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All White Dr. Marten's

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Street Style (guesstimating this is taken in Japan)

Breezy Monday

 

 

I am really disappointed in my hair. I mean, I was expecting some of the actual ombre look to appear; it's been over a week since I got my hair done. But hey, putting that aside, hello Monday! Now that school's over (since June 4!), and summer has begun, Monday's are quite lovable now- students don't want to set each other on fire anymore! Yay. I didn't do much today except go out and run a few errands here and there. One plus of the day- we went to Target, and I was looking through the bag and purse section, and found a decent versatile faux leather bag! I couldn't get a picture of it because I bought it later on during the evening. In the outfit, I wore a basic maroon sort-of-crochet-croptop, some high-rise h&m shorts, new levi's light wah jacket, new black beanie, and after a long time of not wearing these, I brought out my doc marten's. This is my first time wearing them out in the summer, and I think I like the way they look on bare skin rather than over pants or leggings in the fall and winter. I also tried to use minimal jewelry (thinking that this outfit was already loud enough, though looking at it through photos, it really isn't that loud at all). I wore my silver cuff, vintage silver clip-on's, and. my gold ear cuff, which isn't shown.

I don't know why, but I always feel so invincible whenever I put my ear cuff on. It's like a lucky charm or something, not that it's given me any luck that I've noticed, but I just feel that the ear piece really does start and finish a look splendidly. I need to get myself a silver one now!

Trip down to a Lily Flower Garden

It was this Wednesday, that we went to this random garden in San Bernardino, in a big mansion/rich area. There was a name for the garden, but I sadly forgot it and will get back to it when I ask my mom later. It was a rather small garden; similar size in like a housing ground. The place was literally in a neighborhood. So, I'm assuming that the owners of the place lived near around in that neighborhood... Except us, there were very few people at the garden, maybe around 2 other visitors, and then gardeners out about doing their job. Our original plan was to take a trip to Universal Studios that day, but my dad's body ache was getting a bit worse so we decided to go somewhere with an easier take for him.

For a private/independent garden, I think they did a pretty good job at this place! Asian-inspired Lily garden

They say that Lily's are almost like miracles. My mom was telling me how a Lily's life is a great metaphor for people who go through adversities in their life, but in the end, they bloom into wonderful people or do wonderful things. This parallels the Lily flower because Lily's only grow in marshy/dirty types of waters. They're not commonly or ever found in clear lakes or other clean bodies of water. This represents that even through the most unpleasant, ruthless, and vague times, something will still be able to bloom into splendor. I find this thing to be really cute and encouraging to keep in mind about Lily's and life.  

 

a busy bee that looks like it's totally devouring that little flower...

They also sold some classic Asian fish at the garden! When I approached the tub to take a closer picture, the swarm of them swam away to the othe side of the tub... lol.

On the way home, passing by a street of endless humongous mansions *___* and also this in the middle of the road. Pretty, eh?

Ombre Up & Down

rings- (from left to right) forever 21, gift from a friend, jewelery stand that comes a few times a year at Costco (silver).

A perfect summer day; the temperature was about 28-32 degrees celcius (80-85 fahrenheit) with pure blue skies, and I spent most of it indoors, yes. Haha, but I was out bright and early for my physical education summer school class. We ran a mile today, and my calfs are still a bit sore- yay. Besides that, I decided to play dress up and brought this outfit up. It's been a while since I've gone out in public with my fringe up and off my forehead. I felt pretty naked... (lol). Here, I am wearing my trusty chiffon button-up from American Apparel; this top is the most versatile thing ever since my loafers which I also wore. They're my dupe for the UNIF hellraisers, and I think I did the right thing in getting these Steve Madden's over the hellraisers. These are a bit more toned down from the edgy-ness, and I will probably wear them for a long time until they wear out. The spikes are on more of a gold-ish tone, and they are blunt spikes. I had small bites of jalapeno's with my dinner tonight, and I just iched my nose, and now my nose is getting that spicy sensation... Now those are pretty hot jalapeno's! Back to the outfit, I wore my new lime-green dip-dyed shorts from XXI, which added the perfect amount of color to this outfit. Ombre head, ombre shorts- cool stuff, man.

New Hair! Welcoming Ombre

Ombre - it is a French word, pronounced om-bruh. I know that many people confuse the pronounciation as om-ber, or om-bre (which would be the better attempt at the pronounciation), but I just wanted to state this because I find it important. Back to the point, this is basically the process of making hair, or anything really, as a blend of dark to light with no harsh lines among the different level of shades. It's become a very popular trend ever since back in late 2010, and has thrived to this day! I finally decided to really give it a try myself, but not literally, I got it done progessionally. Because, I honestly couldnt trust myself with bleaching my own hair. As I believe, there isn't any other way to achieve the ombre look (unless you have very fair hair) unless you bleach you hair. I've read a lot of comments and questions adressed to other women who have ombre'd their hair and posted the tutorial on YouTube. Many viewers asked if they didn't have to use bleach, because they didn't want to damage their hair, but most of the time the answer was no. In my own experience, yes, this process is damaging, but personally, the bleach didn't harm my hair as much as I thought it would. I was expecting very frizzy ends and broken ends, but fortunately I got very minimal damage. Even my hair stylist said so! My advice, if you really think that the bleach will damage your hair, test it out on a small strand of your bottom hair. If the outcome is satisfactory, get crazy!

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My hair two days (if I can recall) after ombreing/bleaching it. I got this done professionally at a Korean hair salon down in Los Angeles on Saturday June, 2nd. The stylist lady told me that I would have to wait around 7-10 days for the colors to get to a gradation, a.k.a. the whole ombre look.We shall see...

Hair update: Exactly 4 days and a half since I got my hair done. Not much change visible... My hair is beginning to get that "fake" looking blonde hair at the tips. Some strands of the blonde are getting a bit shiny, but not in a flattering way; it kind of looks like Barbie hair. I have to say, I am quite disappointed to see no change yet... Since it was my first time doing anything this BIG to my hair (I've only had highlights when I was 9, and red highlights at 13), I guess I will have to wait probably 2 weeks or so to really see some improvement and the gradation.