Hello hello in summer reds!

What is the cutest print of the summer? Floral! I just love love floral print clothing and its what I've been rockin' all summer. I bought this shirt from Love Culture on sale for $3 USD. Isn't that a steal?! I love the pink and orange flowers blending together to great a perfect balance. Its bright and colorful which is perfect for summer! Its also a high rise so that I stay nice and cool in the heat :) Here's a preview of everything today!

To go along with my summer look I also decided to try out this new Victoria's Secret eyeshadow palette that I bought at the semi annual sale. It was about $10 USD when I got it and its so pretty. Its got a lot of vibrant colors along with some darker colors so that you can blend the two together. Its also SUPER pigmented like seriously, a little goes a long way. I love the quality and the packaging is also super cute. Win!

For this look I used the top two colors on the right (the deep red and the brown) to create this blend of colors that goes perfect with my shirt! I'm not very daring so I'm too afraid to use bright colors, but that's why I love this red so much its only like a tint. You can see it, but from far away it doesn't look so vibrant and gaudy.  

Here's a list of all the makeup I used for my look (and its seriously just copied and pasted from my earlier blog post because well, I use the same face makeup everyday! The only thing thats really different are the eyes and lips ^^; I starred the ones that are key!)

Face:
-KMA foundation powder
-MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Gold Deposit
-Bare Minerals bronzing mineral powder
-Sheercover Duo Concealer

Eyes:
** -Spring Shimmer Eye Kit by Victoria's Secret eyeshadow palette
-Mary Kay mascara
-NYX felt tip pen eyeliner
-Canmake Coloring Eyebrow in Honey Gold
-Dolly Wink eyelashes No.1
-Princess Mimi Sesame grey circle lenses

Lips:
**-NYX Black Label Matte Lipstick in Diva

And more pictures of my look:

 ... I'm totally pulling a Kotobuki Rui face in that first picture... doesn't she always take her pictures like that?? 

Anyways...Very cutesy style! Yes back to my comfort zone. But hey that doesn't mean I can't try a sexy pose with it too :P

 Yep lol I'm lame I only have one 'sexy' face. It looks like I'm about to cry or something. But anyways I hope you enjoyed reading this! Happy summertime ^^

OH and if you'd like, follow my instagram ans twitter! both @xsakisaki kk bye!

...and my tumblr is xsakisaki.tumblr.com k goodbye for real xD

Better late than never ^^;

Around this time last year (summertime, that is) I started really writing in this blog. I'm so sad that so far it seems that its been at the back of my mind lately and I haven't really taken the time to write in it. QQ probably no one even cares about or remembers me anymore.

BUT better late than never right?

I just took a trip to California last week and stayed for only 6 days. While I was there though I managed to snag up a few things! Mostly we were at the beach (which I will post pictures of later ^^) but we spent a few days in the city. I went to Little Tokyo! It was so cute and I've been there before but have never bought anything. There are so many makeup stores and stores with cute little Japanese things. I love love loved it!

The first thing I bought was a NYX eyeliner. I've been looking for a good liquid eyeliner ever since I ran out of the Dolly Wink one that I love and unfortunately used up :( I've tried many things from the E.L.F felt pen and liquid liner, Maybelline's Stiletto eyeliner, to NARS' eyeliner, but nothing has satisfied me! And I don't want to shell out 20 bucks for another Dollywink (even though I probably could have bought it for the money that I spent on the others that I've tried LOL). Anyway... I bought this one and I think its pretty good! It was $7.99 USD and its a waterproof, felt tip pen, liquid eyeliner. Its not very waterproof though... not at all actually. And when I take it off the residue is blue! How weird. But other wise it glides on pretty well which is really the winning factor for me. And its thick and doesn't look watery (unlike the Maybelline's stiletto and E.L.F liquid eyeliner). This is the eyeliner:

(omg please ignore the hair on my floor... gross lmfao)

The only other makeup product that I bought was a pair of Dolly Wink eyelashes No. 1. Of course everyone knows what these look like by now hopefully... lol but here they are anyway:

These are my favorite lashes I have ever worn! So soft and long and pretty... I just love them so much even though they are HELLA expensive. I bought these for $14.99 USD which is the cheapest I've ever seen them. Which is still a lot. You get 2 pairs though so thats at least a little better.

I did do a makeup look with these two products so here it is:

(This is like the only HD picture btw lol it was hard to get a good one so the rest are just self cams from my phone heehee)

For the eyes, I used the Naked palette from Urban Decay which is yes, the best eyeshadow palette in the whole entire world lol. The colors I used were Half Baked, Smog, and Darkhorse. I used half baked as the base and on the inner corner of the eyes, then smog on top of that and to blend, then darkhorse for the crease and along the bottom and outer corners.

Here's a closer look!

And here is a list of the other products that I used for my whole look (sorry that I don't have pictures!)

Face:
-KMA foundation powder
-MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Gold Deposit
-Bare Minerals bronzing mineral powder
-Sheercover Duo Concealer

Eyes:
-Naked by Urban Decay eyeshadow palette
-Mary Kay mascara
-NYX felt tip pen eyeliner
-Canmake Coloring Eyebrow in Honey Gold
-Dolly Wink eyelashes No.1
-Dolly Wink eyelashes No.5
-Princess Mimi Sesame grey circle lenses

Lips:
-Sephora Matte Lipstick in Matte Cherry Rose
-Sephora Ultra Shine lip gloss in Fresh Peach shimmery

And here are more pictures of the look:

Yes those were my "I'm trying to be sexy faces" hahaha. Now here's a smiley one :)

What do you think of the look? I was inspired by the new Happie Nuts magazine that I bought. Its for September 2012 ^^

I was blown away by how pretty and sexy Sayoko Ozaki looked omg she is so awesome! Here are some pictures of her that I love:

She's so pretty omg *_* I don't know if I can pull off the sexy look in real life though loool I come off as way too cutesy >w<

Okay thats it! I hope someone reads this lol.

Japan Part2: Days 4-6 WARNING Image heavy!

Yay! Alright I'm back with part 2 :)


Day 4: July 26, 2011

Today, I took my mom outside of Tokyo to go visit Kamakura, which is about 1 hour south of Tokyo by train. I don't know why I chose this place, but my mom really wanted to see a different city that isn't as big and "city-like" like Tokyo, but in the end, it turned out to be really enjoyable!

Here was the outfit I decided to wear:

Getting there, we got out of the train station and walked through a shopping street called Komachidori. I found that it was a lot like Asakusa in Tokyo if anyone's ever been there. The weather this day was soooo nice! Like no sun but no rain, and there was an amazing cool breeze. Here is what the street was like:

Very nice and calm with some cool Japanese style shops ^^

We stopped to eat some takoyaki at a little shop. It was delicious!

Next, we went to Tsurugoka Hachimangu Shrine, which is the most important shrine in Kamakura says my research xD I learned about a lot of these things in history, surprisingly enough so when I was reading about the shrine a lot of it made sense! lol go school.

So upon arriving at the entrance of the shrine there is a gigantic lotus garden on both sides. It was BEAUTIFUL. I literally wanted to take a picture of every flower because it was so pretty! Here are only a few of the pictures that I took:

There was actually a lot of people there too which surprised me for some reason because I didn't think this was a big tourist attraction. The other parts of the shrine were pretty too! Here are the pics:

After spending half the day in Kamakura, we rode back on the train to walk around Shinjuku station a little bit more. I found a macaroon shop that was SO cute! I've never eaten a macaroon before but they are so cute! I use them in deco, but I've never eaten one! I think it was time so I bought two:

THEY ARE SO DELICIOUS! So sweet and creamy and god I can't believe I've lived my life without having ever eaten one before. That's how good I think they are. The flavor and the cuteness just make them amazing!

Here are some pics of the area around Shinjuku station. The views are amazing!

Yeah I really really love scenes like this. The city makes me so happy *_* LOL so thats why kind of most of the pics I took are just city scapes, but gaah so pretty.

I also happened to find a CD store so of course, I immediately bought Yunho and Changmin's new single- I Don't Know/Superstar:

I also found this really really cute Hello Kitty wallet today for 3000yen and HAD to get it hahaha:

Isn't it adorable?? I love buying wallets because its something you carry around and in my case, use everyday they are so nice LOL. Yeah i'm weird.

Day 5: July 27, 2011

For our last full day in Japan, I decided that I NEEDED to go back to Shibuya and get more stuff, not that I've had time to explore Japan and hey, since it was the last day we no longer needed the yen for anything else, right?! Yep so that means I can go spending it all lmao.

I forgot to take a picture of my outfit, but for some reason I have a picture of me getting ready and in the robe provided by the hotel LOL

Okay but I know I post too many pictures of myself, so here is the best part. This haul makes me so happy :D

First thing is a pair of shorts from Ank Rouge- Popteen's Okarie's awesome brand! Everything in the store was so cute and I knew I just HAD to bring something home. I saw this fell in love!

And here's kinda what it looks like when worn:

Cute right? It was 2,900yen xD So worth the price I think because I love Okarie and Ank Rouge!

Next is a cute purse from Rose Fan Fan. This store was having such a freaking awesome sale omg *_* I got this purse for 1.900yen! Its like lace and denim with a bow, so obviously I couldn't resist. The strap can also be adjusted to be worn as like a messenger bag type style or a purse.

When we were getting a little tired of walking, we went up to SBY to have some frozen yogurt :D YUM my favorite!

Of course, it was absolutely delicious. I also couldn't resist and bought a really cute mirror from here as well.

I love how big it is and omg the pink and the cute bow! This was 980yen.

Okay last thing I bought today was this pair of shoes that I seriously went to Japan intending to buy. I've seen it in Blenda, Happie Nuts and Jelly magazines and totally fell in love with it for some reason. Here are the pics that I found:

In the magazines they said that it could be found at Egoist in Shibuya109 but when I went there they didn't have any :( So I went looking and found them in Flag J, where I bought my other shoes! They were SO much cheaper than the Egoist ones in the magazine too, so that's good for me LOL i got this one for 4,800yen and the ones in the magazine were over 10,000 x_x

That was pretty much the end of that day because we came back to the hotel so freaking tired from shopping all day LOL. But when we were walking, a funny thing happened! So around the busy areas there are always people handing out tissues and stuff right? There were these two young looking guys that were passing some out and like no one was taking them, but they pulled a clever trick on me LOL. I was walking past them and the guy pulls out his phone and it had a W♥C sticker on it and of course it caught my eye! So he took that one second opportunity to shove a magazine and a pack of tissues in my hand LOL so clever xD so i came back with this too:

And if anyone is perverted out there, the magazine was full of ads and stuff, nothing else xD

EDIT!! I forgot to mention, RUI KOTOBUKI was at Shibuya109 this day being interviewed at SBY and I saw a glimpse of her!! She was so cute!! aoifjaosfajsdf 2 of my favorite models in 1 trip? What is this?! I'm so lucky *_*

Day 6: July 28, 2011

My last day in Japan! T__T Didn't do much because we had to leave in the morning.

While waiting to go to the airport I drank this delicious green tea latte that I bought at Family Mart LOL

I love matcha! Its so tasty :D

Also, I went to use the bathroom in the lobby and for any of you who don't know this, toilets are like the shit in Japan LOL. They are so futuristic and awesome. I know, strange right? This toilet had its own like control pad full of stuff LOL so I took a picture:

Like why the heck do you need a toilet to do so much? Hahaha i don't think I will ever understand xD

When we were waiting around at the airport I still had extra yen to spend, so of course I even bought something here xD Look at this cute Hello Kitty blinged pencil I bought!

Now you see why I had to buy it LOL

I also bought some snacks for the plane ride. Matcha candy and Hi-Chew!

YUM my favorites :D

And some onigiri just in case the plane food sucked (which it did!) My two favorites- salmon and mentaiko:

And so my journey to Japan ends :( SO SAD!!! I know i'll be there again next year but i just wish I could stay forever…but then I would be like so freaking broke LOL

Wow okay i think this is the longest post i've ever made, so I really hope someone somewhere enjoys this ^^ Thanks to everyone who reads this! You are all awesome :P