Instadump May - July

Instadump....=3=;; before I get super super super backlogged some more and this would be a good check point for me to remind myself what entries I'm still missing...welp...

I dont know if its fair to blame lazyness or simply just not having enough time to do /anything/ I feel I hear this/read this quite often from a lot of bloggers (those who aren't in the whole youtube vlogging deal and just doing this somewhat casually...I still have reviews to do too oops)

But I digress and admit that I've neglected this and a whole bunch of other photos sitting on my lightroom account waiting to be edited (I still wanna try and work on the Tidus photos too but ahaha....whut are those...and the beach shoots......and well con shoots too....goodgawdcanIjustnotugh)

So lets do a quick catchup and check point and hopefully in the next few months I'll be able to be caught up...I also still gotta work on a new layout or atleast a new banner ==;;; kinda getting sick of all the pink lol...jfc. I wish I invested more time in graphics lol...

First of all, I will not be attending J-expo, Yaoi-Con or AWA as I had originally wanted. Bro's getting married in October and September is a clusterfuck of preparation and I still have not looked into wtf i'm wearing and I'm supposedly the bestman.dontask.   I'm really sad and disappointed I cannot go and see friends uwu and with school starting mid August I'll just be thrown into a cluster of not having any time at all. I'll be schooling on Thursday afternoon to evening and then I'll be working on Saturdays and Sundays would be my only days off moving forward till the end of the semester which is in December. Most likely skipping PMX too since I just cannot deal with the lobby con venue...

I guess this is gonna be another comprehensive post going all the way back to May / fanime!?! wow have I really been /that/ far behind omfg QwQ I will try to post entries for each month or atleast for the cons i've attended......wow.....orz;;; this is getting quite ridiculous lmao....

HONESTLY. THANK GOD FOR INSTAGRAM OR ID PROBABLY FORGET HALF THE STUFF THAT HAPPENED OR IT'LL JUST BE LIKE BLURRRRR LOL
its kinda crazy to think we're already in August OvO;;; more than halfway through the year. wow another year another year! thats kinda crazy! Lets keep going!

MAY:

BIRTHDAY MONTH. GRADUATIONS. FANIME! OH MY. I think I did a May post lol but I don'tthink I went I don't think I actually went through and did a real fanime post yet, I'm stil debating on when or how I'll do that, probabl another giant photo dump. I didn't take much BTS photos as I expected or really did much since I didn't have a badge for that weekend anyway. It was still fun nonetheless. I flew up to San Francisco a few days prior to the con for my sisters graduation from UC Berkeley. Whoo. No photos LOL whut. I'll probably throw them on the fanime post lolol...I flew with Virgin America this time and wow didn't realize they had TVs on each seat woah woah woah lol and a really funny music video style informative intro.....lol...yeah...if you ever flew with them you'd know what I mean. But wow I've been spoiled by Southwets free bag check-ins! Oh well. I ended up flying Southwest back anyway so it was all daijobs.

these photos pretty much sums up my San Fran - San Jose weekend.  Maybe I'll be able to do a more comprehensive post on it later... /: ugh fanime post when will that happen...I'm soooo backlogged aha...didn't get much chance to explore SF as I had wanted. We did the graduation then dinner and boba then it was qucikly back to cosplay grind finishing up Popstar Ezreal for sisters bf )': we both were pretty much crunching it till the very last minute >w< but for the few free hours I had, cupcake took me around the city :o and when I mean city I mean Jtown /: and little shit got drunk off half a beer. Weakshit.

Jtown has a severe lackage of asian cosmetics and lashes. I was really surprised /:

I didn't get a chance to take much photos of the cosplayers that were at fanime coz I stayed in the hotel too long, took my time getting ready or was doing other peoples makeup that by the time it was time for me to do mine i was just...tired LOL.
the earliest I've made it out to the con was 2....ahaha...wow... orz

I mostly shot League of Legends and Dynasty Warriors for my sister OvO and her friends.

Checked out the gal gathering. Whoo pretty ladies. Photos to be up on my fanime post.

MET UP WITH TOSHI AS ALWAYS HOLLER. I potatoed most of the time at the con /: it was hotter than I had expected in SJ and I just couldnt...lol I was burnt out from school and etc that it was just a pretty chill con to me and having to meet friends again *v*
Went to some bar to watch some indie jrock cover bands play. It wasnt even a far walk from the hotel. More shots. Imprompt shoots and then flew back early Sunday morning (partly hungover lol as always but I alteast didnt end up in the tub this time)

Ended up editing some photos while waiting for my flight back to SD

it was a super quick flight, painless and easy. No crying babies! I flew early just to avoid all that!

Going through security wasnt too bad QwQ thankfully! It was memorial weekend so I was worried the lines were gonna be bad. I get anxiety flying LMAO or traveling only coz I'm too scared to miss flights shiet.  And I heard horror stories of flight delays with SFO ):

 

This pretty much summed up the most eventful portion of May lol 

hopefully I'll get through all my photos eventually and not forget stuff wow ):

After all that traveling I can pretty much say I want a new suitcase, one that rolls on all 4 wheels not 2 ahaha shit is annoying omg.

JUNE / JULY:

Back in SD I had to stock up on my favorite lashes intime for AX :o
one does not go to AX without an arsenal of lashes (not to mention $10 a pack for playgirl when their normally $15 ughhhh plzzzz and lets face it, everytime I go to a con and drink theres always lashes casualties ahaha. //rips them off and puts them on table and hope I find them again the next day...///

actually all those werent mine ahaha I wiiissshhhh I grabbed 2 packs for a friend as well. But best believe I'd be back for more lol....

the train didnt stop as soon as I got back from Fanime coz AX was just going to be arond the corner and I was determined to finish Dream of Doll WHICH I DID MAKE HAPPEN but welp ahaha she suckered me into doing Delphine too.....==;;;;;

Between Dream of Doll I was also working on K Project props! Well, I tried to but man thats sword was annoying till I found a relatively close looking one from the party store and painted it. Added that little craft foam portion on the handle. CLOSE ENOUGH.
I tried making the knives too but it turned out really that that I was just like. Nope. Not giving it to you. LemmeremakeitbeforeIgiveityoulol so no daggers for Fushimi at AX /:

I didn't book any private shoots for AX but imprompt photoshoots happened nonetheless.
Toshi surprised me at AX too since we were all convinced no show!!! whutttt

and yes I'm an otome game producer and boy band manager now lol

 

 COCO CURRY I THINK IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES TO GO TO FOR CURRY EVEN IF IM TOO CHICKEN SHIT FOR THE SPICEY NESS. LOLOL IT WAS STILL SO GOOD. THAT OR I WAS  REALLY HUNG OVER AND TIRED AND HUNGRY ALSO CAN YOU NOT APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOUR GRUB IS SWIMMIN IN A LAVA FIELD OF CURRY LOL AND YOU GOT WARM RICE OMELETTE HOLLLLLLLLLLERRR. YOU GOT YOUR PROTEIN, YOUR SODIUM. YOUR CARBS AHAHA. Ok I get really excited over curry LMAO

June basically went by a blur honestly, it was all really just a count down TO AX and when AX ended it was pretty much like 'ok wtf, what do now!?!'

Didn't get to see K movie during AX due to some BS but they did a nationwide showing! Woohoo thankfully SD had a showing too but clearly it wasnt as epic as the one in LA uwu we didn't even get a merch booth or any posters to give away /: and wow it was $15 a ticket. hurt much aha....but gotta support the homo kings....from there went to PRIDE. What a hot mess. No one was fabulous at all LOL. I could go on a whole rant but nope nope nope.

 

Overpriced alcoholic beverages (Jaegger shots were like $10 each!?! I asked for Vegas shots and the bartender gave me Jaegger....without the redbull...and when I asked for rebull this is what we got LOL . NOPE. After this we walked some more around the strip and ended up leaving and going back to the land we know; Clairemont the land of Asians and bar hopped lol........

I was suppose to go hiking the following day to find a waterfall for a future shoot but that didnt happen.....==;;;;

 Tea station is a guilty pleasure but so gdamn expensive I had to stop going there and just brew my own tea at home;  currently my favorite brews are Jasmine Apple Green Tea with Lychee. Or just Lychee Green tea (sometimes I add slices of strawberry in there) Very refreshing for le summer!

 I thought about trying to finish Chunli or attempt to see if I wanna brave the con cosplay life again and did a trial run onChunli but it looks like Anime CA isn't happening for me and I cut my hair again (more like the top layers) so lol no Chun Li but iwas fun costesting her nonetheless. A goal!!! I'll cos this someday...gotta train those thundaga thighs though

speaking of cos test I filmed a tutorial that I scrapped and redid it to do a photo step-by-step tutorial for Reira Serizawa! Lots of pinks, champanges and etc but I haven't gotten around to editing them yet either....hopefully...I will get to it too uwu;;; I really gotta hand it to those people who makes tutorials. Its really time consuming and annoying to get the filming technique down; lighting and etc. And when you get that down, you gotta worry about BG music!?!

July proved to be a pretty crazy month in between Anime Expo and Comic Con....

I wasn't expecting to go to Comic Con at all even though its basically my backyard. I have a more comprehensive comic con posts coming up (expect it months later AHAHA seriously though)

I took the kids down there on Saturday and when I mean took them down, throw them to the curb and drive off only to come back a few hours later to grab them LOLOL!!! And I spent the rest of the day/evening to early morning sunday and I mean the sun was coming up early morning.....lol playing league. Check out my ghetto set up with the e-ternet cable running through the door. Thankfully no one tripped while I did that.... /: wireless internet is not reliable when your playing a stream game lol fffffff sister woke me up sunday saying she got me a pass to go so......instead of sleeping I crawled my zombie ass to the con QwQ;;

I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY BAYONETTA 2 IS COMING TO THE WIIU. WHY WHY WHY COME BACK TO XBOX BB YOU KNOW YOU BELONG THERE UGH.

I'll honestly probably end up playing it at someones console coz I'm not buying a Wii-U. 

I remember we bought a Wii years ago just for brawl and after that was over, I was over it.

 I didn't even finish the new Zelda game on it......shameonme...aintnobodygottimeforgames....

 NEW PROJECT! WHUT. AFTER YEARS I'M FINALLY WORKING ON SPIRITED AWAY AHAHA

REMEMBER THE POST I DID BEFORE RANTING ABOUT SPIRITED AWAY!?!

REMEMBER THIS SHOT:

BEST BELIEVE I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP AND ITS GONNA HAPPEN.

I ALREADY STARTED WORKING ON HAKU'S COSTUME HUEHUEHEU AND FINALLY FOUND A HAKU AND CHIHIRO AND A LOCATION.

WE *ONLY* HAVE TO HIKE LIKE...3.5 MILES UP AND ANOTHER DOWN LOLOL....

its ok, this is why we go to the gym right!?!?! lolol....

Before I did mention I cut my hair and babum:

 

 no I didnt shave the side of my head (though I wish I had the balls to do it lol)

and unfortunately my layers were still too long to do a proper fohawk ahaha but maybe someday!? so I ended up looking like a pomp..../: oh well

AUGUST! WHUT. YES WE STARTED AUGUST WITH A BANG

Fashion District trip, doctor appointment in Glendale and then back down to San Diego for a late afternoon/early evening Howl Photoshoot in the span of one weekend!

@w@! head is spinning ahaha so exhausted, getting too old for this yolo shit lol....

school starts pretty soon for me too so I am defintely on lock down from now till the end of the semester in December. No cons for a  while so I decided now would be the time to take on commissions! So I grabbed a few stuff at the FD to get started on a Project K uniform commission and a *another* Howl's moving castle commission. Photos to come soon~ I got a few more commissions to tackle as well and my goal is to finish them all before the end of the year wow...@w@;; with that being said, no cons for me for the rest of the year but lets hope Katsucon might happen??? If not.......oh boy.....matsuri....I'll....be.....back....fuckyouwithathousandsuns....onlygoingcozIwannaseemybabes

ok wow this post took me a while to compile and finish up @w@ so hopefully I can scrub through the rest of the stuff I need to work on and hopefully we'll see more content here.....

AND HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY A NEW LAYOUT OR BANNER AHAHA SOMEBODY HELP. AHAHA IM SO UNCREATIVE LOL OR MORE LIKE I STOPPED GIVING A FUCK.....

and my current jam as I edit photos and just through work:

I downloaded the discography and just have it on shuffle so far OvO;; I think I needed this since i was having some major Uverworld withdrawals and needed some new jams too.

Mayday birthday updates

Forever backlogged and late  to updates. I probably keep going back and saying how I have so much backlogs and draft posts that hasn't seen the light of day... but we'll get there QwQ
Fanime is coming up and I got a ton of commission to finish prior to that. Anime Matsuri has come  and gone and omg yeah I got a post for that coming up too thats probably sitting in draft mode too. A couple of batch photos sitting on lightroom to be edited too and reviews to go through to.wow. the road to fanime is a long one. The road to finals is also just as annoying and long. Thankfully their projects and not exactly paper exams or I'd probably just die. Atleast with projects I can cry about them. Test. I can cry about them but doubt I'll retain much information lol....but in honor of me turning another year older and not another year wiser I'm gonna go ahead and procrastinate some more  on the patterns I need to be drafting and instead, am gonna sit here and write an update...which unfortunately I didn't even finish and left on draft mode so here I am not re-attempting to finish this upahah like seriously, where does the time go? who has the time to do this anymore. QwQ....

But I guess a lot has happened and not happened in the last few months following AM and I guess another of events to come as well in the coming months and summer. *Hopefully* and hopefully like most bloggers, I'll make a sad attempt to be more active. And also, wow I really need to revamp the layout or at least the banner! jeez. Not to mention my own DA account has been more or less neglected uwu.... SO LETS START THE INSTAGRAM DUMP COZ. I'M LAZY!
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So right around the end of last month I finally caved and braved it and got a tattoo! Whoo! I know people have mixed feelings about them but w/e. I got my first one last month and my 2nd one just a few days prior to this entry actually. The first one I got a sketchy design of Vivienne Westwoods iconic logo on my collar bone area and yeah it actually went over my collar bone. I've debated about this for quite sometime (years even - design, placement and etc) and I finally caved and got it! And for my birthday my brother from another mother Ying for me another one! A kanji on my inner forearm that read "戦士" or "warrior/soldier" theres a lot of meaning behind this and I don't feel the need to interpret it for anyone else. 

And its definitely not going to stop there! I got plans for more and bigger pieces in the future *w* 
pain wise, it is as how people describe it. A hot needle dragging across your skin for the most part. Take a sewing needle and do  tiny scratch marks on your arm or a long drag is basically how it feels. The one on my collar bone, I'm not gonna say it didn't hurt but it was definitely tolerable :D I dont know how much I'm looking forward to if I get some intense shading done but nonethe less stoked though. I think the reason why I hesitated this long; well clearly the sad disapproving looks from your parents (it doesnt get any easier the older you get ahaha) and the negative connotation tattoos get throughout society AND to top it off; cosplay (probably?) but throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Also as part of my birthday I treated myself to some LUSH products and I can already say I AM A LUSH CONVERT. GOOD BYE BODY SHOP. HELLO LUSH *w* and more you guessed it, more Westwood! Last weekend I also went to All Saints with a friend and Neeman Marcus and oh boy. Its all over now. I still want more Chrome Hearts (I got a new CH necklace but no photo oh noes) I also want / need new RHS coz mine took a beating through Matsuri but I fixed them with glue aha...

Actually JK. I still like a few products from Body Shop and truly believe in their products but I was looking for a new pick-me up and was getting quite bored or unimpressed with the sheet masks and much prefer the thicket pasty masks coz IDK I feel the grosser it is, the better it is for your skin?! AHA. Well, I use to make my own masks; yogurt oatmeal honey or matcha yogurt oatmeal and etc but was getting tired of having to always mix a new batch. And wanted to try something new. I picked up 2 things; brazen honey and cosmetic warrior.

and samples galore from the Body Shop since that was the first place I hit with the intent on finding a new face mask but I wanted to try 2 different once. typically in a face mask I look for; anti blemish, pore cleansing/deep cleaning and must leave skin brighter and moisturized! Of course theres not a all-in-one product for this so I had to clearly look at 2 different types. But I'm saving these samples (I got the seaweed one and tea tree one from Body shop for Fanime when I travel since I can't exactly travel with the LUSH ones)

The lady at LUSH was  really *nice* I think I met my new skin care BFF lol she was really nice and sat me down and tried samples on my hand and gave me a generous sample of their Herbalism cleanser and moisturizer WHICH YOU ALREADY KNOW I'M GOING TO GO BACK FOR COZ BYE BYE BODY SHOP OVO CLEANSER, HELLO LUSH!

Oh more on the mask; cosmetic warrior is anti blemish- has a funky smell to it but if you're used to au naturale masks you're gonna easily get used to that funk and lets get real, its not that bad.

The next one I got which is my absolute favorite is Brazen Honey, it has almost on it, honey and I think oats?? As per description, great for tired skin and needs for that pick-me-up. SOLD SOLD SOLD. They even have a chocolate one which I wont lie, it sounds deliciously tempting OvO maybe I'll ask for a sample next time I'm there ehehe...

My friend got me my HG primer/pore minimizer from Body Shop. I like this cos it DOES come with tea tree extract so I don't have to worry about my face potentially breaking out. QwQ I've tried a lot of different primers but this is definitely my go to on a daily basis.

and finally caved and got a Urban Decay color (I have the Naked palette but uweee) pot :o so buttery soft. So so so buttery soft. I can see why its sold at a few dollars more than Mac colors.
   

Food pr0n and condensed makeup shopping hauls from the past month(s)

judging doge selfies

and a view of Houston during the weekend of Anime Matsuri

I really did thorougly enjoyed my stay at Houston despite the unpredictable weather

I absolutely hated the con, organization was atrocious

upcoming rant soon

birthday dessert cake ice cream delio :o

I wonder if Hipsters who wear flower crowns ever feel like the Chiquita banana lady?... coz I surely felt like I did...made these last night all for under $3 lol...I also threw some teal spray and glitter on the blue set.  I'm tempted to throw blood splatters on the red x white one....