Rant.

Sorry for the no picture post. I'm currently at school right now and just need to get my thoughts out. These first two weeks of school have been already stressful. I'm taking Painting, Figure Drawing (nude models), Art History, and Pattern Making II. I can already feel the workload piling on top of me. It's just project after project and these projects take at least 4 hours to complete. For Art History, it's a textbook type of class and I haven't been in this type of "textbook vibe" in over a year now so have to start getting used to it. I have my first Art History class in about an hour and 45 minutes and I'm kind of getting nervous. Hopefully class goes well and the people and professor are pleasant. I can tell that my wardrobe is slowing going to turn into dark skinny jeans and some sort of top with flats because I won't even have time to pick out something so called "interesting."

Bring it Spring semester.

End Rant.

Menswear Inspired

Hello Loves. The pic above was taken about a year ago. My hair used to be an angled bob. It was fun to have but I missed my long hair too much so I decided to grow it back out. Tomorrow is my last day of relaxation before the semester starts again on Tuesday. I'm gonna soak up the joy of doing nothing and the feeling of having no work to do. I know for a fact that this semester is going to be tough full of projects and papers so the blogging will have to come to a minimum in the next couple months to come. 

Be Blessed. 

New Year's Glam

Dress: H&M    Shoes: Charlotte Russe   Headband: H&M    Necklaces: Charlotte Russe    Lips: CoverGirl *  in Euphoria

My brother, My best friend. 

Happy New Year's my beautiful people! I hope you all had a memorable night ringing in the year 2012. My family celebrated by having a Red Carpet themed party which was full of glitz and glam and FOOD. I decided to go all out for this night and went for a 1920's flapper inspired look that included my 5 dolla shoes and 10 dolla dress and 3 dolla headband. I also went all out on my makeup. I usually don't wear heavy makeup, but that night was an exception. I rocked a dark brown and gold smokey eye with thick faux lashes, double winged liner, bronzer for the cheeks, and topped it off with berry lips. 

2011 was a memorable year for me; I took a big step and left the university setting for fashion school, started this blog, Love found me, I traveled to many cities with my beautiful friends, met new people and so much more that inspired me to become a better person. I am very hopeful that 2012 will bring me many blessings and new people into my life. I wish you all a great year to come.

Be Blessed. 

The City that Never Sleeps. (Heavy Picture Post. Enjoy!)

Trying to connect to the Wi-Fi in Times Square, but was unsuccessful.

Made mother take this picture because of the guy in the grey pants. He. Was. Beautiful. 

 

Hello All! This past weekend I ventured to NYC with my crazy loving family and had a fun filled time. Went to the tourist-y spots such as Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Chinatown, and Little Italy. I also went to Ground Zero for the first time. We didn't get to see the memorial but just being there where everything happened that day was so moving. We ate lunch in Chinatown and stopped at this little park there where a bunch of older Asian men and women were playing chess/checkers. Those games were intense. Then walked to Little Italy to get the famous pizza from Lombardi's. DELISH. I swear I thought I saw Bruno Mars in a car driving by, but then I checked his twitter account and it said that he was in Hawaii. Fail.

As the night went on, the weather turned from a nice brisk breeze to freezing. I felt like I had no body heat, but the beat of the city kept me going. I know my headband does not match my outfit whatsoever, but I really did not care at all because it kept my head and ears warm. I was so glad to go back to the hotel that night and sit in the comfy warm bed eating a late dinner while watching Elf. 

The next day we went to a Japanese market called Matsuwa Market in New Jersey along the Hudson and I just gotta say, this place is pretty amazing. Not only was it a Japanese grocery store; there was a food court with legit Japanese food. They also had DIVINE green tea ice cream which I'm in the mood for right now. The whole place was super clean and the people were so nice. If you live in New Jersey, def. check this place out. In one of the pics above you can see that I purchased two face masks, one ginseng and one red wine, a Shseido shampoo and conditioner, and a soymilk based face lotion. The description on the back says its a lotion but has the ingredients and consistency of a toner so  I'm assuming it's a toner. I'm still in the process of trying out these products so I'll post a later post on how they are. 

So other than the bitter cold, crazy NY drivers honking at you, taking the wrong subway which took us to Brooklyn, getting lost going to the Matsuwa Market but ending up at the BEAUTIFUL Hudson River/NYC skyline overlook (first pictures), I had a pretty swell time with my family. 

Be Blessed.  

Be-lated Thanksgiving

 

Hello! This is a late Thanksgiving post. I hope everyone had a lovely and blessed Thanksgiving. Here are some shots I randomly grabbed from my Thanksgiving weekend. It was full of family, love, food, visits downtown, dodge ball, and lots of laughter.

Pre-Thanksgiving

Happy day before Thanksgiving! I'm sure all of you are running around buying your last minute food items and cleaning up your house for all of your guests, and if not, I'm the one that's doing that. Tomorrow will be full of fun festivities with the fam. You can guarantee that pictures will be posted. It's a white v-neck kinda day with dark skinnies and a scarf to keep me warm while I'm out doing errands. Have a Blessed day!!

Fun. Flowy. Floral.

I hope you all had a beautiful weekend! Saturday I worked until 3:30 p.m. then I rushed home and had only 15 minutes to shower, change, and do my hair because I had to leave to go to a church Thanksgiving event. Thankfully I already had an outfit planned so I just blew dry my hair, put it in a tight bun and did my makeup in the car. Whew. I took out the bun and I had beach-y waves which eventually turned into looser wavy hair as the night went on. I ate so much food at the event and I told myself, this is only the beginning of the "stuffing my face" festivities. 

The first picture is of me and my cousin who is dressed up in traditional Hmong clothing. I was going to wear my Hmong clothes but had no time to put it on because it takes about 230948230 hours to put it on. Everything is hand stitched and embroidered to make each piece unique. My dress only cost me $20 and I was totally rockin' out on my $5 shoes. I am in such adoration with this dress. It's so comfortable and feminine. I'm so excited for this Thanksgiving vacation to come. It's going to be filled with lots of family, food, shopping, and dodge ball. Bring it.