Some Stuff for Sale on eBay

I am so depressed that my jeans no longer fit me. I went from size 27 to size 28 in the course of a few months. Maybe more than a few. I don't know. But I am mostly sad because I can't wear my Miss Me Jeans anymore and I LOVE THEM omg. ;___; They have gorgeous rhinestones on the butt! Oh well.. I am hoping I can sell them to a loving home and then I can use the funds to buy a new pair or help to buy a new pair. A brand new pair is over $100, it's so annoying! ;__; maybe I can find a different brand with rhinestones on the back. I love jeans with rhinestones. They're like my bling-bling pants and great for rock gyaru. I even have a rhinestone belt!! xD

Anyway! I am selling some makeup too...LUSH and Eyeko.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/nozomiwhitewolf/m.html?item=251030979074&viewitem=&_trksid=p4340.l2562

If you don't see anything you like, passing it on to friends would be a great help to me. I just want a pair of pants that I love that fit me! ;____; lol!

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Hilarious Fairy Drops Webcomic

Thought I would share this with you all:



Here is the translation courtesy my friend Manuela:

‎1 cant read the kanji, so small... the pink caption reads "President Aya, several years ago"
2 "Ahhh" "Huh...mascara?" "Mascara is important, I see"
3 "I'll try to cut it into an easy to brush toothbrush shape"
4 "Thanks to this form, my eyes look big and beautiful" "I did it!"
5 "This mascara is so good, I really want to sell it in America..." "Ok, I'll send a mail to Sephora!"
6 "Huh?! The buyer wants to meet me?" "I'm going right away!"
7 "It's also very popular at Amerika's Sephora" "I did it"

BTW I have their mascara, the kind you can buy in US Sephora shops and it's pretty awesome but it can be a little clumpy.

I wish I had the motivation to do in-depth reviews. I know I promised you all an Artka review...I should really get off my butt and do that tomorrow! >___<

Until then...Pinterest!! :D

http://pinterest.com/theflyingace/my-makeup-collection/

http://pinterest.com/theflyingace/my-jeffrey-campbell-collection/

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Just a note... Awesome website!

Recently I stumbled on this website:

http://www.thebeautybrains.com

And it's FREAKING AWESOME. If you've ever wondered why they put X, Y, and Z in your cosmetics/shampoo/whatever you can totally find out. It's the perfect combo of science and beauty! I approve!! :D

In other news...even though I gained a little weight and decided I didn't want to dress gyaru for a while, I read this post and got inspired:

http://universal-doll.com/2012/02/getting-back-to-gal/

It really made me feel better about getting back to Gal!

Also reading this post about hair: http://universal-doll.com/2012/03/hair-care-tips-for-the-gyaru/ has made me realize how I've been abusing the crap out of my hair, haha. I thought that simply switching to silicone free shampoo and stopping the bleaching of my hair would make it healthier (well it did but...) I realized I still abuse the crap out of it with heat tools like straightener oftentimes without even using heat protectant, same with a hair dryer. So I guess the bottom line is I need to be more careful. I also wanna try her coconut oil suggestion too! :D

Finally, seeing this post made me go O___O;; with glee!
http://universal-doll.com/2012/03/inside-liz-lisa-stores/

I LOVE Liz Lisa so that really got me back in the gal spirit, lol.


In other news I am studying like mad for a test so I gotta get back to that. Only a just a little over a month to go till I graduate! My midterm grades were awesome, so yay, and I had a relaxing spring break in Florida with my boyfriend! I took a bunch of pics at Kennedy Space Center and the Daytona 200, so I will need to get off my butt this weekend and upload those, lol.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Eyeko at Sephora!

*Momentary break from my zombie state to tell you this!*

Opened my e-mail to see Sephora had just sent out their daily/weekly newsletter thingy and saw that they now carry one of my favorite make-up brands, Eyeko!



http://www.sephora.com/browse/brand_hierarchy.jhtml?brandId=Eyeko

Yayness! All they have now is mascara though so fingers crossed for more soon! :D

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Again, busy with school. But small update.

Today I received some beautiful dresses in the mail from a friend in China who helped me order some things from the TaoBao store called "artka." The designer is Aka and she makes lovely things!




I was so tired when Sean took this photo of me, but here it is anyway.

This is the dress I got. I ordered a few more too but I am too tired to try them on now, maybe later, hmm? :)


School is very busy for me but it is my last semester. A big thank you to all who have been following me all this time. I want to make more posts and how-to's but my camera is such terrible quality for videos and I have no tripod so it's almost pointless to make a how-to vid when I clearly don't have the proper equipment to do so.

I am counting down the days till school ends. I have a decent paying job but I oftentimes wish I made more, like my other friends who just graduated... I think I might be underpaid for an engineer but I can hardly complain when it is so hard to get a job these days in the American economy. :/

I hope you all are doing well, fellow bloggers. <3 I will try my best to catch up on reading your blogs soon!

xoxo
Kate


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A Tale of Two Dresses

So yeah, Modcloth.com....

I saw two dresses I really liked on there. Two RED dresses. I don't own a whole lot of red stuff and I wanted to change that! Because I really do love the color red...it's so flashy! When you walk into a room wearing an all-red dress people can't help but to stop and stare! (Hopefully in a good way?!) LOL!

So yeah. Originally I saw this one and wanted it badly:


Aren't You Precious Dress in Ruby

But it was totally sold out and there was no plan to ever restock it! My heart was crushed!

So instead, I ordered this dress!


Lady Love Song Dress

I tried it on (click the jump to see those photos...there's a few of 'em) and I was kind of on the fence. It was a nice dress but it wasn't cheap, first of all. I wasn't sure if the quality of the material was on par for the cost.

Secondly, omg, it really shows off every CURVE in your body! Which can be both a good thing and a bad thing. A good thing if you're feeling pretty confident and want to show off your bod' but a bad thing if you just maybe went to a dinner and ate quite a bit...because whenever that happens to me, my stomach looks pooch-y and plump, haha. >__<;

So yeah. Well here's the real dilemma. Someone just returned the Aren't You Precious Dress (the first one I posted) and there was both a size S and a size L but no size M! Of course, I am generally a Medium. So I was torn. I read some comments and they said size M was kind of big so I opted for the S. *fingers crossed* LOL. It's probably going to come in the mail in a few days. So I think I will just try it on and see which of these two I like better. They're both around the same price...so I can totally return whichever one I don't like and keep the good one!

And of course I see this and start drooling too. >___>;; Modcloth is evil. It sucks you in! @____@;;


So my question is simple, dear readers: Which red dress do you prefer and why? :)
(if either!)



Photos of me wearing the second dress:


Front


Side


Up Close


See what I mean by hugs your every curve?? xD I need to get some shapewear for this if I keep it!!

Again, Still Alive

Been so busy that I basically just dropped off the face of blogging for a while, lol.

After I finished my second-to-last semester last month, I took a trip to Colorado to visit my boyfriend's family. We had a really great time! I even got to hit up some vintage clothing shops in Boulder and they were spectacular! I got a dress and a skirt. :3

I am a bit sad though because I am no longer working at LUSH! My seasonal contract thing was up and they didn't want to keep me working part time...I think due to availability issues or something? Anyway.... I am a student still, but I will be interning again this semester with a different company than last summer. It will be awesome because I am getting paid a lot to intern so I will be able to save more money for a house.

I really want to move to Colorado but it's SO expensive to live there. I guess it depends on what part of Colorado...but yeah. I dunno. I went snowboarding at Breckenridge with my boyfriend and our friends and it was awesome even though I fell many times and hurt myself. >_<;;

I have this issue where I keep taking tons of photos and then I never upload any of them to my computer. LOL derp!

And I've been playing a lot of videogames lately so I've been kinda MIA from the blogging world because of that. Terraria is my new addiction, and I started playing World of Warcraft too. (Ahh! All downhill from here!)

I still want to do my blog giveaway even though it's so damned belated at this point. I had all of the stuff lined up in neat little piles and then I went on vacation and totally forgot about it! LOL!

I guess real life is more important than the internet, but I miss reading all of my favorite blogs and commenting on peoples' entries. I think maybe I will try to update more now that I have a sweet new desktop computer (it's amazing.)

Moreover, I wish blogger had some way for you to send your mobile pictures straight to a storage folder connected to your blog or maybe straight to a blog post. I hate typing on my iPhone though. It sucks.

Anyway! I am making some homemade buns so I guess I better go take care of that dough. No exciting photos this time, sorry everyone! ;____; my new years resolution is definitely to post more though! (Didn't I say that last year?!)

>___<;;; lol

School begins for me in a week though so....yeah. MEH.

Oh and I will leave you with a great post I just read on another girl's blog!

http://peteralexandra.tumblr.com/post/15492520296/iii-dresses-are-easier-to-deal-with-they-dont-have


Edit: oh and I just stumbled upon this on Polyvore!
http://www.polyvore.com/spotlight_erdem/collection?id=1278314

I really dig on this label/brand/whatever! Erdem? Never heard of it but it looks cool. Like retro 1960s?