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.)

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!