Spring Break

School's been taking a super toll on me lately...
I scrambled to reach deadlines, mainly with this one painting- but it was accepted into the senior show! So all of those sleepless nights and days of dirty hair paid off! I couldn't take my roots anymore and bleached my whole head. There's this weird spot where some of the purple and pink wouldn't come out, so there's this weird bluish/magenta stain on the side of my head. Anime Boston's coming up and I intend to have nice hair for that, so spring break is beautification week. I'm dying to get my nails done, but alas, I'm broke beyond belief. I intend to live on oatmeal during AB... Thank god for press passes! I have to write a killer article afterward. Planning my outfits... More later!

the world ends and I take a photo with my hair pulled back, crappy energy drink in hand

Darian and Em East Village adventure

So my girl Darian (check out her tumblr!) was back in the City on break after RISD Wintersession (in which she TA'd for this Rad as hell creature creation class). She wanted to poke around Trash & Vaudeville and I was like hell yeah lets fuck around St. Marks and the east village.

Miss Darian

We checked out Trash & Vaudeville, Vampire Freaks, Tokyo Rebel (which we have lovingly renamed Tokyo Rebellion), The Sock Man and Search and Destroy. It was so fun looking around and chatting with the staff. They were all super chill and fun. The dude in Trash was quoting Star Wars and Beetlejuice at/with us. Everyone was super sweet.

Me zoning out

We worked up a sweat in the ridiculously warm weather and then pigged out on bubble tea at T-Kettle.

we both got taro with soy milk

After they renovated they became a sit down place so you either had to get your drink and get the fuck out or get a table with a waiter and drink things in glasses and ugh. I missed the old one where you could get your drink and then just hang out however long and leave. To my great joy, they changed back! So now it's classy looking and chill.

We sat in there for a long time talkin and after a while we were telling ghost stories. I'm a huge wuss so I'm sitting there with goosebumps and my face in my hands freaking out. Har har

I spoiled myself and bought this bat necklace at Trash (the big one! I bought the moon one in Tokyo)

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Odyn Vovk and BESS

photo from Odyn Vovk blog

So I was lucky enough to get to attend the Odyn Vovk A/W 2011 "Spiral" runway presentation, and the BESS dropout party fashion show at Don Hills. I was blown away! I wish I could have one of the BESS pink leather jackets and this awesome black and white cut out dress.

from 24HourPartyPeople

awesome dress photo credit The Worst blog

Here's an action shot of my outfit:

photo by mel!

photo credit 24 Hour Party People!

photo credit me!

photo credit meee

I really need to get this blog going. School and life in general has been rough lately, but WHATEVERR!!! I think I need to make a hair timeline.

MORE SOON

I've been wanting a full-length mirror for a while, and mentioned it in passing while taking a walk with my mom and grandma yesterday- A couple of hours later, my dad finds one with a nice wooden fram on the street(or in the lobby of my building, not sure)! It's big and totally cool. "Funny how that works out!" said my grandma (in Swedish). Today I sanded it and cleaned it- Putting a new finish on it is too much of a pain in the neck, so I'm going to paint it white, and maybe paint something cute on the panel in the bottom. Pictures soon, I'm totally excited.

I'm guess I'm working towards a kind of dreamy, pseudo-princessy feel for my room. Girly but not saccharine, and classy. I'm not going to forsake my nerdiness (I've put away some of my plastic figurines but some are still on display). I want my room to be an oasis where I can relax or focus on work, and be inspired. I have issues focusing and tons of clutter and stress-inducing mess really doesn't help. I arranged all of my stuffed animals into a big giant pile on a corner of one of the shelves over my bed, and it's pretty cute. A good start!

Room Purge

My mom and grandma have been helping me out with a large scale purge/organization/beautification project on my room lately. It isn't done yet, but already looks much better. I had a ton of clutter and mess.

My mom scared me a few weeks ago by making me watch an Oprah special on hoarders. At first I got up to leave and was angry, feeling like she was insinuating that I had hoarding tendencies, when my room wasn't even really that bad. But she made me stay and while I was watching I got kinda scared- what if I ended up like that?

I actually came home around 8 on a Saturday to my mom and grandma completely turning my room upside down. "You came home too early!" I was alright with it and tried to help out, it was kind of a relief, actually. But all of the hustle and bustle in my tiny room, my mom picking things up and saying "can I throw this out? What is it?" started to got to me and I got a huge headache and started to get really stressed out.

However, I was able to be realistic and let go of a lot of things that I had kept for several years and didn't need or want anymore. I guess part of the mentality that I had was "what if I'll want to wear this shirt again?" even if I hadn't worn it in 2-3 years, etc. Some of the items I had a sort of obligation to keep (party favors, bad gifts...), and in general I just felt overwhelmed and somewhat helpless to go through all of the things.

My room's looking great so far and I'm really grateful to my mom and grandma. I'm still working on going through things and either keeping or getting rid of them, and organizing what I've decided to keep. My next big project is my giant bookshelf that has tons of unused room. I'm thinking of taking some books to Book-Off and a local used book store to see if they'd want to take some of my unwanted books. Okay, messy-room-rant over.

Woah new blog!

I've decided to make a separate style/beauty etc blog! I don't exactly want to post outfit shots and hairdos and related things on my art blog- I feel like it'd be kinda inconsiderate to those who are just there to see my art, and I don't want to bore anyone!

I made this hair related post on my art blog the other day.