~★ The Lovely Ify ★~

Gyaru eye make up and coords aspirations (PIC HEAVY)

2012-03-06T20:52:00.001-06:00

Disclaimer: None of the pictures in this post are owned by me. Credit goes to rokkustyle.tumblr.com

I've seen many people make posts like these and for some reason I never have I made one myself, so I figure to occasionally post these as sort of a reference to look back on for when I am either loosing inspiration or ideas on what to add to my wardrobe/make up collection. No, I don't plan on being that blog that does nothing but make these kind of posts, but every so often wouldn't hurt. Don't worry, I'll get back on track with my regular posts soon. I'll start with eye make up. I'm still playing around with what works best for my almond eye shape...so far I know the best technique for me is to always make a point on the insides of my inner corners with eyeliner, otherwise my eyes will look too far apart from each other xP I like dramatic looks mainly, but sweet/natural styles also seem to appeal to me as well depending on the occasion. EX: If I'm heading out to the club or getting dinner with a large group of friends, I go heavy on my eyes. If I'm going out with one friend or Kevin, light natural looking eye make up but still gyaru.

Can I just quickly say that aside from Cocona dramatic eye make up, Manami Suzuki's eye make up is so stunning! The darkness of her black eyeliner is remarkable and really forces you to focus in on her eyes. I guess that's what a lot of gals do really, but hers for some reason stands out the most to me. Plus, she's simply gorgeous!

This picture precisely depicts what I was saying. It could be shopped, but it still looks fantastic!

Yeah I'm simply loving her! :D Here's the last two...

This example is more on the sweet/dolly side but it's still really cute! I like how she utilized purple eyeshadow.

As for coordinates, I have really improved my accessorizing but unfortunately a lot of the old neckalces I wore a few months ago are now badly tarnished and are starting to get that smell metal has after being handled repeatedly. Some of you might know what I mean. Think of how coins smell...yeah gross. So soon, I'll be venturing out to buy more necklaces since I have enough of everything else.

Girl on the left...yes!

My personal favorite coord atm!

Okay so can I just say that D.I.A. is just killling me right now? All of their stuff...literally everything I have seen of theirs pretty much makes my insides melt. The intricate and sexy belts are what really blows me away the most, but something tells me you can do a DIY on those to get a similar effect...without the DIA embellishment of course. If I see chains like these at Michaels or some other craft store, it's going down! I saw Usagii got herself some stuff of theirs on her trip to Japan recently and I was green with envy > < One day, I'll figure out how to con some Japanese civilian into getting me one!

I'm pretty sure I'm leaning towards rokku-kei as my desired look. I seem to be always going for that style each time I go out somewhere I've noticed. Not saying it will be permanent for me by any means, but it appeals the most to me as oppose to other gyaru styles atm, which is funny because I honestly had no clue which style I wanted to try a month or so ago but now I'm sure of it. When summer roles around though, I'm afraid I'll have to give it up for basic gyaru-kei but we'll see how well I can tough it out. Lisha and Sukoa, two beautiful gaijin black gals, are also a huge inspiration to me in wanting to give it a genuine shot. Their styles are sick! I'm planning on buying better lashes (no more ebay/hair beauty supply store/korean market brands) online but I'm being careful with the ones I get since they're so God damn pricey, I'd hate to get something similar to the cheap ones I already own but aren't working for me anymore. Time to amp up my gyaru look! Any suggestions would be extremely appreciated!

Well, that's it for now. I have a post coming up as I said in my last one, but I've been postponing it because of school work, and other junk that's been constantly coming up. I'll try and post it by this weekend. Until next time!

SPRING 2012 DALLAS GYARU MEET~ ヾ(･ω･*)ﾉ

2012-03-02T15:24:00.000-06:00

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Hey guys. Looks like I'm at it again coordinating another gal meet up xP These are so much fun, I don't see why more people don't do them as much these days like before. At least it feels like they don't happen a whole lot. Our last gal meet up was so enjoyable and I made a lot of good friends in the process. Kalicia and I are the hosts for this spring meet up and I can see it being a lot of fun since we'll be hitting up this Japanese restaurant I've never been to before in Dallas and then later go clubbing at the Lizard Lounge :D chances are, Kevin will be coming along this time! lol I'll try to convince him to dress for the occasion as well. Hopefully I will be able to get my other three guy friends to come along too. They're all pretty stylish so I know they can pull it off...what I'm afraid of for them is that this Texas heat might be merciless that day but we'll see. Hopefully it won't be too bad.

But anyway, I'm all about spreading positivity in this area of the States for the gal community. It's definitely some work, and I really don't get a whole lot out of it except for the experience of meeting people who are interested in the gyaru lifestyle, but to me it's worth it. I know that I will definitely be wearing a super girly coordinate for the meet! A floral pattern dress, paired with my cowgirl boots, and maybe a straw hat? lol I'm still thinking of all the possibilities. I want my quick weave in by then too. Hopefully I can have it ready the week of the meet. Still going to attempt to do an ombre effect to it. As for the club's coords, I'm still thinking about that one. I might not go all out since it'll be a quick change sort of deal in a bathroom but I'll definitely bring on the sexy with my make up!

There's another big announcement that I have for you all pretty soon but that will have to wait for about another week or so if everything goes well. Urgh, I'm just so excited for it you guys have no idea! Tonight I'm going out with Kevin, Vicky, and Chibuzo. Doesn't his name look Japanese? XD It's actually Nigerian believe it or not. Random fact for the day. We're all going to watch Project X and eat out at some restaurant. I love doubles with my sister and her bf ^ ^ We all get along incredibly well.

Oh and I been messing around with some new apps I downloaded on my iPhone the other day too...they are way better than Instagram! As far as their filters I mean. I'll still use my instagram though (sn: TheLovelyIfy) Check out these two...

LOL! there's even a cool gif maker by Xiamen! I fucking love that app so much there's so much you can do with it! I will show you all more as time goes on what effects it can do. Haha my sister was messing with Hachi earlier today when this song was playing from her phone. Priceless. She does that to him all the time. As for the partial deco on my camera photo...yeah I'm still working on it. I'm afraid it's gotten to a point where it's near impossible to glue the rhinestones on the surfaces of the lens with the glue I'm using but hopefully I'll figure it out and not ruin my camera in the process...even though I'm so ready for a new one.

Lastly, I think I'm going to do more DIY stuff. I was recently tempted to purchase a shit load of Japanese brand stuff since I just got paid but honestly, it makes no sense to throw away all that money when I can convert the stuff I already own into what they're trying to charge me an arm and a leg for. Maybe I'll purchase one overpriced item that I really want every so often but for the most part, I'm going to try and work with what I have for now and hit up craft stores. Anyway, if that goes anywhere, expect a few tutorials from me :) I blabbed on a lot in this post! lol I guess I had a lot on my mind. Take care for now followers!

Roller Skating :) OOTD

2012-02-28T18:13:00.001-06:00

Sup everyone! I hope you all are having a good start of the week! Is it me, or does it seem like it might not actually snow down here in the South this year? Idk...there might be some random day when it does but if not I will actually be pretty disappointed. Aside from the weather, here's my outfit I wore to go to Interskate, a roller skating arena, with my friends.

Leather jacket/top: Burlington Coat Factory
Shorts: Delia's
Tights: Hot Topic
Necklace/Scarf: Claires

I was going for a rokku-kei inspired outfit that day. I finally got my foxtail back from Kevin! So now I'll be able to wear it with outfits like these to finish them off! I felt like that was what I was missing but oh well..and that's my scarf tired around my head with my high bun. I love high buns!! Thankfully for me it was warm enough to not freeze my ass off in those tights even though it did get a little windy towards the end of the night.

My tights up close > <

Overall skating was fun! I haven't done it since junior or sophomore year of high school so it's been a long time but I only fell on my ass once :D and I think I gained a better balance compared to how I used to be. I could still improve though. My friend Elise was grooving to the music and I was secretly jelly > < Each time I tried to do something cool, I would instantly loose balance so I said fuck it and just skated in circles with no fancy moves :( Then we went to Razoo's and I had the best dish I've ever ate there!

Craw Daddy's inside cheesy fondue with garlic bread on the side. DELICIOUS AF!!

Alex's plate

His friend Hannah's plate. I never understood oysters but something tells me they're not as bad as they look...

Their patio

We ended up leaving pretty early and I had to go because of work the next morning xP But it was a fun night out with my friends! I can't wait to try that dish again...it was mouthwatering! Oh and remember those lashes I talked about in one of my previous posts I got from the hair store? Here's what they look like...

Too damn short! The style really attraccted me at first, but the length is killing me! My own lashes were even longer than these >:o I know I have naturally long lashes but still...that's annoying. And I didn't realize they were a dark brown color until I wore them that night. Kinda strange owning a pair that's not my typical black color but it's whatever. I might reverse these and wear them as lower lashes...who knows. If I do, expect pics! Other than that, I know my technique on doing my gal make up! It's not shown here, but it will be shown in the next post! That one will be pretty interesting to say the least XD

Oh and have you guys seen Big Bang's MV's recently? If not, mmmm qurrrrrllll TOP be looking all kinds of sexy! Check them out and lemme know which one you like the most!

Add me on Instagram + Vote for Usagii!!

2012-02-25T17:40:00.004-06:00

Hey guys! This post won't be one about any of my recent events or anything, but I did want to tell you guys that after setting up my Apple ID, I have finally downloaded Instagram. So far, I think it's a neat little app. I wish you could decrease the exposure on some of the filters because some of them could look so great if they didn't completely wash out the color of my skin. Other than that, it's awesome! If you have me on facebook then you've probably already seen the first few pictures I've posted on there...if not here they are!

Taken last night...I have clearer pics of my make up in my upcoming post.

This Wednesday before Kevin came to pick me up.

The sushi we ate there ^ ^

So there you have it! If you haven't added me yet, just look for TheLovelyIfy and follow me! I will follow you back :)

Okay so last thing I want to mention really quick is about the contest Usagii is currently in for the Kawaii of the World competition! She's been talking about this all week and she's finally making her way up the ladder but this could still be her time to go home if we don't continue to give her support! As a representative for US gals, she deserves all the votes she can get on her make up tutorial video that will be posted up later tonight for 24 hours so please vote for her! All the details on how to do so will be here on this facebook page.

This is the make up look she will be doing the tutorial on.

That's all I will blog about for today. Next post will be up in a few days...I'm going to hang out for a friend's going away party and tomorrow it's Kevin and me day ^ ^ after that it's back to the boring weekdays. lol! I hope everybody's having a fulfilling weekend! I have so much to talk about from last night alone!

P.S.

I help run a blog on tumblr dedicated to gorgeous black girls who have various styles ranging from gyaru, scene, visual kei, lolita, and so on. We take submissions as long as they meet the minor requirements and we post a few times every week so if you want to check that out click on the link below.

CHOCO BARBIE GIRLS

And lastly, there is also another group on facebook I wanted to share called Black Gyaru of the World and it has so far brought a lot of unity amongst the members so far. You'd be surprised at how much information you gain when talking to so many people with the same struggles as you in this style. Here's the link for that page as well! Big things will be happening very soon concerning that, but I will keep my lips sealed for now :)

BLACK GYARU OF THE WORLD

Byeeeeee~

Celebrating Chinese New Year, OOTD

2012-02-21T14:47:00.001-06:00

Hey guys. I have been battling a cold these past few days and I'm just now feel slightly better. My entire body was aching, I got frequent spikes of fevers, running nose, sneezed every 5 seconds, coughed like there was no tomorrow, and now my voice is reduced to sounding between a phone sex operater and a man who just woke up from a long nap. But anyway, this post has been long overdue but I figured to post it up anyway after seeing all of the pretty pics I took.

Kevin and I went to The Dallas Asian Arts museum to see their celebration of the Chinese New Years since we missed the bigger one that happened a week before this one. Even though he kept saying this one had nothing on the main event one we missed, I still thought it was pretty awesome! I've never celebrated Chinese New Year apart from having a friend give me a dollar in a pretty red/gold Hello Kitty envelope.

This one got all UP in my face ;___;

I loved how she looked RIGHT at me when I took this pic from afar :D lol it was perfect timing!

Cute little girls :D

If you've never been to one of these events, it's definitely worth going to in the future! I bet next year will be better with even bigger and more skilled people in the lion suits...which btw, do these look like lions to you guys? I always thought they were dragons and Kevin kept correcting me xP lol! But he's obviously right, still though they look like dragons to me O.O I was actually frightened at one point because of how close up they get in your face. I've always been afraid of mascarades when I was little attending Nigerian parties so this kind of brought up those memories for me but it was more of an adrenaline rush than anything else.

My favorite one!

It ended rather quickly since we got there so late but it was still worth going to. Kevin wanted to cook for me at his hosue, so he went to the local Vietnamese market to buy some ingredients for tempura and sesame chicken to make for the both of us ^ ^

Hahaha >////< why is he so cute?

He chopped these up so fast! O.O

Never seen so many sesame seeds at once .__.

And the end result is simply droolworthy! Although I didn't take any pics of the tempura since I ate it up before I remembered haha! I was starving.

I never really realized how much I like plain white steamed rice until recently.

His food is always delicious :D After we ate and chilled at his place, we headed back out to go see his friend Kyung's performance. He's a serious dancer and has a pretty good sense of humor so when we meet up with him it's usually a good time not to mention being able to see him dance for the first time. He hates people taking pics of him though so sadly no one will get to see what he looks like on my blog xP One day maybe he'll let me haha! This is what the stage looked like from where we were originally sitting before they moved us to the front of the stage...

There were so many great performances that I wish I recorded or at least taken pics of. Two in particular nearly brought me to tears. One was more spiritual and the other was so romantic and touching. The woman who runs the show has had five brain tumors removed but is still as dedicated to dancing as she always has been her whole life. She looks as if she's in her middle to late 50's but she did multiple numbers despite her condition that night. There was one she did with her husband that was so sweet it even brought the animated funny host to tears, I honestly didn't blame him. The whole time Kevin was holding me and it just resonated so well with me in that moment that love exists. There were these group of girls next to us that I was getting bad vibes from the whole time too but once that dance came on, I had forgot about them and they seemed to have disappeared :) Good riddance!

Kevin's camera took a butt load of continuous pics so I created gifs out of them to show you all a little bit of what we saw there...

There was definitely a lot of R&B, hip hop groups this time but I really loved the contemporary dances! I hope I can get into a dance class this fall. I don't want to completely give up acting but I do want to try something new plus I need the credit anyway so why not, right? :) Oh here's my outfit...

Leather jacket/leggings/top - Burlington Coat Facotry
Tank top - Forever 21
Combat boots - Ross

I need to really clean that mirror. Oh! I never did mention how my mom recently bought me a lot of clothes from Burlington Coat Factory a few weeks ago. So you'll be seeing that pop up my OOTD's a lot in the next few posts most likely. Thanks to her I have a new leather jacket and a leather vest. I been feeling like such a rebel lately ^ ^ lawl okay not really but it does work well if I feel like doing a rokku-kei look.

We went to have some Starbucks the other night too...

That muffin wasn't my fav surprisingly because the texture was...off. But my drink was delicious! That's all I have for now. I hope you guys don't get sick like me but it seems like it's inevitable for most of the blogger's I follow who are coming down with something lately xP My sister was the one who got me sick...can't wait till we move out of this cramped apartment!! DX

Here's a little update! I do have instagram now after I finally got my Apple ID registered. Follow me if you will and give me your sn's so I can follow back ^ ^

Look up: thelovelyify

Yehhh...so I'll be seeing you guys on another post pretty soon (hopefully!) ttyl!!

This song...UUUUHNMMMPH!! I've haven't listened to a song this many times on repeat since Miyavi's last album came out. Jesus!! They need to stop with all the teasers and come on with a full out debut!

Sephora, OOTD/FOTD, & iPhone 4 + gets

2012-02-17T16:00:00.000-06:00

Happy Friday readers! I know...from the title alone you can tell there is going to be much in one post
（　´∀｀）That's what I get for leaving things off for as long as I have. Now some of these pics came out with a tint of a greenish fade because of the settings I foolishly had on my camera so please overlook that for those of you who notice. I fixed it now though so it won't do that in the future. I'll start with my trip to Sephora in the Southlake strip mall with my friend Elise and Vicky. When we went there, I knew I wasn't planning on buying anything but we did have fun sampling things on each other and me and Vicky took some glamourous pics after feeling sexy lol

MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC50
Black cream eyeliner
Lip gloss - Perfecto
Top lashes - K.mas 8
Bottom lashes - ebay

I'm personally in love with the first picture ♥ but I still need to find the right lashes to make my eyes pop for the kind of gyaru make up I want to wear. And there's a few other techniques I still need to work on as far as applying the liner on correctly but with time, I'm sure I'll get it down. Here's some other miscellenous pics of what was in Sephora that caught my eye...mostly eyeshadow palettes and lip colors.

the one I am wearing is on the bottom row at the right corner "991 PERFECTO" I forget the brand!

While we were there, I spotted Michelle Phan's palletes and had to swatch them to give them a try...

All of the colors here were nice except for the brown in the center. It wasn't that pigmented and seemed like you had to pack a lot on a brush for it to show up noticeably.

The two golds and purple shadows were what made me melt! I mean wow!

We then got hungry and walked to The Cheesecake Factory...I go there way too much. Here are some pics of the strip mall outside. Although the weather was sunny, it was pretty cold!

I already ate earlier that day so I just got their strawberry cheesecake instead. I was hoping for something more to it but they just threw some strawberries on it and whipped cream on an ordinary cheesecake and called it a day :/ Next time I will be more adventurous and get something I've never thought of getting.

Elise went to go spontaneously buy a blazer from NY&C. Here's where I took my outfit pic since the lighting was excellent!

Leather jacket - Thrift World...only $8!
Wool sweater/shirt - Burlington coat factory
Combat boots - Ross

I wish I wore my fox tail with this outfit!! I used to wear it with so many cute outfits but this out of control dog at the dog park a while ago (yeah don't ask why I wore it there of all places) snatched it and he ripped the hole where the chain connected to it so now Kevin's trying to fix it for me but I don't think he's had any luck :( and his owners were useless in doing anything about it. Still trying not to think about it (*≧m≦*) I'll just buy more at A-KON.

Onto the gets! After months of trying to convince my mom to switch from metropcs to sprint, she finally gave in. I hate that they make you do contracts but honestly, I'd rather have a better service that costs a few dollars more than a shitty one that literally drops calls every 5-10 mintues. Sometimes more frequently than that on that depending on the day no matter how important they are. Someone could be telling me they're contemplating suicide and that shit will still drop on them midsentence, it's ridiculous! Not saying that's ever happened, but I need my connection to be stronger than what metro has been offering and lately it's just gone to shit over the years so goodbye to you crappy service! & hello iPhone 4! We still need to go in tomorrow and do a few more things like get our Apple ID and shiz but I'm already so pleased with this bad boy! I can't wait to see what the hype is about Instagram...hipster or not if it's good I'll most definitely be using it! The functionality of this phone is superb even though this is coming from someone who's used crappy phones for all her life. I know I could've gotten an android but eh...I've always liked how nearly everything caters to iPhones. Let's be honest lol! Never did I think I'd own one and I even bought a temporary case for it. Later on down the road, I will try to find a far better one for it (deco'd out for sure!) but for now this white color will do. I actually really like how it looks now so I'm not complaining.

Staying on the topic of my new little gadgets, I bought a Seagate HDD with 1.5TB from Best Buy for only $99 to back up my ohsomany files that were on my laptop over the past 3 years I've had it O.O I had no clue how to do go about defragging and clearing out extra memory after it was finished pending the backup, but it helps to have guy friends and a boyfriend who knows a butt load about this stuff to help you out lol my sister said it was funny how they were all Asian guys ;___; I won't even...

It's so useful, I'm just mad I never discovered the benefits of a hard drive before up till now. Moving away from technological devices, when I went to go buy my phone case from the hair beauty salon I found these other nail polishes I wanted to try for Valentines day. Unfortunately, the design turned out so crappy, there was no point in taking pics of it afterwards even though I spent a long time on it :( But I think I know why it didn't come out nicely...

At least the brushes are thin enough to do cooler designs. I'm trying to get better at doing more nail art since that is one area I fail so miserably at. Lastly I bought these pair of lashes and NYX blush.

I haven't tried those lashes on yet so I'll have to talk more about them in another post but that blush is lovely! I just wish it stayed on longer for people with oily/combination skin. It looks great when you first put it on and is even a tint of orange :D I'll temporarily be using this until whenever I am able to finally get my hands on NARS' Taj Mahal which btw they no longer are selling in Sephora because it's been discontinued so you have to purchase it online only. It blows...

That's it for this post! I'll have to rewind one last time for my next post to share with you guys what I did with Kevin for Chinese New Years. Oh but here's some mv's you k-pop lovers might find entertaining if you haven't seen them already and are typically late on these things like me xP B.A.P. is a MUST...those blond haired boys are all types of fine! Zelo is doing it the most for me like...damn!

Valentines Day + OOTD (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

2012-02-16T16:00:00.000-06:00

-Brief note-

My laptop has been warning me lately about my local disk drive running low on space for the past few weeks but I continued to ignore it for as long as I possibly could until I absolutely could not any longer. My laptop was at full capacity with memory that needed to be either deleted or backed up which somewhat explains why I've been lagging on making my blog posts. Each time I create a new post, I edit/transfer photos to my laptop so it takes up space. Now I got it all taken care of and I'll explain how in another post...

Valentines day just passed this week and it was my first year ever celebrating one with an actual boyfriend O.O *says like Stewie Griffin* Say whaaaaaat? But I couldn't have asked for it to have been spent with anyone better than Kevin (o⌒．⌒o) He wanted to make it extra special for me knowing that...

Initially, he planned on taking me out to this fancy steakhouse called Rafain, but then he decided after finding out their wait time to take me to equivalent steakhouse called Fogo de Chao and even though they had the same wait time for walk-ins, we just decided to be patient and go there anyway. He is still beating himself up over not making any reservations I'm sure, so I won't get mad at him for that lol despite the mishap, the place was lovely nonetheless, just super packed with couples and families. I unexpectedly bumped into an old best friend of mine and was very surprised I found her there. Here's a few pics of what I took at the restaurant.

To the right are fried bananas...they tasted like plantain pancakes! 6:

One of the many delicious meats I got to eat

The amazing thing about this place is that they literally treat you like royalty! Never have I seen a waiter go up to any member of my party over a small stained spot on the table cloth and kindly asked if he could cover it up as if it were bothering us like...the hell? Haha I loved it, I thought it was so pleasant how we were constantly being attended to. There were so many different types of meats I ate my jaw was so sore after chewing so much but it was well worth it. Even the salad bar was good...the salad bar! That check ran up to be so much more than I would ever pay to eat dinner no matter how hungry I was which is why I am more than grateful I got to experience that place thanks to my baby~

Jacket - Ross
Scarf - Torrid
Top - Burlington Coat Factory
-Skirt - Claire's
Tights - Claire's
Earrings/Bracelet/Boots - gift

lol that's him reading my note in case anyone's wondering. We write love letters to each other like the dorks we are xP Had to majorly crop him out of that second pic because he didn't like how he looked haha! But I got him his Valentines gifts and he really liked them ^ ^ Especially the card that spun a record inside of it playing an old classical love song that I currently don't remember the name of *FAIL* And of course I gave him candy!

I just realized I didn't take a close up of my face to do a FOTD -.- Sorry...I just wore my decolog lashes again but with no lower lashes. I went over my lower lashes with mascara however and used my new NYX blush which I will talk more about my next post. Did my foundation, contouring, and eyeliner the same. Also, I've been asked how I get my hair to look the way it does when it's curled. If you guys would like to have me do a separate post on this or make a video please comment and lemme know so that I know whether or not it'll be useful to any of you ladies out there. Anyway, he got me a dozen of the freshest most beautiful red roses I've ever come across as if each one was picked with delicate thought taking into account how each individual one would be presented to me. Oh...along with some Hello Kitty chocolate and a card....lol!

...the letter continues and made me tear up in front of him. GAH I hate when he does that to me!! FFFFFUUUUU~

Regardless of whether or not you were single or taken on Valentines day this year, I hope you all still cherished that you are loved by somebody. This day is not just for couples which I noticed when I saw big families out eating together :D It really touched me. That's why it pisses me off when people bash this holiday so critically. Yes, it is partially intended to help boost the card industry if you want to only look at it that way but if you open your mind to other aspects, this holiday is for everyone if it is about love. You don't have to buy a card to show that to somebody or go broke either. It's for the poor, the rich, the sick, the well, the young, the old, anyone! So please, spread love not hate and be happy with what you have because some people can't be as fortunate as you to have the life you do. Sorry to go in depth with this but I saw too much hate about this holiday when it's merely about showing love...why hate the idea of wanting to show love? I don't remember being like that last year...if I was then I'm glad I changed my outlook on it. I'll stop here. Be on the look out for more posts in the next few days or so and I have a big announcement coming up too but I'll keep that on the hush hush for the time being. Bye guys!!

Cramming in tons of stuff in 1 post

2012-02-05T18:24:00.000-06:00

Ho man am I late on making this post. School's been keeping me occupied as I feared delaying me from posting every week. Blah, moving past the excuses I'll start with my most recent hang outs and show you guys some neat things I purchased this week. I went to my friends 21st bday celebration last weekend (so many people turning 21!) and we weren't planning on staying as long as we did, but that was how much fun we were having (-^〇^-)

Bday girl

Our friend Erika!

Vodka gummy bears...they weren't super potent as we anticipated but they still had a strong taste.

Whoever knows what that is gets cool points! It was on my friends necklace that night and I couldn't stop fiddling with it anytime she sat near me. After that, my other friend Jazmine was also having her 21st birthday get together the day after. It was pretty fun, I meet some nice people in the process. I want to shoot myself in the ovaries for not remembering to take pictures of the flaming grill and billions of plates laid out on the table but whatever. Just picture it in your mind and I'm sure it'll be as close to accurate ヽ(　￣д￣;)ノ Here's what I did take pics of! Don't expect too much...

The hood in the room to reduce the smoke from the grills at our tables.

Kevin was helping turn over the meat for our side of the table which I thought was so sweet! I embarrassed myself by not properly holding my chopsticks...you'd think after this long eating with them I wouldn't fail so miserably but I did to my disappointment. Could it have been nerves? *le sigh* Regardless, the food was good, I didn't get burned but I can't say the same for the guy on the other end of the table who had the most vicious grill lol but it gave everyone a laugh plus I don't think it burned him too seriously. If he were, I'd feel pretty bad tbh.

We went to Mozart to briefly sit and nom on their bakeries. For the first time I bought their overpriced cakes and it was pretty good! Thankfully Jazmine recommended a really good one and it was so soft and fluffy! I loved how it wasn't too concentrated in sweets like the cakes you find at places like Wally World. Nope, these were pretty subtle and mine tasted just like a mocha latte (〜￣▽￣)〜

Lastly, we went to a karaoke bar. I need to redeem myself next time we go. For some reason, I get so nervous when I sing in front of people, even if it's for something not to be taken seriously I just try not to partake in it but I did and well...eh. Here's the birthday girl jamming out to some Korean song!

What was on the screen

She did beast...and even sung in Japanese too! Made me feel even more like a failure but there's always the summer to get serious in relearning the language again, right? After that, the week that followed I pretty much threw myself into a frenzy of random buys. Starting with this game...

Lol okay so it's definitely not FFXIII but it's the best I could get for the time being and the money I'm willing to spend on games right now. But so far, it's more cute than anything else, and I'm a sucker for cute shit! I can't say that I absolutely love it but it is a nice story so for $20, it wasn't so bad. Still in the process of beating it though since I keep taking breaks.

Secondly we have these sexy Darkness k.ma 8 lashes I purchased from H-mart while Valentine shopping with Odely. It was 2 pairs for $4 and so far, I love them! I did a nice little review on these suckers too and they are included in my new tutorial coming up soon as well as one of the lip liners I also got there...

I wanted to get these after seeing the effect lip liners give on make up guru beautybyjj. My lips look rather off after applying my foundation so to mute out the color you can use lip liners or concealer but I haven't mastered using concealer properly on my lips yet so I'll stick to this which is what works best for me with these.

Nothing spectacular to say about this powder brush I got from Target (Up&up) other than it being needed after my poor kabuki brush literally feel out of the socket of the handle entirely. My guess would be from washing it regularly, the glue finally decided to give out. Whatever, I'd rather have no kabuki than a dirty brush.

Then I got incense ash tray...holder thingy from Earthbound XD Kevin introduced the pleasure of incense to me a few months ago and I'm amazed at how I never used it before. So now I have over like 30 different scents I can't wait to burn >:3 If you don't like a slightly musky smell, you may not like them as much but since I do, these are awesome and they are pretty affordable. It leaves my room smelling good for days upon days!

Lastly, Kevin got me this cute envelope along with some beautiful white flowers for our 6 month anniversary. Inside the envelope wasn't money lol it was something better. A sweet letter of how lucky he feels being with me for this long. I nearly cried because I didn't think he'd make this point in our relationship a big deal but he did and that meant so much to me (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

I've lost count at how many times he's given me flowers...I love him so much! To end this lengthy post, here's a cute picture of Hachi in his mischievous act of naughtiness.

Bye guys! I'll try to keep you updated on what went down this weekend lol that is if school work permits.

Birthday party OOTD + Vote for your GGA Nominees!

2012-01-25T16:12:00.001-06:00

Hello guys! First week of school is over and it seems to be like a breeze even in my English 1302 course :o Shocking. I even found out why my GPA was lower than it should have been and luckily the lady in the advising office fixed it for me so now it's back up where I want it to be ^ ^ Last weekend, I went to my friends 22nd birthday party and enjoyed myself while we were there even though were felt like awkward turtles during some moments. Some guy came over to us with two of his friends who had all this energy and it was a little unexpected...a bit scary too but I thought they were still fun loving people nonetheless :D Here's what I wore...

Top - JCPenny's
Jeans - Image
Boots - gift
Earrings - Boutique

I wanna talk about that top really quick. It was actually given to me by my mom a few weeks ago (you can find it on this post here) and when I first saw it I wasn't really certain on how I felt about it. It fits loosely around my torso and the material is like a satiny type of fabric so it's very thin and translucent. It has a sexy feel to it too because of the color but what really drew my attention was the aligned strings placed along my ribs. I wonder if that was done intentionally to somehow emulate them somehow but I thought it was kind of neat and now I actually really like this top (^～^) Here's my make up.

Curse the positioning of my upper lashes ;d

I hate how every I take a pic of my make up, my blush looks less pigmented DX grrrr....gotta figure out why it keeps doing that. Here are some more pictures from the party I took with my friends :)

Her tights look so cute!

Fun times, I will say! I hope everyone's weekend went well and your week started off okay :) Oh and it's Chinese New Year! lol to whoever celebrates it, have a good one! I never paid it much attention but it seems like I will be doing something later on these next few weeks with Kevin and his family. I'm sure it'll be fun~

Lastly, y'all probably already know about the GGA Nominations being up but I just want to help spread the word on my blog too so that you guys can cast your nominees. Don't be bummed about who's in this years awards if you never even cast your votes ┐('～`；)┌ just saying.

Go here to read Lhourii's post about how to enter in your nominee's :) This is just a great way to keep up the positive spirits among our community so I am in full support of this continuing on for another year :D I wish everyone good luck! And on that note, I'm off to play more games on my Wii...lol I've been neglecting that thing for months but this weather for some reason has me wanting to play on it again. Bye!

Boyfriend tag, new YT layout & some gets~

2012-01-21T11:08:00.000-06:00

Hello my lovely readers! I'm happy say that I finally got my boyfriend to make this tag video with me last week and it's now uploaded for you all to watch :) Please do check it out if you haven't already & give it a thumbs up if you wanna see more videos of us together in the near future ^ ^

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I also changed up the layout on my channel TheLovelyIfy a tad. I really am hoping to put out a make up tutorial soon but there are a few things I want to wait for before I do that. If I still find myself postponing it for another week, then I'll just do one regardless. I hate depending on other people for things when it comes to my videos lol but whatevah. Take a look and please subscribe if you haven't already!

Click here to go on my channel :)

Apart from my Youtube thang, I forgot to mention how I had a little extra cash and bought contouring powder as well as an NYX glitter palette from the hair and beauty supply store I live by since I finally used up my stamp card and got $15 worth of store credit!

I only use this powder dry even though it says you can applying it with a damp sponge when I contour my cheekbones and nose which I've gotten a lot better at! I look completely different but it still looks decent in my opinion :) I'm halfway tempted to do a tutorial on contouring...lemme know what you guys think. It's only barely a shade darker than me so it's very easy to keep the shades looking natural and not too deep I don't really need to buff it out as much as I anticipated. Now if only I can get my hands on a good highlight color then I'll be set, but for now I'll just keep using the eyeshadows I already have. I also got the NYX glitter gel palette I mentioned...

Already dabbled in this one a bit before I took this picture ^ ^

Lovely colors, aren't they? I really like the pow effect it gives to your lids. Definitely for the more dramatic make up looks when going to events. One thing I think it a little funky about it though is that the top layer seems to have loose glitter and the bottom is where the gel is at...not sure if that's normal but I was just expecting it to be completely solidified together but that wasn't the case. Oh well, I still love it! And lastly, I got myself some panties from Charolette Russe which is now sadly the only reason why I ever go there to shop now...to me their deals have gone to shit and are only catering for upper middle class. How the hell are you gunna tell me your lowest price on clearance is $15 and up when y'all used to have as low as $5（；¬＿¬) Sorry...the life of a constantly broke college student. Okay maybe not broke...but close to it all the time!

All of them are so cute!! I can't resist a good deal on some nice panties :3 That's it for this post, I hope everyone enjoys their weekend. I'm going to work then come back home to get ready for my friends party tonight. Hopefully won't get too out of my element in the process...just pray that none of the college dudes hit on me. Eww. Till next time~

Relaxing with the bf at Mozart!

2012-01-18T19:49:00.000-06:00

I love days where you can just relax and chill at the bakery with your boyfriend/girlfriend :D This day was so chill but I never laughed this much with Kevin as I did that day. We had the giggle fits...either that or someone snuck something in our bobba which was delicious btw but had no tapioca because they ran out when it was only 8:30pm and they close at 11pm...bull. We were fiddling with our gadgets while we were there too. I like my new desktop background, it's so cute!

Here's what he got me ♥

That my friends is a red bean donut and all of it's glazed perfection. I still prefer the buns over it but this was still delightful! Wish I could've warmed it up some more but whtaevs.

School was such a delightful surprise for me today btw. I went there and came out feeling like everything was going to be okay this semester. Like I was going to actually get shit done and get more A's instead of B's by actually not procrastinating. Let's keep my fingers crossed and hope it stays that way for me ^^x There's a party going down this Saturday for my friend's birthday so I will definitely be taking outfit pics once again when that comes. I don't have a lot to say in this post since I wanna save the other pics I have in my files for another one so for now, ttyl!

This is describes my bestie so accurately XD I love him though!

Sushi & a couple of gets + new video~

2012-01-17T13:01:00.000-06:00

Man...I feel like I'm slowly getting into that pattern of posting irregularly again D: Let me not say anything just yet though and hope that this new time management thing I'm trying out actually pulls through for me so it doesn't come to that. Anyway, I went to a really nice Japanese restaurant with Kevin called Tokyo One. lol I'm always hanging with him throughout the week so that's the reason why I'm always with him in most of my posts just in case anyone was wondering. I didn't take any photos of the actual restaurant but next time I will but that probably won't be for a while since it's like $60 for only the two of us :/ But here's my plate...

My plate...this piece of pretty sushi was unexpectedly salty to my surprise. Idk where my mind was thought because obvi fish eggs are bound to be a little salty but I stupidly dipped it in what I thought was soy sauce when it was actually dumpling sauce to make matters worse...lol but otherwise, doesn't it look pretty? :D

Here's Kevin's...

His plate looks gross mainly because he got a lot of the curry chicken but it tasted really good. A lot like my mom's stew she used to put on top of my rice when I was younger.

Cute, really soft desserts we ate. There were so many I wanted to eat and take pics of but I decided to leave that for another time. I was too HOONGRAY!

Coffee jello :9

I've never tried coffee jello before but it wasn't too shabby :) Everything was yummy I had many mouthgasms that night.

I went to a Walmart to just browse and remembered how I was almost running out of my make up cleanser by clinique and neutrogena so I got Noxzema's deep cleansing cream for $3 and Maybelline's baby lips moisturizing chap stick...

The smell of the cream is a little strong but not overwhelming. I actually love how it cools on my skin after using it. I feel like it works more effectively than what I'm using now actually :D It's just odd because it's a cream rather than a liquid and is in a jar o.o And that chap stick is pretty decent but so far, I haven't noticed any major differences but I should give it about another week to make my final conclusion of it first. I just remember reading a review on NaijaBarbie's blog and wanting to give it a shot.

I have more to show you guys later this week. I start school tomorrow so pray that I don't sit next to the weirdo in the class or the person who knows absolutely nothing lol and I'll do the same for all of you guys going back this week! New video is up on my vlog channel. Watch it below :)

Hair update - Reached full APL :D

2012-01-12T12:41:00.000-06:00

My sister said that before pic is my Kid Kudi face...wat? Look at dat mane!!

APL - armpit length

For those who don't know, I am still on a hair journey despite these past few months I've been shamefully ignoring my regimen...hence why I feel like my hair didn't grow as much as I expected it to (￣д￣;) It's mainly because right before I put my hair up in my sew in, I was experiencing some breakage and was stressed because of the crappy job I had at the time on top of it being right before school started. Yeah, hectic lifestyles effect my hair tremendously unfortunately so I guess this 6 month stretch didn't quite show a lot of length from my last update. I didn't even intend on stretching that long but I had no money when it was time for me to get a touch up after my 4 month was up so I had to wait till after Christmas gifts were bought before I could get one. Boy did the de-tangling suck ASS! I will never wait 6 months again or dare think of going natural! This experience helped me realize that and was the worst visit as far as the pain goes. My hairdresser was not gentle at all so I lost a lot of hair through shedding and him ripping out chunks of dreadlocks. I should've taken a picture of all the hair that was on the floor which could also be another reason why I didn't see as much length as I wanted. Luckily for me, I still had lots of hair even after all of the hair loss still attached to my scalp surprisingly so I'm not fussing too much over it but God, never again!

My goal for last year was to achieve BSL but I still got a long way to go however I am happy to say that I am at full APL :) My hair was annoyingly longer on the sides and shorter in the middle but now the back has seemed to finally caught up with the rest of the longer parts of my hair so now it looks more full at the bottom and I won't be needing to trim just to even it out anymore unless there are badly damaged ends. It slipped my mind to take a pic of of my hair going down my back for some reason but when I get it straightened again in another month, I'll take another pic to show you it's true length. I will do a regimen post for my hair very soon for those who want to know my routine which I plan on being more serious with this year, even with sew-ins unlike last time.

Before I go, I wanted to share with you all some new products I purchased last year for my hair from Sally's.

I bought Ion Purifying Solution's Hard Water Conditioner to help with the mineral build up from the water I wash my hair. The part of Texas I live in doesn't have very high levels, but hey the more you prevent, the better in my opinion...but it was fairly inexpensive as well as the Swimmer's Leave in Conditioner. I don't really go swimming, but if I do, this spray will be all up in my head! It always has sun protection to prevent damage from the UV rays which I thought was pretty neat like a 2 in 1 sorta deal. Then my favorite out of all three the Roux porosity controll corrector & conditioner :D This mofo is awesome! I love how it makes my hair feel the moment I apply it throughout my hair. I might go back and also buy the shampoo to see if it works even better with it but I used this Sunday night before I got my touch up to keep my hair balanced which is highly recommended! Love this stuff, but it is like $12 or something at Sally's but still worth giving a shot.

Alright so that's all I got for this post, I really hope everyone is doing good this week! Me and Kevin filmed the boyfriend tag video for my Youtube channel since so many people have been requesting it for months now lol it was fun :) I also still gotta edit my gal meet too first D: Trying to get these done before school starts back up next Wednesday but we'll see. Bye for now!

Michelle Phan's newest video and first short film. I loved it and she says my name lol she looks so gorg, just watch!

Hit 200 followers + Misc. buys from gal meet & pho

2012-01-11T15:01:00.001-06:00

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I recently hit 200 followers on this blog Ｏ(≧▽≦)ＯI am so happy that I finally got to this amount! I was thinking of doing a giveaway when this day comes and honestly, I just might :D Thank you to all my loyal readers and even my most recent followers, all of you are so awesome for being interested in my life and what's going on with lil ol' me! Can't wait to get to 500 one day!

So during the gal meet this past Saturday, I bought a few things but nothing special since I'm really trying to save up for textbooks when school gets here next week and other things that are more important but I still thought I'd share anyway. When we went to go to Victoria secret, I originally wanted to buy bras and panties since I feel like my stash could use some updating and they did have some good deals being from VS, but I been so spoiled by Charolette Russe's 5 for $10, I rarely ever look else where for my undies and as for bras, I go to Ross and get bras just as cute to save. But I do plan on buying a gel padded one there very soon for more lift. That's won't be till around Valentines day though... *giggity giggity goo* Here's what I bought...

It actually smells really good but it's not strong at all. It has a pretty subtle fragrance and the shimmer shows flicks of gold and the reason I got it is because I know the sun will be coming out in a few more months which means I will be showing off more skin so I thought why not have a pretty glow with this body shimmer while smelling lovely at the same time? I have bronzers I never use too, so this will be my replacement of them.

Then at the cute store Fancy in H-Mart, I finally bought my shitty MetroPieceofShit Samsung a charm. Meh...I can see my mom not listening to me and sticking with this service longer than I anticipated so I might just deco out my phone to make it match the charm...it's so cute and girly, I fucking love it~

This has already been in my belly and out the other end, but I still thought I'd share lol! If you take me to any bakery that sells these red bean buns or donuts, I promise you will be repaid with acts of complete kindness and gratitude! These are so yummy especially when you eat them in the morning and warm them up in the microwave *drools* It's simply delightful!

I DIDN'T BUY THIS! But holy poo I wish I did T^T This is Kalicia's bag she brought to the meet up I forgot to put in the last post. Isn't it cute? I had to share because I've recently went to the Sanrio store and saw a really cute bag for like $180 and I nearly came to tears.

Okay so that's the end of the miscellaneous stuff from Saturday. Now here's the thing about pho...I think why I don't like it that much is because of either where I am going to or what I am order...or also how little I season it with the sauces that are typically provided. I just don't see how it's so amazing :/ Someone will want to slap me after saying this, but I personally find instant ramen more flavorful. Yes, I said it. & I don't even like eating that sodium packed shit anymore these days xP But I did take some nice pics of my tea and pho when I went with my boyfriend and his broski the other day :D

Green leaf tea...so bitter but so nutritious!

Yummy spring rolls.

And lastly my pho noodles. Not gunna lie, everything tasted so healthy! If I were on a diet, I'd come here more often. That's all I got for now though. I have finally taken out my weave after 4 months of having it in but I miss it dearly TAT Now I have to go back to properly pampering my hair to maintain it's health and length but it's cool. I kinda miss doing protein/moisture treatments anyway lol so look out for a hair post coming up soon! Also I gotta rant about a few things that's been on my mind in the gal community. Which ever one comes first, we'll see.

P.S. - Check out my friend Shun's new blog! She's a new gal and it'd be great if you all could welcome her into the community (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

Dallas Gal Meet 2012 + OOTD/FOTD

2012-01-09T22:39:00.003-06:00

Where do I begin? This event was such a success and I am so happy that I conjured up the courage to put this meet together despite the hatred in the gal community. I knew there would be some gals in the area who were well informed on the style and were ready to blossom into their own unique style. Let me not say too much and just dive right into our day. Now I was late by like...and hour and a half but luckily the lovely ladies waiting were so patient and didn't sound like killing me when I told them I'd be coming late after picking up two of my friends and dropping off Hachi at his dogsitter's place. After feeling like I was never going to make it alive driving on the highway to Dallas, we finally arrived at the mall and went inside to meet our group. I was so nervous but they looked adorable and I was so happy to find that one of my other friends was already with them.

D'Andria EDIT: Those nails were my friend Elise's lol my mistake

Kalicia. She had cute nails too but I forgot to take pics of them for some dopey reason! Check out her new blog here!

Sweet Odely~

Precious - fellow Naija :D

Second from the right - Elise. The original 6 all together :)

After we met up, we decided to go do some light shopping while we were there and went into Victoria Secret and we saw some gorgeous bras and panties.

I bought something from there but I'll share that in another post. Then we hit up FXXI of course.

Kalicia and D'Andria were both hungry since they got there way earlier than we did so we went to Ghengis Grill to grab a bite to eat. It was pretty sweet because the waiter we had was so cool and he asked us if there was something special going on because we looked so glamed up :D I never felt more awesome!

After that I received a call from an unknown number and I figured it had to be someone who was late to the meet or something and I was right. We were going to wait for them back at Sephora unitl they got there before we headed off to H-Mart so we browsed in there for the mean time and saw these...

They called back and suggested to meet them at H-Mart instead to not hold up the group so we did and had a hell of a time getting out of the parking lot in the process but we made it! Finally, our last two to join us for the night came, Emmy and D Lo, and it was again such a great vibe between them and the rest of the group, I loved it! And the purikura was then made.

I'm realizing I should've done a kyary face or something lol damn it!

Then I took some individual pics on my own since the lighting in there is fabulous-o!

Sally lashes & Decolog lashes - Top lashes
Zuri foundation - Contour powder
MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC50 - Liquid foundation
Shimmer pencil - Highlight
Nars blush in Desire
MAC lipstick in Passiterie
MAC lipglass in Lust
Too Faced eyeshadow
Black cream eyeliner

One day I will have everything down lol then my friend took a pic of my outfit!

Top - Image
Skirt - Hot Topic
Tights - ??
Boots - gift
Headbow - gift
Necklace - Image
Earrings - KJ Beauty supply

I will say that this is the BEST coord i have done to date in my gyaru style and I'm proud of it. Only thing I wish I did was give myself time to put on my nails that morning but whatever. I'll know for next time.

Eating and chilling in the cafe area

We ended the day at fruitelicous (bubble tea joint) afterward and promised to all come to the next meet in the near future after exchanging numbers.

Odely reading ViVi

My drink on the right, Emmy's on the left my phone and it's new charm in the middle :D

It was simply a pleasant outing to say the least. We made each other laugh, and we stood out in the best way possible together :D I cannot wait for the next meet we have which will be soon, I promise to those who really wanted to go but didn't get to. Next time I will arrive on time and it will probably be on a Friday for those who work on Saturdays like I do lol work is understandable. Thanks for reading, and bye for now! Next post will be about a few small things I left out in this one.

Prepping for gal meet + Latest gets :D

2012-01-06T19:26:00.000-06:00

Hey all! I'm so pumped for tomorrow I can barely stand it! Tomorrow is my first gal meet ever that I'm hosting in Dallas, TX at the Galleria mall and I am super excited! For those of you who haven't heard yet, but we're be doing a plethora of things like shopping, taking purikura, bobba, and meeting fun loving people! I'm not expecting anyone to be a full fledged gal or anything nor do I care. I think it's motivational to have so many people still want to partake in this regardless and I'm sure with time, everyone will eventually become more dedicated to the style :)

Since the weather's going to be nice I'm probably going to be wearing tights with a mini skirt, and my black boots but I've yet to decide what top I'm going to wear. I'm thinking my leopard print tank would look cute with it and maybe just go for an onee gal look or maybe rokku kei depending how I feel tomorrow morning. & I'm packing on that blush like there's no tomorrow too! I went out and also got my brows done which hurt like a bitch and got some free dark foundation from the hair beauty supply store since I had my free $15 card on me :D Helps a ton to save those things! My lashes will be super chunky too and I'll try to add a lot of black liner and eye shadow to make my eyes pop. I'm still iffy on whether or not I wanna wear my circle lenses but I just might and if they piss me off later in the day I'll just change them out, it's no biggie.

And my hair...Lord...I want to do curls but they always fall out. But I'm taking down my extensions after tomorrow anyway, so I'll just pray my hairspray does me justice. All in all, I'm so anxious and even a bit nervous haha but I know it'll be well, even if it's just two out of the 11 people who actually show up, we'll make it into a fun day!

Click here to rsvp on fb

Aside from that, I bought and received a few things recently because of sales going on at Claires and Icing yada yada yada...

My favorite from this bunch is the triple gold rings on the bottom right hand corner. I felt like those green earrings were too boho for my taste, so I gave them to my sister instead.

It wasn't the best idea to take pics of these on top of this fabric I just realized but anywho, I bought the scarf the necklaces are laying on and my personal favorite out of this bunch is the peacock necklace then the pretty silver heart one. The other two needed to be detangled xP

Now onto the gifts!

From my friend Alex! Such a cute plushie pouch, I love it!

My sister gave me $30 to spend anywhere when we went shopping this week so I went to Icing to finally buy me some studs for my new piercings and got these suckers.

I wanted simple ones for more flexibility in how I wear them with my outfits ^ ^ I think I made a good choice with these and that top silver rhinestone one looks amazing on my cartilage piercing!

Then I got this necklace :D Bring on the spring and summer outfits :D

E.L.F.'s neutral eyeshadow palette from my friend Danielle :D my favorite one is the pretty shimmer gold ones to the nearest right corner. Love it!

That's it for now. I'll the next few posts will be about my gal meet. EEEEEK! Okay imma shut up about it now. Ttyl~

Fun at D&B + OOTD/FOTD) ｡:゜★

2012-01-05T16:32:00.000-06:00

Hey people! On Tuesday Kevin wanted to spontaneously take me to Dave & Busters as well as the Cheesecake factory (no pics of food this time, sry) where we had our second date when we first met and it was delightful! I've gone to arcades in the past, but the place was so alive with neon colors and noises that would make any gamer wanna cream their pants :D Plus it's been a while since I've gone to one lol

I was beastin' on this game >:3

I'm getting better and better at my gal make up but I feel like I could still practice more especially with contouring and lower lashes.

Decolog Who's Series top lashes
Too Face Duo eyeshadow in 'Ash'
Black cream eyeliner
Tarte powder blush in 'Tipsy'
MAC Studio Fluid Fix Foundation in NC50
MAC Concealer

There are a few things I left out but I can't remember them DX I also was wearing my MAC Patisserie lipstick but it wore off by the time I took this pic. Anyone know any good lip primers I can buy so it lasts longer? Also, that blush was sampled from Sephora and I think this Saturday when I go to my gal meet, I'm going to get it because that color is outstanding compared to my other blushes. I've been looking for an orange-y one like it anyway and found out the one NARS carried that I wanted has been discontinued :(

& who knew putting your lashes the other way around would still look decent? lol it was buy accident until I saw how it looked on and I was like...okay :D Now onto the outfit!

blurry pic (*≧m≦*) PHAIL!

Vest/tank top: Forever XXI
Loose top: Image
Boots/Pants/ring: Xmas gift
Bracelet: Boyfriend's

I had fun :D Kevin and I were going around while no one was looking finding tons of free tickets sticking out of the dispensers on some of the games people forgot and even tokens! We go so lucky but we decided to leave getting a prize till we rack up more tickets the next time we go which I didn't even know we could do.

I hope everybody's having a good week! I'm finally feeling better from being sick but I still have a faint cough and stuffy nose but it'll go away really soon I'm sure. Oh and I know I said in the last post I'd share with you guys the stuff I recently bought, but that'll be for again another post I decided lol I wanna lump everything together. Oki, bai now!

This chick is so dead on it's not even funny...well yeah it is lol but just watch and lemme know what you think.

First post of the year + NYE drunken story xP

2012-01-04T15:12:00.000-06:00

Hello everyone in 2012 :D I'm starting out a bit late on this post but uhhh yeah. I was going to take all of these pics and stuff but my night went a bit out of hand this year but luckily I was with my closest friends at the time but I do have pictures of other neat things so just bare with me for a moment and lemme tell you how my NYE went.

I'm not a drinker or a stoner. If I do decide to drink, it's only for special occasions. That shit just seems overrated the way some people go about it as well as getting high which is why I shudder at people actually bragging about stuff like that as if it's an accomplishment of something so grand and even go as far as posting their pics on fb. Uhm...no. You look like a dumbass and are lame as hell, just stop! & before anyone goes well, have you ever even gotten high/drunk? Yes, I have right off my ass to the heavens and back and yes, it's an experience that puts you right out of your element but unless I'm retelling say a funny story or something along those lines, you will never catch me bragging about it. Wtf is the point it doing that? idgi :/

Now that we've established that, my NYE. It was pretty decent but unfortunately I was sick so I felt a little lazy to go out to the parties I was invited to so I just stayed home with my sister and her bf who came over as we watched the countdown. I put on my make up, which looked flawless btw but I didn't take any decent pics because I was so drunk later on that night but I pretty much just had gold glitter on my lid and smokey black and blue eye shadow on the corners with falsies on. God I'm so pissed I didn't take a pic of my eye make up DX Anyway, after that, we went to our friend Adrias where some of my besties were chilling at for the night. There was some weed and alcohol and I figured I'd give it a go since I haven't in a months so I did. The closest I have gotten to drunk was feel the slightest bit buzzed but that could have been a combination of being up so late at night running on hardly any sleep. After a few minutes of playing some drinking game, I started to suddenly feel light headed and my body movement slowed down. My brain was aware however that I was acting funny so I figured I was finally experiencing what it was like to be drunk and it was nothing special although I made everyone in the room laugh their asses off from how I was behaving. This is why you should ALWAYS be around people you trust when you decide to drink! lol but honestly, I don't regret that night at all. I was a happy drunk and the next day I had to go with my family to church early in the morning...luckily I had no hangover which shocked the hell out of me. But that was all I did really...nothing fancy.

The other day my mom bought me and my sis some clothes and said she'll be buying me more ^ ^ So glad she knows my style now.

I really love these leggings/skinny jeans...whatever they are I love them!

I didn't get this as a gift, I actually bought it months ago but just never blogged about it. I needed it to relieve stress last semester lol and I think it's just a nice aroma overall. I want to sleep to it, and I suppose you can. The lady at Bath & Body Works said it has up to 50hrs of burning wax in that little glass container it's in :o for $20 only, so if you got some extra monies, I'd highly recommend. Or you can buy the cute small ones for I believe $5 or under I'm sure they have lots of sales going on right now for them.

Yesterday I went out with Kevin and bought some stuff, but I'll share that with you in the next post. I'll leave you with these pics of me from last night though.

Have you guys seen this MV yet? It's a decent R&B ballad I think but I'm not all the rage about it. Still give it a listen :] Jay Park looks a little off imo...like overly sentimental to where it looks cheesy af in some scenes XD But he is still looking hella fine regardless even in that turtle neck.

Farewell 2011. Greetings 2012!

2011-12-31T21:40:00.003-06:00

What can I say? This year was one hell of a ride. So much growth accompanied with so much loss...but I can say that my achievements surpassed my losses which is what I was hoping for. Reflecting on this year makes me realize just how much I have changed for the better as far as being a young adult goes. Still not independent yet, but I am gradually getting there. Disregarding my current academic standpoint, I have impressed myself with the higher confidence in my appearance more than I ever have in my life and it is such a huge deal for someone who's struggled with deep internal conflicts like myself. I never did continue follow up with you guys on my Stepxstep series on this blog, but had I done so, you would have seen the difference! Same with the length of my hair but I'll have to update you guys on that in another post after I get my touch up.

Jan 2011

Dec 2011

I can't even forget to mention how thankful I am for the new people I have had the pleasure to meet this year. Even the ones who came and went, they are still appreciated to me regardless. The most important person to mention is Kevin of course ♥ I'm sure it's a start to something amazing!

Anywho, I don't want to make this post super long, but I did want to just mention the very few resolutions I would like to work on in the new year. One of them being to learn to be more organized with my belongings. My mind is so out of whack when things are cluttered around me (and they always are since I live with my sister majority of the time) so once I move into a new home hopefully my room will look the way I've always wanted it to. Another one would be to love the ones I already love harder. Tomorrow is never promised and I think everyone occasionally takes the gift of life for granted including me so yeah...I may be super sentimental but I think it'll be worth it. Lastly, I want to save up for a road trip(s) with whom ever is willing to accompany me to places like Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and maybe if I'm lucky places out of state like Disney land or NY :D Maybe if I'm REALLY lucky Japan x3 but uhhh...we'll see how my monies is and my Japanese by then ^ ^

Also a few small things like...

Continue hair journey. Achieve BSL before 2013!
Learn how to cook many meals so my mom can shut up!
Train Hachi to be more obident
Work harder on my gyaru make, coords, hair and style
Continue to improve overall confidence
Blog/upload YT videos more
Make new friends, drop old ones
Maybe get one more piercing
Be more crafty

& that's about it! I hope everyone is having a great New Years Eve on my side of the world, if not a Happy New Year on the other :D I wish you all the best in 2012...the world is NOT going to end so quit trippin if you're worried lol see you next year blog readers!~

NEW VLOGS!!!
yes they are super delayed...meh *shrug*

Chamomile tea is yummyyyy :D

2011-12-29T14:29:00.000-06:00

Random title for a post, but it's true. On Christmas Eve, Tam, Vicky and I all went to the Grapevine mall to hang out and do some last minute gift shopping *thankfully for me* and since I was sick (still am) I wanted to go to the Corner Bakery for once. I've always wanted to know how it was like since I know people who've compared it to places like Starbucks. I ended up paying over $10 for my whole meal which was not intended but whatever...I was just so desperately needing something warm to soothe my irritated ass fucking throat! So I got a soup that the cashier recommended and chamomile tea...

I thought it was cool how they packaged the herbs in that little bag and the tea really opened up my nasal cavities and my sandwich was yummy too! Only thing is that nasty soup was simply not doing it for me at all. I liked it when I first took a spoon full, but then it just started to taste like overpriced ketchup with basil sprinkle in it. Eww! Tomato soup is not for me.

I had to cam whore a bit cuz I was loving my eye make up...no OOTD for this post since it was nothing special.

FOTD

Top lashes - two pairs: one from Sally's beauty supply and the other from Korean department store
Bottom lashes - ebay
MAC studio fix fluid foundation
Everything else, I fail to remember xP

Need to get my brows done soon xP

The Monday before that however was my friend's Christmas party and she was so kind enough to give us so many gifts! I can't wait to try out this one...

Just waiting to move so I can have my own bath tub so I can use it next summer. There was way more like a huge chocolate bar, lolipop, and some other knickknacks. She really went all out! I hope she liked the gifts I gave her. I had to take a pic of my friends shoes at the celebration because they were ridiculous. I was green with envy...

Kyle's

Erika's

Hmm...I'm considering doing a New Years gyaru tutorial because best believe I'm rocking in the new year with gal make up no matter where the hell I decided to be at or who I will be with. Hmm...I think I may, just gotta make sure to get it out on time xP Later!~

Xmas presents ☆⌒（＊＾∇゜）v

2011-12-28T16:13:00.001-06:00

My Christmas was pretty decent this year. I spent it with the family, Kevin, Tam and Derric. Love them all for coming to make it all that much better. I went to bed on Christmas eve at like 4am because I was up making deviled eggs and curling my hair which didn't come out exactly the way I wanted :(

I gotta find a better way to do curls besides using a curling or flat iron on my extensions. As for presents, I definitely can't see myself posting every single thing up on my blog since there was so many and still more coming in late from a few friends, but I'll definitely do the ones that deserve to make the cut so expect this to be a bit lengthy and pic heavy.

So I'll start off with the presents I gave to myself this year n . n

Tokidoki Calender from gocalenders :D So tired of the boring ones my mom always gets for us.

Got these neat little organizer holders from The Container Store for cheap! I'm so happy now because my bathroom looks way cuter and less cluttered now :D

Now these were all gifts from friends and family...

Kevin - I needed this so bad! I hate editing videos/photos with the touch pad because my fingers get tired after a while. So glad he took my hint :D

Derric - this stuff smells amazing! I can't even...I just can't!

Chibuzo - lol I knew this kid would buy me some boots like these but I wasn't posiitive XD I wear them everywhere I go now haha!

Neat Mele&Co jewelry organizer from my mommy ^^ I love her for this since I was desperately need one. Just look at how nicely it fits on my drawer! So cute!

Kevin - to add on to the organizers for my jewlery, Kev got me this cute stand which I've been wanting for a while now and surprisingly never gave him any hints about this one lol strange how he knew but I love how it looks!

I got this mameshiba plushie from Kevin's sister Cindy :D She's so sweet, I had no idea how she knew I loved this character. Again, a great decorative piece on my drawer!

Kevin - He knew Hello Kitty was the way to go haha! I haven't worn a watch in YEARS, but this one looks so cute, I'm going to start wearing this more now once spring starts :]

This is the most awesome present as far as it's multiple features go...

Mommy - This was such an unexpected gift, I had no words when I saw what it was. I was NOT expecting this at all, but my God, it's been my most played with gift so far I mean this thing has so many cool things to do on it. Funny thing is, I never understood why people wanted an Ipad so bad when it was first released but now I totally get it. It won't replace my laptop, but it will replace my time spent with my friends for a while XD I love it so much! Been playing angry birds, adding cool apps, and taking several pics with it ever since I got it.

The next few pics were taken with my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Christmas tree all decked out

Plushie keychain - Mom
Cupcake Hello Kitty keychain - Kimberly

Mommy - Be Enchanted fragrance

That's all I'm going to show for this post. I might actually show more presents in another post but for sake of not making this longer, I'll stop it here because I just realized I left out a few other good gifts haha! But I really do hope every single one of you had a good Christmas with your loved ones this year. New Years is coming up, not sure what my resolutions will be but when I give it more thought I'll share with you all. Till next time :)

☆:.｡.2012 Dallas, Texas Gal Meet. ｡.:☆

2011-12-22T14:14:00.000-06:00

FB EVENT PAGE

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Hi guys! Guess who's coordinating Dallas' first gal meet in the new year? THIS CHICK!

I've been wanting to attend meets for the longest time but the closest ones were all the way in Houston and I had NO experience driving down those highways at the time they were going on so I laid off the idea till now. Lately, I've been coming across several people in the area who shockingly LOVE gyaru fashion and thought why not bring them altogether and have a straight up good time rather than keeping it on the internet? Not saying that that's always a bad thing, but being more interactive in person creates stronger bonds and memories to hold onto for much longer imo.

In all honesty I am pretty ecstatic about this since I know that I will finally be able to be surrounded by people who I can relate with in terms of my style of choice and I know everyone else who's going feels the same. Putting effort into my eye make up for example will finally be at least acknowledged as gal instead of basic glamorous eye make up. Plus, the places we can go to are fairly vast. I'm tempted to do so many things within our first meet up but I know that's going to be such a hassle so I'll have to leave out some ideas for next time, and there will be a next time!

Look at how awesome this mall looks that we'll be meeting up at...

The Galleria Mall

I've always loved this mall for it's shops, lighting, and overall scenery and so far I haven't heard anyone make any complaints about it. I hate driving through all the stupid traffic, but it's well worth it to me! I hope you all who follow my blog can come if you have no other plans or are in the area. Feel more than welcome to bring a friend and I suggest saving up so you can have money to buy food and other things that we will be doing like karaoke and purikura. I know I will be. I'm going to finish editing my video so I hope you guys check this out and help spread the word! If you want, you can use the event's banner to spread the news around your blogs or facebook :)

Gaylord Trip part 2 (pic heavy)~

2011-12-21T13:00:00.000-06:00

Continuing my last post, here is part 2 that I promised. Okay so after we left Southlake, I took Kevin to the Gaylord Texan which is a huge extravagant resort I am so lucky to live by. During all this btw, he had no idea where I was taking him the entire time since this was my earlier Christmas present to him so when we pulled up tot heir beautiful gates, he was acting like a 5 year old who just won themselves a golden ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Although I was nervous about how he would react, once I saw that I then knew my mission had been accomplished :D

We went inside and took our time to find our destination because the who place was immaculate and decorated with outstanding Christmas lights and other designs!

After looking around, we finally entered in the exhibit's waiting room where they went over general do's and don'ts and how the idea of Ice originated in China *surprise surprise* at their annual ice festival which I thought was so exquisite compared to what we actually went to lol but despite that the ice figures were still so cool! But I mean, you can't compare Chinese architectural castles literally made out of ice to fictional characters on some animated film which is why that will be one of the things me and Kevin plan to see at some point in our lifetime together ^ ^ Can't wait for that whenever it'll be. Here are some pictures...you can find more on my facebook though.

We went down this slide thingy towards the end. I wish it were a bit higher and longer but it was still fun~!

This was the best way I've ever spent a Christmas with someone I've been in a relationship with. Actually, it's the only Christmas I've ever had while being in a relationship and I'm so thankful for spending it with my baby <3 I'm so glad he loved it!

Idk why, but to me we look like a married couple here >////<

Lastly, we went out to eat some Steak n Shake afterward and I got the egg nog milkshake which was yummilicous :D

It wasn't cheap, but this whole day was well worth it! That concludes this super long entry of this trip. Thanks for reading!!

Trip to Southlake & The Gaylord Texan part 1~

2011-12-20T17:00:00.000-06:00

As promised, here's part 1 of my fun day last Sunday with Kevin. I decided to treat him to the ICE Exhibit they have every year and this years theme was Dreamworks Shrek the Halls but before I dive into that, I'll show you guys what we did before we went there.

There's a really nice strip mall in Southlake I love going to occasionally which I know he's never gone to before so I took him there to shop and walk around. The place looked beautiful with it's Christmas decorations and overall scenery.

The place really came alive when the sun finally went down. Then, we went into Rock fish to eat some food which isn't my personal favorite seafood place but it was better than going else where.

Mine

Kev's

Took some pics in their bathroom...

Earrings from KJ Beauty Supply

Before we left to the Gaylord, we went into this neat store that had amazing smelling candles, clothes, and other neat stuff which was where I took my outfit pic...

Jacket: Wet Seal

Top: La Mariposa

Jeans: Wet Seal

Boots: JC Pennys

I loved that overhead piece placed over the bed :D & those soaps smelled wonderful! Next time I go there, I'm shopping for my mom's birthday gift most definitely. I'll continue this post in the 2nd part of this trip. I gotta go take Hachi to his graduation ceremony lol see you all soon!

11 Questions tag ♥♥♥

2011-12-19T13:01:00.000-06:00

I can't remember the last time I got tagged for anything lately on this blog. I'm glad I did finally by Tommy from Shabby Tommy :D Thanks girlie!~

But before I begin...

You must post these rules.

Each person must post 11 things about themselves on their blog.
Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer.
You have to choose 11 people to tag and link them on the post.
Go to their page and tell them you have linked him or her.
No tag backs.
No stuff in the tagging section about 'you are tagged if you are reading this.' You legitimately have to tag 11 people.

Sheesh...how picky and strict. Do what you please lol & I promise to try and make this as interesting as I can.

11 Facts About Me

My major right now is Biology...not too crazy about it tbh.
My vision is absolutely dreadful, I have never meet anyone my age with the same prescription.
I have been bi-curious for quite sometime but never experimented with anyone yet...I choose to remain being faithful and keep it that way.
I am always late going to places because I take forever to get ready. Ask any one of my friends, they will tell you.
I prefer cold weather over hot weather in a heartbeat.
If you make me good pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon in the morning I am yours forevahz.
The Twilight series got me into reading...not Harry Potter. But Harry Potter movies will forever surpass Twilight movies despite that and it's presence throughout my adolescence.
First kiss was in kindergarten underneath a table with the boy I liked and his friend. Terrible, I know but kids will be kids, right?
If there's anything I'm not insecure about, it's my body figure. I have a nice body and am not afraid to flaunt it at all. But everything else is a toooooooooootally different story.
I get scared easily.
I don't speak Igbo very well xP I blame my parents for not teaching me growing up.

I noticed half way through this thing that I don't think Tommy created questions to ask me so I'll answer the ones she answered on hers and create my own list afterwards I suppose.

1. Why did you start with blogging?

I wanted to have another outlet aside from Youtube that showcased my life through a different angle. Plus, I love typing out my emotions rather than verbally expressing them. There is an art in blogging that I really appreciate and I think Xia Xue originally got me interested in creating my own blog.

2. What do you do when you can't think of any interesting things to blog about?

I simply don't blog anything. Lol I mean I hate filler posts sometimes because I find them useless to the content I want to have in my blogs but then again, idk if that'd be better than nothing to my followers. You guys tell me *shrug*

3. Do you have a job or are you still studying? If so, what kind of job do you do?

I have a casual part-time job but I am currently going to a two year community college to get my Associates in the Arts of Science.

4. What's your favorite product recently? (This can be a skincare or make up product.)

BLACK OPAL'S FINISHING PRESSED POWDER! HOLY POOP IT'S SO HELPFUL I LOVE IT! I use it just about everyday and it helps so much with my oily face. The End.

5. Online shopping or traditional shopping? Why?

Oh geez...well it depends on what, right? If it's clothes, traditional. I'm not the type of person to buy something online for the sake of it being the exact same top Kumiky or whoever wore because I hate the fear of it not looking right on my body despite how it looked like on the photo I saw online. Such a hassle to have to send it back and junk when you can just go shopping traditionally and still look good. If it's cosmetics, then online IF I already know that product will look good on me. To put it simply, if I have to try it on before knowing I want it, then traditional shopping. Otherwise, online's fine.

6. Do you have any brothers or sisters? What do they think about your blog?

No brothers. One lovely older sister and she doesn't think anything of it to my knowledge.

7. What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?

One time, I remember when I was little, I was walking outside in the park full of other kids with my hands tucked deep inside my pockets until I felt a draft below my waistline. I realized I was pulling my shorts down because of how my hands were shoved in my pockets for almost a full minute but I'm not sure if anyone even really saw. Still, I just remember feeling extremely embarrassed.

8. Which blog do you visit daily or most often?

I think it would be Zhi Zhi's sweetheart ❤ fashion

She's so inspiring as a gaijin gyaru and fucking gorgeous! Plus, she writes in English lol.

9. Describe your own personality

Mellow, friendly (unless fucked with), and open minded :)

10. What is something you can't live without?

LE INTERNETZ~

11. Which country would you like to visit the most?

After all these years, it's still and will always been Japan ニホンゴ

Then New Zealand, China, and a few others.

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Q's from me to you taggies

1. What's the one thing you are most afraid of?

2. You randomly find $10k in a suitcase and it's all yours. What do you choose to do with your money?

3. Your favorite meme.

4. Favorite current artist or music genre?

5. Best childhood memory.

6. If you could marry any celebrity (including net famous people), who would they be and why?

7. At this very moment, where would you pig out at?

8. Wigs, extensions, neither or both?

9. How would you describe your style?

10. What language do you want to speak fluently in?

11. Favorite snack?

People I want to tag

Ivie (Naija Barbie)
Sukoa
Glee
Brooke (MERO MARO)
Miko S.
Lain BarbieEyes
Nioxin
Samispoon

Okay I'm off to a Christmas party! I'm feeling a little sick because my throat feels dry and itchy but thankfully there's no coughing or excessive sneezing so I'm still going regardless. I have A LOT to share with you this week from last night's outing with Kevin it'll have to be a two parter :D It was so much fun! & a huge hello to all my new followers! You all are in for a good posting streak this winter break!

Btw, this MV...just watch if you haven't already.

☆Friend turns 2NE1 + OOTD/FOTD (pic heavy)★

2011-12-16T15:00:00.000-06:00

Whad up? This has been a REALLY good week for me on keeping up with posts you guys. *gives own self a high five* I plan on keeping it up but knowing me, this happy streak may come to an end v__v Let's not think about that though and focus on the now shall we?

By the meaning of the title, I am referring to my friend Odely who turned 21 years old this week...not turned into the group 2NE1 but would that be awesome! ~~Still envious of Ivie for seeing them in NY and being on tv for it~~ xP Haha♥

Here was my make up pic of the beginning of the night...you find out why I say the beginning later in the post.

For this look, I was wearing my Decolog Who's series top lashes paired with my recently purchased ebay lower lashes. & I wore my MAC studio fix fluid foundation in NC50, N degree 7's black liquid eyeliner and some goldish brown eyeshadow on my lids with my NARS blush in Desire. I've been wearing Exhibit A too much I feel like so I had to switch it up but you can't really tell judging from the picture.

The ebay lashes I purchased

I need to invest in the Diamond Princess lower lashes because those look straight up BOSS on gals like Lisha. Planning on getting those really soon.

& here's le outfit...

Top: Ross

Jeans: Image

Ankle Boots: Belk

Flower hair piece: KJ Beauty Supply

I really love the design on the pockets of my jeans so I had to take an ass shot（＾ｖ＾）They were only $10 at Image!

Onto the birthday get together, we meet up in H-Mart and took some pics of all their cute stuff in the tiny gift shop untill one of the workers asked me to not take pics in there. I call bs on that because I'm sure if my friend was working that day, she wouldn't have minded at all but what can you do?

Overpriced.

Bday girl :)

Everything they sell there always appeals to my sweet girly side so I try not to go there when I know I have money to spend but look at those HK plushies!

We then went to get food at this Chinese restaurant nearby and there we decided to take some more pictures.

When we stepped in this restaurant, I honestly did not think it was going to look THAT nice inside but it was very gorgeous in person. We all looked a bit out of place, but it didn't matter since we were there so late in the night so no customers were there to judge us with their evil stares. Lastly, I took a shot of my goof ball friend Suzy in her awesomely put together outfit although I'm not sure if this pose properly shows it well
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Haha okay she'd shoot me if she knew I posted this up on here but if she wants me to take it down, I'd be more than happy to. I still love every bit of this photo though lol! All of the girls were so much fun to hang with that night, I know there will be more nights like these with them this winter break :)

Okay so when I mentioned earlier about how my make up changed, my freaking bottom eyelash didn't even last long enough to get me to H-mart but I blame it on my poor application so I had to take them off. I pretty much camwhored when I got home for the sake of camwhoring...

Edited differently so my face doesn't look super washed out.

& that's it muffins! I hope you enjoyed this pic heavy post. Jeez, I really went photo crazy on this one. I give thanks to Odely for volunteering to take some of the pics at the restaurant lol

WAIT, BEFORE I GO!

Please be aware that my url has finally changed from crystallyzed.blogspot.com to the thelovelyify.blogspot.com hence the pic logo I made. I've abandoned that silly name completely except for my vlog channel on youtube but I'm glad I'm known for being just Crystal or even Ify now. I hope many people catch on to this after I update my profiles too. Okay, go along now!

Olive Garden + Window Shopping @ FXXI & OOTD

2011-12-14T13:29:00.004-06:00

Hey guys! This is random and doesn't have to do much with this post, but lately I've been coming across a lot of new black gals' blogs these past two days and I'm so excited it makes me want to blog more frequently :D So hello ladies if your reading this blog! Don't be shy to step out and show yourself to the community (at least the friendly part that is...). Also, I finally have my GFC widget back up after trying to figure out where the hell to get it back from so it's easier for people to follow me now. Sorry about that...

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I was having just about the worst week you could possibly think of. I got the wires changed out of my braces to thicker ones so everything feels tighter. Then I was having the worst cramps I've experienced in months, AND although I'm not positive but I think one of my piercings got infected so it was swollen, sore, and smelled a bit. Oh and I left out how I wanted to ace at least one of my two courses I took this semester, but failed to do that for either so I suck at life right now. At least I passed, but still...grrr I WANT MY A! But it's all good because my boyfriend came to the rescue on Sunday after telling him my sob story lol he wanted to buy me ice cream to keep at home to help ease the soreness since he's had braces himself a little over a year ago. & he thought it'd be nice to take me out to Olive Garden so we could try their soups and other soft dishes and then maybe go shopping for the present he wanted to buy for my sister at the Galleria mall so I thought why not?

In Kev's truck while he pumps gas before we leave

This soup was perfection! If you have braces, this will hit the spot! So good and so gentle on your teeth. I forget the name of it but it starts with a G and has dumplings in it. So good!

I also had the Seafood Alfredo. I always get it when I go to OG ^ ^

We had their Italian cream soda too which was like heaven in a glass cup. And look at the pretty pastel pink color it is for crying out loud!

Then we went to the Galleria mall to find Victoria's gift so of course we hit up Forever XXI and I took as many pics of the things they had there as I possibly could that I found appealing.

All the spiky jewelry was making me drool! I love edgy pieces like those so much now. Then I found this cute winter hat and I had to take pics of me wearing it.

Here's a full length body mirror pic I took of my whole outfit.

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Jacket: Ross
Pancho: Ross

Jeans: Forever XXI

Combat boots: Ross

Haha I was a Ross girl that day. But aside from that, we just went back to watch a movie at his house and the day ended. It was a fun day as expected. Next time I go to the galleria, I'm shopping my ass off! I want to take some purikura with him pretty soon but I'm not sure if I should wait till Valentines day to do that or not or at least our 6 month anniversary in January. Anyway, I should probably go to work now. Toodles!~

Naija Barbie's First Giveaway! :3

2011-12-13T15:00:00.000-06:00

My girl Ivie's doing her first giveaway on her blog in case you guys didn't know :] Please show her support by entering it. The things she will be giving away include the following:

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A pair of free circle lenses of their choice From Pinky Paradise
1 pair of either Diamond Lash or Dolly Wink eyelashes of your choice
A customized Liz Lisa style/influenced skirt(a, b, c, d or e)
A set of mini BB Cream.

How to enter:

You must be subscribed to this blog using Google Friend Connect
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The deadline will be on January 12, 2012 so you have about a month pretty much to enter. Personally, I feel like she's giving away a hell of a lot of amazing stuff to NOT enter. Plus, her she has a lovely blog to follow, I mean I gotta support my naija sister xD Haha so if any of you decide to participate, good luck!

A few OOTDs (´∀｀*)☆

2011-12-12T15:36:00.000-06:00

Just going to throw all of the outfits I've been wearing recently that I haven't updated you guys on since early November which will explain the shorts in the first picture. I'm going to try to take more close up pics of my outfits since my camera quality is so mediocre being that it is only a point and shoot so bear with me while I continue to work with that m(_ _)m

It was fairly warm that day.

Wearing my white military sweater which you can't see too well I got from Belk.

My tribal print top was from Papaya I if I am not mistaken.

Shorts: Delias

Ankle boots: A'GACI

Got more chilly ^^

Here I'm wearing my jacket from Ross If I'm not mistaken

Tank top: Forever XXI

Belt: La Mariposa

Jeans: DEB

Ankle boots: A'GACI

Out at a coffee shop with Kevin

Gloves: A'GACI
Necklace: Forever XXI
Shirt: Papaya
Coat: Wet Seal

I wish I could tel you guys exactly what I wore this night, but idr since I'm a slow updater xP

This glorious red jacket has gotten a plethora of compliments I mean holy crap but it's no surprise. I'll do another OOTD with it so you can see it better. I love it so much and it was only $22!

Jacket: Ross

Eyeshadow: Ebay palette

Blush: NARS Exhibit A

Eyeliner: N degree 7 liquid eyeliner

That's it for now so I am officially caught up. Phew! Oh before I go, did you guys notice the new blog design? I know, I just changed it but I wanted to change it again after my day of straight up fucking around with photoshop. It lead me to learn a lot of neat stuff so I'm happy I finally go around to using it the way I've been wanting to so I'm going to continue to keep practicing to get better over time. Again, I apologize about the quality, I'm trying to save up for a new DSLR but I'm still so new to those things I have some research to do before actually purchasing one.

Have you guys seen this ultra sexy MV by HyunSeung and Hyuna? I'm sure most of you have. Talk about hot! God damn! Typically I miss out on new released music vids bc I'm never up-to-date with the latest in the kpop world but man, I needed to calm my ovaries afterwards.

Aside from that, I hope you all have been good and are keeping yourselves nice and warm! Till next time!

dbeautyshop.com EOS Adult Pink circle lens review ヽ(^。^)丿

2011-12-10T13:00:00.000-06:00

Gosh I've been so backed up with these reviews because of school but now that I'm done with it for the time being till January so I have a whole month to spend with you guys :D

If you haven't seen my recent review on my Adult pink EOS circle lenses I got from dbeautyshop earlier, WHY HAVEN'T YOU?!! jk. But it's been on my NEW CHANNEL for quite sometime which you can view through here. But I'll do a review of it on my blog as well.

Before anyone states the obvious, yes my lashes in the last pic was poorly applied. Still learning, get off my back.

Now that that's been said, let's move onto the review!

The staff at dbeautyshop kindly gave me these lenses to do a review on and I will be frank. The vibrancy of them were out of this world! They are so bold and I have dark brown eyes mind you so imagining them on lighter eye colors must be super intense! You'll have no issues using them for cosplay whatsoever! I will say the best way to make the color look more subtle is using dark eye make up

Color:

★★★★★★★★★★

These lenses are only 14.0mm in diameter but still give me slightly larger eyes because of the dark rim. But if you're looking for larger pink lenses, I wouldn't highly recommend these. They're more for the color and design as oppose to enlargement.

Enlargement:

★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

The design is quite simple and and solid...if that makes sense. There's not a lot of transparent holes which is why they look so bold in color and stand out so well.

Design:

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Lastly, I felt pretty comfortable wearing these lenses but like any other lens, I still needed to apply eye drops to my eyes every so often to make sure the dryness didn't irritate my eyes.

Comfort:

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Here's a little tip for those who need it. When your eyes are dry, for example sleeping in them, I believe you're more prone to infection but don't take my word on that. That's why it's very important to have eye drops handy. I use the gel drops by systane. It's expensive, but is still well worth it.

That's it for this review! Thanks for taking the time to read it. Like I mentioned earlier, you can view the video by clicking on the link at the top of this post. Take care guys! Hope you're having a great break so far!

(。^_・)ノ

Dallas Arboretum & OOTD ✿ ❀

2011-12-09T13:29:00.001-06:00

Sup y'all? I realize it's December and I'm just now making posts :d There's so much I have in my files that I want to show you but they will have to wait after these next few I get out of the way.

A few weeks ago, Kevin took me to the Dallas Arboretum (Garden) and it was so exquisite! I've never seen anything like it in my life! It looked like we were put into the set of Alice in Wonderland :o I wish the weather was sunnier but we're most likely going again next year in the spring time when the flowers are all in full bloom and for my mother's birthday in March.

Vest - Body shop
Grey shirt dress - Idr xP
Belt - La Mariposa
Necklace - Idk xP lol I suck
Tights - bday gift
Boots - Wet seal

ignore my face please x(

Princess and the frog :D

Doesn't this look like it's straight off of tumblr or something? I loved it!

Phew...that's all I got to take and I'm so glad we got as many pictures we did. Tbh, the first few pics of me looked so awkward being it was chilly and I felt a little awkward taking pics with people looking at me > < but here you can see I loosened up a bit.

We had fun and we saw so many brides there that day getting married it was so inspirational :) Kevin's such an amazing boyfriend, I swear I'm so lucky to have him in my life. He's made me so happy ever since we've been together this summer up to this point. I have zero complaints about him ^ ^ I hope we have more days like these to make amazing memories.

Oh look at this yummy sushi we had at chaucers the other day before I go!

Delicious, yes? See you soon...I hope!

Latest Gets + New blog lay ! ! !

2011-11-23T17:04:00.000-06:00

Hey guys! You like the new layout? I still feel like it needs to be polished here and there but it's nice and clean compared to my last theme that I made even though a few of you really liked that one. Just trying to switch it up plus I love purple ヾ(ﾟ∀ﾟゞ)

I recently bought a butt load of stuff and this little haul doesn't cover a third of the things I been getting but since I'm such a shitty blogger in terms of updating you all regularly this will have to do for the time being :)

I went to a few places and one of them was sephora and the MAC store. I really wanted to find a orangey blush since I've been wanting one ever since it hit the gal scene a while back but I ended up buying a more scarlety red looking color from NARS called Exhibit A (again, that brand is amazing for darker skin tones!)

I actually wore this blush on my older post you can find here.

(look at girl to the right) Kind of color I was originally looking for. Any suggestions?

Then from MAC, I wanted a really pretty nude lip color which they found for me but they didn't have Velvet Teddy in stock so I just settled with their lipglass 'Lust' which is pretty on it's own but I still wish I got that lipstick.

It's a thick consistency which isn't good for smooching tbh but that's with any lipgloss which is why I rarely wear them because I hate feeling like I have Elmer's glue smeared all over my lips or something XD

I also got my STAPLE foundation from MAC which was the Studio Fix Fluid in NC50 and I love it to bits.

Was $26 I think

It has excellent covered and I have dark spots all over my face so this is just what I need. Definitely going to buy more when I can! Just wish that it came with a pump of some kind but it doesn't :< Oh well, it's still the best foundation I've ever used in my life so I'll overlook that.

Again I got some concealer because the NYX stick concealer I was using prior to this one was not doing it for me.

It's definitely a must that I blend this foundation into my skin very well since it's more noticeably lighter than my skin compared to my previous concealers but it works beautifully when applied.

At KJ Beauty Supply = $8

Saw a review of this finishing powder on Youtube by a make up guru who does amazing make up tutorials and is about my skin complexion. It does matify my skin pretty well but I find using just about enough is crucial because over doing it does have a slight ghostly appearance which sucks after you did all that work :( Otherwise, I think the money I paid for it was well worth it!

This was actually from my birthday XD omg I'm horrible! But my sister bought me these tights which I completely forgot about and I love them! They're pretty warm too!

Other stuff I bought was skincare items that I will probably save for a review (if I ever get to that) and hair products. But I would like to rave about my latest body butter purchase at The Body Shop!

Got it on sale for $12

It makes my skin so smooth and supple and this smell is heavenly! Not too strong or concentrated with fragrance but very light and flowery which makes it easy to layer it with your perfumes (〜￣▽￣)〜 And I love their products because they have legit ingredients to help the overall health of your skin unlike Bath & Body Works. I still like their stuff though, I'm not gunna lie lol!

Lastly, guess who got their ears pierced FINALLY?

Meeeee :D

I got it done at The Living Canvas Tattoo parlor in my area and the lady who did it for me was so nice and hot! Friend said she looked like a stud but idgaf she was so cute! Getting more next year for sure but NEVER will I do my face or get gauges. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Anyway bye for now!

Oh and have a Happy Thanksgiving! lol almost forgot that's tomorrow.

P.S. - If you missed my last post, you can see it here. I accidentally scheduled it at midnight instead of noon so I think a lot of people missed it. Whoops!

Fun Filled October ( ﾉ^ω^)ﾉﾟ

2011-11-20T16:00:00.000-06:00

I've been contemplating on making a new design for this blog soon but I'm not sure what I should do to it and when I should recreate it but blah all that to me is not high on my priority list right now. We'll see how these next few weeks go. Anywho, this past month has been full of events and very memorable ones at that! This post will be very pic heavy and will include images from my sister's Halloween party.

Let's get onto it shall we?

Firstly, my lovely friend Sally had her 21st birthday party at her house (∩_∩)

bday girl ♥

I didn't quite take an outfit shot but you will see what I was wearing on my vlog channel eventually. Later on in that week Victoria, my bestie Kresha, and I all had a GNO (10 points for you if you knew what that means from Wonder Girls new album) and went to shop at the North Park mall at H&M. Really quick though, why the hell do people rave about H&M?? It's nothing special ESPECIALLY in price so what's the big deal? Idgi ┐('～`；)┌ And lately, Forever XXI just hasn't been doing it for me either along with Charolette Russe. I NEVER thought I'd say that tbh but yeah that was a small rant I just had to make. Back onto this post! We then went to one of my new favorite food joints Cheddars and ate while my sister and I took lovely pictures *sarcasm*

lol she hates me for this pic but I love it!

My dish :9

Then there was my sister's Halloween party which was oddles of fun! It was stressful getting up there because shredded my tire on the way onto the highway...It's fixed now and I was fine afterward but it really made a dent in my plans.

It was such a mess trying to work around that chaos but the party still happened and was pretty nice to see everyone show up in their costumes! I hated how I was the only person who spent twenty bucks on svedka but no one else would pitch in for the alcohol so I reluctantly volunteered and so now it's stuck at Vicky's place just sitting there since I said no one can have any without my permission. Aren't I so generous? :)

My Halloween look

Lastly was the Texas State Fair carnival! I went with my sugar booger Kevin and it was magical! Well I would go that far but it was definitely a lot of fun! I went on a ferris wheel for the first time in my life and I was pretty scared at first but it ended up not being so bad even though were were high as fuck in the air!

SO MANY DOMOS I SAW IN ALL SIZES AND COLORS!

In front of a brightly lit flower tree inside the green house which was so lovely!

Creepy carved pumpkins

I placed my domo on my dress next to my other cute plushies Kevin got for me ^^

We ate deep fried snickers and oreos and I loved both of them but my favorite was the deep fried snickers :D Yummers! I wish I could have some right now actually. We saw a few people staring at us holding hands together but smiling mainly so that was pleasant especially coming from an older Asian man and his family ('∀'●)♡ lol gotta love blasian love! Oh that marks it for this month's past events I haven't caught you guys up on. November seems to be off to a good start with that Miyavi concert so I'm hoping it stays just as happenin! Did i just say happenin? Oh lord. Tttyl!

What's My Name MYV concert ヽ(；▽；)ノ

2011-11-09T12:20:00.000-06:00

Hey followers I've abandoned because I've been a lazy and forgetful blogger ^^'

I did mention in my older post about how my honey bought me Miyavi tickets for my birthday a while ago right? Well the date finally arrived last night and it was EPIC! As much as I hate saying that overused word, it truly was in every aspect!

There was a pretty decent opening act at Trees but I was rather anxious the entire time because we all just wanted to see Miyavi perform already DX all that waiting was MURDER but had I been there like all day like some people have I think I would have passed out on the nasty sidewalk. Luckily it wasn't really cold though.

MYV's tour bus

Need I mention that not only do I rarely go to concerts, but never have I gone to a concert to an artist who I've felt passionately about since I was 13 years old. I just hate the whole waiting in a long line for an extended amount of time then the additional waiting period when you finally get into the building and uncomfortable crowds that can sometimes be very present in those kind of environments but I feel like if whoever you're going to see is worth it, then it really doesn't matter. I could have fucking bunions on my feet right now and I would not regret attending his concert last night.

It was funny how diverse the audience was. I saw many people who looked so different waiting in line to see this beautiful man perform and they were just as excited as the rest of us :3 Such good vibes were in the atmosphere the entire time and I even bumped into my friend Jazmine (Moco Latte) and some of her friends :D She's also on Youtube and into gyaru fashion for those who don't already know of her and she will be in my vlog whenever I get that mofo edited (┳◇┳) BUT BACK TO MYV!

It really was a fantastic show! I noticed his new tats on his chest, back and his lower torso. Or they could be a little old, idk but the last time I remember seeing him shirtless they were not there ;___; I used to really keep up with him pretty well when I first discovered him but these past 2 years I haven't properly been for some reason. However, after seeing him last night I want to follow him all over the world! But who has that kind of money and free time? -__- He had magnificent energy compared to last year from what Kevin told me and plus I guess partially because Dallas being one of his last shows in the US. I swear though, I fully believe he stared directly into my eyes maybe 3 times OxO If not three, then definitely twice! Not trying to sound special though because he was fucking everybody in the audience with his sexy stares, I mean my Jesus. His voice will forever be one of the most sexiest voices I've ever heard come from a man's vocal cords. There was one song in particular that he sung that made me cream my panties. Tmi? Too bad, it's the truth! I had to compose myself what with the boyfriend there but he knows how I feel about him so I'm sure he didn't get hurt by my fangriling.

I am so thankful that I got to take advantage of this opportunity to see this man live this time. I really don't feel super strongly about many artists but Miyavi hits home for me. Next time I said I would definitely buy VIP tickets to take a picture with him, hug him and tell him I love him to his face :D That would be intense. I would pay hundreds to do that, no lie. I just also love how he comes to such a modestly sized venue each time to Dallas. I think it's hella better than going to an over-sized stadium of some kind. I didn't realize how funny he was either XD And man, when he took his shirt off, sweet jambalaya（ﾉ´д｀）I hope he continues to be successful and I know he will being the talented persevering person he is. Well I am out guys and I will see if I can post long overdue posts later in the week. If not, sorry in advance! I just had to post this one!

But before I go, have you guys all heard of the Wonder Girls new album yet? I love all their songs except for one slow jam which I forget the name to anyway, but they made a great comeback! I love this video :)

☆ °Couple of outfits° ☆

2011-10-03T15:17:00.002-05:00

So I been a busy bee running around like a chicken with their head cut off hanging with friends, going to school, work, keeping up with you lovely people *(Q﹏Q)* LAWDCHEESUZ HEHLP MEH!

jk, it's not quite that serious, but it's actually not as bad as I thought it would be however I think I may drop my a course of mine. It's so sad because I found out I could have waited to take it somewhere else but stupid me didn't check with my adviser on time and...well you probably don't care about that you just wanna see my outfits so I'll shut up. Here's a few from the past couple of friend dates I had this past weekend.

Went to the dog park and got my fox tail stolen from a punk ass dog temporarily who's owner barely did SHIT to recover it for me. Bastard even tried messing with my sweet Hachi...lucky I didn't kick him. jk I would never. But what strange day.

Shirt - A'GACI

Bandeau - La Mariposa

Shorts - Body Central

Ankle boots - A'GACI

♥

Bad editing xP sry! Went out to BJ's with my besties to celebrate their birthdays!

Dress - True Saints

Leggings - Walmart

Flats - Image

Bracelet - Body Central

♥

This next one I was most proud of my eye make up so I decided to take outfit pics and close up face shots ^^

Met up with two friends at their apartment :)

Dress - Ross

Earrings - Bday gift

Not wearing shoes because I took them off xP but they were black gladiators and were from Forever 21

♥

Face:

MAC'S fluid fix liquid foundation

NARS blush in "Exhibit A"

Top lashes - Decolog Who's Series

Bottom lashes - kkcenterhk brand

♥

Kevin, Vicky, and Tam all went to H&M last Sunday

Long shorts - La Mariposa
Shirt/Vest - La Mariposa
Hat - Gift from Dallas Zoo
Bracelet -A'GACI
Necklace - A'GACI
♥

I will try to get better at remember where I bought my stuff from and to also include my shoes in my outfit photos xP lol I try taking them before I leave the house, but I'm also rushed so I never get to. Anyway, thanks for all the new followers lately! Thinking about revamping my layout soon just not sure what I'm gunna do with it yet :/ Anyway, ttyl!

♡Moar stuffs to show you all♡

2011-09-28T19:29:00.000-05:00

I will never be done doing this I swear it! Well I went to a few anime conventions, had my 19th birthday party last month, and bought stuff from yesstyle. Most of which you can find watching this video rather than reading this post. I forgot to take pics of certain things too.

I left out so much stuff but here's some more of what I got from my bday and the anime conventions.

Kev's lovely flowers.

BF: MYV ticket for November

BF: Can't wait to put this on my new car!

A gift from Vicky. These honestly looked super tacky at first but now they're one of my favorite earrings right now! I love them :D

Victoria also got me bracelets and a pretty headband :) Lastly are some more junk from Animefest and A-KON.

All four of these bows are shown in the video except for that hair accessory in the middle. It's a funky looking thing but I really wanted to have something different...plus it was cheap xd

Also shown in the vid but man I love this thing! First legit deco item I now own! :D

A present I bought for Kevin for his bday ^^ I sprayed my favorite body spray on it and he loves sleeping with it :D ...and it was cheap...shhhh XD

So that's about it for this GETS. I decided I'm not going to do anymore of these posts for a while...well maybe one more but after that I'll be done because I feel like that's ALL I've been doing when I have much more to discuss on my blog. At least I'm posting right? lol! Thanks for reading!

God I love weave OwO

2011-09-19T15:00:00.000-05:00

Honestly. Don't get me wrong because I damn sure can live fine without it but when I have it....*drools* I feel like Superwoman!

Haha okay maybe not Superwoman, but it does give me more opportunities to try out different looks than my own hair does since it's still (IMO) shorter than I'd like for it to be. A few weeks I got another sew-in which is my 2nd one of the year but this time I plan on keeping and maintaining this installation for about 3 months mainly since I paid an arm and a leg for the whole process. Lemme break it down for those who don't know about this technique some women use for extensions....

Hair + Sew-in lady = $$$

lol pretty basic knowledge but some people still think weaves are as complicated as Calculus for some reason but I swear it's not difficult at all. I pretty much had my hair braided in cornrows and my hairdresser sewn the tracks of my weave to each braid in a pattern that will look natural for my hair :) See? Not hard to understand at all! The process didn't take long either since she's so experienced at it and I gave her a good tip for being so efficient! I'm more happy that the ends of my real hair is being retained this way too since before they were breaking off for some unknown reason T^T Hopefully by the time I'm ready to take this down they'll be nursed back to health!

So what hair did I get for this sew-in you ask?

Yes if you are wondering those are the boxes the weave came in and I must say that this is the first time I've had my weave packaged this way. The hair was wrapped a billion+ times too like there was some gold in there ffs it was strange but at least my hair was kept well. Take a look at how long my 18 inch looks like though from just the box alone!

Those are much chubby legs xP

My little sugar muffin' looking scared for his life sitting next to that bag of massive hair awesomeness!

Don't worry. He ended up napping right afterwards like a champ. Sorry for the randomness, I haven't talked about Hachi on here for a while so I thought I'd throw in a quick update ^^ He's already 1 years old now btw!~

They also gave me this leave-in conditioner for the weave and I haven't used it since I still gotta wash my weave later this week but it sure smells good!

That's the only thing I'm worried about though. Washing all this HAIR! It's gorgeous but man is it going to take some work! But I'm willing to make that sacrifice. Here's some pics of how it looks straight and curly. I should have pictures of it when it's naturally curly in a soon to come post about using flexi rods (soft twists) :]

I find having it straight gives me more fly aways but I'm still experimenting with how to control. I think adding a shine serum helps a lot so far!

Sexy fucking curls I mean UNF! I'm going to wear more curls from now on but I just hope it doesn't shorten the life of the weave D:

I hope this kind of helped you guys gain a better understanding of weave although this wasn't meant to really inform you much on all of the types, techniques, and whatnot. Just to show you my latest hairstyle :D Till next time ladies/gents!

☆;:GEO's XCK-105 (CK-105) Black lenses - Sponsored by Crystal Eyes:; ☆

2011-09-14T17:52:00.000-05:00

Hellew~

I've got a nice post for you guys to read today :D Well if you've already been on my newest channel, then you already have seen my review on them which can be found here. But I'll go ahead and clue those of you who follow this blog in on my latest addition to my circle lens collection (^ ▽ ^ )

Aww yeah son! Bringing back them photoshop skills ~ o (⌒ 0 ⌒) o ~ lawlz! I actually got these lenses back in May this year and they are pretty stinking sweet! Very simple, but sometimes that's not a bad thing and in this case, it certainly isn't.

For those wondering, I got my lashes from Sally's Beauty supply. Pretty simple make up but next time I'll go all out with bottom and top lashes!

My verdict

Comfort: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Pretty moderate

Design:★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Simple and for everyday wear.

Enlargment:★★★★★★★★★☆

Massive dolly eyes :D

The shipping was incredible and so was my customer service! Please check out Crystal Eyes at their facebook page through this link: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001443107960

Tell them Crystal sent you! Until next time!

New beginning - TheLovelyify Youtube channel

2011-09-12T17:20:00.004-05:00

Hey guys! Guess what? I finally stopped being lazy and launched my new youtube channel. This one will contain content eligible for becoming a Youtube partner in the future but the content of this channel will be far better than my previous one CrystallyzeD. I'm not sure what to do now though because I feel like I've lost that name in a sense :( But I know it isn't completely gone since I have this blog and tumblr. Eh idk. Everyone should know my REAL name is Crystal so I guess it doesn't really matter too much now does it? Anyway, please be a dear and subscribe to my new channel and spread the word yo!

http://www.youtube.com/TheLovelyify

Also, I've noticed that people feel I've been "lazy" because of the lack of appearance in the gyaru community and I've already addressed this on my facebook but I will say again that I have many posts/videos coming that will stun the hell out of those who are doubting my ability to improve my style. Thank you to those who are still supportive as always. You guys are seriously the best. Until next time~

Forgotten GETS (long)

2011-09-02T09:09:00.003-05:00

Yes I have been so bad on keeping up with the things I've bought and have been meaning to share with you guys that this post was definitely necessary because I got these items way in the beginning of the year. A LOT of these buys were bought impulsively which I am not proud to admit but I learned my lesson...for now anyway till I get a butt load of more money.

They were having sales on winter items like these cute grey boots at the Korean market I live by but I forget the name of the store and I shop there a lot ironically xD

I've worn them once but I won't be wearing them out until sometime in October when this weather changes drastically. But they look cute!

A'GACI: Everything was super inexpensive!

My beloved gladiator sandals. I never thought I would give in to this trend but man I can't stop wearing these suckers now. I forget the name of the store that I purchased these at xP All I remember was that they were playing Tae Yang's Wedding Dress song in his English ver. :o


The HK bag and phone charms all from H-Mart Korean supermarket. Reason I bought the backpack was to do a school girl cosplay but that failed so now I barely ever use it because it has very little space to hold stuff in.

Some sexy tights I'm going to wear again when the weather here gets cold.

Usamini and multi-colored scrunchie most of you guys have probably seen from my Spring Gyaru make up tutorial.

My China Glaze in Refresh-mint nail polish. I love it!

Crap load of clothes bought from Belk Dept. store

Can't WAIT to rock these boots when it gets cool outside this fall/winter

Same with these omg. They're pretty comfy since they're short heels. I hate high heels which is why I never wear my other shoes.

Studs rock on everything! I rarely wear sneakers, but I will be wearing these ones more often 'cause holy crap these were so nice!

I still need like 4 more pairs of good bras, but these ones are pretty nice for my itty bitty chest :J

So I believe that just about covers most of it. I still have other crap but I'm saving them for another post. This weekend is Animefest in Dallas, TX so if you guys wanna come down to meet me, I will be here all day Saturday, Sunday, and for a little bit of the evening tonight. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Take care :D

Summer comes to a close + Working on several things

2011-08-17T13:38:00.000-05:00

This is just a update post. I've been trying to get a lot of stuff done especially on the days I don't have to go into work. I've been filming a lot lately so I have a few videos to edit and upload on my Youtube. Only thing is, I'm currently working on getting a partnership with Youtube but at this point, I'm not certain how it's all going to go down since almost ALL of my videos violate the eligibility rules to be accepted even though I have more than enough views on my channel and videos -__- If worse comes to worse, I'll just transfer all of my videos onto my new channel and pretty much start fresh so hopefully that will do me some good.

I just thought I'd say hello and thank you to all my new followers! I'm not quite at the 200 mark yet, but hopefully I will be by the end of the year. Btw, I'm working on some great posts here in a few weeks so just keep your eyes peeled ;D

This summer was the most stressful summer I've ever had! I barely anytime to relax because of work and summer school. I swear, NEVER will I do that shit to myself ever again. I've gotten a lot of new stuff in the process of working like a dog at my job but I still hate working there most days. Classes for me start on Monday :( I really don't want to go back omfg. I just wish I could have all my classes at home but I signed up too late for online classes so that was no longer an option.

My 19th birthday is coming up next week on the 25th but I can see it not being a huge deal since everybody's going to be preoccupied doing school stuff, working, or just not caring enough :/ Eh. After 19 years, I'm used to it but it will still always suck.

Lastly I ordered a few stuff from Yesstyle.com and I believe I should be receiving a lolita dress in the mail soon for free. More info on that when the time comes of course. Does anyone know of a good shopping service to buy affordable gyaru clothes for this a/w season? I have a few great pieces from last year that will still be in style for sure but I feel like I wanna still amp up my wardrobe here and there. I'm open to most brands so I'm not picky.

That's all I got to say for now. Next post will have images and not so much text so your eyes can have a rest. See you guys later!

Singleton no more :)

2011-08-04T14:40:00.000-05:00

I am sooooo happy (〜・▽・)〜 Last week, Kevin and I became official and I was so ecstatic! I already had like a bajillion people congratulate me on it. My sister, her bf Chibuzo, Kevin and I all went on a double date at the Stonebriar mall but before I get to that I'll talk about our other date first.

I skipped number 3 since I didn't love that outfit enough to take a picture of it but all I wore was basically a gray and white stripped crop top I talked about in this post, dark denim studded shorts, and my gray fox tail. Nothing super amazing. He and I caught a movie and went to watch videos at his house. We saw Super 8 and I liked it! Then I finally watched Fight Club at his place and I was impressed. I know it's a really old movie but I've never given it a chance.

On our other date, we went to a dim sum which is pretty much a pricier Chinese Buffet where they hold weddings or other special events. Imagine a whole bunch of people with food stacked on top of carts speeding through narrow isles of the room asking if you'd like to have such and such. It reminded me a lot of Spirited Away (great movie, go watch if you haven't already NOW!). I enjoyed the atmosphere but man it was packed! We went on a Sunday so that could explain it.

and some of our food...yes just some of it.

The carts I was talking about

This for some reason was served cold intentionally...not sure why.

He was totally oblivious to me taking this picture ^u^

Then our double date with the sister and her crazy bf, Chibuzo. I had so much fun! I wish I took videos/more pictures of it but there's always another time. We went to the Cheesecake Factory again spontaneously and then watched Friends With Benefits. It was pretty funny!

Vicky/Chibbs pizzas

Kevin's sesame chicken w/brown rice

My chicken noodle Parmesan dish...I found out when I brought it home that there was a really REALLY long brown hair in it -.-

All in all, that was a great day and I'm hoping he and I will last ^o^ Okay so I'm going to try and minimize the mushy lovey dovey stuff on my posts if it's sicken you guys to death after this one. lol just had to express my happiness!

Harry Potter VII Part 2 weekend + A-KON GETS

2011-07-20T14:00:00.000-05:00

So sasaaaaaaaaaaaad! OTL WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE OVERRRRRR?!

I suppose all good things must come to an end but..but..NNNNUUUUUU TAT That was my childhood (despite me never actually reading the books) I grew up with those films! So brilliantly captivating and provoked my imagination more than any other of it's time! Even now when I re-watch the movies I feel like drawing, doing some cool make up look, creating/altering clothes I don't ever wear or anything of the like. I am going to truly miss the feeling anticipated for the next HP movie coming out within a years time...and seeing my three favorite characters face unseemly odds and still manage to overcome it all with their teamwork and friendship. I went and watched the midnight showing with my sister and two of my other friends. Of course the entire place was packed and some people dressed up. I should've took pics but the circumstances that night didn't allow me to do so since my car broke down.

Kingsley meme off Tumblr ^V^

People cried throughout the whole movie but I only cried at the very end because that was the last few moments of magic there would ever be for that story. I'm already reading the first and second book so hopefully one day I'll be finished with all 7. If you are a Harry Potter fan or just want to see what all the buzz is about, go see it for yourselves. I watched it in 2-D to limit any distractions but I plan on going back to watch it again in 3-D with my sis only because we have free movie passes from doing blood donations :D Or attempting to.

So I never did blog about my trip to Dallas for A-KON 22 I went to in June. It was loads of fun and I did stay all 3 days and got some pictures taken each day (You can find more on my facebook album). I didn't expect to have any taken on Sunday but I still had someone want to take a pic of me O.o


Day 1: Best taken pic of this outfit I could find -__- I had cute shoes with it too (ತ _ ತ) The dress was bought at a thrift store since the one I bought from milanno.com sucked. And friend and I both altered it to look better.

Day 2: Black Swan cosplay. The make up actually held up pretty well and so many people took pictures of me. I got mistaken by stupid Ryuuk from Death Note and my friends kept teasing me about it ever since...jerks.

Day 3: Again, best pic I could find. I swear I'll try and do better with taken pics next time σ (¯ ∇ ¯;) But i bought this wig at the convention and I loved it since it was something I could wear anywhere. They had half pink/blond, baby blue/white, and baby blue/black. So cute!

Accessory worn with my lolita dress

Here are some of the things I bought.

The bear necklace, the two face masks, and the cookie ring were the only things that were defective. Shouldn't have bought the rest >:x

I left out my two baby foxtails I bought for only $5 each! But you guys have already seen them. I can still make a post for them later though. Besides that, A-KON was especially fun this year because I finally experienced what a rave was like and I loved it! Got grinded on by a cutie both nights too but that was all there was to him ┐ (‘~`;) ┌

I'll go ahead and end this post here. Looks like I'm doing better at catching up but lemme know say anything just yet. Have a great day everyone!

NOTD + OOTD (date no. 2)

2011-07-18T18:06:00.001-05:00

Oh jeez, this update should have been posted about two weeks ago. So not too long ago my friend Emily and I were hanging out and I noticed her nails. She had some really intricate design on them and I thought she went and got them professionally done, but it turns out she just bought those sticker nails by Sally Hansen from wally world and applied them on and they looked damn good! So a while after I found that out, I wanted to try it on my own nails and bought some from Sally's and decided to try them myself. Here's pictures of the progression.

Being my first time wearing anything like this on my nails, they look hella sloppy compared to the picture, but after doing it once, I figured out why it turned out so half-assed. My tip is always apply the curved end of the nail sticker on your cuticle (bottom of your nail) and use nail clippers to trim off the excess sticker. Then file that sucker down. I didn't think about filing them at the time but oh well. I still got so many compliments on them like I went to a salon to get em done :o I'll try them again next time and hopefully do them RIGHT!

Kevin and I went on another fun date as well. We've been on several others, but I've yet to catch up to those (゚ Д °) He took us to the Chocolate Factory, and for those who don't know it is a great restaurant to dine at! Expensive as hell..but so fucking delicious! Here was my outfit.

Dress from Wet Seal

Make up still pretty simple but I wore my new black GEO circle lenses and put on some mascara. My hair looks so thick here :D

Gladiators frommmmmm.....oh God I forget xP

He loved my outfit that day ^////^

Then the FOOD!

Delicious calamari :9

Alfredo fettucini pasta for me :)

His dish which had some really tasty black beans...and some other Mexican food I can't remember the proper name of.

I swear this boy is trying to fatten me up. I tell him every time we go out to eat -__- But I'm not complaining! XD I hope everyone is doing well. I wish I could just stop going to work/school so I can reconnect with all of you but life requires me to do otherwise unfortunately. Just know that I haven't forgotten anybody. Time to study for my test tomorrow. Wish me luck because I'll need it! Bye!!

RECENT GETS~

2011-07-07T14:30:00.001-05:00

Time to play catch up wooohooo! Okay well this is going to be kinda long if you missed the warning in the title's post but bear with me.

So I bought a lot of new stuffs all at different times throughout the year. I'll start with the most recent to the oldest.

simple white cami & dark denim stud shorts from Ross. Idk why I never shop there, but I'm going to start, they're prices are amazing!

Guess earrings for only $2.49! Originally $16. So fucking happy ^ ^ I actually love Guess but I'm too cheap to afford most of their stuff.

Sephora liquid gold glitter liner. My friend Elise bought this for me :D Definitely good for summer and reminds me of Cocona's make up style.

Somewhat of a random purchase at the hair store. I wanted to make clip ins out of the pink hair extensions just for fun. I bought some super cheap lashes too and a cute top hat for only 99 cents! It's gotten so many compliments when I wear it out I love it!

More shorts. I love showing my legs now! I still have a little flab going on but it's far more comfortable than wearing light denim skinnies. Eff that. It's summer and I live in Texas, YOU GON SEE MY THUNDA THIGHS! XD The first pair is a high waist pair which I wanted to try out and the second one is more of a lounging pair I'd wearing for working out or something. My butt already stretch it out a bit -__- Got these from Delias.

Also from Delias. I loved/wanted the floral top so bad I couldn't help myself. It fits me so perfectly and I can wear it with almost anything! The blue loose shirt can go over a swimsuit or bandeau but so far I've worn it with my swimsuit and white tanks. I love the color!

You might have already seen this cute bubble dress on facebook. I bought it from Frenzi's! I don't think it's a well known store or anything and usually their prices suck :P This dress was $20.

Okay I think this is long enough. I'll make a few more of these soon since I have so much more to show you guys. Till then!

Hair update - 4 month stretch

2011-07-01T18:19:00.001-05:00

If you can remember my last update which was last year you can see a slight difference but I wish it was more noticeable. I think I know why it still looks close to the same length, and that was because at Mia and Max, they underprocessed my hair so it's not at it's true length that it should be. FFFFFUUUU! But I'm slowly getting to my BSL goal it's just crawling :< I'll just make sure when I go and get my next one done in October I go to the right hairdresser who always makes it bone straight.

I did just have a breakage scare too but I think I got it under control. I have no clue how or how it started happening but my best guess was that maybe it was simply too dry. It worked out pretty well too but man I hate breakage more than anything else!

Oh! I should probably do a regimen post soon too huh? I have a lot of stuff I use in my hair that helps with it's health and length retention that I want to share with you guys. What do you all think? What are you using on your hair this summer? Eh I'm going to go out with some friends tonight and watch that Madea movie that just came out at the dollar movies xP Ahh black people.