Hair-speration.

I was browsing the interweb as I usually do, when I saw this beautiful woman and her beautiful hair on this photographers website.

Ugh. And then I got inspired. I love her short bangs. They are so freaking cute. So maybe I want to get short bangs after my hair grows out? Cutting all of my hair off was such an awesome experience and when I was happy with the way it looked, it was even awesomer. So I feel more confident taking risks with my hair. We'll see. But for now I just wanted to save these photos here as a little snipet of inspiration. Ugh, and can we talk about how beautiful her and her husband are?

Such inspiring photography. Couple shoots are my favorite to look at!

Hello, how are you? Like your shoes, love your hair.

I have not been able to put this much of my hair back since I cut all my hair off in April! As much as I love having short hair, its really nice to just pull my hair back, throw on a white tee and some red lipgloss and call it a day. Unfortunately, putting my hair up takes a lot more time and effort then it used to because of how short some of my layers are. But its totally worth the effort.

I kind of took a mini, un intentional break from blogging, because I was feeling all of these crappy negative things. I started keeping a journal to write down all of the crappiness I feel. I want to really make sure this blog stays positive. But I am back to feeling normal again, and so I am ready to post lots of happy things! 

Anyway, gotta run to work, but I'll be back with more happiness later! 

Hair-spiration

So I cut my hair in April, and I really really love the way my hair looks short. That being said, I have now been trying to grow my hair out. My hair is just so ridiculously healthy now that all the of the hair is natural hair with no dye in it (besides my one tiny streak of purple). I am so curious to see how lovely my curls look au natural. So yeah, today I rediscovered my old flickr account, and I found the picture below. My hair is seriously the perfect length in that picture! So yeah, that picture is like my new hair growth inspiration picture. And look at that freaking dress I am wearing - it is so freaking cute! Remind me why I felt the need to return it?!

Purple

Do you ever have ugly days? Days where you just look in the mirror and think to yourself, "how could I have possibly been cursed with such unfortunate genes?". Yeap, well today was one of those days for me. It didn't help that my mom decided it was a good idea to eat at Joe's Crab Shack (one of my favorite restaurants), where I got a meal that was completely fried and when I logged it into my fitness pal I learned that my meal was over 2,000 calories! Who knew?! Good thing I didn't eat all of it, but it still brought me way over my calories for the day. Anyway, the point is that today I was feeling completely unlike myself. So I decided to spend the day in, and do a little pampering. I tweezed my eyebrows, bleached my mustache (lets be real girls, we all have to do it), put a streak of purple in my hair and some purple on my nails. I listened to the wisdom of Carrie Bradshaw on Sex in the City, ate a chocolate chip cookie and drank a frap from Strabucks. Now, I am going to make myself a cup of tea and cry as I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Needless to say, even though today was far from ideal, I was able to turn it around and cheer myself up. Its nice to know that I can do things like that. Although it wasn't all me; thinking about that cute boy from the bakery with the beard made me feel a little better too (;

Just a side note, taking the pictures for this post took me forever, and kinda gave me a headache. Oh, the things we do to have a pretty blog. Just sayin'. Alsooo, my left toenail is shaped so weirdly because it fell off from running and is in the process of growing back. That toe nail is literally 6 months in the making. I can't wait till its fully grown in so I can cut it and make it a regular shape. TMI?

The small things

The weather the past two days has been so freaking lovely! Yesterday I sat outside and ate lunch and just people watched. It was great. It was so nice to be outside for a while; recently I feel like all the time I spend outside is just from walking to class to class. Back when I lived at home, my friends and I would go for walks all the time, plus Maria and I had a 20 minute walk to and from school. I definitely want to try and incorporate more walking into my life. Its such an easy and leisurely way to burn more calories, plus I could really used the serotonin!

Another thing that has been going on in my life; recently I have been feeling like I have no sense of style. I mean sure, I don't dress poorly, but there is nothing particularly lovely about the way that I dress. I am almost always wearing skinny jeans, some sort of basic top and a cute pair of shoes. I don't look baddd, but I want to develop really great style. I just don't know where to begin! Here are some styles I have saved on my computer that I am particularly fond of

1. http://www.selectivepotential.com/

2. I have no idea where I found this picture!

3. http://nicoleloher.tumblr.com/

There are so many others that I love, I just can't find them right now! So this weekend I plan on doing some damage at the mall. But another thing that I have been hating is my hair. I need to learn how to style these lovely locks. That however, I will save for another post!