Palty Japanese Foam Hair Color

I'm a hairdresser by trade. I got my license after I graduated highschool, practiced color technician for a few years and quit. Since I still have my license I professionally color hair on the side for my mom and anybody else who asks. I kinda stopped doing hair because I had pictures of what I wanted somebody's hair color to be but then the client would get all scared and my creativity juices would just get killed.

I work for the government'ish now so I've done a 180 since hairdressing LOL

Anyways, I'm always up for trying out new hair color. I've probably tried every drugstore hair color on the market. I have recently found japanese hair dyes. I dropped by a local chinesey trendy store and picked up a box of Palty Foam hair color in custard beige. I can't read japanese so I did my best from the instructions I saw. Afterwards I did some googling and found out I didn't shake the water base properly but whatever~

FYI, I previously bleached out my hair with goldwell bleaching creme with 12% peroxide. And my hair is naturally curly and I flat-ironed it today morning so its looks a bit frizzy.

Here are the before and after pics!

Past pictures of my nails

Its been 2.5 months now since I've had my daughter. It was a rough pregnancy and rough labor and delivery, and a very tough postpartum. Now I feel like I'm coming out of my shell again and wanting to do my nails again just to feel fresh and new. I did my nails a few years ago when I got married in 2009. I had them done every month for a year and I loved them. I usually got gel nails as they were the most comfortable. I had acrylics done once and they were very lovely but painful.

My nails are done by Grace by Graceful Beauty. You can find her work here:

http://www.gbeautystudio.com/

Happy Boxing Day!!

Pregnancy has not been good to me. I pulled my hamstring due to the lack of furniture aka. couch in my mom's basement. I'm 7 months preggos and getting up from the floor since we do not have furniture. Isn't it pitiful?? Anyways I've been handicapped for the last few days, limping around and grabbing my right cheek so I can isolate the muscle as I walk. GIMP!!

What did everybody get for Christmas??

We got Apple'd this xmas, not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing. Hubby and I are on the baby budget so we didn't go all out. I can rely on Hubs to get me what I really wanted, a pair of stretchy yoga pants and a big box of Lush products. yay!!

The Eye of Sauron aka Furfur

Here is the Eye of Sauron

Here is the Eye of Furfur, on top of the refrigerator

looking over his minion, Robert

Pregnancy Klutz

What is it about being pregnant that makes women into total klutz? Is our motor skills running low because we're making a baby??

Ive had countless encounters with near miss accidents since being pregnant, things that would of never occurred if I wasn't pregnant.

For example today, I'm doing the dishes as usual and I spill and entire bowl of water on myself and on the floor. Next I'm trying to pour some cereal in my bowl, then i spill half the bowl of cereal on the table and on the floor.

Lets not mention the near miss swipe of my civic when I decided to dodge the van on my right side and ended up swiping his rear end and my entire right side.

Ugh.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

On your marks, ready, set, GO!

Here I am coming into my 20th week of being pregnant. Its the half way point folks!!

I have to say this week has been one of the sorer weeks. I was home Monday - Wednesday, cramping Thursday and well Friday.. I couldn't wait for the day to pass. Luckily I got to go home early from work cause they were cutting cement right beside the HVAC system and basically it smelled like being in a locked garage with the car running. That is no place for a pregnant woman to be LOL! I booked it out of there fast.

I've been asking the other 3 girls at work who are preggos if they experiencing the same cramping and my suspicions are correct, it must be the uterus expanding. GREAT.

The nightmares and bad dreams have been occurring daily and it hasn't been fun. Last week was a pretty bad one, the one and only time I didn't wake up screaming that my house wasn't being robbed or I wasn't being kidnapped. good lord.

My appetite is still little to non-existant. I have no cravings and if it was up to me, I wouldn't eat period. Eating makes me feel gross and the only point I am eating is because of the baby. blah.

I made some lentils last night because I refuse to eat meat. I loved my steaks rare and my prime rib bloody but during this whole pregnancy, the thought of an animal cooking just makes me hurl. Lets not mention dairy or eggs. errrrrrr.

Anyways I'll leave with a picture of Robert wearing Furfur's hand me down Halloween sweater ;-)

I have RETURNED!!!

Well! Lots of things have happened since my last blog on Feb 22.

First off, during the month of June I thought I was losing my mind. I honestly thought I was going mentally insane. It was to the point where I thought I was being undiagnosed with diabetes.

Turns out...

I'M PREGNANT :o
(and I got a dog!!)

I'm going on my 19 weeks now and things have been hectic. Between all of June, July, August and September, I thought I lived the WORST months of my ENTIRE LIFE. Between not eating, feeling sea sick 24/7, going through hormonal changes, feeling weak, exhausted, fatigued, then working on top of that, then moving to another place, I literally thought I was going to die.

Found out that my mom went through the same rough times as I did when she was pregnant with me. I don't have any cravings and I barely have an appetite but I am sustaining with eating whatever is in front of me. Now I only work 4 days a week with a doctors note cause its just exhausting.

And the dog, we got Robert during Easter weekend when I was going through one of my PMS tyrants. One look at him and I said we had to get him, he was unsold at the random pet store for 4 months. Not the cutest dog but he does have personality. He named him Robert, a no-nonsense name for a no-nonsense dog. He's half chihuahua half shih-tzu but he just doesn't look like anything really, just a wiry brown haired year old puppy. LOL!

Anyways, I will make more of an effort to keep up with this blog as the hubby would like me to keep track of my pregnancy some how.