Another Shopping List & Other Stuff . . .

yes... another shopping list.

i like to make lists for clothes, makeup, groceries, to-do's... i like making lists in general. Always have, even when back in third grade. I've always felt more at ease when things are organized that way. Plus, after I lay everything out, I'm able to see and eliminate the things I don't need.

So! here it goes...

FOREVER21 (you know it!)

I LOVE the back



or







possibility for grandma and grandpa's anniversary party that's on july 25th

with a cardigan, black belt, and edgy ankle boots. [but if the dress is that short on me, i probably won't get it... I have some of the dresses that are on the models and they aren't as short on me as they are on the models]


LULU'S

I'M IN LOVE! ME WANT!!!!!
But I'm torn between these colors... i don't know which one to pick: espresso or ash??




I still need short sleeve cardigans... when i went to the actual forever21 store they didn't have any >:(
Honestly, I hate shopping IN the actual forever21 store, specifically the mall of america one, BECAUSE you cannot find anything you are looking for in there, not because it's organized by color and everything is bunched together that way but because they have a whole lot of nothing in there. The store is FILLED with clothes, things are thrown around EVERYWHERE, but at the same time, they don't have the items that I have on my lists. They have everything BUT the stuff on my list.. go figure. Next Saturday, my friend and I are going to a different mall that has a F21, and i heard from a few people that that forever is alot better than the one at Mall of America, so i want to check that out, and if I see nothing there, I guess I'll have to order online. I like ordering from the website much better. I already know my sizes and I've never had a problem with getting the wrong size or anything like that and I don't have to deal with the mess. Only disadvantage... waiting for the package to arrive.

ALSO
Today I went to Marshalls, Sally's Beauty Supply, and Walmart.
At Marshalls I got bronze gladiators by steve madden. It also came in a silvery, pewter color that I also wanted but they didn't have any my size =(. So I'll probably get these black gladiators from Charlotte Russe. (I like to have a brown of something and a black of something because some outfits/colors go better with one or the other, same with gold and silver)


The original reason why I wanted to go to marshalls was because I wanted the Chi Silk Infusion, but for some reason I didn't get it.? But instead I went to Walmart and got a heat protectant spray by Treseme, a leave-in conditioner by Dove, and a scrunch spray by Aussie.

At Sally's, I got 10 inch hair extensions because I wanted my extensions to look a tad more natural than my super long 18" ones... MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT. I HAD NO IDEA HOW LONG MY HAIR GREW! In my mind, I have this idea of how short my hair is, despite the fact that I look in the mirror everyday and see my hair--- I start making my extensions, I hold it up to my head... SAME LENGTH AS MY NATURAL HAIR. I kept saying over and over.... my hair did not get this long overnight... what the heck happened... You can't return the hair... I already cut the track up anyway... so I'm just gonna give it to my sister, and I ended up just trimming my 18" ones, also I cut my own hair today because I was extremely bored... I also colored it using medium copper brown by ion from sallys, with a 30 volume since my hair was close to black to begin with. 

I was going to do a video on this haul but I didn't and now it's pretty much too late so I'll blog about it.

Marissa / Marissa1217 from youtube, went and done it again. I told her I DID NOT WANT ANYTHING FROM HER FOR MY BDAY. Because she already did enough by surprising me back a few months ago and I was so grateful for that, she does not need to do anything else for me for the rest of my life LOL. But she goes and gets me a present anyway, and its a gift card for MAC. Geebuz, if you're reading this Marissa, thank you AGAIN, I know I've thanked you a million times already but I really can't thank you enough.

So I used the giftcard for the 25% off SUMO sale that was going on back in June.
In the picture I also threw in the items that I hauled from when I went and got my makeup done at the pro-store because I didn't do a video on that either... yes SLACKER.

and last of all I would like to say Happy FIRST Birthday to my little cousin Olivia aka LING LING [what a cute nickname]. A candid picture my aunt took of us while we were playing together a few weeks ago lol

Hair Color (PICTURE HEAVY)

I get bored of my hair color VERY EASILY
my hair color has been all different shades of brown, blonde, and black .
When it's light, I want my dark hair back, when it's dark, I always have the urge to go and get highlights. I also can't decide what fits me well, what looks the best on me .

dark brown:


highlighted (my senior pic... loooonng time ago)


carmels and golds?




blonde


and BLACK



another thing that made me think hair color was seeing the Fekkai hair color system when I was looking around Sephora.
I was watching the demo, and the hair color is made up of all sorts of butters, leaving your hair super soft and more moisturized than even before you colored it. THAT definitely intrigued me
and if I were to try it, I'd want to try the dark brown or medium brown

this is the color chart that's on sephora's website

BUT what I'm kinda hesitant about is coloring over my stylist's (heather) work! I ALWAYS feel bad when I color over her work, because I always end up going back to her anyway and for some weird reason I think that she MIGHT think that I colored over it because I didn't like it or something, when actually I really do love my hair and that's why I always go back to her. Although her services are VERY pricey, especially since she got promoted at the salon. 

Ladies, if you find a hair colorist that colors your hair exactly the way you imagine you want it to be, STICK WITH THEM. I found my colorist, I still have yet to find a person that CUTS my hair perfectly.

BUT anyway! So I don't know if I want to go ahead and color it which would be 30.00 if i try the Fekkai color, or just get my roots done by Heather, which would be 100 something. BUT I also don't know if I even want to color my hair darker again, or leave my highlighted hair the way it is. I don't have a recent picture of myself, just my youtube videos...

I DON'T KNOooOOooW


oh yeah, the camera i want is on sale right now for 179.99 at bestbuy!
I asked mi madre and she gave me the typical answer "go tell your dad" =/

Hair Growth Extravaganza!

Lately, this short hair deal is making me miss my long hair even more and more and now that my hair is highlighted, clip ins aren't going to work anymore...

So starting today/tonight, I am starting my hair growth extravaganza / experience / experiment!

What will this entail you might ask?

EVERYTHING!

every little method that I can think of and heard of, and i mean everything, from hair products to diet.

Now, every good scientist knows that a good experiment consists of only one independent variable so that you can pinpoint what is actually working. BUT I'm so desperate and impatient, I'm going to throw in everything at once! and just hope that my hair grows. The time frame of this extravaganza will be from now until my birthday weekend which is memorial day weekend. I wanna see how long I can get it before the festivities. 

So here is all that's included in my little experiment:

1. PRENATAL VITAMINS. Vitamins... good for your body, good for hair growth?! why pre-natal? well have you noticed that when you're pregnant your hair grows at like 50 feet an hour?

Also, prenatal vitamins help with nail growth, I don't really need help with nail growth but just saying...

2.   Vitamin E! Vitamin E is known for helping with hair loss. Generally vitamin E helps with blood circulation, blood circulation in the scalp area = stimulation = GROWTH! which brings me to #3.

3. I'm going to massage my scalp at least 5 minutes a day. Again, because massaging the scalp helps stimulate blood flow in the scalp!

4. EXERCISE, another way to help the blood flow through out the whole body. Also exercise makes you healthier in general, and if you're healthy, all parts of your hair will be healthy INCLUDING your hair, which makes growth a lot faster. right? 

THEN, at the same time I can lose the weight I need to take off.

5. Eat healthy.

I already mentioned vitamin E, but other vitamins that are correlated with hair growth are vitamin B and C. So, I'm going to try to develop some sort of meal plan that incorporates eggs, fish, turkey, milk, leafy vegetables, and citrusy fruits.

6. Okay, this is really sad because I love pop, but I am going to need to cut down on the caffeine and carbonated drinks, because it weakens the body therefore my hair isn't going to grow SUPER FAST

7. CALM DOWN. I get easily stressed, and I'm probably stressed out about something like 20 hours of the day, all thanks to annoying parents and other things... So i'm going to have to find a way to relax myself, get away from irritating ppl, and actually get some rest! that part is my fault, i need to stop procrastinating so much so that i'm able to get my work done EARLY so i'm not up at 4 in the morning when i need to go to school at 6am.

8. Protect my hair from heat. Since I don't style my hair anymore because I don't like to wear my short hair down anymore, I don't need to worry about cutting back on blow drying, straighteners and curling irons. But I do need to cut back on taking HOT showers. 

9. and number 9, i know this is going to sound stupid but even though i have a feeling that these "super grow" hair products don't work, i'm gonna use it anyway. I think psychologically, I'm gonna think my hair is going to grow faster just because (when actually the hair is probably going to grow faster because of the vitamins =P) but whatever. For some reason we already have those products in the house, so its not like i'll be wasting money going out and buying it so why not...

so yeah that's it! sounds more like a healthy lifestyle change which is all good. You're hair can't grow at its maximum potential if your body is unhealthy and dying lol so it makes sense. I can get longer hair while losing weight and getting more fit.

WISH ME LUCK

I'll take pictures of my ugly hair maybe every 2 weeks? definitely not everyday! or even every week! can't see the difference then... or maybe i should measure my hair with a ruler... lol NO that's too much. but yeah, lets see how it goes... its midnight right now so i'll have to start the exercising tomorrow morning. 

Spring Time Revamp'n

So as i mentioned a few times before, I am a giant idiot for goin' ahead and choppin off all my hair this last summer. I think I was just fed up with stuff and pulled a britney and went and hacked off all my hair (good thing i didn't do a full extent britney and shaved it all off). Now, i totally regret it because one, i miss my long hair, two, i look better with long hair, and three, i can't do anything with my short hair, and its the kind of hair where if you don't style it, it's really really ugly. Well now my hair is even uglier because I went to get it trimmed and the lady just did not know what she was doing. for CUTS i go to more expensive places, but for TRIMS i just go to cheap places like great clips or fantastic sams because i think to myself, it's just a trim, how can they mess up a trim. yeah.. this lady managed to mess it up somehow. I usually get my hair razored... this lady made blunt cuts al over my head, so u can imagine how bad that looks. choppy blunt cut bangs and layers all over... i just don't understand,

so i made an appointment at my favorite salon, Marc Daniel salon in maple grove. If you live in Minnesota, you definitely have to go to this salon. I get my hair colored by Heather Frank and she does an amazing job! i've never left her chair unhappy, and after so many years of getting my hair colored at home and at salons, that is saying a lot! Not only does she do her job well, but she is such a cool person, and she's really good at figuring out what you like and what works for you. So i definitely recommend her. If she cut hair I'd probably let her cut my hair too but that's not how it works at marc daniels.

They have colorists and stylists separate, so I go to Heather to get my hair colored, and then go to the other side of the salon to get my hair cut by someone else. I've had my hair cut by a girl that used to work there once or twice and it was just an average cut. nothing i was too excited about but then again for cuts I hardly ever get really excited because i'm really picky with cuts. Since the girl no longer works there, I made an appointment with a brand new worker because they are having a deal where if you make an appt with him, you get 15.00 off the service. in the email i got, they said that he's had 15 years of experience so wish me luck!

SO ANYWAY, since the weather has been really really nice lately, cross my fingers it doesn't snow again, I am ready for my spring time makeover. (I always get a new color for each season). I was thinking lighter brown highlights with some golden pieces and then since fantastic sams lady fudged up my hair, i was thinking getting it re-cut/styled. I found some pictures of old american idol contestant SLASH tv guide host Kimberly Caldwell that had the cut that I like.

so i'm excited and i hope it turns out well. I haven't been to the salon in awhile because i've been caught up with school and hours have been cut at work so my paychecks aren't as big as they used to be. Plus during the winter, I'm not in much of a mood to get dressed up or to style my hair anyway, at school it's always pulled back in a (SHORT) ponytail so eh...

but anyway if you are interested the salon's website is marcdanielsalon.com

they have the convenience of booking your own appt online, which I love. 

Daniel Link is the owner of the salon, and an appt with him is 90 some dollars... I've never had an appt with him but he must be good for over 90 dollars. YIKES