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Dressing for Winter

1/29/2017

During winter, one of the things that I miss most is wearing dresses. If I had my way, I would probably wear a dress every single day. They're so easy to dress up or dress down, and you put it on and your outfit is basically already done. But, in winter, it's so cold outside that if I want to wear a dress, I have to get a little creative about it if I don't want to freeze my butt off!
To solve my problem, I started with a long sleeve dress. Then, to cover up as much skin as possible, I put on some over the knee socks. To go with the socks, I put on some brown knee high boots. I wanted to keep this outfit a little simpler, so I layered a few necklaces, and threw on a hat to bring it all together. Ta da! And that is how to wear a dress in January.

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From Drab to Fab

1/22/2017

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It has been a few months since I last did Amanda's hair and boy was her hair long overdue for a color. She had about an inch of regrowth and the once vibrant purple had faded to a dusty rose. It's okay though because she ordered more color and I had her back to the vivid purple she had a couple months ago in just a few hours. I was relieved that I had already spent nine hours doing her hair the previous time, because that meant all of the prep work was pretty much done and I just had to apply the new color.

This time, Amanda wanted her hair to look more purple. I used a violet for her shadow root, then I used a little bit of a lighter purple for her ends and I blended the colors together with my fingers. Since there was still some blue and pink color left over from the last time I did her hair, we thought it would be fun to add some pink and blue peek a boos throughout her hair.

We washed out the color, and that's pretty much all we had to do. It is so fun to have a friend that will not only let you put crazy colors in their hair, but also let you basically have complete control of how it was going to look. She just told me the colors she wanted and let me choose what to do with them (talk about some serious trust). It's going to be a sad day when she decided to go back to being a brunette.

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Snow Place I'd Rather Be

1/18/2017

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I guess my friends and I just can't stay away from the snow! Since we had this last Monday off for MLK Day, my friends and I decided to head up to Kyle's cabin. We were up and on the road before the sun even came up. It was only a couple of hours away, but drives with my friends are always a blast. When we got to the cabin, we brought out stuff inside and the boys went to go get the quads and razor. We bundled up in our snow clothes, then took to the mountains. After a couple of hours, we had to head back to the cabin to let our fingers and toes thaw out. At the cabin, we all bundled up in blankets and turned on a movie.
For the rest of the day, we kept going back and forth between the snow and the blankets. And what kind of day would it be if we didn't turn up the music and have our own little dance party? Granted the guys were "too cool" to participate, but that's okay. We had a mini snowball fight, played card games, and Kyle even grilled burgers for dinner. Reluctantly, we all cleaned up the cabin so it looked like we were never there, put the quads away, and hit the road.
Though I was exhausted by the time I got back home, the entire day was so much fun. It was cool to all be on our own and it gave me a glimpse of what it was like to be an actual adult that takes care of themselves. But, as much fun as it was, I still love my family and living at home with all of them. It's fun to get out and have adventures like that, but I am so not ready for that to be an every day thing. Good thing I still have six more months before I have to be ready for that!

that's definitely a view the typical Arizonian doesn't see very often

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Winter Blues

1/15/2017

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Who says you're confined to wearing dark colors just because it's winter? Not I! As much as I love wearing blacks and grays, sometimes it gets old after a while. When I saw this jacket, I instantly fell in love and had to have it. Right now, this color, and other pastels like powdery pinks are super popular. Although pastel colors like this might remind you of summer, you can combine them with neutral colors to make it feel more wintery (if that's even a word haha). The pastel colors also contrast really well with the edgier staples like tomboy jeans, leather jackets, and moto boots. I found the best of both worlds; a pastel leather jacket! I wore it with a white cropped turtleneck, ripped jeans, a pair of booties, and bam! A very trendy outfit to help me get out of my winter blues.

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Snow Much Fun

1/10/2017

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I know I've said before that I didn't like the snow, but for someone who doesn't like the snow, I sure have had fun in it the past couple days. On Saturday, the girls decided to take a spontaneous snow trip. Even though we spent more time in the car than we did in the actual snow, it was worth it. The car ride itself was so fun. We just kept driving towards the mountains until we saw snow, pulled over long enough to walk around, take some pictures, and freeze our butts off, then turned around and come right back home.

Since Monday was my last day off before I had to head back to school, I decided that I needed to go out with a bang, so, the night before, some friends and I made some quick plans to go snowboarding. I rounded up some snow clothes and decided that I that it would probably be wise to go to bed a little earlier than normal since we were going to leave at 4 in the morning. However, when you've been going to bed at 3am for almost three weeks, it's really hard to go to bed early. I think I got a solid 45 minutes of sleep before my alarm woke me up to get ready to go. Surprisingly, I didn't feel that tired managed to stay up for the entire 4 hour car ride.
We finally pulled up to Sunrise and we were all surprised to see how few cars were there; the mountain was practically empty. We all started layering the clothes on, strapped up, and headed toward the ski lift.
I hadn't been since last year so it took a second to get back in the feel of things. then, Beecher tried to teach me to go on my toe side. I started to get the hang of it after a few runs, but I fell back on my butt so many times I lost count. On my last run, I hit it so hard I honestly didn't think I was going to be able to get back up haha. That's when I knew I had to call it quits. I headed back to the car to take some medicine and wait for the boys to go down the mountain a few more times.
Finally they came knocking on the window, we threw all of our snow clothes into the back of the car, and started the drive back home. It was a crazy long day and my body is sore in places I didn't even know it was possible to be sore, but it was 100% worth it. I can't think of a better way to spend my last day of break or better people to spend it with.

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