Let's Try Again

Well... here we are nearly half a year later and my blog has unchanged... been untouched, although I do appreciate those randomers who take the time out to read my reviews, it makes me hopeful :)

Once again, there's been so much crap going on it's ridiculous, I guess it comes with aging? Blech, what an awful thing to come from a 20-something year old! Anyway, with everything going steadily uphill after crashing (and still burning) a few times, I want to get back to blogging. I still have quite a few drafts floating around that need to get completed soon, so I'll get those out first. If I had to summarize how my life has been going...

• New boyfriend
• New job
• Apartment searching (for the end of this year)
• Hopefully no more slacking in school (which begins Monday!)
• Many other random things

To start, I want vlog about this 10-day Detox for health and weight loss, nothing but green smoothies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 10 days. No sugar, soda, fried foods, processed goods... nope.... nada... I think I'm gonna give up by day 2! XD but I want to track my progress, as well as give insight to anyone interested :) 

Don't worry, I plan on picking up all the fun make up stuff soon, anytime I buy something I think "Wow, I think I'll blog about this!"... and I eventually end up playing Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, I hope to get some drafts completed and uploaded soon, I promise <3

Bye for now!!!

Note the Blog Changes!

Hey everyone! And Happy Super Late New Year!!!

I've done a lot of reflecting already this year, and decided to make some big changes to this blog! I know what you're thinking: "Didn't she say that LAST year?" I most certainly did, but I never took into context what my revamped blog was going to be like. I've decided that this will NO LONGER BE ABOUT ME WANTING TO BE GYARU (for now). Period. I've realized what stopped me was the fact that I never knew what to post that was remotely gyaru related, so why even try? I have been putting lens reviews and hauls on hold simply because it has no relation to gyaru. Now, does this mean anything I post will not be gyaru inspired or related? Nope. Does this mean I'll stop reading gyaru based magazines? Nuh-uh. Does this mean I'll cease all purchases from Japan? HELL NO! You may as well kill me by then, I've studied and read too much into this style to just drop and walk away. So there will still be influence from this style, but nothing major.

With that said, I just want to give an overall idea of what's to come:

Natural Hair Journey (and some, not-so-natural hair adventures!)

Fashion, Weight Loss, and Health Journey

Beauty and Makeup Journey

And here are my posts that are still in the works!

1. Kawaii Claws nail review
2. Aphogee Protein Treatment
3. Dolly Plus Grey Circle Lenses
4. First Aliexpress.com (mini) haul

I think this will be the basis of my blog/vlog journey, I'm so excited to make a fresh start, and I hope you are too!

Take Care~!

Alicia 0.~ (I'm thinking I might just start using my name in these posts lol)

Christmas!!! *Tag*

Hey Everyone!!!

Happy Holidays are upon us more or less and I am beyond excited for 2014 to arrive! How about you? Any resolutions? Promises? Winter vacations? SHOPPING?! 

I just finished raiding Bath and Body Works for mini gifts for my co-workers, I hope they like it, that place is NOT budget friendly (unless you have a coupon o.~).

This year, I'm trying to give back to all my friends and family who have given to me all these years, so people I normally have sent a card to will actually be getting a token of my appreciation. It slams the budget, but it feels nice to have the money to do something I've never done before for all the special people in my life :') and I have all the packages on my floor to prove it lol

I digress.

As we approach this lovely holiday, I wanted to do as promised and make a Christmas Tag post, with a total of 12 questions in all. Naturally, this tag is open to ANYONE who wants to join in on the Christmas fun!! Now, onto the questions!! 

v How do you celebrate Christmas?

Ø Most of the time my family and I get together at my Uncle’s house for Christmas dinner, which I think will end up being the new tradition since my Aunt and Uncle have a bigger house now to fit everyone!

v What does Christmas mean to you?

Ø Being a Christian, it’s an important time to reflect on the world’s greatest gift of all, the birth of a Savior. Sorry to those who believe otherwise, I wish to not offend anyone J

v What's your favorite part about this time of year?

Ø THE FOOD!!! This time of year always gets to me just because it’s THE most perfect time to eat amazing home cooked meals!

v What's your favorite Christmas memory?

Ø I can’t remember how old I was, maybe around 10 or 11, my brother and uncle had put their money together to buy me a keyboard, I loved that keyboard and practiced often, too bad I lost the skills to prove it L

v What's your favorite Christmas movie?

Ø Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, every year, between October and December it’s all I wanna watch!

v What's your favorite Christmas song/carol?

Ø Anything, and I mean A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G. sung by Michael Buble` (this font doesn’t have an accented e). I love his voice to much, he could sing the dictionary to me and I’d still be happy!!!

v What's the best present you've ever received?

Ø My brother helped me pay for my first car, you can’t really beat the gift in independence lol

v What's the best present you've ever given?

Ø ME! Jkjkjkjk lol, hrrrrmmmm…. Giving my mom money for her little ‘senior trips’ is always the best, she’s so cute at the casinos with all the other little older folk |

v What's the worst present you've ever received?

Ø The infamous Grandma sweater… I kid you not, this sweater was hot pink, with lime, blue, and white accents plus a turtleneck with its suffocation mode turned on. Someone had taken a picture of me a long time ago with me wearing it, the look of misery in my eyes was obvious, and I hated that thing with a burning passion of a million suns!

v What's the worst present you've ever given?

Ø Nothing, I mean that there was a year that I didn’t give anyone anything, except maybe a few cards. I felt so guilty that year, especially since I was on a constant shopping spree.

v What's the one thing you absolutely must have this year?

Ø A Playstation 4! I would loooooove one, I wouldn’t get rid of my 360, but I wish to return to Sony, because all my friends have online accounts with Sony instead of Microsoft.

v Have you made your New Year’s Resolutions?

Ø Grow my hair out even more, February will be year 3 of having natural hair, I’m really excited that I’ve come so far. I definitely want to lighten it a few shades and go over it with purple still, or I may just buy this one wig I’ve been eying that was reviewed by a favorite YouTube channel of mine

That’s twelve questions I think J again, this is open to everyone! Message me or post in the bottom, I want to read your responses too! I've been so into the Christmas spirit, I've been practicing holiday themed makeup and here is my current result with what is supposed to be green eye shadow and red lipstick, sadly the green doesn't show to well but whatever, it's still pretty!

Happy Holidays Everyone!!! 

Kaida Hime |