Happy Girl's Day/R33 Day

Today March 3rd (yesterday in Japan) is Hina-matsuri (雛祭り) which means Japanese Doll Festival also known as Girl's day. People will display dolls of the emperor, empress & their court.  It consist of seven platforms which are covered in red cloth.  This is the first time I'm celebrating girl's day in Japan.  Back home my mom would give my wiser & I some goodies like chi chi dingo (sweet soft colored mochi), arare or kakimochi (small rice crackers covered in shoyu), or colored puff rice (sugar coated puffed rice).  Whether I celebrate it like we do in Hawaii or Japan hope it's a Happy Girl's Day!!!

Also this week is Skyline week.  On March 2nd it was R32 day, yesterday R33 & so on.  If you aren't familiar, I'm talking about cars.  The Nissan Skyline.  So a few people including us decided to drive down to Daikoku-futo PA to see what kind of cars showed.  But it was a fail and the night turned out a bit different than planned.  We got to the PA but it was blocked off so we decided to go to another PA which we ended up losing most of the group on the drive there.  Once we met up with them again we found ourselves lost.  Eventually we ended up with four cars (including us) going off our separate ways to try to find a PA to go to.

We never made it to the PA.

Around or before 12 all was in favor & we began to head home.  The night wasn't a total waste but I can't say I have any footage for you though.

Clip in extensions

Back in December I took a short trip back home.  When I was there I scheduled to get my hair done by someone that has been doing my hair since freshman year in high school.  I was planning to go for color streaks that I've been wanting for years.  But my hair dresser really didn't want to damage my hair.  Plus the procedure would have taken long.  So I opted to get some extensions instead.  I was never one to ever have extensions.  So it was something new.

I purchased these extensions from hairextentions.com.  They have a wide variety of wigs, clip ins, real & synthetic hair.  There were no problems with the order & they were shipped quick.  They are easy to clip in your hair without having to worry about it falling out.  It easily gives a fun look to your natural hair.  If you do have longer hair that I do these clip in's may not be long enough.  The specific ones that I purchased are 16"easiLite human hair clip in color.  It's one piece as show below & is about $8.00.    

Although I prefer to have my hair colored instead of having clip in's.  I think that this was a great alternative because I can change the way my hair looks everyday.  I'm always looking into changing things up so overall this was definitely the best choice.

The blue is the most vibrant color out of the three I chose.  

PS3 controller inspired Look

If you couldn't tell by now I love to play video games.  It's something I can do for hours.  On the 20th of this month my husband & I celebrated our anniversary.  We had a COD themed wedding which inspired me to put together this look.  It's also nice for the spring.  I hope you enjoy!

Link to tutorial here: Click here for tutorial

Link to a teaser video of our entrance/first dance:
Click Here>> Our COD Wedding teaser

Pasword: COD


Products used:

BH Cosmetics
-1st edition 120 palette

Urban Decay
-Primer Potion in Eden
-Naked 2 palette
-Cannonball mascara

NYX
-Jumbo Eye pencil in Milk

MAC
-Viva glam gaga lipstick

Benefit
-Hoola Bronzed

Nars
-Orgasm blush

Canmake
-Cheeks & Cheeks #01

Make up for ever
-HD foundation

Gradient/Ombre Nails

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are having a nice valentine's with the ones you love.  And if you don't celebrate valentine's I still hope that you are having a wonderful day.  I created a really easy nail gradient tutorial a couple days ago.  Instead of making a gradient on each nail I decided to take all the nails to create one gradient/ ombre.  This is quite simple but you can create some really nice combinations.  Here's a shot of it below as well as the polishes used.

Products Used:
-OPI Mermaids Tears
-Susie N.Y. #04 (Japanese brand)
-Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Mint Sorbet #340
-AC #44 (from a 100円 store)
-Sally Hansen Double Duty Base/Top coat
-Seche Base

In My Red Soles: A Night Out

Add a little twist with fun leggings!

Taking a Look at Nihon: Tama Drive

My husband, our friend & I would take 2 hour drives up to Tama Hills.  Driving for me is freeing.  Being able to enjoy it with people that you enjoy being with makes it that much better.  We would stop along the man made lake, as well as in this one parking lot where we would stop to walk around.  These pictures were taken months ago before both cars were sold.  Now we have different cars & haven't gone driving up in the hills for a while.  What do you do that clears your mind?

Taking a Look: Hot food

Every where you go you'll find vending machines for drinks or cigs (I don't smoke).  You can also find hot food dispensing vending machines.  Especially at PA's (Parking Areas).  You place your Yen in the machine, pick the food you want, it'll heat it up & dispense it.  They have yakisoba (noodles), musubi (what we call rice balls in Hawaii or onigiri in Japanese), & other goodies.

In Tama

At a PA