the evening, night, and early morning. I’m still thankful that I don’t have to deal with snow [heard that Michigan got 8 inches], but damn…it is cold here. Weird. Isn’t Florida suppose to be one the warm side, even during winter months?
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I really like my instructors at school. Mr. Wade and Ms. Aimee. They’re both very helpful, cool, funny, and up-to-date. I’m happy that I go to Cozmo for beauty school. I don’t see myself doing hair, but I love to learn. I will know how know to do my own hair a little better now. I’m more interesting in learning about the skin and more about nails.
I like the atmosphere there too. Everyone is pretty helpful with each other. I would say we all act as a team.
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I’m not a huge fan of cakes. Too much cake. I know, I know. I could slice up the portion that I want. I rather have a cupcake, to skip the slicing part. Plus, I think cupcakes are cuter. I love cupcakes. I used to make them a lot, like twice a month. Crazy. I would usually make the boxed cupcakes so I could spend more time decorating. My favorites: Red Velvet w/ Vanilla frosting/buttercream [it's usually paired with Cream Cheese Frosting, but I'm not a huge fan of it]. Chocolate w/ Vanilla frosting or buttercream. Classic Yellow w/ Chocolate Frosting. I don’t make them that much anymore. I don’t even remember when was the last time.
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I like watching infomercials. Right now, I’m watching one about cooking knives. Lol. I never bought from one, but it has convinced me once to go out and buy it. I love makeup infomercials. Because of infomercials, I discovered the Bare Escentuals brand. I got mine at Sephora though. Love that brand.
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I’m tired. Good night.