Archive for March 2013

Wrote by Nicole

Ootd for tonight's birthday. Happy birthday to me! #fashion #ootd #outfit #outfitoftheday #victoriassecret #dress #turquoise #dinner #birthday #birthdaygirl #lookoftheday #coordinates #formal #curvy #girlnextdoor

Dress: Victoria's Secret

Arm candy: Taiwan

I finally did it. After 20 long years of having waist-length, chest-length, even butt-length hair, I went ahead and cut my hair short.

Isn't that how most long hair girl said it whenever they have a life-changing haircut of their lives?

However, two decades is a long time to adopt a change.

Day out with my new earrings and contact lens. #chanel #accessories #jewelry #earrings #chanelearrings #colorcontacts #camwhore #ootd #outfit #outfitoftheday #lookoftheday #coordinate

Why I did it? It was getting heavy.

Yea, and I suddenly realized that after twenty long years. -.-

Secondly, do you have having long and heavy untrimmed unlayered hair causes hair fall? Yea they do grow back, but then those baby hair can be so annoying when you're doing an up-do.

And the amount of time it takes to wash them! I swear I have spent at least double the time of an average short hair girl in the toilet just to shampoo and condition and comb out my long hair. It's even more exhausting after every swim, what with chlorine-rich water making my hair extremely tough to detangle and comb out.

Turquoise and pearl #ootd #lookoftheday #outfit #outfitoftheday #turquoise #pearl #victoriassecret #dress #coordinate

It was one of the reason I put off swimming and going to the gym (sweating means washing hair more frequently) most of the time. It's not an excuse, it's how much I dislike washing my heavy hair.

NOT ONLY it takes forever to wash them, it takes forever for them to DRY. Like normally I put off washing my hair in the evening because I don't like to go to bed with a half-dry hair, I would just wake up with my hair all messed up and FIXED in that messed-up do.

And then it will take forever for me to blow dry them out.

It takes forever to curl them, style them, etc. The list goes on.

Erm, I should do a separate post on why long hair is no good. NO GOOD.

During the last of my long hair (before I went to cut it), I no longer bother to curl or style them, I usually just tie them up in a low pony tail, or leave them in their natural straight form.

Ootd. Juicy Couture Sally Dress. Judith Leiber sunnies. Chanel earrings. #lookoftheday #outfit #outfitoftheday #ootd #fashion #juicycouture #sallydress #judithleiber #leiber #sunglasses #chanel #chanelearrings #earrings #accessories #jewelry

A look at the full length of my Juicy Couture dress today. I accidentally bought it at a size bigger. No return for international order. #juicycouture #ootd #outfit #outfitoftheday #lookoftheday #coordinate #fashion #dress #floral #floraldress #judithl

Dress: Juicy Couture

Shoes: Charles and Keith

Earrings: Chanel

Watch: Fossil

Sunglasses: Judith Leiber

So I did it.

Lo and behold. I've never seen my hair this short since I was 12 years old. It's a new era. My stylist laughing at me shaking his head, he looked like he more heartache than I am having chopped off my waist-length mane. Lol @number76style #hair #mane #hai

I cut it short. All of the length.

Duffy from Tokyo Disneysea, that night after I cut my hair right before bedtime.

In fact, I cut it twice.

I played with this length for about a week, and being not too happy with the length, it was still somewhat long, I went ahead and cut it even shorter. I will share more photos of that here in another post.

Excitedly, I started styling it almost immediately. Velcro rollers and all.

Following this hairstyle, I played with a lot more hairstyles before I proceed to go for a shorter length.

Will be sharing more photos soon.

This was a very matured Japanese look which I adored in most matured ladies in Japan. I wanted to try it out and it turned out brilliantly. I could see myself in this hairstyle even well into my 40s.

Used Velcro rollers to create volume for a mature look. #newstyle #newhairstyle #hair #haircut #cute #cutehair #newstyle #hairstyle #hairvolume #sexyhair #sexy #mature #velcro #velcroroller #velcrorollers #rollers #curl #haircurl #curlers #curling

It actually wasn't that bad even for my age, because after half a day, the curl loosen up and it looks younger and more natural, most importantly, it has VOLUME (long hair girls will understand this), and still looks feminine!

Viva la short hair!

Wrote by Nicole

It's good to be able to dress up, go out and hang out with my friends after two months of sabbatical.

Since I had a little (ok, a lot) online spree while being home bound, I ended with a lot of new clothes over the new year which I never had the chance to wear, till of late.

For an afternoon out with BFF:

#ootd Striped dress from @whitesoot . Hat from #uniqlo. Necklace from #uk #unitedkingdom. Shoes from #hushpuppies #annasui selection. Bangles from #taiwan. #fashion #lookoftheday #coordinate #outfit #green

A little casual, a little fun and a little hip.

Striped Dress: Whitesoot

Necklace: present from the UK

Bejeweled Bangles: Taiwan

Hat: H&M

Shoes: Hushpuppies Annasui collection

BFF picked up photography lately so I was her subject the whole afternoon. Will be uploading some photos she took of me today. #fashion #japanese #food #lunch #photography #portrait #bff @whitesoot striped dress

#photography #bff #lunch #rakuzen #japanese #food #hip

For an casual evening dinner with friend:

Ootd. Dip-back tuxedo style top from @whitesoot #fashion #ootd #lookoftheday

Dip-back tux top: Whitesoot

Black mini skirt: Sub

Black opaque stockings: Austria

This is an easy top to pair with, while in Japan, I wore it underneath a loose sweater to let the collar peak out.

Sweater: Harajuku, Tokyo

Shorts: Taiwan

I wore a lot black stockings during the month of February due to the marks left behind by the injury. My torn right foot was almost black in color due to the burst of blood vessels from the torn ligament, and it still appeared swollen even though it didn't hurt when I walk anymore. So wearing black stockings could both hide the swell and the apparent color difference between both feet.

For a day out of visiting friends and movie on the last day of Chinese New Year (chap go mei):