Day Thirty-Five -- She Comes In Colors

Today's blog post is going to be brief in the writing department but chockablock with pictures. The main reason the typing bit is short is because my "m" has run away. All the m's in this post is copied and pasted. trying to remember to hit Ctrl+V every time I need an m is a bit cumbersome... I suppose I could've used a word that used less m's there... silly me.

Today's activities ranged from cleaning, goofing off on the computer and dying my hair. I did what I said I was going to do by lightening it and then putting in the purple dye.  talk about fading fast... All I did was do a conditioning treatment after rinsing out the dye and a lot of the purple came out leaving me with what I have now... a weird combo of red and purple.

I kinda like it though.

You can definitely see the purple better than before when I didn't lighten it first.

With it pulled back you can really see the red bits.

This one was added just for laughs. I think I will use it as my Facebook profile picture.

Day Thirty-Two -- She's Like A Rainbow

First, a quick observation: Today is the first day that I won't be able to rely on the day's date to remember what day it is in my blog-a-day progression... Now on to the blog entry:

Not feeling so hot today, such a bummer. I had plans to go to Kristine’s for a crafty day and I was looking forward to showing her the beads I got from Dollar Bead and tell her why I’m not buying from them ever again. (I’m going to be doing a post about that on my Ooh! Shiny!! blog soon) Would be fun to see Liz again as well, but I was, and still am, feeling crappy. So tired of that and I wish I knew what to do about it.

Last night I finally did my nails with the Seche products I got recently, and also a couple of coats of Gelous, a non-UV light needing gel coat (as the Doctor would say, I kinda let that sentence get away from me). And I am so happy with the results. I won’t say much about it as I said quite a bit in a previous post, but I will say that I went to bed only about 5 minutes after I finished my nails and I woke up the next morning with not one smudge. And that’s with the Gelous which takes FOREVER to dry on its own if you want to use more than one coat. Oh, and that “lost cause” bottle of Seche Vite, turned out to be just fine. I put a bunch of Restore in it and shook it a bit, then left it alone for a couple of days thinking it wasn’t going to recover, then yesterday I checked it out and it’s like a fresh new bottle!  Okay, enough nail talk or else I’m going to turn this into a straight up beauty blog. OOH! Great idea! I think I’m going to see if I can have a couple different pages on this blog, maybe I can have a beauty product review type blog… that might be fun. That would require me earning more money so that I can buy other beauty products. I can even interview other friends and ask them about their beauty regimes or products they like/don’t like/etc.  We’ll see. Though I am spreading myself kinda thin between this blog and the professional one, though that beauty page would just be a part of this one and they would still count towards my blog-a-day entries (my blog, my rules.)

I did go to Sally’s today and got some new stuff for my hair. I got a new, satin sleeping cap, a cholesterol conditioner and some shampoo samples. I also bought some hair bleach and developer because I want to try the purple again but with lighter hair. It’s just such a shame that purple fades so quickly. I’ve used a ton of different temporary/semi-permanent red dyes that lasted a lot longer. Hell, when my hair was green (was supposed to be blue) the color lasted a lot longer with purple. Now I know why people with purple in their hair lament so. Seriously though, every time I wet my hair even a little bit, the purple was coming out in dark drops. Still, it’ll be nice to have bright purple hair even if it lasts only long enough for me to get a good picture of it. I’m going to work on that next week. Maybe I’ll do that on Monday. 

For your viewing pleasure, above left is my fingernails looking fabulous in black! And on the right is a picture of Tardar Sauce, AKA Grumpy Cat, that I cut out and taped to a jar of Tartar sauce... I crack myself up.

Day Twenty-Six -- A Day In The Life

Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up, I noticed I was late!
Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke and somebody spoke and I went into a dream…

Wait a minute. That didn't happen to me! I need to stop channeling John Lennon. Hmm, how did my day start? Oh yeah. I got up, rather early considering I had gone to bed less than 5 hours beforehand.  I decided to work on some jewelry (spent way too much time on the computer, but for good reason in some cases) before going to the bead store in Newbury Park (ask me where that is and I’ll just give an ambiguous nod and say “that way”) I took care of some business and packed a few things for the road and finally got to Kristine’s after some delays. When Liz got there, we all got in the Baa-Van and went to Creative Castle, the bead store (there were a few other stops but that’s irrelevant to the blog.)

exterior of  Creative Castle

It was a nice place but I have to say that I liked The San Gabriel Bead Company (SGB from now on)  better, at least for what I wanted. This place had a lot of pretty vintage beads, but that was not what I was looking for. For the kind of seed beads that I use for the main project I’m working on now, I get a LOT more for the money at SGB. Nonetheless, I was happy to find something that I didn't know that I was looking for. Earlier this month, I was trying to make some earrings and I just wasn’t feeling it. Something was missing. I believe I’ve found it at CC. I found glass spacer beads that are like the neat metal spacer beads but in cool colors. I thought some were rather pricey but I did find some that worked for me. I can’t wait to use them. I bought a couple little baggies of black seed beads only because I needed them now and also some Magatamas (a neat type of bead) because I want to see what I can do with them. My bag was sadly tiny, especially for the amount of money I spent,  but that’s okay. At least now I know what’s out there and have an idea of what I should plan on getting if I ever go there again. I should say, the next time I go there, because I’m sure Kristine will invite me again and 1. I can’t resist beads, even if I’m just looking at them, and 2. Car rides with Kristine and Liz are pretty fun. So even if I didn't need anything, I’d probably go along for the ride. BTW, CC had a lot of tools and books there that I definitely have to check out the next time I go. All in all, if I’m going to be completely honest, I’ll say that the place was nice but I wouldn't shop there for the type of seed beads I was looking for. Damn, I feel like this should be on my Ooh, Shiny! blog. Maybe I’ll link to it one day soon. I have to catch up with that page.

Lastly, I know those of you who read this are wondering, “Hey, where are these purple hair pictures that we were promised?” Well, for some reason, for the life of me, I can’t get pictures to look how I want to lately. The coloring is wrong, the lighting is bad, it’s blurry… sometimes, and often, all of those in the same picture! So anyway, since I couldn't come up with a good pic of me, here’s one of me with a facial cream on my face while eating broccoli:

I figured that if my camera is going to INSIST on
taking bad pictures of me, I'd give it something
to really work with.

I hope you enjoyed that. Anyway, I’m off now, and remember: Feed your curiosity! Questions or topic suggestions are always welcome in the comments! 

Okay, seriously though, this is the best one, and it's blurry.  The cool thing about it though is
the AWESOME scarf that Liz made and gave to me because she thought it looked hot on me
AWESOME!
Comment below if you agree that it's awesome :-D
(or for whatever reason you choose.)

Day Twenty-two -- Purple Haze All In My Brain... Well, Close Enough.

So, I did it. I have purple hair. Unfortunately, I waited too late to take pictures, so I don’t have any nice pictures to share right now. I will describe it though. It’s a little dark (hell, it’s seriously dark!) for my taste but as the day went on and I played with it a bit, I decided that I like it. I wonder what it will look like when it fades a bit. I also wonder how it would look if I had lightened my hair more first. I might try that one day.

At this point, I would like Kanye West to interrupt my blog by saying, “I’m happy for you and your purple hair and I’mma let you finish, but I have to say that if I hear one more news story or comment about Beyoncé lip-syncing the National Anthem, well, I’m just gonna flip the fuck out!” And to him I would say, “Preach on brotha!” I mean, who cares and why is this news or a big deal to anyone (except maybe Ashlee Simpson lol)?

Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system (kinda, sorta), I decided that I have to get out of here tomorrow. I think I’m going to take some work to Starbucks to do some work there, or maybe the library. I need to air out my brain a bit and the walk there should do that and I definitely need a change of scenery. I also have to get into Valentine’s Day mode and also work on those spring Pantone colors. I’m pretty excited about those. Though now I realize that I haven’t spoken about that on this particular blog. For those who don’t know, Pantone puts out a color forecast for Spring and Fall of the colors that are going to be prominent in fashion and such. Each season, I try to make jewelry using all of the colors of the forecast for that season. This time, I want to try to get them done before the season actually starts. I have just about 2 months before spring starts so that should give me plenty of time.