My sleeping schedule is out of wack again. I love sleep, but I’m a horrible sleeper until I can actually fall asleep. I stupidly have only been getting only two hours of sleep every night. Not good when I have to cut hair on my mannequin with fairly sharp shears almost everyday at school. I learned how to do a layered cut on long hair today. I swear, if we were just doing book work, I think I would have passed out on the tables. Lol. Being around 12 other girls helps too. Chit chat all the time. I bring up my sleeping ish again because it’s one of my biggest things I want to work on.
So let me get to it.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION»

01. To be better at time management/prioritizing/stop procrastinating.

02. To eat & cook healthier. I love food so much. I eat pretty much what I want, when I want. But I know it’s all going to catch up with me as I get older.

03. Take my vitamins. I have them. I just forget all the time to take them. I take Women One-a-Day, fish oils, and biotin.

04. I want to get toned. I love my curves. I just want to get rid of jiggle. I’m sure this one is on everyone’s list, whether you’re skinny or not. I won’t be joining a gym though. I could just workout at home.

05. To clean & organize more. I’m not a messy person, but I clutter my living space a bit much.

06. To make my blog more interesting.

07. Be more in touch with my creative side. Nail designs, graphic design, makeup, etc.

A friend posted a link to this on her Facebook. I find it very disturbing.
http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/school_dances_sure_have_changed

Don’t the parents know that they’re teaching their kids sexual moves?? Moves like this are mainly for women on hiphop videos. I admit, I did some “freak” dancing when I was young, but it was way more innocent than this, and I was in junior/high school! These kids look like they’re in in the first grade! The parents in the video even help the kids dance! I don’t understand their language, but it seems like they think its cute or funny. Bet they won’t when they’re girl gets pregnant or they’re boy impregnates a girl when they’re like 14.
Dancing like this isn’t cool; it’s trashy.
Sick.

I always find the most interesting videos when I’m doing my usual makeup-tutorial-stalking on Youtube. Today I was watching some videos from one of my fav channels, pixiwoo [two sisters who are incredible, very experienced, makeup artists]. I think they’re so gorgeous. Well, the first video I watched today was the Raquel Welch video by Nicola. Then I watched Samantha’s video on Modern Goth Makeup. I loved that video. Not only was the look very sick [in a great way], but it also lead me to other video.

Sam’s modern goth makeup video was a tribute to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. I don’t follow the news or watch television that much to hear about it [plus it happened in the UK in 2007].
Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend were beaten up by a group of drunk teenagers for their gothic appearances. Sophie sacrificed her life to save her boyfriend by protecting him. She died in the hospital. Her boyfriend lived. If you haven’t watched it, click this or just watch it here. Very very sad.

Discrimination»

Watch the video on youtube for the words at the end and side text.

Here’s a link to the full story & pictures: click

A British makeup brand commissioned the short film: Illamasqua

It’s painful to me when I see teens/kids leave someone out of the fun just because of the way they looked or because they weren’t in the “in crowd”. It’s like they’re punishing them for no good reason. They weren’t pretty enough. They weren’t skinny enough. They don’t have [stuff to represent money] enough. So stupid. Sure we’ve all been there. I’ve made fun of someone, but usually it’s within my group of friends as a joke. It’s fine to joke around. But to do it to gain status, to be “cool” or just to be mean is wrong. People still do it, even in adulthood. For all you people that think looks, popularity, and money matters….IT DOESN’T. In the end, all that stuff doesn’t matter. [I think I'm starting to blab. I'm a terrible writer.]

This video is heartbreaking; it had me in tears. Some people never reach the maturity level to understand what respect means. And because of it, someone lost their daughter…their girlfriend…their friend. What those teens did to Sophie was beyond cruel. It was pure evil.
*sigh…shakes head.
Prayers to the family & friends.
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Like Samantha, a lot of people on Youtube did tribute videos for the cause by doing makeup tutorials on Gothic Makeup. I’m too lazy to do a video so I just took pictures. :] There’s a part of me that is “goth”. I just keep it locked up inside.

Somewhat gothic, right? :] I would never wear this in public, or do I think its that pretty on me [maybe on someone else] but it was fun to do.

Now this is more me. I’m just throwing these pics in here because it’s another look I did today. ^^

Here are my favorite scents. They’re not all beauty related. Scents that makes me close my eyes for better appreciation. Lol.

01. Cool by Ralph Lauren. There’s only two perfumes that I wear. This one is my second favorite perfume. I don’t wear perfume all the time. Only ones that I really, really like.

02. Viva la Juicy by Juicy Couture. I never bought a full bottle of this. I don’t know why when it is my favorite perfume. I used to like the other perfume by Juicy until I picked up the roller of this perfume at Sephora. It smells good on me (every perfume/cologne smells a little different on everyone]

03. Shea Butter Extra Gentle Soap – Verbena by L’occitane. This is my favorite body soap in the whole world! I love L’occitane. My bf’s mom got me a gift package from there last year for my birthday. I loved it! I used up the liquid soaps and creams, but I kept the bar [picture shown]. When I went to L.A 6 months ago, the place we stayed at had this bar soap. I love it so much that I don’t want to use the only bar I have. I like picking it up & smelling it from time to time. I’m a little weird. I need to buy some more!

04. A bowl of pho. It’s a Vietnamese beef noodle meal in a soup bowl. Yummy. I would like a bowl right now. I don’t know of any Vietnamese restaurants here in Naples, Fl. I’m picky about mine too. My Aunt in MI has her own restaurant. I love the pho there. Only place I would eat it, pretty much. Mmm…the scent of charred onion, star anise, corriander, clove, beef…etc. My mouth is watering thinking about it. I miss it. I may have to make it myself. Never have. I also like the smell of thit kho. Shoo, all Vietnamese food is pretty fragrant.

05. Gucci Pour Homme II cologne.

06. Garlic and onions sauteing in a skillet. That smells usually says it’s gonna be a good meal. :P I rarely cook without the two. It also reminds me of my Dad cooking when I was younger. I would hear the sizzle and knew the smell would follow.

07. Just baked chocolate chip cookies. The smell of cookies brings me joy. Pure joy. Orgasm in my mouth. Lol. I love cookies.

08. Coffee. I love coffee. I don’t drink it like an addicted. I enjoy the taste of it. Coffee doesn’t help me stay awake anyways.

09. Basil and cilantro. My favorite herbs to cook with. It’s amazing to me how a sprinkle of a few chopped up leaves can transform your meal.

10. Vanilla. It’s hard not to like vanilla. For me at least. I like it in candles, home fragrances, cupcakes, ice cream, extracts, etc.

As you can see, I gave my blog a makeover. It really needed it. I finally put my own design up. I jacked the code from another WordPress theme, but replaced all the graphics with my own. ^^ I still have some tweaking to do. I’m need to step away from the editor before I mess things up. Lol.
If you know me well enough or looked through my pictures, I have a tattoo on my right shoulder blade. I got it about 6 months ago? In Venice, Cali at Ink Monkey. I love tokidoki styles, so I decided to draw something up. I gave the tattoo artist my drawing and told him to do whatever he wanted with it. The tattoo turned out great…I love it. But the design wasn’t exactly what I wanted. So I decided to vector it and put it on here. :]

Click to enlarge.
Man, I hate adjusting colors from Photoshop to the web. What a bitch!

I love cherry blossoms and skulls. I wish the tattoo artist made my skulls more edgier/beat-up. Like my design. I wanted two skulls, too. Eventually I’ll add more to this tat.

Well, I am really really tired. I only had two hours of sleep. Went to bed last night at like 6am [photoshoppin and  God of War], woke up at 8am, went to school, and I’m still up. Exhausted! I should have went to bed 4 hours ago, but I really wanted to finish most of this layout. Determination!

School was fun today. I don’t feel like typing out all details. Gave my model a makeover by adding some highlights in her hair.

My Macbook is stabbing me. The bottom right corner edge, where my wrist rest, is chipping. :/

Very cute pic right hurr:

Cooper likes being in the butt crack of the couch. If he had cheeks, I would be squeezing them right now.

I think I want to snap this piece off my Mac. Driving me nuts.

We rented the God of War collection from Blockbuster. I wanted to play both of them before the third GoW comes out in March ’10. I hate the game so much that I love it. The BF and I play it together. It can be such a frustrating game! Oh…only thing that really sucks about GoW1 is the camera angles. Errr. Haven’t got to GoW2 yet. Are the camera angles the same in that one?

Okay….

I need to sleep!!!!