Something Different

Bueno~ So, today I'm going to post something a little different than my usual shstuff. Ever since my senior year of high school started earlier in August, I'm taking AP 2-D Studio Art class as my elective. I was so excited to find out that for this course, you can most definitely incorporate or revolve your art work around photography. There are two types of assignments that I'm supposed to have completed by the end of the school year; Breadth and Concentration. Breadth is just a general assignment category where my pieces can vary from different styles of photography, or whatever I'm going to use to make art. Concentration is the assignment category where I had to chose a specific theme for my photos/art pieces, and for my theme I chose Terrestrial Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water). Also, by the end of the year I have to have 12 art pieces from each category completed and from then on, I'm going to have to select 5 of my best pieces for the AP 2-D test/project for the AP board.
At first I thought my theme would be a really boring and un-creatively fun one, but turns out that it isn't as easy as I thought it would be! And it is quite fun! I get a lot of support from friends and family and it's great~ So, I just wanted to share some of the works that I have submitted to my teacher so far! Hope you enjoy.

Breadth piece #1

Concentration piece #1 (Earth category)

Breadth piece #2

Concentration piece #2 (Air category from my theme)

NEW YAWK CITY

Alright guys, I'm alive. Haven't touched my blog in the longest time... Been busy with school, tennis, and just spending time with family, friends and leboyfran. Here's a little something from my trip to New York City this past weekend~

Inside the Guggenheim!

Breezy Monday

 

 

I am really disappointed in my hair. I mean, I was expecting some of the actual ombre look to appear; it's been over a week since I got my hair done. But hey, putting that aside, hello Monday! Now that school's over (since June 4!), and summer has begun, Monday's are quite lovable now- students don't want to set each other on fire anymore! Yay. I didn't do much today except go out and run a few errands here and there. One plus of the day- we went to Target, and I was looking through the bag and purse section, and found a decent versatile faux leather bag! I couldn't get a picture of it because I bought it later on during the evening. In the outfit, I wore a basic maroon sort-of-crochet-croptop, some high-rise h&m shorts, new levi's light wah jacket, new black beanie, and after a long time of not wearing these, I brought out my doc marten's. This is my first time wearing them out in the summer, and I think I like the way they look on bare skin rather than over pants or leggings in the fall and winter. I also tried to use minimal jewelry (thinking that this outfit was already loud enough, though looking at it through photos, it really isn't that loud at all). I wore my silver cuff, vintage silver clip-on's, and. my gold ear cuff, which isn't shown.

I don't know why, but I always feel so invincible whenever I put my ear cuff on. It's like a lucky charm or something, not that it's given me any luck that I've noticed, but I just feel that the ear piece really does start and finish a look splendidly. I need to get myself a silver one now!

New Hair! Welcoming Ombre

Ombre - it is a French word, pronounced om-bruh. I know that many people confuse the pronounciation as om-ber, or om-bre (which would be the better attempt at the pronounciation), but I just wanted to state this because I find it important. Back to the point, this is basically the process of making hair, or anything really, as a blend of dark to light with no harsh lines among the different level of shades. It's become a very popular trend ever since back in late 2010, and has thrived to this day! I finally decided to really give it a try myself, but not literally, I got it done progessionally. Because, I honestly couldnt trust myself with bleaching my own hair. As I believe, there isn't any other way to achieve the ombre look (unless you have very fair hair) unless you bleach you hair. I've read a lot of comments and questions adressed to other women who have ombre'd their hair and posted the tutorial on YouTube. Many viewers asked if they didn't have to use bleach, because they didn't want to damage their hair, but most of the time the answer was no. In my own experience, yes, this process is damaging, but personally, the bleach didn't harm my hair as much as I thought it would. I was expecting very frizzy ends and broken ends, but fortunately I got very minimal damage. Even my hair stylist said so! My advice, if you really think that the bleach will damage your hair, test it out on a small strand of your bottom hair. If the outcome is satisfactory, get crazy!

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My hair two days (if I can recall) after ombreing/bleaching it. I got this done professionally at a Korean hair salon down in Los Angeles on Saturday June, 2nd. The stylist lady told me that I would have to wait around 7-10 days for the colors to get to a gradation, a.k.a. the whole ombre look.We shall see...

Hair update: Exactly 4 days and a half since I got my hair done. Not much change visible... My hair is beginning to get that "fake" looking blonde hair at the tips. Some strands of the blonde are getting a bit shiny, but not in a flattering way; it kind of looks like Barbie hair. I have to say, I am quite disappointed to see no change yet... Since it was my first time doing anything this BIG to my hair (I've only had highlights when I was 9, and red highlights at 13), I guess I will have to wait probably 2 weeks or so to really see some improvement and the gradation.