another fotd

Just a quick post with today's FOTD. These probably won't be done too often since I'm trying to save money and really only go anywhere on the weekends.

No need for makeup if I'm just going to sit at home in my pajamas all day.

 Taken via Instagram. 

Here's yesterday's Instagram photo while I'm at it.

Mall haul posts, Ulta Beauty haul posts, an update on my bedroom, and more coming soon!

friday is british professor day + fotd & ootd

First day back to school in years~

It was a long day, but I'm ultimately glad to be back and to have homework and sit through super long lectures.

That being said, what are the odds that both of my professors today were British? I was seriously like...hm...wtf? Makes for interesting listening, though they're both completely different kinds of people.

Anywho. Here's my first day of school FOTD and OOTD:

 For some reason my makeup never looks the same in photos. Wearing a cheap pair of Sassie lashes that I doctored with the Ardell accent flare lashes. Not too visible in this picture, but I do have one with a better look at how much bigger they make my eyes look.

Big difference, no?

And here's the OOTD. 

Please do forgive my awful camera quality. My actual camera's battery died while trying to get a shot so I had to settle for my cell phone. Everything I'm wearing here is from my recent mall haul.

Top, skirt, boots: Forever 21

Stockings:  H&M

I've got an Ulta Beauty haul coming in the mail, too so I should be able to try a wider range of makeup looks soon. I really love the gyaru look so I'll keep trying to improve!

haul preview

I went crazy at the mall today; primarily at Forever 21 and H&M.

Here's the pile of stuff I'll show in detail later:

In my defense, I had pretty much nothing to wear for the fall/winter! I lost about 20lbs (about 9 kg) in the past year so everything I own (excluding my shirts) doesn't fit well anymore.

Also, most of the clothes I was holding onto were just....old and ugly. ┐('〜`；)┌

I look forward to sharing this stuff with you!

i'm not dead yet!

I haven't even gotten started!

Currently I'm in kind of a transition phase in my life. For the past four years I've been in a state of limbo...lazy and dispassionate about everything and not amounting to much of anything.

It's pretty much been me, my computer, and my couch.

Sort of embarrassing looking back on those years and realizing that I wasted almost half a decade doing pretty much nothing...

Originally, I had lots of goals after high school. I got into the art school I wanted to go to, made lots of friends, and everything felt like it was all on track. Unfortunately, paying for school became a problem after just one semester and I felt helpless. Someone had taken a credit card out in my name before I'd even turned 18 and I had really bad credit because of it so I couldn't even get a loan to help. I did try to dispute the credit card, but it was denied and I was stuck with it...

The school I was going to did nothing to help either. They wanted their money (that I didn't have) or I could go home...so I did. After that whole ordeal I was ready to give up on school and just live with my mom, my computer, and the couch. I actually did for four whole years. Instead of going to community college and trying for some scholarships, I convinced myself that I had no options and there was nothing to be done about it.

I worked on and off, here and there, and spent three years in limbo.

Last year is when things really started to change for me.

I got a job at Uniqlo on 5th Avenue in NYC and I loved it! I'd lived a pretty friendless and lonely three years and to have a chance to start over and make new friends was amazing. I enjoyed my job, loved my co-workers, and had a good time helping out customers. It was then that I decided it was time to dig myself out of this hole and start living again.

I quit Uniqlo in June for various reasons, but I still want to stay in contact with the good friends I made while there. After that I decided to get my ass in gear and give myself some goals. What goals? Well, a few but I'll probably mention them in another post.

Fast forward to now and I'm jobless, but back in school and holding onto the money I saved for dear life. I feel like I can do anything now and 2013 is going to be an amazing year for me.

This post is way longer than I wanted it to be, but I had to get that stuff off my chest in order to feel like I can actually start blogging. I don't have many readers right now, but I look forward to posting lots of fun things and meeting all sorts of new people!