Seoul Fashion Week

Hey! It has been a while hasn't it. There are a lot of things going on in my life right now that I feel as if blogging isn't my number one priority. I certainly do not want to feel obligated to post new content on my blog because after all I am doing this for myself and not anyone else. Today I don't have as much homework (finally) so I decided to "roam" around tumblr. I've been enjoying looking at pictures from Seoul Fashion Week and I've actually come to find a lot of the Seoul Street fashion to be really interesting. It's not that I didn't like it before; Seoul fashion has just never really come to my mind. My interest has always been in the more well known fashion weeks like New York and Paris for some reason. I just really wish there were more videos out there with their fashion week and I've noticed that a lot of Korean bloggers post on Korean blog sites. It would be convenient if more of them used blogspot (so I can follow them). For a long time, I've been really disappointed in the "Korean" fashion because most of them (in my mind) were really girly and "fobby", sort of like the whole "k-pop" look. But after looking at fashion week pictures, it kind of opened up my view and I realized there were a lot of people that were more of the high street/ street style we see on tumblr, which is more of my "cup of tea".. lolol

I know this kind of sounds like I'm disregarding my own culture, but I swear I'm not. I mean if I didn't appreciate my own culture, why would I be looking at Korean fashion during my free time...? right?

Here are a few pictures from Seoul Fashion Week... (all pictures from tumblr)

I am obsessed with this guy's collection. I've never heard of the guy, but who cares!

The sunglasses. The dark purple lips. The vintage-esque blazers. 'nough said. 

I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS LOOK. I feel like it's so "me." 

 

While looking at Seoul Fashion Week videos I stumbled across this documentary and I decided to watch it since it was about Korean culture. Although the title says it's about kpop and plastic surgery, the beginning talks about fashion as well. Overall, it was really good. I loved the beginning, but then towards the end I felt a little bit sad at the way Korean pop-culture was turning and started to feel really concerned. I'm not sure if you guys read the Uglies series, but it kind of felt like Korea, as portrayed in the documentary, is heading towards that type of society. I never really realized how influential plastic surgery was. It was really just... sad. I'm so glad the models were happy with their natural beauty cause I think they look a lotttt better than the post-surgery girls, which left me with a light of hope. Luckily, Korea's high fashion is embracing natural beauty. It's so disappointing that all Asians are trying to become "Western". Why can't we just embrace the characteristics that define who we are? I mean I sometimes get annoyed with having a monolid just cause it's kind of difficult to do makeup. And I do admit that I've considered maybe getting an eyelid surgery one day, but nowadays I really like the way my eyes look. I totally agree with one of the girls in the video; she said it's totally fine to boost a little self-confidence by tweaking one of your features, but to completely change your appearance is a bit wrong. 

Definitely worth taking 30ish minutes out of your day to watch this video. DO IT! & leave comments down below on what you thought about it (including you, Melanie ;) ). I would love to hear different opinions. 

Tuesday Morning

Good morning!
It's really rare for me to ever say that. Firstly, I'm just not the type of person that goes around being all jolly in the morning. Secondly, when I wake up it's usually afternoon (at least during this summer).
The reason I'm up is well... Cause I didn't sleep. I tried sleeping early but ended up waking up at 3am so I just decided to stay up. It'll be easier for me to sleep early today so that I can be well rested before I head out to Alabama at about dawn.
I haven't mentioned this before but I'm going on a trip to Alabama and Atlanta. My childhood friend recently moved to Alabama which is now closer to my house, about 5-6 hours of driving. I'm not sure if there's anything exciting to do in Alabama, but it's only for a few days. Plus the whole purpose is to see my friend.
So yes, I am going away to Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia for about a week but I will be blogging or vlogging and taking tons of pictures. So stay tuned for that!
Talk to you later! Byeeee

OOTD: iphone edition

This just came in the mail this morning! I'm so in love with this case. Black cat + iphone = the perfect combo! I've been using just a simple light blue plastic iphone case for a while now and I was getting a bit tired of it. So I was on the search for a new case online and I came across this one. I had to get it! Just thought I would share it with you guys <3

Prepare for a long rambling.

Hello there! 
Today I will not provide any pictures. It's just gonna be me rambling about some random things. I am allowed to do that right? After all this is my blog. I just feel like writing and so here I go...

First of all, I will share with you what I did today, but before that I want to state that my life is not exciting at all so it would be kind of impossible for me to write about my life daily. When I do write about my life it wouldn't be a long laundry list of awesome things. In fact, I barely go out. I have no where to really go and people rarely ask me to hang out. I'm not trying to be all dramatic, just stating the facts. Sad life I know. I used to be really emotional about it, but now I'm completely used to it and don't really mind it. Although, I wouldn't mind having more of a social life. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I would love to put some more content on my blog frequently but I just don't know what I would put. I don't think I will have a lot of life blogging simply because I don't do much. Unless if you consider sleeping, eating, breathing, or going to the grocery store exciting... 

Anyways so what did I do today?
The only "exciting" thing I did today was that I went to photography class. I don't think I mentioned this before but I have been taking photography lessons. I love it!.. even if everyone there is over the age of 30. It is a Photography 101 workshop for 5 days. One class per week on Tuesdays. Next Tuesday will be my last class. I learned a lot in that class and the instructor is great! Of course I still have a lot to learn, but I was able to learn the basics of photography and I think that's progress! Every week we have a photo assignment to turn in and when the class meets we show the photo to everyone in the class so we can talk about it. I really enjoy that part of the class because it's interesting to see how others take pictures and it's a great way for others to say what they think about my photo; that's really a rare opportunity for me because I don't know anyone that is interested in photography enough to give constructive criticism towards my photography. After the last class, I am planning on uploading every photo assignment I did. I'm actually really excited to upload them because, unlike other photography things I put up on this blog, these were done with a purpose. It's sort of like "publishing" my work. I'm not saying the other pictures I upload are less important because they are important to me. I have to admit though that I am still iffy about the concept of uploading my "photography" pictures with my random day to day/fashion pictures because I don't want them to get mixed up... I'm having a hard time trying to say what I actually think lol...whatever. I also don't want people to just copy my pictures and spread it all over the internet because in the end these are MY pictures that I put a lot of effort into. So I guess to those of you who have a strong inclination to take my pictures, please at least link it back to my blog. Hopefully I can trust you guys. I mean I doubt anyone would even want to take my amateur pictures, but for precautionary measures I just wanna put it out there.

... I don't really know what I'm trying to write here lolol... I'm just going with the flow. 

Because I tend to feel more lively at night, I wanted to be a good, productive girl (because I haven't been at all lately) so I decided to start my college application process. YES the infamous college apps. I can't believe I'm that old already... never thought this day would come. I honestly don't even know how this thing works. It's super overwhelming. Since it is late at night I didn't wanna go all overboard and complete like all the sections of the application, I thought it would be a good idea to just start off by making the accounts for each college I want to apply to. Of course, life, being its usual self, can't go according to plan. I was able to make an account for UF without any trouble. But then I got to UCLA, or more specifically UC applications. I was halfway through with making the account and I got to the section that told me to check which semester I was applying for. Fall 2013 wasn't on there... After freakin out a bit, I decided to do some research like a sane person. Found out that the apps for fall 2013 don't open up until like October... This frustrated me because I just made a freakin account for Spring 2013... I'm still going to be in high school spring of 2013... So I emailed the uc admissions people. Obviously because it's past midnight they wouldn't reply till morning, meaning my panic attack won't go away until I get some kind of reassurance from them saying that they will delete the account. I mean what is up with that ... counselors tell me to start applying for college during the summer. So here I am trying to be productive, only to find out that colleges actually have "opening days" for the application. -____-   To my knowledge, most of the college websites I looked at has only one huge button that says APPLY NOW and so it's easy to start applying, but all the important details (such as opening dates) are basically hidden. The thought of that just makes me paranoid because how am I supposed to apply correctly when I don't know what's going on. That is why I stopped making the accounts for other colleges because I am too scared to go further. My deepest concern: what if I mess up?... I want this to be perfect because this is a huge deal. If anyone is actually reading this and knows when the common app is "open" for fall 2013...can you tell me?

I think I'm done rambling. I don't really know what else to say. I'm kind of brain dead at this point. The time is now 3:09 AM. I should sleep. Am I going to? I think not. 

Goodbye folks. (<-- why did I say folks..)

P.S. I doubt anyone made it this far, but if you did, please comment below. I will definitely gain some respect for you. I know that if it was me and I was browsing through some random person's blog, if a post is this long I wouldn't even bother reading it.
Anyways if you read all of this, comment below! :)

Thanks MelMel for the Monet

My awesome friend, Melanie, bought me this Monet book from the Louvre. She knows how much I love Monet so this is a perfect gift. It's all in French though... I don't know French. Who cares? Anything in French is cool!

Thanks Melanie :)

UPDATE: June 18

Just thought I should share what I've been doing lately...

So a week ago I got my wisdom teeth removed and for the whole week I basically stayed home recovering from it. My cheeks were double the size. I got called chipmunk and baby face, but really it was not a pleasant sight. Honestly, I was super excited to get them pulled out because I find these things to be cool, but unfortunately I got knocked out from anesthesia and after the whole thing I didn't remember any part of the surgery. I was a bit disappointed when I woke up. I've heard from others that wisdom teeth extractions are painful and stuff. The only pain I felt during the whole process (surgery and recovery) was getting the anesthesia in my body (because I am terrified of needles) and a few hours after the surgery my teeth hurt extremely.... but that was about it. The only discomfort was not being able to eat whatever I want, as I was only limited to soft foods like yogurt and soup. Anyways, I am back to normal pretty much.

During that week all I did at home was watch all the episodes of Skins. It was pretty good! I have to admit though I only really liked the first two seasons. The third and fourth were my least favorite because the characters were just annoying, especially Effy. I hate her "mysterious girl"/"I'm to cool for you" act. Furthermore, Season 4 also had a bad ending... I mean is it really necessary to have some nonsense psycho psychologist (oh the irony) that murders Freddie (the cute one). Not to mention the ambiguous endings OMG that pisses me off. It's understandable when the next season continues their story .. but when you're ending the whole story of that season what is the point of having that kind of ending. MY GOODNESS. Season 5 & 6 were decent. At least it wasn't filled with unnecessary sex scenes like the previous seasons.

Here are a few pictures of Cassie (Hannah Murray) because she was my favorite character!

(all pictures are from tumblr)

 

May 26, 2012

First of all, my birthday was a few days ago and I finally got a DSLR!!! I'm super excited about it and I've been going around taking pictures of random things. Here are a few pictures that I really like...

I like how this looks dreamy.

So yesterday (May 26th) I woke up way earlier than usual, as in 7:30 on a weekend. It's unusual because I usually wake up around 11-1 on weekends :P. Since I had time and I wasn't sure what to do I decided to try out Galaxy nails. It didn't turn out so great; I went a bit overboard with the sparkles haha
I've been craving for Firehouse all week so I finally got to go for lunch. I was super happy when I was there. Whenever I eat something that tastes really good I just kind of jump around in my seat and smile.... sounds really weird... lol .. but I guess I'm just weird like that :)

After that, I met up with some of my friends at Starbucks to study for our English Oral, which is in a couple days. I've never been to that particular Starbucks and it was really nice there.

For dinner we all went to Pho (because for some reason we're all obsessed). I've never been to that particular Pho restaurant and I was surprised because it tasted better than the one I usually go to. The pho was a lot fresher and less oily? I'm not sure how to describe it. I don't think I'll be going there often though cause it is pretty far from my house.
My friend has been telling me about this cool boba place since last year and I finally got to go (it was right next to the pho restaurant). They had colorful walls with artworks on it. They also had a spot for bands to play on open mic night. It was definitely a unique place and we don't really see stores like this around here. This city barely has anything "cool" or "creative".

Lastly, here's my outfit of the day.. it's nothing special.

 

sunglasses: free people

shirt: diy

white skinnies: pacsun

sandals: roxy

March 23rd the Friday & Impressionism

 This is what we do in Studs...

listen to music....

 ...frown at how boring it is...

...act like we enjoy this class...

... but get pissed because even if we act like it's fun.... it's not. lol

Here's my "photoshoot".

Blouse: Zara

"Monet" Waterfall Skirt: Zara

Shoes: Roxy

Just a little fact about my interest in art.. My favorite painter is Monet because his paintings convey a certain romantic beauty that I truly admire. I think this skirt has that feeling to it; not only does the print itself look "impressionistic", but also, it captures the true essence of impressionism. 

I may not be an expert on paintings and art and certainly not a Monet expert, but this is just my interpretation and genuine feeling towards it. 

Perhaps my love for impressionism made me fall in love with this skirt when I saw it on Zara.com. So I just had to get it, regardless of its price. 

Oh and I was able to see some of Monet's paintings when I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week when I was in New York. It was amazing to see his paintings in real life! It gave me strange emotions and sort of inspired me. That feeling when you look at a piece of art or listen to a great song... hard to describe. Maybe I'm just weird. 

Haha anyways... Soon (idk when) I'll upload pictures from my NY trip. 

Going to New York tomorrow! woot woot!! :D

Texas de Brazil.

So this past weekend I went to this restaurant called Texas de Brazil with my boyfriend just cause we've been wanting to go. The atmosphere was amazing: fancy, great service, etc. Except the actual food itself was super salty. It seems as though this glass of tea and this candle was the only thing that really appealed to me while eating. Overall, it wasn't worth the price. I don't think I would want to go again.

Introduction

So I've had a tumblr just for the purpose of uploading my "photography"ish pictures. However, recently I realized that I don't really want to scramble my pictures with other people's pictures if I reblog something. So therefore, I want my tumblr to be more for reblogging things that interest me and I want this to be more for my personal things. Actually I'm not sure if I should keep my tumblr... I don't know. I'll think about it.

I'm not really sure how to work this blog thing. Hopefully I can figure things out.

-Christina (Fattyowl)