Happy Anniversary!

(Disclaimer: I am fully aware what day it is but I never post political stuff because I don't want to argue with people.  Ergo no political stuff here or anywhere for that matter.)

Today is my anniversary!  What anniversary you say?  Exactly one year ago today to celebrate "New Girl" (which would premiere in 9 days) I got bangs.

Here's a picture of me today:

Here's an awful picture of me a year ago (freshly fringed):

Can you spot the differences?  Eyebrow piercing!  Dark ends!  Shorter hair!

If you don't know why I got bangs then you don't really know me at all, do you?  I think this marks the longest I've had bangs since I was a child.  Every time I had bangs before it was only for a couple of months.  Anyway, I enjoy the bangs and I think I'll keep them around for a while longer.  ;)

Happy Anniversary to my bangs.

Panic attack...

Okay so a couple weeks ago I decided that I should grown out my bangs.  If you've ever grown out your bangs, you know that this is a tedious and sometimes painful process.  THERE IS ALWAYS HAIR IN MY EYES!  I hate this and I know a lot of people do too except maybe emo kids.  I think maybe they enjoy it.  Anyway, tonite I'm kinda of watching TV (kinda means my face is glued computer and the TV is on and I watch it sometimes) and the new iPhone 4S commercial comes on starring Zooey D.  If you know me at all, then you know that she is my idol.  Total idol.  As in I idolize her.  She rocks.  Seriously.  Back to the story, I stopped what I was doing and glued my face to the TV.  I almost cried.  Literally almost tears.  I ripped myself away from the TV and went to the bathroom to cut the hell out of my bangs.  Now before you freak out, I have cut my bangs before and I actually own a pair of hair scissors so I didn't hack at it with the kitchen shears.  They had grown kinda long on one side and my sister trimmed them last week (I think) so it was more a matter of getting them even.  I think I did an okay job considering I've had no formal training.  This is probably the weirdest panic attack ever and I'm a bit embarrassed sharing this with you.

Taken just now.  When did I get so jowly?  Yikes!  Anyway, what do you think?

New year...

First of all, I'm starving but I still have toothpaste taste in my mouth.  There's no eating breakfast with that, so I'm waiting it out and blogging meanwhile.

Second, my New Year's celebration was wonderful!  (Which is rare.)  It was my friend's birthday and she and her husband invited me to their party.  I'm so glad I went!  I had so much fun!

In fashion, this is what I wore:

I wanted to be known as "that girl with those tights."  I did get a few looks and mostly smiles accompanied them so it worked out.  One super nice compliment too.  :)  Anyway, tights and boots from eBay, shorts White House Black Market, top and sweater Wal-Mart.

My hair looked fabulous thanks to my awesome curling iron:

And my favorite pic of the night, birthday girl & me:

I hope you had a super New Year's celebration too! 

Some hair I like...

Yeah that's about it.  :)

I am gal...

No I'm not really gyaru.  I wish I could be but I am restricted by the confines of my job.  I wouldn't wanna wear supershort skirts there anyway.  Yuck!  In the outside world though I can be whomever I want.  I love that.  Anyway, enough babble.  I guess I haven't updated all week!  Oops!

Lets go in order shall we.  On Sunday my sister who is in beauty school cut my hair.  (No more poof yay!)

Cute right!

Monday:

I got a lot of compliments on today's outfit and not just the ones I was fishin' for.  ;)

I have been dying for warmer weather so I could wear this!  Dress, leggins and sweater from Kohl's, necklace Zizibeh and I can't remember where the shoes are from.  Though they are a great pair of shoes since they make my legs look a mile long.

Tuesday:

Ugh, the brown dilemma again.  Why aren't shades of brown the same?  So annoying!  Despite this outfit being lovely colors I hate this picture.  I did get some compliments though.  Sweater & necklace Kohl's, shorts & flats Target and top Goodwill.

Tuesday night I went in to see my sister at Kohler for gal hair.

I have been wanting to do this for sometime but have been waiting for my hair to get longer.  It's actually gotten quite long.

Back:

Here are some pictures of various hairstyles:

I really love it and it turned out exactly like I had hoped.  It's just the gal hair I wanted.  Unfortunately, I have received like one compliment and no "did you dye your hair" is not a compliment.  This makes me think no one noticed or no one really likes it.  Not like I care since I like it.

Thursday:

I am certain this is my favorite outfit ever even though it's way too hot here for it.  I found this ridiculously trendy and stylish vest at Goodwill.  Can you believe it?!?!?  Skirt also from Goodwill, boots eBay and top Wal-Mart.

So that's my week.  Sorry for the delay!  Did everyone have a nice week?

Welcome my new follower Caroline Josephine!

Oh the week begins...

I was ridiculously tired this weekend.  On Saturday night, it was my intention to watch SNL but I fell asleep with my glasses and remotes on the bed.  In the middle of the night my remote fell to the floor and I woke up startled.  Craziness.

On Sunday, daughter and I went to breakfast and grocery shopping.  I wore this:

Adoraboots from Old Navy, top & jeans from Goodwill and necklace from JCPenny.

I used さらまり's hair tutorial to do my hair.

I think it turned out pretty spectacular.  I love my hair like this.

Today I wore this:

Top from Old Navy, skirt from Target, vest from Japan 2009 and necklace Lia Sophia.

P.S. - Thanks to Trixie my newest follower!

Cute hair + unflattering light...

My word fluorescent lighting is horrid!  I usually take my face close ups at home in flattering natural light but I was running so late this morning (shocker I know) and didn't have time.  So I took some pics at work and this is the best of four even though my bangs look a little messed up.  I'm wearing one of my new hair pins from Forever 21.  :)

I was told I "look tired" today and yes I do because I have to get up at the crack of why am I awake and am such a Bitter Betty about it.

Week end...

This week was ridiculously crazy busy.  I think I made two dinners this week and maybe three lunches. 

This week my WONDERFUL friend さきこ sent me these:

October More, CanCam and Scawaii with the おまけ in the background.  I have been so busy I haven't even read them yet!  I love きこ and I need to send her more things!

Oh by the way, I got my hair cut!  Welcome back to my head...bangs!

(Not the greatest mirror pic but you should notice the obvious bangs and shortened layers but not length.)

Both Old Navy tank and JCPenny shorts from Goodwill.

Next, you may remember this fashion disaster.  Well, I'm certain I found a remedy for that mistake and it totally worked because compliments were flying at me so fast I had to beat them off with a stick!

I got many a compliment on my hair and outfit.

So JCPenny decided to send me $10 in the mail.  I love those coupons (Kohl's sent me one for next week) $10 off a $10 purchase makes so much more sense to me than $10 off a $50 purchase.    Of course, I decided to exercise my mad shopping muscle.

These shoes:

This price tag:

Yes, that says $4.97.  Originally they were $50.  I also got this:

I got out of there spending a little over $7.  Yes, $7.  I am awesome.  My child got a supercute dress for Homecoming.  Pictures soon!  :)

I fell in love with these booties after seeing them in a Japanese magazine and man they are hard to find!  I mean a lot of eBay sellers from China had them but after the horrible experience I had with the faux Fergie shoes, I am wary of buying from Chinese sellers on the eBay.  So, I found these from a US seller and snatched them up.

Some not so fun shopping that I have to do early tomorrow is tire shopping.  Tires for my car are ridiculously expensive and I can't get them at Wal-Mart or Costco.  I have to go to Discount so I'm not looking forward to waiting around there.  However, Homecoming shopping continues tomorrow and we're going to look for shoes and jewelry to go with her dress.  We will be stopping at Forever 21 and H&M and probably Sprinkles Cupcakes.  ;)  Of course, if we can't find anything at those two stores there are others but I am excited about Forever 21 since I perused their site and saw all the supercheap things.

Thursday...

So this is the best of like five poses.  The knot top is from YesStyle and the shoes Fergalicious.  I tried my hand at another gyaru hairstyle.  A lot of people called me Pebbles; they're not schooled in gyaru I guess.  I am not kidding when I say that my head hurt the rest of the day after I took out this hairstyle!  I guess pain is beauty.

Hair...

Rasysa

This is where I've gotten my haircuts for years. Yeah, I love Japan. It's undeniable but I tell my stylists that many Japanese girls have hair much similar to mine. It's thin and super straight so it's easier for me to find styles. It's also easier to find face shapes similar to mine on this site. So that's why I've been using it forever.

I'm getting cut tomorrow. Here's what I picked out. Now my hair's not that long and I'm gonna have her cut about an inch off the bottom but you get the idea:


I can't wait to have my bangs back. Ugh my hair grow so fast!

Today...

I got to prance around in a *J-Style* outfit before climbing into vintage for tonite. So here's the truth...I love the vintage look but it's a lot of work. MY superstraight hair usually loses curls and a good 90% of the shoes that go with my vintage clothing are cute but so painful (why I keep slippers at work). Anyway, to me J-Style seems so effortless.

So, I wore this today:

I tried a new hairstyle today from a Japanese magazine I picked up while in Japan. I shoulda taken a close up. I thought it was cute. The good news is our local Japanese market Fujiya sells magazines so maybe closer to September I can pick up some new issues. :)

Dress and shoes from Japan. Sweater was $6.80 at Kohl's (less with my coupon). Yay coupons!