Nails of the Week and identity theft??

I'll start this off with a thank you to JYZ for mentioning me on her award on her page =) http://makeupbyjyz.blogspot.com/

Anywho, so I've been a little busy lately with work (as usual). I've also been in a "spring cleaning" mood, even though it's fall. I've been rearranging my room, things from work, and pretty much everything... and I'm even working on myself (hitting the gym three times a week and eating healthier). So I decided to get one of those nutritional shakes and hit up ebay because it's hard to find places that ship to Japan. Well, it's been weeks and I haven't seen my package.

Fishy? Well get this, I went on to cherryculture to buy some NYX lipsticks and my card was declined, I thought something was wrong but I ignored it and thought of it as a sign not to buy things (it was like past midnight so I was sleepy anyway). Then, I went to the grocery store to buy stuff for dinner and again, declined and a message came up to call the card company to confirm my identity or something. Well it turned out someone got a hold of my info and made online purchases! I don't know how much it all came out to be, but apparently it was traced back to Greece, Norway, and Sweden. wtf, right?? The shakes I ordered were from the UK... So I need to wait like 3weeks for my new card =( and I can't use the ATM either in the mean time. Talk about inconvenience... What's more is that Cheryculture.com is having a 25% off everything sale =(((

anyway, here are my nails for this week. One hand has a black manicure, and the other is white. I saw this in a picture and thought it was simple and cute!

So anyway, I'll leave you guys with, please make sure you are careful when making online purchases. I always felt like "yeah these things happen, but it won't happen to me", though I know that's stupid. 

I thought I was being careful and I always check the reviews of the seller... Anyway,

Hope you guys are having a great week so far =)

my "come on Japan" pic of the day

I was out checking out shoes when I saw this sign. I honestly didn't even know what they were trying to say and read the Japanese writing and busted out laughing.

It basically says feel free to ask the staff for your size... but that is NOT what you'd get from that...

 Seriously, "please ask staff for help" would have been enough and that's not too hard (... especially when they learn English at from grade school -> high school... smh)

LoL

Retail Therapy!

This was something I had wanted to post last week but procrastinated and now I have even more...

But I'll keep this shoes only and keep the clothes off this post... Feeling way too guilty for my purchases....

So anyway, I got off my "makeup" obsession and on to shoes this month. 

Here are my favorite new purchases from this month =)

The first stop was Esperanza, one of my favorite shoe stores in Japan =) These were part of the new arrivals, and I have been looking for something that either had a platform, low heel, or chunky heel because it's hard wearing heels all the time when you don't drive... and have to walk everywhere (or use trains).

These had a bit of a platform, heels aren't too bad, and well they were just cute =) 

Then after being disappointed that they just sold out of the cute ankle boots that I wanted in black, I went to another store (Oneway) where some other pair of boots caught my eyes ***

These also had a platform and they were pretty comfortable and 10% off if I got another pair of shoes from that store... Perfect excuse for me to buy them and another pair ;)

So I got these, and they were already on sale to begin with. They are very "Japanesey", but I thought they were cute, especially because of the deal and went for it!

The last pair I got wasn't from Oneway but I threw out the bag and forgot what store it's from...

It's still in the same 109 shopping mall but I don't remember what store...

They DO have a platform but the heels are ridiculously high!!! 

Seriously, look at it compared to my wii remote controller... 

Anyway, that's it for today =) Hope you all are having a pleasant week!! I am definitely feeling the urge to go shopping, so let me know if you guys have some online stores that you like! 

Nails of the week

It's summer!! I have graduated from University, but I still find that I have no time to day anything =(

Well now that I'm done with school, my work hours increased and well.... I basically only have free time on Sunday. YET I made sure to do my nails today like I do every Tuesday, so I figured I'd post this =)

I've also been wanting to show the pedicures, because I've been doing a lot of nail art with them as well, but it always seems weird to show feet, especially with feet like mine...::sigh::

Anyway, this is what I did today. Just something with summer colors like gold, orange, and blue; and also flowers =)

Hope you guys like it. What have you been up to this summer??

Smooth Feet for the Summer time!

So we all want smooth skin all the time, but honestly we all know our feet can start looking busted once summer rolls around. Why? Sandals. Wearing sandals and flip flips has definitely taken its toll on my feet... and so before I start feeling ashamed the next time I go to get my feet massaged, I decided to do some damage control.

First things first, yes, I lotion my feet everyday. But during the summer sometimes parts of my feet gets hard, or gets callouses I guess. My heels might look a bit ashy or dull... and well, it's just not a cute look to have.

So you can use a pumice stone, exfoliate, etc etc,
but here are my favorite things to do when I feel like things are gonna start getting outta hand.

For major damage control, I use this:

I'm sorry it's crooked, but even when I rotated it before uploading it just keeps getting uploaded this way...

I can't figure it out! anyway, as you can see by this gross close up below, it's like a foot peel.

All you do is soak your feet in the plastic sock provided full of some liquid for an hour or so, and then rise it off. In a few days, your skin just starts peeling off.. I know this may sound gross to some of you, but it doesn't hurt and your old dead layers of skin just come off like ::snaps:: that!

So after you feet are baby soft again, for the upkeep, I just moisturize it daily as usual but I also use this scrub from lush. It's called the volcano foot scrub in English.

It's great for those days when you wear heels or sandals because it's just sooo soothing. I leave it on my skin for sometime and wrap it in saran wrap. Then after a few minutes I use it like a regular scrub and rinse it off!

What are your tips for keeping your feet soft during the summer?

My first gig being a "mua"

So it was really crazy, as you can imagine.

I did the make up for the models in a promotional event a few weeks ago. I've been meaning to post about it, but so much has happened in the last few weeks.

Anyway, 

the location was really nice, the people were cool, music was pumping, etc....

But before all of that, it was a fiasco getting things together. 

Of course, it was a great learning experience for me and I am now prepared to handle things better the next chance I get! 

The product were were promoting, if you cannot tell are these slippers full of bubbles that are all the rage in Korea and other parts of Asia. And now it has come to Japan!! lol

Yea, at first I thought the bubbles were a bit O.D.... but they have indeed grown on me now. So anyway, I was told to do a "bubble inspired look", to make it dramatic, and colorful....

So here were the looks that I had practiced/played around with a few weeks before the event.

They were "rough drafts" so please don't mind the eyelash that's falling off etc lol!!!

Unfortunately, somehow as with all events, the schedules got a bit mixed up and crazy and I was given about an hour to do a dozen girls' make up!! Luckily the girls were all so helpful and helped out =)

It was fun and I'm definitely thinking about doing this more often!

Here are some pictures from the night!

....setting up.....

these are the slippers!

everyone's having a good time!

fierce!!!

Hakuhodo Brush Giveaway

SO I decided to do a Hakuhodo Brush Giveaway. I've raved about this one brush of theirs and got comments about how it's not cheap or easy to get outside of Japan. Although I'd like to give everyone a brush, I'm no Oprah....I can only afford to give out one brush at a time...lol

So anyway, I explained the 2 simple rules in the video, so I hope you enter!