Hi angels! I hope you had a great weekend. I just wrapped up my busy season for the year so I'm looking forward to winding down for the holiday season.
I'm also really excited to finally be getting into the 2025 backlog now!! I feel like my blogging motivation has slowly but surely returned lol (ᵕ⸝⸝• ᴗ •)
We started the 2025 year off pretty laid back by celebrating Koji's 12th birthday together. He wasn't pleased that I made him wear a party hat so we could take cute photos of him but I gave him lots of treats after so he forgave me hehe (ᵕ • ᴗ •)
Around this time I was also going through a makeup crisis again. Idk I just didn't really like my makeup and felt like I was somehow getting worse? I think I was just getting anxious about having down time and not really knowing what I'd be working with in a few months' time.
To prepare for my trip in March I decided to go and get my microblading touched up at the end of January. I was pretty indifferent about ever getting this redone again but I figured I was going to be looking a bit crazy after my surgery so maybe at the very least I could have some eyebrows through it all ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)
I went back to the same person who did them originally and she was super sweet as always, though I think she's since closed her business so I'll have to find someone else if I want to keep these up ｡°(°¯᷄◠¯᷅°)°｡
I also got my nails done for the last time before my trip. We went with this simple pink chrome theme!
It was pretty cold and gloomy in February so I don't really have any interesting outfits to share. I mostly wore stuff like this for work:
My coworker who had worked with me at one of my first jobs in the industry and happened to also be at my current company decided to move to Japan to start a new life with his wife. He stopped by my office to say goodbye and bring me some treats (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥)づ♡
Of course I was super excited to see my king GD come back. Kevin had pre-ordered his album for me but I didn't realize he got like.... all the variations so that I could have all the photo cards ✧｡٩(ˊᗜˋ )و✧*｡
We still have a CD player in one of his cars so we have been listening to it on repeat. They all come together to form the album art so I'm going to frame the cases in my living room at some point, I just haven't found the right frames yet.
I also had to do a quick yesstyle restock! I didn't want to grab too much because I knew I'd be shopping my heart out in Korea but I did pick up some new makeup palettes from cheeryep which have basically become my daily make go-tos now.
Sadly some of the items in this pic are now discontinued but I'll link some of my fave products from this haul that I'm still using today so you can check them out:
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| so sad this palette isn't in stock anymore?? |
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| this one too :( |
March was also pretty uneventful tbh, and I had a very lowkey birthday that year. I didn't feel like celebrating much because I was also still processing a lot the horrendous things that were happening to me in my personal life so I decided to just focus on getting through it.
I also had a lot of preparations to make for my upcoming trip so I was juggling a ton of appointments and medical checks leading up to my flight. Mando and Brailon knew I was stressing a lot so they were super sweet and sent me a basket of goodies on my birthday week (˶˃ᆺ˂˶)
Overall my 2025 was off to a better start than 2024 but I was still feeling the weight of grief on my shoulders. I can't overstate how incredibly grateful I am for Kevin and my small but wonderful group of friends who got me through those grueling years. I really would not be here without them (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥)づ♡
Anyways that's pretty much all I got up to in the first few months of 2025! Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next post ⊹ ࣪ ˖
