[April 2024] Friendmaxxing with Mando and Brailon

 

Hiiiiii I'm so excited to finally write this post. I feel like I've put it off for so long but actually it's coming at a perfect time since I just saw Mando and Brailon last month for their weidding so it's nice to reminisce about the events leading up to it!! See it was tactical and not at all due to poor post management on my part lmao (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

Last April Mando and Brailon came to visit me to celebrate Mando's birthday. It was also my first time seeing them after they got engaged in October. I knew about the engagement because I had helped pick the engagement ring hehe ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

The first night we met for dinner. Mando said they wanted to eat some meat so I thought Sooda would be a great spot for our first dinner together. 

 I thought the photos we took the night before were so cute I printed one out for Mando and they put it in their phone case ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡

The next day we had dinner and karaoke planned but since the afternoon was free we decided to impulsively get some matching tattoos.

The weather was nice so I decided to try to dress up a little. I didn't have a good bag to match this outfit but it's ok I didn't think too hard for this fit lol (´｡• ᵕ •｡`)

Brailon and Mando got matching Pochita tattoos and the 3 of us got a matching heart tattoo on our wrists（⸝⸝ᵕᴗᵕ⸝⸝）

We were super fortunate that my tattoo artist had such last minute availability. Also she had her dog Hugey at the shop that day so I was so excited that they got to meet Hugey because he's such a legend I love him sm!!!

Kevin happened to be in the area after we were done our tattoos so we stopped by Chatime for a sweet treat before dinner. Of course we had to take a lot of cute photos together ( • ̀ω•́ )✧

For dinner we went to Suika and the staff surprised Mando with a birthday dessert. It was such a great night!!

Later we went to karaoke and took more pics and I turned Mando into Ed Sheeran.

The following night Kevin and I took Mando and Brailon out for dinner to celebrate their engagement. We went to Elisa and it was one of the best dinners I've ever had!!

Since the restaurant was quite upscale we didn't take too many photos. Also there was another table that had really annoying children so we didn't want to cause the staff any more distress with flash photography (⸝⸝๑﹏๑⸝⸝)

We ended the night with some ice cream nearby and decided to go home after because it started raining a bit.

For our last day we did a chill mall hangout. There was a cosplay and artist alley event happening and Mando wanted to check it out. It wasn't very eventful and after lunch we came back to my apartment. Mando and Brailon finally got to meet Koji and we decided to order sushi and watch Chainsaw Man together for dinner.

This was such a fun and eventful week I was really sad this was our last day together!! I think about this week often and am thankful that we became such good friends over the years. I can't believe I've been friends with Mando and Brailon for over 10 years now!! I'm now frantically trying to catch up on my backlog so I can write about their wedding RAHHH ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

Thank you for reading!! I'll catch you later ♡

[April 2024] Back to Blonde 🎉

 

Hi angels!! At last we come to the end of my cursed dark hair arc. After a year of growth my hair was feeling a lot better and I was ready to take the plunge back to blonde.

Since the ends of my hair were a bit damaged I had to get a more layered haircut to preserve some of the length. This is the shortest my hair has been in a while but I was just happy to finally be back!! (⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝)

I don't know how to explain it but having light/bright colored hair has always made me so happy. I wish I could feel comfortable with vibrant fashion colors again but I am finding it difficult to maintain a professional image in high level corporate settings with them. I go back and forth on them all the time but I feel like blonde suits me more now as my "signature color" for this phase of my life. 

I feel like it suits my lifestyle better now to do an all-over color as a phase and then go back to blonde as my transitional shade instead of hopping from color to color. Anyways, at least I know for sure that I will hold off on going back to my natural color for as long as I can help it ( ´･ω･)

After I dyed my hair back blonde I got an itch to experiment with my makeup again. I tried a blue eyeshadow look and thought it was cute! I wish I enjoyed wearing crazy eyeshadow looks as much as I used to. I think this is the true sign of my age lmao ( ;´ - `;)

What hair color do you feel most yourself with (｡· v ·｡) ?? I'd love to know if you can relate to my feelings in this post! Thank you for reading, I'll see you in the next one (´ε｀)♡