Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hair Wednesday: Let's begin.

Yeah I know it's Thursday but Whatever! 

Let's talk about hair! This month marks me being 10 months natural. I guess I'll do a length check tomorrow when I do my wash.  At some point I will post some in depth information about my journey but I want to talk about something else for this post. 

What I am holding in my hand is a Genie loc or Yarn Braid. Hairscapades had a post this week about Yarn Wraps and I was curious so I did some research and discovered yarn braids! I said to myself, "I can plait!" and attempted one. I LOVE IT!! 

(Just discovered I can enlarge photos on here also ignore my room, it stays a mess)

Right now I am preparing for the 10+ hours to put in these yarn braids. I have some dark brown yarn laying around from my crocheting days but it's seriously tangled so I'm going to untangle it and cut it tonight. I'm also going to prepoo tonight and do a normal wash early tomorrow morning then begin the braids. I want to be done by 8pm, which means no slacking!  Hopefully all goes well. If not, I'm going to have my cousin do them for me!
I will be back next week to talk about the process and let you know how everything goes! 

Peace.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Mani-Monday!!


I totally failed at posting last week! Oh gosh!


Hello there! It's the first Mani-Monday! I have two pictures for you from the first one is from a few months ago and the second one is from about a year ago.
I absolutely detest those gorgeous mani blogs that don't go into detail about their technique so I will be sure to let you all know what I did. My mani monday posts will also focus a lot on cheaper brands because not everyone can afford to buy $10.50 all the time. 

Description: This is a mani I did after being inspired by a Pinterest post that was in turn inspired by the Little Mermaid. I apologize for the cuticle flooding on this one. (Link) Oh and I'm holding Love & Beauty Wine in this picture. 
Colors: Smush by Urban Outfitters, H&M Pear Ice cream, OPI Thanks a Winmillion, and OPI Malaysian Mist (pink). 
Technique: The accent nail is a free hand using a the smallest m.a.s.h. brush I had. This is a good way to fix manis that have begin to chip! The rest of my nails are a sponge gradient of the other three greenish blues with a coat of Wet n wild
Description: I really wanted to recreate this clutch! Unfortunately this February it got stolen so I no longer own it! 
Colors: Love & Beauty Coral, Love & Beauty Green and Black Poppy in a gold shade that doesn't have a name. This is the first awesome gold color that I had bought. I found it at Pac Sun for $3.50. 
Technique: Clear base coat, One coat of gold and BM 04 in green on ring finger and BM 09 on index finger. 

I'm working on getting some Nail wheels so that I can show you all of my nail polish!

Pinterest & Twitter

Well, see ya!


Thursday, June 7, 2012

Blog Post Schedule

Hello!
As you know, I am new to this blogging thing but I feel a great need to write. For most of my life, I have kept a journal but as I get older, they seem to get less relevant. I kind of want to create something with this blog. Something memorable and that will help me work through some things. Making lists and goals is one of the things I do a lot. So...lets list it out!!

Purposes of this blog:

  • Chronicle my first year of Graduate School
  • Track my Natural Hair Journey
  • Show off nail art
Also, this writing may be able to help me to improve my writing, which will aid me greatly in Graduate School! 

Perhaps a schedule will be the best way to make this kind of routine. The Grad school stuff will come later in the summer but for now how about Mondays for nail art and Hair Saturdays! This isn't a hard and fast schedule, I may write more than this but I will definitely have these posts each week! 

In addition to this I have also made the goal of writing a cover letter per day this summer as I am trying to obtain an internship and/or job! 

I have to say, I've been reading blogs for some time and there are some really awesome ones out there. I doubt that my blog will ever gain much traction but I feel like it might help me a lot personally! :) 

Well see ya!

Monday, June 4, 2012

Test Post: Do Not Reply

Hello there internet. I love blogs. I use a wonderful website called Bloglovin where I can subscribe to all of my favorite blogs and get new posts in one seamless timeline. So what is my blog about. Well, I like a lot of things. Natural hair, nail polish and cartoons. I'm also starting Grad School this fall! If I continue this blog, those are the thing I will talk about! 

That's enough for now! I will see where this progresses!

Ta ta for now! :)