Today's Hair: 2/3/11

On Monday I decided I wanted a little bit of a change with my hair, so I called up my stylist and made an apt to get my hair flat ironed on Wednesday. As usual the whole ordeal took about 2.5 hours and since my hair is a little longer now, I felt like I was there forever and a day. This time a around I wasn't pleased AT ALL with how my hair came out, which was a first. I am usually very happy with how my stylist does my hair but yesterday was a fail. She kept saying the reason why my hair wasn't holding a curl was because I need 1/2 inch cut off and I was not about the let her cut that much hair off. As you all know, I am trying to grow out my layers and I rather not have her keep cutting it because then, the layers will never catch up to each other. Don't get me wrong, I am all for trims but not when I feel like I don't need one. Anyway's I wanted a wispy, fun style that didn't leave me with "grandma hair." Since my hair is still in that awkward in between stage the wrong hair style will have me looking like a 60 year old woman in a 21 year olds body, LOL. I didn't want that BUT for some reason she could not get my hair right. I honestly think it is because of the length; I find that she is awesome at really short hair or really long hair-not so much the in between stage. I was also taken back because she kept saying my hair wouldn't lay right because "I am natural" that is so not true but I let it go. I left the salon very disappointed, I kind of felt like I wasted my $65. When I got home I played with it a little bit and finally made the the style she had given me wearable. I put the back of my hair in a ponytail and clipped it up with a hair claw. I left my bangs out around my face and when it was all said  it look cute. Thank God. See pics below. :)

Elise Estrada- "You're So Hollywood"

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Random: Old Picture

I came across of picture that a friend of mine took over a year ago. I completely forgot about it. I as wearing Nubian Twists, which I had gotten right after my BC. I wore them for MONTHS! The twists look like dreads and I really love the look. If I was to have dreads, I guess this is what I would look like. :)

Today's Hair: Flat Twist Out

Today's hair was simple, I washed last night and stretched my hair with a blow dryer. I then twisted my hair in medium sized flat twists. I used Original Moxie's "Just Gel" for some hold and a little Kinky Curly on my ends for moisture. I noticed that my hair is GROWING. My last trim was months ago and I feel like my stylist took off a lot of hair. She also trimmed the back of my hair to give it a shape when I wear straight. It feels like it's been FOREVER trying to grow out that "mini cut." My hair also grows in annoying layers and lately I have noticed that the layers are finally catching up to each other. I snapped some pics; some are below and the rest are under the jump.

I swear I have the FRIZZEST hair EVER!

Looks fine in the A.M. but by noon its a mess, LOL.

Mike's baby photos

I was feeling stressed out coz I know it's time for me to fart out a new blog entry but erm... I blame it on my eyelash extensions. My beautician, since she is closing for CNY, did a 3 layered lash thing for me so that it won't all fall out before the 9th of February when she reopens.

Digressing there was a CNY when a big CHUNK of my lash extensions came loose. Ok fine I plucked it. It was right smack in the middle of my eyelid so imagine having a hole there!! A 1 cm hole!! CAN POKE A FINGER THROUGH.

Since the salon was closed and I cannot escape not seeing anyone on CNY day 1 and I can't remove the rest of the extensions myself I cut off ALL LASHES INCLUDING MY REAL ONES.  

(Did I blog about this before?? I've been eating Gingko nuts at every possible occasion but my memory is still abysmal.)

Everyone thinks I'm mad crazy/brave to have 1mm eyelashes but I think MEH! There's always falsies!

And no it's a myth that lashes will grow back thicker and longer after cutting them.


So yes back to blaming my lashes for not having a blog entry. They are mad heavy so I can't bring myself to photoshop my photos! It's very tiring ok!! *ahem*

As I was looking through my unpublished camera's uploads, I saw that I took a lot of Mike's baby photos from photo frames in his grandma's house so I thought they would suffice for a blog entry!

Somemore best, don't need to photoshop!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

Ok before I proceed to Mike's baby piccies I have to talk a bit about myself. I cannot help it, my self-absorbedness is too strong.

That day I was asking my mom whether I was an ugly child. It was really sad coz she hesitated a little before answering and said, I quote, "Not really lah."

CCCBBBBBBB!!!

I never realised it but I think I was mad hideous as a kid FML. Whenever people meet me they always commonly say "Wah she looks like Japanese".

This was back in like 1989 or something so it's not the chio gyaru Japanese but like the white-faced small-eyed kinda Japanese. (I'm not saying that's a bad thing)

I always felt that that's a compliment but now that I look back upon it, I think it's coz they have nothing better to say and they can't bring themselves to say I'm pretty or cute!! Coz I was not!! I was mostly sweaty with mushroom hair. But I was fair. So people always commented on that.

I asked my mom why nobody ever said I'm pretty + gave her a :(

She replied that it's coz I'm always seen with my cousins who have ginormous eyes, dimples, non-mushroom hair and didn't sweat that much. So "of course" nobody said I'm pretty.

FML!!!

Why couldn't Momo have hung out with friends with uglier, sweatier, mushroomier kids???

I wonder what it's like to be a parent who knows that your kid is not a looker. As a preemptive measure I'd probably say to everyone who just met my daughter "Yeah she's not pretty but her grades are not bad/she can play the violin/she just got 97/100 for her maths test" so that I'd save them the trouble of having to dig out a nationality to praise her looks.

Or I could just watch them struggle. When someone finally says "Your daughter? So cute/pretty!" I'd yell "HYPOCRITE!! LOOKS IS NOT EVERYTHING, OK?!" and huff away. LOL!

Mike's mom didn't have this problem.

In green: Mike. In blue: Second oldest brother Daniel. In red: Third oldest brother Paul.

Baby Mike with chio Mom in background

He was born blond!

That button nose is just too much, I wanna bite it!

Check out Mike's teeth. He has super perfectly straight teeth now (HATE HATE HATE) and I asked him before if he had braces and he said no.

So I yelled "You lied! You had braces!" when I saw the photos and he was like... "I didn't. My wisdom teeth grew out and closed up that gap."

Don't hold on to me, just let me jump off this building. The world is SUPER unfair.

His brother Paul has super white blond hair!! I might have mentioned blond-ness too many times. Erm therefore also check out Mike's brown hair. And my hair's roots which are black.

Mike with his cousins

Ok this was when Mike became kinda fat in high school!! LOL!!
But he sibeh act handsome!!

(That's his dad and youngest brother Jacob)

BONUS!!!

I took a photo of a photo of baby Ryder, Mike's cousin's son. He is so super cute if you don't go AWWWWWWW you are not human! Behold:

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Too precious!!!

Photo of adult Mike checking out his old photos and probably wishing our future kid looks like him instead of me.




p/s: Just in case people say I'm racist for posting my husband's family's baby photos I also post one Asian baby photo.

This one is ok only, would be better with blonde hair and blue eyes.

KIDDING!! KIDDING IT'S A JOKE!!

Don't be so uptight it's Chinese New Year! And look, babies!!

The Beauties-"Friday the 13th"

Did this one along time ago, great project, lots of fun.
6 Hours of make up & hair laying on just the Werewolf (for 2.5 seconds on film, lol)

"Carolina"- Christina Maria

Make up & Hair by Devon Baker
assisted by Juhli Conlin

So much fun guys! Thanks!
-Devon