New Nails & Recent Look

 

Hello angels, how are you? I apologize for the lack of posts recently, I've been suffering greatly in my personal life as the tenant who lives next to me decided to get a puppy. They don't know how to handle dogs and they ended up getting a very large breed (chocolate lab). It's about 3 months old and requires a lot of attention and training but they are really lacking on that so it's been extremely disruptive. It barks from like 7AM to midnight daily and it really stresses Koji out. I haven't been able to sleep for more than 5 hours uninterrupted and it's been getting in the way of my work since I WFH so lately I just have no motivation to blog or do anything except calm Koji down and try to get some quiet time 😭

The good news is that because of this they are being asked to move after their lease expires this summer but the bad news is I'll have to tolerate this until October so please pray for my sanity lol 🤠

It was time for me to get a nail fill so I was browsing for inspo. I came across this gorgeous set by a local nailist and brought it as reference for Jesse.

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With that in mind, this is what I ended up with!

I love them sm and haven't been able to stop staring at them since I got them done haha. I think this is one of my favorite sets so far!

Lately I've been feeling stuck and bored with my makeup. I haven't felt inspired at all and I was getting frustrated that it wasn't really turning out the way that I wanted. I just couldn't get the shape right.

I showed my gal pals some inspo that I was using and Lyon was kind enough to draw me a little edit to help me visualize what I needed to do to achieve a more rounded look. The pic I gave him to edit was a look I did before that was the most round shape I could get but it was a bit too short in width so I wasn't sure what to do because every time I extend the outer corner out it made my eye look too cat-like

the original photo

Following this picture guide I came up with this look and I'm so happy with how it turned out. I hadn't thought about angling my droop and this was exactly what I needed to get the shape I wanted! It's probably not very noticeable here because the lashes are covering it but you can kind of see it in the liner that's just under the lash band it's got a thicker dip around the center than the pic above and that's really all I needed lol

This was the full face! As a side note I'm really sad my hair faded so fast but I'm kinda loving this peachy pink moment so I'm not sure if I want to continue doing this kind of color for my next visit or do what I originally wanted to do. Much to think about lol 🤔

Anyways that's all for this post! I hope things settle down at my house soon bc I really want to get back into the swing of things 🥺  

Thank you for reading, take care 💖💕✨

IKEA Date 💖✨

 

Hi angels, I hope you're doing well. This weekend we had some nice weather so my bf and I decided to go to IKEA. I haven't been in quite a while but I really needed to go look at couches and some wardrobe options as my dressers are falling apart and my couch is getting rather old so it doesn't support as well as before.

With covid and the floods we had a few months ago our supply has been extremely limited 😓 I signed up for email notifications for a dresser that I liked but after like a month or two it still hadn't restocked and IKEA removed my email reminder lol 😭

The night before we actually stayed out a bit late by going to a car meet. It's the second time we've been since lockdown but it was nice to see some old friends (and also get McDonald's lmao)

Here's some selfie spam bc I felt cute but also I didn't take any pics at IKEA so I didn't want this post to be boring 🥺

I've been a bit lazy with my makeup lately so I haven't been wearing bottom lashes with most of my looks. Idk I guess I just want to be comfy lately so I've been working on making my daily make cute and efficient. I can get a whole face done in about 40 minutes now? So that's nice for when we're in a rush!

The next day we slept in and went to IKEA in the afternoon. We walked around for a bit and found some items we liked but the stock was still very spotty (and some of the prices are insane!) so we're going to need to go back another time to get everything we wanted 😔

We stopped for meatballs and garlic bread of course hehe~

By the time we left it was golden hour and we were parked facing the sun so I got some cute selfies 🙈 I'm a bit sad my hair is fading already but I ran out of dry shampoo so I've had to wash it a little more often than I'd like to 😥

That's all I had for this post. I hope you enjoyed reading! See you again soon~ 💖

Mini Sephora Haul 🛍

 

Hi angels, how are you doing today? The other day I had a chance to go to Sephora to restock some of my favorite products! I also picked up my birthday present since I forgot to do so earlier 😅

My bf also wanted to look at some things at the mall so we walked around a bit before heading to Sephora.

I needed some new shampoo so I picked up the Dae one to match my conditioner. I liked the OUAI Detox shampoo but I felt it was too stripping on my hair so I didn't want to use it on my fresh color. This one is working really nicely and I enjoy the smell a lot so I'll be repurchasing it as my staple shampoo from now on 🥰

I had to restock on the Fenty body butter and Skinfix exfoliator. These two products have been keeping my skin soft and hydrated all winter so I think I will keep this routine up for summer as well. 

I read online that people are using The Ordinary's glycolic acid toner as an underarm treatment and deodorant so I wanted to try that out! I don't have super dark underarms but I was always insecure about the coloring since I shave. After about a week I've noticed a really big difference and the skin in that area is feeling very healthy as well so I'm glad I tried this out! 

The Laneige cream skin toner is something I have been eyeing for a while but since Sephora was having a spring sale I decided to pick it up. It's a lot more lightweight and watery than I anticipated but it left my skin feeling really supple and soft so I will be keeping this in my rotation for days when I need an extra boost in hydration 💖

After shopping we went home. My bf ended up getting a work call so he had to go back out but when he came back he brought me poke! 😍

I've never tried this place before, it's called Pokey Okey. I got their red bowl which was: spicy tuna, spicy salmon, flying fish roe, seaweed salad, kimchi radish, purple cabbage, fried onion, seaweed flakes, and spicy mayo sauce

It was so yummy but way too much food for me so I only ate about 1/3 of it and saved the rest for later. It was still really good as leftovers which is dangerous for me because this could easily be my new food fixation lol 🙈

I did some simple makeup that day and didn't really wear an exciting outfit so I didn't take a picture. I've been really enjoying my pink hair a lot more than I thought I would! I think I will curl it more often as it doesn't look as cute when it's straight 🤠

That's all for this post, thank you for reading! See you again soon~ 😘

✨ Got My Hair Done! 🥰💕

Hey angels I hope you are having a nice day so far! I've been unexpectedly busy with work this week as it's a short work week with Friday being a holiday for Good Friday. As I mentioned in my last post and you've probably seen on instagram, I got my hair colored so today I'm going to talk about my salon trip~

It's been about 7 months since my last hair appointment so I was very excited to get my roots done and have my color refreshed. My appointments are usually 3-4 hours long so I wanted to be comfy (also it was like 10am so I definitely was not awake lol). This was the outfit I came up with:

For makeup I also went for a comfy feel because I didn't want to feel sensory overload or just have my stylist wipe half of my face off lol. Although covid restrictions and mandates have been relaxed here I wore a mask and kept it on for my entire appointment so I made sure the eye makeup was still interesting with a stroke of glitter on the inner curve of my eye.

I stripped as much color as I could but I missed some spots in the back of my head and the hot pink I had before the purple ended up staining my hair so I wasn't able to get the color I wanted 😭

This is what it looked like after the bleach got washed out:

We decided to do a blonde and pink color for now. I'm not going to touch it up or color over it, instead I'll wait for it to fade to blonde so I can have a clean slate for my next color 💖

Here's what I ended up with:

I'm actually really happy with how this turned out! I thought I wouldn't like it because usually pink makes me look too warm but my stylist picked cool toned colors so it's been growing on me haha 🙈

That's all for this post, I hope you enjoyed reading! Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you next time~ 💕