Collective Haul Shopping Addict

Here is another video I got to edit earlier today, it is a couple weeks old, but I wanted to get it posted before I got too lazy hahahahaha

The items I got include things from TJ Maxx, Five Below, Target, Micheals and Rue 21.

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New Haircut Idea

For FUNraising at my school, (which I cant seem to stop talking about) On April 10th, our learning leaders will be available to do hair services on us, future professionals. I want Christina to color my hair. She is a real laid back learning leader, and whenever we have a question, she always helps!

Here is Christina pointing at my hair, which "Pink" the girl behind me got her ring stuck in my hair! lol

I made my appointment with her to do my color service, which I am planning on coloring half of the front of my hair a deep blue color, and a block section of lightened hair on the other side, with the black color for the rest of my hair. I drew a diagram of it, so I will have to find it and post it. I know it sounds drastic, and thats the point! I wanted to do purple, but a few other girls have that, and I dont like to have the same thing as others, so this is what I want done. Here is a few different styles of BLUE

This is the Blue I like!

I like this too, but I love her room in the background

As for the haircut, I saw a video of a band and the lead singer had part of her head shaved in the front sides, I think she had a mohawk, but I am not that drastic! I started to research a few styles of half head shaved hairstyles and I came to find out that many people have had that haircut, such as Carmen Electra, Cassie, La La and the style has been seen on the runway at fashion shows in NY.

I am gonna do it! I am gonna shave a small portion like these above, but I want to put a design in it somehow and have the blue and blonde and black. I cant wait to do it and of course I will post a blog and a video to go along with it.. It wont be for another few weeks, but I wanted to share it with yall. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

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Antique shops are our new addiction!!!

My makeup for this day, I used soft colors: pink, teal, purple and white

A week or two ago, Jermie and I went to this Antique Mall that we have been eyeballin for months now. During Christmas, we got hooked on that show, "American Pickers" and so we got to this big warehouse of antiques and stayed in there for nearly 2 hours browsing every nook and cranny for stuff.

I found a beautiful antique mystic topaz ring I wanted for my actual wedding ring ( all we have are wedding bands) and found a few antique sewing mannequins that I wanted but they werent selling :( 

I also found this cute pink wicker table. I love wicker furniture. In my room, you can see in my last video, I have a white wicker vanity that belonged to my grandmother that passed away in 2009, and she gave it to me years ago. So, I am keeping it to one day give to my daughter. My grandmother used to take me to this furniture store that sold alot of wicker furnishings in Lakeland Florida. I dont even remember the name of the store, we just called it the wicka store. lol, but this piece below reminded me of her

There were so many things that we found, that reminded us of our parents, our grandparents and even great grandparents, we found stuff from our childhoods that we used to play with and it was like taking a trip down memory lane.

I found a BIG section on Mermaids, and I was thrilled! I couldnt pick what I wanted, because if I could, I would have bought everything!!!

I bought this sign which is now nailed into my wall above my tv! I love it

Jermie geeked out on signs and I found a few too that were funny!

This one was shocking! Norfolk, VA

There was so much more that we saw, and I could write pages and pages on. But this was just a highlight and a quick blog I wanted to post.

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CHOLA Makeup Fashion Look

This post is a lil late, seeing as the fashion show was a lil over a month ago. Things have been so hectic,
but I wanted to post this, in case anyone wanted to know what type of makeup I used. I am driving in my car going home from school and was just in such a good mood I wanted to share my energy! Watch the end and I share a lil inspiration tip for the day!

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Mohawk Fever

My brother has been asking me to cut his hair for about a week or two ago, and I finally had some free time to do it today, so I sat him down in my Chair, (or the kitchen chair I should say hehehe), draped him and started clipping his hair up in a mohawk section.

I love that my family trusts me enough to practice on them lol. He was such a good sport, he didnt mind having like 7 clips in his hair while I shaved off the sides of his head using my Paul Mitchell clippers ( I used size 3). He did not want it faded, which I would have, but he is the "guest" not me. lol

I shaved off the sides and used my trimmers to clean up the edges around his hairline and neckline. I slightly tapered the back mohawk section so it didnt look so thick. He wanted me to trip up the back so that the hair didnt go past his collar (for work purposes) and also trim the front so it didnt hang past his eyes. So I did a one length trim in both places and that was it! pretty easy stuff.

how much hair I cut off!!!!

He loved it and so did I! He even liked that he could push the hair in either direction for his part, and I teased him saying he can whip his hair back and forth. lol "I whip my hair back and forth" lol

I also gave my son, Matthias a haircut, but couldnt find a camera to take a picture. I shouldve checked with his dad, because he wanted to have a mohawk with him. So, maybe next haircut, I will do a mohawk on Matti. :)

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Busy Busy week

This week was amazing! I had two guests in my chair which I had already posted about in my last post, and yesterday was a busy saturday! We had our Princess For a Day event for FUNraising at Rudy & Kelly Paul Mitchell School where girls under 14 can come and be treated like a princess, they can wear a princess costume, get their hair done in a pretty updo, a lil makeup and get their nails painted and they even get their own princess tiara!!! So, of course Arabella wanted to go and she was excited about it all week!




her hair is so long!

They played princess movies all day and she was so good, at first she was shy and clung to my arm, but I knew once she warmed up to everyone, that she would show her real personality. 

I had my second guest yesterday while Arabella was getting all dolled up, and my guest was really laid back and outgoing, and she wanted her hair colored and cut. She had really curly hair and it was my first haircut on a female. I wasnt nervous at all, so I think maybe I was meant to do this! I did everything I was taught to do and was reall friendly and made sure she had a great experience since it was her first time coming into the school. Here is a picture of her haircut

She was really happy with her cut and color and when she left, she tipped me $20! I couldnt believe that! I told one of our learning leaders and she said, "See, that's what happens when you are professional". It totally made my day! I went into the New Core classroom and shared my news with the newest future professionals that if they do everything they are taught with a positive attitude, they can go far!

After that, Bella was all done and she stayed with me until the end of the day and by that time, she was acting herself, in fact she was rolling on the ground, growling at people in a playful way! lol she is so funny!

she was changed out of her dress and her updo was falling out, when I tried to fix it, she said, "no!!!! I like it when it falls out!" lol

That was my day yesterday! Just wanted to share it with my bloggers!

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First Guest

Today was an awesome, beyond awesome day! Even though it was a lil rainy this morning, it did not put a damper on my day. We had a guest speaker this morning, Taryn Aiken, a color specialist from the Advanced Academy. She talked about her life mainly and her background, how she was a recovering alcoholic and addict and how Paul Mitchell School and her career saved her life. She had the whole room laughing and crying and she was an inspiration to all. Her stories touched the hearts of not just me, but everyone in the room. It just goes to show, that no matter what we go through in life, we can pick ourselves up and again and move on. We have the support in each other. I could go on forever about her story and my story, but I just wanted to share a small piece of the experience of this morning. Some of us encouraged her to start a youtube channel, so maybe she will.

Another exciting thing about today was that I had the first guest in  my chair today! I really wasnt nervous especially after my inspirational morning, so I greeted my guest and followed the steps I was taught. I had a guy come in for a male haircut. I shampooed and conditioned and began my cut with the help of my learning leader and before I knew it, I was done! I am so glad I didnt have a bad experience for my first cut! I didnt get any pictures (my camera was dead). I even got my first tip of $5. Not sure if I want to frame it...lol cheesy huh?

well, just wanted to share parts of my day! Thanks for stopping by!


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