Adore Zipia

A couple nights ago, I dreamt that I was the photographer for Zipia and styled the girl's clothes... (loove Zipia's photos recently, esp. for their new Xmas occassion outfits. Feels natural + quietly fun and I like how they create the mood) so I will begin to invest in a dslr and my goal is... before my trip to Greece + Italy... but I don't know if I wanna bring it on the trip.

Some Zipia pics of their Xmas + Party collection that came out last night.
I believe the collection is called "Dude&Charlott" haha
Love this outfit! They don't sell the sequined bolero I don't think...
Hmm can't really get the same effect on this blog as on Zipia 'cause the pictures aren't as big nor clear.
This is the party necklace I bought from my most recent Zipia order.Really don't know why they took so many pictures in this sketchy hotel room, though...

Mirror Lust

(but not for my room... maybe bathroom?)

Bring Out The Glitter!

Nothing good on Zipia today but this picture.

Now I need clear, silvery, glittery nailpolish of all glitter-sizes!

Ombre

Seriously.

Posting.
A.
Lot.

Just checked my exam schedule - not bad at all!
Tomorrow, it's from 3:30-6:30PM and on Tuesday, it's from 12-3PM!

Anyway, last night I was playing around with my makeup and tried some eyeshadow - probably the third time I've played around w/ eyeshadow in my life (I need a one on one tutorial man!!) and was thinking HEY this is sort of like the time...
... when B and I got our nails painted in the "gradient" way in Seoul! We were apparently donning one of the season's (Spring 09) hottest trends, ombre. Course, we didn't know it was "the" trend of Spring lol.. Also called "graduation" or "gradated", ombre is french for "fading colours/tones" and it comes and goes as a trend on the runways.
It was all over the Spring 09 collections:
(love the Herve Ledger dress on the left, above)
These 2 single pics are from Celine's Spring collection 09
I'd use this:More bold.. I guess it's hard for a guy to wear ombre if it's not in a tie or a shirt O_O
But for for those of you who think that wearing ombre is a bit too wild (though I don't know how).. or if you want to carry the trend another way, you can also do it on your nails like B+me OR you can do it for your hair!
Don't worry, it doesn't have to be as dramatic or as extreme as what you're thinking.
I'm sure most of you have seen this somewhere floating on the web - it's everywhere.
I kind of laughed when Who What Wear Daily sent out an e-mail titled "ombre" hair 'cause I was thinking it would be something like the picture above.. and then I laughed again at the pictures they presented 'cause if that is what is considered ombre hair, then I've been doing it for years now due to my hair not liking dye!
Of course, mine wasn't on purpose... but do half of the celebrities above look like they did it on purpose either? (Well.. maybe...) To me, it just looks as though they're letting their natural hair colour grow out, they had no time to get their hair done, they're waiting for the next trend to come out before they damage their hair again, or dying is suddenly too expensive for their wallets.

Other ways to wear it: the ombre scarf you've probably also seen... I'm indifferent about it
Oh and it doesn't have to be done on the same thing either!
This paint job is considered ombre, too:
So yea - lots of ways to wear the runway trend without looking too outwardly try-so-hard trendy!

Sadie...

I usually talk about my human cousins. Meet my animal "cousin", Sadie. lol

She knows which side to take, warm, + leave hairs on (not my side!)
Loves her monkey! I mean.. bear... why do I keep calling it a monkey??
StttttrrrreeetttchhhhhhStaring intently........
So BLISSTHFUL after a good run ^^
She can barely keep her eyes open!

Yea she's an attention-seeker but she has a cute personality and is a good dog. Happy cousin.

AHA!

Found a jackpot fashionblog. To me, a jackpot blog is one where I love all outfits (yea, every single one) and all of the pictures she chooses to share. I've been absorbing her pages for the past few hours.. and I still don't think I'm anywhere near done. Man she either must post a lot, or she must have started blogging since she was 15 or so! She's only 18 now, actually... Can't wait to show you in my next domain.. whenever that will be (well, hopefully sometime in December). Ah so inspiring! Great taste.

My ears have been SO COLD today!

TT

I would say that I'm kind of obsessed with the whole "long 'n lean" bottom half look (not the twiggy look)... not just for me, but for everyone that I see.. especially in the winter.
Take this girl -- she's a perfect example of someone who can look short and stumpy but so tall and lean the next day.
Here is her "tall and lean" look - don't her legs look so slim?
(uh.. short much? gosh.. and then you see that a few days before, she wore the same outfit with a skirt and the cardi looks so short too lol)
But suddenly, she as thunder thighs.. or, just so disproportionate from her top half 'cause it's a lighter colour that it looks that big. I'm not against colourful bottoms, but in this case, I would carry the colour all the way down to her ankles and wear a heel 'cause the gray is like a thigh highlighter.. and hers aren't even that big.. but it looks so in this picture.
+ 50
And for this next picture, I was thinking, is it because of the angle of the picture?? How else could she have gained so much weight in the next picture? It probably is, partly, but I've decided it's more because of what she is wearing....
(I do like the top half of this next outfit).. I think she'd look a lot slimmer if she wore heels with this outfit.Anyway, not hating or anything. Maybe I'm crazy for noticing these insignificant things but that's what I notice on the streets. I like her and I kinda love some of her outfits (like the ones below) and she looks quite beautiful when she does profesh modelling and i'm super jealous of her full bangs - and I think it's so awesome possum that she's only 17 and just started outfit-blogging, but man can she gain and lose picture weight fast! ahha and if you think I'm the queen of neutral colours, i'm only a princess compared to her! She is the royal queen the first lol 'cause except for a couple accessories and that yellow moo-moo above, everything she owns is either black, white, or a shade of gray.
Anyway, waiting to see what Zipia will come out with tonight - 1 more hour!

Pump It Up... for Xmas!

I'm done all lectures for this semester SO SO SO SO SO SO HAPPY!!!!! Give me the text, material, notes, info, and get me to take the exams and write the papers but don't make me go to lecture! Worked really well last night until 4AM to finish off the powerpoint for today's solo presentation. Don't know how well I did, but I did my best (I actually did) and, if what I had was what she was looking for, then I think I did pretty well.

Work tonight, lotsa big tables on reservation, gonna work w/ awesome team. I'm server 1, happy happy happy. I hope to serve a table of Angus Beef tonight! We just introduced it this week - priced quite a bit higher than regular beef though so it's hard to sell, especially for those people who come to Posh for its value.

Even though I did a Zipia order just last week, I still check Zipia every weekday after 7PM 'cause that's when the new stuff comes out. Yesterday, they came out with BUNNY HILL CLOTHES and they're SO NICE and CUTE! Since when did bulky snow clothes look so cute?
I guess I'm more excited 'cause I actually need a new snowjacket this year... I've had the same one since Gr 10.. 8 years! That's pretty good. But it's so boring and I blend in with the snow... especially with my black pants. Anyway, clothes to snowboard in is probably the one exception where it's expected that you look fat, baggy, and puffy so might as well wear bright colours!

Angora hair band thingy I love it - it's so 70's/80's (my mom had some)!
AOIFHAFJALKSJFSLF WEOIFJ WFIJFJ I'm so sad!! The pink snowboard pants (above, they have both subtle stripes and the pixel squares on them) are ALREADY sold out and they just put it in stock yesterday!!! They must have had some low quantities or everybody rushed to buy them 'cause it already made up half of the $300 order limit. GAHHH

IJLFJJFLSIFJSDLFHSDLFNDLFDLFID Another disappointment!! The yellow ski jacket I absolutely ADORED last night is also gone! It's not even in the out of stock list... what happened to it?!
You can't really tell, but it has super fat (like probably 5 inches), subtle vertical stripes all over.
SAD!

I mean, I wasn't going to wear them together.. I wanted to choose either or... more into the hot pink pants! Can't miss me now! I was thinking a green (can't decide which shade yet) coat w/ pink bottoms lol.. these colours are so Eastery.

I even like their bright "seasons pass" bag tag
Trend alert: These colourful puffers are coming back in style! I've seen it around Soompi on an Ulzzang.. can't remember. I realize I don't really look at the face of the person wearing the outfit often unless they're good looking.
oh found the other bright coat - on ulzzang Mikki

I WANT HER SHOES! They are so me!

I Just Need To...

Wooooohoooo I exceeded my "goal" and pretty much wrote all of my powerpoint! I just need to incorporate what we learned in class into my powerpoint and I just need to make it all nice and fancy and I just need to decide what I'm going to say compared to what I'm going to leave in and I just need to find out if I have waaay too much info (well, I know I do..) gotta condense superbly! I'm so glad I chose to do this topic after changing topics like 4 times. So much info and it's interesting! Policy implementation to manage air pollution during the Beijing Olympics 2008. China is getting smarter. This makes me glad.

Starting to see that I blog excessively to procrastinate... way too many posts in the last few days for the little amount of time I thought I had. OK it's almost 3AM and I am soooooooo awake still - I can probably stay up for another couple hours. Haven't yawned yet!! I had 5 cups of strongly steeped tea. Pretty much the equivalent to a triple shot grande vanilla latte O_O. The sides of my head are a bit sore 'cause I used this tight headband to keep my bangs off my face. The hair stylist at Chura, Mark, who I adore 'cause he's funny + we like to talk about Japanese fashion and magazines, liked my bangs long (interesting, a few stylists have told me they like my bangs longer, too) and so he didn't even trim them even though I told him I wanted to when he asked me what I wanted done! I'm so used to them short... now makes me wonder if other stylists just cut them 'cause I tell them I want to have it cut. Don't really know which looks better on me. I guess long bangs doesn't cut into my face - perhaps gives a slimmer illusion? I do think it's less childlike.

I worked for like 3.13 hours today hah - sloooow Wednesday. Wasn't really worth going, but it was a nice destressor away from this presentation/term paper. Served a table of 6 and w/ the restriction of only allowing 4 "card" transactions per table along w/ some weird ways of paying, I somehow did not get the right amount of gratuity as I should have even though they were all very generous. Sometimes it's complicated so I make up solutions in my head of how it could be better.. of course, the solutions aren't very feasible and would never be used haha... I work Wed, Fri, and Sun nights for all of December except for Dec 24th, 25th and NYE.

I've been using up this IOPE Foaming Cleanser I got free from Aritaum in Korea. I love it - it foams up soo well and luxruiously, smells fragrantly nice, and takes off everything w/out drying. Cetaphil I love too, but it just takes everything off w/out being too drying... it doesn't smell good nor does it lather either so sometimes I feel like it's not doing anything.. but when I swipe a cotton pad w/ toner all over after cleansing, no makeup comes off! So it must do its job. ANYWAY, the IOPE Cleanser is also whitening!! I haven't been doing this totally purposefully, but I've been lusting over fairer skin in the winter so that my blushes turn up nicer and stronger. But, because I only use this IOPE Cleanser on my face, only my face has gotten whiter than my neck and the rest of my skin which is WEIRD. Now what??? Guess I should stop using it.. but it's almost done and I love the feeling :)

BED TIME.

What Yellow?

I went through a quarter of the runway Spring collection from style.com (and trust me, that's a LOT!).. I was kinda late though 'cause the shows were from the end of Sept hah. Anyway, concluded that the 2 "new" colours for Spring 2010 = shades of blue (from royal blue to aqua.. not really the seafoam-blues) and neon yellow in all sorts of vividness.

I like looking at this hue? of yellow... but I can't imagine it (the colour) looking very good on many people... I think you have to be quite tanned to wear it or you'll look washed out.
This dress is from net-a-porter.... Burberry Prorsum (which, btw I LOOOOOVE their Spring collection!! LOVE LOVE LOVE! Except I don't remember seeing this dress in it. I'm indifferent about this dress.) hand-pleated silk-chiffon dress.

Anyway, the night is still early (11:30) and I have the skeleton of my powerpoint done - will finish half by tonight for sure!

Yoon Eun Hye...

I love your hair in these pictures!

I've been drinking a lot of tea recently. Straight up tea - no milk, no sugar. Coffee's strength scares me if I drink it after 4PM 'cause I really can't sleep or have that whole "light" sleep thing going on which makes me exhausted the next day. I'm not very worried about my finals because I think I have ample time to study for it though I haven't been caught up with material since the midterm.. but if the finals are anything like the midterm, then I should be fine. Just more worried about this presentation (Fri) and paper (due Mon) that's worth 50% altogether for my China class. I'm trying this new technique that if I publicize my mini goals, maybe I'll work a tinch harder to actually get them done when I'd like them done. That having been said, I'm going to get half my powerpoint slides done by tonight and finish organizing my notes. I have work tonight though at 6.. but hopefully I'll be able to come home soon.

Currently loving: Ritter Sport Mint Choco + Cadbury DARK Fruit & Nut!
Currently wanting: Hershey Kisses in PEPPERMINT

&

CHANEL 247 "Haute Chocolat" (my Fall/Winter colour)
CHANEL 307 "Orange Fizz" (my Spring/Summer colour)
AND "Miami PEACH"!!!!