My New Year’s Eve was good. Just me, BF, and coop at home. We had some Cristal. One of the worst alcoholic beverages I’ve ever had. Never buy it. It’s sooooo overrated.
Well, I just wanted to share what’s on my nails today. The BF and I have been sick for the last four days with the flu and cold. I missed three days off school last week. Hope I’m not too far behind. We’re both still sick. :/ So my New Year’s resolution post will be up another day.

Even though I’m coughing non-stop, that still doesn’t stop me from doing my nails. I told you. I’m obsessed with my nails. No design this time. Just changed the shape of my nails. Square nails can become very annoying the length is long. I scratch everything.
I’m in the mood for purples. I have so many kinds of purple [and blue] nail polishes. Couldn’t decide what kind of purple to wear, so I just chose five that looked good together.

From Left to right [& the order I painted them on my nails]:
Essie in Sexy Divide
Sally Hansen HD Nail Color in Cyber
China Glaze in Stella
Rimmel London in Climax
NYC in Park Avenue

Left hand.

Right hand. As you can see, I started on the index finger on this hand.

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!!!!

I’m having like writer’s block.
Okay, not really because I’m not a writer. I just having a brain fart right now. I want to write more and make better blog posts, but I can’t think right now. I think I need to do some yoga or something….and meditate. I have so many things running through my head. My brain is like gumbled. Everything from life, relationships, makeup, food, personal experiences, school, my future, nails, dogs, traveling, etc. Blah blah. I just don’t know how I want to execute it. Sometimes I feel like, why even bother?
Breathe, Vana.
I need to organize my thoughts.
*sigh…
Guess I’ll just take it one step at a time. I’ll finish working on the graphics for my layout, then move from there. =)
xoxo.