on the go: new haircut & grocery shopping

so YES, i took the plunge and chopped all my hair off!

as you can see from the before haircut footage, my hair was just getting so unruly and unmanageable! i think i was a little too excited to get my haircut the first time (at this salon) and i should've not kept the length. by leaving it long, and then thinning it out so much, the shape of my hair from the back just looked so ODD! even for my face shape... so when i went back to the same salon, i asked Mina (not the same person who cut my hair the first time) to cut it all off. she even commented, "there's too many layers!" i agreed. so she basically hacked off the ends up to my shoulder-length layers and then started cutting and trimming slowly. after she flat-ironed my hair, she thinned it just a little bit because at this length, without thinning, i would immediately have mushroom head. so i'm still going to need to flat-iron my hair anyway, which is not a big deal.

as much as i loved my long hair, i probably should've kept it thick and not heavily layered or thinned... but the only drawback is that it would be so extremely heavy. if only my face was a bit thinner, i think i could've pulled off the thinned hair look. but i'm not so i need to stop fooling myself. LOL i am much happier with this cut and i think in a couple of months, i'm going to go shorter and ask them to thin the back a bit more so i won't get mushroom head so quickly. i hope you know what that means... "mushroom head"... when your short haircut starts to grow out, your hair just sits on your shoulders and then just balloons outwards and not fall over your shoulders to the front or back just *on* your shoulders. thus getting that mushroom head look. i can already tell that i'm going to get it soon because my hair grows so fast. that's okay. this haircut only cost me $25 with a $10 tip. it doesn't break the bank like my haircuts used to when i went to ULTA.

so i'm very happy with my new, oldie but goodie hairstyle. it feels great and i'm ready to wear my summery clothes (but i'm not ready to deal with the summery, sweltering hot weather here in TX). thank you so much for all your sweet comments on the video and on Twitter. you ladies rock! xoxo Kathleen

new haircut! (and it was the best $25 i've ever spent!)

i'm sooooo happy with my haircut! i know it probably looks the same as before, but believe me, it's so much lighter and thinner, and i have a lot more volume at the crown! i can't wait to start curling it and experimenting with it. LOL

i can't believe i only spent $25 (and i gave him a $10 tip)... it was just too good to be true when i had been spending 3-4x that amount at the salon i had been going to for the past 2 years. i'm sure it's also because i got my hair highlighted as well... but i'm not going to do that anymore... too much upkeep! i am anxious to get back to my natural color. more of it is now showing after this haircut. there's just a few more chunks left and in a couple more haircuts, they will be gone. i could just dye it, but i don't want to damage my hair even more.

my favorite part of the haircut are the layers framing my face. my hair now has shape because of that! my new stylist just kept on cutting, cutting, cutting... snipping, snipping, snipping. i didn't even want to look down... but when i did, i couldn't believe how much hair there was! it didn't scare me... but i was just a little surprised. i will definitely be going back to this salon. i might go shorter next time. we'll see. xoxo Kathleen

FOTD & haircut talk (... again!)

just a quick, short video today showing how i used the tarte smoulderEYES and emphasEYES eye shadow sticks. i love them! they stay on so well & hardly crease! i just use my fingers to smudge and blend them out. so easy peasy!

so i made my haircut appointment at a new salon for tomorrow at noon. i'm actually excited for this haircut because it probably has been about 4-5 months since... i just checked my calendar... my last haircut was back in August!

i have some pictures to show my new stylist and i hope he can adapt them to my face shape. i hope he can live up to my expectations (based on the reviews i read on Yelp). i am just dying to get rid of all my split ends and get my hair back to my natural color once again. (also, please excuse my ginormous pores... i really need to fix that... i even exported the video in large (480p) instead of HD (720p) and you can still see them. my pores are a result of having extremely bad skin back in middle school and high school where i was plagued with severe cystic acne. yeah, gross. fortunately my skin is on the mend... i'm extremely happy with the way it looks right now... it's 1000x better than when i started using Murad in June 2011. i hate looking at those pictures. anyway... xoxo Kathleen

FOTD & haircut question (featuring Coastal Scents Beijing palette)

i decided to use my MAC Craving lipstick in today's face of the day. i bought it a long time ago when Emily/EmilyNoel83 had it in a shopping list video and then she featured it as one of her favorite lipsticks in her recent Emily Awards. the lipstick is very pigmented and bold on me and i'm just not used to seeing myself wear this type of lipstick/color. i'm usually a brownie pink type of girl... but i have a lot of lipsticks and lip glosses that range all sorts of colors. i asked my husband how i looked with this lipstick and he said i looked really nice (but then again, he's probably biased... LOL). i think it looks nice on me, too, if i do say so myself.

so onto my hair... the hairstyle i like is one i found of Ashley Olsen... i know she has a different face shape than me, but i liked her hair in this picture (the seventh one with the blue background)... i'm sure her hair is way thinner than mine and she does have some soft waves... but that's the style i'm going for. i don't think my hairstylist will agree to chopping my hair in short layers closer to the crown, but i'm just sick of my hair being this lifeless. i just don't want to get rid of the length. i know it's just hair and it'll grow back but to get my hair this long, it took a very long time as i feel my hair grows very slow. we'll just have to see what i come home with next Wednesday. xoxo Kathleen