I Lava Coming Back.

Today is a big day.

I'm moving back into my house.  Okay, it's not my house- I rent it from my grandmother, but it is the home that she grew up in.  My mom was here all the time because she grew up 3 houses down.  I was here all the time to visit my great grandmother.

It's a BFD of a house.

Last night I also came home in another way.  It's kinda superficial but lets face it, we love it that way too.

I pulled my hair back to blonde.  Or something like that.  It's actually this really golden orange.  I was gonna put some "normal" blonde dye over it but decided I like looking like Princess Peach right now.  It's a futhermuckin goal of mine.

Check that off yo' bucket list!

So without further ado (and because I'm gonna get bitchcrazy about the house in a later blog I'm sure) here's the hair.  And my makeup.  Shit, like I'd forget that!

First of all, the before.  I made it small.  It's so last week. Psssh!

 I used Color Oops to get the red out, and it worked pretty well for not being super harsh.  My hair feels a little dry but not completely traumatized- the box even says you can turn right around and dye your hair the same day, so that's kinda badass.  It didn't remove all of the dye, but it's way better than dark freakin' red meets superblonde roots.  I panicked because my roommate told me I looked his age- my roots looked gray not blonde!  Panic, right? I can't be THAT OLD.  

I'm hoping he reads this and knows I'm being a total dick about his age right now.  It's out of love, I'm sure.

Anyway, leave the stuff on your hair for 20 minutes, rinse for 20 minutes.  That's right.  Hold your head under the stream of water for 20 minutes.  Talk about an arduous task.  I am a big fan of splash and go showers, I don't like to use more water than I need and I'm a mom.  Any shower taking more than 7 minutes is a shower that opens up too much opportunity for toddlers to ruin everything.  

Apparently Color Oops does something that makes the molecules that hold color clear (uh, what?) and while it's in and when you rinse it it just washes away. Okay.  

It works, I'm happy. And I'm back to normal.  Ish.  

WIWT Makeup

Benefit Hello Flawless

Cover Girl brow pencil (someday i'm gonna do something about my brows.  Promise.)

Tokidoki Momobella blush

Eyes

Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin

Urban Decay Ransom, Graffiti and Peace

Sugarpill Dollipop (just in the inside corners)

Tokidoki Candycane everywhere.  I love the stuff!

Cargo HD blu_ray Mascara

Lips

Lined with Sugarpill Dollipop

A dab of Lime Crime Airborne Unicorn

Slathered with LORAC Multiplex 4D (You can get this and another pretty color for $28 here.  One usually goes for $22.)

WIWT - What I Wore Two Days

In January, my vibrant friend Aurora issued a challenge to myself and another friend of ours, Jennifer Emerling to take this adorable Miss Alphabet dress and style it up in this friendly fashionblogwar. 

War on.

 

WIWT

Miss Alphabet Dress

Xhilaration cardigan with sequins!

Uniform leggings

Jacqueline Ferrar bow heels

Fortune Cookie necklace from Claires

Teapot and teacup rings from Claires

Rhinestone heart ring from Stella

Justin Bieber hair clip made by the unstoppable Cho

Makeup:

Urban Decay Woodstock

Urban Decay Fishnet

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Lime Crime Circus Girl

Cargo Blu Ray Mascara

Lime Crime Airborn Unicorn

Benefit Hello Flawless Powder Cover Up

I loved the way this dress made my boobs look.  I don't have the most gigantic boobs, so the fact that it made me look like I did was a winner winner tofurkey dinner.

I also loved that the dress matched my BIEBSY clip.  Fuck yeah, Bieber.

The night started at Iron Bird Cafe where I me up with Cho, Nicole and Michael and I scarfed down an Animal's Revolt wrap before Pecha Kucha started.

We then dodged raindrops across the street to Fulton 55, which has the best bathrooms.  Ever.

And I took one last shot before Cho and I confused, and then rickrolled the Pecha Kuchagoers.

DAY TWO! A bonus.

It was sunny, and I had new leggings.  Bam.

WIWT

Arizona sweater

Bow sunglasses from Claires

Denim Skirt... no clue what the hell it is...

Mixit floral leggings

Tim Lincecum On Your Neck pearl necklace (made by me)

Gray TOMS
Makeup:
Nothing but Benefit You Rebel Lite

Michael and I went to Woodward Park and got progressively more and more winded as we walked directly up every hill we encountered.  So we sat on shit. Like trees.  And rocks.  With plaques on them that have the Frenchs mustard logo emblazoned upon them.  Yeah, we were confused too.  

Weird fucking Fresno, that one.

I Lava WIWT: Sepia in NOLA edition.

I was in New Orleans this last weekend.

That alone is enough to send me forth in a beignet-fueled fury of LAVAblogs, what a city.

And I'm sure this trip will just keep LAVAing up here and there, but for today I'll be keeping it simple.

I decided while in New Orleans against color.  See, it's a colorful city- beautiful, neon, shimmering, painted and old.  So I could never take a photo with my shitty camera and shitty skillz to match, say, a postcard, so why bother?  But Sepia... well I've been on this pretentious kick lately, and I doubt than anything could ever be as pretentious as taking an entire vacation's worth of photos with the sepia setting on my camera.  Keatonesque to the MAXXX.

So what did I wear?  Well it was conservative- I was at a business conference all weekend after all.

Dress: This is why blogging from not-at-home doesn't work.  Name a Target brand and it might be it.  Maybe Merona? Shirtwaist.  And its purple graybrown. 
Tights: Duh.  Worthington leggings, clearance uniform.
 Cardigan: Black with sequins- Xhilaration
Shoes: TOMS, Gray oh wait, they really are.


Makeup- Well it doesn't fuckin matter if its in sepia, does it?  You can bank on some serious Urban Decay all up on this mutha, though.

Elevators are really great places for photos.  The Chateau Le Moyne didn't have the most amazing elevator, but it worked its magic anyway.

6 months of depression (wait its more like 9 months now) and feeling less than amazing has really affected my posture.  Time for holding the head high and regaining confidence.  Oh, that's a lake-thing back there. 

I'll have more from my trip to New Orleans later, but that's a huge undertaking and coming back to Fresno was akin to a slap in the face. And her name was "What the hell kind of reality am I living in, anyway?"

I Lava WIWT: Fulton 55 Edition

 Also known as It's my party and I'll Bieb if I want to.

Yesterday was my birthday.  Headed to Fulton 55 with the best friends money can buy a girl could get naturally and by no means of bribery whatsoever.  It was the Motel Drive show, duh!  Their last show I showed up to and left after a few songs because I was held tightly in the icy-cold grasp of the bug that would not go away.  I am pretty sure I coughed phlegm on this nice boy who I led me through some awkward dance moves. (I can't actually dance other than interpretive karaoke at The Brig.)  So in other words, I was ready to rock(abilly) my ass into 28.

We started at the Iron Bird Cafe and I had a Cosmopolitan.  Lavender in my coffee served in a martini glass. It's a dream come true.  And Patrick Contreras was playing, BONUS.  And Cho got us Dusty Buns Bistro.  Um, can you say Fresnorgasm?  This was just the pregame.  The tailgate party, if you will.  

 

 Fulton 55 is this great venue right across from Iron Bird.  I like their bathrooms.  Don't expect any other review of the place.  This is a What I Wore Today post, it's entirely about me.

Cho is the best dance partner.

And Burg partner

What I Wore:

Skull Anchor Rock Steady Sailor Dress
Xhilaration Sequined Cardigan
Those special leggings I love so dearly
I need new shoes.  I wear these Jacqueline Ferrar shoes everywhere.  Some day they'll fall apart.

Justin Bieber feather hair clip made by Cho
Flower clip made by me
Veggie Burger made by Denny's

Makeup

Eyes:
Urban Decay Eye Shadow Primer Potion
UD Fishnet, Ransom, Honey, Peace and Shag, with a little of my what the hell is this pink color I own, will it turn my eyes to stone?
Cargo HD Mascara

Face:
Make Up For Ever primer
Cover Girl Mineral shit
Some other translucent finisher.  I don't know.  I just put it on.  What the fuck ever.

Lips:
Urban Decay Revolution
Cargo Reverse Lip Liner
LORAC Multiplex 3D lipgloss

I Lava WIWT- Sunshiny Day Edition

 It is a gorgeous day today so i figured I'd grab a coupla snaps of my outfit while the kids played with rocks. yes, rocks. 

 Loitering at my Mom and Dad's house while they're outta town. 

 

In between is where I fit best right now anyway.

Dress:  Made by my mom because she is amazing.

Cardigan: Old Navy

Tights: Worthington, clearance.  Part of my uniform.

Shoes: Mossimo and cheap as heck

Sunglasses: 5 bucks from a street vendor in Las Vegas.

Makeup: 

The usual suspects.  Of course. Limecrime Circus Girl, Cargo HD mascara, nondescript pink color, Lorac multiplex 3D.

I Lava WIWT- Karaoke Night Version

 Inspiration: Girl Scouts button down shirt. 

 

Maybe a misguided troop leader, maybe a secretary who just can't get over the fact that each thin mint is only 38 tasty calories, which justifies the whole box- my outfit for the Brig meant business. 

Girl Scouts Shirt: Stolen from Aurora

Suit: Jones New York, also stolen from Aurora, who thrifted it.

Legs: Shredded hose with the backseams

Shoes: Jacqueline Ferrar

Makeup:

Eyes: Stila It Girl trio

Blue Ray HD mascara

Lips: Manic Panic Vampire

Lorac Multiplex  Vivid

Manic Panic liner

I Lava WIWT- Smog Cutting Gas Station at Twilight Edition.

I managed to find myself dancing in the lap of luxury this weekend when a shop-accident-handful of my friends and I ran to LA. 

Friday was all about karaoke in a dive even divier than The Brig.  It required a special ensemble.

 1. It had to move with me.  Karaoke is serious business, one cannot go into it without stretchy fabrics that breathe.

 

2. I'm definitely in a Ke$ha phase of my life right now so it had to be just hoe-with-tons-of-STDs enough to allow me to act crude and crass.  I'm still a prude deep down under all the layers of skank, so it also had to be pretty much full coverage.

 

3. The makeup had to be fun and cray-cray to keep up with the beers that just magically appeared in my hand all night.  Thanks, Chuck!

Dress: B-Wear, red

Tights: Worthington clearance, black with gold flecks

Boots: Airwalks, originally intended for my White Mage final fantasy getup.

Clip: handmade by my crafty ass.

Makeup: 

Lips: Manic Panic in Vampire

 Cargo Tobago gloss

Eyes: Lime Crime in Circus Girl

Torrid Pink

Cargo HD mascara

Saturday night was the Pollstar Awards, hosted by that guy from Singled Out, so the outfit needed a touch of class.

 Again with the Ke$ha, I channeled My First Kiss and gold lipped my way around downtown LA.*

 A little shoulder skin was important to me as skulls and bunny rabbits.

The important thing about this outfit is that I didn't mean for it to happen.  The dress was found at this mega thrift store that Aurora took me too earlier in the day, the sweater was something Aurora had in a bag to be taken to Goodwill.  The tights are my trademark black with gold flecked.  I brought two pairs with me on this trip- good thing too.  It all came together and then I abandoned the dress I had planned and went for the gold.  I was my own damn award.

Later in the night, Laziness prevailed and I switched from gold lips to pink.

Dress: Express- thrifted for $5.99

Sweater: No clue, but it's BAD ASS. Swiped from Aurora

Tights: Worthington.  Clearance.  I have 5 pairs.  Well, 4 now.

Shoes: Jacqueline Ferrar

Makeup:

Eyes: Lime Crime in Circus Girl

Torrid Pink

Stila in Lamé and Kitten

Cargo HD Mascara

Lips: 

Gold: Lime Crime Diva eyeshadown applied over Cargo in Tobago

Lorac Multiplex gloss in 3D over it.

Pink: Straight up Lorac Multiplex in Vivid.

I just got the Lorac glosses.  New LAVA!  My lips were still sparkly the next day!  OMFG.

LA, do you miss me?


*Not downtown.  Just a gas station before we got to downtown.  Holla!

I Lava WIWT

 

Yesterday I got into the Christmas Spirit for our drive down Huntington Boulevard, a historical neighborhood here in Fresno that decorates with pretty lights all season, followed by a night of crooning the regulars at Wednesday night karaoke at The Brig.

So down to business.

What I wore 12/22/10

Christmas Sweater- Gift from my mom a few years back.
I <3 Timmy shirt- Purchased from JR's Sports
Christmas Skirt- Bought at an indie craft fair. $25 and a Christmas tradition for the last 6 years.
Boots- Airwalk, purchased at Payless to go with a White Mage cosplay in 2005.
Red Tights.

Lincecum On Your Necklace, made by me.  It also broke.  So I won't be making any of these to sell on account of my ineptitude when it comes to jewelery.  Fuck!

Makeup:
The Usual on the eyes.  Limecrime Diva + Torrid pink shit.  A little Nars Emmanuelle to make the pink a little bit more shocking.
Face: Alice Shimmer, Cover Girl Mineral Powder
Lips: Manic Panic Vampire Red

I Lava What I Wore Today Blogs

So I'm gonna start doing them myself.

12/18/10

Dress: Mystic, $30 purchased for BFF's wedding
Jacket: Rave, hand me down from other BFF
Shoes: Jacqueline Ferrar, $40 purchased for my sister's wedding.
Tights: Target, $5
Bow Headband: Forever 21, $2.50
Tall Boy: Miller Light, gross.
Girlfriends: High Dollar.

Makeup:
Eyes:
hot pink from nondescript Torrid packaging
Diva- Limecrime
Mascara- Beauty Rush by Victoria's Secret
Lips- Avon Viva Pink

Face: Cover Girl Mineral loose powder

Body and Hair: Alice Body Shimmer.