My weekend outings~

This weekend I went out to a few malls to work on some projects for my Fashion class this semester. I thought I would share my personal photos from over the weekend! Although not of anything from my projects since that's secret, but maybe in the future I'll share them ;)

Since I have had to buy a completely new wardrobe since my surgery, I have decided to start dressing more like the style seen in Happie Nuts along with retaining the VANQUISH style I've been following for about a year. I absolutely adore Nicole Abe since I first saw her in Ranzuki, so I'm continuing to follow her now! Hope you all will see the inspiration in my outfits from now on.

7/7:
Tony and I were originally planning on going to a new market out in LA but we decided not to. However, he had the idea of going to Fashion Island in Newport Beach, CA instead since it's local and they have great people and dog watching there!

Review: Clinique Redness Solutions Daily Protective Base SPF 15

Like many other people, redness is one of my main skin concerns when it comes to my face. I was out at my local CCO (Cosmetics Company Outlet) and stumbled upon this while looking at Clinique products, so I decided to give it a try! Does it really cover up my skin redness?

Some random June LOTDs

It's already July, and now I have to try to play the catch up game with some outfits and makeup shots when I remembered to do them back in June. The pictures with the mirror were taken at school, some of them might be more simple since it's everyday. I love how the restrooms at my school have full length mirrors, which naturally fits because it's the Fashion and Business building!

6/21

Outfit Details:
Shirt: OBEY
Necklace: OBEY
Shorts: OBEY
Shoes: Yumetenbo - I used these in all of my outfits, they're just too comfortable! LOL

Review: Candy Doll Shading Powder + Giveaway!

Hello everyone! If you follow me on my Tumblr page, you might've seen that I already have blogged a picture about getting the new Candy Doll Shading Powder. I promised a review, and here we go! Stay tuned until the end of the review, where you have the chance to win your own.

IMATS Event Report & Gets

I'm such a bad blogger, I'm so sorry everyone! I've gotten caught up with doing summer school and hanging out with friends from out of town. I wanted to make a post of my re-cap of IMATS Los Angeles from last weekend, and also an announcement about my ParaPara panel at Anime Expo tomorrow!

ParaPara Dancing 101 will be celebrating our 6th year being held at Anime Expo! Here is the information about the panel:
ParaPara Dancing 101 at Anime Expo 2012
Sunday, July 1
3:30pm-5:00pm
Location: WS1 (515B)

Getting that out of the way, here's my pictures and experience at IMATS!

Circle lens review: EOS G-320 Sapphire from mukuCHU

Since I'm still recovering I thought I would be a bit more proactive and decided to do a review of circle lenses I purchased from mukuCHU.

Recovery - OBEY Sample Sale this weekend!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to let all of you know that my surgery for Achalasia was performed last Thursday (6/7/12). My problem was slightly worse than what was predicted by the doctors originally, but luckily they could still fix it while they were operating on me. Because of this though, I had to stay another day and I returned home on Saturday afternoon and have been at home recovering since then. I am back to eating liquid foods and will be able to return to eating normal food in about 1-1.5 months! I am really happy about my progression so far, I went from being able to barely walk in the hospital to being able to walk around my neighborhood and feel fine.

I am really happy about how I have been able to recover, and I have two reasons for that. The first reason is that summer school starts next Monday, and if I didn't have the surgery at that time I wouldn't be able to go. That would've not only devastated me but also would've made me one super bored girl at home!

The second reason... working the bi-annual OBEY Clothing Sample Sale! I'm always very happy to work these sales, and now even more so since it's only been a month since I've left my OBEY internship. I'll be posting info and flyers below, so feel free to come! I have sample prices but I cannot confirm that these will be the same prices that will be at the sale since they tend to fluctuate at times.

OBEY SAMPLE SALE
Parking Lot Address (yes you must walk, but beware of Irvine Police since they love to ticket. Follow directions on flyer):
17875 Von Karman Ave.
Irvine, CA

OBEY Warehouse Address:
17462 Von Karman Ave.
Irvine, CA


Sample Price List *UNCONFIRMED* - there will be more items and prices might be different, just to give people an idea of what they'll be spending
Mens:
- Tees: $10
- Knits: $15
- Sweats/Shorts: $20
- Pants: $25
- Specialty Fleece/Sweaters: $30
- Jackets: $40

Womens:
- Tubetops/Bandeaus: $5
- Tees: $10
- Knits: $15
- Sweats/Shorts: $20
- Pants: $25
- Specialty Fleece/Sweaters: $25
- Dresses: $25

- Jackets: $40

LOTD 6/2/12

So I've been pretty depressed about my diagnosis of Achalasia recently and waiting for Monday to roll around so I can find out if I'm going to have surgery this upcoming week or not. If I don't have the surgery this week then I will have to wait until August since my schedule is very tight.

However, I got a package from Yumetenbo (DreamV) today that cheered me up! I'm very pleased with the quality of the items that came today, and decided to wear some of the items I received out to the Carlsbad Premium Outlets. The clothes I got fit well since I've dropped a lot of weight so it gave me some confidence :)

Achalasia

For the past year or so, I've been misdiagnosed and mistreated by doctors. I knew I didn't have your normal textbook definition of acid reflux. I have lost close to 60lbs in less than a year, and right now my health is in very bad shape despite eating healthy and staying active. I was hospitalized recently because I was severely dehydrated and couldn't keep food or liquids in my body. When I decided to take a hiatus on my blog, I went to go seek doctors who could find out what I really had.

I was only formally diagnosed with Achalasia last week on 5/22/12. It is a rare condition that only affects 1 in 100,000 people with no known cause and no cure. The symptoms include difficulty in swallowing, regurgitation of undigested food, chest pains, and weight loss. I am peaking at my severity right now, and am on a self-imposed liquid diet because I can barely take that in as it is. So, what's my solution?

I'm scheduling to help alleviate the problem this week and will be undergoing surgery within the next few weeks. Luckily the surgery isn't too invasive and will have a quick recovery time, just in time for me to be able to work at OBEY's Sample Sale and go to summer school.

It's hard to be ambitious and do what I want to do with this holding me back. Before this disease took a strong hold of me, I signed up for summer school because I only had to take a few classes to graduate in December 2012. If you find the right people to treat you and let them know your schedule for the near-future, they'll support you and do what they can to help. I am so grateful for my new doctor in helping to accommodate my needs.

If I had to say one thing good about this disease, I would say is that it helped me get to my weight goal (unfortunately not in a very healthy way) and helped me be able to have more stamina to exercise and learn how to control portions of food and make healthy food.

Mini hiatus, giveaway winner

Hey everyone! Sorry for being an absent blogger. Since finishing up my internship and school I have been resting a lot. However, I have to declare a hiatus because I have some health issues I need to address within the next few weeks. Please feel free to follow me on Tumblr as I'll make some random updates here and there.

For the Jump into Spring! Giveaway, the winner was Jer.

Also here's a last FOTD I have done. This was done for a contest for Urban Decay, and I created a purple and grey smokey eye for it. I didn't win, but it was still fun to do!